WELCOME
HOUSE PARTY
HAIL TO
MAY DAY
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ SATURDAY, APRIL 29. 1933.
Number 25
Huntington Tells Students of
Visit To Randolph-Macon
President-Elect Discusses
S. 1. A. S. G. Conference
Saiam Honor System Found
To Be Weil Perfected
During chapel hour cm Thursday,
April 27, Georgia Huntington, presi-
ilent-elect of Student Government,
gave a brief and interesting outline
of her recent trip to the Eighteenth
Annual Conference of the Southern
Inter-Collegiate Association of Stu
dent Go^-ernment which was lu'ld at
Randolph-Macon at Lynchburg, Va.
She held the attention of the entire
audience during the whole period
and it followed with quick apprcci
tion the new Stee Gee president fro
the time Bushie and Susie put lb
doubtfully on the train with only
the horribly frightful man as the
' only other passenger until she chug
ged” back into Winston-Salem, all
safe and sound.
The convention was from Wednes
day, April 5, until Saturday, April
8. Georgia arrived at 8 :30 lonesome
as could be and, as misery likes com
pany, soon joined forces with a dele
gate from I^ouisiana even more lone
some than she. Dr. N. A. Patillo,
President of Randolph-Mi
the opening welcome, followed by a
welcome from Dean Sallie Payi
Morgan, and then cam the main ai
dress by Dr. John L. Hill. At 12:15
the delegates attended chapel and
after hearing Georgia tell of the hap
hazard way they enter chapel, Salem
should be proud of her beautiful and
effective service. After addresses r-
both International and Student Fa.
ulty Relations in the afternoon, fo
lowed by a formal banquet (whei
strawberrv iPe cream in patty merii
gue cups topped with whipped
cream were just gorgeous!) c;
iiaiama dance.
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President Tells of Last
Days of Christ on Earth
Christ Resurrectsd Not
Resuscitated
During the Y. P. M. on April 26
Dr. Rondthaler spoke about thi
death, burial and resurrection o
Jesus Christ.
“No ancient event is so extraordi
nary or as well certified to us as th(
death of Jesus Christ,” said Dr.
Rondthaler. Then he clearly and ex
pressively presented various certifi
cations of Jesus’ death. I'irst Jesus,
thinking of His mother, committed
her to the care of John the evange
list before the crucifixion. The
Scripture tells that from that hour
John took her into his own home.
Jesus Christ himself attested to
His death when he cried out on the
cross “It is finished.” Then his
head drooped and bowed for the end
had come. From that time a series
of attestations of the validity of the
death follow. The crowd withdrew,
smiting their breasts, thus signifying
that the Man was dead. Another fig
ure standing by the cross—the cen
turion, declared, surely this was a
■ righteous man, truly he was the son
of God.
The story proceeds rapidly leav
ing more testimonials of the death.
Since the passo
Rare Collection Of Salem
Photographs on Display
Pr‘3-Annual Pictures Are
Shown in the Library
A pictorial review of Salem Col
lege before the- days of annuals is
being displaved in tlu- library and
will be enlarged as eonuncncement
draws near. Although tlie collection
began originally with j>ictures of
Salem college teachers, it gradually
Salem studer
roup
of
mid be
the
during the feast, Pilate ordered im
mediate death to those on the cross
es. The Roman soldiers struck the
knees of the robbers but they did not
bother Jesus as they saw He was
alr;ady dead.
Evidently John returned to the
scene and recorded that blood and
water flowed frimi the pierced side
of Christ. Water would not have
flowed unless death had overcome
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id alunmae of day;
■sting collections which .Miss Grac(
■liewirs, tlie indcfatigabie librarian
ged for the benefit of tiu
•ollcg
The pictures date from 1811 to
I9() t, a time when there were U(
nuals to preserve the pictures of
teachers and class groups. In 1905
the first year book, Pinnfore, was
publislied, followed bv the Semfev,
in 1906 and the first Sights and In
sights in 1907. A great part of the
collection of pictures was sec
through the courtesy of Mrs. lAicy
Wenhold, who collected them from
among the pictures made by her
father, the late Mr. H. A. I.einbach.
who was the college photographer
for many years. Many alumnae
contributed, and some jjictures
stacked together in corners about
the college. While many more pic
tures are desired, the collection is
representative and very' interesting.
