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THE  ALUMNAE  NEWS 

Published  Four  Times  a  Year:  July,  November,  Februaky,  April 

By  TF^E  ALUMNAE  AND  FORMER  STUDENTS  ASSOCIATION  OF  THE  NOKTH 

CAROLINA  COLLEGE  FOR  WOMEN 

GREENSBORO,  N.  C. 

Clara  Booth  Byrd,  Fidilor 

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OFFICERS  AND  BOARD  MEMBERS 

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Laura  H.  Coit,  Honorary  President 

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Board  of  Trustees:  Marjorie  Craig,  Mary  Wiley,  Janie  Stacy  Gwynn  (Mrs.  J.  Minor  Gwynn), 

Kate  Finley,   Fannie  Starr   Mitchell,    Helen  Tighe,    Rebecca    Gushing.    Pearl    Wyche,    Nan 

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Admitted  as  second-cla.?s  matter  at  the  postoffice  in  Greensboro,  N.  C,  June  29.  1912 

Vol.  XIX  JULY,  1930  No.  1 


Contents 


Adventuring  Beyond  College  Walls 

Vesper  Message — Great  Adventures 

Commencement — In  Brief  Survey 

The  Senior  Talk  —  Campus  Life  as  It  is  Today 

The  Class  Reunions 

Our  Social  Service  Problem 

The  Work  of  the  High  School  Dean  of  Girls 

Impressions  of  the  April  Seminar 

More  About  Books 

Up  and  Down  the  Avenue 

Affairs  of  Local  Clubs  and  Associations 

Among  the  Alumnae 


■?■'         ,>it^''!ii4  ,--rr  .'•PiSi^-. 


June  —  In  a  Campus  Niche 


Adventuring  Beyond  College  Walls 

By  Dr.  T.  V.  Smith 

Professor  of  Philosophy,  Univf:rsity  oi   (Chicago,  and  AssociATb  l:DrroK  oi 
"The  International  Journal  of  Hthics" 

Commencement  Address  Delivered  in  Aycock  AudUonuni  Monday  Morning,  June  9 


YOUNG  Women  of  the  Graduating 
Class :  This  has  been  a  great  four 
years.  Experience  that  men  and  women 
of  the  past  have  had  raw  has  been  served 
to  you  cooked.  If  your  college  course  has 
been  well  planned,  you  are  now  the  bene- 
ficiaries of  these  short  modern  but  mar- 
velously  fruitful  centuries  of  science,  of 
these  longer  centuries  of  adventurous 
living  recorded  in  literature,  and  of  the 
hectic  efforts  of  your  contemporaries  to 
hitch  the  efficiencies  of  science  to  the 
aspirations  of  literature,  in  order  to 
win  in  the  race  between  education  and 
catastrophe. 

It  is  little  wonder  when  one  considers 
the  power  that  science  is,  the  light  that 
literature  is,  the  vision  that  philosophy 
is — little  wonder,  I  say,  that  college 
should  preoccupy  our  sentiments  more 
strongly  through  every  year  that  sepa- 
rates us  from  it.  Frederick  C.  Howe 
declares  in  his  Confessions  of  a  Reformer 
that  he  was  born  the  day  he  entered 
Johns  Hopkins  University  and  met 
Woodrow  Wilson  and  the  other  great 
teachers  then  assembled  at  the  Hopkins. 
It  is  indeed  a  common  human  experience 
that  holds  the  four  years  in  college  more 
significant  than  all  the  years  that  pre- 
ceded and  more  dear  than  any  period 
that  follows.  Even  the  hardships  of  col- 
lege— stupid  professors,  the  loneliness  of 
newly  achieved  emotional  independence, 
the  grind  of  poverty  for  many  who  must 
pay  as  they  go,  the  uneasiness  of  drop- 
ping old  standards  and  of  outgrowing 
old  faiths  before  new  ones  mature  to 
take  their  places — all  these  hardships, 
both  real  and  trying,  impress  us  even  in 
the  briefest  retrospect  as  Vergil's   did 


him  in  a  backward-looking  moment — 
Ilaec  olim  meminisse  invabif.  Even  our 
hardships  will  makeup  into  pleasant 
reminiscences. 

You  see  that  I  have  not  outgrown  the 
sentiment  that  moves  you  today.  I  still 
love — 

The  Eyes  of  Texas  are  upon  you 

All  the  livelong  day, 
The  Eyes  of  Texas  are  upon  you — 

You  cannot  get  away. 
Do  not  think  you  can  escajie  them, 

At  night  or  early  in  the  morn: 
The  Eyes  of  Texas  are  upon   you, 

'Till   Gabriel   blows  his  horn. 

And  even  more  am  I  moved  by  the  song 
of  my  second  Alma  ]\Iater.  the  Uni- 
versity of  Chicago  : 

Today  we  glady  sing  the  praise 

Of  her  who  owns  us  as  her  sons; 
Our  loyal  voices  let  us  raise 

And  bless  her  with  our  benisous. 
Of  all  fair  mothers  fairest  she. 

Most  wise  of  all  that  wisest  be. 
Most  true  of  all  the  true  say  we, 

Is  our  dear  Alma  Mater. 

Her  mighty   learning   we   would   tell. 

Tho'   life  is   something  more  than  lore; 
She  could  not  love  her  sons  so  well 

Lov  'd  she  not  truth  and  honor  more. 
We  praise  her  breadth  of  charity. 

Her  faith  that  truth  shall  make  men  free, 
That  right   shall  live  eternally. 

We  praise  our  Alma  Mater. 

The  City  White  hath  fled  the  earth. 

But  where  the  azure  waters  lie, 
A  nobler  city  hath  its  birth, 

That  City  Gray  that  ne'er  shall  die: 
For  decades  and  for  centuries. 

Its  battlemented  towers  shall  rise. 
Beneath  the  hope-filled  western  skies, 

'Tis  our  dear  Alma  Mater. 


■THE     ALUMNAE     i^C  ^  ^  S 


If  I  have  now  established  emotional 
contact  with  you,  let  me  turn  to  gen- 
eralize for  you  a  belief  that  it  is  not 
what  you  have  learned  these  four  years 
that  gives  them  their  greatest  signifi- 
cance, now  or  hereafter.  Regardless  of 
how  much  you  have  learned,  you  do  not 
know  enough,  in  all  probability,  to  do 
tomorrow  a  single  job  in  the  world  as 
well  as  it  will  be  done  by  some  one  else. 
Indeed,  the  immediate  utility  of  your 
knowledge  is  perhaps  best  suggested  by 
the  experience  of  the  drunken  man  who 
fell  over  ropes  inclosing  newly  poured 
sidewalks.  He  lay  there  until  his  elbows 
and  chin  froze  in  the  hardening  cement. 
Freed  at  last,  though,  with  the  loss  of 
much  skin,  he  moralized  thus : 

"Wal,  this  here  biznes'  of  staying  out 
late  0  'nights  is  far  better  in  the  abstract 
than  in  the  concrete." 

No,  it  is  not  what  you  have  learned 
that  will  count  for  most,  but  the  habit  of 
learning,  the  vision  of  a  few  priceless 
moments  when  mayhap  you  have  stood 
excited  on  the  frontier  of  things.  In  a 
word,  it  is  the  adventure  of  college — 
emotional,  for  certain ;  intellectual,  I 
hope — that  constitutes  the  main  secret 
of  its  charm. 

Life  is  a  disappointment  after  college 
because  of  this  single  discrepancy.  Mus- 
cles often  count  for  more  in  life  than 
does  mind ;  habits  for  more  than  do 
emotions ;  respectability  for  more  than 
does  daring  intelligence.  Life  would 
appear  as  romantic  as  college  if  you 
could  maintain  through  life  the  sense  of 
growth.  Perhaps  it  would  not  be  amiss 
for  one  not  too  long  out  of  college  to 
have  forgotten  its  thrill  nor  too  deep 
into  life  to  have  lost  as  yet  the  sense  of 
adventure  to  speak  to  you  upon  "Ad- 
venturing Beyond  College  Walls. ' ' 

It  is  not  alone  the  spectacular  that 
offers  a  chance  for  adventure :  the  micro- 
scope may  be  as  thrilling  as  the  tele- 
scope ;  mathematics,  as  motoring.  We 
are  fortunate  in  our  time  to  have  all 
about  us  a  great  many  novelties,  me- 
chanical and  otherwise,  to  keep  us  from 
growing  old.   It  has  stretched  my  imagi- 


nation not  a  little  this  spring  to  broad- 
cast for  the  second  time  a  course  from 
my  own  classroom,  adding  to  my  half 
hundred  students  an  invisible  audience 
of  a  half  hundred  thousand.  It  has 
strained  my  eyes,  and  once  or  twice 
stretched  my  heart,  to  explore  during 
the  last  year  many  of  the  reaches  of  the 
upper  air  in  and  out  of  Chicago.  These 
are  the  trappings  of  adventure,  trap- 
pings fortunately  soon  available  for  us 
all ;  but  the  secret  of  adventure  lies  in 
the  heart  of  man,  and  it  can  be  enjoyed 
apart  from  such  trappings.  Indeed  the 
chief  count  against  the  speed  of  modern 
life  is  that  it  easily  makes  us  blase,  sub- 
stituting a  spectacular  external  experi- 
ence for  an  adventurous  inner  life.  The 
educated  person  will  still  know,  with  the 
older  poet,  "My  mind  to  me  a  kingdom 


The  first  counsel  in  adventuring  be- 
yond college  walls  is  to  keep  your  hearts 
fresh.  We  all  have  the  same  number  of 
mouths,  of  eyes,  of  ears,  of  noses,  of 
glands.  Given  good  health  and  a  slight 
margin  of  subsistence,  there  is  nothing 
save  freshness  of  heart  to  prevent  each 
of  us  from  exploring  our  world  every 
day  anew.  Our  much  talked-of  post-war 
hedonism  will  have  been  an  inestimable 
boon  if  it  leaves  us  unashamed  of  our 
senses  and  unfatigued  in  their  exercise. 
The  mouth  is  a  marvelous  organ :  dozens 
of  tastes  pass  through  it  each  day  that 
are  literally  buried  alive,  because 
hurried  undetected  through  crunching 
jaws.  The  eyes  are  marvelous  organs; 
not  only  windows  of  the  soul  to  gaz- 
ing lovers,  but  granaries  that  garner  the 
eidola  of  things  for  vacant  or  pensive 
mood.  The  ears  bring  their  own  burden 
of  precious  freight ;  but  I  sometimes 
think  that  the  lowly  nose  is  potential 
king  of  all  these  faithful  servants.  It 
is  both  a  distance  and  a  contact  recep- 
tor :  we  literally  get  the  world  up  our 
noses,  but  still  without  forfeiting  the 
right  to  turn  our  noses  up  at  the  world ! 

Nasal  analysis  is  an  art  little  prac- 
ticed, but  one  that  might  with  refine- 


7  II  li      .yj  LU  M  N  A  /:      -vY'  li  W  S 


incnt  detect  among  even  the  malevolent 
odors  a  hidden  harmony  and  an  enrich- 
ing peace.  When  at  various  times  1  have 
raised  with  my  own  students  the  ethical 
significance  of  the  olfactory  art,  cre- 
ative souls  have  been  inspired  to  sing 
the  aesthetic  praises  of  the  nose.  A 
junior  boy  some  years  ago,  now  a  novel- 
ist of  some  distinction,  wrote  me  this 
poem  to  the  nose  : 

Thou  brave  comrade,  frontier  of  the  face, 
Pioneer  in   darkness,  and  leader  of  our  race, 
Forerunner  of  fortune  and  espion  of  woe. 
Lead    on,   my    Nose,   I   follow   where  'er    thou 
bid  'st   me   go. 

And  only  just  now  a  sophomore  girl 
enriched  my  collection  with  this  "Ode 
to  the  Divinity  of  the  Olfactory  Art ' ' : 

O  Muse,  unsung  by  pen  or  tongue 

On  heights  of  old  Parnassus, 

Your  essence  fair  is  far  too  rare 

To  please  the  common  classes; 

You   dwell  in  flowers  and  perfumed   showers. 

And  fragrant   demi-tasses. 

We  worship  thee  in  steaming  tea 

With    flavor    aromatic. 

In  bacon  fried,  and  much  beside 

Of  pungency  ecstatic. 

Let  us  inhale  scents  never  stale — 

The   fumes   of  baking  bread. 

The  languid  smell  of  asphodel 

On  summer  mornings  shed; 

The  tang  of  frost,  the  odors  tossed 

Upon  the  springtime  breeze; 

The  salt  sea  spray,  or  new  mown  hay, 

And  flowering  apple  trees; 

The  spicy  taint  of  newlaid  paint, 

The  smoke  of  burning  wood, 

Sharp  autumn  air,  and  incense  rare, 

Of  teak  and  sandalwood. 

From  alley  dogs  and  sooty  fogs, 
Moth  balls  and  foul  dishpans, 
A  cheap  cigar,  or  burning  tar, 
From  glue  and  garbage  cans, 
From  H2S  ^nd  like  distress 
Preserve  thy  congregation, 
From  cauliflower  and  cheeses  sour. 
And  musty  railway  stations. 

Let  not  catarrh  our  worship  mar, 
Nor  aught  befall  our  noses; 
And  in  the  end  our  finis  send 
Beneath  a  wreath  of  roses. 

Look  to  your  senses,  young  women : 
they  will  reward  education  and  exercise. 
If  you  find  any  of  them  going  stale, 
read    the    poets — they    who    under    the 


guise  of  spirituality  have  glorified  the 
life  of  the  senses,  desensitize  yoursf;lf 
with  those  lines  from   Rupert   Brooke's 

Thf.   fJrcal   Loi-cr: 

These  I    have  loved: 

tin;  cool  kindliness  of  sheets,  that  soon 
Wniootl)  away  trouble;  and  the  rough  male  kiss 
Of   ))]ankets;    grainy   wood;    live   hair  that   is 
.Sliining    and    free;    blue-massing    clouds;    the 

keen 
Unpassioned  beauty  of  a  great  machine; 
The  benison  of  hot  water;  furs  to  touch; 
The    good    smell    of    old    clothes;    and    other 
such — 
The  comfortable  smell  of  friendly  fingers, 
Hair's    fragrance,    and    the    musty   reek    that 

lingers 
About  dead  leaves  and  last  year's  ferns.  .  .  . 
Dear  names.  .  .  . 

Renew  yourself  in  Browning's  Haul: 

Oh,  the  wild  joys  of  living!  the  leaping  from 

rock  up  to  rock. 
The   strong   rending   of   boughs   from    the   fir- 
tree,  the  cool  sliver  shock 
Of   the    plunge   in   a   pool's   living   water,   the 

hunt  of  the  bear. 
And     the     sultriness     showing     the     lion     is 

crouched  in  his  lair. 
And  the  meal,   the   rich   dates   yellowed   over 

with  gold   dust   divine. 
And   the   locust-flesh   steeped   in    the   pitcher, 

the  full  draught  of  wine. 
And    the     sleep     in     the     dried    river-channel 

where  bulrushes  tell 
That  the  water  was  wont  to  go  warbling  so 

softly   and   well. 
How    good    is    man's    life,    the    mere    living! 

how  fit   to   employ 
All    the    heart    and    the    soul    and    the    senses 

forever  in  joy! 

To  my  first  counsel,  then.  "Keep  sen- 
sitive to  your  world, ' '  let  me  now  add  a 
second  counsel,  "Keep  sensitive  to  peo- 
ple." If  3'ou  elect  that  ancient  and 
honorable  way  of  utilizing  your  knowl- 
edge, the  building  of  a  home,  you  will 
find  this  counsel  hardest  to  apply  where 
it  is  most  needed — in  relations  between 
yourselves  and  men.  You  go  forth  to  do 
your  work  in  a  man-made  world,  where 
the  attitude  toward  you  wiU  be  a  cross 
between  chivalry  and  belittlement.  Per- 
haps I  could  dignify  this  point  in  no 
better  way  than  by  telling  you  a  Hindu 
account  of  the  creation  of  woman. 


■THE     ^^  LU  M  N  A  E     U^  E  W  S 


Twashtri,  the  god  of  creation  in  Hindu 
mythology,  had  used  up  all  the  solid  material 
in  creating  man.  So  when  he  came  to  create 
woman,  after  profound  meditation,  he  did 
thus: 

He  took  the  roundness  of  the  moon,  the 
undulation  of  the  serpent,  the  entwining  of 
the  climbing  plant,  the  slenderness  of  the  rose 
stem,  the  glance  of  the  mist,  the  inconstancy 
of  the  wind,  the  timidity  of  the  hare,  the 
vanity  of  the  peacock,  the  softness  of  the 
down  upon  the  throat  of  the  swallow,  the 
sweet  flavor  of  honey,  the  cruelty  of  the 
tiger,  the  warmth  of  the  fire,  the  chill  of 
the  snow,  the  chatter  of  the  jay,  and  the  coo- 
ing of  the  turtle  dove.  All  these  he  united 
and  formed  woman,  and  then  he  made  a  pres- 
ent  of  her   to  man. 

The  man  took  her  away  for  five  days,  when 
he  returned  and  said  to  the  god:  "My  lord, 
this  creature  you  gave  me  poisons  my  exist- 
ence, she  chatters  without  rest,  she  takes  all 
my  time,  she  laments  for  nothing  at  all,  and 
is  always  ill.   I  beg  you  to  relieve  me  of  her. ' ' 

The  god  took  her  back. 

Five  more  days  passed,  when  the  man  re- 
turned. "My  lord,"  he  said,  "My  life  is 
very  solitary  since  I  returned  this  creature. 
I  remember  that  she  glanced  at  me  from  the 
corner  of  her  eye,  played  with  me,  clung  to 
me.  And  I  beg  you  to  return  her." 

The  god  did  so. 

This  time  only  three  days  passed  when  the 
man  returned  with  these  words:  "My  lord, 
I  am  sure  that  I  do  not  understand  exactly 
how,  but  this  creature  causes  me  more  annoy- 
ance than  pleasure,  and  I  beg  you  to  relieve 
me  of  her. " 

"Go  your  way,"  said  the  god,  "and  do 
your  best. ' ' 

"But  I  cannot  live  with  her." 

"Neither  can  you  live  without  her!" 

And  the  man  went  his  way,  sorrowful, 
saying:  "Woe,  woe,  woe  is  me,  for  though  I 
cannot  live  with  her,  I  cannot  live  without 
her!" 

In  building  a  home  you  will  meet  the 
same  problems  you  meet  in  following  a 
business  or  professional  vocation.  You 
meet  a  complex  professional  world  in 
which  service  will  not  be  the  last  word, 
even  where  it  is  the  first.  Of  the  doc- 
tors even  it  must  be  said  that  whether 
they  be  allopaths,  homeopaths,  or  osteo- 
paths, all  these  'paths,  like  the  path  of 
glory,  lead  but  to  the  grave !  You  go  out 
to  face  an  economic  world,  as  consumer 
if  not  also  as  producer,  in  which  a  more 
equitable   distribution   of  the   fruits   of 


science  must  somehow  be  achieved.  In 
your  generation  capitalistic  democracy, 
with  its  emphasis  upon  liberty — "from 
each  according  to  his  ability,  to  each 
whatever  he  can  get" — must  come  to 
terms  with  communistic  democracy, 
Avith  its  emphasis  upon  equality  and  fra- 
ternity— "from  each  according  to  his 
ability,  to  each  according  to  his  need ' ' — 
in  some  socialized  economic  order  less 
austere,  more  humane,  I  hope,  than 
either  capitalism  or  communism.  You  go 
forth  today  into  a  political  world  in 
Avhich  the  issues  will  be  more  crucial 
than  Hooverocracy  vs.  democracy — in 
which  war  must  be  avoided  interna- 
tionally in  order  that  peace  may  be  ex- 
ploited domestically.  You  may  have  no 
dependable  intuition  with  which  to  meet 
these  crucial  and  pressing  problems.  If 
you  can  turn  the  prowess  developed  in 
your  college  athletics  into  moral  and 
spiritual  stamina,  I  envy  you  the  ad- 
venture of  winning  your  way  on  un- 
equal terms  into  and  through  man's 
world.  Whether  you  can  face  every  ob- 
stacle with  high  courage  or  not, — 

Say  not  the  struggle  naught  availeth. 
The  labor  and  the  wounds  are  vain; 

The  enemy  faints  not  nor  faileth. 

And  as  things  have  been  they  remain. 

If  hopes  are  dupes,  fears  may  be  liars. 
It  may  be  in  yon  smoke  concealed 

Your  comrades  chase  e'en  now  the  flyers, 
And  but  for  you  possess  the  field. 

For  though  the  tired  waves  vainly  breaking 
Seem   here   no   painful  inch   to   gain, 

Far  back  through  creeks  and  inlets  making, 
Comes  silent  flooding  in  the  main. 

And  not  through   eastern  windows   only. 
When  daylight  comes,  comes  in  the  light, 

In  front  the  sun  climbs  slow,  how  slowly, 
But  westward  look,  the  land  is  bright! 

So  important,  however,  does  it  seem 
to  me  that  those  who  are  going  to  run 
society,  make  money,  reform  politics, 
and  perpetuate  the  family,  should  them- 
selves be  happy  people,  that  I  return  in 
my  third  counsel  to  emphasize  again 
from  another  point  of  view  the  personal 
as  pathway  to  the  social.  I  now  add  a 
final  counsel,   "Keep  your  minds  clear 


r  II  E     ^Jl  LU  M  N  A  li     '?{'  li  W  S 


and  active."  In  a  single   word,   "Be  a 

pliilosopher. " 

.  .  .  for  these  I  raise 

The  song  of  thanks  and  praise; 

.  .  .  for  these  obstinate  questionings 

Of  sense  and  outward  things, 

Fallings  from  us,  vanishing; 

Blank  misgivings  of  a  Creature 

Moving   about   in   worlds   not    realized, 

.  .  .  truths  that  wake. 

To   perish   never; 
Which     neither    listlessness,    nor    man 's     en- 
deavour, 

Nor  Man  nor  Boy, 
Nor  all  that   is  at  enmity  with  joy. 
Can   utterly   abolish   or   destroy! 

A  philosopher,  as  Father  Socrates  had 
it,  is  a  lover — a  lover  of  M^isdom.    He 
differs  from  a  scientist,  I  suppose,  pri- 
marily as  Avisdom   differs   from  knowl- 
edge.    Wisdom   is   knowledge   so   inter- 
fused with  emotion  and  horse  sense  that 
it  is  available  for  practice.  Whoever  has 
a  philosophy  of  life  whereby  he  can  live 
is  a  philosopher.   If  you  have  no  philoso- 
phy of  life,   I  advise  you — as   did  the 
English  master  the  boy  who  confessed 
that  he  had  no  God — I  advise  you  to 
grow    one    before    the    sun    goes    down. 
What  you  will  need,  however,  is  not  a 
finished  scheme   of  life,  but  a   growing 
one ;  and  I  may  assume  that  in  one  way 
or  another  each  of  you  has  that,  for  you 
are  today  graduated  from  this  beloved 
college.    Out  of  the  body  of  your  sense 
experiences  and  out  of  the  successes  and 
failures    of   your    social    adventures    so 
far — out  of  all  those  baffling  and  not  in- 
frequently contradictory  experiences,  to 
remain  one  unified  person  with  a  per- 
sisting  sense    of   direction   and    an   un- 
daunted aspiration  to  grow — that  is  to 
achieve  an  adequate  philosophy  of  life. 
This  directing  of  one's  own  expedition 
into  life,   in  spite  of  what  others  may 
say  or  do,  this  is  the  greatest  of  human 
adventures.     Success   in   it   will   attend 
three  discoveries,  as  old  as  man,  as  new 
as  each  successful  woman. 

The  first  is  the  discovery  of  what  you 
want  to  do  and  be.  It  is  an  arduous  job 
in  this  complex  century  to  decide  pre- 


cisely vvlial  one  wants.  In  war  time  we 
have  such  [)ropaganda  as  leads  Leon 
Whipple  to  say  in  reviewing  a  recent 
l)Ook  of  my  younger  colleague,  Harold 
D.  Lasswell,  on  Propafjavda  Tfchnujue 
in  the  World  War,  that  during  th*;  next 
war  if  anybody  believes  anything  that  is 
told  him  by  either  frifnd  or  foe,  he  will 
be  a  plain  damn  fool.  In  |)eace  time  our 
minds  are  almost  equally  made  up  for 
us  by  continuous  high  pressure  sales- 
manship backed  by  unbelievably  astute 
advertising.  In  spite,  however,  of  the 
difficulty  attending,  success  in  clarify- 
ing and  in  harmonizing  wants  is  pri- 
marily what  it  means  to  become  an  adult. 
To  become  emotionally  mature  is  to  want 
deeply  what  fulfils  the  maximum  of  our 
wants — to  want  what  we  shall  keep  on 
wanting  to  have  wanted. 

But  it  is  not  enough  for  a  philosophy 
of  life  to  know  what  one  wants — much  as 
that  is.  Impotence  remains  impotence, 
even  though  called  by  such  holy  names 
as  purity  and  piety.  To  believe  in  the 
efficacy  of  human  effort  is  fine;  but  to 
illustrate  it  is  finer.  So  to  know  our 
world  that  we  understand  what  follows 
what,  to  judge  conduct  in  terms  of  ac- 
curate prevision  of  its  results — this  is 
to  take  another  long  step  in  forming  a 
philosophy  of  life.  This  is  indeed  what 
science  is  about :  to  give  us  a  picture  of 
casual  patterns  so  that  we  may  be  able 
to  regulate  every  present  action  in  terms 
of  its  foreseen  consequences.  This  is 
science,  and  it  is  that  knowledge  which 
is  both  freedom  and  power. 

But  discovery  of  what  one  wants 
and  acquisition  of  the  best  available 
technique  thereto  do  not  together 
guarantee  complete  happiness.  The  world 
is  too  much  with  us.  too  much  for  us. 
In  spite  of  our  boasted  pride  and  power, 
we  oftentimes  stumble  into  stagnation: 
our  success  is  not  infrequently  a  bhmd- 
ering  into  bliss.  Wants  outgrow  the  best 
prevision  of  mice  and  men.  There  is  no 
ultimate  security  for  the  human  animal. 
Life  in  the  most  elemental  terms  is  an 
adventure,  whether  one  means  to  make 
it  so  or  not.    Fate  accepted  becomes  the 


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vocation  of  the  wise.  The  final  philo- 
sophic wisdom  is  for  men  to  control 
wherever  they  can  and  to  accept  where 
they  must — accept  the  passing  show  as 
the  philosophic  harvest  of  a  quiet  eye. 
Forewarned  of  disillusion,  let  youth  be 
forearmed  against  bitterness.  Pro- 
founder  than  he  who  merely  knows  what 
he  wants,  more  philosophic  than  he  who 
merely  knows  how  to  get  what  he  wants, 
is  he  who  also  a^  protection  against  life 
itself  has  acquired  the  humble  gift  of 
wanting  what  he  gets. 


Oh,  it  was  easy  in  the  morning  dew 
To  make  the  vow  that  never  should  grow  old; 
But  not  at  dusk,  the  words  are  not  so  bold — 
Thus  have  I  learned:  how  fares  the  hour  with 
you? 

