Montreat Anderson College - Agape / Sundial Yearbook (Montreat, NC)

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THE SUN DIAL Montreat Collfck Dedication We wish to dedicate this issue of The Sun Dial to Mrs. J. Fred (Elizabeth Doggett) Johnson, who for three years was a faculty member most highly beloved by the teachers and stu- dents of Montreat College. Mrs. Johnson’s work among the students was such as only a person of the rare combination of common sense, friendly interest, pleasing personality, culture, and refinement could ac- complish. The Staff.

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Montreat College THE SUN D I A I Page Five consciousness and began to sec strange blurred pictures. They became clearer and clearer. They were pictures of my school pals as they were today. At Crescent City. Florida, Ruth Collette sat behind an im- posing desk which held little more than the sign. Miss Ruth Collette. Editor-in-Chicf, Sun Due Morning Glory News. In a room just next to her sat Ruby Wheeler poring over a large stack of papers. Oh! I see. She is proof reader. Next I saw Etta Hubbard step up to a microphone and laugh, then step away. The announcer howled. “Ladies and Gentlemen, you have just heard the most renowned authority on laughing in the United States. Miss Hubbard also furnishes the off-stage laughs for more than twenty different theatres.” Hack at Montreat in the usual scat of Miss Gardner, I viewed Frances Bowen announcing to Miss Spencer. Next was the former Sadie Hall Woodruff with the twins, Sadie and Hall. She is married to a prosperous farmer, and goes to town at least once a week. And Mary Dclle Wilkins and Alice Ellington have open- ed a home for Contented Old Maids.” They furnish a good example and plenty of knitting and also arc faithful members of the Sew on Bachelor’s Button Club. ’ Arc my eyes deceiving me? I see a child playing a piano, but there is not a sound. Why, it’s the new noiseless piano Elsie Hartficld has just invented for the pleasure of distracted mothers and dormitory students. In a noisy office with bills ringing at all odd times sat Helen Branch. She is a telephone-television operator in Chi- cago. Who is this I see in a manse in Clinton. S. C.? It is Blanch Hall composing poetry in her spare time. Margaret Botts and Florence Wardrep are still faithful. They have a choir in which Margaret does the playing and Florence the directing. There’s to be a double wedding as soon as Florence makes up her mind. Then I saw Lottice Duffcy with a straight face, for once. The reason is that she is a gag-woman, and she is having an awful time thinking up funny things to say. In Hollywood 1 found Elinor Miller. She has taken Ann Harding's place on the screen and teaches Shirley Temple on the sideline. Faye Smith has at last reached her ambition. She has grad- uated from George Peabody College with her master’s degree and now holds the position of teacher of reading in the seventh grade class at Jackson Reform school. In the strike district of Philadelphia 1 found Elizabeth Fleming as a Red Cross worker. She was supervising a soup kitchen for the unemployed. I saw Opal Danicll as matron of Thornwell Orphanage and doing her own typing along with it. Senator Cariotta Sanders was my next view. She was put- ting her foot down on something and it appeared to be the final of it. Next was the “Wilson Institute and Finishing School for i Girls,” the head, of course, Nell Wilson. Back to Montreal again, with Imogene Steppe replacing Miss Dickinson as librarian. She seems to be having an awful time keeping it cleaned up. In a little country store, leaning over the counter to chat with the customers, was Lou Ada Jayroc. She profited by her | training at Montreat. As private stenographer to the Lieutenant-Governor of S. I C.. Nelle Jackson has made a great success. In fact, she’s in line for promotion to the governor. In Pacolct, S. C., 1 saw the hat shop of Mary and Martha I Stowe. They sell smart, cheap hats. Incidentally, 1 noticed that their own chapeaux came straight from Paris. And Toncic Mclllwaine, too, loves Paris, because Toncic has married a French professor. She corrects all his papers, too. Mary Elizabeth Gibcrt is the skiing champion of the world today, 1 saw. When there is no snow, she devotes her time to life-saving. In Mrs. Riley's place, I found Louise McDavid doing good work in carrying out the well-established custom of pills and nose drops.” On the summit of Grey Beard Mountain Ruth Penland has a camp for girls, with access to Lake Susan for swimming. In Charlotte 1 spied Helen McCain, the head of a chain of beauty shops and director of a beauty school and clinic. She averages two hundred students a year. Elizabeth ilight, seen in Washington, I). C., is a private detective. She solved the “which end should an egg In- broken on mystery and established quite a rcord for herself. Another scientist of note is Estelle Iscnhour. She has just won the Nobel Prize for her discovery that atoms turn upside down when moving instead of around and around or vice versa. Louise McCutchen is the writer of a syndicate column en- titled Experience Will Prove.” She is the most renowned giver of advice to the lovelorn known at present. Just as the pictures began to fade again 1 saw Martha Reid Bedinger on a large rubber plantation in the Belgian Congo. She supervises the whole plantation herself and has a school for the natives also. We returned to the restaurant and told Nancy ami Mildred what we had seen, for both of us had seen exactly the same things. 1 was reluctant to leave them but I knew that I had to be at the hospital to operate at nine o’clock just three days later. My trip to the fortune teller was worth more than all the rest of New York. Vivian Shaw, Senior College Class Prophet. -----------o----------- SENIOR COLLEGE PLAY On May 16 the Senior College Class presented in the An- derson Auditorium a three-act play, ‘The Sleeping Beauty of Loreland. ’I'he cast was as follows Queen .............................. Ruth Collette King ...................................Peggy Sloop Beauty ...............................Elinor Miller Nanny ..............................Laurie Reynolds Bumps .............................Estelle I sen hour Sun Light Fairy ................Florence (Vardrep Black Fairy ........................Elizabeth Hight Rupert ...............................Mildred Knox Tuffy .................................Vivian Shaw Prince Delmar ........................Carolyn d Han The Caretakei Fayt Smith Fairies: Blanch Hall. Louise McDavid. Elsie Hart- field, Helen McCain, Adelaide Brown, Ruby Wheeler. Martha Reid Bedinger. Children: Opal Daniel), Mary Elizabeth Gibert, ami Margaret Botts. The play was very successfully directed by Miss Elizabeth Hoyt and Miss Nannie G. Watkins, sponsor of the Senior class. FAIRIES Fairies white and silver, Dancing by night, White gleams shine about them Like fireflies small and bright. —Ruth Cadbury Richardson. Age 7.

