Motto—“Sail on, Salem”
Vol. I. Winston-Salem, N. C., May 27, 1921 No. 10
SPLENDID PLANS FOR SALEM COMMENCEMENT
Completion of 149 Years of Continuous Service—Exercises Begin
May 28, Close May 31—Noted Spea^kers to Take Part—Class Ex
ercises—Grand Concert—Senior Graduation.
With the f^raduation of the class of
1921 Tuesday morning, May 31, Salem
College enters upon its one hundred
and fiftieth year of educational service
to the women of the South. The Com-
n.encement exercises begin Saturday,
May 28, and continue with a series of
programs including the graduating ex
ercises, and the laying of the corner
stone cl' the new dormitory, on Tues
day, 1. The baccalaureate sermon
will be preached by the Rev. George F.
Rogers, rector of St. John’s Church in
Richmond. The commencement ad
dress v.iil be delivered by Dr. Edwin
K. M;ms, of Vanderbilt University.
Satixrday morning- the seniors wj)l
lostow the caps and gowns of senior-
hoc(t' upon the rising senior class, m
an intimate ceremony full of meaning
to ihose who must next year carry on
the work and ideals and dignity per-
tiiining to their position in college life.
ACADEMY GRADUATION
At eleven the graduating exercises
of the eleventh grade of the Academy
will take place in Memorial Hall.
Saturday night an Artists’ Concert
wili be given. Many of the talented
musicians of the college music depart
ment will appear on the program.
BACCALAUREATE SUNDAY
Sunday morning the baccalaureate
sermon will be preached by Rev. Rog
ers in the Home Moravian Church.
Sunday evening the senior vespers will
be conducted by the graduating class.
A talk by Dr. J. K. Pfohl, and chorus
and solo music by the seniors, will
compose this beautiful service.
ALUMNAE DAY MONDAY
The Reunion Dinner of the Alumnae
Association will be given Monday
noon, at which the class of ’21 w'ill be
guests. A large general reunion will
be held and many alumnae will be
present; among them Mrs. Julia Har
din of Chester, S. C., who was the
youngest girl at Salem in 1861.
In the afternoon class day exercises
will be given on the upper campus.
The seniors will present a play, “Every
Girl”, written by Evelyn Thom, pres
ident of the class.
At eight o’clock the Grand Concert
will be given in Memorial Hall. Under
the direction of Dean Shirley, head of
the Music Department, Arthur Sulli
van’s “The Golden Legend” will be
produced. After the concert Dr. and
Mrs. Rondthaler will give a reception
in Main Hall.
COMMENCEMENT DAY
Tuesday morning. May 31, the grad
uating exercises of the class of ’21
will be held. There will be the march
of the seniors with the daisy chain into
Memorial Hall, and the academic pro
cession. Dr. Edwin K. Mims will de
liver the address; announcements will
be made by President Rondthaler; and
the graduates will be presented with
their diplomas and certificates by the
heads of the several departments.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
The Rev. George Floyd Rogers, who
will preach the baccalaureate sermon,
is one of the leading ministers of his
denomination, and rector of a large
parish in Virginia. As president of
the Industrial School and Farm for
boys at Covington, Va., he has ren
dered a widely known service to large
numbers of unfortunate boys. Mr.
Rogers is a Rotarian, and an active
figure in civic matters, as well as a
splendid preacher. Salem is fortunate
in having at last succeeded in secur-
iiig his presence for commencement.
Dr. Edwin K. Mims, the commence
ment speaker, is well-known in North
Carolina, having been a professor at
Trinity and at the University. For
the past nine years he has been head
of the Department of English at Van
derbilt. As both a writer and speaker
he is well known, and always delights
and inspires his hearers. Friends and
students of Salem rejoice that he will
deliver the commencement address.
LAYING OF THE CORNERSTONE
In connection with Commencement
Day, the cornerstone of the first of the
new buildings will be laid, thus in
augurating the quarter million dollar
new building movement which has now
become possible through the great En
dowment Campaign of last year.
Every alumna will rejoice in the
first of these great erections, and will
want to be present at this ceremony
which marks the beginning of a new
era for Salem.
