VOL. XVII.
WINSTON-SALEM. C.. FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1937.
Number 27.
JULIEN BRYAN SALEM SPEAKER
EMINENT SPEAKER
TO BE HEARD
Mrs. Sylvia MacColl Will
Speaic to Psychology
Club Thursday
At seven o’clock, May thirteenth,
in the recreation room of Louisa Bit
ting the Psychology Club will have
as its speaker Mrs. Sylvia MacColl
She will speak on “The Gestalt Ap
proach to Psychology,” with special
consideration of some of the popular
mis-conceptions and mis-interpreta
tions of Gestalt concepts.
Mrs. MacColl received her A. B
and A. M. degrees from Smith Col
lege; she expects to take her Doctor
ate this June at Duke University
Her three years as a teaching assist
ant at Smith College happens to fall
just within the period during which
Professor Koffka was working on
his latest book, ‘ ‘ The Principles of
Gestalt Psychology,” she thus had
the privilege of personal discussion
with him and of reading several
chapters while they were in manu
script. Since she was present at a
number of meetings between Profess
or Kurt Lewis and Professor Koffka,
she became sufEicienlty interested in
the work they are each doing to
make her Doctor’s thesis a compara
tive study of the two systematic ap
proaches to Psychology which they
have proposed.
ANNA WITHERS TO
GIVE RECITAL
Miss Anna Withers will give her
graduating recital in organ on Mon
day evening. May 10, in Memorial
Hall. She will be assisted by Miss
Ann Nisbet, Harpist. This will be
the last graduating recital of the
year.
The public is cordially invited.
PROGRAM
Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor
Bach
Miss Withers
Gavotte Eameau
Gavotte Gluek
Rigaudon - Hajneau
Miss Nisbet
The Legend of the Mountain
Karg-Elert
Elfes Bonnet
Legend in D Minor Bonnet
Miss Withers
En Boteau Debussy
Short Stories in Music Salzedo
Pirouetting Music Box
Behind the Barracks
Miss Nisbet
Song of the Basket-Weaver
Eussell
Prelude and Finale Vierne
(From Symphony I)
Miss Withers
USHERS
Miss Betty Kent Withers
Miss Dorothy Anita Glair
Mi.ss Sara Elizabeth Stevens
Miss Georgia Hales Goodson
SENIOR-SOPHOMORE
TEA
On Thursday afternoon. May 6,
the Sophomore class entertained her
big-sister class, the Seniors, after the
annual custom, at a tea. The tea
was held from four until six o’clock
at the Cartaret. The guests were
received by Mrs. Eondthaler, Miss
Lawrence, Miss Eiggan, Mrs. Swed-
enburg, Josephine Whitehead, presi
dent of the Senior Class, and Felicia
Martin, president of the Sophomore
Class. Tea, sandwiches, cakes, and
mints were served. A color scheme
of yellow and white, the college col
ors, was effectively carried out.
Many people take no care of their
money till they eome nearly to the
end of it, and others do just the same
with their time.
‘T ENTERTAINED
AT BUFFET SUPPER
On Wednesday evening. May 5, at
6:00 o’clock Mrs. Eondthaler enter
tained the new “ Y. ” Cabinet and
the advisory Board at her home with
an informal buffet supper. The mem
bers of the advisory Board present
were: Mrs. Eondthaler, chairman;
Misses Lawrence, Meinung, Blair,
Carrie May Stockton, Agnes Brown;
Messrs McEwen and Holder. The
members of the Cabinet were: Sarah
Stevens, president; Jean Knox, Maud
Battle, Virginia Sisk, Dorothy
Thompson, Charlotte King, Betsy
Mountcastle, Betty Sanford, Francis
Watlington, Mildred Minter, Julia
Preston, Germaine Gold, Sarah Bur
rell, Dorothy Hutaff, Annette Mc-
Neely, Elizabeth Hendricks.
LIBRARY NEWS
There is an attractive new chair
in the library at the first table on
the left as you enter. On the back
of it is a sign which reads:
“Please sit in this
chair!
is it the right
height t
is it comfortable?”
On the table another sign says:
We shall appreciate it
if you will express your
opinion about this chair
to someone at this desk.
Thank you!
Tn other words Miss Siewers wants
the new library to be as comfortable
as possible for the students, and your
definite opinion is wished. If you
like it, say so and why. If you do
not like it, please do not hesitate to
say why so that it may be corrected.
There are many new books, some of
them quite talked about. Notice the
bclletin boards for posted covers of
the latest additions. One of the
new displays is of National Park
pamphlets, with gorgeous colored pic
tures.
SPORTS NEWS
Due to the recent siege of rainy
weather tlie tennis tournament has
been progressing very slowly — In
fact, as yet, it would be hard to say
just who will be our Helen Wills
Moody or Helen Jackobs this year.
