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Vol. 3.
No. 2.
Farmville, Virginia.
Oct. 12, 1922.
WHAT IS SCHOOL LOYALTY?
PERSONALS
Miss Hiner Addresses Student Body Saturday night at a meeting of the student body Miss Mary Clay Hiner. of the English Department, spoke to the students on the subject ui "Loyalty to Our
Miss Lilly Thornhill <peiit the weekend of October 6-8 with her parents in
School." Miss Hitler's talk consist oil of a series
hat she Ith th< students. One of the first questions was: "Is school loyalty a separate type of loj
altyV" After satisfactorily answering this question in the negative the speaker proceeded to show that the loyalty one feels for one's family is the same kind of
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JJTEKARYL OOCIET1EO LITERARY SOCIETIES
All literary societies are busy formuloyalty that one should have for her lating plans for the "Come and See" school. In answer to the question "What week. does being loyal to one's family mean?" one of the students very aptly stated that Cunningham Literary Society "being loyal to one's family means to live At a regular weekly meeting of the so as to reflect credit mi one B family." Cunningham Literary Society the followIn the course of her talk Miss Hiner ing officers were elected to fill vacancies pointed out that the present high stand- caused by officers failing to return— ing of the Farmville State Normal Vice-President Anne Meredith, RecordSchool is due to the loyalty and love of, ing Secretary Doris Beale. the student bodies of the past and that it is the duty of the present student body Athenian Literary Society and those of the future to keep up the The regulai week!} meeting of the record of the past. In conclusion the Athenian Literary Society was held speaker pictured the ideal type of girl in Tuesday, October 10th, and the followschool as the girl who is interested in i ing program was given: all the activities of the school and tries Song—"Comin' Thru the Rye"—Soto live up to its ideals. ciety. Recitation—"Ye Flowery Banks of TURMOIL IN THE DINING ROOM Bonny Doone"—Julia Cave. Synopsis of "Nancy Stare"—Edna Wow! Yelp! Ki! Yi! Wooow! Wow! Blanton. Wooow! Vocal Solo—Elizabeth Williams. Oooh ! Ooooh ! What! Aoooo ! Reading—Susie Floyd. Suddenly in the above manner was the Song—"Auld Lang Syne"—Society. peace of supper-time disturbed. All over the dining-room girls were screamSOCIAL NEWS ing, yelling and climbing into chairs. Above the general uproar the short, Miss Marie Button was specially honhigh yelps of a dog could be heard. ored by a birthday supper given by her "What is wrong?" "Will he bite?" room-mate and friends, in the Training "Let me get out of this window." and other remarks of this nature were heard School lunch room, Monday evening. on all sides. Then the door opened and The table was laid in white and pink the maid drove out the cause of all the with a large crepe paper rose in the cencommotion, still yelping with pain from tre containing the favors of small paper carnations and chryanthemums. The the scalding coffee spilt on his back. candles were lighted on the birthday cake as the guest of honor entered. The RUTH WILKINS, A. B., A. M. supper was followed by a theater party "A. B." degree, McKendree College, at the Eaco Theater. Place cards were Lebanon, 111., 1916; "A. M." degree, George IVabody College. Nashville, written for Misses Marie Sutton. Evelyn Tenn., 1921; graduate study, Illinois Barns, Frances Evans. Lou Gregory, Ernestine Landrum, Louise Scott. Lelia University, Champaign, 111 Meredith. English teacher in the South Georgia Burrow and Anne * * * State Normal College, Valdosta, Ga.; Miss Elizabeth Moring entertained the head of the English Dept., Senior High members of the Pi Kappa Omega SociSchool, El Dorado, Kansas. ety at her home on Friday, October 5th. Resident of Metropolis, LI. The students, faculty and home de- The colors of the society were very appartment extend to Miss Wilkins a propriately carried out in the decorahearty welcome as an associate teacher tions and refreshments. A very enjoyable afternoon was spent by all. in the English Department.
