The Carolinian [March 8, 1946]

              Dikes Dance Saturday
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Woman's College—"Distinguished for Its Democracy"
Legislators Table Bill
On Later Closing Time
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■ VOLUME XXVII Z531 WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, GREENSBORO, N. C, MARCH 8, 194« NUMBER 17
Largest Gym Meet Accents
Fitness and Democracy
Department Dedicates
Mammoth Sports Event
To Miss Mary Coleman
By ETHEL KESLER
"Fltnese for the American Way of
Life" was the theme for the 18th annual
Gym Meet which sprang to a start
under the lights of the Rosenthal
Gymnasium tonight at 7:30 p.m. when
73 white clad performers brlskley
mounted their ropes, rings, and other
apparatus and stunted on to the mats
displaying numerous complicated pat-terns
and daring acrobatics.
This biggest sporting event of the
year was dedicated to Miss Mary Chan-ning
Coleman to celebrate her 25th
anniversary as head of the Physical
Education department of the Woman's
College.
Stunts and Apparatus
After the four league squads gather-ed
in their assigned corners to be rated
as to their apearance, the annual affair
opened with an exhibition of apparatus
and stunt performances—the beginners
starting on the stunts division which
consisted of head stands, flying angels,
forward rolls, and countless other skills
and tie advanced jumping forward on
the apparatus made up of tricks on the
horse, buck, parallel bars, box, and
rings. I.ater both groups swapped
equipment.
Following this beginning with its in-dividual
competition came the faculty-student
relay which added its share of
entertainment to the big ocassion. The
senior physical education major class
succeeded this with a demonstration
of tennis, gymnastics, and dance; then
the freshmen marched forth on a gym-nastics
drill. A marching exercise and a
folk dance brightened by native cos-tumes
were then performed, bt the
juniors and sophomores respectively.
As the program advanced, the seniors
again came to be the center of attrac-tion
by showing a jump rope drill: the
Clogging Club danced out a snappy
rhythm: and then to end the group
performances the juniors gave a special
stunt exhibition.
Darlinettes Perform
The Darlinettes furnished the musi-cal
touch to the atmosphere by swing-ing
forth on their melodies between
events, and dorm cheer leaders com-manded
the yells of the league rooting
sections which were seated in the four
corners of the balcony. The vividness
of the occasion was amplified by the
fact that the sections were attired in
the league colors and that deafening
cheers issued from the lusty throats
of the aproximately 2,000 si>ectators.
These on-lookers who were packed in
the small area of the balcony consisted
of many members of the present stu-dent
body and a great many alumnae
who came from all over the state and
some from even farther places to wit-ness
this largest of all Gym Meets
Members of the physical education
faculty and some of the alumnae who
had graduated from the Physical Edu-cation
department in former years
served as judges for the meet.
Tableau Presented
All these performances were entitled
"Fitness Worth Developing." When
the scores had been computed and the
Gym Meet varsity determined, a tableau
composed the grand finale with a large
hoop with the numbers, 25, on it to
represent the 25 years that Miss Cole-man
has served the department The
Gym varsity were arranged around it
to produce the desired effect The words,
"Fitness Worth Development" and
"Democracy Worth Preserving" were
shown at the sides of the great hoop
to depict the theme of Gym Meet.
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Representatives Attend
N. Y. Press Conference
Present and incoming editors and
business managers of THE CAROLINIAN
and Pine Needles are planning to at-tend
the Columbia Scholastic Press As-sociation
at Columbia University, New
York, March 21-24.
Betty Anne Ragland, CAROLINIAN
editor; Betty Sutton, incoming editor;
Betty Ray Brimhall, business manager,
Elizabeth Lee Bass, incoming business
manager; Musa Queensbury, editor of
Pine Needles, and Mary Ann Walker,
incoming editor, are those attending.
The college finance board has appro-priated
$85 per delegate towards ex-penses.
Library Distributes
A rts Forum Material
Facuty and students who plan
to attend the Writing Forum of
the Arts Forum may now secure
copies of the material to be discus-sed
at the downstairs circulation
desk of the Library and are re-quested
to read the booklet prior
to the Friday discussion.
Arts Forum Leaders
Wade R. Brown Series
To Present Quartet
In String Concert
Program To Include Pieces
By Mozart and Sibelius
March 10 In Recital Hall
The Wade R. Brown Becital Series
will present the Woman's College
String Quartet in a program to be
given March 10 at 4:30 p.m., in the
Recital Hall of the Music Building.
Members of the quartet are Mr.
George Dickieson and Norma Lee
Eskey, violins; Mr. J. Himball Harri-man,
viola; and Miss Elizabeth Cow-ling,
violoncello.
