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Page Two THE SALEMITE Antebellum Studies Friday, February 11, 1972 Should Faculty Members ^ Contribute To Historic Sites Attract Groups It's good to see that the campus has finally come back to life. The bells are ringing and the dorms are noisy again. People are still talking about their January program experiences. This issue of The Salemite was to have been devoted mainly to the different January programs and the interesting learning experiences that occurred during this month. Look through this issue. See how many reports of January programs you find. The responsibility for turning in material on January programs was left up to the faculty members. One would hastily add that there are many good reasons why few reports were turned in. The first to come to mind is that the faculty members could not find the time to take care of a report. Or they did not find their Jan uary programs interesting. Perhaps they were interested in their January programs but they did not see the need to share it with others. There is always the chance that some faculty members assigned the job of writing a report to students and the students themselves failed. A final reason could be that some members of the faculty feel that The Salemite is a student newspaper and does not need or deserve faculty support. Actually The Salemite is supposed to be the voice of the college community. Isn't the faculty a vital part of the Salem College Community? If so, then this is their news paper too and they have not only the right but the responsibility to occasionally contribute to the student effort. If faculty members don't even give a damn about the newspaper then it is no wonder that The Salemite lacks the student support necessary to put out a good paper Does anyone out there carer January Programs Vary A Month of Song Paul Peterson’s January program, 'A Month of Song”, included much more than singing. Twenty-four girls learned about conducting a choir, speaking before an audience, making a film, as well as learning basic vocal technique. Mr. Peter son emphasized solo singing as well IS choral singing. For some of the girls, it was their first experience in singing alone before an audience. After learning several choral pieces, the girls put their newly acquired techniques into practice by perform ing for the First Christian Church, the Kiwanis Club, and the Ardmore Community Club. The girls also learned about other aspects of music which are con nected with singing. Mr. Peterson taught them how to conduct the different beats, as well as some of the finer points in choral directing. He also talked about directing child ren’s choirs. Outside reading was required, and each girl gave a talk on topics ranging from acoustics to the psychological aspects of singing. During the latter two weeks of January, you could have seen the strange sight of twenty-four girls marching into the police station on Main Street. The police were kind enough to furnish the camera equip ment and men so that Mr. Peterson ind the girls could make a color film entitled “A Basic Guide to Vocalization.” The girls wrote script and blocked out the scenes using Mr. Peterson’s book and his :hart on vocalization as a guide. After a successful performance at the Ardmore Community Club, the month ended with a pizza party at Shakey’s. All of the girls were sorry to see it end because they all learned at least one thing: Singing is fun! French House Unlike some folks here on cam pus, we had plenty of activities to keep us busy at the French House. We didn’t just study grammar and meet daily in class. It was much more interesting than that. To a great extent we did French things. Eight of us who vrere staying in the French House (It’s really the Home Management House.) Were learning all kinds of new informa tion about the Fench language, French people, and France. Our French grammar and conversation has improved due to continuous usage, work with phonetics, tapes, and books. We have improved our understanding about France and her people through books., films, and discussions. Although we met about 4 hours a day with Mrs. Melvin, we didn’t limit our French activities there. We saw films, many concerning art, and also 2 full length French movies. We went shopping in French, visited 2 art galleries, had speakers, helped prepare a French meal at Mrs. Melvin’s home, and ate “crepes” at the International House of Pancakes. These activities supplemented our always available French books, magazines, records and even games. All hee will agree that“La Mai- son Francaise” has been a success, for not only is our speech better, but we've become aware of many aspects of French life never touched upon in a classroom. EDITORIAL STAFF Associate Editor Managing Editor News Editor Editor -in- Chief „-.Cori Pasquier - Laurie Daltroff -Chris Verrasfro Assistant News Clark Kitchen Feature Editor Chris Moran Assistant Feature Dee Wilson Art Editor Barbie Pfiieger Copy Editor Cartoonist Photography Editors .. Roving Photographer —Anna Burgwyn --Marcia McDade Beth Wilson Barbara Perry Billie Everhart Jeanne Patterson BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Lynn Bode Advertising Manager —Margaret Brinkley Circulation Manager Pat Terry Mailing Manager Beth Duncan Head Typist Kathy Bacon Published by Students of Salem College Printed by the Sun Printing Company Subscription Price $4.60 a year Member U. S. Student Press Association Advisor -Mrs. J. W. Edwards Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt of a term paper on Old Salem tuned in to Hewson Michie for his January course. Ante bellum Art and Architecture. by Leigh Wood During the early 1700’s a group of Moravians seeking religious free-' dom fled from Germany to England and then later on to Pennsylvania. There in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, they settled; until in 1751, some of the children and grandchildren of these early settlers, because of lack of land, purchased a tract of one hundred thousand acres of land in North Carolina from Earl Granville; and in the winter of 1753 moved south to start a new Moravian set tlement there. The first group to arrive was a small group of only twelve men who began building a town which they named Bethabra, (today known as “Old Town”). On February 14, 1765, however, a site was chosen about eight miles from Bethabra which was to be the cen ter of activities, trading, crafts, etc. for the region. The site was named Salem meaning “peace”. The first plan for the city of Salem was drawn in April of 1766 by Frederick William Marshall, There was to be a central square, (which was originally a rectangle, but was later shortened, since only two story buildings were to be built around it, and the city founders felt that this would make the square look too large; and also by shorten