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VOL. XVII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1936.
Number 7.
PRESIDENT AND
MRS. RONDTHALER
HONOR SENIORS
Dinner Given on Saturday
Evening
One of the most important events
of the college year was the senior
dinner given by Dr. and Mrs. How
ard E. Eondthaler on Saturday eve
ning honoring the class of 1937.
Covers were laid for one hundred
and twenty guests in the college
dining room. The tables were dec
orated with yellow and b^ftnze . chry
santhemums. The Hallowe ’en motif
was carried out in the place cards,
favors, and in the huge cake made by
Gustaf Bruner.
Guests were met in Main Hall,
where the dinner procession was
formed. Helping Dr. and Mrs.
Eondthaler to receive, were Miss
Grace Lawrence, Miss Katherine
Eiggan, A. T. Curlee, senior class
advisor and Mrs. Curlee and Miss
Cortlandt Preston.
Music waa provided for the dinner
by Miss Virginia Thompson, Re
becca Brame, Harriet Taylor, and
Katherine Snead.
The list of guests included; Kath
leen Alexander, Eloise Baynes, Re
becca Baynes, Dolly Blair, Freida
Blumenthal, Carolyn Byrum, Alma
Cline, Virginia Crumpler, Caroline
Diehl, Helen Diehl, Sara Easterling,
Mary Ruth Elliot, Viola Farthing,
Georgia Goodson, Alice Lee Googe,
Mary Hart, Mary Louise Haywood,
Mary Frances Hayworth, Ethel High-
smitli, Sara Ingram Helen Jones,
Josephine Kluttz, Jane Leibfried,
Cordelia Ijowry, Katherine McColl,
Eloise MeCorkle, Bernice Mclvcr,
Hazel McMahan, Frances Meadows,
Virginia Neeley, Ruth Norman, Cor-
rine Pate, 'Cfarolj^ Eackliffo^ .To
Ritter, Jane Eondthaler, Frances
Salley, Jeanette Sawyer, Sara Sher
wood, Katherine Sisell, Rose Siewers,
Katherine Smith, Mary Snipes, Mar
garet Stafford, Sara Stevens, Arnice
Topp, Ijibby Torrence, Lalya Tuck
er, Margaret Vass, Josephine White
head, Anna Withers, Louise Wurres-
chke, Virginia Gough, Jane Crow,
Margaret Crist, Virginia Council.
Charlie Jenkins, Bill Davis, Brain-
ard Rorison, James Blair, Albert
Blumenthal, .John Davis, Richard
Hine, Dial Gray, Pete Walker, Tyler
Port, Aaron Cornwall, John Creech,
B. C. Dunford, Arnim Francke, Clar
ence Speight, James Copeland, Claud
Sawyer, Brooks Bynum, Frank Camp
bell, Joe Stockton, John Foster, Paul
Mickey, Meade Willis, Clarence
Brown, Bill Coan, Garrison Reid, Ned
Heefner, Harry Shaner, George
Stockton, Frank Watson, Tommy
Wilson, Hugh Miller, .Tohn Glenn,
George Kesner, Ed Blackwood,
Gaither Jenkins, Jack Clayton, Ray
mond Breitz, Tom Old, Jimmie Coan,
John Ogburn, Louis Paladine, John
Watlington, William Crow, Oscar
Hege, Ben Trotter, John Lowrey,
Colin Stokes, J. B. Goslen, William
Watkins, Nick Mitchell, Frank Wil
son, Frank Willingham, Louis Shaff-
ner, David Wurreschke, L. C. Bruce,
Gordon Spaugh, Horace Vance and
Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler, Mr. and
Mrs. Curlee, Miss Riggan, Miss Law-
rencc, and Miss Preston.
EDITOR AND ASSOCIATE
AHEND N.C.C.P.A. MEET
Successful Meeting Held
In Charlotte
Sara Ingram and Katherine Sissell
represented the “Salemite” at the
North Carolina Collegiate Press Con
vention in Charlotte, October 21, 22,
and 23. Davidson College was host.
