“The Innocents” was sinister
and scary.
In dark places that night
Salemites wouldn’t tarry.
Volume XXXII
Engle States And Proves
Poets Are Normal People
Jane Watson
A poet IS no different from other people, said Paul Engle con
temporary American poet and writer of Iowa State Universit?, ’in h s
lecture Monday night in Memorial Hall. “I’m sure, at least, ^Lt on
poet couldnt even be distinguished from delegates to a water and
sewer convention being held in Winston-Salem this week”
It was true. The tall Iowa poet had stepped off the train Monday
^^morning with a group of men ar
riving for the convention, walked
_SaIem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 16, 195i
Beginners
Tell Problems
Of Teaching
At the F. T. A. meeting last
Tuesday night, Betty Gwen Beck,
Nancy Florence and Frances War
ren, first year elementary teachers,
spoke on the problems and situa
tions encountered by the beginning
teacher.
They told of their own exper
iences and offered suggestions on
how to get started in a new pro
fession.
Dee Allen reported on the A. C.
E. I. meeting held in Burlington
last Saturday. Dee and Beth Cour-
sey represented Forsyth County
and Winston-Salem at the Burl
ington meeting.
Miss Benbow, a teacher at Cent- 1
ral School, spoke on the work and
activities of A. C. E. I. Miss Ben
bow has been on a leave of absence
this past year to be in Washington
at the A. C. E. I. headquarters.
This was an elementary group
meeting.
The week-end of Nov. 3, a num
ber of F. T. A. members attended
a social meeting at W. C. in
Greensboro. Representatives from
clubs in the Northwest district were
present. Suggested projects for F.
T. A. were discussed.
Representatives from Salem were
Dr. Welch, Mary Campbell Craig,
Ellen Bell, Fae Deaton, Ann Simp
son, Charlotte McLong, Loma Faye
Cuthbertson and Connie Barnes.
Hedrick Is President
Theresa Hedrick was elected pre
sident of the Lablings at their first
meeting of the year last Tuesday
night in the science building.
Other officers chosen for the
coming year were Marlene Hed
rick, vice-president; Carolyn Knee-
burg, secretary-treasurer; Pat
Noah, reporter. Martha Newcombe
was appointed chairman of the re
freshment committee.
Members decided to meet once
a month on a Tuesday at 6:4S p.m.
directly in front of two girls -sent
to the station to meet him and had
ridden to the college in a taxi.
The two students couldn’t distin
guish him as a poet in such a
crowd.
The popular conception of a poet
as an individual apart from real
people who “lives in a garret sur
rounded by beautiful women and
bread crusts” or as “a man with a
long beard born at SO ready to
write poetry” is not true, says
Engle. A poet must live with
people, he continued, for daily life
is the subject of the poet.
Poets Store Experiences
The human associations and ex
periences of the poet are accumu
lated in his mind until he begins
to draw upon them for his poetry.
Then, says Engle, the experiences
are intensified and emotionalized
by precise, suggestive words.
Poetry, he concluded, is the
writer putting into tight, vibrant
phrases the things he has felt
deeply with the hope of sharing
with the reader his own feelings.
The same vitality and humor de
monstrated in his lecture was evi
dent in his conversation at the
luncheon in Corrin refectory and
the coffee which followed in the
Alumnae House. Peter Taylor,
creative writing professor at Wo
man’s College in Greensboro,
novelist and short story writer, was
also a guest at the luncheon and
coffee.
Interest In Salem
Engle expressed interest in the
Moravian customs and the archi
tecture of Salem. Commenting
that “while he did a little lecturing,
he learned an awful lot,” he ex
plained that his hobby is collecting
personal documents in the field of
history. He showed his particular
enthusiasm about the extant diary
of the early Moravian settlement
here.
His 11-year-old daughter, Sarah,
often accompanies him on his trips
to historical sites. He added that
her interest in old things almost
tops his own. His “American
Child,” a collection of sonnets, was
dedicated to Sarah. His other
daughter is seven.
Engle said that even though he
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Thanksgiving vacation is just
around the corner.
