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FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, THURSDAY. MAY 28, 1942
Junior-Senior Prom Scheduled Saturday Dodson To Lead Figure; Officers Escorts Assist Featuring music which follows Ihc modern dance band trend, sweeter and smoother harmony will be oflered by the Lynchburg Cavaliers when students are Riven an opportunity to relax from grueling examinations in the College gym Saturday night. May 30. at the Junior-Senior prom from 9 o'clock until 2 o'clock. At 11:20. preceding intermission. Mary (Catherine Dodson, president of the senior class, will lead the figure escorted by Hunter Murphy. Assisting her will be Jane Engleby with Graham Haynie. Nancy Dupuy with Dick Barbert. and Martha Roberts with Sam Dobyns. In the figure will be all senior class members and the junior class officers. Following the figure there will be a no break dance for those participating in the figure. 1'irMflrnt Receives The leceiving line will include Dr. J. L. Jarman. Miss Mary White Cox, Miss Rachel Royall, Miss Olive T. Her. Mary Kathciuie Dodson. and Betty Boutchard. Chaperones for the dance include: Dr. J. L. Jarman, Mis? Mary White Cox. Miss Rachel Royall. Miss Olive T Her. Miss Elizabeth Burger. Mr. Raymond rirtr.h. Mrs. Edith Warren. Mrs. J. A. Tabb, Mrs. R. H. Dugger. Mrs. Edwin Lancaster. Mr. and If] S. L. Gri>hanv »• Anioiia Tutles. Dr. G. W. Jeffers. Miss Pauline Camper. Mrs Hallie Laing. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Holton, and Mr. and Mrs T. A. McCorkle Spring colors will predominate in the decorations in the gym. In charge of decorations is Mary Frances Bowles. Ada Claire Snyder is in charge of the music committee: Margaret Kitchin is figure director; Elizabeth Walls Is in charge of tickets, and Leona Moomaw is chairman of the floor committee. On the floor committee are Charlotte Greeley. Jac Hardy, and Lucy Davis. Charlotte Phillips is general chairman for the dance.
Fourteen Awarded Literary Degrees Fourteen juniors and seniors recently were awarded the first degree in Beorc Eh Thorn. English honor society. For the first degree a students must have 27 credit hours of English with a B average. She must have a C average on all other courses. An original piece of writing must have been accepted and approved by the committee on degrees before promotion to this rank. Those girls receiving first degree aie Marie Davis. Smithfield; Marie Brickert, Farmville; Ann Fitzgerald. Lynchburg; Jane McGinnis, Roanoke; Martha Hammock, Blackstone; Mary Hunter Edmunds, Danville; Allene Overbey, Chatham; Florence Thierry, Roanoke; Mary Stuart Walmsley. Farmvllh ; May Wertz. Roanoke: Violet Woodall. Norfolk; Margaret Wright, Richmond: and Myrtle Harrison. Rocky Mount. Two seniors were conferred the second degree. To be eligible for this award students must have taken 36 hours of English with a B average, a C average on all other work, and must have made outstanding literary contributions to the school. Allene Overbey, twice editor of the Colonnade, and May Wertz.edltor of the 1941 Virginian and managing editor of the 1942 Virginian, were granted the second degree.
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Choirs, Choral Club Give Sacred Concert In Final Performance Sunday evening at the Farmville Methodist Church, the State Teachers College Choir and Choral Club presented their last public performance of the year. Group singing included the College Choir. Senior ACapella. Junior A'Capella. Madrigal Group, and the Choral Club. Soloists weir Peggy Bellas and Patricia Mriddox. The sacred concert began at 8 o'clock and the program included Cherubic Hymn by Bortniasky. Junior A'Capella Choir: Mallot's Lord's Prayer. Pat Maddox: The Night is Calm and Cloudless by Sullivan. Senior A'Capella Choir; Alhtsens The Lord Is My Light. Choral Club: Schubert's Ave Maria. Peggy Bellus: and How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling from Brahm's Requiem. College Choir. The college choir has gained nation wide recognition through the broadcasting of Brahms Requiem early in April. The music groups have been asked by Dr. R. Noble to return to St. Thomas Church. New York City, where [ they sang on the spring tour, and | Mr. S. LaPrade of the National Broadcasting Company, for a return performance next year.
