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QUEENS COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
April 23, 1951
Choir Presents Folk Ballad
nt Moseley, Sinclair
g. ^ Pupils Present
1 Music Recital
The Queens College Department
Music presented pupils of Mrs.
^Isie Stokes Moseley and Mrs. Vir
ginia Smith Sinclair in a recital
°n Friday evening, April 13, 1951,
8:15 P. M. in Ninniss Auditor-
'“m. The delightful program,
I'^hich was pi'esented, was as fol-
iows:
Allegro con spirito
Andante con espressione
^fom Sonata No. 12-K311, Mozart
Nancy Duncan
Sonata quasi una Fantasia,
Op. 27, No. 1 Beethoven
Andante
Allegro
Allegro molto e vivace
Dizidra Reimanis
Spring Time Becker
To Spring Gounod
Dorothy Hill
Beatrice Richardson, accompanist
^^tude Op. 10, No. 4 Chopin
Dzidra Reimanis
Nocturne, Op. 27, No. 1 Chopin
Second Ballade, Op. SB Chopin
Beatrice Richardson
Nel Cor Piu Non Mi Sento, Paisiello
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth,
from The Messiah Handel
Ruth Ward
Beatrice Richardson, accompanist
Tour Russian Folk Songs
Liadoff-Siloti
Legend of the Birds
I Danced with a Mosquito
Cradle Song
Lance
Nancy Duncan
T'a Soiree dans Grenade....Debussy'
Beatrice Richardson
Scenes fron; Carnaval, Op 9.
Schuman
Dizidra Reimanis
Serious Seniors
Gallivanting
The Seniors are not to be blamed
coming to breakfast in jeans
^•id plaid shirts on Wednesday,
^Pril 11^ or for sneaking off for the,
to have fun and to act fancy-
^ee. They must have felt gay as
marched out of chapel, singing
'^ith loud voices, “We’re Going on
^ Picnic.” It was the day of the
6nior Picnic when they went to
^iand Point on the Catawba River
^ spend the entire day. During this
^y in which no classes met, the
®^iors bathed, played baseball^
tennis, and card games. A tasty,
^^ch was prepared for them by
Squires and Miss Albright.
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Composer Will Attend Concert On May 6
About five o’clock on Wednesday
Ternoon, a group of tired Seniors
I ^turned to their Alma Mater with
^’^a-burned faces, aching limbs, and
^bawing desires to return to their
®®Sons and to finish their college
I ?^beers.
Barron, Reynolds
Top Scholarship In
Graduating Class
Miss Helen West, Registrar, has
announced the names of the Vale
dictorian and Salutatorian of the
class of 1951. The Valedictorian
will be Margaret Barron, who has
a scholastic average of 2.6, and the
Salutatorian will be Alice Reynolds,
whose average is 2.5.
Margaret hails from Seneca,
South Carolina. She has been very
active throughout her college years.
During her sophomore year, Mar
garet was chosen as Treasurer of
the Student Christian Association,
President of the Home Economics
Club, and she was on the Dean’s
List for her high scholastic achieve
ments. As a Junior, Margaret was
again placed on the Dean’s List,
elected to Sigma Mu, honorary
scholastic fraternity, and she was
also Secretary of the Student Chris
tian Association. She was elected
by the Student Body to be the
Boarding Student Vice President of
the Student Christian Association
during 1950-1951; and again, her
name ranked high on the Dean’s
List. Margaret is majoring in
Home Economics.
Alice is a Charlotte resident and
one of the most popular of the Day
Student Seniors. She has given
much of her time to extra-curri
cula activities during her four
years at Queens. During her fresh
man year, Alice won the first place
award in the WCTU Essay Con
test. As a sophomore, she main
tained the high scholastic require
ments for Dean’s List. Alice served
in the capacity as Business Mana
ger of the BLUES during her
junior year; and during the second
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Music enthusiasts at Queens and
in Charlotte are looking forward to
the second presentation by the
Queens College Choir of “Half
Moon Mountain” by Edwin Ger-
schefski. This composition will be
a part of the annual ISCM concert
on May 6, at 4:00 P. M. in Ninniss
Auditorium, and will be a high
light of the Fine Arts Festival.
Other works to be presented on the
program are a “Sonata for Four
Hands” by Poulenc, played by Elsie
Stokes Moseley and Nancy Eagle,
and Bartok’s “First Sonata for
Violin and Piano,” played by E.
Lindsey Merrill and Martha Rowe
Merrill.