The pictures of senior class group:
is a study in fashions from 1885 un
til 1904. Each year the style of
dress and pose changes noticeably,
so that the pictures have only twe
things in ccmnnon; Bishop lUmd-
thaler ))residcs over the groups, and
the maidens themselves haven’t any
feet. Only occasionally docs a to(
protrude from the masses of ruffles
at the bottom of a skirt.
In the early eighties dots and
stripes enough to make one dizz;
swirl upcm the photograph, but in
1889 all the students are clad
sombre black. With the nineties the
seniors ado])ted academic gowns
caps, with huge bows under the
chins to take away the scholarly
!o;-k, which was there all the s
In ’91 the girls looked very sweet
with ruffled organdie collars, and
three of them obligingly held the
hats of their three gcntkmen pro
fessors, who stood in the back
ground. The verv next year collars
became stiff, mannish affairs
black shoestring ties. Aii air
Formal Announcement
Of New Salemite Staff
Calder Editor - in - Chief -
Stevenson and Lindsay
Assistants
Editor In Chief—Susan Calder,
Editors—Sarah Lindsay,
Miri,
1 Stev
Associate Editors: Mary Penn.
Cokie Preston, Elizabeth Gray.
Elizabeth Jerome, Mary Ab.sher,
Xall, Gertrude Schwalbe.
Kathleen Adkins, Martha Binder,
ary Ollie Biles.
Special Reporters: Celeste Mc-
Clammy, Jane Rondthaler, Virginia
Garner, Sunshine Kirby', Eugenia
McNew, Cora Emmaline Henderson,
iicy Gulick-Rogers.
Business Staff: Business Manager,
Isabel Pollock; Advertising Mana
ger, Claudia Foy; Assistant Adver
tising Managers, Jane William.s,
Marv Adams Ward, Margaret Ward,
Annie Zue May, Mary Fr.ances I.in-
ney, Susan Rawlings.
Circulation Manager; Martha
Schlegel; Assistant Circulation Man
ager, Florence Ledbetter.
Music School Presents
Two Graduate Students
Misses Williams and Huggins
Perform Brilliant Concert
On Monday night in Mcmor
Hall, the Salem College School
Music presented Miss Wanna Ma
Huggins, pianist and Miss Mary B.
Williams, soprano, in the second of
the series of graduating recitals
'I'hey were assisted by Miss Dorothy
Thompson, accompanist, and Dean
Vardell, organist.
Miss Williams, who is from Wil-
mingtim and a pupil of Mr. Scho
field, opened the program with c
group of two Italian songs and an
Old Engli.sh one: Deh pui'a me
Vascondete, by Boncmcini (1610-
i()78), a rather quiet number sung
with beautiful tone qualitv, “Gia il
sole dal Gauge” by Scarlatti (1
1725), of a livelier nature and rc;
bling a ballade in structure,
“Over the Mountains” in which the
cle.'ir dicticm was noticeable.
.Miss Huggins of Lcaksville, a pu
pil of Mr. Vardell, opened her part
of the recital with “Praeludium from
Third English Suite” by Bach whi
she played with a fine understanding
of its contrapuntal structure. The
second number of the group was
“Capriccio” by Scarlatti-Tansig.
Miss Williams demonstrated hei
dramatic ]>ower in “Je dis, que rier
ne m’epouvante” from “Carmen” by
Bizet.
Miss Huggins second group
taken from the romantic school:
“Nocturne in D flat major op. 27,
N'o. 2” by Chopin in wdiieh the tone
and pedalling were particularly love
ly and “Whims,” whose name per
fectly describes its mood, by Sehu-
Academy Entertains
Guests During May Day
Elaborate Program Planned
Honoring the Visitors
Entei-taining about thirty-fiv
guests, Salem Academy is having ;
houseparty at the same time as th.
week-end party at the college. J
program of social entertainment wa
arranged for Saturday and Sunday,
including the Salem College May
Fete.