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Montreat College T HE SU N I) I A L Page Seven From rou : Mrs. Anderson. Miss Spencer, Miss Smith. Miss Porte»-. Miss Miles, Miss Hoyt, Miss McElroy. Miss Brandon. Mrs. Dorsey. Miss Lord. Mrs. Riley. Hack rou . Dr. Anderson. Miss Jordan. Miss Watkins. Miss Dickinson. Miss Brooks. Miss Gardner. Miss Dillard. Miss Stockard. Miss Wade. aX2 STUDENT RECITAL The Music Department, under the direction of Miss Mary P. Lord, gave its annual Recital at the college chapel o . Mon- day evening. May iS. Taking part in this program were Alice Prime. Nellc Sarles. Margaret Sanders, and Elizabeth Scott. 1 voice students; and Margaret Thompson, Bessie Jane Lynch. Mary Wynne Williams, Virginia Douglas. Margaret Tipton. Helen McCain. Harriet Walkup. Caroline Heriot. Geraldine Key, Xedra Deans. Peggy Dennis. Isabel! Ager. Dorothy Ann Manning, and Ruth Richardson, piano students. One of the pieces played by Ruth Richardson was an original composition. Harriet Walkup and Margaret Tipton, ami Margaret Thomp- son and Mary Wynne Williams played duets; Isahell Ager. Peggy Dennis, and Bessie Jane Lynch, and Caroline Heriot. Helen McCain and Geraldine Key played trios; while the nov- elty of a quartette was afforded by Margaret Thompson. Bessie Jane Lynch. Mary Wynne Williams, ami Virginia Douglas. I he Music Department is one of the prides ol Montreal F College, as well as a source of entertainment and culture. MUSIC The Davidson College Symphonic Band, conducted by James Christian Pfohl. gave a concert in the Administration Building on March 28. The program was as follows: C hoi ale—“Wake. Awake! For Night is Flying Hath Overture— Ariane ' Louis BoyCS Trio—“Three Kings ' Wallet Smith Introduction to Act III. Lohengrin . Wagner Memories of Stephen Fostei .................. Lucien Caillet A Childhood Fantasy Clifford P. Lillya Waltz—“The Beautiful Blue Danube '.... Johan tie Strauss. Jr. Overture to Semiramide ..............................Possim College Tics. O Davidson. After the program a reception was given for the band by the Montreal Choir. Mrs. Seymore Vaughn, a former Montreat College girl and a member of the Westminster School Choir, has sting at several church services and one Sunday evening after Christian En- deavor during the past month.