Volume XLIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, April 12, 1963
Number 1 8
1963-64 Salemite Staff
Assumes New Positions
Tlic staff of next year’s Salemite Jacksonville, llorida; and I.iicy
has been selected and is already McCallum from Raleigh, a French
cork. Husiness manager Alice oiajor serving as advertising mana-
al wc
Reid is an 1‘inglish major from
llartsville, South Carolina, Connie
Rucker as managing editor hopes
to divide the work more evenly so
the paper will run more efficiently.
Connie is a history major from
Richmond, Virginia. Bonnie llauch
as assistant editor has similar goals
ill mind. A double major in English
history from I'ort Lauderdale,
'lorida, she looks forward to a
more cooperative working organi
zation with shared responsibilities.
Marty Richmond, a history and
elementary education student from
Charlottesville, Virginia, is the new
feature editor. A larger feature
staff is her goal, and she empha
sizes the fact that everyone is
needed, not only English majors.
Features will encompass controver
sial subjects as well as student in
terests on and off campus.
Other staff members arc Brenda
Bethel, an English major from
Palatine, Illinois, news editor; copy
editor d'rudi Schmidt, an English
major from Pottstown, Pennsyl
vania; Kohbin Causey, assistant
copy editor and history major from
Greensboro; and photo editor Mary
Alice Teague from Reidsville, who
majors in history. The staff also
includes headline editor Elizaheth
Sykes, a French major from Mount
Airy; Jerry Johnson, a home eco
nomics major from Varina, who is
layout editor; art editor Liz Irwin
from Spartanburg; Susan Humph
reys, circulation editor from
Aruba, Neth. Ant.; assistant busi
ness manager, Mary Jane Harrell,
a home economics m a j o r from
ger.
SNEAChooses
Nancy Knott
As President
Nancy Knott and l''allie Lohr
have recently been elected as the
new prcsidcnl a n d vice-president
respectively of the SNEA. Dean
Major Clifford and Sue Smith
turned over the offices to them on
April 4,
Nancy, a senior day student, is
a history major and is in elemen
tary education, b'allic, a sociology
major, is also in elementary edu
cation. This past year she was
business manager of The Sights
and Insights and will be the as
sistant editor next year.
The new secretary and treasurer
to be elected from the rising junior
class at the next meeting of the
SNEA, will replace Susie Johnson
and Marty Richmond.
Keppel
Goodson
Goodson, Keppel Will Serve As
Commencement Speakers June 2
f)C
Kent, Davis, King Serve
As New Class Presidents
By Anne Gore Dr. VV. Kenneth Goodson
been announced this week for the Commencement
speaker for the 1963 Bac- which will be held in front (.if the
science building at 3:30 p.m., Sun
day, June 2, will be Dr. A. R. Kep-
pel. Topics have not yet been an
nounced.
Dr. Goodson is at present the
pastor of Centenary Methodist
Chur c h of Winston-Salem. A
graduate of Duke Divinity School,
Dr. Goodson has served pastorates
in Charlotte, Wadesboro, and High
It has
that the
calaureate Service, which will
held Sunday, June 2, at II :(X) a.ni.
as a part of the regular service of
Home Moravian Church, will be
Mason Kent, Dottic Davis, and
Jean King have been elected to
serve as presidents for the three
rising classes now on campus.
Point. He was at one time district
s 11 p e r i n t e n dent of Methodist
Mason Kent, who was a member Churches in the Western Confer-
of the 1962 May Court and served ence of North Carolina. Active in
as Chief Marshal this year, will
be assisted as president of the
se n i o r class by Vice President
b'ranees Holton; Secretary Annetta
Jemielte; and Treasurer Alice Reid.
Hailing from Danville, Virginia,
Mason is majoring in sociology-
economics.
Serving as president of the rising
junior class will be Dottic Davis.
Dottie, frenn Belmont, North Caro
lina, has serv-ed as secretary of the
Salem Choral luiscmblc and hall
Iiresident of second floor Clewell
this year. The other officers of
the junior class are Babs Bodine,
vice-i>rcsident; Doris Cooper, sec
retary; and Nan Berry, treasurer.
The rising sophomores have
chosen Jean King from Lincolnton
as president of the class. Jean has
been active in several committees
on campus this year including
Parents’ Day. Jan Diilin is the
new vice-president; Zelle Holder-
ness, secretary, and Linda Tun-
stall, treasurer.
comnuinity civic affairs, he recently
Lee Presents
Senior Recital
.•\])ril 29, Mattie Gay Lee will
present her senior piano recital.
