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ALUMNAE 

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WOMAN'S  COLLEGE  OF  THE 
UNIVERSITY  OF  NORTH  CAROLINA 


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THE  ALUMNAE  NEWS 

Published    Four    Times    a    Year:    July,    Novc-mbtr.    February    and    April,    by    the 

Alumnae     and     Former     Students     Association.     Incorporated,     of     the     Woman's 

College   of   the   University   of  North    Carolina,    Greensboro. 

MEMBER  OF  AMERICAN  ALUMNI  COUNCIL 

CLARA  BOOTH  BYRD.  Editor 


Officers  and  Trustees  op  the  Alumnae  Association 

President:    lone   H.   Grogan 

first    Vice   President:    Betty    Brown    Jester    (Mrs.    Carlton.    Jr.) 

Second   Vice  President:   Emily  S.   Austin 

Recording  Secretary:   York   Kikcr 

Alumnae  Secretary:    Clara   B.   Byrd 

ioard   of   Trustees:    Bettie   Baise.    Sarah    Foust    Burton    (Mrs.   Milton). 

Evelyn  Mendenhall  Thomp.son  (Mrs.  Blake).  Mary  Sterling 
Swain  (Mrs.  Horace) .  Mary  Elizabeth  Barwick.  Celia  Durham. 
Annie    Beam    Funderburk     (Mrs.    Kemp).    \'irginia    Sloan    Swain 

(Mrs.  L.  H.),  Betty  Yost. 


Vol.  XXXV 


JULY,  1946 


No.  1 


CONTENTS 


Page 

Up  AND  Down  the  Avenue 1 

Standing  Up  to  Life    2 

By   Dr.    John   A.    Redhead 

New  Officers  of  Alumnae  Association 4 

Honorary  Degrees  5 

Chancellor  Jackson  Talks  to  Graduating  Class    .  5 

The  Woman's  College  Library 6 

By  Churle'i  M.    Adums 

Some  Interesting  Statistics  About  Your  College    .  8 

By   Mildred   A.   Neu-'lon 

Report  of  Annual  Meeting  of 

Alumnae   Association 9 

By  York   Kiker 

The  1946  Arts  Forum       10 

Report  oi    the  Alumnae  Office 10 

District  Meetings 11 

Notes  from  Loc:ai,  Associations 12 

News  i  rom  the  Alumnae 13 

Makrii  I)            28 

Necrology          32 

This  Day   (Poem) 33 


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and  DOWN  the  Avenue 


5  The  cover  portrait  for  this  number 
of  the  News  features  the  fountain — 
gift  of  the  Class  of  1928 — in  front  of 
Administration  Building. 

5  The  1946  Commencement  Season 
opened  on  Friday  evening.  May  31, 
with  the  Senior  Ball  —  moved,  be- 
cause of  the  unusually  large  number 
to  attend,  from  Alumnae  House, 
where  it  had  been  originally  sched- 
uled, to  the  O.  Henry  Hotel.  Satur- 
day following  was  featured  by  the  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  Alumnae  Asso- 
ciation, held  in  Alumnae  House  that 
morning;  by  the  traditional  Class  Day 
exercises  on  front  campus  that  after- 
noon, and  by  the  guest  performance, 
that  evening,  of  Dear  Brutus,  in  Ay- 
cock  Auditorium.  Sunday  likewise 
followed  the  usual  pattern  —  at 
eleven  o'clock  in  the  morning,  the 
baccalaureate  sermon  was  preached  in 
Aycock;  in  the  afternoon.  Chancellor 
and  Mrs.  Jackson  received  informally 
on  the  lawn  in  front  of  their  home, 
and  in  the  evening  a  joint  concert  was 
given  in  Aycock  by  the  Greensboro 
Orchestra  and  the  College  Choir.  On 
Monday  morning,  the  graduating  ex- 
ercises took  place  in  the  auditorium, 
with  Gov.  R.  Gregg  Cherry,  President 
Graham,  Chancellor  Jackson,  and 
Betty  Jane  Sarratt  '46,  special  repre- 
sentative of  the  Senior  Class,  as  speak- 
ers. As  usual,  degrees  were  also  con- 
ferred and  awards  announced. 

5  A  course  in  aviation  —  Elements  of 
Aeronautics  —  will  be  oflfered  at 
Woman's  College  next  year.  The 
course  is  designed  to  give  students  the 
fundamentals  in  navigation,  aerody- 
namics, meteorology,  and  aircraft 
study  —  subjects  which  are  helpful  in 
understanding  the  theory  of  flight. 
During  the  semester,  the  student  will 
spend  eight  hours  at  the  Greensboro- 
High  Point  Airport,  receiving  dual 
flying  instructions  from  qualified  in- 
structors. TTie  remaining  class  hours 
will  be  scheduled  on  the  campus.  Cer- 
tain courses  in  mathematics  and 
physics  will  be  required  as  pre- 
requisites. Written  permission  from 
parents  is  also  a  requirement. 


J  The  Carolina  Marine  Laboratory,  at 
Beaufort,  closed  during  the  war  years, 
has  been  reopened  this  summer  under 
the  direction  of  Dr.  A.  D.  Shaftes- 
bury, professor  in  the  Department  of 
Biology  at  Woman's  College,  founder 
of  the  laboratory,  and  in  continuous 
charge  since  its  establishment.  Six  ad- 
vanced students  in  biology  are  in  at- 
tendance. One  course  is  offered,  for 
which  college  credit  is  given. 

5  The  Art  Colony  has  also  resumed 
its  program  at  Beaufort,  under  the 
direction  of  Gregory  D.  Ivy,  head  of 
the  Art  Department  at  Woman's  Col- 
lege, with  the  assistance  of  three  reg- 
ular members  of  the  art  faculty. 
About  3  0  are  in  attendance.  Four 
courses  are  being  taught,  each  allow- 
ing college  credit. 

5  No  more  alluring  or  inspiring  setting 
could  be  found  for  students  in  these 
two  fields  than  the  waters  and  terrain 
around  the  picturesque  coastal  town  of 
Beaufort. 

5  Ten  women  veterans  were  students 
at  Woman's  College  last  year,  under 
the  GI  Bill  of  Rights:  one  marine, 
three  WAVES,  one  Wac,  and  five 
Army  nurses.  The  Army  nurses 
served  overseas  in  the  European  War 
Theaters,  and  have  to  their  credit  a 
composite  total  of  125  months  of 
overseas  service.  These  veterans  or- 
ganized an  informal  social  club  on  the 
campus,  which  met  bi-monthly, 

5  Enrollment  reached  a  total  of  223  8 
last  year. 

5  Summer  Session  opened  on  June  6 
and  closed  on  July  18.  Enrollment 
approximately  900.  As  was  the  case 
last  year,  in  addition  to  the  regular 
courses,  numerous  special  conferences 
and  institutes  were  scheduled,  with 
the  seventh  annual  Girls'  State  open- 
ing, and  the  thirteenth  annual  Caro- 
lina Institute  of  International  Rela- 
tions coming  second. 


Moore  Brinkley  '46 
Ouccn 
of  the 
May 


5  Awards  announced  at  Commence- 
ment were  as  follows:  Weil  Fellow- 
ship, for  graduate  study,  to  Jane  Lin- 
ville  '46;  Martha  Winfield'  Scholar- 
ship in  English,  to  Virginia  McKin- 
non  '47;  Gertrude  W.  Mendenhall 
Scholarship  in  Mathematics,  to  Gladys 
Story  '47;  Science  Scholarship  of 
SI 00,  to  Elizabeth  Ivey  '46,  for  grad- 
uate study  in  Botany;  the  Borden 
Scholarship  of  $300,  for  a  rising  senior 
majoring  in  Home  Economics,  to 
Patricia  McBrien  '47. 


The  Alumnae  News 


STANDING  UP  TO  LIFE 

By  DR.  JOHN  A.  REDHEAD    Green'.bo 'o' n.'c/'"''"'"""  ^''""'" 

Baccalaureate  Sermon  delivered  in  Aycock  Auditorium,  at  eleven  o'clock,  on 
Sunday  morning,  June  2,  1946 

Ephesians  6:10,  13  —  "Finally,  be  strong 
in  the  Lord,  and  in  the  strength  of 
His  might  ....  And  having  done  all. 
to  stand." 

One  who  knows  college  life  well 
said  recently:  "I  feel  so  many  times 
that  commencement  preachers  try  to 
be  too  intellectual,  rather  than  to 
have  a  balance  in  their  appeal  to  the 
mind  and  to  the  heart.  In  these  times 
I  think  people,  and  especially  young 
people,  need  things  to  strengthen  their 
faith,  need  courage  to  go  out  into  a 
world  where  their  ideals  will  be  tested. 
They  need  something  to  hold  to,  to 
take  with  them  on  the  day  of  grad- 
uation." Such  a  statement  was  inter- 
esting to  me  because  it  happened  to 
express  my  own  conviction.  What 
that  person  was  saying  was  that  we 
need  something  to  give  us  a  sense  of 
security  with  which  to  meet  our 
world. 

Our  ancestors  believed  th.it  the 
earth  rested  upon  the  back  of  an  ele- 
phant and  that  the  elephant  stood  on 
the  back  of  a  turtle.  They  believed 
In  some  sort  of  material  foundation 
which  was  solid.  Contrast  that  be- 
lief, however,  with  what  is  said  in 
the  Bible:  "The  earth  is  the  Lord's 
and  the  fullness  thereof  ....  for  He 
hath  founded  it  upon  the  seas  and 
established  it  upon  the  floods."  There 
is  no  doubt  for  a  moment  as  to  which 
is  true  to  life.  Try  to  find  your  se- 
curity in  anything  outward,  external, 
material,  even  though  it  be  as  broad 
and  as  solid  as  the  back  of  an  elephant, 
and  you  will  find  it  washed  away 
from  beneath  you  by  the  seas  and  the 
floods.  All  outward  foundations  are 
fluid,  unsubstantial;  and  if  we  are  to 
be  able  to  ride  out  this  thing  called 
life  we  shall  require  the  spiritual 
equivalent  of  sea  legs.  All  of  which 
means  that  if  we  are  to  possess  anv 
sort  of  security  it  must  find  its  sourc. 
from  within. 

A  minister  who  was  a  guest  on  a 
college  campus  says  he  was  asked  b\' 
the  students  to  speak  on  this  question: 
What  is  the  Use  of  Religion  Anyway? 
This  morning  we  suggest  that  the 
Christian  religion  is  useful  in  provid- 
ing that  inner  security  which  alone 
can  enable  us  to  st.ind  up  to  life.  It 
does  so  b\'  oHeriiig   tluee  gifts —  gifts 


Dr.  John  A,  Redhe.^d 

which  no  money  can  buy,  no  college 
head  confer,  and  no  diplom.i  guar- 
antee. 

I 

In  the  first  place,  our  religious  faith 
helps  us  to  stand  up  to  life  because  it 
gives  us  something  to  stand  on.  It 
does  that  by  providing  an  interpreta- 
tion of  facts  that  will  put  meaning 
into  life. 

Note,  if  you  will,  that  no  fact  is 
the  whole  of  itself;  the  rest  of  it  is 
the  meaning  which  you  place  upon  it. 
What,  for  example,  is  a  kiss?  Go  to 
your  dictionary  and  you  will  discover 
that  a  kiss  is  "to  smack  with  pursed 
lips,  the  closed  cavity  of  the  mouth, 
giving  a  slight  sound  when  the 
rounded  contact  of  the  lips  with  one 
another  is  broken."  So  that  is  what 
a  kiss  is!  But  when  you  stop  to  think 
of  what  happens  when  two  lovers 
meet,  or  when  \our  mother  welcomes 
\ou  home  after  a  year  away  at  school, 
you  see  that  such  a  definition  leaves 
part  of  the  story  untold.  No  fact  is 
tile  whole  of  itself;  the  rest  of  it  is 
the   meaning   which   you   put   upon   it. 

Now  we  can  go  to  school  and  study 
biology  and  physiology  and  psychol- 
ogy and  sociologx'  and  get  all  the 
facts;   but  tiie  story  is  nexer  told  until 


we  find  an  interpretation  of  the  facts 
that  will  put  meaning  into  life. 

The  meaning  which  multitudes  are 
placing  upon  life  is  a  far  from  flatter- 
ing one.  A  few  j'ears  ago  a  college 
paper  offered  a  prize  for  the  best  defi- 
nition of  life.  Here  are  a  few  which 
won  honorable  mention:  "Life  is  a 
joke  which  isn't  even  funny."  "Life 
is  a  disease  for  which  the  only  cure  is 
death."  "Life  is  a  jail  sentence  which 
we  get  for  the  crime  of  being  born." 
Now  we  might  laugh  that  off  as  noth- 
ing more  than  a  bit  of  sophomoric 
sputtering,  except  for  the  fact  that 
it  is  of  a  piece  with  what  is  being  said 
by  more  mature  minds.  There  are 
those  who  are  telling  us,  for  example, 
that  man  is  only  a  "forked  radish,"  a 
"sick  fly  taking  a  dizzy  ride  on  this 
gigantic  flywheel,"  that  life  is  a  "tale 
told  by  an  idiot,  signifying  nothing," 
'a  nightmare  between  two  nothings." 

But  the  trouble  is,  life  does  not 
work  well  on  such  a  basis.  A  few 
years  ago  a  brilliant  newspaper  man 
went  into  a  hotel  room  in  New  York 
,;nd  took  his  own  life,  leaving  behind 
this  note:  "No  one  is  responsible  for 
this,  except  myself.  I  have  run  from 
house  to  house,  from  wife  to  wife, 
from  country  to  country,  in  a  vain 
endeavor  to  get  away  from  myself.  I 
have  done  what  I  have  done  because 
I  am  fed  up  with  the  necessity  of  in- 
venting devices  for  getting  through 
twenty-four  hours  a  day."  There  is  a 
picture  of  what  happens  when  life  has 
no  high  meaning,  no  noble  purpose, 
nothing  to  stand  on.  It  goes  to  nieces 
in  your  very  hands.  It  cracks  up 
under  your  very  eyes. 

But  move  over  into  the  atmosphere 
of  the  New  Testament  and  .see  what 
a  different  air  you  breathe.  Once  you 
look  the  Son  of  God  full  in  the  face 
you  can  never  think  meanly  of  your- 
self again.  Listen  to  Him  as  He  says: 
"You  are  not  a  forked  radish,  but  a 
child  of  the  Eternal.  You  are  not  a 
sick  fly,  but  the  tadpole  of  an  archan- 
gel. You  are  not  a  walking  mass  of 
dancing  dirt  come  from  nowhere  and 
going  nowhither;  you  are  the  offspring 
of  the  Almighty.  You  are  not  an 
orphan  of  the  apes,  content  to  spend 
your  time  monkeying  around;  you  are 
a  child  of  God,  filled  with  the  spirit 
of  God,  and  placed  upon  this  earth 
to  do  the  will  of  God." 

They  tell  us  that  an  old  Edinburgh 
weaver  used  to  pray  everx'  night:  "O 
Lord,  help  me  to  hold  a  high  opinion 
of  myself."  ^'ou  will  not  be  success- 
ful long  in  standing  up  to  life  unless 
\  ou  li.ive  tliis  high  opinion  of  \'our- 
seit,    ^o^K■thins;    to    stand    on.      .And    1 


July,  1946 


know  not  where  yoii  will  get  it  out- 
side the  religion  of  Christ. 

But  we  need  a  faith  which  can 
give  us  something  to  stand  on  in  fac- 
ing not  alone  our  individual  hves,  but 
life  in  the  large.  What  about  history? 
The  theory  of  evolution  had  its  in- 
evitable effect  upon  our  philosophy  of 
history.  It  gave  us  what  we  call  the 
doctrine  of  automatic  progress.  We 
believed  that  every  day,  in  every  way. 
we  were  getting  better  and  better. 
We  thought  we  were  riding  an  esca- 
lator,  going  always  and  only  upward. 

Then  a  man  named  Hitler  threw  a 
monkey  wrench  into  the  machinery. 
The  war  which  our  fathers  fought  to 
end  all  wars  has  not  turned  out  that 
way,  and  we  are  beginning  to  wonder. 
Is  the  march  of  time  going  anywhere 
worth  going,  or  will  it  get  lost  in  the 
dark?  Is  there  some  far-off,  divine 
event,  toward  which  the  whole  crea- 
tion moves;  or  is  history,  as  some  one 
put  it,  just  one  damn  thing  after  an- 
other, destined  to  end  in  a  cosmic 
wreck? 

There  is  a  sense  in  which  our  secur- 
ity as  individuals  is  involved  in  what 
interpretation  we  place  upon  the  on- 
going of  the  human  process.  When 
one  looks  at  our  world  today  it  is  not 
difficult  to  become  the  kind  of  pessim- 
ist who  will,  as  one  of  our  so-called 
wise  men  advised,  chuck  it  all  as  soon 
as  possible.  But  our  faith  can  enable 
us  to  stand  up  to  life  even  in  the  face 
of  such  contradiction  of  our  hopes  be- 
cause it  gives  us  something  to  stand 
on. 

See  how  it  works.  During  the  days 
when  Hitler  was  first  coming  into 
power  he  was  making  a  speech  and 
majoring,  as  usual,  on  hatred  of  the 
Jew.  While  he  spoke  he  noticed  a  man 
of  Semitic  cast  sitting  on  the  front 
row.  When  the  address  was  over  he 
walked  up  to  this  fellow  and  said, 
"While  I  was  speaking  you  were 
laughing.  What  were  you  laughing 
about?"  The  man  said,  "I  wasn't 
laughing,  I  was  thinking."  Hitler 
said,  "What  were  you  thinking 
about?"  And  the  man  said,  "I  was 
thinking  about  my  people,  the  Jews. 
I  remembered  that  long  years  ago 
there  was  a  man  named  Pharaoh  who 
didn't  like  us,  and  he  did  his  best  to 
get  rid  of  us;  but  for  years  we  Jews 
have  had  a  feast  which  we  call  the 
Feast  of  the  Passover,  and  at  that 
feast  we  have  a  little  four-cornered 
cake,  and  we  eat  that  cake  in  memory 
of  Pharaoh.  And  then  years  later 
there  was  another  man  who  didn't 
like    us,    a    man    named    Haman,    and 


he  did  his  best  to  get  rid  of  us;  but 
for  years  we  Jews  have  had  another 
feast  called  the  Feast  of  Purim;  and 
at  that  feast  we  have  a  little  three- 
cornered  cake,  and  we  eat  that  cake 
in  memory  of  Haman.  And  while  you 
were  up  there  speaking,  I  was  just 
sitting  there  thinking  and  wondering 
what  kind  of  a  cake  we  were  going  to 
eat  in  the  future  to  remember  you 
by." 

As  long  as  you  can  believe,  you  see, 
that  what  we  call  history  is  the  grad- 
ual unfolding  of  a  divine  moral  pur- 
pose which,  in  the  end,  will  get  itself 
worked  out,  you've  got  something  to 
stand  on.  If  God  is  at  the  helm,  not 
even  Hitler  can  rock  the  boat.  "I 
had  fainted,"  said  the  Psalmist,  "un- 
less I  had  believed."  But  we  can  be- 
lieve, and  so  we  have  something  to 
stand  on. 

II 

Go  on  to  note,  in  the  second  place, 
that  our  Christian  faith  helps  us  to 
stand  up  to  life  because  it  gives  us 
something  to  stand  for. 

Look  at  this  picture.  It  is  presented 
in  a  letter  which  the  editor  of  a  maga- 
zine of  considerable  worth  and  dignity 
received  from  a  young  girl.  "Dear 
Sir,"  she  said:  "I  smoke,  I  drink,  I 
play  cards  for  money.  My  parents  do 
not  know  that  I  do  these  things,  or 
at  least  don't  seem  to  know.  But  are 
parents  deaf  and  blind?  Understand 
I'm  not  out  with  a  tough  crowd,  just 
the  boys  and  girls  of  the  best  families 
I  was  brought  up  with.  What  bothers 
me  is  all  the  older  folks  having  faith 
in  us,  and  these  preachers  standing 
round  telling  us  how  fine  and  good 
we  are.  Next  time  I  go  on  a  party  I 
think  I'll  kidnap  a  preacher  and  take 
him  along.  Maybe  his  next  sermon 
will  be  about  sin.  And  that  is  what 
we  need.  Did  my  mother  do  the 
things  I  am  doing  when  she  was  a 
girl?  Did  my  older  sister?  If  I  keep 
on  doing  these  things  will  I  go  to 
heaven  or  to  hell?  These  are  the 
things  that  are  bothering  us.  Please 
write  something  to  quiet  my  mind  or 
I  shall  certainly  go  mad." 

Here  is  a  girl  who  has  nothing  to 
stand  for,  and  when  the  strain  is  put 
on  the  chances  are  she  will  not  stand. 
She  will  fall. 

But  look  at  this  other  picture. 
After  the  first  World  War  an  Ameri- 
can soldier  came  home  from  Europe. 
One  day  his  father  called  him  aside 
and  said,  "Son,  I've  been  reading 
about  our  men  in  France,  how  they 
let  themselves  go,  and  cast  their 
morals  to  the  winds,  and  threw 
themselves    into    the   vice    of    promis- 


cuity; and  I've  been  wondering  if  you 
followed  the  crowd."  And  the  boy 
answered,  "Of  course  not,  Dad;  don't 
you  know  there  are  some  things  men 
with  our  name  can  be  trusted  not  to 
do?" 

It  makes  a  difference  in  standing  up 
to  life  if  we  have  something  to  stand 
for  —  an  ideal,  a  code  of  honor,  a 
pattern  of  behavior,  a  blueprint  of 
conduct.  The  young  person  who  has 
no  moral  ideas  or  ideals,  who  is  vic- 
timized by  the  current  confusion  as 
to  what  is  right  and  wrong,  will  find 
difficulty  in  holding  his  footing.  But 
he  who  has  gone  all-out  for  Christ,  he 
who  has  taken  this  Jesus  as  the 
Touchstone  of  the  Good  Life,  will  be 
able  to  stand  because  he  has  some- 
thing to  stand  for.  There  are  some 
things  which  we  who  bear  the  name 
of  Christian  can  be  trusted  not  to  do. 

Something  to  stand  for  —  in  per- 
sonal life,  and  in  cosmic  life  too.  The 
atomic  bomb  which  fell  on  Hiroshima 
less  than  a  year  ago  has  shaken  us  to 
ovu'  foundations.  It  revealed  a  power 
with  a  potential  of  destruction  which 
makes  us  shiver  to  think  of  it.  The 
core  in  each  of  those  two  bombs 
dropped  on  Hiroshima  and  Nagasaki 
was  hardly  larger  than  an  apple,  and 
yet  they  tell  us  that  four  of  those  ap- 
ples equalled  in  exposive  power  all  the 
bombs  sent  against  England  in  the 
whole  course  of  World  War  II.  The 
other  day  a  leading  scientist  in  our 
country  pulled  an  ordinary  cardboard 
ticket  from  his  pocket  and  said  to  a 
friend:  "There  is  enough  atomic 
energy  in  that  to  run  an  express  train 
ten  thousand  miles."  And  then  he 
added:  "We'll  tackle  sand  next. 
Sand!  And  in  two  handfuls  of  sand 
there  is  enough  energy  to  supply  all 
the  basic  power  needs  of  the  United 
States  for  two  or  three  years."  No 
wonder  President  Truman  was  led  to 
say:  "We  can't  stand  another  global 
war.  We  can't  even  have  another  war 
unless  it  is  total  war,  and  that  means 
the  end  of  our  civilization  as  we  have 
known  it." 

In  the  face  of  such  a  prospect  there 
are  those  who  go  to  pieces.  They  go 
to  pieces  because  they  are  frightened, 
and  they  are  frightened  because  they 
fear  we  have  lost  control.  They  know 
that  for  the  first  time  in  history  the 
men  to  whom  we  usually  go  for  our 
answer  do  not  have  an  answer  this 
time.  It  is  these  very  men,  the  sci- 
entists, who  themselves  have  brought 
into  being  a  power  too  hot  to  handle, 
a  power  which  they  themselves  lack 
the  power  to  control.    And  it  is  only 


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natural  that  those  who  bank  on  science 
alone  should  have  the  jitters. 

But  in  the  face  of  such  a  situation 
the  Christian  is  able  to  stand  —  not 
alone  because  he  has  something  to 
stand  on,  the  almighty  purpose  of  an 
all-loving  Person,  but  because  he  has 
something  to  stand  for  —  the  power 
of  religion  in  life,  the  validity  of  the 
spiritual  in  man's  make-up,  the  ideal 
of  brotherhood  among  all  peoples,  and 
the  hope  that  the  kingdoms  of  this 
world  shall  become  the  kingdom  of 
our  Lord.  Lacking  that  conviction 
and  that  compulsion  we  shall  go 
down.  But  with  that  faith  we  can 
"Be  strong  in  the  Lord  and  in  the 
power  of  His  might and  hav- 
ing done  all,"  we  can  stand,  because 
we  have  something  to  stand  for. 

Ill 

We  have  said  that  this  Christian 
faith  of  ours  helps  us  to  stand  up  to 
life  because  it  gives  us  something  to 
stand  on  and  something  to  stand  for. 
Go  on  to  note,  in  the  third  place,  that 
it  gives  us  also  Someone  to  stand  by 
us. 

It  is  well  enough  to  have  something 
to  stand  on  —  something  which  en- 
ables us  to  say  with  Stevenson,  "I  be- 
lieve in  an  ultimate  decency  of 
things,  aye,  and  if  I  awoke  in  hell, 
should     still     believe    it."      It    is    well 


enough  to  have  something  to  stand 
for  —  something  which,  though  the 
heaven  fall,  will  be  right  and  go  on 
being  right.  But  in  standing  up  to 
life  it  is  worth  more  than  all  eke  to 
have  Someone  to  stand  by  us;  Some- 
one who,  when  our  morals  begin  to 
crack  because  we  lose  faith  in  our- 
selves and  our  ideals,  can  reach  out  a 
steadying  hand  and  speak  an  encour- 
aging word.  And,  thank  God,  that 
too  belongs  to  us  in  this  faith  of  ours. 

Look  at  this  picture.  Billy  Hicks 
was  a  petty  officer  in  the  British  navy 
who  was  promoted  to  be  captain  of 
the  foretop.  It  was  a  dangerous  post 
and  Billy  knew  it.  The  two  men  who 
had  preceded  Billy  had  fallen  to  their 
death.  Billy  had  the  superstition  of 
the  sea  and,  he  being  the  third  man, 
the  color  went  out  of  his  cheeks  when 
he  knew  that  he  was  next. 

On  the  night  before  he  began  his 
new  duties,  he  was  seen  working  with 
the  electric  signal  apparatus,  as  if 
sending  an  urgent  message.  The  next 
day,  when  the  order  came,  Billy  went 
aloft  like  a  cat  and  came  down  safely, 
with  tears  in  his  eyes.  He  scerried 
changed  somehow,  but  no  one  knew 
why. 

The  reason  came  out  when  an  officer 
of  a  nearby  ship  was  a  visitor  on 
board.  The  visitor  asked  if  there  were 
a   man   named   Hicks  on  board.     Told 


that  there  was,  he  said  he  had  noticed 
the  signal  working  a  few  nights  be- 
fore, and  asked  his  signal  officer  to 
take  down  the  message.  Here  is  the 
message:  "God,  this  is  Billy  Hicks.  I 
ain't  afraid  of  no  bloomin'  man  nor 
devil.  I  ain't  afraid  of  no  Davy  Jones 
neither.  I  ain't  like  a  bawlin'  baby 
afusin'  at  its  dad  for  sweeties.  I  don't 
ask  for  no  favors  but  jest  one.  This 
is  it  —  when  I  strike  the  foretop  to- 
morrow, let  me  do  it  with  the  courage 
of  a  man  what  is  clean.  And  dear 
God,  if  it's  jest  the  same  to  You.  from 
this  day  on,  give  me  the  feelin'  I  used 
to  have  long  ago  when  I  'nelt  at  my 
mother's  knee  and  said.  Our  Father. 
Goodnight,   God." 

"If  it's  jest  the  satiie  to  you,  giie 
me  the  feelin'  I  used  to  have  long  ago 
when  I  'nelt  at  my  mother's  knee  anil 
said,  Our  Father."  Someone  to  stand 
by  you! 

At  the  exercises  on  tomorrow 
morning  you  will  be  given  a  diploma. 
That  diploma  is  a  token  that  you  are 
endowed  with  certain  equipment.  But 
in  addition  to  that  which  is  svmbol- 
ized  in  your  diploma  you  will  need 
something  else  to  help  you  to  stand  up 
to  life.  You  will  need  a  way  of  look- 
ing at  things  that  will  give  you  some- 
thing to  stand  on;  and  an  ideal  of 
conduct  that  will  give  you  some- 
thing to  stand  for;  an  interior  com- 
panionship that  will  give  you  Some- 
one to  stand  by  )'ou.  Add  up  these 
needs:  a  philosophy  of  life,  an  ethic 
for  life,  and  a  power  behind  life, 
and  what  they  come  to  is  this  —  the 
religion  of  Jesus  Christ.  All  that  vou 
need  you  have  in  Him.  And  I  be- 
seech you,  by  the  mercies  of  God,  take 
this  Christ  and  make  Him  a  part  of 
your  equipment.  And  you  will  find 
yourself  well  equipped  for  the  busi- 
ness of  standing  up  to  life. 


Betty  .Jane  Sarratt  '46,  president  and  everlasting;  president  of  her 

class,  senior  class  speaker,  and  Marge  Hand  '46,  chief  marshal,  on 

the  curb  of  the  fountain  in  front  of  .\dniinistration. 

Sajing  a  last  farewell?    No  —  thinking  of  their  first  class  reunion! 


rRESENTING  THE  NEW 

OKFU'ERS   AM)  TRUSTEES 

OV  THE 

ALUMNAE  ASSOCLVTION 

Un  >  t   Vice  President: 

Hetty   Brown   .lester    (iMrs.  Carl- 
ton)  '.'5L  (ireonsboro. 

Trustees: 

IMary      Elizabeth      liarwick      'II. 

(irecnsboro. 

Cclia     Durham     "10.     New      York 

City. 

Annie    Benm     FuiirierburK     (Mrs. 

Kemp)  '16,  (ireensboro. 

N'irginia      Sloan      Swain      (Mrs. 

L.   H.)   '28.  Raleiirh. 

IU'II\    'Sost   '16.  Croeiij-borii. 


JuiY,   1946 


HONORARY  DEGREES 

At  the  Graduating  Excicisos,  hold  in  Aycock  Auditorium  on  Monday  morn- 
ing, June  3,  1946,  honorary  degrees  were  conferred  upon  Dean  Alice  Baldwin, 
of  Duke  University,  and  Mary  Galium  Wiley,  Winston-Salem. 


MARY  CALLUM  WiLEV.  '94.  '03  A.B.. 
'46.    D.Ed.,    Woman's   College. 
University    of   North    Carolina. 

President  Frank  P.  Graham  read  the 
following  citation: 

Mary  Galium  'Wiley,  one  of  the  first 
graduates  of  the  Woman's  College:  public 
school  teacher:  contributor  to  religious 
periodicals  North  and  South,  and  now 
newspaper  columnist;  forty-nine  years  a 
teacher  of  boys  and  girls,  whom  she  loved 
and  inspired,  and  who  have  always  loved 
her.  as  through  the  years  they  became, 
plastic  to  her  moulding,  the  makers  of 
Winston -Salem.  In  her  English  classes  in 
the  old  Cherry  Street  High  School  and  in 
the  Reynolds  High  School,  she  made 
poetry  and  drama  alive  in  the  classroom 
and  in   the  lives   of  boys  and   girls. 

