WELCOME I WELCOME
VOL. XVII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 19367
Number 1.
165th Yesir Begins At Salem
MRS. ELIZABETH MEIN-
UNG SUCCEEDS MISS
LEFTWICH
To Be In Charge of Home
Economics Department
Mrs. Elizabeth O. Meinung, of
"Winston-Salem, replaces Miss Bessie
Leftwich as head of the Home Eco
nomics Department. Mrs. Meinung
was formerly an instructor in the
dei>artment.
She received her B. S. and M. A.
degrees from Columbia University.
Mrs. Meinung had taught at Salem
Academy, and Guilford College, be
fore coming to Salem. She was di
rector of the cafeteria at Columbia
University for five' summer sessions
and one fall term.
She has had wide teaching experi
ence. Tor the past three months she
has been engaged in home economics
research work at Columbia itniver-
eity.
MRS. ELIZABETH MEINUNG
ORGANIZATION HEADS
AND TRUSTEES MEET
NEW TEACHERS AND
COURSES ADDED AT
SALEM ACADEMY
Inf oimal Session and Dinner
Given Monday Night
One of the opening events of the
year was the dinner meeting given
by the student council members and
the heads of campus organizations
for the trustees and faculty advis >ry
board. Dinner was served at six
thirty in Louisa Wilson Bitting
Building.
An afterdinner meeting was held
for the purpose of discussing plans
for the coming year. Miss Ethel
Ilighsmith of Fayetteville, president
fo Student Self-Government presided.
Presidents of the major organiza
tions gave short talks about their
various activities. The Y. W. C. A.
was presented by Mary Louise Hay
worth of High Point; the annual,
‘Sights and Insights,” by Jane Crow
of Mocksville; the Salemite by Sara
Ingram of Winston-Salem; I. R. S.
by Cordelia Lowry of Bedford, Va.;
Athletic Association by Virginia Kea
Council, of Whiteville.
After the student talks Dr. Rond-
thaler, Mrs. Rondthaler, and several
trustees spoke briefly.
Guests at the dinner and meeting
were: Archie Davis, J. B. Goslen, T.
Holt Haywood, Mrs. Clarence Lein-
bach, Emil Shaffner, H. A. Pfohl.
Dr. S. Fred Pfolil, Mrs. Robert Shore,
Rufus Shore, Rev. R. Gordon Spaugh,
C. S. Starbuck, Dean Charles G.
Vardell, Jr., Dr. Howard Rondthaler,
trustees; Dr. Minnie J. Smith, Miss
Grace Lawrence, Miss Katherine
Riggin, Miss Evabelle Covington,
Faculty Advisors; Mrs. Howard
Rondthaler and Miss Mary Louise
Mickey.
Three new teachers have been add
ed to the faculty of Salem Academy.
They are Miss Edith Kirkland of
Durham and Winston-Salem. She
graduated from Salem in 1928. She
will act as secretary of the adminis
tration and personal representative
of the Academy.
Mi.ss Sara Horton, also a Salem
graduate, will be new head of the
home economics department.
Mis.s Cam Rhodes Rawlinson of
Rock Hill, S. C., has also been added
to the faculty. She is a graduate of
Winthrop College and Duke Univer
sity.
Several new courses have been
added to the Academy program, in
cluding courses in typing and short
hand, English, I’rench, Modern Euro
pean and English History, and free
Art instruction.
RESTORATION AND
IMPROVEMENTS
MADE DURING
SUMMER
NEW EQUIPMENT
OBTAINED FOR SALEM
WEATHER STATION
Charles H. Higgins, head of the
department of science, announces
that new equipment has been added
to the Salem weatl»«r station.
The equipment inlcudes rain gauge,
maximum and .minimum therinom-
eters, standard thermometer, mer
curial barometer, sling psychrometer,
thermograph, barograph, and the
newly added anemometer with wind
direction attachment.
Weather observations and fore
casts are made daily at 8 o’clock,
^he weather station will be in charge
of Miss Janet Stimpson.
During the summer interesting im
provements and restoration work has
been going on at Salem.
The new gymnasium is nearing
completion. It will be ready for
use in a few weeks. It is 102 by
80 feet and w'ill contain all modern
equipment. It is designed for use
by both college and academy.
The administration Building erec
ted in 1811 has been completely re
stored. Furniture, wallpaper, drap
eries and interior decorations are as
near as possible like that of the
building in 1811. On the second
floor a room has been furnished for
trustee meetings and also a room
for special guests of the college.