WE’RE LEAVING FOR BLUE
RIDGE JUNE 3rd.
Blue Ridge has been almost our sole
hobby since Easter vacation. Practi
cally everything we’ve undertaken has
meant another step towards our cov
eted goal. Although it has been sev
eral years since Salem has had a
typical delegation at Blue Ridge, we’re
sure that she is going to make up for
all lost time this year.
Besides the mere number of twelve
girls in the persons of Misses Mary
Shepard Parker, Elizabeth Gillespie,
Georgia Riddle, Alice Watson, Ger
trude Coble, Mildred Parrish, Eliza
Gaston Moore, Julia Hairston, Marian
Porpst, Margaret Russell, Betsy Holt
and Elizabeth Roop, Salem is sending
embodied in these personages a com
plete basket-ball team, with the usual
number of subs, if they are needed;
four champion tennis players, two ex
cellent song and cheer leaders backed
up by ten enthusiastic songsters, man
dolin professionals, and ukulele ex
perts, an all-star dramatic personnae
who have guaranteed to put on the
best stunt of the season; besides a
base ball team whose record has never
been blotted, a track team that boasts
of three prize heavy weights and a
running-jumper who has never been
surpassed; twelve untiring “hikers”
who are prepared for the worst, and
several high divers. What more could
we hope to carry with us? We are
ambitious, so the following are the
other things that we would like to
have as additions to our party—all the
Salem pennants that anybody happens
to have, Salem Annuals, old or new,
and any suggestions that you may
have to offer. Remember that we are
representing you.
But there is something we want
more than any of these—we want to
carry you with us. It still isn’t too
late to decide that you want to join
our house party at Robert E. Lee Hall
on the “top of the world.” We want
to take Miss Stipe and Dr. Rondthaler
with us, too, and although it seems im
possible for Miss Stipe to go under
any circumstances, we haven’t given
up hopes yet, as she has promised to
wire us “yes” even on June 3rd if she
finds that she can leave. But Dr.
Rondthaler is going to be the house-
party’s honored guest for a little while
before the conference is over.
Have you decided within the last
week to go to Blue Ridge. If you
have, give your name to Mary Shepard
Parker immediately.
MANY SOCIAL HONORS AC
CORDED SENIORS
Spring Season Has Been a Festive
One With the Girls at Salem
Judging from the number of enter
tainments given the Seniors during
the last half of this year one would
think that the recent appeal, in an
editorial of the “Salemite” for “more
social life at Salem,” has been readily
answered. First we remember, direct
ly after the Christmas holidays the
Library was miracuously converted
into a spacious dining hall, where Dr.
and Mrs. Rondthaler graciously re
ceived and entertained the Seniors at
a seven course banquet. Then a little
later in the year the sophomores bade
the seniors arise, be clothed and in
their right minds on Monday morning
at 7 ;30, at the appointed hour the two
classes rode out to the country club
and partook of a delicious “fried ham
breakfast.”
On May 7 the Ne’er-to-be forgotten
“Junior-Senior Prom” was staged, at
which time men strolled around on the
sacred ground of the back campus un
til a disgracefully late hour. This
2vent, given annually by the Juniors
to the Seniors is the “biggest social
event of the season.”
Then the Kiwanis Club did honor to
our noble seniors by entertaining them
at an elaborate dinner given at the
Country Club. The Domestic Sciencc
Department joined in the line of en
tertainers to the Seniors and gave a
delightful little tea one afternoon re
cently. Thursday night Mrs. Rond
thaler gave an informal “feed” at her
home for the Seniors, which was en
joyed greatly because of the genuine,
home^like atmosphere so prevalent in
the Rondthaler home.
On Thursday night Mr. and Mrs.
Moody Gaither are formally entertain
ing at their home in honor of the
graduating class.
The last event'of the seniors’ social
life at Salem will be the senior dinner
on next Friday night. This dinner is
for the seniors only and is the occa
sion when each girl present is requir
ed to reveal to her classmates the in
nermost secrets of her heart.
Farewell Seniors! May you be
“wined and dined” in the future as
much and more than you have been at
Salem.