Red Springs, May 12—The May Day festival, always coming on the first Tuesday of every May, was well celebrated at Flora Macdonald College by a beautiful old English pageant taken from “A Day at Nottingham Fair.” Principal roles were taken by Nell Britt as “Lady Marian,” Nell Norton as “Robin Hood,” Louse McCallum of Maxton as “Alan-a-Dale,” Ruth Rhodes as “Friar Tuck,” and Virgina Frank as “Will Scarlett.”
Two hundred students took part in the beautiful dances, and the nature bowl or amphitheater was ablaze with gorgeous colors of the costumes, the green foliage making a lovely setting for the performers. The pageant was given under the supervision of Miss Sue Haile, physical director. Some 2,000 people were present, including from Lumberton: Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Poole, Mrs. T.W. Lennon, Mr. and Mrs. A.H. McLeod and family, Mrs. T.F. Costner, Miss Nell Sutton, Miss Thelma Gatewood, Miss Bertha Butler, Mrs. Dan Crump, Mr. Irvin Biggs, Mr. Maurice Pope, Miss Frances Poole, Miss Pearle Poole, Miss Bunch Rowland, Mr. Walter C. Johnson, Miss Elizabeth Shaw, Miss Elizabeth Redwine, and others.
During the week Misses Watkins, Sample, McNeill, Virginia Ashley and Virginia Frank visited Miss Kate McNeill, who is in the Baker sanatorium at Lumberton. On Friday, May 9, Miss McNeill, who is a professor at Flora Macdonald College, was taken from Lumberton to Asheville, where the climate, it is hoped, will greatly improve her condition. Miss McNeill has been in Lumberton for treatment for a little over 10 weeks, receiving splendid attention and care.
Dr. Vardell left for Greensboro, Winston-Salem and other points Wednesday through the country, where he expects to wind up the campaign for funds for Flora Macdonald College in Orange presbytery.
The Misses Mary Lou Lennon, Hazel Prevatt, May Johnson Poole and Sadie Ray Edwards expect to leave for their home, Lumberton, on May 21st, at the immediate close of the college year.
Miss Della McGoogan of St. Pauls, president of the general alumnae association of Flora Macdonald College, has been seen at the college several times during the past week. Plans have been completed and published for commencement and all alumnae in near-by towns are urged to get their banquet tickets at once from the chairman, Mrs. Rogers of Red Springs.
Mr. R.H. Rice of the Presbyterian Standard and head of the bureau of publicity for Southern Presbyterian colleges, was a visitor at the college yesterday and today.
On Monday, May 12, at 8 p.m., one of Douglas McLean’s latest pictures is scheduled in the college auditorium. It is “A Yankee Consul” and is expected to draw a large crowd.
College tennis finals will be played off beginning Monday, 12th, in the early afternoon, in singles and doubles. There is some good tennis slated and the public is always cordially invited to attend.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., May 12, 1924
No comments:
Post a Comment