By  reason  of  strength,  personality,  and 
the  art  of  devoted  teaching,  she  brought 
to  the  open  mind  and  spirit  of  youth  the 
fellowship  of  the  greatest  minds  and 
noblest  spirits  of  all  ages  and  all  nations 
in  an  age  in  need  of  the  perspective  of 
time  and  the  valuations  of  the  spirit. 
Only  yesterday  an  honor  student,  affec- 
tionately proud  to  be  one  of  her  boys. 
said  to  me  simply,  "Miss  Mary  is  an  in- 
stitution." It  is  inspiring  to  this  college 
to  honor  her.  for  her  own  most  worthy 
self  and  as  a  living  link  of  present  North 
Carolina  with  the  heroic  age  and  service 
of  her  great  father.  Calvin  H.  Wiley,  son 
of  this  University,  North  Carolina's  first 
superintendent  of  public  instruction,  and 
one  of  the  founders  and  builders  of  the 
public  schools  into  which  this  noble 
daughter  poured  out  a  half  century  of  a 
dedicated  life  to  carry  on  in  a  life  beyond 
her  own. 

Upon  you.  by  recommendation  of  the 
faculty  of  the  Woman's  College  and  by 
authority  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  University  of  North  Carolina,  the 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Education 
is  now  conferred. 


Alice  Mary  Baldwin.  A.B..  Phi  Beta 

Kappa.  A.M..  Cornell  University:  Ph.D.. 
University  of  Chicago:  LL.D.,  Woman's 
College,    University    of    North    Carolina. 

President  Frank  P.  Graham  read  the 
following  citation; 

Alice  Mary  Baldwin,  in  her  profes- 
sional service,  dean  of  women.  Fargo  Col- 
lege. North  Dakota:  head  of  the  Depart 
ment  of  History.  Baldwin  School.  Bryn 
Mawr.  Pennsylvania;  graduate  fellow  and 
instructor,  the  University  of  Chicago: 
author  of  The  New  England  Clergy  and 
the  American  Revolution,  and  in  the  Yale 
series  of  Connecticut  history.  The  Con- 
necticut Clergy  in  the  Revolution:  dean 
of  women  and  first  woman  member  of 
the  faculty  of  Duke  University:  organizer 
and  first  dean  of  the  Woman's  College  of 
Duke  University:  member  of  the  Advisory 
Council  of  the  Southern  Summer  School 
.  for  Women  Workers  in  Industry,  presi- 
dent of  the  North  Carolina  'Vocational 
Guidance  Association,  representative  from 
the  Southeast  as  member  of  the  National 
Board  of  Guidance  and  Personnel  Asso- 
ciation, member  of  the  National  Educa- 
tion Advisory  Committee  to  the  Bureau 
of  Personnel  of  the  United  States  Navy, 
In  these  manifold  services  there  abides 
with  her  a  thorough  sense  of  the  integrity 
of  scholarship,  a  tone  of  high  thinking 
and  gracious  understanding  which  belong 
only  to  a  noble  woman.  She  has  served 
our  State  and  Nation  in  war  and  peace 
with  eminent  ability,  and  with  her  able, 
well  selected  co-workers,  has  made  a  dis- 
tinguished contribution  to  the  equal  higher 
education  of  women  in  America.  In  co- 
operation with  this  College  and  our  whole 
University  she  is  helping  to  build  in 
North  Carolina  one  of  the  most  hopeful 
intellectual   spiritual    centers   of    our   time. 

Upon  you.  by  recommendation  of  the 
faculty  of  the  Woman's  College  and  by 
authority  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  University  of  North  Carolina,  the 
honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws  is  new 
conferred. 


Chancellor 

Walter 

Clinton 

lackson 

TO  THE  MEMBERS  OF  THE 
GRADUATING  CLASS 

Talk  delivered  in  Aycock  Auditorium 

on  Monciay  morning,  June  3,  1946 

as  a  feature  of  the  graduating  exercises 


In  the  Middle  Ages  men  who  were 
called  alchemists  sought  a  formula  for 
transmuting  all  baser  metals  into  the 
most  precious  one  —  gold.  In  all  ages, 
teachers  and  prophets  and  poets 
sought  the  formula  for  translating  the 
baser  actions  of  men  into  goodness  and 
happiness.  Scientists  found  the  for- 
mula for  the  alchemists  and  the  hu- 
man mind  achieved  a  crowning  tri- 
umph. The  teachers  were,  like  the 
alchemists,  certain  of  their  formula 
long  before  the  scientists  found  the 
answers.  With  them,  however,  the 
problem  was  not  the  formula  but  its 
application.  Wise  men  have  known 
for  a  long  time  and  now  know  that  to 
love  one  another  and  to  do  unto  others 
as  you  would  have  them  do  unto  you 
is  the  one  and  sure  answer  to  the  equa- 
tion of  life. 

For  four  years  you  have  been  work- 
ing here  with  the  symbols  in  this 
equation  of  how  to  make  thought  and 
action  equal  goodness  and  usefulness 
and  happiness.  Whether  it  has  been 
in  the   classroom  or  the  laboratory  or 


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the  dormitory  or  society  hall  or  on 
college  avenue,  you  have  been  trying 
so  to  arrange  the  symbols  of  your  liv- 
ing problem  that  they  shall  equal  suc- 
cess  and  happiness. 

This  morning  as  you  turn  in  your 
last  assignment  at  this  place,  it  will 
be  well  to  check  the  results.  To  your 
instructors  who  have  tried  to  help  you 
in  your  problem,  you  have  passed  the 
course.  You  have  acquired  sufficient 
information  and  you  have  dem.on- 
strated  sufficient  skill  and  you  have 
so  lived  with  your  fellows  that  they 
are  able  to  say  that  you  have  complet- 
ed their  part  of  the  problem  with 
credit.  The  real  answer  lies  much 
deeper,  however,  than  what  vour  in- 
structors may  say  —  it  rests  in  your 
own  mind  and  heart.  It  is  for  you  and 
for  you  only  to  know  truly  whether 
or  not  you  have  found  the  right  an- 
swer or  are  by  way  of  finding  it.  It 
is  for  you  to  say  and  to  know  if  you 
have  learned  to  use  your  mind  with 
accuracy  and  integrity;  if  you  have 
developed  a  sense  of  responsibility;  if 
you  have  schooled  your  passions  and 
your  judgments;  if  you  have  walked 
in  tolerance  and  sympathy  with  your 
fellows;  if  you  have  banished  fear  and 
hatred  from  your  hearts,  and  if  your 
hearts  are  touched  with  pity  at  the 
wrongs  and  sufferings  of  others;  if 
you  rejoice  in  the  success  and  hap- 
piness of  others;  if  you  have  faith  and 
hope  in  yourself  and  in  mankind;  and 
if  you  have  courage  and  daring  and 
zest  for  the  days  ahead. 

George  Eliot  said,  "To  part  is  to 
die  a  little  — "  The  sum,  then,  of  all 
our  good-bys  is  the  end  of  life. 

A  greater  than  George  Eliot  said, 
"If  we  would  save  our  life,  we  must 
lose  it."  These,  our  farewells,  then, 
may  become  in  part  and  in  some  de- 
gree our  salvation. 

Here  is  a  paradox:  That  in  the  act 
of  separation  there  is  a  bringing 
closer  together.  For,  as  we  look  at 
each  other  now,  for  we  know  not 
how  long  a  time  before  we  meet 
again,  we  see  each  other  as  we  have 
not  seen  before.  A  new  sense  of  reali- 
ty rushes  upon  us.  That  which  we 
seem  about  to  lose,  confronts  us  in 
vivid  etching.  This  one  that  we  have 
given  only  casual  notice  betimes 
springs  into  place  as  a  true  and  tried 
friend.  That  one  that  we  once  thought 
somewhat  homely  to  look  upon  is  be- 
come beautiful.  Little  annovanccs,  or 
disapprovals,  or  differences  that  once 
beset  us  fade  into  insignificance.  We 
see  this  neighbor  of  ours,  roommate 
or  hall-male,  or  classmate,  or  faculty 
as  vcr\'   near  and  dear  to  us. 


\\"e  remember  this  one  who  came  to 
our  room  when  some  grief  had  fallen 
upon  us  —  a  mistake,  an  ill-chosen 
word,  some  misunderstanding,  a  fail- 
ure, a  bit  of  bad  news  —  and  with 
spoken  or  silent  sympathv  and  under- 
standing, with  a  jest,  or  a  look,  or 
some  small  but  eloquent  gesture, 
brought  us  comfort.  We  recall  the 
one  who  stood  valiantly  by  when  an- 
other had  been  hurt,  or  misunder- 
stood, or  had  stepped  out  of  bounds. 
We  remember  the  glow  of  goodwill 
and  rejoicing  and  congratulations 
that  came  perhaps  from  an  unexpected 
source  when  we  achieved  some  tri- 
umph, large  or  small.  And  our  hearts 
arc    full    with    humility    and    pride    as 


we  come  to  the  full  realization  that 
these  here  beside  us  are  friends  — 
true,  tried,  strong,  lasting.  Here  are 
those  from  whom  we  will  never  be 
separated  whatever  distance  may  be 
between. 

Forgotten   are   the   foibles. 

Forgiven   are   the   mistakes. 

Precious  are  the  memories  of  a 
shared  experience  and  beautiful  now 
are  the  bonds  of  affection. 

The  Lord  has  been  our  dwelling 
place  in  all  generations.  He  has  been 
and  still  is  our  Shepherd.  The  Lord 
bless  you  and  keep  you  and  make  His 
face  to  shine  upon  you,  is  our  prayer 
for  you  as  we  say,  now,  our  affection- 
ate good-by. 


The  Woman's  College  Library 


B>'  CHARLES  M.  ADAMS,  Librarian 


One  of  the  most  used  buildings  on 
the  campus  at  Woman's  College  is  the 
Library.  From  seven-fifty  each  week- 
day morning  until  ten  o'clock  at  night 
girls  may  be  found  there  working. 
Seldom  during  the  day  may  a  vacant 
seat  be  found.  This  is  not  surprising 
when  it  is  realized  that,  despite  the 
fact  that  every  square  foot  of  space 
is  utilized,  the  Library  will  seat  only 
about  ten  per  cent  of  the  whole  stu- 
dent body.  For  several  years  now  the 
Library  has  also  been  open  each  Sun- 
day afternoon.  Last  year  a  special 
reading  room  was  set  up  in  the  Gym- 
nasium for  the  convenience  of  stu- 
dents in  Physical  Education.  Several 
of  the  dormitories  have  small  libraries 
and  others  have  requested  them,  ^'e 
are  helping  the  students  get  books  for 
their  dormitories  so  that  they  will 
have  some  in  their  college  "homes." 
This  is  a  project  we  should  like  to  de- 
velop further  as  it  will  help  make 
books  and  reading  a  natural  and  en- 
joyable part  of  college  life. 

As  alumnae,  you  will  be  interested 
in  the  College  Collection,  established 
a  few  years  ago  to  collect  and  pre- 
serve all  types  of  material  relating  to 
the  history  and  development  of  the 
college.  A  good  beginning  was  made, 
and  into  a  corner  of  the  seminar  room 
a  few  temporary  shelves  were  s>iueezed 
to  house  the  bulletins,  student  publi- 
cations, programs,  books  from  ihc  first 
library  and  other  college  publications. 
N'ertical  files  and  pamphlet  boxes  hold 
clippings,  photographs  and  oth.cr  such 
material.  There  are  a  few  framed  pic- 
tures,   some    poruaits.      lacuhy    pub- 


lications and  books  relating  to  the 
College  are  deposited  here,  as  are 
scrapbooks  of  clippings  gathered  bv 
our  News  Bureau.  Still  there  are 
many  gaps  in  this  collection.  Now 
and  then  an  alumna  remembers  us  and 
sends  in  some  treasured  mementos  of 
her  college  days.  As  these  various 
items  are  slowly  being  gathered,  rhey 
add  up  to  a  remarkable  story  of  the 
growth  of  Woman's  College  into  one 
of  the  leading  institutions  of  the 
countrv  for  the  education  of  women. 
It  is  hoped  that  when  you  do  your 
"spring  cleaning"  you  will  remember 
this  collection  as  a  place  where  the 
record    of    the    activities    during    your 


July.  1946 


college  years  should  viltimately  be 
placed.  No  keepsakes  are  too  insig- 
nificant —  letters  home,  lecture  notes, 
diaries  of  your  college  days,  programs, 
pictures,  and  so  forth.  In  our  new 
library  building  we  plan  to  get  this 
collection  shelved  in  a  room  of  its 
own. 

During  Freshman  Week  this  year, 
nearly  five  hundred  students  were 
shown  through  the  libary.  They 
came  with  an  enthusiasm  for  learning 
how  to  use  the  library.  A  special  re- 
serve room  was  provided  for  their 
use  by  taking  for  that  purpose  about 
two-thirds  of  the  space  formerly  set 
aside  as  a  Recreational  Reading  Room. 
Although  this  makes  an  adequate 
study  hall  for  freshmen,  we  regret  we 
no  longer  have  space  for  those  meet- 
ings which  the  library  formerly  held 
on  books  and  authors.  The  policy  of 
instruction  in  library  use  is  followed 
up  during  the  year,  especially  during 
the  second  semester,  when  the  fresh- 
men work  on  their  source  themes. 
Each  period  of  instruction  adds  new 
stimulus  for  the  use  of  the  library  so 
that  we  now,  for  lack  of  space,  al- 
most dread  the  pressure  these  lec- 
tures bring  to  all  parts  of  the  library. 

The  upstairs  lobby  and  the  stairway 
are  used  as  exhibition  areas.  Here  dis- 
plays of  current  interest  are  exhibited. 
Student  work  in  photography  and 
music  composition;  professional  work 
of  interest  to  women  as  careers;  sports, 
drama,  and  many  other  subjects  are 
shown  here.  The  exhibitions  are  an 
extension  of  the  work  of  the  Recrea- 
tional Reading  Room,  which,  through 
our  Readers'  Adviser,  encourages  all 
types  of  reading,  and  the  use  of  the 
library  for  other  purposes  than  as- 
signed lessons.  A  few  comfortable 
chairs  and  one  or  two  lounges  are  a 
great  inducement.  We  hope  that  this 
aspect  of  our  library  work  may  be 
greatly  enlarged  in  our  new  bviilding. 

The  new  library  building  has  been 
delayed  because  of  the  war;  but  it  is 
constantly  in  our  minds  and  we  are 
now  hopefully  planning  for  its  erec- 
tion in  the  not  too  distant  future. 
Such  a  building  is  conceived  as  a 
center  for  the  academic  life  of  the 
college  community.  It  is  being 
planned  so  that  students,  faculty,  and 
books  will  be  brought  together  in 
close  relationship.  Such  a  building, 
we  hope,  will  not  only  be  efficient  as 
a  library,  but  will  also  provide  a  place 
for  students  and  faculty  to  work  in- 
timately among  the  collections.  The 
monumental  library  rooms  and  closed 
book  stacks  are  slowly  disappearing  in 


college  libraries.  We  are  planning  at- 
tractive, comfortable  working  areas 
among  the  books  themselves.  Many 
improvements  have  been  made  in 
library  buildings  so  it  is  possible  now 
to  attain  these  objectives.  Fluorescent 
lighting  and  air-conditioning  —  to 
mention  but  two  of  the  recent  de- 
velopments in  building  construction 
—  will  do  much  to  make  work  in  the 
library  a  pleasure.  We  may  well  look 
with  envy,  and  yet  it  should  also  be 
with  pride,  at  the  privileges  this  and 
future  generations  of  college  students 
will  enjoy. 

A  number  of  college  libraries  have 
established  collections  of  framed  re- 
productions of  works  of  art  which  are 
circulated  to  students  for  a  small 
rental  fee  by  the  semester.  This  gives 
a  student  an  opportunity  to  have  a 
fine  picture  in  her  room  to  enjoy. 
We  are  now  trying  to  see  if  such  a 
collection  can  be  established  here. 
Once  set  up,  it  would  pay  for  its  up- 
keep and  allow  for  a  few  additions 
each  year.  The  library  has  no  phono- 
graph and  very  few  records.  In  fields 
aside  from  music  there  are  many  in- 
teresting recordings,  especially  in 
poetry.  When  good  machines  are 
available  we  wish  to  obtain  one.  The 
recordings  of  historical  events  and 
speeches  are  also  of  significance  and 
should  be  collected  now.  The  music 
needs  of  the  music  student  are  sup- 
plied by  that  department,  but  there  is 
an  opportunity  for  the  library  to  make 
available  records  and  listening  rooms 
for  students  not  in  the  music  school. 
The  possibilities  and  the  place  of  radio 
in  the  college  library  has  not  yet  been 
decided.  Surely  with  the  many  fine 
educational  programs  now  being  given 
and  the  improvement  in  short  wave 
communication,  the  use  of  radios  with 
wide  reception  is  open  for  serious  con- 
sideration. We  have  two  reading  ma- 
chines for  microfilm.  Microfilm  is 
used  chiefly  for  reproducing  bulky 
newspapers,  but  this  inexpensive  means 
of  reproduction  in  very  compact  and 
permanent  form  makes  it  possible  for 
us  to  acquire  the  text  of  books  or 
manuscripts  which  would  otherwise 
be  beyond  our  reach. 

Fifty  years  is  not  a  long  time  to 
build  up  a  college  or  a  college  library. 
Your  college  library  now  has  a  basic 
collection  of  general  books,  an  ex- 
cellent reference  collection,  and  a 
good  selection  of  contemporary  books 
and  periodicals.  There  is,  fortunately, 
very  little  "dead  wood"  among  its 
115,000  volumes.  The  library  should 
now  strive  to  be  one  of  distinction. 
This  is  a  slower  process  than  the  first 


building  up;  but  it  is  one  in  which 
the  alumnae  have  an  opportunity  to 
play  a  large  role.  Our  "Woman's 
Collection"  of  books  relating  to 
women,  their  interests  and  activities, 
was  started  five  or  six  years  ago,  at 
which  time  a  checklist  of  our  hold- 
ings was  published.  Books  in  this 
field  are  being  added  rapidly  enough 
to  warrant  a  supplement  every  few 
years.  It  seems  a  logical  field  in  which 
we  should  continue  to  expand.  The 
professional  work  being  done  here  on 
the  campus  in  music,  art,  the  dance, 
education,  and  home  economics  sug- 
gests fields  which  we  could  comple- 
ment with  books  and  other  materials 
of  importance.  Our  collection  —  still 
small  —  of  music  manuscripts  has  al- 
ready received  recognition  and  is  a 
stimulus  to  music  composition  at  this 
college.  It  is  alumnae  who  can  be 
most  helpful  to  us  in  building  up  these 
collections  or  similar  ones.  The  re- 
cent gift  in  memory  of  Constance 
Lam  '3  3,  for  the  purchase  of  books 
on  China,  provides  an  opportunity  to 
add  some  volumes  of  distinction. 
Gifts  of  books  are  carefully  marked 
with  the  donor's  name  or  a  special 
bookplate  is  printed  for  larger  gifts. 
The  permanent  value  of  a  good  or 
beautiful  book  is  difficult  to  equal. 

Our  library  staff  now  numbers  some 
eleven  professionally  trained  members 
and  two  clerical  assistants.  A  large 
number  of  students  also  help.  Many 
of  these  girls  are  working  for  us  not 
only  for  the  money  they  earn,  bur  also 
for  the  experience.  Library  work  is 
a  field  in  which  women  have  long  won 
recognition  and  which  now  offers 
many  fine  opportunities.  The  staff  of 
the  Woman's  College  Library  has  won 
distinction  among  women's  college 
libraries  in  this  country  both  for  its 
type  of  service  and  its  attitude  to- 
wards its  work.  There  are  other 
women's  colleges  which,  though  with 
fewer  students  by  far,  have  libraries 
with  a  staff  more  than  twice  the  size 
of  ours.  The  results  we  have  ob- 
tained are  certainly  a  recognition  of 
the  high  standards  of  the  College  ad- 
ministration as  well  as  those  of  the 
library  staff.  The  cooperation  of  the 
students  is  sought  and  obtained  at 
every  turn.  This  cooperation  works 
both  for  the  betterment  of  the  library 
and  of  the  student.  We  also  hope  to 
be  of  more  and  more  service  to  you 
as  alumnae,  and  we  wish  that  you 
would  keep  in  constant  contact  with 
us  and  tell  us  of  your  needs  and 
wishes.  The  College  Library  is  still 
your  library  and  we  wish  you  to  be 
as  proud  of  it   as   we  are. 


The  Alumnae  News 


By  MILDRED  A.   nE^NlOU,  SecTetaiy  of  Admissions 


In  September,  1945,  in  ,in  enroll- 
ment of  2200  there  were  approximate- 
ly 804  new  students  on  the  campus. 
The  freshman  class  of  597  included 
547  in  the  residence  halls  and  50  day 
students.  About  14  per  cent  of  the 
freshmen  come  from  other  states. 
Seventy-seven  students  transferred 
from  37  colleges  (14  senior  colleges 
and  23  junior  colleges;  16  of  these 
colleges  are  located  in  other  states). 
The  one-year  commercial  course  had 
107  new  students,  all  North  Caro- 
linians. There  were  2  3  new  students 
from  town — specials  taking  one  or 
two  courses. 

About  299  of  the  total  student 
body  do  not  live  in  North  Carolina, 
although  the  parents  of  about  24  of 
these  maintain  permanent  residence  in 
this  state.  Thirty-two  come  from 
New  England;  78  from  New  York, 
New  Jersey,  and  Pennsylvania;  17 
from  Washington,  D.  C;  5  from  Illi- 
nois and  Texas;  3  3  from  Alabama, 
Florida,  and  Georgia;  50  from  Ken- 
tucky, Maryland,  Tennessee,  and  West 
Virginia.  Virginia  has  the  largest  out- 
of-state  representation  with  46;  South 


Carolina  is  second  with  34;  New  York 
third  with  33;  4  come  from  Brazil, 
the  Canal  Zone,  Peru,  and  Uruguay. 
This  means  that  the  out-of-state  stu- 
dents come  from  16  states,  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  and  4  Latin  Ameri- 
can countries.  The  counselors  in  the 
residence  halls  can  tell  you  that  many 
of  these  students  have  social  and  busi- 
ness connections  with  the  people  in 
this  state.  A  number  of  these  appli- 
cations can  be  traced  to  Carolinians 
who  are  scattered  all  over  the  country. 

The  counties  in  this  state  v/hich 
have  the  largest  representation  are: 
Guilford  348,  Forsyth  102;  Mecklen- 
burg 93;  Wake  82,  Buncombe  67; 
Davidson  41.  This  year  7  counties 
are  not  represented:  Camden,  Clay, 
Currituck,  Graham,  Greene,  Hyde, 
and  Jackson. 

Army  Nurses,  WAVES,  the  WAC, 
and  Marines  were  represented  among 
the  1 1  servicewomen  who  entered  here 
the  second  semester.  One  left  after  a 
month  to  take  a  training  job  under 
the  supervision  of  the  Veterans  Ad- 
ministration, but  the  others  remained 
and  have  done  satisfactory  work.    The 


The  traditional  Daisy  Chain,  carried  by  the  Sophomores  —  Guard  of  Honor,  as 
the  Academic  Procession  entered  Aycock  .Vuditorium. 


majority  of  them  served  in  the  Euro- 
pean War  Theatre,  but  one  was  a 
flight  nurse  in  the  Pacific,  and  one 
served  in  New  Guinea.  One  of  those 
applying  for  admission  next  faU  served 
in  China,  and  India,  and  one  of  the 
former  students  who  will  return  has 
been  stationed  in  Hawaii. 

It  looks  as  if  there  will  be  between 
30  and  40  servicewomen  here  next 
fall  —  several  of  these  are  former 
students  who  withdrew  from  college 
to  enter  the  service.  Two  of  the  for- 
mer students  have  been  in  the  SPARS. 
They  had  their  training  at  almost 
every  service  school  in  the  covmtry. 
Some  will  be  candidates  for  degrees; 
others  will  be  special  students.  Sev- 
eral of  them  are  recommended  by 
alumnae. 

This  brings  me  to  a  question  some- 
times asked  —  What  type  of  student 
would  we  like  to  have  at  Woman's 
College?  Other  people  on  the  faculty 
can  answer  this  question  much  better 
than  I;  but  it  means  a  lot  to  the  ad- 
missions office  when  an  alumna  takes 
the  time  to  write  or  telephone  to  give 
information  about  an  applicant.  Per- 
sonally, I  prefer  those  applicants 
whose  records  seem  to  indicate  that 
they  will  do  acceptable  work  in  a  large 
college;  those  who  are  interested  in 
doing  a  respectable  job  of  learning, 
and  in  having  some  fun.  The  work 
is  hard,  but  with  a  faculty  of  250 
we  like  to  think  that  the  students  re- 
ceive a  good  deal  of  individual  at- 
tention. 


JuiY,   1946 


Report  of  the  Annual  Meeting 

of  the  Alumne  Association 

Held  in  Alumnae  House 

on  June  1,  1946 

By   York    RiKER,   Recording  Secretary 

The  meeting  of  the  Woman's  College 
Alumnae  Association  was  called  to  order 
by  Miss  lone  Grogran  at  10:00  a.m.  in 
the  Alumnae  House.  Miss  Katherine  Tay- 
lor presented  the  Senior  Class  represen- 
tatives to  be  accepted  into  the  Alumnae 
Association.  Miss  Betty  Jane  Sarratt, 
Everlasting  Class  President,  responded  and 
introduced  the  other  officers  of  the  Class. 
She  spoke  briefly  and  stated  the  fact  that 
97%  of  their  class  had  joined  the  Asso- 
ciation. 

Miss  Byrd  introduced  Mrs.  Hamilton  of 
Davidson.  Mrs.  Yoder  of  Linville,  and 
Miss  Mary  Lazenby  of  Statesville,  all  of 
the  Class  of  1896,  who  were  celebrating 
their  Golden  Reunion.  Mrs.  Hamilton 
gave  the  response  in  which  she  paid  her 
homage  to  the  college,  as  follows: 

I    know   now   how   Scott   felt   when   he 
wrote: 
"Breathes    there    a    man.    with    soul    so 
dead, 

Who  never  to  himself  hath  said, 

This  is  my  own,  my  native  land?" 

In  1892  our  class  saw  two  brick 
buildings  on  this  campus  —  today  I  see 
a  veritable  city! 

Doubtless  many  of  those  who  came 
later  have  said,  "Other  men  labored  and 
we  have  entered  in."  Our  class  of  '96 
share  this  feeling.  For  Dr.  Mclver  and 
Dr.  Alderman  helped  our  state  to  see  her 
debt  to  her  daughters  as  to  her  sons. 
Since  that  day  thousands  of  young  women 
have  found  in  this  institution  a  truly 
nourishing   mother. 

Our  class  of  '96  numbered  twenty. 
Five  have  gone  on  before,  but  we  say 
with  Wordsworth.  "Nay.  but  we  arc 
twenty." 

On  this  campus  we  learned  that  "Truth 
is  beauty,"  and  the  search  for  truth  and 
beauty  —  whether  in  literature  or  science 
—  brought  a  discipline  of  mind  that  has 
been   an  asset   through   the  years. 

John    Buchon    said    that    his    class    at 
Oxford  took,  as  theirs,  the  philosophy  ol 
Hillaire   Belloc,    which    is, 
"From   quiet   homes  and  first  beginning. 

Out   lo   the   undiscovered   ends. 

There's    nothing    worth    the    wear    of 
winning 

But  laughter  and  the  love  of  friends." 


That   is  good  philosophy   for  a  college 
group    beginning    life.    But    a    wiser    man 
said.     "Get     wisdom,     and    with    all    thy 
getting,    get    understanding."    For    then 
"Mind   and  heart  according  well. 

May  make  one  music  as  before. 

But  vaster." 

So  today,  \\'ith  deep  gratitude.  I  bring 
my   homage   to   my   college. 

Miss  Grogan  expressed  her  appreciation 
to  Dr.  Jackson  and  Miss  Elliott  for  at- 
tending and  participating  in  the  eight 
regional  meetings.  She  then  introduced 
Dr.  Jackson  to  talk  about  the  college. 
He  stated  that  the  enrollment  of  the  col- 
lege during  1945-46  was  2.236.  a  num- 
ber slightly  less  than  in  previous  recent 
years.  The  college  faces  many  problems  — 
one  of  which  is  whether  or  not  men  will 
be  accepted  as  day  students.  Dr.  Jackson 
spoke  of  the  $3,100,000  being  requested 
for  the  building  program  and  appealed 
to  the  alumnae  to  ask  the  support  of  the 
Legislature.  He  said  that  the  biggest  job 
before  the  Alumnae  Association  is  to  take 
proper  measures  to  see  that  Woman's  Col- 
lege is  not  left  out.  He  announced  that 
the  dining  rooms  would  be  run  with  paid 
student  help  during  the  next  school  year 
instead  of  with  volunteer  help,  as  recently 
done.  Walker  Avenue  is  not  yet  closed, 
but  the  question  is  still  under  considera- 
tion. At  the  conclusion  of  Dr.  Jackson's 
talk,  slides  of  the  proposed  new  build- 
ings were  shown.  Miss  Effie  Newton 
pledged  her  support  to  the  building  pro- 
gram, and  Mrs.  Sue  Ramsey  Ferguson 
offered   her  support   as  a   legislator. 

Next  Miss  Elliott  was  introduced  for 
a  brief  talk.  She  urged  the  alumnae  to 
get  on  the  move  as  next  year,  1947, 
would  be  most  important  as  a  legislative 
year. 

Miss  Mildred  Newton,  secretary  of  ad- 
missions, was  called  on  to  give  a  report 
on  the  enrollment  of  the  college  for  1945- 
46.  She  broke  down  this  report  by  giv- 
ng  the  various  counties,  states,  and  coun- 
ties  from    which   students   had   come. 

Mrs.  Annie  Beam  Funderburk  discussed 
he  question  of  "How  Large  Shall  Our 
College  Be.'"  and  pointed  out  other  ques- 
ions  that  are  being  asked.  Shall  stu- 
dents be  taken  from  the  upper  fourth  of 
heir  class  only,  or  from  any  accredited 
high  school.'  Shall  dormitories  be  built 
o  take  care  of  the  needs?  Who  will  de- 
ermine  the  size  of  the  college?  Does  the 
size  of  the  college  determine  the  work  of 
the  student?  Do  students  receive  adequate 
attention? 

Miss  Jane  Summerell  spoke  on  the 
Academic  Goals  and  Standards  of  the  Col- 
lege. She  stated  that  it  was  rather  difficult 
to   draw    the   distinction   between    the   lib- 


eral arts  program  and  the  professional 
courses,  since  both  are  needed.  In  sub- 
stance she  said  that  people  needed  to  learn 
how  to  live  and  to  put  into  practice  what 
they   know. 

Mr.  Gregory  Ivy,  head  of  the  Art  De- 
partment, spoke  on  Foundations  and 
Scholarships  for  the  College  and  the  great 
need    of    them. 

Mrs.  Rosa  Parker  spoke  for  the  Friends 
of  the  Weatherspoon  Art  Gallery,  and 
asked  for  contributions  for  the  portrait 
of  Dr.  Mclver,  which  is  to  be  placed  in 
Dr.   Jackson's  office. 

Mrs.  Sue  Ramsey  Ferguson  told  of  the 
Home  Economics  Foundation  and  how 
the  idea  was  started.  The  charter  for 
this  was  to  be  presented  to  the  University 
Board  of  Trustees  on  June  4. 

Miss  Ruth  Gunter  read  the  report  of 
the  College-Alumnae  Committee  meeting 
which  was  held  in  April.  1946.  The 
committee  asked  the  endorsement  of  some 
plan  to  send  more  information  to  alum- 
nae, and  suggested  a  paid  person  for  fund- 
raising.  Mrs.  McCain  read  the  resolution 
adopted  in  the  Board  meeting  relative  to 
this: 

Resolved,  That  the  Alumnae  Associa- 
tion request  the  Administration  to  set  up 
either  as  a  part  of  the  Public  Relations 
Department  or  as  a  separate  office  a  fund- 
raising   organization. 

