CONGRATULATIONS NKW AKG MEMBERS
The Rotunda
VOLUME XXV
FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1945
Alpha Kappa Gamma Taps 7 Upperclassmen
Girls Issued Bids To Cotillion Club
Gleavee Re-elected Society Adviser Carolyn Bobbitt. senior from South Hill; Freddie Ann Butt, senior from Portsmouth; Margie Hewlett; senior from Richmond; Dorothy Overcash, senior from Hampden-Sydney; Martha East, junior from South Boston; Margaret Eliett, jtinlor from Jennings Ordinary; and Margaret Lohr, junior from Brightwood, were tapped at the chapel hour on Friday, October 5, by Alpha Kappa Gamma, national honorary fraternity recognizing leadership In womanly service. Carolyn has been active in the activities of the college as treas-
Roanoke Orchestra To Play for Dance
Classes Select Stunt Directors Students Named To Head Booths
Regina Portinarro. senior from Newport News; Margaret Walton Wilkinson. Junior from Martinsville; Mary Rattray, sophomore . Jam 'layer, fl trow Pun Ken elected to direct the class stunts which will be part of the circus on November 10. The circus, which is sponsored by Alpha Kappa Gamma, will begin with a parade through the streets of Farmvile on Saturday afternoon and will be climaxed on Saturday night in the college gymnasium at which time, the class stunts, ringmaster, and court will be presented. Ann Summers, senior from Hampden-Sydney; Carmen Low. junior from Hopewell: Beatrice Giver, sophomore from Chatham: and M rtl B QUliam, freshman from Chariot tesville. were elected as circus booth heads from the respective classes. The freshmen class also elided assistant stunt heads and assistant bootli heads for the circus. to help in planning the stunt are Anne Gallaway. Virginia Walsh, and Dolly Ann Freeman. Betty Spindler. Margie Miller, and Dorothy Ramage were selected as assistants to Martha ANNh MARTIN Gilllam. chairman of the booth. Frances Lee, senior from Richurer of student government last mond and president of the Athyear and as vice-president this letic Association. Is chairman of year. She is a member of Kappa the circus. Delta Pi. Pi Oamma Mil. tlie College Choir, and the Colonnade staff. Freddie Ann is president of the house council this year and served as secretary last year. She is a member of Kappa Delta Saturday, October 6, a group Pi, Pi Gamma Mu. and Beorc Eh of 30 girls left at 6:30 o'clock to Thorn. Serving at present as Vice-president of the house coun- entertain the boys at the service cil, Margie was treasurer of the club of Camp Piekett and 30 girls council last year. She was vice- left for the U. S. O. in Blackstone. Activities for the evening conpresident of her class for two years, has worked on the Y. W. C. sisted of dancing, playing games, A. cabinet, and is active in the and talking with the boys. The U. S. O., with Beverly college choir. Dorothy is president of Pi Gamma Mu. a member IV blea M head has sponsored of Kappa Delta Pi as well as an frequent trips to Camp Piekett, officer of the dramatic club and land each time the girls are rephotographic editor of the Vir- ceived enthusiastically. Miss Leola Wheeler and Miss ginian. Martha Russell is secretary of Alpha Lee Garnett chaperoned 1 the girls. Continued on Page 3
STCers Entertain At (amp Piekett
Excited, Smiling STC Girls Hate Pictures Taken in Rec "Lives of great men remind us we should have our pictures took, and departing leave behind us Just exactly how we look.'" So that's wlvy everyone from Sally Senior to Fanny Freshman put on her best bib and tucker, or skirt and sweater, and tripped down to the "rec"! Must b everyone here wants her picture in the "Virginian" so she can "departing leave behind her" a glamorous picture in the book. <The author is a passionate lover of Longfellow. Tho' she turns him over In his grave constantly with her paraphrases!) When we first noticed the steady stream of dolled-up darlings we thought there must have been a MAN down in the rec. Sure enough, there was—a photographer. What a man he must be to coax enticing smiles from each! Now that this business is over, the majority of us are waiting eagerly for the results. If the results are as horrible as each one declares hers personally will be, I dread the day they arrive. The
According to an announcement made by Anne Summers, president, twenty new members were Cotillion Club on Friday. October 5. They are Betty Adams, Ann Baer, Jean Bentley. Anna Lee Blanton. Louise Blane. Lois Boone, Betty Bowles. Lucy Bralley. Mary Morton Fontaine, Betty Gillespie, Anna Headlee. Doris May, Jane Paulette, Doris Rose Ramsey, Cile Sarver, Hildrian Suttle, Virginia Tindall, Lucile Upshur, Tucker Winn, and Hope Worsham. Invitations for all new members will be in the form of the traditional "Goat Week" in the spring. The first dance of the year will be held October 27 in the College gymnasium with Jimmy St. Clair and his orchstra from Roanoke playing for the occasion. This is a re-appearance at S. T. C. for Mr. St. Clair, since he played for the Mardi Gras Dance of last year. Peggy T. Ross heads the music committee. Assisting her are Barbara Lee Meyers, Emily Carper and Petty Brothers. Carmen Low, chairman of the decoration committee, is assisted by Glenn Ann Patterson. Each member is allowed to invite one new girl In school to the fall Cotillion.
