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VOLUME XXV
FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21, 1945
HEAR DR. WILL DURANT
No. 9
Will Durant Will Speak November 26 Willis Takes Highest Honors Johnson To Talk In Annual Colonnade Contest At Local College Second Place On November 29 * Philhower Reveals Goes To Wilson Ann Willis, Junior from CulpepMartin Announces er. won first prize In the short Dance Ticket Sale Committee Names
story contest sponsored by the Colonnade, according to an announcement made by Nancy Whitehead. editor of the magn zlne. The title of the prize winning love story is Kiss in the Dark." Second prize went to Margaret Wilson, junior from Washington.
ANN Willis D. C, for her story "Erase the Puppy". Betty Deuel Cock, senior from Hampton, won honorable mention for her story Mr. Simmons Sittles Sings." Honorable mention also was awarded Irene Pomeroy. senior from Quinton, for her story "The Climax," Featured in this issue will be poetry by Page Callis. freshman from Petersburg, and Betty Deuel Cock. Dean Martha Smith Smith has written an article entitled "Thoughtful Satisfaction." This issue of The Colonnade is dedicated to the freshman class, with an appropriate design by Carmen Low. The Colonnade is a literary magazine to which students, numbers of the faculty, alumnae, and others contribute. It publishes some of the results of the thinking and writing done In the college and among Its friends. A transfer from Randolph-Mason last spring, Anne served as a riporter of the college newspaper; while during her high school days she was editor of her high school paper. At Farmville she Is a member of Beorc Eh Thorn, English honor society, and has r"cently written the Christmas play for the Canterbury Club.
15 Students Join Town Girls' Club Fifteen local girls were initiated Into the town girls' club at a meeting held Friday afternoon. November 2, 1945. Girls initiated were Lucille Baldwin, Leddie Foster, Lennle Noblln, Cathryn Mosteller, Betty Pairet, Thelma Southall., Mary Virginia Morris, Jane Olenn, Pat Lynn, Wilma Allen, Eula Ayers. Iris Coleman, Virginia Lee Watson, Dorothy Bousman, and Catherine Hogge. At this meeting Cathryn Mosteller was elected reporter. Other officers of the club are Martha Holman. president; Evelyn Moore, vice-president; Nola Brlsentine, secretary; and Betty Bondurant, treasurer.
Tickets for the annual senior dance which will be held this year on Saturday night, December 8. will go on sale on December 4. Jane Philhower. general chairman of the dance has revealed. Stag tickets will be fifty-five cents, while date tickets will be $1.10. In the receiving line will tje S. L. Graham, Eleanor Bisese. president of the senior class; Miss Elizabeth Burg.r, class sponsor; Mary Walker Watts, honorary member of class; Anne Summers, vice-president; Lillian Elliott, secretary; Virginia Shackelford. tr asurer; and Miss Mary Dabney. sister class sponsor. Leading the figure in which only seniors and their dates will participate will be Eleanor Bisese and Mary Walk.r Watts, followed by Anne Summers with Lillian Elliott, and Virginia Shackelford. with Jane Philhower. Chaperons for the dance will include Miss Olive T. Iler, Mrs. Eva Warren, Mrs Katherine Tabb, Dr. and Mrs. C. O. Gordon Moss. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. McCorkle, and Raymond H. French. Anne Summers Is chairman of the decorations committee; Lillian Elliott heads the ticket committee; Betty Ellis is in charge of the figure; Lucie McKenry heads the floor committee; Dorothy Overcash is chairman of the program: and Peggy T. Ross heads the music committee. According to an announcement made this week by the general chairman, the dance will be an open dance, and all students and visitors are invited. There is, however, one rule that no one except seniors can wear white dresses.
