EXAMINATIONS I COMMENCEMENT
VOL. XIV.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.
Number 30.
COMMENCEMENT PLANS FILL LAST ISSUE
Seniors Names
And Addresses
Class of ’34, Where They’ll
Be in ’35
Seniors, we are going to miss
and we hate to see you go, but
wish you the best of luck in every
respect whethr you pursue a profes
sional or matrimonial career or wheth
er you merely loaf. And because
most of you will soon be either the
village teacher-sweetheart or the
domestic housewife, we are afraid
that the list of addresses will be only
temporary. But anyway when we
write to tell you all the Salem gossip
as to who Brazelton’s latest is,
which bewildered Freshman Bras
is rushing, and how many more weeks
before you are coming to see
are going to send our letters
to the following addresses.
Absher, Mary S.
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.
Adkins, Virginia L.
Walnut Cove, N. C.
Allen, Virginia L.
1027 S. Main St. Winston-Salem
Ashburn, Margaret E.
708 Miller St., Winston-Salem
Biles, Mary O.
1031 S. Main St., Winston-Salem
Cain, Eleanor G.
Cana, N. C.
Calder, Susan P.
2222 Mecklenburg Ave, Charlotte
Canada, Mary E.
411 Washington Ave, Winston-
Salem
Clay, L. Irene
317 Lockland Ave., Winston-
Salem
Crews, Thelma I.
2248 Marble St. Winston-Salem
Davis, Sara E.
722 West End Blvd., Winston-
Salem
Graves, Dorabelle
117 Raleigh Ave., Mount Airy
Grimes, Josephine W.
928 Hawthorne Road, Winston-
Hadley, Marion
1715 Queens Rd., Charlotte, N. C.
Hanes, Mildred A.
Pine Hall, N. C.
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“Y” INSTALLATION
SERVICE
For Vespers on next Sunday eve
ning, the Y. W. C. A. will hold its
installation service. This is one of
the most beautiful and impressive
services of the entire year, and the
students and faculty are cordially in
vited to attend. It wil be held i '
6:30 in the college library.
Y. W. C. A.
Marianna Redding—Vice-Chairman
Anne Taylor Vice-President
Erika Marx Secretary
Mary Louise Haywood Treasurer
Cabinet
Anne Taylor—Chairman of Vesper
Committee
Ethel Highsmith—Vice-Chairman
Marianna eRdding—Vice-Chairman
Gertrude Sfchwajbe — CTiairman o;f
Community Service Committee
Virginia Crumpler—Vice-Chairman
Elizabeth Jerome—Vice-Chairman
Jane Rondthal^r—Chairman of Stu
dent Volunteer Committee
Margaret Wall—Vice-Chairman
Josephine Reece—Chairman of Fin
ance Committee
Mary Hart—Vice-Chairman
Aggie Brown—Vice-Chairman
Lois Torrence—Chairman of Worship
Committee
Martha Nolan—Vice-Chairman
Delle Huggins—Chairman of Socials
Caroline Diehl—Vice-Chairman
Lucy James — Chairman of Music
Committee
Ruth McConnell—Chairman of Indus
trial Committee
Arnice Topp—Vice-Chairman
Margaret Schwarze — Chairman of
World Fellowship Committee
Sara Johnston—Chairman of Bulletin
Board
Martha Schlegel—Chairman of “Y”
Nancy McNeely—Chairman of Pub
licity Committee
Nannie Miller—Vice-Chairman
Academy Juniors
Entertain Seniors
Forsyth Club Becomes
“Mardi Gras”
The Forsyth Country Club Satur
day evening was transformed in' “
veritable “Mardi Gras” at the
nual banquet given by juniors of Sa
lem Academy \to members of the
graduating class.
The lobby between the dining
and the drawing room of the club
house was decorated as a fairground
with fortune-telling booths and
rious other amusements for er
tainment of the guests.
Multi-colored streamers of crepe
paper and balloons made the dining
room a place of vivid color and gai-
ety.
As each guest entered the dining
room, she was given a mask and
crepe paper hat. Table decorations
carried out a “Mardi Gras parade’
effect with small automobiles and
floats representing the different
classes and activities of the school.
