IHB.
The Woman^s Cduege
of the University of Mor0i^^arolina
The
Alumnae Neiivs
WOMAN'S COLLEGE ^^^^^
,N.VERS,TV OF NORTH CAR
\¥as it theirs?
July, 1957
Progress Report
The 1957 Alumnae Fund
Daisies, daisies,
Daisies are telling you . . .
Give your money.
Give it, honey, do.
We ask for your donation
To Alumnae 'sociation.
Give your mon'
For the Fund,
Give it. Alumnae, do.
Daisies, daisies.
Daisies are telling you . . .
The newest craze is
Paying up what is due.
The daisy bed is seeded.
Your money is really needed.
Now is the hour
To make them flower.
Give it. Alumnae, do.
June
April
2,189 contributors
$9,568.00
1,036 contributors
$5,024.25
Th«
The Woman^s College
of the University of ISorth Carolina
Alumnae Ne^ivs
Vol. XI. V. No. 4
Jiilv i;>57
Officers
President (1959)
Julia Watson Maulden '33
Kannapolis, Nortli Carolina
First Vice-President (1958)
Judy Barrett '42
Raleigh, North Carolina
Second Vice-President (1959)
Celeste Ulrich '46
Greensboro, North Carolina
Recording Secretary
Sarah Carter Womble '51
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Board of Trustees
Martha Blakeney Hodges '18 (1958)
Raleigh, North Carolina
Sue Murchison Hayworth '42 (1958)
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Dianne Page Bench '45 (1958)
Arlington, Virginia
Jane Linville Joyner '46 (1958)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chris Velonis Miller '57 (1958)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Emily Harris Preyer '39 (1958)
Greensboro, North Carolina
Ezda Deviney '19 (1959)
Tallahassee, Florida
Patricia Markas '53 (1959)
Kannapolis, North Carolina
Nancy Porter '50 (1959)
Greensboro, North Carolina
Cora Stegall Rice '45 (1959)
Raleigh, North Carolina
Executive Secretary
Barbara Parrish '48
Greensboro, North Carolina
Contents
A Sharing; 2
Madam President and
Her Family 5
Faculty Retirements 6
. . . on Dedications 7
Campus Facts,
Faces, Figures 10
... on the "State of
the College" 12 Dr. W. W. Pierson
Associational Business 14
Chapters 1 5
A New Class Reunion Schedule 17
In Memoriam 18
NcMs and Reunion Notes 19
Sympathy 29
Mclver of North Carolina 29
Barbara Parrish, Editor
Evon Welch Dean, Assistant Editor
Mildred DeBoi'de Jackson, Circulation Manager
Published four times a year (October,
January. April, July) by the Alumnae
Association of the Woman's College of
the University of North Carolina, Greens-
boro. Admitted as second-class matter at
the postoffice in Greensboro. N. C. June
29, 1912. Single copies, 50 cents.
The Cover: Was it theirs? . . .
Commencement Weekend, that is.
The Class of 1957 and more than
500 Alumnae shared the campus
and College activities from May 31
through June 2.
During Commencement Weekend
A
ed by registrars in the
AFTER a 1"
torv exam
With the winking daisy over her shoulder.
Blanche lAustini Thies '07 does her bit for
the Alumnae Fund.
rather late-in-the-week His-
exam on Friday morning (May
31), enougli Freshmen evacuated the
campus (and their beds) to allow more
than 500 Alumnae who registered and
sought overnight accommodations hous-
ing space in Coit, Gotten, and Jamison
Halls. (Commencement Weekend activi-
ties really began on Friday morning when
158 members of the Commercial Class re-
ceived certificates at their "commence-
ment" exercises in the Elliott Hall Ball-
room.) Registration, begun at 4:00 in the
afternoon, continued until 10:00 on Fri-
day night, and from 8:00 until closing
time, "returnees" gathered in the Alum-
nae House for coffee and/or lemonade.
JIaybe "flocked" would be a better term
. . . the refreshments which are usually
over-prepared, proved to be a little under-
prepared. Social Chairman Jane (Davis)
Lambert had to dash to "the Corner" to
buy more coffee. It was wonderful . . .
folks just kept coming.
Bleary-eyed Alumnae reporters on Sat-
urday morning told student-like tales of
staying up way into the night (and morn-
ing) just talking. The excitement of the
day, however, roused even those with no
sleep, and the suitable reward for check-
ing-by the Alumnae House to register if
that had not been done on Friday and to
meet late-comers was eye-opening coffee.
This choice of refreshment proved to be
a helpful one because the Associational
meeting in the Elliott Hall Ballroom
which began about 10:30 turned out to
be a lengthy one.
President Emily (Harris) Preyer pre-
sided at the meeting and first-off intro-
duced Nancy Porter, chairman of the Un-
dergraduate Relations Committee, who
moved that the 483 members of the Class
of '57 be accepted into membership (sec-
onded and unanimously passed). Nancy
introduced Sadye Dunn, everlasting presi-
dent of the class, who in turn introduced
the other everlasting officers. Emily then
Continued on page 4
Shariii:
. . . 483 Seniors and 500-plus Alumnae
ivere co-possessors of the Woman^s College
I think it gignificcDit and apjiropriate that I cannot liold in my Iiand in
formal presentation the gift from, the Class of 1957, for any semblance
of our feelings for the Woman's College is of necessity bigger than any
one person. It is with this thought in mind that we present our gift: that
we have learned, and hope the classes to follow will remember, that the
standards and influence of the Woman's College inust transcend wher-
ever we go. Thus we leave, as a lasting reminder of our unification with
all other institutions of life, the Flag of the United States of America.
Sadye Damn's words in presenting the Class of '5?'s gift
which flies in front of the Administration Building
Photographs by Elsie Prevatte "^59
A. A. Wilkinson
X-lf
Alumnae (and a few husbands) continued late visiting in the Supper lines.
A Shariiii
Continued
introduced Annie (Kizer) Bost, who in-
troduced the morning's speaker, Dr. Ellen
Winston, State Commissioner of Public
Welfare. In her remarks Dr. Winston
brought her audience face-to-face with
their responsibilities as educated, college-
trained women in the state and in the
nation. At the end of the speech, Emily
proceeded with the Association's busi-
ness: the reporting of committees, the
awarding of galvanized buckets (in lieu
of silver loving cups) to the Class of '47
for the largest number registered for the
weekend, to the Class of '07 for the larg-
est percentage registered, to the Classes
of '17 and '56 for the largest percentage
of contributors to the 1956 Alumnae Fund
among the reunioning classes, and to the
Class of '52 for the largest amount con-
tributed to the Fund among the reunion-
ing classes. And business followed busi-
ness . . . through it all the audience was
gratifyingly patient and attentive.
Every one was ready, though, for the
"hike" down Walker Avenue to Coleman
Gymnasium and a buffet-type luncheon
which a group of ladies from the Browns
Summit Methodist Church had prepared.
Each reunioning class had its own table
spread with fried chicken, deviled eggs,
sandwiches, pickles and olives, potato
salad, caramel cake, iced tea and coffee.
There was a spot for non-reunioners and
guests, too. A floor show followed the
"feasting": puppets Alma Mater and
Adelaide Alumna were typical reunioners
back to exchange tales of their exploits
since graduation; "the daisies" sang, not
for their lunch, but for the Alumnae
Fund; and representatives from each of
the reunioning classes pai'aded fashions
fashionable in their student days. The
group dispersed for individual class meet-
ings after the show, and a non-reunioner
could only guess the amounts of conver-
sation and catching-up which must have
taken place in these meetings.
CLASS DAY at 4:30 was the first Sen-
ior function of the week end. The
afternoon was sunny, and the Seniors and
their parents and friends gathered under
the trees (just off College Avenue) for
their last class meeting. Lu Stephenson,
Jo Anne Safrit, and Neil McLeod were
their chosen speakers, and Class Day
Chairman Sharon Lupton's program went
off without a hitch. With the singing of
"their song" What Is Woman's College
and the changing of the colors, Class Day
. . . 1957 was over. Alumnae activitiy
picked-up again at a "Meet the Chan-
celloi's Open House." Acting-Chancellor
and Mrs. Pierson and Chancellor-Elect
and Mrs. Blackwell greeted the Alumnae
as they came into the Virginia Dare
Room for a cup of tomato juice before
the Alumnae Supper.
Time records were broken in the buffet-
serving of the Alumnae Supper; within
thirty minutes 400 people were seated
in the Elliott Hall Ballroom with their
supper of ham, turkey, fruit salad, sweet
potato souffle, green beans, relishes, fruit
tarts, coffee or iced tea. During the latter
part of the meal, many were lucky
enough to be able to put down their forks
and raise their hands to signify that their
ticket number had been drawn for one of
the door prizes which were donated for
the occasion by Cone Mills, Burlington
Industries, J. P. Stevens, Blue Bell, Jus-
tice Drug Company, and Vick Chemical
Company. The P. Lorillard Company
gave sample cigarettes for each guest,
and the Southern Bell Telephone Com-
pany, matches.
The Seniors fittingly brought to a close
the Alumnae Supper with sketches from
their show "Didja Evah?" ... a some-
what historically - jumbled satire on
NCCW. How appropriate that the Alum-
nae could see themselves as the students
of today thought they acted when they,
too, were students! And it was such a
perfect climax for Alumnae Day to close
with the Seniors singing What Is Wom-
an's College. At 7:30 it was all over,
and thanks to the Dillard Paper Com-
pany and their donation of the week-
end's paper products, by 8:30 the Ball-
room was cleared and the Seniors were
coming in for the Ball . . . "Mist In
Indigo" was the theme. It is said that
many Alumnae who had stayed up late
on Friday night could not resist, even
for lost sleep, watching the dancers well
into Saturday night. For those who were
ready to sit and hear music, the College
Choir and Greensboro Orchestra pre-
sented an evening concert in Aycock
Auditorium.
GOLDEN CHAIN Alumnae joined the
student-links for breakfast in the
Alumnae House on Sunday morning be-
fore the Baccalaureate Sermon. Dr. Rob-
ert Todd Listen, president of King Col-
lege in Bristol, Tennessee, preached the
sermon. Afterwards the faculty of the
College entertained the Seniors, their
families and guests, and remaining Alum-
nae at a reception in Elliott Hall.
The weather which had behaved so
nicely all week end began "to show itself"
in mid - afternoon. Trustingly, prepara-
tions for an outdoor graduation ceremony
went ahead as planned . . . more chairs
were set-up on the lawn in front of the
Library than Aycock Auditorium had
seats. But the one chance in ten for a
shower, which the weatherman had pre-
dicted, materialized. Shortly before 6:00
the outdoor plan was abandoned, and the
exercises were held in the auditorium.
Governor Luther Hodges, University
President William Friday, and Acting-
Chancellor W. W. Pierson spoke to the
graduates.
Sadye Dunn, their everlasting presi-
dent, spoke for them: The beginning dif-
fers from the ending . . . the setting out
from the coming back. Recall a trip. At
first you know simply that you are going.
There is the early morning sun, the noise
of wind rushing through the open win-
dow; there is an air of excitement and
anxious chatter; the singing of songs —
old songs, hilarious antic-songs; the
scenery hurries by. Soon a landmark
is seen and you are there. The coming
back is different. There is the mellow-
ness of late sunshine, the quiet hum of
the wind; the trees and clouds become
your silent inspiring companions; the
songs are individually whispered, bring-
ing back places — faces. You look out and
see the cattle slowly plodding barn-ward,
and one early star in a darkening sky
overlooks the land of maturation . . . the
going home, the coming back. Perhaps
this strange analogy will come as a shock
to our parents when I apply it to their
daughters — to our process of growth over
four years' time. We began in the early
morning sun; every tissue of our being
tingled with youthful anticipation and
we talked; we searched for the college
days as the Ivy Leaguers assured us
they would be; we sang the song of
pleasure, of friendship, of being a part
of a spirit, of having a blue jacket and
class song; occasionally we remembered
that our grades would go home, that we
must major in something; often the
scenery passed by unnoticed. But we were
on our way, and even then we knew who
provided the transportation. We reached
a landmark.
It was about Junior year wlien we felt
the mellowness of late sunshine and in
this atmosphere we knew the journey
toward our goal had really begun. It
was then that we looked up and saw the
star and we reached. In our pursuit of
knowledge and in our constant evaluation
of ourselves we moved on, and we could
see. Our songs were individually whis-
pered, bringing back persons at liome
who loved us and believed in us, persons
of wisdom who sustained this belief as
we lived at the Woman's College, the
State whose financial and cultural con-
tributions added to our growth . . . a7id
you have been our silent inspiring com-
panions. We know that every pure and
beautiful thing, be it a child, a love, or
a single pearl, has its beginning in sim-
plicity, and when nourished becomes last-
ing and impermeable. The ending has
Continued on page 9
THE ALUMNAE NEWS
May we introduce
Madam President and her Family
This is the Mother .
In this spring's election Julia Watson Maulden of Kannapolis was
elected by the Alumnae as their president for the next two years.
Madam President "dearly loves" four young Mauldens and their
Pop . . . these are her family.
After being graduated from Woman' >< College in 3 years (town student, Phi Beta
Kappa), got 12 hours credit toward master's degree (at Emory University) . . .
degree never completed because "met Dr. Paul on blind date in September, ISSi;
married him in Greensboro in September, 19-35" . . . has made Girl Scouting an. al-
most "volunteer career"; in 18 years has served in almost every local and regional
"scouting capacity"; at present is a member of the National Board of Directors; the
local Girl Scout camp is named "Camp Julia" in her honor . . . for six years has
worked with 41 churches in a program for teaching Bible in the Kannapolis public
schools. Hobbies: am,ateur "hireling", horseback riding, raising flowers, book review-
ing, and speech making (especially to young people) . . . "dearly love: k young
Mauldens, their Pop, primitive camping, folk singing and dancing, big hats, apple
pie."
This is the Father
Physician and surgeon who has practiced in Cabarrus County (Kannapolis) for 22
years . . . graduate of Davidson (four-letter athlete), UNC, New York University
(interned at Bellevue Hospital in Nexv York) . . . Hobby: farming and raising Here-
ford cattle and Yorkshire pigs on farm near Asheville to ivhich he has nunli' ircekly
trips since 1916 purchase . . . "doesn't smoke, drink, or chew gum; su-cars urcusion-
ally" . . . Presbyterian . . . Mason . . . politically Independent . . . "staunch supporter
of and financial contributor to Iiis family's thousand-and.-one community projects."
This is the Brother tall .
Dr. Paul R. Maulden
This is the Sister . . .
Blonde hair, blue eyes, 6 feet tall . . .
II mil Senior at A. L. Brown High,
II Ik II he has already completed senior
Ilia III . . . cornet player in the band . . .
null -racer on track team . . . amateur
ii^l innomer and mathematical whiz (tak-
iiKj freshman math at Davidson this
summer) . . . ivants to be an atomic en-
gineer.
These are the Babies
t
Rising Junior at Woman's College . . .
majoring in English and History . . .
ivants to teach in high school . . . vale-
dictorian anil "Insl-ull-rniinil student" in
high school grailiiiitini/ rliiss . . . pianist
(taught her last tivo years in high
school) and violinist (played in high
school orchestra and now a meinber of
the Greensboro Orchestra) . . . knitting
and. needle point enthusiast.
Our "Indian Summer" babies . . . very
blonde, very blue-eyed, very active . . .
both have "the gift of gab."
Paul, Jr. ... 4
Faoiilfv RetireiiieiitiS
"All honor to your name(s) we give . .
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THEIR years of service total 274 . . . the eleven members of the Faculty and Staff who retired
from their work at the end of the 1956-1957 session. Their years of influence on the now-
Alumnae of the Collegre total a similar number of years for the present and an inestimable num-
ber for the future.
Louise Brevard Alexander
1935-1957
Boleta Frojen
Magnhilde Gullander
Mildred Harris
Professor of Political Science until her retirement
in 1956-57, after which time she continued as
Lectui-er in Political Science.
1955-1957
Visiting Associate Professor of Home Economics.
1918-1957
Professor of History until her retirement in 1956-
57, after which time she continued as Lecturer in
History.
1924-1957
Professor of Health until her retirement in 1956-
57, after which time she continued as Lecturer
in Health.
Minnie Middleton Hussey 1930-1957
Assistant Circulation Librarian.
Albert S. Keister
John C, Lockhart
Franklin H. McNutt
Alleine Minor
Jane Suninierell
Katherine E. Wright
1924-1957
Professor of Economics and Head of the Depart-
ment of Economics until his retirement in 1956-
57, after which time he continued as Lecturer in
Economics.
1943-1957
Business Manager of the College.
1941-1957
Associate Dean of the Graduate School of the Uni-
versity and Professor of Education.
1913-1957
Professor of Piano.
1926-1957
Professor of English until her retirement in 1956-
57, after which time she continued as Lecturer
in English.
1920-1931
1955-1957
Associate Professor of Chemistry, Lecturer in
Chemistry.
22 years of service
2 years of service
39 years of service
33 years of service
27 years of service
33 years of service
14 years of service
16 years of service
44 years of service
31 years of service
13 years of service
SOME TIME AGO the Board of Trus-
tees of the Consolidated University of
North Carolina named two buildings on
i the Woman's College campus: the Home
Economics building was designated the
Mary Frances Stone Building, and the
building known to many Alumnae as the
Old Library was designated the E. J.
Forney Building. During the spring, at
Stone Building on April 30 and in Forney
Building on May 31, memorial tablets
•wei'e unveiled during dedicatory cere-
monies.
Jessie Potts '47, who is a member of
the Home Economics faculty and who
was an Home Economics-Institution Man-
agement major with Mary Frances Stone
'47 for whom the building was named,
paid this tribute to her "classmate and
very good friend" at the Stone Building
dedication:
I remember so well the first time I saw
Mary Frances when I transferred to
Woman's College in the fall of 1945. She
had come over from Greensboro College
the year before, so she was given the re-
sponsibility of making my adjustment to
life here at Woman's College easier and
happier. With her winning smile and
cheerful disposition she did just that. If
you've ever lived through Freshman
Week on a big college campus, you can
appreciate how- happy I was to see that
familiar face each morning as we started
off on our various tours. Looking back
on those two years, these are the things
I remember best.
The days we spent in the cafeteria,
baking cakes, frying chicken, making out
menus for the Nursery School children,
keeping recoi'ds and serving on the cafe-
teria line. Meff, as we called her, was
always among the first to volunteer when
Miss Penn needed to have a special party
served.
Her particular job as a member of the
Westminster Fellowship Council was
playing with children in a housing de-
velopment. I can still see her, ball bat in
hand on a spring afternoon, having as
much fun as the children had.
During that first fall at Woman's Col-
lege we were enrolled in a Physiology
course. Each of us drew a Physical Edu-
cation major as a laboratory partner.
Since they were old hands at working
with frog muscles and we were rank
amateurs, we decided to join forces. By
holding each other's hand we began to
see the light and had a lot of fun in the
meantime.
As you remember, those were the war
years. We raked leaves, volunteered for
work in the dining hall and entertained
the armed forces during Sunday night
suppers at the church. Meff was very
much in evidence at all of these activi-
ties.
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Markers
Memorials
Our weeks in the Home Management
House were among our happiest. I re-
member what fun it was making a gin-
gei'bread man for one of the faculty
member's children who came to see us,
the pleasure we felt the day the Stones
came to dinner, the beauty we saw in our
walks through the snow in Peabody Park,
the thrill we experienced over the Sig-
mund Rombei'g concert and how Mary
Frances seemed to glow with the excite-
ment of it.
