olume XLVIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, January 13, 1967
Number 1 7
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\ogress Of ^^Uneasy” ’66
By Mary Day Mordecai
“The year 1966, like most other
:ars, was a mixed-up, uncertain,
id (uneasy year,” summarized Pre-
dent Dale Gramley as he began
s retrospect of the past year in
isembly Wednesday, January 4.
Like most years, too. Dr. Gram-
y said, 1966 brought few conclu-
ons to old world problems and
ren brought new ones into view,
he Vietnam war, racial tensions,
leological debates, space competi-
Dn, and inflation continued to puz-
e'iociety. The year was not, how-
ler, without the discoveries that
he Republican party is not dead,
lat President Johnson cannot
■ally walk on the water,” and that
scretary McNamara and his Whiz
ids can make major errors in gov-
■nment mathematics.
In the field of education, St.
)hn’s University brought a faculty
rike to the front pages. East
arolina. Western Carolina, and
ppalachian State Colleges cried
It for university status. Sports
iw less punching between the Na-
onal and American Football Lea-
res and more from Cassius Clay.
“But the year is not without its
seniors Present
rheir Creations
The Fine Arts Center has been
rightened by the senior art ex-
ibits of Judy Smithson and Shelley
aws. Since both girls w'ill gradu-
:e from Salem at the end of this
;mester, their exhibit, a project
>r most art majors, went up Jan-
iry 12. There are approximately
) pieces on display; sculpture,
lintings, ceramics, and drawings.
Shelley Law explains that much
E her abstract works are inspired
y nature. There are twenty such
aintings on this order which are
iterpretive landscapes or rock
jrmations. Other paintings done
i tempera are geometric abstracts.
L still group of musical instru-
lents is cleverly fractured into rec-
ingular sections.
One of Shelley’s most interesting
blessings,” he said. Perhaps, as one
columnist reported, “it was a better
year than w'e had a right to ex
pect . . . President DeGaulle . . .
did not demand that we give back
the Statue of Liberty; medical
science did not discover that shav
ing may be a contributing factor in
coronary thrombosis; and even in
London young men did not start
wearing skirts in public,” Dr. Gram-
ley said. In general, as Russell
Baker of the New York Times said,
“1966 had restraint and style though
it may have lacked imagination and
daring.”
Four Salem Students Have Exciting
Yuletide Holiday In South America
I
From this overall view. Dr. Gram-
ley proceeded to ennumerate the
year’s happenings month by month.
He carried political events from the
death of India’s Prime Minister to
President Johnson’s announcement
of cutbacks in federal spending.
Activities around Salem SVjuare
were given equal consideration. Dr.
Gramley described the daily and
major occurences in the lives of
Salem students from the opening of
a new semester in 1966 to the end
of an old semester in 1967. Giving
an amusing insight into college life,
he vividly described the difficulties
in returning to school after a snowy
Christmas, the room drawing crisis,
and the pool-playing rage.
In conclusion Dr. Gramley pre
dicted that 1967 will be another year
of uncertainty. He expressed doubt
that anyone wall, by the twenty-
first century, even remember w'hat
happened in the past year. “But,”
he said, “if you will recall that once,
long, long ago, you were a student
at Salem College and that your ex
periences here somehow contributed
something of positive value to your
life, then, I suppose, you might
conclude that 1966 was a faintly
though hazily worthwhile year.”
By Carol Carson
Four Salemites, Kristin Jorgen
son, Boodie Crow, Mary Harris, and
Nancy Craig, spent an exciting va
cation in South America and came
back to Salem with beautiful sun
tans to prove that December means
summer down there.
Kristin Jorgenson spent three
weeks in Argentina with Ellen Seis-
dedos and her family. Ellen and
Kristin became good friends when
Ellen lived with Kristin in the
United States in 1965 as a high
school senior.
