Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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70 LEFT TO RIGHT, FIRST ROW: Graham, Kirk, Miss Newell, sponsor, Baxley, Ruthven. SECOND ROW: F. Rogers, Frances Gurley, Thomason, Powers. Gause, S. Rodgers. THIRD ROW: H. Johnson, Land, D. Davis, Barnes, Kolb. FOURTH ROW: Bishop, Douglass, Ulmer, Sweet. STANDING: Hamilton, Brinson, Porter, Banks, Stoll, Langford. UE ie Cae: Helen, Frances and Shep participate in the Vivi, Martha, Installation Service. Deputation to Frankie and Faye leave on a Clemson.

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Joint Council is the judicial power of Coker’s Student Government Association, dealing with major offenses and matters referred by Student Council. This Council also determines student eligibility for participation in extra- curricular activities. Yet, most important, Joint Council is the meeting ground of faculty and students to form a board for con- sultation and advice, and to promote the general interests of both student body and faculty, as a college community. It is seven o'clock on a Monday night, and behind the closed doors of Acree parlor Student Council is in ses- sion. Each week this legislative body of Student Govern- ment Association meets tc discuss problems concerning the regulation of student life. Yet Student Council at Coker is not a police force. “This organization exists to give student opinion a means of expression,” states President Sylvia Sweet. “We hope to help each student realize her own responsibility in upholding Coker’s standards of Character, Culture, and Christian Service.” And through the efforts of these our representatives we are assured a voice in the government of our school. Sometimes in stressing the importance of this major function of Council, we overlook their many other les; important but necessary duties. Secretary Marian Duke has a never-ending job in checking our sign-out cards. Student government girls work in sign-out office at night and on weekends—always available for any problems that may arise. Council spends much time in discussing our suggestions, making decisions about minor infringement of rules, granting permisisons during closed study hour, keeping down noise so that others may study, handling midnight “scares” on the halls, conducting mass meeting so that we, the students, may keep informed. Sylvia Sweet, President of Student Council Faye Baxley, Chairman of Joint Council There are the many Council sponsored projects— orientation of the freshmen, publication of the Student Handbook, the Christmas dinner, high school weekends, direction of competition for the President’s Cup, a “fare- well” picnic in the spring. Our Student Council does not exist only behind the closed doors of Acree parlor on Monday nights. They are a vital part of every phase of our college life, ready to serve us individually and as a student body. SEATED, left to right: Langford, Degenhardt, Ward, B. Crawford, Duke, Baxley, Myers, Max- well, Boland, Barnes, Ruthven. STANDING, left to right: Cook, Sweet, DuRant, Oates.

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Vivian and Emma Kate meet Dr. Poag, the Religious Emphasis speaker. “Follow, follow the gleam” . . . White-clad girls enter the darkened auditorium, singing as they come. The lighted candles in their hands shine on their faces and illumine the blue banners across their shoulders labeled “C. C. C. A.” The cere- mony is completed at the reflection pool as the girls set their tiny lights afloat and join hands in the friendship circle. A new Christian Council is installed. “Holy Spirit, breathe on me” . . . The strains of this prayer song come from kneeling figures in Spivey Chapel on the third floor of the dormitory. The first meeting of Council begins as they join together to lead Christian Association—the entire student body—to a closer fellowship with their class- mates and with their God. “But the greatest of these is love” . . . Christian Council takes these words from first Corinthians as its theme and weaves them into its program for the year. The song, medi- tation and prayer of morning and evening watch become im- portant parts of our daily life. Through weekly prayer groups on the halls and visits to the prayer garden with our prayer- mates we know a deeper fellowship. Wednesday night vespers provides us with thought-provoking programs from our favorite speakers, discussions on “Love, Courtship and Marriage” led by Mrs. Barry, and deputation teams from Clemson, Wofford, Davidson, and Georgia Tech. The Vocational Emphasis pro- gram sponsors interesting speakers from various fields. The climax of our Christian experience on campus comes with Religious Emphasis Week. Dr. Fred Poag of Columbia speaks of “Convictions About Christianity” in chapel and at vespers, and answers our problems in discussion groups and personal conferences. Miss Genevive Chandler, a librarian, talked to us during Martha Langford, President Christian Council continues its service through deputations to other schools and representatives to conferences, by con- tributing to the World Student Service Fund and the American Foundation for the Blind, by sponsoring a “White Christmas” to aid needy families, through personal services to those in the infirmary, by serving punch during exams, by arriving at school a week early to act as “big sisters” to the freshmen and to honor them with a Hobo Party. May comes, and Christian Council joins in a friendship circle on Spivey for the last time. But they and their fellow students will long carry in their hearts the words of the parting hymn ... “Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love. The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.” Lawrence Beale, from Georgia Tech conducts a vesper program. Vocation Emphasis Series.