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WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1930.
Various Activities
Presented at Y.P.M.
Heads of Organizations Give
Sidelights of Salem
Life
The second Y. P. M. of the Salem
College School year was an unusal
one. Many and varied extracur
ricular activities were attractively
presented to new students and old
by the presidents or heads of those
groups Wednesday morning at 11
o’clock. After Dr. Rondthaler had
drawn tlie students’ attention to the
two announcements placed daily in
Alcmorial Hall, the one the motto,
or daily slogan; the otlier, the title
of the musical selection used
lude, he introduced the extracur
ricular activities of Salem College.
He stated the fact that these were
usually considered unimportant ac
tivities having nothing to do with
the usual college classes, but that
really tliey draw togetlier groups
of students in a valuable, permanent,
and friendly attitude.
Adelaide Winston, President of
the Pierrette Players, the dramatic'
group on Salem College Campi
classified the Pierrettes as a group
of girls drawn together by a com
mon interest in dramatics. Each
Pierrette has charge of the produc
tion of at least one play at some
time during tlie year. She invited
all girls interested to try out for
admittance on the following Monday
and Tuesday nights at 7 o’clock.
I.e Cercle Francais, or the French
Club, was introduced by Grace Mar
tin, its President. Members of the
French Club become better acqa»j^-
ed with the French language'and
accent because they participate
this club. Song, plays, stories, c
versation en Francais and incident
ally, refreshments, all contribute
toward making I.e Cercle Francais
Ernestine Theis, Editor-in-Chief
of the College Annual, presented
Sights and Insights as the perman
ent yearly publication of Salem Col
lege'. She gave an interesting pic
ture of Sights and Insights
permanent interpretation of Salem,
and asked that all girls interested
apply at once for membership in the
staff.
Kitty Brown told of Salem’s
Science Club, otherwise known (to
Latin students) as Societas Scicn-
tearum Salemensis. This society
was begun in 1921 with the intention
to stimulate interest in science
throughout the world. Any person
in tlie three upper classes may join,
and a few chosen freshmen. The
meetings at whicli scidntifie sub
jects are riscussed, occur bimonthly.
The first of tliese will be on Sep
tember 20 at 7 o’clock in tlie sci
ence lecture-room.
Edith Kirkland, Editor of The
Salemite, Salem’s weekly (not
“weaklv,” as she firmly declared)
jublication, stated that the paper is
not a staif production alone, but
that it depends on every student for
its existence. Girls can help by
suggesting improvements and by
supplying odd bits of news to staff
members. Tryouts oceured Thurs
day after lunch in the Salemitie
office.
The good qualities of the Mathe
matics Club were set forth by Kath
ryn Schlegel, who stated that it was
one of the youngest organizations on
the Campus. Monthly meetings serve
to inform members of the relation
ship of mathematics to everyday life.
Alice McCrae Caldwell informed
the group that Sigma Omicron
Alpha, Salem’s only debating club,
was formed to study the principles
of debating, to discuss worthy
|)uzzling topics relating to campus
life, and to develop the membcrf'
speech and poise in public.
Miss Fuller, teacher of Publii
School music, presented the Mac
Dowell Club as the means behind
Salem’s Saturday night entertain-
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First Vesper Service
Held Sunday Evening
Helpful Talk Is Given Fresh
men and New Girls by
Y. W. President
Tlie Y. \V. C. A. held its first
Vesper Service of the year Sunday
it 6:.'i0 in the Campus Liv-
of Alice Clewell Building.
The service opened with Chopin’s
a Impromptu,” by the choir
and w’as followed by a hymn and
Psalm of Praise. A solo, “Spirit of
God” was beautifully rendered by
Welhelmina Wohlford. I*ucy Cur
led tlie group in prayer and
Elizabctli Marx, President of the
W. C. A. welcomed botli the new
and the old students to the organi
zation.
The Spirit of Salem, according tc
Miss Marx, is best characterized by
tlie one word, “Service.” This Ser
vice may extend in five directions—
Service for God; Service to oui
Alma Mater; Service to others
Service to the students of the word:
and Service to each other.
Her welcome was concluded with
a poem, “The Touch of Human
Hands.” The service closed with
the Y. W. watchword, “Not by
might, nor by power, but by my
Spirit, saith the I-ord of Hosts.”
“The touch of human hands—■
That is the boon we ask;
For groping, day by day.
Along the stony way,
Wc need the comrade heart
That understands.
The warmth, the living warmth
Of human hands.
The touch of human hands—■
Not vain, unthinking wordi,
N'or that cold charity
Which shuns our misery;
We seek a loyal friend
Who understands.
And the warmtli, the living warmth
Of human hands.”
