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WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.
Christmas Week Is Filled
With Many Activities
Traditions Play Important
Part in Yuletide Program
Christmas Week, which at Salem
extends from Sunday 11 to Saturday
17, will be crowded with events,
many of them traditional, and all of
them anticipated witli much joy. In
no other school is there a more
cheery celebration of the holidays
than at Salem College. The follow
ing program is planned:
Sunday 11—At 2 :30, rehearsal for
Senior Vespers in Memorial Hall.
Seniors, pages and marshals will
practice at that time. Seniors will
remain for a song practice.
At 5:30 Senior Vespers will be
held in Memorial Hall. This is one
of the most cherished traditions of
the college. Always there is a light
ed Christmas tree on the stage, and
above it shines the Christmas star.
The Senior Class in cap and gown
conduct the service, which every year
includes the singing of “Morning
Star,” the reading of a Christmas
poem by Dr. Rondthaler, and the
lighting of the Moravian wax candls.
The beauty and the charm of this
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MBS. ALICE M. COUNCILS
Peg O’My Heart Given
By Pierrette Players
First Performance of Year
Proved to be Great Success
The Pierrette’s presentation of
“Peg O’ My Heart” on Monday
night. December 5, cannot be too
highly praised. It was the product
of many besides those who were in
the cast and was an achievement of
unusual merit for the Pierrette Play-
This play was the first and only
one given in the first semester of
the school year. The new policy of
the dramatic organization is to pre
sent only one play a semester and
to make the occasion of that presen
tation as notable as possible.
The cast of characters ranged in
dramatic attributes of character from
the naive, whimsically Irish Peg,
acted by Mary Penn, to the freezing,
superficial Ethel, Eloise Padrick,
Jane Rondthaler in the role of
Duke University Musical
Clubs Present Program
Glee Club and Symphony
Appear with Mr. Apgar
On Friday night, December 2, the
Duke University Musical Clubs pre
sented a varied musical program,
Memorial Hall. This concert wa
part of the annual winter tour of the
Musical Clubs of Duke University.
The guest artist of this winter
tour is Mr. Lawrence Clarge Apgar,
organist and carilloneur of Duke
University with Mr. J. Foster
Barnes directing the Glee Club and
Mr. G. E. Leftwich, Jr. directing
the Symphony Orchestra and the
Duke Collegians.
The first part of the program was
presented by the Symphony Orches
tra with several numbers by the Glee
Club and three of Rachmaninoff’s
Preludes by Mr. Apgar. The. sec
ond half consisted of Glee Club pres
entations with two numbers by Mr.
The program was to be concluded
with two Duke University songs but
there was such a demand for num
bers by the Duke Collegians that a
few popular pieces were played, fin
ishing as a delightful, complete, and
well-executed program.
Salem’s Oldest
Alumna Reaches
The Century Mark
Mrs. Council Celebrates Her
Anniversary at Home
Mrs. Alice Fostwick Council, the
oldest living alumna of Salem Col
lege, celebrated her hundredeth
birthday at her home in Hickory,
reetings and congratulations were
nt to her by alumnae and students.
When Mrs. Council, then Mary
Alice Fostwick of Sumpter, South
Carolina, attended the Salem Female
Academy, South Hall was the only
building on the campus. It was two
stories high with the dining room in
the basement.
kirs. Council enrolled on March
1818. This enrollment was not
igular, because the Academy held
classes throughout the year with a
summer vacation of about four weeks
and pupils usually remained at Salem
during the entire year. Bishop de
Schweinitz was president of the
Academy and James Polk, who later
irried a Salem alumna was Pres
ident of the United States.
rs. Council had the distinction
of being one of tlie first women in
North Carolina to own one of
Howe’s new sewing macliines.
Today slie is as young as any of
the present Salem students. Nothing
lie economic, social or political
world escapes her keen mentality.
She possesses all of her faculties
is energetic enough to spend
every summer in Blowing Rock.
Advent Chapel Opens
Salem Christmas Season
Dr. Rondthaler Delivers First
Christmas Address
The Christmas season began with
the first Advent Chapel service dur
ing the expanded chapel hour on
Wednesday, when Dr. Rondthaler,
in accordance with long established
custom, spoke on the story of the
nativity as recorded in the Scrip-
Dean Vardell played on the organ
“The Adoration,” a beautiful selec
tion emanating the joyous spirit of
Christmas tide.
