Salem 0oes Republican-Chooses Nixon In Close Election
Faculty Picks Jack Kennedy By Just ONE Vote
Vice President and Mrs. Nixon
Vice President Richard Nixon won the
Salem student body mock election by a narrow
margin in chapel on Tuesday, November 1. In
a separate election the faculty, administration
and staff selected Senator John Kennedy as
their choice by a one vote margin.
Of the 332 students voting, 170 supported
the Republican ticket of Nixon-Lodge and 160
prefered the Democratic ticket of Kennedy-
Johnson. One student was undecided. There
was also one write in vote for “Alvin the Chip-
,monk” for President.
Nixon also won among the 48 students who
ban vote in the national election. Among this
group, 26 students favored Nixon to 22 for
JCennedy. There were 21 ballots which did not
indicate whether the student is eligible to vote
or not.
Seventy-four per cent of the 445 Salem stu
dents voted. Of the 376 students who regis
tered, 332 voted. A separate poll was con
ducted among the faculty, staff, and admini
stration. Forty-five voted out of approxi
mately 85.
The faculty poll showed the importance of
a single ballot. Of the ballots cast, Kennedy
won 22 and Nixon won 21. Two people were
still undecided. Of this total number, 3 were
not registered voters.
It will be interesting to note on Tuesday
whether the student body or the faculty chose
the national favorite in our mock election.
Volume XLI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 4, 1960
Number
Stee Gee Makes Change
In Election Procedure
The Legislative Board has voted
to change the election procedure
that was previously followed when
the principal officers of the dif
ferent organizations are elected.
Under the former procedure, the
student body voted for one or two
officers every few days; often the
elections lasted lor over a month
because it was necessary to hold
runoffs. The old method was un
satisfactory because the voters did
not know who was going to run for
all the offices until the candidates
were announced the day before
each election.
The election procedure that has
been decided on will eliminate run
offs and enable the voter to see at
once all of the candidates for every
office. The slate will have a repeti-
Head Presents
Piano Recital
Mrs. Linda Head, piano instructor
in the preparatory department of
Salem College will present a piano
recital Monday, November 7, at
8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Mrs. Head received her B. M. and
M. M. from the University of
Michigan. She has served on the
staff of the National Music Camp
in Michigan. In 1958, while on the
staff of the Brenard Music Center,
she was piano soloist with the
faculty staff orchestra.
Mrs. Head is the wife of Emer
son Head, Director of Instrumental
Music at Wake Forest College.
They have lived in Winston-Salem
for two years.
Mrs. Head’s program will consist
of Bach’s “Partita in E Minor”,
Mozart’s “Sonata in C Major”, Bar-
tok’s “Suite, Opus 14”, and Shu-
bert’s “Sonata in G Major”.
Most of us do not know too much
about the music faculty unless we
are music majors, so f^his is an ex
cellent opportunity to get better
acquainted with at least one mem
ber of the staff. Remember, Mon
day, November 7, at 8:30 p.m. in
Memorial Hall.
tion of names so the student will
vote on one office at a time in
order to protect a candidate’s
chances if she is running for more
than one office, but all the elections
will take place on the same day.
Candidates are nominated by the
Nominating Committee, the student
body, and the respective organiza
tions. If there are four girls run
ning for an office the voter will
put down her first, second, third,
and fourth choice; this is preferen
tial voting. If four girls are run
ning, and two girls are tied or are
very close to winning, the second
choice votes of the other two can
didates are distributed to the two
who are tied. In other words, tf
candidates A, B, C, and D are run
ning for an office and A and B are
tied, then the second choice of
those who voted for C and D for
first choice are distributed to the
candidates A and B which should
result in a majority for one of the
candidates. In preferential voting,
if no candidate receives a majority
of first choices the one receiving
the highest number of first and
second choices together is elected.
In Assembly on November 3, two
motions were brought before the
student body which will be voted
on in December. The question is
whether the students want to vote
preferentially in Assembly or pre
ferentially after supper. One dis
advantage in voting at Assembly is
that there is not enough time dur
ing the Assembly to elect all of the
officers unless more than one of
ficer at a time were elected.
