Alumnae
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934.
Number 16.
SALEM CELEBRATES FOUNDERS’ DAY
Officers Of S. 1. A. S. G.
Meet At Salem College
Discuss Plans For Meeting
To Be Held on April 5th
The officers of the S. I. A. S. (
met at Salem last week-end to mal
plans for their next conference which
will be held at the University of Ten
nessee on April 5. Miss Mildred Rey
nolds who is the student government
president of Hollins college is the
president of S. I. A. S. G. Miss Dor
othy Radcliff, the president of student
government at the University of Ten
nessee, is vice-president of the organ
ization. Miss Iva Gibson, president
of student government at Winthrop
college, is the secretary. These three
officers were the guests of Miss Geor
gia Huntington, president of student
government ^t Salem College and
treasurer of S. I. A. S. G.
They arrived Saturday, January 27,
at noon and were entertained at tea
that afternoon . by Miss Lawr^ce.
That night the officers had dinner at
the Rondthaler’s home. Sunday morn
ing Miss Riggan gave a delightful
waffle breakfast for them. The girls
were taken to the morning service at
the Home Moravian Church and that
afternoon they were shown the places
of interest on Salem College campus
and in its vicinity. The girls ex
pressed a particular interest in the
deep basement of the widow’s house,
in the heavy latch keys, and in the
Moravian graveyard. They were
pleased with Salem as a whole and
with the cordiality of the girls who
were left on the campus.
At their meeting the girls discussed
speakers, the type of programs, and
the theme of the next S. I. A. S. G.
meeting. They decided that the pur
pose of the conference would be to
discover really the place of the stu
dent in student government. The
A. A. U. W. is to meet in Knoxville
at the same time; therefore the stu
dent organization will have the oppor
tunity of their big speakers. At the
meeting, S. I. A. S. G. will probably
be able to have Mr. Kirby Page and
Miss Nita Glass speak. Everyone will
have a delightful time, because as
part of the entertainment, which is
already planned, is a trip around the
new dam site in Tennessee.
WA
IMPORTANT TALK
On February 8th, Dr. William Tru-
fant Foster, well-known economist and
member of the Board of Advisers of
the National Federation will speak
on the N. S. F. A. as the American
Youth Movement. (3:30 to 3:45 P. M.
E. S. T. over the Columbia Broad
casting System).
Music Hour Features
^Ptudent Recital
String Quartet Performs
Members of the voice, piano and
string departments performed
first Music Hour of the new year
Thursday afternoon. The string
quartet was heard in public for the
first time this year. The program
follows:
Quartet op. 18, No. 1 Beethoven
Allegro
Ggorge Dickieson
Margaret Sehwarze
Albert Blumenthal
Hazel Horton Ee!
Nocturne, op. 32, No. 1 Chopin
Luey James
Polonese in G sharp minor ....Chopi
Mary Louise Mickey
Prayer Guio
Sanctuary La Forge
Frances Butner
Nocturne in F major Chopin
Eose Siewers
Ballade in D minor Brahms
Virginia Thompson
Ombre mai fn Handel
Stars Ware
DR. POTEAT’S ADDRESS
The celebration of Founders’ Day
at Salem College began officially in
Y. P. M. on Wednesday, January 31,
with a memorable address to the stu
dent body by Dr. E. McNeil Poteat
of Raleigh. The speaker was intro
duced by Miss Margaret McLean, who
presented him in a delightfully enter
taining manner.
After acknowledging the introduc-
■ tion, in the preface to his address. Dr.
Poteat said: “I am not very good at
dates. I do not remember them and
am somewhat like the young lady who
was asked in history the question,
“What are Cleopatra’s dates?” She
replied, “I don’t know. I think she
had a date with a man named Mark
Antony, but I have so much trouble
keeping up with my own dates that I
can’t keep up with hers.”
Dr. Rondthaler told me in a letter,
I think, that 1772 was the birthday
of Salem College. I looked up just
for fun in a list of dates other no
table occasions in 1772 and although
my search was not very persistent or
very long, I found almost nothing of
importance in 1772 except the found
ing of Salem College. I did see that
Thomas Jefferson was married in
1772, and not to be partial to the
Democrats, that Alexander Hamilton
landed from the West Indies in New
York, so perhaps you have kept the
year 1772 almost entirely to your-
Continuing, Dr. Poteat spoke in-
spiringly on the three different atti
tudes toward life, that of the roman
ticist, that of the realist, and that of
the idealist. The romanticist’s idea of
life is fragmentary, fleeting, momen-
^tary; the realist, in a long look sees
life as a wide landscape; the look of
the idealist is full, rounded, univer
sal, and eternal.
