Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2010 witii funding from Joyner Library, East Carolina University http://www.archive.org/details/eastcarolinabull1936east Vol. 28 ^-^.-v^ h3 ^ DECEMBER NUMBER No. 4 EAST CAROLINA TEACHERS COLLEGE BULLETIN Greenville, North Carolina Published four times each year— March, May, August and December. Entered as second-class mat- ter March 16, 1936, at the Post Office at Greenville, N. C. Under the Act of August 24, 1912. On Friday, December 17, the College will close one of its most successful Fall Quarters. The enrollment this Quarter is the largest in the history of the College, and the quality of work being done by the students seems to be unusually good. There were 1094 registered on the campus for the Fall Quarter, and 10 registered for an Educational Field Trip making a total enrollment of 1104 for the quarter. The Christmas holidays will extend from Friday, December 17, to Tuesday, January 4, when the Winter Quarter opens. Several new students are expected to register for the Winter Quarter and there will be very little, if any, reduction in the number enrolled. The Spring Quarter opens on Thursday, March 24. More than half of the instructors in the college will be out of town dur- ing the Christmas holidays visiting at their homes or with friends. President Meadows gave a talk on Educational Trends before the Rocky Mount Alumni Chap- ter of the College on November 8. He gave a talk on The Present Situation in the Far East before the Kinston Rotary Club on November 18, and a similar talk before the Goldsboro Rotary Club on December 7. For more than ten years East Carolina Teachers College has been a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and during this time it has had all the benefits that go with high classification in and recognition by this accrediting association. At the present time Dr. McGinnis of our faculty is a member of the Commission on Higher Education in the Asso- ciation, and he is also a member of the Committee on Standards. This college has been a member in high standing in the American Association of Teachers Colleges since shortly after that asso- ciation was formed about twenty years ago. The Music Department is making excellent progress in the development of an orchestra. It has purchased more than $600 worth of musical instruments for an orchestra this fall and at pres- ent has between twenty and thirty members in the orchestra. Excellent progress is being made also in the development of a first class Glee Club of mixed voices. Three members of the college staff were married during or just before the opening of the Fall Quarter. Dr. Beecher Flanagan of the Sociology Department and Miss Ruth Pickelsimer, an alumnus of the college who is a member of the High School faculty at Sraithfield, were married just before the opening of the Fall Quarter. Miss Agnes Wadlington, Secretary of President Meadows for the past several years, and Mr. LeRoy Barrett, of Greenville, who has a responsible position with the John Flanagan Buggy Company, were married in Ragsdale Hall in the presence of a small group of friends, on November 23. They are now at home at 507 W. Fifth Street, Green- ville, after a wedding trip to the New England States. Dr. Elizabeth S. Brown, of the Science Department, was married at her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 30, to Mr. Herman B. Chase, of New Hampton, New Hampshire. Mr. Chase is completing the work for a Doctor's degree in Biological Science at the University of Chicago. The College is delighted with the honor that came recently to the Greenville High School newspaper "Green Lights". It was rated by the College Press Association as "tops" in its class. Dr. Dorothy Schnyder, a member of the faculty in the Art Department, who was on leave of absence during the Fall Quarter on account of the death of her father, will resume her duties in the College after the Christmas holidays. The College has recently made application for the benefits of the George Reed Fund for the promotion of Instruction in Home Economics. Miss Marie White, a representative from the National Bureau of Education, and the Misses Dennis and Ward, of the N. C. Home Demonstra- tion Staff, were on the campus December 7, and 8, gathering information and data that will be used as a basis for passing upon our application for the benefits of this fund. Word has just been received of the death of Mrs. Mary Wright Parker, daughter of former president Robert H. Wright whose memory is revered alike by alumni and friends of the college. The Physical Education Department held a one day training school for cheer leaders on Satur- day, December 11. Representatives from all the high schools in this section were invited to be i- • „j-„ ;„ <-v,o dfti'iritiVs Rp'iides the instruction given to cheer leaders on how to SurfTh'ee';randne'eire*tL"brsfS^ of yells to promote g^oup spirit, novel stunts, antics, and various tricks for cheer leaders. Mr J D Alexander, head of the Physical Education Department and coach of men's athle- tics is promoting a great deal of interest among the men in physical education and in the vari- ous forms o7 athletics Classes are being conducted in Archery, Fencing, Boxing, ^nd Moor Gymnastics. Some new physical educaton apparatus has been purchased. Miss Norton has some very good material for a girl's basket ball team which she is rapidly rounding into shapefor the first game of the season after the winter quarter opens. The men's basket ball team gives promise also of being a very good one. A cafeteria to provide lunch for the pupils in the Training School will be opened in the Wright Building on January 3. The cafeteria will be under the direction of the Home Economics Depart- ment. One of the purposes in organizing it is to provide training in this field of work for stu- dents majoring in Home Economics. The members of the Northeastern District of the N. C. E. A. met at the College on Friday and Saturday, November 19 and 20, for the annual fall meeting. A large number of teachers, princi- pals, and school officers were present. Superintendent J. H. Rose of the Greenville Public Schools, and a member of the College faculty, was president of the district. Superintendent D. H. Conley of the Pitt County Schools was elected president of the association for 1938. Two unusually fine lectures that had a strong appeal to the students of the college were given on the campus December 3rd. by Mr. Kirby Page, author, editor, and lecturer on economic and poli- tical conditions today. There are twelve applicants for graduation at the close of the present quarter, on December 17, viz. Mrs. Josephine A. Greer, Marion, Grammar Irene Kennedy, Kinston, Home Ec.-Sci. Carrie V. Gotten, Stem, Grammar Mary I,. McCormac, Rowland, Grammar Helen J. Downing, Elizabethtown, Primary Emma G. Murray, Warsaw, Primary Mary Everette, Robersonville, Grammar Makenzie Ross, Lillington, Home Ec.-Sci. Mrs. Martha L. Fountain, Tarboro, Primary Katie I. Vinson, Mount Olive, Eng-Hist. Annie Lou Jeffords, Pikeville, Home Ec.-Sci. Clara Ward, Edenton, Grammar Several of these students have already secured teaching positions and they will begin work early in January. Miss Ruth White, who W2,s graduated from the College in 1925 and who has been teaching re- cently at Roanoke Rapids, has taken the place, as matron of Fleming Hall, of Mrs. W. G. McKean who resigned during the fall quarter. Mr. William H. McHenry, of Tennessee, is the new superintendent of buildings and grounds. He takes the place of Mr. W. L. Baldree who resigned as superintendent of buildngs and grounds during the fall quarter. Mr. McHenry has almost completed the requirements for the Master's degree at George Peabody College for Teachers. December Number Entered as second class matter Easl Carolina Teachers College CaroHna"'* "^"^ ^* Greenville, North', BULLETIN ^° '"^' ' Vol. 28 No. 4 Greenville, North Carolina Mr. Miss Winter Quarter Opens January 4, 1938 Spring Quarter Opens March 24th. Summer Quarter Opens J""e 9th. NORTH CAROLINA