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VOL. XVIII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1937.
Number 7.
HONOR SYSTEM GIVEN
FIRST TRY OUT IN
1931 - 1932
Anna Jackson Preston Was
President of Student
Government
In looking over back files of the
Salemite, a number of interesting
facts about the Honor System and
the Student Self-Government at
Salem were brought to light.
To begin with, the infant Honor
System was given its first try out at
Salem during the scholastic year of
1931-1932 when Miss Anna Preston
was president of the student body.
Wednesday, September 23, 1931, was
a red-letter day in the history of
Salem, for it was then that a mass
group of uppcr-classmen voted for
student Self-Government as a per
manent institution at Salem.
That year was a crucial time. The
Honor System was in its infancy,
and still a more or less temporary
feature of Salem’s student govern
ment. To quote from a spring issue
of the Salemite, will prove this:
“Whether a genuine or a snoop
ing honor system is instituted at
Salem College is a question which
depends on our own conscience — or
lack of conscience. The honor of
future Salem students rests on our
honor — or dishonor. Which shall
it be?”
The question “which shall it be?”
was still being asked during the
years 1932-33 when Miss Mary Kath
erine Thorpe was president of the
Student Self-Qovernment. This year,
too, was considered a decisive period,
since it was the logical opinion of
many that if the Student Self-Gov
ernment worked again, it would prob
ably continue to work indefinitely.
These two years were the pioneer
stages. They made the Honor Sys
tem a definite feature of student
government. Since then its progress
has been steady and deep. Today
we are working on a basis that is,
if not entirely perfect — for no sys
tem depending upon individual hon
or can bo that — at least near
enough to perfection to prove that it
is a system worthy of being used at
Salem College.
CHORAL ENSEMBLE
GIVES PROGRAM
Mr. Clifford Bair Directs
Successful Performance
The Salem Choral Ensemble under
the capable direction of Mr. Clifford
Bair, made its first public appearance
Friday evening, October 22 when it
gave a half-hour program for the
Northwestern Carolina Teachers’
Convention at Reynold’s High
School. The following program was
successfully presented:
Thus, Then the Law
O Domine Jesu.
Ave Maria Holst
In These Delightful, Pleasant Groves
The Turtle Dove
Peace (an encore)
Harp accompanist—
Miss Elizabeth Cloninger
Baritone Soloist —
Mr. Brooks Bynum
RONDTHALERS TO
FETE THE SENIORS
Annual Dinner Party Will
Be Held October 30th
With the end of the month, ap
proaches one of the most exciting
events in the life of ever senior —
the dinner party given annually by
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Eondthaler.
At seven-thirty on the evening of
October the thirtieth the seniors and
their escorts will go to the presi
dent’s house for a gala celebration.
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LIZORA HANES MEMORIAL BUILDING
CORNELIA OTIS
SKINNER OPENS CIVIC
MUSIC SERIES
Dramatic Monologues to Be
Presented At Reynolds
Auditorium Nov. 5
Cornelia Otis Skinner, renowned
character sketch artist, dramatist,
and author, will open the fall and
winter season of the Winston-Salem
Civio Music Association with her ap
pearance at Eeynolds Auditorium,
Wednesday evening, November 5, at
8:30 P. M.
The daughter of Otis Skinner,
famous Shakespearian actor, Cor
nelia Otis Skinner moved stageward
from her earliest days. She attended
Baldwin School and Bryn Mawr Col
lege, where she, on one occasion,
played Macbeth to Ann Harding’s
MacDuff. Later she studied abroad
at the Sorbonne and under Dehelly
of the Comedie Prancaise and Jac
ques Copeau of the Theatre du Vieux
Colombier.
She made her professional debut
under her father when she appeared
in Ibanez’s “Blood and Sand.”
Other roles in other plays followed.
That, however, wasn’t what she
wanted. With the experience she
had acquired on the professional
stage, she wrote and performed orig
inal character sketches — first, just
for her friends, later professionally.
Soon she found herself so much in
demand that regular tours were book
ed, that took her across the Ameri
can continent and to London.
These dramatic sketches — Mod
ern monologues — form the founda
tion of Miss Skinner’s unique ca
reer. They are short, penetrating,
a shrewd combination of acid and
honey, satire and pathos. Her rep
ertory include such titles as, ‘ ‘ Home
work, ” “Times Square,” “A South
ern Girl in the Sistine Chapel, ” “ Be-
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Better Known As The
Practice House
If you wish to see and visit one of
Salem’s newest and most attractive
buildings by all means stroll over to
the Lizora Hanes Memorial Building,
better known as the Practice House.
Approaching it you will notice that
it was built along the traditional
Moravian style, with an arched door
way and tile roof. Before entering
you will read this plate:
In Memory of
Mary Lizora Fortune Hanes
Loyal Student
Devoted Alumna
of Salem College
This Building is erected by
Katherin Jane Hanes
1930
Miss Katherin Hanes is herself a
devoted alumna and sincere friend
of Salem College and Salem girls.
Her special interest is the Home
Economics and the members of that
Department are the ones who fully
appreciate her generosity when they
live and work in the Practice House.
