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The Western Carolinian CULLOWHEE — A JEWEL IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT SMOKIES PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENT ASSOCIATION CULLOWHEE, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1942 Lawrence Stewart Made Student Body President Publications Staff Elected In the election for president of the student body held May 5 between two rising senior and junior senators who received the largest number of votes in the senatorial election, Lawrence Stewart was chosen president, and Dickie Hughes vice president of the student body. Stewart, the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Stewart, of Cheoah, North Carolina, is a rising senior. He was graduated from Cheoah high school as valedictorian in the class of 1939. At Western Carolina, Lawrence is majoring in science and minoring in French. He is president of the Zeta Chapter of the Alpha Phi Sigma, a member of the International Student Society, the Science Club, the MacDowell Music Club, and Recording Secretary of the Baptist Student Union. Hughes, a rising junior, was graduated from Sand Hill high school in the class of 1940 as sa- lutatorian. At Western Carolina he is majoring in mathematics and minoring in science. He is president of the sophomore class, member of the Marshals' Club, Dramatics club, Alpha Phi Sigma, and the Halcyon chorus. Senators for the coming year will be, Seniors: Elizabeth Hammond, Lucille Reed, Lucille Meredith, and Lawrence Stewart. Juniors: Dick Hughes, Anne Bird Engman, Mattie Pearl Raby. Sophomores: "Pete" Hunter and George Brown. The Freshman Senator will be elected next fall. 34 REGISTER FOR SIX-WEEKS TERM Wright Plays At May Dance Thirty-four students registered at Western Carolina Teachers College last week for the special six-weeks summer term, during which they will do nine hours of college work. The persons enrolled for these special courses are: James Anderson, Julius Boyd, Mrs. Loranzelle Brewer, Jessie Cantrell, Beatrice Carpenter, Tyson C a t h e y, Mrs. Coy H. Coulter, Frances Dickson, Charles Duckett, Berta Mae Eades, Mrs. Ruby Gates, Mrs. Moss L. Hinds, Louise Holcombe, Mrs. Margie S. Hughes, Theodore M. Jervis, Lawrence Leather- wood, Mrs. Richard B. Mer- oney, Mabel Orr, Maud Perry, Grace Rigdon, Amanda Roberts, Lucille Roberts, Claud Rogers, Conley Rogers, Frank Rogers, Nowae Rogers, Mrs. Ruth Roper, Anne Sawyer, Mrs. Helen D. Slaughter, Louis J. Smith, Jimmie Sutton, Vesta Timp- son, Inez Potts Wachob, and Helen Waldroup. Attend Meet In Asheville Vincent Wright, a former member of the class of '42 brought his orchestra to the campus to play for the annual May Day Dance sponsored by the Day Student organization in the Breese gymnasium. Wright played the saxaphone; Mrs. Wright, also well known on the campus, carried the rhythm at the piano; Dick Jones of Fon- tana and Tom Matney of Waynesville played the alto sax; Mickey Westmoreland of Canton played the tenor sax; and Sammy Beck, also a former member of the student body held down the trumpet as usual. Eddie Eiegel, freshman, using his own traps, supplied the tempo on the drums. The vocals were sung by W. F. Kirkpatrick of Fontana. Featured with the orchestra for the evening was young Bron- son Matney, Jr., of Waynesville, and Winston-Salem, who sang on Major Bowes radio program September 18. Recently he has been given several auditions with movie producers, which were all favorable. He expects to go into movie and radio work soon. At the present time he is a member of the ninth grade in the Waynesville Township high school. He has sung at several benefit performances and sings regularly a t the Methodist church in Waynesville. Young Matney began singing early. "I began singing as an amateur when I was three years old," said Bronson. His mother usually accompanies him on the piano. Several members of the faculty attended the two day conference of the 190th district of Rotary International in Asheville which opened Monday, May 4. Dr. H. T. Hunter, district governor, submitted his report on Monday when the district governor to succeed him was elected. The annual banquet was held Monday night in the George Vanderbilt hotel. Former Governor Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby, was the principal speaker. Several gifts were presented during the evening. All Rotary members received a neck tie made in Asheville. President and Mrs. Hunter were presented with a beautiful watch, a considerable number of defense bonds and Fred Seely Jr. of Asheville presented to each of them a homespun suit made by the Biltmore Industries. Those attending from Cullowhee were Dr. and Mrs. Hunter and Elizabeth Ann Hunter; Dean and Mrs. w. E. Bird; Mr. and Mrs. R. U. Sutton; Professor P. L. Elliott; and Professor A. K. Hinds. Gerald Eller, a rising senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Eller, of Robbinsville, was elected editor-in-chief of the "Catamount" last Tuesday. Eller graduated from the Robbinsville high school, and is a member of the Student Senate, the Science Club and the Alpha Phi Sigma. Elizabeth Hammond, a rising senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hammond of Minor Hill, Tennessee, was elected business manager of the Catamount. Miss Hammond graduated from the Minor Hill high school in June 1939, and enrolled as a freshman at this college September of that year. She is a member of the Marshals Club, the Business Education Club, and the Wesley Club. She was recently elected to the student senate from the Senior class of '43. Helen Hartshorn, a rising junior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Hartshorn, Jr., of