Some of our young lassies, however,
are proving their abilities in the
tennis line and have bright chances
to go to the top in the turnament.
We wonder who will give Willena the
most competition.
Archery, this year, is becoming
very popular. Maybe Mr. Holder is
the attraction. Anyway, every
Tuesday afternoon at four o’clock,
said Mr. Holder, with all his bows,
arrows and girls may be found
down on the hockey field, giving
Eobin Hood and perhaps Cupid,
some rising competition. Mary Mc-
Coll, the new archery manager, is
quite a crack shot. In this up and
coming young Salem sport, there have
been few casualties thus far, see
Sara Harrison for particulars.
CHORAL ENSEMBLE
SINGS AT VESPERS
Home Moravian Church
The Salem College Choral Ensem
ble presented a vesper service of
beautiful sacred music, in the Home
Moravian Church at 5 o’clock, Sun
day, May 2. Outstanding soloists
were Miss Frances Watlington, sec
ond soprano. Miss Katherine Swain,
soprana. Miss Ann Nisbet, harpist.
Miss Harriette Taylor, soprano. Miss
Eose Siewers, pianist, and Miss Anna
Withers, organist.
The program beginning with an
ancient Greek ode and ending with a
modern symphonic choir number,
showed the development of choral
art and the influences contributing
to that development.
MAY DAY GUESTS
Among the many guests on the
campus May Day were the following
alumnae:
Miss Lenore Eiggan, Class of ’31,
sister of our Miss Eiggan; Rosa
Caldwell, ’28; Mary Duncan Mac-
Anally, ’28; Alice and Betty Stough,
’34 from Charlotte, Alice was presi
dent of the ’34 class; Susan Calder,
’34, who was editor of the “Sale-
mite” in her Senior year; Georgia
Huntington, ’34, from Wilmington,
who was president of the Student
government; Mary Catherine Thorpe,
’33, from Fries, Va., who was also
a former student government presi
dent; Jane Williams, ’35, sister, who
is now studing at the University of
Virginia. From last year’s' class
were the following: Etta Burt War
ren, Garnelle Eaney, Susan Eawlings,
Marianna Hooks and Nancy Mc-
Neely. Of course, there were a lot
more alumnae, just too numerous to
list, who came to the pageant. Then,
of course, quite a few families of
present students were here. Good
ol’ sunshine!
NEW DARK ROOM FOR
SCIENCE LABORATORY
Spring is here with nice warm
sunshine and it is time, we think,
for all swimming pools to be ready
With only four weeks left before
Commencement, swimming won’t be
very progressive unless our pool is
opened right away. Julia Preston
and Betty Sandford, the swimming
manager and her assistant respec
tively, are impatiently s^vinging
their bathing suits, but have only
bath tubs for consolation as yet.
Work has been started on the con
struction of a new dark room for
the science laboratories. The dark
room will be located on the third
floor adjoining the museum. There
will be a dark entrance room ad
joining the dark room to prevent all
entrance of light. The dark room
will be equipped with electricity and
running water. The old dark room
has proved inadequate for the pres
ent needs of the Science department.
Professor Higgins states that great
emphasis will be placed on visual
aids in the science courses in the
future. The new dark room will
faciliate the making of lantern slides
and other photographic work done
in connection -with the department.
1937 MAY 9 - IS 1937
Saturday 8—Student Volunteer Con
ference, First Presbyterian
Church.
Sunday 9—Student Volunteer Con
ference.
Y. W. C. A. will give the play,
“How the Light Came,” for the
Academy.
Monday 10—Recital in Memorial
Hall — Anna Withers assisted
by Anne Nesbit.
German Club dinner at 6:00
P. M., in Louisa Bitting building.
Tuesday 11—Julien Bryan, lecture
and moving pictures in Memorial
Hall at 8:30 P. M.
Wednesday 12—Math Club Meeting.
Dinner given for the practice
teachers in the senior class by
the Educational department in
Louisa Bitting Building at
6:00 P. M.
Thursday 13—Psychology Club meet
ing, Miss Sylvia McColl, speaker.
MISS ANNA ROEDIGER
SPEAKS IN CHAPEL
Gives Close-Up of Russia
And of Julien Bryan
A close-up of Julien Bryan, the
Roving Eeporter for “March of
Time,” and of his experience in Tur
key and Eussia was presented in
Wednesday morning chapel by Miss
Anna Glass Roediger. Miss Eoe-
diger spoke with an assurance based
on actual experience, since she was
one of a group recently accompany
ing Mr. Bryan on a trip through
Eussia and Turkey.
As a back-ground for her talk.
Miss Eoediger told of Mr. Bryan’s
early interest in photograjAy and his
ability to make people like him and
do things for him — a factor which
is responsible for the remarkably
informal and impersonal pictures
which he has been able to take.
