-14^ H, tjb, BULLETIN BOARD ) SPECIAL FEATURES Organ Recital Tonight at 8:00 Who is the Typical Madisonite? Mrs. Ould Speaks Sunday in Y. W. Take Me Out to the Ball Game L 776 Volume *¥« Number 6 Established 1922 Harrisonburg, Virginia, Friday, May 12, 1939 Mrs. Ould Will Tri Sigma And Alpha Sigma Alpha 185 Diplomas Speak At YW Chapters Are Officially Installed Degrees Will Sunday Be Awarded National Presidents Will Dr. Adams Scheduled to Officiate at Week-end Authority on Social and Deliver Address to Pledge Activities Family Relations will Graduates Discuss "Successful Services marking the installation One hundred and eighty-five stu- Marriage" of the first national education soro- dents were announced this week as rities at Madison College began on Mrs. E. W. Ould, of Roanoke, candidates for degrees and diplomas the campus today and will continue known throughout the south for her to be awarded at commencement ex- through Sunday. The newly formed talks on social and family relations, rcises on June 5. Of this number, 128 chapters of Sigma Sigma Sigma, will speak on "Successful Marriage" are candidates for degrees, while 57 headed by Mary Ellen McKarsie, and at the Y. W. services on Sunday in will receive diplomas for the com- Alpha Sigma Alpha, headed by Ellen Wilson Auditorium. The program pletion of two-year courses. • Fairlamb, are composed of approxi- will be dedicated to mothers, and the Bachelor of Science degrees in Cur- mately, forty-five members each. college Glee Club will sing a special riculum III for elementary teachers Forty guests, Including Miss Mabel musical number, "Spirit of Mother- will be granted 36 seniors, while 32 Lee Walton, Clermont, Florida, Na- hood." will receive B.S. degrees In Curricu- tional president of Tri Sigma; Evelyn At four o'clock Mrs. Ould will con- lum rv for high school teachers. G. Bell, Buffalo, New York, national duct an open forum on "Men and Only nine Bachelor of Arts degrees president of Alpha Sigma Alpha; Women Relationships" in the Music will be issued. The largest group of Mrs. Wilma Wilson Sharpe, organizer Room of Harrison Hall. The student degrees will be granted in the Home of Alpha Sigma Alpha; and delegates body and faculty are cordially invited Ellen Fairlamb, Richmond, presi- Economics Department in which Mary Ellen McKarsie, Alexandria, from Drexel Institute, Temple Uni- to attend. dent of the newly formed chapter of there are 51 graduates. president of the local chapter of Sig- versity, Farmville, Radford, and Wil- Similar topics have recently been Alpha Sigma Alpha, which is being Forty-two professional diplomas ma Sigma Sigma, which is holding son Teachers College are spending successfully discussed at Randolph- installed on campus this week-end. will be awarded, 21 In Curriculum I its pledge and initiation services on the week-end at Madison to take part Macon College, Ashland, under the for primary teachers and 21 in Cur- campus starting today. ... '■ in the activities. leadership of Mrs. Ould. This address riculum II for elementary teachers. Pledge Service Today marks the beginning of a series by The Pre-Nursing Curriculum will Beginning with a pledge examina- Glee Club Tour well known speakers which will con- graduate 12 students, while 3 secre- tion Wednesday night, the exercises tinue into next year. Stratford Gives tarial diplomas will be granted. Mrs. Ould, well known here for continued this afternoon with an in- Begins May 18 dividual pledge service of about ten Dr. Katherine Rogers Adams, her former apeparances at the col- Four Skits Chairman of the Committee on Mem- lege, was guest speaker under the minutes for each girl. Initiation will begin at'8:00 a. m. Cl\|b Will Broadcast From bership and Maintaining Standards auspices of the Y. W. C. A. last year. Baltimore Friday, Then of the American Association of Uni- Take-Offs on Classroom tomorrow and will continue through- . o versity Women, will deliver the com- out the day with a separate service Go to New York Procedure Comprise mencement address. Dr. Samuel P. for every sorority pledge. Dr. Duke Delivers Assembly Program The 45 members of Madison's Glee Duke, president of the college, will The climax of the week-end will Club, accompanied by Miss Edna T. award the diplomas and degrees. come tomorrow night when Sigma Diplomas To 18 Members of Stratford Dramatic Shaeffer, Miss Gladys Michaels, and - —o Sigma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Alpha Club will be in charge of chapel pro- Clifford T. Marshall of the music fac- hold a joint banquet in Senior Dining Nurse Graduates gram next Wednesday. Four skits ulty, will leave Harrisonburg next Hall at 6:00 p. m. Following the Wise, MacKarsie, depicting classroom scenes, and the Thursday morning for Baltimore and Jjanquet, business meetings for the "The development of trained prize-winning