Seniors Set New Class Day Mark
First Aid Group Forms Detachment
Graduates Depart From Aged Custom
Dormitory Posls Erected on Campus
Departing from the custom of iiting gifts to the seniors on Class Day, Elizabeth Ann Parker and Polly Hughes, giftorians of the Class of 1942. will give each member of the senior class her eift at the traditional Senior banquet to be held at Longwood on Friday night, May 29. Red and White will be the color scheme at the banquet and the senior class colors will pre dominate in the decorations and flower arrangements. The theme of the toasts will relate to men in the various branches of national service, army navy, marines, and the coast guard. Invited guests will include Dr. J. L. Jarman. Miss Mary White Cox. Miss Virgilia Bugg. Miss Winnie Hiner and Dr. James Elliott Walmsley. Dr. Walmsley will speak to the seniors at the banquet. In chaige of the banquet are Mary {Catherine Dodson. president of the senior class who will be toast mistress. Martha Roberts, vice-president; Jane Engleby. treasurer, and Nancy Dupuy. secretary.
Alpha Phi Sigma Installs Williams, Other New Officers Sara Bud Williams of Woodstock was installed a., president of the Delta Chapter of Alpha D hi Sigma by Ni lie Qulni retiring president at an installation service last week. Other officers installed were Marilyn Bell, vice - president; Mary Franklin Woodward, recording secretary; Mary Sterrett. I corresponding secretary; Mary Anne Jarrett. treasurer, and Mary | Elizabeth Harvey, reporter. Retiring officers were Nelle Quinn. Rosemary Elam. Louise Bell, and Frances Lee Hawthorne. At the same meeting Betty Overcash was reinstated as a member after a quarter's absence. It was announced that Nelle Quinn and Margaret Barksdale are also eligible for the Master's Degree of Alpha Phi Sigma. Alpha Phi Sigma is a national scholarship fraternity and the only such fraternity of its kind on this campus open to freshmen and sophomores.
Sponsored by the College War Council a Fin t Aid Detachment has been formed and is now operating at State Teachers College. Under the direction of Shirley Turner, chairman of the First Aid Committee of the War Council, the detachment is composed of three squads with three First Aid posts, one on second floor Rotunda, one on first floor Student, and one in Cunningham Hall. Squad leaders are Caroline Caldwell. for Student. Annex, and White House: Nell Holloway, for Gym. Main, and Library; and Nancye Allen, for Junior and Senior Building. Composing the detachment are fifteen girls who have completed the Standard and Advanced Courses in First Aid. They are Ruth Rose, Ruth Kersey, Nell Holloway; Nell Scott. Tee Overbey. Ann Engart. Lacy Roe. Caroline Caldwell. Lucy Davis. Libby Bernard. Anne Ellett. Nancye Allen. Shirley Turner, Margaret Wi »ter, Frances Mallory. Susan Durette. Alice Feitig. and Jane Moseley. Those who have instructed the First Aid Courses are Miss Mary Barlow. Miss Elizabeth Burger. Nancy Dupuy, and Shirley Turner. In each of the three posts the equipment includes two standard stretchers, splints, cravat bandages, and a First Aid kit. Approximately 45 dollars has been contributed toward this First Aid equipment by the senior class, the junior class. Alpha Kappa Gamn.i. Boerc Eh Thorn, and the Rotunda.
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Dot Childress Heads 1943 Cotillion Club f
In a spirited election Dot Chilmnior from Christ iansburg. MM elected president of the Cotillion Club at a called meeting of the club on Friday night. May 22.
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j House Council Names ! Assistants to Mish A. K. G. Selects New Margaret Mish. president of the Officers at Meeting House Council has announced that 17 Hall presidents have been chosen to assist on the council for 1942-43. These are. for Student Building, second floor. Harriet Moore; third floor. Sally Robertson; Annex, first floor. Sara Bird Williams: second. Betty Agnew, and Betty Cross; third. Martha Higgins; Gym. second, Mary Elizabeth Harvey; third, Mary William Calvert; Main, fecond floor, Dodie Jones: third. Jane Johnson; Junior Building, first floor, Mary Elizabeth Grizzard: second. Mildred Continued on Page 4
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Helen Wiley Hardy, of Farmville. was chosen leader of the 1943 Spring Cotillion figure. Jean Hatton. of Richmond, was selected secretary-treasurer, and Frances Parham. of Petersburg, will serve as business manager. Dot Childress. who will succeed Anne Boswell as head of the organization, was a member of Mardi Gras and May Day courts this year, is the present head of the USO committee on the College War Council, and was chairman of her class production this year. She is also vice-president of Pi Kappa Sigma sorority. Hardy Succeeds Shannon Helen Wiley Hardy, who succeeds Mary Lou Shannon, has been in May Court for the past three years. She worked on the Sophomore Commission and is now secretary of Pi Gamma Mu and Pan-Hellenic representative for Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. Jean Hatton will take over the position held by Dorothy Lawrence this year. She is president of Pi Gamma Mu and Beta Pi Theta and is a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha sororltv Frances Parham, who will succeed Harriet Cantrell as business manager, is vice-president of the Monogram Club, was varsity basketball manager this year and is a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. She was co-chairman of her class production in 1941. Mr. M. B. Coyner was reelecled faculty sponsor for 1943 at the same meeting, and the club members decided to name a parliamentarian in the Fall. Two dances are sponsored each year by the Cotillion Club. This year Jimmie Cannon furnished music for the Fall Cotillion, and Barry McKinley played for the
