Coker College - Milestone Yearbook (Hartsville, SC)

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FIRST ROW: Clarke, Kolb, S. Graham, J. Lowrimore, Degenhardt, F. Roger, Cantey. SECOND ROW: Boatwright, Allsbrook, ViVi Kirk, Baxley, Ruthven, Ward, Ingram, Sweet, Moka Pi Omega Stevens, Finch. Curtain going up! The house lights dim, the actress on the stage speaks her first line, and another Dramatic Club production is under way. How exciting it was to sit in the audience and watch Frances Rogers, President your roommate in her first role as a Queen Bess Player. You remembered the many nights when she returned late to the dorm after rehearsal in the auditorium. Maybe you sometimes got tired of reading her cues so that she could learn her lines. But under the magic spell of the foot- lights the words came alive again and you were very proud of her. Perhaps you were in the group that went on a “scay- enger hunt” for props, or made posters, or sold tickets, or helped with the costuming and makeup. On opening night you may have been stationed in the wings to give cues and moral support as well. Both actress and “stage hand” meet on common ground in Drama Club as apprentices and as members. During regular club meetings they learn to work together in staging brief dramatic programs. The climax of the year comes with two public productions by the club. How we laughed at the comedy, Arms and the Mam, by Bernard Shaw, and enjoyed the change of pace in the presentation of three act plays in the spring. If your roommate was one of the chosen few, you wondered (with her) how she could ever learn the Greek alphabet, which was just part of her initiation into Alpha Beta, Coket’s chapter of Alpha Psi Omega. However, it was great living with a “celebrity” for election to this national honorary dramatics fraternity is the highest at- tainment in Drama Club.

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Want to be brought up to date on the world situation? Do you sometimes wonder just how much of a threat Com- munism is to the United States? Should certain books by ques- tionable authors be banned from our public libraries? For the answers to these and other questions related to world problems just ask an I. R. C. member. And what is I. R. C2 Why, that’s easy! “Realizing the seriousness of war and the necessity for that co-operation among nations which alone can make peace pos- sible, I do solemnly promise to study the relations among na- tions and to promote in myself and among others attitudes of sympathy and good will towards all the peoples of the world to the end that understanding may produce peace.” Round-table discussions, movies, and guest speakers on cur- rent international affairs are some of the ways in which I. R. C. seeks to further its aims. This winter Dr. Davidson, Lib Plow- den, Joyce Johnson, and Barbara Ward attended a general con- ference in Atlanta concerning foreign trade, problems in the | Middle East, and England’s changing role in world affairs. : I R.C. members have their fun, too, at those memorable steak picnic suppers at the college club! | The largest club at Coker, I. R. C. this year has the largest | membership in its campus history. This in itself shows the grow- ing student concern for this restless world. From this interest can develop our nation’s best citizens. :| Joyce Johnston, President RE a tanal lations Club FIRST ROW: Stogner, F. Rogers, L. Williams, Kay, Powets, Frances Gurley, Ligon, Focht, Thomason, H. Johnson. SECOND ROW: DuRant, S. Graham, Boatwright, Blackmon, Porter, ) Johnston, Dr. Davidson— sponsor, Ward, S. Rodgers, Oates, Plowden. THIRD ROW: Degenhardt, Holroyd, B. Graham, McKnight, McFaddin, Currier, Allsbrook, Peeples, Baxley, Reaves, Hosey, Collins, Ruthven, Castanes, Cooke. FOURTH ROW: Kolb, Hamilton, Raftelis, Clarke, Chastain, Burgess, Harvey, Bishop, Gause, Ulmer, Lane, V. Brinson, Owens, Barnes, Whittington, Drose.

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FIRST ROW: Strader, Land, Faye Gurley, Pennell, Kissane, Ruthven, Allen, Castanes, Degenhardt. SECOND ROW: Stevens, Ward, Sweet, Baxley, Cone, Allsbrook, J. Locklear, P. Crawford, Cald- well, Mixon, Dr. Haynes—Sponsor, S. Rodgers, Plowden. Os C55 iz bn yers SEATED, foreground: F. Rogers—President, J. Lowrimore—Business Manager. SEATED: VV. Kirk, Revels, Currier, Ulmer, Cantey, Bishop, Barnes, Oates, Kolb, Blakeney, | Raftelis, White. STANDING: Finch, DuRant, Boatwright, S. Graham, M. Tyner, Savvas, Banks, Ingram, Eaddy, McGuirt, M. Locklear, Drose, McKnight, Holroyd, Clarke.