Student Government
And Y. W. Nominations
Vice Presidency of “Y” and a
Few Representatives to
Student Council to
Be Elected
On Thursday, September 26, the
election of a Vice-President of the
Y. W. C. A., and Senior and Junior
representatives to the Student Coun-
I, as well as the House Presidents,
ill be lield in the living room of the
Alice Clewell Building. The follow
ing girls have been nominated:
Y. JF. C. A. Vice-President
I.ucy Martin Currie
Mary Gwyn Hickerson
Student Government Nominations
Senior Representative
(Off Campus)
Ruth Ellen Fogleman
Junior Representative
(Off Campus)
Mildred Biles
Nancy Fulton
House Presidents
IjOnisa Bitting Biiilding
Julia Brown Jennings
Kathryn Lyerly
Alice Clewell Building
Daisy litz
Madeline Thompson
Lehman Hall
Maria Bowen
Elizabeth :McClaugherty
Society
Winnifred Fisher
Bebe Hyde
Edith Claire Leake
Order of Scorpion
Pledges New Members
Senior Class Members Are
Pledged First Semester of
Each School Year
Thursday, September 18, the Or
der of the Scorpion issued invita-
two members of the Senior
Class, Frances Fletcher and Eliza
beth Marx, to join the society.
girls were considered worthy
of membership by reason of thei;
qualities of leadership, influence,
personality, scholarship and school
spirit.
The Order of the Scorpion was
founded on Salem College Campus
in 1926 with the avowed purpose of
supporting all organizations which
contribute to the welfare and im
provement of college life. The pre
amble to the constitution reads as
follows.
“Believing in Salem College and
its manifold opportunities; believing
tliat the best use of these opportu
nities; may be realized by develop
ing closer co-operation between the
student body and the faculty, and
by promoting fraternalism among all
students of Salem; we do hereby
establish the Order of the Scorpion
for the fostering of these ideals.”
nie Order of the Scorpion has
during the comparatively .short per
iod of its existence, accomplished
many tilings o.n the Salem Collegf
Campus. It has revived the custom
of celebrating May Day, and for
the beauty of these pageants Salem
)W widely known. The Scorpions
:nated the idea of extending the
celebration of Founder’s Day to in-
L'lude the students more actively,
and due to the co-operation of mem
bers of the Order, it has been pos
sible to keep the library open long
er hours each week-end. In addition
it is through the efforts of this group
that the Salem College sign was pre
sented to the College, and also to
the group does tlie Sigma Omicron
Alpha Society owe its existence.
Among other things the Order takes
First Swimming Meet
A Freshman Event
Freshmen Show Real Swim
ming Ability in Meet Held
Last Saturday
The Freshmen responded numer
ously to their invitation to swim,
and proved themselves good sports
by entering practically every event
as a body.
The strokes which were judged
as to form, the resting back, the side,
English overarm, and crawl drew a
large gallery and the winners well
deserved the applause they received.
Diving was carried on in a new
and interesting way. Each girl was
allowed to choose and execute two
dives. She was judged on her
choice and the skill with which she
performed. Avis Billinghai
ried off the diving honors
perfect standing front.
The racing events which
ways favorites with an audience, met
with the usual enthusiasm. Miller
piled up winning points by taking
0 first places in 25-yard dashes.
The final score of the entire
meet stands:
; place Miller
Second Place Franks
Stough
Third Place (Tie)
Sampli
tself
dutic
s the attempt to keep the c
[ an orderly conditi
It is, and should be, considered
high honor to become a member of
the Order of the Scorpion. Mem
bership involves a real appreeiati
of and faithfulness to responsibility
as well as an unchanging loyalty
the highest ideals of Salem.
New Students
Honored at Tea
Junior Class Entertains With
Lovely Tea
The Junior Class entertained the
Freshmen and new girls at a lovely
tea Tuesday afternoon on the up
per campus. A receiving line com
posed of the class officers headed by
Graves, greeted the guests. A
delicious ice course was served by
the class members and many of the
girls enjoj^ed the afternoon.
This was one of the most delightful
of the series of entertainments
which have been given in honor of
the new students.
Pan-Hellenic Council
Passes New Rules
Dating Now Handled Through
Council to Avoid Usual
Difficulties
Five New Members
Added to Faculty
Three of New Members are
Recent Salem Graduates
Salem is proud to own the addi
tion of five new teachers and a resi
dent nurse to her faculty for 1930-
.31. She has had an unusual degree
of good fortune in securing three of
her own graduates who, as members
of classes ’29 and ’30, are well re
membered bv a host of friends here.
