Under-Graduate Representative Elected for Year 1924-25. . . Burvelle McFarland Is Elected for Important Office for Next Year
The office which ranks as one of the highest and certainly as one of the most vital importance in the Y.W.C.A. on any campus, is that of the undergraduate representative. This is a relatively new position in many associations, but is coming to be a force which will fulfill a long recognized need on all campuses—that of being and keeping in touch with world problems and world movements.
We feel especially this need since the girls went to Indianapolis and caught a vision of the whole world and its problems. We realize that we are no longer a state or even a nation apart and separate from the world, but are an integral part of the whole and must do our part in the solving of world problems and in bringing in of the kingdom of God on this earth.
The Y.W.C.A. is very broad in its aspects and has to do in a great way with these world affairs as well as those in their own home fields. Some of the problems we recognize as such that the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. has to face are: the race problem, the industrial question, the city work, girl reserves, work among foreign-born and countless others. The U.R. is the representative of the whole National movement on her campus and keeps the local association enlightened on these things that they might do their bit in the task of making the world, both at home and abroad, like the Master would have it be.
Not only does the U.R. interpret to the local association the work of the National Board, but she is responsible for rightly relating her local association to national and international movements. The president takes care of the association and its workings, but the U.R. interprets to the National Board or rather National Student Department of the National Board, the needs and desires of her local association; and in turn, the needs and desires of the National Student Department to the local association. The one thing we are trying to get at is that the U.R. is the one girl on the campus who keeps up with national and international affairs—who is not afraid to read and keep herself open-minded and open-hearted to the needs of the world. She should have imagination and initiativeness, because her position is more or less a new one on the campus. These qualities should not be more outstanding, however, than those of the other side of her nature—she should be a true follower of the Lord Jesus and by precept and example show to the local association and to the world that she is following Him as closely as it is possible by His help to do.
In view of the importance of the G.R. on the campus and in the work of the local association, careful consideration was given to the matter first in a college council meeting and then in a meeting of the student body—and it was decided that Burvelle McFarland was the girl who could best fill this major office. She possesses both types of qualities essential to this office and will, with proper training, bring this office up to the standard set for it and the hoped for goal to be reached.
Burvelle, as U.R., and also Roberta Crawford, as president, will represent us as the cabinet training council to be held in this state in March, the National Y.W.C.A. Convention in New York City in April, and at the summer conference at Blue Ridge in June. With the experience in the work as vice-president this year and the future training to be had, we are going to be proud to represented both at home and away by our new U.R.!
From the front page of The Twig, Raleigh, N.C., March 14, 1924
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