Kristin’s first night was spent in
Buenos Aires after she flew some
six thousand miles from Miami on
December 10. The next day, Kris
tin and her Argentine family tra
veled six hundred miles to the Seis-
dedos’ home town of Mendoza. This
large city (four million) at the foot
of the Andes is the wine capital of
the province.
Nancy Craig’s home is about sixty
miles north of Sao Paul in Brazil.
She took Boodie Crow and Mary
Harris home with her, and they
marveled at the beauty of Rio and
the terrain nearby. Down from Sao
Paulo the mountains grow out of
the ocean. The houses are close
together with walls around the
small yards, and often the windows
are barred rather than screened.
Kristin spent her Christmas Eve
and Day in the Argentine Miami,
Mar del Plata, lolling on the beach,
celebrating Christmas in a very dif
ferent way. Christmas in Argen
tina is different because of the un
commercial attitude of the holiday.
Presents are exchanged within the
family but large-scale gift-giving is
a rarity. On Epiphany the children
put shoes out, and the Wise Men
give them gifts if they have been
Five Salem travelers Nancy Craig, Boodie Crow, Kristin Jorgenson,
Barbara Housman, and Mary Harris talk over their adventures in
South and Central America during Christmas vacation.
good. Christmas Eve is not such a
family affair there as it is in Ameri
can homes. Parties are the order
of the evening, and as is typical of
parties there, they do not begin
until 10 :30 p.m. with no one expec
ted to come until at least eleven.
Traffic in Argentina is quite hec
tic with no traffic lights and no
lanes. Cars go everywhere, any
time, blowing their horns at inter
sections, dodging cars and pedes
trians alike. Boodie Crow, re
marked that the traffic in Rio is
undisciplined except for scattering
of stop lights and signs throughout
the city.
Kristin emphasized the friend
liness of the Argentines while
Boodie commented on the un
Peck Does Research In Honduras
As 0uest OfSalemite’s Family
By Ginny Coffield
John Gregory Peck of Salem’s
udy Smithson and Shelley Laws
9ok over their exhibits.
anvases was done as an exam
roblem her sophomore year. It is
social comment entitled The Re-
nrring Nightmare. A target, a
wastika, and a building in ruins all
efer to the futility of war. Shelley
Iso has several sculpture pieces on
xhibit.
Judy Smithson is showing twelve
lolymer canvases, graphics, draw-
ngs, and sculpture. Nearly all of
ler work is concerned with human
icings and their activities. Among
hese is an interesting portrait in
'lack and white of her husband
'ony.
Done with mildly abstract sim-
ilicity, Judy depicts an embrace or
hildren playing marbles in a sub-
lued fashion. Among her sculpture
s a head which was done for her
culpture class this year.
sociology department was given
permission to go to Honduras over
Christmas vacation to do research
in anthropology for his doctorate.
He had a special grant from the
University of North Carolina, sup
plemented by additional sums from
Salem College for a field work sur
vey of the coastal Meskito Sudians.
Mr. Peck was a guest of the family
of Barbara Housman. .Her father
is a Moravian missionary in the
village of Kackira.
Mr. Housman is the administrator
of the area who is in charge of all
the churches. Barbara’s mother, a
registered nurse, runs a clinic for
the people of the village. Mr. Peck
obtained an idea of what the eccle
siastical side of life was like from
Mr. Housman and also from obser
vation, while Mrs. Housman gave
him a view of the medical side.
Barbara, too, was helpful because
she has lived there for twelve years,
and has become well acquainted
with the, people and their customs.
Leaving school on December 13,
Mr. Peck, Barbara, and her two
sisters finally arrived in Kaukira
after traveling on three different
airlines and in a dugout canoe.
Kaukira is on the eastern coast of
Honduras on the Caribbean Sea.
The village, itself, is six miles long
and two houses wide, fronting on
a lagoon. It is a fifteen minute
walk to the ocean.
