s § et overnor, gislature, yelud ed tie Club hers Col- an- . in- by M. ch all in in- the in idcasts ire Con- all college both pter will play "on the Professor. to form North -axton ember of named llere dis- fessio b will i, who will minutes, , regi ? . the i Dem- there must be enough of them members to have wet quite a number of 215 o'cloc in obnston nights. Brown of | Don’t pack up and go home vet.! ‘esent the Stay and see the fun. astern Will be much harder courses than ford, J. M. guest of a chapel the near+ must make the freshies ache all j over, Paget of as Chair- made out. gi Student |sobbed the other day, “I’m tak- nded an in-|ing a su Dem-|and the} h in repre- | Class for the fun of it. lature I'm going to fail. all. ‘OLLMENT AG | ey: Swarthout To Sing | wa Of College Lite One Usui ture Presi-| this year. ATTEND ECTCPIC GREENVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1940 or Students Tonight _ Famous Operatic Star To Appear In Concert At This College Although young people have been told that “there is no royal | road to fortune,” the career of Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-so- prano of opera, radio, and screen, who will be here for a song recital this evening at) /8:30 at the Campus Building would seem to belie this sage advice. Gladys has had cut after another. From that | ‘day in her thirteenth year, | when she pinned up her curls, | ; 8nnounced she was nineteen and | applied for a position as soloist jin a Kansas City chureh choir, | ‘to an equally momentous oc-| |casion nine years ago, when she |found herself a member of the! Metropolitan Opera Company | in New York, she has had one | “lucky break” after another. | But luek, while important in, | Miss Swarthout’s case, has not| |been the only and deciding fac- | ‘tor. Miss Swarthout’s career really | began with an audition before al choirmaster in Kansas City. | The maturity of her voice dis- | pelled the suspicion of that | worthy gentleman as to her real | age. She got the job. It was the beginning and things happened rapidly. fore the church audition she had one short- | Miss Gladys Swarthout This Is One Freshman’s View by Mildred Beverly C. T. C. has received the deluge of freshmen again The campus is alive with new-comers. Although the ition is not complete and xact number is not known, E. pillows the up, during Cheer past few freshmen. | concert debut. thirteen with the nineteen-vear- old voice gave her first recital, There It seems that registration ist, in a church in Kansas City. yas a major problem to the ma-' For several years, she con- jority. Oh dear! It gives the tinued to sing in church and in upper-classmen a headache and concerts. Her friends urged her to climb the operatic ladder, but she thought the time had not arrived. Finally, her friends, disagreeing with this modest viewpoint, arranged an audition for her in Chicago. She went there, sang a few operatic arias from her concert repertoire and was much amaz- ed, a few days later, to be con- fronted with a contract for the Many were having a hard getting their schedules One little girl half bjeect under Dr.——_——_ y he flunks half the I know Shame on! someone for telling such a tale There can’t canizations of }be an ogre among the faculty. | following season. ; adie No- While new students tried to find ; complete operatic role. iichinson, vice- ceremoniously ties in On the first day classes were} It suddenly dawned upon her nee in the held there was much confusion that she did not know a single Such Miss Davis was un- ja realization would have plung- interrupted in|ed the ordinary aspirant into the rooms. College Club, her lecture on the beginnings of ;despair. But not Gladys. She th e Democra- North Carolina history by a|knew that she had just one : i y i ; short summer in which to trans- t Co 7 he young thing who burst into the | s a fees ae room wanting to know if that | form herself from an eager but ling af ey cat Jenk nt, ion ins, 7 two freshmen. Then Miss Davis; twenty-three roles. ee Poe jannounced, “Class will be dis- ' sorbed operatic music as a blot- as one of the | she