“Half Moon Mountain” is a folk
ballad, the story of which was
taken from an article by Robert
Hagy which appeared in Time
magazine several years ago. The
story concerns itself with an elder
ly couple who, although they lived
only a short distance from New
York City, refused to adoptt he
modern way of life. Their outlook
was consistently that of several
centuries ago. The only “modern
conveniences” of which they ap
proved were their “old age pension
checks.” The story is a most ap
pealing combination of humor and
pathos. The musical setting is di
vided into four sections: Fifty-five
Minutes From Broadway, Land of
Plenty, Black-Haired Woman, and
Back to Their Shack.
The composer of “Half Moon
Mountain” is dean of the music
school at Converse College in
Spartanburg, South Carolina. Mr.
Gerschefski is nationally known as
a concert pianist as well as a com
poser. At one time he was secretary
for Joseph Schillinger who develop
ed the Schillinger System of com
position and orchestration, a sys
tem now used by many of the com
posers writing movie music in Hol
lywood.
Earl F. Berg, as in last year’s
presentation of the Gerschefski
composition, will be heard as bari-
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Juniors Try
Senior "Rats"
In Special Court
On Thursday evening, April 12,
at 5 o’clock, the Juniors and Seniors
donned their jeans and plaid shirts
and went out to the Gottleib cabin
off Providence Road for the annual
Junior-Senior affair. Several out-
of-doors games were played by the
group, after which a most delicious
picnic supper, consisting of barbe
cue, slaw, brunswick stew, pickles,
potato chips, rolls, and coffee was
served by Rogers Barbecue Cater
ers. Following supper, a most hil
arious “Rat Court” was held by
“the Junior Order of the Mooses”
(better known as the Junior Class).
The defendants were various mem
bers of the Senior Class. The fol
lowing were “tried” for having
made general offenses: Rainey
Gamble, Martha Harrison, Louise
White, Mary Long, Pete Peterson,
Alice Reynolds, Virginia Love,
Gwen Ewell, and Lucy Dunn Guion.
Approximately sixteen of the girls
of the Senior Class have been
“pinned” or have received dia
monds; these persons had to stand
before the group and tell how she
got her boy-friend to propose. Those
receiving this “punishment” were
as follows: Bertie Ayers, Jane
Blakely, Martha Harrison, Mary
Long, Sara Claire Little, Betty Ann
Pyron, Lorraine Murphy, Katie
Chapman, Holly Lambdin, Betty
Wayne Williams, Emily Shipp,
Caroline Collins, Lois Dell Strong,
Betty Fowler.
The picnic was certainly a suc
cess, and the Junior-Senior affair
given in honor of the Class of 1951
will be an event long remembered
by both the Juniors and Seniors.
Students Chosen
To Serve On
Advisory Council
The following students have been
chosen to represent their college
on the Freshman Advisory Council:
BOARDING STUDENTS
Biddix, Sarah Frances
Boyd, Kitty
Coleman, Marthann
Crosland, Jean
Davis, Jackie
Dobbins, Beth
Harvin, Louise
Heer, Carole
Hines, Joan
Johnson, Jackie
Lyons, Evie
McLaurin, Jane
MacPherson, Frances
Mclnnes, Harriet
Mintz, Mary Emma
Mitchell, Laura
Peede, Ruby
Powell, Pat
Query, Anne
Sherrill, Anne
Skelton, Charlie
Stockner, Carol
Tillson, Barbara
Turner, Sylvia
Warren, Charlene
White, Louise Enloe
DAY STUDENTS
Anderson, Jane
Black, Patsy
Chambers, Dorothy
Gettinger, Georgianne
Hager, Grace
Harmon, Patsy
Hon, Charlotte
Hovis, Joann
Lemmons, Mary Lib
Potts, Margaret
Smith, Willodene
Stegall, Bettie
Queens Literary
Group Honored
At Davidson
On Thursday, April 19, the mem
bers of the Queens chapter of
Sigma Upsilon, national literary
fraternity, traveled to Davidson
College as guests of Upsilon chap
ter there. This was the first time
a group of women has been present
for one of the Davidson groups’
meetings. At only one other time
has a woman been invited to read
her work for the fraternity. Five
of the members of the Queens chap
ter and three Davidson members
read some of their work. Mae Mc
Clure read her short story, “Human
Nature and the Soul”; Louise
White, Frances MacPherson, and
Murphey Alexander presented a
group of their sonnets; Claribel
Moles read her story, “I Was a Day
Student.”