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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 4, 1960
Number 1 6
alemites Elect Churchill Jenkins Student Body President
New Stee Gee President ChurchiU Jenkins speaks as Nan Williams
j|959-60 president, and Rosemary Laney, Chairman of the Judicial Board,
listen with the three candidates for Stee Gee Secretary,
Stokes, Alice Huss, and Betty Cox.
Nina Ann
an Williams Receives Woodrow Wilson
ellowship For Study In Chemistry
ApplicationsFor
Oslo Awards To
jEach year, the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation
grants one thousand fellowships for
first year graduate work to students
ijho plan careers in college teach
ing. This year, Nan Williams, a
senior from Farmville, North Caro
lina, and president of the Student
government Association at Salem,
has received one of the fellowships
l^’om the region which includes
North Carolina.
|Nan hopes to do her graduate
work at Johns-Hopkins or at the
University of North Carolina. She
is a chemistry major and an honor
student.
l,Tlie foundation from which Nan
is receiving the award grew out of
a'program begun in 1945 at Prince
ton. After 1952 the fellowships
were underwritten by the Associa
tion of American Universities of
the Carnegie Corporation, and the
general Education Board. The
purpose of the foundation is to en
courage capable young men and
women to enter careers as college
%achers.
!The foundation primarily supports
students interested in the humani
ties and social sciences. However,
in exceptional cases where a clear
preference for teaching is indicated
and the candidate is of unusual
ability, the foundation does con
sider candidates from the natural
sciences. This means that Nan has,
received a double honor. An elected
fellow will normally engage in resi
dent graduate work toward a de
gree. She is expected to devote the
major portion of her time to her
chosen field of interest which may
be broader in scope than that of
a single subject or department. Only
faculty members may nominate can
didates. A nominated candidate is
invited by the regional chairman to
make formal application which in
cludes transcripts of academic re
cords, three letters of recommen
dation, and the candidates own
statement of purpose. A prelimi
nary elimination is made on the
basis of credentials. Then the re
gional committees summon to in
terviews as many applicants as they
find it possible to see. No fellow
can be selected without an inter
view.
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tombo Present
[Liturgical Jazz
Sunday Night
Freshmen Eagerly Await
Parents* Day, March 5
.Ul
JvVTsley Foundation will present
nine-man musical combo Sunday
night, March 7, at 8 :30 in the Mag
nolia Room at Wake Forest Col
lege. This group has attracted
national attention by their jazz in
terpretations of church services.
^fThe c'ombo “Church Art Asso
ciates”, composed of students from
North Texas State College will pre
sent “A Liturgical Jazz Service”.
The program includes John Wes
ley s Order for Evening Prayer and
A Requiem for Mary Jo. The Re
quiem is a church service set to
jazz by clarinet-saxaphonist Ed
Summerlin, the combo leader, in
memorial to his daughter who died
at the age of mne months. The
combo presented this program on
the NBC Television program World
Wide 60 several weeks ago.
by Susan Hughes
Busy, busy excited Freshmen run
ning around with magic markers,
cardboard, mimeographed menus
that need to be stapled and name
tags that haven’t been printed, hop
ing that flu won’t catch the star
performer or that snow won’t cover
up their whole project — Parents
Day. .
March 5th seemed so far away.
Then, all' of a sudden, there were
letters from Mother and Daddy—
“Can’t wait to see you this Satur
day.” Panic! Is everything ready
Dean Major who is chairman o
the Day seems to think most of
the details are under controh
A peep at the program for the
day disclosed a full schedule.^ ^
11:00 a.m. registration wih beg'"
Clewell. In the Deans office
parents will receive programs an
name-tags. Nancy Joyner has been
in charge of seeing that this phase
of the day runs smoothly.
Marsha Ray was in charge
urograms From 1:00-2:00 p.m.
even Daddy can go in Babcock an
Clewell. Ann Nelson has been
chairman of the committee plan
ning these open houses.
A^new idea this year is the tou .
There will be three of these tou^s-
at 3:00, 4:00 and 5 :00 o’clock dur
Begin March 7
L
;„g which time Gay Austin, Kathy
Brown and Dean Major, dressed
in Moravian Settlers’
show the visitors around the ca
pus and the village of^ OW^^Sak-
ilL,"from 3:00 until 4:00, parents
will have a chance to meet the
faculty at a tea in the Terrace
Room of Babcock. The afternoon
is full, but there is still more!
At 6:00 o’clock the banquet will
be held in the main dining room.
Upperclassmen will be eating in the
Club Dining Room at the regular
supper hour. Joan Thrower and
her committee planned the menu
and Diana Wells has worked with
decorations which will carry out^ the
main theme of the day the
changes we find at college and the
cultural opportunities with which
we are presented.” Some of the
musically inclined freshmen will
^ovide “music for dining”, and
Jackie Baker, president of the class,
will welcome the guests.