I Thursday afternoon registration
was held, followed by an informal re-
I ception and welcome by Frederick
Smith. Alumni secretary of David
son.
On Friday morning a short general
meeting was held, followed by group
discuii.sionB, including newspaper ed
itors, magazine editors, annual edi
tors, and business managers.
Following these there was a lunch
eon in Chambers Auditorium with
Mr. F. L. Jackson, treasurer of the
college as speaker. Friday after
noon delegates attended the David-
son-Duke freshman football game.
On Friday night a banquet was
held in the Hotel Charlotte ballroom.
Legette Blythe of the Charlotte
Observer staff, was the speaker. Gov
ernor Olin Johnson of South Caro
lina made a brief speech.
On Saturday morning the final
business session was held. Plans
were made for a spring meeting to
be held in High Point.
This was the thirty-second annual
j conversation of the N. C. C. P. A.
The following colleges were repre
sented: Davidson, Duke, W'ake For
est, North Carolina State, Meredith,
Flora McDonald, Queens-Chicora,
W. C. U. N. C., Guilford, High Point,
E. C. T. C., Applachian State and
Salem.
Officers for this year are James
Mason, Wake Forest, president; Pete
Thrie, State, vice-president, Mary
Morris Terrj% secretary. Flora Mc
Donald and Herbert TJi>church, Duke,
treasurer.
DR. RONDTHALER HAS
PART IN WESLEYAN
ANNIVERSARY
Is Speaker At Banquet
Dr. Howard Eondthaler attended
Wesleyan College’s hundredth anni
versary celebration at Macon, Geor
gia, on Friday. Forty college presi
dents and two hundred delegates
from all over the United States were
present. Mr. Noble McCracken, of
Vassar, was the principal speaker.
One of the most impressive features
of the celebration was the proces
sion formed on the Wesleyan campus
Friday aiternoon. Administrative
heads followed each other in the
order of the founding of their var
ious schools, with Harvard Univer
sity, founded in 1636, leading. Dr.
Rondthaler representing Salem, foun
ded in 1772, stood fourth in line.
Each executive was announced by
means of a loudspeaker as he came
up the steps of the main building to
be greeted by President Dice En-
I derson of We.sleyan, together with
the trustees and principal speakers.
Dr. Rondthaler was one of the
speakers at the banquet given Fri
day night.
HOME EC. CLUB
SPONSORS PROGRAM
Given At South Park
School
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
TO SPEAK HERE
Famous Author To Lecture
November 13
Cliristophcr Morloy, famous author
and humorist will Iccture here Friday
night, N'ovimber 13, in Memorial
Hall. Mr. Morley’s visit is being
spon.sorpd by the faculty of the col
lege and academy.
Morley was born in Haverford, Pa.
in 1S90. 11 is parents are English.
Morloy graduated from Haverford
College, and having won the Rhodes
Scholarship to Oxford, spent three
years at New Coljege in England.
Tlore ho wrote his first book “The
Eighth Sin.”
Upon his return to America he
married Helen Booth Fairchild.
He has published forty-seven books
including; “Parnassus on Wheels,”
“The Haunted Bookshop,” “En
chanted .\pril,” “Where The Blue
Begins” and “Thunder on the
Left. ’ ’
Mr. Morley now conducts “The
Bowling Green,” column in the Sat
urday Review of Literature.
ALMUNAE EXECUTIVE
MEETING HELD
Mrs.
Hartness of Raleigh
Presides
Mrs. James Ilartness of Raleigh,
President of the Alumaae Associa
tion of Salem College, presided over
the executive meeting and luncheon
in Louisa Wilson Bitting Building,
on Friday, October 30th, from one
until three o ’clock. Officers of the
general association, presidents of the
local branches, and numerous other
guests were present.
After the attractive luncheon,
which Miss Stockton planned, was
served, the members of the council
discussed plans for the coming year.