li | ne ever spent. vt do much which usually | her ve e or s of and bought a cot- | iew. Miss Jenkins | il charge of all the | en the she ran Someor her spare time, acation was | 1e, ; her family hiring of a into a little ie recom- sro woman to her t cook and house- Miss Jenkins was n, she certainly did loing all the house- So, she hired the found, however, that ot only hired a cook actically taken on an- to care for. This © woman had_ six id an invalid mother. them were nah, Miss Jey looking to ikins for support. But, ‘Continued on Page four) were history ten. After assur- | inexperienced novice into an ing her that it wasn’t and clos- artist of poise _and assurance, ing the door behind the intrud- | with every major role in her er, Miss Davis smiled tolerantly | vocal range at her command. and once more planged into the| Miss Swarthout summoned beginnings of North Carolina ;all her native energy to accom- history. There was a pounding | plish the impossible. In those on the door. This time it was|;few short weeks, she a ie ab- (Continued on Page four) {ter soaks up ink. : . ee IN THIS PICTURE?—If you’re a Freshman or ponte! cae then you'll find your face some place. The group were photographed at the general assembly held in the ampus building on the fitst night of the orientation program. ° Doris Blalock, president of the Women’s Student Government Associa- tion. and Walter Rodgers,.president of the Men’s Student Govern- ment Association, had charge of the program. Ninety Per Cent Of 1940 Grads Gain Positions Majority Teaching But Many Pursue Other Endeavors Even though 90 percent of the 1940 graduates were placed . this year as compared with ninety-eight percent in 1939,| fifty more were placed this year than in 1939. A survey of office records show that in addition to teach- ing many of the graduates pur- sued other endeavors. The ma- jority were placed in teaching positions, however. Five got jobs as Home Man- agement Supervisors. They are Marie Basden, Yanceyville; Eva McMillian, Swan Quarter; Han- nah Martin, Franklin; Isabel Parker, Wilson; Elizabeth Tay- lor, Charlottle. John David Bridgers and Ed- ward Harris will train as flying Cadets. Francis Cutchins, Her- bert Wilkerson, and Howard | Draper have office positions in Norfolk. Harvey Deal is do- ing graduate work at Peabody College and Sidney Mason is studying at Northwestern Uni- versity. Ethel Gaston is physi- cal education instructor at Kan- napolis Y. W. C. A. Six of the |graduates were married. Be-| Other graduates and the | schools in which they are teach- made what amounted to her/ing are listed below. This child of| Julius Abernethy, Pleasant; Nancy, Mount Albright, |Bath; Margaret M. Allen, Ed- Oc- learning to do without Mama. {with her teacher as accompan-|ward Best; Ethel D. Anderson, | Stedman; Vileigh Austin, Cor- inth-Holder; Margueritte As- | bell, Contentnea; Evelyn Bak- (er; Jacksonville; Rachel Bar- bee, Mount Pleasant; Lucy A. |Barrow, Kannapolis; Alliene Bass, Justice; Annie Laurie Beale, Mount Pleasant; Ludell Bellflower, Beaulaville; Swan- |nanoa Benthall, Jackson; Tom- ‘py Benton, Tabor City; Jessica T. Biddle, Farm Life: Nora Blackmore, Clayton; Bettie Blanchard, Chinquapin; Eloise W. Bone, Nashville; Annie H. Boone, Winterville; Louise | Boone, Epsom H. S.; Mamie Lee Boyd, Penderlea; Annie Ruth Boyette, Roseboro; Virginia Lee | Boyette, Saratoga; Alice Bragg, |Granite Falls; Dorothy M. | Bragg, Chowan; Aileen Brewer, Indian Trail; Robert Brewer, Atkinson; Albertina Brinson, Jacksonville; Gilbert A. Britt, Leland; Margueritte Britt, B. F. Grady; Sarah Britt, Allens- ville; Maxie Broadwell, Poplar Branch; Dorothy V. Brooks, Belvoir; Bertha Browne, Merry Hill; Ella Rinker Brown, South- wood; Margaret A. Brown, F. W. B. Orphanage, Middlesex; Virginia Bryan, Calypso; Mary Louise Butler, Burlington; Mary Frances Byrd, Clinton; Sudie Butler, Plainview; Mary Lou Butner, Clarkton. Esther Carmack, Cove City; Ursula Carr, Bailey; Virginia Carraway, Saratoga; Eva C. Carter, Pantego; Vance Chad- wick, Wilmington; Lila June Chandler, Mount Ulla; Mrs. Florence