The Carolinian [December 10, 1956]

              Seven
Study Days ^fe Cawlttium Till
Christmas «4r_
VOLUME XXXVII Z531 Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N. C, December 10,1956 NUMBER 10 "
Elliott Lights Up
The ceremonial lighting of a
Urge outdoor Christmas tree on
the terrace of Elliott Hall put
Into full swing the Christmas sea-son
at Woman's College.
Prom this point on to the be-ginning
of Christmas holidays the
Woman's College community will
observe a variety of holiday
events, many of which will be
sponsored by the Elliott Hall
Council.
President of Elliott Hall Is Har-riet
Conrad. Harrlsonburg. Va.,
and council members are Barbara
Alley. Burlington: Prances Burns.
Lumberton: Claudette Butler,
Greenville; Ann Pltzhugh. Ken-sington.
Md.; Frances Hosley.
Greensboro; Joanne Plott, Greens-boro;
Clifford Smith. Morgan-ton;
Marcla Warford, Winston-
Salem ;and Martha York. Taylors-vllle.
A Christmas tea was held In
the Main Lounges of Elliott Hall
from 4; 30 to 5:30 p. m., December
5.
A Christmas party for the fac-ulty
children will be given by the
Elliott Hall Council today. The
Baptist group, headed by Faye
Taylor, will hold a Christmas ves-per
service today. The Methodist
group, headed by Janet Robinson
will go caroling to the Children's
Home Friday.
One of the chief events of the
Christmas season will be the El-liott
Hall Christmas Dance to be
held on Saturday. December 15.
at 7:30 p. m.. after which the
Christmas Concert by the college
choir will be given. Then most of
the dormitories will have open
house to display their Christmas
decorations.
To round out the weekend a
Christmas buffet supper will be
given on Sunday. December 16.
in the Elliott Hall dining room.
There will be Christmas carol-ing
on campus on December 18
sponsored by the YWCA and
Inter-Faith Council. The presi-dent
of the YWCA Is Barbara
Stewart and the president of the
Inter-Faith Council Is Donna
Snyder.
Several dormitories have plan-ned
Christmas parties to be held
on Dec. 17 or 18. Shaw dormitory
will have a Christmas dinner on
Dec. 18. Asa special touch for their
Christmas parties all of the girls
In Hlnshaw dormitory headed by
house president. Jo Len Jamer-son.
and Klrkland Dormitory,
headed by house president. Mary
Howard Bowen. are bringing toys
to the party to be given to the
Oreensboro Welfare Department
for distribution to needy children
Several dormitories Including
Cotten Dorm headed by Lee Handy
are having "Good Fairy Week".
The girls draw names and during
the week secretly do helpful things
for the girl whose name they have.
At 1 p. m. on December 19, WC
will recess for the Christmas va-cation
Classes will be resumed
January 3.
SUE SIGMON
Sue Sigmon Receives
Jr. Phi Beta Award
Sue Sigmon. 1956 recipient of
the Junior Phi Beta Kappa award,
modestly attributes her success in
winning the award to "Just luck".
"Honestly. I don't know where
the grades came from: you can't
classify me as an Intellectual." j
she states.
Neither can she be classified as.
a "grind". Her extracurricular ac- I
tlvltles for this year Include being j
Junior House President of Shaw ;
Hall, a member of Golden Chain,
a member of Wesley Foundation,
pianist for the Junior Show, and
Legislature Representative. Last
year she was secretary of her
class, a member of the College
Choir, and assistant house presi-dent
In Wlnfield.
Charlotte Is Sue's home. There
she attended Harding High School,
where she was salutatorlan of her
graduating class.
Sue Is majoring In English lit-erature.
She did not decide upon
a major until last year when she
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Johnson Will Go On
Scandinavian Trip
Elizabeth Johnson. Junior from
Madison. North Carolina. Is go-ing
on a Caravan of the Methodist
Church to the Scandinavian coun-tries.
The Caravan will go to Den-mark.
Finland. Norway, and Swe-den
next summer. It Is primarily
a good-will tour but some work
Is Involved.
