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THE NORMAL SCHOOL WEEKLY. Vol. 2. No. 2(>.
Farmville, Virginia.
April 2H, 1922.
TRIP AROUND THE WORLD A GREAT SUCCESS Rural Club to Work With Junior League. MISS KOONTZ ADDRESSES THE RURAL CLUB On Wednesday night, April 19th, Miss M. Freida Koontz. newly appointed secretary of the Junior Community Leagues, spoke to the members of the Rural Club. In her talk Miss KodDtz spoke of the purpose of the .luiiior Leagues, which is "to advance the educational, recreational, social, moral, physical, civic and economic interests of the community." and the good (hat has already been brought about by this organization. Then she presented the club with a chance to accept an opportunity for service to the State such as no other Normal School in the State has been offered. This opportunity is to serve the Junior Leagues all over the State through the "Community League News.' In a business meeting of the Rural Club held on Saturday. April 21st. the members decided to accept Miss Koontz's offer. The first material result is that the club has decided to offer a prize of not less than twenty-live dollars to the school that best fulfills certain conditions. So far these conditions have not been fully decided upon, but they will be published in an early Jtimber of this paper. NEWS IN BRIEF Since April the 10th. $128.00. have been added to the Student Building Fund. The Normal School Board held its annual meeting at Farmville Tuesday. April eighteenth. .Miss Mary White Cox and Miss Steele with representatives from the Y. M. C. A. cabinet have been attending the National Convention of Y. \V. C. A., workers at Hot Springs. Arkansas, for the past two weeks. Lily Thornhill and Margaret Shackelford, the president and vice-president of next year's Student Committee attended the National Convention of Student Selfgoverning organization at the Saphire NeWCOmb College, New Orleans, last week. The new Farmville Opera House held its opening program Monday. April 17th, at 7:80o'clock in the evening. Elizabeth Moring and Anne Meredith arc attending a meeting of the Intercollegiate Newspaper Association at Greenville, South Carolina, this week-end. Up to date the enrollment for the summer session is three hundred.
ALUMNAE NOTES •Miss Katherine Cook, of Roanoke, attended the meeting of the State Normal School Board on Tuesday. April 18th. A quiet, but beautiful, wedding was solemnized when Miss Flora Overton Redd and Mr. Henry Drewry Whittle were married in Martinsville Wednesday evening. April 12th. The bride who looked handsome in her lovely wedding gown, carried a shower bouquet of orchids and valley lilies. She has been one of the most popular teachers in the iocal public schools for the past several years and has a large circle of warm friends in Martinsville society. Mr. Whittle is county engineer and is prominent in his profession and in business and social circles of the community. Mr. and Mrs. Whittle will live in Martinsville. Jhe Farmville Alumnae Chapter will have an apron sale for the Student Building Fund on Saturday. April 29th, somewhere on Main Street. Dr. Whittaker has very generously offered to give the Alumnae Chapter a moving picture benefit for the Student Building Fund. The date selected is Monday, May, 8th. The picture will be Elaine Hammerstein in "The Way of a Maid" and will be shown both afternoon and evening. Mrs. George R. Tennent, formerly Miss Leslie Moring of the class of 1918, has recently been the guest of her parents, of Farmville, Virginia. AMONG THE COLLEGES The City of Lynchburg will present Lynchburg College with a gymnasium. According to the plans, this building will be an attractive as well as very useful addition to the College. The Glee Club of Louisiana College have been making a tour through northern Louisiana. Work has been begun on a new library lor Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. The funds for the erection of this library were donated to the college by the Carnegie Corporation. The total cost of the building and equipment will be $60,000. Once there was a dog who had a fit every day and another dog who had a fu every other day. And then, sad to relate, the dog who had a lit every other day met an untimely end through an automobile accident. Another case of the survival of the fittest.