To  be  hopeful  when  hope  counts,  to 
be  aggressive  when  initiative  is  needed, 
to  be  witty  when  otherwise  the  heart 
might  break,  and  to  be  resigned  when 
resignation  is  the  last  alternative  to 
bitterness — this  is  to  live  life  adventur- 
ously and  yet  to  end  it  in  peace. 


d^ 


Vesper  Message — Great  Adventures 

By  Dr.  Rufus  M.  Jones 

Professor  of  Philosophy,  Haverford  College 

Spoken  to  the  Senior  Class  in  the  Recital  Hall  of  the  Music  Building 
Sunday  Evening,  June  8,  1950 


THIS  EVENING  I  am  going  to  talk 
briefly  with  you  about  great  adven- 
tures. The  most  striking  thing  about 
our  age  is  the  spirit  of  adventure.  It  is 
so  obvious,  so  everywhere  in  evidence, 
that  one  doesn't  need  very  much  to 
stress  it.  I  doubt  if  there  ever  has  been 
a  time  since  the  reign  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth when  great  adventure  was  so  much 
in  the  air  as  it  is  now.  We  are  living  in 
one  of  those  unique  epochs  when  every 
closed  door  is  challenged  and  every 
frontier  is  being  leaped  over  by  persons 
who  want  an  adventure  of  life.  If  you 
have  something  you  want  to  get  done, 
all  you  need  to  do  is  to  announce  that 
it  cannot  be  done,  and  then  a  score  of 
people  will  go  right  on  and  do  it.  That 
is  what  that  American  boy  had  in  mind 
when  he  was  building  the  Panama  Canal, 
and  wrote  that  famous  little  poem  which 
almost  everybody  knows: 

Got  any  rivers  that  are  uncrossable? 

Got      any      mountains     you      can't     tunnel 
through? 
We  are  specialists  in  the  wholly  impossible, 

Doing  the  things  no  man  can  do. 

That  is  the  way  he  felt ;  that  is  the 


way  our  youth  feel  today  about  their 
successes.  Rupert  Brooke  expressed  it 
better  than  anybody  else  ever  did  per- 
haps in  his  great  sonnet  of  1914,  voic- 
ing the  way  the  men  of  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  felt  when  they  were  going 
out  to  their  impossible  task:  "Now, 
God  be  thanked,  who  has  matched  us 
with  His  hour ! "  It  is  a  tremendous 
thing  to  say — that  no  matter  how  big 
the  job  is,  we  are  matched  with  it. 

There  is  a  sheet  of  paper  in  a  glass 
case  in  the  British  Museum,  and  a 
stream  of  people  goes  by  all  the  time, 
bends  over  and  reads  it  in  hushed  awe, 
with  tears  in  their  eyes.  It  is  the  last 
leaf  of  the  diary  of  Captain  Robert 
Scott,  who  died  of  starvation  and  cold  in 
a  tent  on  his  way  back  from  the  South 
Pole.  That  leaf  of  paper,  that  diary, 
has  been  an  inspiration  to  a  whole  line 
of  heroes  ever  since. 

Our  great  American  hero,  Lindbergh, 
three  years  ago  at  this  time  did  the  im- 
possible. He  did  what  he  said  he  was 
going  to  do,  and  what  nobody  else 
thought  he   could  do,   because  they  all 


THE     zA  LU  MN  A  li     ^EWS 


thought  he  was  a  "flying  fool."  I  would 
like  to  see  somebody  call  him  that  now ! 
Last  week  the  students  of  New  York 
University  voted  almost  unanimously 
that  he  was  the  greatest  living  person. 
Well,  the  reason  they  thought  so  was 
because  he  was  their  hero.  He  was  a 
great  adventurer,  and  he  expressed  the 
spirit  felt  by  the  men  and  women  in 
their  graduating  class. 

When  Byrd  started  off  on  his  expe- 
dition, one  of  his  main  jobs  was  to  get 
the  stowaways  out  of  the  ship.  They 
had  the  ship  guarded  night  and  day ;  and 
when  they  started  out,  men  began  to 
pop  up  from  all  sorts  of  impossible 
places — they  crawled  out  of  the  coal  bin, 
and  other  places  where  you  would  not 
have  thought  anybody  could  have  lived 
at  all,  determined  to  go  on  that  great 
adventure. 

Now,  I  want  to  see  this  generation  dis- 
cover that  there  are  many  types  of  great 
adventure.  I  spoke  this  morning  of  con- 
quering Mount  Everest.  Three  expedi- 
tions have  gone  out  since  the  war  to 
conquer  Mount  Everest ;  and  the  third 
is  up  there  now,  trying  to  climb  the  next 
highest  mountain  in  the  world  to  Ever- 
est. They  face  every  kind  of  obstacle, 
and  they  are  beaten  for  the  summer ;  but 
they  are  beaten  only  for  the  summer — 
Everest  is  going  to  be  climbed  yet !  Both 
poles  have  been  discovered — indeed,  a 
number  of  times. 

There  are  still  over  kinds  of  adventure 
that  I  want  to  remind  you  of  in  these 
few  minutes.  You  can  carry  this  un- 
conquerable spirit  over  into  a  different 
field,  more  important  than  conquering 
the  atom  which  has  been  conquered,  or 
the  poles,  or  EVerest ;  more  stupendous 
than  any  of  the  feats  in  the  air.  One 
of  the  things  that  I  want  to  see  us  turn 
our  attention  to  is  the  conquest  of  fear 
in  our  hearts.  There  are  certain  things 
you  always  ought  to  be  afraid  of :  any 
sign  of  untruth,  any  touch  of  impurity, 
any  inside  meanness  in  your  nature ;  but 
you  ought  never  to  be  afraid  of  irra- 
tional and  unnecessary  things.  Hosts  of 
people  are  unnerved  and  unmanned  by 


fears  that  are  wholly  unnece.sKary.  The 
way  to  conquer  fear  is,  fir.st  of  all,  to 
have  victory  in  your  own  soul ;  and  that 
is  a  very  great  adventure— getting?  vic- 
tory built  into  your  soul,  so  that  you  vo 
out  and  face  life  unafraid  of  anything 
you  ought  not  to  be  afraid  of. 

But  the  most  important  adventure  for 
you,  the  greatest  of  them  all,  for  any  of 
the  people  who  are  graduating  this  year. 
is  this,  the  adventure  of  life-planning 
and  life-building.  A  little  girl  was  heard 
to  say  the  other  day  to  her  mother, 
"Mother,  won't  you  come  and  button  up 
my  dress?"  And  the  mother  replied, 
"My  dear,  you  will  have  to  do  it  your- 
self; mother's  too  bu.sy. "  And  the  little 
girl  said,  "Oh,  dear  me,  what  .should  I 
do  if  I  didn't  have  myself?"  Well,  what 
would  you  do?  Is  it  not  the  mo.st  im- 
portant thing  in  the  world  to  be  able 
to  look  out  for  yourself  and  make  plans 
for  your  life  ? 

While  they  are  building  a  bridge  over 
the  Delaware,  for  example,  you  could 
not  conceive  of  the  man  who  has  the  job 
doing  it  without  any  plan,  without  any 
engineering  preparation  for  it.  But 
people  seem  to  think  that  in  building  a 
life  you  do  not  have  to  give  any  thought 
to  it,  you  do  not  have  to  plan  it  at  all — 
any  old  way  of  life  is  good  enough.  Well, 
it  is  not.  You  will  not  be  able  to  say, 
"Oh,  dear  me,  what  should  I  do  if  I 
didn't  have  myself?"  if  you  do  not 
have  some  plans  about  that  life  of  yours 
which  is  stretching  out  before  you. 

What  would  you  do  with  a  boy  who, 
when  you  go  to  call  him  at  nine  o'clock 
in  the  morning,  and  say  to  him,  "Aren't 
you  ashamed  to  be  in  bed  so  late?"  re- 
plies, "Yes,  I  am  ashamed,  but  I  would 
rather  be  ashamed  than  get  up?"  AVhar 
are  you  going  to  do  with  him?  The 
trouble  is  he  has  not  learned  to  want 
anything;  he  does  not  have  a  Wsion  of 
something  he  expects  to  be.  If  you  get 
him  exposed  to  a  liird  lover,  and  the  bird 
lover  takes  him  out  two  or  three  times 
and  gets  him  interested  in  counting  up 
how  many  birds  he  can  find  in  the  morn- 
ing, the  next  problem  is  to  keep  him  in 


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-THE     ^4  LU  MN  AE     U^  E  W  S 


bed  long  enough — he  will  wake  up  too 
soon ! 

The  first  w^ay  to  build  a  life  is  to  build 
an  interest :  find  out  something  you 
want.  Finding  out  what  you  want  is  the 
most  important  single  thing  about  any 
human  life,  because  if  you  know  what 
you  want,  you  can  get  it.  The  difficulty 
lies  in  finding  out  what  you  want.  You 
all  think  you  know  what  you  want ;  but 
when  you  begin  to  get  what  you  thought 
you  wanted,  you  will  find  it  is  not  what 
you  wanted,  because  you  get  a  lot  of 
other  things  with  it  that  you  did  not 
want !  A  complicated  problem — finding 
out  what  you  want.  If  you  find  it,  that 
is  one  of  the  biggest  things  that  yoa  have 
on  hand  this  year — to  get  your  want  dis- 
covered. 

And  then  you  must  remember  as  you 
start  out  to  build  your  life  that  there  is 
a  vast  difference  between  living  and  life ; 
a  vast  diiference  between  just  living  and 
having  a  life.  "Life,  or  living,"  some 
one  says,  "is  just  one  dismal  conjugation 
of  the  verb  'to  eat'."  Well,  there  are 
many  people  who  are  satisfied  if  they 
can  conjugate  that  verb  successfully; 
and  many  people  are  just  doing  that — 
learning  to  conjugate  the  verb  "to  eat." 
That  is  living,  but  it  is  not  life. 

Methuselah  is  the  most  pathetic  figure 
in  the  biography  of  the  world.  He  lived 
nine  hundred  and  sixty-nine  years;  and 
he  died.  That  is  the  entire  biography — ■ 
the  most  pathetic  ever  written.  His 
women  folks  got  him  a  million  meals, 
washed  the  dishes  a  million  times,  and 
made  up  his  bed  three  hundred  thousand 
times,  and  he  died.  I  give  that  as  an 
appalling  illustration  of  living.  Like 
pulling  the  thread  of  a  number  70  spool 
of  cotton — you  pull  it  out  lengthwise, 
and  it  has  only  one  dimension — living 
just  goes  on  and  on.  That  is  all  you 
can  say  about  it. 

Life  is  a  very  different  matter.  I 
hope  you  will  find  out  what  it  means  to 
have  a  life.  And  do  not  mistake  speed 
for  direction.  Do  not  think  because  you 
are  going  fifty  miles  an  hour,  or  maybe 
one  hundred,  that  this  is  the  all-impor- 


tant thing — it  is  not.  The  all-important 
thing  is  where  j^ou  are  going.  We  are 
going  to  have  a  fourteen-hour  train  from 
New  York  to  Chicago ;  but  if  a  person  is 
a  pinhead  when  he  gets  on  the  train, 
and  a  pinhead  when  he  gets  off  at  Chi- 
cago, what  is  the  use  of  getting  there  so 
quick?  Speed  is  not  the  all-important 
thing.  It  is  discovering  what  you  are 
going  to  be  when  you  get  there. 

Finally,  you  must  not  mistake  the  ac- 
cumulation of  things  for  the  accumula- 
tion of  intrinsic  values  of  life.  Some 
things  are  very  important,  but  things 
are  never  as  important  as  intrinsic 
values.  The  most  important  thing  is  to 
discover  something  that  is  intrinsic  in 
the  sense  that  it  has  its  worth  in  itself; 
and  the  more  you  see  it,  and  the  more 
you  give  it  away,  the  more  you  have  it. 
If  you  could  find  an  automobile  that 
cleaned  its  own  spark  plugs,  repaired  its 
own  tires,  changed  its  oil  when  it  needed 
to  have  it  changed,  and  out  of  some 
process  produced  its  own  gasoline  and 
got  more  gasoline  every  time  it  climbed 
a  hill,  you  would  go  off  and  buy  one  of 
those  cars,  no  matter  what  it  cost. 
"Mary,"  said  Jesus,  "hath  chosen  that 
best  dish ' ' — he  is  talking  about  a  table — 
"which  can  never  be  taken  from  her." 
Life  is  not  a  table  d  'hote  affair ;  life  is 
a  la  carte.  You  have  to  pick  it,  you 
have  to  choose. 

There  are  things  you  are  going  to 
have,  and  the  best  choice  you  ever  make 
is  an  intrinsic  something,  a  character 
that  is  intrinsically  good,  that  will  every 
year  be  richer  and  better  and  greater  as 
you  share  it  with  others.  There  are 
great  adventures;  but  this  is  the  best 
adventure  of  them  all. 

He  who  learns  to  deaden 

Love  of  self,  before  his  journey  closes, 

He  shall  find  the  stubborn  thistle  bursting 

Into  glossy  purples,  -^vhich  outreddeu 

All  voluptuous  garden  roses. 

The  path  of  duty  is  the  way  to  glory: 

He,  that  ever  following  her  commands. 

Or  with  toil  of  heart  and  knees  and  hands, 

Through  the  long  gorge  to  the  far  light  has  won 

His  path  upwards  and  prevailed, 

Shall  find  the  toppling  crags  of  duty  scaled 

Are  close  upon  the  shining  table-lands 

To  which  our  God  Himself  is  moon  and  sun. 


Commencement     In  Brief  Survey 


FOR  the  consistently  hi<>'h  order  of  the 
exercises,  Commencement  1930  must 
bring  satisfaction  to  us  all.  With  the 
exception  of  Park  Night,  we  even 
dodged  the  showers  which  almost  in- 
variably visit  the  campus,  along  with 
returning  alumnae  and  other  commence- 
ment visitors.  Moreover,  when  the 
seniors,  bearing  evidence  of  faithful 
performance  in  the  shape  of  diplomas. 
Bibles,  and  constitutions,  were  finally 
homeward  bound,  we  had  only  a  few 
hours  in  which  to  feel  desolate,  for  the 
next  morning — the  very  next  morning — 
saw  the  campus  peopled  once  more  with 
summer  session  students,  including  a 
goodly  portion  of  our  own  "old  girls." 
Even  so,  the  Class  of  1930  has  its  indi- 
vidual character,  left  behind  certain 
memories  and  traditions,  made  its  own 
contribution,  all  of  which  have  been  for- 
ever interwoven  with  the  story  and 
development  of  that  place  we  shall 
always  call  "alma  mater." 

ALUMNAE  DAY 

SATURDAY,  June  7,  Alumnae  Day,  was 
individualized  this  year  by  the  pre- 
sentation of  President  Foust's  portrait 
to  the  college. 

Mrs.  Rosa  Blakeney  Parker,  president 
of  the  Association,  presided  at  the  morn- 
ing session,  held  as  usual  in  the  audi- 
torium of  Students  Building.  As  the 
beginning  feature  of  the  day,  Mrs. 
Parker  and  the  alumnae  stood  to  receive 
the  long  line  of  capped  and  gowned 
seniors  who  moved  into  the  hall,  double 
file,  with  even  and  stately  grace,  led  by 
their  president,  Glenn  Boyd  MacLeod, 
accompanied  by  President  Foust  and  the 
everlasting  president,  B  e  1 1  y  Sloan, 
escorted  by  Nettie  Brogden  Herring, 
representing  the  Alumnae  Association. 
After  Mrs.  Parker  had  called  for  the 
vote  which  formally  accepted  the  Class 
of  1930  as  an  integral  part  of  the  larger 


body,    (jtJenn    Boyd    MacLeod    stepped 

upon  the  stage  and  in  pleasing  words 
voiced  tfie  joy  which  had  come  to  her 
group  (luring  these  last  few  days  of  col- 
lege when  they  realized  that  there  was 
an  organization,  a  channel,  through 
which  individually  and  collectively  they 
might  always  be  a  part  of  their  alma 
mater;  and  they  were  grateful  for  the 
"tie  that  binds."  And  then  she  led  us 
all  in  singing,  with  spirit  and  with  zeal, 
our  alma  mater  song.  Came  then  our 
alumnae  president,  expressing  her  confi- 
dence that  this  latest  addition  to  the 
ranks  of  North  Carolina  College  alum- 
nae were  carrying  away  Avith  them 
spirits  as  earnestly  devoted  to  the  ideals 
of  democracy,  scholarship,  and  service 
as  the  thousands  who  had  preceded 
them.  Moreover,  she  believed  that  "you 
will  continue  to  grow  in  intellectual 
power  and  strength,  because  the  desire 
to  do  so  has  been  inculcated  in  you  dur- 
ing the  years  you  have  been  students 
here. ' ' 

Mrs.  Parker  next  presented  Jean 
Harvey,  senior  speaker,  whose  talk  is 
published  in  full  elsewhere  in  these 
pages. 

Came  now  President  Foust — "a  man 
to  match  the  mountains  and  the  sea," 
said  Mrs.  Parker.  In  view  of  the  budget 
cut  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars 
which  the  college  had  just  suffered,  the 
president  thought  we  would  probably 
expect  him  to  talk  somewhat  in  detail 
about  that.  On  the  contrary,  he  wished 
to  bring  us  a  message  of  optimism  and 
good  cheer.  He  felt  that  we  had  boasted 
too  much  in  the  last  few  years  about 
North  Carolina's  progress.  Without 
doubt  our  state  had  moved  forward  in  an 
amazing  way — indeed  perhaps  the  rapid- 
ity with  w-hich  we  had  moved  was  greatly 
responsible  for  the  present  depression. 
He  felt  that  we  were  simply  pausing 
now.   "Ivino-  down   bv  the   side   of  the 


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road,  as  it  were, ' '  to  catch  our  breath  be- 
fore going  on  again.  North  Carolina  has 
leagues  yet  to  go.  Here  he  cited  as  evi- 
dence an  array  of  comparative  state- 
ments— for  instance,  in  the  face  of  all 
our  advance  educationally,  North  Car- 
olina ranks  today  only  forty-first  in  the 
efficacy  of  its  public  school  system!  He 
had  faith  in  North  Carolina,  faith  in 
the  determination  of  the  state  to  go  for- 
ward regardless  of  discouraging  ex- 
ternal conditions,  belief  in  the  devotion 
of  the  people  to  intellectual  and  spiri- 
tual ideals;  and  he  called  us  to  a  recog- 
nition that  it  is  out  of  struggling  with 
difficulties  real  power  and  strength  is 
forged;  and  he  bade  us  in  a  spirit  of 
optimism  and  courage  to  carry  on. 
"Nothing  constructive  is  ever  accomp- 
lished in  a  spirit  of  pessimism." 

THE  PORTRAIT 

WHEN  President  Foust  had  con- 
cluded his  talk  and  Katherine  Tay- 
lor had  made  the  report  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  History  and  Traditions  of  the 
College,  Mrs.  Parker  told  the  assemblage 
that  there  was  something  especially  in- 
teresting to  be  known  which  was  not 
printed  on  the  program,  and  Clara  Byrd 
had  been  asked  to  tell  us  what  it  was. 
The  alumnae  secretary  said  she  was 
quite  sure  that  what  she  had  been  asked 
to  tell  us  was  a  pleasant  secret  which  we 
already  shared  with  one  another — that 
we  were  to  have  the  opportunity  to  see 
at  this  time,  in  a  very  informal  manner, 
the  portrait  of  the  president,  recently 
completed;  and  then  gave  its  brief  his- 
tory. The  presiding  chairman  next  pre- 
sented Glenn  Boyd  MacLeod,  represent- 
ing the  senior  class;  Betty  Sloan,  the 
student  government  association;  and 
Catharine  Mclver  the  freshman  class, 
who  in  turn  expressed  the  universal  joy 
with  which  the  groups  for  whom  they 
spoke  had  entered  into  the  undertaking. 
The  freshmen  were  especially  grateful 
to  the  Class  of  1930  because  they  had 
foregone  their  own  endeavor  to  assist 
with  the  portrait,  and  the  freshmen  in 


appreciation  had  voted  to  finish  during 
the  next  three  years  the  project  of  the 
seniors. 

The  idea  of  having  the  portrait 
painted  originated  with  the  Class  of 
1933,  under  the  direction  of  their  Coun- 
sellor, Miss  Minnie  L.  Jamison,  and  was 
sponsored  by  them.  But  the  gift  itself 
represents  the  entire  student  body,  espe- 
cially the  Class  of  1930,  and  the  Alum- 
nae. 

When  the  brief  tributes  had  been  con- 
cluded, Sarah  Power  Armstrong,  five- 
year-old  daughter  of  Mary  FoUst  Arm- 
strong, 1920,  and  granddaughter  of 
President  Foust,  drew  the  covering ;  and 
breaking  into  informality,  we  gathered 
as  near  the  portrait  as  possible  to  view 
it. 

Mrs.  Parker  now  called  for  Miss  Jami- 
son, who  emphasized  again  that  the 
privilege  of  doing  this  work  for  the  col- 
lege had  brought  her  great  happiness, 
"It  is  just  one  link  between  our  great 
past  and  our  vision  of  a  greater  future. ' ' 
She  felt  that  the  unity  of  purpose  and 
the  enthusiasm  shown  made  the  under- 
taking truly  a  labor  of  love  on  the  part 
of  the  students  and  alumnae. 

The  portrait  was  done  by  William 
Steene,  artist  of  New  York  and  Chapel 
Hill,  and  the  chair  asked  him  to  stand 
that  we  might  thus  honor  him. 

The  Alumnae  Association  very  much 
appreciated  the  presence  of  Doctor 
Foust 's  mother,  now  nearly  ninety-two 
years  old,  and  we  stood  a  moment  in 
honor  of  the  mother  of  our  president. 

Resuming  the  regular  program  Mrs. 
Parker  called  for  reports.  Mary  Bynum 
Paris,  chairman,  reported  for  the  audit- 
ing committee  ;  Laura  Weill  Cone,  chair- 
man, for  the  Student-Alumnae  fund — 
the  bulk  of  the  fund  is  now  invested  in 
City  of  Greensboro  notes  which  will 
mature  in  October,  1931 ;  Ethel  Bol- 
linger Keiger,  for  the  Class  of  1585 ;  and 
Lucy  Cherry  Crisp,  chairman,  for  the 
nominating  committee. 

New  officers  elected  on  the  spring  bal- 
lot are  these :  President,  May  Lovelace 
Tomlinson    (Mrs.    C.   F.),   High  Point; 


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vice  president,  Tempe  Boddie  Barringer 
(Mrs.  Paul),  Sanford;  members  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  (to  serve  three  years), 
Rebecca  Cushing,  Raleigh ;  Pearl  Wyche, 
Greensboro;  Nan  McArn  Malloy  (Mrs. 
Harry ) ,  Laurinburg. 

One  of  the  most  appreciated  divisions 
of  Alumnae  Day  assembly  has  come  to 
be  the  "Three-Minute  Interviews"  with 
alumnae  themselves.  This  year  the  pre- 
siding officer  recognized  Mrs.  J.  B.  Bost, 
Atlanta ;  Dr.  Margaret  Lawrence,  New 
York ;  Ruth  Johnston  Embree,  home 
from  Africa  for  a  visit ;  Phoebe  Pegram 
Baughan,  Dillard,  Ga. ;  Juanita  Mc- 
Dougald  and  Mary  Teresa  Peacock, 
State  Department  of  Education, 
Raleigh ;  Mary  Gwynn,  Y.W.C.A.  Secre- 
tary, Louisville ;  Kate  Finley,  principal 
high  school,  Rockingham ;  Lucy  Cherry 
Crisp,  Greensboro,  who  read  several  of 
her  dialect  poems.  Special  messages  also 
came  from  Fodie  Buie  Kenyon,  Katie 
Buie,  and  Fodie  Buie ;  and  Annie 
Cherry. 

THE  LUNCHEONS 

THE  Senior  Class  was  hostess  to  all 
the  reunion  classes  at  a  beautifully 
appointed  luncheon  at  one  o'clock  in 
South  Dining  Hall.  Ruth  Dodd  was 
chairman  of  the  committee  which 
planned  the  charming  occasion.  All 
told,  about  four  hundred  and  fifty 
guests  from  the  classes  of  1930,  '29,  '26, 


'24,  '23,  '22,  '21,  '20,  '0.1,  '04,  '03,  and 
'02  found  their  places  to  the  strains  of 
the  orchestra.  For  the  first  time  there 
was  a  commingling  of  class  colors  at 
this  reunion  luncheon,  owing  to  the 
adoption  of  the  Dix  Plan,  and  the 
mingled  colors  motivat<id  both  the  deco- 
rations and  the  program.  Streamers  of 
red,  green,  blue,  lavender,  and  yellow 
made  gay  the  misty  gray  hall ;  the  speak- 
er's  table  was  placed  against  a  lattice- 
work of  the  same  interwoven  colors; 
and  the  table  decorations  likewise  car- 
ried out  the  idea.  At  each  place  lay  a 
hand-blocked  folder,  done  in  the  senior 
colors,  green  and  white,  containing 
menu  and  program.  "The  Cloth  of  the 
Loom"  was  characterized  by  a  number 
of  things.  Glenn  Boyd  MacLeod,  toast- 
mistress,  called  for  the  "colors  in  the 
weave. ' '  Helen  Creasy  Hunter  responded 
for  green  and  white  classes ;  Sasie 
West  Mendeuhall,  for  red  and  white ; 
Marjorie  Mendenhall,  for  lavender  and 
^Y'hite,  and  Virginia  Kirkpatrick,,  for 
blue  and  white.  Roberta  Jordan  and 
Helen  Shuford  told  of  the  warp  and 
woof.  Edna  Grantham,  soprano,  and 
Margaret  McConnell,  violinist,  repre- 
sented the  shuttle  in  their  solo  numbers ; 
Eloise  Banning  and  Vera  Buckingham, 
the  cardings — -in  an  impersonation  of 
one  of  Stephen  Leacock's  burlesques. 
The  sailor's  dance  and  the  dainty  weav- 
ers '  dance  brought  out  the  pattern.  Dur- 


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ing  the  class  stunts,  the  1921 's  presented 
their  mascot,  Lillian  Jackson,  in  a  cos- 
tume dance  number. 

In  West  Dining  Hall,  lone  Grogan 
presided  over  the  festivities  of  the  Class 
of  1585.  Here  about  a  hundred  guests 
sat  down  together.  Hand-painted  fold- 
ers, done  in  the  five  colors,  Avith  original 
designs,  listed  the  menu  and  the  pro- 
gram. Red  roses  in  low  bowls  centered 
the  tables  and  trailed  along  the  cloth. 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  meal.  Miss 
Grogan  presented  Mr.  W.  R.  Taylor, 
director  of  dramatics  at  the  college, 
who  read  a  one-act  play.  Here  also  we 
saw  the  sailor's  dance,  and  heard  Edna 
Grantham  and  Margaret  McConnnell  in 
their  solo  numbers.  And  when  they  had 
done,  the  1585 's  said  good-bj'-e  to  one 
another  until  next  commencement  should 
come  again. 

CONCLUSION 

IN  the  afternoon.  Senior  Class  Day  was 
held  on  front  campus.  The  exercises 
were  somewhat  different  this  year,  in 
that  they  centered  around  tableaux,  the 
luxuriant  green  of  the  campus  "glen" 
providing  for  them  a  perfect  setting. 
The  many-hued  chiffon  dresses,  graceful 
and  colorful,  added  no  little  to  the  gay 
pageantry  of  the  scene. 

On  Saturday  evening,  the  Play-Likers 
played  "After  Dark"  to  a  capacity 
house,  in  special  compliment  to  the 
visiting  alumnae. 