This Is the third summer such
a Caravan has gone to Scandi-navia
and Is sponsored by the
Western North Carolina Confer-ence.
The tour will last approxi-mately
ten weeks. Elizabeth will
be accompanied by seven other
students and by Dr. and Mrs.
Raymond A. Smith. Dr. Smith is
professor of philosophy and Re-ligion
at Oreensboro College.
Elizabeth has been on Wesley
Council for two years. She was
Personnel Chairman and Social
Chairman. She is now technical
director of the Wesley Players'
play which Is now In rehearsal.
She Is also a member of the FTA
and has worked In the Library
for three years.
Upon receiving the news Eliza-beth
exclaimed. "Oh! Oh! Can't
believe Its me yet!"
Spontaneous Combustion;
Spontaneous Contribution
Milk bottle, which have been
placed MI the hostess desk In
each dormitory are aHUng there
waiting to receive any money
yon may like to contribute to
the Hungarian student cause.
All money will be collected by
the Service Leagne representa-tive
m each dorm and will be
aent directs to the N8A office
In Cambridge.
Weatherspoon
Collection Art
Exhibit In Lib.
Two new art exhibits of the
Weatherspoon Gal'ary Collection
are now being shown In the li-brary.
The exhibit >vlll be on dis-play
until December IS.
There are approximately 40
etchings by Marc Chagall along
the basement corridor. On tne
llrst and second floor of the li-brary
the paintings by Enriqu?
Montenegro are being shown.
A Russian born painter. Cha-gall,
spent most of his life in
France where he drew etchings
to illustrate books. Chagall was
not dedicated to any one school
of art. A large part of the col-lection
concerns Moses and the
Ten Commandments such as
Moses "Receiving the Ten Com-mandments".
"Moses Bringing the
Ten Commandments", and Israel-ites
With the Ten Command-ments".
Others In the group are:
'The Oak and The Reed", "The
Drowned Wife". "Two Bulls and
a Frog", and the "Wolf Frighten-ing
the Shepherd".
Mr. Montenegro Is a professor
of the School of Design at North
Carolina State College. The pro-fessor
was born In Valparaiso.
Chile. There are both oil paintings
on canvass and smaller paintings
on other mediums. Two paintings
on exhibit are: "Tribute to Au-tumn"
and "Woman Under a
Streetlamp".
W. E. Barchenger Is In charge
of the Weatherspoon Gallery ex-hibit.
All of the pictures are not
being shown due to lack of suf-
Ilclent space.
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The appeal for a new Mclver
Memorial Building at Woman's
College will not be dropped.
The latest action taken was
In the form of the unanimous
passage by the entire student
body of a Resolution calling
for the North Carolina State
Legislature to allocate suffici-ent
funds for the construction
of a new Mclver Memorial
Building In the Immediate fu-ture.
The Resolution was Intro-duced
by I.u Stephenson. presi-dent
of Golden Chain, at a mass
meeting held December 4.
This Resolution was the same
as had been presented and was
passed by the Woman's Col-lege
Legislature and State Stu-dent
Legislature In Raleigh.
No dissenting opinion was
expressed concerning the Res-olution.
Contralto Turner Delights Audience
At Aycock Performance Last Night
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CLARAMAE TURNER
Library Exhibits Paintings,
ustrations of Dr. Opper
Fire In Mary Foust Dorm
Damages Clothing of Girls
Two sophomores In Mary Foust
dormitory will be staying In rooms
other than their own until after
Christmas due to damage done
their room by a fire that occurred
nround 9 o'clock the morning of
December 4.
From information up to the
publication of this Carolinian the
Students Send Letter About Hungarians
To The President of United States
BY ANNE FRYE
The Hungarian crisis Is still the
main topic for bull sessions among
Woman's College students. Ever
since a student leader in the Hun-garian
Revolution presented his
case before about 1200 girls In
Elliott Hall, how to help the
courageous students and people of
that freedom-seeking country has
been on the minds of WC stu-dents.