Betty Boutchard, president of the junior class, was elected treasurer of the Joan Circle of Alpha Kappa Gamma to replace Lucy Turnbull at a meeting of the group Wednesday night. May 20. Upon the resignation of Winifrcd Wright as editor of the Alumnae Magazine for 1943. Mar' garet Mish was selected to take Spring dance over this position. The purpose of the Cotillion Betty Boutchard and Margaret Mish were both tapped by the Club is to emphasize good danchonorary fraternity for leadership ing as a means of social enjoyin the Spring tapping ceremony. meii'
Farmville Alumna Authors Biography "Poe's Richmond" Miss Agnes M. Bondurant. a teacher in the Farmville High School and a graduate of Faimville State Teacher;; College is the author of "Poe s Richmond a book just released by Garrett & Massie, Richmond publishers. In "Poe's Richmond" to quote the publishers' statement. the life and ideas of Poe have been interwoven with the history and culture of early n.i i ntury Richmond so as to reveal both writer and city in an unprejudiced manner". It is pointed out that in the past literary historians and writers have minimized or i the wrong interpretation upon connection with Richmond, and Miss Bondurant hopes that her book may serve as a nvatis
of helping to cornet such vroni Impression
PART of the S. T. ('. students and Army guests from Camp Picket!. Blackstone. who migrated lo Ihe "Kiev" Friday nigh! to alend Ihe I'SO nartv. Notice "Sa^ie" fline rushing from slag line See page .1 for additional nholos.
Hardy Elected Leader; Hatton, Parham Chosen
the city. In fact, many of Virginia'! first sons—Jefferson, Marshall, Madison, Monroe, and Randolph of Roanoke—were in and out ol Richmond during Poe's lifetime there. "Poe's Richmond" la an excellent biography and Is thoroughly indexed There are ten chapters dealing with: Richmond as Seen by Poe's Contemporaries; Poe In Richmond Industry and BusinLftW, Politics and Patriotism; it ion: the Age of Academies; Libraries and Books; The Church; the Theatre and other Am use 1 papers and MagaHome Environment and Kin nils; Poe and Richmond. Miss Bondurant is a native of Virginia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bondurant She is a graduate ol Farmville State Teachers College in the Class of 1936 and was valedictorian of her She received her M. A. degree from Duke University In 1941. For the BC ' vears
As the capital and largest city of Virginia, Richmond in Poe's time was sufficiently important to; attract most of the well-known European travelers who America The Due dc Liancourt. be has been ;i tcachnr In the Moore, Dickens, Thackeray, all Faimvillc High School. "Poe's I published came to Richmond in the i of their tours. Distinguished Am- work, and gives promise of a ,, writing eareei ericans also found their way to
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lied and White Triumphs In Color Race; Winning Team Scores 70-30 Point Victory
Piercing the Points —bySHI It LEY PIERCE
Johnson Reveals Class Summaries In Chapel Saturday
Bporta program at s. T. C. very complete with activities
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House Council Coiiiiiiued from Paue 1 Drcete, Jane Peery. and third Bool Jane smith. Senior Building, first floor. Eveline Looney; MOOnd Charlotte Phillips. and Lilly Bee Gray Others arc to he announced at a later date.
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THE RIDERS who lined up before the Jndgea in the advanced riding olaas en Saturday aiternnon at the dorse Show at the LongWBOd riding ring Iminu the contestants seen are BebUe Scott, Maj Weil/, and Joyce Cheat wood, who copped lirst place Ml •••e thws.
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Dugger JSips Chief Net Title In Tennis Finals Thursday Ruth Dugger. sophomore, defeated Anne Payne, freshman, on Thursday May 21. ti-4. 6-2. when they met in the final round of the singles tennis tournament on the college courts Runners-up in the semi-finals were Sugar Baker and Frances Parham. Winning the doubles tournament were Mildred Droste and Ruth Dugger who matched Anne Payne and Sugar Baker on Friday evening on the courts The final score wa.i 6-2. 6-4. These ames brought to a close the annual tournament and a victory for the Red and White color team which gained 6 points for singles and 5 for doubles Sugar Baker has been in charge of the tournament this spring.
