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THE SALEMITE
Friday, May 5, 1939.
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Announcement of Next
Yearns Salemite Staff
NEW GROUP "TAKES OVER” THIS WEEK
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Editor-In-Chief Sara Harrison
Associate Editor Katharine King
EDITORIAL STAFF
News Editor Muriel Brietz
Sports Editor Sue Forrest
Music Editor —, Helen Savage
Faculty Adviser Miss Marian Blair
Staff Assistants:—
Sarah Burrell Billie Hanes .Jo Ann Brill
Prances Angelo Marie Fitzgerald Mary Worth Walker
Leila Johnston Sallie Emerson Betsy Spach
Mary Adams Nancy O’Neal Marie Van Hoy
Melba Mackie Eleanor Carr Martha .Tones
Eunice Patton Lucile Paton Johnsie Moore
Ijouiae Bralower Bhea Gajnelle Sj'kes Anne Mewborne
Carrie Donnell Pat Barrow Carolyn Creson
Betsy Moffett Dorothy Dixon
FEATURE STAFF
Feature Editor Madeleine Hayes
Staff Assistants:—
Edith HorsUeld Nancy Suiter Marian Norris
Reece Thomas Lena VV^inston Morris Eugenia Baynes
Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Weldon Elinor Betscher
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Manager Virginia Breakell
Assistant Business Manager Betsy Hobby
Advertising Manager EUa Waiker Hiil
Exchange and Circulation Manager Ruth Sehnedl
ADVERTISING STAFF ’
Jane Kirk Avalon Early Mildred Kelly
Ruth Yancey Dorothy Sisk Nancy Chesson
Betty Barbour Lucille Springer Louisa Sloan
Margaret Patterson Marvell Campbell
EXCHANGE AND CIRCULATION STAFF
Margaret Morrison Millicent McKendry Barl>ara Norman
Dorothy McLean Alice Broughton Mattie Mae Reavis
DON’T LET IT GET YOU.
James Foster Speer once said “He who regularly lays
upon the shelf of the yesterdays a day of definite things done,
eventually drawrs from out of the stores of tomorrows one day
upon which is crowned the height of his ambiiton. ”
Have you ever kuown anyone who lived by this quota
tion? Think of all the men and women who have reached the
top of the ladder. They gained their position by climbing all
the rungs; they didn't jump from the bottom rung to the top.
No doubt you have spring fever about this time. Every
one says, “I haven’t done a lick of work since Easter.” Don’t
let the Spring and everything that goes with it “get you down.”
Remember that degree you’re hoping to get. And you know,
exams are just about two weeks away; in four more weeks you'll
be home. ■ " 'M
So remember; accomplish a little bit every day, and grad
ually your ambition will be realized.
—M. B.
THANKS FOE EVERYTHINO!
“It’s going to be the best May Day we’ve ever had.
We’ve all worked hard to make it that.” Well may any person
connected at all with this Salem fete make such a remark. For
they have worked, and they have worked hard — every one of
them. Of course, the Salemite who has worked hardest and wor-
I'ied most and thought longest for months before Spring ever
sprang is Mary Turner Willis. She has directed the whole cele
bration, you know, and she deserves a great big share of the
credit.
Then there are the dancers and the queen and her court
who have gone through a lot of practice in the past few^ weeks
to perfect the pageant.
Roy and Mr. Burrage have helped immeasurably with
properties. They and the colored men on the campus have ham
mered and painted and sawed and carried and everything.
The art department and the home economics department
have done fine pieces of necessary but interesting work. Our
art students painted the house that is set up down in May Dell;
and the home ec. girls have made or remodeled all of the forty
costumes in the pageant.
Perhaps you already supposed that all of these people
would have a part in May Day — but did you know that Mrs.
King, down at our laundry and Mr. Ricks and Mr. Bostick, out
at Hanes Mills, had given some of the most important proper
ties ? Mrs. King loaned her big laundry baskets for the darkies
to use in the fields, and Mr. Ricks and Mr. Bostick gave the cot
ton to fill those big baskets.
Too all these people and to every one else who has helped
in any way to give Salem another lovely May Day. we say
“Thanks a million!”
H.
MISS BLAIR IS STAFF
ADVISER
This year, for the first time in
many years, the Salemite is lia%-ing a
faculty adviser on the staff, and the
i)erson who has been chosen to fill
the position this year is Miss Marian
Blair.
To many people on the campus
Miss Blair is the registrar who sit
in her office to arrange schedules,
cheek absences, and see tliat credit
hours are up to normal. But there
are things that most i>eopIe don’t
know that make up her personality
— little, interesting things that
might be, to most people, unknown.
In the first place, her education
has taken her far and wide. First,
there was Salem Academy; then
Wellsley, where she took her A.B.
degree; Columbia where she obtain
ed her master’s degree in English;
and at the L^niversity of Wisconsin
and at Cambridge she did graduate
work.
Particularly interesting at this
time is the fact that at Wellsley she
had charge of the May Day Pageant.
Another interesting thing is that she
was on the college track team.
On her return home she was active
in club work for three years and
did work in the State Scouting Fed
eration. In 1924 she became one of
the Salem College faculty in the
position of registrar. In her sum
mers Miss Blair has traveled exten
sively, one year attending the World
Conference of Quakers in London.
She is particularly interested too, in
the few weeks of Wellsley Alumnae
College every summer, and Wellsley
claims her as one of its most im
portant southern alumnae. In fact,
this year she wan chosen from among
all the southern alumnae, to repre
sent the school at the Duke centen
nial.
Here in Winston-Salem, Miss Blair
is continually moving about, going
from one thing to another, yet doing
everything well that she undertakes.