ing it, it would be more level). Con struction on the diear vuilding, the Single Brother’s House, was begun in 1768 and finished the following year in December. It was a half- timbered construction instead of an all-timbered one, because the build ers did not want to have to trans port the lumber needed for an all- timbered building the eight miles from Bethabra. Vertical timbers were placed about two or three feet apart with diagonal timbers being used between them for support. The empty spaces were filled with brick nogging or bricks “wrapped in a mixture of straw and clay.” It was this type of half-timbered architec ture which was used almost ex clusively in Salem buildings until the latter part of the eighteenth century. (Bricks were not used entirely until the second Tavern was built in 1784). “The street level in front of the Single Brother’s House was originally much lower than at present, thus permitting cellar windows.” Today, however, the level has been t?aised, and the facade shows only the two rows of evenly spaced windows, one over the other, the small lighting window over the door, and the pent eave between the first and second floors. A “gable roof with the characteris tic kick or spring at the eave line covered the upper and lower attic portions.” In 1786 an addition was ANNOUNCEMENTS The sophmore banquet honoring the seniors will be held Thursday, February 17 at 6;00 in the refec tory. Sunday dress. No lunch will be served that day. ♦ ♦ * A bus will be run to 'Wake Forest Library on Tuesday and Wednes day evenings, leaving from the front of Main Hall at 6:30 P.M. and returning from the front of the Library there at 10:30 P.M. Ser vice will begin Feb. IS. Students must sign in the Salem Library be fore 5:30 P.M. of the day they wish to go. If there are no signatures, the bus will not run. Salem students will be guests in the Wake Forest Library and should be prepared to honor all of their regulations. It would be a help to that Library if the students have all the bibliographical infor mation concerning the needed pub lication before asking for help. made to the left side of the Bro ther’s House which was an all brick construction with segmented arched windows. The interior of the build ing had “smooth whitewashed walls, and wide plank floors.” Thus, this first building in Salem (and the ones to follow) was “a segment of me dieval German Europe transferred to the Western Hemisphere.” The second major building to be built in Salem was the Germein Haus which was built in 1771 and stood opposite the Brother’s House on the site where Main Hall of , Salem College stands today. The house, which was torn down in 1854, was a two story house—the first floor being made of stone and the second floor similar to the Brother’s House in its half-timbered construc tion. The building was typical of early Moravian architecture with its pent eave between the first and second stories and the gable roof like that of the Brother’s Plouse. The pent eave was later removed, however, and the building was plas tered with the ashlar design put into the plaster “to simulate cut stone.” This ashlar finish was characteris tic of many early Salem buildings. The Salem Community Store (1775) was another example of such a finish. These early Moravians in an attempt to conserve lime would put a thin covering of lime plaster over stones in clay and then give the plaster an ashlar finish. The Community Store, which today is a yarn shop, also had the typical gable roof, which kicked out over the eaves, and the one piece shut ters that were so characteristic of this early period. Soon after Salem was founded, in order to provide housing for the many strangers and visitors passing fhrough town, the first Tavern was built a couple of blocks away from the center of town, sa that the liquor-drinking strangers would not lead the Moravian brethren astray. A fire, however, destroyed this half- timbered construction, and it had to be rebuilt in 1784. This second Tavern was the first all brick struc ture in Salem, and it established many of the architectural styles later used in the community. There were windows on the gable ends of the building, but none, of course, ■on the front bottom porch, (for the brethren might be lead astray if they saw any drinking visitors!) The building was also notable for its Flemish bond set bricks, the flat or segmented arches over the windows, and the balustraded stair case in the interior. The Boy’s School, like the Sis. ter’s House, was similar to other late eighteenth century Moravian architecture found in Salem. The first floor was the typical plastered stone marked off in the ashlar block style, while the second story was Flemish-bonded brick with a diamond pattern worked into the bricks in the west gable. As I have said, there were flat segmented arches over the windows and a Ger manic red tile roof, but also typical of this building and its style were the “single-leaf solid shutters” on the first floor, and “the overlight over the central entrance.” The Lick-Boner Flouse (1787), which was the first house to be re stored in Old Salem, originally had only four downstairs rooms with ai open loft above. Later, however, ii 1795 when a shoemaker, Johannes Scinbach, bought the house, he added a lean-to-shop and a front porch which extended out over the sidewalk. The exterior of the house was originally a log construction, which was o'f an earlier tradition, and which had single shuttered windows, an overlight over the door, and a herring-bone-patterned, heavy Dutch door. These windows and doors were only “relatively small voids in the solid expanse of the facade and the massive central brick chimney.” The bakery, built in 1800 by Johann G. Krause, went back to an earlier Moravian architectural style. Except for this bakery and the Home Moravian Church (1779), the buildings being built in Salem at the turn of the century were mov. ing away from the Germanic in fluence and the early Moravian utilitarian style and toward . an architectural style that was more Anglicized. The John Vogler House (1819) was an excellent example of this early nineteenth century Salem architecture. It was one of the first houses “to break with Moravian utilitarian ideas and to present a balanced facade to the street.” The house had symmetry which the ear lier buildings did not have. There was not a central chimney, nor were there single shutters or flat arched windows; but rather the chimneys were placed at the gable ends, double shutters were used, and a triangular hood was over the en trance. , (This became known as the “John Vogler” hood). The molding of the arched ovcrlight over the entrance was more intricate and the interior was gay and colorful. FRANKLYMMONS ‘WHEN VOU 5RI6 90U WERE 42-?1-36,I I ASSUMED THEV WERE IN TW ORDER'.'
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