Mrs. Hartness presented the question
of amending the constitution. Dean
Vardell discussed the development of
the Glee Club into a traveling unit
which would be i)repared to present
programs in cities throughout the
state and ut future alumnae activ
ities. Miss Elizabeth Jerome, chair-
man of the coupon committee, report
ed the advancement in her field. Miss
Cortlandt Preftton introduced new
publicity plans and talked about the
project under the auspices of the col
lege and academy faculty to bring
more famous speakers to Salem. Sa
lem alumnae, faculty, and students
will be interested to know that the
first of these programs will be a lec
ture by Christopher Morcly, well-
known American humorist and writ
er, on Friday, November 13th.
After the meeting was adjourned,
the guests were invited to walk over
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The Katherine Jane Hanes Home
Economics Club presented the first
in a series of Home Betterment Pro
grams to the Parent-Teacher group
at South Park School, Wednesday
afternon, October 28. Mrs. Charles
Griffith gave a very interesting talk
on flowers and their arrangement,
pointing out a few simple rules which
are easily followed and are a great
deal of help to individuals inexperi
enced in handling flowers. There
were twenty-five containers of fall
flowers , all very lovely, and Mrs.
Gr'ffith iK)inted out why each one
was good and the best way to make
it attractive. A good many of the
flower contaiiH'rs were loaned for
the occasion by Woolworth’s ton cent
store, thus enabling Mrs. Griffith
show how inexpensive containers can
bo used to the best advantage.
Miss Sara Sherwood, senior Home
Economics student at Salem, gave a
very good talk on table arrangement
and table etiquette, giving an in
teresting list of ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’
for children while they are eating.
In the center of the room were three
tables, one set for breakfast, one for
luncheon, and one for dinner. They
were all set correctly and with in
expensive cliina and gla»s. The
breakfast table was especially at
tractive. It was set with bright yel
low crockery plates, cups and saucers,
bone handled’ cutlery, and white
linen with yellow borders. The cen
ter piece was a low bowl of gourds
and pine cones.
The Home Economics Club will
sponsor throe other programs at
South Park School this year. The
next one will be on foods work.
DEAN VARDEll
GIVES PROGRAM
COMMUNITY SING
HELD MONDAY
NIGHT
OFFICERS OF
SCRIBBLERS’ CLUB
ARE ELECTED
Miss Libby Jerome is request
ing all students who have Octagon
Soap, Knox Gelatine or Rumford
Baking Powder coupons to save
them for the Living Endowment
Fund of Salem. 2,500 are needed
during the next two month.s. The
co-operation of everyone in this
worthwhile enterprise will be ap
preciated. Day students may give
their coupons to Helen Diehl.
A Community Sing was held Mon
day night sponsored by the Matilda
Ward Class of the Home Moravian
Sunday School.
A part of the program included;
“Vagabond” Vanderlip
“She Wants Simple Gifts’’....Martin
“The Countryman” (Warlock) by
Clifford Bair, head of the voice de
partment.
“Lift Thine Eyes” from “Eli
jah” by Jane Rondthaler, Frances
Watlington, and Rosalind Duncan.
Officers of the Scribblers’ Club
of Salem Academy were elected at
a meeting Monday. The Scribblers’
I Club was organized as an outlet for
' creative writing. It sponsors con
tests and publishes a paper several
times a year. The Quill Pencil. Mem-
jbers are chosen by the English de-'
I i>artment.
I The following officers were elect
ed: Leonora Eice, President; Anna
Bitting Whitaker, vice-president;
I Dorothy Ann Myers, secretary-treas-
urer.
I There are twenty-two members of
' the club. Miss Jesse Byrd is fac-
lulty adviser.
At Asheville Friday
Dean Vardell, who was invited to
speak and to present a program of
his own compositions, was the guest
of the Saturday Mor^iing Music
Club, of Asheville, Friday, October
23, at “Homewood,” homo of Mrs.
Robert Carroll.
