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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR OPPORTUNITIES (SEE ED PAGE Z)
The Rotunda FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1943
VOLUME XXIII
Cotillion Members Send Invitations To 87 New Girls All Bids Issued At Supper Tonight
Christmas Gift Suggestion Students: Have you a friend who is building a personal library? Then what is more appreciated than a lovely book to add to her present collection? You could choose a modern novel, a present day war book, an anthology of poems or short stories, or a biography. One of the great classics would make a hit, too. Why not end all your Christmas gift worries now and select the choice book for each of your friends? For further suggestions, don't fail to see our display in the library. KAPPA DELTA PI
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THE PERSONAL LIBRARY CONTEST?
Discussion Groups Planned On Four Theatres of War t Students Required YWCA To Present To Attend Meetings Special Programs On January 19, 1944, the War Council will sponsor a program of Farmville in War". The purpose On Christmas of this day is to bring each STC
The Y. W. C. A. will carry out the Christmas theme in the special prayers program to be presented during the week prior to the Chirstmas holidays, Frances Lee Hawthorne, president, has announced. Mi;..s Mary J. C'orbett. executive secretary of the Y. W. C. A. from Brazil, will be the prayers speaker on Monday night. Decmeber 15. Miss Corbett is being sponsored on the campus as a guest of Kappa Delta Pi. MILDRED CORVIN On Tuesday night the prayers committee of the Y will give the annual Christmas pageant, and the service committee will spon, , ,a ror White Christmas, at which time the heads of a IIIYIP " organization ■Si Alt I1 niimamPnt UUI IKUIK 111 l|wH, present lhelr Christmas glftg_ Miss Minnie V. Rice will give 4 H sitns RrnH«haw !the christmas story. "The other
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Rlinin, Weeks Enter after which there will be the
i Hanging of the Green, sponsored Betty Adams, sophomore from Dv tne newly elected Freshman Richmond; Olive Bradshaw, jun- Com mission. Mary Evelyn Pearsall will tell ior from Rice; Jane Waring Ruf- the story. "Why the Chimes Rang" An. Junior from Charles City! m prayers on Thursday night, and County, and Faith Weeks, sopho-'0n Friday night there will be "The more from Purdy represented story of the Nativity." Farmville State Teachers College; The Sing Committee of the Y in the annual Dixie Forensic [ will sponsor community sing In the Tournament, held in Charlotte. [ Rec on Saturday night after dinN. C. December 2 through Decem- j ner. This will take the the place of ber 4. j the usual Saturday night sing proIn the debating rounds Olive gram. Bradshaw and Faith Weeks took Concluding the series of Christthe affirmative side and Jane Ruf-' mas music and stories, the Y will fin and Betty Adams made up sponsor Christmas caroling on the negative team- on the ques- Sunday night after the concert ln tion, "Resolved, that the United the auditorium, and members of States should cooperate in estab-1 the College Choir will lead the lishing and maintaining an inter- carolling. national police force upon the defeat of the Axis." Of the twelve debates participated in by the two teams, six were won and six lost. Teams defeated were Auburn, Mars Hill, Business Orientation and Guidand four teams from Wingate. ance Course. No. 130, will be inThe teams from Farmville lost to stalled in the Business Education those from Carson Newman, Em- Department next full, and will be ory University, Randolph Macon, required of all freshmen. The and Lynore Rhine, which was the course will meet once a week in final winner. i the little auditorium and one credMiss Mary E. Peck, adviser for it will be granted, according to an the Debate Club accompanied the announcement made by Mr. R. G. girls to Charlotte and served in Hallisy, head of the department Continued on Page 4 "We believe some means should ~~* be provided to orientate our students, particularly those coming 1 from small high s hools without any previous