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April 23, 1948
THE SALEMITE
Page Five
Look Over;
Don’t Lean
On Wall
by lone Bradsher
The well-dressed wliat? Vogue
has them . . . Esquire has them . . .
and now that the sun is hot and
spring is here, Salem has them . . .
The well-dressed sunbather! There’s
no water in the pool yet, but there
are tana to be seen anyway. By
looking out of Clewell windows or
looking over the wall (don’t lean),
it’s easy to see what is being worn
in TIIE fashion circles of Salem.
Of course, the “athletes” of
Salem ciin l)e seen well-dressed in
gym suits or white shorts for the
badminton tournament or class soft
ball. But there are those “non
athletes” who are holding their own
by the pool.
Dee McCarter has a new two-piece
cotton bathing suit. The top is j
white, and the bottom is Poppy red '
with an eyelet ruffle . . . reminiscent
of the Gibson girl.
If you ’re at Myrtle Beach this
summer and see a two-piece jersey
suit, that’s Miriam Bailey. One
half of the suit is melon pink, and
the other half black. Sophisticated
at the least!
In between classes Sis Hines
dashes out to the pool for sun in
her chambray suit. It’s pink and
white striped . . . just like candy!
(If you’re passing the pool be
tween the hours of four .md five
0 ’clock when the sun is hottest, peek
over the edge. There you might
find Tootsie GUlespie avidly reading
on Anthropology. Her creation is
of sand burlap charmingly caught at
the waist w'ith rope.)
Down at the far end of the pool
is Saso Morris in a new one-piece
suit. It’s aqua “waffle” lastex.
Very good for sunning and swim
ming!
Beth Kittrell has a cotton suit
which she calls “complex”. The
strapless top is of red gingham, and
the entire skirt is made of white ruf
fles, one on top of the other. Red
(Continued on page six)
Coeds Have
Active Week
“In spring a young man’s fancy
turns to . . .” Among the Salem
co-eds, it’s softball. The Men’s
Organization has organized a soft
ball team. The team practices on
Wednesday and Friday afternoons
in preparation for competition with
other local teams during the spring
months.
If the tennis team plans go thro
ugh, the men students will be on the
tennis courts as well as the baseball
diamond. Men faculty members, get
your racquets out, we might chal-
lange you for a tournament!
But the men have their social as
well as their sporty side. They can
be found other than on the field of
sport! Allan Owen took Louiae
Stacy to the Beta Function at David
son last week-end. Neal Pitzer went
to Pfeiffer College, his Alma Mater
for Home Coming for a date with
a mysterious South Carolinian belle.
Charles Kouth and his wife week
ended at Boone. In fact, a Salem
co-ed may turn up anywhere. Eight
now the men students are planning
to turn up en masse for the tradi
tional Men’s Annual Banquet which
will bo held May 7th.
A.A.Announces
New Officers
The retiring Athletic Association
Council elected the ’48-49 Council at
a recent meeting.
The officers and managers elected
are: Betty Wolfe, vice-president;
Jan Ballentine, secretary; Mary Jane
Hurt, treasurer; Beverly Johnson,
basketball manager; Gloria Paul,
hockey manager; Nancy Wray, soft
ball manager; Ann Jenkins, svirim-
ming manager: Joyce* Privette, golf
manager; Jo Dunn, riding manager;
Clinky Clinkscales, tennis manager;
and Peggy Harrill, archery manager.
A. A. Announces Basketball Varsity
Jane White
Eaton Seville
Isabel Leeper
Jane Hart
Gloria Paul
Beverly Johnson
I’eggy Watkins, basketball mana
ger, Ann Carothers, Miss Stout, and
the four class basketball managers,
have announced the following var
sity basketball team: Beverly John
son, Eaton Seville and Gloria Paul,
forwards; Isabel Leeper, Jane Hart
and Jane White, guards. Those an
nounced for sub-vftrsity are Amy De
busk, Janis Ballentine and Peggy
Watkins, forwards; Carolyn Taylor,
Shirley Baker and Nancy Wray,
guards. Pictured above are the mem
bers of the varsity team.
