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VOLUME XXIII
So she went all alone, to Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was homesick for only two years. "Oh, yes, we had studied English in school and my father made me read all the great English classics. I could read and write English, but speaking it was a little difficult, of course." In spite of this difficulty, she began immediately to take part in extra-curricular activities at Radcllfle and was on the way to becoming editor-in-chief of her college paper when she was elected president of the student body. We had come prepared to be impressed by Mrs. Dean, her talents Continued on Page 4
All Classes Select Catholics Organize Stunt Chairmen for Newman Club Circus Program With Kelly Prexy Stunt chairmen have been elected for the annual S. T. C. circus, which is sponsored by Alpha Kappa Gamma, and will be held this year on October 30. in the gym. Gweneth Ackiss, Newport News, will represent the freshman class; Betty Cock, Hampton, will represent the sophomore class; Marilyn Bell. Richmond, the junior class and Elizabeth Tennent. x Hoptwell, the senior class. Circus queen will be elected from the senior class, but all the classes may be represented in the court In previous years each class has •esMlad a nominee for the queen and the candidate receiving the most votes reigned over the Big Top. Her identity was kept secret until the night of the circus and the defeated candidates formed her court. As in the past the queen's identity will not be known to the student body, but she will be a member of the senior class.
Humorous Debate Presented in Chapel With Marilyn Bell and Betty Cock on the affirmative and Alice Nichols and Betty Adams supporting the negative, the Debate Club presented their annual humorous debate in chapel this morning on the topic. Resolved, that an underground tunnel should be constructed to Camp Pickett instead of Hampden-Sydney. The affirmative team represented the Army's side of the question and were dressed accordingly. The Navy's point of view was upheld by the negative team, who wore regular sailor blouses and punctuated their program with Navy cheers. Virginia Terrell acted as announcer and timekeeper for the debate and Elsie Thompson, who served as judge announced that there would be no decision. Each year the Debate Club sponsors a humorous debate in chapel early in the year to interest the freshmen and new girls in the work. Last year's question was, Resolved that the standing army should .sit down.
Seniors Choose Six Chaperones At the regular meeting of the senior class last night, six chaperones were elected. They are: Caroline Caldwell, Joscelyn Gillum, Sara Jeffreys. Nancy Langhorne. Prances Ralney, and Nell Richard ^hese chaperones are elected to accompany underclassmen to the Offices of the doctor and dentist, and to football games at Hampden-Sydney.
Marie Kelly, senior from Portsmouth, was elected president of the Newman Club, recently organized Catholic group on the campus at the initial meeting last week. Elizabeth Driscoll was selected as secretary: Lela Manner was chosen treasurer, and Margaret Thomas, social chairman. Miss Emily Kauzlarich was selected by the group to be faculty adviser. Regular meeting of the Newman Club is scheduled for the first and third Wednesdays of each month at 5 o'clock p. m. in Junior Parlor. Twenty-two girls have signed up as members of the organization. They are Eleanor Bisese. Beatrice Bruch, Mary William Calvert, Elizabeth Driscoll, Bertha Erceg, Carmen Flores, Edith Garcia. Katherine Goldsborough. Marie Kelly, Minnie Mcllroy, Lela Manner. Margaret C. Thomas, Mary Jane Vanderlehr, Martha Watson. Janet Davis, Rosemarie Waggner. Esther Carbonell, Isabelita Maldonador, Helen Shaw, Dorothy Jane Salvator, and Ann Marie Curley.
Y. W. C. A. Secures Jones As Speaker
Pi Gamma Mu Bids 7 To Membership Prances Craddock, president of Pi Gamma Mu. national honorary fraternity in Social Science, announces that seven upperclassmen have been issued bids this week. They are Marilyn Bell. Richmond: Alice Ruth Feitig. Richmond; Mrs. Elizabeth Chappell Hinman, Prospect; Betty Overcash, HampdenSydney; Betty Watts, Portsmouth; Ella Banks Weathers, Lexington; and Mildred Wil!son, Amelia. Nell Holloway and Katherine Johnson were taken into the fraternity during the summer quarter. Other officers are Sarah Trigg, vice-president; Bernice Copenhaver, secretary; and Sara Wayne France, treasurer. Dr. J. E. Walmsley. Dr. Francis B. Simkins, and Mr. M. Boyd Coyner are advisors.
Sigma Pi Rho Issues Four Invitations Frances Lee Hawthorne, president of Sigma Pi Rho. national honorary classical society, has announced that four upperclassmen have been issued bids to membership this week. The girls receiving bids are Margaret Barksdale. Java; Mary Dove. Roanoke; Katherine Johnson. Dolphin; and Jane Waring Ruffin. Holdcroft. Other officers of Sigma Pi Rho are Mary St. Clair Bugg, vicepresident; Margie Lee Culley, secretary-treasurer; Mary Wood House, reporter; and Miss Minnie Rice, adviser. NOTICES Sophomores and juniors will have their pictures taken for the 1944 Virginian Thursday and Friday. Since negatives from other pictures will not be accepted, every student who wants her picture in the annual will have to have it taken on one of the above mentioned days.
