The Salemite
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VOL. XIX.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1939.
Number 23.
Colored A Capella
Choir Sings at
Y. P. M.
Rendering of Negro
Spirituals Unusual
Wednesday morning in expanded
chapel, we were carr.ed along "Deep
River” and lifted up to Heaven by
the fifty voices of the colored A
Capella choir from WinstonSalem
Teachers College. This remarkable
group of singers is under the direc
tion of Nowell Francis Eider, a
graduate of Hampton College, and
a notable figure in the field of the
development of Negro spirituals.
Several of the numbers sung by the
choir were Mr. Rider’s own special
arrangements.
At the beginning of the program,
Mr. Eider, who had been introduced
by Mr. Jack Atkins, executive sec
retary of the college, told the audi
ence something of the type of pro
gram to expect. He said that spec
ial emphasis would be put upon
negro music, since that was the type
the choir did best, and also the type
that he himself is working on at
present.
With the first number, a very un
usual arrangement of “Deep Riv
er,” the whole-hearted acclaim of
the audience was won. The next
two numbers were equally as beauti
ful. They were both arrangements
of Dr. R. Nathaniel Dett’s — “As
By the Streams of Babylon ’ ’ and
“Listen to the Lambs.” Later the
men’s chorus gave two selections in
a lighter vein — “Who’ll Be A Wit
ness For My Lord,” and another
one that amusingly resembled ai col
lege song — “I Want To Be Ready
When He Comes.”
The other selections on the pro
gram were all commendable but it
seems that unusual stress should be
put upon the rendering of the well
loved song “Water Boy.” Thel solo
part, done by one of the members
of the male chorus, was exception
ally well done.
It is safe to say that this pro-
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Sister Classes Skate
At Sophomore-
Seolor Party
Classes Enjoy Dinner At
College and Skating At
Local Rink
LAST LECTURER
Juniors To Entertain
Seniors With Dances
Music Will Be Furnished By
Freddy Johnson and
Orchestra
One hundred girls on skates
screaming at the top of their voices.
Strains of the “Merry Widow
Waltz” half drowned by the noise.
The intermittent thuds of s u r-
prised skaters hitting the floor —
AH of this happened last Wednesday
evening when the senior class was
entertained by their “little sister”
class, tlie sophomores, at a local
skating rink.
The skating was preceded by a
dinner at six o’clock in the college
dining room. The entire sophomore
and senior classes sat together at
one long table arranged in the center
of the room. During the dinner, sen
iors cast' aside their dignity and en
joyed a gay hour of fun with their
“little sisters.” After the skating,
the girls returned to the college and
continued their merry-making over
refreshments served in Louisa Bit
ting recreation room.
- Madeline Hayes, president of
the sophomore class, was in charge
of the occasion. Esther Alexander
assisted her in arrangements for the
dinner, and Sue Forrest was chair
man of the transportation commit
tee.
Chaperones for the party were
Miss Sarah Turlington, Miss Agnes
Brown, and Miss Grace Lawrence.
COURTESY JOURNAL-SENTINEL
JOHN MASON BROWN
John Mason Brown
To Be Last Salem
Lecturer
Makes His Second Lecture
To Salem Audience
Last year on Thursday, April 28,
Salemites listened, (juite charmed, to
the last lecturer on Salem’s lecture
series. He was John Mason Brown,
young dramatic critic of current
Broadway plays. This year on Tliuro-
day, April 27, Salemites will li.sten
again, quite charmed, to the last lec
turer on Salem’s lecture series. He
will be John Mason Brown, ivhoni we
remember from our past acquaintance
with him as a most unusual and in
teresting speaker. His subject is the
same as last year’s — Broadway in
Review — but of course he will dis
cuss the new set of plays. Once
more we will feel that we have ac
tually spent several weeks in New
York seeing his plays, for John
Mason Brown’s “alert mind and in
fectious enthusiasm,” his experience
and training in the theater have
made him an ideal dramatic critic.
“He is interested in the theatre as
such, in everything which concerns
it, and in its past as well as its
present. For these reasons his com
ments on the plays of the moment
are frequently made from an original
point of view; for these reasons also
ho has much to say beyond the limits
of the ordinary review.
(Joseph Wood Krutch, in the “Na
tion”).