On the toastmistresses’ table w
a miniature throne for the “King”
and “Queen” of the “Mardi Gras”
Places for guests at the tables were
marked by names attached to small
black fans.
During the banquet the following
toasts were given to the honor
guests :
Address of welcome by Miss Ruth
Greene, president of the Junior class;
toast to seniors, Miss Elizabeth Trot-
man; toast to Dr. and Mrs. Howard
E. Rondthaler, Miss Jean Gray
Scott; toast to faculty. Miss Betty
Bahnson; farewell toast, Miss Ruth
Miss Mary Weaver, principal of
Salem Academy, responded for the
faculty, and Miss Fannie fjtokely,
president of the senior class, res
ponded for the seniors.
Throughout the evening music was
furnished by Paul Robin’s Orches-
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REVIEW OF 1933-34
Stopping on the Red Letter
Days of Past Year
What has Salem done during the
year ’33-’34i? Have all the two hun
dred and fifty school days been
spent in studying the classics and re
citing the multiplication table? There
are several features of 1933-34 which
will always stand out—and they w
not concerned with “the students”
merely “students,” but with the stud
ents as actors, or athletics, or fashion
plates, or society fiends. Let’s look
over the bigger events of a very
eventful year, or in more scholarly
language, the extra-curricular activi
ties of Salem’s student body during
the past two semestei
We will not take these events
chronologically because we’d be s
to get our dates mixed. Rather
will jump about over the calendar
like grasshoppers, being carefu'
to land only on the Red Letter Days
May Day is always the biggest
Red Letter on the calendar. It has
been growing larger and redder every
year for seven years, and this year It
seemed too bright and beautiful to
be true. Mrs. Hancock (hers were
the dresses of the courts) and Mrs.
(Libby) Jerome (hers were the re
markable costumes of the pageant)
outdid themselves in putting other
colors in view on that day. The i
steps, presented by the combined
ganizations on the campus, lent
added note of dignity to the sci
upon which added note re.sted the
graceful trains of the maids in wait
ing. The “queens” from story book
and history book bowed to the Mil
dred—Queen “op the hill” and "
called it a day because Jinny Ghandi ■ suitable clothes for the girl. When she
Nall was “so tired her bare knees Ig^w how easy it was to get rid of the
quaking.” Nearly six thousand yged clothes she wrote to her friends
LAST REGULAR
VESPERS HELD
SUNDAY NIGHT
Miss Riggan is Speaker
Miss Katherine J. Riggan, assistant
dean, spoke at the Vesper service,
Sunday night, May 20. Miss Riggan
gave the girls some beautiful thoughts
to carry with them during the
;r vacation. The real questioi
id, is whether college has givi
students more than “courses,” wheth-
it has given them an insight into
what is worth while, a scale of moral
values, a principle of action which
be a permanent possession, car
rying over into other days. In this
age where there are countless divis-
of judgment about right and
g, she said that college students
should choose a standard of moral in
dependence. They should achieve an
interior standard of what is beauti
ful rather than to fall victim succes
sively to one conventional fad after
another. The recovery of social se
curity and moral independence would
be speedier if Jesus Christ could make
himself heard:—“Why even of your
selves judge ye not what is right?”
It is during college days, she i
tinned, that girls consciously or
consciously form and put into prac
tice standards, judgments and ideals
and at the end of each year the
progress towards the realization of
those ideals should be evident. Miss
Riggan went on to say that vacation
would be much more satisfactory for
the girls and those about them if it
was spent with some definite service
its program instead of just a care
less, carefree, selfish living. She
closed with a beautiful quotation
from Dr. Henry Emerson Fosdick:
“Have a conscience of your own and,
when in private life the clamor of
public custom grows very loud, do
you grow quiet, quiet enough to hear
the beat and catch the rhythm of
that inward drum.”