Rev. Charles M. Jones. PresbyDeadline for payment of terian minister from Chapel Hill, N. C. will be on the campus Wed- at least $1 for subscription nesday and Thursday, October 21 and 22 as the first guest speaker to the 1944 Virginian is December 15, 1943. Mary of the Y. W. C. A. this year. Mr. Jones will introduce the Moore McCorkle, busiY. W. C. A. theme for the year. "Christian Faith for Today and ness manager announces. Tomorrow". He will speak in chapel on Wednesday, October 20 and again on Thursday, Oct. 21. He will be guest at an open association meeting of the Y. W. C. A. at 4:30 on October 20. For some years Mr. Jones has worked with young people In Beginning literally at crack of camps. He attended the Berea dawn Monday morning, the sophConference at Berea. Kentucky omores will lord it over the class this summer. of '47 for two days. Elaborate plans for ratting are well under way and all sophs are planning for two full days of real fun. The mighty class of sophomores will dictate the llfes and loves of the Tonight at the regular meeting 300 odd freshmen (and they will of the Dramatic Club apprentices be odd!) for the two days of Rat in the acting group will present Week. Rat rules as announced by sophthe first of their series of one act plays. Tonight's production Is en- omores are: titled "The Bad Penny", and is Rat Rules • under the direction of Olive Brad1. Wear one black stocking as shaw. head of the acting group. cap with positively no hair showCooperating with Olive are the ing, and holes cut in the cap with heads of each of the other de- ears protruding. Stuff leg and partments of the Dramatic Club, foot of stocking cap and let it Mary St. Clair Bugg, lighting; hang down the back. Carol Diggs. staging; Sally Rob2. Ear rings are to be worn on ertson, properties; Prances Shack - each ear. leford, costuming; and Lucille 3. Paint four dark black whisLewis, make-up. kers on the right side of mouth Apprentices appearing in the and six on the left side, extending first play are Rachel Field, Mar- to the center of the cheek. tha Prances Webb, Orace Lloyd, 4. Wear no other make up on Mary Morton Fontaine, and Ann face and no fingernail polish. Buck. 5. Wear wash dress with clash-
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Dean Says All Nation's Honor Societies LiteratureGoodln a Way Bid New Members "And were you homesick, Mrs. Dean?" "Yes, I was for the first year or two, but I got over it." We don't know whether this will encourage or discourage homesick freshmen (and upperclassmen i in our midst, but wait until you hear the circumstances. We were sitting in the hotel room of our distinguished speaker of last Wednesday evening and talking not about international affairs, but about being homesick. "How old were you when you left Russia?" "I was Just sixteen," she replied with the faintest Russian accent, "but my father believed I should continue my education abroad."
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"Who's Who" Lists Seventeen STC Students As Outstanding Faculty Selects Representatives Seventeen students will represent Farmville State Teachers College in the tenth edition of "Who's Who Among Students In American Colleges and Universities" for this year. The students whose names are listed are Mary Evelyn Pearsall. Roanoke, president of the Student Government Association; Frances Lee Hawthorne. South Boston, president of the Y. W. C. A.; Julia Eason. Richmond, president of the Seated above are those listed in Who's Who. Top row. left to right, House Council; Patsy Connelly. are Shirley Pierce, Virginia Ellett, Frances Craddock, Elizabeth Lebanon, president of the AthTennent, Sara Wayne France, Ella Banks Weathers, Mary Evelyn letic Association; Ella Banks Weathers. Lexington, editor of the Pearsall. Bottom row are Judy Eason, Louise Bell. Frances Lee HawRotunda; Sara Wayne France. thorne, Faye Mm mo, Jane Smith, Patsy Connelly. Jean Arington Charlottesville. editor of the VirMildred Corvin, Hannah Lee Crawford, and Mary Moore MrCorkle ginian; Elizabeth Tennent, Hopewere not present for the picture. well, editor of the Colonnade, and Faye Nimmo. Suffolk, president of the senior class. Also Hannah Lee Crawford, vicepresident of the Student Government Association and president of Alpha Kappa Gamma; Louise Bell, Berryville, vice-president of the Y. W. C. A.; Shirley Pierce. Roanoke. vice-president of the Athletic Association; and Jean Arington. Lynchburg, dining room hostess and president of Gamma Psi. More than 1,000 trained dieti- The first class of officer candiAlso Mildred Corvin, Crewe. cians will be needed soon in the dates from the Navy V-12 Unit business manager of the ColonArmy hospitals and in hospital at Hampden-Sydney College will nade; Prances Craddock, Blackunits at foreign posts to select food complete their first training there stone, president of Pi Gamma for our soldiers patients, plan the Saturday, October 23. The mem- Mu; Mary Moore McCorkle. Lexmenus, supervise the preparation bers of the group who will finish ington, president of Kappa Delta and serving of food, observe the their work at Hampden-Sydney Pi and business manager of the food habits and preference of in- are those who have had advanced Virginian; Jane