The  group  approved  this  resolution, 
as  advisable.  Mrs.  McCain  also  read  her 
report,   as  legislative  chairman. 

Miss  Em  Austin,  second  vice  president, 
took  the  chair  while  Miss  Grogan  gave 
the  president's  report.  She  told  of  the 
eight  successful  regional  meetings  which 
were  held  during  the  first  few  months  of 
1946,  of  cooperating  with  the  Friends 
of  the  Weatherspoon  Art  Gallery  by  send- 
ing out  letters  relative  to  the  proposed 
portrait  of  Dr.  Mclver,  of  the  Founder's 
Day  program,  and  of  working  with  the 
college  improvement  program.  Mrs.  Mc- 
Cain asked  that  a  rising  vote  of  thanks 
be  given  the  president  for  her  splendid 
work. 

Miss  Austin  read  the  report  of  the 
Finance  Committee,  of  which  Miss  Byrd 
is  chairman.  It  was  voted  on  and  ac- 
cepted  by    the   group. 

The  report  of  the  William  C.  Smith 
Memorial  Committee  was  read  by  Mrs. 
Douglas,  asking  that  the  proposed  new 
library  be  named  for  Dr.  Smith.  May 
Lovelace  Tomlinson  voiced  the  approval 
of  the  group,  and  the  association  voted 
affirmatively.  The  Gertrude  W.  Menden- 
hall  Memorial  Committee  requested  that 
a  prominent  building  on  the  campus  be 
named  for  her.  with  preference  being  given 


10 


The  Alumnae  Ne'ss 


to  the  Science  Building  or  Administra- 
tion Building.  Mrs.  Morris,  chairman  of 
the  Lula  M.  Mclvcr  Committee,  asked 
that  a  room  in  the  new  chapel  be  named 
for  Mrs.  Mclver  and  that  her  portrait 
be  placed  there.  All  of  these  reports  were 
voted    on    favorably    by    the    Association. 

A  letter  from  Mrs.  J.  I.  Foust  was 
read  by  Miss  Grogan  which  announced 
a  gift  of  books  from  the  late  Dr.  Fousts 
collection  to  the  Alumnae  House.  Miss 
Em  Austin  asked  that  the  gift  be  accepted 
and  that  a  letter  of  appreciation  go  to 
Mrs.  Foust.  Alumnae  members  stood  in 
a  moment  of  silence  as  a  tribute  to  Dr. 
Fousts    memory. 

The  report  of  the  Alumnae  House 
Committee  was  read  by  Mrs.  Horace 
Haworth  and  was  accepted.  Mrs.  Fundcr- 
burk,  chairman  of  the  Social  Committee, 
told  of  the  social  held  during  the  fall  for 
the  new  students,  and  of  the  reception  for 
the  Senior  Class.  This  report  was  accepted 
with  a  vote  of  thanks. 

Kathcrine  Taylor,  chairman  of  the  Un- 
dergraduate Relations  Committee,  spoke 
of  the  chapel  program  given  by  the  Alum- 
nae Association  in  April,  at  which  time 
two  alumnae.  Dr.  Elizabeth  Hunter  Ellis 
'24.  physician,  and  Miss  Susie  Sharp, 
class  of  1928,  lawyer,  were  the  featured 
speakers.  These  committee  reports  arc  filed 
elsewhere. 

Miss  Byrd.  Executive  Secretary,  gave 
her  report  of  the  many  and  varied  activi- 
ties of  the  Association  during  the  past 
year. 

It  was  announced  that  Mr.  E.  J.  For- 
ney and  Miss  Edna  Forney  had  given  to 
the  House  an  antique  Boston  rocker  — 
a  chair  which  belonged  to  Mr.  Forney's 
mother. 

Mrs.  Stickney.  the  former  Miss  Frances 
Summcrell,  who  has  been  living  in  South 
America,  was  recognized  for  a  few  words. 
Mrs.  McCain  also  asked  that  Dr.  Gove 
stand   and   be   recognized. 

The  report  of  the  Nominating  Com- 
mittee was  read  by  Miss  Agnes  Cox. 
There  were  no  further  nominations  from 
the  floor,  and  it  was  moved  and  seconded 
and  the  group  voted  affirmatively  to  ac- 
cept  the   report  as  read,   as  follows: 

First  \'(fi-  Presidcnl:  Betty  Brown 
Jester. 

Board  Members:  Mary  Elizabeth  Bar- 
wick,  Cclia  Durham.  Annie  Beam  Funder- 
burk,   Virginia  Sloan  Swain.  Betty  Yost. 

Mrs.  Nettie  Dixon  Smith  voiced  the 
opinion  of  the  group  when  she  endorsed 
the  meeting  as  being  splendid.  There  be- 
ing no  further  business  the  meeting  was 
adjourned. 


THE  1946  ARTS  FORUM 

Over  200  students  and  faculty  mem- 
bers from  3  2  colleges  in  the  southeast, 
representing  nine  states,  attended  the  third 
annual  Arts  Forum  on  Woman's  College 
campus  March  14-16.  Purpose  of  the 
forum  is  to  promote  the  underjta.idmg 
and  appreciation  of  the  arts,  including 
music,  painting,  writing,  drama,  and  the 
dance. 

Eminent  leaders  who  offered  authorita- 
tive criticism  and  discussions  were  Howard 
Hanson,  director  of  Eastman  school  of 
music  of  the  University  of  Rochester  and 
foremost  American  composer:  Lionel 
Trilling,  author,  critic,  and  associate  pro- 
fessor of  English  at  Columbia  university: 
Sheldon  Cheney,  writer,  critic,  and  lecturer 
on  the  arts  and  the  theatre:  and  Charles 
Weidman,  brilliant  exponent  of  modern 
dance. 

The  ambitious  three-day  program  in- 
cluded a  forum  on  writing,  opening  of 
the  Southeastern  College  Art  exhibition, 
and  a  dance-drama  production  of  "Prome- 
theus Bound,  "  on  Thursday:  a  forum  on 
painting,  a  recital  of  student  composi- 
tions, a  discussion  on  theatre  architecture, 
and  a  round  table  discussion  of  all  the 
arts,  on  Friday:  and  master  classes  in  the 
dance,  an  American  composer's  recital, 
and  a  dance  concert  by  the  Charles  Weid- 
man group,   on  Saturday. 

Colleges  represented  either  by  students 
or  their  original  work  or  by  faculty  mem- 
bers who  acted  as  consultants  for  the 
forums  were  as  follows:  Limestone,  Win- 
throp  and  Coker  Colleges  and  the  Univer- 
sity of  South  Carolina,  all  of  South  Caro- 
lina: Hollins,  Randolph-Macon  Woman's 
College,  Virginia  Intermont,  Farmvillc 
State  Teachers'  and  Sweet  Briar  Colleges, 
all  of  Virginia:  Newcomb  College  of 
Tulanc  University,  Louisiana:  Poabodv 
College.  Tennessee;  University  of  Ala- 
bama: University  of  Georgia:  Juilliard 
School  of  Music.  New  York:  and  Duke 
University:  University  of  North  Caro- 
lina, and  Greensboro.  Woman's.  Salem. 
Flora  Macdonald.  Elon.  Guilford.  Lees- 
McRae,  Queens.  Atlantic  Christian.  Saint 
Mary's.  North  Carolina  State.  Eastern 
Carolina  Teachers.  Black  Mountain.  High 
Point,  and  Appalachian  State  Teachers 
Colleges,    all   of   North   Carolina. 

General  chairman  of  the  Arts  Forum 
was  Dr.  Marc  Friedlaender.  professor  of 
F.nglish  at  Woman's  College.  Assisting 
him  was  a  student  faculiv  committee 
from  the  departments  of  art.  physical 
education.  English,  and  the  school  of 
music. 

Bv  M.\ki.,\ri-:t  Johnson  '44. 


Report  of  the 
Alumnae  Office 

A  Danish  farmer  who  came  to  live  in 
the  Blue  Ridge  mountains  became  greatly 
enamored  of  our  folk  dances,  and  some- 
times called  the  figures  at  the  neighbor- 
hood gatherings.  "What  foot  do  you  start 
on.  Greg.'  "  some  one  was  always  sure  to 
ask  as  the  music  began,  and  this  was  al- 
ways his  answer:  "Just  put  your  happy 
toot  forward!"  At  the  beginning  of  the 
year  which  is  now  closing,  we  "put  our 
happy  foot  forward  "  in  the  Alumnae 
Office  —  we  hope  it  was  our  best  foot  too, 
for  V-E  Day  was  behind  us.  we  were 
sure  that  V-J  Day  could  not  be  far  away, 
we  felt  we  had  done  a  good  job  in  hold- 
ing our  lines  intact  during  the  involved 
and  restricted  battle  years  —  we  had  even 
made  progress  in  certain  sectors  of  the 
work :  new  sections  had  been  added  to  all 
our  files,  for  instance,  to  take  care  of 
several  thousand  new  names  and  person- 
alities on  the  ever-lengthening  rolls  of 
alumnae:  and  new  techniques  for  doing 
the  job  better  and  better  in  every  way 
had  been  worked  out:  now  once  again 
we  could  begin  to  think  in  terms  of 
forward  march   for  the   whole  line. 

We  are  sure  that  there  never  can  be 
again  a  pre-war  status  for  anything  — 
not  for  our  homes,  not  for  an  alumnae 
association.  But  in  reconverting  to  the 
future  —  if  we  may  so  put  it.  the  past 
year  has  been  one  too  soon  to  get  the 
best  results  from  our  efforts,  and  yet.  for 
us.  not  soon  enough.  Our  alumnae  are 
still  widely  scattered  and  therefore  much 
harder  to  reach,  either  through  the  mails 
or  through  meetings.  More  typical  than 
one  might  imagine  was  the  letter  received 
a  few  days  ago.  from  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1944.  in  which  she  said.  "The 
address  I  am  sending  you  now  is  the 
seventh  I  have  had  since  my  graduation.  " 
Multiply  these  seven  ditferent  addresses  by 
the  six  files  in  which  the  addresses  had 
to  be  changed  each  time  —  that  would  be 
42  operations  for  one  person,  then  mul- 
tiply that  result  by  several  thousand  other 
alumnae  in  similar  situations,  and  one  gets 
some  idea  not  only  of  the  flood  of  detail 
in  new  addresses  alone  that  continually 
descends  upon  the  Alumnae  Office,  but 
also  some  picture  of  the  continuous  move- 
ment of  the  alumnae  from  place  to  place, 
and  understands  better  why  the  railroads 
still  beg  us  to  stav  at  home.  Considering 
these  things.  I  think  that  all  the  meetings 
that  took  place  the  past  year  have  been 
well  attended  and  successful,  relatively 
speaking  —  after  so  long  separation,  they 
were  indeed  for  all  of  us  who  attended 
them  something  in  the  way  of  sentimental 
journeys. 

Mechanically  speaking,  the  past  year 
was  made  memorable  by  the  acquisition, 
with  the  lifting  of  priorities,  of  a  new 
graphotype  and  addressograph.  to  take  the 
place  of  the  obsolete  machinery  we  have 
been  getting  along  with.  We  hope  in  time 
to  become  adapt  in  operating  it. 

Statistically  speaking,  the  Alumnae  Ol- 
fice  .set  up  the  eight  district  meetings  — 
the  alumnae  secretary  attended  all  of  them, 
saying  the  final  word  on  the  program, 
and  in  additic>n  has  given  assistance  to  the 


July,  1946 


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local  associations,  whose  activicies  had 
necessarily  been  dormant  during  the  war 
years,  in  preparing  to  resume  their  sched- 
ules. We  are  glad  to  report  that  all  of 
the  larger  centers  and  counties  have  already 
been  re-officered  where  necessary,  or  are  in 
process  of  doing  so:  New  York.  Washing- 
ton. Richmond.  Alamance.  Buncombe. 
Cleveland,  Forsyth.  Gaston.  Guilford. 
Mecklenburg.  Person.  Pitt,  Wake.  Bertie, 
Cumberland.  Durham,  New  Hanover, 
Warren.  Wayne  are  in  process.  Other 
centers  will  be  aided  in  the  continuous 
program   of   resumed  activities. 

Statistically  speaking  again,  two  special 
mailings  have  been  sent  to  the  alumnae, 
enclosing  a  total  of  40.000  pieces  of 
printed   material. 

Again  statistically  speaking,  the  records 
show  that  266  meetings,  teas,  musicals, 
and  other  events,  including  the  wedding 
of  one  of  our  graduates,  were  held  in 
Alumnae  House  last  year,  at  which  16.- 
173  people  were  present.  As  one  of  our 
alumnae  remarked.  Alumnae  House  has 
also  had  its  face  painted  this  year,  as  you 
may  have  noticed.  Many  times  we  have 
been  pleased  to  hear  members  of  the 
faculty,  alumnae,  and  friends,  enthusias- 
tically ask.  "What  did  we  ever  do  before 
we  had  Alumnae  House?"  But  as  with 
anything  new.  if  it  meets  a  need,  its  use- 
fulness naturally  increases  as  time  goes 
by. 

Once  more  statistically  —  our  presen- 
tation of  the  Alumnae  Association  to  the 
Senior  Class  on  the  evening  of  May  1. 
and  the  follow-up.   in  which  25   members 


of  the  Class  assisted  us.  resulted  in  a 
grade  of  A  —  97  per  cent  of  the  class 
joined.  For  us  all.  I  wish  to  express  ap- 
preciation for  the  whole-hearted  coopera- 
tion given  by  the  president  of  the  Class 
of  1946.  as  well  as  the  whole-hearted  as- 
sistance of  the  four  alumnae  whose  names 
you  have  already  heard  —  Adelaide  van 
Noppcn  Howard.  Jean  Bertram,  Bonnie 
Angelo,  and  Dianne  Page.  Also  to  Edna 
Forney,  in  the  treasurer's  office,  who  so 
genially  asked  the  Seniors  as  they  came  to 
pay  for  their  diplomas.  "Wouldn't  you 
like  to  join  the  Alumnae  Association.'" 
—  our  thanks.   An  orchid  to  them  all! 

Statistically  still,  the  audit  of  the  books 
showed  that  1.4  5  6  memberships  were 
paid  into  the  Alumnae  Association  last 
year,  giving  us  18^  per  cent  of  our 
graduate  group,  as  against  the  average  of 
1 0  per  cent.  We  keep  the  books  and 
attend  the  committee  meetings  and  write 
the  minutes,  and  to  the  best  of  our  ability 
do  a  variety  of  things,  not  labeled  and 
filed. 

The  ALUMNAE  NEWS  has  been  pub- 
lished four  times  as  usual.  At  least  one 
copy  was  sent  during  the  year  to  every 
member  of  the  Senior  Class,  and  at  the 
request  of  the  visiting  committee  of  the 
University  Board  of  Trustees,  the  Trustees 
were  added  to  our  mailing  list.  To  the 
member  of  the  Class  of  1944,  who  wrote 
that  it  was  a  race  between  her  and  her 
mother  —  who  has  never  been  to  this 
college,  to  see  who  could  get  the  NEWS 
first  when  it  arrives:  to  the  girls  who 
write   that  everything  stops  at  their  house 


when  the  magazine  comes  in  until  they 
have  read  it  from  cover  to  cover,  to  all 
of  you  who  so  faithfully  send  us  material 
—  our  sincere  thanks.  One  of  the  main 
objects  to  our  work  is  to  keep  the  col- 
lege enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  the  alumnae. 
Once  President  Edwin  A.  Alderman, 
of  the  University  of  Virginia  (still  held 
in  memory  at  Woman's  College),  was 
asked  by  the  wife  of  the  French  Ambas- 
sador what  the  word  alumnus  means, 
since  that  word  has  no  equivalent  in  the 
French  language.  He  replied —  "Alumnus 
means  the  devoted  son  of  a  good  mother." 
He  thought  a  second  and  then  changed  his 
reply  slightly  —  "an  intelligently  devoted 
son  of  a  good  mother."  His  definition 
has  an  old  fashioned  sound,  like  the  Ten 
Commandments,  but  like  the  Ten  Com- 
mandments nothing  better  has  ever  been 
said.  Blind  loyalty  on  the  part  of  an 
alumna  is  a  liability.  But  informed  and 
intelligent  loyalty  is  indispensable.  In  the 
eyes  of  our  individual  communities,  every 
alumna  of  Woman's  College  (s  Woman's 
College.  "The  College  was  mentioned  in 
the  home  papers  when  every  one  of  you 
was  a  student  here:  when  you  were  en- 
gaged: when  you  were  married;  every  time 
you  achieve  some  success:  undoubtedly 
it  will  be  mentioned  in  our  obituaries." 
We  would  have  you  go  on  knowing  it  and 
being  intelligently  devoted.  For  do  you 
not  think  that  one's  college  is  something 
to  tie  to  in  a  world  in  which  only  the 
larger  values   remain   constant? 

Clara  B.  Byrd, 

Alumnae  Secretary. 


VIEW    OF    THE    QUADRANGLE 


The  Alumnae  News 


District  Meetings 


The  eight  district  meetings  got  off  to  a 
fine  start  with  the  first  meeting  in  Raleigh, 
on  the  evening  of  January  25,  at  the 
Woman's  Club.  Judy  Barrett,  chairman, 
presided,  and  spoke  gracious  words  of 
welcome.  Peggy  Dean,  chairman  of  the 
Wake  County  Association,  introduced  the 
speakers.  They  were  ably  assisted  in  mak- 
ing and  carrying  out  the  plans  by  York 
Kiker  and  Sarah  Foust  Milton,  members 
of  the  Alumnae  Board  of  Trustees  in 
Raleigh,  The  meeting  was  followed  by  a 
delightful  reception  at  the  club.  Approxi- 
mately 110  alumnae  were  in  attendance 
from  that  section.  The  guests  from  the 
college  were  honored  by  the  four  mem- 
bers of  the  committee  at  dinner  at  the 
Sir  Walter  Hotel,  previous  to  the  meeting. 

The  two-fold  ourpose  of  the  meetings 
was  everywhere  the  same:  To  stimulate 
our  alumnae,  if  needs  be,  to  a  keener 
realization  of  their  obligation  to  a  world 
consciousness  and  a  world  point  of  view, 
and  to  bring  more  definitely  to  the  alum- 
nae their  college  of  the  present  and  the 
broad  plans  for  its  future  expansion.  The 
program  was  likewise  everywhere  the 
same:  Chancellor  W.  C.  Jackson  and 
Dean  Harriet  Elliott  spoke  respectively 
on  these  two  topics,  in  reverse,  with  Miss 
lone  H,  Grogan,  oresident  of  the  Alumnae 
Association,  presenting  the  program  in 
general  at  the  beginning,  and  Clara  B. 
Byrd.  alumnae  secretary,  closing  with  some 
phase  of  the  alumnae  work  and  its  rela- 
tion to  the  college.  This  was  the  constant. 
Here  and  there  were  variations.  Mr.  John 
C.  Lockhart.  assistant  controller  at  Wom- 
an's College,  accompanied  the  group  from 
the  campus  on  three  or  four  occasions, 
lending  assistance  with  the  slides  showing 
the  proposed  "new"  campus,  and  ,in 
Rocky  Mount  and  New  Bern,  speaking 
in  place  of  Dr.  Jackson,  who  could  not 
be   present. 

The  dinner  meeting  in  Washington  City 
on  February  12.  in  the  elegant  surround- 
ings of  the  new  Statler  Hotel  —  with 
menu  to  match!  — came  second.  Here 
Gladys  Meyerowitz,  capable  chairman  of 
the  Washington  Alumnae  Club,  did  \.i: 
honors,  with  the  assistance  of  such  valiants 
as  Fodie  Buie  Kcnyon,  Dr.  Mclver's  first 
secretary,  and  Lois  Justice  Settee,  immedi- 
ate past  chairman  of  the  Washington 
Club.   Approximately   80   were   present. 

The  next  evening.  February  1 'j 
brought  together  alumnae  from  New  York 
City  and  nearby  towns  for  a  dinner  at 
.Midston  House,  in  New  York.  En- 
thusiasm reigned  supreme  among  the  100 
alumnors  present.  Here  Jane  Wharton 
Thayer.  local  chairman.  and  Trudy 
Raincy  Crecdc,  chairman  of  the  meeting, 
and    member    of    the    Alumnae    Board    of 


Trustees,  "called  the  figures,"  rhetorically 
speaking,  with  Mildred  Harrington  Lynch 
as  the  third  member  of  this  able  commit- 
tec-in-charge.  Laura  Weill  Cone,  member 
of  the  University  Board  of  Trustees,  in 
the  city  at  the  time,   was  also  present. 

On  March  2.  the  Mecklenburg  County 
Association  was  hostess  to  the  alumnae  in 
that  district,  when  over  200  —  the  high 
point  in  attendance  —  met  in  Charlotte 
for  a  luncheon  at  the  Steak  House.  Frances 
Horton,  chairman  of  the  local  association, 
was  the  efficient  presiding  officer.  Kath- 
crinc  Sherrill.  delightfully  indefatigable 
chairman  of  the  meeting,  presented  the 
speakers.  We  were  intrigued  by  the  book- 
lets and  place  cards  done  in  patriotic 
college  colors,  and  happily  carried  them 
away  with  us.  That  evening.  Miss  Sherrill 
was  hostess  to  the  group  from  the  college 
and  to  the  committee  on  arrangements  at 
a  buffet   supper  at  her  home. 

Next  came  th;  meeting  in  Greensboro, 
held  at  the  college  on  March  12,  with 
Mary  Cecilc  Higgins  Bridges,  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Guilford  County  Association, 
ably  presiding  and  presenting  the  program 
in  place  of  Betty  Brown  Jester,  chairman, 
who  could  not  be  present.  The  guests  of 
this  district  were  honorecs  at  a  delightful 
tea  given  after  the  meeting  by  the  hostess 
group.    About   75    were  in   attendance. 

Followed  the  meeting  in  Ashcville  — 
a  luncheon  held  at  Biltmore  on  March 
29.  Here  Virginia  Terrell  Lathrop.  new 
chairman  of  the  Buncombe  County  Asso- 
ciation, was  in  the  chair.  She  also  gra- 
ciously presented  the  program,  with  lithel 
Bollinger  Kiger.  chairman  of  the  meet- 
ing, and  in  general  charge  of  the  plans, 
ably  assisting.  About  7  5   were  present. 

The  next  meeting,  also  a  luncheon,  held 
on  April  27  at  attractive  Benvenuc  Coun- 
try Club,  Rocky  Mount,  brought  together 
approximately  125  alumnae  in  that  sec- 
tion. Here  Margaret  Reaves  McGregor, 
chairman  of  the  meeting,  made  a  pleasing 
presiding  officer,  with  Charlotte  Wilkin- 
son Toler,  chairman  of  the  Nash  County 
Association,  and  Josie  Doub  Bennett, 
former  president  of  the  Alumnae  Asso- 
ciation, introducing  the  speakers  and  giv- 
ing other  gracious  and  able  assistance.  We 
were  pleased  to  have  present  on  this  oc- 
casion two  members  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  University  of  North  Caro- 
lina, Mr.  Kemp  D.  Battle  and  Mr. 
Thomas  J.  Pearsall.  both  of  Rocky 
Mount. 

The  last  meeting  was  held  in  New 
Bern,  on  the  afternoon  of  May  4.  in  the 
attractive  Woman's  Club,  situated  on  the 
banks  of  the  historic  Neusc.  Camilla  Grif- 
fin, member  of  the  Class  of  1945.  was 
chairman-in-charge  and  gracefully  did  the 
honors  of  the  occasion.  Approximately  4  5 
were  present.  Previous  to  the  meeting. 
Camilla  was  hostess  to  the  group  from 
the  campus  and  to  the  members  of  her 
committee  on  arrangements  at  a  buffet 
luncheon  held  at  the  ancestral  home  ol 
her  aunt.   Helen  Hollister  Swan. 

At  practically  all  of  the.se  meetings, 
resolutions  were  passed  favoring  the  clos- 
ing of  Walker  Avenue,  as  outlined  by  the 
college  authorities.  I 


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Alamance  County  Association 

The  annual  spring  dinner  meeting  of 
the  Alamance  County  Association  was 
held  this  year  on  Tuesday  evening.  April 
^0.  at  the  Alamance  Hotel,  Burlington, 
with  a  fine  attendance.  \'irginia  Caruth- 
crs.  chairman,  welcomed  the  guests  and 
did  the  honors  for  the  occasion.  Yellow 
roses  centered  the  tables,  and  at  each  place, 
for  favor,  lay  a  tiny  gold  and  white  hand- 
made umbrella,  Mr.  Lockhart.  assistant 
controller  at  Woman's  College,  speaking 
in  place  of  Chancellor  Jackson,  who  was 
unable  to  be  present,  presented  the  new 
building  program  of  the  College.  Clara 
Byrd,  alumnae  secretary,  brought  us  up- 
to-date  with  news  from  the  campus.  Eva 
Dell  Goforth  Barker,  co-chairman  with 
Anne  Watkins  Fonville  of  the  Alamance 
County  Loan  Fund,  reported  that  the  fund 
had  again  been  successfully  completed  this 
year,  Jerry  Wall  sang  two  lovely  num- 
bers. To  conclude  the  program,  we  joined 
in  singing  the  college  song. 

Virginia  Caruthers.  Presidem. 


Cleveland  County  Association 

Cleveland    alumnae    met    in    Shelby    on 
March     14,     with     Elvira     Foust     Plonk, 
chairman,   presiding.   We  heard   interesting 
reports    from    the    members    who    had    at- 
tended   the    District   Meeting    in    Charlotte 
on  March  2.  and  felt  a  new  thrill  in  being 
alumnae  of  Woman's  College.  We  decided 
lo   have   one   large  annual   meeting   a   year, 
and    scheduled    this    meeting    as    a    dinner 
meeting  —  probably    during    the    week    ol 
Founder's  Day.   Planning  committees  will 
be     appointed     soon.     New     officers     were 
j\  elected     as      follows:      chairman.     Frances 
■Culhbertson :       secretary-treasurer.       Julia 
IPollock    Plonk. 

I  Julia  Plonk.  Sccraary. 


July,  1946 


Gaston  County  Association 

With  Billie  Mae  New,  chairman,  pre- 
siding. Gaston  alumnae  met  for  supper  at 
the  Good  Will  Club,  Gastonia,  on  Friday 
evening,  April  12,  Mr,  John  C.  Lock- 
hart,  assistant  controller  at  Woman's  Col- 
ege,  spoke  to  the  group  on  the  expansion 
program  of  the  College,  and  showed  slides 
of  the  proposed  plans  for  the  new  and 
beautified  campus,  Clara  B,  Byrd,  alumnae 
secretary,  combined  a  brief  talk  about  the 
traditions  of  the  College  with  a  few  min- 
utes of  chat  about  campus  happenings. 
The  college  song  was  sung  as  an  en- 
thusiastic close  to  the  first  meeting  held 
since   the   war  began. 

ATTIE   Belle   LILES.   Secretary. 


Richmond   (Va.)   Alumnae  Club 

Richmond  alumnae  met  for  dinner  on 
the  evening  of  March  18.  The  chief  item 
of  business  was  the  election  of  new  officers 
as  follows:  Chairman.  Nina  Belle  Horton 
Avery;  vice  chairman,  Mary  L.  Boney 
Beattie;  secretary-treasurer.  Dovie  Kinlaw 
Lee.  The  club  then  adjourned  to  the  John 
Marshall  High  School,  where  we  heard 
Miss  Elliott  speak  on  her  trip  to  the  Lon- 
don Conference  on  Education.  It  was  a 
pleasure  to  greet  her  after  the  lecture  and 
to  hear  a  bit  of  first-hand  news  from  the 
College. 

DOVIE  Kinlaw  Lee.  Secretary. 


Thomasville  Association 

Our  second  meeting  of  the  year,  cen- 
tering around  the  senior  and  junior  high 
school  girls  in  Thomasville.  was  held  the 
latter  part  of  January.  These  girls  were 
our  guests  at  tea.  Mary  Gr€en  Matthews, 
chairman,  presided  and  welcomed  our 
young  friends.  Willie  Spainhour  Greer 
told  them  about  the  continuing  spirit  of 
Woman's  College.  Betty  Lou  Phillips  '46 
gave  the  girls  a  bird's  eye  view  of  the 
courses  offered  at  the  College,  as  well  as 
of  the  social  and  recreational  side  of  college 
life.  The  program  closed  with  the  college 
song.  During  the  social  half  hour  which 
followed,  refreshments  were  served.  Stu- 
dents home  from  college  in-between 
semesters  were  also  guests.  Our  group  is 
not  a  little  proud  that  Priscilla  Moore 
Brinkley,  one  of  our  number,  was  Queen 
of   the  May   this   year. 

Willie  S.  Greer,  Secretary. 


J^ews  from  the  Alumnae 


1893 

Zella  (McCulloch)  Cheek  writes  from 
Springfield,  Mass.  She  has  three  children 
and  eight  grandchildren  —  "all  very  won- 
derful people  to  me,"  She  says  all  the 
men  in  her  family  were  soldiers  in  the  last 
war.  Her  granddaughter,  Jean  Redden, 
was  a  member  of  this  year's  graduating 
class   at    Woman's   College. 

1896 

Emily  (Asbury)  Yoder  was  back  for 
commencement  this  year — the  50th  year 
after  her  graduation.  For  28  years  she 
served  as  postmaster  at  Linville,  but  is 
now  retired,  with  pay.  She  says  she  spent 
several  months  last  spring  visiting  — 
from  Washington.  D.  C  to  Miami.  Fla., 
with  stops  in  Arlington,  Va..  Durham. 
Winston-Salem.  Hickory,  and  Swan- 
nanoa,  "I  have  seven  children,  ten  grand- 
children, and  one  great-grandchild.  Three 
of  my  grandchildren  were  in  the  Service 
—  one  was  a  fighter  pilot,  another  served 


Emily  A->ijlk'i    '96   (Mr;..  J.  A. 

Yoder) 

Linville,  N.  C. 

And  her  first  great-grandchild. 

Mrs.  Yoder  writes  that  she  is  a 
great-grandmother  —  she  thinks  the 
first  alumna  of  this  college  to  attain 
that  high  estate!  Is  there  any  other 
great-grandmother  who  can  challenge 
this?  If  so,  please  write  the  Alumnae 
Office. 


in  the  Navy,  and  the  third  was  a  Wac.  I 
have  been  a  widow  for  20  years,  have 
taught  a  class  in  Sunday  School  much  of 
that  time,  and  have  been  president  of 
the  auxiliary  and  of  the  community  asso- 
ciation. My  training  in  music  has  stood 
me  in  good  stead  too.  since  it  enabled 
me  to  be  pianist  for  the  church  and 
Sunday  School.  My  hobbies  are  crochet- 
ing and  piecing  quilts,  and  I  have  many 
flowers.  I  read  magazines,  books,  news- 
papers: love  pictures,  and  listen  to  the 
radio.  And  also  —  I  love  to  cook!  Wash- 
ing dishes  is  not  a  task  for  me  —  in  fact 
1  enjoy  life  wtih  all  its  varied  duties.  I 
have  had  shadow  and  sunshine,  but  I  have 
never  been  despondent,  for  I  have  always 
striven   for  better  things." 

Mrs.  Yoder  composed  the  following 
song  for  the  50th  anniversary  reunion 
of   her   class; 

As  a  band  of  sisters,  now  we  meet 
To    celebrate    once    more. 
To  get  together  and  repeat 
The  love  we  had  of  yore. 

Unto  all  who  follow  in  our  ways. 
We  bid  you   look  afar. 
Many  changes  will  beset  your  days. 
Set   your  eyes    upon    a    star. 

Service   is    a   challenge   true. 
Service  comes   for  all   to  do. 
Service  leads  to  heights  sublime. 
Service,  yea,   for  fifty  years. 

Chorus  : 

Fifty  years  of  sun  and  shade, 
Fifty  years  of  work  and  play. 
Fifty  years  adown  life's  glade. 
Fifty  years,  yea,  fifty  years. 