Sunday  morning  and  the  baccalaure- 
ate sermon;  in  the  late  afternoon,  the 
commencement  community  gathered  for 
an  informal  hour  on  the  front  lawn  of 
the  president's  residence.  Vespers  came 
in  the  early  evening,  shortened  this  year 
to  a  half  hour,  and  open  only  to  the 
seniors  and  their  friends.  On  Monday 
morning  followed  the  commencement 
address,  with  the  graduating  exercises. 
Both  the  Vesper  message  and  the  address 
to  the  graduating  class  are  published 
in  full  in  this  number  of  the  magazine. 


Thus,  in  rapid  sketch,  the  thirty-eighth 
annnual  commencement  passed  into 
history. 

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REPORT  OF  ALUMNAE 
OFFICE 

Like  the  proverbial  oak  in  the  acorn,  the 
report  of  the  alumnae  office  this  year  is  to 
be  made  in  these   seven   sentences: 

1.  Two  Alumnae  Week-End  Seminars, 
bringing  back  to  the  college  about  seven 
hundred  alumnae  for  a  week-end  of  intensive 
study  and  social  fellowship. 

2.  Editing  and  publishing  four  numbers  of 
the  Alumnae   magazine. 

3.  Promoting  thirty  local  Pounder's  Day 
meetings  during  the  Founder's  Day  period; 
alumnae  program  of  Freshman  Week. 

4.  Eevamping  the  records  to  the  extent  that 
lists  of  alumnae  by  classes,  by  counties  and 
localities  may  now  be  run  off  on  the  addresso- 
graph  with  the  same  ease  and  speed  as  en- 
velopes are  addressed,  thereby  saving  much 
labor   and  expense. 

5.  The  usual  flood  of  routine,  including 
changing  many  hundreds  of  addresses;  seven 
trips  into  the  field;  answering  many  pleasant 
letters;  the  continuous  following  up  of  the 
activities  of  alumnae;  collecting  fees  and 
pledges;  the  broadcast  of  letters  and  pro- 
grams in  connection  with  Founder's  Day,  the 
Seminars,   and   Commencement. 

6.  Alumnae  Day,  with  two  luncheons  and 
eight  class  reunions. 

7.  I  thank  you  each  and  all,  who  made 
these  things  true;  and  "God  bless  us  every 
one!  " 

Clara  B.  Byrd,  Alumnae  Secretary. 

cS^^ 


New   Officers   for   1930-1931    are: 

President,  May  Lovelace  Tomlin- 
son  (Mrs.  C.  F.),  High  Point;  vice- 
president,  Tempe  Boddie  Bar- 
ringer  (Mrs.  Paul),  Sanford. 
Board  members  (to  serve  three 
years)  :  Rebecca  Gushing,  Raleigh; 
Pearl  Wyche,  Greensboro ;  Nan 
McArn  Malloy  (Mrs.  Harry), 
Laurinburar. 


The  Senior  Talk — Campus  Life 
as  It  is  Today 


By  Jean  Harvey,  1930 


[For  several  years  one  of  the  well-appreciated  fea- 
tures of  the  general  assembly  program  on  Alum- 
nae Day  has  been  the  Senior  Talk,  during  which 
a  specially  chosen  member  of  the  graduating 
class  has  spoken  to  the  alumnae  frankly  and 
intimately  about  college  life,  or  certain  phases 
of  college  life,  as  she  had  found  it  to  be  during 
her  period  of  residence.  It  is  a  tendency,  amount- 
ing almost  to  a  habit,  for  alumni  and  alumnae 
in  general  to  think  of  their  alma  mater  in  terms 
of  what  they  were  ''wnen  I  was  there.''  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  no  college  is  ever  "just  the 
same"  any  two  successive  years.  Perhaps  the 
fundamental  conceptions  and  principles  remain 
the  same — perhaps  not,  in  certain  aspects.  But 
change  there  is  sure  to  be — -in  courses,  in  regu- 
lations, in  the  development  of  cultural  levels,  in 
student  and  faculty  attitudes,  in  physical  expan- 
sion. What  was  a  provincially-minded  college  of 
fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago  may  today  be  think- 
ing and  living  in  terms  of  a  national  outlook. 
All  of  which  may  affect  the  product — assuredly 
does.  And  if  one  of  the  great  services  which 
alumni  and  alumnae  bodies  may  render  their 
colleges  is  to  "interpret''  them  to  the  world, 
then  it  is  a  necessity  on  their  part  to  under- 
stand as  intelligently  as  they  can  their  colleges 
"as  they  are  today."  With  this  argument  in 
mind,  the  Senior  Talk  evolved.  This  year  it  was 
made  by  Jean  Harvey,  of  Grifton,  the  third  of 
three  "Ha,rvey  Sisters"  to  graduate  from  the 
college  within  the  last  five  years.] 

OKE  of  our  erudite  professors  ob- 
served the  coincident  lengthening 
of  dresses  and  scarcity  of  women's  jobs 
and  tried  to  correlate  the  two.  Perhaps 
there  is  a  connection.  It  may  be  that 
this  feminizing  tendency  is  excrescent  of 
a  movement  of  women  from  industry  to 
the  home.  It  may  be  that  we  are  revert- 
ing to  our  mother's  type,  but  certainly 
the  pendulum  has  not  yet  begun  its  re- 
actionary swing.  A  cross-section  of  cam- 
pus life  at  North  Carolina  College  re- 
veals, we  think,  neither  boarding-school 
indifference,  normal  school  narrowness 
and  lack  of  culture,  nor  the  too-talked-of 
looseness  of  the  modern  university. 

The  indictment  of  collegiate  morals  is 
graying  with  age.  Students  have  grown 
to  pay  it  little  attention,  for  when 
pressed  to  it,  as  now,  we  are  convinced 
that  although  oar  individual  codes  of 
conduct  may  differ  from  those,  say  of 
the  class  of  1900',  we  have  a  sense  of  a 


broader  morality.  Jn  not  too  roseate 
terras  we  may  call  it  social  service.  To 
paint  one's  cheek  is  not  the  di.sgrace  it 
was  formerly  considered  to  be.  Sex  is 
no  longer  whispered,  but  aired  scientifi- 
cally and  open-mindedly.  We  are,  in- 
deed, astonishingly  free  in  our  relations 
with  men;  but  does  not  our  concern 
about  social  conditions  rather  than  prim 
customs  make  our  lives  richer  and  bal- 
ance the  count?  When  Gastonia  and 
Marion  were  scourged  with  indastrial 
disintegration  and  strife,  our  students 
were  not  shrouded  indifferently  in  petty 
animosities.  Is  labor  justified  in  its  re- 
bellious move?  What's  wrong  with  the 
textile  industry?  Are  the  Communists, 
and  other  such  groups,  getting  a  square 
deal?  Questions  like  these  arose  in  our 
minds.  AVe  have  grown  to  appreciate, 
too,  the  injustice  done  the  negro  race: 
our  ages-old  prejudices  dissolve  both  in 
the  realization  that  to  protect  our  own 
race  from  disease  and  vice  we  must  edu- 
cate the  negro  to  health  and  morality, 
and  in  the  acknowledgment  of  the  dis- 
tinct abilities  of  that  race  and  its  need 
for  separate  cultural  and  social  groups. 
Neither  are  international  relations  too 
far  removed  for  contemplation.  In  our 
student  body  is  a  group  who  knows 
whether  or  not  it  favors  the  League  of 
Nations  and  the  World  Court,  and  how 
far  it  thinks  the  United  States  should 
go  with  naval  disarmament.  Even  state 
politics  elicit  a  great  deal  of  interest 
from  the  average  girl. 

And  what  does  this  mean?  Will  not 
our  increased  social  consciousness  make 
us  better  citizens?  With  broader  out- 
looks shall  we  not  be  better  teachers,  bet- 
ter journalists,  better  librarians,  better 
laboratorv    technicians,    better    welfare 


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workers,  better  homemakers ?  (Thanks 
to  highly  organized  vocational  guidance 
our  fields  of  work  are  becoming  more 
diversified.)  Here  we  note  young  wo- 
men aided  in  their  thinking  through  cer- 
tain courses,  clubs,  and  meetings,  cap- 
able of  forming  their  own  view  about 
vital  world  problems.  Indicative  of  the 
thoughtfulness  of  at  least  a  respectable 
minority  is  the  attendance  of  the  Greens- 
boro Open  Forum. 

And  what  of  our  intellectual  curios- 
ity, you  are  asking.  Obviously  we  have 
not  the  scholarly  air  of  Oxford.  We 
are  typically  American  in  our  varying 
interests.  Some  of  us  merely  came  to 
school,  some  of  us  want  a  good  certifi- 
cate, and  a  few  of  us  thirst  for  knowl- 
edge. After  all,  it  is  that  respectable 
minority  that  counts,  that  the  disinter- 
ested majority  follows.  One  finds  the 
same  to  be  trae  in  the  State  of  North 
Carolina.  For  we  are  led  in  our  activ- 
ities by  girls  who  are  awake,  and  we  re- 
spect the  scholars.  A  definite  step  in 
the  recognition  of  intellect  has  been 
taken  recently  in  forming  here  the  nu- 
cleus for  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  chapter. 

The  cross-section  reveals,  also,  a 
marked  development  in  physical  educa- 
tion, social  activities  in  the  four  socie- 
ties, and  (perhaps  superior  to  former 
years)  advantages  for  cultural  training. 
In  addition  to  regular  art,  literature, 
music,  and  philosophy  courses,  we  have 
listened  each  week  to  a  renowned  lec- 
turer or  a  superb  musician.  How  much 
these  contacts  mean  to  impressionable 
young  persons !  And  how  much  more 
cosmopolitan  our  views  become ! 

The  advantages  of  the  large  school 
without  the  accompanying  eclipse  of  the 
individual — this  sounds  ideal.  On  mak- 
ing a  microscopic  study  we  observe : 
first,  the  orientation  of  freshmen  during 
Freshman  Week,  their  opportunities  for 
adjustment  when  segregated  from  up- 
perclassmen;  second,  the  freedom  of 
each  student  to  follow  her  particular  in- 
terests in  the  score  of  extra  curricular 
activities — dramatics,  aesthetic  dancing, 
work     on    the     publications,     academic 


clubs ;  third,  the  instilling  of  a  sense  of 
personal  responsibility  in  self-govern- 
ment guided  by  the  assistance  of  a  wiser, 
experienced  faculty ;  and  lastly,  the 
spirit  of  understanding  and  cooperation 
furthered  between  the  student  body  and 
the  administration  through  a  group  of 
campus  leaders  at  Camp  Yonahlosse  last 
summer.  We  who  have  felt  this  year 
that  real  spirit  of  sympathetic  coordi- 
nation wonder  at  what  poverty  of  un- 
derstanding there  must  have  existed  be- 
fore. 

Religiously  we  are  neither  bound  to 
church  attendance  and  meaningless  cer- 
emonies, nor  are  we  surged  with  agnosti- 
cism and  atheism.  The  majority  suffer 
spiritual  conflicts,  but  in  most  cases  our 
early  training  holds  true.  It  is  our 
widening  horizons  that  allow  tolerance. 
And  tolerance  will  prove  the  saving 
grace  of  today's  folk. 

If  as  a  campus  thinketh,  so  it  is,  we 
are  a  heterogenous,  paradoxical  group. 
But  it  is  well  that  we  are  encouraged  to 
be  independent  and  are  prepared  in  col- 
lege to  live  as  grown-up  women. 

The  college  of  today !  We  are  won- 
dering, alumnae,  if  you  will  take  us  in 
after  four  years  of  such  contamination! 

(^ 


REUNION  OF  CLASS  OF  1905 

ON  Saturday  evening  of  commence- 
ment, Annie  Mclver  Young  (Mrs. 
J.  R. ),  the  class  president,  entertained 
her  sister  members  at  dinner  at  her 
home  in  Irving  Park,  Greensboro.  Mary 
Wills  McCulloch,  Kate  Finley,  Bess 
Crowell,  Inez  Flow,  Mary  Coffey,  and 
Ruth  Fitzgerald  were  present  in  addi- 
tion to  the  hostess.  Other  guests  of  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Young  were  Mrs.  Charles  D. 
Mclver,  Sr.,'  Em  Austin,  Mary  Exum, 
and  a  young  niece  of  Inez  Flow.  As  an 
expression  of  our  love  and  admiration 
for  Mrs.  Mclver,  whose  birthday  it  was, 
the  members  of  the  class  of  1905  were 
happy  to  have  the  privilege  of  present- 
ing her  a  small  gift. 

Ruth  Fitzgerald. 


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REUNION  OF  THE  CLASS 
OF  1920 

Tn  response  to  lavender  and  white  invi- 
1  tations  sent  out  by  Natalie  Coffey,  the 
1920 's  back  at  the  college  for  their  tenth 
anniversary  gathered  at  the  home  of 
Marjorie  Mendenhall,  our  hostess,  for  a 
reunion  supper  at  the  close  of  Alumnae 
Day.  It  was  a  gracious  occasion,  per- 
vaded by  that  spirit  of  fellowship  and 
understanding  which  characterizes  a 
coming-together  of  those  who  have 
worked  and  played  and  learned  together 
through  a  period  of  years.  Larkspur, 
candytuft,  and  sweet  peas,  chosen  in  the 
class  colors  of  lavender  and  white,  were 
used  for  decoration. 

The  menu,  largely  prepared  by  Mar- 
jorie's  very  efficient  mother,  was  such  as 
to  satisfy  the  discriminating  appetite 
■ — chicken  salad,  sliced  tomatoes,  potato 
chips,  deviled  eggs  and  olives,  hot  rolls, 
iced  tea,  and  the  daintiest  of  strawberry 
shortcake. 

Besides  Marjorie  and  Natalie,  the  re- 
union committee  included  Mary  Bynum 
Paris  and  Joe  Causey,  who  made  the 
1920  tokens,  Mary  Winn  Abernethy, 
and  Lela  Wade  Phillips. 

We  had  great  pride  in  welcoming 
among  us  our  everlasting  president, 
Margaret  Lawrence,  who  received  her 
M.D.  degree  from  Columbia  University 
on  June  3.  Miss  Elliott,  Dr.  Jadvson, 
and  Dr.  Highsmith  were  also  present. 
During  the  conversation  after  supper, 
we  decided  to  have  class  dues  of  fifty 
cents  a  year  in  order  to  mark  our  class 
tree,  and  Joe  Causey  was  appointed  to 
collect  them.  The  following  answered  the 
roll  call :  Isabel  Ardrey  Grey,  Nell  Flem- 
ing Whitley,  Sybil  Barrington  Corbett, 
Natalie  Coffey,  Lydia  Farmer  Thrasher, 
Margaret  Lawrence,  Fay  Martin,  Laura 
Howard,  Mary  Winn  Abernethy,  Llary 
Bynum  Paris,  Joe  Causey,  Lela  AVade 
Phillips,  Carrie  Tabor  Stevens,  and  Mar- 
jorie Mendenhall. 


REUNION  OF  THE  CLASS 
OF  1922 

RKSPONDING  to  the  call  of  Murriel 
Barnes  Erwin,  everlasting  secre- 
tary, and  Zelian  Hunter  Iielm.s,  local 
chairman  of  arrangements,  ten  members 
of  the  class  of  1922  gathered  at  the 
llylmore  Tea  Room  on  Saturday  eve- 
ning of  commencement  for  a  reunion 
supper  together.  We  had  greatly  en- 
joyed Alumnae  Day,  although  regretful 
that  a  larger  representation  of  our 
group  was  not  with  us ;  but  those  who 
were  here  regaled  one  another  with  in- 
cidents and  episodes  experienced  since 
last  we  met.  And  an  interesting  comment 
on  those  who  did  come  is  this — we  were 
lall  married!  Answering  "yes"  to  the 
roll  call  were  Helen  Creasy  Hunter, 
Charlotte ;  Zelian  Hunter  Helms.  Anne 
Cantrell  White,  Ruby  Hodgin  Parnell, 
Irene  Perkins  Iseley,  Sallie  Tucker 
Mumford,  Greensboro ;  Murriel  Barnes 
Erwin,  Forest  City;  Elizabeth  Foust 
Ashcraft,  Winston-Salem ;  Agnes  Can- 
nady  Cashwell,  Oxford;  Marie  Bonitz 
Darrin,  New  York. 

Murriel  Barnes  Erwin,  Secretary. 

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REUNION  OF  THE  CLASS 
OF  1923 

SIXTEEN  members  of  tlie  class  of  1023 
returned  to  the  college  for  the  second 
reunion,  featured  by  a  six  o'clock  tea 
Saturday  afternoon  at  the  Greensboro 
Country  Club,  and  in  the  midst  of  pres- 
ent festivities  these  sixteen  planned  en- 
thusiastically for  the  next  reunion.  In- 
deed, all  the  time  which  could  be 
snatched  from  reminiscences  and  the  ex- 
change of  information  about  absent 
classmates,  was  spent  in  definite  plans 
for  securing  a  large  attendance  at  the 
next  get-together.  The  sixteen  voted  to 
constitute  themselves  an  attendance  com- 
mittee, and  the  roll  of  the  class  was 
divided  among  them  for  correspondence. 
Margaret  Murray  was  appointed  general 


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chairman  of  the  next  reunion,  and  Pearl 
Taylor  Irvin  (Mrs.  Charles  W.)  her 
assistant. 

The  tea  coming  at  the  close  of  a  day 
of  informal  reunion,  and  immediately 
preceding  the  performance  by  the  Play- 
Likers,  was  a  lovely  affair.  The  class 
colors,  red  and  white,  were  effectively 
carried  out  in  the  refreshments  and  in 
the  tea  table,  which  featured  a  center- 
piece of  red  roses  and  white  snapdrag- 
ons, surrounded  by  four  red  tapers  in 
crystal  holders.  Dorothy  Clement,  re- 
union chairman,  and  Molly  Matheson 
Boren  (Mrs.  Simpson)  had  made  the 
arrangements,  and  acted  in  hostess 
capacity. 

For  the  convenience  of  every  one,  the 
class  meeting  was  held  in  conjunction 
with  the  tea.  Virginia  Terrell  Lathrop 
(Mrs.  A.  H.)  presided,  and  Margaret 
Murray  acted  as  secretary  in  the  absence 
of  Mary  Sue  Beam  Fonville  (Mrs.  N. 
G.)  who  was  prevented  by  illness  from 
being  present.  With  regret  the  resigna- 
tion of  Eunice  Mann  as  treasurer, 
brought  about  because  of  the  illness  of 
her  father  which  ties  her  close  at  home, 
was  accepted.  lola  Parker  was  named 
in  her  place.  The  class  learned  with 
regret  of  the  illness  of  Ruth  Van  Poole, 
who  is  at  St.  Joseph's  sanatorium  in 
Asheville,  and  voted  to  send  her  flowers. 
Upon  the  report  of  Margaret  Murray, 
in  place  of  Ida  Belle  Moore,  regarding 
a  marker  for  the  class  tree,  the  group 
decided  upon  a  granite  slab,  if  it  can  be 
secured  without  great  expense,  and  Nell 
Craig  was  appointed  to  attend  to  the 
purchase,  engraving  and  placing  of  the 
marker. 

Sara  Harrison  Hicks  (Mrs.  Harry) 
had  brought  from  Raleigh  red  balls 
marked  with  the  white  numerals  '23  for 
the  attendants  at  the  baby  show.  Since 
none  of  the  members  brought  babies  to 
the  meeting  the  balls  were  given  as 
favors  to  the  adults.  Julia  Montgomery 
Street  (Mrs.  C.  A.)  had  brought  her 
two  children  over  in  the  afternoon,  but 
was  unable  to  remain  for  the  tea. 


At  the  alumnae  luncheon  at  the  col- 
lege, fourteen  members  of  the  class  were 
present,  and  were  seated  together  at  red 
and  white  tables. 

Our  alumnae  secretary,  Clara  Byrd, 
was  a  welcome  guest  at  the  tea,  and  the 
members  of  the  class  present  were :  Vir- 
ginia Terrell  Lathrop,  of  Asheville; 
president;  Dorothy  Clement,  Nell  Craig, 
Molly  Matheson  Boren,  Pearl  Taylor 
Irvin,  all  of  Greensboro ;  Miriam  Good- 
win, East  Carolina  Teachers'  College, 
Greenville ;  Sara  Harper,  Sara  Harrison 
Hicks,  Raleigh;  Eva  Hodges,  Green- 
ville ;  Margaret  Murray,  Salem  Acad- 
emy, Winston-Salem ;  lola  Parker, 
Rocky  Mount;  Mary  T.  Peacock,  Salis- 
bury; Maitland  Sadler  Sykes  (Mrs.  H. 
J.),  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Mae  Shearer, 
Thomasville ;  Agnes  Stout,  Queens  Col- 
lege, Charlotte ;  Susie  West  Mendenhall 
(Mrs.  F.  H.),  Burlington. 

Nell,  Craig. 

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REUNION  OF  THE  CLASS 
OF  1929 

OUR  faces  beamed  on  Alumnae  Day 
whenever  any  one  mentioned  our 
reunion  Blue  and  White  banquet  to  be 
held  that  night!  About  sixty  loyal 
twenty-niners  strolled  down  to  the  May- 
fair  to  dine  together  once  again.  That 
same  old  '29  pep  was  by  no  means  lack- 
ing. Sixty  girls  lost  no  time  in  finding 
their  places  marked  by  attractive  blue 
and  white  place  cards,  including  the 
names  of  class  officers,  a  memorial  page, 
the  menu,  class  and  college  songs. 
Formality  was  dispensed  with  —  we 
were  the  twenty-niners  back  home 
again!  Class  and  college  songs  were 
sung  with  vim  and  vigor.  Virginia 
Kirkpatrick  welcomed  the  gay  guests, 
and  Era  Linker  informed  them  of  the 
marriages,  engagements,  disappoint- 
ments, and  misfortunes  of  our  various 
members.  But  it  can  be  checked  and 
double  checked  that  "a  good  time  was 
had  by  all. ' '  During  the  evening,  special 
messages  were  read  from  Betty  Ehring- 


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haus,  Atlanta ;  Clara  Guignard,  Chi- 
cago ;  and  Julia  Thompson,  Norwood. 

Statistics  compiled  from  the  records 
show  manj^  interesting  things. 

Our  class  has  been  sorely  bereaved  in 
the  death  of  Helen  Morris  and  Elizabeth 
Wortham. 

Mary  Frances  Lemmond  and  Mary 
and  Elizabeth  Draughon  have  lost  their 
mother  during  the  year. 

Among  those  who  did  further  study 
last  year  are  Katherine  Fleming,  at  the 
Universitj^  Of  North  Carolina ;  Clara 
Guignard,  Chicago  University ;  Ruth 
Clinard,  Bryn  Mawr ;  E«osalie  Jacobi, 
Columbia  University ;  Mary  Clara  Tate, 
New  England  Conservatory ;  Lillian 
Stroud,  New  England  Conservatory. 

A  number  of  marriages  have  also 
taken  place.  Elizabeth  Holmes  is  now 
Mrs.  James  Hurley,  Salisbury ;  Alice 
Jackson,  Mrs.  L.  Phil  Wickers,  Jr., 
Greensboro;  Hattie  Rodwell,  Mrs.  J.  H. 
Johnson,  Greensboro ;  Hilda  Burton, 
Mrs.  R.  R.  Fountain,  Norfolk,  Va. ; 
Edna  Rice,  Mrs.  F.  A.  Sprinkle,  Mor- 
ganton;  Mary  C.  Wilson,  Mrs.  E.  R. 
King,  Portsmouth,  Ohio ;  Luna  Mae 
Best,  Mrs.  A.  E.  Carter,  Hendersonville ; 
Gladys  Rose,  Mrs.  B.  H.  Ipoch,  Golds- 
boro ;  Lorna  Mae  Wilson,  Mrs.  James 
E.   Wiseman,    Elkin ;    Helen   Lee,    Mrs. 


Leander  Xash  ;  Winnie  Cloor,  Mrs.  0.  J. 
Sharpe,  Granite  Falls;  Virf^inia  A.skew, 
Mrs.  Jim  Green. 

Those  who  answered  to  the  reunion 
roll  call:  Elizabeth  ^McComb.s-,  Betty 
Steinhardt,  Mildred  Walters,  Lynette 
Warren,  Johnnie  Edwards,  Cordelia 
French,  Mary  Draughon,  Mattie  Query, 
Ruth  Clinard,  Sara  f Micky  j  Brown, 
Susannah  Stroup,  Margaret  Caasey, 
Willie  Delle  Parham,  Elizabeth  Avent, 
Nannie  Lee  Griggs,  Althea  Williams, 
Grace  Hayes,  Margaret  Duckworth, 
Perla  Bell  Parker,  Lillian  Wilkins, 
Esther  Martin,  Catherine  White.  Edna 
Brown,  Gladys  Goodman,  Anne  Wooten, 
Thelma  Brady,  Margaret  ^IcNairy, 
Frances  Moore,  Mary  Ellen  Tipton, 
Margaret  Thompson,  Edith  Causey.  Nel- 
lie Sheffield,  Vera  Hedrick.  Willie 
Koontz,  Mildred  Boyles,  Virginia  Van 
Dalsem,  Margaret  Stockard.  ]\Iozelle 
Causey,  Elizabeth  Reading,  Katharine 
Fleming,  Sara  Purdie,  Jean  Divine, 
Grey  Johnson,  Elizabeth  Draughon. 
Dorothy  Robertson,  ]\Iary  E.  Womble, 
Helen  McBee,  Sara  Brawley,  Mary  R. 
Rankin,  Margaret  Underwood,  Evelyn 
Fitch,  Frances  James,  Elizabeth  Hanna- 
man,  Ella  Burton  Hutchinson,  Virginia 
Hall,  Edna  Earl  Lewis. 

Era  Linker.  Sccrefani. 


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Normandy  Horses 


^By  Jean  Louise  Hewitt,  1930 


/  can  remember 
Normandy  horses, 
Wearily  plodding 
Over  the  cobbled 
Streets  of  a  city: 
Clickey-Clack. 


Born  to  the  harness, 
Bent  to  the  burden, 
Often  I've  seen  them, 
Patiently  plodding 
Whither  they  know  not — 
Horses  and  men. 


What  of  brute  blindness, 
Dull,  irrespansive. 
Stirred  by  no  motive, 
Staring  at  nothing, 
Ceaselessly  ploddingf 
Brothers,  awake! 


*Jean  Louise  Hewitt  received  a  prize  of  twenty-five  dollars  at  commencement  for  havius  done  the  best 
work  published  in  The  Coraddi  last  year.  The  award  was  made  upon  the  basis  of  seven  poems  contributed 
by  her.     ''Xormandy  Horses''   was  one  of  them. 


Our  Social  Service  Problem 

By  Annie  Kizer  Bost,  1903 

Commissioner  of  Public  Welfare  in  the  State  of  North  Carolina 


[On  March  19,  Annie  Kizer  Bost  began  her  work  as 
Commissioner  of  Public  Welfare  in  North  Caro- 
lina, having  succeeded  to  the  post  made  vacant 
by  the  resignation  of  her  predecessor.  We  shall 
undoubtedly  be  pardoned  an  expression  of  pride 
and  satisfaction  that  an  alumna  of  our  oven  col- 
lege should  have  been  chosen  to  fill  this  impor- 
tant place.  Moreover,  we  also  affirm  our  confi- 
dence in  her  ability  to  do  the  big  job  well,  and 
to  meet  wisely  its  many  demands.  Previous  to 
accepting  this  appointment,  Mrs.  Bost  was  exec- 
utive secretary  of  the  State  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs,  with  headquarters  at  Raleigh. 
But  back  of  that,  and  along  with  it,  lies  a  per- 
sonal record  of  intelligent  and  effective  service  as 
a  homemaker  and  citizen,  interested  in  all  things 
making  for  the  best  development  of  her  church, 
community,  and  state.  We  wish  Annie  Kizer 
Bost  all  possible  success  as  she  goes  forth  to 
make  our  world  a  better  place  in  which  to  live 
through  the  work  that  she  shall  accomplish  for 
the  people  of  her  own  state.] 