He first addros.sed the club on
“Present Day Tendencies Among
Southern Comi>os>rs,” and thou play
ed some of his original com|K>sitions
among which were the new “ Hiilhido
in !•; flat minor,” for the first time
in public appearance.
He also presented a few of the
numbers from the suite, “From a
Mountain Walk” which consists of
six pieces in dance form.
Doan Vardell is recognized as one
of America’s outstanding young coni-
poser.s. Dr. Hans Kindler, director
of the National Symphony Orchestra
of Washington, D. C., recently in
cluded Dean Vardell’s “Joe Clark
Stops Out,” one of his most popular
compositions, in a program which
was devoted entirely to work of
American comjHjsers, and invited Mr.
and Mrs. Vardell to attend.
MISS COVINGTON
WAS SPEAKER AT
ACADEMY CHAPEL
Discusses Types of Girls
Miss Bvabelle Covington was the
speaker at Academy (.Thapel on Mon
day morning. She gave an instruc
tive talk on “Types of Girls t have
Known. ’ ’
She discussed the necessity of stu
dents making new a(}justmeuts, and
the effect of orderly snrrpundings
on pleasant thinking. Attitude waa
di»cu.>!8ed as important to everyone
and having definite bearing on one’s
whole life. Miss Covington defined
a “wonderful” girl as one who com
bined attractive looks with a keen
sense of fair play and a high sense
of honor.
She gave to the stu(^ents this axiom
for success — bo willing to give and
take. Effort is of great benefit,
oven though one does not succeed.
Courage and (Hirseverence are neces
sary in the face of all difficulties.
Miss Covington yfSLS introduced
by Caroline Gray, member otf the
Academy chapel committee.
HARLEQUIN CLUB
MEETS AT ACADEMY
The Harlequin Club of Salem
Academy met Monday for the elec
tion of officers. Jane Walker was
chosen president; Jacqueline MiUcr,
v'icc-president; Nancy Millan, secre-
tary-treasurer.
The club is planning to give its
first performance during National
Book Week.
FACULTY ADVISORY
BOARD HONORED
Y. W. C. A. Entertains
Wednesday
The committee chairmen of the
Y. W. C. A. entertained Wednesday
evening at a dinner jmrty for the
members of the faculty advisory
board. Hallowe’en was the theme
for decorations and entertainment.
It waa only after walking under an
ill-fort>o(ling ladder that the guests
were allowed to enter the dining
room to find their places at tables
arr.-»ngetl around a roaring open fire.
.Tai'k-o’-lanterns grinneil fiery smiles
from the window sills and on the
table were pumpkins and black cats
and witclies — all the symbols of
Hallowe’eu— as centerpieces. Can
dle light and weird music made the
effect complete.
After a delightful dinner which
was begun by a toiist to the Y. W,
C. A. with glas.soH of apple cider, the
chairnu'ii of the various conimitt^ies
infornuilly presented to the advisors
their plans for the year, and in re
turn received advice.
Student chairmen jyresent were
^^ary Francis Hayworth, president;
.Mary Hart, vice prosidt'nt aiil Stu
dent Volunteer committee; Jean
Knox, socr('tary; Arnice Topji, World
I'Vllowship cou^jnittee; Virginia
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MISCHA LEVITSKI IS
TO GIVE CONCERT
To Be Presented By Civic
Music Association
On Monday evening, November 2,
at 8:30 o’clock, in the Reynolds
Auditorium, the t^ivic Music Asso
ciation will present Mischa Levitski,
world renowned pianist, in the fol
lowing program:
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
Bach
Sonata in one movement .... Scarlatti
Sonata, Opus 57 (Appasionata)
Beethoven
Rhapsody, (r minor Brahms
Warumt Schumann
AufscUnring Schumann
Two Preludes, A u\ajor, F. major
Chopin
Scherzo, C sharp major Chopin
The Knchanted Nymph (Ballot
Music) Levitski
Jeux d’ Ran (The Fountain( .. Rjivel
La Campanella Pazanini-Liszt