The program will include Voces In-timnc
by Sibelius; strine quartet in D
minor, opus 56 in five movements, and
the Mozart Sonata No. 36, K. 38, for
violin and piano, played by Mr. Dickie-son
and Mrs. Claire Henley Atkisson.
Mr. Harriman is supervisor of music
and teacher of string instruments in
the public schools of Greensboro. Mr.
Dickieson, a member of the music
faculty, received his B. S. in music
from Tnln- fiillnnn — * >.i*M-«
tbe Cincinnati Conservatory. Mrs!
Atkisson, of the faculty, received her
degree from North Carolina College for
Women. Miss Cowling, of the music
faculty, graduated from Carlton Col-lege.
Norma Lee Eskey is a junior
music major.
Students Contribute
Arts Forum Material
Work Includes Paintings,
Musical Compositions,
And Photographic Art
Woman's College students having
work in tbe Southeastern College Art
Exhibition, in connection with the Arts
Forum are Lib Jobe and Martha Posey.
Student musical compositions to be
presented in recital Friday include
work by Miriam Knowles, Mary Jane
Hinely, Evelyn McLeod, Dorothy Mizel-le,
Ann Arthur, and Betty Buyck.
Student work in the Photography
Exhibit in the Library is by Sue
Bruton, Ruth Causby, Marilyn Craw-ford,
Virginia Ford, Betty Lou Huf-fines,
Lib Jobe, Lorraine Johnston,
Miriam Joyner, Eleanor Katzin, Katie
Kinlaw, Mary Love, Bennie Lowe, Mar-tha
Moore, Mary Morris, Suzanne Nor-man,
Betty Jane Osborne, Louise Pat-ton,
Helen Sanford, Betty Jane Sarratt,
Gloria Schlossberg, Teresa Shelton,
Ann Snyder, Dot Spears, Jane Street,
Nan Sutton, Judy Swift, Lucile Tegg,
Joanna Tucker, Marilyn Vincent, Mar-garetta
Vine, and Carol Walker.
Visiting consultants for the Friday
Forum on Painting are Irene Cullis,
head of the department of art at
Greensboro College; Annie V. Dunn,
head of the department of art at
Winthrop College; Bessie L. Garison,
Winthrop College; Augusta Rembert
Wittkowsky, University of South Caro-lina;
and Richard Zoellner, University
of Alabama. Mr. Gregory Ivy, head of
the Woman's College department of art
will also appear and Miss Helen
Thrush of the department will preside.
Biology Department
Shows Four Films
Next week the department of biology
will bring four scientific films to the
college, to be shown in room 112 Sci-ence
Building, Thursday, March 14, at
12:10 and 5 p.m.
"Life of Dr. George Washington
Carver" tells the story of the Negro
scientist's research with peanuts and
other Southern products. Also to be
shown are "Magic Alphabet," "The
Alimentary Tract," and "Digestion of
Foods."
. . . Charles Weidman, virtuoso, composer, choreographer, and teacher
of the dance; Lionel Trilling, teacher, fiction writer, critic and inter-preter
of literature; Sheldon Cheney, writer and lecturer on the arts
and the theatre; and Howard Hanson, composer, teacher, conductor
and director of the Eastman School of Music.
Third A^nu^^tsForunL^xn^x^nx.
THURSDAY, MARCH 14
Forum on Writing
Southeastern College Art Exhibition —
2 p.m., Alumnae House
.. 4:30-6 p.m., Mclver Building,
The Weatherspoon Gallery
The Prometheus Bound . 8 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
FRIDAY, MARCH 15
Forum on Painting 10 a.m., Mclver Building,
Tbe Weatherspoon Gallery
Recital of Student Compositions - p.m.. Music Building,
Review of the Compositions The Recital Hall
Discussion of Theatre Architecture and Decor 3 p.m., Alumnae House
The Arts Forum Round Table 8 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
Class in Fundamental Techniques
of the Dance
Master Class in the Dance
American Composers Program
Charles Weidman and Company
10 a.m., Rosenthal Gymnasium
2 p.m., Rosenthal Gymnasium
4 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
8 p.m., Aycock Auditorium
Lionel Trilling Leads Panel
To Begin Third Arts Forum
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Playlikers and Dance Group
Present 'Prometheus Bound'
At Evening Performance
Jamison Tops Sales
In Per Cent, Amount
Jamison leads in amount and per-centage
of stamps purchased this
week, announces Nancy Edmunds,
head of sales. Sales for the week
of February 23-March 1 are as
follows:
Hall Amount
Jamison $ 22.10
Gray $ 14.5*
Mclver $ 3.1»
Weil $ 22.20
Woman's $ 9.15
Kirkland $ 18J5
S. Spencer $ 20.95
Bailey $ 17.25
Hirnhaw $ 12.65
New Guilford % 20.45
Shaw $ 8.75
Mary Foust $ 20.25
Town $ 18.75
N. Spencer $ 22.20
Pet.