The house has ten rooms. Down
stairs there is the living room. Home
Economics office, kitchen, butler’s
pantry, breakfast room, and dining
room. , Upstairs there are four bed
rooms, two for students and two for
faculty, and two bathrooms. The
entire building is furnished with Em
pire reproductions and prints. The
kitchen is furnished with all mod
ern electrical equipment, a new re
frigerator having been recently ad
ded.
Mrs. Meinung and Mrs. Ball are
the permanent residents of the house.
Every Home Economic major spends
part of her senior year there, when
she takes her turn at cooking, wash
ing, and cleaning. Practically every
girl becomes a housekeeper sooner or
later and where could more expert
training be found than in our Prac
tice House.
Ten Music Students Take
Part hi Program
Ten students in the School of Mus
ic presented the first evening recital
of the year, Monday, October 25th at
8:30 o’clock. The program, includ
ed numbers for piano, violin, organ,
harp, and voice.
Misses Lenore Rice, Betty Jane
Nally, Willena Couch and Mildred
Minter gave skilled performances of
compositions of Chopin, Sibelius,
and Rachmaninoff.
Miss Kathryn Snead, violinist, ex
cellently played “Serenade Espag-
nole” by Glazoupnon-Greisler. Miss
Nancy McNeely played an organ
number, “Romance Sans Paroles”
by Bonnet.
Miss Ann Nisbet, harpist, delight
ed the audience, with her descriptive
and rather humorous “Short Stories
In Music” by Salzedo.
Miss Kathryn Swaim, and Brooks
Bynum, two voice students, gave ex-
ceellent performances.
Miss Virginia Thompson was the
accompanist.
MISS JANEHE RANKIN
SPEAKS TO STUDENTS
Ex-Congresswoman Uses
‘‘War” As Subject of Talk
Tuesday morning in 8:30 chapel
Miss Janette Rankin, first woman
ever elected to Congress, spoke to
the combined student bodies and
faculties of Salem College and Acad
emy. “The Necessity of Getting
Rid of the Institution of War” was
Miss Rankin’s topic of discussion.
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DR. WINUTE JOHNSON
SPEAKS AT EXPAND
ED CHAPEL
FIRST EVENING
RECITAL GIVEN
TeBs Salem Students of
‘The Highlights In the
History of Medicine”
Wednesday morning at eleven
o’clock in expanded chapel. Dr.
Wingate Johnson, prominent physi
cian of the city gave an interesting
talk on the ‘ ‘ Highlights in The His
tory of Medicine.’^ In giving the
history, he gave brief sketches of
the outstanding leaders from the
nineteenth century, beginning with
the grcek god of medicine, Aescula
pius, son of Apollo. Aesculapius
probably lived on earth, and was
deified after his death. Pluto was
supposed to have .been responsibte
for his death, because he was re
ducing the population of Hades to
too great an extent. His .symbol, a
wand with a serpent twisted around
it, has to this day been used as the
official emblem of medicine. His
two daughters, Heggica and Pana
cea are well known to us.
The real father of medicine, how
ever, was Hippocrates, a Greek who
lived from 406 to 371 B. C.. The
basis of his leaving was not the
knowledge of other people but the
observations which he made for him
self. The next great physician was
Galen, a Roman, who lived from 131
to 201 A. D. For fourteen hundred
years his writings dominated the
medical world. He was the sole
authority during the Middle Ages.
“Hippocrates opened the door to
medical thought j Galen closed the
door.” Although jnedicine reach
ed its lowest area in the dark ages,
there were throe men whose names
shine forth. These were: Paraselsusj
the first to revolt from the authority
of Galen; Vesalius, the father of an
atomy and author of the famous
“Structure of the Human Body;”
and the French Pare, who changed
the boiling oil treatments for wounda
and was the greatest figure of his
day in surgery.
Harvey added a great deal in the
seventeenth century by his discovery
of the circulation of blood. In the
eighteenth century, the doctors be-
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FRESHMEN EECTION
HED OCTOBER 22
Student Government and
I. R. S. Representatives
Elected
Freshman repre.sentatives for the
Student Self-Government Associa
tion were elected Friday, October
22. Those selected were Margaret
Betty Gillespie, Sue Forrest, and
Lee Rice. These Salemites will rep
resent the freshman class in all Stu
dent Government activities of the
year.
Margaret Betty Gillespie is from
Knoxville, Tennessee. She is tak
ing an A. B. course.
Sue Forrest is a day student, and
is taking on A. B. course. She is
athletic.
Lee Rice is a former academy stu
dent. She is from Ijancaster, South
Carolina, and is taking a combined
A. B. and B. M. course.
Freshmen I. B. 8. representatives
were chosen at the same time. “Bob-
mie” Carr, Nancy O’Neale, and
Frankie Tyson were selected.
“Bobbie” is from Durham, North
Carolina. She takes a music course.
Nancy O’Neale is a day student,
and she is taking work toward an
A.B. degree.
“Frankie” Tyson is a native of
Georgetown, South Carolina. She
takes an A.B. course, with voice as
a side-line.