1st van Laszlo. an alias for the
Communism-fighter, presented his
case for his country before WC
students and faculty members on
Wednesday. November 28 The
theme of his words as related to
his audience through an Interpre-ter
centered around a desire for
those listening to him to express
their opinion to the United States
government and U S. delegates
to the U. N. to take a more def-inite
stand on the Hungarian ques-tion
And this opinion has been ex-pressed
in one sense The WC
students in a representative body
have sent a letter to the Presi-dent
of the United States. We
| the students of the Woman's Col-
I lege of the University of North
Carolina, approve the constructive
peaceful measures that the United
j States government has taken thus
far In supporting the Hungarian
l cause. We wish to affirm that the
sympathy of our student body lies
with the Hungarian people and
advocate that our government take
as firm a stand of this Issue as
Is expedient."
This letter was presented to the
student body at the December 4
mass meeting in the form of a
motion entered by Martle Yow.
chairman of Service League. The
words. "... and advocate that
our government take as firm a
stand on this issue as Is exped-ient"
were added to the motion
as an amendment by Beryl Peters,
editor of the CAROLINIAN.
Two other projects are currently
underway to help the Hungarians
by means other than the expres-
' public opinion Money and
mg are being collected in
dormitories, and the collections
will continue until after the
Christmas holidays Milk bottle
on the hostess' desk In every
dormitory are slowly being filled
with money Trunks In every dorm
are being filled with old clothing.
The money will be sent to the
National Student Association,
which will allocate It to two com-mittees.
The Free Hungarian Slu-dent
Committee needs Ihe money
so that it may keep In touch
with t*e students who are n':w
scattered throughout Austria and
oher countries to which they had
to escape when the new Russian
forces moved into Huncary. As
Istvan pointed out In his lecture,
the only way that the revolution
can continue i either by use of
force, but more by other means)
Is through the united students.
And the only way the students
can be united now. Istvan pointed
out, Is by communication; and
this takes a certain amount of
money.
The other committee to which
money collected by the National
Student Association will go Is the
International Student Conference
i not the Communist organisation)
/Continue* os I'agr H,
exact cause of the fire had not
been definitely determined. Ac-cording
to Miss Ruth Grun. coun-selor
of the dormitory, the Greens-boro
firemen did definitely estab-lish
that faulty wiring had not
caused the fire. The firemen said
the fire started in a straw waste-
' paper basket In the room.
The two occupants of the room
j —Billy Thomas and Mary Walton
ncre both attending classes at
l the time of the fire. They both
j lost about 4 books which were
; on a shelf and several notebooks.
j In a drtsser owned by the girls,
all the underwear was destroyed
or damaged. Clothing which had
Just been washed and was hang-
I lng In that area of the room
which caught on fire also was
damaged badly.
The fire was confined to one
part of the room and did not
damage any school furniture ex-cept
to destroy the finish on one
school dresser.
The beds, desks, closets were
not damaged by the fire. It was
reported that water and smoke
did little further damage.
Billy told the Carolinian that
her father had Insurance to cover
clothing she lost. Mary does not.
Just how far the school's Insur-ance
will go and exactly what It
will cover has not yet been re-leased.
An investigation of the
cause of the fire was still under-way
at the time the paper went
to press
It was mentioned to the Caro-linian
by Mlas Orun that the
straw waste-basket in the girls'
room wu against house regula-tions
as compiled In the booklet
containing the regulations
An exhibition of paintings and
Illustrations by Dr. John Opper,
associate professor of art. is on dis-play
In the first and second floor
lobbies of the library.
The Illustrations are from a new
book entitled "Roberta E. Lee" by
Burke Davis. Mr. Opper illustrates
the story of a rabbit "who longed
to be prettier than Scarlett O'Hara
or anybody else." Though written
primarily for children, Mr. Davla
with his use of "underlying satire"
has produced a book which has
been called by critics entertaining
and Interesting for adults as well.
The display includes the steps re-quired
In printing the jacket of the
bonk, several other Illustrations,
and paintings by Mr. Opper.
Mr. Opper received his MA and
EdD at Columbia University and
has taught at the University of Wy-oming.