JUNIORS ADD BIG AMOUNT TO STUDENT BUILDING FUND Last week several posters appeared very mysteriously in the Reception Hall announcing a trip around the world; anyone could get a round trip ticket—go and see the countries and return all in one night. Only the date and place of starting were given, April 22, 1922, at 7::'»0 in the Auditorium. At Chapel Friday we saw "samples" of the countries; Hawaii was represented by Nellie Hardy, Spain by Mary Friend. Alice Lee Rumbough and Julia Cave followed as Japan, the twins, Mary and Martha Coulling, represented Holland, then came one of the first inhabitants of America, Ruth Shockley, with tomahawk and feathers, followed by the girl scout of today, Bernice Johnson. When we entered the Auditorium Sat urday night we found we were already in Spain. As the curtains rose we saw the balcony with the Spanish girl, Agnes Walker, in it, then Mary Friend, her lover, sang the Spanish Cavalier and danced to his lady. This was one of the best features of the program, as Mary Friend's dancing is always enjoyed by everyone. Next we entered Japan, in the "Y" Room. Cherry blossoms. Wisteria, Japanese umbrellas and lanterns with the dainty Japanese girls made one feel they were really in the "Land of Cherry Blossoms." There we were served tea and waffers in true Oriental fashion. The guide then took us to the Senior Parlor where Hawaii held sway. The Hawain girls in costume entertained with their ukeleles and singing. Up stairs we went to Holland in the drawing room. On the way we could not resist the temptation of having our fortunes told at one of the two tents. In Holland there were tulips, all colored tulips, every where. The Dutch gfaril sold "Near Beer" from a sure-enough keg. A very attractive Dutch dance was given. Home again we went. When we entered the Gym the Indians were dancing. Then the most attractive feature cams into view for there were the booths where we could buy sandwiches, candy, and lemonade. Then the piano started and every one danced until "lights out" rantf This entertainment was given by the Junior Class for the benefit of the Student Building Fund. The girls in charge of the different countries were: Genevieve Bonnlwell, Marion Sale. .Margaret Finch, Lovette Priddy, and Edna Blanton. Especially is credit due to Kitty Morgan, who had charge of the entire program and Florence .Miller, Junior Class President.
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You may have a poetical soul that would WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS pioneer in the parlors of self-indulgence —a soul that has an urge to follow the FIRST NATIONAL BANK frontiers of experience. You may find in some book certain Farmville, Va. pages that breathe the fragrance of a perEvery Convenience Offered Women fumed parlor where three is considered a crowd. Depositors You may read of a modern couple who have the taint of Egyptian blood boiling The Pure Food Store in their bodies—but remember, life is ■ FOR more than soft silks and a clink of cut I glass. Luncheon and Picnic Necessities When a young man elects to fly high, Let US Supply That FEED or a young women decides to visit the chamber of frescoed walls, done in dusky CHAS. BUGG & SON purple, the story always ends the same. FARMVILLE, VA. For the fortunate, Life is short—for the unfortunate, Life seems long. The MISSES DAVIDSON thought of Touchstone, in "As You Like The Ladies' Specialty Shop It," is but a cynic's measure of the mean- Suits. Coats, Dresses, Blouses, Dry Goods ing of Life. and Notions To "ripe and ripe, then rot and rot," is FARMVILLE. VA. a hopeless philosophy that poets employ to THE SENIOR PAGEANT create a cheap stage character like JacSHANNON'S HOME BAKERY ques. Life is to live, not linger. Life is "In the spring a young girl's fancy Pies. Cakes, Cookies, Sandwiches lightly turns to thoughts of"—Commence-1 to be enjoyed, not endured. Longfellow in his "Psalm of Life" is a more lasting and Fountain Drinks ment, and this spring those thoughts havei thought, than anything written by found in Commencement's approach the \ FARMVILLE, VA. rare opportunity of working out a school Shakespeare. "Life is real, life is earnest, pageant. Never before has CommenceAnd the grave is not the goal; GRAY'S DRUG STORE ment held such an attraction in it as the Dust thou art, to dust returnest, coming one promises. The Drug Store with the Personal Touch Was not spoken of the soul." While the pageant belongs to the Senior Carrying an Up-to-date line of —Selected. Class, the spirit of it belongs to every girl Toilette Necessities, Stationer; and in school, and every one has had and will have part in making it a success. The Wiley's Chocolates PRAYER student body is brought into a common inFARMVILLE, VA. terest through this pageant, because the This let me learn growth and success of Alma Mater is at Things cannot last; the heart of it all. R. W. GARNETT & CO. A moment's brief glory: The big things that make up a school They are part of the Past. which trains for citizenship and service Leaders of Fashion are to be dramatized. The drama is ours In in the making and in the execution. The Let me joy borrow, Ladies' Tailored Suits and Millinery torches which are lighted at the hearthThen in payment of debt; FARMVILLE, VA. stone of Alma Mater cast their rays even Let it go, smiling, into the byways and hedges of our country Without a regret, and "behold what a great light a little flame kindleth." OGDEN STUDIO So that when Death comes There is not a student in school who In the glory of eve, Portraits: All Sizes and Styles. can fail to feel a thrill of inspiration when I may not falter, School Work a Specialty. she realizes the significance of the Normal Or, going, grieve. Aniati'iir Work Finished. School Pageant. It offers a challenge to the present student body to make the fuPreacher (to returned private) : Well, HUBARDS ture even greater than the past, and to the alumnae it rarries the message that Sam, I see you're back from the front. Hammermill Bond Social Stationery,. Sam: Is dat so, boss? I suah knew I we are keeping the home fires burning. School Supplies. Perhaps many years will elapse before was gettin' thin, but I didn't think I was Good things to eat and Drink. another event of so much importance in dat bad off.—Juggler.