In Main Hall, beauti/ful offices
have been made for Miss Blair Miss
Preston and Miss MSckey. Several
of the classrooms have been painted
and relighted.
Improvements have been made in
Park Hall and the rooms in Louisa
Wilson Bitting have been painted, as
have some of the rooms in the Sis
ters’ House. Lehman Rail has been
made into a dormitory.
OPENING EXERCISES
HELD THURSDAY
MORNING
The 165th session of Salem College
and Academy began officially on
Thursday morning with exercises in
Memorial Hall at ten o’clock.
“Standing At the Portals of the
Opening Year,” traditional hymn
was sung by the audience led by
members of the Senior class who
entered in caps and gowns and took
their places on the platform.
Bishop Kenneth Pfohl, president
of the board of trustees, gave a brief
welcome. He spoke of the history
of the Moravian Church in educa
tion and the emphasis placed on
spiritual development.
Dr. Rondthaler spoke on the large
‘ ‘ visible and invisible audiences ’ ’
present. He explained the deriva
tion of the names of the groups pres
ent. “Seniors” mean "the venerable I
ones”; they are to be leaders during j
the coming year. “Juniors” mean j
“children.” This meaning does not
apply to this group at Salem.
“Sophomores” means “wise fools.”
This can serve both as an invitation
and as a warning. “Freshman” is an
English term. It implies the eager
ness and energy of new students.
Faculty” means “easing ones”
■ those who smooth the path of
learning for others; “Alumnae”
very apjiropriately means “those
who have been nourished.”
Announcements were made and
mention was made of the improve
ments which liave taken place dur
ing the summer.
Telegrams of greeting were read
from alumnae. ,
Rev. Gordon Spaugh, pastor of the
Homo Church, led in prayer. “Rise,
Crowned With Light, Imperial
Salem, Rise” was sung as a reces
sional.
CLTFrOBD BAIR
NEW FACULTY MEM
BERS APPOINTED
Large Enrollment Necessi
tates Additions
Three new courses have been ad
ded to the science curriculum this
year. These include physiological
chemistry, biological chemistry, and
geography of countries outside of
North America.
In addition to the two new de
partment heads, Clifford Bair, and
^trs. Elizabeth Meinung, there have
been a number of new additions to
the faculty.
Edward Holder, of Charlotte, re
places Miss Isabel Ferguson as as
sistant in the department of history.
Mr. Holder graduated from Guilford
College in 1925. He received his
M. A. degree from the University of
North Carolina in 1929. He has had
teaching experience in the North
Carolina high schools.
Miss Mary Duncan McAnally, of
High Point, a Salem graduate in the
class of 1928, assumes full assistant-
ship in the home economics depart
ment.
Miss Ivy Hixson, of Atlanta,
Georgia, has been named assistant to
Dr. Minnie J. Smith, in the depart
ment of classcial languages and his
tory. Miss Hixson is a graduate of
the University of Georgia and re
ceived her master’s degree from the
University of North Carolina in
1932. She was last associated with
the University of Mississippi, as as
sistant professor of Latin.
Miss Lucille Vest replaces Mrs.
Taylor Simpson in the modern lan
guage department. She graduated
from Salem in 1930 and did advanced
work at the University of North
Carolina. For the past six years she
has been a member of the faculty of
the Moravian Seminary for Women,
at Bethlehem, Pa.
Miss Virginia Thompson, of States
ville, replaces Mrs. Malloy Davis,
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CAMPUS LEADERS
ARE APPOINTED AS
STUDENT ADVISORS
Student advisors to the freshmen
and other new studetnts have been
appointed. In two informal meet
ings on Monday, plans were made
for Orientation.
A meeting was held on Wednesday
evening. Thursday a tour of the
campus was made. Discussion groups
will continue until Tuesday when the
handbook review will take place.
Student advisors are: Ruth Norm
an, Winston-Salem; Frances Salley,
Asheville; Josephine Whitehead,
Rocky Mount; Eloise Baynes, Win
ston-Salem; Sara Sherwood, Conway,
S. C.; Eloise Sample, Fort Pierce,
Fla.; Willena Couch, Winston-Salem,
Jane McLean, Raleigh, Frances Wat-
lington, Reidsville; Virginia Bruce
Davis, Danville, Virginia; Caroline
Pfohl, Winston-Salem; Mary Louise
Hayworth, High Point; Sara Ingram,
Winston-Salem; Virginia Council,
Whiteville; Jane Crow, Mocksville,
and Cordelia Lowry, Bedford, Va.;
Arnico Topp, Winston-Salem.