NOTICES
The deadline for signing up for
the Hygiene Exam is November 7.
Students must pass this exam be
fore entering their senior year. The
exam will be given again in the
spring.
Mid-semester grades will be is
sued November 9 and announce
ment of second semester courses
will be issued November 10. A
schedule for the second semester
will be published November 18, and
registration will be November 21-23
and 28-30.
Students should check with their
advisors for mid-semester grades.
Mrs. Dai Shows
Ceramic Display
|n Salem Library
Ceramics by "Vivian Dai, an ex
hibition of stoneware pottery and
porcelain, is being displayed on the
vestibule balcony of the college lib
rary. The display was set up on
October 27 and will remain in the
library through November 13. It is
being sponsored by the Salem Col
lege Art Department. Mrs. Dai
will also lecture November 8 on
Contemporary Ceramics. The lec
ture will be at 8 p.m. in the Science
Building.
The art being shown is the work
of Mrs. Bingham Dai, an American-
born Chinese, who now resides in*
Durham, North Carolina, where herj
husband is a professor in the De- \
partment of Psychiatry at Duke
University. Mrs. Dai received!
training in art at the Newark'
School of Fine and Industrial Art,
in Newark, New Jersey; she then
attended Alfred University in Al
fred,. New York, where she was
trained in ceramics. In the seven
years since she attended Alfred
University, the artist has exhibited
her work all over North Carolina,
including the Craft Center in the
James G. Hanes Community Center
in Winston-Salem, the local sales
outlet for Mrs. Dai’s work.
Mrs. Dai works mainly on the
potter’s wheel with stoneware clays
which she mixes herself in order
to obtain the desired texture and
coloring. She also mixes her own
glazes from minerals rather than
buying commercially mixed ones for
her pottery.
The Ceramics Show is open to
the public at the following hours:
Weekdays—8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.
Saturdays-—8:00 a.m.-S :00 p.m.
Sundays—2:00 p.m.-S :00 p.m.
Lynn Ligon and Jette Seear
Girls Elect Seear May
Queen, Ligon, Attendant
Tuesday night, the student body
was given a dress review of the
candidates for May Queen and
Maid of Honor for the class of
1961. After taking a careful look
at the girls, ballots were cast and
the results were tabulated.
Jette Seear, one of the Pfohl
House girls was chosen as May
Queen. Actually, this was not a
real surprise to the members of her
class who remember her when she
was the only-freshman-to-be-dated-
up-for - the - rest - of - the-year by
Christmas of her first semester at
Salem. Whether this is literally
true or not, doesn’t matter. Her
beauty has been evident in other
ways. Jette has served on the May
Court for the past three years, and
a more queenly and feminine person
could not have been chosen. Jette’s
beauty is enhanced by knowing her
as well as by looking at her.
She is originally from Copen
hagen, Denmark, but has been liv
ing in Gastonia, North Carolina for
several years, with her family. Jette
is an art major, and is minoring in
English. She has spent quite a few
hours modeling in cities around the
state, and hopes to work in New
York when she leaves Salem.
As Maid of Honor, .the stude nts
chose Lynn Ligon, a native ■ of Wil
mington, North Carolina. She is a
Home Economics major and tenta
tively plans to teach a year and
then go to graduate school for a
while.
Lynn said that she had a horrible
time keeping from showing her ex-
citemei ,t when Mary Lu Nuckols
called to tell her and to congra
tulate her on her honor. “I thought
up every way besides English that
I could thank her, so that the peo
ple passing by the phone wouldn’t
know.” Her roommate took her to
the Dairy Barn for a treat to cele
brate, but all Lynn could get was
a cup of coffee. She couldn’t sleep
the night she found out, either. “I
was too excited ...”
Lynn has always been active in
the life of Salem. As a member of
the I. R. S. Council, secretary of
the Judicial Board, as a Scorpion,
or as a “feature girl,” she has
shown grace and beauty that are
1 not just skin deep.