Cornelia  (Deaton)  Hamilton  and  Mary 
Lazenby  were  also  back  at  college  for  their 
Fiftieth  Anniversary.  It  was  a  real  joy 
to  have  them  here. 

1900 

Leiia  Judston  Tuttle  retired  last  July 
from  active  missionary  service  in  China, 
where  she  had  served  many  years  under 
the  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Methodist 
Church.  "Since  my  retirement  I  have 
taught  a  term  in  our  local  high  school 
to  help  out  in  the  acute  shortage  of 
teachers,  and  am  still  substituting  when 
a  teacher  has  to  be  absent.  I  am  living  on 
a  part  of  the  old  Tuttle  Farm  —  'Tut- 
tlefield,'  where  I  was  born  and  reared, 
and  am  enjoying  the  quiet  and  peace  of 
the  countryside.  Nevertheless  I  am  work- 
ing early  and  late  at  such  things  as  house- 
keeping, gardening,  community,  and 
church  affairs.  I  lived  alone  until  two 
months  ago,  when  a  brother  whose  wife 
had  passed  away  came  to  stay  with  me," 


The  Alumxae  Nevcs 


1901 

Bertha  (Sugg)  McCulIcn  hns  been 
teaching  again  for  the  past  two  years.  "I 
am  enjoying  it  every  bit  as  much  as  in 
the  days  gone  by.  Besides  this,  it  is  won- 
derful to  be  able  to  be  back  at  work  again 
since  the  death  of  my  husband,  and  since 
my  children  are  all  settled  in  homes  of 
their  own.  Teaching,  club  work,  and  my 
duties  as  treasurer  of  the  church  and 
president  of  the  auxiliary  keep  mc  com- 
pletely busy.  Sometime  I  hope  to  come 
to  the   college  again   for  a   visit." 

1906 

Daisy  (Donnell)  Craven  has  been  liv- 
ing in  Concord  since  1917  —  "after  hav- 
ing spent  all  my  previous  life  in  Greens- 
boro. My  husband  is  a  native  of  Concord, 
but  he  also  lived  in  Greensboro  for  a  long 
time.  He  is  owner  of  Craven's,  a  business 
dealing  in  coal.  wood,  and  building  sup- 
plies. The  business  was  established  in 
1892  by  his  father,  who  is  associated 
with  him.  as  is  our  son.  DonncU  Rcid. 
Both  my  husband  and  son  are  alumni  of 
Duke  University."  The  Cravens  have  two 
grandchildren  —  Lynda  Sue  2,  and  a  lit- 
tle boy.  Burton  Edward,  born  May  16. 
Daisy  was  one  of  the  Concord  representa- 
tives who  attended  the  regional  alumnae 
meeting  held  in  Charlotte  early  in  March. 

1907 

riorencc  Gray  has  been  connected  with 
the  Stuart  Robinson  School,  a  private 
high  school  at  Blackey.  Ky.,  for  the  past 
21  years.  For  the  past  three  years  she 
has  served  as  principal.  "This  school, 
situated  in  the  Appalachian  region  of 
eastern  Kentucky,  has  been  serving  moun- 
tain boys  and  girls  of  this  section  for  3  2 
years." 

1910 

Mary  (Jeffress)  Whaley,  one  of  the 
outstanding  civic  leaders  in  Greensboro, 
has  recently  been  elected  regent  of  the 
Guilford   Battle  Chapter  of   the  D.   A.   R. 

1912 

Sophia  (Hart)  Wakeley  writes  from 
South  Orange.  N.  J.,  that  her  two  sons 
arc  now  out  of  the  Army,  "Frank  is  liv- 
ing in  Rochester,  where  he  is  working  for 
Fastman  Kodak  Company.  He  was  mar- 
ried last  year  to  a  fine  girl  from  Auburn. 
N.  Y.  Bill.  .Jr..  who  followed  in  the 
footsteps  of  his  father  and  is  a  doctor. 
hopes  to  get  a  residency  in  a  hospital 
soon.  He  and  his  wife  and  little  daughter 
are  with  us  at  present,  and  1  shall  be  sorry 
to  see  them  go.  Little  Susan  is  a  fascinat- 
ing child,  now  nearly  two,  and  a  great 
joy    to    us    all.    We    go    hack    to    my    old 


home  in  Tarboro  now  and  then  —  North 
Carolina  is  still  very  much  home  to  me." 

1913 

Mildred  (Harrington)  Lynch.  New 
York  City,  writes  about  daughter  Nancy. 
"She  expects  to  be  graduated  from  Night- 
ingale —  Bamford  School,  here  in  New 
York  City,  in  June.  That  means  college 
for  her  next  fall,  she  hopes,  and  a  big 
empty  space  for  me.  I  am  already  begin- 
ning to  limber  up  my  neglected  type- 
writer! After  three  years  of  doing  odd 
jobs  as  my  share  in  the  war  effort,  it  is 
going  to  be  anything  but  good  clean  fun 
trying  to  get  started  writing  again." 
Nancy,  by  the  way,  is  an  enthusiastic  ice 
skater  —  for  fun  and  frolic. 

1914 

Annie  Bostian  was  on  the  campus  early 
in  March.  Her  niece  will  be  a  freshman 
at  Woman's  College  next  fall. 

In  addition  to  being  the  new  chairman 
of  the  Thomasville  Alumnae  Club.  Mary 
(Green)  Matthews  is  also  president  of  the 
recently  organized  branch  of  the  A.  A. 
U.  W.  in  Thomasville. 

Iris  (Holt)  McEwens  husband  has 
been  appointed  by  the  Governor  as  a 
member  of  the  Fact  Finding  Committee 
on  Future  Federated  Fund  Raising  in 
North  Carolina. 

1915 

Anne  Albright,  dean  of  women  at  W. 
C.  T.  C,  went  to  Atlanta  the  middle  of 
March  to  attend  the  Regional  Meeting  of 
Deans  held  there. 

Bessie  (Wright)  Raglands  only  daugh- 
ter. Betty  Anne,  was  graduated  from 
Woman's  College  on  June  3.  She  was 
editor  of  the  College  newspaper.  The 
CaroUn[an. 

1917 

Hattie  Lee  (Horton)  Stall  has  been 
living  in  Lexington,  Ky..  for  several  years. 
She  is  very  busy  there  with  civic  inter- 
ests. Her  son  was  graduated  from  the 
University  of  Kentucky  in  1942.  and  her 
daughter  was  a  student  there  last  year. 
The  son  took  his  degree  in  medicine  from 
the  Harvard  Medical  School  last  March, 
and  is  now  serving  his  internship  at  the 
Massachusetts   General    Hospital.    Boston. 

Nina  Belle  (Horton)  Avery  is  super- 
visor of  contracts  for  the  Chesapeake  and 
Ohio  Railway  Company.  She  is  also  active 
in  civic  work  in  X'lrginia.  Among  other 
things,  she  has  served  as  president  of  the 
Virginia  F"ederation  of  Business  and  Pro 
lessional  Women's  Clubs.  Inc..  from 
I'M2-I94-(.  and  since  that  time,  has  been 


legislative  chairman  of  that  organization, 
working  particularly  for  jury  service  for 
women,  and  equal  pay  for  equal  work 
for  women  in  the  State  of  Virginia:  and 
in  a  national  capacity,  she  is  working  for 
the  Equal  Rights  Amendment  to  the 
United  States  Constitution.  Nina  Bell 
goes  to  Washington  every  month  as  rep- 
resentative of  the  National  Federation  of 
Business  and  Professional  Women's  Clubs, 
inc.,  as  chairman  of  the  Women's  Joint 
Legislative  Committee  for  Equal  Rights  — 
a  committee  which  is  composed  of  two 
representatives  from  each  of  the  30-odd 
national  women's  organizations  which 
have  endorsed  the  amendment,  "For  sev- 
eral months,  as  chairman  of  the  Equal 
Rights  Publications  Committee  of  the  Na- 
tional Federation  of  B.  P.  W.  Clubs.  I 
have  been  compiling  a  fund  of  material 
on  behalf  of  the  amendment  which  will  be 
off  the  press  shortly."  Until  very  recently. 
Nina  Belle  was  chairman  of  the  Virginia 
Citizens'  Committee.  Women's  Division, 
for  Universal  Military  Training  of 
Young  Men.  Due  to  press  of  other  work, 
she    recently    relinquished    this    post. 

Thcssa  (Jimcson)  Sparks  is  living  now 
in  Amherst,  Va,  "I  went  down  for  the 
Duke-Carolina  game  last  November  and 
stopped  on  the  Woman's  College  campus 
for  a  few  minutes.  Everything  was  look- 
ing fin:.  " 

Josie  (McCullers)  Wells  says  that  her 
time  has  been  largely  absorbed  since  grad- 
uation in  rearing  a  family,  and  in  the  end- 
less job  of  homemaking.  'My  youngest 
child  was  21  vears  old  in  May.  My  oldest 
son  lives  in  the  home  with  me.  My 
daughter.  Betsy,  has  been  married  for 
three  years.  She  and  her  husband  are  liv- 
ing in  Ithaca,  N.  Y..  where  Captain  Ro- 
manek  is  studying  for  an  M.A.  degree  in 
Civil  Engineering.  My  youngest  son.  Wil- 
liam, was  graduated  from  The  Citadel 
last  September,  and  is  now  at  OCS,  Ft. 
Belvoir.  \'a.  He  is  listed  in  Who's  Who 
in  American  Schools  and  Colleges." 

1918 

Esther  (Clapp)  Jones  says  that  gar- 
dening is  her  chief  outside  interest  at  the 
present  time,  iris  and  roses  being  her 
specialties.  "We  are  all  proud  to  have  our 
sister.  Sallie  Clapp.  serving  with  the  gov- 
ernment  in    Italy." 

Inabello  Coleman  returned  to  Shanghai 
in  ,Iuly  to  resume  licr  work  as  professor 
of  journalism  in  the  University  of  Shang- 
hai. She  has  written  a  number  of  books 
relating  to  the  work  of  the  Baptist 
Church,  and  her  most  recent  publication. 
The  March  ol  Missions,  went  through 
tliree  editions  in  two  months. 


JuiY,   1946 


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Marie  (Lincbcrgcr)  Rich.irdon's  daugh- 
ter, Mciric.  15,  finished  the  freshman  year 
in  high  school  last  year.  Her  son.  Bill 
19,  is  a  staff  sergeant  in  Sappora,  Japan. 
"He  has  been  in  service  for  16  months. 
He  plans  to  enter  the  School  of  En- 
gineering at  Duke  University  when  he 
gets  back.  Because  of  the  new  draft  law, 
these  'kids'  who  are  already  in  the  Army 
of  Occupation  may  be  gray  headed  before 
they  come  home!  Who  will  replace  them?" 

Sue  Ramsey  (Johnston)  Ferguson  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate  from  her  sena- 
torial district,  in  the  May  elections.  She 
will  serve  in  the   1Q47  legislature. 

Laura  Linn  (Wiley)  Lewis'  husband, 
a  colonel  in  the  Coast  Artillery,  U.  S. 
Army,  during  the  war,  was  awarded  the 
Legion  of  Merit,  at  special  ceremonies 
conducted  at  ORD.  Greensboro,  the  latter 
part  of  March.  The  award  was  made  "for 
exceptional  meritorious  conduct  in  the 
performance  of  outstanding  services  from 
December  3.  1943,  to  September  2,  1945. 
as  commanding  officer  of  Jamaica  Base 
Command," 

1919 

Lucy  Cherry  Crisp  was  among  those 
present  at  commencement.  She  says  that 
for  more  than  four  years  she  has  been 
completely  immersed  in  the  work  of  the 
USO  Club  in  Greenville  —  "two  years 
as  a  week-end  senior  hostess,  and  for 
more  than  two  additonal  years,  as  direc- 
tor. Although  the  work  has  been  absorb- 
ing, it  has  also  provided  for  me  a  greatly 
rewarding  experience.  I  shall  probably  be 
on  the  job  until  the  end  of  the  summer, 
although  we  have  gone  back  to  a  week 
end  basis,  so  that  I  have  some  free  time 
in   the   middle   of   the   week." 

1920 

Rachel  Clifford  has  laid  aside  the  Navy 
blue,  having  been  discharged  from  her 
first  lieutenancy  in  the  WAVES  last  No- 
vember 12.  and  is  now  in  Winston-Salem 
working  with  the  VA,  where  "wc  are  up 
to  our  necks  handling  the  claims  of  vet- 
erans." she  writes.  Rachel  joined  the  staff 
of  the  VA  last  fall  and  was  assigned  to 
Fayetteville.  But  when  the  regional  office 
was  moved  to  Winston-Salem  in  March, 
she  was  transferred  with  it.  "The  work 
is  very   interesting." 

1921 

Hortense  (Moseley)  Wooten  says  she 
still  feels  the  same  thrill  in  teaching  school 
that  she  felt  when  she  first  started  in 
1921.  Such  testimony  could  come  only 
from  a  born  teacher!  "The  past  winter 
I  was  leader  of  an  intermediate  Girl  Scout 
Troop,   and  for  the  past  ten  years  I  have 


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taught  a  young  men's  class  in  our  Sunday 
School.  I  enjoy  very  much  too  member- 
ship in  a  neighborhood  book  club  —  the 
club  helps  us  to  keep  abreast  of  the  times 
in    the    world    of   reading." 

Ruth  (Vick)  O'Brien  wrote  from 
Washington  that  she  was  planning  to  "set- 
tle down"  after  June  30.  "I  thoroughly 
enjoy  my  work  with  the  OPA  —  it  is 
really  one  of  those  hard,  challenging  jobs. 
After  our  marriage  last  December.  Jack 
and  I  had  two  beautiful  weeks  in  Florida 
—  our  first  vacation  in  four  years  of 
OPA.  My  husband's  home  is  in  Butte, 
Mont.  At  present  we  are  living  in  an 
apartment,  but  are  planning  to  buy  a 
house.  Jack  has  promised  to  come  with 
me  before  long  for  a  visit  to  North 
Carolina." 

1923 

Eleanor  (Hill)  Smith  writes  that  for 
the  past  six  years  she  has  been  living  in 
Kinston  with  her  mother.  Ella  (Mose- 
ley) Hill  '98.  and  father.  "Since  Sep- 
tember. 1945.  I  have  been  executive  sec- 
retary of  the  Lenoir  County  Tuberculosis 
Association  —  a  job  I  like  very  much." 
Eleanor  is  also  secretary  of  the  Lenoir 
County  Chapter  of  the  Am:rican  Red 
Cross,  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  man- 
agement of  the  USO,  and  secretary  of 
the  Business  and  Professional  Women's 
Club,  Kinston.  She  has  a  daughter,  Elea- 
nor, who  will  be  a  senior  in  high  school 
next  year.  We  hope  she  will  be  a  "Wom- 
an's College  girl"  about  a  year  from  now! 

Susie  (West)  Mcndenhall  lives  in 
Athens,    Ga.    "My   husband   and   our   son 


Dickie  and  I  spent  last  Christmas  in  Cali- 
fornia, where  we  saw  the  Rose  Bowl 
Game  and  the  Tournament  of  Roses  in 
Pasadena.  While  in  that  section,  we  also 
saw  much  of  the  western  part  of  our 
country  —  went  over  into  Mexico  too. 
We  have  adopted  another  son,  David  West 
Mendenhall,  of  whom  we  are  very  proud. 
These  two  fine  boys  certainly  double  our 
happiness.  They  are  really  wonderful  and 
the  pride  of  our  lives.  My  spare  time  is 
spent  doing  work  for  the  P.-T.  A.,  the 
church,    and   community   organizations." 

1924 

Velma  Beam,  who  is  doing  extension 
work  in  Clay  County,  writes  that  the 
test  and  demonstration  program  being  car- 
ried on  in  that  county  is  still  receiving 
a  great  deal  of  attention.  Velma  was 
called  to  Washington,  D.  C.  for  the  Na- 
tional Outlook  meeting  held  there  last 
December.  She  also  appeared  on  the  pro- 
gram of  the  AHEA  conference,  held  in 
Cleveland.  Ohio,  in  June.  It  seems  that 
not  only  extension  workers,  but  profes- 
sional and  business  people,  are  concerned 
about  the  problem  of  soil  erosion,  and  its 
relationship  to  soul  erosion!  "The  people 
in  Clay  County  on  their  small  farms  arc 
pointing  the  way  to  a  more  productive 
agriculture,  which  in  turn  will  make  better 
rural  living  for  every  one.  The  program, 
with  its  long  range  planning,  works  for 
permanency,  stability,  good  farms,  good 
homes,  good  health,  good  schools,  good 
churches,  good  hospitals:  in  short,  the 
objectives  of  the  program  form  the  foun- 
dation upon  which  all  people  everywhere 
may  build  the  good  life."  It  is  this  homely 
philosophy,  with  a  practical  application, 
that  Velma  proclaims  from  the  hilltops  in 
Clay    County. 

Inez  (Crowder)  Tcague  lives  in  Ham- 
let, where  she  is  active  in  church  and  civic 
affairs.  She  has  just  completed  a  term  of 
two  years  as  president  of  the  Hamlet 
Woman's  Club.  Her  husband  is  a  dew- 
berry grower —  "for  that  reason  I  find 
myself  very  busy  at  this  season  of  the 
year.  But  we  have  our  vacation  months  — 
last  winter  we  spent  in  Florida,  and  en- 
joyed   that   a   great   deal." 

Collie  Garner  is  now  a  member  of 
the  faculty  of  Mars  Hill  College. 

Susie  (Roberts)  Ross  is  living  in  New 
York  City.  She  has  one  daughter.  Susie's 
husband  died  sometime  ago. 

1925 

Elizabeth  (Duffy)  Bridgers,  Ph.D.,  is 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  Southern  Society 
of  Philosophy  and  Psychology.  The  thir- 
teenth annual  meeting  of  the  society  was 
held    at    the    University    of    Virginia    the 


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The  Alumnae  Ne^s 


middle  of  last  April.  Elizabeth  was  also 
chairman  of  the  committee  which  had  in 
charge  the  planning  and  arranging  of  the 
program  for  this  meeting.  During  the 
year  1945  to  1946.  •PoUy"  —  as  she  is 
known  to  her  classmates  —  was  chairman 
of  the  psychology  section  of  the  North 
Carolina  Academy  of  Science,  and  read  a 
paper  at  the  annual  meeting  held  in 
Raleigh  during  May  of  this  year,  using 
as  her  subject  "Adaptation  in  Energy 
Mobilization:  Changes  in  General  Level 
of  Palmar  Skin  Conductance."  She  re- 
cently received  a  request  from  a  profes- 
sor at  Teachers  College,  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, to  be  permitted  to  include  an 
article  written  by  her — "A  Critical  Re- 
view of  Investigations  Employing  the  All- 
port- Vernon  Study  of  Values  and  Other 
Tests  of  Evaluative  Attitudes"  —  in  a 
source  book  which  the  professor  is  pre- 
paring for  the  use  of  his  classes  in  voca- 
tional testing.  Dr.  Duffy  has  also  been 
asked  to  contribute  an  article  to  the  En- 
cyclopaedia of  Vocational  Guidance  on  the 
subject  of  the  Allport-Vernon  Study  ol 
Values.  Dr.  Duffy  is  professor  of  psy- 
chology  at   Woman's   College. 

Mozelle  (Jackson)  Underwood  is  liv- 
ing on  Mclver  Street,  Greensboro  —  not 
far  from  the  college  —  "after  having  lived 
on  North  Spring  Street  since  my  marriage 
in  1927.  We  bought  our  present  home  in 
1944,  and  of  course  have  lived  here  since 
that  time.  Ruth  Annabel,  my  oldest 
daughter,  will  be  in  the  11th  grade  at 
Senior  High  next  year.  Walter  D.  Jr.  will 
be  in  the  6th  grade  next  year.  He  is  at- 
tending the  String  Institute  at  Woman's 
College  this  summer  —  so  you  sec  he 
likes  music,  as  his  mother  does.  Wilma 
Margaret,  our  other  daughter,  will  begin 
her  'formal  education'  this  fall,  at  Central 
School.  Virginia  Lee.  our  youngest  child. 
was  born  on  October  5,  1944.  So  you  see 
she  is  a  'Founder's  Day'  girl." 

Estelle  (Mendenhall)  LeGwin's  oldest 
son.  Jimmy,  was  graduated  from  Greens 
boro  High  School  this  year,  and  will  go 
on  to  college  next  year.  Estelle  has  made 
a  fine  reputation  as  teacher  of  science  in 
the  Greensboro  High  School.  She  is  also 
one  of  the  leading  sopranos  in  Greens- 
boro and  is  active  in  club   work. 

1926 

Mildred  (Little)  Hcndrix  will  be  ofTicial 
organist  at  Duke  University  next  year  — 
her  third  year  in  that  position.  Mildred 
is  also  a  member  of  the  national  board  of 
judges  for  the  National  Guild  of  Piano 
Players.  She  judged  more  than  200  pupils 
of  piano  in  Columbia  and  Bamberg,  S. 
C,  the  week  of  last  May  12.  Mildred's 
husband    is    a    physician.    He    is    president 


C2r§§:§S^§r§cM)(2r§ir§i:§^:§§:§^§:§§r§ 


Nina   Belle   Horton   Avery   '17 

Chairman   of  the   RichinoiiJ    ( Va. ) 

Alumnae  Club 


of  the  Davidson  College  Alumni  Associa 
tion. 

Hermene  (Warlick)  Eichhorn  is  the 
new  president  of  the  Euterpe  Club. 
Greensboro  —  one  of  the  finest  musical 
organizations  in  the  South.  The  club  re- 
cently performed  Hermene's  cantata,  Mary 
Magdalene,    with   a   chorus  of   20   voices. 

Mary  Wood  Wolfe  has  recently  re- 
signed her  position  in  Leonia,  N.  J.,  in 
order  to  go  to  Washington  City  to  be 
with    her    mother,    who    lives    there. 

1927 

Blanche  Armfield  lives  in  Washington 
City,  where  during  the  war  she  was  asso- 
ciate business  analyst  with  the  Foreign 
Economic  Administration,  Preclusive  Op- 
erations Division.  She  is  now  associated 
with  the  Department  of  State,  writing  a 
history  of  preclusive  operations  (part  of 
the  FEA's  economic  warfare),  in  the  neu- 
tral countries  in  World  War  II. 

Julia  McNairy  was  supervisor  of  the 
Edgecombe  County  elementary  schools  last 
year.  'This  was  my  first  year  as  a  super- 
visor, and  I  am  delighted  with  the  work 
—  it  is  always  interesting  and  inspira- 
tional, as  well  as  educational — even 
though  it  is  hard  work.  I  lived  in  Tar- 
boro  and  now  feel  perfectly  at  home  in 
Lasiern   Carolina," 

1928 

Itllen  rieichcr.  who  had  an  interesting 
experience  overseas  as  an  Army  librarian, 
has  been  discharged,  and  is  now  back  at 
her  home  in  Anderson.  S.  C.  While  in 
France   she   wrote:     "Your  letter   was   for- 


warded to  me  from  four  Army  post  offices, 
and  finally  caught  up  with  me  at  Mour- 
melon.  a  little  town  about  20  miles  south 
of  Rheims.  Rheims  is  central  headquarters 
for  the  1 8  camps  named  for  American 
cities,  in  which  the  redeployment  pro- 
gram is  being  carried  on.  Theoretically.  I 
am  operating  a  library  here  at  Sub-Area 
Headquarters,  and  supervising  the  libraries 
in  the  five  camps  in  this  area  —  St.  Louis, 
Cleveland.  Philadelphia.  Pittsburgh,  and 
Carlisle  (a  suburb  of  Pittsburgh),  in- 
habited by  nurses  only.  Actually.  I  have 
trained  librarians  in  the  camp,  and  am 
supervisor  only  because  I  was  lucky 
enough  to  get  here  first.  Most  of  the 
troops  in  the  area  were  slated  for  the 
Pacific,  so  there  was  great  rejoicing  here 
much  of  the  time.  Their  theme  song  was 
'We'll  all  be  home  for  Christmas!'  Some 
of  the  rest  of  us  thought  in  terms  of 
Germany  by  Christmas  —  we  had  been 
promised  assignments  there  when  the  job 
here  is  done." 

Thelma  (Getsinger)  Barden  lives  in 
Plymouth.  Her  husband  is  an  automobile 
dealer.  They  have  one  child.  Mary  Alice, 
born   last   September. 

Frances  (Gibson)  Satterfield  writes 
from  Atlanta.  Ga..  where  she  and  her 
family  have  been  living  for  several  months. 
Her  husband  returned  from  overseas  the 
first  of  last  November,  after  having  been 
in  foreign  service  for  21  months,  with 
the  Allied  Military  Government.  "At  the 
time  he  left  Berlin,  he  was  acting  chief 
of  housing  for  the  United  States,  in  the 
Allied  Control  Council.  He  returned  to 
Federal  Public  Housing  here  in  Atlanta, 
on  January '2.  after  two  months  of  ter- 
minal leave.  While  he  was  in  Service. 
Nonie.  Neil  Boydston  and  I  remained  in 
W^ashington.  where  I  was  on  the  staff  of 
the  Women's  Division.  Democratic  Na- 
tional Committee,  as  director  of  research 
and  materials.  I  did  considerable  writing 
for  our  monthly  magazine.  The  Demo- 
cratic Digest,  and  the  other  publications 
which  we  issued.  My  last  booklet  was 
entitled,  Dcmcicratic  Women,  March  On'. 
Nonie  and  Neil  are  both  students  at 
North  Fulton  High  School,  and  so  we 
shall  soon  have  a  daughter  and  son  readv 
for  college.  "  Gibby  is  active  in  the  At- 
lanta League  of  Women  \'oters.  and  the 
Women's  Division.  Fulton  County  Demo- 
crats. 

Margaret  (Hunter)  Mitzel  lives  near 
Charlotte.  "I  have  two  children  —  a 
daughter  1  1.  and  a  little  boy.  who  will  be 
three  vears  old  next  Christmas  Day.  1 
taught  In  the  grammar  grades  in  Belmont 
lor  loui  years  after  my  graduation  from 
college." 


July,  1946 


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Grace  (Gilreath)  Elledgc  teaches  Eng- 
lish in  Central  High  School,  Rutherford- 
ton.  She  is  president  of  the  Rutherford 
County  unit  of  the  N.C.E.A. 

Helen  Reinhardt  is  the  new  executive 
secretary  of  the  North  Carolina  State 
Commission  for  the  Blind,  having  as- 
sumed her  new  duties  on  June  I,  Helen 
has  been  connected  with  the  commission 
for  some  time.  After  her  graduation  from 
college,  she  taught  home  economics  in 
high  school  for  several  years.  Later  she 
served  as  administrator  of  the  Emergency 
Relief  Administration,  and  of  the  Civil 
Works  Administration,  in  Lincoln  Coun- 
ty, her  home  county.  For  7  '/i  years  she 
was  assistant  state  director  of  the  profes- 
sional and  service  division  of  the  WPA  in 
North  Carolina,  and  along  with  this  posi- 
tion, carried  the  work  of  state  supervisor 
of  the  health  and  welfare  section.  Under 
her  supervision,  these  programs  grew  to 
be  outstanding  in  the  country.  During 
the  war  Helen  worked  for  a  year  as  as- 
sistant personnel  director  of  Fairchild,  ^ 
Inc.,  and  then  took  the  position  of  field 
representative  for  the  Federal  Works 
Agency  in  the  area  of  community  service. 
After  remaining  in  this  post  for  a  year, 
she  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  di- 
rector of  the  field  staff  for  the  same  agency 
in  seven  southeastern  states  —  a  post  she 
held  until  returning  to  North  Carolina 
in  November  of  last  year  to  become  the 
state  supervisor  of  workshops  and  home 
industries  for  the  North  Carolina  State 
Commission   for  the   Blind, 

Katherine  Taylor  returned  to  the  cam- 
pus in  mid-winter,  after  receiving  her 
discharge  from  the  WAVES,  to  resume 
her  work  as  counselor  in  Weil  Hall,  and 
associate  professor  of  French  in  the  faculty, 

1929 

Wren  Duncan  teaches  an  8th  grade  in 
the  Wilkesboro  schools, 

Capt.  Edith  Neal,  WAC,  is  back  at 
home  in  Greensboro  after  two  years  over- 
seas in  Europe. 

Virginia  Ward  is  in  Wilmington  now, 
as  coordinator  of  the  Family  Life  Educa- 
tion program. 

1930 

Frances  (Batte)  Foil  has  two  children 
—  Frances  Lynn  8,  and  Betty  3,  Their 
home  is  in   Salisbury, 

Helen  (Felder)  Ortiz  and  her  small 
daughter,  Helen  Michaela,  came  to  Greens- 
boro last  spring  for  a  visit  of  several 
weeks  with  her  family  here.  During  her 
stay  she  was  honoree  at  several  charming 
events,  among  them  a  tea  given  by  her 
mother,  and  a  noon  informal,  compliment 


of     Elizabeth      (Crews)     Blackwood     '30 
and  her  sister  Margaret  '30. 

Charlcsanna  Fox  is  now  overseas,  do- 
ing library  work.  Her  address  is  District 
Central  Library,  No,  128.  c/o  F,P.O., 
San   Francisco,    Calif, 

Louise  Henson  is  teacher  of  home  eco- 
nomics  in    the   Sylva    High   School, 

Fannie  (Owen)  Ashcraft  is  living  in 
Clcmson,  S,  C.  "I  have  two  children  —  a 
son  5  and  a  daughter  2,  My  husband  has 
been  discharged  from  the  Navy,  and  is 
teaching  mathematics  at  Clemson  College.' 

Anne  (Sharp)  Harrison  lives  in  Aus 
tin.  Texas,  where  her  husband  is  profes 
5or  of  English  in  the  LIniversity  of  Texas 
Incidentally,  he  is  the  son  of  Dr.  T.  P 
Harrison,   dean   emeritus   of  State   College 

1931 

Charlotte  (Hill)  Rose  is  living  in 
Marshall,  Minn.  She  and  her  husband 
own  and  operate  the  Bud  Rose  Nursery, 
They  have  a  son,  Authur  Duane  Jr., 
born  last  November, 

Ethel  (Leonard)  Folger  is  living  in 
Spencer.  She  has  one  little  girl,  Lydia 
Ann,  nearly  3.  "I  am  teaching  in  the  East 
Spencer  schools,  and  have  taught  a  first 
grade  since  my  graduation  from  college. 
Before  coming  to  Rowan  County  to  live. 
I  taught  in  Cabarrus  County.  My  hus- 
band is  a  watchmaker  for  Holshouer 
Jewelry   Company,    Salisbury." 

Martha  (Medcalf)  Pratt  served  for 
1  3  Yz  months  as  an  assistant  field  director 
for  the  American  Red  Cross,  in  a  station 
hospital  on  Saipan.  She  returned  to  the 
United  States  the  day  before  last  Christ- 
mas. "Previous  to  my  assignment  to  Sai- 
pan. I  have  been  with  the  American  Red 
Cross  in  Honolulu  for  several  months.  I 
was  married  in  July.  1938.  My  husband 
was  sent  to  the  European  Theater  of 
Operations  with  the  Red  Cross,  in  March. 
1944.  I  was  sent  to  the  Pacific  in  May 
following.  For  four  months  I  served  as  a 
hospital  social  worker  in  a  station  hos- 
pital. We  were  the  first  Red  Cross  women 
to  arrive  on  Saipan.  Living  conditions 
were  rugged,  but  it  was  fun  building  up 
a  Red  Cross  unit  from  scratch,  in  a  for- 
ward area.  We  all  felt  that  our  experience 
was  most  challenging  and  worth  while,  I 
returned  home  on  leave  on  December  24, 
and  at  present  am  not  sure  of  my  future 
plans,  as  my  husband  is  not  expected 
back  from  Germany  until  March,    1946," 

Ermine  Neal  taught  a  fourth  grade  in 
Bryson  City  last  year.  She  says  that  since 
her  graduation  from  college  she  has  taught 
in  the  schools  for  the  deaf  in  North 
Carolina.  Indiana.  New  York,  and  Colo- 
rado. 