We hope that this last issue of
The Salemite, which is, at the same
time, the first effort of the new
1934-35 staff, may act as a soothing
agent for the “examinationly-fev-
ered brow, and also as a happy
forerunner of better days. Com
mencement and summer time are
just around the corner. But what
Dr. Mary Martin Sloop
Speaks at Chapel
Dr. Mary Martin Sloop, of Cross-
)re School, Crossnore, was our speak-
• at expanded Chapel Wednesday
morning. Dr. Sloop is a graduate of
Johns Hopkins University, and she has
been responsible for building Cross-
School at Crossnore in the moun-
of North Carolina. Through the
work of Mr. and Mrs. Sloop many
mountain boys and girls have been
given educational opportunities which
they would not otherwise have
Dr. Sloop laughingly said in her in
formal talk that “Cupid” wa
greatest obstacle in work in the
tain school, but although her
were light she really meant what she
said, bcaeuse there is a real problem
in trying to educate and fit the boys
and girls for life before they are
married. The early marriages of the
girls and the large families which
they have, serve to make Mrs. Sloop’s
work very complicated. She has also
to deal with the problem of raising
enough money to carry on her fine
work. She began her work at Cross
nore in a tiny one-room shack which
served as schol, church, and court
She hit upon the plan of selling old
clothes to help support the school in
the following way. There was a girl
who had just “turned” thirteen who
was planning to be married. In order
to get clothes to send Hepsy away
.school, Mrs. Sloop wrote to her coi
ins in Davidson and asked them
help her. As a reply the relatives se
a trunk filled with black dresses which
Sloop easily sold to buy
NEW CHANGES IN
COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM
Though Salem College is still main
taining its commencement traditions,
this year it is to have a few new
■ leas in the Commencement exercises.
The daisy chain ceremony will be
1 Class Day exercises rather than
1 the Academic program.
The Seniors are to sit in the front
of the Audience rather than on the
stage. The speaker will find it easier
to speak to those for whom he has
prepared a talk, with them in front
of him rather than behind.
spectators, seated on the Academy
Hill, read the Salemite programs, and
said lovely flattering things about
Salem College when the performance
The grasshopper lingered a little
overtime on May Day, but why
shouldn’t he? Now he’s landed on
a whole week of excited voting and
campaigning, topped by a Saturday
night of dancing and acclaiming
Queen Sally Vest and King Camp-'
bell. He stops only long enough to
congratulate the ingenious Sophomore
Class for staging such a successful
King and Queen Contest and Ball,
and the student body for choosing
leir most popular representatives as
Hopped again. And now the grass
hopper gasps and groans: “I-Need-
Lg, do you, do you, too wit, toe
That sounds a little like a
whippoor-will in distress, but so die
the voices of the Junior Class after
their charming mock opera was
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REV. GORDON SPAUGH
REPLACES BISHOP
PFOHL IN HOME
CHURCH
Youngest Pastor Interested
In Youth
Attractive Home
£c. Exhibits
Art Work — Fashion Show
Wednesday afternoon, from three
to four o’clock in the Recreation Room
of Louisa Wilson Bitting Building,
the Home Economics Department pre
sented an art exhibit of the work that
has been done in the Art Apprecia
tion and Interior Decoration classes.
The three fundamentals of art struc-
—line, tone, and color—were ef
fectively illustrated in seven separate
problems. These fundamentals were
further carried out in floor plans, col
or schemes, arrangements and furn
ishings of houses designed by the
students. Art Appreciation scrap
books and note books illustrating per
iod architecture were on display.
At four o’clock, in tfie Lezora For
tune Hanes Practice House, the same
department presented a fashion show.
Smocks, blouses, skirts, silk dresses,
and Sunday night supper dresses
were modeled by members of the first
year clothing class. A few upper
classmen in the Home Economics De
partment assisted Mrs. Meinung
serving tea.
The A. A. U. W. entertained the
Seniors at a delightful tea on Mon
day afternon from 4:30 to 5:30 ai
the home of Diana Dyer.
When Rev. R. Gordon Spaugh takes
?er the pastorate of Home Moravian
Church, he will be the youngest pastor
in the history of the congregation,
which was founded in 1771.
In addition to having the honor
of being the youngest pastor the
church has ever had. Rev. Mr. Spaugh
wlil also be the second pastor of the
church who has been^ life-long mem
ber of the congregafion. Bishop
Pfohl was the other.
