The Carolinian [April 30, 1954]

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WtLUME XXXIV Z.-.JI WOMAN'S COLLEGE OF TH1 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. GREENSBORO. N. C. APRIL 30, 1*54 NUMBER a
S^SNem Speaks May 7 packed Weekend Starts Seniors7 Last Month
Un India and Communism
Dr. S. S. Nehru will be a guest
on the Woman's College campus
Friday. May 7 At 8:00 P. M. that
night be will speak on "India and
Communism" In the Elliott Hall,
ballroom.
The Y. W C. A. and the Inter- j
Faith Council are jointly sponsor-ing
Dr Nehru's visit. Heads of the
organizations state that they feel
It is worthwhile to sponsor such a
person as Dr. Nehru, who speaks
with authority on the Communist
situation in his country as he pre-'
aents his views.
Among the guest speaker's activ- •
Itlei ire listed the honorary presi-dency
of the International Union
oi Bar AaaociaUons Paris; and
patron of the some organization In
New York Dr Nehru is all
honorary member of the National
Bar Association of Mexico and of
Texas
For thirty-five years he served
in the British Indian Civil Service
and retired as supreme court Judge
The public is Invited to hear this
speaker on India, one of the con-troversial
spots in the world today
Chatham Starts Work:
Picks Eight Members
For Judicial Board
President-elect Deanie Chatham
announced this week the tentative
appointment of nine members of
Judicial Board and three other of-ficer*
for the year 1954-55. Legis-lature
is expected to give official
confirmation to the appointments
.it it> meeting next week.
Chosen to serve with Presldttnl
Chatham and .Judicial Chairman
Crow <>n BOA*l Judicial Board are
rising seniors Norma t'ofrr. Caro-lyn
Falls. Peggy Hanii, Alice Joy-ner.
and Hnsalie Ki//iah. I
juniors Ann Rutherford and Syl-via
Wilson; and rising sophomore
lii McCauley.
The names of Emily Baucom and
Betty Ifobbs will be submitted for
legislative approval as chairmen
of Elections Board and Service
League, respectively. Tentative
( i si' member is Rosalie Kizziah
Juniors Fete Class of '54
Dancers Affirm It s May
Mr. Wm. Deviney will direct the Elliott Hall Chorus in their
Concert Sunday, 4:30 P. M.. Elliott Hall Ballroom.
Okey, Martin, Dunn
Lead Upperclassmer
As (lass Prexys
Josephine Okey. Eleanor Mar-tin,
and Sadye Dunn will lead the
senior, junior, and sophomore
classes next year, as a result of the
elections Tuesday.
Jo Ann Meachan. elected vice-president
of the rising junior CUUM
»ill abM Strva .is president of the
incoming ftoshraan claaa until they
elect office!-. Louiaa Mordaeal, as
newly-elected secreiary of junior.
will b« president of the ocmmercial
class next year until their election
Other officer- <' tin- riadll
ii r '|j« arc .lane Savage, vlce-piesident;
Julia Sanders treasurer:
Joyce Crews, (f. S A Council
member; Norms Cofer, senior
show chairman; and Sylvia DIs-mukc.
cheerleader
The rising juniors completed
their slate hy choosing Jane Deans.
N. S. A. Council member; Barbara
Sloan as treasurer; Patty Vaughn,
cheerleader, and Mary Ann Baum
and Ebba Freund as co-writers of
the junior show
Other officers of the rising soph-omer
class are Ann Mclntosh. vice-president;
Barbara Davis, secre-tary;
Ben Nita Black, treasurer;
Lee D Wieland, N S A. Council
member; and Hackey Harrison as
cheerleader.
Welcomes May With
Closed Doors Sat.
Members of the library staff
announce that the library will
close from 3:00 P. M. to 7:00
P. M. Saturday. May 1. In ob-servanre
of the May Day ac-tivities
scheduled for that day.