I remember other days and other
things: dances and how Meff was as ex-
cited as the rest of us over a date, par-
ticularly with a man in civilian clothes;
gab fests in the dorm; sun baths in the
spring; stopping by the Junior Shop, as
we called it then, for a snack; movies
at Aycock; graduation and all the rest.
We studied a lot and we played a lot.
Mary Frances thoroughly enjoyed college
life and somehow managed to make most
people happier for having known her.
To me, Mary Frances typifies what we
like to see in all young college women. I
am both proud and hapy to be a part of
this dedication ceremony in which my
friend and classmate is being honored.
Mary Frances Stone was killed in an
automobile accident in December after
her graduation from Woman's College
in June, 1947.
MR. E. J. FORNEY, for whom Forney
Building is named, was one of the
charter members of the Woman's College
faculty, the founder of the Commercial
Department, and the first treasurer of
the College. "Mr. Forney's building" was
dedicated on the morning of the One-
Year Commercial Department's 1957
"commencement" exercises, and Clara
Booth Byrd '13 paid this tribute to him:
This should not be a solemn occasion.
The man — E. J. Forney — whose name and
work we memorialize today had a ready
wit and an enthusiasm for life which
never left him; he loved the company of
friends and the sound of laughter. He
liked well-tailored clothes, good food, and
good living. His sons and daughters, as
well as faculty and students, called him
irreverently but affectionately, "E. J."
In person, he was the proverbial tall
tree against the sky. His hair was white
when I first knew him, and he walked
with a sort of aquiline angularity, a kind
of princely swagger, as much as to say,
"See this campus — it belongs to me!"
Mentally, I think he was touched with
genius, and in that term I include orig-
inality and a passion for excellence. He
was one of the first two persons in North
Carolina to learn the new science of
shorthand, which he taught to himself.
The companion subjects, typewriting and
accounting, he learned the same way.
When he came to the new school to
ser^'e as its first treasurer and as head
of the Department of Business, he set up
the accounting system himself; and altho
he had never taught a day in his life, he
worked out his own courses of study and
methods of instruction. In fact, he later
wrote the basic texts he used. Later he
was for many years auditor of the City
of Greensboro.
Most of the students who came to him
were not well prepared, for the schools
of the state were not equipped to prepare
them well. He had to bring up their gen-
eral education, as well as give them their
JULY, 1957
teclinical training, all in the brief period,
of nine months. To fight ignorance with
every tool and weapon he could contrive;
to train the young women in his classes
to a top degree of efficiency, and of per-
sonal poise: this was for him the Holy
Grail. The fire in his own spirit kindled
fire in his students. He got results. When
he found one who gave evidence of what
he termed "brain power," he set her upon
a throne.
Some of his methods and techniques
were, I am sure, rather unorthodox. He
was a master of sarcasm and of humor,
and often his classes were electric with
both. One of his students told me of a
characteristic incident. I cannot recapture
for you the inimitable personality of this
man, nor could she; but I can give you
the story itself, almost verbatim. The
classes were studying legal documents,
with special emphasis upon legal termi-
nology and phrases. On that particular
day, this student had not studied the as-
signment— a fact E. J. of course soon
discovered. Then the little drama began.
"Young woman, do you mean to say
you have never heard of habeas corpus,
or nolo contendere, or certiorari? Cer-
tiorari! You have lived to be eighteen
years old, and you don't know certiorari!
Well, do you know how to come in out
of the rain ? I will tell you what is going
to happen to you. You are going to be
sitting on one side of a desk, facing an
intelligent man on the other side. He
will dictate that word to you and you will
not know it. You will sit there and beg
for the floor to open and swallow you
up. But young woman, that floor will not
open. I will tell you what will open —
that off'ice door, and you will walk
through it, never to return!"
By now there was a fascinated silence
— nobody wanted to miss a syllable; and
then laughter, in which E. J. himself
joined, sidling back and forth in front of
them, as was his wont. The point had
been made. This student said that before
the dawn of the next day she had mas-
tered those terms, and others too, and
something of value had been awakened
in her character. Much the same treat-
ment was handed out when he found that
the daily newspaper had not been read.
I am sure that all of the girls in his
classes were not happy all of the time,
for there was then, as now I imagine,
that puzzling question, "Why do we have
to work so hard?" But after they had
left him, and were receiving checks at
the end of the month, and they knew
they were succeeding in their jobs, let-
ters of gratitude came to his desk.
He taught to some degree, it might be
said, all of the students in the college,
since all of them came from time to time
to the office of the treasurer, not always
to make payments, often for advice. For
years, he regularly organized the fresh-
man class and set it upon its way. For
years he was adviser to the various stu-
dent clubs and organizations, and gave
them active support.
Mr. Forney's life was basically moti-
vated by a great desire to help people.
But for this college, two achievements
were, I think, preeminent:
First, more than any one else he estab-
lished the confidence of the people of the
state in the financial operations of the
new school — a service of great impor-
tance. The finances of any public-sup-
ported agency or institution are always
\ailnerable. Moreover, powerful forces
were hostile to the new school, and
wished to see it fail. Besides, North
Carolina was not wholly committed to the
higher education of women. The state
was convinced, however, that as long as
E. J. Forney signed the checks, at least
the finances of the new institution were
safe. They were.
Second, he made an immeasurable
contribution to the economic freedom of
the women of North Carolina by opening
up for them a new profession, and giv-
ing them superior training for it.
Hitherto the area of their employment
has been limited almost entirely to teach-
ing. Specifically, he sent his students into
the offices of executives in the state, and
sometimes out of it; into court rooms as
reporters; into the civil service of the
Government. Not infrequently they went
from these positions into posts of high
executive authority, and into homes, as
wives of the men with whom they had
worked.
There were other facets of this truly
remarkable man: Within himself he wor-
shipped at the shrine of culture. First
among the "instruments of culture," to
use his phrase, he placed the classics in
literature, and the great books in history,
philosophy, and the sciences. He was for-
ever designing something. If he had been
born a few decades later than he was,
after the South had begun to recover
from the Civil War, I think undoubtedly
he would have been an architect. We ca7i
well imagine that he would have dis-
dained to build anything lower than the
skyscrapers of his time, and that his sky-
scrapers would have been a little taller
than those of anyone else.
Mr. Forney would have been proud if
he could have looked down the years and
known that the state and his college
would have honored the work he did here,
as is being done today. I should like to
think that he does know, and has turned
aside for these few minutes from the pur-
suit of some other Grail, somewhere, to
join us here.
And so, for the several thousand
women who sat in his classes, and for
the thousands of other alumnae, every-
where, whose lives he touched; for the
faculties that have come and gone, and
for those who yet remain — for all of
these, I should like to say, "Thank you,
Sir!" and for all of us here today, once j ■
more, "Good morning, E. J.!" ■"
The Forney Building houses the de-
partments of Business Education, Eco-
nomics, and One-Year Commerce.
Plaques
A bronze plaque has been placed in the
entrance hall of the Administration
Building to memorialize the original
faculty of the College.
Listed are the twenty-one men and
women who composed the teaching staff
of The State Normal and Industrial
School, the founding name of the College.
Miss Mary M. Petty, only person on the
list who is living, retired in 1934 as head
of the Department of Chemistry.
The General Reading Room of the Col-
lege Library has been dedicated to the
memory of Dr. William Cunningham
Smith. A plaque noting this dedication
will be placed in that room: ". . . Scholar,
inspiring teacher, lover of books, and
friend of the Library. Head of the De-
THE ALUMNAE NEWS
Ijartment of English and Dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In
the service of this College from 1900 to
1943."
Elliott Hall
"People, not systems, are important"
. . . Miss Harriet Elliott's motto will be
inscribed on the tablet to be placed in
the main lobby of Elliott Hall, the stu-
dent union building, denoting the fact
that the building is named for Miss
Elliott, who was Dean of Women and
professor of Political Science.
Three areas of Elliott Hall have been
named and will be marked accordingly:
the ballroom will be called the Cone Ball-
room in honor of the Cone families (Mrs.
Caesar Cone, Mrs. Julius W. Cone (Laura
Weill '10), Mrs. Herman Cone, Mr. Ben-
jamin Cone, and Mr. Caesar Cone, II).
The two lounges in the building have
been named to honor two women who are
prominent in the College's history: Mrs.
Mary Settle Sharp, who served the Col-
lege for 25 years as director of physical
training, instructor in history, chairman
of the faculty committee on entertain-
ments, and head of the department of
expression; and Mrs. Lula Martin Mc-
Iver, wife of the College's founder and
first president, who first directed Dr. Mc-
Iver's attention to the inadequate facili-
ties for women's education in North Car-
olina.
Identifications
A realization that strangers at Wom-
an's College have long had a difficult
time determining where they are or
where they wish to go has resulted in
the placing of the names on sixteen
campus structures.
The Alumnae House was among the
buildings marked.
Committee
The instigation and direction of the
dedicatory services and the markers have
come from a special committee on
Markers and Memorial Tablets, which
was appointed by Acting-Chancellor W.
W. Pierson and chaired by lone Grogan
'26, a member of the faculty and resi-
dent counselor in Weil Hall. In the com-
mittee's year-end report presented to Dr.
Pierson and read at the meeting of the
Alumnae Association on June 1, Miss
Grogan stated a number of recommenda-
tions for future consideration. Among
these recommendations is one asking
that the site of Mclver House be made
into a garden using green and flowering
shrubs and bulbs. "The committee . . .
feels that the garden would be an ap-
propriate reminder of the homesite of the
Mclvers since Mrs. Mclver herself was
tireless in her efforts to beautify the
campus and her own garden. The Com-
mittee thinks, too, that this garden would
awaken interest in the beautiflcation of
the campus as a whole and of Peabody
Park, and would in a modest way begin
to engender the interest and delight here
that the Aboretum has for Chapel Hill
and the Duke Gardens have for Duke
University."
A Sharing
Continued
taken our depth, meaning and apprecia-
tion because we have been nourished.
The things we feel when we say The
Woman's College — these things will not
pass away.
The beginning is still different from
the ending. This day as we look from
right to left at our alphabetical com-
panions and think of distance and time
and places and responsibilities that will
separate us, we know that physical sep-
aration can never ove9"shadow memories.
Again our beginning will be one of antici-
pation, and another star will appear for
which we shall aim. In this process we
will have the advantage of experience,
of learning, of personalities; the advan-
tage of a tie to a college whose worth,
as stated by her Founder, is in "the
mental and spiritual atmosphere of the
place." This atmosphere shall remain, as
will our tie to our classmates, as the
symbol of the words of a song we sing
. . . "especially the people — and a prom-
ise for tomorrow."
I am confident the parents I'ealize and
think you all must know that represent-
ing the Class of 1957 is an impossible
task. Anne Morrow Lindbergh has said,
"The things one loves, lives and dies for
are not, in the last analysis, expressible
in words." So it is with the Woman's
College and my classmates. You must
know that the love I express is only an
echo of the goodness and virtue so pos-
sessed by them, and you who have made
us what we are.
Thus . . . we commence.
AN honorary degree of Doctor of Laws
was conferred upon Mrs. Harry B.
Caldwell (Margaret Hood, '33x) with this
citation: Native and resident of North
Carolina, former student at the Appa-
lachian State Teacher's College and at
the Woman's College, gracious wife and
mother, you have long been "A Friend
of the Land" not only as a member of
an organization having that name, but
in fact as co-owner and operator of a
farm, and as a member of the State and
the National Grange. In the North Caro-
lina State Grange you have been the only
woman chosen to the office of Master.
As a member of various committees of
the State and National Grange and under
a variety of civic commissions by public
authority your eloquent voice in this
country and abroad has been raised with
power and pervasive influence in the in-
terest of agriculture, rural society, child
welfare and family life, medical care,
and education. By vote of the Faculty
of the Woman's College and that of the
Trustees of the University of North
Carolina and by reason of distinction in
service to society and the community, I
confer upon you the degree of DOCTOR
OF LAWS with all its rights and privi-
leges.
Degrees were conferred upon 483 stu-
dents in ten classifications: Bachelor of
Arts 232, Bachelor of Science in Home
Economics 73, Bachelol' of Science in
Nursing 1, Bachelor of Science in Physi-
cal Education 23, Bachelor of Science in
Secretarial Administration 46, Bachelor
of Fine Arts 17, Bachelor of Music 11,
Master of Education 75, Master of Fine
Arts 4, and Master of Science in Home
Economics 1. With the singing of The
College Song, the Woman's College's 65th
Commencement was over.
At the end, it did not make any dif-
ference whose campus it has really been
during the weekend . . . now we were all
Alumnae.
Fellowships
THE Committee on Fellowship Awards
of the American Association of Univer-
sity Women has issued its announcement
concerning fellowships for women for
1958-59. Their offerings are categorized
as national fellowships and international
fellowships.
Both types are unrestricted as to field
and place of study, except that the inter-
national fellowships must be used in a
country other than the candidate's own.
The minimum requirement for both is
that candidates must have completed the
residence requirements for the doctorate
before the fellowship year begins on July
1, 1958. Awards are also offered for post-
graduate research.
Application forms may be obtained
from Miss Mary H. Smith, Associate;
AAUW Fellowship Program; 1634 Eye
Street, N.W.; Washington 6, D.C. The
application deadline is December 15, 1957,
and successful candidates will be notified
not later than March 1, 1958.
JULY, 1957
Campus Facts. Faees« Figures
THE first W. S. Barney Memorial
Award was presented during Jlay to
Barbara Terwilliger, the graduating sen-
ior major in Romance Languages wlio
had achieved the highest average. Be-
cause the Barney Memorial Fund is not
yet large enough to finance an annual
cash award or scholarship, Barbara was
given a leather-bound, India paper edi-
tion of Petit Larousse.
Said Dr. Meta Miller, head of the De-
partment of Romance Languages, in
making the presentation: "It is on just
such an occasion as this that I long for
Dr. Barney's gift for the apt word and
the graceful phrase. For our majors who
did not have the privilege of knowing
Dr. Barney I should like to say that he
was for some 35 years the head of the
Department of Romance Languages . . .
he was a scholar, a New England gentle-
man, an inspiring teacher, a friend to his
colleagues, to his students and to the
alumnae . . . his influence went beyond
the state to the whole South, for he was
one of the organizers of the South At-
lantic Modern Language Association. It
is not surprising, then, that his col-
leagues, his friends, and his former stu-
dents wanted to keep his memory alive.
They, therefore, contributed to . . . the
Winfield Barney Memorial Fund ... no
move fitting use could be made of this
fund than to make an award annually to
a promising senior who had majored in
Romance Languages."
MISS BETSY UMSTEAD '49, instructor
in Physical Education and resident coun-
selor in Winfield Hall, has been granted
a Fulbright Lecture Award by the Board
of Foreign Scholarships of the Depart-
ment of State for the 1957-58 college ses-
sion. She will teach at Queen Aliyah Col-
lege in Bagdad, Iraq, and she will serve
also as consultant for Women's athletics
in Iraq during her assignment.
SIX STUDENTS were tapped for mem-
bership in Golden Chain this spring:
Martha Jester (daughter of Betty
(Brown) Jester '31) of Greensboro,
Meeta Carlton of Salisbury, Jo Len
Jamerson of Cooleeme, Catherine May
(daughter of Lucy (Burchette) May
'30x) of Charlotte, Gail Steacy of
Mahopac, New York, and Katherine
White (daughter of Rachel (Aycock)
White '29) of Dunn.
Sue Sigmon of Charlotte has been
elected as president of Golden Chain for
next session.
THREE OF THE SIX WOMEN elected
to fill 29 available seats on the Board of
Trustees of the LTniversity of North Car-
olina by the Legislature's Joint Com-
mittee on Trustees in May are alumnae
of Woman's College: Mrs. A. H. Lathrop
(Virginia Terrell '23) of Asheville, Mrs.
L. Richardson Preyer (Emily Harris '39)
of Greensboro, and Mrs. George Wilson
(Elise Rouse '43) of Fayetteville.
A holiday was declared on May 8, and
members of the student body and
faculty journeyed to Reynolds Coliseum
on the State College campus in Raleigh
for the inauguration of William Clyde
Friday as president of the University of
North Carolina. The members of the Col-
lege Choir joined with the glee clubs
from State College and the University in
Chapel Hill to form a chorus; the bands
of the three branches of the Consolidated
University were combined into a massive
band. Members of the three faculties
marched with delegates from 313 col-
leges and universities from throughout
America and representatives from 76
learned societies, educational organiza-
tions, professional groups and founda-
tions in an academic procession. Gov-
ernor Luther Hodges, as chairman of the
University Board of Trustees, presided
at the ceremonies.
After the oath of office was admin-
istered by Chief Justice J. Wallace Win-
borne of the North Carolina Supreme
Court, President Friday pledged a "con-
stant purpose" for the development of
"a more distinguished Consolidated Uni-
versity respected in the educational world
for the excellence of its teaching and re-
search, and loved by its people for its
devoted purpose."
The two immediate past presidents of
the University Frank Porter Graham
and Gordon Gray spoke briefly during
the ceremonies.
MR. WENDE1.L 'McM. MURRAY is suc-
ceeding Mr. John C. Lockhart, who re-
tired on July 1, as Business Manager of
the College. Mr. Murray was formerly
associated with the Business Office at
State College.
USING THE MONTH of May for com-
parison with admissions last year, appli-
cations to Woman's College are reported
to be up 33 per cent . . . 927 applica-
tions at this time (May 27) as compared
with 667 this time last year.
ARMCHAIR STUDENTS are being of-
fered a television credit course "Main
Currents in Western Civilization" over
education station WUNC-TV: Channel 4,
from July 15 through August 22, Mon-
day through Thursday, from 7 to 7:45
p. m. Registration for the course, which
will be taught by Dr. Eugene Pfaff, who
will be on leave next year from the De-
partment of History to study under a
Ford Foundation Grant at Columbia Uni-
versity, may be made through Mr.
Charles W. Phillips, Director of Public
Relations. Tuition for the course is $14,
and examination for credit will be held
on campus.
AMONG THE MEMBERS of the Class
of 1957 who have been awarded scholar-
ships and fellowships are: Sadye Dunn
and Dorothy Stafford, co-winner of the
Woman's College's Weil Fellowship; Lu
Stevenson (daughter of Kathleen (Gar-
rin) Stephenson '28x), the Johns Hopkins
Scholarship for Advanced International
Studies (Bologna, Italy); Sarah Bradford
(daughter of Lacy Lee (Gaston) Brad-
ford '28), the Woodrow Wilson Fellow-
ship in Art History (New York Univer-
sity); Pat Hammond, an assistantship in
the Cornell School of Industrial and
Labor Relations; Mary Louise Ledbetter,
North Carolina Dietetic Association
award for dietetic internship (University
of Oklahoma Medical Center) ; and Peggy
Smith, the Consolidated University of
North Carolina scholarship, awarded an-
nually to the Woman's College student
for graduate work at the University in
Chapel Hill.
MISS EVELYN COX, assistant professor
of Home Economics, will continue her
doctoral work in the field of nutrition at
Iowa State College during the next ses-
sion on a fellowship from the Southern
Fellowship Fund.
SCATTERED to the four winds . . .
that's about the only way to describe the
next-year locations of the Everlasting
officers of the Class of 1957. President
Sadye Dunn will be studying in Iowa;
Vice-President Lu Stephenson will be
studying in Italy. Secretary Coney Craw-
ford will be working in the State of
Washington; Treasurer Mary Nell Me-
roney (daughter of Nell (Binkley
Meroiiey '31x), who will be married dur-
ing the summer, will be living in Vir-
ginia. Staying within "ear-shot", how-
ever, will be Chris (Velonis) Miller, the i
Alumnae Board Representative, who will
be living in Chapel Hill.