Of this event no one is a
mourner.
Number 9
Full Houses
Applaud
"Innocents
II
TuIIoch, Connie Murray and Laura
Mitchell in a scene from ‘‘The Innocents’^.
Salem Finds Music Faculty
Member On Concert Stage
Martin’s Sociology Class Works
With American Red Cross
The American Red Cross is co
operating with Mr. Harry Martin’s
Social Field Work Class. The
class has recently completed a
training in Home Service which
qualifies them to participate in the
Home Service Program of the
American Red Cross. This pro
gram provides reporting, communi
cations and other services to vet-
rans, servicemen and their families.
So far the training has been di
vided into three divisions. First
the history of the American Red
Cross, eligibility for help and the
different branches were explained,
as Home Service, Grey Ladies,
The branches include such things
Nurse’s Aid and the Blood Bank.
Second was an introduction to
Social Welfare Service. This ser
vice is divided into four parts:
1) Disaster, 2) Home Service, 3)
Military Welfare Service and 4)
Service in Military Hospitals.
Home Service was the third part
of the training program for the
class. This consists of doing case
vcork and working in the maip of
fice of the American Red Cross.
Emily Mitchell, Carolyn Harris,
Bobbie Pfaff and Mrs. Mildred
McMichael are at present doing
case work.
They are sent from the office to
investigate clients who have ap
plied for help and to obtain ad
ditional information for such or
ganizations as the Veterans Admi
nistration and the armed forces.
Specific reasons for investigation
may be sickness in the family
which necessitates calling their sev-
viceman home or the fact that a
family has not been receiving their
allotment check. Case work is
under the direction of Miss Rigan
of the local chapter of the Ameri
can Red Cross.
Another portion of the class,
consisting of Margaret Thomas,
B. J. Smith, Marcia Skinner and
Sara Walston, are working in the
local office as typists, switchboard
operators and filing clerks.
These duties in the office and as
case workers will be alternated so
as to provide opportunity for the
entire class to become familiar
with the activities of the American
Red Cross.
By Florence Cole
In a little corner studio of Mem
orial Hall behind a pair of horn
rims and underneath a casual tweed
jacket can be found a most de
lightful and subtle personality. It
resides there in the form of one
Hans Heidemann. He is Salem’s
latest addition to the music faculty
and an outstanding concert pianist.
Heidemann is a native of Will-
helmshaven, Germany and began
his musical studies at the ago of
10. His career was launched when
a friend of the family, who was a
concert pianist, was visiting in the
Heidemann home one particular
evening. He entertained the family
with several selections, one of
which deeply impressed young
Heidemann. The next morning, to
the amazement of his parents, he
was found seated at the piano
picking out that well-remembered
piece of the previous evening.
Moved From Germany
When he was 14, his family
moved from Germany to New York.
He graduated from the Julliard
School of Music, and continued his
studies under Rudolph Serkin. It
is to Moriz Rosenthal, Liszt’s last
pupil, that Heidemann attributes
his sensitive artistic conception.
Not unlike any healthy young
man, Heidemann saw the backon-
ing finger of Uncle Sam in the
early years of the war. One might
imagine to see Heidemann with the
U. S. O. When asked about this,
however, he sighed and said, “No,
they gave me a soldering iron, a
wrench, a screw driver, a volt-meter
and told me to repair teletype
writers for the Signal Corps.”
Has Performed Abroad
Widely recognized as a concert
pianist, Heidemann has not only
performed in the U. S. but also
abroad. During his two-year Euro
pean stay, he gave concerts in Ply
mouth, Glasgow and Paris. In
America he has played with the
Rochester Symphony and Fort
Monmouth Symphony under Thor
Johnson. With the four piano En
semble for four seasons, he toured
from coast to coast making Civic
Music appearances.
Heidemann made his debut in
Town Hall. He was also a member
of the Brooklyn Conservatory of
Music and Baldwin Conservatory
of Music in Baldwin, L. I.