Dr. Rondthaler recalled the
pressed wish of the beloved late
Bishop Rondthaler that each year
the Christmas story be read to the
students directly from the Bible and
that the sacred significance of the
day be impressed upon them. Char
acteristically Dr. Rondthaler dwelt
upon each phrase from the story
Luke’s gospel, as it were, bringing
out the hidden beauty of the passage.
The story of Christ’s birth he read
the first person of Mary, the
W.U.N. C. Class Visits
Academy And College
Guests of Misses Stockton
and Vogler
Thursday afternoon three faculty
members, Mrs. Boyd, Miss Killings-
wortli. Miss Hope Coolidge and sev-
girls from the Women’s College
of the University of North Carolina
visited Salem Academy and College
as a field trip unit in the class of
Institutional Management.
Miss Vogler, the Academy dieti
tian, met the group and guided-them
through the modern Academy build
ing. In contrast to the new institu
tion which incorporates the kitchen,
dining hall, class rooms, library, rec
reation rooms, and dormitories into
one building, the class next inspected
the older college buildings and sys
tems.
During their visit to the kitchen
they were delighted with the Christ
mas Cakes which were being baked
and which they have never seen or
tasted before. Then Miss Stockton
entertained them with a lovely tea
in the college living room before they
returned to Greensboro.
Education Department
Shows Psychology Film
J. Gaither Pratt of Duke Gives
Illustrated Lecture
The Education Department of
Salem College presented six reels of
psychological films on Thursday
Evening at 7:00 o’clock in Memorial
Hall on the Salem College Campus.
Mr. J. Gaither Pratt, a graduate stu
dent in psychology at Duke Univer
sity explained each film. The public
invited to attend this presenta
tion of Kolder’s experimental work
with apes and Lewin’s study of child
wo of the films, which depicted
ape learning, gave a pictorial rep
resentation of Wolfgang Kohler’s
work that has served as evidence for
the Gestalt psychological theories.
Gestalt psychology has become very
prominent in Germany and it has
quite a following among the younger
psychologists in the United States.
This modern school of psychology is
taken to be the most effective enemy
of the mechanistic psychology.
Several selected films showed Dr.
Kurt I^ewin’s biographical records
made of child behaviour in various
;perimental situations. America
has been rather dilatory about ac
cepting the terminology and graphic
;presentations set forth by this
German Gestalt psychologist. At
present, however. Dr. Lewin is giv
ing a series of lectures at Leland
Stanford, Jr. University.
Mrs. Guthrie Presents
The Harp In Music Hour
The Harp — Its Development
Musically and Mechanically
At Music Hour, Thursday after
noon, Mrs. Guthrie head of the harp
department of the School of Music
presented “The Harp—Its Develop
ment Musically and Mechanically”
in an interesting and well illustrated
lecture.
The harp is first found repre.
sented in the oldest Egyptian stone
engravings. Harps have always been
connected with the ancient Israelites
and with the medieval bards in Eu
rope. The harp is, of course, ai
strument plucked with the fingers
rather than with a bow. The first
bow was discovered by ancient hunt
ers when they plucked their bow
strings. This produced no melody
but as they increased the number of
strings they produced a rhythmic
accompaniment. No change of key
was possible. The popular type of
the harp was one which could be
carried around by the ministrels.
The present harp is really
hundred and twenty years old. Dur
ing the past century harpists have
experimented with the harp but have
reverted with a few exceptions to the
Italian harp perfected in 1811—
more volume impossible, the harp is
less fragile, and the range is wider.
Its range is almost the same as that
of a piano. There is a string for
each note of the scale. The differ
ent keys are regulated by pedals at
the base of the harp. Volume
tone is made by the force which the
player puts in it. It is capable of
more tonal effects than any other
instrument except the pipe organ.