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"lf$ lied and White Thai We Now (heir. With flying colors Of Red and While the victorious team of the color cup gladly and proudly displays the traditional COLOR CUP which was awarded 111 chapel last Saiunlay. After a full season of gathering points and clashing against their rivals, the strong Green and White freshman and .juniors bowed to their friends and chalked 1111 another yon'- of successful activity. Competition tiny-ear was keen in every way and in each contest the GREEN and WHITE representatives kept a close match with their opponents. This year's presentation chalks up three successive years of red and white triumphs. The Season's Spoils When wo glance back over the year 1941-42 we And the
> Ked and White compo ed tail year of seniors and sophomores, was the winner ol (lie much coveted color cup for the 1941-19412. After anxiously awaiting the scoring to be announced both teams gathered in chape last Saturday, May 2\\. when Dot Johnson, out-going president ol the Athletic Association, presented the CUP to the Red and White teams. The cup on the mantle in the Rotunda ha worn red ribbons for I he past two years after green and white lamed over the cup to a red | icloiy in 1939-'40. After the award was made, the Red and White song and then cheered Green and White. Competition this year was very close m each sport by the Clashing teams The total points add 70 lor the Red team and 30 for the
Sports Edttor SummarizeH
Joyce Cheatwood. freshman at S. T C. placed first in the advanced horsemanship class in the Spring Horse Show and Riding j Contest held at Longwood on Satin day. May 23. Runners-up in this class were Rebecca Spicer, sec-' ond: Kay Spencer, third, and Bobbie Scott, fourth. The three-gaited saddle horse, class was won by P. H. Hanbury. of Parmville with F. A. Baldwin. Farmville: Henry Newbill. Parmville, and Rebecca Spicer. S. T. C. placing second, third and fourth. respectively, P. H. Hanbury also won the flve-gaited class, while T. D. Smith. Farmville: Joyce Cheatwod. S. T. C. and H. C., Padgett were runners-up In I his class. Lorraine Ginsberg placed Brat in the class for junior beginners, while Connie Powell took first honors in the senior beginners (lass Runners-up in the junior beginner- class were Jane Smith and Annie Wiseman, in the senior beginners class. Joscelyn Gilliam. Mary Hunter Edmunds ,i. ■ Betty Bradley. Riding Lindy and Beauty. S. T. C Stable horses. Elizabeth Goodwin and Bobbie Scott placed first in the (lass for pairs of riders Placing second in the class were (iloria Pollard and Henry Newbill: third place was captured by T. D. Smith and Joyce Cheatwood and May YvYrt/ and Kay Spi unplaced fourth Kay Spencer took the honors in
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The programs for the horse -how were attractively bound with "From old to new with any shoes' 1} l shoe nails with the entrants Onlv first class material used in each class listed. Nelle White All work : no .1 oti id was in charge of programs.
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Farmville and S. T. C. students engaged in one of the hn gfl ll shows ever presented last week at Longwood. Consisting of 14 la MS in all types of horsemanship, the groups were scored by the judges and awarded ribbons as ranked An impressive line-up of horses owned by persons m Parmville was also judged. Jumping proved to be the most entertaining part of the program. A large audience and an appreciative one attended the afternoon activities and found great enjoyment in a round up of riding abn-
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introduced made it possible for each evening a time for recrcaiio.i in the line of sports Tennis ranked at the top for the list of favorites and this year a tournament was played off at the first of the school season on i .v tennis courts, but it was not placed in the color race. Two tournaments have just been completed—singles and doubles. Close matching in both caused eager 'pectators to wonder what the final decisions would be. Ending the matches red and white p a lead. . . Winding up the final activity we arrive at the spring archery tournament which allowed another bit of competition M K Zehmer again scored the points and ended the clash victorious. . . . We look back on this year with longing thoughts and will carry with us the memories which it lent to us.
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while Bett) Qraj Jmltl i 11 \\ llllamson, and Harriet Levinion placed scum I third, ami fourth respectively. Katharine Ooaney took Brsl honori In the senior Intermediate class with runners-up Shirley Kersey, Polly Cammat k. and Anne gfarten
in all sport- desired. First came the hockey games which built a challenging urge in the two teams and spirit glowed on day of "('(dor Rush" . . . We leave another undefeated varsity basketball year and recognize the work and effort of .Miss Her in producing such a team. Round robin games made class competition a time of excitement with the .eroen and white freshmen winners .... A fall archery tournament turned out some high scorers and targets were >et out for practice in ihe new archery meadow . . . Swimming requirements again were clamped on the freshmen and they were determined to "learn the a-t of swimming^', Teams were chosen for the Interclaas meet, a varsity squad selected, meets held, and a year of success in water activities left to remember .... Turning to an indoor sport we wen in \t engaged in a tournament of ping pong which brought to light a freshman champion. Maiches were played in both the senior and mainbuilding .... Added to the equipment of volleyball were stationery slanders for the vryni and when nets and ball were produced the "-ames made quite a hit. Many a night the activity was brought to a halt because of "after hours." Class tournaments were most popular with all four classes .... Recently you witnessed faculty-student baseball game ami next a -indent color compel it ion which brought the red team a winning sco-'e. The physical fitness program^
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