During his connection with the
Home Church, Rev. Mr. Spaugh has
taken an active interest in young
people’s work and served as president
of the Southern Moravian Christian,
Endeavor Union in 1929-30. The young
people of the church, to show their
appreciation of the work which Mr.
Spaugh has done among them, and
the interest he has taken in their ac
tivities, circulated a petition that he
be named pastor of their church.
Bishop Pfohl resigned as pastor of
Home Moravian Church on May 13,
after serving in this capacity for more
than twenty-five years. He tendered
his resignation in order to devote
his entire time to the administrative
duties as Bishop of the Southern
Moravian Province.
Because the Home Church means
^uch a great deal in the life of every
Salem girl, we wish to join the Morav
ian congregation in welcoming its
pastor.
PRESIDENT’S
RECEPTION
The President’s Reception will be
held Saturday night after the Concert.
The Senior Marshalls and the head
marshall, Mr. Campbell will receive
oi^tside. rrhe pr4sident’s rece’ivdng
line will include Dr. and Mrs. Rond
thaler, heads of Music Department,
the soloists, members of the board of
trustees and their wives. Miss Law-
will head the Senior receiving
The entire Senior class will
help. About 500 people are expected
to be present.
CLASS DAY PLANS
Saturday afternoon, June 2, at
three-thirty, the Senior plass Will
present a Class Day program. The
event will be brief and very simple
and will be introduced by the class
marching through a lovely daisy chain.
On this occasion the Class Will and
Prophecy will be read, the history of
the class will be reviewed, and the
clasis poem will be presented.
DR. MYERS TO GIVE
BACCALAUREATE
ADDRESS
Dr. Hiram Earl Myers, Professor
of Biblical Literature at Duke Uni
versity will preach the baccalaureate
sermon of the 1934 graduating class
on Sunday, June 3, at the Home Mo
ravian Church.
Dr. Myers is a graduate of Duke
University at Durham and has re
ceived graduate degrees from Boston
.University. He was pastor of one of
the Methodist churches in Durham
for several years, and is an exceeding
ly popular speaker. He attended the
Duke School of Religion, and has been
the Professor of Biblical Literature
the University since 1926.
A WORD OF
APPRECIATION
The students of Salem wish to ac
knowledge the privilege given them
by the Twin City Quartet and Glee
Club, which played such a prominent
part in the entertainment given by
the Negro help last Thursday night.
This chorus is well-known all over
the South and usually makes quite a
bit of money. The program given
at Salem was done for no pay. The
audience enjoyed and appreciated the
real ability of the group and wishes
to-4hank them.
ACADEMY SENIORS
MAKING PLANS FOR
COMMENCEMENT
The Academy seniors are excitedly
taking plans for their graduation,
heir commencement begins Thurs
day, May 31, at 4:00 o’clock with a
riding meet. At 6:30 that night there
' > be a formal dinner for the sen-
and for the alumnae. The acad
emy takes the opportunity to extend
through the Salemite, a cordial invi
tation to the graduates of the classes
of 1929, ’30, ’31, ’32, and ’33 who are
: the college.
On June 1, the Academy’s big day,
the regular exercises begin at 12:00
o’clock with the athletic award pro
gram. Class Day exercises will be
held this year at 5:30 on the lower
campus. At 6:30 the seniors and
their families are entertained at din-
by Mrs. Rondthaler on the lawn
front of the President’h hpme.
Graduation exercises will begin at
Everyone is invited to attend.
CONCERT
Orphens, an opera by Christoph
Willaball Gluck, will be presented in
Concert form by the Salem Depart
ment of Music, as part of the Com
mencement program Saturday, June
2, at 8:15 P. M. in Memorial Hall.
There will be three soloist parts and
a chorus of seventy voices accompan
ied by the college orchestra. Dean
Charles Vardell has complete charge
of the production.
Miss Mary Mills, contralto, will sing
the part of Orpheus; Miss Margaret
Bagby, soprano, takes the part of
Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus; and
Miss Doris Kimel will be the third
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