The program for Saturday began
with luncheon at one o’clock, fol-
low'cd by a tour of the college build
ings and grounds. The guests and
their hostesses attended the May
etc in the afternoim, and after-
ards went on a drive about the
ty. There was an elaborate barbe-
le supper given by Bob-ed I.asater
at her home, “Forest Hills,” for the
itire Academy and their guests.
'I'he night’s entertainment will be
dance at the college and radio
parties on each floor at the Acad-
Sunday breakfast will be served
m the loggia at nine-thirty. The
4'uests will attend church, ret
ng for dinner at the Academy, and
lave coffee at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Rondthaler.
The following girls are guests at
the Academy:
Charlotte Guests: Martha Mat
thews, Marilyn Brittin, Johnnie
Walker, Beth Sherrill, Martha Ji
Salem Entertains Guests at
Week-End House Party
BESSIE REID SHIPP
WINS SALEMITE
CONTEST
Miss Bessie Reid Shipp w'on
the prize offered by the Salc-
mitc for the best tale about a
visit to a Salem Alumna during
spring vacation. Miss Shipp
went to see Mrs. Mull of New
ton, North Carolina, who at
tended Salem College from
1804. to 1866 as Alice Yount.
Her .story is printed in this
Crowds Throng to See
Crowning of May Queen
Pageant “Ye Gods” Follows
Entrance of May Court
(iods from Olympus came to Sa
lem’s I.ower Campus to dance before
Her .Maje.stv, the Queen of Mav, in
tod.-iy’s May Fete. :\Iiss Alice Phil-
pott of Rocky Mount, Va., w'as
crowned queen bv her maid of honor.
Miss Wanna Mary Huggins of
Lcaksville. while the most beautiful
girls at Salem attended.
Crowds of people thronged to the
hillside overlooking the ravine to wit-
tlie crowning of the queen and
t!h- pageant. I'riends of the collcgi
'hiding the guests at the May Da
houscpartv, were j)rcsent. 'I'hc Ma
')ay exercises have come to be tli
■limax of ail social activities, and
ire entirely the work of the stud-
With great pomp and beautv the
May Court descended the hill,'each
attendant dressed in ruffled organ
za of pastel shades and carrying an
arm bouquet of flowers. After them
I'ame the queen, regal and beautiful
in white, her long train borne by
two pages. The crown of flowers
rt’as placed on her head by her maid
of honor, while the attendants bowed
gracefully. The pageant be;
when Atlas trudged down the 1
the burden of the world on
shoulders, singing “Lonesome Road.”
Instantly Lower Campus w;
formed into Mt. Olympus, as other
gods and goddesses appeared.
The court attendants are i
ws: Misses Cortlandt Preston,
I'jlizabetli and Mary Price, Char
lotte; Mary Catherine Siewcrs, Win
ston; Elois Padrick, Fort Pierce
Florida; Mildred Hanes, Pine Hall:
V Adams Ward, Asheville; Ruth
McLeod, Maxton; Mary Lillian
White and Phyllis Clapp, Winston-
Salem; Theresa Cooke, Salisbury;
and I>ucy James, Greenville.
Misses Katherine Lasater, Erwin,
and Louise Brinkley, Plymouth,
were heralds; Misses Mary Louise
Fuller, Lumberton, and I.ucy Gu
lick-Rogers, New York, were pages.
The pageant, which was written
by Cortlandt Preston, Susan Calder,
Jane Rimdthalcr, and Patsy Mc-
Mullan, was called “Ye Gods.’
resume follows:
Atlas and Cupid, taking a day off
frimi their duties on the earth, ar
rive at Mt. Olympus where they
seek entertainment. The two are
met by Neptune and Apollo who
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Salemite Holds Annual
Dinner on Wednesday
Josephine Courtney, Retiring
Editor Talks to Old and
New Staffs
The annual Salemite banquet,
taking place this year in the little
dining room, on Wednesday night,
April 26, at 6:00, proved to be a
very successful occasion. The en
tire staff was seated informally at
individual tables of four places
each, in the center of which were
lighted candles with tiny shades.
