Rotunda vol 24, no 30 june 4, 1945

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library ate Teachers College f annvflfe. Virginia. HAPPY SUMMER VACATION

The Rotunda

VOLUME XXIV

CONGRATULATIONS. SENIORS

FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945

No. 30

120 Receive Degrees at 61st Commencement *

"Have Faith for Today" Hollingsworth Declares •"Have a personal faith for today." said the Rev. A. H. HollingsWorth. pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Roanoke at the baccalaureate service yesterday, June 3, at 8 o'clock in the college auditorium. ' In his message to the graduating class of 1945, Mr. Hollingsworth used as his trxt Mark 11:22, "Have faith in God". He said. "These words were spoken by Jesus at the beginning of the most crucial week in his life. It was to be a we k tilled with scorn, ha•tred. treachery, loneliness, and death. He faced these experien-

Colonnade Rating 'Zehmer,Moling, Sheffey Speak Received Recently In Graduating Exercise Today Honor Grads Announced

Short Story Contest To End In October

Table Hostesses Named by Adams

"The function of education is to The Colonnade, S. T. C. quarassist the student in masti ring pterly magazine, which is annually the tools of learning—the arts of judged by the All American Magreading, writing and figuring—to azine Critical Service of the National Scholastic Press Associagive them certain facts about the Betty Adams, newly-elected dinnature of the physical world in tion, was recently awarded the ing hall hostess for the coming which he must live—to put him rating of First Class—Excellent. year, has announced the names in touch with best thoughts and The publications are judged for of those students who will serve ideas of man. and, finally to help qualities of fiction and features, as hostesses for the session 1945him develop good habits of thinkeditorials, critical writing, essays, 46. ing and working and of using his poetry, humor, general art work— They are Gwen Acklss. Nancy imagination," Dean George B. illustrations, photography, and Adams, Maria Addleman, Grace Zehmer, Dean of the Summer cover—editing, makeup, and meAnderson. Edith Apperson, MaSchool at the University of Virchanics. These rating are given1 rion Atkinson. Sara Ballard. Anne ginia, stated in his message to in order to aid future publica- i Raymond Holliday French, Qray Bed. Lucille Bell, Hilda Benthe graduating class this morntions, and It is not a contest. In.tt. Sara Bennett. Betty Bibb. classman to whom the seniors ing. For the past two years, thei | Sutton Biand, Beverly Boone. Lois dedicated their annual, the Colonnade has held the rating of , .1 M m.i ii Recognized . Done, Betty Bowles, Kitty Sue 1945 Virginian. Continuing, the University Dean First Class—Excellent. . Endgforth, Rachael Brugh. Mary remarked, "I wish to emphasize All students are asked to enter | Stewart Buford, Jeanne Button. the fact that I have always had DEAN GEORGE B. /I IIMl It the short story contest which will r Carbonell, Mae Caldwell, and still have a profound respect last through the summer and end Anne Carter. Pat Carter. Mary for the philosophy of education in October. At the conclusion of, Armistead Catlett. Anne Charlton. that has permeated thought and the contest, the winners will be Ml I *>•*/■ ligtM V.iii'11 Lorene Claiborne, Page Cook, and V7 VI action at the Farmville State Colannounced, and the winning sto"UUttlCS ill II : Alma Crawley. lege under President Jarman s ries will be printed in the fall Also, Patsy Dale, Betsy Dunn. administration. Dr. Jarman and Marilyn Bell, editor of the an- Issue of the Colonnade. Martha Russell East. Margaret nual, dedicated on May 28 the his able faculty have had no mean conception of the function E.let. Jean E.more Peggy Fink, 1945 Virginian to Mr. kaymond Jg6 a^ Nancy WnTtehais! Ev.lyn Hair. Janice Halstead. Holliday French, who Is an asso- '£ £ceSly rotatedI edltoMn. °ul of a class of 120 *nlors. of education and the responsibilAnne Hauser. Anna Headlee. Sa-.clate professor 0f chemistry and JlfTS t,uart o3^Iv maSne sixty-nine have signed contracts ity that this institution has torah Hodges, Sue Hundley, Ruth has been the adviser to the senior I™ I . 