IT  IS  generally  recognized  that  social 
work  to  be  really  effective  must  be 
primarily  preventive.  Take  the  popula- 
tion  of   our   corrective   institutions   for 


Annie  Kizer  Bost 

delinquents,  for  the  mental  defectives, 
the  insane ;  note  also  their  long  waiting 
lists.  These  agencies,  however  good  a 
job   they   may   be   doing,    are   after   all 


handling  the  results  of  a  problem,  while 
the  problem  itself,  whether  it  be  one  of 
dependency,  delinquency,  or  defective- 
ness, is  yet  to  be  solved. 

We  are  beginning  to  understand  that 
of  these  thousands  of  folks  that  social 
agencies  are  handling,  many  are  failures 
that  the  community  itself  has  produced. 
Somewhere  along  the  line  we  have  fallen 
down;  some  community  responsibility 
has  not  been  met ;  and  the  community  is 
but  the  composite  group — home,  school,, 
church,  government.  Therefore,  we 
should  throw  our  attention  to  conditions 
within  the  community  which  result  in 
such  failures  if  we  are  ever  to  make  any 
appreciable  decrease  in  social  disability 
and  maladjustment. 

Each  community  has  its  own  social 
problems.  They  will  never  be  solved, 
nor  shall  we  make  a  real  beginning  of 
solution,  until  all  our  beneficent  organ- 
ized forces  work  together  to  bring  to 
pass  a  new  social  order.  It  is  perfectly 
obvious  that  we  shall  make  slow  progress 
in  solving  social  problems  until  all  the 
resources  of  the  community  are  brought 
to  bear  upon  them.  We  are  coming  more 
and  more  to  realize  the  value  of  coordi- 
nating all  welfare  activities  within  the 
community,  so  that  we  may  blend  our 
sympathies,  unite  our  brains,  and  join 
our  hands  to  the  end  that  every  child 
from  every  walk  of  life  may  become  a 
functioning  citizen  with  his  "feet  low 
and  his  head  as  high  as  God  made  man 
to  walk."  Agencies  like  the  Y.W.C.A. 
Women's  Clubs,  Family  Welfare 
League,  Boy  Scouts,  G-irl  Eeserves,  Par- 
ent-Teacher groups,  Leagues  of  Women 
Voters,  and  others,  are  but  the  expres- 
sion of  the  social  consciousness  of  the 
communitv. 


r  II  R     <-yl  LU  M  hi  A  li     -7^;  H  w  s 


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At  such  meetings  as  the  annual  Social 
Service  Conference  it  is  a  fine  thing  to 
see  legislators,  judges,  social  workers, 
club  women,  and  citizens  generally  sit- 
ting down  together  to  discuss  great  ques- 
tions in  which  we  all  have  the  same 
stake.  At  the  recent  conference  in  Char- 
lotte, Mr.  A.  W.  McAlister,  of  Greens- 
boro, interpreted  the  spirit  and  value  of 
the  gathering  as  tending  to  develop  and 
conserve  the  human  values  of  society, 
reminding  us  that  in  all  our  planning 
and  endeavors  the  greatest  of  all  human 
values  and  the  very  cornerstone  of  the 
ideal  state  is  the  child ;  that  the  child  is 
the  basis  of  society ;  that  either  in  the 
foreground  or  the  background  of  every 
problem  of  social  welfare,  he  stands — 
the  biggest  fact  of  all  creation.     "He  is 


at  the  same  time  our  best  possession  and 
our  greatest  opportunity,"  he  said.  "The 
first  business  of  the  statf.  therefore,  i.s 
that  most  priceless  of  human  values — thf 
cliild." 

What,  therefore,  is  the  ultimat.;  object 
of  these  programs  of  public  welfare  that 
we  are  trying  to  carry  out?  Is  it  not 
eventually  to  secure  an  equality  of  oppor- 
tunity for  all  citizens  by  guaranteeing  to 
every  child  health,  education,  and  such 
protection  and  care  as  he  needs  under 
the  law,  to  the  end  that  he  may  reach  his 
fullest  development;  to  the  end  that  he 
may  become  a  constructive  factor  in  the 
larger  group  of  which  he  forms  a  part — 
the  community,  state,  and  nation.  Does 
not  such  a  program  challenge  your  own 
best  effort? 


cs;^ 


Dawn  Dance 


By  VioLETTEMAE  LaBarr,  1929 


Transient — 

as  Sim  071  shadovj, 

nimble — 

as  birds  at  dawn; 

silver  shadow — 

^Imy  filigree  of  floating  white 

etched  against  tossing  green; 

airy  tangle  of  soft  straying  gold 

and  drapery— cloud — 

you  come. 

In  melting  ^notion,  softly  smooth 

as  thistles  wind-carried, 

as  willows  wind- swayed, 

as  flowers  wind-bent, 

printing  a  fleeting  cameo 

of  white  on  green — 

you  move. 


Dainty  dancer, 

white  happiness 

in  quivering  dance 

of  night's  nameless  mystery, 

of  dawn's  dispelled  doubts, 

you  weave 
winged  webs  of  silver  white. 

You  fling 
fleecy  cascades  of  moan-white. 

You  are 
a  crystal  flux  and  flow  of  melting  light- 
a  snow  fairy, 
a  silver  nymph, 
dancing  in  the  freshness 
of  promised  day. 

— -The    Xew    World   Anthology   of   Verse. 


The  Work  of  the  High  School  Dean 

of  Girls 

By  Fannie  Starr  Mitchell,  1914 

President  of  the  North  Carolina  Association  of  Deans  of  Women  and  Dean 
OF  Girls  in  the  Greensboro  High  School 


MEETING  with  the  committee  ap- 
pointed to  draw  up  a  "high  school 
girls'  code";  adjusting  her  program  for 
Jennie,  who  has  just  returned  to  school 
following  a  long  illness;  talking  with 
Mary  about  her  conduct  on  French  class 
yesterday,  and  planning  with  her  how  it 
may  be  improved ;  conferring  with  the 
school  nurse  as  to  rest  hours  for  the 
underweight  boys  and  girls ;  visits  to  the 
home  of  Marie,  who  stopped  school 
through  lack  of  interest,  and  of  Sarah, 
who  plans  to  stop  because  of  lack  of  suit- 
able clothes  to  wear  to  school;  work- 
ing with  the  president  of  the  girls' 
league  on  plans  for  the  approaching 
mother-daughter  banquet ;  interviewing 
Clarice  relative  to  the  cause  of  her  fail- 
ure in  two  subjects  during  the  past  re- 
port period ;  conferring  with  Lula  about 
the  college  she  plans  to  enter,  and  the 
courses  she  should  select  in  high  school 
to  prepare  her  for  it ;  making  a  talk  to 
the  woman's  club  on  the  subject  "Our 
High  School  Girls  ^ — all  these  are  a  part 
of  the  day's  work  of  the  dean  of  girls 
in  any  high  school. 

You  see,  therefore,  that  while  to  some 
persons  this  tackling  of  an  unending 
series  of  varying  problems  might  seem 
unattractive,  yet  to  the  woman  inter- 
ested in  girls  as  real  living  personali- 
ties each  item  of  the  day's  work  is  a 
challenge,  and  the  solution  of  each  prob- 
lem is  a  satisfaction. 

The  chief  purpose  of  the  dean  of  girls 
is  the  best  all-round  development  of  each 
girl.  Her  work  does  not  take  the  place 
of  the  work  of  any  teacher  of  subjects, 
but  adds  to  it,  and  unifies  many  activi- 
ties for  which  the  regular  teachers  have 
no  time.     With  their  assistance  she  or- 


ganizes and  directs  much  of  the  char- 
acter education  of  the  school,  plans  and 
supervises  school-wide  activities,  fur- 
nishes opportunities  for  the  development 
of  good  moral  and  social  standards,  and 
considers  the  problems  of  individuals 
and  thinks  through  with  each  girl  to 
decisions  which  may  bring  better  condi- 
tions. 

Parents  feel  the  need  of  some  one  who 
has  time  to  listen  to  explanations  of 
tjieir  children's  problems,  and  who  is 
capable  of  offering  suggestions  for  solv- 
ing them.  Principals  feel  that  they 
need  some  woman  in  the  school  who  can 
"represent  officially  the  girls  of  the 
school,  coordinating  their  various  aca- 
demic and  social  interests,  acting  as 
their  spokesman  and  leader,  supplying 
a  constant  factor  in  the  changing  stu- 
dent group,  and  serving  as  counselor  to 
groups  and  individuals."  Teachers  ap- 
preciate having  some  one  "in  the  office" 
who  can  help  them  to  settle  a  knotty 
problem  of  discipline  or  to  straighten  a 
tangled  situation.  Students  themselves, 
if  they  feel  that  the  dean  is  sympathetic, 
fair,  and  ready  to  advise,  recognize  her 
as  a  necessary  part  of  the  school  organ- 
ization, and  keep  her  so  busy  with  the 
consideration  of  their  individual  prob- 
lems that  her  time  is  well-nigh  filled 
with  them  alone. 

While  the  acting  as  a  friendly  guide 
to  the  problem  girl  is  one  of  her  most 
time-consuming  tasks,  it  is  not  by  any 
means  the  only  important  one.  The 
great  mass  of  girls  in  high  school  never 
appear  as  problems,  but  they  should  not 
therefore  be  neglected.  The  direction  of 
their  social  activities  through  clubs  and 
other     extra-curricular     activities    may 


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make  them  happier  and  lead  them  to 
practice  cooperation  and  fair  play. 

The  organization  of  the  health  pro- 
gram of  the  school  is  often  one  of  the 
dean's  most  interesting  tasks,  and  one 
from  which  results  are  most  easily  seen. 
The  dean  has  the  opportunity  of  work- 
ing with  the  physical  education  director 
and  the  school  doctor  and  nurse,  and  of 
planning  with  them  for  the  best  pos- 
sible physical  development  of  each  girl. 
Through  her  personal  contact  with  each 
girl  she  is  able  to  point  out  those  who 
need  special  advice  and  guidance  along 
health  lines,  and  to  consult  with  the 
parent  as  well  as  the  school  physician  as 
to  physical  defects  and  their  correction. 

Making  new-comers  feel  at  home  in 
the  midst  of  the  strangeness  of  a  new 
situation  may  seem  a  minor  task,  yet  it 
is  one  which  is  by  no  means  insignifi- 
cant. The  organization  of  groups  of 
Big  Sisters  to  help  in  this  work  is  often 
a  most  effective  plan. 

Keeping  girls  in  school  when  they 
would  otherwise  be  dropped  from  the 
enrollment  is  one  way  in  which  the  dean 
of  girls  may  almost  "earn  her  own  sal- 
ary" for  the  school  board.  Obtaining 
part-time  work  or  financial  assistance  for 
those  students  who  need  it,  encouraging 
those  who  are  ready  to  drop  by  the  way- 
side for  various  reasons,  adjusting 
schedules  which  may  prove  too  heavy, 
advising  change  of  course  where  such  is 
needed — all  these  methods  help  to  hold 
girls  who  would  otherwise  be  lost  to  the 
school. 

The  majority  of  the  high  schools  of 
North  Carolina  do  not  yet  employ  deans 
of  boys,  and  so  in  many  schools  the  dean 
of  girls  performs  many  of  these  same 
duties  for  the  "hoys  of  the  school,  sharing 
this  duty  with  the  principal.  Also,  it  is 
interesting  to  note  that  in  the  larger 
number  of  schools  the  position  has  grad- 
ually developed  from  that  of  a  regular 
teacher  with  one  period  free  to  do  advis- 
ory work,  to  that  of  a  fulltime  dean  with 
duties  that  have  "grown  up"  with  the 
position  in  that  particular  situation.  No 
two  deans  have  duties  which  entirelv  co- 


incide, since  no  two  situations  are  iden- 
tical. 

Being  a  dean  of  girls  in  a  modem 
high  school  means  carrying  a  real  load 
of  responsibility,  but  to  a  woman  who 
loves  girls,  who  believes  in  them,  and 
enjoys  working  with  them,  it  is  the  most 
interesting  work  po.ssible  and  brings 
with  it  enormous  dividends  of  satisfac- 
tion in  the  doing  thereof. 

r<;^ 


An  Open  Letter — Impres- 
sions of  the  April 
Seminar 

MY  visit  to  the  college  during  the 
Spring  Seminar  on  Child  Psy- 
chology, April  11  and  12,  was  filled  with 
so  many  pleasant  impressions  that  I  feel 
I  must  write  about  them  so  that  the  girls 
who  were  not  there  might  perhaps  get 
an  idea  of  some  of  the  things  they 
missed. 

The  first  distinct  surprise  that  came 
to  me — and  a  most  agreeable  one.  too — 
was  the  beautiful  new  bridge  spanning 
Walker  Avenue.  It  is  constructed  of 
light  gray  concrete,  reinforced,  and  is 
very  graceful  in  design.  The  sides  of 
the  bridge  on  the  upper  level  are  finished 
with  attractive  hand  rails ;  the  reach  of 
the  under-span  is  higher  than  that  of 
the  old  one,  giving  room  for  the  tallest 
of  vehicles  to  pass  with  safety.  Kose 
vines  were  already  trailing  and  ram- 
bling down  the  sides  of  the  bridge  and 
over  the  embankments ;  one  can  imagine 
how  colorful  and  artistic  the  whole  ap- 
pearance will  be  when  the  roses  are  in 
bloom  a  little  later. 

The  old  campus  bell,  which  always 
stood  near  the  bridge,  has  been  moved 
nearer  to  Woman's  Building,  and  is 
rung  only  in  the  morning!  The  warm 
balmy  air  had  brought  out  leaves  and 
blossoms  here  and  there  on  the  shrub- 
bery, so  that  the  whole  campus  looked 
beautiful. 


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Another  surprise  I  had  was  to  find 
that  breakfast  is  served  cafeteria  style 
at  any  time  between  7  :15  and  8 :30  a.m. 
This  gives  the  girls  who  do  not  have 
very  early  classes  an  opportunity  to 
snatch  the  coveted  few  minutes  of  extra 
sleep ! 

Another  surprise  that  came  to  me  was 
the  discovery  that  there  is  a  telephone 
in  every  building  which  the  girls  have 
the  privilege  of  using  when  they  like. 
Pay  stations  are  also  within  easy  reach, 
so  that  students  may  use  long  distance 
telephones  without  having  to  go  to  one 
of  the  central  offices. 

Much  better  facilities  for  entertain- 
ing company  exist  now  than  formerly, 
since  there  is  a  charmingly  furnished 
sitting  room  in  every  residence  hall. 

South  Dining  Hall,  where  our  first 
dinner  and  lecture  were  given,  is  one 
of  three  similar  halls,  extending  fan- 
shape  from  the  central  serving  station 
at  the  rear- of  Spencer  Dining  Hall.  The 
walls  are  finished  in  a  soft  green  gray; 
the  draperies  at  the  windows  are  like- 
wise gray  with  rose  trimmings ;  the 
chairs,  also  gray,  are  decorated  with 
rose.  ^ 

The  lectures  we  heard  at  the  Seminar 
were  excellently  prepared  and  most  de- 
lightfully given.  Intense  interest  was 
shown  throughout  the  entire  session,  as 
was  evidenced  by  the  eagerness  with 
which  the  large  number  present  entered 
into  the  discussions.  One  of  the  most 
noticeable  features  about  the  Seminar 
was  this,  that  it  was  really  planned  by 
the  alumnae  and  given  to  the  alumnae. 
Very  few  others — teachers  and  students 
at  the  college—were  in  attendance  at 
any  of  the  meetings.  The  lecturers  con- 
gratulated us,  the  alumnae,  on  what  we 
were  doing;  and  it  gave  me  a  feeling  of 
pardonable  importance  to  see  that  the 
college  people  thought  of  this  as  our 
meeting — the  alumnae's,  and  not  some- 
thing "of  the  college,  and  given  to  us 
by  the  college." 

The  alumnae  who  attended  represented 
practically  every  class  and  all  age  levels. 


This  present  day  is  certainly  kind  to  us 
who  are  getting  older  in  years.  It  used 
to  be  that  as  we  grew  apace,  we  put  on 
somber  colors,  slicked  back  our  hair  and 
assumed  a  wisely  matured  air.  But  now, 
behold !  colorful  becoming  frocks,  beauti- 
fully waved  hair,  the  charm  of  happy 
expressions,  turn  the  thought  of  passing 
years  into  the  background.  And  so  to 
me  many  of  the  faculty  whom  I  saw 
really  appeared  younger  than  they  did 
fifteen  years  ago  when  I  sat  in  their 
classes  and  learned  at  their  feet. 

We  alumnae  had  rooms  together  in 
Anna  Howard  Shaw,  which  the  girls  had 
vacated  for  our  accommodation.  I  feel 
that  we  owe  them  a  special  expression  of 
thanks  for  this  courtesy.  We  also  feel 
toward  our  college  for  its  generous  care 
of  us  a  deep  sense  of  gratitude.  From 
now  on  I  shall  be  a  strong  booster  of  the 
Alumnae  Week-end  Seminars,  and  be- 
lieve that  they  will  be  interesting  no 
matter  what  subject  may  be  chosen  for 
study  and  discussion. 
Sincerely  yours, 

Genevieve  Moore,  1916. 

— ^^ 


Margaret  W.  Lawrence,  M.  D. 

(Class  of  1920) 


H 


eavens,"  groaned  a  member  of  the 
Class  of  1920,  "how  can  we  ever 
call  her  'Doctor' — She's  our  everlasting 
president,  you  know!"  "We  just 
won't,"  came  the  reply,  "not  even  if 
she  cuts  out  our  appendix!"  This  con- 
versation might  have  been  overheard  at 
the  ten-year  reunion  which  the  1920 's 
had  on  June  7  at  Marjorie  Mendenhall's 
home  in  Greensboro  as  Margaret  was  ar- 
riving after  having  received  her  degree 
in  medicine  from  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons  at  Columbia  Uni- 
versity on  June  3.  Her  alma  mater,  her 
classmates,  and  college  friends  salute 
Margaret  Lawrence  for  the  idealism  and 
the  steadfast  zeal  which  has  led  her  thus 
far  on  her  way.  She  will  be  interne  next 


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year  at  Mary  Fletcher  Hospital,  Burl- 
ington, Vermont. 

The  years  since  Margaret  left  the  col- 
lege after  graduation  have  been 
crowded,     fruitful     ones— and     happy. 


Margaret  W.  Lawrence 

After  two  months  of  that  first  summer 
as  assistant  in  the  inorganic  chemistry 
laboratory  at  Teachers  College,  she  spent 
the  two  years  following  as  technician 
in  the  laboratory  of  the  Equitable  As- 
surance Society  of  New  York,  studying 
bacteriology  at  night,  and  devoting 
much  of  her  spare  time  to  work  in  the 
private  laboratory  of  Mr.  Wolfe,  direc- 
tor of  the  Equitable  laboratory.  In  the 
fall  of  1922  she  entered  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, receiving  her  M.A.  degree  in 
bacteriology  the  following  June — all 
the  while  doing  part-time  work  in  the 
director's  private  laboratory  to  help 
with  expenses.  Back  again  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1923  with  Equitable,  plus  her 
M.A.,  a  considerably  increased  salary, 
and  the  rank  of  first  assistant.  Again 
the  spare  time  work  in  the  private  lab. 
But  her  old  desire  to  study  medicine 
would  not  be  silenced,  so  she  resigned  in 
the   summer   of   192.5   to   enter   medical 


school  that  fall.  To  her  ^eat  disap- 
])ointment  she  could  not  be  received 
iKilil  tin;  fall  of  1926.  In  the  meantime 
two  pleasant  things  happened — several 
months  at  home  in  North  Carolina,  and 
in  January  a  perfectly  thrilling  new  job 
with  the  .Sheffield  Farms,  installing  and 
I)utting  into  operation  a  clinical  labora- 
tory to  give  periodic  clinical  te.st  to  all 
people  who  handle  their  certified  milk 
products;  besides — very  much  besides — 
a  first  assistantship  in  their  largest  and 
central  laboratory.  But  September,  1926, 
came  at  length  and  with  it  the  long- 
hoped-for  opportunity.  Margaret  Law- 
rence was  at  last  enrolled  as  a  bona  fide 
student  in  the  medical  school  of  Colum- 
bia University. 

"From  then  on,"  she  .says,  "until 
now,  it  has  been  one  long  steady  unre- 
mitting effort — no  outside  Avork,  of 
course."  This  last  year  she  was  granted 
a  scholarship  from  Columbia,  with  this 
comment  from  the  associate  dean,  "be- 
cause of  the  serious  attitude  that  .she 
takes  toward  her  work  and  the  promise 
she  gives  of  becoming  a  really  useful 
member  of  the  medical  profession." 
"But  never  think  it  has  been  all  work^ 
no  indeed!  I  joined  the  Adirondack 
Mountain  Club  in  New  York,  and  as 
the  name  implies  we  do  a  lot  of  travel- 
ing on  foot — 'going  places  and  seeing 
things'."  She  is  also  a  member  of  the 
American  Women's  Association  and  had 
a  lot  of  fun  trying  to  sell  stock  to  buQd 
their  new  club  house.  (By  the  Avay.  she 
invites  us  all  to  stop  there  when  we  go 
to  New  York.)  She  is  a  member  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society,  the  Ameri- 
can Society  for  the  Advancement  of 
Science,  and  belongs  to  the  Iota  Chapter 
of  Zeta  Phi,  the  women's  medical  fra- 
ternity at  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  and  held  office  as  secretary 
and  vice  president  of  the  chapter. 

Congratulations.  Doctor  Margaret, 
and  "bon  vovasre""  forever! 


More  About  Books 


J.  Ramsay  MacDonald,  Labor's  Man  of  Des- 
tiny. By  H.  Hessell  Tiltman.  New  York: 
Frederick  A.  Stokes  Co.,    1929.    456  pp.  $5. 

FOR  the  interwoven  story  of  the  British 
Labor  Party  and  its  recognized  chief- 
tain, James  Ramsay  MacDonald,  read 
this  recent  biography  of  England's  great 
commoner  and  contemporary  states- 
man of  world  afiPairs.  It  is  not  a  critical 
or  philosophical  study,  bnt  it  is  the 
fullest  and  most  authentic  record  of  the 
labor  premier's  public  words  and  acts 
yet  available.  The  author  quotes  pas- 
sages from  Mr.  MacDonald 's  addresses 
throughout  the  chapters  of  the  book,  and 
in  the  appendixes,  MacDonald 's  key 
speeches  from  1899-1929  are  given  in 
full  as  direct  evidence  of  his  main  ideas 
and  policies.  The  story  is  full  of  human 
interest  and  the  drama  of  struggle,  with 
alternating  defeat  and  triumph. 

London  slums  confirmed  MacDonald 's 
opinion  that  society  must  be  changed. 
He  saw  too  much  luxury  at  one  end  of 
the  social  scale,  and  too  much  poverty 
at  the  other.  William  Morris,  Keir 
Hardie,  George  Bernard  Shaw,  and 
others  were  thinking  along  the  same 
lines,  and  eventually  all  these  pioneers 
came  together  in  the  task  of  fashioning 
the  British  Labor  Party.  To  MacDon- 
ald, politics  did  not  mean  keeping  in 
touch  with  the  questions  of  the  day  only, 
or  questions  likely  to  win  votes.  It 
meant  education  in  statesmanship  in  the 
widest  sense  of  the  word.  He  projected 
his  thinking  ahead  of  his  associates,  and 
when  the  Labor  Representation  Commit- 
tee came  into  existence,  he  had  already 
mapped  out  a  program  for  the  first 
Labor  Government.  Always  he  has 
viewed  progress  as  a  scientific  progres- 
sion rather  than  revolution  or  a  "series 
of  hops  and  jumps. ' ' 

For  his  pacifist  viewpoint  during  the 
World  War  he  suffered  misunderstand- 
ing, persecution,  and  hate.  The  country's 


"campaign  of  hate"  against  him  was 
climaxed  in  his  overwhelming  defeat  for 
the  House  of  Commons  in  1918.  It  is  a 
tribute  to  his  sincerity,  power  of  intel- 
lect, and  unfailing  energy  that  following 
such  unpopularity,  he  gradually  re- 
gained the  friendship  of  the  rank  and 
file  of  his  party.  So  much  of  what  he 
prophesied  in  war  daj^s  had  come  true ! 
In  1922  the  pendulum  swung  back  in 
his  favor,  and  the  former  "exile"  won 
the  election  with  a  large  margin.  Within 
another  year  the  country  woke  up  to 
find  a  Labor  Government  in  office,  with 
Ramsay  MacDonald  filling  the  two  great- 
est offices  in  the  state. 

In  his  last  chapter  on  "MacDonald 
the  Man,"  Tiltman  admits  MacDonald 's 
tendency  to  aloofness  at  times,  and  his 
dislilie  of  criticism.  But  he  likewise 
points  out  the  statesman's  strength 
which  is  composite  of  intellect,  sincerity, 
tenacity,  energy,  and  self-control.  He 
loves  books,  has  traveled  widely,  and  is 
that  rare  combination  of  a  scholar  who 
shines  as  a  man  of  action.  He  has  a  keen 
and  cultivated  appreciation  of  beauty, 
whether  of  nature  or  art.  He  has  the 
power  of  sympathetic  imagination 
through  which  he  makes  the  sorrows  and 
labors  and  joys  of  other  men  and  women 
his  own.  He  believes  in  each  genera- 
tion's being  faithful  to  the  urge  of  its 
own  vision  and  making  its  own  contri- 
bution to  the  ' '  well-being  and  happiness 
and  holiness  of  human  life." 

Tiltman  says :  ' '  He  has  stripped  his 
faith  of  all  time-limits,  and  this  enables 
him  to  work  for  the  coming  generations 
as  joyfully  and  as  confidently  as  for  the 
day  after  tomorrow.  Every  great  task 
he  sees  in  the  light  of  neither  success 
nor  rebuff,  but  as  one  more  step  along 
'the  pilgrim  road,  which,  mounting  up 
over  the  hills  and  'beyond  the  horizon, 
winds  upwards  towards  the  ideal'." 


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29 


Margaret  Ethel  MacDonald.  Hy  J.  lianisay 
Mac  Don  aid.  New  York:  Thomas  Seltzer. 
1924.    239  pp. 

RAMSAY  MacDonald 's  biographer 
specifies  two  great  factors  which 
partially  explain  the  secret  of  the  British 
statesman 's  power  and  persistence 
through  the  sixty-three  years  of  his  life : 
namely,  his  Scotch  ancestry,  and  the 
sympathetic  understanding  and  com- 
radeship of  his  wife,  Margaret  Glad- 
stone MacDonald.  Without  her  affection 
and  encouragement,  Ramsay  MacDonald 
Avould  no  doubt  have  made  his  mark  in 
history,  but  she  exerted  a  softening, 
mellowing  influence  on  his  stern,  reserved 
nature  which  made  life  new  and  rich  for 
both.  Their  comradeship  in  work  and 
play — at  home,  in  public  service,  in  the 
out-of-doors  which  they  loved,  or  in 
their  world  travels — portray  a  relation- 
ship heartening  and  refreshing  in  the 
rush  and  tangle  of  modern  living.  The 
public  activities  of  both  often  called  for 
the  sacrifice  of  each  other's  time  and 
presence,  but  in  Spartan-like  spirit,  that 
was  a  part  of  their  contribution  to  the 
cause  of  social  betterment. 