She is constantly seen going to the
homes of “shut-ins” with some little
word or gift to cheer them up. She
teaches a Sunday School clas.s at the
Moravian Church. Dramatics is one
of her chief interests, and she has
done much in securing for the Pier
rettes a place at Salem. She reads
continuausly and widely, and loves
poetry very much.
In the spring there is always a
bowl of lilies-of-the-valley on lier
desk, that she has brought' from
home. They seem, in a sense, to be
very much like her — good, unpre
tentious, modest, yet loved by all
continuously and widely, and loves
CHEERFUL CHERUB
In life my deeds have been far from
great
And my words have been foolish and
flat—
When I write my autobiography
though
I can easily change all that.
I can’t abide people who borrow
from me
And never remember the debt.
It isn’t the principle of the thing
It’s the money that I regret.
Old Gent: “What are you crying
for, my little manT”
Willie: “My big brother dropped
a b-big b-box on his toe.”
Old Gent: “That is surely nothing
to cry about. I should have thought
that you would tare laughed.”
Willie; “I didi”
TABULATION OF CLUB OFFICERS
Newly Elected and Retiring Groups
HISTORY CLXJB
New Officers
President—Mary Jo Pearson.
Vice-President—Esther Alexander.
Uetiring Officers
President—Emma Brown Grantham.
Vice-President—Frances Huggins.
Secretary-Treasurer—Sallie Emerson.
PSYCHOLOOY OLTTB
New Officers
President—Frances Kale.
Vice-President—Frances Huggins.
Secretary-Theasurer—Sallie Emerson
Retiring Officers •
President—Frances Turnage.
Vice-President—Frances Watlington.
Secretary-Treasurer—Elizabeth Norfleet. k
MU ALPHA THETA (Math Club)
New Officers
President—Anne Mewborne.
Vice-President—Frances Angelo
Secretary—^Buth Schnedl
Treasurer—Eleanor Hutchison
Assistant-Treasurer—Wyatt Wilkinson.
Retiring Officers
President—Josephine Hutchison.
Vice-President—Martha McNair.
Secretary—Anne Mewborne.
Treasurer—Margaret Wilson.
FRENCH CLXIB
New Officers
President—Evelyn McGee.
Vice-President—Katharine Bang.
Secretary—Louise Bralower.
Treasurer—Sarah Burrell.
Retiring Officers
President—Martha McNair.
Vice-President—Mary Davenport.
Secretary—Jane Davis.
Treasurer—Alice Horsfield.
CHORAL ENSEMBU;
New Officeirs
President—June Hire.
Secretary-Treasurer—Sarah Linn.
Business Manager—Margaret Vadell.
Retiring Officers
President—Frances Watlington.
Secretary-Treasurer—June Hire.
Business Manager—Eleanor Carr.
He: “And you are absolutely sure
you love met”
She: “Heavens! Do you think I’d
be sitting here letting you bore me
like this if I didn’t?”
On last Sunday evening the Y. W.
C. A. Cabinet held its annual In
stallation Service in the old chapel.
Each member of the audience was
handed an unlighted candle as she
entered. Just as twilight was falling
the old and new cabinet marched in
two by two, ringing “Father of
Lights.” All were in white and the
members of the old cabinet carried
lighted candles and the new members
carried unlighted ones. After the
members had taken their places,
Mary Thomas led the group in re
sponsive reading. Frances Watling
ton then sang ‘ ‘ This Is My Task, ”
which was /followed by the recog
nition speech to the new cabinet giv
en by Maud Battle. After the new
cabinet members had renewed their
pledge taken earlier in the school
year, Betty Sanford, the incoming
jiresident, and Maud Battle, the out
going president, went down the aisle
and lighted the audience’s candles.
Betty Sanford then gave a charge
to the new cabinet, after which the
closing prayer was given by Mrs.
Rondthaler and the service closed
with the singing of the hymn “Fol
low the Gleam.”
The following members make up
the new cabinet for 1939-40: Vice-
president, Miss Jane Alice Dilling,
Gastonia; secretary, Miss Emily
McCoy, of North Wilkesboro; treas
urer, Miss Jo Ann Brill, of Catons-
ville, Md.; chairman of the commun
ity service. Miss Elizabeth Norfleet,
Roxebel.
Worship committee. Miss Mary
Venable Bogers, Catonsville, Md.;
social committee. Miss Nell Kerns,
Durham; world fellowship. Miss
Leila Johnston, Barium Springs;
freshmen “Y” commission. Miss
Margaret Patterson, of Charlotte;
“Y” room, Miss Euth Schnedl, of
West Point, Ga.
“Y” store, Miss Margery Mc
Mullen, of Norwich, N. P.; pub
licity, Miss Marion Norris, Durham;
music committee, Miss Louise Norris,
Durham; finance committee, Miss
Ann Mewborne, Kinston; industrial
committee. Miss Esther Alexander,
Kno.wille. ,
The speaker for this Sunday’s
vespers will be Mrs. Holt Haywood.
The service will be held in the old
chapel at 6:30 P. M. Everyone is
invited.
YOUR HOROSCOPE
TELLS —
May I - May 12
Y'ou do not make the most of
your abilities. You have good tal
ents. Develop them all you can.
Don’t act too much on impulse.
Look before you leap, or you will
frequently find yurself in trouble.
May 1 —
Ida Lambeth Jennings.
May 2 —
Julia McCorkle
May 4 —
Estelle Hatfield
Wyatt Wilkinson
Lilly Sutton Ferrell
May 6 —
John Henry Causey
May 8 —
Oscar, Our Type-Setter
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