business associations or business educitio'i. These students need to ImVH their minds directed towarl bus' less problems and business stun'aids and tof ward the acceptance of their share first lap of the train ride was of the responsibility for becoming comfortable and leisurely — we the kind of onV» workers that had nearly a coach to ourselves business demands." Mr. Halliiy soldiers and sailors from every and even then we were passing remarked in d'ncugrfng the new magazines and clippings back and corner of the United States really course. forth trying to find something have their ideas about an interThe course wi:' also provide an either pro or con about an inter- national police force—and there opportunity to get the business were ideas on both sides! national police force. Charlotte at last. And the Sel- group together t.) dis.vM common But it was after we had climbed problems and uo make the stuevery hill in Lynchburg and An- wyn Hotel. dents conscious of their part ln 'I want a bed for Christmas" ally boarded the train headed for Charlotte that the fun really was the mutual agreement of the "* development, and maintenance began. Six hours ahead of us group before we were lost under of high standard-, within the department as well as ln the i on and not a seat to be had. There the influence of Morpheus, was hardly standing room. But Most of Thursday we spent ln tinued growth of the depart n.. ml we parked our suitcases in the conferences with Miss Peck. I There will be from time to time aisle and ourselves on top. Faith think only Miss Peck knew what during the year some busin. ,s calmly continued knitting her we were going to face and so she talks by busines men Mso. there mitten until the someone brought prepared us with all sorts of de-, will be audio-visual education with up an international police force, fense ranging from definitions of motion pictures on telephone pracAnd we got a preview of what we socialism to the result of the Cairo'tices, office mail, and care of of were to meet later on. Those Continued on Page 3 Are machines.
Hallisy Announces New Business Course
Armed to the Teeth, STC Debaters Tackle International Problem at Tournament
Miss Mary J. Corbett, executive secretary of the Y. W. C. A. for Brazil, will speak at a joint meeting of the Farmville Branch of American Associatlpn of University Women and Beta Epsilon chapter of Kappa Delta Pi on Friday, December 10, at 4 o'clock. The meeting will be held ln the Student Lounge. "Where have you been?" "Did On Friday and Monday nights, you have a good time?" "Why on Miss Corbett will speak in pray- earth are you coming BACK to ■n school' on SATURDAY night?" For ten years Miss Corbett These and other similar queries worked in Brazil. She was ex- from the dance-clad group Inter tremely interested and was very misslonlng ln the Rotunda as the prominent in the fight for higher four debaters dragged themselves education and better working con- Into the school after four days at ditions for women there. Miss the Dixie Tournament ln CharCorbett, in her career, has done lotte. N. C. much social welfare- work. And so here it Is—the trip ln An apt student of Brazilian retrospect. history and culture, Miss Corbett From the moment of departure speaks Portuguese fluently. She on the one o'clock train to Lynchreceived her Master's degree from burg on Wednesday till we arrived the University of Chicago and back at nearly midnight Saturhas done work in her Doctorate day night, the whole trip was there. packed, every moment of it. The
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"Farmville In War" Sponsored By War Council on January 19 As Second War Emphasis Day
