Volume XXVIII.
Salem College, Winston^-Salem, N. C., Friday, December 12, 1947.
Number 1 2
Salem Celebrates Christmas
IRS Dance
Highlights
Week-End
The I. K. S. Christmas dance will
be held in the gymnasium on Satur
day night from 8:30 til 11:50.
The theme of the dance will be
“Winter Wonderland”, and the gym
will be decorated with snowshoes,
Santa Claus, and a Christmas tree.
Harold Gale and his orchestra will
provide music for the dance which
is to be a card dance. There are
to be twenty dances as usual, and
intermission will follow the tenth
dance.
Eefreshments are to be served in
the club dining room during inter
mission. Intermission does not be
gin however, until after the figure.
Members of the figure are as fol
lows: president, Helen Spruill with
Wall ■ Brinkley; vice-president, Pat
Watson with Carl Holbrook; secret
tary, Betty Ann Epps with Tete
Pearson; treasurer, Jeanne Dungan
with Page Jackson; Anne Dungan
with Pete Ebersole; Lib Price with
Charles Wentz; Jean Griffin with
John Hackney; Peggy Broaddus
with Dave Clay; Nell Penn Watt
with Bob Hanner; Beverly Johnson
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT—These girls are not teach- left. Pictured above are Lib Price, Beverly Johnson
ing the alphabet to the ants. They’re gathering green , Mildred Matthews, Lucy WilUams and Nell Penn Watt!
things for gym decorations for the I. R. S. dance to- (Photo courtesy of Winston-Salem Journal.)
morrow night. Further details are in the story at the |
with Paul Carter; Mary Hill with
Rockwell Poison; Mary Ann Harvey
with Ed Watson; Jane Hart with
Clarence Jugwell; Lucy Williams
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TEA DANCE
The Day Students will entertain
the student body and the faculty at
an informal Tea Dance preceding
the formal 1. R. S. dance tomorrow
afternoon.
Big plans are underway with
Prances Sowers as dance chairman.
The following committees have been
announced: decorations; Lib Smoak,
chairman, Julia Davis, “Bitty”
Daniels, Anne Wilson, Dot Redfern,
and Lois Morgan; refreshments:
Jean Padgett (chairman), Ann Lin-
ville, Jeannene Durham, Janice
Wear, Miriam Swaim, and Anne
Coleman; invitations: “Nookie”
Scott (chairman), Iris Stonestreet,
Mary Ann Harvey; publicity: Mary
Motsinger, Susan Spach, and Sally
Ann Borthwick; music: Fran Rez-
nick.
■ Y News
Negro Orphanage Party
A Christmas party for the
Negro orphans will be held Mon
day afternoon at 4 at the orph
anage. Primary Education ma
jors will present a program and
refreshments will be served. The
student ' body is invited; cars
will leave from Clewell for those
who sign up with Betty Wolfe.
Those who plan to give Christ
mas presents to the orphans
must see Dottie Covington.
Book Store Day
The T received $62 which was
a certain per cent of all the
Book Store profits throughout
Book Store Day, last Tuesday.
This money goes to the W. S.
S. F. fund.
Conference
Peggy Broaddus, Ruth Lenk-
owski, and Betty McBrayer at
tended an inter-racial confer
ence in Charlotte last Saturday
of the conference was ‘ ‘ The Road
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Viennese Pianist Tells
Of Prodigious Childhood
by Barbara Ward
Child prodigy though she was,
Poldi Mildner, the Viennese artist
of last night’s Civic Music conert,
said, “I had to go through the early
stages of gruelling work on piano
technique just as you do.”_
About six Salemites (all piano stu
dents) fired questions at Miss Mild
ner for fifteen minutes after the
concert. They all found her charm
ing and interesting to talk to but
rather demure- and shy. Her accent
is sometimes difficult to understand
but she found ours the same.
Only five feet tall, Miss Mildner
looked up to us though she insisted
upon standing. This extremely
tractive blond seemed unusually
young to have shown such a magni'
ficent display of technical ability-
Miss Mildner and her mother have
a home in Buenos Aries and her fat
her lives in Vienna. The war caught
her in South America after her tour
of the United .States from
1941. She is going to New York
from here and to South America in
March. She spoke lovingly of re
turning to Europe in the fall.
From the age of two. Miss Mild
ner played the piano for her own
amusement. Her family loved and
enjoyed music as her father was
“a very good violinist.” “They
wouldn t let me take lessons until
I had gone to school and learned to
count, that is at the age of eight”,
she said. Her eyes glistened when
she spoke of playing with the Sym
phony Orchestra in Vienna at the
age of eleven as playing on the stage
has always been her ambition. She
is never frightened but gets very
excited about a concert. Siv hours
of practice each day keep her in
form, only one hour of that being
spent on technical drill. She parti
cularly likes one finger drills.
At the piano, Miss Mildner was
dramatic in her ability to set one
mood and then make an abrupt
change. Offstage, she is a little un
sure but very gracious. She is eer-
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Rattled Qal Reporter
Interviews Lecturer
by Janie Morris
I approached the platform after the lecture Tuesday night with some
what of a trembling in the legs and an unnatural shyness, for I was to
meet Mr. Raymond Swing, spirit him away from the intelligent admini
stration and interview him. I, who had never interviewed anyone in
my whole life! He charmed me immediately by telling someone of “our
date”. We were soon settled in the reception room of Main Hall, with
Mr. Swing slumped down on his backbone on the sofa and me trying
not to be obvious with my pen and paper.