100
100
100
96
96
92
82.8
80
70
68
63
63
31
Total $2:i0.65
Chancellor Announces
New Faculty Changes
Eight Members Resign;
Ten Teachers Join and
Five Return From War
Faculty changes for the spring semes-ter
have been announced by Chancellor
W. C. Jackson. Included In the changes
are the acceptance of eight resigna-tions
and the approval of ten new
faculty members, five of them return-ing
from war leaves of absence.
Gerald Wendt Says Russia
Outranks U. S- in Science
"I ami a renegade scientist," Gerald
Wendt told reporters before his talk
Wednesday night. Dr. Wendt has been
a research professor at the University
of Chicago, dean at Pennsylvania State
College, the first director of the Bat-telle
Institute for Industrial Research
at Columbus, Ohio, director of research
for several important industries, presi-dent
of his own company in New York,
and a captain in the Chemical Warfare
Service of the U. S. Army during World
War I.
He says that he went Into scientific
writing for two reasons. First, he' was
getting too old for research science.
"Scientific research is a job for young
men," he says. Second, he wanted to
help bridge the enormous gap between
the scientific world and the public. He
wanted to teach readers, senators, and
others about science; and he felt that
he had a command of the necessary
vocabulary for making them under-stand.
Dr. Wendt is a little man with a
white goatee and a pleasant manner.-
He does not talk down to reporters; he
talks with them. He says he has done
some interviewing in his day, also.
Settling himself in the big red wing-chair
behind stage he remarked, "The
real secret about the atomic bomb is
that there is no secret. The nations
that don't know about it now will know
within a year." This was his reply in
response to a question about Winston
Churchill's recent speech in which he
said that the atomic bomb secret should
not be given to Russia. Dr. Wendt
said that we had done nothing to allay
Russia's suspicions.
Remarking that according to research
what we now know about the atom
may be useful in curing cancer, Dr.
Wendt said that the research in radio-active
materials will probably be of
most use to medicine. Explaining his
meaning in as simple terms as possible,
he said that doctors will be able to
feed a patient, see where the food goes,
and thus learn much about physiology.
Dr. Wendt is now editing a new
magazine entitled Science Illustrated.
The first issue will be on the news-stands
April 1. .It is being published
in New York, and will be devoted to
informing the public about new scien-tific
developments. It will be written
in language understandable to the lay-man.
He says that it will give him
"plenty of outlet for the things he
wants to say," and he does have a good
many things of importance to tell us
alL
One of his most important points
was the fact that the Russians are not
barbarians when it comes to science.
Their laboratories are staffed and
financed 100 times better than ours.
The greatest harm that the atomic
bomb has done was to create suspicion
and fear among our allies. It has
caused a wave of hysteria that has de-stroyed
many of the advantages science
has given us. This can only be con-quered
by education.
Atomic energy could be utilized for
peace within five years if some sort of
engine could be invented whereby it
could be used safely. This will probably
be a jet engine. Since atomic energy
is ten million times as powerful as any
other fuel, a revolution would occur
in other power industries. It will be
greatly beneficial to aviation, which
could carry more cargo in the space
formerly used to carry gasoline. One
ton of atomic power a day would carry
on all the industry in the United
States, and there is enough uranium
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tiy'Lee, secretary in the department
of education; Mr. John B. Courtney,
instructor in art; Mr. Wilbur Dorsett.
instructor in English, drama division ;
nnd Miss Ruth Shaver, assistant pro-fessor
in education, all of whom served
with the Army; and Miss Katherine
Taylor, residence hall counselor and
associate professor in French, who
served with the WAVES.
Added to the residence hall counsel-ing
staff are Miss Lucille Gainey and
Miss Elvira Prondecki. Both served
as lieutenants in the personnel division
of the WAVES. Miss Gainey is a
graduate of Duke University, and was
formerly head of the English depart-ment
at New Bern High School. Miss
Prondecki is a graduate of Smith
College.
Additions to the school of music in-clude
Miss Margaret Lowry and Mr.
Edwin P. Morgan, both of whom hold
the rank of instructor in piano. Miss
Lowry holds a B. M. degree from Tu-lane
University and an M. A. degree
from Columbia University. Mr. Morgan
served three years with the field artil-lery
corps. He is a graduate of Tulsa
University and has studied with Guy
Maier at the Eastman School of Music.