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Miss Margaret Steele has been forced, on account of her health, to giv. her work as Y. W. ('. A. Secretary at the University of California. She is now at her home in Nashville, Tenn., where she will spend the winter. *
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Miss Lois Williams is attending a meeting of the Southern Division of the National Student Department of the Y. W. C. A. at Atlanta, Ga. She is expected back on October 17th. *
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Miss Belle and Virginia Atkins spent the week-end of October 6-8, at their home in Boydton, Va. *
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Dr. J. L. Jarman was in Richmond this past week on business. *
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Miss Buford spent the week-end of October 6-8 at her home in Lawrenceville, Va., to attend the wedding of her sister. *
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Dr. Tidyman was in New York for several days this past week. *
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Miss Kate Trent, of '22, visited Miss Dorothy Diehl this past week-end. The old students of the S. N. S. were glad to welcome Mrs. Stokes on a visit t<i the school on Oct. 18. She was formerly Miss (Catherine Scott and was connected with the Department of Education last year. In the Rotunda campaign the fourth pro! sionals are over the top. Keep up with them and have your class a 100 per cent, to the good. .Mrs. Roy R. Flanagan addressed the Btudentl in chapel Thursday morning in the interest of the State Tuberculosis Association. Dr. •larman left town Tuesday to attend the Methodist Conference in Norfolk He will he gone a week. Miss Tapper and her sister. Miss Martha, of Newport News, are spending the wirkcinl in Richmond.
Industrial Lesson Plan. The multiplation of fraction hy an-
Topic '.' other. Teacher'.-aim To show the pupils that tin generalization ll equal t«- the product of the numerator and denominator reduced to their lowest terms.
a while. If that does not help there is „. something wrong with you. The air Member Southern Inter-Collegiate Newipa] r Assll seems so cool and sweet. It seems to — . .. . .. mt„Aantm AJ softly caress your cheeks and whisper in Published weekly by the students ot promises of renewed strength. The Stata Normal School, Farmville, ^ fte itafi^nkle »bow, iewillllf » B6Mf Entered as Becond-elaas matter March 1, ancj vet so far Then it is that you come " Farmville's Largest and Most Progressive 1921, ;it the pest office of Farmville, Virginia, closer to God than ever. Somehow we Store" under the Act of March 3, 1879. just feel as if we want to pour out a heart of thank and gratitude to our The pinest jn Wearinp Apparel, Millinery Subscription $2.00 per year. Maker. He seems so close. Perhaps if and Footwear we reach out we will touch Him. Worry drops away then as a cloak. ROTUNDA STAFF 207-209-211 and 213 Main Street And then in the early morning before Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Moring FARMVILLE, VA. Aaristanl Editor Dorothy I.anjrslow assuming the cares of a new day try the same thing. Somehow it is different in BOARD OK KUITOKS: We are refreshed after News Ann Meredith the morning. WE WANT rOTJB BUSINESS" the night's rest and a new vigor awakOrganintiona Loii Williams Athletic Nell McArdle ens. The air is crisp. It makes you feel FIRST NATIONAL BANK Y. \V. ('. A Memle Nichols as if you must be up and doing. The j0ke Emily C'alcott,. Farmville, Va. Literary Pauline Tiii.berlake OirdS softlv twitter. The whole world Exchange K*te Dav1« f eeiT alive and yours for the taking. BeEvery Convenience Ottered Women Ahunnae.. Mi* BrownieTaliafcrru f0,-(. V()U know it a song arises to your MANAGERS) lips and before going down to breakfast De] ositora Business Manager Christine Armstrong you cast that wreck out of the window AarilUnt Business Manager.. (ienevieve Bonnewell fo a deserving death. The Pure Food Store
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ALUMNAE NOTES The past summer has been a busy one in the matrimonial market for former students of the Farmville State Normal School. In the early part of the summer the following marriages were noted: Miss Edna A. Crowder to Mr. Graham William MeVey, of Norton. Miss Helen Marie Hayes to Mr. Percy Owen Parker, of Whalewille. Miss Juliet Jefferson Hundley to Mr. Henry Eugene Gilliam, of Richmond. Miss Rosa Allen to Mr. Nathan Womack, of Williamsburg. Miss Sallie T. Jackson to Mr. Edward Garland Stokes, of Kenbridge. Miss Annie Riddick Moss to Mr. David R. McClure, New Kensington, Pa. Miss Louise Pulliam to Mr. Robert Trux, of Roanoke. Miss Mary Addington to Mr. Harold Colegrove Leonard. This li t will be continued in our next number.
