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WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1933.
Number 1 3.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYBODY!
Alpha Chi Alpha
Initiates Pledges
Dinner Follows In Their
Honor
On Friday afternoon at 5:30, Alpha
Chi Alpha initiated its five pledges:
Lib Gray, Martha Binder, Libby Jer
ome, Sarah Tjindsay, and Lib Leake
with a very beautiful service. The
other members present were: Mary
Absher, Miriam Stevenson, Margaret
Johnson, Susan Calder, Zina Vologod-
sky, Mary I.ouise Mickey, and Miss
Elizabeth I.illy.
After the service there was a din
ner in honor of the new members
the little dining room. Places w(
marked by the black and gold and
white pledge pins in cardboard which
were made by Sarah I.indsay.
table was laid with white and gold
china with white candles for light
and white narcissus as a centerpiece.
Alpha Chi Alpha wishes to take
this opportunity to thank all of, you
who have helped us in our very suc
cessful money making project by or
dering Christmas cakes.
N.C. Symphony
Orchestra Pleases
Large Audience
John Powell, Composer,
Plays His Own Piece
The North Carolina Symphony Or
chestra made its first appearance ir
Winston-Salem on Friday night, Dec
ember 8, as a guest of the Civic Mus
ic Association. The orchestra merits
all praise possible^Jer, ably conducted
by I^amar Stringfield, it rendered
each number with great feeling and
exactness, lihapsodie Negr*', compos-
and accompanied by J(blm Powell,
was probably the greatest success.
Mr. Powell congratulated the orches
tra and its director for the skill each
showed. He also congratulated the
Civic Music Association for being the
first to recognize the talent of the
orchestra and for being the first to
have it appear on its regular program.
Everyone was delighted witl^ tlie
playing of Dvc
phony A
tVorld.
It wil be interesting to note that
several Winston-Salem people were
members of the orchestra, among
whom were Miss Hazel Horton Read,
a member of the Salem faculty, and
Mr. Albert Blumenthal, a member of
the Salem student body. ^
The program was as follows:
I. Marriage of Figai-o Overture
W. A. Mozart
II. Symphony No. 5 in E Minor
A. Dvorak
III. Rhapsodic Negre .... John Powell
IV. Marche Slave Peter
Tschaikowsky
Seniors Are Guests at Dinner
5 in E Minor
Wachovia Masica!
Society Presents
Vesper Service
Chorus and Orchestra Di
rected by James C. Pfohl
Sunday afternoon The Wachpvia
Musical Society presented an Advent
Vesper Program to a large audience
in the Home Church. The chorus
and orchestra were directed by James
•C. Pfohl. The soloists included Mrs.
E. Straley and Mrs. Rufus Dalton,
soprano, Mrs. W. J. Hege, contralto,
Howard C. Conrad, tenor, and Thomp
son Shouse, bass.
Some of the selections were com
posed by former Salem people.
The pieces given were.
Arise! Shine! For Thy Light Has
Come
Hosanna E. W. Leinbach
Once He Came In Blessing
W. Songbook
liift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates :
Rev. F. F. Hagen
Brightest and Best Are the Sons
Dudley Buck
Thou Child Divine Shultzel
Miss Nancy McDaniel
Speaker at Chapel
Christmas and New Year
Celebration in China
Miss Nancy McDaniel of Soonchun,
China, a 1933 graduate of Meredith
College, was the guest speaker of.
Salem College at chapel on Friday,
December 8, Miss McDaniel gave a
most interesting and entertaining ac
count of the celebration of Christmas
and New Year’s Day in China. A1-,
though not much emphasis is placed
on the former, New Year’s Day is a
gala Hfl^air. All during /the .day,
friends visit their friends, have feasts,
play games, give presents, sing, and
enjoy themselves to the fullest. The
women meet and gossip both for the
year just past and the year to c
On New Year’s day China is a
table picture of gay colors. Every
one dres^s in his best and the chil
dren play on the streets and every
where one sees beautiful and f
mous kits in different shapes.