W. Chapip, Columbia; Beatrice Cherry, Ayden; Ca- mille B. Clarke, Engelhard; Evelyn Clark, Aulander; Char- les D. Cobb, Braggtown; Kat- rine Collie, Rich Square; Mrs. Dorothy L. Combs, Gum Neck: Virgie Cowand, Askewville; Ernestine Creech, Woodland- Olney; Eunice Cullipher, Green Hope; Marguerite Currin, Oak Hill; Josephine L. Daniel, Stan- hope; Geraldine Daniels, New- port; Frances Darden, Ingold; Syble Daughtry, Penderlea; Ida Farrior Davis, Roxboro; Iris M. Davis, Walstonburg; Mayme Davis, Murfreesboro; Page Da- In History AIN SHATTERS ALL Largest Number ¢ te a5 ter Regis HO HUM! GUESS LLG And that’s just what the sk when they made their debut as st College. maybe. imen uder Now they’ve finished the tz Don’t misjudge the new students than their facial expressions indicate. Prof. Dean C. Following Major Operet | Oh Boys, A Party! All Freshmen boys will be guests of the upper- classmen at a party in the boys’ dormitory Monday night at 8 o'clock. Those in charge said refresh- ments would be served and explained that = at- tendance is compulsory. A well-rounded = program has been arranged for the newcomers, jit was an- nounced, Seven Teachers New Addition To ECTC Faculty Seven new members come to Tabor Dies ion t t Funeral Services Tuesday Afi Dean C Music I diec eral } operati old. Funeral the faculty of E.C. T. C. for the er fall quarter of 1940. these, Miss Mabel Two of Lacey and bu Mrs. Ethel Walters, are holding i new positions on the campus. They are supervisors of Walter Reed high school Home E nomics departments in this trict. Federal finance is pa) ing the entire salary of one of these and one half the salary of the other. Other new members are Miss Audrey Demsey, Mr. John B. Christenbury, Miss Vida M. Weeks, Mr. W. S. DeLoatch, and Miss Christine Wilton. Miss Demsey comes to the Commerce Department to suc- ceed Miss- Mariam Mahl. She comes from Colorado. Coming from Brevard, Coach Christenbury replaces Mr. Gor- don Gilbert of the Physical Edu- cation Department. New members of the Science Department are Mr. DeLoatch and Miss Wilton who replaced Dr. Daniel R. Stull and Dr. Helen S. Van Hoy. In the Art Department Miss Weeks is taking over the posi- tion of Miss Alma Sparger. There are still two positions open, one in the Home Econom- ics department to replace Miss Roslyn Ivey and one in the Music department vacated by the death of Mr. Dean Tabor. | The Walt Disney animated carton technique is a new twist;campus now include a_ string | Tucker, in engineering courses at New York University to illustrate vis, Pantego; Winnie Ruth Da - principles and mechanical ther- (Continued on Page four) ton, grand Pro leader from ling al m well as the many activities him in touch with dents and his : ity fhade hima Under the le Tabor, who joined t} | East Carolina Te: in January, 1937, an pointed head of the newly re- organized department in 1938, |the work in musi¢ was expand- jed until Music Education be- came one of the major depart- {ments of the inst ion. Among jhis first activities was ihe or- | ganization of instrumental group jelasses, a college orchestra, and a men’s glee club. In 1938 he! organized the first E. C. T. C.| band which has grown from ay jhandful of players to a fully| a for brought personal- ui favorite. ot Mr. aculty of ‘uniformed and equipped handy of sixty or more pieces. Other similar music groups on the| choir, a string college choir. The Tecoan, college annual, was last year dedicated to him. | quartet, and a| rans his | s College; fers ©. Of Freshmen ‘ts Rew Peak This Year in She all enr *h ast Carolina Te , ha total Howard J Freshman Class udents March V en re- fice. However, not new ones. dents have been ce because of low No. stu- > average dormitory rinnis explain- have been vy and many n students have been as s in the infirm- sdale Hall. Lack ace resulted in being refused ory udents of day stu- of dormitory red all pre- has been je increase in the »oysS on the campus, 1 had to resort to s in town. Fall Retreats Bre Held By Religious Groups Religious groups held for their officers dur- eek prior to the open- school on September 