Heidemann
To Appear In
Recital Series
Hans Heidemann, concert pianist
and school of music faculty mem
ber, will present the fourth in a
series of faculty concerts Monday,
Nov. 19 at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial
Hall.
Heidemann joined the faculty this
fall as an advanced piano teacher.
His recital program will be:
Sonata, Op. S3 (Waldstein)
Beethoven
Etudes Symphoniques
Schumann
Waltz, Op. 18 Chopin
Nocturne, Op. IS, No. 2..Chopin '
Scherzo, ■ Op. 31 Chopin
Reflects dans I’eau Debussy
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Debussy
Feux d’artifice Debussy
Au lac de Wallenstadt. Liszt
Mephisto Waltz Liszt
The public is invited to the re
cital.
Allen To Be Speaker
“Y” vespers this Sunday will be
held at S :00 p.m. instead of the
regular hour in the living room of
Bitting. The Rev. Walser H. Allen,
Jr. will be the guest speaker. Mr.
Allen will show color slides of
Europe and tell about his studies
and experiences in the Moravian
seminary in England.
“The Innocents” played to full
houses last Wednesday and Thurs
day evening in Old Chapel. The
Pierrette production was well-re
ceived by the audience of towns
people and students.
Based on the Henry James novel,
“The Turn of the Screw”, “The
Innocents” is a psychological
drama that takes place in an Eng
lish country home and deals with
See Review of Play by
Eleanor McGregor and
Ann Lowe on Page 4
a governess, two precocious child
ren, a motherly housekeeper and
two sinister ghosts.
In the starring role was Lola
Dawson, senior, from Rocky
Mount, and Pierrette president; as
Mark, the little boy, was Sara
Tulloch, sophomore transfer from
Winston-Salem. Flora, Mark’s
sister was played' by Laura Mit
chell, sophomore from Charlotte.
Connie Murray, sophomore from
Durham was Mrs. Gross, the
housekeeper. As the two ghosts,
Peter Quint and Miss Jessell, were
Jack White of Winston-Salem and
Marcia Zachary, sophomore from
Salisbury.
Miss Elizabeth Riegner. directed
the production, and the set and
costume designer was Bryan Bal
four. Various committees were:
technical manager and crew: Emma
Sue Larkins, Jeanne Harrison, Bar
bara Lackey, Anne Edwards, Bryan
Balfour, Cris Crutchfield, Sally
Reiland, Louise ' Fike and Edith
Miles, the little boy, was Sara
Winston - Salem. Flora, Miles’
Howell.
Lighting: Eleanor Johnson,
ney.
Properties: Phyllis Tierney
Florence Spaugh.
Stage Manager: Frances Wil
liams. House Management: Edith
Tesch, Fae Deaton, Florence Cole,
Jan Langly, Ruth Mcllroy, Phoebe
Earnhardt, Jane Little and Connie
Barnes.
Publicity: Fae Deaton, Florence
Cole, Nancy Ramsey, Edith Tesch,
Eleanor Fry, Barbara Kuss, Roony
Barnes and Sally Reiland. The
Ballads sung by Miles and Flora
were composed by Fae Deaton.
I. R. S. And "Y”
Give Coffee
The I. R. S. and the social com
mittee of the “Y” co-sponsored the
first in a series of faculty-student
after-dinner coffee hours last Wed
nesday after dinner in the club din
ing room.
Those who planned the event
were I. R. S. president Lou Davis,
“Y” president Carol Stortz, “Y”
Social Committee Chairman Betty
Parks, and “Y” committee member
Phyllis Forrest.
Coffee was served by Virginia
Millican and Peggy MacCanless,
and piano music was provided by
Jane Little and Joanne White.
Others assisting with entertainment
and serving were the the following
members of the two organizations:
Jo Bell, Sally Senter, Edna Wil-
kerson, Betty Tyler, Jean Edwards,
Marion Lewis, Marilyn Sumney,
Mary Campbell Craig, Julia Tim-
berlake, Betsy Turner, Alice Mc-
Neely, Ellen Bell and Sally Jean
Kerner.