WELCOME
DR. HART
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WELCOME
MR. FROST
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VOL. XX.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, FRIDAY. MARCH 8, 1940.
Number 19.
Margaret Patterson Elected President For 1940-41
DAVIDSON BAND WI1.L PLAY HCRE
The symphonic band of Davidson
College, directed by Professor James
Christian Pfohl, will make its seven
th consecutive annual appearance
here in a concert in Memorial Hall
Saturday, March 9.
Opening their annual spring con
cert season, the 60 advanced music
ians above will play, in addition to
regular band music, a number of
chorales, symphonic selections and
operatic overtures.
The widely-known bands’ appear-
a largo symphony orchestra, and
ance here is sponsored by Boy Scout
•Troop 9, of Home Moravian Church.
This group differs from most
bands in that instruments are
selected and arranged to sound like
both the bass and reed sections are
considerably larger than those in
regular bands.
Tickets for this concert are on
sale by the Junior ' class and the
Boy Scouts.
SALEM STRING ORCHESTRA
TO GIVE CONCERT
The Salem College String Orch
estra, under the direction of Hazel
Horton Read, will present its annual
concert in Memorial Hall on Mon
day, March 11, at 8:30 P. M.
The program is an unusually in
teresting one and its numbers
provide a wide range of mood and
interpretive scope. There i» no
admission charge.
Barbara Ann Benson, a talented
eleven year old pupil of Miss Eead,
will be the solist of the evening,
aecompained by Virginia Thompson.
She will play two movements of the
Vivaldi Concert 4n A minor.
The program is as follows:
I Water Music Handel
Bouree - Air - Minuet - Hornpipe
Aria - Allegro
II Concerto in A minor .... Vivaldi
Largo - Presto
Barbara Ann Benson
III Choral Prelude Brahms-Kramer
(A Eose Breaks into Bloom)
La Fille Aux Cheycu.x De Lin...,
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HuUon Outlines
Ideal Life
Tuesday morning chapel devotion
was under the direction of Rev.
Hutton, pastor of the Reynolda
Presbyterian Church. Rev Huttoi;
spoke on what he has found to be
the greatest truth in life — that un
less you canquer life, it will cantjuer
you. As we face life we face it
with two viewpoints — within —
and without. Within o»rselves we
must have temper, sensitiveness,
love, faith and zeal — but we must
have these characteristics under con
trol to-have them be any help to us.
Unless we control them, they will
make slaves of us. Objectively, there
is sorrow and injustice in our life —
and we must learn to contend with
it.
The “how’’ of religion comes in
here — How can we conquer these
facts of life? Not until you have
been conquered. Only until God,
the superior intelligence in our
life, has come into our lives — can
we expect to conquer our lives. We
can not make ourselves unconquer
able alone.
TENTATIVE CHAPEL
PREVIEW
Each Day —
Dr. Hart from Duke,
Robert Frosi; ko
Speak Here
There is really a treat in store
for all members of the Salem College
Lecture Series. ROBERT FROST is
to speak Wednesday erening, March
13, at 8:30 in Memorial Hall. Mr.
Frost, whose profession has been
teaching, has at the same time been
a poet cinse the age of seventeen.
His poetry is delightfully American
and humorous. His character, sub
ject, matter, and settings are defin
itely New England, but the people
are so thoroughly human that they
are universal. We are indeed look
ing forward to having Robert Frost,
poet, here at Salem.
America b a
Very Dull Place
SOPHOMORES
VICTORIOUS 28-24
Tuesday, March 6, the closest game
of the season was played between
the Sophomore and Freshman teams.
The Sophomores won 28-24, .but not
without a long hard fight. John
ston’s and Springer’s shooting and
Bralower ’s passing accounted for the
Sophomore score while Bennett,
Rand, and Ewing W'ere outstanding
for the Freshmen.
Line-up;
Sophomores Freshmen
Pos.
Springer (11) .... (10) N. M. Bennett
F.
L. Johnston (15) .... (13) Baugham
F.
Bralower (2) (1) Walker
F.
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It was like stepping across the
border into a land of make-believe
filled witli china dolls and goblins,
romance and adventure to step
through the door leading back-stage
of the Ballet-Russe de Monte Carlo.
The one hundred and twenty-five
members of the comjiany were all
milling !tround, and out of that
group it was necessary to find one
Baron de Guinsberg! With a can’t-
speak anything but English look on
my face 1 walked up to the first
gentleman wlio looked as if he might
not be Russian. He was Russian,
but, I soon found out all the sixteen
different nationalities represented in
the company speak the language of
all the other people. “Just speak to
them in French, German, Italian, or
Russian, little lady, and I think
you’ll have no trouble.”
With this consoling thought in
mind I turned to a man whom I had
lieard say a familiar sounding word
or two. He was the orchestra con
ductor, so consequently he was most
interested in talking about that
phase of the activity. All the peo
ple in this group arc young New
\ ork bojjs. Most have come from a
long line of trained musicians, and
many of their fathers are now play
ing with the Philharmonic Sym
phony Orchestra,
About that time appeared a tall,
dark, suave looking person whom the
conductor with tongue in his cljeek,
duetor with his tongue in his cheek,
called the Baron de Guinsberg. Well,
baron or no baron he looked like the
villain but villain or jio villain I
started down my list of questions.