26. the Methodist Stu- re Presbyterian m and the g Union. ists met at their P Holly street *s activities - new student Elizabeth Tits- attending were . president: Cleo ary; Annie Laura airman of the wor- committee; and Hazel rnes, president of the Sun- E hool class. Miss Titsworth was graduat- \ re their to meet th er, Miss Those - ed from Scarrett last spring and comes from Jefferson City, Ten- nessee to replace Miss Zoe Anna Davis as worker for the Metho- dist students. Miss Davis has -epted a position at the State hers College at Canyon, Seven Presbyterians — spent three days with their leader, Miss Sarah D. Whitmore, at the ; Minges’ cabin at Blount’s creek. Here they made plans for their year’s program and had time in which to enjoy a yacht trip one afternoon. Miss Mary Shaw Robeson and Dr. Robert Boyd, both of Greenville, were in charge of the vesper programs for the two nights. Those pre- sent were Ada Rose Yow, presi- dent; Harriet Lawerence, Emily Johnson, Alice Johnson, Ruth Adelaide Reade and Eli- zabeth Mashburn. Led by their student secre- tary, Mary Lee Ernest, and their (Continued on Page four) Octobe: THE TECO ECHO T 4, 1949 Mary AGNES DEAL PAGE TWO REPORTERS—Pearl Edwards, Martha Brooks, Cleo Burney, Lena Mae Smith, Mary T. Bailey, Barbara Keuzenkamp, Betty Keuzenkamp, Harold Taylor, Elizabeth Meadows, Chris Humphrey, Laura Strick- land, Maude Sawyer, Bobbie Hol- lar, Merle Outlaw, Mildred Bever- ly, Clifton Evans, Margaret Rus- sell, Janie Eakes, Christine Hellen, Rosalie Brown, Norman Wilker- BAS son, Maribelle Robertson, Margie Davis, Edith Powell, Lydia Piner, Business 88 Manager JAMES WHITFIELD Editor-in-Chief 1939 Member 1940 Associaled Collegiate Press BUSINESS STAFF ASSOCIATE EDITORS RosE CARLTON DUNN EMILY MURPHY Mary LONG Forp narnnsantED POR RATIONAL ADVERTIONG BY fs National Advertising Service, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADISON AVE. New Yoru. N.Y. Cmicaso * Boston + Los Anegues + SAM FRANCHOCO ELLEN Mclyy WILLIAM HARRIS TCLN TYRE PAULINE ABEYOUNIS FRANCES SOUTHERLAND O. D. ANDREWS Mary Long Forp RUTH POLLARD Published Biweekly by the Students of East Carolina Mary D. HORNE Teachers College Member North Carolina Colligiate Pres Association Sports Editor TENLY SPEAR GEORGE LAUTARES “Murr” ANDREWS Entered as second-class matter December 3, 1925, at the U.S. Photography Laura Hearne. Postoffice, Greenville, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. In Memorium In the course of human events there are individuals who excell in character; their experiences are highlighted by enviable achieve- ments: their personality is reflected in the lives of their associates ; their courage is symbolic of greatness, and knowing such people creates a mental picture that is everlasting. The late. Dean C. Tabor and Mrs. M. N. Posey were such persons. Losing them ‘ame aS a SeV shock to both faculty and students; and with passing, the staff, in behalf of the College, extends its heart- We knew them as friends; as individuals who gave : friendliness for which members of the student body ed iy life on the campus stands as a shrine for poster- East Carolina Teachers College. Felt respects ity at School Spirit Or Regulations! On the eve of the first night football game in the history of East Carolina Teachers College we are advised that students who iave not yet received their general permit will not be allowed to tend the game Saturday night. Many of them did not learn of the ye in a permit and naturally were at a loss to make r Students who have permits will ride the n privileges permit them to travel via other npany of chaperones. It is going to hurt our school spirit if the students without the general permit are not illowed to attend. Now it’s a question of “school spirit or regula- tions. We, The Students In the school systems of the nation, on the street corners, at the movies, or in C n, one finds a note of concern in conver- sation of the people relative to the outcome of the turmoil that has gripped Europe and threatens the United States. 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