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Kudos Awards Honor Former
Salem Leaders
Salem Academy and
I'ollego will pay special
tribute to two former ad
ministrators when it presents
Its second annual Kudos
Awards early next year.
Miss Mary Weaver,
Academy teacher, then
prinicipal, from 1926 to 1959,
and Dr. Dale Gramley,
■Academy and College
president from 1949 to 1971 -
representing more than 55
years of direct service to the
school " will receive the
awards at the joint midyear
Convocation February 7 in
the Fine Arts Center.
Established last year to
honor living persons for
“service to Salem,
professional and-or artistic
achievement, leadership in
public affairs, community
service and scholarly
achievement,” the award’s
significance is implicit in its
name Kudos, the Greek word
meaning fame or renown
resulting from an act of
achievement.
Miss Weaver, a native of
Asheville, joined the
Academy faculty as a
mathematics teacher in 1926
and was named principal the
year the school moved into its
own building, 1931.
During her 25 years as head
of the school, enrollment
doubled," academic standards
were strengthened, an honor
system and student govern
ment were established, and
the extra-curricular program
was enriched.
In 1956, the addition to the
Academy was named the
Mary A. Weaver Wing in her
honor.
Feeling it was time for
“new blood,” she left the
Academy in 1959 and joined
Old Salem, Inc., as director of
interpretation and later as
hostess. Now a resident of the
Moravian Home, she has
served church and com
munity in various capacities,
including work as a volunteer
at Forsyth Memorial Hospital
and at Centenary United
Methodist Church.
A Phi Beta Kappa, she
received the B.A. degree
from Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College and the
master degree from
Columbia University.
Gramley, executive
director of the Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation from
1971 until his retirement this
year, was Salem’s thirteenth
president. During his tenure,
both the physical plant and
enrollment and faculty
numbers increased. The Fine
Arts Center was built during
his administration, as were
the science building and later
additions, two new dor
mitories, and a steam plant.
Major additions were made to
the itining hall and four of the
six buildings more than 100
years old were modernized. It
was during these years, also,
that three wings were added
to the Academy, including the
Mary Weaver Wing.
With Gramley af the helm
the admissions standards
were raised, faculty and
curriculum strengthened,
and one-person departments
eliminated. The library,
named for him, was enlarged
from 38,000 volumes to 90,000
and Salem became the first
among North Carolina’s
private colleges to have its
teacher-education program
nationally accredited.
During his 22 years at the
institution, the number of
students and faculty more
than doubled, the operating
budget (including faculty
salariesl-quadrupled, the
investment in buildings and
equipment increased from
$1,395,000 to $6,700,000 and the
value of endowment funds
rose from $925,000 to
$3,370,000.
A native of Pennsylvania,
Gramley received his A.B. in
English from Albright
College and M.S. degree from
Columbia University.
There are few areas in
Winston-Salem untouched by
his influence. He has served
two terms as president of the
North Carolina Foundation of
Church-Related Colleges, the
Winston-Salem Chamber of
Commerce, Rotary Club;
vice president of ' the
Moravian Music Foundation
and of Old Salem, Inc.; he has
been active in the local
United Fund campaigns, the
Better Business Bureau and
the Winston-Salem-Forsyth
County School of Study
Commission. He has served
as a trustee, elder, Sunday
School teacher and fund
raiser for the Moravian
Church and is past director of
the Piedmont Publishing
Company and the Triangle
Broadcasting Company. At
present, he is a director of
Summit Communications.
He resides with his wife,
Caroline, in Old Salem.
The inaugural Kudos were
presented last year to Colin
Stokes, chairman and
executive officer of R. J.
Reynolds Industies of Win
ston-Salem, Elizabeth Lydia
Marx, a retired Moravian
missionary educator, and Dr.
Rachel Darden Davis, in
ternationally-recognized
authority of population who
has had a medical practice in
Kinston for many years.
Salem Self-
Study
Underway
The Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools will
study Salem, in April of 1980
for the college’s ten year re
accreditation. The Salem
College Self Study Com
mittees have already begun
their assessments of all
aspects of the college.
The ten committees in
volved in the program are
composed of faculty,
students, administration,
trustees and alumnae.
Members of the committees
were appointed, volunteered
or already members of a
standing committee. Each
group will evaluate their area
of the college and in written
reports make
recommendations. When all
the reports are received, as of
May 1, 1979, Dean Helmick
and Jim Bray, the director of
the self-study, will edit the
reports. The committees will
continue to work on their
proposals and draft a
program to present to the
association in April.
P.E. Changes
Approved
EXAMS
Start Sat, Dec. 9 - Thurs»
Dec. 14 at 12:30. They will be
taken in the FAC, Science
Building, and in Main Hall,
depending where your course
meets. If you’re not sure
where a particular exam is to
be taken, ask your professor.
All exams will be taken in
Main Hall Wed. and Thuts.
Seniors and sophomores
will be distributing this
semester. Members of these
clas.ses are urged to sign up to
distribute exams because this
is what makes self scheduling
exams possible.
Thank you
Nancy Haynie
Ellen Newton
The proposed changes in
Physical Education
requirements were passed by
the Salem faculty on this past
Tuesday. They will most
probably take effect in the
fall of 1979. The changes are
as follow;
1) Physical Education
courses should be evaluated
on a Pass-Fail basis.
2) Within the two year
Physical Education
requirement, specific course
choices should be made by
the student.
3) Participation in one
varsity sport for one season
should be equivalent to one
semester of Physical
Education.
4) The Physical Education
Department should seriously
consider giving P.E. course
credit to students par
ticipating in structured
programs other than those
offered by Salem.
5) Physical
should not be required for
those students beyond the
normal college age (i.e. 22)
News Beyond The Square
Vance To Middle East
Middle East - The state department announced Tuesday that
President Carter will send Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to
the Middle East next week to try and save the endangered
peace-treaty talks between Egypt and Israel.
Vance will fly to Carlo Sunday and then to Jerusalem to try
and find a solution for the two prime issues dividing Israel’s
Prime Minister Begin and Egypt’s President Sadat.
Begin sent a confidential letter to Sadat Tuesday that
reportedly rejected Egypt’s latest proposal for peace. Within
hours of receiving a copy of the letter. Carter decided to send
Vance back to the Middle East.
The letter, in which Israel rejected the two issues holding up
the peace talks, was a reply to one Sadat sent to Begin last
week. Egypt wants Israel to set up a time table or at least a
target date for electing a Palestinian government&l council.
Vance will take with him U.S. ideas for a compromise on the
two issues dividing Egypt and Israel. These are the questions
of linking the Peace treaty to Palestinian autonomy in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip and the wording of a Key Clause
that, as written obligates Egypt to renounce its prior defense
committment to other Arab States.
Cult Dissolves Church
San Franciso - The People’s Temple congregation which lost
their leader and more than 900 members in the mass suicide
moved Tuesday to dissolve the church and write an end to the
strange cult’s brief history.
Papers on file in the San Franciso Supreme Court said it was
“practically and morally impossible for the corporation to
continue it’s existence.”
The petition for the dissolution of the temple told the court it
“is the desire of the corporation to devote its assets to
recompense the families of the victims of the events in Guyana
Feinstien Named Mayor
San Francisco - Dianne Feinstien, 45 was elected the 38th
mayor of San Francisco Monday. She is succeeding George
Moscone, who was shot to death in City Hall last week.
Compiled by
Missy Littleton
The Salemite joins with our college community in
congratulating the Model U.N. on being chosen to
represent the U.S.S.R. during the U.N. Simulation.
JBecause of their country assignment, they will lead the
Education "simulations which will be held during April in New
York.
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