These are' Miss Lessie Brown
Phillips, teacher of I.atin and Eng
lish, Miss Eloise Vaughn, instructor
in French and German, and Miss
Ruth Marsdcn who returns to tlie
faculty of the School of Music.
Miss Susie Brown of Georgia will
teach in the Department of Mathe
matics, and Mrs. Ney Evans comes
from High Point as instructor in
History. The entire student body
of both college and academy will
receive the help of Miss Libes, the
resident nurse.
The following rules and regu-
hitions concerning rushing and bid
ding of underclassmen have been
passed by the Pan-Hellenic Council:
On Wednesday, September 10,
notices shall be sent to all rushees
through the Pan-Hellenic Council to
the effect that they .shall present
themselves at a stated place imme
diately after dinner on that day. On
their arrival they shall be given in
dividual cards on which are writ
ten the names of the sororities desir
ing to rusli them. If the rushee has
made up her mind definitely nega
tively she shall cross out the names
lard which do not interest
her. She sliall be requested to re
turn at the same time and to the
same place the following night, this
being Thursday.
On Thursday at 6:30 at the said
place the rushee will be presented
vvitli a card bearing the schedule of
her dates for the Rush Day. (In
case of rushing by more than
sorority the time shall be divided
equally among the sororities she has
d(\signated previously on her card.)
This shall be done entirely by the
Pan-Hellenic Council.
Friday shall be Rush Day. Sor
ority girls and rushees are expected
to meet their dates at the time and
place designated on the date sched-
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Louisa Wilson Bitting
Dormitory Opened
Several Hundred Persons En
tertained at Tea by Mrs.
W. N. Reynolds, Donor
Several hundred friends of Salem
College Wednesday afternoon be
tween the hours of 3:30 and 5:30
o’clock were guests of the College;
President and Mrs. Howard Rond
thaler and Mrs. W. N. Reynolds at
the formal opening of the Louisa
Bitting Dormitory, the gift of Mrs.
Reynolds to the institution as a me
morial to her mother, the late, Mrs.
Louisa Wilscii Bitting. The strue-
will be used by the senior
students.
The beautiful new structure, used
for the first time in this present
semester is located eomplem.entary
to other buildings on the upper
campus. Although simplicity char
acterized the building throughout, it
considered outstanding among the
structures of Winston-Salem for its
dignity and beauty in detail.
Efforts of the architect were di
rected all the time toward setting
a building which would harmon-
with the Salem community. For
that reason, the colonial architectur
al lines were employed with the
characteristic Moravian lines and
rkings being introduced wherever
was possible to employ them.
These are particularly noticeable in
the sheer gables, the green shutters
indows, the unique cornices,
the brick and in the general layout
of the building. The dormitory is
compactly arranged the visitors
I almost universally surprised at
the roominess of the students’ quar-
Many will first notice, as they en
ter the front door at the north, the
fine painting which hangs over the
great open fireplace at the east end
of the room. This painting, done
gently by William Pfohl, is a like-
ss of the first building group at
the school and shows as its princi
pal object the building of 1771 which
has been reproduced in the present
dormitory. It was in this great liv
ing room, which has been furnished
as a surprise gift bj' Mrs. Reynolds,
that the guests were received and
welconvcdWednesday afternoon. This
room, as well as the remaining
rooms, was most artistically deco
rated for the “housewarming” with
garden and wild flowers beautifully
arranged in the several rooms to
harmonize With the color scheme of
the particular room in which they
were placed.
The building has four floors—that
is, three floors for general use and a
basement devoted to recreation and
kindred purposes alone. The ground
and two upper floors are arranged
for dormitory use.
In the receiving line yesterday
were. Dr. Howard Rondthaler, pres
ident of Salem College; Mrs. W. N.
Reynolds, dont r of the building,
Mrs. Rondthaler, Mrs. John S.
Foster, Miss Lula May Stipe, dean
n, and four senior class
officers. Misses Frances Fletcher,
Winston-Salem; Eva Hackney, of
Washington; Louise Stevenson, New
York City, and Margaret Richard-
n, Wilson.
After being received in tlie big
living room, the guests were con
ducted to the roomy recreation een-
r downstairs, where tea and other
;freshments were served by a large
group of senior girls, as follows:
Misses Alice Caldwell, Mary Norris,
Elizabeth Allen, Annie Koonec Sut
ton, Anna Holderness, Elizabeth
Ward, Katherine Lyerly, Lenora
Riggan, Edith Kirkland, Daisy Lee
Carson, Frances McNeil, Mary
Hickerson, Ernestine Thies,
Ruth Carter, Helen Fowler, Sallie
Hege, Marjorie Siewers, Dallas
Sink, Kitty Moore and Elizabeth
Other seniors as follows conduct
ed the guests about the building:
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