Shortly  before  she  died,  Mrs.  MacDon- 
ald asked  her  husband  to  go  into  the 
adjoining  room  and  begin  to  write  down 
the  story  of  their  life  together.  Mar- 
garet Ethel  MacDonald  is  the  fulfillment 
of  that  request.  It  is  a  love  story,  beauti- 
fully and  delicately  told,  by  a  devoted 
husband ;  but  it  is  more  than  that.  The 
unfolding  story  of  Margaret  MacDon- 
ald's  life  is  worthy  of  the  interest  of 
students  of  religion,  sociology,  eco- 
nomics, and  the  woman's  movement.    It 


is  a  revelation  of  the  douhts  and  prob- 
lems faced  by  a  young  girl  of  wealth, 
l(!isure,  and  i>romineri1,  f'aniilw  from 
whose  shelter  she  need  never  have 
stirred  had  she  not  heard  the  larger 
call  of  humanity.  Step  by  ste[>.  pain- 
fully but  surely,  she  made  the  transi- 
tion from  her  orthodox  religioas  and 
social  service  views  to  the  embracing  of 
a  religious  faith  and  social  passion  ade- 
quate for  the  world  of  reality  in  which 
she  lived. 

It  seems  incredible  that  as  wife  and 
home-maker  and  mother  of  five  children, 
she  could  accomplish  so  much  in  public 
service  after  her  marriage  in  1896.  But 
it  was  her  creed  that  marriage  should 
not  mean  a  withdrawal  from  political 
activity,  but  rather  an  extension  of  it. 
So  their  home  became  a  workshop  of 
social  plan  and  effort,  a  mixture  of 
' '  blue-books  and  babies. ' '  It  was  a  center 
for  Socialist  gatherings,  the  scene  of 
delightfully  informal  "at  homes,"  and 
the  meeting  place  of  friends  from  dis- 
tant countries.  Beyond  the  bounds  of 
her  home,  she  was  a  pioneer  and  tireless 
worker  for  social  legislation  and  reform 
affecting  the  welfare  of  women  and  chil- 
dren.    It    was    for    humanity    that    she 

lived. 

*         *         * 

The  search  for  one  of  these  "MacDon- 
ald" books  led  to  the  discovery  of  the 
other.  The  reading  of  both  together  has 
been  like  a  spring  tonic — an  equally 
good  one,  I  believe,  for  summer  or  fall! 
Margaret  Shepard. 
(General  Secretary  Y.W.C.A.) 


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Up  and  Down  the  Avenue 


As  A  PRECURSOR  for  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  an 
honor  society  was  formed  on  the  campus 
just  before  commencement.  Membership  in 
the  society  is  based  entirely  on  scholastic 
standing,  students  who  average  a  two  and 
who  make  no  grade  lower  than  three  for 
five  semesters  illustrating  the  conditions. 
Twila    Mae    Darden    was    chairman    of    the 


committee  which  worked  out  the  plans.  Stu- 
dents from  the  senior  class  admitted  this 
year  were  Aileen  Aderholt,  Vera  Buckingham. 
Twila  Mae  Darden,  Matilda  Etheridge, 
Helen  Felder,  Charlesanna  Fox,  Lucy  Martin. 
Evelyn  Mebane,  Ophelia  Matthews.  Glenn 
Bovd  McLeod,  Mattie-Moore  Taylor,  Kath- 
leen   Walters,    Mary    Walker,    Edith    Webb: 


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■THE     ALUMNAE     [I\C  E  W  S 


from  the  Junior  Class,  Louise  Hatch,  Vir- 
ginia Kelly,  Fleeta  Martin,  Charlotte  Pur- 
cell,  Helen  Seifert,  Mary  Jane  Wharton. 

We  are  indebted  to  Flossie  A.  Byrd  for 
the  stenographic  report  and  transcript  of 
Dr.  Jones '  vesper  message  published  in  this 
number  of  the  News. 

^c  jjc  >i< 

The  chapel  and  lecture  committees  are 
uniting  their  work  next  year,  to  the  end  that 
lecturers  formerly  brought  to  the  college  for 
only  one  evening  appearance  may  be  heard 
at  chapel  in  addition,  or  even  spend  two  or 
three  days  on  the  campus  with  the  depart- 
ment with  which  they  are  identified. 
>K  ^  ^ 

Lorado  Taft,  eminent  American  sculptor, 
brought  the  lecture  series  to  a  close  this  year 
with  an  illustrated  talk  on  "American  Sculp- 
ture and  Sculptors, ' '  given  in  Ayeock  Audi- 
torium  in   May. 

^  ^  ^ 

Jacques  Gordon,  violinist,  was  the  last  of 
the  recitalists  to  appear  on  the  concert 
course. 

ijc  ^  ^ 

About  two  thousand  high  school  students 
took  part  in  the  state-wide  music  contest 
held  at  the  college  during  April.  Seventy- 
two  schools  sent  entrants,  after  the  district 
elimination  tests.  It  was  the  consensus  of 
opinion  that  the  high  school  contest  this  year 
surpassed  in  quality,  as  it  did  in  numbers, 
any  yet  held. 

^  ^  ^ 

Miss  Caroline  Sehoch,  head  of  the  depart- 
ment of  German,  and  Miss  Jessie  Laird, 
member  of  the  French  department,  are  abroad 
this  summer.  Miss  Sehoch  is  engaged  in 
translating  a  life  of  Byron  from  German  into 
English. 

^  ;{:  5js 

The  second  annual  school  for  coaches  held 
on  the  campus  began  on  May  29  and  con- 
tinued  to   June   7.    It   was   sponsored  by   the 


school  of  physical  education.  Instruction  was 
given  in  hockey,  baseball,  basketball,  swim- 
ming, tumbling,  track  and  field  sports,  and 
mass  recreational  games. 

"Outlines  of  English  Literature"  is  the 
title  of  a  new  textbook  recently  published  by 
D.  C.  Heath  &  Company.  The  authors  are 
A.  C.  Hall  and  L.  B.  Hurley,  members  of  the 
English  department  of  the  college.  The  book 
includes  a  comprehensive  survey  of  English 
literature  from  the  days  of  "Beowulf"  to 
the  present,  and  is  designed  for  undergradu- 
ate and  graduate  review,  as  well  as  for  the 
general  reader. 

Mrs.  Chase  Going  Woodhouse,  voeational 
director,  was  one  of  the  speakers  at  the 
North  Carolina  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs, 
meeting  at  Pinehurst  during  May.  She  dis- 
cussed the  problem  of  taxation.  Mrs.  Wood- 
house  is  spending  the  summer  lecturing  on 
problems  of  vocational  guidance  in  three 
western  universities.  This  work  will  take 
her  as  far  west  as  Oregon. 

5|c  >j;  ;jc 

The  Atlanta  Alumnae  Club  will  be  very 
happy  to  assist  any  of  the  alumnae  who  plan 
to  come  to  Atlanta  this  fall,  either  as  stu- 
dents or  as  new  residents,  in  securing  suit- 
able rooms  or  finding  comfortable  places  in 
which  to  live.  If  there  are  any  services  at 
all  you  think  this  club  could  render  you, 
communicate  with  Mrs.  J.  D.  Lawrence,  123 
Wilton  Drive,  or  Mrs.  W.  H.  Weir,  945  Rup- 
ley   Drive. 


Classes  which  iviJl  have  reunions 
next  year:  1898,  1899,  1900,  1901; 
1906  (twenty-five  year)  ;  1917, 
1918,  1919,  1920;  1921  (ten  year)  ; 
1929,  1930. 


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AfFairs  of  the  Local  Clubs  and  Associations 


ATLANTA  ALUMNAE  CLUB 

MEETING  SIX:  On  the  afternoon  of  May  30 
the  Atlanta  Alumnae  Club  motored  to 
the  lovely  Mimosa  Hall,  Roswell,  Ga.,  to 
attend  a  tea  honoring  the  library  girls, 
Martha  Wright,  Betty  Ehringhaus,  Beatrice 
McCracken,  and  Helene  Griffin,  and  Janet 
Harris,  teacher  of  French  in  the  high  school, 
all  of  whom  are  leaving  Atlanta.    The  alum- 


nae were  seated  in  the  large  dining-room  at 
beautiful  antique  tables,  where  tea  was 
served  to  Mesdames  J.  D.  Lawrence,  Walton 
Avery,  M.  T.  E'dgerton,  Joseph  Eankin,  W.  H. 
Weir,  Jonas  B.  Bost,  J.  P.  Cannon,  Henry  E. 
Donaldson,  E.  V.  Cates,  H.  A.  Lilly,  and  Janet 
Harris,  Helene  Griffin,  Beatrice  McCracken, 
Betty  Ehringhaus,  Martha  Wright.  Janet 
Harris  was  presented  with  a  pretty  handker- 


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chief  case  containing  handkerchiefs  from  the 
alumnae  and  a  poem  of  John  Charles  Mc- 
Neil's, "The  Bride,"  sent  by  Clara  Byrd. 
After  tea  we  enjoyed  a  walk  in  the  Mimosa 
flower  gardens  and  a  visit  to  the  nearby 
Bullock  Hall  where  Theodore  Roosevelt's 
mother  lived  and  was  married.  Then,  good- 
byes were  said  until  the  next  meeting  in  the 

*^1^-  Eva  Sink  Weir. 

HAYWOOD  COUNTY  ASSOCIATION 

THE  Haywood  alumnae  had  their  second  meet- 
ing of  the  year  the  last  Saturday  after- 
noon in  March,  at  the  home  of  our  chairman, 
Grace  Albright  Stamey  (Mrs.  M,  G.),  with 
Mrs.  Stamey  presiding.  We  heard  first  hand 
from  Grace  about  the  alumnae  seminar  held 
at  the  college  in  the  fall  on  "Our  Times," 
and  by  her  interesting  report  were  made 
eager  to  attend  the  seminar  on  Child  Psy- 
chology in  April.  An  "alumnae  quiz,"  in 
which  a  number  of  us  took  part,  disclosed 
many  interesting  events  and  happenings  at 
the  college.  The  songs  on  the  song  sheet  sent 
from  the  alumnae  office  were  sung  with  the 
spirit  and  the  zeal  of  true  North  Carolina 
College  daughters.  Our  college  program  was 
concluded  by  the  serving  of  dainty  refresh- 
ments, and  the  happy  acceptance  of  the  invi- 
tation of  Annie  Gudger  Quinlan  to  hold  our 
summer  meeting  at  her  lodge  on  Pigeon  Eiver. 

NORFOLK-PORTSMOUTH  ALUMNAE 
CLUB 

MEETING  SEVEN:  Despite  the  leaden  skies  and 
the  down-pouring  rain,  prompted  by  that 
invisible  force  which  draws  all  loyal  North 
Carolina  College  daughters  together  when 
opportunity  permits,  we  gathered  on  March  7, 
at  the  home  of  Janette  Tatem  Thompson 
(Mrs.  W.  H.),  who  was  our  hostess,  to  hear 
what  Annie  Wall  Baldwin  Harman  (Mrs.  C. 
G.)  had  to  tell  us  about  Andrew  Johnson. 
This  was  our  first  meeting  with  our  study 
course  feature — a  study  of  North  Carolina, 
made  through  biography,  beginning  with  the 
reconstruction  period.  Mrs.  Harman  gave  us 
an  intimate  and  interesting  view  of  President 
Johnson's  early  life.  We  enjoyed  what  she 
had  to  say.  At  the  close  of  the  meeting  our 
hostess  led  the  way  to  the  tea  table  in  the 
dining  room,  where  we  were  served  tea, 
wafers,  and  mints,  and  chatted  with  one  an- 
other. 


MKK'iiNG  EIGHT :  Lt>t\.i(i  and  Jennio  F^a^lc 
were  hostosHcs  to  the  club  in  April.  This 
was  our  banner  meeting  for  attendance.  With 
Marie  Buys  Hardison  CMrs.  J.  G.),  we  re- 
viewed the  political  career  of  Andrew  John- 
son. By  now  we  were  able  to  pronounce  the 
name  of  the  great  man  and  statesman  with 
pride;  whereas  formerly,  we  had  spoken  of 
him  with  apology.  We  are  grateful  for  Judge 
Winston's  book,  which  has  brought  such  new 
light  to  bear  upon  this  fascinating  character. 
At  the  conclusion  of  the  jjrogram  we  enjoyed 
tea,  dainty  cookies,  and  mints,  concluding 
with  singing  two  verses  of  the  "Old  North 
State. ' ' 

MEETING  NINE:  Marie  Richards  Fluker  (Mrs. 
W.  E.)  was  hostess  to  the  Club  in  May. 
We  had  expected  a  review  of --the  last  years 
of  the  political  career  of  President  Johnson, 
but  in  the  absence  of  the  speaker,  Lottie 
Eagle  read  from  an  old  North  Carolina 
Journal  of  Education  a  description  of  Gov- 
ernor Tryon's  mansion  in  New  Bern.  Only  a 
portion  of  one  wing  of  the  once  splendid  edi- 
fice, which  cost  seventy-five  thousand  dollars, 
now  remains.  With  loyal  hearts  we  sang  two 
verses  of  the  "Old  North  State"  and  a 
stanza  of  the  college  song.  A  delicious  ice 
course   brought  the  meeting  to   a   close. 

MEETING  TEN:  This  meeting  is  scheduled  to 
be  held  the  first  Saturday  in  June,  with 
Ethel  Wicker  as  hostess.  We  plan  to  have 
Brooks  Johnson,  class  of  1926,  now  home 
after  two  years  of  study  of  art  in  Paris,  to 
talk  to  us  on  some  phase  of  art.  This  will 
be  our  last  meeting  until  next  September, 
when  we  plan  to  continue  our  study  program 
and  also  add  some  particular  work  as  our 
goal.  We  keep  in  close  touch  with  our  alma 
mater  through  the  Alumnae  News  and  our 
alumnae  secretary.  We  wish  we  might  be  at 
commencement  in  a  body. 

Lottie  Eagle.  Secretary. 

RICHMOND   (VA.)  ALUMNAE  CLUB 

THE  Richmond  alumnae  met  at  the  home  of 
the  president,  Hattie  Lee  Horton  Stall 
(Mrs.  B.  G.)  on  Friday  evening,  May  16.  "Re- 
cent College  News ' '  was  the  chief  thing  on  the 
program,  including  the  singing  of  college 
songs.  Miss  Moore,  the  college  registrar,  was 
visiting  in  Richmond  at  that  time  and  we 
were  glad  to  have  her  as  a  guest  on  this  occa- 
sion. We  regretted  we  could  not  be  present 
for  the  Spring  Seminar  on  Child  Psychology. 


Among  the  Alumnae 


Tlie  Alumnae  News  wishes  it  could  share 
with  you  the  attractive  kodak  pictures  which 
came  our  way  from  Willard  Goforth  Eybers 
(Mrs.  Eben),  Bloemfontein,  South  Africa.  We 
should  like  for  you  to  see  her  lovely  rambling 
house,  with  the  flower-bordered  paths  and  the 
lily  pool  on  the  lawn;  as  well  as  the  two 
children  bathing  in  the  surf  during  December! 
Willard  has  lived  for  several  years  in  Bloem- 
fontein, where  Dr.  Eybers  is  professor  of 
education  at  Grey  University  College.  STie 
was  recently  chosen  by  the  federated  wo- 
men's organizations  of  Bloemfontein,  to- 
gether with  one  other  woman,  as  their  candi- 
date for  election  on  the  Town  Council,  and 
had  the  very  thrilling  experience  of  running 
for  public  office.  The  women  did  not  win  the 
election,  but  gained  invaluable  experience  in 
public  affairs,  even  though  in  so  doing  they 
lost  some  of  their  illusions,  and  gave  their 
opponents  a  very  exciting  campaign.  Mrs. 
Eybers,  incidentally,  has  many  interests. 
After  leaving  our  college,  she  graduated 
from  Columbia  University,  going  with  her 
husband  immediately  to  South  Africa.  Here 
she  became  actively  associated  with  child 
welfare  work,  and  served  as  secretary  of  her 
local  society.  She  is  also  a  committee  member 
of  the  Women's  Enfranchisement  and  Civic 
Association,  and  an  active  member  of  the 
National  Council  of  Women,  of  which  she  is 
local  secretary.  She  is  also  identified  with 
the  Council  of  the  Industrial  School,  Tempe. 
About  two  years  ago,  she  and  her  husband 
and  two  children  made  a  tour  around  the 
world,  including  America,  North  Carolina,  and 
the  college. 

To  go  back  to  the  municipal  campaign,  per- 
haps the  alumnae  would  be  interested  to 
know  some  of  the  issues  involved  in  this 
South  African  city,  and  we  are  quoting  here 
from  an  interview  given  by  Mrs.  Eybers 
during  the  contest  to  one  of  the  Bloemfontein 
papers: 

"Briefly  enumerating  the  improvements  she 
would  strive  to  have  introduced,  if  returned, 
Mrs.  Eybers  said  a  more  effective  scheme  for 
regulating  and  controlling  the  production 
and  delivery  of  milk  should  be  initiated  so 
as  to  insure  a  purer  supply.  More  efficient 
control  of  the  children's  playgrounds  should 
be  exercised  and  the  recreation  facilities  in- 
creased. In  this  connection  she  believed  that 
the  poorer  class  of  child  was  not  adequately 
cared  for,  and  she  thought  a  scheme  whereby 
indigent  children  of  about  six,teen  years 
could  be  employed  after  school  hours  to  con- 
trol the  playgrounds   should  be   investigated. 


The  interests  of  children  did  not  receive  due 
consideration  at  the  municipal  baths,  where 
the  time  permitted  the  juniors  for  swimming 
was  restricted.  She  was  also  interested  in 
better  facilities  being  accorded  the  local 
schools,  and  would  like  to  see  a  more  sympa- 
thetic attitude  adopted  towards  their  de- 
mands. 

' '  Questioned  in  connection  with  local  hous- 
ing conditions,  Mrs.  Eybers  inclined  to  the 
view  that  women  should  be  consulted  when- 
ever a  housing  scheme  was  to  be  adopted, 
as  they  have  a  more  intimate  knowledge  of 
domestic  requirements.  Improvements  could 
be  effected  in  both  the  houses  and  the  hous- 
ing schemes  at  present  approved  of  by  the 
municipal  authorities.  She  strongly  opposed 
the  four-family  tenement  houses,  and  con- 
sidered the  bathroom  facilities  entirely  inade- 
quate. She  favoured  smaller  erven  for  the 
men  of  limited  means,  and  deprecated  the 
exorbitant  cost  of  building  which  so  ad- 
versely affected  any  initiative  on  the  part  of 
the  middle-salaried  man. 

' '  Mrs.  Eybers  thought  that  traffic  control 
was  too  lax  and  driving  unnecessarily  danger- 
ous. She  recommended  the  appointment  of  a 
welfare  officer  to  investigate  the  question  of 
juvenile  delinquency.  In  this  manner  a  cor- 
rective influence  could  be  exerted  which 
would  insure  the  prevention  of  evil  practices 
in  a  constructive  way. 

"Mrs.  Eybers  strongly  advocated  a  sympa- 
thetic attitude  towards  philanthropic  and 
social  work,  and  was  a  strong  protagonist  for 
the  health  and  cleanliness  of  the  city.  While 
appreciating  generally  the  system  upon  which 
affairs  were  conducted  at  the  market,  she 
complained  that  the  housewives  had  several 
minor  grievances  which  might  more  readily 
receive  the  attention  of  the  civic  heads  if  a 
woman  were  on  the  Council. 

"When  asked  how  she  viewed  the  contro- 
versy on  swimming  at  Mocke  's  Dam,  Mrs. 
Eybers  "countered  by  saying  that  while  she 
was  opposed  to  the  idea  on  aesthetic  grounds, 
she  nevertheless  considered  that  the  decision 
arrived  at  by  the  Town  Council  was  the 
correct    one. ' ' 

Ruth  Johnston  Embree  (Mrs.  R.  L.)  is  in 
North  Carolina  on  a  furlough  from  her  work 
in  West  Africa.  She  was  among  us  during 
commencement,  and  in  a  "three-minute  inter- 
view" at  the  assembly  meeting  on  Saturday 
morning  gave  us  an  insight  into  the  work 
she  is  doing  in  that  far  country.  Ruth,  by 
the  way,  is  the  proud  possessor  of  twins. 


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Cora  Moi'toii,  remembered  on  tlu'  cMinpiiH  an 
secretary  to  President  Foust  for  two  or  three 
years,  but  now  secretary  of  the  Cleveland 
School  of  Art,  is  abroad  this  summer  under 
very  happy  circumstances,  fe'hortly  before 
sailing  she  sent  this  "news  letter"  to  some 
of  her  friends:  "Knowing  that  I  shall  not 
find  time  in  which  to  write  many  personal 
letters  before  I  sail  for  Europe  and  wanting 
to  tell  you  of  my  plans  for  the  summer,  I  am 
asking  you  to  accept  a  mimeographed  com- 
munication. I  have  been  asked  to  chaperon 
a  fifteen-year-old  school  girl  to  Europe,  and 
we  are  booked  to  sail  on  the  S.S.  Aurania 
from  Montreal  on  the  morning  of  Friday, 
June  20.  We  arrive  at  Plymouth  June  28, 
and  go  by  boat  to  London.  After  a  week  in 
England,  we  visit  Belgium,  Holland,  Germany, 
Oberammergau,  Switzerland,  Italy  and 
France,  sailing  from  Cherbourg  on  S.S.  Beren- 
garia  August  16,  and  arriving  in  New  York 
August  22.  We  are  going  with  a  small  party, 
in  charge  of  Professor  Monroe,  of  Ohio  State 
University.  It  gives  me  considerable  com- 
fort to  know  that  two  doctors,  with  their 
wives,  are  in  our  party,  although  I  myself  do 
not  expect  to  be  even  seasick.  This  invita- 
tion dropping  out  of  the  blue  like  an  oriole 
in  May,  has  made  me  extremely  happy  in  the 
anticipation   of   another   trip   abroad. ' ' 

Delia  E.  Entemann  has  a  daughter,  Char- 
lotte, who  graduated  at  New  Jersey  College 
for  Women,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  on  June  7. 

This  missive  from  Katharine  Hoskins 
speaks  for  itself:  I  will  open  my  letter  with 
the  three  sweetest  words  in  any  language — 
"enclosed  find  check."  Among  the  many 
things  I  wish  for  is  the  wish  that  it  was 
much  bigger.  The  News  is  certainly  "excel- 
lent," and  I'm  sure  everyone  else  reads  it 
with  the  same  passionate  interest  I  do.  Like 
Lydia  Pinkham's  pills  "before  I  read  the 
News  I  am  pale,  listless,  and  have  no  interest 
in  life.  One  glimpse  of  the  wrapper  fills  me 
with  enthusiasm,  and  I  can  cheerfully  neglect 
a  full  day's  work  in  order  to  find  out  what's 
going  on."  Naturally  I  am  filled  with  con- 
ceit to  find  myself  mentioned  therein,  and 
can  exclaim  along  with  that  one  of  Dirkin's 
old  crones  who  pinched  herself  and  cried 
"Lawk 'a  mercy  on  us!    Can  this  be  I." 

Dorothy  Beckwith  Tyson  was  a  special  stu- 
dent at  George  Washington  University  last 
year,  studying  journalism.  She  was  planning 
to  spend  her  summer  in  Charlotte  with  her 
family. 

The  alumnae  office  is  glad  to  share  this 
letter  from  Naomi  Schell,  written  from 
Tobata,  Japan,  with  the  readers  of  the  News. 
As  will  be  recalled,  after  her  first  years  as  a 
student   at  the   college,   Naomi   spent   several 


ycMis  as  ii  niisHioiiary  in  Japan,  rfrtiirninj^  to 
the  oiMipuH  for  a  year  of  study,  and  winning 
her  A.Ji.  degree  with  the  graduating  cIuhh  of 
1928.  W(!  assure  her  of  our  ioving  interoHt  in 
her  and  the  devoted  work  she  iH  doing. 

Thank  you  for  the  Alumnae  Ncwh.  I  en- 
joyed it  immensely,  and  found  myHelf  almost 
envious  of  those  near  enough  to  take  advan- 
tage of  tliose  splendid  Seminars,  and  other 
extension  courses.  I  do  so  need  the  social 
psychology  which  I  was  unable  to  get  the 
year  I  was  on  the  campus.  But  that  is  only  a 
small  one  among  my  many  big  needs.  Thin 
business  of  being  a  missionary  calls  for  un- 
limited ability  to  understand  these  "ma- 
chines" called  human  beings,  and  the  power 
to  adjust  them  to  each  other  as  well  an  to 
God.  It  is  by  no  means  confined  to  the  senti- 
mental theorizing  which  some  people  still 
think  of  as  missions.  I  sometimes  look  at  the 
"Service"  on  my  class  ring,  and  almost 
tremble  to  think  what  a  stupendous  project 
in  service  I  have  undertaken.  But  then  I 
i-emember  Philippians  4:1.3,  and  close  upon 
that  follows  a  sense  of  gratitude  for  the 
preparation  gained  at  North  Carolina  College. 
I  wish  I  could  go  on  and  on  through  every 
course  in  psychology  and  sociology.  One  of 
my  latest  recreations  is  reading  Rauschen- 
busch  in  Japanese.  But  why  the  raving?  I 
meant  just  to  say  "thank  you,"  and  enclose 
these  checks,  in  the  attempt  to  straighten 
out  my  records  with  you.  The  one  will  com- 
plete the  j)ayment  of  my  Building  Fund 
pledge,  the  other  will  pay  alumnae  dues  for 
two  years;  both  together,  I  believe,  will  bring 
me  up  to  date.  It  is  hard  to  realize  that  two 
years  have  passed  since  I  left  the  college! 
Best  wishes  for  commencement  and  a  happy 
alumnae  reunion.  Naomi  Schell. 

Myrtle  Ellen  LaBarr  represented  several 
leading  newspapers  of  the  state  at  the  annual 
convention  of  the  North  Carolina  Federation 
of  Women's  Clubs,  held  in  Pinehurst  last 
spring. 

S'usie  Sharpe  is  practising  law  with  her 
father  in  Reidsville,  and  the  first  of  April 
argued  a  case  in  Ealeigh  before  the  Supreme 
Court. 

Muriel  Wolff  received  one  of  the  awards 
given  by  the  Playmakers  at  Chapel  Hill  for 
doing  work  of  specially  high  merit  in  the 
organization  last  year.  The  awards  were 
bestowed  at  the  annual  Playmaker  Caper,  an 
event  which  brings  to  a  close  the  work  of 
the  troupe  for  the  year.  Muriel  had  several 
important  parts  in  the  Playmakers '  produc- 
tions this  year. 

Moffitte  Sinclair  Henderson  (Mrs.  J.  L.')  is 
very  active  in  Parent-Teacher  work  in  North 
Carolina.    She  is  also  a  member  of  the  Fort- 


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nightly  Book  Club,  of  Hickory,  and  was 
recently  hostess  at  its  final  meeting  for  the 
year. 

Flora  Oettinger  Stern  was  chairman  of  the 
industrial  division  of  the  American  Eed  Cross 
Roll  Call,  conducted  in  Greensboro  the  last 
of  May. 

Victoria  Byerly  is  taking  special  laboratory 
work  in  Salisbury  this  summer.  She  spe- 
cializes in  nursing  obstetrics  and  pre-natal 
cases. 