Asheville, was elected editor of the "Western Carolinian." She graduated from Sand Hill high school in 1940. She is a member of the Science club, the Big Sisters club, the Western Carolina Players, and the Woman's Athletic Club. She -was vice-president of the Journalism club; associate editor of the Western Carolinian, secretary-treasurer of the Women's Athletic Association, and secretary-treasurer of the student division of the State Health, Physical Education, and Recreation association. She won the Asheville Civitan Club Best Citizen Scholarship in her senior year in high school. Walter Roberts, a rising junior of Alexandria was elected business manager of the "Western Carolinian." Roberts graduated from the Red Oak High School; he is an active member of the Journalism club; and he is the college publicity manager for the "Asheville Citizen." PLANS GIVEN FOR COMMENCEMENT Mrs. C. C. Buchanan, sponsor of the senior class, and John Jordan, president of the class, have announced a tentative schedule for commencement as follows: SATURDAY, JUNE 6 6:00 P. M., Alumni Banquet and annual meeting. 9:00 P. M., Dance for students, alumni, and guests. SUNDAY, JUNE 7 11:00 A. M., Baccalaureate Sermon. 3:30 P. M., President Hunter's talk to class. 4:30 P. M., Faculty tea for seniors, alumni and guests. 8:00 P. M., Concert by Music Department. MONDAY, JUNE 8 10:00 A. M., Graduation Exercises. 'Magnificent Obsession' Is Presented Here May 14th Constitution Is Ratified of the student by the by the activl- accept- Raby Head Of W. H. G. Boys Fight Fire Off Water Shed High School Gives Musical Program Galloway Head Of Day Students The Day Students held an election for officers to serve next year on Thursday. Henry Galloway was elected President, Lo- juan Onlloway, vice-president, Virginia Messer, secretary, and Elizabeth Warren, treasurer. Thelma Smith is the retiring president of this organization. The Dny Student organization la one of the three major governmental organizations on the campus under the cooperative faculty-student government. The high school music department headed by Miss Nell Hinds gave a musical program on South America during the high school chapel hour, Wednesday, April 27, and repeated it Friday evening, May 1. The program opened with a South American song by the entire glee club followed by "The Cooks Song" sung by several members of the group. Faye Galloway and Eddie Brown then did a South American dance. A quartet of girls sang "Paloma," after which Helen Bird and Jane Elliott played a violin duet, "O Sole Mio." The remainder of the program represented American life. Mr. Hoyle gave a number on his mandolin; a boy's quartet sang two American songs; and members of the club did two rounds of square dancing. The stage, decorated with flags of the different South American countries, was arranged like a night club. Guests were seated at candle lighted tables and girls selling flowers and cigarettes moved among them. When the program ended, the guests arose from their tables and left the stage as the waitress put out the lights. Courses in journalism are now offered at some 450 colleges and universities. The boys on the campus dropped their books and shouldered fire fighting tools on Tuesday of the week before last to combat a blaze which had been raging four days on the East Fork section and was threatening the Long Branch area of the college watershed. For six days and three nights the boys struggled with the fire which covered a total frontage of 12 y2 miles. Only once did they let it cross into the watershed. Friday night sparks fanned by ever increasing flurries of wind, ignited a huge chestnut tree some 30 or 40 feet behind the fire line; but one of the boys on patrol in that area saw the new blaze in time to climb the tree and put it out before it offered a dangerous threat. Crews of boys slashed out firebreaks 2'/2 miles long at 5 different intervals to slow the progress of the onrushing blaze; but each time the wind ignited the dry woods behind them forcing them to retreat, cut out another fire break, and backfire in order to retard the progress of the ever lengthfng wall of flame. The fighters made their last stand against the blaze, which was dangerously close to the watershed, Friday night when they resorted to approximately a mile of-fire break next to the fence of the watershed, which had been raked and cut out on Wednesday, as a protective measure. By backfiring along this line and along one of the tributaries of the East Fork, they were able to bring the fire under control, or at least to minimize the danger of its crossing into the watershed. Although the immediate danger was past, boys were kept on constant patrol until Sunday afternoon when the watershed was considered absolutely safe for the first time since the fire broke out. Nestus Gurley, college engineer, said the fire was one of the most stubborn blazes he had ever seen and was the worst —Continued on page four Mattie Pearl Raby, rising junior, was elected president of the Women's House Government Association on Friday. Other officers are vice president, Helen Browning, and secretary-treasurer, Mary Ruth Liner. Mattie Pearl Raby, who was recently elected senator for next year, has served on the council as a proctor from Moore Dormitory for the last two quarters and has been treasurer of the Women's Athletic Association this year. She is also a member of the Journalism club. Helen Browning, a member of the Big Sister's Club and the Marshall's club for the past two years, has likewise served on the council. She was a member of the B. S. U. council for two years and was in the May