As illustrative of the romanticist
and the realist. Dr. Poteat vividly
reviewed the Biblical story of Esau
and Jacob. Esau, the cumiing man
of the fields, was a romanticist. Life
to him was fortune and the hazard of
the chase. He lived on hope and ex
pectation of what the tomorrow’s
hunt would bring. He epitomizes for
all time that type of an Epicurean
who says, “Eat, drink, and be merry,
for tomorrow we may die.” The
younger brother, Jacob, a quiet man
who dwelt in the tents, was a realist.
He was not born to a patrimony as
was Esau. His philosophy was, “Eat
drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we
may not die.”
When one night Esau came home
empty-handed from the hunt, he sold
his birthright to his brother for some
hot pepper soup. Because Esau
thought of life only in terms of a
moment, Jacob’s philosophy, for the
time being, won.
Time went on, and through the years
was the conflict between the romanti
cists and the realists. Then came the
idealist with a new philosophy of “So
eat, so drink, and so be merry, that
you may live forever.”
These three attitudes toward life
have been seen in the history of our
country—the romantic age in the days
of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans,
Sam Houston in Texas, and the gold
rush of ’49. After this pioneer per-
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Special Features Make
Founders’ Day Signi
ficant Event at Salem
Vlumnae and Trustees At
tend 162nd Anniversary
Celebration
On April 80, 1772, a day school be
gan at Salem, North Carolina. Today,
one hundred and sixty-two years lat
er, we who are celebrating Salem or
Founders’ Day can sing in praise and
sincerity to our forefathers, the build-
srs of Salem College, “strong are thy
walls, O Salem!”
lere are three significant dates ii
Salem history, the founding of a day
school in 1772, the founding of a
boarding school on October 31, 1802,
and the granting of a charter, which
carried with it the right to confer
degrees, on February 3, 1866. Found
ers’ Day embraces all of these impor
tant dates. Without the day school
the boarding school could not have
developed; without the boarding
school, the college would not have
grown. It is because this day
) much more than the celebration of
giving of a charter that we are ex-
ressing our realization of Salem’s
growth in many ways.
Dr. Poteat, opening the Founders’
Day program on January 31, has
spoken to us of “Salem,” the word
that means “peace. ’ He suggested
to us a view of life that does not come
from a realist, nor a romanticist, but
from an idealist. This view was built
into the foundation of Salem, and we
realize it when we look back through
the records of the school.
Founders’ Day means recognition of
those who have gone before us in the
roles of leaders and students, and it
is for this reason that we welcome the
alumnae so cordially. Your contri
bution to the foundation of Salem has
made it easier and better for us today.
Leadership and guidance have been
essential, and so we welcome our trus
tees tonight.
Founders’ Day means especial re
cognition of Salem traditions. The
Alumnae Banquet, the costumes of
the sisters which are worn by the
seniors, the flags, the displays of stu
dent publications and documents per
taining to the government of the
school have helped us to realize today
the wealth of traditions that have
been handed down to us.
And Founders’ Day means a day of
good times. We hope you have en
joyed our chapel programs; we hope
you have been entertained by the
moving pictures of student activities,
and by the radio program Friday
night; we hope you have had fun meet
ing and greeting friends here. We
certainly have enjoyed this week and
• specially are we glad to have the
Trustees as our dinner guests tonight.
Would you like to know what you are
being served at dinner? It is grape
fruit, roast loin of western beef with
mushrooms, potato mounds with pim-
iento butter, French .string bedns,
broiled tomatoes, clover Jeaf rolls,
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Saturday Chapel
Features Old
Alma Mater
Seniors Sing in Salem
Sister Costumes
A feature of the" Founders’ Day
Chapel on Saturday was the singing
of an old Alma Mater by the Sen
iors, dressed in old Salem sisters cos
tumes. The song was used at Salem
about 1898. The music was composed
by Charles Sanford Skilton, a former
dean of the School of Music. The
words were written by Miss Adelaide
Fries. The words to the first versft
follow':
Hail to thee, hail to thee, dear Alma
Mater,
Join we our voices in rapturous song.
Unto the mother who guided and led
Praise and affection unending belong.
Years seem a single day, when under
memories sway
Backward we fly to thy loving em
brace.
Lost in the days of yore, dream we
ire girls once more
Eagerly, gladly, our footsteps retrace.