Lancaster Speaks In Student Lounge In his lecture of November 14, sponsored by Kappa Delta Pi. Dr. Dabney S. Lancaster, state superintendent of public instruction, reviewed educational trends over a period of years with special reference to Virginia schools. Dr. Lancaster stated that with an increase in the school enrollments, and with an Increase of pupils with varied backgrounds making up the enrollments, the school system has become much more complicated as the years have gone by. In predicting future changes in the school systems of Virginia, the state superintendent of public Instruction said that there would probably be a reduction of the now 500 recognized high schools to 200; of these 500 schools, 20 have enrollments of 500 or more. Since schools with large student bodies have more educational opportunities than smaller ones, consolidation of smaller schools seems to be the only remedy for the situation. Dr. Lancaster also predicted longer school hours as well as a state-wide twelve year system. Also he thought that some type of summer program would be carried on—organized differently, of course, from the winter program. Of the more recent accomplishments in the field of education. Dr. Lancaster believed that the action taken by the state legislature Continued on Page 3
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Philosopher Born In Massachusetts PGM TO Sponsor Eminent Lecturer
Ann Martin, president of Beorc Eh Thorn. English honor society which is sponsoring the lecture of Mr. Burges Johnson, has announced the following committees to make ail the arrangements for that lecture which will be heard on this campus November 29. S.rving as chairman of the j publicity committee is Margaret I Wilson. Helping her are Virginia i Treakle and Connie Ozlin. Louise Rives heads up the stagbig committee. Her assistants are j Lucie Addleman and Marjorie | Hewleit. Katherine Allen is chair- ' man of the library committee. The invitation committee isj headed by Lovice Altizer. Serving | under her are Shirley Cruser and Ann Willis. Nell Scott has charge of the social tommittee. Virginia Tindall DR. WILL DURANT, who will lecture on this >ampus Monday Virginia Shackelford, and Sue night, November 26. He is being sponsored on this campus by Pi Hundley are assisting her. Mr. Johnson is secretary of the <■ .Una Mu, national honorary society in social science. College English Association and editor of its publication. He is touring the country especially to come in contact with the English teachers. Following his lecture there will be a reception in the student lounge.
Dance Trio To Give Concert
Commercial Club Presents Play Last Wednesday night at 6:45 o'clock the Commercial Club presented a play "Boss Versus Secretary" in the small auditorium. This play served as the program for the regular Commercial Club meeting. The play showed the difference in an inefficient secretary who chewed gum and had holes in her letters from erasers, and the efflcicirnt secretary who had a college education in business education and «.ould get out a good, wellwritten, neat letter in a short time. Cile Sarver, Barbara Kellam, Mary Jane King, Anne Williams, and Lucille Upshur were the characters In the play which was under the direction of Mrs. J. P. Wynne, advisor of the club, and Mary Virginia Walker. The Commercial Club of the high school was represented and also a large number of the freshmen business education students of the college In addition to the Commercial Club members.
Annual Deadline Set By Editor-in-Chief Lillian Elliott, editor-in-chief of the Virginian, has announced that November 20 will be the deadline for subscriptions to the annual with padded covers. Subscriptions for the annual with plain covers will be taken until December 13. Before these dates, members of the staff will canvass each hall for subscriptions. The cost of a book with padded cover Is $4.50, whereas the cost of the book with plain cover is $4.00. The Virginian is the year book of State Teachers College. Students are responsible for art work, the editing, and management of the publication. Each issue represents a cross section of life here In this college.
Program To Begin At Eight O'clock Jane Dudley, Sophie Maslow. and William Bales, dance trio will present a modern dance concert In the college auditorium. December 7, at 8 o'clock. The trio revealed their full stature as artists of the first rank when their debut as a concert trio turned out to be not only the dance event of the season but also the foreruniur of ever more triumphant successes In New York and on tour. As featured soloists or guest artists with the leading American companies of Martha Graham, Humphrey - Weleman, and Hanga Holm, the dancers were well known before launching upon their independent careers. Their program of dances drawn from the American scene and from folklore, old and new, bring characters and situations to life in a simple human emotion. Their vivid performances are heightened by the use of drama, dialogue, and music, delighting their audiences with a new and exciting form of popular theater.
Sophomores Present STC Fashion Show On Thursday night, November 15 at 10 o'clock in the Student Building auditorium, the sophomore commission presented a fashion show of "Do's and Dont's" at S. T. C. This fashion show was presented to the freshmen "Y" club. Taking part in the program were Alice Ann Abernathy, Julia Booher. Claire Clarke, Mary Jane Bond, Jerry Colgin, Edith Duffy, Carol Jenkins, Oeorge Ann Lewis, Peggy Moore, Mary Ann Morris. Caroline Painter, Berkley Richardson, Betsy Scott, Nancy Squire. Betsy Stoner. and Gee Oee Yonce.
