Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1948-1949 H. Pat Taylor, President Wadesboro Beth Carroll Taylor, Vice-President Raleigh Zeno Martin. Secretary-Treasurer Raleigh Terms Expire 1949 Carroll Abbott Elizabeth City Walter Roy Chambers Marion Buna Lawrence Clark Asheville Robert G. Deyton Raleigh W. H. Plemmons Chapel Hill Edwin Walker Yates Raleigh Terms Expire 1950 Annie Ruth Caldwell Baker Lumberton 0. Max Gardner. Jr Shelby Robert L. Humber Greenville Broadus E. Jones Raleigh Mary P. Lethco Charlotte L. E. Spikes i Burlington Terms Expire 1931 Howard J. Ford Elkin J. Rufus Hunter Raleigh Jack M. Kesler Winston-Salem Winnie Rickett Pearce Durham Thos. P. Pruitt Hickory Beth Carroll Taylor Raleigh H. Pat Taylor ' Wadesboro Terms Expire 1952 Claude U. Broach Charlotte Maude Davis Bunn Raleigh H. M. Roland Wilmington James B. Turner Laurinburg W. H. Weatherspoon Raleigh Eph Whisenhunt Clayton

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Never has a period of history so needed educated women with high ideals as the decade before us. Well-informed, unpreju- diced, and understanding women must con- tinuously exert their influence for peace and progress. Your Alma Mater challenges her graduates of ' 49 to such leadership in the march of human progress. Dean Pkacock. Leishman a. Peacock, Ph.D. Dean Lillian Grant, A.M. Dean of Women Through the pages of this book may you live again the happy year we have spent together at Meredith. Thank you for your friendship and your splendid cooperation. Lillian Grant. Zeno Martin, A.B. Bursar and Treasurer

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THE MIND OF THE FACULTY Who knows the mind of the facuUy? (Nay, with all the marriages and other changes, who knows the names of the members of the faculty?) It ' s a case of many men many minds, to be sure, but also a case of many minds in one man — or woman. With income tax right around the corner, and in the offing term papers, a talk to the missionary society, a faculty meeting, basketball practice, et cetera et cetera ad infinitum, who could work with a single mind? In one way the Ph.D. ' s are like the M.D. ' s; their dicta are often inconclusive be- cause science has not yet provided material for all the answers. Should a student take, for an elective, a course in home economics or a course in philosophy? Should she drop a course she is failing or learn perserverance by continuing it? When should she be encouraged and when should she be scolded? Who knows enough to make accurate decisions on questions like these? To use an old figure, we are work- ing on the wrong side of the tapestry, with knots, broken threads, and indistinct colors trying to weave a pattern on the right side. Sometimes the threads become inextricably snarled and there is no pattern; but sometimes the pattern becomes a living, breathing reality: a busy physician working unerringly in the adjustment of her instruments; a high school instructor guiding a too active boy through irregu- lar French verbs; or a young mother illustrating for a three-year-old the intricacies of handling a fork. Then the teacher takes heart and returns with gratitude to the knots and broken threads, to the logarithms and gerunds, to the uncertainties and et ceteras, happy to be at work in the greatest of all arts, the art of living.