Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-06-13
Coker College Girls at Blue
Ridge.

Mage.
In the heart of the mountains of
North Carolina is situated Blue
Ridge, where between five and six
hundred girls have met, representing
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
All that is helpfulness, good cheer,
happiness and close fellowship
chafacterlzes these representative
GIRLS oe our southern colleges,
They came toshear the splendid
addresses given by college presi-
dents and leaders in Y. w. g. A.
work.
The Blue Ridge Conference re-
sembles ten days Of ideal college
life more than anything else, for we
have rules to obey like real school
life. At seven in the morning the
bugle blows for the girls to prepare
for breakfast which is served at
seyen-thirty O'Clock. If the delega-
lions are large enough, they occupy
a table to themselves, and since
there are fourteen Cocker girls and
fourteen chairs at a table, we are all
together.
At Blue Ridge, one may expect
a. onv time the most delightful
changes In the ordinary way of do
ing things. For instance, instead
of saying grace at the table, we sing
some hymn, an evening hymn for
supper and sometimes the doxology.
The meals are served by college
girls who are given dining room
scholarships for the summer. The
fare at Blue Ridge. is delightful,
even good enough. to satisfy a
mountain appetite. The walls OF
the dining room are decorated with
remnants of the various colleges,
and during the meals the college
girls sing their college songs.
At Blue Ridge no one is a stlang-
er to any body else. Everybody
wears her name written on a card
pinned on her dress, so all we
have to do is to walk up and read.
There are two japanese and two
Chinese girls at the conference.
After breakfast is over, at about
eieht-thirty o'clock, all the girls
assemble in the auditorium for a
little prayer meeting led 10y one OF
the consecrated conference leaders.
There are mere diversions at
Blue Ridge, such as tennis, basket
ball, kodaking, horseback riding
and hiking.
Mission and Bible study classes
are held in the mornings. The
subjects are varied and the teachers
are many. On Sunday afternoon,
different denominations meet sep
arately, with officials from the diff
ferent UNCONVENTIONAL boards meet
ing With them.
At SIX O'Clock supper is served.
At eight o'clock, another meeting
of the conference takes place, at
which some splendid speaker talks.
Then at 9 o'clock the various dele
cations meet together and talk
ovor the GOOD ideas they have gotten
during the day, and discuss plans
for their colleges for the coming
session. Lights go off at 1915
The Cocker girls are very fortunate
10 have fourteen delegates, and
since we have that many we are
able to occupy a cottage, wonder
fully equipped and commanding an
excellent view Of the distant noun
tains. There is a big fire place
where we keep fire burning, making
everything extremely cheerful and
homelike.
Besides the fourteen girls in the
cottage we have for our chaperon,
Miss Mary Taison Dixson, the rep
r~esentative of the Woman's Mission.
ary Union of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
We are very proud of the fact
that Coker is in the list of large
colleges, on account of the well
organized and large cabinet of the
Y. W. C. A. We are constrained
to believe that everybody at Blue
Ridge knows that Cocker is on the
map by the yells and the songs that
the girls have given in an enthusi-
astic manner.
Some colleges have only a few
representatives, one college having
but one delegate, and fourteen from
Cocker shows that Cocker is essential
" q religious institution, very wide
awake, and very well-informed on
how TO prepare for the Y. w. G. A.
to be bigger and better every year.
Soma oirl remarked that one