During the four-course dinner,
Josephine Courtney, introduced by
Susan Calder, in addition to giving
a brief resume of the plans for the
forthcoming Press Convention, ex
pressed her appreciation of the work
of the staff this year and urged the
same support for Miss Calder, the
incoming editor, who will soon be
in charge of the paper for the rest
The purpose of the banquet was
o-fold—a farewell for the retir
ing staff and editor and a welcome
for the new incoming set of workers.
May Day Fete Features
Program of Social Events
I. R. S. Council is Hostess to
Many High School Seniors
Salem is now in the midst of her
annual May Day House party. Most
of the guests arrived this morning.
Among them are many girls from
the state and a number from other
stales. It .seems that the circic has
widened tliis year; more girls have
come from a distance.
TIu' program for the week-end is;
8 :;J0—Out-of-door chapel service,
n :00—'I'onr of the c,am|)us.
] :00—Lunch.
I:;i0 (in.'iybe a little !,-iter)^Ride
through tlie citv.
■1:00—May Day Pageant.
6:00—Picnic Su))per.
8 :00--Pierrette i)crformancc.
8 :;i0—Dance.
8 :15-9:00—W.-ifflc Ij^rcakfast.
11 :00—Church.
1 :00—Dinner.
'I’lu- I. R. S. Council, whicli is in
charge of all of thi-se events excci)t
the pageant, expect the co-operation
of each of the students to make a
success of the various events.
The visitors are:
Mary I'^illctr Atwater, Burlingt(m;
Margaret Agnew, Spencer.
Jessie Beadles, A.sheville; Ella
Black, Kingsport, Tenn.; Margaret
Barringer, Newton; Julia Barber,
Mt. Airy; Ester Brown, Concord;
Bes.sie f.ove Bray, Mt. Airy; Ruth
Barfield, Gastonia; Lucinda Brown,
Asheville.
Bfttie Cabell, Charlotte; Margar
et Calder, Cliarlotte; I.illian Carey,
Kinston; Frances Ca.sh, Gastonia;
Marjorie Chilsom, S])cncer; Mar
garet Clark, Grundy, Va.; May l?un-
dy Clifton, Newton; Betty Gay CJol-
Davids£n Club Presents
“Program French Plays
Le Cercle Francais Entertains
French Club Tuesday Night
Tristan Bernard’s “L’anglais tel
qu’on le parle” was the longest and
most difficult of the four ])r'senla-
tions in French given by the David
son College French Club in the'
Academy Auditorium on 'I'uesd;i\'
eveming. They came at the invita-
tiem of Le Cercle Francais, who en-
tertaineel them at dinner in the^ col-
le-ge dining room and afterwards at
a .social hour in Louisa Bitting Biiild-
i ng.
A program of short French plays
was given at eight o’cloe’k, four num
bers wliieh were well acted and
showed the fluency of these stu
dents in the French language. To
those in the audience wlu> understooei
Fremch they were most entertaining,
even those who only caught an
sional word enjoyed them. 'I'he
following program was given:
I. La poule et ses poussins
M. Pratt
II. Scene de Knoe;k, Comedie
de Jules Romains
Le doctcur Knock M. Coil
Le premier gars M. Newl.and
Le deuxieme gars .... M. Williams
III. Dans une Rue de Province
Madame Baluze M. Smith
Maelame Gobinet M. Gulcttii
IV. I/anglais tel qu’on le parle,
comedie de Tristan Bernard
La caissieire M. Gullette
Le Garcon M. Williams
Julien Cicandel M. Newland
Betly Hogson M. Armstead
Eugene, I’interprete M. Coit
Hogsem, pere de Betty
M. Johnson
L’ins])e'eteur M. Pratt
L’agent de police M. Spencer