BLUES
Vol. XXVIII- No. 2
QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
November 8, 1949
RUSH WEEK; CHASE LECTURES
Sororities Name
New Pledges
The fall rushing season for the
five national sororities on the
Queens campus began October 31
and ended November 5. Seventy
students were pledged diming
this period.
This year rushing and pledging
based on the new quota sys-
tem which is to be in effect for
three years. At the end of this
period the quota system of last
year will again be followed. Al
pha Eta Sigma is not affected by
either of these systems.
Under the new system each na-
lonal sorority is supposed to
^t its total membership to
or y. During the first year, how-
over, if the membership already
approximates forty the sorority is
permitted to pledge a maximum
of ten girls. Unfilled quotas may
be filled in the spring rushing
season.
During the second year in
which the new system is in effect
sororities will be permitted to
pledge any number of girls so
long as the total membership of
respective chapters does not ex
ceed forty. In the event that a
has an existing member-
five new^ ^ Pledge a total of
year. oiembers during the
^jjj Ihird year all sororities
thp ^.^^P®oted to keep within
forty. Thereafter the
det ^ sorority will be
dividing the total
^1" of “rushees” by the num-
of national sororities.
C-^^kesmen for the Pan Hellenic
UUcil explain that the new
^ota system is a progressive
^ P designed to bring Queens
o line with the quota systems
® eady in effect on many other
00 lege campuses. One of its chief
advantages lies in the equaliza-
lon of the size of the various na
tional sororities.
New pledges to the various so
rorities are:
Alpha Delia Pi: Kitty Bullock,
Ann Clark, Lamar Berry, Nancy
Timberlake, Barbara Whitsett,
Waty Lou Williams, Thelma
^itten, Doris Dixon, Madeline
Johnson, Ann Buggel, Deloris Lo-
rino, Peggy Ann Reeves, Claire
McCall, Gertie Nelson.
Alpha Gamma Delia: Dot
hambers, Aliena D o g g e 11,
Catherine Hickman, Billie Manc-
jn, Jenette Plyler, Phoebe Tru-
ook, Mary Jo Whisnant, Edith
^oung, Betty Sue Wright.
hi Omega: Betty Aherne, Har
riet Mclnnis, B. J. McMiUan, N.
j • McMillan, Ann McFarland,
Oan Moorefield, Jean Harrison,
Guy, Joyce Chambers, Mary
Hamilton, Pat Jaynes, Kitty
°ore. Ban Hennessee, Hannah
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MacLeod Chosen
Guest Speaker
S.C.A. officers have announc
ed that Religious Emphasis Week
will be held November 13 through
November 16. Leader for this
series of services will be the
Reverend Mr. Clifford H. Mac
Leod, pastor of the First Presby
terian Church of Mooresville,
North Carolina.
Opening at vespers Sunday
evening, the services will con
tinue through Wednesday. Mr.
MacLeod will speak at the chapel
hour each morning and again at
6:30 in the evening. The evening
service will adjourn promptly at
seven o’clock. Mr. MacLeod will
also speak at the fellowship meet
ing at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon
and will be available for personal
conferences with any students
who desire them.
Mr. MacLeod is a graduate of
Presbyterian College at Clinton,
South Carolina and of Columbia
Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.
While a student at Columbia he
served as student pastor of the
Mooresville church. After gradu
ation Mr. MacLeod was appomt-
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^0y Court Choson
This fall the Queens student
body voted to have sixteen girls
in the annual May Court. These
girls are chosen from the stu
dent body at large; there is no
rule governing the number of
girls from each class. The May
Queen and Maid of Honor, who
are not included in the sixteen
are chosen from the members of
the senior class. The following
girls have been selected by the
student body to compose the 1950
May Court.
Seniors: Dot Thomas (May
Queen), Betty Norris (Maid of
Honor), Peggy Barrentine, Clara
Barnes, Grace Maris Childs. Jun
iors: Marion Christopher, Betty
Lynn Davenport, Betty Wayne
Williams. Sophomores: S a 11 i e
Hood Buie, Helen Drennan, Dot
Guy. Doris Pons. Freshman: Kit
ty Sue Carter, Jean Cruse, Doris
Ann Dixon, Nora Dean Parker,
Jan Purvis, Nancy Timberlake.
Stuart Chase
Students'Give
Chopin Recital
The Music Department is spon
soring a student recital of Chopin
music in Ninniss Auditorium,
Tuesday night, November 8. The
concert is being given in recogni
tion of the hundredth anniversary
of the death of Frederic Francois
Chopin, the great Polish-French
pianist and composer. Queens
music lovers are thus keeping
step with the entire musical
world which is at this season
honoring one of the piano genius
es of all time through the medi
um of memorial concerts and
programs.
Chopin, who captured Europe
in the first half of the nineteenth
century with his keyboard bril
liance and wizardry, died in 1849
at the early age of thirty-nine.
He left behind him a vast store
of etudes, mazurkas, polonaises,
waltzes and concertos which
have become an essential part of
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Belk Chapel
Under Way
College officials expect the
new chapel to be completed and
ready for use in March or April
of 1950. To be known as Belk
Chapel, the Greek colonial struc
ture was made possible through
donations by Mr. William Henry
Belk and his business associates.