Reserve books may be borrow-ed
at 12:00 noon Saturday.
Proficiency Requests
Due Next Thursday
Students are reminded that
next Thursday. May 6. is the
last day for filing applications
with the registrar's office for
proficiency examinations.
Full credit is riven for pass-ing
a proficiency examination
in any course listed in the cat-alog.
A grade of D Is passing,
but quality points will be given
only for a grade of C or better.
No more than 12 hours in
proficiencies will be credited
toward graduation.
May Day festivities will come
to a close Saturday night at the
Junior-Senior Formal In Elliott
Hall Ballroom
The appropriate theme. "It's
May", will be carried out by a
large picture hat serving as a
background for Harold Gale and
his orchestra, gay butterflies su-spended
from the ceiling of the
Game Room, floral arrangements
of mixed spring flowers, and a
lemonade stand in the Qajnc Room
where refreshmenta will h< served
The color scheme of green and
yellow will alto be used In the
programs which cany the
picture lint motif
Among the invited cue-I- are
Chancellor and Mrs Edward K
Graham: Miss Mereb Mossman.
dean of instruction; Mis. Katha-rine
Taylor, dean of students; Mr.
and Mrs John Lockhart; Miss Su-san
Barksdale. Senior Class chair-man;
Miss Llla Peck Walker. Jun-ior
Class chairman; Miss Virginia
Pierce and Mrs. Anne F. Carter,
faculty hostesses; and Miss Elvira
Prondecki. director of Elliott Hall
The chaperones for the dance will
be Dr. and Mrs. Vance T. I.ittlc-john.
Mr and Mrs. Benjamin
Townsend. and Mr and Mrs Rich-ard
Boquist.
The couples in the figure will
be Introduced with the back-ground
music. "All The Things
You Are", and will form the shape
of a fan. Participating in the fig-ure
will be the officers of the two
classes, members of the dance com-mittee,
the May Queen, and their
escorts These couples will be led
by Jean Kanter of Klnston and
Gloria Anne Weaver of Shelby,
co-chairmen of the dance, escorted
by Dick Swartzberg of High Point
and Charlie Winecoff of Wlnston-
Salem.
Senior Class officers are: Phyl-lis
Franklin, president. Asheville.
with Dr Paul Bierstedt of Wilm-ington.
Deleware; Peggy Alexan-der,
vice-president. Charlotte, with
escort; Harriet Robinson, secretary.
Klngsport. Tennessee, with escort;
Emma Belle Pickett. treasurer.
Greensboro, with escort: Betty Ann
Saunders. cheerleader. Sanford.
with Bobby Riddle of Sanford;
Rose Farah. legislature represent
ative. Mount Olive, with at
and Grace Blackmore, If. 8 \
represenl.il ive. Asheville. with
peter Selirm-dcr ol Washington.
D C.
Junior Class officers are Boat-lie
Kizziah. president Salisbury
with Ben McCubMoi ol Salisbury;
Diana Chatham, vice-president.
Winston-Salem. with escort. Day!
Stewart, secretary, Guilford, Con-necticut,
with John (iregg of Fort
Mill, S. C; Ida Jane Johnson
treasurer. Huntersville. with es-cort;
Mary Lou Peach, cheerlead-er.
Gastonia. with escort; Laura
Moore, legislature representative.
I.enoir. with John Ashby, of Mount
Airy; and Helen Haynes. N. S. A.
representative, Reidsvllle. with
\isli Hardy of Winston-Salem.
Members of the dance commit-tee
are: Pearl Parry, inviialiotis.
Windsor, with Julius Greene of.
Thomasvillc; Beverly Schoonover.
decorations, Kensington, Maryland
wilh Ed Campbell of Wilson. Belly
Harvey orchestra. Winston-Salem.
with Bill Black of Oreenaboro;
Peggy Ormsby. programs, Laurln-burg,
with Bill Trolllnget m Laur-inburg:
Carolyn Falls, figure
Shelby, wilh Jim Magnate of Shel-,
by; Marion Duckworth, reception.