Mary  (Ratledge)  McCrary  is  living  in 
Winston-Salem,  where  she  has  a  position 
with   the   U,    S,   Employment   Service. 

Mary  Jane  (Wharton)  Thayer  is  now 
teaching  biology  and  chemistry  at  the 
Brearley  School  —  a  very  fine  private 
school,  New  York  City.  Jane  has  a  Ph.D. 
in    Zoology    from    Yale    University. 

1932 

Alice  Power  teaches  a  fifth  grade  in 
the  Charlotte  City  Schools.  Incidentally, 
she  is  also  doing  graduate  work  at  the 
University   of  South  Carolina, 

Betsy  Parker  has  been  discharged  from 
the  WAC  and  has  laid  aside  her  first  lieu- 
tenancy. She  is  back  at  UNC.  Chapel  Hill, 
where  she  is  connected  with  the  newly 
created  Bureau  of  Business  Service  and  Re- 
search. "This  position  affords  me  inter- 
esting work  and  contacts,  as  well  as  op- 
portunity to  do  graduate  work.  The  high- 
light of  my  three  years  in  the  WAC  was 
our  postal  directory  work  overseas,  I 
regard  it  with  pride  and  satisfaction.  It 
was  also  a  great  opportunity  to  be  able 
to  work  in  North  Africa  under  Colonel 
Boyce,  now  head  of  the  WAC."  Betsy 
was  awarded  the  Bronze  Star  on  August 
16,  1945,  "for  meritorious  achievements 
in  connection  with  military  operations  in 
the  Mediterranean  Theater  of  Operations, 
from  8  February  1944  to  4  June  1945." 
She  was  discharged  from  the  WAC  on 
December  12.    1945. 

Eunice  M.  Rountree  was  released  from 
the  Navy  early  last  January,  and  is  now 
enrolled  in  the  Occupational  Therapy 
School  of  the  Richmond  Professional 
Institute. 

1933 

Mary  Elizabeth  Angley  teaches  history 
in    the   Lincolnton    High   School. 

Mildred  (Campbell)  Scarpitta  writes 
from  North  Linthicum.  Md.  The  Scar- 
pittas   have   two  children. 

Ruth  (Johnson)  Downing  has  one 
son.  Robert  Warren,  3^-  Her  husband 
has  been  in  the  Navy  for  two  years.  The 
Downings    live    in    Winston-Salem. 

Shortly  after  the  death  of  Constanc; 
Lam  last  fall.  Dr.  P.  S.  Selwyn-CIarke, 
(director  of  medical  service  at  Hong 
Kong,  China,  for  the  British  Govern- 
ment), with  whom  Constance  was  assj- 
ciated  as  a  social  worker,  wrote  a  letter 
to  her  mother  which  the  ALUMNAE 
News  is  sure  will  be  of  interest  to  her 
college  friends  and  classmates.  We  are  in- 
debted to  Miss  Jessie  Laird,  of  the  French 
Department  of  Woman's  College,  for  a 
copy  of  the  letter  sent  to  her  by  Mrs. 
Lam.   The  letter  follows: 


The  Alumnae  News 


35.  Dover  Street 
London,    W.    \. 
My   dear   Mrs.   Lam  : 

I  expect  that  Mao  or  MarKarct  or  Edith  will 
read  this  letter  to  you.  It  is  wr'tten  to  tell 
you  how  very,  very  prioved  I  am  indeed  to 
hear  of  the  terribly  heavy  loss  you  have  suf- 
fered. I  want  to  assure  you  that  my  wife  and 
I  (we  dare  not  tell  our  child  Mary  for  she 
loved  your  daughter  and  would  be  too  upset) 
are  desirous  of  sending  you  at  once  an  ex- 
pression  of  our  most   profound  sympathy. 

It  is  not  an  exaggeration  when  I  tell  you 
that  I  loved  Connie  for  her  wonderful  couraee 
and  eenerosity  and  kindly  care.  She  certainlj 
saved  my  life  when  I  was  in  the  Gendarmerit 
Prison  and  helped  me  to  save  the  lives  of 
other  prisoners  who  would  have  died  had  '+ 
not  been  for  the  medicines  and  foods  which 
she  was  able  to  persuade  the  Gendarmes  to 
let  me  have  from  t'me  to  time. 

I  have  little  doubt  in  my  own  mind  that 
she  was  also  very  largely  instrumental  in  m- 
being  allowed  to  carry  on  with  mv  med'V^l 
and  health  duties  in  the  earlier  stages  of  the 
occupation  as  the  result  of  h^^r  persuasive 
ability    on    the   Japanese   concerned. 

So  she  must  have  been  the  direct  cause  of. 
literally.  thousands  of  lives  being  saved 
amongst  the  general  community  in  Hong 
Kong.  As  you  know,  my  w-fe  and  I  were 
hoping  very  much  that  she  would  come  to  stay 
with  us  in  England  next  summer.  Now  thxt 
is  no  longer  possible  and  we  shall  never  have 
that  great  happiness  of  trying  to  reciprocate 
in  a  little  way  for  all  she  did  for  our  family 
and   for   the   people    in    the    camps   and   in   the 

You  have  reason  to  be  verv.  very  proud  of 
vour  daughter.  Connie.  Mrs.  Lam.  She  leaves 
behind  her  a  splendid  memory  of  service.  She 
will  ever  remain  enshrined  in  my  heart. 

I  had  had  a  little  gold  watch  inscribed  for 
her  from  my  wife,  my  child  and  myself  ns 
a  verv  small  token  of  our  heartfelt  gratitude 
for  all  she  had  done  for  the  Brit'sh  and  Allied 
cause  and  for  us  and.  if  you  will  give  me  per- 
mission. I  will  send  it  to  you  to  keep  in  trust 
until   her  niece   Elizabeth   comes  of  age. 

With  my  very  warmest  svmoothy.  Mrs.  I,am. 
to  you  and  to  Connie's  family  as  a  whole. 
I   am.  Yours  very  sincerely. 

DR.    P.   S.    SELWYN-CLARKE. 

A.  V.  (Poc)  Williams'  husband.  Lt. 
Col.  F.  C.  Williams,  has  been  awarded  the 
Army  Commendation  Ribbon,  by  direc- 
tion of  the  Secretary  of  War.  for  his 
service  as  an  instructor  at  the  U.  S.  Mili- 
tary Academy.  West  Point.  His  work  was 
in  the  Department  of  Military  Photog- 
raphy and  Graphics  —  a  work  which, 
the  citation  reads,  was  "performed  with 
exceptional  efficiency."  In  addition  he  is 
said  to  have  made  a  definite  contribution 
to  the  post-war  building  plans  of  the 
Military  Academy,  in  his  capacity  as 
architectural  member  of  the  permanent 
planning  board.  The  Williams'  have  re- 
turned to  Raleigh,  where  Colonel  Wil- 
liams has  set  up  his  own  architectural 
office. 

Allie  Sue  (Sherrill)  Phillips  teaches 
science  in  the  Cameron  High  School.  She 
is  also  in  charge  of  elementary  and  high 
school  libraries.  "During  the  summer  of 
1942.  I  took  three  courses  in  library 
science  at  Chapel  Hill,  and  last  summer 
had  three  additional  courses  in  the  same 
field  at  A.  S.  T.  C.  My  two  little  girls. 
Mary  Jane  and  Ann.  are  both  in  school 
now.  It  is  good  that  I  can  take  them 
along  with  me  every  morning.  My  hus- 
band did  not  serve  wiih  the  Armed  Forces 
during    the    war.    but    ho    was   very   active 


on   the   home   front.   We   are  certainly   en- 
joying   our    vacation    this    summer.  " 

1934 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Walter  L.  Hun- 
ken  (Katherinc  Bonitz).  a  daughter.  Mar- 
jorie.  February  26.  in  an  Atlanta.  Ga., 
hospital. 

Kathleen  (Beasley)  McClelland  lives  in 
the  country  near  Faycttcville.  She  has  two 
children  —  Donna  Gray  4.  and  Clifton 
Jr.  2.  "My  husband,  a  former  major  in 
the  Air  Forces,  received  his  discharge  last 
January,  and  is  now  working  with  the 
Veterans'  Administration.  The  4  V^  years 
he  was  in  the  Army,  we  lived  at  various 
Army  camps  —  from  Florida  to  Michigan, 
before  he  went  overseas.  When  he  did  go. 
our  daughter  was  fourteen  months  old. 
When  he  returned,  our  son  was  fourteen 
months  old  —  his  father  had  never  seen 
him.  The  first  year  my  husband  was  over- 
seas. I  divided  my  time  between  my  par- 
ents at  Four  Oaks  and  his  mother  in 
Florida.  Last  year  I  moved  back  to  our 
own  house  in  Fayetteville.  where  my  sis- 
ter. Ora  Grace  Beasley  '44.  has  lived 
with  me  and  taught  in  a  school  nearby.  I 
am  active  in  the  work  of  the  local  wom- 
an's club  and  organizations  of  my 
church.  " 

Katherinc  Brandon  teaches  a  fourth 
grade   in   Central    School.    Gastonia. 

Bcrnardcne  (Johnson)  Foote  lives  in 
New  York  City.  She  says  that  her  three 
small  fry  —  Carol  8.  Emilie  2.  and 
Franzis  William  II,  1.  keep  her  jumping. 
"Besides  this,  I  have  been  working  on 
the  Memorial  Cancer  Center  drive,  and 
doing  volunteer  work  for  Yorkville-Kips 
Bay  Health  Center.  All  that  too  on  top 
of  trying  to  run  a  btownstone  house  — 
with  to-day's  help!  I  am  as  busy  as  I 
can  be  —  and  that  seems  to  be  the  case 
with   everybody  else   too." 

Caroline  Martin  is  a  librarian  at  Ore- 
gon State  College.  "No  special  news  — 
but  I  do  love  Oregon.  Both  the  people 
and  the  geography  suit  me.  The  moun- 
tains are  especially  beautiful.  Oregon  must 
like  me  too.  for  my  new  contract,  effec- 
tive July    1.   carried   a   salary   raise  in   it." 

Margaret  (Spencer)  Clare  is  living  in 
Philadelphia,  after  having  spent  a  good 
many  of  the  war  months  at  Pclham,  in 
North  Carolina,  while  her  husband  was 
serving  with  the  Army  overseas.  "Dr. 
Clare  returned  from  the  Pacific  one  day 
before  \'-J  Day  —  three  children  and 
more  than  three  years  in  the  Service  added 
up  to  considerably  more  than  enough 
points,  and  as  quickly  as  possible  (.really 
meaning  at  a  snail's  pace' ) .  we  got  our- 
selves relocated  in  Philadelphia.  We  found 


a  house  more  or  less  roof-less,  but  didn't 
have  to  evict  any  one.  and  so  we  con- 
sider ourselves  fortunate.  I  am  looking 
forward  to  a  trip  to  Greensboro  next 
summer,  and  hope  to  see  you   then.  " 

1935 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  Mc- 
Donald (Alene  Starnes).  a  daughter,  a 
second  child.  Emily  Marie.  March  8. 
Pockin^har.i. 

Margaret  Boylan  is  a  librarian  in 
Washington.  N.  C. 

Julia  Belle  (Foyl  Moss  lives  in  Ar- 
lington. Va.  She  has  three  fine  children. 
Her  husband  is  a  major  in  the  Army, 
stationed  with  the  General  Staff  of  the 
Air   Forces. 

Sarah  Smith  teaches  science  in  the 
Chadbourn    High    School. 

1936 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  Bash  Jr. 
I  Evelyn  Cavileer).  a  daughter.  Elaine 
Cyncath.   April   8.   Atlanta.   Ga. 

Martha  Kiscr  is  teaching  childhood 
education  in  Stephens  College.  Columbia. 
\\a. 

Louise  Matthews  is  on  the  staff  of  the 
registrar.    State    College.    Raleigh. 

Evelyn  Sharpe  is  studying  for  her  mas- 
ter's  degree   at   Woman's   College. 

Janice  (Tetterton)  Britton  is  keeping 
house  in  El  Paso.  Texas.  Her  husband  is 
foreman  of  the  glue  department  in  a  ply- 
wood manufacturing  company. 

Elizabeth  (Whaley)  Borrowes  is  liv- 
ing in  Norfolk.  \'a.  "Since  my  husband 
is  in  the  regular  Coast  Guard,  we  expect 
to  be  travelling  around  for  the  next  few 
years.  For  the  present.  I  am  keeping  my 
position  with  the  accounting  section  of 
the  5  th  Naval  District  Coast  Guard  Of- 
fice, here  in  Norfolk.  This  is  my  fifth 
year  here.  I  am  also  keeping  house  in  a 
three- room  apartment.  My  husband  is 
stationed  at  the  Coast  Guard  Separation 
Center,  as  finance  officer.  " 

1937 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rudolph  Jack- 
son Baker  (Edna  Carpenter),  a  son. 
Jack  Rudolph.  April  18.  Watts  Hospital, 
Durham.  Their  daughter.  Betty  Whit- 
worth,  will  be  three  in  October.  Edna  was 
signally  honored  bv  the  First  Baptist 
C;hurch  of  Durham,  where  she  holds  mem- 
bership, by  having  her  picture  used  as  the 
Irontispiece  of  the  church  bulletin  for 
Sunday,  Mother  s  Day.  with  the  caption. 
"Our  Newest  Mother."  The  church  also 
sent  attractive  Mother's  Day  blotters  to 
all    the    members,    in    honor   of    that    day. 


JuiY,  1946 


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and  again  her  picture  was  used  on  the 
blotter. 

Mary  Ruth  (Groome)  Coble  lives  in 
Burlington.  Her  husband  is  president  of 
the  Central  Wholesale  Grocery  Company. 
They  have  two  children  —  Ruth  Groome 
5  ■:.   and  Charles  R.  Jr.  4. 

Helen  Hamrick  teaches  English  in  the 
Lindley   Junior    High,    Greensboro. 

Phyllis  (Morrah)  McLeod  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Greensboro.  Her  husband  has  been 
discharged  from  the  Army,  and  together 
with  their  small  daughter,  the  McLeods 
have    taken    up    residence    in    Greensboro 


1938 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marvin  W. 
Nelson  Jr.  (Pauline  Baise),  a  son,  Mar- 
vin  Thomas.   April    11,   Raleigh. 

Willoway  Bcnbow  is  the  new  presi- 
dent of  the  North  Carolina  Association 
for  Childhood  Education.  She  was  elected 
at  the  meeting  held  the  latter  part  of 
April  in  Alumnae  House.  Willoway 
teaches  in  the  Winston-Salem  City  schools. 

Frances  Cuthbertson,  new  chairman  of 
the  Cleveland  County  Alumnae  Associa- 
tion, is  dean  of  women  and  head  of  the 
English  Department  at  Gardner- Webb 
College. 

Lennis  (Farmer)  Mailers  writes  from 
Baltimore.  She  taught  a  second  grade  last 
year  in  one  of  the  schools  in  that  city. 
Her   husband   is   still   in    the   Army. 

Abbie  Fay  Henry  is  instructor  in  th.c 
physics  department  at  Woman's  College, 
teaching  X-ray.  She  has  just  finished 
serving  a  two  year  term  as  secretary- 
treasurer  of  the  North  Carolina  Society 
of  X-ray  Technicians.  Abbie  Fay  is 
spending  the  summer  in  Norfolk,  Va. 

Ruth  (Hill)  Leach  writes  from  Valle 
Crucis,  where  her  husband,,  also  a  1933 
graduate  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  Chapel  Hill,  is  priest-in-charge 
of  several  missions  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church  in  Wataugua  and  Ashe 
counties.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the  General 
Theological  Seminary,  New  York  City, 
class  of  1941.  They  have  two  children  — 
Gabriella  1  Yi  and  Thomas  Jerome,  born 
last  January.  Ruth  says  that  her  "occupa- 
tion" is  mostly  "milk  bottles  and  diapers." 

Emily  Hinshaw  describes  herself  as  a 
school  teacher,  who  works  hard  and  en- 
joys it.  We  are  sure  she  is  a  good  one. 
"For  six  years  I  taught  a  first  grade  in 
the  Stoneville  Consolidated  School.  While 
there  I  helped  to  organize  the  Rocking- 
ham County  Young  People's  Union.  Fol- 
lowing the  years  in  Stoneville.  I  taught  a 
second    grade    in    LaFayette    School,    Kip- 


■ViRGiNiA  Terrell  Lathrop  '23 

Chairman  of  the  Buncombe  County 

A\u m iiac  Association 


ling,  where  I  also  taught  a  class  in  Sun- 
day School.  For  the  last  two  years  I  have 
been  teaching  in  the  Park  Street  School, 
Asheboro.  I  am  planning  to  be  married 
this  summer,  and  will  live  in  Randle- 
man.  But  I  am  not  going  to  leave  my 
profession  just  yet,  for  I  have  promised 
to   teach   the  first   grade   there   next  year." 

Lelah  Nell  Masters,  editor  of  the  Tex- 
tocian.  weekly  newspaper  published  by 
the  Cone  Mills,  Greensboro,  attended  the 
1946  convention  of  the  National  Council 
of  Industrial  Editors,  and  the  Canadian 
Association  of  Personnel  Publication  Edi- 
tors, held  at  Hotel  Statler,  Boston,  early 
last  May. 

Lillyan  (Miller)  Smith's  husband  was 
discharged  from  the  Army  last  March. 
They  are  now  living  in  Columbia,   S.   C. 

Annie  Lee  Spoon  is  associate  super- 
visor for  the  Farm  Security  Administra- 
tion, with  headquarters  at  Windsor.  She 
works  with  FSA  families  in  Bertie  and 
Chowan  counties. 

Hannah  (Steele)  Brownell  is  living 
now  in  Monroe,  Mich.  "My  husband. 
Colonel  Brownell,  has  returned  from 
Tokyo,  where  he  was  on  General  Mac- 
Arthur's  staff.  For  the  first  time  since 
the  war  I  am  beginning  to  feel  settled 
down,  as  though  I  would  really  live  in 
one  spot  for  awhile.  Our  second  daugh- 
ter, Elizabeth  Bronson,  was  born  Jan- 
uary 24,  in  Seattle,  Wash.  If  there  are 
Woman's  College  graduates  living  near, 
I    should    certainly    like    to    know    them." 


Adrienne  (Wormser)  Balagur  says  that 
she  is  currently  buying  table  linens  and 
scatter  rugs  for  the  N,  Y.  office  of  the 
Interstate  Department   Stores. 

1939 

Born  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  David  L.  Stitt 
(Jane  Dupuy).  a  son,  Stephen  Dudley, 
February  21.  St.  David's  Hospital.  Aus- 
tin, Texas. 

Born  to  Capt  and  Mrs.  C.  J.  Wild- 
man  (Dorothy  Kolman),  a  son.  Joseph 
Mark,    February    28,    Pittsfield,    Mass. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E,  H.  Moore, 
Jr.  (Margaret  Phillips),  a  daughter, 
Katherine  Dalton,  January  6,  Marshville. 
Baby  Katherine  has  an  older  sister,  Bever- 
ly Ruth  3. 

Born  to  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Perry  M. 
Starnes  (Inez  Shuford),  a  daujhter.  Jane 
Shuford,  May  9.  Hickory.  "You  can  just 
bet  that  Dr.  Starnes  and  I  are  a  really 
proud   papa   and   mama." 

Edna  (Cartwright)  Linthicum  writes 
from  Glen  Burnie,  Md.  "Since  I  stopped 
teaching  three  years  ago,  I  have  been 
busier  than  ever.  My  1 8-months-old 
twin  boys  keep  me  running  —  and  they 
never  go  in  the  same  direction'  We  took 
our  first  real  vacation  since  the  war  started, 
last  March,  and  spent  that  month  in 
Florida  with  my  mother.  Now  we  are 
settled  down  at  home  for  the  summer, 
but  are  busy  painting  our  house  and  get- 
ting our  garden  started.  I  wouldn't  miss 
a  copy  of  the  NEWS  for  anything,  as  it 
keeps  me  up-to-date  with  everyone  and 
with  the  college.  I  do  wish  everybody  in 
our  class  would  send  in  a  note  more 
often." 

Mildred  (Howell)  Stoddard  and  her 
husband  celebrated  their  5th  wedding  an- 
niversary in  May.  They  live  at  Daytona 
Beach.  Fla.  "We  have  two  children,  Grace 
Mildred  3  and  Edwin  Robert.  3  months. 
My  husband  is  a  second  lieutenant  in  the 
medical  Administration  Corps  of  the 
Army  —  he  was  formerly  a  plant  path- 
ologist. We  have  lived  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  in  Mayaguez,  Puerto  Rico  —  our 
daughter  was  born  there;  in  Abilene, 
Texas,  and  in  Daytona  Beach  —  Edwin 
was  born  here.  We  are  hoping  to  be 
transferred  to  a  post  on  the  west  coast  this 
summer.  Clearly,  this  family  likes  travel. 
Perhaps  another  year  will  find  me  living 
near  enough  to  Greensboro  to  come  to 
the  alumnae  meeting  at  commencement. 
1  shall  be  interested  in  hearing  the  re- 
ports.   Greetings    to   all    the    '39-ers!" 

'Vera  (Lecger)  Kantor  writes  from 
Jamestown.  N.  Y.  'My  husband  was  dis- 
charged from  the  Army  last  April,  and 
we   have   now   joined   the  army   of  house- 


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The  Alumnae  News 


hunters.  My  husband  has  resumed  his 
practice  of  dentistry  here  in  Jamestown. 
Our  little  girl  is  now  1  ;/> .  I  am  giving 
you  my  husband's  office  address  —  please 
send  the  NEWS  to  me  there,  as  that  ad- 
dress will  be  permanent.  After  three  and 
one  half  years  of  moving  around  the 
country,  the  words  'permanent  address' 
sound   mighty   good   to  me.  " 

Inez  iVloore  is  secretary  in  the  office 
of    the    register   of    deeds.    Lenoir. 

Marjorie  (Pye)  Bogle  lives  in  San 
Antonio,   Texas. 

Hilda  (Snyder)  Williams  is  now  in 
San  Diego,  Calif.,  where  her  husband  is 
stationed    with    the    Navy. 

Susannah  Thomas  went  to  Cleveland. 
Ohio,  the  middle  of  last  March  to  attend 
a  meeting  of  the  Association  of  Industrial 
Editors.  She  is  connected  with  Burlington 
Mills,    Greensboro. 

Annie  Laurie  (Turberville)  Adams 
lives  in  Greensboro.  "I  was  in  Washing- 
ton City  for  the  year  1942-43.  where  I 
was  assistant  editor  in  the  publications 
branch.  Weather  Information  Division, 
Army  Air  Forces.  I  was  married  in 
October,    1943." 

1940 

Elizabeth  (Carson)  Casonova  is  back 
at  her  home  in  Statesville  after  having 
served  overseas  during  the  war  as  a  staff 
assistant  with  the  American  Red  Cross, 
"I  was  stationed  at  the  White  Swan  ARC 
Club  in  Stratford-on-Avon.  I  met  my 
husband  there,  and  our  marriage  in 
Shakespeare's  church.  Holy  Trinity,  in 
Stratford,  was  the  first  American  wed- 
ding ever  to  take  place  there,  although  the 
church  is  over  700  years  old.  After  a 
year  in  England  I  went  to  the  continent 
and  opened  a  Red  Cross  club  in  Bar-le- 
duc,  f'rance.  My  work  with  the  ARC 
was  the  most  satisfying  work  I  have  ever 
done  —  I  enjoyed  every  minute  of  it  and 
am  grateful  for  having  had  the  oppor- 
tunity to  serve.  I  landed  in  New  York 
City  a  year  ago,  and  came  to  my  home 
in  North  Carolina,  where  my  little  daugh- 
ter, Patricia  Noel,  was  born.  My  hus- 
band received  his  discharge  last  Novem- 
ber, and  is  now  in  Panama,  working  for 
the  Government.  As  soon  as  he  has  found 
a  house  for  us,  and  transportation  is 
favorable,  Patricia  and  1  plan  to  join  him 
there.  I  like  to  travel,  but  of  course 
am  wondering  how  our  daughter  will  lik 
it.  She  is  just  beginning  to  walk.  When 
my  husband  and  I  left  England,  we  prom 
ised  our  friends  there  that  we  would  re 
turn  within  the  next  ton  years.  We  had 
grown    to    be    very    fond    of    a    number 


people  there,  and  we  both  hope  to  be  able 
to  keep  our  promise,  " 

Leah  (Croom)  Jones  writes  that  she 
is  still  living  in  Wilmington,  waiting 
for  her  husband  to  be  released  from  the 
Army  —  he  is  now  in  the  Philippines. 
"I  am  looking  for  him  home  this  sum- 
mer, without  fail.  We  shall  then  return 
to  our  apartment  in  Greensboro  to  stay 
for  awhile.  I  have  done  no  work,  as  a 
dietitian,  since  1941,  but  have  had  sev- 
eral secretarial  jobs  to  help  pass  the  time 
away.  The  days  seem  long  indeed  —  as 
I    wait." 

Emma  Hemphill  teaches  at  Sumner 
School,  near  Greensboro.  She  has  charge 
also  of  the  school  library,  and  in  addition 
is  faculty  adviser  to  the  school  news- 
paper. "This  summer,  during  the  summer 
session,  I  am  serving  as  librarian  at  Curry 
Demonstration  School,  Woman's  College. 
In  addition  to  my  school  work  in  the 
winter,  I  teach  a  class  of  young  married 
women    at    my    home   church.  " 

Nell  Moore  is  doing  graduate  work  at 
the  University  of  Southern  California, 
She  served  as  dietitian  in  the  Army  during 
the  war,  having  the  rank  of  first  lieu- 
tenant, but  was  discharged  in  1945.  Her 
service  overseas  lasted  18  months  —  in 
Belgium   and   France. 

Mary  Sue  Moser  is  home  demonstra- 
tion agent  in  Davidson  County,  with 
headquarters  in  Lexington. 

Nola  (Reed)  Hankins  is  still  secretary- 
bursar  at  the  Bowman  Gray  School  of 
Medicine.  Winston-Salem.  She  has  held 
this  position  since  graduation.  "My  hus- 
band is  at  present  stationed  at  the  U.  S. 
Naval  Hospital.  Parris  Island.  S.  C.  He 
is  a  lieutenant  (j.g.).  in  the  Medical 
Corps.  Our  daughter,  Patricia,  is  20 
months   old.  " 

1941 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  S.  Lee 
( hlcanor  Cox),  a  daughter.  Bertie 
Frances.  February  3,  Greensboro,  The  lit- 
tle girl  is  a  namesake  of  her  maternal 
grandmother,  Bertie  (Freeman)  Cox  '08, 
deceased, 

Annie  (Braswell)  Rowc  writes  that 
she  is  permanently  settled  in  Philadelphia 
—  this  she  truly  hopes,  after  having  seen 
America  first  during  the  past  two  or 
three  years,  traveling  with  her  husband, 
whose  work  has  taken  him  into  various 
sections  of  the  country,  "We  live  in 
suburban  Philadelphia  and  commute  to 
the  city  every  day.  except  Saturday  and 
Sunday,  1  have  a  job  with  the  Curtis 
Publishing  Company  —  w  i  t  h  Holiday 
Magj/ine.  to  be  specific,  I  find  it  very 
interesting    to    be    associ.iled    with    a    new 


magazine  and  watching  it  grow.  It  was 
wonderful  that  I  happened  to  be  at  home 
in  Rocky  Mount  when  the  regional  meet- 
ing was  held  there  in  April.  I  enjoyed  it 
greatly," 

Helen  Fondren  teaches  a  fourth  grade 
in   the   Proximity  School,   Greensboro. 

Mary  F.  Lewis  is  doing  health  work 
in  Davie,  Stokes,  and  Yadkin  counties, 
with    headquarters    at    Mocksville. 

Sara  (Tag)  Monroe  is  doing  post 
war  work  at  Pope  Field.   Ft.  Bragg. 

Janet  Murphy  is  home  now  in  Upper 
Montclair.  N.  J.,  after  having  served 
for  more  than  a  year  overseas  with  the 
American  Red  Cross.  She  has  returned  to 
civilian  life  as  a  staff  member  of  the  per- 
sonel  office  of  J.  P.  Morgan  and  Com- 
pany. New  York  City.  The  middle  of 
May  Janet  was  on  the  campus  for  a  brief 
visit. 

Janie  (Paschal)  Thaxton  is  living  in 
Roxboro.  Her  husband  is  doing  tobacco 
farming  in  cooperation  with  his  father, 
who  is  a  physician.  Previous  to  her  mar- 
riage, early  in  February,  she  was  secre- 
tary to  the  superintendent  of  schools, 
Onslow  County. 

Virginia  Plonk  is  a  staff  assistant  at 
the  American  Red  Cross  Club,  Marburg, 
Germany.  She  is  hostess  in  a  receiving  line 
that  daily  welcomes  7,000  service  men  to 
20  rooms  of  entertainment  and  comfort, 
from  pingpong  and  snacks  to  tailor  and 
barber  shop  service.  In  addition  to  or- 
ganizing quiz  programs  and  GI  shows. 
X'irginia  often  accompanies  soldiers  on 
tours  of  the  city,  which  is  the  site  of  a 
famous  old  university.  GI's  with  cam- 
eras are  in  a  photographer's  seventh 
heaven,  as  they  snap  the  winding  streets, 
with  gable-roofed  houses  and  tiny  shingle- 
marked  shops.  "But  the  extent  of  the 
bombing  is  amazing."  \'irginia  writes: 
"you  have  to  see  it  to  believe  it.  "  Before 
her  Red  Cross  assignment.  Virginia  taught 
elementary  work  in  the  schools  at  Mat- 
thews and  Thomasville. 

Bessie  (PowelO  Carter  writes  from 
.Miami.  Fla.  "After  spending  a  delightful 
vacation  with  my  sister  at  Cape  Cod.  my 
3  year- old  son  and  I  came  back  here. 
where  1  am  living  with  my  parents.  My 
husband.  Lt.  Comdr.  Carter.  USN.  who 
had  been  declared  missing  for  18  months, 
was  officially  declared  deceased  on  last 
January  Ih.  He  was  the  engineering  of- 
ficer aboard  the  submarine  Robalo.  which 
failed  to  return  from  war  patrol,  and 
was  lost  off  the  Philippines.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  the  Naval  Academy  at  An- 
napolis, class  of  1939.  and  of  the  sub 
marine  school  in  New  London.  Conn. 
{Out    hearts    go   out    to    you,    Bessie,    and 


JuiY,   1946 


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to  your  son,  with  deepest  sympathy  —  a 
sympathy  mingled  with  great  pride  that 
your  husband  and  father  died  for  so  great 
a   cause.) 

Alia  (Rommel)  (Gordon)  McConathy 
writes  from  Lexington,  Ky.  Her  first  hus- 
band gave  his  life  in  the  Pacific  War  Thea- 
ter in  May,  1942.  She  was  married  to 
James  McConathy  in  the  fall  of  1945. 
"My  husband  is  a  tobacco  farm:r  now 
—  he  spent  four  years  with  the  Army, 
in  the  First  Armored  Division.  \Vc  have 
moved  from  Louisville,  Ky.,  to  h^s  home 
in  Lexington  —  'in  the  heart  of  the  Blue- 
grass  region,'  you  know.  This  is  un- 
doubtedly a  beautiful  countryside.  After 
leaving  college.  I  worked  in  the  office  of 
a  ration  board  for  a  year  and  a  half,  and 
then  took  a  position  in  a  law  office,  until 
last  fall.  You  may  not  know  that  my 
mother  also  died  in   the  spring  of   1945." 