Court her Freshman and Sophomore years. Mary Ruth Liner, the secretary-treasurer, is a member of the Association for Childhood Education and of the Future Teachers of America. She has been on the council since the spring quarter of last year. Candidates for the offices were: President, Mattie Pearl Raby, Pauline Baldwin, and Zelda Murray; vice-president, Helen Browning, Lela McKeithan, and Ruth Ray; secretary-treasurer, Mary Ruth Liner, Elizabeth Gahagan, and Louise Evans. At a recent meeting Student Assembly the constitution, as revised Senate, and approved executive and student ties committies, was ed by a unanimous vote. The point system was also approved by the assembly after it had been revised by the standards committee and approved by the senate and executive committee. The new constitution and the new point system will become effective next year. The major changes to the constitution are: (1) the requirement concerning a C average has been changed to read "of quality points equivalent to the number of quarter hours"; (2) the business manager of the two publications will receive 25 per cent of the receipts under the new constitution where he has been receiving 50 per cent; (3) the May queen shall be a senior and the maid of honor shall be a junior; the sophomore representatives shall be increased to three, and the freshman representatives to two; (4) the method of counting ballots has been changed to the Hare method of proportional representation; (5) manual labor has been added to the punishments that may be imposed by the Senate for infractions of the rules; (6) the student handbook must be given to the printer by June 1. MRS. BUCHANAN GETS FELLOWSHIP Mrs. Lilian Buchanan, director of the college library, has been awarded a fellowship at the library school of Columbia University, where she will go next year to study for her M. A. degree in Library Science. She plans to study, in addition to the regular courses, the construction of libraries. Her thesis subject will be planning a library for this campus. In it she will incorporate the characteristics of the most modern library architecture. Since a library building is one of the next units planned for the college building program, as soon as conditions return to normal, Mrs. Buchanan's study will have an added advantage for this institution. Mrs. Buchanan, a graduate of Western Carolina Teachers College, has done all her work in library science at Columbia University. Fourth Anniversary Being Celebrated By This Presentation Mrs. Smith Is Speaker Here Teachers Attend Chapel Hill Meet Dr. James Howell and Mrs. C. D. Killian attended a meeting of the North Carolina English Teachers in Chapel Hill May 1-2. Mr. Howell went as a representative of the English teacher's division of the North Carolina Education Association of which he was elected president at the state meeting in March. The purpose of this meeting over which Dr. Howell presided was to study the requirements and suitable textbooks for English students from the ninth grade through the twelfth grade. Suggestions and reports made at the conference will be presented to the State Department of Public Instruction. Senior Class Privileges Gives Concert At Winnsboro, S. C. George Tracy, head of the music department, gave a piano concert at Winnsboro, South Carolina, May 8 for the Winnsboro Music Club. This concert was one of several planned by the club for National Music Week. Proceeds from the various concerts of the week will be used in the state wide endeavor of South Carolina Music Clubs to purchase victrolas and records for the men on ships in the military service. Dr. D. K. Brace, University of Texas has been named supervisor of the state civilian fitness program. According to custom, the last six weeks of the spring quarter brings new privileges for all the students and especially for the seniors. The privileges this year are so lenient that as one faculty member put it, "The students are practically on their own." Nor does there seem any need for closer restrictions, since, as a whole, the student body is conducting itself admirably. During the remaining weeks of the quarter juniors will get senior privileges, sophomores will get junior privileges, and freshmen will get sophomore privileges. The privileges do not affect the number of week ends off the campus, however, since each class will receive the same number of week ends as it did for the previous quarter. Special senior privileges are: 1. Seniors may stay out until 10 p. m. any evening. This includes trips to Cullowhee. 2. Seniors may date until 12 p. m. on Saturday nights. They must sign slips if they date on the terrace. 3. Seniors may have an unlimited number of evening engagements, but must sign for every engagement after 8:30 p. m. 4. Seniors may go hiking in double couples unchaperoned, but they must stay together. A walking report must be turned in. 5. Seniors may have one late permission per week, by asking for it. 6. Seniors may date on the back terrace at Moore and on the front lawn at Robertson. 7. Seniors may take advantage of senior privileges by just signing slips in the office. 8. Seniors may go riding in the afternoons by signing slips. 9. Seniors may have evening engagements in single couples without a note from the parents. Seniors may go to Cullowhee any time after lunch on Sundays. 11. Seniors may date in the parlors and in the Student Union Building -any night until 10 p. m. 12. Seniors may have an occasional trip beyond Sylva without permission. "India" was the subject of Mrs. John Wilson Smith's address at the chapel hour last Thursday. She spoke under the auspices of the International Student Society. Mrs. C. C. Buchanan introduced Mrs. Smith, a daughter of-Di.