Beverly Johnson of Mayodan
played on her class softball team
last year and was also a member of
the basketball varsity, last year.
Eaton Seville of Statesville was a
member of the hockey sub-varsity,
the basketball varsity, and the soft
ball varsity, while a freshman. As
a sophomore she was on the hockey
varsity, the basketball varsity and
the softball varsity. So far in her
junior year she has been a member
of her class hockey team, as well as
being on the basketball varsity.
Gloria Paul, of St. Petersburg,
Florida, was a member of the hockey
varsity, the basketball varsity and
the softball varsity during her fresh
man year. In her sophomore year she
has become a member of the hockey
varsity and the basketball varsity.
Isabel Leeper of Gastonia was a
member of the hockey varsity, the
basketball varsity and the softball
varsity, as a freshman. As a sopho
more she was on the hockey varsity,
her class basketball team and the
softball varsity. In her junior year
she was on the hockey varsity, her
class basketball team and the soft-
l)all varsity. As a senior she is a
member of her class hockey team
and the basketball varsity.
Jane Hart of Kinston made her
start in Salem sports by becoming
a member of the basketball varsity.
Jane White of Henderson was a
substitute on her class team during
her freshman year and has now
made the basketball varsity.
Famous Salem Athlete Tells Secrets;
Flexes And Unflexes Muscles For Fans
by Tootsie Gillespie
The A. A. is a fine little organi
zation. In fact, it is so fine that I
have decided to leave to it all of
my various athletic badges, awards,
riI)bons, cups and other trivia that
I have collected during my brilliant
career as Salem’s (and North Caro
lina ’s) most outstanding woman
athlete. I detest a braggadocio as
much as anyone but I must say that
it was I who did extensive research
on and perfected the pivot shot. I
also explained the use of the back
hand to several of Salem’s muscle-
backs and after a little more prac
tice, the gym teacher will probably
be pretty good.
Perhaps you wonder how I got my
start. It so happens that my father
used to be a weight-lifter on the
entertainment committee of a Chero
kee Indian reservation. It also hap
pened that my mother was touring
the reservation one day with a group
of adenoidal friends who liked to
call her “Muscles”. Well, Muscles
was standing there flexing and un-
flexing her muscles when Daddy hap
pened to pass by. “What a beauti
ful set of muscles! ” thought Daddy
and before he could say “geewhiz-
offthewliiskeymillatsundown,” they
were married (Mother and Daddy,
that is).
Nature being the methodical thing
that she is, I was born, but instead
of being soft and warm. I was
sweaty and out of breath. “Just
like your father,” Muscles said to
me when she saw the basket-ball
shaped birth-mark on my left fully
developed bicep. So from birth on,
I was entered in one contest after
another—the baby crawling contest,
miniature croquet, kick-ball, the
standing broad jump, table tennis
for three, the Olympic potato races,
women’s javelin throwing, then
men’s javelin throwing, Hindu nail-
sitting (“Hard Paats,” they called
me), pole-vaulting (old “High Vault-
age,” they called me), then deep-
sea racing (“Pompano Esther,” they
called me) and on and on until I
became weary of winning and never
losing.
Then one day, “Babe” Dedrick-
son and I were in the midst of a
hot golf tournament. We had just
finished 36 holes and were starting
on our last 18. The score was tied
—36 to 36. An angry mob was
gathering on either side of the
course. I took out my putter and
prepared to drive. Little did I know
that the tee, I was using had been
inspected by a half-witted Baal-
worshipper named Wortz who held a
personal grudge against all golfers
because his pet otter had been flail-
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with a man on the end of it. Wortz,
the crumb, had passed inspection on
a tee that was a ten-millionth of an
inch off at the base. I realized the
fact after I had let go with a drive
that a centurian with a withered
leg could have KICKED up the
green. Thus I got one point behind
in the game and Babe grabbed off
the tournament. I was left crushed
to the uttermost parts of my strain
ed muscle fibers and I swore on the
spot to retire from athletics.