WHAT THE
GRADUATES OF 1936
ARE DOING
Graduates of the class of 1936
have scattered abroad, engaged in
various occupations.
Virginia Thompson, Statesville,
succeeds Mrs. Malloy Davis as ac
companist in the music department
of Salem.
Carlotta Ogburn and Janet Stimp-
son both of Winston-Salem will be
assistants in the science department.
Agnes Brown of Davidson will be
an assistant in the sociology depart
ment, coming in the second semester.
Others who have accepted teach
ing positions are:
Margaret Schwarze, Winston-
Salem, will teach violin at the North
Carolina School for the Blind. Wilda
Mae Yingling of Salisbury will teach
piano at the same school. Phyllis
Clapp, Winston-Salem, will be in
structor in piano and accomi>anist at
the Marjorie Webster School in
Washington, D. C., Virginia Garner,
Winston-Salem, is teaching history
at South High. Nancy McNeely,
Cooleemee, is teaching public school
music here. Grace Carter, Winston-
Salem, ia teaching grammar grades
at W’^aughtown School. McArn Best,
Goldsboro, is teaching at Mount
Olive. Mary Daniel, Rocky Mount is
teaching grammar grades at Battle-
boro. Erika Marx, Nazareth, Pa., is
instructor in home economics at
Yadkinville. Martha Schlegel, Naz
areth, Pa., is also teaching home
economics, at Taylorsville. Madeline
Smith is teaching in her home town,
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CLIFFORD BAIR HEADS
VOICE DEPARTMENT
Noted Operatic Tenor Ac
cepts Position Here
'Clifford Bair, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
has been appointed head of the
Salem Collegs Voice Department. Mr.
Bair, an oi>eratic tenor, comes from
State Teachers College, Wayne, Neb.,
where ho has held a position for the
past two years.
Ho attended St. Stephens Choir
School, and later was a pupil of Her
bert Withers])ooii of New York. In
Chicago he studied with Graham
Reed and Isaac Van Grove. He
graduated from the Chicago Musical
College.
Mr. Bair spent a year and a half in
Germany, where at Breslau he stu
died and coached with Hans Baron,
of the Breslau State Opera.
Returning to this country, he made
Ilia debut at the Studebaker Theatre,
Chicago, in 1931. He is a “notable fig
ure in opera, having apiH-ared with
the Chaicago and Detroit Civic opt'ra
companies. ,
Mr. Bair has had wide exjx'rieiice
as a teacher. lie has taught at the
(jolumbia School of Music, Chicago,
the Williard Institute of Music, Bat
tle Creek, Mich., pnd at the State
Teachers College, Wayne, Neb.
Mr. Bair has also done work as a
radio artist.
MRS. RONDTHALER
GREETS GIRLS
Dear New Girls and Dear Old Girls:
For the nianyth time Salem, yoiJr
Alma Mater holds out her arms to
you. And you come rushing to her
happily from here, there, and every
where. How glad she is to see you,
yon can never really comprehend,
for like a good and doting Mother
she has been busing all these sum
mer days making your college home
beautiful and attractive and com
fortable for you.
The campug is putting its very
best foot forward to welcome you.
Even the gay and brilliant amaryllis
is in bloom .for you and the tiny
autumn lavendar vrocuses are still
lingering in the border for you; the
grass is greener than it has been all
summer and the trees are piquant
with a touch of color, sort of waving
a banner to welcome you.
Dowi under the hill, the workmen
have begun singing every morning
early as they hammered away get
ting our hugh (ind mjignificent Gym
nasium ready for you. Just a week
or two Or three more and we shall
all be saying, “Oh, come on down to
the Gym.” It will be our pet re
sort.
Over on the Square stands our
beautiful and completed Administra
tion Building and surely each time
the thrill of stepping into and with
in its ancient walls and into its
([uaint and pristine simplicity, will
make you feel that perhaps after all
you are Salem girls of 1802.
But, no, you are Salem girls of
1930 with all the vision and aspira
tions and plans and down right com
mon sense that we expect you to
have and know that you possess; and
soon, very soon, a great tide of edu
cation will engulf you. But you will
swim, of course, you will. Sometimes
it will bo rough going and there will
be ni)s and downs. Then remember
that Salem is your “homo” while
you are at college and that there are
many of us who are tenderly and
affectionately watching over you
and caring about what happens to
you.
Once more we bid you be “at
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