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TO THE
THE
VIRGINIAN
MARIONETTES
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA VOLUME IX.
THE ROTUNDA WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16. 1929
S. T. C. REPRESENTED AT NAT'L. MEETING
MISS POTTS IS SOPHOMORE CLASS MAN
Margaret Finch, President of our Y. H . ('. A. Attends
S. T. C. REOPENS JANUARY 2ND
CONFERENCE MEETS IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
After the joys of Christmas had
Dr. E. Stanley Jones Is One of the Outstanding Speakers of the Occasion
Presented in Chapel December 12th Miss Virginia Potts, the S o p h o more class man, was presented to the faculty and student body in chapel Saturday morning
held the hearts of all S. T. C. girls for I
eventeen day holiday period, their
thoughts turned once again to college life.
On New Years Day the
trains were bringing many girls back
S. T. C. is again represented al a to S. T. C. and to the responsibilities
national conference. Margaret Finch president of our Y. \V. C. A., who al tended the Methodist Conference on missions sends in the following report: The Southern Methodist Church held an International Conference on Missions, January 1 :! in Memphis. Tennessee. That may not mean a thing to you but a mere fact, but it means much more to me because I was given the opportunity to be one of the three thousand delegates. The personnel consisted of bishops, missionaries, preachers, laymen, missionary society members and college students. Some of the leading personalities were Dr. E. Stanley Junes, a missionary of India; Bishop W. B. Beauchamp, president of the Board of Missions; also presiding officer of the Conference, and Mr. V. C. Young, president of Soochow University, Soochow, China. There are conferences and conferences of various types; this was a missionary one, a call to the soldiers of Christ to come together for the following reasons; to solve financial problems, to gain spiritual guidance. because there is a great need of revival of religion at home as well ai on foreign fields; to promote cooperation with the younger churches; but above all to gain the missionary spirit and to put the spirit into action. At the close of the conference the Continued on last page
if a new year. By the morning January
2,
whin classes were re-
sumed, a comparatively few had remained at home bpcause of the flu epidemic. Conversations were full of holiday life, dances, dinners, and parties; or terrors of the "flu." Gradually the .lasses took their place in the discussions and all (reminiscences are fast becoming memories of the past.
DEAN'S LIST FOR THE WINTER QUARTER The dean's list for the winter quarter has been announced. All
seniors
whose grades for the fall quarter did not fall below B are included in the list, as follows: Myron Barnes. Louise Beazley, Katherine Bentley,
Henrietta
Binford
Marjorie H. Carter, Rebecca
Cocks,
Nancy Marie Elder, Mary Oliver Ellington,
Marguerite
Erdman, Pearl
Ethcridgc, Louise Foster, Lois Fraser, Thelma Garrett,
Hannah
Hamlett,
Carolea Harris, Martha Henderlite, Ann Holladay, Anna V. Jones, Hilda Ligon, Juliette Mann, Virginia Marshall, Virginia Raine, Evelyn Thompson. Margaret Walton, Ida V. Whyte, Emma Woods.
CHANGING ENROLLMENT OF THIS TERM We are always glad to welcome new girls to our college and we are al-
Martha
Parr, Ruth Paulton,
Ethel
Rhodes, Virginia Spaulding,
Edna
ways sorry to let old girls go. We Terry. Elizabeth Walker, Wilma Wilwant the new girls to make themselves son, Mary Wray. at home and we want the old
girls
The following girls are welcomed who left to come back to see us. The as new students this term: Julia Ashmajority of the students who did not l i. Lucille Banish, Sallie Boxley,
return have graduated
some
into Eva Hodnall, Edna
Moss,
January 12.
of
Miss Potts and the class president, Elsie Clements led the line of 3 o p h o mores dressed in white, into the chapel. While the class stood, the class song was sung and Elsie Clements, presented the sophomore class man. Miss Potts is an alumna of T.
C, having graduated
in
S.
1927,
and she is still loyal to her colors — the green and white. With a broad smile on each face the sophomores ended their presentation by singing "You're Our Classman."
THE MARIONETTES ARE HERE TODAY
VARSITY DEBATE TEAM SELECTED
Farnnille Alumnae Chapter Present Popular Eentertainment
The Debate Club at its try-out Monday afternoon, January 14, Selected the intercollegiate team which will debate on the abolition of the present jury system. The affirmative speakers are Mary Mann Baskeville and Fran ces Wilson; the negatives are Evelyn Graybcal and Virginia Pettigrcw. It is probable that the negative side of this team will represent S. T. C. in the debate with West Virginia Wesleyan College. The winner of this debate will go to the Province Convention of Pi Kappa Delta. Try-OUtS for oratory B id extempore speakers will be held in the near future.
