The State from Columbia, South Carolina • 3

Tht Slate: South Carolina's Largest Newspaper COLUMBIA MONDAY MAY 26 1947 $fafe: South Carolina's Progressive Newspaper PAGE 3 First Coed of 1895 First Coed Braved Parental Disapproval Faculty Hostility to Break Barriers With Columbia Merchants Written by and for the Columbia Merchants' Association: II Trull President Sylvan Vice President and Miss Gale Johnson Secretary Nursing University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CJ and Dr Olin Chamberlain professor of psychiatry Medical College of Charleston Also featured on Tuesday will be a nutrition panel discussion on "The Inter-relationship Between Soil Plant Animal and Human Nutrition" led by Cushman dairy specialist Extension Service Clemson Wednesday's program will include addresses by Dr Leon Banov Charleston county health officer Price A sanitarian (R) District No 2 USPHS Richmond Va and Dr Ben Wyman state health officer A business session and election of officers will precede adjournment Wednesday afternoon Health Workers Meet Today At Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach May 25-Five hundred public health workers from ail over the state are expected to register for the 24th annual meeting of the Public Health Association which opens Monday morning May 26 at the USO building in Myrtle Beach The meeting will be called to order at 9:30 by Dr Hilla Sheriff president Speakers at the morning session will include Mayor Calloway of Myrtle Beach Dr James A Hayne director of the State Board of Division of Health Education: Dr Ernest A Branch director of the Division of Oral Hygiene State Board of Health and Dr Sheriff who will deliver the presidential address A message from Governor Strom Thurmond will be read and a health education panel will be led by Miss A Helen Martikainen health education consultant Richmond Va The afternoon will be devoted to section meetings of health officers nurses sanitarians health educators stenographers and clerks Highlighting the three-day meet ing in the way of entertainment will be a dance Monday evening from 7:30 to 1:00 a at the USO building The dance will be given by the Association of Sanitarians which is holding its annual meeting jointly with the Public Health Association Speakers scheduled for Tuesday are: CoL Blew Army Engineers War Department Washington Miss Ruth Hay professor Department of Public Health ing May 27 at 11 o'clock in the Millwood room of the Wade Hampton hotel All members of the board are urged to be present as several important matters will be presented for action TICKET SELLERS The ticket sellers for the luncheon meeting Thursday are: 1200 block of Main street Cline 1211 Main street) 1400 block of Main street Remer Woods (Wood's Jewelers 1408 Main street) and Ernest Hinson (Maxwell Brothers and Quinn 1425 Main street) 1500' Main street Mrs Norma Lynch (Kohn and Company 1526 Main street) and Mrs Sallie Campbell The Darling Shop 1537 Main street) 1600 block of Main street Ernest Zealy (Schulte-United com' pany 1624 Main street) and David Arazie (Tiny Tots Togs 1635 Main street) 1700 Main street Ralph Rustin (Rustin Furniture company 1725 Main street) 1800 Main street Newbrandt (Hudson-Carolina Motor company 1745 Sumter street) Washington street Herbert Williams (Security Federal Savings and Loan association 1231 Washington street) and Five Points Hartin (W and Son 2123 Green street) LUNCHEON MEETING THURSDAY Thuraday May 29 ii the day for the monthly luncheon meeting of the Columbia Merchants association The meeting will be held at 1 at the Jefferson Hotel The directors in charge of the meeting are James Tapp Haltiwan-ger and Van Metre Williams Presiding will be Trull pres! dent The program will feature the color movies taken at the 1946 Barbecue I am sure everyone will look forward to seeing these movies and remembering what a good time was had by all at the annual outing A sneak preview of the movies showed our members in line to fill up their places swimming playing bingo and many other sports Also on the program we hope to present a plan to promote Columbia as a Shopping Center in South Carolina Everyone of our members should be interested in this and we urge you to be present Be sure and buy your tickets in advance if possible from the ticket sellers listed below BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO SIEET The regular board of directors meeting will be held Tuesday morn A Govt Bateau Report is Bounces discovery of a new treatment for ivy oak and sumac poisoning Gentle and safe tbo treatment dries np the blisters quickly in 24 hr These govt findings are incorporated in irr-esr in comp Mmtcim jv Ml vmc wit my (mimuiI ariwiiaSq BY THOMAS CHADWICK In the early fall of 1895 one year after a momentoua bit of legislation had been passed by the South Carolina general assembly a beautiful young girl dressed in Victorian style shocked the city of Columbia by enrolling at the University of South Carolina as a regular student Today 52 years later this first coed aits on her front porch and takes great pleasure in watching feminine matriculators dressed in short skirts and bobby-sox march across the campus with books under one arm and boy friends on the other This first lady of the University was Miss Frances Guignard Gibbes well known South Carolina author playwright and poet who after her historic venture at the University married the late Oscar Keith former head of the language department at the university Mrs Keith said the general assembly passed a bill that permitted women to enroll at the university I made up my mind that was going to attend I wanted to be a writer and I knew that to be a successful writer I would need an education "Long before I went to school I studied words Each time I learned a new word it was like gaining a new friend I longed for education that only Carolina could give me and I was determined to get it at all costs" When she applied for entrance to the university her father the late Wade Hampton Gibbes received the following latter from Dr James Woodrow then president of the school: Hampton: Your daughter is the only woman who has registered for classes here As feeling is strong both among professors and students against women entering college it would be most unpleasant for a girl reared as she has been reared Win Your Fight Against Fat WITH DELICIOUS CANDY PLAN I advise you to ask her to withdraw" Mrs Keith said "My father was firmly convinced that I should not enroll but I made it clear that I planned to carry out my ambition come what may He told me You don't know what you are doing you will be humiliated hurt and I kept my stand and father finally gave in That fall I entered school much to the dissatisfaction of all concerned