The natural harp tone is very ring
ing and legato since the strings
brate a long time. A metallic sound
can be produced by playing near
sounding board, and hormonies
effected by pressing the palm of the
hand against the middle of the
In 1830 the harp really began
be used by composers. The first real
ly good harp music was not written
until the latter part of the nineteenth
century by Berlioz, Wagner and
Liszt. The present school of harpists
is indebted directly to the efforts of
Tournier, Mile. Renee, Grandjany,
and Carlos Salzedo. In 1920 Salze-
do started teaching and touring
this country. He is now head of the
harp department at Curtis Institute
of Music in Philadelphia. He has
composed and transcribed innumer
able compositions for the harp,. In
addition he has compiled courses of
instruction in the harp for high
schools and colleges which have been
endorsed by some of the most famous
living musicians. It is mainly through
his efforts that the harp has secured
CHILDREN PLANT TREE
ON SALEM CAMPUS
A group of well dressed, attractive children, brought here
from all parts of this state and cities even farther away, entertained
the young ladies of Salem College and Academy Saturday morning
during the chapel period.
The Students and faculty marched from Memorial Hall down
the hill and arranged themselves on lower campus beyond the old
tennis court; the Senior marshals, decked in their golden regalia,
looked down on the natural stage from the bank above, and when
everyone had gotten quiet, in scampered the children, and without
the slightest hesitation or hint of self consciousness began their
little act. Some of the youngsters wore dark blue or brown middies
and skirts, others had on checkered rompers, but most of them wore
dainty pink and blue print dresses with socks and hair ribbons to
match. They proceeded to plant a tree on Salem Campus.
The Little Mickey girl, who was acting as leader for the
group, came bravely forward and said a charming little ditty about
the tree; how it was planted and how it would grow and have
flowers and leaves on it soon; and while she recited, the others
pantcmined her words. They pretended to dig a hole for the tree,
then sprinkled water on it; one came forward to hang a pink blossom
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Queen’s Is Admitted To
Southern Association
Holiday Is Declared for
Celebration of A Rating
Queens-Chicora College in Char
lotte has now an A rating and is a
member of the Southern Association
of College. It is for this end that
the college and its president have
been working for the past several
years. Dr. Frazer now predicts that
Queens-Chicora is in the foreground
and will become one of the greatest
colleges in the South.
He said, “As soon as possible we
shall institute a program of develop
ment which will build a great college
in Charlotte. This has not only been
my dream, but it has also been the
goal toward wliicli I have been work
ing every day of the past 11 years
during which I have been connected
ith the college. We appreciate the
>-operation of the public and of the
press in building up the college to
its present standards, and we are
looking forward to a brilliant fu-
When Dr. Frazier returned from
the New Orleans Conference, he was
met at the station by a group of 400
students and alumnae, who gave col
lege songs and yells, and then pa-
aded through the city in decorated
Tuesday was a holiday for the col
lege in celebration of this new honor.
At 11.50 there was an assembly of
the student, body, alumnae, and
friends, at which there was praise,
worship and reading of congratula
tions from distant alumnae. At 1:00
there was a luncheon, at 2:15 there
a meeting of the Board of Trus
tees,- at 4:00 the general public was
invited to tea; at 6:00 there was a
dinner for all student.s, faculty and
alumnae.
W4NC Broadcasts
Radiograms For
Salem Students
Powerful Local Station Sends
Messages Gratis
Radiograms are being sent to all
parts of the world by Salem students,
enthusiastic over the opportunity
n them by Station W4NC of the
Winston-Salem Amateur Club. Mr.
Fred O’Brien, as a representative
of the forty members of this club,
secured the interest of the girls in
sending messages, and for their con
venience placed a metal box in Salem
Book Store, where messages may be
placed. They will be collected sev
eral times a week and relayed from
the local station until they reacli
their destinations. There is no charge
for sending the messages, which, ac
cording to Mr. OBrien, can be sent
to any part of the world except Aus
tralia or New Zealand.
A visit to W4NC shows a “shack”
on Bellview Street near the Westover
Golf Course, modern in equipment,
attractive, and comfortable — the
pride of the club members. On Sep
tember 17, 1932 the station form
ally opened with a “hamfest” or
housewarming, to which “hams,” or
operators of amateur radio stations,
came from surrounding towns. They
viewed the two powerful transmit
ters, one of 80 meters with a 450
watt voltage, the other of 40 meters
with 500 v/atts. The power of the
amateur station is more than that of
Station WSJS.
There are in the U. S. about
40,000 licensed amateur operators,
all of whom are working together to
relay messages from one station to
another. Although they cannot
guarantee delivery of the messages,
every effort is made to do so, and the
majority of the broadcasts are sue-