All the members of the company are
very young. ‘ ‘ That boy over there
on the box has been with the group
a year. He’s fifteen.” S'ome of the
people connected with the business
end of the company are married, as
are some few of the dancers. But
as a general rule most are single,
very “footloose and fancy free.”
There is ho special diet, because it
would be practically impossible to
gain very much weight — dancing
four and five hours, at the least, a
day. Most of the people eat a med
ium breakfast, a heavy lunch, and
nothing more during the day until a
snack after the performance at
night is over.
Then I wanted to know about sal
aries. “Oh that is one of our deejK
dark secrets that nobody knows ”
he said with an expression that for
some reason furthered my previous
opinion that the baron was the vil
lain of the place. “Living expenses
are very high, although there is no
set piace to stay. One can live as
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DR. HARNELL HART
Each morning, beginning March
11 and continuing through March 15,
Dr. Hornell Hart will be our Chapel
guest for religious emphasis week.
He will also make appointments
with girls for individual conferen
ces.
Dr. Hart is one of the Country’s
best-known writers and speakers in
the field of social studies. He
joined the Duke University faculty
as professor of sociology in the fall
of 1938. He also has membership in
the faculty of the school of religion,
where he offers courses in social
ethics.
He is a graduate of Oberlin
College and the University of Wis
consin, and holder of the doctorate
from the University of Iowa. Dr.
Hart was engaged in Civic work in
Milwaukee befgrt becoming research
associate professor at the University
of Iowa in 1920.
In 1924 and for the following
nine years he was associate professor
and professor of social economy at
Bryan Mawr college. For the
five years pre\ious Jo his coming to
Duke he was professor of social
ethics at Hartford Theogical Sem
inary, Hartford, Conn.
Among his writings are: “The
Science of Social Relations,” “The
Technique of Social Progress,” and
“Personality and the Family.”
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MARGARJBT PATTERSON
Student Gov’t. Head
Chosen For NextlYear
Yesterday Margaret Patterson was
elected President of the S'aJem Col
lege Student Body for next year.
Margaret is from Charlotte, N. C.,
and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Van D. Patterson.
She is a . member of the “Y. ”
Council, and has served as Chief
Jfarshall for the past year. She also
was President of her class for the
Freshman Year.
She ran against Patty McNeely of
Mooresville, N. C.
The next major election will be
for May Day Chairman. The nom
inating Committee re.sponsible for
choosing these candidates for the
major offices on the campus is com
posed of the heads of the eight ma
jor organizations, the off-campus
vice-president of the Student Body,
class presidents, three student rep
resentatives at large, Dr. Rondthaler
and Miss Covington.
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Academy News
Practice Teachers’
Banquet
On Tuesday night, March 5, the
practice teachers entertained their
supervising teachers at a Leap Year
banquet. Members of the school
board, educational advisors of Sal
em, and Dr. Rondthaler were special
guests.
Everyone met in Main Hall at
6:00 P. M. and Proceeded to the Re
creation Room of Louisa Bitting
Building for dinner.
The program consisted of musical
numbers by Carolyn Creson, Mara-
ruth Allen, Barbara Hawkins, Edna
Baugham, Helen Savage; group
singing by everyone, and tap danc
ing by Conrad.
Virginia McNeny was general
chairman of the dinner, and Sara
Harrison, assistant chairman. Com
mittee chairmen were: Menu, Mary
Jo Pearson; decorations, Frances
Huggins; Program, Katherine Tros-
ler. Place cards, Frances Angelo;
Invitation, Louisa Sloan; Reception,
Frances Kale. Toastmistress was
Frances Kluttz.
Saturday night, March 9th, Mrs.
Rondthaler will entertain the mem
bers of the Senior class of Salem
Academy and their dates at a for
mal dinner party. The plans for the
dinner have not been told except
that it is to be a progressive party
similar to the senior dinner held at
the College last year.
The academy plays 'are to be pre
sented by the Pi: Delta Phis, the
senior dramatic club, and by tho
Harlequin Club, Friday night. The
plays will be held at 7:30 P. M. in
order not to conflict with the Y.
Stunt, Night at the college. All
collcge students are cordially invited
to attend.
Next week the Purple and Golds
will compete in tho final ba.skotball
and speedball games of this year.
Thursday night at the athelotic
banquet, a cup will b© awarded to
the winning team.
JUNIORS
DOWN
SENIORS
26-9
The juniors defeated the seniors
Wednesday night 2«-9, thus placing
a bid for their team for the cham
pionship games to be played next
week with the sophomores. Sharp-
shooting Smith, ably abetted by the
passing and guarding of her team
mates, rang up 19 points to lead the
junior scoring. Kirk led the senior
attack with 7 points while Baynes
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According to usual procedure
the junior staff members of the
‘' Salemite ’ ’ are responsible for
the publication of one issue dur
ing the second semester. This
week’s editors are Sue Forrest
and Madeleine Hayes.