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GoodbYf Happy Sfniors Hollins Student Life Vacation VOLUME IX HOLLINS COLLEGE, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1937 NUMBER 13 Commencement Address Former Students Return to By Mr. Robert Kelly "The Tempest," Commence Campus for Alumn~ Day VALUE OF A LlBERAL ARTS ment Presentation of College ~-------------------------- EDUCATION STRESSED • One Hundred in Attendance CUss Day Exercises Dr. Teunis E. Gouwens Elaborate Set Made Up By At the Conference Planned for Monday The ninety-fifth Commencement exer Baccalaureate Preacher Applied Art Students cises will be held in the Little Theater, Tuesday, June first. 'rhe principle speaker BANQUET IN KELLER KA1'E SPRUILL WILL READ for the occasion is Mr. Robert Kelly, HIS SUBJECT WILL BE "A DANCING A FEATURE Executive Secretary of the Association of TEXT TO LIVE BY" HISTORY OF CLASS American Colleges whose subject will be Alumn::e day at Hollins began today at The Purposes of a Liberal Arts Education. William Shakespeare's play, T~ Tem eight-thirty a. m., \'lith registration. The President Randolph "ill preside over the Dr. Teunis E. Gouwens of the Second pest will be presented as th~ annual" Com M6)nday, May 31, at ten-thirty o'clock, meeting. conference took place in Presser with about Presbyterian Church, of Louisville, Ken mencement production in the Little the Seniors will hold Class Day in the The program open's with the academic one hundred alumnre and members of the tucky will deliver the baccalaurate sermon Theatre, Saturday, May 29 at 8:30 Lucy Preston Beale Memorial Garden. procession led by the graduating class in graduating class taking part. Janet Stirl to the graduating class of Hollins, Sunday, o'clock. The play this year is being pro Guests and students will be seated on which the college faculty and alumn:e ing, '32, of Wilmington, Delaware, first May 30, in the chapel. He will speak on duced with the cooperation of the art, both colonnade and bridge while Miss will march. Following the opening hymn, vice president of the Alumn::e association, ,. A Text to Live By." drama and music departments and the Mattie, Miss Randolph, and Miss Gustaf- Holy, Holy, Holy, Dr. George Braxton presided in the absence of the president, Dr. Gouwens received his A. B. and student orchesis group. Isabel Hancock, '27, of Lynchburg. Rosa son, the class sponsor, will be seated in Taylor, Chaplain Emeritus will pronounce M . A. degree from Hope College' in The Hollins ch,oral club under the di mond Larmour, '33, of Norfolk is chair the garden below the colonnade. the invocation. After a selection by the Holland, Michigan. Rutgers and Union rection of Mr. Arthur Talmadge will sing THe Seniors, wearing pastel colored · college choir the main address of the man of Alumn::e Day. Theological Seminary conferred on.him the the choral phrases. Instrumental accom Janet Stirling reported on the com dres~es, will come through the garden morning will be delivered by Mr. Kelley. B. D. degree and Centre College, Danville, paniment to the da~ces and choral mittee's findings concerning a study of a singihg, W e Are the Seniors. Aftcr the Announcement of gifts, the annual class Kentucky, the D. D. degree, He was numbers will be played by Miss · Mary plan for the alumnre fund which will be Senibrs sing to the student body, the scholarship awards, the Bentley Nicholson formerly minister of Fort Washington Leiphart, instructor in the music depart contributed to the centennial celebration students in turn will sing to the Seniors prize arid the Jane Cocke Funkhouser Collegiate Church of New York and Moun ment.; and Miss Catherine Wright, Junior in 1942. after which a class history will be re- award will follow the address. The degrees t ain Lakes Community Church in New music student, pianists; Mrs. Donald counted by Miss Kate Spruill, class of Bachelor of Arts will be awarded tht' A trip to the cabin was made in the Jersey. He has been a m~~r of the McKibben, Roanoke and Mr. Talmadge, afternoon, followed by an informal tea at president. Following this, gifts will be Class of '37 by President Randolph, and federal council commission on church and violinists; and Mrs. William Fenton, of Barbee House. The alumn::e banquet will presented to Miss Matty, Miss Randolph, Miss Laura Gustafson, Senior Class social service, and on international justice Roanoke, cellist. take place in Keller. Suzanna Turner, '35, and Miss Gustafson. Miss Spruill