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The following letter was recently received by Dr. Jarman from the Student Department at the South Atlantic Field Office of the Y. W. C. A.: My dear Dr. Jarman: May I, in behalf of the Student Department of the South Atlantic Field Committee, thank you and your school for your very courteous hospitality shown us during the Cabinet Council? It was indeed good to be in Farmville and to have a Council in a place where all arrangements were so very satisfactory. I am certain that the girls and the secretaries enjoyed every minute of their stay there. I think the success of the Council was due to the very splendid cooperation given us by your student body and faculty. Thanking you for your share in it, I am Very sincerely yours, ELSIE B. HELLER, Student Secretary. NOW'STHETIMETO Plan to go to Blue Ridge. Practice for Field Day. Pay for your Rotunda. Keep your Y. W. pledge. Support the Senior Pageant. Boost the Student Building Fund. Pay your class dues. Make plans for Commencement. Decide to come back next year. SONG You said you loved me—swore It by all holiness, And I believed you; whether less Because I thought you true, and more Because I wanted so Your love, I do not know; But I believed. Too soon, you laughed And went your way. I was a fool; It took me long to learn the lessons in this queer school That men call Life. So, I forgave, when at last Y'ou humbly asked that you might be again What you had meant before. Then, For a while you loved me well Until, once more, you went away To give that flickering lovetyyours to some one elsejEoday. I wonder if you know the hell You brought me. I wonder if, some day, you will turn again To me—for when You do, I think that I shall smile At small, remembered agony That once meant all of life to me, And marvel, but dispassionately, that one . —icould Change so in so short a while.
JJTEHAftYl OOCIETIEO PIERIAN LITERARY SOCIETY The regular meeting of the Pierian Literary Society took place Tuesday, April 18th, in room K. The following program was given: Life of Percy Mackaye, Nannie Watts. Order of Procedure, Estelle Bennett. Synopsis of Pageant, Gracie Davis. At the conclusion of the program the critic's report was given, after which the meeting adjourned.
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The Seniors of the Kindergarten Club Invitations, Programs, Booklets, Blank Forma, ate. gave a delightful one-act play, entitled Printers of The Rotunua "The Flower Shop," in the auditorium on 218 Third St., Farmville, Va. Friday night, April 21, 1922. Agnes McDuffey as the proprietor of the shop, Julia R. B. CKALLE & CO., Clark as Maude, the clerk, and Elizabeth Finch as Miss Wells, the old maid, carried Home of the Famous off the chief honors of the evening, while (^L'EEN QUALITY FOOTWEAR , Nell McArdle, as Mr. Jackson, contributed the humor to the occasion. The play was Middy Suits, Blouses and Sport Sweaters, a grand success and the girls are to be congratulated upon the outcome. CCHOOL SUPPLIES A Risque Rake
'Twas on a summer hayride, As we strolled about the land, That I softly called her sweetheart, And held her little—raincoat. As I held her little raincoat, We were going quite a pace, I nestled close beside her And moved closer to her—umbrella. Closer to her umbrella As she murmured little sighs, The mellow moonlight bathed us, And I peeped into her—basket. As I peeped into her basket, The merry little miss, Laughed in chaste confusion As I boldly stole a—sandwich. —The Lyre.
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Our baby has her mother's hair And granny's teeth—and say, If mother ever finds them there, There'll be the deuce t<> pay. —Virginia Keel. FARMVILLE, VA.
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