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Volume XXI
FARMVILLE. VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5„ 1941
S. T. C. Observes Education Week November 9-15
Cotillion Club Issues 40 Bids To Old Students
Faculty, Students To Speak at Chapel Education Week at S. T. C. will begin Tuesday. November 11. with a talk in chapel by Dr. J. P. Wynne on "The History of Education". He will give the methods and forms of education used In various systems from ancient to present times and will include a survey of all types of scholastic progress. Wednesday morning. November 12, Edgar Johnson, professor of education, will present to the student body a movie entitled "The River". "The History of Farmville" will be the feature of the program to be presented on Thursday morning by Mary Katherine Dodson and Mary Hunter Edmunds. Prances Rosebro and Nancy Naff will continue the same topic Friday. November 14. Education week has as its main purposes this year the creation of a lasting interest in education and an appreciation of the progress that has been made in this field at Farmville.
Roanoke Alunnae Schedule Banquet Group Will Hear Dr. J. E. Walmsley Dr. James E. Walmsley will speak at a banquet to be given by the Roanoke chapter of the Parmvllle Alumnae Association at Hotel Patrick Henry Thursday. November 13. at 7 o'clock. All Roanoke girls are invited to attend the banquet, Lorana Moomaw, president of the Roanoke chapter, announced. The banquet tickets are $1.25. Committee Heads Selected Marguerite Blackwell has been named program chairman for the banquet. Other chairmen include Mrs. Nancy Gray Perdue, reservations; Margaret Stallard. decorations, and Elizabeth Shipplett, publicity. A number of guests from Farmville are expected to be present at the banquet. Some who will go are Dr. J. L. Jarman president; Dr. J. E. Walmsley. who will speak; Miss Mary Peck, alumnae president; Miss Grace Moran, associate professor of geography and past president of the alumnae; Miss Rachel Royall secretary to the dean; Mrs. Boyd Coyner. and Miss Mary Nichols, Officers of the Roanoke chapter are Lorana Moomaw. president; Margaret Stallard, vicepresident; Mrs. Nancy Gray Perdue, secretary, and Mrs. W. H. Mitchell, treasurer.
Apprentices Stage One-Act Play Tonight "A Moment of Darkness, bv Mary Thurman Pyle, will be presented by a cast of eight of the Dramatic Club apprentices in the S. T. C. auditorium Wednesday. November 5, at 7:45 p. m. Jane McOlnnis. a member of the acting group, is in charge of the directing and production. As a one-act tragedy, the scene is laid in prison and includes an all woman cast. Mrs. Keeley. matron, will be enacted by Frances Quillen; Miss Wilson, another matron, Kyle Barnhill; Tess, woman prisoner. Margaret Hiucr. Sal, crazy woman prisoner, Delia Raney; Aunt Nim, old-lady inmate, Patricia Garth; Aunt Julia. Emily Kyle Ainsworth; Karen, Mary Lee West; and Myra, a new prisoner, Alice Feitig. The play opens in the sewing room of the prison and is chiefly concerned with the murder of M«. Keeley, the prison matron
Journalists Hear Watkins Friday Delegates to the VIPA convention will have the privilege of hearing one of the country's widely recognized newspapermen when Paul F. Watkins. editor and publisher of the Ashland HeraldProgress speaks Friday night. Mr. Watkins was dedicated to be a preacher, trained to be a lawyer, and turned out to be a newspaperman by accident. Now. Mr Watkins says that he had rather be in the newspaper field than any other, after 20 years of it. 1926 found Mr Watkins as promotion manager of the Chicago Daily News. In this capacity he managed a newsreel, travel, and guide bureaus, almanac, cook bock, cooking school, track meets, yacht races, and Carnival of Nations. Tn 1033 realizing a life ambition, he went to Ashland, saw, liked, and bought the paper. Family sickness, and lack of mechanical and general management experience cut Mr. Watkins' capital, but he soon got results, and according to him "hasn't bought a bottle of red Ink since". Mr. Watkins writes a front page column entitled "In My Opinion", which has been very widely quoted. The Associated Press and Walter Winchell have both taken excerpts from his column frequenty, Winchell printing a column of Watkins' on the small town in its entirety. The Virginia state fair of 1940 gave its prize 'for excellence in column writing" to Mr. Watkins. A member of Kiwanis and very prominent in civic and organization affairs in his community and state, he has been a director of the Virginia Press Association for four of his eight years in the state. He was vice-president In 3939. and in 1P40 headed the Virginia Press Association.