Resignations accepted were those of
Mrs. Ruth Carter, Mrs. Ton! Lupton
Hires and Miss Grace Lawrence, of the
residence staff; Miss Dorothy Clement
and Mrs. Pauline Wily Delmonte, of
the school of music; Mrs. Nell Craig
Strowd, director of the news bureau;
Mrs. Robert Dulaney, library staff; and
Dr. John A. Tiedman, department of
physics.
A. and T. College Choir
Presents Concert
A. and T. College Choir, under the
direction of Mr. C. A. Brickwick, pre-sented
a concert for the student body
at Chapel Tuesday, March 5.
Numbers included on the program
are as follows: "Oh, Ye That Love the
Lord," "Rocking Jerusalem," "Plenty
Good Room," "Bless Thou the Lord,
Oh, My Soul," "Evening Prayer" from
Hansel and Oretel, "Sometimes I Feel
Like a Motherless Child,*' "Ain't Gonna
Study War No More," "I'm Trampln',
Trampin', Trying to Make Heaven My
Home," and "The Lord's Prayer."
Playlikers Perform
For Servicemen
The Old Maid was presented by the
Playlikers Sunday, March 3, at the
USO on North Elm Street and Wednes-day,
March 6, at ORD.
The two productions were given'with-out
scenery, props, or make-up, but
with a full cast
The Third Annual Arts Forum opens
with the Forum on Writing led by
Lionel Trilling and presided over by
Dr. Leonard B. Hurley Thursday,
March 14, at 2 p.m. in the Alumnae
House.
First evening event is the presenta-tion
by the Playlikers and the Dance
Group of The Prometheus Bound of
Aeschylus in the Edith Hamilton trans-lation
under the direction of Miss
Kathryn England.
Mr. Trilling is associate professor of
English at Columbia University, author
of Matthew Arnold, E. M. Forster, and
short stories and articles which have
appeared in Harper's Bazaar, The
Kenyon Review, The Nation, and The
Partisan Review.
Other visiting members of the panel
are Helen Bevington, instructor in
English at Duke University, writer of
verse which appears in The American
Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, and The
New Yorker, and author of a volume
of poems to be published in the autumn
of 194« by Houghton Mifflin;
Carl Y. Connor, professor and head
of the English Department of Sweet
Briar College and author of Archibald
Lampman;
Lodwick Hartley, professor and head
of the English Department at North
Carolina State College, author of Wil-liam
Cowper: Humanitarian and of
This Is Lorcnce and contributor to
The Sewanee Review, and The South
Atlantic Qua*taebt- ., _-
Greensboro and graduate of the Wo-man's
College, is author of short .stories
which have appeared in Asia and of a
novel. South of Heaven, to be published
in the spring of 1946 by Random
House.
Faculty members of the department
of English appearing on the Panel in
addition to Dr. Hurley, head, are Miss
Jane Summerell, professor, and Miss
Augusta Walker, instructor and winner
of an Avery Hopwood award in the
novel.
Material to lie discussed consists of
student work from Agnes Scott College,
Black Mountain College, Duke Univer-sity,
Florida State College for Women,
Hollins College, Newcomh College of
Tulane University, Randolph - Macon
Woman's College, Salem College, Sweet
Briar College, and The Woman's Col-lege
of the University of North Caro-lina.
Poetry to be discussed includes "Bal-lad"
and "Mad, They Say" by Mildred
Rodgers; "The Christmas Story" Marty-vonne
Dehoney; "The Disenchanted"
Barbara Barrett; and "Time: An On-tological
Observation," Florence Hoff-man.
Prose selections are as follows: "Re-union,"
by Jean Ross; "Play House,"
Clyde McLeod; "Bus Ride," and "The
Strike," Virginia McKinnon.
Phi Beta Kappa Plans
Initiation Ceremony
Events to come, for the Woman's
College section of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society have been announced by Dr.
John E. Bridgers, Jr., president, and
include a chapel program for the an-nouncement
of the election of new
members Tuesday, March 25, and the
initiation ceremony, Monday, April 15.
Dr. Frank P. Graham, president of
the University of North Carolina, will
speak and Chancellor W. C. Jackson
will extend a word of greeting to the
new members. Students will be in-formed
of their election Tuesday morn-ing
and will appear on the stage in
caps and gowns.
Dr. Newman I. White, head of the
department of English, Duke Univer-sity,
will talk on "Legend and Fact in
Biography" at tbe initiation meeting.
Dr. White and Dr. Jackson wrote ID
collaboration An Anthology of Verse
by American Negroes, which was pub-lished
in 1924. Dr. White, who is
recognized as one of the leading author-ities
on Shelley, is also author of Biog-raphy
of Percy B. Shelley, published
in 1940, and of Portrait of Shelley,
1945. Another work by Dr. White is
American Negro Folk-Songs.
Further plans as to time and place
will be announced.