Meredith College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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For Left: It ' s About Time the seniors porode into the courtyard to their little sisters. Left: White Rabbit, olios Mary Ellen McKown, tells a timely story. Bottom Center: Meredith faculty and administration ploy some jammin ' true grit music. Below: The Cornhuskin ' co-choirs, Beth Cunningham and Kim Eberle, give students o taste of a coneheod ' s donee routine. Bottom Right: Welcomed by the freshmen, the juniors ' small world marches into the courtyard. Student Life 25

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(D 00 24 Student Life Have you ever wondered how and when Cornhuskin ' originated? If so, then you need to go Back to the Future in order to understand how you were able to Fly High in the Danger Zone. We ' ll get in our time machine now, and go back a few years to the first Cornhuskin ' . On Tuesday, October 30, 1 945, the Meredith College Athletic Association, headed by Doris Peterson, held the oil-student Husking-Bee party in honor of the new students. On this occasion the faculty and students divided into couples dressed in overalls, print dresses, straw hats and pigtails — one dressed as a lad and the other as a fair lassie went to the dining hall, already decorated for Halloween, for dinner. Immediately after dinner the party moved out into the courtyard where square-doncing proceeded. Following the dancing a few contests including chicken-calling, corn shucking and hog-calling took place. Each class then entered a number in a Sing-Song Contest, which was judged on its exhibition of pure corn and hillbillyishness rather than upon the musical talent of the performers. Best costume also won a prize. Other prizes given were on egg basket filled with candy coated almonds for being the best chicken-caller, a corn cob pipe for being the first to finish husking a bushel of corn and piggy bank for winning hog-calling. Although today many people work together to moke Cornhuskin ' possible, in 1945, only one social chairman was in charge of the Husking-Bee. Now, after a glimpse of the first Husking-Bee let ' s get carried away with Flying High in the Danger Zone! Although the final competition of Cornhuskin ' was not until Thursday night, a great amount of Cornhuskin ' fun began on the previous Sunday. During the week there were late-night water fights, toilet paper rolling in the courtyard and early morning banging and clanging through the dorms. Special events were the Duke Pitchforks and Big

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Sis LiI Sis serenading. While all of these activities were going on a lot of hard work went on behind the scenes. Each class had props to make, songs to write, lines to practice and costumes to make. After days of preparation, the festivities were brought to a head by a picnic in the courtyard. The picnic was kicked off with a march into the courtyard by each class to introduce the individual themes. The freshman class brought with them The Big Chill, and The Show Must Go On was produced by the sophomores, while the juniors followed with It ' s a Small World. As tradition carries the senior class delivered a theme of it ' s About Time. Maki ng their grand entrance, seniors ran through the courtyard throwing sticks of gum to the bystanders. Then came the seniors ' time machine filled with balloons. As the march ended seniors gathered on the steps of Belk Dining Hall to sing to the other classes. With these events the picnic was in full swing. But this was no ordinary picnic! Meredith students had a chance to eat all of their favorite junk food — cotton candy, peanuts, ice cream, candy apples, foot-long hotdogs and hot apple cider. A few girls probably needed Pepto-Bismal after this shindig!! Shortly after the picnic everyone scattered to take care of last minute preparations before going to Jones Auditorium. After donning costumes, each class proudly filed in and found their seats. Once again, Jones Auditorium was screaming wild with excitement — girls jumping up and down and yelling chants of enthusiasm at their adversaries while anxiously awaiting the commencement of Cornhuskin ' ' 86. The roar of the auditorium gradually subsided as the lights dimmed and co-choirs Beth Cunningham and Kim Eberle took their respective places as coneheods in the Danger Zone. Cornhuskin ' ' 86 hod begun . . .