Lelia  Byerly  takes  care  of  her  aged  mother 
at  their  home  in  Cooleemee. 

Mary  Springs  Davidson  Bost  (Mrs.  J.  B.), 
Atlanta,  attended  commencement  this  year. 
She  is  very  active  in  building  up  a  new 
church  in  Atlanta  which  has  grown  in  the 
past  five  years  from  a  membership  of  seventy 
to  five  hundred.  She  was  the  first  teacher 
in  the  primary  department  of  the  Sunday 
school. 

Notre  Johnson  is  principal  of  Oak  Eidge 
public  school.  She  is  spending  part  of  her 
vacation  in  the  mountains. 

More  than  175  children  took  part  in  the 
spring  festival  given  by  the  Curry  School 
pupils  early  in  May.  "In  May-Day  Gar- 
den" was  the  title  of  the  pageant.  All  cos- 
tumes for  the  fete  were  designed  by  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Mclver  Weatherspoon,  of  the  art 
department,  fe'he  is  teaching  in  the  summer 
school  at  the  college,  and  after  that  plans  to 
rest,  "gadding  about  a  little  with  her  friends 
in  their  car." 

Emily  Austin  is  spending  the  greater  part 
of  her  summer  in  Tarboro  carrying  on  her 
duties  as  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Carolina 
Telephone   and   Telegraph    Company. 

Phoebe  Pegram  Baugham  said  at  com- 
mencement: "We  run  a  Hedron  electric 
power  plant  in  North  Georgia.  We  develop 
400  horsepower.  Situated  at  the  foot  of  the 
mountain,  the  intake  is  600  feet  above  the 
power  plant.  There  is  only  one  way  in,  and 
you  have  to  go  back  the  same  way.  The 
mountains  are  on  every  side.  The  plant  must 
be  watched  day  and  night,  so  I  have  to  be 
on  the  job." 

CLASS  OF  1893 

At  commencement  Carrie  MuUins  Hunter 
was  planning  a  visit  to  her  daughter,  Dr. 
Elizabeth  Hunter  Lange,  now  living  in 
Minneapolis,  the  visit  to  take  place  sometime 
during  the  summer. 

CLASS  OF  1894 

This  note  received  in  the  alumnae  office 
from   Sudie  Israel  Wolfe  tells  its  own  story. 


We  should  like  so  much  to  have  more  news 
to  publish  from  these  first  classes.  "I  re- 
ceived my  copy  of  the  Alumnae  News  this 
morning  and  was  much  disappointed  not  to 
find  any  news  of  the  Class  of  '94,  and  almost 
none  of  '93.  I  do  not  feel  that  there  is  any- 
thing new  for  me  to  tell  about  myself.  I  am 
still  helping  the  Beverly  Free  Library  which 
is  open  two  hours  on  Monday  afternoon  and 
two  hours  Friday  night.  I  am  one  of  seven 
women  who  give  their  time  to  this  cause.  We 
enjoy  the  work  and  realize  that  it  is  of  great 
service  to  the  community,  as  we  place  from 
250  to  300  books  every  week.  After  giving  so 
much  time  to  the  library,  little  time  is  left 
for  other  activities,  but  I  have  been  senior 
counselor  of  a  girls'  club  and  have  enjoyed 
that  very  much.  I  hope  the  '94 's  are  to 
return  in  '31,  as  I  should  like  to  attend  a 
reunion  of  my  class. ' ' 

CLASS  OF  1895 

JEtta  Spier,  Secretary 

Etta  Spier  is  the  new  president  of  the 
Greensboro  Council  of  Jewish  Women.  She  is 
studying  this  summer. 

CLASS  OF  1898 

Jeannie  Ellington  Allen  (Mrs.  R.  W.)  had 
a  daughter  to  receive  her  degree  from  the 
college   this   commencement. 

CLASS  OF  1898 

Sadie  Hanes  Connor  (Mrs.  E.  D.  W.)  pre- 
sided over  the  luncheon  conference  for  the 
junior  club  members  which  met  in  connection 
with  the  State  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs 
held  at  Pinehurst. 

Lillie  Boney  Williams  (Mrs.  E.  M.)  is 
spending  her  spare  moments  in  her  flower 
garden  this  summer. 

Mary  Tinnin  received  a  brand  new  A.B. 
degree  from  the  college  this  June.  She  says: 
' '  This  summer  I  expect  to  climb  from  the 
valley  of  work  to  the  mount  of  vision  and 
there  rest  for  a  moment  that  I  may  thus 
better  serve  in  the  valley  next  year." 

CLASS  OF  1900 

Emma  Lewis  Speight  Morris  (Mrs.  Claude) 
is  a  member  of  a  national  committee  on  adult 
illiteracy,  appointed  by  Secretary  of  the  In- 
terior Wilbur.  Her  work  in  Rowan  County  as 
the  leading  and  directing  spirit  in  the  oppor- 
tunity night  school  has  received  wide  com- 
ment and  praise  and  is  accomplishing  much 
for  the  people  who  have  been  under-privileged 
in  their  educational  advantages.  Mrs.  Morris 
has    promised    an    article    for    the    Alumnae 


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News,  telling  her  fellow  ;iliimn;i(3  ajid  collcigf; 
friends  about  the  work  she  is  doing.  8ome- 
time  during  mid-spring,  the  Morris  home  in 
Salisbury  caught  fire,  and  was  injured  to  the 
extent  that  the  family  had  to  move  out  for 
repairs  to  be  made.  We  hear  that  little 
damage  was  done,  however,  to  the  beautiful 
old  furniture,  and  we  hope  that  by  now 
everything  is  restored. 

Mittie  Lewis  Barrier  had  a  daughter,  Kath- 
erine,  to  graduate  at  the  college  this  June. 

CLASS  OF  1901 

Rosa  Abbott,  also  class  of  1925,  is  studying 
at   Columbia  University  this   summer. 

CLASS  OF  1902 

lone  Dunn  received  her  M.A.  degree  in 
education  from  Duke  University  in  June, 
1929,  after  having  spent  the  year  previous  in 
study  there.  Last  fall  she  returned  to  her 
former  post  as  dean  in  the  Asheville  Normal. 

Virginia  Brown  Douglas  gave  a  talk  on 
wild  flowers  to  one  of  the  Sunset  Hills  Garden 
Clubs  the  last  of  May. 

CLASS  OF  1904 

Eugenia  Harris  Holt  had  mumps  during 
commencement — "side  by  side"  with  her 
small  son,  as  she  expressed  it!  That's  why  she 
wasn't  in  her  accustomed  place,  among  the 
naughty-fours.  We  do  think  since  she  waited 
this  long  to  have  'em,  she  might  have  put 
'em   off    'til   after   commencement! 

CLASS  OF  1906 

Martha  Winfield  is  teaching  in  the  summer 
session  at  the  college.  Afterwards  she  plans 
to  go  to  England  to  study  for  several  weeks 
at  the  University  of  London. 

Jennie  Todd  was  hostess  during  March  to 
the  Watauga  chapter  of  the  U.D.C.,  at  her 
home   in  Boone. 

CLASS  OF  1907 

Mary  Exuvi,  Secretary 

Elizabeth  Howell  is  still  working  as  county 
school  nurse  in  West  Palm  Beach,  Florida. 
Through  the  cooperation  of  the  Kiwanis  Club, 
a  second  worker  has  been  added  to  the  field. 

CLASS  OF  1908 

Edna  Forney,  Secretary 

Minnie  Lee  Peedin  writes,  "No  house,  no 
trip,  no  husband,  no  newspaper  articles,  no 
baby;  but  a  brand  new  degree  achieved  in 
the   summer    of    1929    at   N.    C.    College;    and 


hack  at  commenf,c(nr;fit  to  get  it!"  Con- 
gratulations— as  the  Haying  goen! 

Mary  E.  Williams  Tempieton  (Mrs.  J.  Y.) 
writes  from  Moorewville,  where  Hhe  in  living. 

Frances  P.  Wright  lives  in  Atlanta,  but 
taught  high  school  KiigliBh  last  year  at 
Harnardsville. 

Nettie  Brogdon  Herring  (Mrs.  Luther)  also 
received  a  new  A.B.  degree  at  commencement. 
And  again  congratulations  are  ofiFered! 

CLASS  OF  1910 
Katie  Kime,  Secretary 

Jane  Summerell  is  spending  the  first  six 
weeks  of  the  summer  at  Dobson,  teaching 
English  in  the  branch  summer  session  of  the 
college. 

Laura  Weill  Cone  (Mrs.  Julius)  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Institute 
of  Women's  Professional  Relations,  located 
at  the  college  and  sponsored  Vjy  the  American 
Association  of  University  Women.  She  took 
the  place  of  Dean  Alice  Baldwin,  of  Duke, 
whose  term  had  expired.  At  the  private 
exhibit  of  the  Little  Gate  Garden  Club  held 
at  her  home  on  Summit  Avenue  the  middle  of 
May,  in  which  more  than  one  hundred  entries 
were  made,  Laura  talked  interestingly  on 
flower  arrangement,  illustrating  what  she  said 
by  comments  on  the  exhibits  themselves. 
Some  of  her  points  were  these:  "Find  the 
right  receptacle,  in  regard  to  color,  balance 
and  appropriateness,  taking  into  considera- 
tion the  flower  itself  and  the  background; 
do  not  as  a  rule  mix  slight  and  heavy  flowers; 
combine  all  pastels  with  confidence,  but  be 
careful  in  combining  deeper  shades;  remem- 
ber some  flowers  were  not  meant  for  the 
house;  avoid  crowding  in  small  and  low  re- 
ceptacles and  avoid  sparseness  in  larger  ones; 
use  all  the  foliage  desired,  the  more  the 
better;  remember  that  the  simplest  is  always 
the   most   beautiful." 

Winnie  McWhorter  Cox  (Mrs.  R.  L.) 
teaches  English  and  French  in  the  high  school 
at  Calypso.  She  is  chairman  of  the  Duplin 
County  Alumnae  Association. 

Wiliard  Powers  is  deputy  register  of  deeds 
of  Rutherford  County  and  lives  with  her 
mother  in  her  own  home.  Wiliard  also  has  a 
car  of  her  own  which  she  enjoys  very  much. 

CLASS  OF  1911 

Catharine  Jones  Pierce,  teacher  in  the 
Library  School  at  the  college,  is  on  leave  of 
absence,  studying  a  second  year  at  the  School 
of  Library  Service.  Columbia  University,  on 
a  scholarship  grant  awarded  her  by  the  Car- 
negie Corporation  of  New  York.  This  summer 
she  is  acting  as  chief  reviser  for  the  Columbia 
School    of    Library    S'ervice.     Her    two    sons, 


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Wilson,  age  fourteen,  and  Henry,  age  twelve, 
will  be  in  Durham  next  winter  in  the  care  of 
Catharine's  sister.  A  happy  and  successful 
year  to  you  in  every  way! 

Marea  Jordan  Yount  (Mrs.  M.  E.)  is  a 
grade  mother  in  the  Graham  schools,  and 
early  in  May  entertained  the  children  of  her 
grade  with  readings  from  Uncle  Remus  and 
fairy  stories.  Last,  but  not  least  in  the 
opinion  of  the  children,  came  Eskimo  pies  and 
colored  balloons  with  whistle   combination. 

CLASS  OF  1912 

May  Green  is  still  in  Winston-Salem.  She 
says  her  single  "item  of  interest"  consists 
in  working  steadily  at  the  same  job! 

Ethel  McNairy  is  primary  supervisor  of  the 
Statesville  schools.  She  received  a  new  A.B. 
degree  from  the  college  in  June. 

At  the  music  breakfast  conference  held 
during  the  State  Federation  of  Women's 
Clubs,  Annie  Cherry  and  Hattie  Parrott  were 
two  of  the  speakers. 

CLASS  OF  1913 

We  should  all  have  seen  Maude  Beatty 
Bowen  march  proudly  out  on  the  stage  during 
commencement  and  receive  her  brand  new 
A.B.  degree  with  the  Class  of  1930!  Not 
every  woman  gets  to  be  a  "  sweet  girl  gradu- 
ate" twice  in  her  life! 

Ethel  Bollinger  Keiger  (Mrs.  J.  A.)  is  the 
new  chairman  of  the  literature  department  of 
the  Greensboro  Woman's  Club. 

lone  Grogan  was  chairman  last  year  of  the 
faculty  advisory  committee  of  the  senior 
class,  and  in  that  capacity  planned  their  class 
day  exercises  and  other  senior  festivities. 

Elizabeth  Craig  is  spending  her  spare  time 
this   summer   studying   stenotypy. 

CLASS  OF  1914 

7ns  Holt  McEwen,  Secretary 

Pauline  White  Miller  (Mrs.  H.  S.)  is  the 
new  president  of  the  Woman's  Club  of  Fort 
Leavenworth,  Kansas,  where  her  husband,  a 
colonel  in  the  United  States  Army,  has  been 
stationed  for  several  years.  A  paragraph 
taken  from  the  story  of  the  annual  spring 
breakfast  of  the  club,  as  told  in  the  Leaven- 
worth Times,  has  this  to  say:  "After  the 
breakfast  the  program  opened  with  a  greet- 
ing and  a  brief  review  of  the  year's  work  by 
Mrs.  J.  F.  Heraty,  the  charming  retiring 
president.  A  very  efficient  officer  herself, 
Mrs.  Heraty  spoke  in  an  appreciative  manner 
of  the  work  of  her  executive  board  and  intro- 
duced Mrs.  "H.  S.  Miller,  the  incoming  presi- 
dent. Mrs.  Miller 's  gracious  acceptance  of 
her    new    office    and   her    remarks    concerning 


next  year's  program  predict  a  splendid  course 
for  1930  and  1931.  A  lovely  corsage  of  pink 
roses  drew  a  smiling  acknowledgment  from 
the  new  president. ' '  A  lecture  on  the  ' '  Poetry 
of  Robert  Browning,"  followed  by  a  dis- 
tinguished piano  recital,  completed  the  morn- 
ing's program.  Pauline  has  a  lovely  boy,  two 
and  a  half  years  old,  whom  we  hope  she  will 
bring  to  see  her  alma  mater  before  he  is 
much  older. 

Two  years  ago  our  class  doctor,  Annie 
Scott,  established  the  baby  clinic  in  the 
School  of  Medicine,  Shantung  Christian  Uni- 
versity, where  she  has  been  associate  pro- 
fessor of  pediatrics  for  several  years.  One 
of  Br.  Annie 's  indefatigable  assistants,  the 
wife  of  the  head  of  the  department  of  biology 
in  the  university,  gives  this  interesting 
glimpse  of  the  daily  routine  of  the  baby 
clinic:  "Dr.  Scott  and  her  two  student  help- 
ers are  at  home  every  Monday,  Wednesday, 
and  Friday  to  all  the  sick  babies  in  Tsinan, 
together  with  their  retinue  of  parents,  sisters, 
brothers,  aunts,  and  amahs.  Imagine,  if  you 
can,  a  small  room  with  such  a  family  dele- 
gation in  tow  of  Baby  Wang!  Even  the  new 
coolie,  in  his  padded  winter  garments,  is 
usually  brought  along  and  must  be  tactfully 
parked  outside.  The  doctor  sits  on  a  chair, 
and  Baby  Wang's  mother,  holding  her  pre- 
cious burden,  sits  on  a  bench.  The  work  be-' 
gins  as  the  doctor  examines  as  best  she  may 
whatever  spots  the  anxious  mother  will  let 
her  observe  of  the  child 's  much  enswaddled 
anatomy.  Windows  and  doors  must  remain 
closed,  for  mothers  simply  refuse  to  undress 
their  children  in  a  room  reeking  with  fresh 
air.  Wrenching  a  history  from  the  mother  is 
much  like  the  old-fashioned  methods  of  ex- 
tracting teeth,  and  is  an  adventure  in  itself. 
'Why,'  she  will  ask,  'all  these  extremely  per- 
sonal questions?' — 'How  old  is  my  baby? 
How  should  I  know?  There  are  five  or  six 
more  at  home,  all  about  the  same  age,  and, 
anyway,  what  difference  does  a  year  or  two 
make?' — 'When  did  it  begin  to  get  sick?  Oh, 
two  or  three  weeks  ago,  or  possibly  it  was 
only  last  week.' — 'What  do  I  feed  the  baby? 
Why,  the  same  as  the  rest  of  the  family,  of 
course:  bread  dumplings,  raw  fruit  and  vege- 
tables, or  anything  we  may  happen  to  have.' 
But  though  the  work  may  seem  to  be  going 
slowly,  the  narrative  continues,  before  Dr. 
Scott  has  finished  her  quiet,  sympathetic 
questioning  and  examination  she  will  have 
all  the  essential  facts  about  Baby  Wang  and 
his  troubles.  A  few  simple  directions,  pa- 
tiently explained  to  the  anxious  mother  in 
the  plainest  of  terms,  a  copy  of  helpful  sug- 
gestions for  the  general  care  of  infants  and 
children  made  available  in  printed  form  and 
in  the  Chinese  language  through  the  gen- 
erosity  of   a   lady   from   Virginia,   and   Baby 


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Wang  goes  on  his  way  toward  health  and 
strength.  Close  behind  him  comes  Baby  Li, 
Baby  Change,  and  a  hundred  others,  with 
widely  varying  needs  and  from  many  sta- 
tions of  life,  but  all  with  the  same  irresistible 
appeal  in  the  round,  troubled  little  faces.  The 
baby  clinic  began  on  a  very  modest  scale, 
but  has  already  greatly  enlarged  its  facili- 
ties, its  staff,  and  its  sphere  of  service.  It 
has  recently  added  a  special  clinic  on  Wed- 
nesday morning  for  children  needing  treat- 
ment for  congenital  diseases,  and  a  si^ecial 
well-baby  clinic  on  Thursday  morning.  In  a 
land  where  infant  mortality  is  so  high,  and 
where  there  is  so  much  needless  suffering 
among  children,  such  a  baby  clinic  is  an  in- 
describable blessing  to  the  multitudes  of 
appealing  little  folk  who  each  year  receive 
the  ministrations  it  offers  in  the  name  of  the 
Friend  of  Little  Children.  Yet  it  performs  an 
even  greater  service  in  the  part  it  plays  in 
the  training  of  the  young  men  and  young 
women,  who  year  by  year  are  going  out  from 
the  school  of  medicine  to  a  ministry  of  heal- 
ing among  their  people. ' ' 

Nina  Garner  is  teaching  first  grade  in 
Burlington,  a  post  she  has  held  for  a  number 
of  years.  Nina  humorously  remarks  that  she 
hopes  some  provision  will  soon  be  made  for 
pensions — she  thinks  she  will  be  entitled  to 
one! 

Gladys  Goodson  Gibson  (Mrs.  C.  S.)  has 
two  boys,  aged  seven  and  three.  Her  husband 
is  engaged  in  mining  activities. 

Annie  Bostian  received  her  M.A.  from 
Columbia  in  December,  after  spending  several 
summers  there  studying.  She  is  principal  of 
the  John  S.  Henderson  school  in  SSalisbury. 

Maud  Bunn  Battle  (Mrs.  Kemp)  and  her 
family  are  enjoying  their  beautiful  new  home, 
built  near  Rocky  Mount  on  a  part  of  her 
mother's  property.  The  architecture  is  south- 
ern colonial,  and  somewhat  resembles  the 
Hermitage,  Andrew  Jackson's  home. 

Euth  Hampton  Shuping  (Mrs.  C.  L.)  was 
recently  elected  president  of  the  Greensboro 
Congress  of  Parents  and  Teachers.  She  had 
served  for  the  two  years  preceding  as  presi- 
dent of  the  Spring  Street  Association,  and 
was  greatly  instrumental  in  establishing  two 
kindergartens  this  past  year  in  connection 
with  the  city  school  system.  Her  husband 
was  the  successful  manager  of  the  campaign 
of  Hon.  J.  W.  Bailey  for  the  democratic 
nomination  for  United  States  Senator. 

CLASS  OF  1915 
Katherine  A.  Ertoin,  President 

Ruth  Albright  Taylor,  hailing  from  Cali- 
fornia, is  spending  the  summer  in  North  Car- 
olina. She  and  her  husband,  and  their  three 
daughters    aged    seven,    five,    and    three,   left 


GlendaJe,  California,  on  May  25,  and  motored 
to  Ashevillc,  Ruth's  old  home.  "  We  have  been 
out  here  for  ten  years,"  wrote  Ruth,  "and 
although  time  flies  very  fast  and  the  years 
have  been  very  full,  still  it  does  seem  a  long, 
long  time  to  be  away  from  North  Carolina. 
We  are  very  happy  to  be  able  to  go  back 
this  year,  and  I  am  looking  forward  to  H'-eing 
many  old  friends.  I  do  enjoy  the  Alumnae 
News— oh,  so  much,  and  often  wish  I  could 
attend  the  seminars,  commencement,  and 
other  events."  Ruth's  college  friends  and 
classmates  are  hearing  of  her  coming  with 
greatest  joy! 

In  addition  to  her  work  as  dean  of  girls 
in  the  High  Point  High  School,  Anne  Albright 
finds  time  for  outside  activities.  Among  other 
things,  she  is  chairman  of  the  Girls'  Reserve 
Committee   of  the  Y.W.C.A. 

CLASS  OF  1916 

Annie  Beam  Funderiurk,  Secretary 

Carrie  Stout  Watlington  (Mrs.  P.  V.)  lives 
at  Morganton.  She  has  two  daughters,  Laura 
Lynn,  five,  and  Jean  Stout,  two. 

Octavia  Jordan  Perry  (Mrs.  C.  W.)  says 
she  is  spending  summer  as  usual — keeping 
house,  looking  after  friend  husband,  and  tak- 
ing an  occasional  week-end  trip. 

Mary  Gwynn  is  director  of  the  Y.W.C.A. 
camp  in  Louisville  which  accommodates  125 
during  July  and  August.  In  June  she  is 
going  to  get  acquainted  with  her  two  little 
nephews  who  are  coming  from  Spain  and 
paying  their  first  visit  to  this  country. 

At  the  March  meeting  of  the  Euterpe  Club 
in  Greensboro  Claire  Henley  Atkisson  (Mrs. 
Carroll)  directed  a  program  devoted  to  folk 
songs.  The  arrangement  was  in  two  parts, 
one  devoted  to  American  folk  songs,  the  other 
to  the  use  of  folk  material  made  by  com- 
posers. Both  arrangements  were  well  illus- 
trated. 

CLASS  OF  1917 
Ann  Daniel  Boyd,  Secretary 

Leafy  Brown  Stewart  (Mrs.  E.  R.)  writes 
that  she  and  her  husband  still  do  state  mis- 
sion work  in  Hyde  County.  They  have  re- 
cently completed  a  new  church  building  at 
Fairfield  with  the  aid  of  the  Baptist  State 
Mission  Board,  the  members,  and  other  inter- 
ested friends,  and  are  having  Sunday  school 
services  in  it.  The  church  isn  't  yet  entirely 
paid  for,  however.  We  wish  for  Leafy  and 
her  husband  every  success  in  their  eft'orts. 

Annie  Hall  is  again  head  of  the  depart- 
ment  of  home   economics  at  Peace  Institute. 

Maggie  Staton  Howell  Yates  (Mrs.  H.  B.) 
is  much  interested  in  various  civic  activities 
in  Greensboro,  where  she  lives.  As  secretary 
of  the   Junior  League,   she  has   done  notably 


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successful  work.  She  is  also  active  in  the  Eed 
Cross,  American  Legion  Auxiliary,  and  the 
Euterpe  Club.  As  a  member  of  the  Civic 
Music  Association,  she  hears  the  artists  who 
come  to  the  college  during  the  winter,  and 
also  attends  the  lecture  course  thus  open  to 
the  townspeople. 

Flossie  Harris  Spruill  (Mrs.  J.  F.)  was 
hostess  to  the  Lexington  Garden  Club  at  her 
lovely  home  the  last  of  March,  when  plans 
were  made  to  attend  the  coming  regional 
flower  show  in  High  Point.  During  April,  she 
spoke  at  the  Northwestern  District  meeting 
of  the  Congress  of  Parents  and  Teachers  held 
in  Lexington,  her  subject  being  ' '  Grade 
Mothers.'' 

CLASS  OF  1918 

I 

Susan  Green  Finch,  Secretary 

Kate  Hunt  Kirkman  (Mrs.  Bernard),  Pleas- 
ant Garden,  has  a  little  daughter,  Anna  Men- 
denhall,  named  for  Dr.  Gove  and  Miss  Men- 
denhall. 

Mabel  Jarvis  writes  that  nothing  exciting 
is  happening  in  her  domain.  She  taught  last 
year  for  the  tenth  year  in  Asheville,  where 
she  lives.  Zoology  and  advanced  algebra  are 
her  subjects. 

Thelma  Mallard  is  teacher  of  home  eco- 
nomics in  the  Senior  High  School,  Columbia, 
S.  C.  Last  summer  she  taught  several  weeks 
in  the  South  Carolina  opportunity  school, 
Erskine  College,  Due  West,  but  the  rest  of 
the  time  "just  played  around." 

Nell  Robertson  is  again  in  Sanford,  teach- 
ing home  economics. 

Leafy  Spear  Guthrie  (Mrs.  T.  W.)  is 
teaching  first  grade  at  Contentnea  Consoli- 
dated school,  near  Kinston,  Lenoir  County. 
She  lives  in  town  and  keeps  house  in  addi- 
tion to  her  school  work. 

Laura  Sumner,  who  incidentally  has  her 
M.A.  degree  from  Staiith  College,  spent  the  year 
1928-29  studying  at  the  University  of  North 
Carolina,  and  this  past  year  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  faculty  in  the  department  of 
English  at  the  college. 

Addie  Whitehurst  Coats  (Mrs.  E,  F.) 
studied  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina 
during  the  summer  of  1929,  and  last  year 
taught  mathematics  and  French  in  the  Snow 
Hill  High  School.  She  says  she  visited  our 
campus  one  morning  during  the  summer  ses- 
sion, and  was  delighted  with  the  many  im- 
provements  she    saw   on   every  hand. 

CLASS  OF  1919 

Marjorie  Craig,  President 

Clarence  Winder  Haley  (Mrs.  A.  T.)  and 
her  husband  took  an  extended  automobile 
trip  during  the  late  summer  last  year,  stop- 
ping   at    various    points    in    Western    North 


Carolina,  Tennessee,  Kentucky,  and  Indiana. 
Mr.  Haley  is  a  member  of  the  recently  organ- 
ized firm  of  Foust  and  Haley,  general  agents 
in  North  Carolina  for  the  Massachusetts 
Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company. 

Mary  Poteat  spent  last  summer  travelling 
in  Europe.  She  visited  in  France,  Italy, 
Switzerland,  Germany,  Belgium,  Holland, 
England,  and  Scotland,  and  attended  summer 
session  at  Oxford  University.  It  was  a  mar- 
velous summer! 

Martha  Speas  Phillips  (Mrs.  D.  C.)  taught 
for  the  third  year  in  the  Bonlee  High  School. 
Home  economics  is  her  subject.  She  says  her 
interest  in  teaching  increases  all  the  while. 
Her  two  sons,  D.  C,  Junior,  and  Charles,  aged 
eight  and  seven,  are  in  the  fourth  and  third 
grades,  respectively.  Four-year-old  Dorothy 
has  already  determined  to  be  a  North  Caro- 
lina College  girl  when  she  is  old  enough. 