Miss McDaniel stated in conclusion
that the saddest thing she had
was the doing away with the Chinese
New Year celebration. Under the
New Regime everything old is put
aside and a new order it taking its
place. She added that she hoped the
[)eople would recognize the good in
some of the old celebrations and let
them keep thir place in the life of the
Cliinese people.
Mr. Campbell is
Honored in Science
To Attend Meeting
Christmas
Mr. Roy J. Campbell, Professor
of Biology at Salem, has recently been
elected a fellow of the American As
sociation for ;the Advancement of
Science. Mr. Campbell has been elec
ted in recognition of his position as
a science teacher and of research
work done at the University of Chica
go.
Mr. Campbell will attend the an
nual meeting of the Association which
will be in Boston December. 27
January 1. At this meeting there
will be talks on recent scientific ad
vancement. There will also be exhi
bits by the leading manufacturers of
ientific materials.
The ^‘Messiah” Given
At Methodist Church
Mozart Club Performance
The Christmas portion of “The
Messiah” by George Frederick Handel
was rendered by the Mozart Club
Sunday afternoon at five o’clock at
the Centenary Methodist Church.
Mary Mills was the contralto soloist,
Dean Vardell the organist, and Mr.
Harry E. Parker, director of the 172
voices in the chorus.
Handel wrote “The Messiah” with
idea of trying to uplift rather than
entertain his audience. Many critics
believe it to be an unsurpassed classic
the realm of music, expressing deep
religious feeling in an artistic and
beautiful composition. He wrote ‘The
Messiah’^ his tenth oratorio, at the
age of 56 and compIet^iS his master
piece in less than a month. At its
first presentation in 1742 in Dublin,
Ireland, Handel conducted it himself.
It is practically certain that Han
del’s composition was first rendered in
the south by the Moravians nearly
125 years ago. Dr. Adelaide Fries
found an old manuscript copy of it
the Salem archives written by
Bishop Johannes Herbst, a Moravian
Bishop, in approximately 1766. As
Herbst was in Germany about this
time, it is probable that he jised Hou-
del’s manuscript as his copy.
The rendition was received with such
enthusiasm that the Mozart Club, may
decide to make it an annual Christ-
Santa Claus Makes
A Plea for Help
Holidays Here Begin
Saturday
Joyous Valentine! Happy Fourth
of July! and other true expressions
of ye olde felicitations. Here’s hop
ing you enjoy our little programmy;
here’s wishing you eat well, sing well,
laugh well; here’s telling you we’re
gad to see you, be with you, enter
tain you; here’s saying, “just two
more days!” and “Merry Christmas!”
Attention, you, and you, and you
By special proclamation of Santi
Claus, himself, something drastic mus
be done, and soon. Who's going to
do it? liacli and every one of you.
And why? Well, polish up your
Christmas spirit, and listen with both
Our pal St. Nick, the merry old
soul, has met with quite an embarras
sing mishap, about 613 degrees Fah
renheit north of here. Believe it, oi
believe it, while practicing for his lit
tle Christmas Eve acts, he got stuck
in his very own chimney! What’"
worse, he can’t get out,—at least, no
until he reduces. Like many of us
his little round eyes were bigger than
his little round—well, er, middle, and
he indulged in one too many bowls
full of jelly. His anxious friends will
be relieved to know that he is doing
very nicely,’though a trifle sootily in
his present position, but the sad part
is that he can’t possibly wriggle out
any time soon.
He dictated this message to Mrs.
Santy, and she santygramed it immed-
‘itely to us.
My dear little girls and boys
You have always been just as gc
i gold since the time you were w
ee tots. Never once have I had to
leave in your stockings any switches
or ashes or snaps and snails and pup
py dog tails, (with the exception oi
little Roy Campbell, when he dis
sected Mrs. Santy’s pet Maltese.) Be-
“luse we have been such claus friends
ir so many, many Christmases, I feel
ee to call upon you now for help.
