Friday, December 4, 1942.
THE SALEMITE
Page Three.
Women of the Week
LEILA SULLIVAN
Did you see that attractive Jun
ior as she walked by? And did you
you hear her deep Southern drawl?
Well, that was Leila S'ullivan. Her
gran dmother
even thinks she
talks just like
an old “Mam
my.” Tall . .
neat . •. . even
tempered . .
amiable . . con
scientious .
friendly, yet
reserved . .
are only a few
of the adjec
tives you think
of in connection with Lea. We in
Clewell are certainly glad to have
Lea back from Lehman this year,
for she is one of the bright spots
on secend floor.
Lea hails from Anderson, South
Carolina, as you can tell by the way
she talks and by her slow, easy-go-
ing manner. Three years at Salem
have changed her from a sweet,
quiet, innocent little girl into a
sweet, noisy, not so innocent young
lady. Perhaps Sue is responsible
for this in some measure, as these
two are among the few who have
roomed together since the opening
day of their Freshman year.
She says she is not at all studious,
but the evidence—many sessions in
the library and many honor roll
mentions—point in the other direc
tion. Don’t get the idea that she
is a "study-bug,” however; for
bridge and movies take a great deal
of her time—and she does enjoy a
good “bull session.”
Lea is rather, close-mouthed about
her love life; but we know that
with her the Citadel stands high—
and Lea certainly stands high with
the Citadel. Who wouldn’t with deep
brown eyes peeping out from under
long sweeping lashes?
Surprisingly enough. Lea likes
dogs; but little bugs of any descrip
tion scare her to death. Food is not
allowed to remain in her room over
sight (regardless of her fondness
for it); for who knows how many
oiice may go scampering around aft
er it? And Lea lives in holy ter
ror of mice!
JEAN MACCLAY
Jean MacClay is the freckled face
lassie with the fiery red hair . . .
with devilish eyes, an attractive
smile, and a winning personality, iug in touch witli Government agen
-WAR AID—
sis to be put upon others. Else
where in this copy of the SALEM
ITE you will find a partial summary
of these courses, and I ask you to
read it most carefully.
The various departments are keep-
manners,
neatness i n
ways, puts her
among the top
rankers of the
business stud
ents.
Jean only visits the smoke house
socially, for she is one of the few
who have not yet picked the smok
ing habit. If you can’t find her in
the smoke-house playing bridge or
livening up the conversation, you’ll
probably find' her up in her attrac
tive room on second floor of Leh
man. Jean and her roommate, Bet
ty Byers, are noted for their hos
pitality . . . and their room is some
times called the “Grand Central
S'tation” of Lehman Hall. Beside
her bed, Jean keeps a picture of
Melvin—from him she gets special
deliveries from California. On the
dresser, a picture of Fred. And on
her sweater, silver wings. We all
wonder who is really first in Jean’s
heart.
Purples, greens, browns—all nat-
ual colors of a redhead; but the
unique characteristic of this red
head is how well she wears pink.
Some people s;ay that beauty is
skin deep; but if Jean MacClay is
a typical example of beauty, this
old adage has gone up the spout.
Her naturally cies, social agencies, production
curly auburn plants, et cetera, so that they may
hair defies any- better direct you to the specific job
one, as does for which you, as a college-trained
her way of woman, will qualify. Those courses
talking. Her which you have taken and are now
business - like
her
At the end of a long and hectic
day. Lea is always looking fresh as
when she started out in the morn
ing. How does she do it? Her
good-looking clothes are the envy of
us all, especially that lavendar
sweater and skirt which she has
been craving for simply ages.
Her sympathy and understanding
endear her to the hearts of all of us
who know her; and she has our
votes as the most charming and
gracious Chief Marshal that Salem
has had in many a day.
-AUSLANDER—
I’ess the very words. “All we have
of Sappho is a few lines that break
the heart in their brokenness
that—that and the legend of dark
eyes, fire, passion . . . Her poetry
and her personality equally intense
and equally indelible.”
From Sappho, Mr. Auslander
jumped to Elizabeth Barrett Brown-
ing. He lingered only long' enough
to tell us that she paved the way
the modern women poets; and
for
that we should not, as most people
do, begin and end with THE SON-
N^ITS FROM THE PORTUGUESTE
...” She wrote more than that,
far more.”'. The jump from Eliza
beth Browning was to Emily Dick
inson. Emily, Mr. Auslander told
Us, wrote “inspired telegrams;” she
^'rote in a narrow groove, but a
deep one. He :^urther lamented that
people too often dismissed these
fragmentary notes without realizing
what a wealth they contained. Em
ily Dickinson “looked into her
heart and wrote what she saw”; she
asked God embarrassing questions,
and answered them herself.” He
said it mattered not whether the
Wan in Emily ’a life was the min
ister or someone else . . . what mat
ters is what she has left. Her life
Was not narrow, but it exemplifies
“the difference between a full life
and a crowded one.”