Both Mr. Belk and his brother,
Dr. John M. Belk, are to be com
memorated by the building.
Actual construction began
about the middle of July, follow
ing the ceremonial ground break
ing at the commencement exer
cises last June. At that time Mr.
Belk himself lifted the first spade
ful of earth. Considerable prog
ress has been made, and the new
building on the north side of the
campus is beginning to take
shape. Engineers express confi
dence that the roof will be com
pleted before bad weather begins,
which will permit inside work to
proceed on schedule.
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Freshmen vs. Sophomores
Calendar of Events
Sunday November 13—Religious
Emphasis Week
Vespers 6:00. Speaker: The
Reverend Mr. Clifford Mc
Leod.
Monday November 14—Vespers
6:45-7:45 P.M.
Tuesday November 15—Vespers
6:45-7:45
Stuart Chase, Lecturer, 8:15
^dnesday November 16—Re-t
Rgious Emphasis Week Com
munion Service 6:45-7:45.
ursday November 17—Stunt
Night
“Hey, Kid, pass the word
around. Get down to the field
about four o’clock with that stuff
and we’ll see what we can do.”
And South Dorm is under the
tension of Restrained excitement.
“Rosie, did you get those caps
out of my room?—At your house?
—Good. I was scared the fresh
men would make off with ’em.”
And North Dorm is tingling with
anxiety.
“We’ll get those sophomores
good, Mac. They haven’t got a
chance.”
“Golly, y’all. lose.
It’d be simply humiliating if
those brassy little freshmen beat
us.”
The excitement mounts, and at
four-thirty the athletic field is
alive with scurrying little hu
mans passing footballs, decorat
ing goal posts, imitating wheel
barrows, and creating general
confusion. But soon everyone
gathers in the Dell, and the sa
cred spot that has been the set
ting for so many beautiful May
Day programs now holds some
thing quite different. The fresh
men watch in undignified con
tempt as the sophomores present
a skit showing when and where
to wear the original little caps
which will be presented later to
the Class of Fifty-Three.
A bright blue contraption piled
high with screaming sophomores
blazes a trail to the athletic field.
When the skit is ended, the
crowd in the Dell moves to the
field with the car and there is
more general confusion.
A whistle blows and a small
bit of order appears in the midst
of chaos. A group of freshmen
and a group of sophomores as
semble on a white line near the
far end of the field. There is a
fluttering of kerchiefs, as each
girl joins herself to a classmate
for a three-legged race. And
they’re off! Three legs from each
class run several yards down the
field, circle a couple of juniors,
and return to touch off the next
three legs until the last pair of
sophomores comes in victorious.
The junior and senior classes
shout to the wide sky their loyal
support of their little sisters and
their mighty efforts are heard
faintly across the field.
The whistle blows again, and
once more two little groups as
semble on the white line. This
time one of each pair of girls
picks up her partner’s legs and
they start a mad dash around the
junior and back. Again the sopho
mores are victorious while the
seniors sing their praises.
And now the enthusiasm is at
its height as the activity moves
to the center of the field. The
cheerleaders screech themselves
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Chase Speaks
November 15
Stuart Chase, well known
economist and sociologist, will
lecture in the Auditorium at 8:15,
Tuesday evening, November 15.
Mr. Chase is the second attrac
tion in the current series spon
sored by the College through its
Committee on Concerts and Lec
tures.
Mr. Chase, who has an exten
sive reputation as writer, com
mentator, speaker, and consult
ant, is especially noted for his
ability to relate economics to the
other problems of contemporary
society. He has long advocated the
scientific approach to the solu
tion of the confusion in these
fields.
Born in Somersworth, New
Hampshire, in 1886, Mr. Chase
received his higher education at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Harvard Univer
sity. Following his graduation
from the latter institution in 1910
he was employed as a public ac
countant for seven years. After
this he worked with the Federal
Trade Commission in the investi
gation of the accounts of various
large industries.
In 1949 Mr. Chase received the
LL.D. degree from the American
University in Washington. Last
year he was invited to confer as a
consultant with UNESCO in
Paris regarding international
tensions arising from technical
advances.
Among Mr. Chase’s most wide
ly discussed books in the field of
political economy are: A New
DeaL which anticipated many
policies of the Roosevelt admin
istration as well as its populai’
name; Your Money's Worth,
which is often regarded as start
ing the consumer movement;
Mexico, a sociological study of
such color and charm that it has
inspired many subsequent books
and influenced thousands of
tourists; and Men at Work, which
helped to spread fair and reliable
methods of labor-management
relations.
Of equal interest to students
in other field's are: The Tyranny
of Words, an investigation into
the signification of words and
idioms in language development;
and Rich Land, Poor Land, deal
ing with the problems of soil ero
sion and conservation; Of more
immediate interest and concern to
freshmen at Queens is Mr. Chase’s
essay, “The Luxury of Integrity.”
Chapel Schedule
November 11
Jeanne Walker, musical program
November 15
Religious Emphasis Week—Mr.
McLeod
November 18
Dr. Herbert Spaugh, The Little
Church On The Lane
The editor invites every
campus organization, that
has not already done so, to
elect a representative to serve
on the Blues staff.