V.I. P.A, Convention Highlights S. T. C. Campus This Week-End
Sororities Pledge Twelve Old Girls
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Dr. Jeffers Will Speak Tonight to Frenhmen Dr. George Jeffers will speak at the Freshman Y. W. C. A. c'.ub meeting tonight at 9:30 p in., in the Little Auditorium. Dr. Jefers subject will be "A School Girl's Philosophy of Life".
WMBG Presents Strick's Compositions; Seven S.T.C Girls To Participate Program (Jiven Nov. 16 at 2:15 The Southern Literary Messenger, whose weekly program "The Voice of the South" is heard every Sunday afternoon over WMBG, will present four compositions of Alfred H. Strlck. Sunday, November 16th, at 2:15 p m. These compositions will be sung by the Seventh Street Christian Church Choir of Richmond. Va„ under the direction of Dr. Luther A. Richman, state supervisor of music. Included in the choir will be seven students from S. T. C. These girls are Peggy Bellus, Marie Nichols, Alice Sparger. Mildred Carter Clanton. Beth Johnson. Margaret Lovins. Patricia Maddox. and Miss Virginia Richards, instructor of music. Musical settings of the hymns will be In the Cross of Christ I Glory", "All Praise to Thee", "We Plough the Fields and Scatter", and "Blest Be the Tie That Binds."
Discussion Groups Will Be Featured Friday, Saturday
Anne Boswell. president, announces that forty old girls will be issued bids tonight to the Cotillion club. These girls will be initiated in the spring with other girls who will be taken in later tin. year. They will also help in decorating the gym for Fall Cotillion. These girls who will receive bids tonight are Frances Adams. Virginia Alexander. Betsy Austen, Louise Bell. Betsy Bullock, Katherine Burge. Virginia Campfleld. Mildred Corvin. Dorothy Darracot. Lucy Davis, Mildred Droste. and Virginia May Ellett. Theresa Fletcher. Jane Ford. Dorothy Gaul, Jocelyn Gillum. Charlotte Greeley. Frances Lee Hawthorne, Anne Henry. Beth Johnson, Lulie Jones, Connie Knichton. Bayliss Kuntz. Lucille Lewis. Ann Moore, and Betty Overcash. Kitty Parrish, Kitty Powell. Margie Rice. Stella Scott. Ellen Scott, Jane E. Smith, Doris Taylor, Anne Trotter, Anne Turner, II.HI.rii. Walker. Ella Banks Weathers. Margaret Webster. Nell White, and Nancy Williamson.
After three days of fall rushing, seven sororities on campus issued bids to twelve old girls in school Wednesday night. October 29. Girls accepting bids were Emma Louise Crowgey, Wytheville, and Mary Wilson Carper, Rocky Mount, Sigma Sigma Sigma: Elizabeth Rapp, Roanoke, Alpha Sigma Alpha: Helen Ott. Richmond, and Frances Lee Hawthorne. South Boston. PI Kappa Sigma; Leona Moomaw, Roanoke. Gamma Theta; Ann Rogers. Newport News, and Jane Smith. Franklin, Mu Omega; Nell Pritchett. Petersburg. Alpha Sigma Tau; Mary Smith, Farmville, and Louise Phillips, Hampton. Phi Zeta Sigma.
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V. I. P. A. Convention
No. 6
Initiation Slated For Spring Quarter
PAUL F. \VATKINS
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Pictured here are the S. T. C. uirls and H.-S boys who will b.- yjir.'. hests at the V IP* i>on"»nlinn Above, left to right, are Mary Hunter Edmunds. Anne Ayers, Sara Cllne. Allene Overbey. and May Wert/. Below left la rlffct are Buck Crockett. Marshall Dnswell. Billy Trinklr. and T. T. Atkinson.
Backstagers Expose What 99 Makes "The Little Minister 4»
Mrs. E. H. Ould To Speak at Chapel Friday, November 7 Mrs. E. H Ould. of Roanoke. who is teaching a course this week at the Methodist Church on "How To Make a Christian Home", will speak in chapel Friday, November 7. Mrs. Ould. who is a alumna of Farmville S. T. C, is. a prominent speaker for religious meetings, women's clubs, and college student bodies. She also has the distinction of being an accredited counselor from the Los Angeles Institute of Family-Relations. Mrs. Ould is greatly interested in young people some of her chief subjects beinR personality development, dating pdoblems. and other problems of modern youth. She is well qualified to speak on these, since she is a mother as well as a teacher. She has two sons and a daughter For three years, Mrs. Ould taught school, but after her marriage she confined herself to informal lecturing. When her youngest child started to college she began her lecturing and MethodiM teaching, which has continued for eight years. During the summer. she frequent ly teaches at assemblies In an interview. Mrs Ould said that she never forgets to mention Faimviile when advising people about schools, and that she thinks it "one of tin- finest in the state". Girls who attended the Alpha Kappa Gamma convention, which convened October 24-26 at Columbia, 8. C„ heard Mrs, Ould at the convention banquet. She spoke on "The Value of Charm".
