LET^S GO
BLUE RIDGE
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928.
Interesting Program
Enjoyed In Y. P. M.
Miss Desha Gives Delightful
Interpretation of Modern
Verse
At the Expanded Chapel hour
Wednesday morning an . unusually
interesting and effective program
was presented through the co-opera-
tion of Dr. Willoughby and Miss
Desha, with Miss Frances Jarrat
the piano.
Dr. Willoughby explained to the
audience the desire of the English
Department to have a program pre
sented which would illustrate in
musical setting the melody and sim
plicity of contemporary poetry. She
then gave a brief outline of the
program which was to follow, speak
ing especially of the new subjective
tendency of the verse of modern
women peots as well as its generally
joyous outlook. She then referred
briefly to the symbolism of Tagore,
the Bengali poet, and to the Fif
teenth Century verse forms and
modern viewpoint of John Masefield.
The musical program then fol
lowed. Miss Desha first sang two
selections from The Kind’s Hench
man, libretto by Edna St. Vincent
Millay, and music by Deems Tay
lor. This was followed by Sara
Teasdale’s “Willow in Your April
Gown,” “Beauty,” by John Mase
field, which was especially lovely
and well rendered, and “Men,” by
Mary Carolyn Davies.
Miss Desha presented in conclus
ion John Alden Carpenter’s musical
version of Rabindranath Tagore’s
superb poem, “On the Day When
Death Shall Knock at Thy Door.”
MATH CLUB
ENJOYS* PICNIC
The members of the Math Club
tnjoyed one of the most delightful
uieetings of the yeai last Monday
evening. At six o’clock they gath
ered on lower back campus for a
picnic supper. Mrs, Weaver, the
speaker for the evening, was the
guest of the club at this supper. At
seven o’clock in the living room of
Alice Clewell, the program was
Irought to a close with an illustrated
lecture by Mrs. Weaver on her
travels broad. The number of
those present gave evident proof
of the great interest shown in the
work of the club this past year.
Blue Ridge Is Scene
Of Strange Happenigs
Salem Girls Are Participants
In Activities
Academy Juniors
Entertain Seniors
Delightful Banquet Enjoyed
At Country Club
The Junior Class of the Academy
entertained the -Seniors at a banquet
on Monday evening at the Country
Club.
Miss Elizabeth Taner, Miss An
nie Snyder, Miss Elizabeth Beard,
Miss Virginia Harris, Miss Eliza
beth Bowie, and Sallie Hubbard, as
officers of the entertaining class, and
Miss Jess-Byrd, junior class ad
viser, greeted the guests.
Those present, other than the
members of the two classes and the
Senior Marshals, were Dr. and Mrs.
H. E. Rondthaler, Mrs. John Hern
don, Miss Elizabeth Zachary and
Miss Eleanor Chase.
The scheme of white and yellow,
the Salem Academy colors, was
carried out with dainty decorations
of crepe paper favors, gladioli and
sweet peas.
Miss Lillyan Newell, Miss Eliza
beth Siflferd and Miss Eva Hackney
assisted in entertaining the hostesses
and their guests.
When one of the girls who went
Blue Ridge last year was trying
tell a few amusing incidents that
she remembered, the very thought
of them put her into such hysterics
that it was difficult to understand
her laughter-punctuated utterances.
However, she said something about
songs in the dining room rendered
by twelve Salem girls, conducted by
K. J. Riggan, “with her accustomed
poise and skill.” Of course that
sn’t meant to be funny, as all of
know who are acquainted with
Miss Riggan’s obvious aptitude for
music. We know Mary Johnson and
Margaret Hauser looked most
tractive in knickers and straw i
breros (or whatever you call those
hats like Jane Rondthaler and Mex-
i wear), and that they had no
trouble in picking up rides (un
chaperoned—how adventuresome!)
on the road to Montreat and Black
Mountain—a favorite diversion.
To add zest to the college girls’
nference there were the “P. W.
’s (Poor Working Boys), fair
haired young Lochinvars from out
of the West—or just anywhere,
Michigan for instance—who waited
the tables at meal-time, and af
forded the proper element of ro
mance at other times. A typical one
“Oily.” Ask some of the girls
who went to Blue Ridge last year
tell you about him.
That reminds us, there was some
thing we heard about Sara Turling-
1 in hot water that would really
ike you laugh and laugh, but
u’ll have to ask somebody about
that, too, since those who are in
authority have warned us not to
print it. We hope mystery still
lends enchantment, or interest, or
something, as of old.
If this column were required to
be longer we could tell you about
Peggy Parker’s hike to High Top
to see the sun rise—and who knows
what other thrilling adventuress—
however, hampered by circum
stances, we have room only to say
that when a curious reporter inter
views a girl who has been to Blue
Ridge she always exclaims—radiat
ing much joy, “Oh, it’s wonderful!