Columbia University, and
Woman's College. His works have
been exhibited In galleries over the
ml ire United States Including the
Whitney Museum of American Art,
the Art Institute of Chicago, the
San Francisco Museum of Art. and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
He has received several awards
among which are the Rommutt
Stevens Scholar, Columbia Univers-ity,
and First Prize Award. Birming-ham
Art Association.
The book, "Roberta E. Lee" Is
compM«fa> Southern. Mr. Opper,
illustrator. Is a resident of Greens-boro.
Its author. Burke Davis, Is a nat-ive
North Carolinian, and the pub-lisher,
John F. Blair. is from Win-inn
Salem.
College Choir To Give
2 Christmas Concerts
The Woman's College Choir will
present Its two Identical Christ-mas
Concerts on December 15
and 16 In Aycock Auditorium.
The concert on the 15 will be. as
usual, at 11 p. m. and the one
on the 16 will be again at 5 p. m.
Dr. Robert B. Morris will direct
both concerts. The choir will be
assisted by the Woman's College
Chamber Ensemble under the di-rection
of Hans-Karl Piltz.
The concerts this year will fea-ture
two extended works repre-jsentlng
widely separated periods.
iThe Benjamin Britten "Ceremony
of Carols" which Is a recent Brit-ish
composition will be sung to a
harp accompaniment furnished by
I a guest harpist. Miss Suzanne De
Laney. of Wlnston-8alem. This
work is divided Into twelve Inter-estingly
varied sections.
Another featured work will be
Dietrich Buxtehude's "Jesu. Meine
Freude" which was written early '
In the eighteenth century. The.
Chamber Ensemble will furnish I
accompaniment for this perform-ance.
The remainder of the concerts
will include a group of a cappella
Renaissance selections and a
group of more recent compositions.
The final group will Include a
composition by Elliott Welsgarber.
member of the faculty of the
Woman's College School of Mu-sic.
This work was composed in
Confirmed On Page Four
-I Claramae Turner, well known
contralto, was enthusiastically re-ceived
last night by her audience
in Aycock auditorium when she
gave a substitute performance
ahead of her own scheduled con-cert.
Miss Turner, the youngest sing-er
ever to win an appointment to
the regular roster of the Metro-politan
Opera, keeps herself busy
with appearances all over the
country and even works In Holly-wood.
She recently had a role
In the 20th Century Fox film ver-sion
of "Carousel."
She substituted for Platlgorsk:'
world-famed cellist, who was t-1
have appeared Friday night. It
has been reported that Platlgor-sky
Is sick and will probably play
In the spring.
Both Miss Turner and the cel-list
are a part of this season's
Greensboro Civic Music Series.
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Daily News Working
To Re-settle Refugees
Probably as a result of the en-thusiastic
response at Woman's
College, 'the Oreensboro Dally
News is waging a campaign to
re-settle as many Hungarian ref-ugees
In this area as possible. It
Is hoped that a plane-load of 70
or more Hungarians can be
brought here.
The Dally News, acting as the
clearing house, desires all stu-dents
who know of Jobs and homes
for these people to contact the
newspaper.
The Hungarians are expected to
be self-sufficient soon after they
arrive.
It Is hoped that an official re-ception
can be arranged if all
the Hungarians arrive In a body.
If so, It Is hoped that the students
and residents of Oreensboro will
be on hand to greet the Hungar-ians.
Davidson Students
Petition For Plans
Davidson College students, after
hearing the same Istvan Laszlo
who came to WC, are signing a
petition which Is strongly criti-cal
of United states policy in the
face of "unparalleled Soviet bar-barism"
In Hungary.
This petition, addressed to Pres-ident
Eisenhower, termed "inex-cusable"
the fact that "no ap-parent
policy had been formed
to meet the Hungarian crisis" de-spite
previous bitter experience
when East Berlin and East Ger-many
rose up against the Soviets.
The petition asks the United
States to adopt as a matter "of
hlghes priority the formulation of
forceful plans to meet any future
contingencies ... in other areas
of the world subjugated by com-munists."
Campus Camera
By Prevctte
W ( studeats listen intently while Istvan Laszlo, a gtudent freedom-fighter of Hungary
gives a first hanr report of the Hungarian Revolution.