her going with deeper regret than her PLANTERS' BANK OF FARMVILLE old comrades of the newspaper field, but Farmville, Va. there are those in every walk of life, of, CITY AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY every age and condition, to whom the Capital Stock * 50,000.00 untimely severance must be an occasion Surplus 100,000.00 for mourning. Hers were the gifts of H. ( . CRUTE, Y.-I'iv sympathy and understanding and high- K. S. SHIELDS, I'res. J. B. OVERTON, Cashier heartedness, loyalty and courage—hers a glad readiness to champion the worthy causes of each and of all. She will be missed in Richmond because of the SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER things she did and for the inspiration of her nature and character.
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Mrs. J. Addison Tumblin. formerly Miss Frames B&aiTOW Davi-. sailed this Guide: (On seeing charabanc): Ladies and summer with her husband for Bahia, gentlemen, we are now passing one of the Brazil, where they will be engaged in oldest public-'ouses in the country. missionary work under the Foreign MisStartled Passenger: What for '.' sion Board of the Southern Baptist ConPunch. vention. Mi>s Buford (callii g roll) Ford Eubank, The Char! tttesville Alumnae Chapter Eubank Ford. Well. I don't know any other has begun Iti work for 1922-1923, and way t » put it than but Kank-l'-Ford. sent in, as ;• result oi th i tirst meeting, $16 for the Student Bn Lding Fund. kfrs. Any girl will tlirt as the train is pulling out. Guy L. Milier, Jr. (Miss Hazel HeatKxchange, wole) is the president Golf is having a refining influence in Sick The Farmville Alumnae Chapter met Horse Creek. Alta, according to the Saskatoon on Thursday, October 5th, and discussed Daily Star. It is no longer considered etiquette many lines of work, most of them lead- to draw a gun on Main street without hollering Life. ing to an Increase in the Student Build- "fore." ing Fund. Dumb: Did your trip do you good, Belle ? Belle : Kee-rect. I came home dead broke, The Farmville Herald of August 11th contained the following article: Timid young man (pricing engagement ring): Mrs. Sophie B. Packer arrived this How much is this one ? week for a visit to her parents. Dr. and Wears jewelei This size for J400 and this Mrs. .1. EC. Booker, ot llampden-Sidrnv size for $:1N0. Mrs. Packer is a former student of the T. Y. M. So do 1. State Normal School and a graduate of Johns-Hopkins Trained Nurse School. She has been engaged in work among For Good Entertainment the Chinese as the head of one of the departments of Peking Union Medical AND FIRST-CLASS SHOWS College. Co to THE EACO THEATRi: Mrs. Eula Young Morrison died sudFurmville's New $50,000 Play House, denly in Richmond last August. At that Dr. L. D. Whitaker, Mgr. time she was the manager of the newbusiness department of the Federal Trust Company, but before that she had THE COMMITTEE OF 39 ON PUBLIC SCHOOL METHODS been connected with the Richmond AT YOUR SERVICE. Times-Dispatch for many years, and a Material covering: all subjects in the course of study. beautiful tribute was paid her in an ediDepartments on project method, motivation, the socialized torial in that paper. Eula Young Morrison
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An uncounted number of Richmond people will feel, in the death of Mrs. Eula Young Morrison, a sense of griev- Good Things to Eat Just Across the Street ous personal bereavement, and, because AT of the knowledge they had of her quiet service, account her passing a genuine D. W. GILLIAM S loss to the community. None will mark
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