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AT a meeting of the University of
North Carolina Board of Trustees
at the Woman's College on May 27, Pres-
ident William Friday reported that
faculty members may expect a five per
cent raise in salary next year and that
additional funds will be used for merit
increases and promotions in rank. He
also voted that for the first time the uni-
versity administration has been given
authority to handle salary funds with
some discretion rather than on an across-
the-board basis.
Two resolutions of special interest to
the Woman's College were presented and
incorporated into the minutes of the
Board meeting:
(1) RESOLVED: That the following
tribute be spread upon the minutes of
this meeting of the Trustees of The Uni-
versity of North Carolina:
William Whatley Pierson, a native of
Alabama, came to The University of
North Carolina in 191.5 following the
completion of his graduate studies at Co-
lumbia University. The University of
North Carolina was then a small college
in a rural State. Today in 1957 we, the
Trustees of The University of North
Carolina, give voice to our recognition of
him as one of the principal builders of
one of the world's great universities.
From the publication of Texas vs.
White in 1915 to The Governments of
Latin America in 1957, his original, vig-
orous, and objective scholarship has con-
tinued to enhance the reputation of this
University. His brilliance as a scholar
and a teacher carried him in five years
from an instructorship to a full profes-
sorship at the academically precocious
age of 29. A decade characterized by in-
spired teaching, stimulating travel, pro-
ductive research, and wise counsel on the
Administrative Board of the Graduate
School made him the inevitable choice
for the deanship' of that School in 1930.
Following consolidation in 1933, his wis-
dom, skill, and integrity as an adminis-
trator placed him at the head of the uni-
fied Graduate School in the three-fold
University.
As the chief architect of the Graduate
School for over a quarter of a century,
Dean Pierson has set scholarly standards
for teaching and research which have in-
vigorated the entire University and en-
hanced its reputation regionally, nation-
ally, and internationally. With courage
born of deep conviction he has waged
unceasing battle against mediocrity and
has refused to permit the University to
engage in any academic competition at
the graduate level except competition in
excellence. As the mentor of graduate
schools, through his efforts among North
Carolina colleges, in the Conference of
Deans of Southern Graduate Schools, as
Secretary of the Association of Ameri-
can Universities, and as President of the
Southern University Conference, he has
inculcated a respect for the highest ideals
of scholarship which will long endure.
His efforts at home and abroad have
brought us talented students, generous
foundation grants, able young professors,
and choice appointments for our grad-
uates.
A year ago Dean Pierson generously
consented to assume the difficult role of
Acting Chancellor of the Woman's Col-
lege. The University will forever be in-
debted to him for lending it the mature
wisdom, judicial temperament, sympa-
thetic understanding, and educational
statesmanship which mitigated in months
the problems and frustrations of years.
We rejoice in his 42 years of dis-
tinguished and fruitful service to the
University and to mankind in the cause
of education and research. Hundreds of
teachers in schools and colleges who have
been imbued with his standards of ex-
cellence as they studied in the Consoli-
dated Graduate School are now prime
movers for an intellectual, economic, and
spiritual renaissance in this State and
region. Every great research center in
the nation is under obligation to William
Whatley Pierson for his contribution to
the integrity of the standards by which
both research and those who engage in
it are measured. As Professor Pierson re-
turns to full-time teaching and research
— his first love — we, the Trustees of The
L'niversity of North Carolina, know that
lie will add still further stature to the
dimensions of the University in the dis-
tinguished professorship that he so richly
deserves.
(2) BE IT RESOLVED that the Board
of Trustees of the University of North
Carolina express its grateful apprecia-
tion to John Clegg Lockhart for his long
service as Business Manager of the
Woman's College, and for his longer
service and dedication to education in
North Carolina. He has indeed given that
most precious of all gifts, personal de-
votion, to many phases of the education
of youth in his own state, from public
school teaching to college administration.
He retired this spring with the good
wishes and gratitude of all his associates
and friends.
John Lockhart was born in Orange
County, within sound of the bells of the
University at Chapel Hill, and it is fitting
that now, at retirement age, he lay down
his work as the commencement bells ring
on the Woman's College campus, sister
unit of the Consolidated University for
which he has worked so diligently.
He attended school in North Carolina,
and received his degree from the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, and from Co-
lumbia University. From a teacher in a
small rural high school he rose to prin-
cipal, then superintendent of two of the
larger public school systems of the state.
Wake and Mecklenburg counties. It was
my privilege, when he was in Raleigh, to
call at his office as a newspaper reporter,
gathering news, so it was as an old
friend that I met him again when he
came to the Woman's College as Assist-
ant Controller and Business Manager in
1943.
Many honors, both professional and
personal have come to Mr. Lockhart in
the years since he left the University, but
there is no honor, we believe, more heart-
felt and sincere than that of the appre-
ciation of his friends and associates
which we wish recorded today in the
minutes of this Board meeting, and sent
to Mr. Lorkhart and his family.
In other action during the meeting,
Mrs. B. C. Parker (Rosa Blakeney '16)
of Albemarle was elected a member of
the board's executive committee, replac-
ing Mrs. C. F. Tomlinson (May Lovelace
'07) of High Point, who did not seek
re-election to the board this spring.
DIANE ROUSSEAU (daughter of Tim-
oxena (Crawford) Rousseau '30), a
sophomore from Wilkesboro, studies the
picture of white-capped Eleanor Dare,
whom she is portraying in this season's
production of "The Lost Colony" at Man-
teo, in Newbold's painting of "The
Christening of Virginia Dare" over one
of the mantels in the Alumnae House.
Diane, a drama major and a veteran per-
former is playing the female-lead of Vir-
ginia Dare's mother in the pageant which
opened on June 29.
Continued on page 29
JULY, 1957
Dr. Pierson reports
... on the "^State of the College*'
Acting-Chancellor addresses the students at their last assembly
IT is a custom, and I think a wise one,
which makes this occasion one in
which the Chancellor in speaking to you
takes inventory or stock and reports on
the "state of the College". It is a good
thing, in business and I believe in edu-
cation, to know in what directions you
have been traveling in order that you
might better understand in what direc-
tion you will be going. Last Fall in the
Pre-School Conference for leaders of
Student Government and on the Foun-
ders Day of October 5, I had occasion to
speak in terms of the prospect before us.
Today we might think of the past year
in terms of retrospect ■\\-ith some idea of
the assessment of what has happened. I
trust that you will have some interest
in this effort at compliance with tradi-
tion. I also trust that you too think that
the past year has not only been one in
which many events occurred, in which
there was a change in the Office of the
Chancellor, and in which partially by way
of consequence many of us were to be
newly occupied not only in budget mak-
ing and budget defense, but in the busy
day by day conduct of the affairs of what
I have found to be an institution of com-
plex organization. While attempting
something in the nature of a report to
you, I should trespass upon your time
and responsibilities as students if I at-
tempted something detailed and compre-
hensive. What I have to say therefore
mainly concerns you as students, di-
rectly or indirectly. To be sure there are
some matters of concern to students on
which I shall not dwell. For example, one
of these was that you were to meet and
to be taught or influenced by four new
heads of departments. Another such
example is that there have been several
changes in Faculty Personnel. Concern-
ing such changes, it was the effort and
steadfast policy of those who have been
in charge of the Administration, to seek
for Faculty and Administrative Staff per-
sons of ability, of strength in academic
preparation, and of adequate experience
for the positions for which they are
chosen. I can promise you that it has
been and I think it will be the policy to
maintain and to secure as vacancies oc-
cur a Faculty of strength in teaching
and research. The ideal of excellence in
this respect rests upon both faith and
good works.
In the beginning of the year, both
President Friday and I expressed our-
selves as believing in student self gov-
ernment. Both of us professed to know
this system and to respect it. Neither one
of us — just as I believe no reasonable
person — expects such a system to operate
uniformly at all times at 100 per cent
efficiency or without stresses and sti-ains
occasioned by the contrariety of beliefs,
interests, and behavior. Such has not
been the record of civil governments. For
myself, I should prefer mistakes and
even errors to be made under self gov-
ernment rather than uniform efficiency
under a scheme of Administrators by
autocratic experts — even if they are
well-intentioned and of good faith. Dur-
ing my stay here I have been increas-
ingly impressed by the support of the
practice of student self government by
the Faculty. I am sure that all of you
remember the consideration given during
a portion of the past year to the subject
of the regulation of class attendance. In
the Faculty I think there were di\'isions
in opinions and conviction, respecting the
proposals under consideration, but when
it was learned that the students wished
to make a representation concerning this
matter, the Faculty unanimously voted
to receive and hear this representation.
While I am offering this as an example
of the strong sentiment prevailing in the
Faculty in support of student self gov-
ernment, I shall digress to say that this
is also an example of the ability of your
leaders in the Student Government As-
sociation, the Golden Chain, and some
other student organizations in reporting
and expounding student opinion. I think
that the appearance of the four student
leaders before the Faculty, their poise,
their infoiTned preparation, their mod-
eration in statement were worthy of
highest praise. In my judgment also, the
conduct of the Faculty, its courtesy, the
character of its questions and comments
were highly creditable. I came away from
this meeting with the feeling that a
meeting of minds and a good understand-
ing had occurred and that the relation-
ship of Faculty and Students on this
campus was creditable to both parties.
The endorsement in principle of the stu-
dent plan of attendance regulations was
a rational accommodation of divergent
views . . .
No review of the year relative to Stu-
dent Government could omit reference to
the adoption of the new constitution with
its thorough-going adoption of the prin-
ciple of the separation of powers in gov-
ernment, with its establishment of an
executive cabinet, and its reinvestment
of legislative power in the student legis-
lature. If I may introduce here a pa-
renthesis, I should say that it may be of
value to the country for us to rediscover
the fact that the federal constitution
vests "all" legislative power in the Con-
gress of the United States. If we could
carry this principle into, application, I
think the whole country would benefit.
If you will pardon this disgression I
shall resume my theme that I hope by
saying that you faithfully observe this
new constitution in this respect and stick
by your guns.
TURNING from Student Government
to the primary interest of the Col-
lege and University which might be
phrased as "Our Business is Education",
we have already paid in other ceremonies
our respects to Phi Beta Kappa as the
oldest society for the promotion of
scholarship in the country. There are
other honor societies on the campus for
the promotion and recognition of scholar-
ship within departmental disciplines, such
as Alpha Kappa Delta, Beta Beta Beta,
Omicron Nu, Pi Kappa Lambda, Sigma
Alpha, Sigma Delta Pi, and the Clubs for
History, Botany, Chemistry among
others. I have been much impressed by
the activities of these organizations. I
have attended some of the meetings of
some of these organizations. I have wit-
nessed the award of certain scholarships
and merit certificates in some of them . . .
I think the year has been marked by the
significant achievements of these respec-
tive organizations.
Concerning matters relative to stu-
dents, I am sure that some would want
to mention the newly organized Publica-
tion Board. Others perhaps might wish
me to give a special recognition to the
purchase by the National Education Tele-
vision and Radio Center of an original
story written for and produced by the
Woman's College Television Studio en-
titled, "The Christmas Painting". Still
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others would have me emphasize the
three forums: The Inter-Faith, Social
Science, and Arts Festival — Forums held
during the year with great success. Still
others would wish reference to be made
to the four brilliant University Sermons
respectfully identified with the several
individual classes. Perhaps some would
have us remember the great excitement
caused by the fire in Mary Foust Hall.
The fact that little damage was caused
might have escaped notice. Some would
want us to remember the visit of the
Hungarian Refugee Student. Perhaps
some would want to recall what may well
be the unforgetable visit to the campus
of the Poet, Robert Frost.
Finally, I think the acquisition of the
Piney Lake Recreation Center has been
one of the most notable contributions to
student life. Its use by student groups
during the year has been one of the most
satisfactory features. I think the Fac-
ulty-Student Committee in charge of this
property has rendered a service which is
beyond praise. The work of Miss Leon-
ard, as custodian in personal charge, has
been careful, devoted, fair, and construc-
tive. She deserves our utmost commenda-
tion. The following groups have used
Piney Lake since the Center has been
opened during the first semester; 20 resi-
dence halls, 2070 people; 16 clubs and or-
ganizations, 628 people; 7 Biology and
Physical Education classes. 111 people;
6 Faculty groups, 612 people; 10 week-
end groups (second semester), 165 peo-
ple; a total of .3,821 people. I am sure
also that you would join me in recog-
nizing the fine work of Mr. Rumsey and
his associates in the reconstruction of
the pavilion as well as in the construc-
tion of other improvements.
"^
TE turn now from matters of im-
* mediate concern to students to a
major development, still of student con-
cern, but affecting the whole College
community. I refer, of course, to a major
development of the year — the decision
to close the Mclver Memorial Building
to further class use and to enter upon a
campaign for the replacement of the
present Mclver Building. In another con-
nection I dealt the reasons leading to
both decisions made during the period of
last summer when most of the students
of the regular session were absent. The
decision to close Mclver Building for
further instructional use made last sum-
mer was with the approval of available
Faculty members and the authorities of
the University. Had you been present on
the campus, you would have been con-
sulted also. I think of persons who were
in consultation, just as all students on
their return were aware that this deci-
sion entailed hardships and inconven-
iences of variety and great number to
all concerned. I know of nothing finer in
my experience than the cooperation of
Faculty and Students in this matter. The
dispersion of Departments, the location
of classes in class rooms equipped for
other purposes, the hardship on students
who have to go from one extreme of the
campus to another are all known to you,
since you have time and again experi-
enced these inconveniences. Undoubtedly
instruction could in some subjects not be
offered under optimum circumstances.
The campaign for the new building
launched on Founder's Day has pro-
gressed and has been materially support-
ed by your efforts. From many sources I
have heard that the appeal made directly
by students to members of the Legisla-
ture had a favorable response. I think
the institution is indebted to each of the
students who have given their time,
thought, and effort to this end. From all
indications, of which I am aware, provi-
sion will be made for the construction
of a new Mclver Memorial Building. In
the period of reconstruction that is to
come the Students and Faculty will be
called upon to bear further hardships. In
fact those hardships may be increased by
the problem of relocation of Faculty Of-
fices, entailing a further crowding into
space designed for other purposes. Let
me report to you that the Administration
has done all that is possible in the way
of expediting the replacement by pre-
liminary work in the form of the selec-
tion of an architect and studies of space
allocations. It is thought that this recon-
struction has been expedited by these
preliminary actions and that something
like three months time has been saved.
Another important development of this
past year in which I think you as stu-
dents may have interest has been the
authorization of an Experimental Pro-
gram in Nursing Education. The matter
of such a program had been in discussion
for something like five years. The
proposition was brought into focus and a
decision made to authorize the program
by the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees. As you well know
this program involves the cooperation of
the Woman's College and the Cone Me-
morial Hospital. The long discussion by
a succession of committees appeared to
have reached an impasse by reason of a
series of questions which could not be
definitely answered to the satisfaction
of the parties concerned. These involved
undecided issues of policy on the parts
respectively of the State, the University,
and the Hospital. The achievement of
last summer was that of a formula by
which an experimental program could be
started and carried on without an answer
being given to any one of the debated
issues. The main consideration that car-
ried weight with some of us was that the
controverted questions could not be con-
vincingly answered until further experi-
mentation was carried out and studied.
Thus it was that a plan was evolved
which satisfied most of the people in-
volved. The two sets of resources that
were available were to be brought into
cooperative usage — those afforded by the
College and those afforded by the Hos-
pital. Neither of these institutions is
committed to a continuation of the ex-
periment, but both are committed in good
faith to the experiment during a speci-
fied period of time. To finance the ex-
periment the Cone Hospital has appro-
priated a sum not to exceed $100,000. The
College is to administer the program, af-
ford the instruction, both technical and
academic, and provide supervision of the
nurses until licensure. Two years tech-
nical and academic instruction will be
followed by a nine months period of in-
ternship. The College and the Hospital
through a joint committee will peri-
odically appraise this program. We think
that something has been accomplished.
The Raleigh News and Observer reported
that the plan "may change the pattern
of nursing education in North Carolina";
we do not know that it will, but we hope
and think that the State will come to
know on scientific grounds whether or
not such a change of pattern is feasible
and desirable. We think that this plan
should be of interest to many of our stu-
dents.
Piiblioatioiis
by Aliininae
TALL HOUSES IN WINTER by Doris
(Waugh) Betts '54x. E. P. Putnam
Son's. $4.50.
BIRTHRIGHT by Lettie (Hamlett)
Rogers '40. Simon and Schuster. .53.95.
DREAMER'S WINE, poems by Ruby
(Paschall) Shackleford '.3.3. Exposition
Press Inc. $2.50.
TEN ANGELS SWEARING, sonnets by
Dorothy (Edwards) Summerrow '30.
Exposition Press Incorporated. S2.50.
JULY, 1957
13
-Financial Statement
The 1956 Alumnae Fund
For the Twelve Months Ended December 31, 1956
Statement of Receipts
Contributions to Alumnae Fund
Use of the Alumnae House
Keimbursement for postage
Reimbursement for travel expenses
Cash collected for social functions
Returned checks collected
Miscellaneous collections and reimbursements:
Commencement activities
Mid-Winter meeting
Other
Statement of Disbursements
Alumnae Neivs
Alumnae Fund
Alumnae Fund Gift to College
Office Assistance: student
professional
Postage
Printing
Office supplies
Alumnae House
American Alumni Council
Traveling expenses
Expenses of social functions
Fidelity bond
Audit
Returned checks
Gifts authorized by Alumnae Board
Magazine workshop registration fee
Partial payment on loan from UNC Special Fund
Payroll taxes: F.I.C.A.
Income Taxes
Miscellaneous disbursements :
Reimbursed
Bank charges, flowers, etc.
$11,788.43
738.80
364.10
50.20
9.30
11.95
2,159.70
148.50
161.44
$15,432.42
$ 4,849.84
1,217.87
1,000.00
325.93
1,847.82
234.53
516.20
19.82
185.94
55.00
162.58
87.39
10.00
88.69
11.95
125.00
25.00
1,000.00
36.09
8.94-
2,169.79
41.99
$14,007.49
Summary of Receipts and Disbursements
Balance, January 1, 1956 $ 2,068.33
Add: Receipts 15,432.42
Deduct : Disbursements
$17,500.75
14,007.49
$ 3,493.26
Report
Amount contributed No. of
in 1956 contributors
1893
$ 2.00
1
1894
16.00
3
1895
15.00
2
1896
39.00
9
1897
35.00
2
1898
7.00
3
1899
32.00
9
1900
59.00
10
1901
13.00
3
1902
21.00
6
1903
19.00
8
1904
46.00
6
1905
68.00
14
1906
42.50
9
1907
33.00
7
1908
45.00
9
1909
22.00
5
1910
571.00
11
1911
36.00
10
1912
47.00
8
1913
44.00
13
1914
86,00
11
1915
47.50
12
1916
77.50
18
1917
79.00
17
1918
288.00
29
1919
159.00
13
1920
68.50
16
1921
77.50
18
1922
75.50
14
1923
96.00
21
1924
195.00
30
1925
137.00
26
1926
234.00
44
1927
206.00
32
1928
198.00
33
1929
121.00
30
1930
224.00
45
1931
227.50
50
1932
138.50
29
1933
185.00
32
1934
119.00
29
1935
149.00
31
1936
238.50
43
1937
119.00
20
1938
167.50
34
1939
320.58
S3
1940
351.00
69
1941
338.50
83
1942
323.50
68
1943
377.50
81
1944
335.50
85
1945
292.50
68
1946
604.00
M7
1947
359.50
82
1948
354.00
87
1949
373.50
92
1950
370.85
78
1951
570.00
140
1952
388.50
108
1953
295.50
96
1954
404.00
106
1955
454.00
106
1956
264.00
235
Specials
82.50
20
Totols
$11,788.43
2,629
Matched gifts
15.00
2
$11,803.43
2,631
14
THE ALUMNAE NEWS
Associatioiial Business
-Jiilia's-
CLASS REUNIONS: The Alumnae Board of Trustees in its meeting on May 31
adopted for Associational use a new scliedule for class reunions. The new plan, which
is printed on page IT will be operative for reunions in 1958.
