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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. (continued on page three) “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- (Continued on Page Four' 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 (continued on page thhee) (CONTINUI E THBEE) 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 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)