Plans are now being made for Invitations to become members the annual Mardi Oras dance Of the Cotillion Club were issued scheduled for Saturday night, to eighty-seven girls at supper toFebruary 19, 1944, Mildred Corvin, night. general chairman, announced this They are Owen Ackiss. Newport «eek. The dance is sponsored News; Collene Agee, Farmville; each year by Pi Gamma Mu. SoNancy Almond. Kenbridge; Cecelcial Science fraternity. ia Arthur. Roanoke; and Betty Committee heads include MariJane Austin, Roanoke. lyn Bell, floor show; Sara Wayne Also. Lou Baker, Roanoke: Lucy Prance, decorations; Bernice CoBarger. Lexington, Nancy Lee penhaver, business manager; MilBarrett, Baltimore, Maryland; Jo dred Willson, orchestra; Ella Beatty. Ivanhoe, N. C; Betty Bibb. Weathers, and Sarah Trigg, Lynchburg; Margaret Brace. O O'co-che -chairmen for theme, costumes Charleston, W. Va.; Kitty Sue and advertising; and Mary Moore Bridgeforth. Kenbrldge; Pat BuckMcCorkle. tickets. ler. Oxford. N. C; Mary Steward »-, Nominations for the queen and Buford. Lawrenceville; and Cam I«-i H II I (ill POP I IHll'Prt rourt wil1 "• made by a commitButt. Portsmouth. tee composed of Dr E Walms Paige Cook. LaCrosse; Georgia ley, Pi Gamma Mu faculty adLee Cook. Radford; Judy ConnelThe Choral Club of the college visor; Frances Craddock. President ly. Lebanon; Betsy Corr, Richwill present Miss Florence Man- of pj Gamma Mu; Mildred Corvin, mond: Elizabeth Croutch, Marion; ning, soprano of New York and ! general chairman of Mardi Gras; and Ann Curley. Richmond. Philadelphia, at the a n n u a 11 a representative from each of Joan Davis, Lynchburg: Mae Christmas concert which will be and ^e four classes. The nominees Derieux. Remlik: Ann Dickerson, held Sunday night. December 19 Richmond; Betsy Dillard. Draper. at 8:30 in the college auditorium. will be voted on early in January. Pi Gamma Mu has for its genN. C.i Martha Droste, Ronceverte. Miss Manning made her bow to W. Va.; Beanie Dudley. Farmville; the stage at the age of five in the eral theme for this year problems arising in the New World Martha Russell East. South Bos- o]d ^ropon^ House in Phila- Order. At the meeting last week, ton: Margaret Ellett. Jennings delphia whUe ln hign school, she two papers were presented dealing Ordinary: and Shirley Etheridge. orKanlzedi conducted and was so- with the problem of natural reNorfolk. lolst of a chorus of sixty singers. Betsy Pox, Danville; Ann Ore- A few years later jbc became the sources in the post war world. One g»ry. Roanoke; Betty__Harville. soJolst of the 8t Luke and Epiph- paper treated the political side of Petersburg: Diddy Ford, Hopewell; any Choir, directed by Dr. H. Alex- the question — that te, gaining Ann Foster. Norfolk: Betty Lou ander Matthews, one of the lead- equal access to natural resources. The other paper was concerned Hay ward. Hampton; Ellen Higgin- ing cnoral conductors in America. with the economic phase in relabotham, Staunton; Sue Hundley. As a concert artist. Ma.-.. ManSuffolk; Kitty Kearsley, Marion; ning has appeared in numerous tion to conservation of natural reAnn Kingdon. Bluefleld. W. Va.; i. dials throughout the East, sing- sources, substitutes and new sources. Last night a discussion of Heidi Lacy, Richmond; and Robin, lng among other places, at the this question took place at the Lear. Chapel Hill. N. C. Unlverslty of Pennsylvania and meeting. Also. Betty Lee. Richmond; Susquehanna University. Officers of PI Gamma Mu this Sara Leech, Richmond; Mary Ann In New York, she has appeared Loving. LaCrosse: Carmon Low. with the New York Philharmonic year are Frances Craddock. presHopewell; Grace Loyd. Lynch- as well as on many well-known ra- ldent; Sarah Trigg, vice-president; burg; Margaret Massey, Hamp- dio programs. She is at present Be mice Copenhaver, secretary: den-Sydney; Sue McCorkle. Lex-' c0loist at the Third Church of and Sara Wayne France, treasington: Patsy McLear. Richmond; c'nrist. Scientist, Brooklyn. N. Y. urer. Betty Minetree, Petersburg; Sara A student of two outstanding Moling. Winchester: Ellen Moore. I tea hers, Elizabeth Schumann and Culpepper: Betty Moses. Roa-|ciytle Hine Mundy. Mis Manning noke; and Barbara Montgomery, i |S herself a teacher and head of Alberta. j the voice department of the Clarke Margaret V e r e 11. sophomore Cab Overbey, Chatham; Dot Conservatory of Music in Philafrom Newport News, was selected Owen, Sedley; Kitty Parham. delphia. Petersburg; Katherine Parker,; Ail the music groups of the col- president of the Orchestra at the' Norfolk; Nancy Parrish, Manas-, lege will participate in the con- regular meeting this week. Other sas; Kitty