Instead of classes reunioning at five-year intervals as has been the practice for
some time, the time-lapses will be somewhat irregular, yet no regularly scheduled
reunions for any given class will come oftener than three years, nor longer apart
than seven. Under the new schedule groups of classes will have reunions at the same
time. Over a period of years, the groupings of the classes will change so that class-
mates who graduated before or after a given class will reunite with it. For example,
in 1961, the Class of 1932 will have a reunion at the same time that the classes of
1929, 1930, and 1931 do; and in 1965, the Class of 1932 will come back with the
classes of 1933, 1934, and 1935. Under this plan one will be able to visit with Alumnae
friends who were in school at the same time she was, yet who were not members of
her class.
The first, tenth, twenty-fifth, and fiftieth reunions of each class are retained, and
the members of the Old Guard will continue to reunite each year after their fiftieth
reunion.
As you study the chart, please note that the figures in the straight line across
the top of the page denoted the years, i. e., 1958, 1959, 1960, etc. The figures down
the left side of the page denote the classes, i. e., Class of '08, Class of '09, Class of '10.
Requests that such a plan be considered by the Board had been submitted by
many Alumnae who believed that some plan should be devised so that they might
see again friends other than those in their given classes when they returned to the
College for reunions. As the plan has operated in the past, one missed her friends in
other classes by one year each way; she seldom knew anyone who had been grad-
uated five years before or five years after she had been graduated. After a six-
months consideration, the Alumnae Board accepted the plan which has been described.
TEACHER-PREPARATION FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED: A resolution
recommending that courses leading to a degree or certification in Special Education
for the Mentally Retarded be incorporated in the curriculum of the Woman's College
was adopted by the Alumnae Board of Trustees and by those in attendance at the
annual meeting of the Alumnae Association on June 1. The resolution reads:
Whereas in recent years the people of North Carolina have become aware that
approximately 25,000-30,000 children of the state of North Carolina are mentally re-
tarded and therefore unable to progress satisfactorily in public education without a
curriculum geared to their abilities; and whereas in many communities classes in
Special Education for mentally retarded children have proven their merit and whereas
the 1955 General Assembly broadened existing legislation to include State support
for classes for the educable mentally retarded; and whereas the 1957 General As-
sembly so far has acted favorably on legislation to include State support for schools
for trainable mentally retarded and whereas both groups of children now fall under
the jurisdiction of the State Department of Public Instruction; and whereas the lack
of trained teachers is the chief obstacle met in all communities wishing to offer such
training to their mentally retarded children; and whereas there are many teachers
who desire to go into this field of the teaching profession but are unable to do so
because of their inability to find adequate training for a certificate or degree in the
colleges and universities of North Carolina; and whereas the Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina, where a large percentage of North Carolina teachers
are trained, offers no courses in the field of Special Education for the Mentally Re-
tarded, either summer school or regular session; be it hereby resolved that the
Alumnae Association of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina
strongly recommends to the Chancellor of Woman's College and to the Board of
Trustees of the University of North Carolina that those courses leading to a degree
or certificate in this phase of Special Education as prescribed by the State Depart-
ment of Public Instruction be incorporated as promptly as is feasible in the cur-
riculum of the college, both in summer school and regular sessions, and that the col-
lege award degrees or certificates in Special Education to any student successfully
completing those courses required.
■'Let ((.s- watcJi well our beginning.'<, cnid
results will manage themselves."
Alexander Clark
Beginnings are always challenging:
they call out the best within us. As I
sat in Elliott Hall on June 1st and lis-
tened to Di-. Ellen Winston's distin-
guished address on "Women in Today's
World", and afterward, as I received
from Emily Preyer the gavel which
symbolized the start of a fresh task, I
felt again the old warm glow of antici-
pation which every new undertaking
brings to the heart.
Bonjour, bonheur!
semblc!
Voyageons en-
Julia Maulden
Buncombe
-Cliapters-
(#1) Instead of inviting the currently
enrolled students from Buncombe County
to a party in Asheville as has been the
custom, the Chapter came to them this
spring. On March 18 the group invited
the students to an After-Dinner Coffee
Hour in the Alumnae House, to especially
honor the 1957 graduates from the
County. Mary Elizabeth (Barwick) Sink
'44, president, and Virginia (Terrell)
Lathrop '23 represented the Chapter and
received the students. They were assisted
by fellow "Ashevillians" who are on the
College staff'.
(#2) Chancellor-elect and Mrs. Gor-
don Blackwell were guests at the Bun-
combe County annual spring luncheon at
the George Vanderbilt Hotel on May 18,
and Dr. Blackwell was the principal
speaker for the occasion.
During the meeting the annual Anna
Meade Michaux Williams scholarship
award was presented to Glenda Humph-
ries, a Lee Edwards High School senior.
Mrs. Williams '96x, for whom the
scholarship is named, was present at the
luncheon.
Cumberland
Despite the fact that every other or-
ganization in town was having a meeting
that night, the Cumberland Chapter's
ever-faithful 20 came to a meeting on
May 2. Gathering in the home of Elise
(Rouse) Wilson '43 in Fayetteville, the
group elected Josephine (Hunter) Deem
'53 to succeed Ruby (Byrd) Campbell '32
as chairman of the Chapter.
JULY, 1957
15
Chapter!?
Continued
Forsyth
Mary Ruth Linville reviewed the ex-
periences of the summer which she spent
in Europe under the auspices of the
Friends Service Committee for the mem-
bers of the Forsyth County Alumnae
Chapter during IMarch. The group met at
the home of Florence (Sharp) Newsom
'41, and plans were discussed for a series
of parties to be held on behalf of the
chapter's scholarship fund.
Guilford
After luncheon was served in the
Alumnae House, on March 26, 80 mem-
bers of the Guilford County (Greens-
boro) Chapter went to the Science Build-
ing to hear Dr. Virginia Gangstad of the
College Biology department lecture on
"Flower Containers from Around the
World". Special guests for the luncheon
included Dr. Gangstad, Dean of Students
Katherine Taylor, Dean of Instruction
Mereb Mossman, and Mrs. W. W. Pier-
son, wife of the acting chancellor.
Janet (Hooke) Moore '44 was elected
president of the Chapter for the coming
year, and working with her will be
Gladys (Sessoms) Elmore '43, vice-presi-
dent; Xancy (Edmonds) Hannah '46, sec-
retary, and Fay (Sylvester) Arnold '53,
treasurer.
Harnett
Katherine White, daughter of Rachel
(Aycock) White '29 and president of the
College Student Government Association
next year, is a native of Harnett County.
The Chapter there honored her at their
Spring Luncheon on April 27 at the Cot-
tondale Hotel in Dunn. Katherine, the
principal speaker, brought the group up-
to-date on some of the things going on at
the College.
The group elected Ophelia Matthews
'30 to succeed Lane Siler as their chair-
man for next year. Iredell (Brinn) Pope
'28 was elected vice-chairman, and Nell
Barefoot '42 will be secretary.
Mecklenburg
Members of the 1957 graduating class
from Mecklenburg County were guests of
the Chapter at its annual Spring Picnic
on June .5 at the home of Margaret
(Duckworth) Palmer '29. Also especially
invited to join the group was Sue Sig-
mon, rising Senior at the College and
current recipient of the Chapter's scholar-
ship.
Xew Hanover
Alumnae and prospective Woman's
College students in New Hanover County
were invited by the chapter to their an-
nual spring reception on March 11 at the
home of Janet (Weil) Bluethenthal '12x
in Wilmington, N. C. Mr. C. W. Phillips
represented the College at the reception.
Onslow
The alumnae in Onslow County met on
May 8 in Jacksonville to see a film which
was made last year and which depicts the
life of a physical education major at
Woman's College and to elect a new
chairman of the Chapter. Gwen (Wynn)
Conkling '45 assisted Chapter President,
Sue (Smith) Applewhite '45, with the
program by narrating the film.
Helen (Bryan) Patton '45 was elected
to take over as Chapter Chairman in the
fall.
Wake
The Wake County Chapter made his-
tory at its spring meeting on May 2
... it was the first Alumnae Chapter to
invite Chancellor-elect and Mrs. Gordon
Blackwell to meet with them. According
to the Chapter Chairman, Cora (Stegall)
Rice '45, the meeting was "a big success!
. . . Dr. and Mrs. Blackwell made an in-
stant hit with everyone. Both are so in-
formal and folksy, and he has such won-
derful plans for Woman's College . . ."
Eighty-five members attended the meet-
ing, a dinner held in the Raleigh Wom-
an's Club.
Janice Capps, daughter of Margaret
(Teague) Capps '29 and a Raleigh high
school senior who will enter Woman's
College in the fall, and her accordian
provided music for the occasion.
LTndine (Nye) LeGrand '42 was elected
Chairman for the next two years, and
Virginia (Spruill) Currie '40 and Mary
Lib (Purvis) Finlator '39 were elected
first vice-president and treasurer, respec-
tively, to work with her and Frances
(Newsom) Miller '42, second vice-presi-
dent, and Jackie (Yelverton) Woodward
'46, secretary, who have another year to
serve.
Wilmington, Delaware
"At long last the Delaware Chapter
finally had a meeting after four long
years," writes Janet Drennen '51, who
was elected Chapter Chairman. Meeting
at the home of Mary (Graham) Little
'46, the twelve alumnae present decided
to meet twice a year (spring and fall)
and on a social basis only. They decided
that they only needed a chairman, who
will maintain contact between the group
and the Alumnae Ofl'ice.
Any Woman's College graduate in the
area who has not been contacted and
who is interested in meeting with the
group should, please, contact Janet Dren-
nen, 1508 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington,
Delaware, or Peggy (Wallace) Ayres '42,
Pelham (Whitley) Bookout '41, Betsy
(Howard) Breckenridge '41, Helen
(Trentham) Campbell '43, Lois (Smith)
Livingston '45, Dorothy (Levis) Monroe
'44, Mary (Ledford) Peake '32, Gaye
Stewart '55, Mildred (Howell) Stoddard
'39, Peggy Ward '56, or Meg (Graham)
Little '46.
Jacksonville, Florida
Highlight of the Jacksonville Chapter
meeting on May 28 in Winifred (Langley)
Griffin's '43 home was the showing of a
film pertaining to the' activities of
physical education majors at the College.
The film, which was made as a part of a
master's thesis in Physical Education,
was narrated by Margie Gabriel '43, a
member of the chapter.
The ten alumnae present discussed two
methods for raising by fall a chapter
contribution for the College's General
Scholarship Fund.
Atlanta, Georgia
Betsy Umstead, instructor in Physical
Education and Counselor in Winfield
Hall, met with the Atlanta Chapter at a
dinner meeting on April 12. And accord-
ing to Chapter Chairman ilary Boney
'38, "Betsy did a wonderful job . . . She
told us so many interesting sidelights,
and we felt as though we had had a visit
to the campus."
Ofl^icers were due to be elected, but
the seven-course Italian dinner took too
long!
Columbia, South Carolina
The members of the Columbia Chapter
brought covered dishes to the home of
Lucile (Sharpe) Long '32 for a supper
meeting with Barbara Parrish, Alumnae
Secretary, on May 2. Before the group
discussed with Barbara recent happen-
ings and expansions at the College, ofl'i-
cers for next year were elected: Chair-
man, Judy (Greenburg) Litman '38x;
Vice-Chairman, Sadie (Rice) Reid '13;
Secretary, Patsy (HoUyday) Hedrick '48;
Treasurer, Alice (Fulton) Green '32;
Chairman of ways and means, Eunice
(Williams) Whichard '46; and Publicity
Chairman, Connie (Edwards) -Smith '48.
16
THE ALUMNAE NEWS
Years :
'08
'09
'10
'11
'12
'13
'14
'15
'16
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24
'25
'26
'27
'28
'29
'30
'31
'32
'33
'34
'35
'36
'37
'38
'39
'40
'41
'42
'43
'44
'45
'46
'47
'48
'49
'50
'51
'52
'53
'54
'55
'56
'57
'58
'59
'60
'61
'62
'63
'64
'65
5S 59 60 61
08
13
09
18
19
20
21
24
38
34
39
48
53
46
49
10
14
15
16
17
11
12
26
27
28
35
29
30
31
32
36
37
40
41
58
42
43
44
45
50
56
59
51
54
55
60
63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
A NeM Class Reunion Schedule
74
13
21
22
23
24
38
49
50
53
61
14
18
19
20
62
15
36
39
45
46
47
48
54
57
58
59
63
16
17
24
25
26
27
32
33
34
35
40
43
44
41
42
55
52
53
54
57
63
64
Old Guard Reunion . . . every year
after 50th reunion
18
21
22
23
19
39
40
43
48
49
50
51
58
60
61
62
20
21
27
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
44
47
45
46
59
60
55
56
57
58
61
26
42
43
44
47
51
52
53
54
23
65
62
64
65
24
26
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
48
49
50
45
46
47
48
51
54
55
56
57
63
64
58
59
60
61
65
Dr. John Paul Givler
(June 10, 1957)
Dr. Givler was head of the Biology
Department at Woman's College from
1920 until his retirement in 1949.
A native of Kansas, he received his
Ph. B. and M. A. degrees from Hamline
University in St. Paul, Minnesota and did
additional graduate work at Johns Hop-
kins and Columbia universities. Before
coming to Woman's College, he was pro-
fessor of Biology at Southwestern Col-
lege, Haverford College, and the Uni-
versity of Tennessee. During World War
I he served as a first lieutenant in the
U. S. Army Sanitary Corps.
In addition to numerous articles in the
fields of biology and ecology, he was the
author of a biology textbook and a
biology laboratory manual. He was a
member of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi
Scientific Society, and a former president
of the North Carolina Academy of
Science.
Dr. Givler was an accomplished mu-
sician; he formerly played cello in the
Greensboro Orchestra. After his retire-
ment he turned his hobby of woodwork-
ing into the vocation of repairing musical
instruments.
Margaret Penland Smith 1897x
(April, 1957)
After many years of teaching in the
public schools of Asheville and her re-
tirement, Margaret Smith taught in the
Plonk School of Creative Arts. "A mem-
ber of a prominent Western North Caro-
lina family . . . she enjoyed a remarkable
memory during her advancing years and
continued to maintain a keen interest in
the welfare of Asheville."
Mary T. (Smith) Jackson 1899x
(April, 1957)
Mattie (Moore) Taylor 1899
(October, 1956)
Elizabeth (Rawls) Strickler 1904
(April, 1957)
Before she returned to Durham in 1949
to make her home with her sister, Eliza-
beth Strickler lived in Virginia (Roanoke
and Norfolk), where she was for thirty
years treasurer of the State Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
In Memoriam
Annie L. (Stanbury) Clay 1911x
(February, 1957)
Willie Russell McKinney 1912x
(April, 1957)
A lifelong resident of Monticello,
Willie McKinney taught school in the
Greensboro and Guilford County school
systems for 42 years. She retired from
her teaching three years ago.
Annie (Sugg) Jordan 1912x
(August, 1956)
Blanche (Whitmore) Thomas 1914x
(April, 1957)
Zelma (Clark) Rich 1927
(January, 1957)
Pauline (Crowson) Thornton 1927
Willie (Wiley) Ruber 1927
(Fall, 1956)
Lettie (Hamlett) Rogers 1940
(May, 1957)
For two years after her graduation
from Woman's College with a major in
Sociology, Lettie Rogers taught in the
College's Sociology Department. Later,
her interests turned to literature and,
subsequently, she wrote four novels
which were published. South of Heaven
(1946) was the first and was condensed
in "Ladies Home Journal" and printed in
special editions in Great Britain and
France. The second novel The Storm
Cloud (1951), as did the, first, featured
life in China where she, the daughter of
missionary parents, was born. Her third
novel Landscape of the Heart (1953) had
its setting in an American mental hos-
pital. The fourth book Birthright was
published by Simon and Schuster in
March of this year and was chosen by the
Literary Guild as an April selection.
Critics have hailed this last novel as one
of the finest of the new works dealing
with the integration-segregation problem
in Southern schools.
From 1948 until 1955, Lettie was as-
sistant professor of English at Woman's
College, specializing in the teaching of
creative writing. She was not only a
recognized author, but, according to her
students, a craftsman in the field of
teaching the would-be writer.
An editorial was published in the
Greensboro Daily News the day after her
death, which began: "Lettie Rogers is
dead at 39, like Tom Wolfe well before
her time and fulfillment."
Nancy Lee Riser 1958x
(June, 1957)
During her three years at Woman's
College, Nancy Kiser was especially ac-
tive in the religious activities program,
and during the last session she worked
with extreme interest and persistence on
an exploratory project about a College
Chapel. Her hope for the College was
that an interdenominational chapel would
be built in the vicinity of Peabody Park.
Nancy was fatally injured in an auto-
mobile accident on June 1 in Broadhead,
Kentucky, as she was en route to a sum-
mer job at Yellowstone National Park.
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and
Reunion Notes
Florence Pannill's
painting "A Street Scene in New
York", won her the award for the
most outstanding entry in any
field in the sixth annual Guilford
County Fine Arts Contest. The
painting was on display in the
Virginia Dare Room of the Alum-
nae House on Alumnae Day.
Old Guard
The Old Guard, composed of
Alumnae who have been away
from the College fifty years or
more, met on June 1st following
the Alumnae luncheon.
Annie (Kiser) Bost, President,
welcomed the group and recognized
sixteen members from the follow-
ing classes: Class of '98, Lillie
(Boney) Williams and Florence
Pannill; Class of '99, Carey (Og-
burn) Jones; Class of 1900, Mittie
(Lewis) Barrier, Emma Lewis
(Speight) Morris, Mytie (Scar-
borough) Coffin, and Miriam Mac-
Fadyen; Class of 1902, Virginia
(Brown) Douglas; Class of 1903,
Annie (Kiser) Bost, Mary Bridg-
ers, and Nettie (Parker) Wirth;
Class of 1905, Ruth Fitzgerald,
Ethel (Harr-is) Kirby, Elizabeth
Powell, Emma (Sharp) Avery;
Class of 1906, Josie (Doub) Ben-
nett. The Vice-President, Virginia
(Newby) Crowell was not able to
be pi'esent.
Among the guests present were
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Blackwell.
Dr. Blackwell reviewed the Mc-
Iver Era of the College as pictured
in the book, Mclver of North Caro-
lina, soon to be published. He had
found it most interesting and
thought it would be especially en-
joyed by this group. Dr. Blackwell
concluded his talk with a discus-
sion of legislation pertinent to the
Woman's College.
Frances (Newsome) Miller '42
of Raleigh spoke of the work of
the Legislative Council, which is
composed of representatives from
twenty leading organizations in
the State.
Attention was called to the honor
that had come to a member of our
group, Florence Pannill, in the
winning of several awards in the
recent Fine Arts Festival.
During the business session
Ruth Fitzgerald gave the following
report of the nominating commit-
tee. For President: Miriam Mac-
Fadyen, Vice President: Emma
(Sharp) Avery. This report was
unanimously adopted. Mrs. Gordon
Blackwell was elected an honorary
member of the group.