Helen  Burch  is  instructor  of  teacher  train- 
ing in  the  Franklin  High  School.  &"he  is 
studying  this   summer  at  Peabody   College. 

Alma  Winslow  West  (Mrs.  E'.  E.),  Rich- 
mond, has  three  children — Eugenia  Winslow, 
Edward  E'.,  Jr.,  and  John  Sterling,  ten 
months  old. 

Sara  All  Abernethy  (Mrs.  C.  L.,  Jr.)  played 
organ  numbers  on  the  morning  of  April  15 
in  Constitutional  Hall,  Washington  City,  dur- 
ing the  annual  convention  of  the  D.A.R.  The 
instrument  was  given  by  a  North  Carolina 
woman. 

Marjorie  Craig  is  attending  summer  session 
at  the  college,  and  is  president  of  the  Stu- 
dent Government   Association. 

CLASS  OF  1920 

Marjorie  Mendenhall,  Secretary 

Ethel  Boyte  is  conducting  European  tours 
("Travels  Over  There")  and  is  making  a 
great  success  of  the  job.  Her  party  had  an 
audience  with  the  Pope  last  summer  and 
kissed  his  hand  (not  toe!).  This  year  she 
expects  to  include  the  "Passion  Play"  in  her 
itinerary  and  will  have  lodging  herself  in  the 
home  of  Anton  Lang,  who  plays  the  part  of 
Christ. 

Patte  Jordan  sailed  early  in  June  for 
Europe,  where  she  is  spending  the  summer. 
She  has  recently  been  elected  as  an  ofiicer  in 
the  High  Point  A.A.U.W. 

Lela  Wade  Phillips  (Mrs.  C.  W.)  and  her 
husband,  who  is  principal  of  the  Greensboro 
High  School,  gave  a  series  of  dinner  parties 
during  the  winter  at  their  home  in  Sunset 
Hills,  honoring  the  faculty  of  the  high  school. 

Marjorie  Mendenhall  is  teaching  history  in 
the  branch  summer  school  of  the  college  be- 
ing carried  on  at  Dobson.  She  was  soprano 
soloist  on  the  Mother 's  Day  Program  given 
at  the  college  honoring  Mother's  Day. 


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CLASS  OF  1921 

Eeid  Parker  Ellis,  Secretary 

Alena  Ehyne  is  at  her  home  in  Dallas  keep- 
ing house  for  her  parents.  She  says  that  for 
once  in  her  life  she  is  having  time  to  read 
as  much  as  she  wants  to,  and  is  reading  many 
things  that  she  has  all  her  life  wanted  to 
read. 

Carrie  Belle  Eoss  is  secretary  to  a  physician 
in  Ealeigh.  Her  office  address  is  401  Masonic 
Temple. 

Sallie  Eutledge  says  she  has  enjoyed  her 
internship  at  the  Lancaster  (Pa.)  General 
Hospital,  and  of  course  every  day  learning 
interesting  things  about  her  work.  She  hopes 
sometime  to  return  to  North  Carolina  to  prac- 
tice medicine,  and  when  she  does,  promises 
to  visit  the  college  more  often. 

Lula  M.  Mclver  Scott  (Mrs.  J.  L.)  has  been 
giving  a  series  of  interesting  talks  to  the 
current  events  class  in  Greensboro  on  con- 
temporary happenings  in  the  world  at  large. 

Mildred  Harrington  Poole  (Mrs.  C.  Parker) 
and  her  family  are  moving  from  Eocky  Mount 
to  Fayetteville,  where  Mr.  Poole  will  be  prin- 
cipal of  the  Alexander  Graham  High  School 
next  year. 

CLASS  OF  1912 
Muriel  Barnes  Erwin,  Secretary 

Mabel  Stamper  Hallenbeck  (Mrs.  Harold) 
wrote  how  sorry  she  was  to  miss  commence- 
ment and  the  class  reunion  this  year,  but  her 
school  in  Hartford  did  not  close  until  June 
20,  so  she  could  not  come  South  until  July. 
She  says  she  is  planning  not  to  teach  next 
year,  so  she  hopes  she  can  ' '  disrupt  a  simple 
family  schedule  in  1931  long  enough  to  run 
down  and  feast  with  the  Class  of  1585!" 

Zelian  Hunter  Helms  (Mrs.  H.  A.)  shared 
honors  with  her  husband,  when,  as  principal 
of  the  J.  Van  Lindley  school  in  Greensboro, 
he  was  honored  at  a  dinner  at  the  O.  Henry 
Hotel,  given  by  the  faculty  members  of  the 
junior  high  and  primary  schools. 

Carey  Batchelor  Kline  (Mrs.  I.  V.)  is  the 
editor  of  a  volume  called  ' '  The  New  World 
Anthology  of  Verse, ' '  recently  published  by 
the  Helicon  Publishing  Company,  New  York. 
It  contains  the  work  of  new  writers,  poten- 
tial poets,  who  submitted  their  work  through 
a  contest,  the  most  promising  being  awarded 
a  place  in  the  book  by  the  committee  in 
charge.  The  book  contains  the  poem,  "Dawn 
Dance, ' '  written  by  Violettemae  LaBarr,  '29, 
and  published  in  this  number  of  Alumnae 
News. 

CLASS  OF  1923 
Mary  Sue  Beam  Fonville,  Secretary 

Mary  Teresa  Peacock  studied  library 
science    at    Columbia    University    during    the 


.spring  Hcnioster,  going  therr;  from  li<-r  work 
as  librarian  in  the  HalJHbury  High  Kfhool  to 
prepare  for  her  work  as  director  of  thf;  divi- 
sion of  school  libraries,  in  connection  with 
the  State  Department  of  f]ducation.  Mary 
Teresa's  new  work  begins  on  July  1,  1930. 

Jessie  Eodwinc  Huskey  fMrs.  Guy  L.)  wrote 
from  Winston-Salem  last  .spring  that  she  was 
back  in  the  schoolroom  again — she  simply 
couldn't   give   up   the   first-graders! 

For  some  time  Stella  Williams  has  been 
advertising  manager  for  Efird's  Department 
Store  in  Charlotte. 

Maitland  Sadler  Sykes  has  recently  come 
to  live  in  Washington  City,  where  her  hus- 
band, who  is  an  engineer,  has  been  trans- 
ferred from  Baton  Eouge,  La.  Maitland 
visited  her  sister  in  Eichmond  for  two  weeks 
before  commencement,  coming  on  to  the  col- 
lege for  her  class  reunion.  Her  niece  is  to 
be  a  student  at  college  next  year — one  more 
reason  why  we  hope  to  see  more  of  Maitland 
than  we  have  for  the  past  three  or  four  years. 

Janie  Pearce  teaches  French  in  the  Ean- 
dolph-Macon  Institute,  Danville.  She  says 
they  have  girls  there  from  all  parts  of  the 
United  States,  and  that  they  are  very  re- 
sponsive.   She  is  delighted  with  the  work. 

Pearl  Taylor  Irvin  (Mrs.  C.  W.)  and  her 
husband  have  recently  moved  into  their  new 
home  on  Madison  Avenue  in  Greensboro. 

Nell  Thompson  is  teacher  of  public  school 
music  in  Badin.  She  enjoyed  two  trips  last 
summer — one  to  Washington  and  Annapolis, 
and  the  other  with  her  mother  to  Canada. 
They  had  a  specially  delightful  time  at 
Bayfield,  Ontario,  on  Lake  Huron. 

Mary  Trundle  continues  her  work  in  the 
Public  Library,   at   Washington. 

Florrie  Wilson  Sherrill  (Mrs.  E.  A.)  is  still 
stenographer  at  Bernhardt  Furniture  Com- 
pany, Lenoir.  She  and  her  husband  live  with 
her  mother. 

Emily  Wright  gave  up  her  work  in  New 
York  City  in  order  to  be  near  her  home  in 
Black  Mountain.  She  is  teaching  history  in 
the  Asheville  High  School,  and  says  it's 
mighty  fine  to  be  back  in  the  old  North  State. 

CLASS  OF  1824 
Cleo  Mitchell,  Secretary 

Mary  Collins  Powell  is  teacher  of  physical 
education  at  Mary  Baldwin  College.  Staunton, 
Va. 

Alice  Eankin  taught  third  grade  in  the 
Claxton  School,  Asheville. 

Caroline  Eankin  had  a  pleasant  summer  in 
1929,  studying  French  in  Columbia  Univer- 
sity. She  is  teaching  that  subject  in  the  San- 
ford  high  school. 

Maie  S'anders  is  planning  to  spend  this 
summer  in  California,  and  take  work  at  the 


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University  of  Berkeley.  S'he  is  teaching 
English  and  mathematics  in  the  New  Han- 
over   High    School,    Wilmington. 

Annie  Lee  Yates  studied  last  winter  in  the 
School  of  Library  Science,  Pratt  Institute, 
Brooklyn. 

Elizabeth  Simkins  is  now  librarian  in 
Eastern  Kentucky  State  Teachers  College, 
Eichmond,  Ky. 

Viola  Seltz  Burch  (Mrs.  Wayne)  made  a 
visit  to  Blowing  Rock  last  summer  and  had  a 
wonderful  time.  She  is  teaching  English  in 
the   Eockingham   High   School. 

Gladys  Sims  Smith  (Mrs.  K.  E.)  says  that 
this  is  the  first  year  since  she  entered  kinder- 
garten that  she  hasn't  been  in  school  or 
teaching  school.  "Last  year,  my  first  year 
as  Mrs.  Smith,  I  kept  house  and  also  taught 
history  in  the  S^enior  high  school.  I  miss  my 
work  immensely  this  year,  but  am  enjoying 
the  rest."  Gladys  says  she  sees  so  many 
former  North  Carolina  College  girls  in 
Ealeigh  that  she  is  often  reminded  of  the 
happy  days  she  had  at  the  college. 

CLASS  OF  1925 

Folly  Duffy  Balcer,  President 
Mae  Graham,  Secretary 

Velma  Dare  Matthews  may  write  after  her 
name  now,  Ph.D.  And  she  was  awarded  it  in 
botany  at  the  University  of  North  Carolina 
this  past  June.  But  still  more,  she  also  won 
the  coveted  Smith  prize  for  research  in 
science!  Velma  received  her  M.A.  from  the 
University  in  1927,  and  since  that  time  has 
been  research  assistant  and  graduate  student 
in  botany  at  the  University,  completing  the 
work  for  her  doctor's  degree  this  year.  Her 
classmates  and  college  friends  send  to  her 
sincerest  congratulations,  and  assurances  of 
our  pride  in  her   achievement. 

Lorna  Thigpen,  since  June  Mrs.  Paul  R. 
David,  bids  fair  to  be  the  third  member  of 
the  class  to  win  her  Ph.D.  Since  graduation, 
she  has  done  advanced  study  in  biology  at 
the  University  of  Maine,  and  has  also  been 
connected  with  the  Storrs,  Connecticut,  Agri- 
cultural Experiment  Station,  where  she  has 
done  special  research  work  both  as  a  member 
of  the  staff,  and  in  independently  working  on 
her  own  thesis.  Lorna  expects  to  receive  her 
degree  in  August.  Mr.  David  has  been  doing 
graduate  work  in  zoology  at  the  University 
of  Pittsburgh,  but  is  now  connected  with  the 
zoology  department  at  the  Experiment  Sta- 
tion. Lorna  will  also  continue  her  own  work 
there. 

Katherine  Buie  is  attending  summer  school 
at  the  college. 

Lucille  Meredith  is  teaching  in  the  demon- 
stration school  at  the  college  this  summer. 
She  has  fifth  and  sixth  grades. 


We  hear  that  Mattie  Erma  Edwards,  Avho 
has  been  teaching  political  science  at  Vassar 
College  for  the  past  two  years,  has  been 
awarded  a  fellowship  by  the  University  of 
North  Carolina  to  study  at  Harvard  next 
year. 

Estelle  Mitchell  attended  summer  school 
at  Columbia  University  in  1929,  and  inci- 
dentally went  to  New  Haven,  Providence, 
Boston,  Salem,  Concord,  Lexington,  and  other 
places.  She  is  teaching  French  in  the  Senior 
high  school,  Greensboro. 

Vendetta  Noble  writes  that  last  year  was 
her  fourth  teaching  sixth  grade  at  Deep  Eun, 
her  home,  and  she  finds  the  work  more  inter- 
esting all  the  while. 

Helen  Powell  Mahler  (Mrs.  W.  A.)  has  a 
son,  William  A.,  Jr.,  now  about  fifteen  months 
old. 

Lois  Eankin  is  doing  fourth  grade  work  in 
Gastonia. 

Evelyn  Eeed  studied  piano  last  Summer  at 
the  Cincinnati  Conservatory,  and  is  teaching 
it  this  year  in  Eowland.  For  three  successive 
summers  she  has  been  on  a  house  party  at 
White  Lake  with  Elizabeth  Strickland,  '25, 
Louise  Younce,  '25,  Louise  Farber,  '25,  Ellen 
Nash,   '25,  and  her  sister,  Billie. 

Pauline  Eoberts  writes  from  her  home  in 
Bahama. 

Annie  Glass  Eoediger  spent  four  months 
last  summer  really  seeing  America,  Alaska 
included!  She  says  it  was  a  wonderful  ex- 
perience, but  that  she  still  thinks  North  Car- 
olina one  of  the  best  states  in  the  union,  if 
not  the  best. 

Lottie  Venters  Kesler  (Mrs.  Bernie)  says 
she  has  had  a  real  thrill  buying  furniture  for 
her  home.  She  is  keeping  house  and  doing 
substitute  work  teaching  in  the  grammar 
grades   in   Salisbury. 

Delia  Wakefield  did  her  customary  good 
work  in  the  fourth  grade  at  Eevolution 
School,   Greensboro. 

Elizabeth  Weaver  has  third  grade  work 
in  Asheville. 

Blanche  Bellinger  Hamrick  (Mrs.  H.  D.) 
says  that  during  the  spring  seminar,  she  was 
moving  her  household,  that  is,  the  baby,  gold 
fish,  refrigerator,  radio,  and  all  other  accumu- 
lated possessions,  including  her  not-to-be-over- 
looked husband,  to  a  new  address  in  Ealeigh. 
And  thus  is  her  much-regretted  absence  ex- 
plained! 

Sybil  Dean  Wilson  spent  her  second  year 
as  teacher  of  history  in  the  New  Hanover 
High  School,  Wilmington.  Last  summer  she 
spent  several  weeks  visiting  in  New  York 
City,  Niagara  Falls,  and  Buffalo.  Lela  Aycock 
was  with  her. 


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CLASS  OF  1926 

Georgia  Kirlcpatrick,  President 
JJarriet  Brown,  Secretary 

Donna  Marie  CooiJer  is  working  Avitli  the 
Board  of  Health  Laboratory,  of  the  state  of 
New  York.  She  is  connected  with  the  branch 
located  at  Kingston,  and  is  doing  both  bac- 
teriological and  chemical  work.  She  is  also 
teaching  bacteriology  and  clinical  pathology 
in  the  training  school  of  the  hospitals  in 
that  city. 

Phoebe  Baughan  came  to  Greensboro  from 
New  York  early  in  June  and  took  part  in 
a  benefit  concert  given  at  the  Odell  Memorial 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Junior  Women's 
Club.  Phoebe  danced  several  numbers  and 
won  from  the  large  audience  a  round  of 
appreciation. 

Nellie  Irvin  played  the  leading  role  in  the 
' '  Last  of  Mrs.  Cheyney, ' '  final  offering  for 
the  year  of  the  Greensboro  Little  Theatre, 
seen  in  Aycock  Auditorium  early  in  May. 

Corinne  Cannady  is  girls'  commissioner  of 
the  juvenile  court  in  Greensboro.  She  is  doing 
excellent  service  for  the  boys  and  girls  who 
come  under  her  care. 

Hermene  Warlick  Eichhorn  reported  for 
the  newspapers  the  annual  convention  of  the 
North  Carolina  Federation  of  Music  Clubs 
held  in  Greensboro  early  in  May,  and  did  a 
good  piece  of  work  for  the  federation  and 
the  interested  public. 

Inez  Landon  Pl-att  (Mrs.  E.  H.)  lives  in 
Newton  Highlands,  Mass.  She  has  one 
daughter,  Nancy  Landon,  now  a  little  more 
than  a  year  old. 

Meredith  McCullers  is  teacher  of  home  eco- 
nomics, Pinetops. 

Huldah  McDaniel  has  the  work  in  French  at 
Kinston. 

Julia  Mclver  is  at  Eocky  Mount,  teaching 
home  economics  in  the  high  school. 

Mary  Ida  McLawhorn  had  a  forty-day  bus 
tour  of  the  West  last  summer,  travelling 
through  twenty-three  states.  Grand  Canyon, 
Yosemite  Park  and  Yellowstone  were  among 
the  famous  sights  visited.  The  party  almost 
literally  circled  the  United  S'tates,  going  out 
to  California  by  the  Southern  route  and  re- 
turning by  the  Northern.  Elizabeth  Young, 
Pauline  Short,  Serena  High,  all  '26-ers,  and 
Jimmie  Blanchard,  '24,  were  with  her.  In  the 
summer  of  1928  Mary  Ida  had  an  interesting 
trip  up  the  Eastern  coast. 

Euth  McLean  gave  up  her  work  as  labora- 
tory technician  in  the  Children's  Hospital, 
Washington  City,  and  is  living  at  her  home 
in  Ealeigh  and  doing  bacteriological  work  in 
the  state  laboratory  of  hygiene. 

Alma  Matthews  Howell  (Mrs.  H.  E.)  has  a 
little  boy  a  year  and  a  half  old — "a  perfect 
blonde,"  his  mother  says.    The  family  moved 


into  tlioir  now  lioinr-,  an  oight-roorri  bunj^a- 
low,  last  Hunimer.  They  live  in  Seaboard. 
Alma  says  she  would  ho  much  enjoy  a  viHit 
to  the  college  once  more. 

Thelma  Mooho  teaches  Knglish  in  the  Coo- 
leeniee  High  School. 

Vivian  Peterson  Khode.s  says  that  ket-fting 
house  and  teaching  are  several  jobs  rolled 
into  one — but  great  fun,  and  that  i«  what  she 
is  doing — the  first  in  Charlotte,  and  the 
second,  some  seven  miles  out,  at  the  Berry- 
hill  High  School.    She  drives  back  and  forth. 

Martha  Louise  Pierce  has  fourth  grade 
work  in  High  Point. 

Kathryn  Price  worked  last  year  in  the  cir- 
culation department  of  the  college  liVjrary. 

Vera  Eosemond  Mae  Donald  (Mrs.  H.  G.) 
has  a  little  son,  Tommye,  now  about  a  year 
and  a  half  old.  She  is  living  in  Spencer  and 
teaching  at  Churchland. 

Thetis  STiepherd  writes  of  how  much  she 
enjoyed  seeing  members  of  the  faculty  who 
taught  in  the  summer  session  at  Mountain 
Park  Institute  last  summer.  Thetis  has  charge 
of  the  courses  in  commercial  training  given 
there. 

Ernestine  Shippe  teaches  Latin  and  French 
in  the  high  school  at  Selma. 

Virginia  E.  Smith  is  teacher  of  public 
school  music  in  Eowan  County,  with  head- 
quarters at  Eockwell. 

Beatrice  Sparks,  Nan  Jeter,  and  Lorita  Cox 
are  all  teaching  in  the  North  Carolina  School 
for  the  Deaf,  Morganton. 

Susan  Steele  writes  from  Stedman,  where 
she   is   teaching  fifth  grade. 

Ellen  Stone's  husband,  Arthur  Scott,  is 
superintendent  of  water  filtration  in  the  city 
health  department,  Sanford. 

Mary  Stuart  attended  summer  school  at 
Columbia  last  year,  and  is  teaching  mathe- 
matics and  French  the  second  year  at  Bladen- 
boro. 

Kate  Hall  was  made  a  member  of  the  exec- 
utive committee  of  the  Carolina  Dramatic 
Association  at  its  annual  festival  held  in 
Chapel  Hill  the  middle  of  April. 

Mary  Thornberg  is  teaching  history  in  the 
Gibson  High  School. 

Eleanor  Vanneman  Benson  (Mrs.  C.  H.) 
acted  as  secretary  to  the  Boy  Scouts  in 
Greensboro  during  the  winter. 

Emma  Leah  Watson  Perrett  (Mrs.  G.  W.) 
is  teaching  the  fifth  grade  in  the  Sara  J. 
Peck  School,  Greensboro. 

Mozelle  Yelton  is  teaching  piano  in  Wall- 
burg,   and   enjoys   doing   it. 

Elizabeth  Young  enjoyed  a  bus  trip  through 
the  West  last  summer.  Several  other  N.C.C. 
alumnae  were  also  along. 

Carolyn  Zoeller  was  a  member  of  Camp 
May-Mo-Da-Yo,  near  Cornish,  Maine,  last 
summer,  and  had  a  wonderful  time.    She  says 


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that  all  the  physical  education  teachers  in  the 
Durham  schools  are  N.C.C.  girls,  except  two. 
Carolyn  has  work  in  grades  one  to  seven, 
inclusive. 

CLASS  OF  1927 

Katherine  Tighe,  Vice-President 

Temple  Williams,  Secretary 

Frances  Eudisill  has  finished  her  third  year 
as  teacher  of  physical  education,  and  last  year 
was  promoted  from  grammar  school  to  the 
junior  high.  She  visited  in  New  York  last 
summer. 

Katherine  Gregory  sailed  early  in  June  for 
Europe  where  she  will  spend  the  summer. 
Just  previous  to  leaving,  she  went  to  Johns 
Hopkins,  where  she  received  her  M.A.  degree 
in  Romance  Languages.  During  the  winter, 
in  addition  to  her  work  as  a  member  of  the 
college  faculty,  she  was  active  in  the  Greens- 
boro Junior  League,  and  was  the  chairman 
of  the  Junior  League  Book  Club. 

Cynthia  Eeeves  has  been  for  two  or  three 
months  at  King's  Park  Hospital,  King's 
Park,  N.  Y. 

Sarah  Richardson  is  still  teaching  at  the 
Children's  Home  in  Winston-Salem  and  is 
very,  very  happy  in  her  work  there.  STie 
says  her  boys  and  girls  are  so  wonderful  she 
believes  she  is  getting  younger,  instead  of 
older,  teaching  them! 

Katherine  Hardeman  has  been  promoted  to 
the  head  of  the  physical  education  depart- 
ment in  the  Woman 's  College  of  Alabama,  at 
Montgomery.  This  recognition  comes  to  her 
after  two  years  as  teacher  in  the  department. 
Grace  Hankins,  '29,  will  be  her  assistant  next 
year. 

Katherine  Tighe  is  spending  her  second 
summer  at  Columbia  University,  working 
toward  her  coveted  M.A.  degree.  She  says 
New  York  fascinates  her,  even  though  a  trip 
to  Euope  is  still  "in  the  offing." 

Mary  Elizabeth  Smith  Nolin  (Mrs.  Gaston 
A.)  is  living  now  "just  under  the  Palisades," 
as  she  describes  the  village,  near  New  York 
City.  She  and  her  husband  and  their  two 
little  girls  are  all  so  happy  to  have  a  real 
home  of  their  own  after  so  much  journeying 
around.  They  have  taken  a  lovely  sunny 
house  with  another  family  of  French-Cana- 
dians, who  have  three  little  girls.  The  two 
families  speak  French  or  English  equally 
well — except  Elizabeth,  who  says  she  is 
struggling  to  keep  up  with  her  small  Marta 
V.  at  least!  She  had  a  visit  from  Miss  Lavery 
during  the  Christmas  holidays.  Miss  Lavery 
is  teaching  at  Wellesley,  but  this  summer, 
and  we  understand  next  year  also,  will  accom- 
pany a  group  of  Eastern  college  girls  who  will 
study  in   Spain. 

Margaret  Noell  teaches  geography  in  the 
sixth  and  seventh  grades  in  Durham. 


Fannie  Holmes  Gates  is  spending  her  sec- 
ond year  at  the  college,  a  teacher  in  the 
school  of  home  economics. 

Annette  Osborne  spent  last  year  again  in 
Chapel  Hill,  working  toward  a  Ph.D.  degree. 

Aline  Parker  Witt  (Mrs.  Hugh  M.)  lives  in 
Richmond.  She  spent  a  pleasant  summer 
visiting  in  North  Carolina,  and  went  as  usual 
to  their  summer  camp  on  the  Cow  Pasture 
River  near  Hot  Springs,  where  Aline  says 
she  met  and  won  the  "cause"  of  her  happi- 
ness. 

Jennie  D.  Ligon  is  spending  her  second  sum- 
mer at  Peabody  College,  doing  graduate  work. 
She  is  majoring  in  the  field  of  textiles  and 
minoring  in  economics,  and  when  she  wrote 
was  considering  the  important  question  of  a 
subject  for  her  thesis.  Jennie  D.  spent  part 
of  last  summer  at  the  University  of  Virginia. 

Lilian  Pearson  Brinton  (Mrs.  Hugh,  Jr.)  is 
an  instructor  in  the  correspondence  depart- 
ment of  the  extension  division  of  the  state 
university.  She  and  her  husband  are  both 
studying  in  the  university.  He  received  his 
Ph.D.  in  sociology  in  June,  and  Lilian  her 
M.A.  in  the  same  subject. 

Mollie  Parker  was  in  New  York  last  sum- 
mer, where  she  had  a  job  in  a  business  office. 
She  took  several  interesting  trips,  including 
one  to  West  Point  and  Annapolis,  while  there, 
and  returned  to  North  Carolina  this  fall. 

Dorothy  Pickard  has  taught  second  grade 
in  the  same  school  in  Washington  ever  since 
she  graduated.  She  says  she  is  very  happy  in 
the  profession  of  teaching. 

Hilda  Price  has  the  work  in  science  in  the 
Prospect  High   School,  Monroe. 

Mary  Louise  Ragland  graduated  from  the 
Carnegie  Library  S'chool,  Atlanta,  last  spring, 
and  this  past  year  has  had  a  position  in  the 
public  library,  Danville,  Va.  Last  summer 
she  worked  in  the  library  at  the  University 
of  Florida. 

Mary  Louise  Respess  is  teacher  of  mathe- 
matics and  Latin  in  the  high  school  at  Red 
Oak. 

Cynthia  Reeves  had  a  novel  experience  last 
summer  selling  Volume  Library.  She  said  she 
got  a  lot  of  "kick"  out  of  the  effort,  some 
valuable  experience,  and  met  some  interesting 
people.  She  also  reached  the  decision  that 
two  months  was  enough  for  her!  She  is 
teaching  the  sixth  grade  at  Newell. 

Helen  Rowell  has  the  work  in  mathematics 
in  the  high  school,  Hertford.  She  says  that 
they  are  using  one  hour  periods  this  year — 
half  an  hour  for  recitation,  half  an  hour  for 
supervised  study,  and  the  number  of  failures 
is  decreasing. 

Louise  C.  Smith  spent  last  summer  in  the 
Clark  House  Settlement  Camp,  Valley  Cot- 
tage, N.  Y.  She  says  that  dealing  with  so 
many   different  nationalities   was   a  new   and 


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fascinating  experience  for  lici'.  Louise  iw 
again  in  Danville,  teaching  KngliHli  in  the 
George   Washington   High   School. 

Nina  Smith  is  secretary  to  the  principal  of 
Central  High  School,  Charlotte. 

Rebekah  Smith  is  teaching  sixth  grade  in 
the  Burton  Grove  School,  Leaksville. 