Mr. Peck was primarily concer
ned with learning about the people
and their family life. He said he
was “particularly interested in the
native cureors, called sukya, and
the effect of technological changes
on the mental health of the popu
lation.” He spent his days becom
ing familiar with the people, taking
slides, and recording tapes of the
Indians themselves, and their en
vironment.
The people were very eager to
help Mr. Peck in his research,
although there was a language bar
rier. One man who spoke English
volunteered to act as his guide.
Both the Spanish and Meskito lan
guages are spoken there, and the
majority of the people are able to
speak them both fluently.
In Kaukira, Mr. Peck found the
population explosion to be a serious
problem. In previous years, out of
the average of ten births per family,
seven of the children would die.
Now, since malaria has been wiped
out and more medical facilities are
available, most of the children live.
Out of a population of one thous
and, one-third of the children are
under six years of age.
The people are mainly self-suffi
cient. They raise their own food
on their plantations around the
flour, salt, and perhaps meat, if
they can buy it. Meat and fish are
not part of the Indians’ regular diet.
Their main substance is cassaba, a
strachy, tubular food which grows
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friendly attitude of the Brazilians.
Boys everywhere spoke to Kristin
and marveled at her blond hair and
size. They called her “the blonde
giant” occasionally, and just “the
blonde” quite often, as this was a
perfect way to distinguish her from
the short, dark-haired South Amer
icans. Ellen’s father, a doctor, is
four feet, eleven inches, and Ellen’s
mother is a tall five feet.
Fashions there are much like
ours, but France also influences
their design. Leather goods are
inexpensive (as is steak!) because
of the large number of cattle raised
in the area. Jeans from the United
States came in many colors with
prices often as high as twenty
dollars.
Food there was different. Chicken
is a rarity, whereas steak is quite
common food in Argentina, but the
Brazilian travelers remarked that
they saw live chickens in open mar
kets. Kristin liked the food, men
tioning a turnover-like pastry with
ground meat and onions called em-
panads. Nancy’s guests seemed to
welcome American dishes at the
Craig’s house after they visited an
open-air market on the street
nearby. Boodie said that one could
smell it from quite a distance and
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Bryan, Qessell To Speak
On New Moralty Dispute
lagoon. Families usually live on
the plantations from January until
June, the rainy season. Then, part
of the family usually moves back
to the village until time for the
harvest. While on the plantations,
trips to the village for supplies are
frequent for such items as sugar,
“How To Be Moral Without
Really Trying???” Is this what
the term “New Morality” means?
What does the New Morality en
tail? Is it good? These and many
other questions concerning New
Morality, particularly in the areas
of sex and war, will be discussed
during Religious Emphasis Week
which will be held beginning Feb
ruary 7, 1967.
Two authorities on the subject
have been invited to come and give
their views. Dr. McLeod Bryan,
from the Wake Forest Religion De
partment, who is in favor of the
New Morality, and John Gessell of
the University of the South, who
opposes it, will be the speakers.
Tuesday night at 6:30 the speak
ers will each give their views for
and against the topic. Following
the lecture an informal tea will be
held in the foyer of the Fine Arts
Center . On Wednesday at 11 a.m.
Dr. Bryan and Mr. Gessell will hold
discussion groups in the Day Stu
dents Center. At this time students
who are interested in a particular
view will be given an opportunity
to talk personally with Mr. Gessell
and Dr. Bryan. At 4 pm. an in
formal tea will, be held in the Stu
dents Center. The culmination of
the week’s activities will be a short
chapel program given by Jerry Sur
ratt, Acting Chaplain, at 5:30 on
Thursday.
The speakers for Religious Em
phasis Week come to Salem with
impressive backgrounds. Both men
did their graduate work at Yale
Divinity School; both men have
done research for large foundations,
and have been the authors of nu
merous articles and several books.
At present Dr, Bryan is Professor
of Christian Social Ethics at Wake
Forest. He has been active in the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews and The World Council
of Churches.
Mr. Gessell is presently Associate
Professor of Pastoral Theology and
Assistant to the Dean of the School
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