On Saturday, December 16th,
Salem campus there wil arise such a
clatter that you’ll spring from your
books to see what is the matter. Now
don't be alarmed, but, first, alarm
me to explain. In front of Alice
Clewell Building, there will be a team
of six- cylinder , reindeer^ Prancer,
Dancer, Comet, Cupid, Dunder, and
Blitzen, hitched to a stream-lined,
Fislier body sleigh, ready to bring
you all by special delivery to the
North Pole. Upon arrival here, you
’ll sit down to a banqilet, and then
your work will begin. Those of you
who are slim will be sent to the sugar
plum factory, and those of you who
are otherwise, to the toy factory.
From then on until Christmas Eve
:o take my place making the
dolls, and bicycles, and candy canes,
and what-nots for the tiny tots all
"‘er our cutey-wad world. You won’t
ind the work a bit, 1 feel sure, for
surprisingly easy and there’ll be time
out every ten minutes for a Butter
Boy or a hamburger.
By Christmas Eve I hope to have
St enough poundage to wriggle out
of this chimney and deliver the gifts
which you have made. I’ll also deliver
each of you dressed in a new fur ci
back to your fond mammas.
Expectantly yours,’
Santy
P. S.
It’s OK with your parents for you
I come up" and see me this time, as
ve promised them an extra stuffed
date for sending your permission to
the Dean.
Come to the
Christmas Party
School Of Music
Presents Recital
Music Hour Given By
Students
The last Music Hour before Christ
mas was a students’ recital. The pro
gram was as follows;
Allegro in F minor K. P. E. Bach
Rose Siewers
Pastorale Scarlatti
Sunny Kirby
Turn ye to me Old Scotch
Caller Herrin Old Scotch
Lois Naff
The Butterfly
Anne Floret
Gavotte (,luck
Josephme Reece
Air and \iiriations Ihe Harmonious
Blacksmitli' Handel
Nancy McNeely
Strike It Up. Tabor Weelkes
(1578-1623)
Angejs o’er the fields were flying ....
- Old French Carol
Voice Ensemble
Brownies Korngold
Lois Moores
Allemand, Gavotte and Musette
- d’Albert
Margaret Johnson
School of Music in
“An Evening of 5ong’^
Glee Club and Soloists
Perform
Monday evening in Memorial Hall
a large audience was entertained by
an iriteresting program of various
types of music by the Salem Glee
Club and pupils of the voice depart
ment. It was under the direction of
Mr. Ernest Leslie Schofield. Wilda
Mae Yingling, Jean Robinson, and
Dorothy Thompson were the accom
panists.
The program was opened with Slum-
her Sony by Gretchaninoff and a
group of English Christmas Carols
by the Glee Club.
A group of folk-songs: My Johann
by Grieg Aslanoff; Jjt'hen J Was
Seventeen, an old Swedish song; and
Lauterback, a German folk song, was
presented by Lucy James in charming
Dutch costume.
Margaret Bagby sang These Are
They, from “Holy City” by Gaul.
Next was a solo, Deh Rendetemi,
from La Stellidaura Vendicata, Pro-
vencale, by Martha Moores.
Lois Naff, in full Scottish costume
sang a group of Scotch Highland
melodies: CoUer Herrin, Turn Ye '
Me, and Come Under My Plaidie.
Margaret Bagby, Mary Mills, and
Kenneth Bryant sang a trio from
AtUla—Praise Ye the Lord by Verdi.
Mrs. J. Harold McKeithan, former
Salem student, sang In a Myrtle
Shade, and Bird of the Wilderness.
The concluding group of songs wa&
presented by a voice Enserable, Love
ly Evening (Round), Sleep Well
(Round), Jesw, Rex AdndrabUis—
Palestrina, Angels O’er the Fields
Were Flying—old French carol, Ma
drigal: Strike It Up, Tabor—Weelkes.