Nancy  (Smith)  Rose  is  living  at 
Wrightsville  Beach.  Her  husband  is  in  the 
ice  and  coal  business  in  Wilmington.  "Wc 
are  having  the  time  of  our  lives  living 
at  the  beach  and  becoming  beachcombers! 
f  enjoy  keeping  house  very  much,  and 
have  joined  the  Cafe  Fear  Garden  Club  — 
an  organization  in  which  I  am  greatly 
interested.  My  mother,  whom  you  re- 
member as  Nettie  (Fleming)  Smith  '12, 
is  still  teaching  English  in  high  school. 
Do  you  know,  I  have  not  set  foot  on  the 
campus  since  I  was  graduated,  and  I  am 
eager  to  see  the  place  again,  and  my  friends 
there.  I  hope  a  visit  will  be  coming  up 
soon.  I  enjoyed  going  to  the  regional 
meeting  in  New  Bern  on  May  5  —  it  was 
grand  to  see  you   folks  from   the  college." 

Vivian  (Snyder)  Gobble  is  back  home 
in  Winston-Salem,  after  having  spent 
some  time  in  San  Diego.  Calif.,  where  her 
husband  was  stationed  with  the  Navy 
previous    to    his    recent    discharge. 

Celeste  (Spivey)  Sawyer -is  continuing 
her  work  as  home  demonstration  agent  in 
Pasquotank  County.  "My  husband  re- 
turned from  overseas  last  November,  and 
resumed   his   old   job   in   Elizabeth   City." 

Helen  Williams  taught  in  the  Fayette- 
ville   High   School   last   year. 

1942 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  B.  Both 
(Meredith  Riggsbee),  a  daughter.  Donna 
Jonlyn,  January  24,  Durham.  The  baby's 
father  had  returned  from  overseas,  and 
bc;n  discharged  from  the  Marines  on  Jan- 
uary 3,  and  so  he  was  present  to  welcome 
her.   He   has  resumed  his   work  at   college. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  R.  Balderson 
(Mary  Tanner)  .  a  son,  Richard  Pendle- 
ton,  February   7,  Newport  News,   Va. 


Dr.  Jane  Wharton  Thayer  '31 

Chairman  of  tijc  New  York  City 

Aluiniiac  Club 


Ruby  Lee  (And;rson)  Cloningcr  has 
recently  gone  to  Washington  City  to 
make  her  home.  Her  husband.  Dr.  Ken- 
neth L.  Cloningcr,  a  lieutenant  colonel 
in  the  Army  Medical  Corps,  now  on  ter- 
minal leave,  is  also  in  Washington,  where 
he  has  begun  a  two-year  course  of  study 
in  head  surgery  at  the  Episcopal  Eye,  Ear, 
Nose  and  Throat  Hospital,  The  Clonin- 
gcrs  have  bought  a  house  in  Chevy  Chase, 
Md..  and  will  live  there  while  Dr.  Clon- 
ingcr is  completing  his  course.  They  plan 
eventually  to  return  to  Conover,  where 
Dr.  Cloninger  is  associated  with  three 
other  physicians  in  operating  the  Catawba 
General  Hospital.  They  have  two  sons, 
Kenneth  Jr.  and  Timothy. 

Elizabeth  (Blauvelt)  Pratt  has  been 
living  in  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  for  the  past 
year.  Her  husband  is  senior  chemist  at 
Midwest   Institute, 

Annie  Lou  Chandler  writes  from  Pu- 
laski. 'Va.  "I  have  been  connected  with 
the  General  Chemical  Company  here  in 
Pulaski  since  my  graduation.  Now  that 
the  war  is  over.  I  am  getting  a  yen  for 
a  change  of  scenery.  However.  I  shall 
probably  find  myself  settled  in  this  beau- 
tiful country  —  it  is  too  pleasant  to  leave. 
I  certainly  enjoy  the  ALUMNAE  NEWS  — 
without  it  I  would  be  out  of  touch 
with   the  campus.  " 

Lucille  (Darvin)  Maurer.  class  of  '42, 
is  living  in  Washington  City.  "My  hus- 
band   is    out    of    the    Navy,    and    is    with 


the  Department  of  State,  Division  of  Eco- 
nomic Security  Controls," 

Julia  Davis  teaches  home  economics 
in    the   Thomasville   High   School. 

Elizabeth  (duFour)  Bliss  writes  that 
her  husband  was  put  on  inactive  reserve 
after  serving  3  Yi  years  in  the  Marine 
Corps.  He  spent  18  months  of  this  time 
in  a  hospital  as  a  result  of  wounds  re- 
ceived in  the  battle  for  Tarawa.  "He  is 
now  a  student  at  the  General  Theological 
Seminary.  We  are  both  working  at  the 
Church  of  the  Ascension  —  he  as  the  part 
time  student  assistant,  and  I  as  secretary 
and    receptionist." 

Dorothy  (Everett)  Koch's  husband  re 
turned  last  summer  from  16  months  serv 
ice  overseas.  "We  came  to  Raleigh  as  soon 
as  his  terminal  leave  began,  in  November 
and  luckily  found  a  lovely  apartment.  Ken 
entered  State  College  at  the  beginning 
the  second  ciuarter,  and  is  going  forward 
with  his  work  in  agricultural  engineering 
All  you  '42's.  when  you  come  this  way 
drop  in  to  sec  me." 

Jean  (Finch)  Swan  writes  from  Ral 
cigh  that  her  husband  was  dischargee 
from  the  Army  about  the  middle  o 
March —  "and  like  everybody  else  we  are 
now  house-hunting.  Ed  is  associated  with 
Stokcly  and  Company,  manufacturers  rep 
resentativcs.  of  Charlotte.  He  has  been 
working  for  just  one  week,  and  is  en 
joying  it  immensely.  We  want  to  live  in 
Tarboro,  but  there  are  no  vacant  houses 
or  apartments  there  at  the  present  time. 
So  many  people  will  not  take  children. 
What  do  people  expect  us  to  do  with  our 
children.'  In  the  camp  areas,  where  we 
lived  while  my  husband  was  in  the  Army, 
there  were  never  any  difficulties  on  ac- 
count of  children.  But  now  —  well,  as 
Ed  says,  this  civilian  life  is  certainly 
rough!'  So  for  the  present  we  are  here 
at  my  home  in  Raleigh.  I  plan  to  drive 
over  to  Greensboro  one  day.  and  shall 
certainly  hope  to  sec  you  then.  Sincerest 
regards  —  you  are  doing  a  mighty  fine 
job." 

Virginia  (Harrelson)  Fonville  says  that 
she  is  very  much  interested  in  a  recently 
organized  camera  club  in  Burlington,  her 
home.  "I  am  sure  there  are  a  number  of 
W.  C.  girls  in  Alamance  County  who 
had  the  course  in  photography  at  our 
college,  and  we  very  much  want  to  have 
them  join  the  club  and  come  to  the  meet- 
ings. I  was  in  Baltimore  not  long  ago, 
and,  as  my  experience  has  been  in  every 
large  city  I  have  visited,  I  ran  into  an 
acquaintance  of  Woman's  College  days. 
This  time  it  was  Betty  Rhinehardt,  now 
a  nurse  at  Johns  Hopkins,  She  got  back 
from  overseas  around  the  first  of  the  year. 


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The  Alumnae  News 


Of  course  there  \\'as  much  to  talk  about. 
While  in  Baltimore.  I  was  a  patient  at 
Johns  Hopkins  for  a  short  while.  Mary 
Lee  (Whitley)  Pennington  '3  8  went  up 
with  us,  taking  her  3 -year-old  daughter. 
Ann.  for  an  operation,  which  was  a  great 
success.  I  am  sure  now  that  miracles  do 
happen." 

Kathryn  (Little)  Cobb  writes  that  she 
is  continuing  in  her  same  position  in  the 
Metallurgical  Division  of  the  Control 
Laboratory,  Pratt-Whitney  Aircraft.  Hart- 
ford. Conn.  "From  time  to  time  I  see 
other  Woman's  College  graduates  here, 
but  the  number  is  growing  fewer  all  the 
time,    now    that    the    war   is   over." 

Dorothy  (McDuffie)  Rockefeller  is  liv- 
ing in  Binghamton.  N.  Y..  where  her 
husband  is  connected  with  the  Interna- 
tional   Business   Machine   Corporation. 

Dorothy  ( Mansfield )  McDaniel  was 
discharged  from  the  WAVES  early  in 
April,  shortly  after  her  wedding.  "Since 
my  husband  is  regular  Navy,  I  am  now 
a  Navy  wife.  We  are  living  in  Jackson- 
ville. Fla..  not  far  from  the  base  where 
1  was  formerly  stationed  in  the  supply 
department." 

Sue  (Murchison)  Hay  worth  has  a  small 
daughter,  Jean,  not  yet  a  year  old.  The 
Hayworths   are    living    in    Rocky    Mount. 

Frances  (Newsom)  Miller  lives  in  Ral- 
eigh, where  she  has  a  new  job  with  the 
advertising  department  of  the  Carolina 
Power  and  Light  Company.  "Recently  I 
was  made  a  member  of  the  Public  Utilities 
Advertising  Association,  a  nation-wide  or- 
ganization. Shortly  after  becoming  a  mem- 
ber of  the  PUAA,  I  was  made  editor  of 
their  monthly  Bulletin.  Incidentally.  I  am 
the  youngest  member  of  the  PUAA."  In- 
cidentally, again,  may  we  add,  Frances  is 
the  youngest  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  University  of  North  Caro- 
lina, having  ben  elected  to  this  high  honor, 
and  equally  high  responsibility,  by  the 
Legislature  of  1944.  As  a  member  of  the 
Woman's  College  Visiting  Committee  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees,  she  returns  to  the 
campus  from  time  to  time,  and  when  ^ve 
sec  her  around,  it  is  hard  to  realize  that 
she  isn't  still  on  the  campus,  doing  a  swell 
job  as  editor  of  the  Carolinian.  On  more 
than  one  count,  we  arc  sure  that  Frances 
has  a  hard  time  being  her  age!  "The 
ALUMNAI;  NliWS  means  more  and  more 
to  me  as  the  years  pass  since  1  was  grad 
uated  —  in  fact,  the  maga/ine  for  all  ol 
us  represents  the  only  means  of  keeping 
up  with  most  of  our  classmates.  My  hus- 
band  even    reads   it   faithfully."    (Just    for 

ihai,  tiic  Alumnae;  Nlws  would  like  to 

nominate  Mr.  Miller  as  an  honorary  co- 
ed!) 


Teeny  (Oettinger)  Withers  is  now  in 
Grafton.  W.  \'a.  "My  husband  is  out  of 
the  Service,  and  we  are  back  in  a  college 
town  again.  He  is  studying  chemical  en- 
gineering here  at  the  University  of  West 
Virginia,  located  at  nearby  Morgantown. 
He  is  working  hard  —  and  loves  it.  It 
seems   good    to   be   near   school    again.  " 

Doris  (Robbinsl  Preyer  and  her  hus- 
band are  living  in  a  home  which  they 
have  recently  bought  in  Starmount  Forest. 
Greensboro.  "I  am  really  busy  keeping 
house,  but  find  that  I  like  it  a  lot.  Re- 
cently when  I  was  in  Rocky  Mount.  I 
saw    Sue    (Murchison)     Hayworth.  " 

Rose  (Wilson)  Henderson  is  living  in 
Rocky  Mount,  her  old  home.  She  has  a 
daughter.  Eugenia  Wilson,  a  little  more 
than   a    year   old. 

Almeta  Pleasant  has  arrived  in  the 
Alaska-Western  Canada  Theater,  where 
she  is  serving  the  Armed  Forces  as  an 
American  Red  Cross  staff  assistant.  Before 
her  present  assignment,  Almeta  was  a 
junior  correspondent  in  Home  Service  at 
Red  Cross  National  Headquarters.  Wash- 
ington.   D.   C. 

Jean  (Smith)  Holman.  her  husband 
and  their  daughter.  Brook,  now  a  little 
more  than  a  year  old,  are  living  with 
Jean's  mother,  Nettie  (Fleming)  Smith 
12.   W^ilmington. 

1943 

Born  to  Ens.  and  Mrs.  Richard  H. 
Knight  (Frances  Conway  Davis)  a  daugh- 
ter. Susan  Conway.  March  21,  Norfolk, 
Va.  "My  husband  is  stationed  here  in 
Norfolk,  with  the  Amphibious  Forces. 
Since  he  is  a  graduate  of  Annapolis,  we 
are    'in'    for   good." 

Born  to  Capt.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  H. 
Corry  (Merle  Swaim).  a  son,  Christopher 
Jon,   March   4,   San   Francisco,   Calif. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  F.  Lewis 
(Elizabeth  Newton),  a  son.  Matthew 
Thomas.  March  23.  Wesley  Long  Hos- 
pital. Greensboro.  'My  husband  was  dis- 
charged from  the  Army  Air  Forces  last 
fall."  writes  Elizabeth,  "and  since  that 
time  we  have  been  living  with  his  parents 
in  Greensboro.  He  is  in  the  real  estate 
business  here  and  we  arc  building  our  own 
home  on  Hawthorne  Street  —  we  hope 
to   be   living   in    it    by   early    f.ill." 

Alice  (Alexander)  Lurr  writes  that  she 
,",nd  her  husband  are  still  in  Chicago.  "My 
husband  was  graduated  last  March  from 
the  Medical  School  of  Northwestern  Uni 
versily.  and  is  now  an  intern  at  St.  Luke  s 
Hospital  here.  We  were  in  North  Carolina 
for  two  weeks  in  the  spring,  and  had  a 
wonderful  time  seeing  college  Iriends  and 
relatives.    My    sister-in  law    was    a    fresh- 


man there  last  year.  I  am  still  doing  sec- 
retarial work  at  the  American  Steele 
Foundation.  Enclosed  is  my  check  for  the 

Alumnae  News  —  I  don't  want  to  miss 

a  single  copy.  " 

Persis  Bennett  writes  from  Fair  Haven. 
N.  J.  "I  recently  gave  up  my  job  in  New 
York  City,  and  am  now  taking  an  execu- 
tive secretarial  course  at  the  Scudder 
School.  When  I  graduate  in  June,  I  hope 
to  step  into  a  really  good  position  where 
I  can  really  do  things.  The  coming  of  the 
Alumnae  News  is  a  bright  spot  in  my 
life.  Everything  stops  when  that  arrives, 
while  1  find  out  who  is  married,  and  who 
is  doing  what  and  where.  So  here  is  my 
alumnae  fee  —  I  am  glad  to  send  it." 

Eleanor  Edwards  has  been  hostess  for 
the  Southern  Railway  ever  since  her  grad- 
uation, travelling  on  their  streamliner.  On 
July  10  she  gave  up  this  job,  however, 
in  order  to  spend  the  summer  with  her 
family  in  Asheville.  "I  wouldn't  take  any- 
thing for  having  had  such  a  wonderful 
experience,  and  also  for  having  lived  in 
war-time  Washington.  The  railroads  were 
so  vitally  connected  with  the  war  effort 
that  I  feel  I  am  now  getting  an  honor- 
able discharge'  along  with  the  acceptance 
of  my  resignation    " 

Dorothy  (Furr)  Yount  writes  from 
Newton.  "Jack  has  been  discharged  from 
the  Navy  and  is  now  back  in  school.  He 
plans  to  enter  dental  school  in  September. 
With  the  housing  situation  what  it  is.  we 
are  fortunate  in  being  able  to  live  with 
my  parents  for  the  time  being.  I  am  busy, 
bringing  up  Patricia  Boswell.  and  loving 
every  bit  of  progress  she  makes,  I  en- 
joyed the  alumnae  meeting  in  Charlotte 
very  much.  " 

Marcia  Gilchrist  has  recently  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  home  demonstration 
agent   in   Rockingham   County. 

Mary  Frances  (Knott)  Dardcn  writes 
fiom  the  Canal  Zone.  "After  living  here 
for  nearly  two  years.  I  am  still  convinced 
that  it  is  a  very  charming  place.  Con- 
trary to  popular  belief.  I  think  the  cli 
mate  is  wonderful,  and  to  prove  that  it  ii 
not  hot  all  the  time,  1  will  tell  you  thii 
1  sleep  und.'r  a  woolen  blanket  every  night. 
I  must  admit  though,  that  we  enjoyed  three 
months  of  North  Carolina  cold  weather 
—  in  November,  December,  and  Janu- 
ary. During  out  vacation  in  North  Caro- 
lina. I  spent  one  Sunday  in  Greensboro, 
visiting  my  cousin,  Betty  Jane  Carr,  who 
was  a  freshman  last  year  at  W.  C  and 
other    friends    ' 

Rubv  Madrv  writes  that  she  attended 
the  regional  alumnae  meeting  held  in 
Rocky  Mount  the  last  of  April,  and  en- 
joyed  .seeting   the   "lolks   Irom   home,"     '1 


July,  1946 


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do  like  the  ALUMNAE  NEWS  —  it  brings 
me  so  much  information  about  my  college 
friends  and  classmates.  " 

Audrey  (May)  Sheldon  writes  from 
Wernersville.  Pa.  "It  seems  ages  ago  since 
I  stood  on  the  platform  in  Aycock  and 
received  my  diploma.  I  can't  remember 
whether  I  told  you  that  my  husband. 
Capt.  John  Sheldon,  came  home  last  Sep- 
tember. He  flew  a  C-47  home,  and  after 
the  many  times  that  I  had  expected  him. 
only  to  hear  that  his  orders  were  rescinded 
at  the  last  minute,  it  was  wonderful  be- 
yond words  really  to  see  him  again.  Since 
his  arrival,  the  picture  has  been  ever- 
changing.  First,  a  second  honeymoon  in 
Williamstown.  John's  college  town.  Then 
living  in  a  New  York  apartment  for  two 
months.  Last  and  best  of  all,  coming  to 
Pennsylvania,  where  John  has  an  excel- 
lent position  with  an  insurance  firm.  We 
live  about  six  miles  from  Reading,  in  an 
adorable  6-room  bungalow,  surrounded 
by  2  J'2  acres  of  land.  Now  that  spring  is 
truly  on  its  way  here,  we  should  have  a 
charming  spot  —  with  trees,  grass,  a  pond, 
a  waterfall,  and  a  brook  —  all  our  own. 
What  a  grand  relief  it  is  after  New  York 
City!  If  you  know  any  of  the  chums 
from  W.  C.  who  are  in  this  vicinity,  do 
let  me  know  —  I  should  like  to  see  them 
again.  The  best  of  everything  to  you." 

Evelyn  (McNeill)  Sims  is  living  in 
Kingsport,  Tenn..  where  she  says  she  is 
busy  homemaking. 

Dorothy  Morrison  is  now  in  New  York 
City,  working  in  the  Department  of  Pre- 
ventive Medicine  at  New  York  Univer- 
sity, doing  research  on  shistosomiaris,  one 
of   the   tropical   diseases. 

Ann  (Mumford)  Traylor  writes  from 
Portsmouth.  Va..  where  her  husband  is 
a  minister  in  one  of  the  churches.  "Re- 
cently my  husband,  daughter  Kathy  and 
1  had  the  real  pleasure  of  a  week  end  visit 
from  Rachel  Long  and  Martha  Wertz, 
both  '43's.  It  was  a  grand  reunion,  and 
we  wished  there  had  been  more  of  us. 
The  ALUMNAE  NEWS  is  almost  my  only 
contact  with  W.  C.  —  so  keep  it  coming." 

Mary  L.  Palmer  writes  from  Okayama. 
Japan,  where  she  is  on  the  staff  of  the 
American  Red  Cross.  "Please  send  the 
Alumnae  News  to  me  over  here."  Mary 
says  that  Japan  is  a  very,  very  interesting 
country  —  "but  I  have  discovered  that  it 
isn't  the  land  of  Madame  Butterfly,  neither 
does  it  seem  to  be  the  land  of  the  slinking 
Far  East  we  have  heard  so  much  about. 
It  is  really  hard  to  explain  the  country. 
I  feel  sorry  for  Japanese  women.  The 
countryside  smells  with  honey  carts  and 
rice  paddies.  The  American  men  over  here 
are   grand,    but   they   do   miss   their   wives. 


Leah  W.  Moseley  '41 
PhM  2/c 

For  three  years  and  twenty-one 
days  Leah  Moseley,  Kinston,  served 
her  country  with  the  WAVES.  She 
was  discharged  last  January  at  Naval 
Air  Station,  Seattle,  Wash.  Previous 
to  her  duty  with  the  Navy,  Leah  had 
taught  home  economics  in  the  Eliza- 
beth City  High  School.  "My  whole 
experience  in  the  United  States  Naval 
Reserve  was  thrilling,  educative,  and 
challenging  —  each  type  of  service 
rendered  gave  me  joy  and  satisfaction. 
During  my  term  of  service,  I  was 
privileged  to  receive  expert  and  in- 
tensive training  in  several  areas  of 
service,  in  preparation  for  carrying 
out  assignments  of  work  in  various 
sections  of  the  country.  My  favorite 
station,  I  inight  add,  was  Seattle, 
Washington  —  I  liked  my  work  there 


and  the  beautiful  scenery  this  part  of 
the  country  has  to  offer." 

The  Alumnae  News  is  glad  to 
have  the  opportunity  of  publishing 
Leah's  interesting  schedule: 

December.  1942.  Joined  the  USNR  in 
Raleigh. 

February.  1943.  Began  boot  training  at 
Hunter  College. 

March.  1945.  Attended  one  month  of 
hospital  orientation,  USNH.  Great  Lakes, 
111. 

April,  1943.  to  March,  1944.  On  duty 
in  a  medical  dispensary  at  Indiana  Univer- 
sity. Bloomington.  Here  the  work  was 
varied  —  general  nursing,  first  aid,  phar- 
macy,  ambulance  driving. 

March,  1944,  to  August.  1944.  Book- 
keeping in  the  physical  therapy  depart- 
ment. 

September,  1944.  to  January,  1945. 
On  laboratory  duty,  US  Submarine  Base, 
New   London.   Conn. 

January.  1945,  to  May,  1945.  Book- 
keeping in  X-ray  Department,  USNH, 
Camp   Lejeune. 

May,  1945,  to  September.  1945.  In- 
tensive study  for  sixteen  weeks  in  occupa- 
tional therapy.  Hunter  College.  Received 
sixteen  hours  college  credit,  with  special 
graduation    exercises. 

September.  1945,  to  January,  1946. 
On  duty  in  occupational  therapy  depart- 
ment,  US   Naval   Hospital,   Seattle,   Wash. 

January  8.  1946.  Received  honorable 
at   Naval   Air  Station,   Seattle. 

Leah  says  that  there  are  two  types 
of    occupational     therapy:     functional 

—  restoration  of  function  in  injured 
or  diseased  muscles  and  joints,  and 
contributing  to  the  return  of  physical 
and  mental  health;  diversified  therapy 

—  which  includes  the  use  of  simple 
arts  and  crafts,  to  divert  the  mind 
from  preoccupation  with  illness.  A 
wide  range  of  interest  may  be  em- 
ployed, such  as  music,  photography, 
weaving,  book-binding,  leather  work- 
ing, ceramics,  fly-tying,  wood  carv- 
ing, and  metal  and  jewelry  work. 
"My  specialties  were  ceramics,  leather 
work,  and  finger  painting." 


sweethearts,  and  mothers.  It  just  breaks 
one's  heart  at  times  to  see  how  homesick 
they  are.  Six  of  us  Red  Cross  girls  are 
here,  but  there  are  about  10,000  men. 
When  we  first  came  into  the  division,  we 
were  the  first  white  women  some  of  the 
men  had  seen  or  talked  to  in  a  year  or 
more.  If  only  the  women  at  home  knew 
how  these  far-away  men  miss  them!  Now 
be    sure    to    send    me    every    copy    of    the 

News.  " 

Ruth  Porter  continues  her  work  with 
the  YWCA.  Portland,  Oregon.  "I  have 
seen  quite  a  little  of  this  beautiful  state 
since  coming  here.  I  have  also  enjoyed  a 
visit  to  San  Francisco,  and  am  all  for 
the  West  Coast !" 


Kathleen  (Rhyne)  McGugan  writes 
that  her  husband  is  now  in  Germany, 
stationed  with  the  European  Air  Force. 
She  hopes   to  join  him  there. 

Polly  Ann  (Sargent)  Harrington  writes 
interestingly  from  Norwich  University, 
Northfield,  'Vt.  Before  going  to  North- 
field.  Polly  lived  in  Washington,  and  while 
in  the  capital  city,  was  a  member  of  the 
North  Carolina  Dramatic  Club.  She  be- 
longs also  to  the  Book-of-the-Month 
Club,  but  finds  that  a  full-time  position, 
such  as  she  has  now,  plus  keeping  house, 
excludes  club  activities  for  the  present. 
Her  husband,  back  from  overseas  after 
16  months  of  service,  has  re-enrolled  at 
Norwich  University,   in  order  to  complete 


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the  last  two  years  of  his  college  work, 
which  was  interrupted  by  the  war.  He 
had  been  in  the  Army  for  more  than 
three  years.  "He  entered  school  February 
1  —  we  just  barely  made  the  second 
semester.  I  have  a  position  in  the  dean's 
office  here.  My  husband  and  I  both  are 
very  much  pleased  with  our  arrangements. 
While  in  Washington  I  was  connected 
with  the  Intelligence  Division  of  the  Sig- 
nal Corps.  He  was  overseas.  You  can 
imagine  how  happy  we  are  to  be  in  a 
school  —  together." 

Gertrude  (Tanner)  Hogarth  continues 
her  work  with  the  Department  of  Agri- 
culture in  Raleigh,  since  her  marriage  last 
summer.  "We  have  an  apartment  here, 
and  I  keep  house  in  addition  to  my  job. 
Be  sure  to  send  mc  the  NEWS  —  I  enjoy 
it  a   lot.  ■ 

Sarah  (Therrell)  Jeffcoat  writes  that 
a  few  weeks  ago  Jeanne  (Worsley)  Porter 
'4  3  and  her  husband  came  down  from 
Bridgeport.  Conn.,  to  visit  her  and  her 
husband  in  Burlington.  "While  they  were 
here,  we  called  several  of  our  classmates, 
and  had  a  real  reunion  with  Mary  Lane 
Siler  '43,  Raleigh,  Helen  Harrison  43, 
Raleigh,  Ella  Marie  (Pinkston)  Rodman 
'43.  Salisbury,  and  Betty  Covington  '43, 
High  Point.  This  was  the  first  time  we 
had  all  been  together  since  our  gradua- 
tion —  needless  to  say  there  was  more 
than  much  to  talk  about.  Enclosed  is  my 
check  —  I  wouldn't  miss  a  copy  of  the 
News   for  anything." 

Jane  (Thompson)  Davis  is  living  in 
Lumbcrton.  where  her  husband  is  in  busi- 
ness with  his  father.  Lt.  Davis  was  dis- 
charged from  the  Navy  last  December. 
Jane  says  she  is  busy  keeping  house.  She 
was  on  the  campus  for  a  visit  on  April 
20. 

1944 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  L.  Lcustig 
(Dorothy  Madscn j  .  a  son.  March  15, 
Stenville  Hospital.  Cleveland.  Ohio. 

Fannie  fAbernathy)  Spaulding  writes 
that   she   is   homcmaking   in    Athol.   Mass. 

Lea  (Bailey)  Taylor  is  in  New  York 
City.  "It  was  nice  to  see  and  make  noises 
with  tlie  Woman's  College  alumnae  at 
their  meeting  here  in  New  York  early  in 
February.  1  have  been  working  up  here 
for  a  public  relations  counselor  since  last 
September,  and  the  only  Southern  accents 
I  ever  hear  are  those  which  come  over 
the  wire  when  somebody  calls  me  up  only 
to  find  il  is  the  wrong  number!  I  really 
am  enjoying  my  work  very  much  and 
find  Manhattan  busy  enough  to  keep  me 
on  my  toes  while  my  husband  is  in  Japan. 
I    do    want    to   congr.iiulale   you    folks   on 


the  wonderful  job  you  are  donig  with  the 
News.  I  have  come  to  realize  that  it  is 
the  only  possible  way  to  keep  up  with 
so  many  who  have  scattered  so  far." 

Margaret  Brown  writes  from  Miami. 
Fla.      'Sometimes  —  especially    when     the 

ALUMNAE     News     arrives I     wish     so 

much  that  I  could  drop  into  the  alumnae 
office  for  a  chat.  And  then  I  should  like  to 
stroll  over  the  campus  to  see  all  my  old 
friends  again.  But  for  the  moment  I  must 
let  my  pen  do  the  'talking'  for  me.  I  am 
enclosing  my  check  for  the  magazine  — 
please  see  that  my  copy  keeps  coming.  Be- 
lieve it  or  not.  my  mother  says  she  likes 
the  magazine  as  much  as  I  do  Of  course 
she  does  know  a  number  of  my  class- 
mates, although  she  was  never  a  student 
at  Woman's  College.  We  both  read  it 
from  cover  to  cover.  I  have  recently 
changed  jobs,  and  am  now  secretary  to 
the  assistant  agent  of  the  Florida  East 
Coast  Railway  —  and  I  like  the  job. 
When  I  was  working  in  the  Departmen 
of  Secretarial  Science  at  Woman's  College, 
struggling  with  my  shorthand.  I  couldn't 
foresee  that  I  would  be  able  to  take  dicta- 
tion for  3  J/  hours  at  the  time,  and  yet 
have  notes  legible  enough  to  transcribe  a 
day  later.  But  such  is  the  case.  My  brother, 
a  lieutenant  commander  in  the  Navy,  has 
recently  been  appointed  to  the  staff  of 
Commander  Destroyer  Flotilla  One.  Of 
course  we  are  very  proud  of  him.  I  had 
expected  to  spend  my  vacation  with  him 
and  his  wife  in  San  Diego,  but  now  he 
may  be  sailing  for  China  soon,  and  so 
I  must  make  other  plans." 

Corneille  (Caraway)  Sineath  and  her 
husband  are  in  Chapel  Hill,  where  he  re- 
sumed his  study  in  the  University  last 
January,  following  his  release  from  the 
Army.  "Believe  it  or  not.  Bill  and  I  were 
able  to  find  an  attractive  little  apartment, 
about  two  miles  from  Chapel  Hill.  We 
are  thoroughly  enjoying  living  here,  now 
that  our  first  few  weeks  of  scrubbing, 
painting,  and  general  'fixing  up'  of  the 
apartment,  and  my  frantic  attempts  at 
learning  to  cook,  are  behind  us.  I  am 
also  working  in  the  University  Medical 
School,  as  departmental  secretary.  I  like 
the  job  a  lot.  But  I  assure  you  that  my 
Alma  Mater  didn't  prepare  mc  to  write 
these  super-colossal  medical  terms  in  short- 
h.;nd!" 

Mabel  Chandler  is  coordinator  of  the 
high  school  program  in  Winston-Salcm, 
and  director  of  the  Adult  Distributive 
Education  program.  "Last  summer,  dur- 
ing my  two  months  vacation  from  the 
city  schools,  which  I  spent  in  Raleigh.  1 
was  temporary  personnel  director  at  the 
Mother  Daughter  Store  —  a   women's  ap- 


parel store  there.  I  also  spent  ten  days 
at  State  College  with  the  coordinators  of 
the  state,  where  we  revised  our  present 
course  of  study.  I  am  planning  to  be  in 
Winston-Salem  again  next  year,  and  also 
expect  to  do  store  work  again  for  a  few 
weeks  this  summer,  after  a  visit  to  the 
mountains  and  the  beach.  One  of  the  out- 
side activities  which  I  enjoy  very  much  is 
membership  in  the  Winston-Salem  Al- 
trusa  Club.  My  brother  is  now  at  home 
f:om  service  overseas,  in  England.  Ire- 
land, and  France.  It  is  truly  wonderful 
to  have  him  back." 

Nancy  Davis  has  been  awarded  a  teach- 
ing fellowship  at  Smith  College  for  grad- 
uate study  next  year  in  the  department 
of  physical  education.  The  past  year  she 
was  director  of  health  and  physical  educa- 
tion at  the  Washington  State  Normal 
School.    Machias,    Me. 