Mary  Donnell  Smoot  and  Virginia  Batte, 
'28,  spent  two  weeks  last  summer  seeing  all 
the  sights  from  Washington  to  New  York. 
They  met  N.  C.  girls  everywhere — Columbia 
University  was  full  of  them.  In  Allentown, 
Pa.,  they  visited  Fuzzy  Beam  Van  Dusen. 
Bonnie  says  that  of  course  they  know  all 
there  is  to  know  about  the  "Nawth"  now, 
and  to  ask  them  w^hat  they  didn't  see! 

Frances  Spratt  teaches  home  economics  in 
the  Hendersonville  High  School. 

Irene  Stone  Lineberry  (Mrs.  R.  E.)  writes 
that  she  and  her  husband  are  now  living  in 
their  new  home,  recently  built  on  Bessemer 
Avenue,  Greensboro.  She  finds  homemaking 
in  one 's  own  new  house  great  fun. 

Lucy  Wellons  is  connected  with  the  Ken- 
tucky Library   Commission   as   organizer. 

Pauline  Whitaker  Moose  (Mrs.  H.  A.)  was 
among  those  who  attended  the  Seminar  last 
fall.    She  is  living  at  Mount  Pletisant. 

Jeanette  Whitfield  teaches  social  science  in 
the  New  London  High  School. 

Welda  Worth  Williams  spent  her  vacation 
last  year  in  New  York  City,  visiting  Isabel 
Brinson,  '24- '26.  Welda  says  that  Isabel  had 
just  completed  a  three-year  art  course  at 
Peter  Cooper  Union.  They  had  a  wonderful 
time,  enjoying  the  theatres  and  going  "sight- 
seeing. " 

Annie  Willis  is  teaching  public  school  music 
in  all  the  grades  of  the  Belmont  school. 

Julia  Anna  Yancey  spent  six  weeks  in 
Baltimore  last  summer,  studying  at  Johns 
Hopkins  University  and  Peabody  Conserva- 
tory  of  Music. 

Mabel  E.  Young  Moser  (Mrs.  A.  M.)  and 
her  husband  spent  last  summer  studying  at 
the  University  of  Wisconsin,  Madison. 

CLASS  OF  1928 

Teeny  Welton,  President 

Frances  Gibson  Satterfield,  Secretary 

Lucile  Sharp  went  to  Washington  City 
early  in  January  to  begin  her  work  as  junior 
botanist  in  the  department  of  agriculture, 
having  received  her  appointment  through  a 
civil  service  examination  taken  sometime 
earlier. 

Katharine  Shenk  has  studied  organ  at  the 
college  for  the  two  years  since  her  gradua- 
tion, and  on  May  23,  gave  a  charming  gradu- 
ating recital  in  the  recital  hall  of  the  Music 
Building.  Geneva  Phillips,  '30,  pianist,  shared 
the  evening  with  her. 


Mli/a  lict  h  l>fk(,y  Hpcnt  a  wliile  in  WaHh- 
ingtoii,  1)111  will  lie  at  home  niOHt  of  the 
summer. 

Ina  Stamper  said  at  commencement  that 
she  was  on  the  liunt  for  a  job  that  would 
permit  her  to  remain  in  the  South  for  a  few 
years. 

Mary  Lou  I'lillcr  is  doing  work  in  the  Co- 
lumbia   University   library   thi.s  summer. 

Ruth  Henley  has  been  teacher  of  biology 
at  High  Point  College  for  the  past  two  yearg. 
She  has  resigned,  however,  and  we  hear  she 
plans  to  enter  medical  school  this  fall. 

Pattie  Webb  is  an  interested  member  of  the 
Blue  Triangle  League  of  the  Greensboro 
Y.W.C.A.  and  recently  captured  first  honors 
in  a  one-act  play  presented  by  the  Triangle 
in  the  Y.W.  Hut  to  an  appreciative  audience. 

Blanche  Raper  says,  "I  expect  t<r  eat, 
sleep,  and  if  I  get  a  chance,  earn  an  honest 
living  this  summer!" 

Mary  Holladay  is  at  her  home  in  Franklin- 
ville   this   summer. 

Lucile  Boone  is  abroad  this  summer,  having 
joined  a  group  of  faculty  members  from  Duke 
University  who  sailed  early  in  June.  The 
Coronia,  on  which  they  had  passage,  docked 
in  England,  but  the  party  later  travelled  on 
the  continent. 

Hannah  Wearn  has  been  doing  case  work 
since  September  29  with  the  American  Red 
Cross   in   Birmingham,   Ala. 

Congratulations  to  Rebecca  Ward  on  win- 
ning her  M.A.  degree  at  the  University  of 
North   Carolina   in   June. 

Beulah  Stout  is  teaching  English  in  a  con- 
solidated high  school  in  Pasquotank  County 
and  enjoying  life  immensely,  as  well  as  the 
job. 

Mary  Hazel  Swinson  teaches  home  eco- 
nomics and  biology  in  the  high  school  at 
Calypso. 

Katherine  Taylor  is  teaching  Freshman  at 
the  college — French,  of  course.  Katherine 
had  her  Master's  from  Radcliffe  last  June. 
She  has  a  room  near  the  campus,  but  takes 
meals  as  of  old  in  the  college  dining  room. 
She  is  teaching  in  the  summer  session  at  the 
college. 

Lottie  Towe  and  Fannie  Miller  are  enjoy- 
ing their  second  year  teaching  together  in 
the  same  school  in  Biltmore. 

Madge  Lucille  Tweed  says  she  hasn't 
changed  her  name  yet,  but  that  fact  doesn't 
keep  her  from  travelling  around.  She  spent 
last  summer  seeing  Virginia,  and  taught  for 
the  third  year  at  her  home  town,  Marshall, 
science  in  the  high  school. 

Blanche  Wade  is  teacher  of  French  and 
English  in  the  high  school  at  Lewisville. 


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CLASS  OF  1929 

Virgmia  KirlpatricJc,  President 
Era  Linl-er,  Secretary 

Violettemae  LaBarr  did  graduate  work  last 
year  at  North  Carolina  College.  Eead  her 
poem  on  another  page  of  the  News. 

Grace  Hankins  has  accepted  a  position  to 
teach  physical  education  next  year  in  the 
Woman's   College   of   Alabama. 

Edla  Best,  member  of  the  Burlington  High 
School  faculty,  had  the  honor  of  being  chosen 
"Miss  Burlington"  at  the  Greater  Burling- 
ton Fashion  and  Beauty  Extravaganza  held 
in  the  Carolina  Theatre  during  May. 

Gertrude  Grimsley  studied  at  the  college 
this  year  and  received  her  master's  degree, 
majoring  in  biology.  At  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  North  Carolina  Academy  of  Science 
held  at  Duke  University  early  in  May,  she 
read  an  abstract  from  her  thesis. 

CLASS  OF  1930 

Everlasting  officers:  president,  Betty  Sloan; 
vice  president,  Margaret  McConnell;  secre- 
tary, Edith  Webb;  treasurer,  Mattie-Moore 
Taylor. 

Colors,  green  and  white;  flower,  white  rose; 
motto,  truth. 

Class  Poem 

Watson  and  Shelley  we  read  side  by  side. 
Four  years  together  Parnassus  did  ride; 
But  no  longer,  AThat  pity,  our  roads   coincide 

Laughed  we  in  study  and  wept  we  in  play ! 
Steady   foundation   and   dreams   fair   and   gay! 
Now  with  blue  prints  and  singing  we  start  on 
our  way. 

Memories  white  banks  of  loveliness  lend! 
Soft  muddy  paths  we  have  fussed  through  with 

friend ! 
And   a   smile   and   a   tear  to   the   journey's   far 

end! 

Fancy  and  fact  be  our  jubilant  cry! 
Marvel  at  beauty,  at  once  asking  why! 
And  still  firm  on  the  earth,  let  us  reach  toward 
the   sky ! 

— Cecile  Lindaii. 

Class  Song 

Hail  to  our  class, 

The  class  of  Green  and  White, 
We  '11  keep  fore  'er 

Thy  colors  pure  and  bright. 
Our    motto,    * '  Truth, ' ' 

Forevermore  shall  be — 
Truth  to  the  world,  our  friends. 

Ourselves,   and  thee. 


■Oh,  Torch  of  Wisdom! 

Thou  shalt  be  our  guide; 
To  follow  thee 

Will  be  our  aim,  our  pride. 
And   Thirty,   dear. 

While   watching  thy  bright   flame 
Shall  bear  her   banner   on 

To  honor,  to  fame. 

Mattie-Moore  Taylor  won  the  coveted  Weil 
Fellowship,  and  will  spend  next  year  studying 
journalism. 

Edith  Webb  was  awarded  a  fellowship  for 
research  work  in  Sociology,  and  will  spend 
next  year  studying  at  the  University  of 
North  Carolina. 

Jean  Hewitt  was  awarded  the  prize  of 
twenty-five  dollars  for  contributing  the  best 
work  to  the  Coraddi  last  year. 

NECROLOGY 

In  Memoriam 

Marie  Jones,  of  the  class  of  1926,  whose 
death  resulted  on  April  29  from  an  automo- 
bile accident  near  Durham.  She  was  lovely  in 
all  ways,  and  her  passing  brought  great  sor- 
row to  her-  college  friends  and  classmates. 
After  her  graduation,  Marie  taught  at  the  col- 
lege as  an  assistant  in  general  biology.  The 
next  year  she  studied  at  the  University  of 
Hlinois,  receiving  her  M.A.  degree  in  botany 
in  June,  1928.  That  summer  she  was  at  the  col- 
lege once  more,  teaching  in  the  summer  ses- 
sion. The  following  winter  she  studied  again 
at  the  University  of  Illinois,  and  assisted  in 
the  Botany  Dei^artment.  But  in  the  fall  of 
1929,  she  accepted  a  full  position  as  teacher  of 
biology  in  Mountain  Park  Institute,  in  North 
Carolina,  and  while  on  a  visit  to  her  home 
in   Durham,   the   fatal   accident   occurred. 

We  extend  deepest  sympathy: 

To  Pearl  Wyche,  '03,  in  the  death  of  her 
brother,  Eichard  T.  Wyche,  nationally  known 
story  teller,  who  died  in  Washington  City 
early  in  May. 

To  May  Green,  '12,  whose  father  passed 
away  on\January  14,  in  Winston-Salem.  For 
three  years  he  had  made  his  home  there 
with  May,  and  his  going  leaves  her  alone  in 
the  home   again. 

To  Ila  Hensley,  '27,  in  the  death  of  her 
father,  Rev.  S.  T.  Hensley,  pastor  of  the 
Hilliard  Memorial  Baptist  Church,  May  11, 
in   High   Point. 

BIRTHS 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  T.  Shore  (Willie 
May  Stratford,  '14),  a  daughter,  Lelia  Laura, 
May  15,  Charlotte. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  B.  Arnold 
(Josephine  Moore,  '17),  a  son,  Robert  Bacon, 
Jr.,  May  19,  Richmond,  Va. 


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Born  to  Mr.  and  Mr.s.  Dowey  Morris  (Add it; 
Ehom  Banks,  '24),  a  daughter,  a  second  (diild, 
Barbara  Anne,  May  9,  Sternherger  f'liildrcn's 
Hospital,  Greensboro. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  M.  Hkippcr  (Mar- 
garet Ray  Patterson,  '25),  a  daiigliter,  Sallie 
Nunnally,  May  15,  Orlando,  Florida. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ernest  H.  Harring- 
ton (Annie  Meta  Brown,  '27),  a  daughter, 
Katharine  Lou,  May  19,  615i%  North  Camp- 
bell Street,  El  Paso,  Texas. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hugh  M.  Witt  (Aline 
Parker,  '27),  a  son,  Hugh  IVEcCleur,  Jr., 
April  6,   Richmond,  Va. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gaston  A.  Nolin 
(Mary  Elizabeth  S'mith,  '27),  a  second 
daughter,  Jacqueline  Alice,  December  23, 
1929. 

Born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Boydston  Satterfield 
(Frances  Gibson,  '28),  of  New  York  City,  a 
daughter,  Lenore,  April  8,  in  Raleigh. 

MARRIAGES 

Gladys  Newman,  '21,  to  Rev.  Carl  Web- 
ster Barbee,  December  24,  1929,  in  the  Metho- 
dist Episcopal  Church,  Clinton.  Immediately 
after  the  ceremony,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barbee  left 
by  motor  for  New  Jersey,  visiting  among 
other  things  en  route  the  airport  at  Lakehurst, 
Tom's  River,  Lakewood;  returning,  they 
spent  some  time  in  Philadelphia  and  Wash- 
ington. At  home  Seven  Springs,  where  Mr. 
Barbee  is  pastor  of  the  Seven  Springs  charge. 

Grace  Stone,  '23,  to  H.  C.  Kennett,  April 
8,  Grace  Methodist  Protestant  Church,  Greens- 
boro. Only  close  friends  and  relatives  were 
present.  The  chapel  was  appropriately  deco- 
rated with  palms  and  baskets  of  Easter  lilies, 
and  a  program  of  organ  music  was  rendered 
preceding  the  ceremony.  Grace  wore  a  blue 
suit  of  imported  tweed  and  carried  an  arm 
bouquet  of  Talisman  roses  and  Parma  violets. 
After  her  graduation,  Grace  taught  English 
for  a  year  in  Monticello  High  School,  but 
since  that  time  has  been  assistant  seed 
analyst  in  the  State  Department  of  Agricul- 
ture. The  bridegroom  received  his  M.A.  degree 
from  State  College,  and  is  connected  with  the 
State  Department  of  Agriculture.  At  home 
Raleigh. 

Mary  Catherine  Hight,  '25,  to  Edward  Cas- 
tello  Laughlin,  May  30,  at  the  home  of  the 
bride 's  parents,  Henderson.  Only  members 
of  the  immediate  families  were  present  for 
the  ceremony.  After  her  graduation,  Cather- 
ine taught  history,  first  in  Greensboro  High 
School,  and  later  in  Henderson,  her  home.  The 
groom  is  president  of  the  Mixon  Jewelry 
Company. 

Marie  Coxe,  '26,  to  Ross  Matheson,  March 
22,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  mother,  Red 
Springs.    Long  leaf  pine  and  southern  smilax 


roriiM-d  the  irnjjroviHfd  altar  in-fori;  which 
the  wedding  vowh  wei<;  Hpoken.  The;  bride 
was  gowned  in  a  hliie  enHemblc  and  carried 
;iii  arm  l;(>ii(|nct  of  pink  roKew  and  KwanHoriia. 
She  was  attended  by  her  HiHter,  Af^nes  f.'oxe, 
'27,  as  maid  of  honor.  8ince  her  graduation, 
Marie  has  taught  in  the  schools  of  Greens- 
boro and  Taylorsville.  After  a  motor  trip  to 
Charleston,  the  bride  and  groom  returned  to 
Taylorsville,   where   they  are   at   home. 

Sarah  Lee  Goode,  '26,  to  William  Anderson 
Hambright,  May  30,  Blacksburg,  S.  C.  Since 
graduation,  Sarah  has  taught  successfully  in 
the  public  school  system  of  her  home  town. 
At  home  now  Grover. 

Lettie  Whitt,  '28,  to  Horace  Argyle  Teass, 
February  16,  in  the  Church  of  the  Trans- 
figuration, New  York.  Since  her  graduation 
from  college  Lettie  has  been  assistant  libra- 
rian at  Virginia  Polytechnic  Institute,  Blacks- 
burg. Mr.  Teass  is  a  graduate  of  the  T'ni- 
versity  of  Virginia  and  a  former  instructor 
there,  but  is  now  engaged  in  practicing  cor- 
poration law  in  New  York  City.  Lettie  has  a 
position  in  the  central  New  York  Public 
Library.  At  home  315  W.  92nd  Street,  New 
York.  " 

Mildred  Jean  Uzzell,  '29,  to  Elbert  Lam- 
bert Veasey,  May  10,  Detroit,  Michigan.  Pre- 
vious to  receiving  her  degree  in  1929,  Mildred 
taught  school  in  North  Carolina  and  in  Marj-- 
land.  Mr.  Veasey  was  also  a  teacher  and 
principal  for  several  years  in  North  Carolina. 
He  enlisted  in  the  World  War,  and  is  now 
first  lieutenant  in  the  Reserve  Officers  Medi- 
cal Corps.  At  present  he  is  connected  with 
the  Ford  Motor  Company,  of  Detroit.  At 
home  Harwill  Manor,  1453  Hubbard  Street, 
Detroit. 

Annis  Snoot,  'IS- '21,  to  Robert  Lynn  Trout, 
May  15,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's  parents, 
Concord.  Only  the  immediate  members  of  the 
family  were  present,  and  there  were  no  at- 
tendants, the  bride  and  bridegroom  entering 
together.  For  several  years,  Annis  had  held 
a  secretarial  position  in  High  Point,  where 
she  lived  with  her  aunt,  Eleanor  Watson  An- 
drews, '00.  Previous  to  the  wedding,  many 
charming  social  courtesies  were  extended  her 
by  her  High  Point  friends.  Patte  Jordan.  "20. 
was  among  those  who  entertained  at  the  home 
of  her  sister,  Oetavia  Jordan  Perry.  "16.  for 
the  popular  bride-elect.  The  bridegroom  is 
travelling  representative  of  the  Adams-Millis 
Corporation,  of  St.  Louis.  At  home  4926  Lac- 
lede Avenue,  St.  Louis. 

Margaret  Barnes,  '23- "24,  to  Solomon  K. 
Wells,  May  11,-  Winston-Salem.  During  the 
last  year  Margaret  has  been  with  the  Jeffer- 
son Standard  Life  Insurance  Company.  Mr. 
Wells  is  connected  with  the  Wiggins  Auto 
Company.      After     a     trip     through     western 


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North  Carolina,  they  are  at  home  in  Greens- 
boro. 

Eebecca  Forrest  Covington,  '23- '24,  to  John 
Thomas  Smoot,  April  12,  Eockingham.  The 
marriage  took  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride. 
The  home  was  decorated  throughout  the  lower 
floor  with  white  iris,  spirea,  dogwood,  and 
greens.  The  bride  was  gowned  in  an  ensemble 
suit  of  bright  blue  canton  crepe,  trimmed 
with  touches  of  flesh  colored  lace.  Hat,  gloves 
and  bag  matched.  Her  corsage  was  made  of 
orchids  and  valley  lilies.  She  entered  with 
her  brother,  Ned  Covington,  who  gave  her  in 
marriage.  Eebecca  has  for  several  years 
been  bookkeeper  of  the  Richmond  Insurance 
and  Eealty  Company.  Mr.  Smoot  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  Clemson  College,  and  is  head  of  a 
men 's  ready-to-wear  and  furnishing  depart- 
ment store  at  Everglades,  Fla.,  where  he  and 
his  bride  are  at  home. 

Anne  Elizabeth  Brown,  '24- '25,  to  Frank 
E.  Woody,  April  12,  Danville,  Va.  The  mar- 
riage took  place  at  the  home  of  the  bride 's 
parents  with  only  the  immediate  families  at- 
tending. The  bride  was  attired  in  a  travel- 
ling suit  of  orchid  tweed.  Her  hat  was  orchid 
and  all  accessories  were  beige.  She  wore  a 
shoulder  corsage  of  orchids  and  valley  lilies. 
The  bride  and  groom  are  at  home  in  Charlotte. 

Anita  Long,  '25- '27,  to  Winburn  F.  Craft, 
February  22,  at  the  home  of  the  bride's 
parents,  Tobaccoville.  The  wedding  vows 
were  spoken  before  an  improvised  altar  in 
the  living  room,  which  was  decorated  for  the 
occasion  with  spring  flowers,  and  lighted  by 
candles.  There  were  no  attendants,  but  a 
musical  program  included  a  voice  number, 
"Believe  Me  if  All  Those  Endearing  Young 
Charms. ' '  The  wedding  march  from  Lohen- 
grin was  used  as  a  processional.  Only  the 
immediate  members  of  the  two  families  were 


present,  and  these  were  guests  at  a  buffet 
supper  served  after  the  ceremony.  Since  her 
graduation  Anita  has  taught  in  the  schools 
at  Lewisville.  She  is  a  sister  of  Dorothy 
Long,   '29.    At  home  Lewisville. 

Margaret  Eamsay  Witherspoon,  '25- '26,  to 
Ferdinand  Bowman  Price,  III,  April  22, 
Greensboro.  Mr.  Price  is  an  alumnus  of  Wash- 
ington and  Lee  University  and  a  member  of 
Phi  Gamma  Delta  fraternity.  He  is  manager 
of  the  F.  B.  Price  poultry  plant  in  Salisbury, 
where  he  and  his  bride  are  at  home. 

Jane  Elizabeth  Phipps,  '26- '27,  to  Eobert 
E'arl  Holt,  April  1,  at  the  home  of  Mrs. 
Blanche  Lambe,  Greensboro.  The  bride  was 
attended  by  her  cousin,  Mary  Lynch  Phipps, 
'30,  as  maid  of  honor.  Prior  to  the  entrance  of 
the  bridal  party,  Margaret  McConnell,  '30, 
played  "Meditation"  from  "Thais,"  and 
Blanche  Keith  sang  "At  Dawning."  The 
vows  were  spoken  before  an  improvised  altar 
of  cathedral  candles,  Easter  lilies,  southern 
smilax  and  palms  placed  in  the  west  living 
room  of  the  home.  The  bride  wore  a  three- 
piece  suit  of  pirate  blue  telga  cloth,  with  ac- 
cessories to  match.  Only  intimate  friends 
and  relatives  were  present  for  the  ceremony 
and  the  wedding  luncheon  which  followed. 
After  the  luncheon  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holt  left 
for  a  trip  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  where  they  will 
live  temporarily. 

Euth  Stout,  '26- '27,  to  W.  E.  Eierson, 
March  20,  Greensboro.  The  bride  wore  a  tan 
tweed  ensemble,  with  blouse  of  tan  crepe,  and 
accessories  to  match.  Her  flowers  were  a 
shoulder  corsage  of  Pernet  roses.  Mr.  Eier- 
son is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Guilford-For- 
syth Company.  After  a  motor  trip  to  western 
North  Carolina  they  will  be  at  home  509  East 
Bragg  Steet,  Greensboro. 


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Whether  you  patronize  No.  1  on  South  Elm  Street,  No.  2  on  West  Market, 
No.  3  on  North  Elm,  or  No.  4  on  South  Elm,  you  will  find  the  lowest  prices 
and  the  best  there  is  in  DRUGS,  STATIONERY,  DRUG  SUNDRIES. 
KODAKS,  FOUNTAIN  PENS,  FINE  CANDIES,  and  all  American  and 
Imported  Toilet  Articles.     Service  unexcelled. 

CURB  SERVICE  ELITE 

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Morrison-Neese  Furniture  Company 

Largest  in  the  Carolinas 
112  S.  Greene  St.  Greensboro,  N.  C. 


Mabel  Jennings,  '27- '29,  to  Baxtor  A. 
Moose,  March  29.  Mr.  Moose  is  a  graduate  of 
Lenoir-Ehyne  College,  and  is  director  of  ath- 
letics and  instructor  in  science  in  the  Old 
Fort  High  School.  After  a  motor  trip  to 
Charleston,  South  Carolina,  they  are  at  home 
in  Old  Fort. 

Elizabeth  Jones,  '27- '29,  to  William  Nelson 
Mead,  April  19,  Greensboro.  Mr.  Mead  is  an 
alumnus  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania, 
and  is  connected  with  George  C.  Brown  and 
Company  in  Greensboro.  At  home  Greensboro. 

Louise  Mayes,  '28,  of  Greensboro,  to  Wal- 
ter M.  Swarts,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut, 
June  17,  Church  of  the  Transfiguration,  New 
York  City.  The  bride  and  groom  were  un- 
attended and  only  a  small  group  of  immediate 
relatives  were  present  for  the  ceremony. 
Louise  wore  a  three-piece  ensemble,  'of  blue 
crepe,  with  egg-shell  accessories,  and  a  shoul- 
der corsage  of  orchids  and  valley  lilies.  Since 
her  graduation  from  college,  Louise  taught 
one  year  at  Erwin,  and  last  year  in  Greens- 
boro. Her  husband  studied  at  the  San  Diego 
Academy  of  Fine  and  Applied  Arts  and  at  the 
Beaux  Arts  Institute,  San  Diego.  He  is  con- 
nected with  the  firm  of  Chester  A.  Patterson, 
architects,   New  York. 

Lorna  Mae  Wilson,  '29,  to  James  Edgar 
Wiseman,  June  14,  Queen  Street  Methodist 
Church,  Kinston.  A  program  of  organ  and 
voice,  with  violin  obligate,  preceded  the 
speaking  of  the  vows.  The  bride  was  charm- 
ingly gowned  in  a  chiffon  ensemble  of  deli- 
cate pink,  with  picture  hat  and  slippers  to 
match.  Lisbeth  Parrott,  '25,  was  one  of  the 
four  bridesmaids.  Last  year  Lorna  Mae 
taught  public  school  music  in  Kinston  and 
sang  in  the  church  choir.  The  bridegroom  is 
a  business  man.  After  their  wedding  trip 
north,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wiseman  are  at  home 
in  Elkin. 

''The  Place  of  Gift  Suggestions" 

Party  Favors,  S'tationery,  Books,  Book 

Ends,  Fancy  Goods,  Pictures,  Etc. 

Mail  Orders  Given  Prompt  Attention 

Wills  Book  &  Stationery  Co. 

107  South  Greene  Street 
Greensboro,  N.  C. 


Harrison  Printing  Company 

PRINTING— BINDING— RULING 
OFFICE  SUPPLIES 

E.  Sycamore  St.  Greensboro,  N.  C 

KENDALL 

THE  PRINTER 

216  N.  Elm  St.  Greensboro,  N.  C 

Odell  Hardware  Compann 

"The  Carolinas'  Greatest  Hardware  and 
Sporting  Goods  House" 

Greensboro,  N.  C. 

W.  H.  FISHER  CO. 

PRINTING— ENGRAVING 

110  East  Gaston  Street 
Greensboro,  N.  C. 

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117  W.  Sycamore  St.  Greensboro,  N.  C 

Office  Hours  Telephones 

8:30—1:00  Office  30 

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The  North  Carolina  College 
for  Women 


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The  institution  includes  the  following  divisions: 

I.    THE  COLLEGE  OF  LIBERAL  ARTS  AND  SCIENCES,  which 
is  composed  of: 

( 1 )  The  Faculty  of  Languages 

(2)  The  Faculty  of  Mathematics  and  Science 

(3)  The  Faculty  of  the  Social   Sciences 

(4)  Department  of  Health 

(a)  Medicine 

(b)  Hygiene 

!  (c)  Physical  Education 

:  II.    THE  SCHOOL  OF  EDUCATION 


III.    THE  SCHOOL  OF  HOME  ECONOMICS 


IV.    THE  SCHOOL  OF  MUSIC 


;  The  equipment  is  modern  in  every  respect,  including  furnished 

;  dormitories,   library,   laboratories,   literary  society   halls,    gymnasium, 

Jl  athletic  grounds.  Teacher  Training  School,  music  rooms,  etc. 

!|  The  first  semester  begins  in  September,  the  second  semester  in 

;  February,  and  the  summer  term  in  June. 


i  For  catalogue  and  other  information,  address 


An  A-i  Grade  College  Maintained  by  North 

Carolina  for  the  Education  of  the  1 

Women  of  the  State  !; 


:  JULIUS    I.    FOUST,  President 

Greensboro,  N.  C. 

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(INTERS,   GREENSBOR 


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Everything  for  the  office 


225  South  Davie  Street 


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