The highlight of the day will be
the skit around whjch the whole
day was planned. llucy Lane and
Katherine Parrish have been work
ing hard to make it just right. Beth
Norman and Katherine Parrish will
represent two freshmen who are
confronted with changes and new
cultural opportunities which they
fLe at Salem. They provide the
unity, for a program of talent which
includes a composition by freshmen
members of Dansalems. June Beck
and Siegrid Ostborg will play ac
companied by a senior, Harriet
tierring. There will be a taste ot
fraternity parties—with a real live
combo—this is culture! And the
piece de resistance^ is a five minute
dramatic presentation.
It sounds as if the girls have
really worked hard on their biggest
project for the year.
Salem is offering again this year
two scholarships for study at the
University of Oslo in Norway dur
ing the summer of 1960. These
scholarships are awarded by the
Honorable L. Corriii Strong, past
a m b a s s a d o r to Norway. The
scholarships are for a rising junior
and a rising senior.
Former winners of these scholar
ships on campus are Nan Williams,
Sarah Tesch, and Maery Lu Nuck-
ols. Sarah and Mary Lu went to
the University last summer and are
planning an exhibit of many inter
esting things collected on their trip
Applicatios forms and other details
Will be ready by Monday, March 7
for all those who would like in
formation concerning these scholar
ships and how to apply for them.
Rupen, Expert
On Mongolia
Churchill Jenkins emerged victor
ious as new Student Government
head in elections held on campus
this week.
Balloting took place Wednesday
in Main Hall and the Refectory,
with final results announced Thurs
day.
Churchill, along with candidates
Jane Givens and Janet Yarborough,
present her views on what Salem’s
Student Government should be at
the annual kickoff banquet Tuesday
night. In her campaign speech
Churchill stated that she felt Stu
dent Government was our organi
zation and that it should be active
in all affairs concerning Salem stu
dents. She urged that more re
sponsibility should be delegated to
those girls not on the Judicial
Board and suggested this could be
accomplished through committees
and projects such as work on the
point system.
Churchill continued that students
should use their power of petition
for changing an objectionable rule
rather than trying to get around
it. As her last point, she said that
many times we as students regard
our honor tradition too lightly, and
that in the 1960-61 year that these
students can be reached,
Janet Yarborough who had not
been working directly with Student
Government presented ideas of a
hopeful “outsider looking in.” She
believed that Stee Gee could help
a Salemite become satisfied with
herself through the development of
a sense of accomplishment and re
sponsibility. She suggested holding
hiock elections, acadernic discus
sions, and more student sponsored
social events.
Jane Givens stressed the import
ance of Salem’s honor tradition as
'a democratic system which is the
basis for our future lives. She
pointed out that Student Council
and Student Government are not
one and the same — that Student
Government consists of the entire
student body and should create
unity and co-operation and a
strengthened sense of personal
honor. According to, Jane, the work
of Student Government should be
distributed to as many students as
possible. Student Council, on the
other hand, is made up of a part
of the students who regulate our
campus organizations.
Jane felt that our system could
be improved if the Legislative and
Judicial Boards work more closely.
She stated that she would like to
see students understand the rules
well enough to understand the de
cisions passed on the various cases.
Speaks Monday
One of the few specialists on
Mongolia "in the U. S., Dr. Robert
A. Rupen of the University of
North Carolina, will speak in as
sembly Monday, March 7, as a
Rondthaler Lecturer. His subject
will be the “Peking-Moscow Axis.”
Dr. Rupen will also show films
of Siberia and Outer Mongolia in
the 3rd floor Main Hall propection
room at 9:50 Monday. He made
these films in the fall of this year,
when he was one of the three
Americans to take part in the first
International Congress of Mongo-
lists in Ulan Bator, Outer Mongo
lia.
Dr. Rupen is associate professor
of Political Science and a research
associate in the Institute for Re
search in Social Science at UNC.
He came to Chapel Hill in 1958
after taking his Ph. D. at the Uni
versity of W^ ashington, Seattle,
serving as a Research Fellow of the
Russian Research Center at Har
vard and teaching at Bryn Mawr
College.
Bray Produces
Award-Winning
T V Program
A television program written,
directed, and produced by James L.
Bray, assistant professor of edu
cation at Salem, recently won a
Freedom Foundation award for
1959. The award winning variety
program was one in a series of 11
half-hour variety shows produced
last summer. The program won in
national competition.
The winning production featured
18th century paintings and music
with commentary to show the
struggle of the American Revolu
tion. Special scenes such as the
signing of the Declaration of In
dependence were dramatized. The
foundation stated that this program
was “an outstanding achievement in
helping to bring about a better
understanding of the American way
of life during 1959.”