Asheville. with Neil Saliorfield of J
Atlanta; Sally Powell, publicity,
Lenolr. with escort; Julie Sanders,
refreshments. Tryon. with Jack I
Hall of Charlotte; Dot Howard,
wraps. Buie's Creek, with Eugene
McDaniel of Klnston: and Sylvia
Dismuke. intermission. Burlington,
with Henry Perry of Burlington
Margie Prcisinger of Badin. tin-
May Queen, will be escorted by
Bill Page of Albemarle.
NC Episcopal Bishop
Gives Baccalaureate
Sermon On May 30
The Rt. Rev. Matthew George
Henry, third Bishop of the Dio-cese
of Western North Carolina,
will deliver the baccalaureate ser-mon
to the senior class on May
30. at 11:00 A. M in Aycock Audi-torium.
A native North Carolinian, Bish-op
Henry graduated from the Uni-versity
of North Carolina and com-pleted
a year's graduate work there
In the department of Chemistry
He attended the Virginia Theolog-ical
Seminary in Alexandria. Va.
Beginning his ministry' at St
Philip's Church. Durham. N. C.
he was later assigned to a mission
field In Rocklngham and Stokes
Counties Re baa served as rector
of Calvary Parish in Tarbnro. N C
and of Christ Church. Charlotte,
N. C.
He was consecrated Bishop of
the Diocese of Western North Car-olina
in 1948
Bishop Henry holds an A. B de-gree
from the University of North
Carolina, the B. D cum laude and
D D from the Virginia Theologi-cal
Seminary, Alexandria, Va.. and
the D D from the University of
the South. Sewanee, Tenn
T Army Brides
mn Their Fate
* Senior Comedy
BY PAT THOMAS
"When you find a pre-fab. honey,
big enough for two." your troubles
are just beginning—or so predicted
I he seniors in Aycock tonight, as
a capacity crowd laughed its way
Ihrough the class show. "Prefab
Preview."
The problems of "the real, the
really real world" opened the eyes
of three Woman's College grad-uates-
turned Army wives, in a two-act
musical comedy written by
Jean Ragan and directed by Flor-ence
Bowden
Dot Rose directed the 100-volced.
fatigue-clad chorus, to the accom-paniment
of Lib Peterson. Faculty
adviser for this year's show was
Miss Vlrglnis Pierce.
When Nancy Gilbert 'Marsha
Lovltti. Jean Houston IBetty Jo
VanderhiHl, and Mike Auskern
'Lucy Strongi arrived at Camp
Reform with their newly-acquired
spouses, anything but domestic
bliss was the order of the day The
problem?—the girls had specialized
in college. The result? Lucy's
anemic husband Freddie 'Janet
Cookei had to give up eating—
Lucy had majored in physical edu-cation.
Marsha's athletic spouse
John (Louise Easterllngi had to
trade his golf club for a paint
brush--Marsha was an art major
Betty Jo's wild-eyed musician Je-rome
'Terry Schucraft' had only
his piano for company—Betty Jo
could do nothing hut cook
Specialization wasn't Ihe only
Hy in the nlntmenl As the boyl
soon discovered. ROTC al Carolina
and Duke was never like this -and
Army wives who hail never been
Am.-.' wives before and didn't par-ticularly
like the Idea did little
to aid the orientation period.
president Mclver's well-worn
adage "When you educate a wom-
;in MIU educate a family" took on
a new meaning, however, with the
girls' discovery that there wen-soon
to be families to be educated
Determination set in. and the cur-
'Cofitnmca on Patje Flvel
Dances and Songs Honor
May Day Queen arid Court
"Bring your sun-glasses or um-brella,
depending on the ireatber,
and Me May Day done up the
modern way." invites Janet Cook,
May Day chairman, concerning
"Salutalion of Spring." the May
Day program to be presented on
the Woman's College eanipus on
the green between Aycock and the
Music Building Saturday. May 1,
at 4:00 o'clock.