Parrish, Manassas; Jer- cert. The organized music groups officers chosen were Connie Ozlin. ry Payne. Onancock; Beverley are the College Choir, the Choral Chase City, treasurer, and Ann Peebles, Hampton; and Virginia j Club, the Madrigal Singers with Savage, Littleton, reporter and ' ! Pullin, Danville; Cora Redd. Chat-, Pat Maddox as student director; business manager. The College Orchestra will preham; Judy Reick. West Point, and the Junior A'Capella with Beth Patsy Saunders, Laneview. Johnson as student director and sent its first program of the year Kitty Saunders. Christlansburg: the Intermediate A'Capella with in chapel this Saturday, Don irFrances Seward. Petersburg; Mar- Jeanne Strick as student director, ber 11, under the direction of Miss garet Sheffield, Suffolk; Mary Connie Ozlin and Margie Hewlett Lisabeth Purdom. Program inAgnes Sheffield. Victoria; Chris- a;o V.:e accompanists lor the mu- cludes "Tone Poem" by Flbich, and Hungarian Dance No. 5 by tine Shiflett. Churchville; . Ann sic groups. Brahms, by the entire group, two Shufflebarger, Bluefleld: Margaret violin soloes by Charles Beck, and Simmons. Sebrell; Nellie Smith, # ln closing, "America" and "The. Petersburg; Lynn Sprye, LynchAll girls interested in knitting Star Spangled Banner", by the, Continued on Page ( for the Red Cross, pie se see eith- orchestra. The violin soloes to be er Lucille Cheatham or Virginia played are Chopin's "Minute Waltz" and "Allegro" by Mozart. | Treakle to get their wool.
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girl to a point where she will be capable of understanding any terms of peace, and of what those terms must be based upon. She should understand the social, economic and political background of the war and of the peace terms. Four discussion groups on the theatres of war will be conducted by a faculty member with three student assistants. Dr. J. E. Walmsley will lead the discussion on the European theatre; Miss Grace B. Moran on the South Pacific; Mr. Richard Hallisy, on the British Empire: and Miss Leola Wheeler, on the Far Eastern theatre. The student assistants will aid the professor in finding material in preparation for the discussion, and will also take an active part in the leading of the discussions. Students will be excused from all classes and will be required to attend the program, which will start at 9:45 with a flag raising ceremony. The four groups will then meet from ten until twelve o'clock. At twelve o'clock, the entire student body will assemble in the large auditorium where the secretary of each group will give a brief report of the findings, or discussions, of the morning. The ritual committee of the war council will present a short program on flag ettiquette, and Mary Evelyn Pearsall will present a Hag to the school. After a salute to the flag. Pat Maddox will lead the group ln the singing of four songs made popular during World War I. and of four that are current war favorites. The afternoon program, which is not compulsory in attendance, will consist of war and defense movies. The day's emphasis will be closed at six by the lowering of the flag. All faculty members will be invited to sit in on the student discussions, and to attend the entire program.
Walmsley Furnishes Brochure Material Reviews of twenty-fou. hymns by Dr. J. E. Walmsley will form a part of the brochure to be pub■ i by the Music Department MBU time this year. Alfred Strick, head of the depattment. big revealed. The hymns will form a part of the programs to be presented by the Qalkgg Choir and Choral Club during the college year. A forward on hymno cmy will bt given by Dr T Tertius Nob!' ganist and choirmaster emeritus. St. Thomas Church, New York. Also, several new hymns which have been written by Mr. St ink and which have been sun« by the N'wntli street Christian Church. Richmond, under Dr. Luther -A. Richman. will be added Students who desire a copy of this book may have one for fifty cents, which may be given either to Jean Prosise or Connie Ozlin. Oopteg of this informative book will be sent to all principal! and superintendents throughout Virginia in tlie will arouse Intl IOd rtJTBUI ing.