Grainerer To Head State Committee In order to consider the possibility of starting a search for teaching talent similar to the National Science Talent Search which has been carried on for ew nil y< .is in America, a committee was appointed at the conference on college offering held at Blacksburg from August 22 to 29. James M. Grainger, head of the English Department, was named as chairman of this committee. According to an announcement made recently by Mr. Grainger. the Orel meeting of this committee will be held In Richmond the end of this week. Attending, the conference were representatives from all of the state supported institutions of higher education. Farmville State Teachers College, University of Virginia. Medical College of Virginia, William and Mary. Madison Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Virginia Military Institute. Mary i and Radford as well as representatives from the State Department of Education. The conference, which included studies on curricular. extra-curricular activities, guidance, and long and short courses, was attended by four members of the local faculty. M. Boyd Coyner, pi t' sor of education; James M. Grainger, professor of English; B. M. Holton. associate professor ol education and director of personnel; and Dr. J. P. Wynne, proOl education and philosophy ' find director of teacher training education.
secret cf it all lies in Whether you're flattered or not; if you are. the picture is good, if you aren't, you send it to the third-best boy friend in hopes he'll change his mind. Frankly a few of us up On >< ond floor have still faces this mi ning. Hours we spent in front of the mirror practicim miles, angelic looks, and comc-hithrr glances. Naturally we Anna Headlee of Norfolk and then in front of the cam- Mary Wyatt of South Boston have era. been appointed as the new dining Such complaints were heard as hall monitors for the coming year, "My hair looks like a fodder Betty Adams, head dining room Mark'. and "I've cot mail bags un- hostess, announced last week. der my eyes." All that self-conGirls have been asked not to demnation couldn't be Justified; wear scarfs in the dining hall. I.Mice, we eon,tilted the photo-1 It will be one of the main duties grapher and he pronounced the' of the monitors to see that this "litire group to be wonderful. order is carried out properly. And so they came from Sallv Their other duties will be to see Senior to Fanny Freshman, one that the two side doors are kept and all, to pose before shining locked and that there is DO talkui.st hoping for the beet. To ing during the reading of anparaphrase again — this time,; nouncements or during the I a great life and blessings. Both girls are authoran Ini life that cannot be! ized to give "call-downs" in case denied." any disorder arises.
Head Hostess Names Assistant Monitors
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Dr. Habel Will Speak at YWCA Chapel Wednesday Morning Pi Gamma Mu Bids 7 Upperclassmen
Speaker Will Hold Open Association
Society Conducts Chapel October 9
"Personality Phis" Is Theme of Talk
The Virginia Gamma chapter of Pi Gamma Mu. national honorary society in social science, recognized seven upperclassmen in chapel. Tuesday. October 9. Girls receiving bids were Mary Stuart Buford. junior from Lawrenceville; Earlene Kimmerling, senior from Roanoke: Ann Martin, senior from Suffolk; Naomi Piercy, senior from Jefferson: Louise Rives, junior from McKenney; Margaret Walton Wilkinson, junior from Martinsville; and Margaret Wilson, Junior from Washington, D .C. The local organization of Pi Gamma Mu was organized in 1927. In addition to a high standard of general scholarship required for entrance, each member must show an outstanding interest in the social sciences and must carry on while a member of the society a piece of original work in some of the social sciences. The officers of the society are president. Dorothy Overcash; vicepresident, Emily Carper; secretary, Eleanor Bisese. and treasurer, Betty Adams.
Dr. Samuel T. Habel, minister of the West End Baptist church, Suffolk, will speak at chapel service on Wednesday. October 17. and at the Y. W. C. A. open association meeting at 4:30 that afternoon. He will have as his topic. 'Personality Plus."