play in the contest New York. They plan to return on Lynn, Carr, Miller election of officers will be held. nursing as a profession is one of the sponsored by this club last quarter Thursday, May 25. Pan Hellenic Meeting Sunday greatest strides in the history of will be presented. The club will represent the state Receive Appointm't After a special breakfast in Senior human progress," said Rev. Lynn C. of Virginia at the National Conven- The four take-offs on classroom Dining Hall at 8:00 a. m. on Sunday, Dlckerson, paator of the First Bap- tion of the Federatoin of Music Dr. W. J. Gifford, Dean of the col- procedure were written by students the two chapters will attend church tist Church, when he addressed the Clubs, In Baltimore from Thursday, lege and chairman of the Placement of the college and are being directed in a body/ The Pan Hellenic Con- graduating nurses of Reckingham May 18 to Monday, May 22, and will Committee, announced this week the and enacted by members of Stratford. ference, which will meet following Memorial Hospital, on Tuesday even- then go to New York to participate appointments of a number of this Pledges to this organization will be dinner at 1:00 p. m., will close the ing in Wilson Hall. in the Federation's Program at the year's graduates. Lafayette Carr, announced during Tuesday and Wed- services. Galax, former president of the stu- Rev. Dlckerson told the eighteen World's Fair. nesday. Miss Margaret Vance Hoffman, of nurses who received their diplomas On Friday, May 19, at 3:00 p. m., dent government association, will The two-day initiation will cul- the English Department, is faculty after four yeare of training that they the Glee Club will broadcast a half succeed Francene Hulburd as second minate with a banquet in Bluestone sponsor of Tri Sigma which has been are "Entering upon one of the noblest hour program from Station WBAL in assistant to Mrs. A. B. Cook, Dean Dining Hall for associate and full temporarily known as Alpha Mu of professions after being trained in Baltimore. Miss Gladys Michaels of Women. Sigma. Miss Ruth Hudson, Social one of the best institutions to be members. will be presented as soloist and Ger- ' Janet Miller and Anita Wise have Director of Senior Hall, is an honor- found in "Virginia." Special guests at the banquet will aldlne Douglas and Marie Walker will been apppinted to positions teaching Dr. Samuel P. Duke, president of ary member. Miss Mary Louise See- include Professor and Mrs. Conrad play a two-piano number. in the primary grades at Winchester. Madison College and Rockingham ger, of the Psychology Department, Similarly, Mary Ellen MacKarsie, al- T. Logan, Dr. Argus Tresidder, Miss Plans have been made for the Club Memorial Hospital, presented the is faculty sponsor of Alpha Sigma to give individual programs and also so a III curriculum graduate, is to diplomas to the graduates before Marie Louise Boje, Miss Ruth Hud- Alpha, formerly known as Beta Ep- to sing in the Federation's Massed teach in Alexandria. one of the largest audiences ever son, Mrs. Annie Bailey Cook, and silon. Chorus, wnich will be directed by Jane Lyon, home economics major, to attend the hospital exercises. Miss Virginia Blain, former member Dr. John Warren Erb, nationally has received an appointment to Miss Maude Branscome, R.N., and of Stratford. Six Organ Studen s known choral director. Occoquan High School. superintendent of the hospital, pre- The chapel programs for next week According to Dean Gifford, place- sented alumnae pins to the graduating The new and old presidents, Ellen are under the direction of Dr. Paul Present Recital Fairlamb and Dorothy Nover, have ments this year seem later than in nurses. previous years, but are nevertheless Mrs. Clifford T. Marshall, of the Hounchell, professor of education Tonight been making plans for the trip In collaboration with the college moving along satisfactorily. In- college faculty, played the trumpet and assistant director of the train- officials. All the features of the con- creased consolidation of schools has solo, Trumpet Polka, accompanied by The Music Department will present probably influenced the tardiness in ing school. vention In Baltimore will be open to Geraldlne Douglass. Marie Smith, an organ recital in Wilson Auditor- appointments. Harrisonburg, played the procession- ium tonight at 8:00. The girls play- the members of the club. al and the recessional. 39 Schoolma'am Will Be ing are all two or three year students Released May 26 of Clifford T. Marshall. Hoffman Announces Anderson Is Soloist Those participating include: Marie Slaughter To Speak May 26 is the tentative date for Smith of Harrisonburg, Dorothy Closing of Stables With Ohio Orchestra the release of the 1939 School- Nover of Roanoke, Dolly Armentrout In California Miss Margaret Hoffman an- ma'am, college annual.