Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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SEATED, left to right: Lowrimore, Degenhardt, Bishop, Savvas, Ulmer, Parker, Miss Moody— sponsor, Plowden. STANDING: Dibble, Blakeney, Kolb, Owens, Ward, Chinnes, Drose, Stogner, Ruthven. AEE (Care As freshmen we discovered that all students are auto- matically members of the Athletic Association, under the direction of Athletic Council. A picnic at the Country Club and the hockey tournament were Council sponsored events of the fall. With great anticipation we awaited the volleyball, basketball, tennis, archery, and recreational games tournaments which followed throughout the year. On several occasions high school groups gathered at Coker for “Play Days,” directed by Council. This year, Liz Degenhardt, President annual picnic. Helen and Liz dish out chicken at the for the first time in many years, Coker was host for “Col- lege Play Day.” Giving athletic awards for participation in athletic events was a highlight of the year, but the May Day ac- tivities climax Athletic Council work. The pageantry of the coronation, the beauty of the dances, the breathless suspense of the crew races, the excitement of the tennis doubles, the skill of the swim meet were the results of the efforts of our Athletic Council. Faye moves in for Coker to get that ball from Winthrop.

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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.

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i Roses for Barbara and Frances from Idalyn Stoll, President Betty pantomimes a story. i Idalyn at the Initiation Service. ms The drawing room is dimly lighted, barely outlining the figures seated tama in the shadows. On a table in the center of the room stands a vase of red G roses, illuminated by slender red candles: — Sincerity, Truth, Design.’— The evening-gowned initiates before the tables repeat the national motto and becom e members of Sigma Tau Delta. ; Sigma Tau Delta is Coker’s English Club, and is the Pi Gamma Chap- I AU ter of the national organization. The club seeks to encourage interest in literature and creative writing by sponsoring speakers of literary note, con- tributing to the Rectangle—the national club magazine—and giving an award to the best freshman English student of the year. ’ | Sigma Tau Delta is also sponsor of the annual Literary Festival, which e ta features some phase of the literary world with outstanding anthors in this field as guest speakers. This year “The Newspaper” was featured at the Festival. SEATED: Haynes—Sponsor, B. Graham, Barnes, Ligon, Kolb, Kay, J. Johnston, Collins, Stoll, Duke, Banks, Focht, Boatwright. STANDING: Finch, F. Rogers, Williams, McKnight, White, Lane, Cooke, Gause, Langford, Ruthven, Castanes, Myers, Plowden.