Backstage work of the fall production, The Little Minister" which will be Riven Friday night. November 14, in the S. T. C. auditorium, is nearing completion, according to the backstagers them-ilves. Minute details, coupled with accurate timing, are being smoothed out. Miggir Mish with the help of Addison Campbell is in charge of the lighting effects. Especially adapted to out-of-door scenes is the cyclorama which gives the effect of distance. Miggie says the lighting for "The Little Minister" will be very effective. This is the first time the cyclorama has been used since "Dear Brutus", which the Dramatic Club gave three years ago. The costumes, in charge of Gene Hardy Kilmon represent the period of 1840 or 1850. They will use those which the governiia nt has furnished the school, some that have been left over from other plays, and some which have to be made. They will be typical I of the laboring class in a small I Srottish village, and, in contrast. ' will be those of a lord, a lady, and | a soldier. "In the production there will be three out-of-door and two indocr scenes," reports Lucy Davis, who is head of the staging department This group is responIMa for bui.'ding trees rocka and walls to cover the footlights. In addition, they conceal the cyma with mounds. rocks shrubs, and walls. They build the and mounds themselves so they will be light and easy to hey blend in more readily with the other artificial properties. The inside ingredient'; of a mound as revealed by I.uey are a foundation of wood which Is covered with chicken wire, then Continued on Page 4
Representatives from twentynine colleges, located in Virginia and the District of Columbia, will convene at Farmville State Teachers College Friday, November 7 for the fifteenth annual convention of the Virginia Intercollegiate Press Association. Registraton of delegates will beg.n at 9 o'clock Friday mornopening assembly for all delegates ing in Student Building. The is scheduled for 2:45 p. m. in the luditorium of Student Building. The principal speakers to be heard during the convention will be Paul Watkins, editor of the Herald Progress, Ashland, Virginia, who will speak at 8 o'clock Friday night on "So You Want To Be A Newspaperman" and G. Jeter Jones, vice-president of First and Merchants Bank. Richmond. Virginia, who will be guest speaker at the banquet at Longwood Saturday night. Highlighting the convention will be roundtable discussion groups concerning year books, magazines, handbooks, news writing, make-up. coverage, editorial policy, sports writing, and business managers. These discussion groups are slated for Friday, November 7, at 3 o'clock and for Saturday. November 8, at 10 o'clock. The group considering year books will be led by M. L. Glover, of Lynchburg Engraving Company, on Friday and by H. K. Tice. of Kingsport Press, Kingsport. Tennessee on Sat'irdav. Cawthon Bowen. sports editor of The Roanoke Times, will direct the discussion concerning sports writing on both Friday and Saturday. J. Barrye Wall, editor of The Farmville Herald, will head the discussion for business managers on Friday, and S. M. Holton, Jr., associate professor of education at Farmville S. T. C, will continue the discussion on Saturday. Paul Watkins. editor of the Herald Progress at Ashland. Virginia, and Dr. R. C. Beale, professor at Hampden-Sydney College, will guide the editorial policy discussion on Friday and Saturday respectively. The group considering magazines and handbooks is under the direction of Philip Ropp. associate professor of English at Hampden-Sydney iContinued on Page 3)
Power Plant Fire Leaves Farmville Without Current A spectacular fire destroyed the Virginia Public Service company's auxiliary power plant Monday moraine, November 3, and left the town of Farmville, including S. T. C. without electric current. Numerous transformer explosions accompanied the blaze and balls of fire rolled along wires near the plant. LiRht poles smoked throughout the town where transformers had blown and eaused considerable excitement Firemen stood by watching the burning one story brick building, warned not to attempt to fight the flames with water because of the high tension wires in the plant urea. 'I he VPS PUK ha ..i the plant about eight years ago from the Town of Farmville for $500,000. This included wiring and light fixtures and the franchise to supply the town with current. :liant itself had an estimated value of $250,000 Repair erews weie rushed here from South Boston, Crewe. and Charlottesville and they found enough undamaged transformers outside the burned building to resume service by seven o'clock MOI 'lav evening.