except myself "During my first few weeks at school the objective world was a great sneering face that gazed at me with animosity when I patsed through groups of students or when I entered class rooms usually crept into the back most seats of the class rooms and blushed very painfully whenever spoken to The truth was that no one held any real towards me They were all gentle-1 men despite the fact that they all avoided me Dr Woodrow later became one of my closest and best friends "Another conflict that I had with the school was my selection of courses I care so much for credits 1 wanted to take courses which would help me in my chosen profession writing They told me I get a degree it I didn't take mathematics and chemistry I replied I didn't care about the degree and that I was certain that mathematics had not helped Milton to write or Keats to write The Nightingale I was content with foreign languages history English psychology and Botany I had my way but I never earned my diploma even though I finished with more credits than were required for a degree other girls began to enroll and I was no longer by myself which was a pleasant feeling Some of the girls were frivolous and others were serious but I think all were glad that the barriers were broken I enjoyed minute of my four years at the university for I studied what I liked and needed" In expressing her dislike of the question "How old are as well as the answer she said "I like to think of myself as one of the angels in 'Swedenborg's In that story all the angels in heaven grew younger as they lived longer As I live longer I grow stronger spiritually and mentally because I learn something new every day Considering that strength is the symbol of youth I feel that I am growing younger every after having completed school Miss Gibbes moved to Wash' in top where she worked and wrote while living with a friend One afternoon while walking by a publishing house in the downtown district her friend suddenly stopped and said go inside and meet the publisher perhaps he can tell us something about getting your poetry Miss Little Orphan Annie for years and She is a very extensive reader and keeps "hep" with current events in newspapers last play Dawn in she said inspired by my late husband and my many friends who continuously urged me to write about my own state I have always tried to be a sincere writer I write what I feel and believe and not for And so another American woman with Inherent individuality sits peacefully on her front porch and watches changing generations pass by always remembering that she too at one time broke the shackles of tradition The University of South first girl student Miss Frances paid that it was just a problem to be solved spirit of the Cross" he said make nursing a vocation rather than a profession The nurse would be identified with her pa- tients in a spirit of sympathy and deep there is anything extra in 1 being a nurse in a church-connect-! ed hospital it should be that some- thing we find in the Cross of Christ" The graduation exercises will be concluded at 8 tonight when 1 the Rev Wall pastor of the1 First Baptist church of Chester will deliver the commencement address Whiteside superintendent of the hospital will present the diplomas and pins to 28 graduates Guignard Gibbes as she appeared when painted a few years after completing her studies at the university She afterwards married the late Professor Oscar Keith former head of the foreign lan guage department at the university (Photo of oil painting by Munn VACATION Or WEEK END At The Shore THE GOLD EAGLE Tavern Hotel For those who enjoy the pleasures of the table Thrill to a more slender graceful figure with the delicious Ayds Vitamin Candy Plan No Exorcise No Drup No Laxatives You don't cut out any meals or all the foods you like just cut thorn down It's simple when you oryoy delicious Ayds Candy sis directed In clinical tests under medical doctors moro than 100 persona lost 14 to 15 pounds average fas a few woeks with the Aydo Vitamin Candy Reducing Plan Try the simple Ayds Way yourself 30 days supply $225 Now phono or call at WATCH REPAIRING S-DAY SERVICE Crystals Engraving 1mflC CREDIT MNWJ JEWELERS 1625 MAIN STREET crowding and pushing to see the internationally famous play that had been written by Frances Guignard Gibbes Columbia's author and playwright Few people there knew her by the title girl student to enroll at the University of South Carolina" She was honored some years ago by being the first alumnae of the university to be given membership to Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity Mrs Keith an ardent comic strip reader says followed the Gumps Bringing Up Father and Helms Addresses Baptist Nurses The Rev Clyde Helms pastor of Shandon Baptist church told the graduating class of the South Carolina -Baptist hospital yesterday at the commencement service that one of the perils a nurse had to face was that of feeling that a patient was just a case for which she was Bathing Boating Fishing Riding ItheIbrashei doubloon BEAUFORT Please Reserve ECKERD'S Si VO 1 1 STOP THOSE FEET FROM HURTING SO! Why luffer day after dayt Initead taka 0 txua aeeoiuli aach morning and before going ant aranlngi to durt Iferitt Medicated Powder on the Sorting feet Wonderfully drier up foot moliture check! unpleaeant odors Booth! coola makea feet fed more comfortable for houra Unconditional money-back guarantee At Gibbes gave out with a resounding but it was qo more effective than the her own father had given her several years back In they went Miss Gibbes a little nervous and her friend full of determination The publisher a very patient man after a lengthy discussion said 'Yes I publish poetry if poetry but too often verse is passed off for poetry these related Mrs Keith convinced him during the conversation that perhaps I did write poetry lie told me to bring my work around to his office so he could look it "The following day when he reviewed my poetry he was so enthusiastic that he sent a reporter to Interview me A day or two later on the front page of the Washington Post a review praising my work appeared The reviewer I later found out was Maurice Eagon who later became United States Minister to In this spectacular manner the first sample of Miss Gibbes work appeared in published form Mrs Keith now one of the foremost writers in South Carolina has published many books of poetry plays and other works Her outstanding works Include "Hilda" 'The Face" and her latest "Dawn in When "The Face" a three-act play portraying the life and love of Leonardo Vinci played at the Town Theater in Columbia and when seats were sold out people stood in the rear of the theater NIMBLE WITH A THIMBLE? 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