Next Mr. Auslander told us of
Amy Lowell. Amy, he says, was not
a great poet; but she was a great
woman, and she played an import
ant role in giving th« poet his due.
He recalled quite vividly for us hia
first encounter with Amy. Wien he
Was a freshman, the Harvard Poetry
Society asked her to come talk to
them. The requisites for membership
Were that a young man be pale, pen
sive, and yearning. He says he was
pale enough, plenty pensive, and
yearning “something awful.” Amy
arrived, black cigar in her mouth
“on her own steam as it were” to
throw a bomb-shell into every fawn-
ing face of every pensive young
man. She was an actress all her
life, and had a knack for making
poetry front-page news. Her poetry
was more rhetoric than poetry, for
she never got away from “the fact
of journalism to the truth of po
etry.” He then told us that “a
poet should be implicated, but not
involved.” From Amy Lowell we
were skipped to Elinor Wylie. Mr.
Auslander read us the Lady of
Shalot, into which picture he fitted
Elinor Wylie and her poetry. Her
poems are like “jewels with hard
edges.” She was forever fighting a
battle within herself . . . the con
flict between woman and poet reign
ed eternal.
At this point in the reality, Mr.
Auslander jerked us back to reality
by saying, almost with a sigh, that
time was running out. Completely
oblivious to time, we suspected that
he was fibbing until Dr. Downs
spoke up from the rear to agree that
the train companies played no fa
vorites. Then briefly Mr. Aus
lander touched on Edna Millay. Slie
has, he told us, “sold her poetic
birthright for a pot of mess.” She
has stopped writing poetry, and is
playing to the grandstands ... he
hopes sincerely that she will come
home again. Then even mo?e briefly
we were reminded of Teasdale. Then
came his own contribution, PRAY
ER TO JEAHEANNE OF FRANCE
. . . a poem about the fall of France
. . . read with a passion that bled
ane-JV at the thought of France
cowed and fallen. (We were later
told that he looked on our innocent
faces, and left out the portion about
Henry of Navarre . . . ).
With the clock pointing at 9:15,
and the train puffing on the track
preparing to leave at 9:20, Mr.
Auslander had to run. He said he
wanted to come back . . . We sin
cerely hope he meant it.
—M. T. B.
taking, which are of a non-vocation-
al nature, I believe you will find to
be of immeasurable value to you. In
all higher education you are lay
ing a good foundation for various
interesting and better paid types of
work. You, college-trained women,
have a background which with a few
weeks of intensive training along
specific lines, should enable you to
fit into one' of several jobs (instead
of being able to qualify for only
one). At a recent college confer
ence of several hundred representa
tives from the leading women’s in
stitutions of the United States it
was pointed out that college gradu
ates are, because of college train
ing, able to qualify for war work
with unusual efficiency.
As you probably know, the War
Labor Board has just issued an
order for equal pay for men and
women for equal work. Dr. McBride
of Bryn Mawr recently said “Col
lege graduates are the ones who
have the intellectual training and
the moral stamina to do the nec
essary job.” Your education, I am
confident, will raise the quality of
your work in whatever field you
serve and will prepare you to do
the necessary job. It is to you that
your country now looks for active
participation in production and for
leadership, for stability and for
character in the postwar period.
Vour college president is committed
to help you to the utmost of his
ability in achieving what your
country needs now and in the future.
(Signed),
—HOWARD E. RONDTHALER,
President.
SALEM COLLEGE SPECIAL
WAR COURSES
Among the courses and subjects
now offered at Salem College or to
be offered, the following have been
listed in a partial Faculty Report
as bearing on the war situation:
Education and Psychology: Educa
tional Measurements; Introduction
to Psychology, Child Psychology,
Mental Hygiene, Experimental Psy
chology. Courses the Faculty is
qualified toi teach in addition to the
above in Education and Psychology:
Intelligence Testing; Aptitude Test
ing, War Morale, Personnel Teacher
Training in Education.
English: The Fundamentals of
Writing and of Speech.
History: United States History,
Modern World History, American
Government and Politics, Compar
ative European Governments.
Home Economics: Clothing Selec
tion and Construction; Clothing and
Textiles, Advanced Clothing Con
struction, Foods and Cookery, Foods
and Nutrition, Advanced Foods and
Nutrition, Advanced Nutrition, Diet
Therapy, Home Nursing and Child
Development, General Principles of
Ilomemaking (War Emphasis, ar
ranged to give Red Cross certificate
in Nutrition), Economics of the
Family and Family Relations, In
stitution Food Study and Marketing,
Institution Organization and Admin
istration, Quantity Foods and Cook
ery.