The program will honor Queen
Margie Preslslnger. honor attend-ants.
Katherinc Brown and Rose
Farah; court attendants. Peggy
Alexander. Ruth Jim Atkins, Caro-lyn
Hired Ida Maude Black. Syl-via
Crocker. Ann Forking, Patsy
Gattis, Phyllis Harris, Ashley Hol-land.
Kathy Keller, Ellen Kjosnes.
Betty l.eiuih.iiill Trevaleah Long.
Miriam Pickett. Betty Ann Saun-ders,
and Carolyn Styron; and
mascots, Kathle Karlson and John
U instead
Miss Helen Wallace Mlms will
direct the chorus, to be directed
by Carolyn Hollls Members are:
Mary Lewis Graham, Barbara Jane
Bryant. Sandra Davis, Barbara Tru-ett,
Blanche Williams. Dorothy
Stafford, Anne Whltlock. Virginia
Lee Breltharpt. Betty Lou Coving-ton.
Nona Wetson. Karen Johnson,
Dorothy Hood, Joanne McGHI,
Jane lleiiueke Grace Gastineau,
second sopranos; Lillian Laner.
Susan Durham. Lou Bradley. Chris
Valonls. Joan Ackerman. Mary
Ann Sides. Elizabeth Doughton.
Enarstlna Doshar, Peggy Whltaker
, Mlrall, Eleanor Rosenberg
Arlana Grisat, Helen Malls, Bar-bara
Balletlne Mia Griffin.
altOS; Ann Wald. Anna Hill. Helen
ji i . an Carolyn N->V OHM Fran-
Herman Jeane Seaweli, Patsy
McDaniel. Nancy Stafford. Jean
Massey. Nancy Stone, and Flora
Cl rittopolo ,
Sara Beth Hearn will play the re-cessional
and processional for the
May Court.
DANCERS
Three modern dances, an Inter-pretlve
ballot, and a tap dance will
he presented For the first time.
each el.iss |j responsible for a
dance, and students participating
In the planning are seniors. Peggy
M.ilone. chairman: Barbara Low-miller.
Becky Hemphill. Peggy
Reason. Peggy Malone. Becky Cas-tanas.
Sylvia Dismuke, Araminte
Little, Helen Kuykendall. Carol
Williams: juniors. Jean Kanter.
chairman: Peggy Harris. Rudi
JHart. Peggy White, Evie Winkler,
I Barbara Llndsey, Peggy Hill: soph-i
oraores. Betty Clark, chairman;
Kenan Neese, Barbara Sloan. Judy
' Ellison. Mary Eltlng, Betty Smith,
n i,illumed on Paf/e Four^
Putnam Publishers
Call For Manuscripts
For Second Contest
The second annual Putnam con-test
In writing was announced this
week.
The award, 12.000. will be made
by the G. P Putnam's Sons. Pub-lishers,
for the best manuscript,
fiction or non-fiction, of general
Interest, written by a graduate or
undergraduate student of the three
divisions of he Consolidated Uni-versity
of North Carolina. Students
of the Extension Division are also
eligible.
Half the sum will be an advance
on royalties and the other half an
outright award Deadline for entry
of manuscripts for this year is
July I. The award will not be an-nounced
until after the opening
of the University in the fall Sec-ondary
prate* will be awarded If
the material merits it.
The entries will be judged this
year by three well-known authors:
Betty Smith, Chapel Hill, whose
"A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" has
been one of the most popular
novels In recent years; William T.
Polk. Greensboro editor and au-thor
of the recent successful
"Southern Accent." and Scholem
Asch. author of "The Nazarene"
and other works of fiction.
Coonnrference At Carolina Calls For Stiffer Admission Practice
n rr Down With Rules!
Cry Sophs And Srs.