I can’t tell you, you’ll have to go
and see for yourself. You’d just
love it. I can’t wait to go back!”
Dr. C. T. Redfern
Speaks to Club
Detailed Lecture on Cerebro-
Spinal Meningitis Given
Dr. C. T. Redfern was the speak
er at the regular meeting of the Sci
ence Club held on Friday evening in
the Science Lecture Room. Dr.
Redfern spoke on the subject, “Cere-
bro-spinal-meningitis.”
The disease meningitis was recog
nized in 1805 and some years later
the organism causing the disease was
discovered in the secretion of pus
cells. In this disease the spinal fluid
appears cloudy and in more advanc
ed cases it appears more like whey—
contrasted to a clear fluid of the
normal spine.
The symptoms depend upon the
degree of the infection, the general
symptoms being as follows: An init
ial chill, fever, violent headache,
vomiting, a slow pulse, herpes on the
mouth, retraction of the neck from a
stiffness to a complete backward
bend, and in severe cases the pres
ence of a rash, delirium and spasms,
these varying according to the type
of the disease.
Often bacteria are found in the
blood stream by making blood cul
tures. Treatment is made with anti-
meningitic cocci serum. Other than
the serum there is no specific treat
ment for the disease, and the sooner
the serum is given, the better.
Juniors Entertain
Seniors at Prom
Delightful Affair Given
Back Campus
On Saturday evening, May 12, the
Juniors entertained "the Seniors
Prom on Back Campus. This
the first event of its kind to be given
Salem for several years and
eryone looked forward to it with
much interest and anticipation.
The young men met their dates
the living room of Alice Clewell
Building and were then escorted
Back Campus which was beautifully
decorated with Japanese lanterns.
The receiving line consisted of Dr.
and Mrs. Rondthaler, Miss Stipe,
Miss Hall, Mr. Campbell, Mary Au
drey Stough and Mary Miller Falk-
The first part of the evening was
divided into six fifteen-minute dates,
a given signal from the orches-
all the couples assembled in the
court and exchanged dates. Music
furnished during the entire
ning by the Panther Pack Orchestra
High Point College. Doris
Shirley presided at the punch bowl
hich was located in one of the sum-
ler houses on the upper campus.
At the conclusion of the six dates
delicious three course supper was
;rved. Tables were arranged on
the tennis courts which had been ar
tistically decorated to carry out the
Japanese idea. Wisteria and cherry
blossoms formed the background
while overhead were rows of Japan-
lanterns. The tabjes were laid
for four. In the middle of each was
a unique center-pieee consisting of
a miniature lake, a rustic bridge and
Japanese dolls. "This gave a
very artistic effect to the tables.
The waitresses were dressed in Jap
anese pajamas and served the fol
lowing menu : Chicken a la king on
rosettes, olive and cheese canopies,
tomato and cucumber sandwiches,
potato chips, crackers, fancy ices
and tarts, salted nuts and cafe au
lait.
During the course of the evening
entertainment was furnished by a
magician who performed several
sleight-of-hand tricks, and by Jap
anese solo dances given by Helen
Roberson and Fritz Fiery. As fa-
everyone was presented with
small Japanese umbrellas. The sen-
received silver bar pins emboss
ed with the Salem seal and the young
received leather picture frames
also bearing this seal.
Don*t Forget!
Go To
BLUE RIDGE
For An
ALL ROUND
GOOD TIME
June 5-15
Special Program
Planned For Y. W.
Vesper Service in Charge of
Blue Ridge Girls
The re^lar Y. W. Vespers will
be held ^omprrow evening in the
Alice Cle\yell Campus Living Room.
The program is in change of the
girls who have been to Blue Ridge
and they are planning t(? have in ad
dition to the devotional exercises a
pageant dealing with the summer
conference at Blue l^idge. This
promises to be an unusual and in
teresting jneetiBg.
History Club Holds
Last Meeting of Year
Mr. A. P. Brantley Is Speaker
For the Evening
On Thursday evening, May 17,
the History Club held its last meet
ing of the year. The speaker for
the occasion was Mr. A. P. Brant
ley, pastor of Grace Methodist
Church of this city. Mr. Brantley
was a student at Duke University,
and Boston University, and is a
graduate of Oxford. His talk on
Thursday evening was on “European
Impressions and Oxford Memories,”
a resume of personal visits and con-
cts with famous places of Europe,
Id in a thoroughly charming style.
Like most students at Oxford, Mr.
Brantley spent his vacations travel
ing through Europe, visiting France,
Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Hol
land and Belgium. Two of the first
impressions gained were the difficul
ty of expressing one’s self to a Euro
pean, and the profound sacredness
of the places where history is made.