'ly ""«" ne' to teach next year. ward those who come here for Jones. Kitty Kearsley. Barbara class since the 1945 graduating' S*** IMUe u"d£' tlle *22Virginia Lee Abemathv will nourishment and light. And I Join K.ll«m. Heidi Lacy. Betty Lee, class entered S. T. C. in 1941. ' ** °' «"! new £* was a,8tn- u^bto HoptW£l£S Agee a,"mnaP' faCUlty and lne iMdU" Bettv Lewis Margaret Lohr Ma™ ■ „ .i . buted to the students last week. „ ' , «upeweii, ijoreen Agee, 8 . . The dedication reads. •'College ^ magazlne Jean Akers. Mar- nlzln tne magaz ne was was dedicated to Cumberland; non Lotts, Mary Anne Loving. davs dedicated to unsvilleMargaret R«'rlr «,h> 1P « l""M contributions rer„iipd best th'rnush the \T* Grace Loyd. Sue McCorkle. Betty mem 1^1 "? oi !?^S- £8t J*™!.™ the senior class with these words. fSSSi^. .".?*!"- .?aIks_da.!e',tnal th«t. Pr~bUnt h.« ™«ri„ P»™ M J ' » ^'i, ' *?" °^ ™™**- To each of ^To the Ln oTcia^s of 1945 who Clarksville: Marilyn Bell, Suffolk:' I ancJ lsPresid«nl Jarman haf. madc Page Manson. Barbara Agnes Millner. Bet*,. different hit , f Bettv Blackweil btuai StnaiKvilie M. making to Farmville." t,V, ipn(1, arp ty Minetree MonUom.uenas are amerent.bat "WHWM, trviije. Manave ivtn s0 much we w|sn to Condition of World t0 a e Wh m & pUin ery, and Imogen Moore " °f " there ,S °"Somehow ° dedicate this edition of the Colon- |JJ *£• Betsy *"■ Caldwell. "£?. * ™ ,, O,JU IIIUBPI rawic, ade " County; Amhcrst; "On the well-founded assumpwe haVP in common n Also. Barbara Lee Myers. Ann ; this one has caught the spirit of ' Mary William Calvert, Winches- tion tnat vou. the graduates of Nichols, Cab Overbey. Dorothy, Farmville and exemplified It in1 ter; Lena Claiborne, Clarksville; 11945. have received here under the MEV. A. II HOLLINGSWORTH Owen. Kitty Parham. Mabel Park, his every action. '/1C C G U 1 Alice Lee Davis. Holland; Nancy j aegis of your Alma litter this ... . , B -ttie Parrish. Jean Pritchett, Never too busy when we need; *) iMMimn* oCllOOl , Jane Dickinson, Martinsville; Ma- broad training of which I have ces with these words spoken to Doris Rose Ramsey. Shirley I ry Louise Dondley, Norfolk Coun- i)een speaking and are looking upHia disciples. Have faith in God\ Reave8i Judy ,^ick Pats Saun. him. always there greeting us ty; Sarah Lee East, Martinsville; •on tnis commencement occasion that same cheery smile, he!j\* llnPti IlinP 18 TnU sublun, utterance was made ders j^ Savedge Prances Sew- with will be remembered long for his1 iu vf|JCII JUUC JLU I Alice Feitig, Henrico County, and ln tnc traditional but nonetheless so quietly that in the mad rush of ard Ann 8hufrlebarger, Eloise generosity B |Katherine Grizzard. Emporia. jtrue sense as the gateway to opand thoughtf ulness. I StanceU Ann Taylor Rpbecca of Also Eleanor Hall, Warsaw; j portunity to put to the test the ES? dt " B""" these qu Summer School will open for the forgot Aftei His rtn«,h death i, as Zv they Tornllnsori| ^ Tucker. Gene we consider first in a friend, the first session June 18 and "w'ilT end R-osa'ie Anne Hamlln, Norfolk! theories, hopes, ambitions, and ■ought for some means for their ^^^ Lucllle Upshur. Martha staff wishes to dedicate the 1945 July 21. The second session will County; Virginia Alice Hall. Al- Ideas about life that you now own lives, they recovered this Webb West. Mary Virginian to our own "Charlie pen July 23 and will close Au- tavista; Nancy Harrell, Winches-' cherish. I want to talk to you Chari0tte 0 great truth and by its power they Wyatt and Connle YoUng. Continued on Page 3 |gust 25 according to an an- ler: Martha Higgins, Norfolk 1 briefly about the kind of world lived. . nouncement made