John Mason Brown began his writ
ing career as a reporter on the
Louisville Courier Journal, even be
fore he attended Harvard ITniver.
s'ty. He was graduated from Har
vard with a cum laude degree in
1923, and before he even had his
degree he had accepted a position as
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The miich-looked-forward to Jun
ior-Senior dances given by the Jun
iors in honor of the Seniors, will be
held Saturday afternoon and Satur
day night, April 22, in the gymnas
ium. Agnes Lee Carmichael, presi
dent of the Junior Class, is the head
of the entire program.
Members of the working commit
tee* are as follows: Decorating Com
mittee, Eve Tomlinson, chairman,
Elizabeth Hendrick, Sara Ruark,
Jane Kirk, Ella Walker Hill, Vir
ginia Breakell, Jane Alice Dilling,
Ann Mewborn, and Muriel Brietz.
Refreshment Committee: Elizabeth
Norfleet, chairman; Louise Jackson,
Elizabeth Winget, Mary Venable
Rogers. Invitation Committee, Grace
Gillespie, chairman; Ida Lambeth
Jennings, Sara Harrison, Mary Jo
Pearson, Gerry Baynes, Mabel Pitzer.
Card Committee: Frances Kluttz,
chairman; Elizabeth Carter, Jane
Alice Dilling, Frances Kale, Margar
et Holbrook, Sarah Burrell, Figure
Committee: Elizabeth Tuten, chair
man; Betsy Hobby, Louisa Sloan,
Frances Huggins, Louise Norris, Bet
ty Sanford.
A tea dance will be given in the
afternoon, from four to six o’clock,
followed by the night dance from 9
to 12 o’clock. The night dance will
be a card dance. During intermis
sion, there will be a figure.
Girls in the figure, and their es
corts, are: Agnes Lee Carmichael
with Johnny MacBride, from Cheraw,
S. C.; Betty Sandford with Brooks
Smith, Baltimore, Md.; Jane Klik
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Practice Teachers
Will Entertain For
Directors
PRONOtlNCEB
Second Dinner of the
Season
The student teachers will give the
second dinner for their directed
teachers and other special guests on
Tuesday, April twenty-fifth at six
o’clock in the Old Chapel. The girls
who are teaching in the high school
will be in charge of the dinner. Com
mittees have been chosen as follows:
general chairman — Peggy Rogers;
invitation chairman, Martha Mc
Nair; decoration chairman, Mary
Worthy Spence; menu chairman,
Felicia Martin; program chairman,
Josephine Hutchison; place cards
chairman, Mary Davenport; recep
tion chairman, Annette McNeely.
—JOUHyAI.-SENTIN’EIi STAFF PHOTO.
Mr. Henry Grady Owens of the
education department of Salem Col
eg was pronouncer for the final con
test in the Journal and Sentinel
Spelling Bee last Thursday night. He
is the man who ‘ ‘ gave out ’ ’ the
words to the fifteen best spellers
from the city schools. The match,
held in the Reynolds Memorial Audi
torium, was broadcast over Radio
Station WSJS, but many, finding it
as interesting to watch as to hear,
attended the spelling bee at the
Auditorium.
All Persons Dream
Says Dr. Barclay
Sleep walking is not an indepen
dent plienomena but is related to
sleep, dreams, and dual personality.
Dr. K. L. Barclay, faculty member
of the Woman’s College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, said last
niglit in an address before the Psy
chology Club of Salem College.
Speaking in the recreation room
of the Louisa Bitting Building, Dr.
Barclay declared that although
physical activity decreases in sleep
bodies are stHl active. “We do not
sleep like a log, according to the
ommon term,” he said.
“During sleep glandular activity
actually increases,” the speaker
pointed out, adding that persons
plan, remember, and perceive in
sleep. “Dreams occur in all phases
of sleep and all persons dream.”
The professor asserted that dreams
.nd somnabulisn are expressions of
,he sleeper’s personality and not of
he environment.
Eyes of the sleep-walker may be
open or closed, but tkjy are usually
open, he pointed out.
Two Students Give
Graduating Recital
Glenn Glriffin and Frances
Watlington Show^ Excel
lent Training
Spirit of Good Will Writes Letter To Salem College
Dear Pupils and Teachers
of Salem:
In my yearly visits around the
country everywhere, seeing the good
work all my helpers have done, my
interest was directed to your campus
and to the work you people have
done to carry on my spirit — the
Spirit of Good Will and Happiness.
Perhaps, first I should tell you
something about my “spirit.” I
have been wandering around on this
earth ever since the world began.