The American dollar, however, ac-
irding to Mr. Brantley, speaks
louder than any other language in
Europe. “Every day in Europe is
Palm Sunday, for you cannot turn
a corner without finding a palm ex
tended for money!”
Mr. Brantley showed an interest
ing similarity between Heidelburg
in Germany and Rheims in France,
each city having been destroyed at a
different time by the armies of the
other, the devastations which are
pointed out to tourists with great
emphasis. It is the Germans, nev
ertheless, in the opinion of Mr.
Brantley, who are forgetting the
past war more quickly than the
French, and it is in Germany that a
real spirit of brotherhood is felt.
Many interesting things Mr.
Brantley told of Italy—its Tower
of Pisa, Genoa where Columbus
to school, Rome still with many
things as they were in the time of
Paul, Naples, Pompeii and Mount
Vesuvius.
Mr. Brantley closed his talk
with a discussion of the student life
in Oxford, both academic and so
cial, then he touched upon the dual
system of English schools—the ele
mentary and secondary schools of
England. Only the secondary or so-
called “public schools” prepare for
lollege and only the sons of the
vealthy attend public school. Thus
the ruling classes in England come
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Mothers’ Day Observed
In Vesper Service
Mrs. Rondthaler Gives Ap
propriate Talk.
Mothers’ Day was observed on
Sunday, May 13, in the Y. W. C.
A. Vesper Service. A very appro
priate program was arranged by the
officers and new cabinet of the as
sociation.
The meeting was opened with a
hymn, after which Margaret John-
read a passage of scripture from
the third chapter of Second Tim
othy. Mrs. Rondthaler lead in
prayer and Millicent Ward then sang
the lovely and well-known “Mother
Machree.”
Mrs. Rondthaler, introduced by
Elizabeth Roper as our college
mother, made a very impressive and
fitting talk, in which she stated that
every day should be Mother’s Day,
and that love between mother and
played the beautiful violin solo,
“Lullaby,” by Max Roger, and the
meeting closed with the Y. W.
Watchword.
Annual Y. Conferences
Meet at Blue Ridge
All Southern Colleges Repre
sented in Interesting Meetings
Those girls who have been to Blue
Ridge need no explanation of its
standards and ideals. Blue Ridge is
situated in the heart of the moun
tains about fifteen miles from Ashe
ville. It was bought in 1906. Since
then ' about fifty-six cottages have
been built by various schools in the
South. The Y. W. C. A. Conference
meets annually at Blue Ridge. This
summer will be its seventeenth ses-
Blue Ridge stands for three ideals.
It believes firmly in the worth and
dignity of labor. Everyone who at
tends Blue Ridge or works there is
a college student. It upholds the
sacredness of the individual.
The Blue Ridge committee in its
itudy of problems on the campuses
has deemed it wise to have lectures
and group discussions on the follow
ing subjects: vocation, religious per
plexities, understanding ourselves,
what do we do about race and indus
try, the educational system. It
i, also, considered very import-
to devote a part of the confer-
e to the experience in the use of
leisure and experience in creativity.
Blue Ridge is not for Y. W. C.
A. girls alone. It is for any girl
who is interested in any of the sub
jects to be presented, or who de
sires to spend ten delightful days in
the mountains with her college
friends and with girls from all col
leges in the South. Salem is greatly
benefited by being represented at
such a place as Blue Ridge where
her girls exchange ideas with the
girls of other colleges. At the last
conference Salem had second to the
largest delegation there. Let’s go
to Blue Ridge, girls, and make Sa
lem’s delegation the largest of all!
SENIOR CLASS OF
FICERS ELECTED
At a meeting of the Junior Class
1 Friday, May 18, the following
class officers were elected for 1928-
929:
President—Cam Boren.
Vice-President—Edna_ Lindsey
Secretary—Marion Bloor.
Treasurer—Elizabeth Andrews.
year will be chosen a
Le Cercle Francais
Establishes Loan Fund
Money in Treasury Is Put to
Worthy Use
At a business meeting of Le Cer
cle Francais, held on Thursday, May
17, the club voted unanimously to
;tablish a loan Fund, regulations of
hich are as follows:
The Cercle Francais of Salem
College announces a Loan Fund to
be known as the Juanita Helm Floyd
Loan Fund.
This Loan Fund is to be cohtroll-
by the Cercle Francais and is to
be used toward the payment of the
expenses of some applicant who ful
fills the following requirements:
1. The applicant must be a ma-
>r in French in Salem College.
2. The applicant must have a
iholastic standing and general
character worthy of such a loan.
The recipient of this Loan
Fund must promise to apply herself
diligently to her work and to repay
the Cercle Francais the sum bor-
,ved without interest, as soon as
she can after graduation, this
amount then to be loaned to some
other girl who fulfills the above re
quirements. In this way the Loan
Fund becomes perpetual. The
amount at present is $75.00.
In accepting the above Loan Fund,
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