Annie (Kiser) Bost thanked the
arrangement committee for their
beautiful decorations at the
luncheon table. They, in turn, gave
all the glory to Mary Fitzgerald,
one of our guests, whom they
claimed had done all the work.
lone Grogan was thanked for
her helpful services to the group.
Thanks were given our Presi-
dent, Dr. Annie Kiser Bost, for
having arranged this most delight-
ful program.
The meeting adjourned with all
present enthusiastically promising
that, if they could, they would be
right there next year.
Miriam MacFadyen, Secretarji.
Lottie Eagle, 921 West-
over Avenue, Norfolk 7, Va., sent
the following letter to the Old
Guard: "I regret very much that
my sister, Jennie, and I will not
be able to attend the reunion. My
sister is far from well and could
not make the trip on bus or car.
Please know that we are with you
in spirit if not in presence. You
may be surprised to know that we
are still teaching! — doing coaching
and individual tutoring. I am now
coaching a man 33-year.s-old who
is applying for a clerical position
at the Naval Base here. Please
give our best to our remaining
classmates."
While visiting with her sister in
Greensboro, in April, Eula Todd
of Jefferson, was showered with
gifts from former pupils she had
taught here 35 years ago. Around
25 former students remembered
their teacher who said — "I was so
surprised. Do you know what I
did? I cried."
Old Guard Reunion: (U-ft to light) Kai-rier, Grogan, Morris, Avery, R. Fitz-
gerald, Kirby, Jones, MacFadyen, Powell, Bost, Bridgers, Williams, Coffin,
Douglas, Blackwell, Pannill, Blackwell, and Wirth.
JULY, 1957
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'02
Robert D. Douglas, Sr.,
82-year-old Greensboro lawyer-
writer, husband of Virginia
(Brown) Douglas, was honored
in a ceremony in Raleigh at which
his picture was hung in the State
attorney general's office, marking
his serving as attorney general in
1900-1901. Mr. Douglas' daughters
are alumnae of W. C. — Virginia
(Douglas) Bell. Com. '32 of
Greensboro and Helen (Douglas)
Shoobridge, Com. '41, of Tas-
mania, Australia. The Douglas
son, R. D., Jr., practices law with
his father.
Virginia ( N e w b y ) Crowell
wrote from Monroe that she was
unable to attend commencement
because her two sons, one from
New Jersey and one from Florida,
were spending the weekend with
her.
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Elizabeth W. Hicks
wrote from Faison that she regret-
ted being unable to attend com-
mencement — the first time she
would have been a part of the Old
Guard.
The fiftieth anniversary
reunion of the Class of 1907 was
a most happy occasion for those
members who were privileged to
attend. Out of a class of forty-six,
thirty-four of whom are still liv-
ing, fourteen were present — the
largest percentage of attendance
of all the reunion classes.
Present were: Blanche (Austin)
Thies of Charlotte: Eula Mae Blue,
Carthage, Clare (Case) Ingram,
High Point; Mena (Davis) Mc-
Arthur of Petersburg, Virginia;
Ethel Dalton, Winston - Salem ;
Margaret (Call) Thompson,
Mocksville ; Florence Gray, Carth-
age; Belle Hampton, Chapel Hill;
Mav (Lovelace) Tomlinson, High
Point, Mary (Reid) Idol, High
Point; Mattie Kate Shaw, Carth-
age; Willie (Spainhour) Greer,
Chapel Hill ; Inez (Koontz) Stacey,
Chapel Hill; Lula Whitaker, Win-
ston-Salem. In the absence of the
president, Mary Exum, Willie
Spainhour Greer, Chairman of the
Reunion Committee, asked May
Lovelace Tomlinson to preside.
Class of 1907 . . . 50th Reunion
Messages were received from the
following: Agnes (Blake) Lueders
and Janet (Crump) Murphy, both
of whom live in California (Janet
has children living in the East and
makes flying trips across the
States every now and then) ;
Miriam Boyd (who was honored
after she retired from teaching in
the Warrenton High School by the
naming of the "Miriam Boyd High
School") ; Rosalee Dixon of Hick-
ory and Mary Exum of Snow Hill,
both of whom were unable to be
present because of the care of in-
valid sisters; Eleanore (Elliott)
Carroll, Chapel Hill, who was in
Massachusetts for the wedding of
her son ; Winifred Harper who has
recently been confined in the hos-
pital; Lena (Leggett) Smith of
Dunn; Mary (Strudwick) Berry of
Greensboro who was out of town ;
and Sue (Williams) Williams of
Warrenton.
Since this was the honor class
this year transportation by car
was furnished to the reunion
luncheon in the Coleman Gym-
nasium, and at the Alumnae Din-
ner in Elliott Hall members of the
class were seated at reserved
tables where they were served as
guests of the Alumnae, while the
younger classes served themselves
cafeteria style. Many thanks go to
those in charge of arrangements
for their thoughtfulness.
As is the custom for each class
following their fiftieth anniversary
the class of 1907 will hereafter be-
long to the Old Guard.
Bertha (Daniel)
Cloyd's husband, Edward L.
Cloyd, Dean of Students, State
College, Raleigh, retired from his
post on July 1 after 39 years of
service on the State College
faculty. He was honored at the
banquet meeting of the National
Association of Student Personnel
Administrators early in April.
Three members of the
Class of 1912 had a 45th reunion
all their own: Mary (Van Poole)
Phillips, Lucy (Landon) Lindsay,
and Mame (Boren) Spence. They
lunched together around a private
little table, decorated especially for
them in lavendar and white.
Reports have it that the mem-
bers of the class are already antici-
pating the 50th reunion in 1962.
Planning this far ahead should
guarantee a large group then.
Rebecca (Herring) Warner lives
at Clinton.
Mabel Jettson's newly-found
address is 349-lOth Street, S.E.,
Washington 3, D. C.
Louise (Lucas) Thornton lives
at 2227 McClintock Road, Char-
lotte 5.
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THE ALUMNAE XEWS
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Clara Booth Byrd was
made a state honorary member of
Delta Kappa Gamma, society of
key women in education, at the
23rd annual state convention held
in Pinehurst in April.
The Class of 1917 held
its 40th reunion at the College on
June 1, 1957 with the following
members present: Ruth (Roth)
Rypins, Alice (Poole) Adams, Etta
Schiffman, Ann (Daniel) Boyd,
Frances (Howard) Cox, Helen
Oliver, May M. Meador, Frances
(Morris) Haworth, Estelle (Dil-
lon) Babcock, Isabel (Bouldin)
Edmunds, Harriet Lee (Horton)
Stall, Ruth (Kernodle) McDonald,
Olivera (Cox) Rouse.
The Everlasting President, Ruth
Rypins, presided and read cards
from absent members telling us of
their whereabouts and activities.
The names of deceased members
were read and tribute paid their
memory.
1917 was proud to receive an
award from the Alumnae Associa-
tion in session that morning — a
galvanized water bucket tied with
blue ribbon — which was given for
the largest percentage of the re-
unioning classes contributing to
the 1956 Alumnae Fund— 28 ^i of
the class contributed.
It was voted to send each mem-
ber of the Class of 1917 a roster
of the Class, giving present ad-
dresses, etc. Contributions to cov-
er this cost were made.
Each member present told of her
activities, hobbies, children and
grandchildren from which the fol-
lowing pertinent facts were
gleaned :
May Meador, Helen Oliver, and
Etta Schiffman are unmarried,
teach, have travelled extensively
and done advanced study. Etta is
an authority on Bird Lore.
The married members reported
22 children and 36 grandchildren.
Five are widows.
Estelle Babcock is a Sorority
House Mother at Chapel Hill, as
was Ruth Kernodle last year. Ruth
recently lost her brother and is
busy closing his estate.
Alice Poole Adams, recently
widowed, teaches and manages her
husband's drug store in Gastonia.
Ruth Rypins, married to a Jew-
ish Rabbi, tutors high school stu-
dents to take College Entrance
Exams.
Frances Howard Cox's daughter,
Janet Speas, has written and pub-
lished three books.
Isabel Bouldin Edmunds re-
ported that her three daughters
are all graduates of Woman's
College.
Ann Daniel Boyd drives for her
travelling husband and has as a
hobby skippering a boat.
Olivera Cox Rouse is a church
organist and director of Junior
Choirs.
Frances Morris Haworth told of
being sent with her husband to
England to the World Conference
of Friends.
Hattie Lee Horton Stall told of
her son, a doctor who is at UNC
doing research.
A good deal of information con-
cerning the College's curriculum,
policies and plans was given us by
Ruth Rypins, after which we ad-
journed with promises to "write"
and return at the next reunion.
Estelle (Dillon) Babcock's lat-
est address is 109 Hillsboro Street,
Chapel Hill.
Annie Hall lives in Salisbury.
Hattie Lee (Horton) Stall's
address, 545 Reed Lane, Lexing-
ton, Ky., was given by Olivera
(Cox) Rouse.
The Class of 1917 received the
following telegram from Louise
Maddrey: "Hollins Commence-
ment makes it impossible for me
to be there but many happy
memories are with all of you.
Best love to all."
Juanita (Puett) Jones lives at
224 Bosworth Street, Philippi, W.
Va.
Ruth (Roth) Rypins' husband.
Rabbi Fred I. Rypins of Temple
Emanuel, Greensboro, was the
fourth recipient of the Celebrity
Night Award of the Sidney J.
Stern Lodge of B'nai B'rith. In
ceremonies honoring him at Tem-
ple Emanuel, Rabbi Rypins was
presented a framed parchment "in
recognition of his constant guid-
ance and understanding through
25 years of service to the com-
munity of Greensboro."
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Class of 1917 . . . 40th Reunion
r. Ezda Deviney, new-
ly elected member of the Alumnae
Board of Trustees, is the winner
of the annual Meritorious Award
for Teaching by the Association
of Southeastern Biologists. Dr.
Deviney retired this year as head
of the Department of Zoology,
Florida State University, follow-
ing 38 years of teaching. She
makes her home in Tallahassee.
Mary (McDonald) Breeze's
daughter, Joyce, was graduated
from the Woman's College on
June 2.
JULY, 1957
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^ ^ The Class of 1922 didn't
eat as much fried chicken as some
of its reunion neighbors in the
gvm, but it voted $175 from a
remnant treasury to the proposed
ahmmae garden, and it supplied
the most spectacular outfit in the
fashion parade of classes.
Only 18 of the 94 who wore the
green" and white in 1922 remi-
nisced and displayed grandkid pic-
tures over buffet lunch and after-
ward transacted informal business
in the spacious home of reunion
chairman Sallie (Tucker) Mum-
ford. The money for the garden
was taken from $205 which when
banked 35 years ago was $100. The
donation was earmarked for a
piece of garden furniture or other
non-plant item in memory of Dr.
Julius I. Foust, president during
the class' four years and in whose
honor the 1922 Pine Needles was
dedicated.
Olive (Chandley) Crawford
furnished the best-looking pair of
legs in the fashion show as she
broke into a vigorous Charleston
in Sallie Mumford's knee-short,
sleeveless, waistless, bead-fringed
Paris formal which was set off by
an apricot befringed shawl. Agnes
(Cannady) Cashwell, the class
luncheon chairman, made green-
stemmed white carnations for each
reunionist to wear with her badge.
Grace (Forney) Mackie came
the farthest to reunite : from Point
Pleasant. New Jersey. She brought
along husband Arthur to the
Elliott Hall dinner and also her
winsome granddaughter, Valerie,
5 years, and lovely daughter-in-
law, Mrs. David Mackie of Rich-
mond, Virginia. The Mackies went
from here to the Carolina grad-
uation and June 8th marriage of
son, Carter Gray.
Others of 1922 raising voices in
a reunion chorus loud and strong
were: Murriel (Barnes) Erwin of
Salisbury; Jessie (Baxley) Sutton
and Zelian (Hunter) Helms of Ra-
leigh ; Helen Dunn (Creasy)
Hunter and Martha (Bradley)
Bechtold of Charlotte; Charlotte
(Daugherty) Rouse of Farmville;
Ruth (Higgins) Hasty of Maxton ;
I\Iary (McDonald) Leary of Eden-
ton; Joscelyn (McDowell) Wil-
liams and Ruth (Teachy) Berney
of Asheville ; Elizabeth (Stanford)
Winn of Burlington ; Athleen
Turnage of Ay den; Hulda (Hollo-
man) Ellinwood and Anne (Can-
trell) White of Greensboro.
Ann Bridges' address is Box
267, Forest City.
Elizabeth (Calvert) Couch's
address is 116 Pinehurst Avenue,
New York 33, N. Y.
Marie (Davenport) Harrill is
now in Pineville.
Grace (Forney) Mackie at-
tended the dedication ceremony of
the Forney Building at Woman's
College on May 31. The building
was named for her father, the late
E. J. Forney, and houses the
Department of Business Education
and the One- Year Commercial
Department. Grace lives at 1141
Lawrence Avenue, West Point
Pleasant, N. J.
Vera Keech lives at Tarboro.
Helen (Leach) Macon has
moved to the C4 Myrtle Apts., 27
Myrtle Avenue, Charlotte.
Joscelyn (McDowell) Williams'
new address in Asheville is 272
Cumberland Avenue.
Hazel (Mizelle) Trotter lives at
1843 Harris Road, Charlotte.
Josephine Weaver is Mrs. B.
Frank Daughety, 524 Weaver
Drive, Lexington.
i»2 ?_^ Virginia (Terrell) Lathrop's
son, Terry, was graduated with honors
from State College, Raleigh, in June.
Florrie (Wilson) Sherrill to Mr. C. A.
Trollinger, January 27, 1957, Lenior,
where they are at home.
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Correction: This is to correct
the news item in the April issue of THE
ALUMNAE NEWS which said that
Polly (Duffy) Bridges was president of
Alpha Eta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma
Alpha Sorority in Greensboro. Polly
(Duffy) Bridgers, member of the
Woman's College faculty, is not the
above mentioned person.
Pauline Roberts' permanent address is
1315 Highview Place, Honolulu 16,
Hawaii.
Ruby CM a y ) Caldwell
teaches ninth grade. Junior High School,
Newell. Her husband is a house trailer
salesman for Faires Trailer Company,
Charlotte. They have two children,
Calvin and Caroline May.
Twenty-seven members of
the class of 1927 and several guests held
a happy 30th reunion around the bounti-
fully laden luncheon table assigned to
them in the Coleman Gymnasium. Cath-
erine (Cox) Shaftesbury had served well
as local chairman for this reunion and
had prepared attractive booklets in red
and white which gave interesting infor-
mation about the class history. Two
pages of the booklet carried the names
of 22 deceased members of the class.
Following the delicious luncheon and
entertaining program, the group went to
the Visual Aids Room and enjoyed see-
ing colored movies of former commence-
ments and their 25th reunion which Dr.
A. D. Shaftesbury, an honorary member
of the class, showed. It was great fun
seeing each other on the screen I It was
a great privilege to have Dr. Shaftes-
bury and two other honorary class mem-
bers. Miss Jessie McLean and Miss Vera
Largent, attend this 30th reunion.
During a short business session pre-
sided over by the everlasting president,
Susan Borden, a committee was ap-
pointed to make plans for and publicize
their 35th reunion in 1962. This com-
mittee, Juanita Stott, Nannie (Tate)
Doggett, and Catherine (Cox) Shaftes-
bury, hopes to have many more of the
class present in 1962 than were there
this year. After singing the class song,
the group enjoyed hearing news about
those present and some of those absent.
Congratulations were extended to Eliza-
beth (Griffith) Freeman who has four
grandchildren, the largest number of
any member present that day.
In addition to those mentioned above,
the following were present: Christie
(Adams) Holland, Phoebe (Baughan)
Barr, Annette (Boney) Egerton, Sarah
Boyd, Willie Meta (Brown) Goodman,
Madeline Copeland, Agnes N. Coxe, Min-
nie (Deans) Lamm, Elizabeth (Dock)
Bordeaux, Josephine Hege, Wilsie (Jobe)
Maness, Fannie Belle Markham, Mar-
garet (Noell) Dalv, Rebecca (Ogburn)
Gill, Louise (Phillips) Riser. Helen
(Rowell) Ragan, Elizabeth (Scar-
borough) Talbert, Anne (Simpkins)
Mixon, Mamie (Smith) Wolfe, Nina
(Smith) Fellows, Mildred (Williams)
Burk, and Zada (Wright) Fair. Several
other members attended the buffet din-
ner at Elliott Hall that evening.
Blanche Rickmond is Mrs. W. W. Wat-
son, 1829 :\Ionte Vista, Fort Myers, Fla.
Glenn (Yarborough) Warren's address,
Gibson, was given by Daphine Doster.
Frances (Gibson) Satterfield.
Atlanta, Ga., accompanied her daughter.
Lenore, class of '52, to Honolulu for a
vacation in Mav.
Louise (Dannenbaum) Falk.
Greensboro, was elected president of the
Friday Afternoon Club.
Dora Ruth Parks, executive secretary
of the West Virginia Library Commis-
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sion since 1945, is currently a member
of the Statistics Committee, ALA Public
Libraries Division, and a member of the
executne board of the West Virginia
Library Association.
Ronnie Sheffield's address is 2619
Hanover Avenue, Richmond, Va.
f.^Vf Alma (Blanchard) Plyler,
Whalevville, Va., has a son, M. T., Ill,
who was graduated from Hargrave
Military Academy in June. Her daughter,
JIartha, is in high school.
Ophelia Matthews writes from 403
West Broad Street, Dunn.
Eloise Rhodes' address is Box 591,
Culpeper, Va.
Virginia Tucker is still v\-ith Northrop
Aircraft, in the Boundary Layer Control
Research Department, Santa Monica,
Calif.
Myrtle Vick is Mrs. Upshur Morris,
1120 Camden Avenue, Salisbury, Md.
'31
Frances (Shearon) Thomp-
son has moved to Roxboro, where her
husband is pastor of the Long Methodist
Church.
Margaret Winstead has moved from
Wilmington to 3305 18th Street, N.W.,
Washington 10, D. C.
O^ V,
ellie (Suggs) Eagle was
luncheon arrangement chairman for the
Class of 1932's twenty-fifth reunion.
Thirty-eight members of the class pinned
on the silver discs which Vellie and her
committee had made to identify them
as "silver reunioners." Pansy Avery
(McConnell) Hood, president, presided
at the class meeting following the
reunion luncheon, and the following
notes were recorded about members of
the class:
Betty (Adkerson) Etchells, mother of
two children, a son 15 and a girl 12,
taught physical education at Meredith
College, Raleigh, before her marriage.
She is now busily engaged in civic,
Scout, and P.-T.A. work and is president
of the Raleigh Council of Women's Club.
Margaret A. Bacchus, who will teach
in Norfolk, Va., this fall, served in the
U. S. Army from 1942 to 1957.
Elva (Baker) Thornton teaches a
seventh grade in Lynchburg, Va. She
has a married daughter and one grand-
child. The Thornton's son is serving in
the 6th Infantry in Berlin, Germany.
Rachel (Blythe) Jackson is a home-
maker in Winston-Salem. Her husband
is a doctor and they have one son,
William Mclver, a junior in high school.
Janie Earle (Brame) Roberson's ad-
dress is 14 Woodland Way, Greenville,
S. C.
Sarah (Carr) Berkey is teaching
Spanish and English and a course in
Teen-age Counseling in one of the Los
Angeles, Calif., High Schools.
Class of 1932 . . . 25th Reunion
Rebecca Causey, who received Life
Membership in the State Garden Club
last year, grows orchids near Liberty.
Margaret (Church) Tanner does
library work at Rutherford College and
in the Henderson Public Library. The
Tanners have three daughters. The old-
est one, Josephine, graduated from
Woman's College in June.