Highlights of the program arc
“Prelude and FTigiie in E Flat
Minor” (Bach); “Waltzes op. 39”
(Brahms); “Three Preludes for
Piano” (Kent Kinnan); and “Piano
Concerts in A Flat Major, K 4B8,
Allegro” (Mozart).
From Dillon, South Carolina,
Mattie Gay studied jiiano for nine
years before coming to Salem.
Since that time, she has spent four
years under Dean Clement Sand-
rcsky of the music department.
After graduation, she plans to give
private piano lessons.
The recital will begin at 8:30 p.in.
in Memorial Hall and is oiu-n to
the public.
Speaker represented his church on a special
e.xercises, mission abroad, of which he spoke
to the Salem student body in as
sembly.
Dr. Ke])pel, a native of Buffalo,
New York, has been president of
Catawba College in Salisbury,
North Carolina for 21 years. He
received his A.B. from Ohio Wes
leyan University, was a graduate
student at Ohio State University,
and received his Ph. D. from
Franklin and Marshall College and
his LL.D from Elmhurst College.
Dr. Keiipel held several varied edu
cational i)Ositions before going to
Catawba College in 1942. He is a
past president (jf the North Caro
lina College Conference and also
active in religious affairs, as well
as author and publisher of Keppel’*
Six Year High School Cumulative
System. At i)resent. Dr. Keppel is
Executive Director of the recently
founded Piedmont University Cen
ter of North Carol ilia.
Shewmake On
Campus, Talks
Of Arts Center
Professor Edwin b'. Shewmake,
who is on sabbatical leave from
Salem’s art department this year,
was on canii)us today to discuss
with the administration, the archi
tects, and other members of the
art dci)artment the kiyout of space
for the new art department in the
new b'ine Arts Building.
Mr. Shewmake is precently work-
Alumnae Association Offers
Annual Ronthaler Awards
ing at an artist colony in Wood-
stock, New York.
Louisa Freeman prepares for graduate study in French after receiving
I news of her fellowship to Emory University.
Emory Honors Freeman
Louisa Freeman of Columbia,
South Carolina, has been awarded
a University Fellowship of $2700
from Emory University. The fel
lowship is for the three quarters
from September to June.
Louisa will be working toward
lier Masters Degree in French and
will be concentrating on twentieth
century French drama. She is
presently doing honors work this
year on the subject of the “Myth
in Twentieth Century Drama.” She
hopes to follow through with this
work at Emory.
Although her work at Emory
does not involve any teaching, she
does hope to teach after getting
her Masters Degree.
Louisa was also successful in her
competition in the Woodrow Wil
son Foundation fellowship competi
tion, in which she won an honor
able mention. The purpose of the
F'oundation is to encourage grad
uate school work with a teaching
career as a goal.
'I’he Alumnae Association has an
nounced that the Katherine B.
Rondthaler Awards com])ctition for
1963 is open to all Salem students,
b'ntries will be accepted in the
fields of creative writing, music,
and art. Deadline for entries is
May 1.
The Katherine B. Rondthaler
Awards, sponsored by the Alumnae
Association of Salem College since
1951, arc to he awarded for out
standing creative achievement by
any Salem student. Any work in
the three fields which has not pre
viously been entered in this com
petition may be submitted. Entry
is not limited to work done in the
current semester or in current
ckisscs. Entries arc judged by a
panel of judges in each section.
The awards, engraved silver
trays, will be made to tbe students
whose work is judged to be the
most meritorious among the en
tries. Awards arc made at Awards
Assembly. Winning entries in the
writing competition will be pub
lished in the Alumnae Bulletin.
Faculty members in the binglish
department, the art dciiarlment,
and the School of Music, will have
complete information regarding the
categories under which entries may
be made, and the form in which
the entries should be submitted.
All entries are judged, with no
name visible to the judges, by an
impartial panel of judges for each
field of interest.
Davis, Tolochko
Will Speak
In Assemblies
Assembly speaker d'uesday, Ajiril
16 will be I’axton Davis. He is
sponsored by tbe Aixhway.
'fliursday, A|)ril 18, a Jewish
rabbi. Dr. Jerome G. Tolochko will
be the guest speaker. He is spon
sored by the Jewish Chautaugua
Society, an organization which
creates better understanding of
Jews and Judaism through educa
tion.
Dr. Tolochko received his univer
sity and rabbinic training in Ger
many. He is now spiritual leader
of Temple Israel in Kinston, North
Carolina.