This voice ensemble was composed of
Mary Mills, Lois Naff, Martha
Moores, Martha Nolen, Frances But
ler, Rebecca Hines, and Lucy James,
^he music was lovely.
Alpha lota Pi Holds
Monthly Meeting
Christmas Progreun Given
By Members
Alpha Iota Pi met Thursday night,
December 7, at the home of Miss
Margaret Ashburn on Miller Street.
After a short business session. Dr.
Minnie J. Smith read some excellent
humorous translations and Miss
Eloise Baynes gave an interesting
account of the Saturnalia. During
the remainder of the evening, Latin
Christmas songs were sung, in prepar
ation for the program the club Is to
give over the radio.
Hot fruit tea, pimento-cheese and
olive sandwiches, coconut cakes, and
mints were served to the following:
Dr. Smith, Margaret Johnson, Mar
garet Schwarze, Eleanor Watkins,
Virginia Allen, Eloise Baynes, Vir
ginia Lyons, Melrose Hendrix, and
Martha Binder.
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This afternoon at five o’clock in
Memorial Hall will be the presen
tation of the Christmas Picture by
the Salem Academy. Those girls
taking part this year are, Anne
Perkins, the Madonnai, Barbara
Fulton, Elevens Vogler, Frances
Reid and Kathleen Madden.
Jane Rondthaler will assist as sol
oist and Broadus Staley will be the
accompanist.
This is the annual carol service
of the Academy and it would be
worthwhile for everyone to go.
The Christmas Story
Is Again Interpreted
Dr. Rondthaler Is Speaker
At Y. P. M.
Dr. Rondthaler spoke on “the
Christmas story” at Y. P. M.,
Wednesday, December 13th. He said
■t the Christmaa story on
Christmas is something all should
try to avoid. It brings to us the
I true spirit of the holiday season. So
' long has art and song virtually con
solidated these three stories:
1. The birth of Christ—2. The
story of the visit of the wisemen and
the shepherds and 3. The flight into
Egypt, that they are apart of us.
Much of the world today con
verges into the scene of the Christ
mas background. The story with
which we are most familiar is re-
cordedinLuke—the story about the
visit of the shepherds and the birth
of the Baby Christ in a barn.
Rome issued a decree -at the birth
of Christ which emphatically stated
that all the world should be taxed.
Kome used it intentionally and def-
luitely. As the story begins Rome
sticks its fist into the situation, tax-
ing people in order to remind the
subject people that Rome would
rest from them the imperial taxes.
Joseph and Mary went 70 miles to
±!etlilehem. Appearance of the
magi or kings (and we aren’t quite
sure th^ey were kings, though they
had that title), were as different
trom the dominating group in Rome
as the East is different from the
West. These men had observed a
star and followed it. They said
We have seen his star in the rising
and have come to worship Him. ’ ’
We ask ourselves how they had
knowledge of the significance of this
star? These kings had undoubtedly
read such words and these: There
shall come a star out of Israel and
It shall destroy Edom, a dominion
arising among the Hebrews. A
star would signify that they should
follow it until it rested.
Mark tells us that the whole city
was in a tumult. Herod was dis
turbed, naturally, over the new
king’s birth, who was to rule, ac
cording to the book which the maei
studied. ®
When Herod heard this he sent
men to look for this king and de
manded that they bring the magi to
him.
Into this Christmas story reminis-
ences, people and all those things of
life make it as it was in the begin
ning a virtually consolidated con
vergence.
The shepherds had exquisite gen
tleness and a knowledge of the fields
by day and by night. Characteristic
bloodshed of “baby-lads” completes
this amazingly convergent story,
while Mary, Joseph, and the Christ
child paint another scene at the
same time as they are fleeing from
the cruel bloodshed.
Christmas without this spirit is
like a hearth without a fire; an eyo
without sight.”