this week by S. County; Martha Hite, West Point; that you must live in. I want to "Faith in God provides a wea-! Q » O £* /"*» JI IM Holton Jr .Caroline Huddle, Chesterfield call your attention to some rather pon for winning the battle of life". Miss Lois R. mOm, Cleveland ISrnlthfl County: the minister said. "We need not OOptlS d&y COWfiTttM, IrOOUOye Heights. Ohio, will 'teach geo-l eld: Lulle Theresa Hutt, thl world that you face and, be afraid of the struggle that lies graphy replacing Miss Grace Mo-' Montross; Mary Anne Jarratt, I equally Important, about the ahead A commencement speaker ran who will not be here for the Hopewell; Fay Byrd Johnson, Ha- world that faces you." once told the graduates they were waii summer session : Beatrice Jones. Front Roy-, The facts which the speaker going out into a world of upheavBETTY BIBB A three weeks workshop course '«>= Edith Leach Jones, Whaley-1 mentioned are chaos, rapidity of al. He was speaking in the year on the natural resources of Vir- vllle: Elizabeth Ann Jones. Win- change, and the complex! 1835. Each generation faces its "Just wateh us fly. but we'll get, gratulatlons from everybody and glnia will be taught by A. A. Chester: Rachael Joyner Norview; complication of the world. own peculiar problems. Through by. with memories of you. We'll everywhere, and knocking themIsable K Personal Oblitation "• Midlothian; and Georfaith we win the battle for a bet- need you ^ ,ove , ^^ selves out over the whole thing. Wingo. superintendent of Con- gia Knight, Wise. "If the world of the futui This is a time when we. the! *frvation Studies. State Board of ter world. Faith has a forward 0< -451" Also Lucy Lingo, Pungnfague: to become H better place in winch sophomores, pause and survey Educatlon. look. It enables us to struggle Helen McGuire, Hopewell; Eliza- to live, you must help make it In Wliat other season of the year these "girls of the moment" with addition to these courses for human betterment, and gn alei social ideals. This is no shallow could stimulate such poetic spirits pride and envy, with love and ad- mentioned above, the usual cours- beth McLean, Kenbrldge; Ann so," the educator told the mdtnl Continued on Page * Continued on Page 4 optimism It is by this method 'rora the sophomore class to the miration. We have watched them, es will be offered also. Graduation of seniors will be that the great advances in his- senior class except graduation? worked with them, accepted their tory have come." i What other season of the year wisdom and help, and now we held ln the large auditorium FriThe Presbyterian pastor con- could bring more tears and laugh- know we'll have to take their day night. August 24. eluded, "Faith in God vindicates,ter simultaneously? It is a time places . . .. that we'll have a new itaelf in experience By faith the when memories and hopes rush sister class that will look up to us faltering disciples who heard together and produce a state of as we have to them. It's a funny Jesus speak were able to keep happiness and excitement that feeling we get as we see the famMAKGAKKT WILSON their rendezvous with life. Faith!*11' be lon8 remembered. The iliar faces talking to Charlie Hop. "Manufacture a feature" they ents In the unique way of S. T. C. gives us the conviction of our ln-1 long-worked-for. talked-of. and eating breakfast in the tearoom, Eight students in advanced dividual worth A life lived longed-for moment has arrived or marching sedately (?) down the shorthand passed recently the of- said. "About anything" they add-1 Those who are spending theil through faith In God Is both dur- for our sisters, the Seniors of '45. aisle on Friday Chapel day, then flcial 140 word Gregg Speed Test, ed, maddeningly. So, unhappily, leisure hours—or should we mi running up to take off the famil- according to an announcement | we retired to a secluded corner, say hours?