The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1912-07-04
WV. &. A. MEETING
10 Days Spent at a Summer Con-
ference.

10 Days Spent at a Summer Con-
ference.
Completely surrounded by the
blue hills stands the beautiful new
building for the annual Blue Ridge
conferences of the Y NJ and Y W [
AS of the Southeastern States.
Though the R E Lee Hall has one
hundred and eighty rooms in it and
a stranger might easily lose her
way in the halls, still, from a dis
tance, so vast are the mountains be-
hind it that the house seems a rather
small white place on the mountain
side. Behind the house is the new
dining room and to the right. the
auditorium. Down by the left side
of the building a picturesque noun
tain stream overhung with blossom
ing laurel and fern sings you to sleep
at night, and still farther up the
hillside another stream has been
damned to secure a water supply.
Passing through short stretch OF
woods at the front you come upon
the tennis courts and ball field
always take your tennis racket and
gym suit to a summer conference.
Amid such beautiful surroundings
as these did over three hundred
girls from the schools and colleges
of all the Southern States this side
of the Mississippi, spend a delight
full ten days from June the fifth to
the fifteenth. There were so many
of these girls in fact that the build
ing could not accommodate them
and they staid in tents just across
the stream from the R E Lee Hall.
Such fun as they did have! If
you've never stayed in tent just
try it and see what a good time
you'll have, especially if you have
an electric light hooked to post at
your door.
You felt like you had gotten back
to school again though, for you
went every where by bells-even
light-bell rung at ten o'clock. But
such a nice school! The doors weren't
shut if you happened to be late for
breakfast, you didn't get even a
part of demerit for being late for
classes and best of all your teacher
not knowing any of her pupils names
chuld not call upon you separately.
The mornings were given to mission
study, Bible classes, students and
presidents councils from eight-thirty
to twelve. At one the dinner bell
rung and three hundred girls
swarmed up the dining-room steps.
At meals spontaneous bursts of State
and college songs and yells, etc,
added merriment and gaiety to the
buzz and hum of conversation.
Here too after hard rapping for
silence the leaders of the conference
made necessary announcements.
The afternoons were spent in
mountain climbing, horseback rides,
trips to Montreal, games of tennis
and ball and good times in general.
One afternoon was field day"
Then Miss Clinkscales of Converse
college won the tennis game over
Miss Hill, of Agnes Scott. Also on
that afternoon the girls baseball
team, having won a game against
the Y w C A secretaries on the
previous day, were challenged by
the young men who have positions
at the hotel for the summer. The
boys styled themselves Ladies"
played in skirts and won the game
by a score of fourteen to eleven.
This game caused more pleasant
raillery in the dining-room.
Platform lectures took up the
evenings. Some of the lecturers
were DR. Ralston, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church at Charlotte,
NC; DR. Owen, an Episcopal min
lister; DR. Brauk from Savannah,
Ga; Mr. Hounshell, returned mis-
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