STC Choir to Sing In Richmond Soon Girls To Broadcast Over Station WRVA
On Sunday morning. December 2, the college choir will sing in the St. Gil s Presbyterian Church. Richmond, and on Sunday evening, the group will sing in the Boulevard Methodist Church of the same city, Alfred H. Stink. head of the music department, announces. Participating in the worship services will be the entire choir of sixty-five voices, the senior a'capella, madrigal singers, junior a'capella, and intermediate a'capella. Esther Shevick will appear as guest soloist for the services. Student directors participating will be Esther Shevick, Margie Hewlett, and Dorothy Cummings, while Nell Scott. Grace Anderson, and Constance Ozlin will accompany the groups at the piano. Also as a part of the program. Dr. James Elliott Walmslcy, professor of history and social id* ences, will give annotations of the hymns. Dr. J. L. Blair Buck, chairman of the music committee of St. Chimb, issued thr invitation to the choir director to have the students sing m that city church of which h<; is a member. and Dr. Edwin S. Sheppp, pastor Of tin Boulevard Methodist Church, invited the group on In half of the music committee of his church. Dr. J. Blanton Belk, who recently spoke on tin, lainpus under the auspicd Of thfl Westminster Fellowship, is pastor ol .St Giles Church. The choir will leave Farmville Saturday afternoon and will rehearse that evening In Richmond. Arrangements have also been made with officials of WRVA for the group to broadcast on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 with I r*hi ■I at station WRVA at 1:30.
Dr. Will Durant will speak on the "Causes and Consequences of the War" in the State Teachers College auditorium on Monday, November 26, at 8 o'clock. Dr. Durant is being brought to this campus under the auspices of Pi Gamma Mu national social science honor society. Dr. Durant was born at North Adams, Massachusetts in 1885. He received his formal education in the schools of that city and Kearny, New Jersey; at Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey; and at Columbia University, New York. He served as a cub reporter on the New York Journal for a short time and then taught Latin, Greek. French, and English In Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey. In 1912 he toured Europe and returned in 1913 to take up graduate work in biology and philosophy at Columbia University. He received his Ph. D. degree there in 1917. Versatile Speaker In 1914 Dr. Durant began lecturing in New York City on philosophy, literature, science, music, economics, biology and history. Since h 1 s audience consisted mainly of the business, professional, and working classes, It was necessary that he give clear detailed explanations and some contemporary significance to all material presented. He received valuable training through this to which he owed the success of his book, The Story of Philosophy. This book has sold over two million copies since Its appearance in 1926, and has been translated into twelve languages. Lecturer Retires In order to give all his time to what he intended to make his life work, Dr. Durant retired In 1927 to write The Story of Civilization. For this purpose he has traveled twice around the world and four times through Europe. This work will be divided into five volumes. The frst, Our Oriental Heritage, appeared in 1935; the second. The Life ol Greece, in 1939; and the Continued on Page 3
Troxell To Sing: At Annual Concert Miss Barbara Troxell, lyric soprano, will be guest artist at the annual Christmas Concert of the College Choir and Choral Club on December 16 at 8:30 o'clock in the college auditorium. Born in Easton. Pennsylvania, Miss Troxell gave no thought to music as a career until she attended the Pennsylvania State College. Here she won her Bachelor 0| Sneiire and Master's Degree In Musical Education, and also taught voice and piano while earning her graduate degree. Miss Troxell, with a long list of n appearances to her credit. Moist for two summers at Duke University, was chosen last year to appear on the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air, and was meat artist of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra when they uii DeBussy's "Blessed Damorselle". Acroiding to the Philadelphia !-( Bulletin, "Miss Troxell's recital proves a matter of cultured, sensitive singing of feeling. awl tradition as regards to the md phrasing. She has a | oung voice which is produced with gratifying ease and not a little skill."