Smith. Franklin, dividual patients, and manage the college work before entering the president of Beorc Eh Thorn; and Prom Hampden - Sydney Virginia Mae Ellett, Crewe, presifood service of a dietory depart- Navy. ment. Not enough graduate dieti- they will go to various other dent of the Cotillion Club. tians are available; therefore, the schools and will eventually receive These students were selected by Army has initiated a well-organ- commissions. a committee of the faculty and ized program to train student Preceding the graduation exer- administration from a large list dietitians. cises for the boys there will be a I of eligible candidates on the basis To be eligible to become a stu- dress review similar to the one of extra curricula activities, leaddent dietitian, a girl must be a given several weeks ago. ership, and scholarship. graduate of a four-year college Following the regular week end Annually, a compilation of biowith a major in foods and nutri- liberty which will begin Saturday, 'graphles of outstanding students tion, or in institutional manage- October 23, at 1400 Navy time in America is published. Only Junment. She must be in good health, and continue through 2000 Sun- iors and_seniors and students takemotionally stable and between day night, the boys will be given ing advanced work are selected. the ages of 20 and 40 and must a seven day leave. The primary purpose of I Ills pubbe free to serve wherever sent Plans are under way for a dance lication is to bring the outstandin line of duty. to be given at Hampden-Sydney ing students in America before Applicants will receive training on the night of Saturday, Octo- the business world and before othunder the best professional staff! ber 23. ers who annually recruit students. our country affords. Special' Contrary to the usual procedschools in army hospitals are of- ure, the boys of the V-12 Unit will fering a 6-month intensive train- not be allowed the 30 hour liberty ing course in the theory and prac- this week end, but will be allowed tice of hospital dietetics. After to liberty only from 1600 til 2345, completion of these army courses, Navy time, on Saturday, and two That "Retreat" of the Y. W. C. dietitians are given a 6-months hours on Sunday in which to atA. Council and advisors will be at tend church. Continued on Page 3 Longwood on October 23 and 24 it has been announced. The purpose of this group meeting is to plan the work for 194344 and to discuss the theme and actlvtles for the year. In addition to the "Y" cabinet and advisors, the ministers of ' 12. Do not go to the postofflce till Farmville have been Invited for lunch. the Saturday afternoon session ing skirt over it. Have dress after 13. Always courtesy to Joan of and picnic supper. The cabinet showing five inches below skirt and chaperones will remain overwhich must be rolled up at the Arc. 14. Carry a paper bag with night. waist. Wear triangular kerchief ample supply of kleenex and safeMembers of the cabinet are around neck with knot in back. Frances Lee Hawthorne. Louise On Tuesday wear dress and skirt ty matches at all times. 15. All meals must be eaten in Bell, Ann Martin. 8ara Bird Wilbackwards. the dining hall. liams, Minnie Lee Grumpier, Ann 6. Wear mismatched gloves ex16. All rats convene in front of Snyder, Sara Moling, Hannah Lee cept to class and chapel. the Colonnade at 12:30 on both Crawford, Connie Ozlin, Baum 7. Wear the second black stock- days and also immediately after Corell, Mary Ann Jarratt, Agnes ing on the left leg and over this lunch. Stokes. Virginia Treakle. Isabel wear a red sock. Wear white sock 17. Know Red and White song. Continued on Page 4 on the other foot. Both socks 18. Be prepared to give the Sign must be turned up all the way. Off at any and all times upon re8. Paint red "4" on right arm quest. 19. Carry books in laundry bags below the elbow and red "6" on when you meet in the gym at 6 left arm below the elbow. 9. A pad of paper supported by o'clock A. M. on Monday mornCaroline Caldwell. New Castle, a string is to worn around the ing. 20. Meet on the athletic field at was elected president of the Comneck with pencil attached. 6 o'clock a. m. Tuesday and bring mercial Club for the pie .mi year. 10. A large cardboard heart is a suitcase. Suitcase must be re- Marilyn Johnson, Roanoke. is viceto be worn on the back with the turned to room before breakfast. president; Nancy Langhorn, Evfollowing on it. "Praise '46", and 21. Black stockings must be ington, secretary; and Betty Jones, a sign on the front with rat's bought on Thursday or Friday of Suffolk, treasurer. name and room number. Draw this week as no freshmen will be The club is being reorganized a picture of a rat on it. allowed to go down town on Mon- after a year of inactivity. It bfl 11. All rats must know the song day, October 18. These may be taken several new projects to be in praise of the sophomores. Continued on Page 4 carried out this year.
Dieticians Needed Advanced Croup In Army Hospitals Finishes HS Course Applicants Become Second Lieutenants
Seven Day Leave Begins October 23
YW Retreat Planned For October 23, 24
Mighty Sophomores to Humble Lowly Frosh In Two Days Full of Traditional Rat Week
Dramatic Apprentices Give Play Tonight
Caldwell To Head Commercial Club