Sometimes people are not able to see
me very well, but I am always there,
and my business is to play Santa
Claus to that little girl who has no
mother and father; and to knit a
pair of socks for poor little Jimmy
who is not able to buy them himself;
to sing a song to the lovely old
lady across the street; and to cheer
up people with a bad case of the
“blues.”
And these are the things I found
were being done ,by your Y. W. C. A.
at Salem. And I’m proud of the
way you have helped take my spirit
to many places that might not have
heard of me before.
I want all of you to know the
things the “Y” has done this vear
thing many of you may not have
heard about,
Out at the Children’s Home the
little children who don’t have mamas
and papas as you do, feel oh so
much better after the visits of the
“Y” Committee, and the old ladies
at the Salem Home say that the nice
little visits Salem girls pay them
brighten their day. Then I heard
too about a big Christmas box that
the Board always sends out to a
family that might not get a Christ
mas dinner otherwise. This was
Fred the fireman’s family, they tell
me. Fred was killed not long ago
and there is a big family left. And
have all of you heard about the Eski
mo boy the “Y” has been poking
after f This Christmas they sent him
\ hunting knife, and they got a nice
letter back telling how much it meant
to him. Fritz has grown up now
though, and another, named Peta, is
the new ward.
Probably the biggest thing, at
least one that was most appreciated,
was the group of hospital gowns that
were sent to Dr. Thaler, the mission
ary. They tell me that many of
you girls helped with these gowns,
and at the same time made scrap
books for the Colored Children’s'
Home.
Here on the campu.s, too, the “Y”
has carried on my spirit of Hap
piness. I’ve heard that every Sun
day afternoon there is tea. It seems
this would be a nice little break into
the usual quiet Sunday afternoon.
Isn’t it? Then too, there are a few
minutes of devotional worship every
Thursday night; and Sunday nights
at six-thirty, there is Vespers. They
tell me that this year a large group
of interesting speakers have come
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On Monday evening, April 17,
Glenn Griffin, pianist, and Frances
Watlington, mezzo-soprano, gave the
first graduation recital of the year.
Both Miss Griffin, a jiupil of Dean
Vardell and Miss Watlington, a pu
pil of Mr. Bair, showed excellent
tniin ng and real musical ab'lity.
Miss Griffin has at her command
a fine technique and a wide range of
tone. Her vigorous, yet poetic in
terpretation of the Chopin Revolu
tionary Etude was particularly im
pressive. She also gave a brilliant
performance of the allegro of the
Sch niann Concerto in A minor.
Miss Watlington’s voice has a rich,
sympathetic quality and at all times
she sang with ease and artistic fini.sh.
In the aria, “La Mort de Jeanne d’
Are,” she achieved a fine dramatic
effect.
Of particular interest was the song
‘Xot Any More,” composed by Ger-
t^ de Ijajrwell, a member of the Sal
em composition class.
Miss Virginia Thompson was the
accompanist for Miss Watlington
and Dean Vardell played the con
certo orchestral accompaniment on
the organ.
The following program was pre
sented:
Sotto il ciel Sibella
Je Veux Rhene-Baton
I^issreise Wolf
Miss Watlington
Aria from Susanna
Handel-Lavignae
Sonata in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2
Beethoven
Largo Appasionata
Scherzo and Trio
Miss Griffin
Arioso “.La Mort de Jeanne d’ Arc
Bemberg
Miss Watlington
Polonaise in C. Minor, op. 40, No. 2
Chopin
Etude in C. -Minor, op. 10, No, 12
Chopin
Claire d Lune Debussy
Banjo Picker Powell
Miss Griffin
Vis:0ns Sjoberg
Not Any More .... Gertrude Bagwell
Parody No. 2 Hughes
How Can I Tell Thee Sibella
Miss Watlington
Concerto in A minor, op. 54
Schumann
Allegro Affettuoso
Miss Griffin
Salem Sends
Representatives To
Marriage Conference
Dr. Ernest Groves Leads
Conference
On Thursday, April 13, Annette
McNeely, Nan Totten, Mary Turn
er Willis, and Martha McNair rep
resented Salem at the Marriage
Conference held in Chapel Hill, at
which eighteen southern men and
women’s colleges, were represented.
The conference which began on
Tuesday and lasted through Satur
day, was under the supervision of
Br. Ernest Groves, head of the So
ciology Department of the Univer
sity of North Carolina. Prominent
speakers were brought in from all
over the country to discuss different
phases of courtship and marriage.
The meeting Thursday afternoon
was a student discussion, led by Miss
Frances Burk of Duke University.