Mathematics: College Algebra and
Trigonometry, Plane Analytic Geom
etry, Differential and Integral Cal
culus, Advanced Calculus, Theory of
Equations.
Courses the Faculty is qualified to
teach in addition to the above in
Mathematics: Spherical Trigonom
etry, Statistics, Business Mathemat
ics.
Modem Foreign Languages: Elemen
tary French, Intermediate French,
Advanced French (Conversation),
Elementary German, Intermediate
German, Advanced German (Conver
sation), Elementary Italian, Ad
vanced Italian, Elementary Spanish,
Intermediate Spanish, Advanced
Spanish (Conversation).
The Faculty is qualified to teach
in addition to the above: Portu
guese.
Science and Geography: General
Biology, Botany, Zoology, Physiol-
iMARTHA'S
MUSINeS
MARTHA’S MUSINGS
^V;ell, here I am, all alone, trying
to figure out just what all you Sa-
lemites had to be thankful for this
Thanksgiving.
In my opinion. Thanksgiving held
everything good for PEGGY NIM-
OCKS when she found that the boat
from Africa made it back. And
we’ll all get to see Phil this week
—come Thursday to bo exact.
This week-end found BUTCH,
CAROLYN, JULIA and JOYCE,
too, at Davidson for an S. A. E. to-
do.
K. A.—Kappa Sigs this week-end
will not find NORMIE, PEGGY,
MOT and iillACKY left behind.
We found that MOLLY BOSE-
MAN has something “on the ball”
beneath. Slie asked MARY EL
LEN’S Buck to the dance. Ain’t
that a kick in the teeth?
Gene asked GINOR to please
come) down. No over-nights and did
the deans frown!
MACMURRAY went home and
Bobby was there. No more did she
ask but holidays to spare.
FRAN is so happy, we all know.
I guess nobody had to talk for Joe.
BETTY JEAN has a collection of
trinkets galore from a certain lad
in the medical corps.
Jake and SUE have finished
things, for she wears now some sil
ver wings.
To see LOIS WOOTEN the need
was dire. John didn’t really mean
to set the world on fire.
LUCILLE SMOOT is mighty hap
py over prospects of seeing Jimmy
Dint (V. P. I.). Hope he’s as cute
as his name.
Stu is deciding between Coco’s
brother and Coco’s cousin. Sure is
a family affair.
And from Senior, we eavesdripped
long enough to find out that LIB
READ got way away to see Andy
—(that LITTLE YELVERTON got
way away to get an engagement
ring—and that CEIL got down to
Charlotte for a week-end in the
dentist’s office!
So now, until next week—keep
things rolling, gals.
-QUEENS—
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iology, General Chemistry, Organic
Chemistry, Semi-Micro Qualitative
Analysis, Quantitative Analysis,
Physical Chemistry, Advanced Quan
titative Analysis, Physiological
Chemistry, Biochemistry, Geography
of Nort America, Geography of the
Regions Outside of North America
(with particular emphasis on war
zones). General Physics.
Courses the Faculty is qualified to
teach in addition to the above in
Science and Geography: Reading
and Studying of Maps, Scientific
Map-Making, Mechanical Drawing,
Surveying.
Sociology and Economics: Train
ing for Social Work, War Economies,
Consumer Education.
Art: Camouflage, Poster Work,
Bulletin and other Publicity Adver
tising.
Music; The History of Music, its
Educational and Spiritual Applica
tion, Piano, Organ, Harp, Violin, and
other stringed instruments. Voice,
Theory, Observation and Directed
T eaching.
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the Court for three years. Her
stately carriage, striking features,
and prevailing self-possession ac
count for her honor—and Tigress”
perfume described her as few words
can.
These, however, are not Cell’s only
attributes. Besides being one of
the most versatile Seniors, she is
also the Editor of the Salemite. Her
vivacity and captivating drawl em
phasize her effervescent personality.
Geil’s interests range from music
and art to sports and Med students
at Jefferson.
SENOEITA HAAVKINS
In sharp contrast to the dark
Queen is blonde Barbara Hawkins,
Maid of Honor. “Bob” is no
stranger in the May Dell either, hav
ing been an attendant last year.
“Bob’s” golden hair, sparkling
smile, creamy complexion, and slen
der figure make a fragile picture.
It is no wonder that her week-ends
as well as her-mail box are always
full.
Yes, Ceil and Barbara, you do us
proud as representatives of Salem’s
pulchritude.
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