will sponsor will present the academic hoods and goodwill. The dance, Elements in Tumult, will will be toastmistress. Others who will then turn over the presidency of the to the graduates. Dr. Taylor will close the He is the author of "The Rick That is replace the first scene of the play. This speak at the banquet are Dorothy Gil Senior Class to Miss Martha Pearce, the service with the benediction. Higher," "Why I Believe," "The Stirred dance interprets the first scene in which christ, '27, of Norf~lk; Betty Cole, '32, incoming president. Directly after the formal exercises the Nest" and " Can We Repeat the Creed?" King Alfonso and his entourage are ship of Kew Gardens, New York; Mrs. Charles The singing of the Alumn::e hymn, Seniors march to the daisy chain where wrecked . The. five acts of the play have P. Orr, '32, of Wynnewood, Pennsylvania; followed by Whm Our Ships Put Out to the ceremony of presenting the caps and been combined to three, with. acts two and and Miss Edith Pipkin, '12, of Reids Sea. concludes the program. gowns to the Junior Class will take place. three as Act Two and acts four and five ville, North Carolina. Toasts will be made In the evening the bonfire ceremonies Luncheon follows immediately and with as Act Three. Miss Dorothy White, in to the Classes of 1932, 1927, and 1912, will be held in the Little Theater when the singing of "Where oh where are the structor in physical education and sponsor who will be holding their fifth, tenth, and the sophomores will present the daisy wise old seniors," the new graduates take New Staff of "Cargoes" of the Orchesis group, arranged the pro twenty-fifth reumons. - chain to the seniors, their sister class. tlJei. lJldct: ill L1Je lv.1K Hue vI HulliIlS iogue dance. T~ Dance of NymPhs and alumna', and a new senior class is installed. Presents Fi rst Issue Miss Frances McNulty, '28, instructor Reapers was designed by Miss White also of English at Hollins, is chairman of with the aid of the members of Seniors campus arrangements for Alumn::e Day. The first issue of Cargoes to be put out Orchesis. She has been assisted by Miss Thalia by the new staff of which Louie Brown The music for this scene was composed Hayward and Miss Susie Cocke, '35. Schlesingers Guests Program for Alumnre Michaels is editor-in-chief came out on for the occasion by Miss Mary Leiphart, of Miss Fillinger I nstitute Announced May 27. Several changes have been made of the Hollins music faculty. in its appearance. The magazine is larger Mary Louise Ware has been student now, with Boo Annistead's sketch of the coach for The Tempest-with Jean Lang Dr. and Mrs. Herman 1. Schlesinger, of Hollins Alumn::e Institute will take Science Hall on the cover. In succeeding as her assistant. Ruth Rhoades was in Marshals Installed In Chicago, were guests of Miss Harriet place from July 13- 23. Alumn::e, their issues different sketches of campus views charge of the costumes which were de Convocation Ceremony Fillinger on campus May 11 - 12. Dr. friends and their families will stay in Main, will be given. The presentation of the signed by Mr. Canaday's classe~ in Schlesinger is professor of Inorganic Chem while special arrangements will be made magazine's contents, too, has been re Studio Art. Jeanette Ogsbury is chairman istry acting head of the Department of for the children. arranged. of lighting and Martha Pearce of staging. In convocation, Wednesday, May 12, Chemistry at tht' University of Chicago, The lectures courses will include the This issue is particularly interesting be- President Randolph introduced the new and a recognized authority in his field. fields of architecture, drama, government, cause it gives to each member of the marshals to the student body. Before While here Dr. Schlesinger was inter history, literature, philosophy, 'and edu student body a copy of Miss Mary -. giving the oath of the office to the first ested in looking over the equipment and cation as the program is planned up to Williamson's beautiful talk in convocation group of marshals which Hollins has ever work of the Chemistry Department and date. on Taste as a Guide to Morals. Those who Prayer Books Dedicated had, Miss Randolph discussed briefly the the other dep:u:t;ments of Natural Sciences. Among those who will give lectures are: heard her speak will be grateful for the purposes of these new officers anq the He praised these departments · for their Fiske Kimball, eminent architect and chance to read over what she told us.