Since that time, I have been en
gaged in bettering the athletics at
Salem. Look, for example,, at the
ping-pong tournament. What better
way can one learn the rules of good
clean play than in ping-pong t Every
principle of democracy is used in
ping-pong and it would hardly be
surprising to pick up the Reader’s
Digest some day and read where the
constitution w'as founded on the
principles of ping-pong. (Incident-
ally, ping-pong is the game from
which the phrase “hit and miss”
originated.)
At present, I am making plans
for a three-day tricycle race on the
hockey field and the proceeds shall
go to buy band aids, splints, crutches,
a wheel-chair and a plot of ground
in the Moravian cemetery, all of
which will make Salem’s athletic
department the most completely out-
AA President
Reports On
Convention
(Ed. note; The article printed here
was written by Peggy Watkins,
president of the Athletic Associa
tion who recently attended an in
ter-collegiate conference of N. 0.
college athletic associations. This
article has been submitted to the
Salemite in the form of an open
letter.)
To the student body:
On April 10 I attended the N. C.
A. F. C. W. at Woman’s College in
Greensboro. What do all these let
ters mean? It’s the North Carolina
State Athletic Federation of Col
lege Women. And what is thisf
Well there is a National Athletic
Federation of College Women, and
North Carolina is one of the states
that has participated with such en-
thusiam.
Its purpose is to improve skills
through interest and enjoyment, and
to increase the number of women
participating in women athletic
associations. The Federation shall
also strive to increase consciousness
of its purpose during and after col-
lege.
There were three discussion groups
at the conference and I chose “Com
petition in.Women’s Athletics” led
by Jean Presnell of Guilford Col
lege. In this meeting many problems
were discussed such as: “How shall
participants be selected for Play
Day—for their interest or skill?”;
‘ ‘ What kind of jjolicy can be drawn
up to obtain interest in athletics
among the student body—can honor
be a way?”; and “Who shall pay
for the expense of the delegates?”.
Some of these questions can be readi
ly answered at Salem College, but
its maiA problem is the interest of
the student body in its sports.
This conference helped me by giv
ing me new ideas for Salem’s A. A.
My only plea is that you will sup
port your A. A. the remainder of
this year and the next year for a
bigger and better athletic enthus
iasm on our campus.
Games Start
In Softball
On Monday, the opening day of
the softball season, the juniors took
the freshmen by a score of 14-6.
Betty Ann Epps pitched for the jun
iors and Ann Eixey pitched for the
freshmen.
The first inning of the game tells
the whole story. During the first
half of that inning the freshmen
brought in only one run; during the
last half of that inning the juniors
brought in seven runs, enough to let
them coast through the remaining
innings.
The second game of the baseball
season, senior-sophomore, was one
filled with excitement and runs at
the right time. Paul pitched to
Cain for the sophomores and the sen
ior slaves were, Clark, pitcher, and
Carter, catcher. The game ended
after five innings of play with the
score in favor of the sophomores,
11-8.
During the first half of the first
inning Eula Cain hit a home run
for the sophomores and the sopho
mores gained four runs after that.
The seniors made a terrific come
back in the last half of the third
inning by hitting in five runs. They
gained only one run in the last half
of the fourth and consequently re
mained behind. That’s it; 11-8.
Watkins Wins
Tournament
Peggy Ann Watkins won the bad
minton tournament.
Participants in the tournament
were Janie Fowlkes, Nell Smith, Jan
Ballentine, June Elder, Jo Dunn,*
Joan Hassler, Betty Ann Epps,
Peggy Watkins, Betty Biles, Clinky
Clinkscales, Pat Royer, Mary Jane
Trager, Betty Wolfe and Miss Stout.
The semi-finals were played off
by Miss Stout and Betty Epps;
Peggy Watkins and Joan Hassler.
Peggy Watkins and Connie Nea-
mand, who took Miss Stout’s place,