—on the roof, are a lltable and deathless Faith gives the Freshmen of '41. There's a tiny bit of anxiety iar cap and gown, to hang them made this week ln the business.and considered the possibilities tie uneasy about then home reUS courage to live in the mood of ISurprisingly enough, that sm.i:i ception. You see. there's a upon that enters every senior's mind as in our closets no more. They're department. Continued on Page 3 They are Betty Jane Austin,, voice—so often uncooperative on that tin last time one chocolate the big day draws hoursly closer. each so individual, yet "all-to. . . Will I pass those piperoos Mr. gether" in standing for the things Roanoke; Alice Davis, Phenlx^such occasions—whispered loudly brown S. T. C.'er went home, her Mac and Dr. Simp give? Will the we love and will miss. These sen- Betsy Dillard, Draper, North Ca- something on the order of "You own father waltzed right by her tires hold out for Mother and iors have been more than sisters, rollna; Mary Elizabeth Fuqua. feeble-minded so-and-so — ifs at the bus without recofnlsini Dad to get up here and then get more than classmates, more than Cape Charles; Katherine Lynch, spring! You know — birds and her Besides, Dr Moore ha i back home? Did I get enough an- teammates ... in their midst we Lebanon; Anne Mapp, Bridge- bees and commencement, and body a little worried of ei At the chapel service held Fri- nouncements? Can my little sister have found friends—friends in the town; Daphne Plttman. Ports- home, and feather beds and stuff.! not to the point of joining the day, May 25, a special program manage four extra days up here true sense of the word. Never let mouth; and Anne Summers, Wake up and look around!" So Lily-Whiles, but—well. Just I lit Of music was given. This was the without going mad? It is going to it be said that a sophomore is Hampden - Sydney. These stu- j we looked around and, my good- tie worried. last chapel program which the rain the entire time we want to mushy, but do let us be sentimen- dents received official certificates ness. such doings on—as grandYessir. everybody bJM something seniors attended as a class. play round on the beach? When tal and sincere for Just a tiny and would have received pins In mother used to say. 8. T. C. Is on her mind, even if it's nothing Lucy Messick lead the devotion- am I ever, ever gonna catch up on minute while we say the old. old pre-war days. Twenty students really buzzing, right along with more pressing than th age - old als, after which Connie Ozlin all the girls I'm leaving behind? tribute to a new graduating class passed the official 120 word test (the bees. Those of us who are not |decision—Van Johnson and Shanplayed "Claire de la Lune" and an This sort of brainfood keeps our "Congratulations for having done and took the test at 140 words occupied In what we fondly be-inon's. or doing VhOl encore Esther Shevick sang "One illustrious seniors busy, as they so well thus far in your life, and per minute. Illeve to be packing, smirking at should have done las! week As Fine Day" from the opera Ma-1 scurry hither and yon and back may health, happiness, and prosBarbara Kellam, Norfolk, who the sun, are still writing desper- of old, it usually turns out to be dame Butterfly" by Puccini. She a g a i n, autographing annuals, perity be yours always"—We'll be is taking shorthand this year for ate letters homo about who's OBBI* guess which. also sang the more recent song J packing, eating, joking, teasing, seeing you around! the first time passed the 100 word ing to get us—WHEW! Others of And now. we haw tin. Uttlt "Dream". I getting flowers, presents, and conClass of '47 official test. course, are busy entertaining parContinued on Page 4

Editor Dedicates Annual to French

School Contracts

To Senior Sisters of 1945

8 Advanced Students Pass Shorthand Test

Music Program Held In Chapel May 25

Sun Bathing Writing Home, Packing Cause Last Days to he Busy Days


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