Mary (Cowan) Fisher lives at 1105
Mountain Avenue, Berkeley Heights,
N. J.
Elizabeth Davidson teaches fifth grade
in Davidson. She makes her home with
her mother at Route 1, Huntersville.
Margaret (Freeland) Taylor teaches
in the Giulford High School and lives in
Greensboro. The Taylors have a son 15.
Elizabeth (Hoffman) Rosenthal has
moved from Boston, Mass. to 1276
Canterbury Road, Charlotte.
Sue Sample, daughter of Sue (Horner)
Sample, Statesville, was av,'arded an
international scholarship for high school
students by the American Friends
Service. She is spending ten weeks in
selected homes of European nations.
Edith (Ivey) Pugh lives in Hickory.
She has a daughter 15 and a son 12.
Susie (Jackson) .AlcClenaghan of
Greenville, S. C, has a four-year-old son.
^Margaret (Kendrick) Horney lives on
a farm near Greensboro.
Jean (Lane) Fonville, author of the
class song, received her master's degree
in Fine Arts from Columbia University
in 1943. She was a junior art editor and
assistant in design for J. B. Lippincott
Publishing Co., and taught at East
Carolina College and Florida State
University, prior to her marriage in
1951. The Fonvilles live in Burlington.
Avery (McConnell) Hood lives on a
farm. Route 1, Matthews. In cooperation
with the Mecklenburg County Police and
Welfare Departments, she and her hus-
band provide a home and work for any
delinquent boy arrested there. They ac-
commodate from 10 to 15 boys.
Ruth (McKaughan) Carter teaches at
Lee Edwards Senior High School, Ashe-
ville. She taught in the Guilford County
Schools 2 years following graduation,
taught in High Point Senior High School
until World War II, when Mr. Mc-
Kaughan went into service. She was
awarded a fellowship at U.N.C. and
received her master's degree there. She
was a counselor at Woman's College for
two years, until her husband's return
from service and they went to Asheville.
Reva Mitchell works at Samarcand,
Eagle Springs.
Cornelia (Montgomery) Blair is a
laboratory technician and assistant to
Dr. S. R.' Taylor, Greensboro.
Iris (Nelson) Cooke is a homemaker
in Williamston, where she does church
and civic work. The Cookes have two
sons, 17 and 10.
Louise Robinson, director of children's
work, West Market Street Methodist
Church, Greensboro, attended a conven-
tion in Nashville, Tenn., which made it
impossible for her to attend the class
reunion.
Norma (Robinson) Mason teaches at
Morehead City. The Mason's son gradu-
ated from higii school this year and their
daughter is a tenth-grader.
Helen (Simons) Strauss, who lives in
Wilson, taught for ten years in Greens-
boro before her marriage in 1946. They
have two sons, 10 and 6.
Sadie Smith is office manager of
Charlotte Ofl'ice of Addressograph-Multi-
graph Coropration.
Rachel (Snipes) Venette's husband is
in the laundry business in Jacksonville.
Vellie (Suggs) Eagle teaches fourth
grade at Guilford College Elementary
School. She received her master's degree
from Woman's College on June 2. The
Eagles have a son, who is 13.
Eugenia (Talley) Millikan teaches a
fifth grade in Randleman. Her husband
is a retail furniture dealer and they have
two children, a girl 14 and a son 10.
JIabel (Thornburg) Helwig's mailing
address is Box 567, Route 3, Tampa 5,
Fla.
Polly (Truslow) Lauder taught in
Ruff'in, where they now live, before her
marriage. They have three daughters,
16, 14, and 12.'
JULY, 1957
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Selwyn (Wharton) Yow's daughter,
Martie, was graduated from Woman's
College in June. The Yows live in
Greensboro.
Jerrie Wheless is now Mrs. George
Dixon, 2037 Washington Street, Orlando,
Fla.
Frances Wise is Mrs. T. J. Jacquet,
1011 West Avenue, Charleston, W. Va.
The mailing address of Helen Eliza-
beth Worsham is !\Irs. C. R. Hamrick,
Nebo.
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Howai'd Holderness, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Holderness
(Adelaide Fortune), of Greensboro, was
named vice president in an election of
permanent officers of the class of 1957
at Philips Exeter Academy, N. H.
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Frances Kernodle to John
Herman Blunk, Jlay 11, 1957, Louisville,
Ky. Mr. Blunk served as an ensign in
the Navy during World War II, is a
graduate of Speed Engineering School
of the University of Louisville. He is a
civilian employe in mechanical engineer-
ing of the U. S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Louisville, Ky., where they
are at home.
Frances (Smith) Shelhart lives at 35
Adams Pt. Road, Barrington, R. I.
'36 .
tathryn (Ginsberg) Jacobs
of Raleigh, recently visited in Greens-
boro.
Elizabeth (Whaley) Borrowes and her
family have moved back to their home
at 1839 St. George Drive, East, Braden-
ton, Fla.
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'^-^ • Betsy (Dupuy) Taylor was
luncheon arrangements chairman and
Wilfred (Schlosser) Seager, class host-
ess, for the Class of 1937's twentieth
reunion. Because her daughter was grad-
uating from high school during the
weekend. Class President Judy (Ulrich)
Capps was not able to come from Lynd-
hurst, Ohio. Gerry (Spinks) Alligood
presided in Judy's stead at the class
meeting after lunch.
Sixteen class members were registered
for the weekend: Belva (Farmer) Oel-
rich, Shirley (Melchor) Mainwaring,
AUeine (Grimes) Echerd, Wilfred
(Schlosser) Seager, Martha (McRae)
Alsup, Grace (Harriman) Morrison,
Gladys (Lowery) Hinson, Edna (Car-
penter) Baker, Gerry (Spinks) Alligood,
Clara (Knox) Abercrombie, Susan
(Hamlin) Jamme, Josephine Gorham,
Anne (Watkins) Pemberton, Marie Rob-
erts, Betsy (Dupuy) Taylor, Ruth
(Gorham) Davis.
Camille (Boger) Haislip is a
homemaker at 209 Overlook Road,
Staunton, Va.
Ethel (Cole) Smith lives at 1425
Takena Street, Albany, Oregon.
Louise Fitzgerald teaches English in
Fayetteville.
Gladys Gamble is Mrs. Russell
Braasch, 640 Vine Street, Menlo Park,
Calif.
Katherine Gilbert is Mrs. John W.
Sandholm, 2815-24th Avenue, Moline, 111.
Josephine Gorham's address in Raleigh
is 430 N. Blount Street.
Elizabeth (Hanks) Stroud's address is
216 W. 30th Street, Apt. 4A, Norfolk,
Va.
Flora (Haynes) Gouge has moved
from Newland to 2236 Hiwasse Drive,
Kingsport, Tenn.
Lucinda (Hood) Hollowell does part-
time work in her husband's drug store
in Greenville. In addition to a newly-
acquired farm home, some of Lucinda's
activities are: housewife, mother of a
ten-year-old daughter. Baptist Training
Union adult leader, Woman's Club,
P.-T.A. City Council President, Girl
Scout Leader, etc.
Mary Elizabeth (King) Ogden lives at
1502 N. Ivanhoe Street, Arlington, Va.
Mary (Nunn) Drumheller lives in
Birmingham 6, Ala., at 929 Five Mile
Road.
Kate Urquhart, who does advertising
work in New York City, made a business
trip to North Carolina in June. Unfortu-
nately, business in the eastern part of
the state kept her away from the
reunion of her class. "Since I can't be
present, please give my warmest good
wishes to all the '37 crowd w'ho are
there."
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Mae McFadden, high school
instructional assistant. Guilford County Schools.
Greensboro, was selected to attend the Summer
Science Institute at Duke University.
Nina (Park) Booker, teacher at Lindley Ele-
mentary School, was designated as "A Teacher
of the Year" by the Greensboro Junior Chamber
of Commerce and \vas presented an award at a
Jaycee luncheon on May 16.
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Martha (Floyd) Faller's daughter,
Jill, was a first-grader last year at the training
school of Stephens College, Hammond, La.
Ruth (Rogers) Magher lives at 3419 Park
Road. Charlotte.
Carroll Stoker of station WFMY-TV in
Greensboro, attended the annual convention of
American Women in Radio and Television in
St. Louis, Mo.
Mary Elizabeth ( Suitt) Hall's husband is
principal of a Junior High School in Durham.
They have three children, Edna Jo 6. Bill 5,
and Mary Elizabeth 2.
Jean (Ziel) Berg and her husband have
recently moved into their new home at 4349
Far Hill Drive. Birmingham. Mich. Jean is
active in the Birmingham Musical and AAUW,
as well as church work and "three year-old"
affairs — meaning her only daughter, Sigrid.
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Barbara Brown is now Mrs.
Alfred E. Rousseau of 98 Smyth Road, Man-
chester. N. H.
Margaret (Kennette) Davis* address is 1301
Harding Place. Charlotte.
Alice Suiter, for the past five years executive
director of Guilford-Randolph Girl Scout Coun-
duties on September 1 as a*
member of the National Staff of Girl Scouts of^
the U.S.A. Alice received her master's degree*
from New York University : served in the '
WAVES; was assistant director of the park and
recreation commission in Charlotte, and served
as an instructor and counselor at the Woman's
College.
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The Class of 1942 of Woman's
College held its fifteenth reunion in the golf
room of Coleman Gymnasium following buffet
lunch in the main gym.
Sue f Murchison i Hay worth. Everlasting Class
President, presided over the meeting which
attended by about 45 members. Miss Emily
Watkins. our Class Advisor, also was present.
Letters were read from some of the members
who could not attend and all the members pres-
ent told news about herself and her family.
Since our class has no funds available to pay
postage and miscellaneous expenses in connec-
tion with our reunion, a collection which
amounted to $27.10 was taken. Of this amount
we already owed the Alumnae Office $16.73 on
account. The balance was left with the Alumnae
Office to be credited to the account of the
Class of 1942.
Everyone present seemed to have a most en-
joyable day and agreed that we would look
forw^ard to another reunion in a few years.
Jack Bilyeu, husband of Carolyn Ballow. for-
mer managing editor of the Statesville Record &
Landmark, has accepted a new position w' '
Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company
Greensboro.
Jessie Evans (Brunt) Nichol resides at 231
Van Kirk Street. Beverly, N. J.
Katherine (Coan) Tobin lives at 7712 Dickens
Avenue, Elmwood Park, 111.
Lillian (Cope) Durant is married to Capt.
D. E. Stewart and is living at 3861 Trask Drive.
Columbus, Ga. They have a daughter, Jill 1.
Polly (Creech) Sandidge is a homemaker at
578 Davis Blvd., Davis Island, Tampa. Fla. They
have three children, Roy 3rd, Kathryn, and
Nancy.
Jean (Emmons) Saunders' husband is a pack-
age material engineer with Container Corpora-
tion of America. "We are moving into our new
home June 1 — 207 Midland Avenue, Wayne, Pa.
Our children are — Douglas 10. Drew, nearly 9.
Dale, nearly 6 and Jean 2. I keep busy with
the children, P.-T.A., Cub Scouts, and the many
things mothers are around for.'
Na
Drive. I
Amy (Joslyn) MacDougall, 393 Waters Road.
York. Penna. was unable to attend the class
reunion because: "Bob and I just returned from
Europe and have lots of catching up with our
own little family after three weeks. We flew
over and back and were participants of a sports
car rally, visiting six countries while there.
Needless to say. it was w^onderful touring the
continent in your own car and ha\'ing all the
details like routes, reser\^ations. etc., taken care
of by the rally organizers. It would have been
lovely having more time. Since our graduation
there have been many changes in the Mac-
Dougall household. I feel safe in assuming we
have the youngest offspring — a dear little
daughter 10 months old. Our big boy, Robert.
Jr., is almost 10. In 1956 we adopted little Dan
who is now 21 months. Have a wonderful
reunion and give my regards to all the cele-
brants."
Faye (Kornegay) Isherwood's address is 590 <
Rutherford Drive, Springfield, Pa.
Dorothy (Mansfield) McDaniel says that she
is enjoying their new home in the suburbs of
Orange Park, Fla.
Dorothy (Miller) Lewis lives at 3210-46th
Street. Lubbock. Texas. I
Ernestine (Oettinger) Withers has just moved ;
to 386 Anawanda Avenue, Pittsburgh 34. Pa. \
Margaret (Ramsaur) Ditmars lives at 12 Pic-
ture Lane, Hicksville, N. Y.
Jean (Riden) Barfield is assistant librarian,
Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
Meredith (Riggsbee) Both has moved from
New Mexico to P. O. Box 1232. Amarlllo. Texas.
Ellen (Shields) Gibson's address is 215 Grace
Street. Suffolk. Va.
Eleanor Southerland's address is USOM to >
Colombia, c/o American Embassy, Bogota,
Colombia.
Mildred (Thompson) Russell underwent a
heart operation in late April. Her address is:
Mrs. M. P. Russell. 24 Minton Drive. Warwick,
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THE ALUMNAE NEWS
Katherine <Warrenl Galloway lives at Apt. 1,
Bldg. 30, USNS, Green Cove Springs. Fla.
Lena (Wright) Thomasson teaches school in
Willoughby. Ohio. They have two children.
Beatrice (Darden) Trevathan's
is 136 Albany Blvd., Atlantic
Beach, L. I., N. Y.
Pansy (Erwin) Lacey's husband is state presi-
dent of the North Carolina Vocational Agricul-
tural Teachers' Association, and they live in
Jefferson. They have two sons.
Elizabeth (Perkins) Barrow recently wrote
from Staten Island, N. Y.. that she was planning
to move to Florida soon.
Kathleen (Rhyne) McGuean's husband. a
major in the U. S. Air Force, is now stationed
at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., where they
are living. Their former address of c/o Post-
master. San Francisco, Calif.
'46
orn to Mr. and Mrs. Jay M.
uuncan . ^..» Chittv), a fourth daughter,
Rebecca Jean. April 28, 1957, Norfolk, Va.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Caffey (Ann
Clovd), a daughter, Carol Cloyd, May 17, 1957,
Raleigh. Bertha (Daniel) Cloyd '11, is the proud
grandmother.
Annie Laurie Lowery is teaching school in
the Canal Zone, where she has been for the
past two years,
Jerry (Morrison) Medlin and her three chil-
dren will accompany Dr. Medlin to Zurick,
Switzerland, where he will study for a year.
Doris Theodore to Dr. J. Trimble Johnson,
April 6 1957, Lumberton. Dr. Johnson will
complete his residency in pediatrics at Grady
Hospital in June. He is a Navy veteran of
World War II and a graduate of Emory Uni-
versity and Emory Medical School. He interned
at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.
Alexa (Carroll) Williams has been named
president of the Junior Woman's Club m
Raleigh.
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Smith (Katherine Davis), a son. Glenn Alan,
January 13, 1957, Wilson.
Stella Efland to William Sterling Roulhac, Jr.,
April 20, 1957, Efland. Mr. Roulhac is a graduate
of Fork Union Military Academy and of Atlantic
Marine Academj-. He is a marine engineer with
Esso Standard Oil Company.
Betty (Nickerson) Ward's address is 323 Fair-
field Avenue, Ridgewood, N. J.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Plonk, Jr.,
(Julia Pollock), a fifth child, first daughter.
Judith Lee. May 5. 1957, Kings Mountain.
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'45
Dorothy Beatty, formerly of
Greensboro, lives at 2116 F Street, N.W., Apt.
102, Washington 7, D. C.
Mary Lou (Bennett) Mansueto now lives at
Powhatan Apts., Greensboro.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Forrest M. Barrett
(Grace Hoyle), a daughter, Lisa Marguerite,
April 1, 1957. Raleigh.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Green (Evelyn
McKinneyl. a daughter, Carol Lea, February 3,
1957. Winnie (Smith) McKinney '20 is the proud
grandmother, and is temporarily with the
Greens m Jamestown.
The Woman's College Campus
sounded and resounded with the screams and
cries of hello as the members of the class of
1947 gathered together for their 10th reunion.
Approximated 100 girls came back to the col-
lege to look at the changes that had taken
place on Campus, as well as in ourselves.
Many spent the night in Jamison Dormitory,
and talked and laughed into the wee hours
of the morning. College experiences were re-
membered, and pictures of our offsprings
passed around. We didn't feel any older then,
but as the next day passed we conceded that
a few years had gone by.
At the alumnae meeting we were proud that
we won a "galvanized bucket" for having the
most members present of any reunion class.
Afterwards we enjoyed a wonderful luncheon
and program in the new gym. We then met for
our class meeting with our everlasting presi-
dent. Bootsie I Webb I Smith, presiding. As our
next reunion is not until 1964, we passed a
motion to have a reunion in 1959. Many stayed
on for the alumnae supper which brought to a
close a delightful weekend of reminiscing and
catching-up on our activities in the past 10
years.
We each and everyone enjoyed our 10th re-
union. We missed many classmates and friends
who were unable to come, and we were sad-
dened by the knowledge that there were three
of us never to be seen again. We sincerely
hope many more of us will meet again at the
next reunion, and we look forward to it with
much anticipation.
Jumcla Boulus is now Sister Mary Michael,
Sacred Heart Academy, Belmont.
Nancy (Bowman) Wagoner's mailing address
is 108 Brownell Circle, Monterey. Calif.
Mary Elizabeth Brittain to Worth Poole Gur-
ley. May 25, 1957, Graham. Mr. Gurley attended
Campbell and Wake Forest Colleges and is now
associated with his father m the N. M. Gurley
Realty Company, Raleigh, where they are at
home.
Margaret (Burnettel Hanneman lives at 915
W. Muskogee, Sulphur, Okla.
Kathryn (Cobb) Preyer and her family have
moved from Greensboro to Charlotte, where Mr.
Preyer will be an assistant professor of history
at Queens College. The Preyers have two chil-
dren. Nappy and Janet.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Budiansky
(Nancy Cromer), a son, Stephen Philip, March
3, 1957, Lexington, Mass.
Dorothy (Gray) Ancona now resides at 1061
Devon Road, Jenkintown, Pa.
Mary Ellen Harrell to John Carson BuUard,
April '27, 1957, Elkin. Mr. Bullard was graduated
from Riverside Military Academy and Duke
University. He is associated with Blount
Brothers Construction Co., Montgomery, Ala.
Mary Little Hipp's address is 151 E. 19th
Street, New York 3, N. Y.
Judy McLean is Mrs. Martin W. Brossman,
207 Elmira Street, S.W.. Apt. 321, Washington,
D. C.
Eleanor Morgan, formerly of Greensboro,
lives at 102 Oakhurst, Charlottesville, Va.
Nancy (Mullican) Niebur's husband is as-
.sistant professor of Theology at Harvard
Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass. They have
a son, Richard Gustav, who will be 2 in July.
Betty Jean (Pickett) Miller's address is 40
Salem Lane. New England Village, Evanston,
111.
Vivian Rahenkamp is now at 1202 Pinecroft
Road, Greensboro.
Mariorie Shearin lives at 3413 Redbud Lane,
Raleigh.
Caroline (Simmons) Thurber is a housewife
and mother of a son. They live at 909 Mountain-
view Avenue, Ottowa 3. Ontario, Canada.
Esther (Smith) Arne and her husband have
opened a ladies ready-to-wear store in Fayette-
ville.
Lois (Smith) Goewey is a research analist
with the FBI in Washington, D. C. Her husband
is in the U. S. Navy and they live in Alex-
andria, Va,
Marianna Smithson's new address is Loretta
Drive, Shorewood. Spartanburg, S. C.