Xativr of Virginia A native of Virginia. Dr. Habel received his Bachelor of Arts deOr. Simue'. T. I'ab I. who gree from the University of Richwill speak in chapel an! a' an open association meeting of the mond, Richmond, his Master of Y. \\. C. A. en v.v la •' a Oc- Theology, from the Southern Theological Seminary. tober 17. Louisville, Kentucky, and his Doctor of Ptiilisophy from the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh. Scotland. He attended graduate lectures at La Sorbonne, University of Paris and special lectures at Paculte Libre de TheoAdvance in rank to that of logic Protestante de Paris, Paris. lieutenant - commander was preServed In N. C. sented to George F. Howe, USNR. After serving two pastorates in commanding officer of the Navy North Carolina, he accepted in V-12 unit at Hampden-Sydney College, on the eve of the navy's 1940 the ministry of the West discontinuance of the local officer End Baptist Church in Suffolk. Dr. Habel will be introduced ti candidate training unit students during the chapel serCom. Howe will be h< re through vice by Margie- Hewlett, chairman October, at which time the Hamp- of the public affairs committee of den-Sydney unit will be officially the "Y." decommissioned, and all personnel and ship's company transferred Sixteen girls have been taken to various other navy center.'. Dr. J. B. Anderson, lieutenant, into the College Choir since last spring, according to an announce- USNR. who like Com. Howe, has ment by Connie Ozlin, president. been here since Ju'v 1M3 when The annual Fall Retreat of the the local navy unit was inauguratThey are Virginia Butler, Doro- ed, will lie tran I m I to N rfolk Methodist Student Movement in thy Blair. Barbara DeHardit, navy separation center the fil Virginia was held Saturday and Nancy Duncan, Vivian Edmunds. November. He and How- are the Sunday at Hotel Natural Bridge, Frances Garnett. Mary Ellen only v-12 officer! in the Fifth Natural Bridge. Plans for a new Hoge. Mary Frances Hundley, Naval District Who have Martha Frances Morrison and continuously in the same unit. Dr. school year were made and a state program 'was formulated. Nancy Robbins. Anderson, prior to Induction Among the speakers were reAlso Lorraine Smith, Audrey practiced medicine In Ashi presentatives of the World StuWilliams, Anne Joyner, Iris Davis, N. C. Com. Howe was a n: in her dent Services Fund, which is Juanita Davis and Virginia Love. Continued on Page 7 attempting to raise $1,000,000 this year for relief of college students abroad. Dr. Henry Lee Robinson, executive secretary of the Virginia Council of churches, explained the program of this recently formed organization. Dr. C. Fred William... pastor of the First By MARGARET E. WILSON Methodist Church, Charlottesville. Up until last Thursday night the pleasant side of things, he spoke on the subject, "Does Your "Lyceum" was just another big thinks American girli are"charm- Religion Kiip Up With Your new word, like "matriculate" for ing," likes Farmville, and wants Living?" to come back. He also admire Larry Elscnberg, a recreation the freshmen to learn. They Bette Davis, and enjoyed "The specialist from the Cieii'ral Board were, however, introduced to our Corn is Green" even if some of of Education of the Methodist artist series at its best and we're it required a little translation— Church, Nashville, Tennessee, had off to a promising start. especially the Cockney, But of I lie recreational feaThere's nothing like a bit of and here's the rub.—he is ada- tures. glamour to help the arts along, mant in insisting that Sinatra A special communion service and glamour we had plenty of. can't sing! 1<1 Sunday under the bridge In the first place, it is not in the He offered one helpful su as that day was designated as constitution of any American girl tion—take it for what its worth. World Communion Sunday. to resist a blond Polish baritone but don't say we told you. "These l> l in the Farmville who also boasts an accent. Just bed-check—why you don't paint Methodist Church were Miss how much those things had to do black you doors? In BOUl ge we Francis Currin, student secretary, with the almost capacity audience did so" And so it seems there Ann Savage. Gladys Lankford. is not for us to say. It was not, is nothing new under the sun. Jacttfl Hancock, and Ann Buck. .er. the baritone's oomph Now. about the dining hull. In Virginia Lee Price is one of the which kept the audience enthusi- the words of our dlftlngu three vfce-preeldtnw of die Virastic, and brought him back for guest, "The girls—they make ginia Methodist Student Movethree tnoorei n u meny as n« noise like bee-hivi thing iii' lit would take. It was a really good like getting in a plug for order voice—he wants to sing in opera. when the opportunity pr> Miss Brainlna, whose reluctant itself. And subtle tOO in Btlt?) speech in chapel and intriguing We also learned that Mr Orda past combined to build up a lot has made a habit of consuming of interest in the concert, trium- a steak—the bigger th The first meeting of Alpha Phi phed over a slightly unsteady before every roncert. The idea hi Sigma, which wee lehi duted for seat to give a "you-could-hear-a- explaii y for la.st Friday night, will be held at pin-dro]i performance. She's those gusty "I Love I played for Padereweski, but we'll "Scottish Marching songs." But a later date. Virginia Tindall, bet she didn't play any better tent, has announced. where could he have found anvWell, they wanted to concenAlpha Phi Sigma is an honorary trate on Alfred Orda. so we went gotten all that vim and vigor fraternity on tin- campus for to see the S. T .C. gal 'she craws from someplace. But what we v.i'ii and sophomores with anonymity) who could tell us really want to know is WHO or rating. most about him. To begin with WHAT was on that front roe '
Navy V-12 Boys Leave Next Week
College Choir Takes 16 Girls On Trial For This Quarter
Methodist Retreat Held Last Week-End
College Students Held Spellbound By First Glamorous Lyceum Artists
Honorary Society Postpone! Meeting