-anU Mrs. C". -Z.'Candlei,* of Sylva. Mrs. Smith, who has lived in India for the last ten years, spoke of India as a tourist would see it. He first entered Bombay, the key city. On a clear night Malvern Hill, where the rich people live, may be seen in the water. From here the tourist travels to Delhi, the capital, a combination of old and new India. The Holy City on the Ganges river is visited by all coming to India. Cremation takes place here. From here he goes to Calcutta where is located the famous "Black Hole." Tourists leave the country believing India to be a land of mystery and romance. Journalists come to study problems and political issues. Mrs. Smith spoke of two men whom she thought would help to bring about the change that will take place in India—Ghandi and Nehru. Officers of the International Students Society are Frankie Collins Johnson, president; Martha Hensley, vice-president; Lucille Meredith, secretary-treasurer; Pauline Pressley, program chairman; and Miss Laura Jean McAdams, sponsor. "Magnificent Obsession," the stage production which celebrated the fourth anniversary of the Western Carolina Players as a Little Theatre group, was one of the most successful performances given to date. A large audience witnessed an up-to-par staging of one of the most difficult plays which the group has attempted. As a whole the cast did a fine job. No one individual was particularly outstanding, though it was unfortunate that Vance Robertson as Dr. Hudson, and Russell Byrd as his colleague had such a brief appearance on the stage. W. R. Hall as Bobby Merrick and Barbara Dodson, as Helen Hudson, handled their leading roles well. Hall did, in particular, an excellent job of holding the attention of the audience through the difficult journal- reading scene. Miss Dodson gave a convincing performance throughout the play. Hatsie Freeman as Nancy Ashford, the nurse, was a "natural" in her role. The quiet yet forceful personality that she portrayed so well did a lot toward making' the play a success. Vera Hosaflook did a nice bit of work as Joyce, Dr. Hudson's spoiled, unruly, flirtatious daughter. John Jordan as Monte Brent, later as Joyce's husband was also good in his depiction of the cold, yet humorous, and money-grasping bond-salesman. The other supporting characters did, good work vvith the little parts which were theirs. Alma Jackson as Mrs. Wickes, a woman whom Dr. Hudson had befriended; Doris Gibbs and Garmon Smith as Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dawson, a couple Bobby Merrick met at school; Margaret Livingston, as Martha; Charles Guy Reed, as the handyman; and Bob Mooney and Harry Martin, as friends, rescued Bobby from drowning. The make-up job was one of the best yet done, especially for Hatsie Freeman, Vance Robertson, and Russell Byrd. Honors are awarded also to those responsible for the sound and wind effects. They were very realistic. The stage, as well as the players, made one of the best appearances of the year. "Magnificent Obsession" was a fitting close for those students who, four years ago began the building of the Western Carolina Players. Students Here Get Ration Books Several Teachers Attend Concert Several teachers from Western Carolina attended the concert featuring Lawrence Tibbet, baritone, April 27, in the city auditorium in Asheville. Two of the most popular selections were Schubert's "Wandering" "None But the Lonely Heart." Mr. Tibbet was generous in his encores. Some which drew the most applause were "Schubert's "Serenade", "On the Road to Mandalay", and "Sylvia." Finally he led the audience in "The Star Spangled Banner." Attending from W. C. T. C. were Miss Helen Patton, Mrs. Charles Gulley, Mrs. C. C. Buchanan, Miss Anne Hammond, Miss Margaret Reid, Miss Leonora Smith and Miss Anne Albright University of Texas faculty has approved a proposal for the teaching of Russian. College students as well as the community men and women felt the war brought a little nearer home as they lined up to register for the sugar ration cards in the training school, Monday through Thursday. Responding quickly to the request that all people over eighteen register for War Ration Book One, most students registered the first two days of the period. Since members of the training school faculty served as registrars, classes were not held there for a part of the week. Sugar will now be sold by retailers only to those persons owning a war ration book. Stamps from all books may be used only by or for the person named and described in the book. Stamp No. 1 is good for one pound of sugar each during separate periods of _ two weeks. Violations of the regulations concerning the use of the ration book is punishable by a heavy fine or imprisonment, or both. This registration will be the basis for all future rationing of commodities throughout the war period.

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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  • Western Carolina Teachers College
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
• Type
  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1942-05-09;
  • Date digitized: 2017-07-05
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  • Dimension: 20" x 16"
  • Pages: 11 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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  • Western Carolina University
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  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1942-05-09
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  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library