Mary  Lib  (Doggett)  Beaman  was  back 
on  the  campus  during  commencement.  She 
says  "hello"  to  all  the  '44's.  "My  Bill 
will  get  his  discharge  in  July,  and  after 
taking  a  long-delayed  honeymoon,  we 
plan   to   be   at   home   in   Greensboro." 

Annabel  (Embrey)  Hansen  writes  from 
S:hen:ctady,  N.  Y.  "I  really  do  not  ex- 
pect the  alumna:  offic:  to  keep  up  with 
my  whereabouts,  for  I  have  had  innum- 
erable addresses  since  I  was  graduated.  The 
last  time  I  wrote,  I  was  about  to  step 
on  a  plane  on  my  way  from  Bogota.  Co- 
lombia, to  Miami.  Fla.  The  whole  trip 
was  delightful.  We  spent  a  day  and  a 
night  at  the  famous  Hotel  Del  Prado  in 
Barranquilla.  We  arrived  in  Miami  on 
March  3,  and  I  felt  a  great  thrill  in  hav- 
ing my  feet  en  L^SA  soil  again.  I  was 
hungry  for  milk  and  fresh  vegetables 
neither  of  which  I  had  had  for  four 
months.  My  husband  wanted  shrimp  — 
gobs  of  it!  After  leaving  Florida,  we  spent 
several  weeks  visiting  relatives  in  Ala- 
bama. Maryland,  and  Massachusetts.  The 
latter  part  of  March  we  arrived  in  Sche- 
nectady. My  husband  is  a  senior  ac- 
countant with  the  General  Electric  Com- 
pany here  and  so  I  rather  think  that  we 
shall  be  here  permanently.  We  were  among 
those  fortunate  enough  to  locate  an  apart- 
ment, and  we  are  busily  engaged  in  be 
coming  domesticated,  .^fter  being  a  col- 
lege girl  for  four  years,  and  then  a  busi- 
ness woman  lor  a  while,  it  is  really  fas- 
cinating to  be  a  homcmaker.  Enclosed  is 
mv  check  for  the  ALUMN.^E  NEWS  — 
thai  is  one  publication  I  never  want  to 
miss.  It  meant  so  much  to  receive  it 
while  1  was  in  South  America.  I'd  like 
to  lake  a  minute  and  lell  you  about 
Christmas  there.  I  irsi  of  all.  there  was 
no    snow.    Bogota,    on    a    plateau.    8,700 


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feet  UD  in  the  Andes,  enjoys  perennial 
fall  weather.  I  did  not  hear  a  single 
Christmas  carol;  moreover.  Christmas 
cards  seem  never  to  have  been  heard  of 
there.  On  Christmas  Eve  all  the  children 
and  many  grown-ups  paraded  through  the 
streets  in  false  faces  and  costumes,  blow- 
ing horns  and  whistles,  shooting  popguns 
and  setting  off  firecrackers.  All  in  all. 
Christmas  there  was  a  mixture  of  Fourth 
of  July  and  Hallowe'en.  One  thing  I  am 
taking  back  with  mc  to  the  States  is  the 
ability  to  speak  Spanish.  As  you  may  re- 
member. I  majored  in  Spanish  at  col- 
lege, and  then  married  a  man  who  handed 
me  right  into  the  thick  of  the  Spanish- 
speaking  world.  As  a  greater  part  of  my 
shopping  down  here  had  to  be  done  at 
the  front  door  from  peddlers.  I  had  to 
start  using  the  language  almost  as  soon  as 
I  got  here.  I  would  go  for  days,  speak- 
ing nothing  but  Spanish,  even  to  my 
long-suffering  husband.  Since  George  and 
I  have  no  permanent  address.  I  am  ask- 
ing that  you  use  my  mother's  address  in 
Bethesda.  Md." 

Grace  (Forster)  Ethridge  was  as- 
sistant director  of  dining  halls  at  Wom- 
an's College  last  year.  Her  husband  re- 
turned from  overseas  in  March,  received 
his  discharge  not  long  afterwards,  and  is 
now  an  engineer  with  Western  Electric 
Company.  Burlington.  'AH  we  can  find 
now  is  a  room  —  for  which  we  are 
thankful;  but  we  hope  to  start  house- 
keeping  in   earnest  before  long.  " 

Sarah  Hopper  writes  from  Baton 
Rouge.  La.  "Last  September  I  entered  the 
Library  School  of  Louisiana  State  Uni- 
versity, here  in  Baton  Rouge.  It  is  won- 
derful to  be  a  college  girl  again,  and  a 
winter  spent  in  Louisiana  is  definitely  a 
treat  for  a  North  Carolinian.  The  Uni- 
versity is  a  beautiful  place.  Even  in  March 
the  campus  had  a  wealth  of  beauty  and 
blossoms  —  azaleas,  camellias,  iris,  pan- 
sies.  The  dogwoods,  though  not  as  beau- 
tiful to  me  as  those  in  Peabody  Park, 
are  still  very  lovely.  Woman's  Colbge 
will  always  be  one  of  my  great  interests, 
and  even  though  I  shall  be  a  librarian, 
living  among  many  books  and  maga- 
zines, the  Alumnae  News  will  remain 
one  of  my  prime  favorites  in  reading 
material.  Best  wishes  to  the  alumnae,  and 
especially  to  the  '44's.  " 

Chase  (Johnson)  Duffy  lives  in  Gua- 
temala City,  Guatemala,  where  she  ex- 
pects to  remain  for  three  years. 

Frances  (Keel)  King  and  her  husband 
have  recently  moved  to  Richmond.  Va. 
Dr.  King  completed  his  work  at  Harvard 
Medical  School  last  March,  and  is  serving 
his  internship  at  the  Medical  College  of 
Virginia  Hospital. 


Nancy  (Kirby)  West  was  on  the  cam- 
pus the  latter  part  of  March.  Her  hus- 
band has  been  discharged  from  the  Army, 
and  they  are  living  in  Charlotte,  where 
Mr.  West  is  connected  with  Builders' 
Supply   Company. 

Carolyn  Lore  wrote  from  Newell.  Calif. 
"This   winter   has   been   one   of   the   most 
wonderful  winters  I  have  ever  spent.  First 
of  all.    I've   never  seen   so  much   snow.   It 
covered    the    ground    from    September  — 
on.  But  1  became  acclimated  to  our  below- 
z?ro  weather,  and  now  —    in  mid-spring, 
I    am    actually    sleeping    under    two    more 
blankets     than     I    did    last    si'mmer.     My 
favorite  sport   now   is  skiing  —  and   I'm 
sure   I  shall   never  love  anything  as   much 
as   I    do   the    rush   of   the   coldness   against 
my  face  and  the  indescribable  joy  of  skim- 
ming    down     a     mountainside,     w^ith     the 
whole   world  lying   there  below   you!    My 
favorite    run    is    in    Crater   Lake    National 
Park.    Since    the    war.    the    appropriation 
for  national   parks  has  been   curtailed  and 
consequently    the    roads    are    not    cleared. 
We  usually  go  up  as  far  as  we  can,   walk 
to   the   Crater  Wall   and  spend   one   night, 
skiing    down    the    25    mile    trail    the    next 
day.    I    really   never  did   expect   to  become 
a  ski  enthusiast.  But  now,  I'm  even  look- 
ing    forward     to     the     Alta,     Utah,     run, 
which  starts  at   10,996   feet  and  drops  to 
8. 1  00.  The  February  issue  of  Mademoiselle 
says    that    the    Northwest    takes    to    skiing 
as  naturally   as  a   duck   to   water.   That   is 
true.   Tule  Lake  will   close   its   gates   with 
the   melting  of   the  snow.   If  my  new  as- 
sistant   works    out    satisfactorily,    I    shall 
leave    here    before    then,    and    accompany 
my    records   back   to   Washington.    I   hope 
to    be    in    North    Carolina    by   early    sum- 
mer.  When   I   think  of  Tulc   Lake   in   the 
future.  I  know  I  shall  think  of  the  people 
first;    then   the   gorgeous   sunsets,    the   sage 
brush,    the   horseba;k   rides,    the   cliffs   and 
crevices,    snow    in   June,    cold   nights,   deer 
and  geese,   the  ski   trails,  and   tobogganing 
in   the  moonlight;    the   trips   to  San  Fran- 
cisco.   Portland.    Seattle.    Reno.    Los    An- 
geles.  Denver;    skidding   on   ice.   trying   to 
open    the    front    door   against    a    blizzard, 
the  dust  storms,   the  sJly  storm  doors  and 
windows,     the     picnics     and     dances,     the 
parties,     the    tenseness    when    things    wc;e 
u.icertain;     the    work    I've    loved.    In    all 
probability.    I    shall    think    that    this    was 
the    most    exciting    year    of    my    life.    To- 
morrow   night  —  if    it    doesn't    snow  — 
we   are   going   out   tobogganing.   We   shall 
find  a   sheltered   spot,   dig  the  snow  aside, 
and    have    a    weincr    roast    between    runs. 
The  next  night  there  is  to  be  a  dance,  with 
a  party  beforehand.  The  night  following. 
I    leave    for    San    Francisco,    to    enjoy    the 
week    end.    and    to    confer    with    members 


of  the  Civil  Service  Commission.  So  you 
sec  I  have  a  dozen  and  more  things  to  do. 
Before  tco  long  I  hope  to  be  seeing  my 
college  friends  and  classmates  in  North 
Carolina." 

Elizabeth  (Nickerson)  Ward  lives  in 
Ridgewood.  N.  J.  In  addition  to  home- 
making,  she  is  tutoring  high  school  stu- 
dents. Her  husband  is  an  advertising  man 
with  the  Sunday  Sun.  Teaneck.  N.  J. 

Ann  (Queensbury)  Stevens  is  still  liv- 
ing in  Washington.  D.  C  doing  her  same 
job  at  the  Naval  Research  Laboratory. 
"My  husband  is  in  Washington  also, 
since  his  return  from  Pearl  Harbor  last 
January.  We  plan  to  leave  Washington 
before  long,  however,  so  that  Don  may 
resume  his  studies  for  further  degrees  in 
chemistry.  Not  long  ago  Don  and  I  went 
to  Baltimore  to  visit  Juliana  (Hanks) 
Johnson  '44  and  her  husband.  Bob.  Julie 
said  she  saw  in  the  last  ALUMNAE  NEWS 
that  Ann  Buckley  '44  was  also  in  Bal- 
timore, and  so  she  called  her  and  had  her 
over  for  dinner.  Don  and  I  plan  to  go 
to  Greensboro  the  latter  part  of  May  for 
the  graduating  activities.  You  know  my 
sister  Musa  is  a  member  of  the  graduat- 
ing class.  This  will  be  my  husband's  first 
trip  to  the  state,  and  I  am  glad  that  his 
introduction'  will  be  to  a  lovely  place 
like  my  college,  and  one  so  dear  to  me.  I 
want  you  to  know  that  every  copy  of  the 
News  is  read  and  re-read  —  I  don't  want 
to  miss  a  single  little  thing.  Enclosed  is 
my  check." 

Mary  Alice  Shacklcford,  soprano,  sang 
one  of  the  leading  roles  in  Mascagni's 
one-act  opera.  "Cavalleria  Rusticana," 
which  the  Euterpe  Club  of  Greensboro 
presented  in  Odell  Auditorium.  Greens- 
boro College,  early  last  May.  Mary  Alice 
was  an  in:tructor  in  voice  at  Woman's 
College  last  year,  following  a  year  of 
study  in  New  York  City.  While  there 
she   sang   in   St.   Bartholomew's   choir. 

Sara  Shuford  studied  voice  in  New 
York  City  last  winter,  and  did  secretarial 
work  at  Knocdicr   Art  Gallery. 

1945 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Francis  Morti- 
mer Taylor  (Vici  DeVoe).  a  son,  April 
7,    Arlington.    'Va. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Ward 
(Jane  Ferris),  a  daughter,  Betty  Ann, 
January  8.  Piedmont  Memorial  Hospital. 
Greensboro. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  G.  Wall  Jr. 
(Marie  Tillotson).  a  son.  Larry  Rex, 
February  26,  Martin  Memorial  Hospital, 
Mt.    Airy. 

Evelyn  Anderson's  engagement  to  Mau- 
rice  Spain   Jr.,    was   announced   last   May. 


26 


The  Alumnae  Nev(  s 


The  young  man  lives  in  Maplcwood.  N. 
J.,  and  is  a  graduate  of  the  Wharton 
School.  University  of  Pennsylvania.  While 
ai  the  University,  he  was  a  member  of 
Mask  and  Wig  Productions,  and  of  Sigma 
Chi  fraternity.  He  served  as  a  lieutenant 
in    the   Naval   Air   Corps  during   the   war. 

Jar.c  Gardner  taught  last  year  in  Eliza- 
beth City  High  School.  She  says  she  likes 
to  teach.  Jane  is  spending  the  summer 
at  her  home  in  Washington.  N.  C. 

Doris  Dorn  Jones  says  that  she  had 
a  wonderful  time  last  year  teaching  a 
fift!i  grade  at  Lindlcy  Elementary  School. 
Greensboro  —  "right  here  at  home.  ,1 
m.iss  being  out  at  Woman's  College,  but 
I  s:c  some  of  the  ■45's  all  along,  and 
.■-av.-  a  whole  gang  of  them  at  Christmas 
time." 

Mary  Owen  writes  that  she  is  very 
much  occupied  working  in  a  photography 
studio  in  Fayettoville  and  taking  advanced 
courses  in  art   at    the  same   time. 

Mary  Belle  Price  spent  last  winter  in 
Ft.  Lauderdale.  Fla..  where  she  was  sec- 
retary-clerk at  one  of  the  ocean  front 
hotels  there.  "For  recreation,  swimming 
and  tennis  have  had  first  place.  I  have 
also  had  excellent  opportunities  to  use 
the  conversational  Spanish  I  learned  at 
Woman's   College." 

Helen  (Roycroft)  Rowe  writes  from 
Bradcntown,  Fla.  "After  graduation  last 
year.  I  went  to  Atlanta,  Ga..  where  my 
husband  was  a  patient  in  Lawson  Gen- 
e-al  Hospital.  I  taught  in  a  nursery  school 
in  Atlanta  for  several  weeks,  until  Bill 
was  discharged  from  the  hospital  and  the 
Army.  Whereupon  we  came  to  Bradcn- 
town. his  home  town.  He  is  now  em- 
ployed as  a  switchman  for  the  Penin- 
sular Telephone  Company,  and  I  am  do- 
in;.',  my  best  at  housekeeping.  1  love  sunny 
Florida,  but  often  wish  that  Woman's 
College  and  North  Carolina  were  just  a 
little  nearer." 

Avis  (Russell)  Gallagher  lives  in 
Greensboro.  She  is  a  member  of  the  staff 
of  the  Greensboro  News-Record. 

Mary  Satterfield  writes  from  Martins- 
ville. \'a.  'In  June  I  finished  my  first  year 
with  the  DuFont  Company.  Grace  Hoyle. 
now  Mrs.  Barren,  worked  with  me  until 
last  December,  when  she  resigned  to  be 
married.  I  am  now'  the  only  woman  chem- 
ist in  this  plant.  My  work  is  extremely 
interesting,  and  1  am  really  thrilled  to 
have  some  part  in  getting  nylon  hose  out 
to  you  this  year.  Just  don't  think  that 
we  are  loo  slow!  Martin.svillc  is  only  ^0 
miles  from  my  home,  and  5^  miles  from 
Greensboro.  1  was  fortunate  enough  to 
get  down  to  Greensboro  twice  last  year 
—  wish    those    visits    could    happen    more 


often.  To  make  one's  own  money  is  a  fine 
experience,  but  graduation  certainly  ended 
a  phase  of  my  life  that  still  seems  to  be 
the  best  yet  —  those  four  years  at  W.C. !" 

Lee  (Sherrill)  Matthews  has  resigned 
h:r  position  as  part-time  instructor  in 
secretarial  science  and  secretary  to  the  dean 
of   instruction   at   Cokcr  College. 

Betty  (Simmons)  Barber  says  that 
since  her  marriage  last  February  "Bill  and 
I  are  still  living  in  one  room  here  in 
Winston-Salem  —  lucky  at  that!  I  cook 
breakfast  and  dinner  on  a  hot  spot.  Be- 
Keve  you  me.  it  takes  perfect  timing  to 
keep  things  hot  and  get  a  meal  prepared 
with  only  that  much  equipment.  But 
we  are  happy,  and  that  is  the  main  thing. 
1  am  still  working  for  the  city  recreation 
department,  and  Agnes  Cooley  '4  5  and 
Edna  Gibson  '45  are  with  me.  All  three 
of  us  are  expecting  to  have  better  ar- 
rangements for  ourselves,  comes  the  sum- 
mer, and  mine,  as  you  may  guess,  is  the 
hope  of  a  house.  I  have  been  attending 
the  Moravian  Church  since  February,  and 
also  a  Sunday  School  class  made  up  of 
wives  of  veterans.  The  group  is  interest- 
ing, and  we  have  very  helpful  discussions 
relating  to  our  mutual  problems.  Also  — 
and  this  is  big  news  —  my  husband  has 
been  teaching  me  to  fly!  I  find  it  a  thrill- 
ing experience  and  really  am  doing  quite 
well.  We  both  attended  the  annual  Caro- 
lina Aero  Club  Convention  in  Charlotte 
last  spring.  You  see  —  my  college  educa- 
tion is  taking  an  extension  into  the  field 
of  flying.  Study  goes  on.  although  in  a 
very  different  subject.  I  do  thoroughly 
enjoy  the  ALUMNAE  NEWS,  and  am  look- 
ing forward  to  the  next  number." 

Ruby  Swisher  declares  that  her  first  year 
of  teaching  was  really  wonderful.  "I  like 
teaching.  I  like  Rockingham,  where  1 
taught,  and  I  liked  the  children.  A  num- 
ber of  the  teachers  are  graduates  of  our 
college,  and  of  course  we  often  exchanged 
news  about  the  place.  One  of  the  most 
enjoyable  extra-curricular  things  I  did  last 
year  was  to  coach  the  debating  team.  Our 
teams  went  to  Flora  Macdonald  and 
Chapel  Hill.  This  summer  I  am  at  home 
in  Greensboro." 

Elaine  Simpson  is  doing  secretarial  work 
for  the  National  Broadcasting  Company. 
Ridgewood.    N.    J. 

Doris  Underwood  writes  that  she  has 
been  secretary  in  the  School  of  Commerce. 
University  of  North  Carolina,  Chapel  Hill, 
since  June.  114  5.  "1  like  my  job  very 
much,  and  who  wouldn  t  like  Chapel 
Hill!" 

Peggy  \'oss  has  been  working  almost 
ever  since  her  graduation  with  the  Public 
Welfare  Department  of  Stokes  County.    "I 


live  at  home  in  King  and  commute  to 
work.  I  recently  attended  the  social  Serv- 
ice Conference  held  in  Winston-Salem, 
and  enjoyed  seeing  a  number  of  my  col- 
lege friends  and  teachers.  I  enjoy  the 
ALUMNAE  News  very  much,  and  so  here 
is  my   fee  enclosed.  " 

Jeanette  (Winstead)  Morgan  is  living 
in  High  Point,  where  she  is  a  laboratory 
technician  at  High  Point  Memorial  Hos- 
pital. Her  husband  is  working  toward  an 
M.S.  degree  in  chemistry  in  the  Graduate 
School  of  the  University  of  North  Caro- 
lina.  Chapel   Hill. 

Gwen  Wynn.  since  September  of  last 
year,  has  been  director  of  recreation  at  St. 
Paul's  Girls'  School.  Baltimore.  "This 
school  is  conducted  under  the  guidance  of 
the  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  —  the 
oldest  church  in  the  city.  We  have  an 
enrollment  of  23  girls,  from  7  to  18. 
Although  we  are  practically  in  the  heart 
cf  Baltimore,  we  enjoy  living  on  some 
21  acres  of  beautiful  lawns  and  wood- 
lands. I  am  leaving  this  position,  how- 
ever, the  middle  of  the  summer,  to  be 
married.  My  husband-to-be  and  I  both 
plan  to  go  to  school  next  fall.  I  am  go- 
ing to  give  myself  the  pleasure  of  taking 
some  courses  which  I  had  no  time  to  take 
when  in  college.  After  this  year,  we  plan 
to  go  to  Jacksonville,  where  my  husband 
will  be  associated  with  his  father  in  busi- 
ness. Louise  (Wilkins)  Monette  '45  has 
been  living  in  Baltimore  this  winter  with 
her  husband,  and  every  time  the  ALUM- 
N.AE  News  comes  we  get  together  and 
enjoy  it  immensely.  " 

1946 

Everlasting  class  officers;  president,  Bet- 
ty Jane  Sarratt:  vice  president,  Sarah 
Moss:  secretary.  Norma  Perry:  treasurer. 
Agnes  Manson :  cheerleader.  Miriam 
Knowles. 

The  Alumnae  Association  cordially 
welcomes  the  following  members  of  the 
Class  into  the  ranks  of  active  member- 
ship: 

Doris  Alexander.  Mary  Katherine  Al- 
len. X'irginia  Allen,  Martha  Lcnhart  Al- 
ston. Jane  M.  Anderson,  Anne  E,  An- 
drews, Kathleen  Andrews,  Mary  Appet- 
son,  Mary  E,  Archer.  Ethel  W.  Arnold. 
Ann  Arthur.  Lois  Asbel.  Louise  Atkins, 
X'irginia  Atkins,  Leiia  Atkinson  fPas- 
chain,  Christine  Austin,  Jane  (Austin) 
Cunningham,  Elizabeth  Avery. 

Ann  Bagwell.  Evelyn  Hope  Bailey.  Eve- 
lyn Baldwin.  Grace  Barrier,  La  \'crnc 
Barrs.  Kenna  Dalton  Beall.  Haldene  Bean, 
Nellie  Beeson.  Mary  Katherine  Bell,  Jean 
Bible,  Gwendolyn  Biggerstaff,  Dorothy 
Blaney,  Jean  Blanton,  Lillian  Boney, 
Camilla  Allvn  Boone.  Betty  Jean  Bostian, 


July.  1946 


17 


Emily  Bower,  Irene  Carr  Bowie.  Barbara 
Bramble,  Doris  Braswell.  Virginia  Brett, 
Martha  Virginia  Brinson,  Evelyn  Brown, 
Martha  Jane  Britt.  Gladys  (Brumbaugh) 
Stafford,  Edna  Earle  Bullock,  Marjorie 
Burns,   Betty  Buyck. 

Virginia  Cameron.  Alexa  Carroll,  Rose 
Zell  Caudill,  Bobby  Ann  Caudle,  Ruth 
Causby,  Billie  Cherry.  Christine  Cherry. 
Ola  Chitty.  Mary  Ruth  Church.  Betty 
Clement.  Ann  Daniel  Cloyd.  Emilie  J. 
Cobb.  Gene  Cochrane.  Betty  Jane  Cog- 
gins,  Bernice  Cohen.  Katherine  Cole.  Meta 
Coleman,  Virginia  Lee  Commander,  Nora 
Lee  Cook.  Ruth  M.  Cooke,  Catherine 
Corbett,  Alda  Cox,  Jean  Cox,  Jean 
Crews,  Sara  A.  Crowder,  Rose  Crump, 
Elisabeth  Grumpier,  Elizabeth  (Cum- 
mings)  Fortune,  Flora  Elizabeth  Currie, 
Lavonne  Current. 

Ruth  (Daniel)  Roberts,  Susan  Dar- 
den,  Elizabeth  Davenport,  Elinor  Cole 
Davis,  Helen  Maye  Davis.  Helen  Denning, 
Mary  Agnes  Dent,  Jean  Derby,  Norma 
Dillingham,  Betty  Dixon,  Nancy  (Dob- 
bins) Haigwood,  Diana  Doggett.  Betty 
Anne  Drysdale,  Mary  Louisa  Duls,  Jean 
Dunlap,    Mary   Dunlap, 

Janet  East,  Gertrude  Edgerton.  Nancy 
Edmunds.  Annette  Edwards.  Kathryn  Ed- 
wards. Ann  Ellis.  Lucy  Dunn  Elmore, 
Elizabeth   Evans. 

Mary  Dodge  Ficker.  Mary  Louise  Fink. 
Eunice  Fisher,  Nannie  Ree  Fisher,  Rachel 
Fleming,  Edna  Flynn,  Lorraine  Foglc- 
man,  Elizabeth  (Folger)  Parker,  Virginia 
C.  Ford,  Elizabeth  Foscue,  Laura  Belle 
Foster,  Phyllis  Freeman,  Mary  Elizabeth 
Friddle,  Helen  Frostick,  Edna  Fulp,  Eliza- 
beth Funderburg.  Doris  Funderburk.  Fol- 
ger Funderburk. 

Elizabeth  Gabriel,  Lorena  Gaddy.  Bet- 
ty Gaines.  Elizabeth  Garrett,  Dimitra 
George,  Christine  Gibson,  Irene  Gilbert. 
Hazel  Gilchrist,  Lorraine  (Glenn)  Simms. 
Caroline  Goodman.  Florence  Gordon. 
Mary  Gorman,  Charlotte  Graham,  Irene 
Graham,  Mary  Emma  Graham,  Dorothy 
Green,  Jessie  Gregory,  Lucile  Grier,  Mary 
Frances  Grier,  Evelyn  Griffin,  Margaret 
Griffin,  Nelda  Griffin,  Margaret  Elizabeth 
Guin. 

Martha  Hamby,  Elaine  Hamlet,  Mari- 
etta Hamrick,  Marge  Hand,  Evelyn  Haney, 
Louise  Hardwick,  Barbara  Harrington, 
Ginny   Harris,    Virginia   D.    Harris.    Mary 


nUcn  Harris.  Juanita  Hatfield,  Eleanor 
Hayes.  Florabel  Hazelman.  Claudia  Sue 
Helms,  Betsy  Highsmith,  Louise  High- 
smith,  France  Hilliard,  Mary  Jane  Hinely, 
Jean  D,  Hinson,  Mary  Moore  Hix.  Flor- 
ence Shirley  Hoffman,  Margaret  C,  Hoff- 
man. Elizabeth  Smith  Holland,  Caolyn 
Hollingsworth,  Virginia  (Holland)  How- 
ard, Esther  House,  Mary  Frances  Hunter. 
Evelyn  Hyatt. 

Nancy   Ingram.    Elizabeth   G.    Ivey, 

Marilyn  Jackson,  Mary  (Jennings) 
Harrington,  Jean  Jernigan,  Arlene  Seal 
Johnson,  Louise  Johnson,  Lorraine  John- 
ston, Carolyn  Jones,  Marsden  Jones, 
Carolyn  W,  Jones,  Frances  Ray  Jordan, 
Gladys  Elizabeth  Joyce,   Miriam  Joyner. 

Ruth  Kesler,  Iris  Kiger,  Olive  Kim- 
brough.  Ellen  King,  Jean  King,  Con- 
stance Kistler,  Frances  Kittrell.  Miriam 
Knowles,    Martha    Sink   Koontz. 

Billy  Joe  Lamb.  Emogene  Landrum. 
Martha  Laney.  Elizabeth  Laughridge. 
Dorothy  Leagans.  Dorothy  Lee,  Jane  Lee. 
Caroline  (Bell)  Lewis.  Sara  Elizabeth 
Lewis.  Betty  (Limbert)  Prentice,  Mary 
Martin  Lindsay,  Jane  Linville,  Virginia 
Livie,  Mary  Elizabeth  Love,  Bennie  Love, 
Annie  Laurie  Lowery,  Nancy  Loyd,  Davey 
Joe  Lumsden.  Henrietta  Luther,  Betty 
Lyda. 

Sugenia  McGee,  Evelyn  McLeod,  Jean 
McMichael,  Mary  Lee  McMohon,  Mary 
Edythe   McPhail,    Coreene   McQuague, 

Virginia  (Madsen)  Daniel,  Helen  Ma- 
gid,  Agnes  Stuart  Manson,  Anne  Mat- 
lock, Elizabeth  Maxwell,  Beryl  May, 
Edith  Stockton  Mays,  Elizabeth  Mcssick, 
Rachel  Ruth  Messick,  Ruth  Day  Michael, 
Kathleen  Miller,  Annice  Mitchell,  Dorothy 
Thurston  Mizelle,  Orrell  Moody,  Betty 
Moore,  Martha  Ann  (Moore)  Mize,  Pris- 
cilla  (Moore)  Brinkley,  Hilda  Morgan, 
Katherine  Morgans,  Mary  Morris,  Sarah 
E.  Morris,  Jean  Morrison,  Gerry  (Morri- 
son) Medlin,  Caroline  Morrow.  Sally 
Dixon  Moseley,  Sarah  Moss,  Ernestine 
Musselwhite. 

Nancy  Nading.  Dorothy  Lee  Nelms. 
Shirley  Newland.  Mabel  Newlin,  Doris 
Newsome. 

Sally  S.  Orr.  Betty  Jane  Osborne,  Mar- 
garet (Dttinger,  Bettie  Jane  Owen,  Judith 
Owen. 

Sarah  Parcell.  Mazel  Parsons.  Janie 
(Pcarcej    Amis,   M.    Ruth   Peeples,    Doro- 


thy Perkins.  Dorothy  Perry.  Norma  Per- 
ry, Billie  Gene  Phipps,  Emmie  (Plttman) 
Harris,  Jane  Pollard,  Josephine  Pope, 
Lucy  Ann  Pritchard,  Margaret  Prongay, 
Laura  Mae  Propper. 

Musa    Queensbury. 

Nancy  Raby,  Betty  Anne  Rjgland, 
Carol  Raper,  Lillian  Rapcr,  Elaine  (Rash- 
kind)  Lefkowits,  Jean  Ranch,  Ann  R. 
Richardson.  Frances  Richardson.  Leigh 
Richardson,  Helen  Ricks,  Mary  Riddle, 
Marguerite  Rinehart,  Lillian  Gray  Rivers, 
Susie  Renee  Robbins,  Peggy  Joyce  Rob- 
erts. Mary  Elizabeth  Roe.  Jean  Ross. 
Celia  Rothgeb.  Hellen  L.  Rouse,  Cath- 
erine Rowe,  Ann  Hunt  Rowland,  Anita 
Rozier,   Joyce   Rucker, 

Catherine  F,  Sanders,  Helen  Sanford, 
Betty  Jane  Sarratt,  Adelene  Scott,  Sarah 
Secrest,  Marjorie  (Self)  Amos,  Virginia 
Setzer,  Jane  Severance,  Amy  Shaw,  Doro- 
thy Shields,  Nancy  Shuford,  Margaret 
Short,  Myra  Siff,  Marilyn  Silverstein,  Jo 
Singletary,  Gloria  Small,  Shirley  Smiley, 
Andris  Sigmon,  Caroline  Conand  Smith. 
Doris  Elizabeth  Smith,  Doris  O.  Smith, 
Ernestine  Smith,  Gloria  Smith,  Marguerite 
Smith,  Marjorie  Smith,  Ruby  Smith,  Sue 
Smith,  Evelyn  (Smithwick)  Turner,  June 
Smith,  Margaret  C.  Smith,  Rebekah 
Smith.  Angela  Snell.  Evelyn  Ann  Snow, 
Hazel  Soles,  Fannie  Sowers,  Dorothy 
Spears,  Julia  Spence,  Evelyn  Spencer. 
Dorothy  Spruill,  Betty  Stacy,  Jane  Staf- 
ford, Dora  May  Staton,  Helen  E.  Sta- 
ton,  Frances  Stephenson,  Mildred  Stern- 
berger,  Jean  Stockton,  Cora  H.  Stratford. 
Carol  Street.  Jane  Peter  Street.  Phyllis 
(Strickland)  Benedict.  Caroline  (Sum- 
merlin)  Barbee,  Elizabeth  Summersett, 
Zoe   Swecker,    Margarette   Swindell. 