At Uninhibited Party
"Suppressed desires" will no
longer be suppressed at the sen-ior-
sophomore party May 5 In El-liot
Hall game room at 5 o'clock
The sophomore class will honor
the graduating class with a party
at which all rules and taboos im-posed
by society will be suspend-ed,
and everyone will come as they
would like to be in such an unin-hibited
society, announced Patsy-
Paulson at the sophomore class
meeting last wek
A prize will be given for the
most original and effects-tume.
following a brief talent show
Present admissions practice at
the Consolidated University of
North Carolina Is not "adequately
selective for the best Interests of
students, state, or University."
So declares, in part, a 20-page
summary of the recent two-day
State of University meeting held
at Chapel Hill. The report on the
Quality of Students follows:
A more selective admissions
practice, based on sounder criteria
and a broader philosophy of serv-ice,
is feasible and necessary. Ad-missions
policy should be based
upon a college-aptitude counselling
rather than merely a screening
philosophy of PnlvotalU rospopol
bility
Such a policy can be put into
successful practice only on the
basis of an adequate pre-college
testing program Indicating both
achievement and aptitude levels of
prospective students This Infor-mation
should be made available
to high schools as objective bases
for recommending students for ad-mission,
for counselling with stu-dents
concerning their prospects
for success in college, and for
appraising the adequacy of prep-aratory
work in the schools.
NEED PRE-COLLEGE TESTS
Such a policy must recognize
that graduation, regardless of class
standing, from a North Carolina
high school is not necessarily a
guarantee of adequate preparation
and ability to do college-level work
Such a policy should include as a
major emphasis the identification
and recruitment of larger num-bers
of well-qualified North Caro-lina
high school graduates, many
of whom do not now attend col-lege.
Responsibility for formulation,
review, and revision of admissions
policy should be lodged finally and
unmistakably with the teaching
faculty of the Institution.
Quality of student performance
suffers significantly from environ-mental
factors which are not con-ducive
to maintenance of the min-imally
necessary conditions for
study.
These factors Include: over-crowded
dormitories, inadequate
provision for suitable study rooms,
unsatisfactory supervision of dorm-itory
behavior, and ineii
measures to maintain law and or-der
as distinguished from harm-less
prankstering
More searching consideration
should be given to the tangible
and Intangible quality of the con-ditions
under which the student
must live the out-of-class hours of
his academic career.
Remedial courses of pre-college
nature serve a useful and neces-sary
purpose for those students
admitted with the requisite ability
but with inadequate preparation
to enter at once upon college-level
work. For students revealing
a need for extensive remedial
work special programs should be
planned.
We need a more uniform defini-tion
of the function, scope, and
academic status of such programs
E g . we might plan to spread a
four-year program over five years.
postponing (until remedial work
has been completed I all courses di-rectly
or indirectly related to the
remedial area. Development of ex-tension
of remedial reading pro-grams
appears especially desirable
and necessary.
I
PROBLEMS OF SUPERIOR
STUDENT
A real problem exists in the pro-vision
of academic Incentives for
the student with superior qualifi-cations
and preparation It Is rec-ommended
that there be a serious
consideration of the possibility of
putting the superior students In;
-peei.i! sections on a voluntary
basis or In advance courses
through proficiency tests
let the heading of Quality
of Teaching, the report recognizes
that the achievement and main-tenance
of good teaching is a pri-mary
responsibility of the faculty
|... the quality of teaching Is ad-versely
affected by excessive total
work loads (teaching load, com-mittee
assignments, administrative
duties, etcJ; inadequate opportun-ity
for an encouragement of schol-arly
activity; failure to rotate in-structors
through different teach-ing
assignments; absence of effec-tive
Identification and reward of
excellence in teaching: failure to
publicize and practice insistence
upon good teaching as a primary
responsibility; Inadequacy of pro-cedures
for ameliorating occasion-al
cases of extreme laxity or equal-ly
extreme rigidity on the part of
the Instructors.