Third Civic Music
Concert Monday Night
The Ruth Miler Ensemble
Appears in Reynolds Me
morial Auditorium
The Euth Miller Ensemble pro-
sented a very interesting program
Monday evening at 8:30 in the Rey
nolds Memorial Auditorium. Mr
Charles G. Vardell, dean of mus-
ers**^ introduced the perform-
Especially, were the listeners de-
nghted with the presentation of Mr.
Benno Eabinof ,violinist. Mr. Frank
Chapman, baritone, rendered one
or two good selections. As encores,
he sang two cow boy songs, from a
type of American folk song, he ex
plained. Miss Euth Miller was a
soprano. Both of the accompanists
—Miss Berthe Eich for Mr. Eabinof,
Mr. Nils Nelson for Miss Miller and
Mr. Chapman.... showed an insight
into the selections.
The best of the program follows:
Rondo Caprioeioso Saint-Saens
Mr. Eabinof
Wolfe
Who Knows Stickles
Mr. Chapman
Chopin-Auer
Vescey
■La Capriceeuse Elffar
The Flight of the Bumbie Bee
- — Eimsky-KorsakofT
(Arr. by Eabinof)
Caprice No. 24 Paganini-Auer
Mr. Eabinof
MINNEAPOLIS
SYMPHONY
The Minneapolis Symphony Or-
ehestra which so many Salem girls
enjoyed last year will be in Greens-
w-“ * February 6th.
Winston-Salem Civic Music Asso
ciation tickets are good for this con-
TO THE ALUMNAE
The Salemite staff is glad to
give our Founders’ Day copy to the
members of the Winston brancli of
our Alumnae Association. We, as
students, are interested in the
Alumnae and we want you to be
equally as interested in us We
should be glad to add your' name
to our subscription list for the re
mainder of this year. Send your
name, address, and one dollar to
Isabel Pollock, business manager
and you will receive every week the
latest news of your college.
WELCOME TO TRUSTEES
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen,
)U are listening to Station S-A-L-E-
M, situated in the heart of Salem Col
lege, the home of those famed Salem
co-eds. This program is coming to
you through the courtesy of The Sal
emite, Salem’s most widely read scan
dal sheet.
Tonight We are broadcasting from
the luxurious banquet hall of Salem
College where a formal dinner is in
progress, the occasion being the cele
bration of Founders’ Day. Our guest
artists for this evening are the trus-
of the college, all of whom will
appear later on the program.
And now, my friends of the radio
audience, as I look around this bril
liant gathering I see any number of
celebrities. I grant you that never
before on any previous opening nights
has there been such a collection of
From where I stand, I hear the
booming voice of that tall, handsome
blond, Mr. A. H. Bahnson, busily en
gaged in answering rapturous ques
tions from an admiring throng of col-
legiates. Rivalling this popularity is
Mr. Arthur Spaugh, smooth, dark and
debonair, who is also at sea in an
:ean of more admiring glances.
To my left, ladies and gentlemen,
ts that strong silent man, Mr. T,
Holt Haywood, whose crinkly smile
of amusement comes and goes inces
santly as he listens to the chatter
around him. And speaking of strong
silent men, if that isn’t our old friend.
Dr. Fred Pfohl toying with his fork
there. I wouldn’t be surprised
a word of wisdom any
He’s been pondering
■if he uttered a
moment now.
for quite a while.
Let The see—I believe, yes, there
he IS—the hero of many Salem thea-
trical successes of the past, Mr. John
Fries Blair. At the moment he is
smoothing his dark hair and flashing
his white teeth at some damsel at his
side.
There are several guests from out of
town here tonight. Among them are
M^ T. Dewitt Harmon, a bachelor
and man-about-towrt from Kerners-
ville, N. C and Rev. F. W. Grubs,
that delightful country gentleman
from Bethania, noted for his sense of
humor and ability to bewilder one
with German. Also I see Dr. Fred
Le^nbach, the quiet, eifficient Chariot:’
By the by, speaking of Moravian
ministers (pardon me. Rev. Grubs is
one) there seem to be several others
present—the distinguished and digni
fied Bishop J. K. Pfohl and that Ger
man looking Dr. Edmund Sehwarze
who has appeared successfully on our
program before.
Now, my friends of the air, I feel
sure that you are doubting the pres
ence of the fairer sex among our ar- •
tists. But, just to set you right, there
is that motherly soul, Mrs. Clarence
Leinbach, famed for her oj)en houses
to nieces, nephews, and cousins; and
by her side, the gracious Mrs. James
Gray, whose quiet acts of goodness are
too often shaded from the public eye.
Ah, ladies and gentlemen, I have
just caught sight of a gentleman who
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