UNUSUAL VARIETY OF A TTRA ( T/ONS OFFERED
SPELLING COACH CLASSFREE The Freshman Commission is offering a free coach class in spelling to all Freshmen. Since the Columbia tests have been given, it is quite evident that such a class may well be numbered among the needs of the freshman class. This class is held on Tuesdays and Thursdays Immediately after chapel.
MISS CONDE WILL VISIT S. T. C. JAN. 22— 29 FOR SPEECHES AND CONFERENCES Next week our college is to have the privilege of having with us Miss Bertha Conde, one of the best known and best loved of the national secretaries of the Young Woman's Christian Association. Now an ex-officio member of the national board, she is free to give her whole time to her work with college girls throughout the United States. Among her stimulating and helpful books are "The Business of Being a Friend," "The Human Element in the Making of a Christian," "Spiritual Adventuring." She will speak each evening at prayers. It is hoped that no one will miss
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the opportunity of hearing her and of knowing her. She will spend ■ week at our college. Jan. 22-29. Each evening she will speak at prayers. Other appointments have been made for her to speak to classes and various groups. Several hours during the days will be scheduled for personal conferences with Miss Conde. He long experience and sympathetic study of girls makes her I peculiarly fitting person to aid one in the solution of personal problems. It is hoped that every girl will take advantage of this opportunity of meeting a very charming woman.
Large Audience is Solicited; Funds For lienefil of Student lluilding Horace Johnson's "Bandbox Marionettes," whose cleverly wrought characteristics have delighted thousands, will be given January 18 in the S. T. C. audit.uium. under the auspices of the Earmville alumnae. The matinee program, beginning at 8:80 p. m., will include special features of circus actl, songs and dances for children. A three-act play, taken from an English pantomime, will be presented. The 8:00 p. m. performance will offer a three-act play, entitled, "St.
George and the Dragon." The scene of the battle is one of gripping suspense, when the knight, St. (Jorge, battles with the fiery dragon whose eyes are abla/.e and whose nostrils belch forth flame and smoke. "The Marionette Revue," an additional feature of the evening's program, will include "The Clowns," "In a Hayfield", "The Grand Opera Singer," "The Bull Eight", and "The Jazz Hand." Admission for children will be 25c. Admission for students and adults will be 50c.
CHORAL CLUB TO PRESENT CANTATA IN MARCH The opening Of a new term finds the Choral Club hard at work on its spring cantata, "The Sleeping Beauty", which it hopes to present early in March. The music of this work is written by Miss France- M.C.dlin aid is very lovely, while the words are those of Tennyson's poem "The Sleep
Ing Beauty." This year the club is enjoying
guest soloist. A well-known
a
tenor
from Richmond will take I be leading SOlo parts in the cantata. LAST CHANCE TO The College orchestra will also have 1 IRGINIA ( OLLEGES SUBSCRIIIE FOR ANNUAL POSTPONE OPENING a part in the rendition of this cantata by adding much in the way of accompaniment. Among the Virginia Colleges whose This is positively the last chance for you to subscribe to The Virginian. opening date has lieen postponed on account of flu arc Harrisonburg, State The final order will be sent to the
Gladys publishers this month, and after that married life and some into the teach- O'Berry, Helen Phelps, Ruth Parrish, no more orders will be taken. If you ing profession. Grigaby Peck, Evelyn Pedigo, Mary want an annual see some one on the Among those students who did not Frances Raddiffe, Lucy Virginia staff and let them take your order. return are: Elma Brett, Yan.ey Smith, Alice Tripp, Mrs. Eloise Turn- The following girls are on the Brooking, Frances Crawford, Isabel Virginia Raine Crowder, Grace Farrier, Virginia er, Gladys Thweatt, Louise Johnson, Hamlet, Eva Krebs, Agnes Lee Grigg, Elizabeth Williams. Julia Wilson, Lucille Norman Virginia Leake, Jeannette Matthew-, Mary AI ire Waist an. Sylvia Yost, and Virginia Pettigrew Roberta McKim, Gretchen Obenchain, Etta Marshall. (Continued on last page'
Teachers College, Hampden-Sydney College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, and Rollins. The fear of the spread of the flu epidemic wai fell by stats officials, therefore the steps of postponing the
opening, wa taken by these colleges. P is hoped by tuch precautions the situation may be gotten under control.
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