Emily  Teague.  K.  Lucile  Tegg.  Maxine 
Templeton,  Doris  Theodore,  Helen 
(Thompson)  Efland,  Mary  Glenn 
(Thompson)  Hiers,  Mary  Nell  Thomp- 
son, Margaret  Thomas,  Betty  Jo  Thorn- 
ton, Margaret  Jean  Thornton,  Betty  Jo 
Thornton,  Lucy  Thurston,  Josie  Tomlin- 
son.  Nina  Trogdon.  Louise  Troutman. 
Harriett  Tucket.  Joanna  Tucker.  Louise 
D.  Turner, 

Celeste  Ulrich. 

Phyllis  Vreeland, 

Betty  Waite,  Margaret  Wallace,  Eugenia 
Ware,  Edith  Marie  Warner,  Doris  Wat- 
kins,  Marcelinc  Weathers,  Sarah  Elizabeth 


The  Alumnae  Nevcs 


Good  Judgment 

should  be  exercised  in 
the  purchase  of  any 
article. 

At  Montaldo's  you  will 
find  high  quality  at 
reasonable  prices  that 
will  always  give  you 
welcome  satisfaction. 


BLUE  BIRD  TAXI 

1    passenger,   35c;    2  to  5   passengers,   50c. 

25c   each  stop   for  not   more   than 

5    minutes'   duration. 

Anywhere  in  the  City  Limits 


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The  Columbia  Laundry 

I.aunderers  and  Dry  Cleaners 

li.iUlcKnnind    Ave.    at    Cedar   St. 


SILVER'S 

5-10  and  $1.00  Store 

College  Girls 

always  welcome  at  Silver's 


(Webster)  Hines.  Sarah  Weeks.  Mary 
Tuttle  Whisnant,  Eleanor  Lane  White, 
Elizabeth  White.  Josie  Nance  White, 
Merryl  Whisnant.  Evelyn  (Whittenton) 
Bingham,  Nelda  Widcnhouse.  Mary  Eliza- 
beth Willard.  Helena  Williams,  Mary 
Elizabeth  (Williamson)  Nowlan.  Nancy 
Williard,  Lucy  Agnes  Willmott,  Daphne 
Winstcad,  Ruth  (Winterling)  Diercks. 
Irene  Womble.  Marjorie    (Wyatt)    Howie. 

.Jacquclyn  Yelverton.  Catherine  Yoe, 
Eleanor  Younts.  Myrtle  Lee  York.  Betty 
Yost.   Winnie   F.   Yount. 

Christine    Zachary. 


MARRIED 


Ruth  (Vick)  Everett  '21  to  John  T. 
OBricn,  December  14,  1945,  the  Meth- 
odist Church,  Georgetown.  Md.  Mr. 
O'Brien  is  director  of  the  Field  Division 
of  OPA's  Department  of  Information.  At 
home  Washington  City, 

Cynthia  Mac  Reeves,  '27  to  Sydney 
Thomas  Snow,  March  19,  St.  Thomas 
lipiscopal   Church,   Thomasvillc,   Ga. 

Sarah  Holt  Foust  '28  to  Dr.  Milton 
Burton.  May  18.  home  of  the  bride's  sis- 
iLT.  Elizabeth  (Foust)  Ashcraft,  '22.  Ral- 
eigh. Dr.  Burton  is  a  graduate  of  New 
^'ork  University,  where  he  also  received 
his  doctorate.  For  your  years  during  the 
w.ir  he  was  connected  with  the  atomic 
bomb  project  at  both  the  University  of 
Chicago  and  Clinton.  Tenn.  Ho  was  sec- 
tion chief  of  work  on  radiation  chemistry 
at  the  metallurgical  laboratories.  He  is 
now  professor  of  chemistry  at  Notre  Dame 
University.  At  home  Mischawaka.  Ind. 
Sarah  is  a  niece  of  the  late  Dr.  J.  L  Foust. 

Sarah  Elizabeth  Poole  "5  2  to  Francis 
,\lberi  West.  May  17.  I-ront  Street  Meth- 
iidisl  Church.  Burlington.  Since  his  dis- 
charge from  ibc  Army  several  months 
ago,    the   bridegroom    has   been    taking   spe 


cial  work  at  the  University  of  North 
Carolina.  Chapel  Hill.  At  home  Burling- 
ton. 

Marjorie  Wyrick  '35  to  Arthur  P. 
Ferguson.  May  5,  Central  Methodist 
Church,  Mt.  Airy.  The  bridegroom  served 
3  1  months  overseas  with  the  U.  S.  Army. 
He  received  his  discharge  in  October. 
1945. 

Barbara  Cuthrell  '3  8  to  James  Law- 
rence Frank.  February  28.  Duke  Chapel. 
Durham.  Elizabeth  Gant  '37  was  maid 
of  honor.  The  bridegroom  was  graduated 
from  Yale  University.  He  served  for  four 
years  with  the  U.  S.  Army  Air  Forces.  At 
home   New   York   City. 

Lennis  Farmer  '38  to  Anthony  Mai- 
lers. February  16.  The  bridegroom  is  in 
the   U.    S.    Army. 

Catherine  Fleet  '3  8  to  Lt.  Joseph  T. 
Brooks,  U.  S,  Army.  April  20.  West 
Market  Street  Methodist  Church,  Greens- 
boro. Sarah  Fleet  '4  2  was  her  sister's  only 
attendant.  Lieutenant  Brooks  served  in  the 
China-Burma-India  Theater  of  Opera- 
tions, and  was  communications  officer  at 
the  surrender  of  the  Japanese  forces  in 
China.  He  has  received  several  decorations, 
cne  from  the  Chinese  government.  He  is 
now  head  communications  officer  at  Lang- 
ley   Field,   Hampton,   \'a. 

Justina  Bernard  '39  to  Chief  Warrant 
Officer  Paul  Leander  Atwood.  U.  S.  Navy. 
April  18.  Naval  Base  Chapel,  Norfolk. 
Va.  Mr.  Atwood  serves  in  the  regular 
Navy  and  is  now  stationed  at  Norfolk. 
At   home   there. 

Dorothy  Ficker  '39  to  Richard  Stew- 
art Jenkins.  April.  1945.  Mr.  Jenkins 
s.'rved  as  a  pilot  in  the  U.  S.  Army  Air 
Forces.  Dorothy  is  secretary  to  the  comp- 
troller of  Columbia  University.  At  home 
New   York   City. 

Emily  Irving  Harris  '39  to  Lunsford 
Richardson  Preyer.  May  11.  First  Pres- 
byterian Church.  Greensboro.  The  bride- 
groom is  a  graduate  of  W^oodberry  For- 
est School.  Orange.  \'a..  and  of  Prince- 
ton University,  where  he  received  his  let- 
ter in  football  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Tower  club.  During  the  war.  Mr.  Preyer 
saw  Navy  duty  in  South  Atlantic  and 
African  waters,  and  also  served  as  execu- 
tive officer  on  a  destroyer  in  the  South 
Pacific.  At  the  time  of  his  separation  from 
the  Navy,  he  was  a  senior  grade  lieuten- 
ant, and  for  duty  performed  during  the 
Okinawa  campaign,  was  awarded  the 
Bronze  Star.  Emily  —  the  daughter  oi 
the  late  Jane  (Montgomery)  Harris,  class 
of  1  898  —  was  outstanding  in  popularity 
among  students  and  faculty  while  in  col- 
lege, and  in  her  senior  year,  served  as 
president  of  the  Student  Government  As- 
sociation. She  later  did  graduate  study 
in  English  at  the  University  of  X'irginia. 
which  conferred  upon  her  an  MA.  d.- 
grec.  She  is  a  member  of  Chi  Omega 
sorority.  .As  her  special  contribution  to 
the  war  effort.  Emily  saw  duty  for  sev- 
eral months  overseas  in  Australia  with  th 
American  Red  Cross.  The  Preyers  are  now 
in  Cambridge.  Mass..  where  Mr.  Preyer 
is  a  student  in  the  Harvard  Law  School. 
Margaret  Idol  '39  to  Lt.  (j.g.)  John 
Clarkson  Potter.  May  4.  home  of  the 
bride's  parents.  Pleasant  Garden.  Nancy 
Idol  '4  2  was  her  sister's  only  attendani. 
I'ho   bride  served   for  four  years  as  a  lieu 


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tenant  in  the  WAVES.  The  bridegroom  is 
a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Washing- 
ton, and  is  planning  to  do  graduate  work 
in  chemistry.  Until  June  1.  at  home  Isle 
of   Palms.    S.    C. 

Martha  Kearney  Brown  '40  to  Lt. 
Comdr.  Bennett  Haskin  Hunter,  U.  S. 
Navy,  March  8,  New  Orleans,  La.  Com- 
mander Hunter  is  a  graduate  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  North  Carolina,  Chapel  Hill, 
where  he  was  president  of  his  class.  H; 
went  to  the  Navy  in  1941,  attended 
reserve  officer's  school,  Washington,  D.  C 
and  saw  duty  in  the  Atlantic.  He  then 
had  special  training  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, and  subsequent  duty  with  the  Navy 
Supply  Corps  in  Ohio  and  California. 
For  a  year  he  was  stationed  in  New  Or- 
leans as  head  of  the  disbursement  office 
for  the  Eighth  Naval  District.  He  and 
his  bride  are  now  at  Pearl  Harbor.  Com- 
mander Hunter  is  the  son  of  Mrs.  S.  J. 
Hunter,  counselor  in  Gray  Hall,  Woman's 
College. 

Mary  Louise  Riddick  '40  to  Fletcher 
Harrison  Gregory  Jr.,  April  27,  Trinity 
Episcopal  Church,  Scotland  Neck.  The 
bridegroom  is  a  graduate  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  North  Carolina,  Chapel  Hill,  Since 
his  release  from  the  U.  S.  Army,  he  has 
been  vice  president  of  the  Bank  of  Hali- 
fax, in  charge  of  the  Weldon  Branch 
Office.    At   home   Wcldon. 

Mary  Alice  Sides  '40  to  James  Lewis 
Cooke.  March  24,  Race  Street  Methodist 
Church,  Statesville.  The  bridegroom  is  a 
chief  aviation  machinist  in  the  U.  S. 
Navy,  and  has  recently  completed  a  tour 
of  duty  with  the  Navy  in  the  Pacific. 

Doris  Burke  '41  to  Lt.  William  Joseph 
May,  Army  Medical  Corps,  March  27, 
Centenary  Methodist  Church,  'Winston- 
Salem.  Dr.  May  is  a  graduate  of  High 
Point  College  and  of  Bowman  Gray 
School  of  Medicine.  He  interned  at  the 
Milwaukee  County  Hospital,  which  is 
associated  with  Marquette  University.  He 
is  now  on  active  duty  with  the  U.  S. 
Army,  stationed  in  San  Antonio.  Texas. 
At    home    there. 

Martha  Pauline  Huff  '41  to  Ray  Nelson 
Jarvis,  March  2,  Mars  Hill.  The  bride- 
groom is  doing  graduate  work  at  State 
College,    Raleigh,    At   home   there. 

Catherine  Jernigan  '41  to  William  Bal- 
lard McLamb,  February  9,  Presbyterian 
Church,  Dunn.  Mr.  McLamb  served  with 
the  U.  S.  Army  for  four  years,  and  is 
now  manager  of  McLamb's  store  in  Dunn. 
At  home  there. 

Mary  Jane  Stuart  '41  to  Ernest  K. 
Whitener  Jr.,  January  27,  Winston-Sa- 
lem. Mr.  Whitener  is  a  graduate  of  Ca- 
tawba College  and  of  the  University  of 
Maine.  He  served  with  the  Army  Air 
Forces  during  the  war.  Mr.  Whitener  is 
now  connected  with  International  Paper 
Company.  Georgetown,  S.  C.  At  home 
there. 

Mildred  'Vreeland  '41  to  John  H.  Cam- 
ber, April  26.  Episcopal  Church.  Fayette- 
villc.  The  bridegroom  returned  in  January 
from  three  years  of  service  with  the 
Army —  18  months  in  the  Pacific.  He  is 
planning  to  go  to  a  school  for  dentists 
this  fall.  At  home  Fort  Bragg,  where 
both    are    working    at    Pope    Field. 

Elizabeth  duFour  '4  2  to  Capt.  Welles 
R.     Bliss,     USMCR,     June     23,      1945, 


Church  of  St.  Mary  the  'Virgin,  Chap- 
paqua.  N.  Y.  Jane  O'Connor  duFour  '41 
and  Wilma  Morton  '43  were  bridesmaids. 
Captain  Bliss  is  a  graduate  of  Lehigh 
University  and  of  Columbia  University. 
At  home  New  York  City. 

Mary  Frances  Lee  '42  to  Lt.  (j.g.) 
Kenneth  Gex  Reesman,  U.  S.  Navy,  April 
27,  Edenton  Street  Methodist  Church, 
Raleigh.  Eleanor  (House)  Williams  '4  2 
was  a  bridesmaid.  Lieutenant  Reesman  is 
an  alumnus  of  the  University  of  Min- 
n:sota,  where  he  was  graduated  in  dairy- 
ing. He  served  19  months  with  the  Navy 
in   the   Aleutians.    At  home   Fresno.   Calif. 

Dorothy  Mansfield  '4  2  to  Edward 
Berry  McDaniel  Jr..  March  7.  home  of 
the  bride's  parents.  New  Haven,  Conn, 
At  home  Jacksonville,  Fla,,  where  the 
bridegroom  is  serving  with  the  U.  S. 
Navy. 

Marie  Reilley  '4  2  to  Robert  Ernest 
Ridgeway.  March  9,  Charlotte.  At  home 
Seattle,   'Wash. 

Thco  (Roberts)  (Fore)  '4  2  to  Lt. 
Richard  Greenwood  Creadick,  U.  S.  Navy, 
January  12,  St.  Bartholomew's  Church, 
New  York  City.  Lieutenant  Creadick  is 
a  graduate  of  Yale  University  School  of 
Liberal  Arts,  and  School  of  Architecture. 
He  participated  in  the  Mediterranean  in- 
vasion   landings    as    skipper    on    an    LCI. 


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He  has  received  his  discharge  from  the 
Navy  and  is  now  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  as  architect.  At  home 
New  Haven.  Conn. 

Anna  Bell  4  3  to  George  William 
Dickieson.  March  2  3.  West  Market  Street 
Methodist  Church.  Gr-'cnsboro.  A  notable 
program  of  wedding  music  was  presented 
by  George  M.  Thompson,  organist.  Mary 
Alice  Shackleford  '44.  mezzo-soprano, 
and  a  ten-piece  chamber  music  ensemble. 
Mr.  Dickieson  is  assistant  professor  in 
the  School  of  Music  at  Woman's  College. 
He  received  his  bachelor's  degree  from 
Salem  College,  and  his  master's  degree 
from  Cincinnati  Conservatory  of  Music. 
He  taught  in  the  Forsyth  County  schools 
before  joining  the  Woman's  College  fac- 
ulty. At  home  Greensboro. 

Miriam  Day  '43  to  Capt.  Robert  Wil- 
liam Raney.  on  terminal  Army  leave. 
March  21.  First  Methodist  Church.  Spruce 
Pine.  Nancy  Dixon  King  '42  was  organ- 
ist. Sarah  Fleet  '42  and  Elizabeth  Phil- 
lips '3  9  were  bridesmaids.  Caotain  Raney 
is  a  graduate  of  Davidson  College,  where 
he  was  a  member  of  Beta  Theta  Pi  so.ial 
fraternity,  and  president  of  Pi  Gamma 
Mu  honorary  social  science  fraternity.  He 
served  in  Europe  with  the  102nd  Infan- 
try Division,  in  the  German  invasion.  He 
is  now  associated  with  his  father  in  busi- 
ness in   Little  Rock.   Ark.   At  home  there. 

Betty  Hopkins  '4  3  to  Dr.  Paul  Henry 
Sherman,  March  23,  Holy  Trinity 
Church.  Greensboro.  Dr.  Sherman  was 
graduated  from  the  School  of  Medicine. 
Duke  University.  Durham.  He  is  serving 
his  internship  in  surgery  at  Duke  Hos- 
pital.  At   home  Durham. 

Ruby  Leftwich  '4  3  to  Capt.  Henry 
Winfield  Robertson.  April  27.  Ogburii 
Memorial  Methodist  Church.  Winsto'i 
Salem.  Captain  Robertson  is  a  graduate 
of  Brevard  College,  where  he  was  active 
in  writing  and  dramatics.  He  served  for 
more  than  three  years  with  the  LI.  S. 
Army,  two  years  of  which  were  spent 
in    the   Pacific   War   Theater. 

Esta  Frankie  Leonard  '43  to  Lt.  Robeit 
Allen  Draper.  May  4,  "Virginia  Gilmer 
Room.  First  Presbyterian  Church.  Greens 
boro.  Arriwona  Shoaf  '40  was  the  bride's 
only  attendant.  Lieutenant  Draper  received 
a  bachelor  of  arts  degree  from  Dartmouth 
College  and  a  master  of  arts  degree  from 
Tuck  School  of  Business  Administration, 
Hanover,   N,    H.   At   home   Toledo.   Ohio 

Susie  Mattox  '43  to  Capt.  Robert  N. 
Harrington,  March  1,  Oahu,  Honolulu. 
Captain  Harrington  was  graduated  from 
Temple  School  of  Dentistry.  He  is  now 
stationed  at  Fort  DeRussy.  Oahu.  L'ntil 
her  marriage.  Susie  was  Army  recreational 
director  of  Fort  Ruger  Service  Club.  At 
home  on  Wakiki  Beach. 

Agnes  Pcttit  '4  3  to  Ll.  Comdr.  L.  P. 
Reily,  August  28.  1045.  Navy  Yard. 
Charleston.  S.  C.  Amelia  Hinkle  '4  3  was 
the  bride's  only  attendant.  Ruth  (Cash) 
Maynard  '4  3  was  among  those  present. 
Previous  lo  his  Naval  duty.  Mr.  Reily 
taught  in  Collinston.  La.  He  is  now  do- 
ing graduate  work  at  Louisiana  Slate  Uni- 
versity.  At   home   Mer   Rouge.   La. 

Gloria  Price  '4  3  to  Alexander  S.  Mod- 
dcrno.  February  10,  St.  Patrick's  Cath- 
olic Church.  Bay  Shore.  Long  Island. 
N.  "*!'.   Ai   home   Bay  Shore. 


Gertrude  Tanner  '43  to  James  Hogarth. 
August  28.  1945.  First  Baptist  Church. 
Henderson.  Mary  (Tanner)  Balderson  '42 
was  matron  of  honor.  Honorary  brides- 
maids included  Mary  Cary  Harris  '43 
Minerva  Falkner  '45  and  Ruth  Royal  '45. 
Mr.  Hogarth  is  an  engineer  for  the  De- 
partment of  Buildings  and  Grounds  of 
the  State  of  North  Carolina.  At  home 
Raleigh. 

Lydia  Wood  Taylor  '4  3  to  Frank  Wil- 
bur Dorsett.  March  30.  Jessie  Lee  Meth- 
odist Church.  Easton.  Conn.  Mr.  Dorsett 
is  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  Woman's 
College,  in  the  Drama  Department.  He 
received  his  bachelor  of  arts  and  master's 
degrees  from  the  University  of  North 
Carolina.  Chapel  Hill:  directed  the  Ral- 
eigh Little  Theater  two  years  before  join- 
ing the  Woman's  College  faculty,  and 
worked  as  designer  and  technical  director 
for  the  five  summer  productions  of  North 
Carolina's  famed  "Lost  Colony"  on 
Roanoke  Island,  He  served  for  three  years 
with  the  U.  S.  Army.  At  home  Greens- 
boro. 

Ann  Lowrey  Webster  '43  to  Rev.  W. 
Armistead  Boardman.  April  26,  St.  John  s 
Episcopal  Church.  Savannah.  Ga.  Myra 
Culpepper  4  3  was  a  bridesmaid.  Mr. 
Boardman  is  a  graduate  of  the  University 
of  the  South,  and  Union  Theological 
Seminary.  He  is  now  assistant  rector  of 
St.  Luke's  Episcopal  Church.  Atlanta. 
Ga.   At   home  there. 

Mary  Agnes  Cochrane  '44  to  Harris 
A.  Ward,  February  23,  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  Lincolnton.  Mr.  Ward  spent  five 
years  with  the  U.  S.  Army  Air  Forces  — 
three  of  these  years  in  the  South  Pacific. 
He  is  now  attending  Rensselaer  Poly- 
technic Institute,  working  for  a  degree 
in  electrical  engineering.  At  home  Troy. 
N.  Y. 

Louise  Long  '44  to  William  A.  Wilson 
Jr..   May    21.   Raleigh.   Mr.   Wilson   is  an 


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alumnus  of  State  College.  Raleigh.  He 
spent  a  year  with  the  28th  Infantry 
Division  overseas. 

Mjzel  Stilwell  '44  to  Willie  Stevenson 
Williams  Jr.,  March  I.  First  Baptist 
Church.  Thomasville.  Mr.  Williams  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Textile  School  at  North 
Carolina  State  College.  Raleigh.  He  served 
for  39  months  with  the  Eighth  Air  Force. 
He  is  now  connected  with  Carter  Fabrics, 
Incorporated,  South  Boston.  At  home 
there. 

Mary  Anna  Hallenbeck  '4  5  to  Howard 
Curtis  Elliott.  March  5,  Myers  Park 
Methodist  Church.  Charlotte.  The  bride- 
groom is  a  student  at  State  College.  Ral- 
eigh.  At  home  there. 

June  Kathryn  Hallyburton  '45  to  Sam- 
uel Winston  Huddleston  III,  May  3, 
Nashville,   Tenn. 

Mary  Grace  Maus  '45  to  Eben  Turner 
Rawls  Jr.,  April  2.  Grace  Methodist 
Church.  Greensboro.  Laura  (Brown) 
Quinn  '42  was  matron  of  honor.  After 
spending  three  years  in  the  U.  S.  Army. 
the  bridegroom  has  resumed  his  studies  at 
Wake  Forest  College,  where  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Delta  Sigma  Phi  fraternity.  At 
home   there. 

Margaret  Emily  Mullen  '45  to  Thomas 
R.  Easterling  Jr.,  May  11,  Presbyterian 
Church,  Huntersville,  The  bridegroom  was 
a  first  lieutenant  in  the  Army  Air  Forces 
at  the  time  of  his  discharge.  He  spent 
8  months  in  the  European  War  Theater. 
He  is  an  alumnus  of  the  University  of 
North  Carolina,  and  is  now  employed  at 
the  Greensboro-High  Point  Airport  by 
the  Civil  Aeronautics  Administration.  At 
home   Greensboro. 

Doris  Murph  '45  to  James  Edgar  Mc- 
Neely  Jr.,  April  13,  Coburn  Memorial 
Methodist  Church,  Salisbury.  Daphne 
Lewis  '44  was  the  wedding  soloist.  Mar- 
tha Carpenter  '44  was  a  bridesmaid.  The 
bridegroom  spent  more  than  three  years 
in  the  U.  S.  Army.  He  has  resumed  his 
work  at  State  College.  Raleigh.  He  is  a 
member  of  Sigma  Nu  fraternity.  At  home 
Raleigh. 

Sarah  Scruggs  '45  to  Walter  Rees  Mur- 
ray, March  9.  First  Baptist  Church, 
Greensboro.  The  bridegroom  is  an  alum- 
nus of  Duke  University,  Durham,  He  is 
now  an  industrial  sound  engineer  for 
Dixie  Radio  Supply  Company,  Greens- 
boro, At  home  there, 

Cora  Belle  Stegall  '45  to  Richard  Lee 
Rice,  April  12,  First  Baptist  Church. 
Raleigh.  Katherine  Simpson  '45  was  maid 
of  honor.  The  bridegroom  is  a  graduate 
in  architectural  engineering  of  State  Col- 
lege, Raleigh,  During  the  war,  he  served 
3  0  months  overseas  as  a  major  in  the 
U.  S.  Army  Corps  of  Engineers.  He  is 
now  associated  with  the  firm  of  Cooper- 
Shumakcr.  Architects.  Raleigh.  At  home 
there, 

Ruth  Talley  '45  to  Lt,  Joel  Herbert 
Sherman.  April  6.  St.  Paul's  Methodist 
Church.  Randleman.  Lieutenant  Sherman 
is  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  Chapel  Hill.  He  is  now  sta- 
tioned with  the  U.  S.  Army  in  Charles- 
ton,  S.  C.   At  home  there. 

Mary  Katherine  Allen  '46  to  William 
G.  Monroe  Jr..  March  27,  Christ's 
Church,  Raleigh.  The  bridegroom  has  re- 
sumed   his    studies    at    the    University    of 


North  Carolina.  Chapel  Hill,  where  he 
was  a  student  when  he  entered  the  Navy. 
The  bride  continued  her  work  at  Wom- 
an's College,  and  received  her  degree  in 
June. 

Priscilla  Moore  '46  to  John  H.  Brink- 
ley  Jr..  February  16.  Thomasville.  The 
bride  was  the  May  Queen  on  May  Day. 
The  bridegroom  served  in  the  United 
States  Marine  Corps.  He  is  now  engaged 
in  construction  business  with  his  father, 
but  plans  to  enter  State  College,  Raleigh, 
in  the  fall.  The  bride  returned  to  the 
college   to   take  her  degree  in   June. 

Evelyn  Gray  Whittcnton  '46  to  Lt 
(j.g.)  William  Louis  Bingham,  U.  S 
Navy.  March  28,  First  Baptist  Church 
Dunn.  Norma  Perry  '46  was  an  attend 
ant.  Lieutenant  Bingham  is  a  graduate  o 
Wake  Forest  College  and  a  member  o 
Delta  Sigma  Phi  fraternity.  He  was  grad 
uated  from  Bowman  Gray  School  o 
Medicine  and  is  now  interning  under 
the  Navy  at  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

Elizabeth  Williamson  '46  to  Lt.  (j.g.) 
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ston-Salem. Katherine  Cole.  Jean  Bible. 
Nancy  Yates.  Jean  McMichael,  Mary 
Morris  and  Nancy  Sue  Gladstone,  all 
'46.  were  bridesmaids.  Lieutenant  Now- 
lan was  graduated  from  Bowman  Gray 
School  of  Medicine,  and  also  from  Wake 
Forest  College,  where  he  was  a  member 
of  Delta  Sigma  Phi  fraternity.  He  is  now 
intern  at  the  Naval  Hospital.  Ocean  Side, 
Calif. 


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NECROLOGY 


Class  of  1897 

Sallic  (Cook)  McCall  died  February 
21.    Wilkes    Hospital.    North   Wilkesboro. 

Class  of  1899 

Josephine  Laxton  died  December  29. 
1045.  Ashcville,  after  an  illness  of  several 
months. 

Class  of  1907 

Lucy  Hawkins  (Mrs.  Francis  E. 
Thomas)  died  March  28.  following  a 
stroke.  After  her  graduation  from  college. 
Lucy  Hawkins  accepted  a  position  in 
Wadesboro  as  a  teacher  in  the  public 
schools.  She  was  married  in  1910,  in 
Pittsboro.  at  the  ancestral  home  of  her 
mother,  and  returned  to  Wadesboro  to 
m.ikc  her  own  home.  Her  husband  is  dean 
of  the  Wadesboro  bar.  and  has  served  a 
number  of  terms  in  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives of  the  State  Legislature.  Mrs. 
Thomas  will  be  remembered  by  her  class- 
mates as  the  class  poet,  and  by  many 
alumnae  for  her  continued  interest  in  her 
college.  To  her  daughters.  Martha  Bynum 
(Thomas)  Read  '36  and  Susannah 
Thomas  '39,  to  her  two  sons,  and  her 
husband,  the  ALUMNAE  NEWS  extends 
deepest  sympathy. 

Mary  Robinson  died  April  13.  in  Duke 
Hospital,  Durham.  The  news  of  her  pass- 
ing has  been  heard  with  sorrow  by  many 
former  students  of  Woman's  College, 
where  she  was  a  teacher  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  Biology  from  the  time  of  her 
graduation  until  1921.  Her  sincerity,  gen- 
tleness, sympathy,  and  devotion  to  the 
finest  personal  and  professional  ideals 
made  her  a  rare  spirit  on  our  campus. 
She  left  Woman's  College  to  become  as- 
sistant superintendent  of  schools  in  her 
home  county,  Anson.  From  this  post  she 
was  transferred  naturally  and  easily  into 
that  of  superintendent  of  public  welfare 
of  Anson  County,  a  position  she  held 
until  her  death.  During  the  years,  she  did 
special  study  at  the  University  of  North 
Carolina  and  at  Columbia  University,  and 
was  active  in  welfare  organizations  in 
the  state.  Always  she  was  an  interested 
and  loyal  alumna  of  this  College. 

CLASS  OI-    I'I2S 
Naomi    Schell    died    the    latter    part    of 
1  ebruaty    in   a    nursini;   home   in    .Xsheville. 


For  14  years  she  gave  distinguished  and 
devoted  service  on  the  mission  field  in 
Japan,  under  the  direction  of  the  Southern 
Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Board.  She  be- 
came ill  in  Japan  and  retired  in  1940. 
After  her  return  to  her  home  in  Asheville. 
she  still  continued  to  teach  a  Sunday 
School  class  at  the  Merrimon  Baptist 
Church,  sometimes  being  carried  there  in 
a  wheel  chair.  She  assisted  also  with  the 
Baptist  conferences  held  at  Ridgecrest. 
Gentle  in  spirit,  living  a  life  of  complete 
surrender  to  Christian  ideals,  she  was  a 
power  in  the  work  of  His  kingdom.  At 
least  four  western  North  Carolina  circles 
of  the  Woman's  Missionary  Union  are 
named  for  Naomi  Schell.  including  the 
Naomi  Schell  Circle,  composed  of  busi- 
ness women  of  the  First  Baptist  Church. 
Asheville.  She  was  always  an  interested 
alumna.  During  her  years  in  Japan,  and 
after  her  return  home,  she  remained  a 
faithful  member  of  the  Alumnae  Associa- 
tion, responding  to  all  calls,  interested  in 
all  of  our  activities.  We  miss  her  presence, 
even  though  our  loss  is  her  supreme  gain. 


We  Extend 
Deepest  Sympathy: 

To  lone  H.  Grogan.  president  of  the 
Alumnae  Association,  in  the  death  of  her 
mother.  April  2  3.  at  the  home  in  Rcids- 
ville. 

To  Molfitte  (Sinclair)  Henderson,  class 
of  1914.  and  Julia  (Sinclair)  Kearns. 
class  of  1917.  in  the  death  of  their 
mother.  February   24.  Chapel  Hill. 

To  Katherine  (Grantham)  Rogers  '2ti. 
Edna  (Grantham)  Seabury  '^0.  and  Ma- 
donna (Grantham)  McKay.  Com.  18. 
in  the  death  of  their  mother.  November 
10.    1 045.    Greensboro. 

To  Phyllis  (Morrah-)  McLeod  '37  in 
the  sudden  death  of  her  father,  April  1 . 
Wesley    Long    Hospital.    Greensboro. 

Vo  Herminc  Caraway  '37.  Corneille 
(Caraway)  Sineath  '44.  and  Joyce  Cara- 
w.iy  '48,  in  the  death  of  their  father. 
January    13,   Wadesboro. 


July,  1946 


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That  I  am  bound  by  pain  or  grief. 
The  things  that  others  do  and  say 
Erect  no  barriers  in  my  way. 
All  past  mistakes  I  leave  behind. 
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As  I  begin  this  day. 

I  free  myself  from  lack  and  fear. 
The  habits  formed  in  yesteryear. 
Old  grievances  I  lay  away, 
And  with  a  hopeful  heart  I  pray 
That  in  my  body,  soul,  and  mind, 
A  worthy  channel  God  will  find 
To  do  His  work  this  day. 

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