At the age of seventeen, before
America had entered the war, Julian
Bryan went to ranee and enlisted in
the ambulance service. He was al
lowed to visit and talk with the
German prisoners and to his great
amazement, he found that they were
not demons, but normal, peace-loving
men.
On his return to America he com
pleted his education at Princeton
and at the Union Theological Sam-
inary. Several years later, dissatis
fied with what he was doing, Julien
Bryan threw over his job and decided
to travel freelance about the world,
snapping pictures as he went, of the
things which caught his interest,
lie earned his own exj>enses by work
ing at anything from shovelling coal
t ostuffing cream puffs.
Mr. Bryan’s group, of which Miss
Eoediger was amember, was made up
of students, and professors and -peo-
pie of all ages and interests. This
party travelled third class in order
to be closer to the actual native life
and also to avoid journeying in the
usual tourist fashion. Mr. Bryan’s
irresistible personality was respon
sible for many of the out of the way
things which his party did. Miss
Eoediger told of one experience in
which the group had been forbidden
by the government of Jugoslavia to
visit because of the lack of hotels,
two towns which they wanted to
see. Mr. Bryan showered American
cigarettes upon the officials, however,
and they eventually gave him per
mission to take his party to the towns
in a private box-car which served
as a temporary hotel for them for
four days.
Miss Eoediger also told other in
teresting experiences in her journey
with Mr. Bryan’s group. One was
the visit to the collective farm in
Jugoslavia where they saw the peas
ants returning from the fields, enjoy
ed Russian hospitality, and saw the
native dances. Also they attended
a Russian baptismal service at a
little village church in Jugoslavia,
visited the labor commune in Mos
cow where three thousand convicts
were being rehabilitated, and saw
caviar made upon the shore of the
Caspian sea.
In closing Miss Roediger mention
ed that the lecture and pictures
which Mr. Bryan will present at
Salem nest TIuesday will be the
same which ran in Carnegie Hall in
New York last month.
FAMOUS LECTURER
TO SPEAK ON RUSSIA
Will Arrive Tuesday
Mr. Julien Bryan, Roving Reporter
for “March of Time,” in Soviet
Russia and the Far iSast, will pre
sent his motion pictures of foreign
lands in Memorial Hall at 8:30 P. M.
on Tuesday, May 11.
Mr. Bryan and his films have been
enthusiastically received all over the
United States. Critics have honored
him by saying that he gets below the
surface of foreign life and gets at
the very heart of it. Tis films are
fascinating and unforgetable. He is
not a tourist telling of his travels
abroad; he is the recorder of history
in the making. The social and
human interest elements are present
ed t ohis audience.
Mr. Bryan has had a most unusual
life. At the age of 18 he drove an
ambulance in France at the front,
until he discovered that he was more
interested in the French and German
people than in the war. His book
“Ambulance 464,” which was the
result of that experiemce abroad,
contained the first of hia human in
terest pictures. Since the success of
that first attempt at picturing people
he has toured the country often and
has packed many houses with his lec
tures and films.
MUSIC HOUR
On Thursday, April 29, at 4 o’clock
eleven students in the School of
Music presented the following pro
gram in Memorial Hall:
“Sonata, No. 2, Op. 14”
Beethoven
Miss Marjorie Crisp
“Sonata in F minor, Op. 2,
No. 1, Allegro” Beethoven
Miss Lenora Eice
“Fantasia in D minor” Mozart
Miss Annette Smith
“Prelude number two” Salzedo
Miss Emily Richardson, harpist
“Prelude in E minor”
Mendelssohn
Miss Edith McLean
“Warum” Schumann
Miss Shirley Livengood
“Gavotte” Chaminade
Miss Mary Charlotte Neime
“Spirits of the Glen” Dennee
Miss Catherine Walker
‘*Come Unto These Yellow
Sands” LaForge
Miss Harriette Taylor, voice student
“Rigaudon” McDowell
Miss Hannah Teichman
“Etincelles” Moszowski
Miss Willena Couch
SALEM A YEAR AGO
Excerpts quoted from last year’s
May 8th Edition of “Ye Salemite:”
The great need today in every
phase of our social, econmoical and
political life is understanding. It
has always been s«, but today the
need is even greater.
What manner of women are these
who can walk around school one
morning oh so carelessly dressed, and
that very afternoon appear on the
May Day Stage clothed in all the
beauty of etheral beings t
Peggy Brawley declares she “had
some time” at the Davidson dances
the other week-end.
Why was Martha Coons sailing
down Main Street so fast last Wed
nesday morning. We know! (Ed.
note — Do wet)
The Senior Class is sponsoring a
“Spinster’s Ball” on Saturday
night from 8:30 to 11:30 in the rec
reation rom of Alice Clewell. All
underclassmen are invited with the
price of fifty cents for a ticket.
(Ed. note: Some invite these gen
erous Seniors give.)
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