Virginia (Stager) Turner's permanent address
is 430 Kaka St., Lanikai. Oahu, T. H. The
Turners are temporarily in Washington, D. C.
where Mr. Turner, a Marine Engineer, is on a
short assignment. "My daughter, Cindy, almost
three, and I have so much fun covering all the
museuins. zoo and other Washington spots of
interest."
Fannie (Thompson) Gray's husband, who
received a Ph.D. degree from Princeton, is a
professor of aeronautical engineering, Georgia
Tech. They live at 1077 Spring Mill Lane, N.E..
Atlanta, Ga. They have two sons. Robin. Jr. 7
and Carl 5V2.
Marilyn Vincent teaches physical education in
Jacksonville, Fla.
Betty Jo Wallis is Mrs. Russell C. Clark, 61
Sonia Lane, Broomall, Pa.
Sally R. (Williams) Bales is a homemaker in
Lafajette, Ind. The Bales have two children, a
girl 5 and a boy 3 months.
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Class of 1947 . . . 10th Reunion
Pat (Boren) May, whose husband
is an obstetrician in "Charlotte, was last year's
president of the North Carolina Medical Auxil-
iary, second lai-gest medical auxiliary in the
South.
Majorie (Coble) McDaniel's husband. Dr. L.
W. McDaniel, is completing his residency in
surgery at the University Hospitals, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Martyvonne Dehoney's address is Art Dept..
Carthage College, Carthage. 111.
Helen (Douglas) Woodside lives at 1421
Winston Avenue. Baltimore 12, Maryland.
Iris (Ragan) Austin lives in Sanford. They
have three sons.
Nancy (Souther) Merritt and her husband
recently enjoyed a trip to New York City.
JULY, 1957
Charles Gailyard Tennent. Asheville father of
Gail iTennentl Whitehurst. was named Presi-
dent of Rotary International at the Convention
in Lucerne. Switzerland in May.
'49
Marion (Adams) Smith's home in
Greensboro was among those listed on the
Garden Tour in the Spring.
Bom to Mr. and Mrs. James Samuel Lipscomb
(Barbara Apostolacus), a daughter. Anne Bear-
more. March 2. 1957, Dallas, Texas.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Parrish
(Viola Entermille). a daughter, Linda Carol,
March 29, 1957, Aberdeen, Md. They have a son
who is 2.
Anne (Gaw) Schluter wrote: "Since last Sep-
tember. Hugo and I have made our home in
Rhode Island, where Hugo's ship, the destroyer
McCaffery, is based. We have two young ones,
Carl 4 and Marilyn 18 months. Papa's duties
keep him at sea and in foreign ports much o(
the time. This December, however, we should
settle down for awhile. Hugo's due for two
years' shore duty and he hopes to go to post
graduate school in Monterey. Calif. Last sum-
mer. M'hile he was away, the children and I
took a trip to Charlottesville, 'Va., where we
visited Sallie (Wingfield) Hughes '4i), her folks
and her fine children. Sallie and her little ones
had come over from Honolulu to be with her
folks for a few months. We had a grand time
picnicking, swimming, and renewing acquaint-
ances. Sallie is back in Hawaii now. My room-
mate. Pat iMcMahon) Stewart '4!), lives in a
new house in Bridgeport, Pa., with husband
Dean and two little boys, Kevin 6 and Dean, III
2 months. Pat and I got together last June and
treated ourselves to lunch and a shopping
spree."
The STATE, March 9, 1957, carried the fol-
lowing item: "Tom Wicker, husband of Neva
McLean. Winston-Salem newspaperman, in his
new book. The Devil Must, adds a note of folk
superstition and witchcraft. The story is told
of Sandy Martin, a young newspaper reporter,
but the plot is built around the murder of a
farmer named Carl Rogers, which sets off fire-
works of politics, sex, race discrimination, and
the laying bare of old scandals in a small
Carolina town. Perhaps the best aspect of this
new book is the skillful and vivid picture Mr.
Wicker draws of familiar Carolina scenes: but
the climactic scene of the fire and violence and
death is splendidly handled."
Miriam iReilley) Bell lives at 238 N. Dotger
Avenue, Charlotte.
Phyllis Ann (Smith) Hendrix's husband, a
first lieutenant, is stationed at the U. S. Army
Hospital. Ft. Stewart, Ga.
50
Peggy (Coppala) Jones resides at
5912 Halsey Road, Rockville, Md.
Carolyn Drum's address is P. O. Box 25,
F. P.O. ,3923, San Francisco, Calif.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Hedrick (Jean
Fisher), a son, Keith Edward, November 11,
1956, Greensboro.
Martha Jordan has completed her first year
as District Director with the Mecklenburg
County Girl Scout Council in Charlotte.
Katherine (Lambeth) Zarker's husband has
been given a large scholarship from the Fels
Napatha Fund for the coming year. He was the
John Howell Westcott Fellow in Classics at
Princeton this past year and will continue work
there toward his Ph.D. degree. They have two
little girls, Leslie 3"2 and Jeannie 2.
Euby Rumley to Joseph McKinsey Paul, June
8, 1957, Winston-Salem. Mr. Paul attended the
College of William and Mary and received a
degree in business administration from the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He
is employed as a certified public accountant by
Ernst & Ernst in Winston-Salem.
Marilyn Shaw's address is 163 E. 33rd Street,
New York, N. Y.
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V. Braun
Ga.
Mary Louise Black to Richard Munger Preyer,
April 6, 1957. Pinehurst. Mr. Preyer is a grad-
uate of Woodberry Forest School, the University
of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, and Phoenix
School of Design, New York City. He works
STAIRWAY TO THE STARS
CLASS OF '52
Class of 1952 . . . 5th Reunion
for the art department of Cunningham & Walsh,
advertising agency. At home, 218 E. 75th Street,
New York City.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elmo M. Sellars, Jr.
(Carol Byrd). a second son. June 4. 1957.
Greensboro.
lives at 531
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cooper (Louise
Davis), a daughter, Gloria Jeanne, March 4.
1957. Lexington.
Frances (Fulcher) Phillips wrote recently:
"The most drastic change in our family at
present is our recent reassignment to Korea.
The situation at our mission hospital in Chunju
has continued to get worse, and the need for
another surgeon is most urgent. So the Mission
Board asked us to go West instead of East. We
shall begin our study at the Institute for Out-
going Missionaries in Montreat in June. The
school ends with our commissioning service on
July 31. Our address after August 1 will be
either c/o H. E. Fulcher, Davidson, N. C, or
c/o Mrs. J. D. Phillips. Sr., Laurinburg.
Anne (Grier) Isley's husband is stationed
with the U. S. Army at Ft. Knox, Ky., where
they are living.
Betty Jean (Harris) McLean writes from 507
Hancock Street. Oxford.
Jean (Hogshead) Few's husband. Rev. John
Few. has taken a new pastorate at Fort Myers,
Fla.. where the family has moved. The Fews
have two children. John, Jr. 4 and Lorie 15
months.
Frances (McGeady) George is an assistant
librarian. Woman's College. UNC. Greensboro.
Jay lee Montague's address is 3040 Idaho
Avenue, N.W.. Apt. 403. Washington 16. D. C.
Elizabeth Outlaw to Leonard Ronald Dinkier.
June 2, 1957, Mount Olive. Mr. Dinkier received
his degree in mechanical engineering from Duke
University. Durham, and is maintenance en-
gineer for Vick Chemical Co., in Greensboro,
where they are at home.
Emoffene (PowelI> McNeely has moved to 828
Clay Street. Franklin, Va.
Nancy Lee (Selecman) Davidson, Dayton,
Ohio, has two sons. Tom. Ill 3 and Dick 1.
Hilda (Wallerstein) Fleisher sent the following
address: 35 Craigie Street. Portland. Maine.
The Class of 1952 reunited in fine
form on Commencement weekend with about
fifty members appearing for the reunion
luncheon. At the General Alumnae Meeting
Saturday morning we were the proud recipient
of a galvanized bucket (successor to a silver
loving cup I for the largest contribution to the
Alumnae Fund of the classes represented. After
the meeting and a parade to Coleman Gym. we
had lunch with Dean Katherine Taylor,' Acting
Chancellor and Mrs. W. W. Pierson and Miss
Mereb Mossman as our special guests. Follow-
ing clever entertainment by talented alumnae,
we held ovir class meeting.
President June welcomed ■ us all and read
notes and letters from absent class members.
Anne ( Hall i Todd wired : "Young Susan who
is four months old keeps me away." Millicent
(Simoni Ginberg says: "Nancy is 2^4 years and
Paul is 9 months . . . After all these years, I
think I should have majored in child psychology
or home economics!" School teaching and
husband graduating in na\igator's school in the
Air Force kept Nina (McLeodt Blake in Hous-
ton. Texas. She hopes they will be sent to the
vicinity of North Carolina. Jackie ( Jerniga
Ammons wired. "Wish I could be there. Know
you are having a wonderful time. Tell every-
one hello." The person coming the greatest dis-
tance to the reunion was Rachel Hackney, who
is an Engineering Physicist at the Atomic
Power Equipment Department of General Elec-
tric in San Jose, California.
hav
about 560
Dr. Eugenia Hunter told us about her plans
for the summer. She's going to Europe, travel-
ing independently with a friend and "is look-
ing forward to her first 'summer off in
years."
Then each person at the meeting told wrhere
she now lives, what her work is, ho^v many
children, etc. Also we heard information about
people who were not with us. and interesting
things that have happened to people we know.
Generally speaking, the whole bunch had not
changed much, although some may have been
broader in the beam i speak for yourself. Johni.
Our class who came for overnight were quar-
tered in Coit Hall where we found Joan Rob-
erts the counselor. She was very patient and
understanding especially in the wee small hours.
Joan is planning great things in August when
she will take a husband who will really not
be much more trouble than a donn of freshmen.
Here's news and notes about some ^vho were
there and some who weren't:
Patricia Anne (Harris! Sumrell is in Gaines-
ville, Florida, where her husband is attending
the university. Their son is three years old.
Eugenia (McCarty) Bain lives in Atlanta i699
Darlington Circle! where she is secretary in the
training department of Rich's. Her little boy.
Donnie is 3' 2.
Virginia (Hilli Windes lives in Alexandria.
Virginia. Her husband is in the Air Force and
they have a boy and a girl who was bom in
May.
Shirley (Teggi Parker lives in Greensboro
with three children ages 4. 2 and 0 months.
Her husband is an insurance adjuster.
Jessie (Fordi Burch lives in Milwaukee. Wis-
consin, with a little bov 2.
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Gloria I Monk 1 Smith has taught five years in
Greensboro. Her husband is with Cone Mills.
Ann (Griffin I Cate lives in Chapel Hill where
they have a dairy farm. They have two girls,
Lisa and Martha Frances.
Dot Lawrence is Home Management Specialist
..'ith the Agricultural Extension Service, Ohio
State University, Columbus. Ohio. She got her
M S degree in Home Economics at Woman's
College in June 1956.
Lu Ann 'Pillatti Crumling was dietician three
years at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
Her husband is a salesman for General Elec-
tric and they had a daughter in October 1956.
Sally iMassengilli Bachman has three boys.
Her husband is resident physician at the Med-
ical College of Virginia in Richmond.
Laura iBradfieldi Rutledge lives in Louisville,
Kentucky, where her husband is with Reynolds
Metal Corporation. They have two children.
Imogene iPonsi Gibson lives in Hamlet. She
studied one summer after graduation at the
Sorbonne in Paris.
Dot (Anderson I Graham is teaching in En-
field, where she lives with her husband and
three children.
Bettv (Randall I Younts has two children.
Susan and Charles Randall. She started study-
ing piano again last November.
Gene Claire i Jones i Gault has a 16 month
old son. and she is still teaching in Whiteville.
They live at Lake Waccamaw in the summer.
(Visit, anyone?! She and Miralyn ( Johnson i
Stanley arrived for the reunion after surmount-
ing great obstacles. They had a flat tire on the
way and had to change it themselves. Who
says a Woman's College education doesn't pre-
pare you for everything'.'
Mary Evelyn iTrotti Mebane and her hus-
band "bought a new house in Burlington and
moved in October 1956.
Rebecca Lamy works for Air Force Procure-
ment in Washington. She was formerly infants
wear buyer at Hecht Company.
Millie (Newitti Hogoboom arrived from
Trucksville. Pennsylvania, complete with Yan-
kee accent. Her husband is connected with an
investment house. She reports that Peggy
(Bolton I Goodman has two boys and liv
Mount Airy: Frances (Milleri Scholtes liv
Durham: and Pat ( Harrison i Parker liv,
Eagle Springs and has one boy.
Glenna iByrdi Kluttz lives in Black Moun-
tain where her husband is a druggist. They
have two girls.
Anne ( Whittingtoni McLendon lives in
Coytesville. New Jersey, while her husband.
Bill, is interning at Presbyterian Hospital in
New York. They have one daughter.
Helen (Linvillei Ledford now lives in Rich-
mond, Kentucky, but will go in August with
her Army careerman husband and her two sons
to Karachi. Pakistan for a tour of duty.
Betty (Green I Hauser lives in High Point
where' her husband is a C-P.A. Their daugh-
ter, Jane, is seven months old.
Peggy (Arthur! Miller is in Burlington, where
her husband is with Western Electric. They
have two sons.
Richmond and
Scotty Kent is with an advertising Agency
Charlotte. She reports that Ginger (McFarla
Goldstein lives in Windsor, N. C. and has
children. Also Joan (Wrenn! Parmalee lives
Chicago and had a boy in March.
Mary Ann (Barlow! Scarborough is now
Mary's sister-in-law and she and her husband
have two boys. They live in Hookerton.
public school
Betty Bullard blew in from Lexington where
she has been teaching Distributive Education.
She gave an account of her trip to the Scan-
danavian countries last summer with a Meth-
odist Youth Caravan.
Jane (Sarsfield! Shoaf now lives in Lillington
v/here her husband is minister of the Lilling-
ton Methodist Church. They have two boys,
David, almost 3, and Eric. 5 months. In July
they will go to Durham where Cliff will become
Minister of Education at Duke Memorial Meth-
odist Church.
Janice (Atwood) Anderson has
moved from Virginia to 105 Haywood Avenue.
Chattanooga. Tenn.
1957, Morganton.
Mae Brock teaches fourth grade. Walnut
Street School. Goldsboro.
Elizabeth (Coffey) Ladd teaches a first grade
in Greensboro. She has a little girl, Patricia.
Leola (Culbert) Wenley lives in Washington.
D. C, where Mr. Wenley is with NBC-TV. They
have a son. David Clay, born April 5, 1957.
Mary Lou (Driver) Sims lives at Glen Lennox.
Chapel Hill.
Cora Lillian Green, home economics teacher
in Mountain Park, received her Master's Degree
in Education from the Woman's College, June 2.
Louise (Hodges) Baker. Com. '52. lives at
1315 Duke Street. Georgetown. S. C. The Bakers
have a son, Carroll Eugene, Jr., born last
December.
Margaret (Holland) .\dams has moved from
Raleigh to Route 4, Southern Avenue, Lynch-
burg, Va.
Eleanor Hoskins does secretarial work in
Charlotte.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Jones Smith
(Catherine Hudson), a daughter, Sandra Leigh.
February 8. 1957. Winston-Salem.
Nancy (Keck) Ginnings formerly of Greens-
boro, now lives at 910 W. 12th Street, Dallas.
Texas.
Marie Johnston King is an administrative
assistant for Remington-Rand Co., Richmond.
Va.
Dorothy Lawrence, until recently of Greens-
boro, lives at 1109 W. Sells Avenue. Apt. E.
Columbus, Ohio.
Jane McJunkins lives at 16 Tallassee Street,
Badin.
Betty Will McReynolds to Robert Franklin
Moose. April 6, 1957, Winston-Salem. Mr. Moose,
a graduate of the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, is sales representative for Southern
Dairies Company in Columbia, S. C. At home
818 Queen Street, Columbia.
Anne (Payne) Lowry is homemaking at Vir-
ginia Beach. Va.
Jeanne i Pinner) Hood was home demonstra-
tion agent in Onslow County until March 1. She
is now with her husband, a lieutenant in the
U. S. Arm.y, in Columbus. Ga.
Ina Mae Price teaches a fourth grade in the
City Schools of Gastonia.
Rodgeryn (Rau) Flow lives at 2021 Kemper
Lane. Knoxville. Tenn.
Jean Satterthwaite of Mark Cross in New York
City conducted a Charm School in Elliott Hall
on the Woman's College campus in April.
Frances Van Ness, who is Mrs, Alec Rogers
has moved to 18A Thomas Drive. Monroe Park
Wilmington. Del.
Colista (Weisner) Cleaver teaches in Golds-
'53
The Buffalo Presbyterian Church
manse at 2520 Church Street. Greensboro, is
now occupied by Patricia (Donnell) Wlllingham
and family. Rev. Willingham is new pastor of
the church. They have two sons. Edward IV 2',2
and Albert 10 months.
Rebecca Glass to Stanley R. J. Woodell, April
26, 1957. Danforth Chapel, State College, Raleigh.
Mr. Woodell received his bachelor of science
degree from the University of Durham, England,
and completed three years of postgraduate study
there for his Ph.D.. which he will receive on
his return to England. He spent this past year
as a guest research worker in the Department
of Genetics at State College as a recipient of
a Kmg George VI Memorial Fellowship under
the auspices of the English Speaking Union.
Helen May Hammond to Samuel Tertms
.Stough, Jr.. April 27, 1957, Charlotte. The bride-
groom was graduated from the University of
North Carolina. Chapel Hill, and is employed
with the Social Security Administration in
Fayetteville. At liome there.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall S. Woodson.
Jr. (Patricia Harrelson). a daughter, Laura
Patricia, February 4, 1957, Columbus. Mr. Wood-
son is principal of the Stearn School.
Margaret (Helms) Tyson lives at 1571 Queens
Road, West, Charlotte.
Elizabeth Hill teaches in the E. K. Powe
School, Durham.
William O. Moser, husband of Jane McLean.
has begun duties as assistant director of Moses
Cone Hospital. Greensboro. A Winston-Salem
native, he received a B.S. degree in industrial
relations at the University of North Carolina
and completed a two-year internship in hospital
administration at Charlotte Memorial Hospital.
He also served in the finance corps of the U. S.
Army.
Lorena (Reams) Alford's husband is a captain
in the U. S. Air Force, stationed at Barksdale
Field. La. They have two children. J. I.. Ill 3,
Kit 1. They recently returned from a tour of
3' J years in Morocco and Germany.
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^-^^ -■- Mary
Louise (Ahe
whose husband is employed by J. P. Stevens
Co.. Columbia. S. C. has a daughter, Mary
McMurray. nearly 1.
Geraldine (Fish) Mackin is teaching in Ger-
many. Her address is: Mrs. James H. Mackin,
Jr.. 7706 A.F.N. A.U., APO 757, c/o Postmaster,
New York. N. Y.
Dorothy ( Fisher) McGee's husband is a
research engineer at North Carolina State Col-
lege, Raleigh. They live at 3021 Leonard Street
in Raleigh.
Martha Lee Irvin to Lt. Donald Duane
Phillips, U. S. Air Force. March 17, 1957,
Chaumont, France.
Martha Lashley to Floyd Winston Rierson.
June 8. 1957, Greensboro. Mr. Rierson served
two years in the U. S. Army and is now in
business in Greensboro.
Anne Rothgeb, mezzo-soprano, has been
awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Vienna.
Austria, for a year's graduate study. She
received her master's degree in voice from the
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston,
Mass., where she won the Eleanor Steber
award. She also received the artist diploma at
the Conservatory. She made appearances in
Jordan Hall and the Isabella Steward Gardner
Museum in Boston and has sung oratorio and
recitals in various sections in New England.