I launched a question about uni
versal conscription in this country,
and Mr. Swing replied that he did
not see how we could possibly defend
ourselves in a world of the atomic
bomb through military power. He
did go on to say that if we do
adopt conscription it should not be
limited only to mfen but should in
clude women also, with the goal of
rousing national pride among the
inductees.
He called the situation in Pales
tine a “painful example of doing
things too late”.
“The British”, he said as he ran
his fingers through his slightly gray
liair, “have a God-given capacity
for doing things too late”. The
thing to do about the Arabs is to
offer them some form of economic
security inorde r to raise their stan
dards of living.”
He characterized De Gaulle as a
“reactionary, Roman-Catholic gen
eral” who is a man of ability and
intelligence, but whose thinking is
bound by those three limited quali
fications' He seemed to think that
if J>e Gaulle gets into power he will
develop a state not unlike the total
itarian government of Franco’s in
Spain.
“We must keep a strongj demo
cratic France for our protection.”
I discovered that he is the vice-
president of the World Federalists,
a movement in this country for
world government, and his suggest
ion to students on the campus in
terested in a world federation was
to Write immediately to our Cong
ressmen before January 3, urging
them to consider the resolution which
has been submitted by certain sena
tors and representatives asking for
a revision of the U N Charter along
these lines.
Christmas
Traditions
Senior Christmas Vespers will be
held Sunday at 7 o’clock. This time-
honored custom is for the college,
academy, both faculties, and parents
of the seniors. Dr. Rondthaler will
read the poem of the child who went
to see the manger. Moravian bees
wax candles are lighted.
Banq.uet
The formal Christmas banquet,
given by the Juniors for the Seniors,
will be on Tuesday night, Dec. 16,
at 6 o’clock.
The program includes several
Christmas selections by the Choral
Ensemble and the visit of Santa
Claus with gifts for all the seniors.
Caroling
The senior class, under the leader-
sjiip of Mary Wells Bunting, will
begin their annual Christmas carol
ling on Wednesday night at 7 o’clock.
The seniors will not wear their
robes and will carry flashlights in
stead of candles. The carolling will
last about an hour and carols will be
sung at several places on the campus.
He spoke with a slight smile about
certain things and with a twinkle
in his eyes. As he left he complimen
ted his Winston-Salem audience on
attentive co-operation during his lec
ture which he sai^ “defied all rules
for a lecture”. I decided that it
had been wonderful to talk to the
same man who had not so long ago
been talking to Dr. Albert Einstein.
Dormitories
Decorate
For Prizes
by Porter Evans
The “old ladies” finally won a
prize. The judges in the L R. S.
dormitory decorations contest last
night decided _that the seniors in
Bitting excelled in attractiveness
and that South Hall had the most
original display. Miss Closser, Miss
Hedgecock and Miss Covington were
judges.
“Ye ole Salem” is the setting for
South’s Christmas motif, a 1772
Salem kitchen with a “Home Sweet
Home” atmosphere. “Antiquated”
kitchen utensils adorn the red-brick
chimney. White candles illuminate
the silver-trimmed holly atop the
piano. Fluffy clean snow clings to
the window pane. “If music be the
fruit of love, play on” represents a
sample sampler. Not the music, but
the package-filled socks for dates
Saturday night will be the fruit of
love.
Bitting decorated inside and out.
A spot light shines on the door,
wrapped up like a package. Santa
Claus is leaping in Izzy’s window.
Eventually he’ll get to the smoke
house to read the letter over the
mantle and fill the stockings under
it. A frieze featuring Christmas
song titles trims the wall, and greens
trim the windows.
Strong has real lights on their
Christmas tree. They also have a
putz, greenery and candles in the
windows. A practically life-sized
Santa is over the fireplace, and they
have a red coke machine to carry out
the surprises, the secrets, the pack-
a red coke machine to carry out
their motif.
Sisters’ features a special stock
ing wreath on the door ivith candy
canes and toys in it. A Christmas
star lights up the hall to show off
the banister entwined with greens
and red ribbon. >
Simplicity characterizes Society.
A lighted arch of greenery decorates
the door. Inside are white candles
for a white Christmas on the table
and piano spruced up with greens.
Little Santa Clauses, made from
apples are on the mantle. A bowl
of goodies is waiting the real Santa
who is almost down the chimney—
at least one of his feet is showing.
Davy Jones has candy-cane posts
and ivy-covered pipes. The Christ
mas tree has ivory snow flakes, sil
ver balls and silver bells. In each
window is a small lighted wreath
to add to a candle-lighted Christmas
atmosphere.
Impunity forbids my saying that
Lehman is a head of the other dorm
itories, but they do have a real (not
alive) reindeer head on the door.
Jeweled icicles, tinsel, and popcorn
trim the Christmas tree. Red crepe
paper decorates the curtains. Can
dles and candy adorn the piano man
tle.
The spirit of St. Nick is every
where: the gaiety and goings on,
the surpirses, the secrets, the pack
ages, the decorations. Behind these
outward manifestations is another
Christmas spirit—that of planning,
co-operation, and lot^ of hard work.
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CHORAL ENSEMBLE
The Choral Ensemble and the
Home Moravian Church Choir will
give a Christmas Concert in the
Home Moravian Church on Sunday
at 5 o’clock.
This joint concert will also in
clude several solos and special num
bers. Barbara Sheppe will give the
call to worship and A Christmas
Story will be read by Peggy Sue
Taylor. Geraldine Allegood, con-
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