Gillie (Shaw) Revelle is living at 1621 Brook-
side Drive. Fayetteville.
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Mary Owens Bell to Rev. Frank
Owen Fitzgerald, Jr., March 30. 1957. Fayette-
ville. The Rev. Mr. Fitzgerald received an AB
degree in Social Science and English from High
Point College and a BD degree from Duke Di-
vinity School. He is assistant pastor at Hay
Street Methodist Church. Fayetteville.
Eleanor (Coulbourne) Vinson has returned
from Anchorage. Alaska, to 204 Watson Street.
Windsor.
Jane Higgins to Army Private William Davies
Van Hoven. April 21. 1957. Alumnae House,
Woman's College, Greensboro. The bride was a
graduate assistant in the Woman's College
Biology Department last year. The bridegroom,
a graduate of Houghton College in New York,
received a master's degree in teaching from
Vanderbilt University and Peabody College
under a Ford fellowship. He is now stationed
at Ft. Holabird.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas VanNoppen
(Melissa Jones), a daughter, Elisabeth Helene,
May 10. 1957. Cincinnati. Ohio.
Amelia (Kirby) Thomas teaches in Charlotte.
Pearl (Parry) Green's husband graduated
from the Medical School. University of North
Carolina. Chapel Hill, in June and will be in-
terning at N. C. Memorial Hospital there next
year. Pearl is a personnel assistant. Personnel
Office, at the University. Their daughter. Jane
Harriet, will be 1 in July.
Born to Dr. and Mrs. D. V. Chamblee (Bar-
bara Pickett), a daughter. Karen Marie. April
27. 1957, Washington. D. C.
June (Rapp) Bitzer's husband who recently
received a master's degree is a metallurgist with
the Aluminum Company of America. At home,
9 Bennett Place, Westfield. N. J.
Barbara Ann (Rowland) Hocutt lives at 9 A
Sheridan Apts., 7th Street, S.E., Decatur, Ala.
Frances Royal recently sent in the following
address: 317 S. Main Street, Graham.
Mary Ann Stafford to Jessse Virgil Noland,
Jr.. June 8, 1957. Greensboro. Dorothy Stafford
'57 was her sister's maid of honor. Janie
(Stanley) Boling '55 was a bridesmaid. The
bridegroom graduated from the University of
JULY, 1957
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Class of 1956 . . . 1st Reunion
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he majored
in accounting and was vice president of Alpha
Kappa Psi. He served two years with the Army
and is employed by J. P. Stevens & Co.. as an
internal auditor. At home. 10-B Lewis Village.
Greenville. S. C. where the bride will teach
in the fall.
'56
The Class of '56 celebrated its
first birthday in fine style with 45 of its mem-
bers attending the Reunion party on June 1st
weekend. Quite a few of the " '56'ers" came
from as far as New York, Connecticut, and
Massachusetts to be with us. Many more sent
greetings, even though they could not attend
the Reunion.
No one seemed to have changed a great deal
in appearance ... iwe thought we would
leave this until our oOth Reunion' i . . . but
there were quite a few "additions"! Some of
us had. or would have, new members in our
families; some had acquired that all-important
diamond; some were earning Masters' Degrees
and some were still "Bachelor-essing" it; and
then there were some of us who "just came"!
Perhaps for encouragement:
We even managed to take home one of the
Alumnae Association's coveted "loving cups"
as a special prize in having the largest per-
centage of contributors among reunioning
classes to the 1956 Alumnae Fund. The "loving
cup" was actually a 56 carat galvanized bucket
. . . much more suitable for the Treasurer to
take with her when we need class funds again!
Decorations for our place at the luncheon fea-
tured the class colors and memories of "The
Mikiva". Pigtails at Titipu U. was the fashion
for the day!
Thus the weekend was an exciting one, but
altogether too short. We decided to continue
our "gab sessions" at the next reunion when
we'll have even more news. See you all then!
1956 COMMERCIAL CLASS
The 1956 Commercial Class had a reunion too.
Sherleen O'Connor was the luncheon arrange-
ments chairman, and Sue Hege "stood-in" for
Everlastmg President Marilyn (Mayo) Koonee
"nable to come from her home in
Polly Allen to Pvt. Ralph Harrison Via of the
U. S. Army, April 13, 1957, Mint Hill. Following
his graduation from Wake Forest College, the
bridegroom worked for the American Enka Cor-
poration in Asheville. The bride joined him at
his post at the Army Chemical Center in Edge-
v.-ater, Md., on July 1.
Ann Allmond to Dr. William Gordon Smith.
Jr., June 8, 1957, Thomasville. They will live
in Chapel Hill next year, where Dr. Smith will
be interning at Memorial Hospital,
Marijane Beltz has moved from Massachu-
setts to Stamford, Conn,, where she teaches at
the Low-Heywood School.
Janet Brooks, class of '56, graduate of the
University of North Carolina, was chosen for
membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
Patricia Ann Carson to William W. Suttle,
April 14, 1957, Statesville. Mr. Suttle, a gradu-
ate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, is a second year law student in the Uni-
versity Law School. At home, Chapel Hill.
Mary Wells (Edwards) Ncese teaches school
in Atlanta, Ga.
Carolyn Head to Bruce Claiborn Ritchie, June
1, 1957, Matthews. The bridegroom attended
Guilford College and served with the Adjutant
General division of the Arniy in Heidelburg,
Germany, He is employed as an accountant for
Burlington Industries, Greensboro, where they
are at home.
Christine Hill to Robert Stanton Wiggins, May
25, 1957, Greensboro, Mr. Wiggins holds bache-
lor and master's degrees in mathematics from
the University of Florida. He is now applied
service representative for International Business
Machines Corp., Asheville. At home, 105 Lake-
wood Drive, Asheville.
Coanne Isley to Reginald Bernard Gillespie,
June 2, 1957, Graham. Mr. Gillespie is in the
summer graduating class at State College, Ra-
leigh, where he is majoring in textile chemistry.
Valentine Lazarr and her family have moved
from Greensboro to 90 Union Street, Montclair,
N, J.
Betty Lee is engaged to Joseph G. Tobert of
Asheboro. The wedding is planned for late
summer or early fall, and they plan to live in
Raleigh following their marriage.
Elizabeth Luella Morton to Edward Y. Albert,
April 6, 1957, Charlotte. The bridegroom at-
tended Emory University and is now studying
at Georgia State. He is associated with" his
father in the firm of Y. Albert and Son.
Dorothy (Parshall) Swartz is a commercial
artist for Army Times Publishing Co., Wash-
ington. D. C,
Born to Mr, and Mrs. Donald Wagner (Mar-
garet Rose) a daughter, Katherine Rose, May.
1957, Charleston. S. C.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jerry B. Hyman (Judy
Rosenstock), a son, April 13, 1957, Greensboro.
Sally Edna Scott to Robert Jackson Bost. June
1, 1957, Concord. The bridegroom served two
years in the Army. He attended Lenoir Rhyne
College and has just completed his
Pfeiffer College.
live
at 2019 N Street,
ir (Allen) Harris lives
2706 Cartier Drive, Raleigh.
Cynthia (Cartledee) Estridge's husband i:
student at the Institute of Paper Chemistry,
Appleton, Wisconsin, where they are living.
Betsy Clayton to Larry Kent Winberry, Feb-
ruary 16, 1957, Duke Memorial Methodist
Church, Durham. The bridegroom attended the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and
is now employed by Modern Printing Company,
Durham. At home, 304 Northwood Circle,
Durham,
Josephine (Conrad) Crestmore lives in James-
town, where her husband is employed by C, E. I
Pierce Co.
Cynthia (Covington) Wease is teaching in the
Federalsburg, Md. High School. She lives at
107 Fifth Avenue, Denton, Md,
Jane Crawford is assistant home agent, Cataw-
ba County, with headquarters in Newton,
Willie Mae (Graham) Moore is teaching home
economics in Raleigh,
Peggy Ann Hilton is teaching in Mount Olive,
Carrie (Howell) Lickel, who was married in
December, is doing secretarial work, F. W.
Dodge Corp., Greensboro. Mr. Lickel is com-
mercial representative with Southern Bell Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company.
Shirley (Knott) Young is living in Pensacola,
Florida, where her husband is stationed with
the U. S. Navy. He is a graduate of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and re-
ceived his commission as an Ensign from the
Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School
Pensacola.
Therry (Nash) Deal's address is: '> J. B. Deal,
U. S. Naval EMGRUI. Navy No, 14, '; F.P.O.,
San Francisco, Calif.
Kay Smith teaches sixth grade, Kernersville.
Josephine Tanner to Wallace G. Cawthorne,
January 26, 1957, Henderson. Josephine is assist-
ant county Home Agent in Halifax County. Her
husband, who attended State College, Raleigh,
is now serving in the U. S, Navy.
Mary Henrie Arthur to Luther Graham French,
Jr., April 14, 1957, Greensboro. The bridegroom
attended Pfeiffer and High Point Colleges and
served two .vears in the Army. He is now an
adjuster for the Burlington time payment de-
partment of Security National Bank. Burlington.
At home, 16-D Brookwood Garden -Apts., Bur-
lington,
Bessima Bach to Alan Steven Kane. April 12.
1957, Greensboro. The bride will teach art in
Greensboro next fall. Mr. Kane attended Wash-
ington and Lee University and was graduated
from the University of Miami. He ser\'ed two
years in the Army and is manager of Kane
Furniture Co. here.
Barbara Fisher to Isaac Albert McLain, Jr..
June 8, 1957, Marion. The bridegroom gradu-
ated in June from Wake Forest College, where
he majored in history. He is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Alpha, and Eta Sigma
Phi. all honorary fraternities, and played in the
college band. He will do graduate work toward
a master's degree in music at Florida State Uni-
versity.
Mary Hargrove to Benjamin Franklin Craven.
Jr., June 15, 1957, Greensboro. Mr. Craven is a
graduate of the University of North Carolina.
Chapel Hill, and is now an accountant with
Peat. Marwick Mitchell & Co., Greensboro.
Cecelia Kennedy has been appointed assistant
home demonstration agent in the Guilford
County Health Department, Greensboro.
Barbara Smith to George Wilson Beck, June
15, 1957, Wingate. Mr. Beck received a degree
in chemistry from Wake Forest College this
Chrisoula Velonis to Nick John Miller, June
10, 1957, Greensboro. Mr. Miller, a graduate of
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
has just completed his first vear in law school
there,
Doris Westbrook to Robert G. Bolick. May
19, 1957, Alumnae House, Woman's College.
Greensboro, The bridegroom, a graduate of the
junior division of Edwards Military Institute, is
employed by P, Lorillard Company, as assist-
ant to the personnel manager. At home. Greens-
boro.
Kate Harrison Wharton to Frank Zimri Hock-
ett, Jr., June 8, 1957, Greensboro, The bride is
the daughter of Kate (Harrison) Wharton '33.
Her sister. Rose, class of '58, was maid of honor,
Mr. Hockett attended Arizona State University
and is affiliated with the Frank Hockett Com-
pany in Mesa. Ariz, At home there.
THE ALUMNAE NEWS
■Sympathy
Velna McCulloch, class of 1899, Pearl
McCulloch, class of 1901, Geneva
(McCulloch) Garrett, class of 1901, and
Marv Willis McCulloch '05, in the recent
death of their sister, Mrs. Annie McCul-
loch Coble, Duke Hospital, Durham.
Lettie (Spainhour) Hamlett '05, Annie
(Spainhour) Walker '16, and Willie
(Spainhour) Greer '07, in the death of
their daughter and niece, Lettie (Ham-
lett) Rogers '40, Mav 15, 1957, New-
York City.
Myrtle (Johnston) Hassell '11, in the
death of her husband, L. E. Hassell, who
died this spring in Roper.
Lela (McKinney) Rudd, class of '12,
in the death of her sister, Willie Russell
McKinney, April 29, 1957, Greensboro.
Winnie (Smith) McKinney '20 and
Evelyn (McKinney) Green, in the death
of their husband 'and father, Mr. C. M.
JIcKinney, April 18, 1957, in Wilkesboro.
Eleanor (Barton) McLaurin '27, in the
death of her mother during May.
Louise (Phillips) Kiser '27, Louise
(Kiser) Miller '55, and Joanne (Kiser)
Caldwell, junior at Woman's College, in
the death of their daughter and sister,
Nancy Lee Kiser, who was a rising
senior at Woman's College.
Betty (Steinhardt) Widmer '29, in the
death "of her father, Harry Steinhardt,
April 26, 1957, Franklin, Va.
Helen (Knight) Hinton, Com. '31, in
the death of her husband, Dr. Walter R.
Hinton, Jr., May 28, 1957, U. S. Navy
Hospital, Bethesda, Md.
Jane (Wharton) Sockwell '31, and
Betsy (Wharton) Newland '39, in the
death of their father, William Gilmer
Wharton, May 19, 1957, in Greensboro.
Margaret (Thompson) Latham '35, in
the death of her father, Lonnie K.
Thompson, April 1, 1957, Greensboro.
Genevieve (Givler) Hines, class of '36,
in the death of her father, Dr. John
Paul Givler, former head of the biology
department at Woman's College, June
10, 1957, Greensboro.
Betty (Griesinger) Sink '36, in the
death of her husband, John Moyer Sink,
Jr., May 28, 1957, Duke Hospital, Dur-
ham. At the time of his death, Mr. Sink
was president of the Federal Home Loan
Bank of Greensboro. He is also survived
by three children, John M., Ill, Bettina,
a student at Duke University, and
Peggy, rising senior at Greensboro High
School.
Catherine (Martin) Wynne '39, and
Frances Currie (Martin) Baker, Com.
'42, in the death of their father, Judge
Grover Adlai Martin, June 9, 1957,
Smithfield.
Elizabeth (Scott) Pearson '39, in the
death of her brother, Arthur Neal Scott,
Jr., Rocky Mount native, who died in
Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill.
Jeanelle (Armstrong) Lovern '40, in
the death of her father, H. Gene Arm-
strong, April 28, 1957, in Greensboro,
following a long illness.
Mildred Younts '41, in the death of
her mother, Mrs. lone DeBoe Younts,
April 22, 1957, Greensboro.
Sue (Murchison) Hayworth '42, and
Janice (Murchison) Johnson '52, in the
death of their uncle, Lester M. Murchi-
son, May 5, 1957, Rocky Mount.
Mary Lou (Bennett) Mansueto '45, in
the death of her father, David Stanton
Bennett, April 14, 1957, Duke Hospital,
Durham.
Eleanor (White) Willett '46, in the
recent death of her husband, Thomas
Alva Willett, Jr., in Portsmouth, Va.,
following an illness of 18 months. He is
also survived by two children, Nancy
Eleanor and Thomas Alva, IIL
Hilman (Thomas) Watkins '47, in the
death of her mother, Mrs. Roy Hilman
Thomas (Blanche Whitmore, class of
'14), during April in Raleigh.
Carolyn (Moore) Rogers, class of '48,
in the death of her father, J. Floyd
Moore, Sr., April 2, 1957, Reidsville.
Mary Jane (Brooks) Grantham '49, in
the death of her father-in-law, Carson
Hollowell Grantham, March 2, 1957,
Greensboro.
Jean (Sharpe) Rose, class of '53, in
the death of her 14-month-old son,
Chester A. Rose, III, May 18, 1957,
Pittsfield, Mass.
Eloise Hughes, Com. '55, in the death
of her father, James D. Hughes, who
was killed in an automobile accident near
Greensboro in May.
Campvis Facts
Continued
OF THE TWELVE HIGH SCHOOL sen-
iors from the Piedmont section of the
state winning $500 Aubrey Lee Brooks
scholarships for next session, five will
come to Woman's College: Janice Marie
Powell, Caswell County; Kay Nichols
Lynn, Durham County; Thelma Marie
Dagenhart, Person County; and Annie
Faye and Ruby Mae Brinkley, Stokes
County.
A NUMBER of $150 scholarships are
available to students who are entering
the College's new program in nursing
education. Academic requirements for ad-
mission to the three year program are
the same as for other students. High
school graduates who are interested in
the program should contact Miss Mary
D. Mansfield, Director of Nursing Edu-
cation at the College.
-Editor's Xote-
Your baby's picture has not been lost.
Due to a lack of space and a tight print-
ing and engraving budget, we have not
been able to use the baby pictures in this
issue of THE NEWS. We shall try to
include them in our October magazine.
-M<»Iver-
uf North Carolina
IN October, on Founder's Day, the Uni-
versity of North Carolina Press will
publish Mclver of North Carolina, a
biography of Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver,
founder of the Woman's College. The
book has been written by Mrs. Rose
Howell Holder, and from it one will get
■'an intimate picture of the College dur-
ing its first decade."
After reading the galley proof of the
book. Dr. Gordon Blackwell, new Chan-
cellor of the College, wrote: "Tliis is a
book which every Alumna of the College
will want to read. It will give a new un-
derstanding of the College even to those
who have spent four years there and
have returned often to Alma Mater."
The book will consist of 275 pages and
will be in a trim size of approximately
six by nine inches, full bound in cloth
with an attractive dust wrapper. There
are seventeen illustrations, and the book
is fully indexed. The retail price will be
five dollars.
Mclver of North Carolina will be avail-
able for delivery in the early fall ... in
ample time for purchasing for your
Alumnae Christmas presents. You will
hear more about the book as Founder's
Day draws near, but you may place your
orders now by filling in the blank pro-
vided. Remember ... it is a book "which
every Alumna will want to read."
To the Alumnae Office:
Please reserve for me copy (or copies) of the biography of Dr. Charles
Duncan Mclver, entitled Mclver of North Carolina, by Rose Howell Holder. I shall
remit five dollars for each copy which I have ordered when I am advised that pay-
ment is due.
Signed . .
Date Address
JULY, 1957
29
THE LIBRARY
COLLEGE
... from the Class of 1957's Junior Shovi
What is Woman's College
What is Woman's College to me?
A name, a school, the seal you see,
A certain word, "Democracy,"
What is Woman's College to me?
The hall I live in,
A plot of earth, a street.
Dean Taylor, Chancellor Pierson,
And the people that I meet ;
The students crossing campus.
The faces that I see ;
All races, all religions . . .
That's Woman's College to me.
The room I live in.
The folks across the track.
The people who just came here
And from generations back ;
The men who bring the laundry.
The others that I see.
The men who build this college .
That's Woman's College to me.
The place I study.
The classmate at my side.
The classroom or the ballroom
Where my friends have laughed and cried ;
The "howdy" and the handshake.
The air of feeling free ;
The right to speak my mind out . . .
That's Woman's College to me.
The TV tower,
The statue of Charles D.,
A maze of one-way streets,
A faculty-student tea ;
Peabody Park in springtime.
An empty coke machine ;
A weekend midnight curfew . . .
That's what Woman's College means.
The things I see about me.
The big things and the small,
The "Yum-Yum" on the corner
And our spacious Elliott Hall ;
The gym class and exam time.
Phones ringing in our ears;
The dream that's been a-growin'
For sixty-five long years.
The words of Charles Mclver
Of Elliott and of Shaw;
Miss Grogan in house meeting
Speaks of Democratic Law ;
The choir sings in Aycock,
There's a holiday at hand.
We evacuate the campus
In one exultant band.
The rush to breakfast.
The eight-ten bell too soon :
The streetlights in a rainstorm,
Or the Soda Shop at noon.
The mobiles and the abstracts,
The million tasks I see,
But especially the people . . .
That's Woman's College to me.
Raincoats on Tuesday,
Bermudas on back streets :
With this school of health and beauty
No others can compete ;
Our source of education,
A school of fancy free.
And a promise for tomorrow
That's Woman's College to me.
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