LJliRARY
VOL. XVIII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1937.
Number 1.
SALEM BEGINS HER 166th YEAR
FRANK CAMPBELL GIVES
GRADUATING RECITAL
One of the most brilliant and 8uc
nessful graduating recitals to be
given at Salem was presented by
Mr. Frank Carter Campbell, pianist,
Friday evening, September 17, in
Memorial Hall. With his unusual
technique and excellent interpreta
tion he was complete master of his
program which was as follows:
Tambourine in E minor
Jean philippe Rameau
Arr. by Godowsky
Capriccio in E major
Searlatti-Tansig
Variations Serienses
Mendelssohn
Frank Campbell
Whene’er You Walls Handel
Greetings Mendelssohn
There is Lodge Berry
A Piper - Head
Kenneth Bryant
Ballade in G minor Brahmg
Intermezzo in A major Brahms
To a Parrot Malipiero
Gardens In the Rain Debussy
Frank Campbell
Dous the Bois Mozart
Kenneth Bryant
Concerta in A minor Gneg
Frank Campbell
Dean Vardell will play the organ
accomjteniment for eonceto.
Jiliss Virginia Thompson accom
panied Mr. Bryant at the Uiano.
LAURA EMILY PITTS .
heard in RECITAL
With lier capable tec nique down the aisle Thursday morn
artistic interpretation i ss au September 16 at eleven o’clock
Emily Pitts, pianist, thrilled a arge procession of seniors in
audience Thursday evening, beptem- officially marked
ber 16, when she presented her grad- ^ ggiem for the year
uating recital in Memorial Hall. Dur
ing her years at Salem, she has stud
ied with Dean Vardell.
The program was;
Sonata in D major Beethoven
Intermezzo Brahms
Caprice (on a theme by Paganini)
Schumann
Laura E. Pitts
Star Visino Salvator Rosa
Whither? programthe.n
Whither? Schubert
The Little Shepherd’s Song
Wintler Watts
Kathryn Swain
My Delight Chopin-Liszt
Bigarrure Arensky
Sllv'er Cascade Walter Nierman
Laura Emily Pitts
Gay of Heart (Martha)
Von Flotow
Kathryn Swain
Capriccio Brilliant Fendelssohn
Laura Emily Pitts
Dean Vardell played the orchestral
accompaniment for the last number.
Miss Virginia Thompson accom
panied Miss Swain.
ORIENTATION PROGRAM
WAS SUCCESSFUL
NEW FACES
The freshmen who arrived on Sun
day and Monday found a carefully
planned program awaiting tlu-ra. A
preliminary registration was held
in the morning; and in the afternoon
the new girls had a chance to unpack
and get acquainted with one another.
That night they sat around on damp
grass and ate a picnic supper be
fore Dr. Eondthaler spoke to them.
Tuesday was a day of tests: Psy
chological and English tests in the
morning; and French tests in the
afternoon. After dinner, in spite of
the fact that it was almost dark,
they were taken on a bus ride thru
Winston-Salem. When the ride was
over. Dr. Smith, the faculty ad
viser of the Freshman class talked
on "Getting Off to a Good Start.”
At 8:30 on Wednesday, the new
girls attended a chapel practice be
fore going to Math tests and meet
ings with student advisors. At
night. Miss Covington spoke to them
on “First Problems of College
Life.” Just before be|ltime the
I. B. S. gave a pajama party. All
new students were invited to come
and dance, talk, and eat before get
ting into bed.
By Thursday, the freshmen — no
longer “fresh,” but really educated
into the ways of Salem — were
ready to start classes. The Sale-
mite feels that the forthcoming suc
cess of the class of 1&42 has begun
with the orientation program.
FIRST CHAPEL
Accompanied by the inspiring
strains of “Standing at the Por
tals ’ ’ a new group of seniors march
the opening of Salem for the year
1937-1938.
Rev. Gordon Spaugh read Psalms
121 which was very appropriate with
its last verse, ‘ ‘ The Lord shall pre
serve thy going out and thy coming
in from this time forth, and even
for evermore.” Bishop Pfohl led a
prayer of thanksgiving for the unin
terrupted life of education in our
school and for God’s guidanc^ thro
ugh the years.
Our president, Dr. Rondthaler then
read telegrams from former Salem
girls to the dignified seniors, the
confident juniors, the super-import
ant sophomores, and the questioning
freshmen. His own words to the stu
dent body challenged all Salemites
to carry Salem’s torch high and for
ward.
“WHY AND WHERE
FOR FRESHMEN”
This year, all the freshmen were
given a little pamphlet entitled
“Why and Where for Freshmen”
It was really a calendar but was
not so cut and dried as to be boring.
Even the upper classmen could enjoy
reading it and finding out freshmen
plans.
The thoughful author starred meet
ings at which attendance was re-
quired; and mentioned, wherever
necessary, what to wear. In the
back of the pamphlet was a complete
list of new students with their home
towns.
Besides being a momento for a
memory book, “Why and Where for
Freshmen” was a true help. We
take oS our hats to “Bushy” and
f > „
STUDENT ADVISORS
Perhaps you upper classmen have
answered your qestions by a peep
into the pamphlet, ‘ ‘ Why and Where
for Freshmen.” Well, the freshmen
have even found out How? Under
what conditions? and With what re
sults? From their student advisors.
Frances Cole, Virginia Lee, Jose
phine Gribbin, Margaret Briggs,
Elouise Sample, Annette McNeely,
Charlotte King, Virginia Sisk, Sarah
Stevens, Martha O’Keeffe, and Doro
thy Hutaff met their advisees in
their rooms or in chosen places Tues
day evening after Dr. Smith’s tolk.
Their friendly chats explained the
Hand Book and dropped bits of ex
cellent advice. Then again the groups
gathered on Wednesday afternoon
for more questions and answers.
At this same time the day stu
dent advisors, Louise Frazier, Wil-
lena Couch, Anna Leake Scott, Anna
Wray Fogle, Florence Joyner, and
Mary Louise McClung instructed off-
campus girls about their rules and
privileges.
The student advisors have hunted
girls, quoted rules, remembered
names, introduced groups, explained
regulations, smiled their gayest
smiles, and, in truth, have formed a
cushion to keep tUe new girls from
bumping too hard iiito college life.
There are a number of new and
strange and interesting faces on the
campus this fall and not all of them
belong to freshmen and new stu
dents. Some belong to the new mem
bers of the faculty and should be
gotten acquainted with at once. Old
girls owe it to themselves to learn
to know these interesting personali
ties, and new girls, groping through
the bewildering maze of Salem pas
sageways and antique halls (and un
expectedly coming out in stone-pav
ed basements, dated 1771), should
find them especially sympathetic.
Mr. Henry G-rady Owens comes
to Salem with quite an interesting
past. Originally from Shelby, he is
a graduate of Fruitland Institute at
Hendersonville and of the Univer
sity of North Carolina. During the
World W'ar he served with the 55th
Pioneer infantry and as a sergeant
in the army service corps. When he
returned to the United States, he
attended New York University,
where he received his master’s de
gree, majoring in English and educa
tion.
In 1910 he went to High Point to
become head of the English depart
ment and assistant principal at High
Point High School. In 1933 he be
came princi])al, and held tliat po
sition at the time of his resignation
to come to Salem. For five summers
he has taught at North Carolina
State College, and during the past
summer he was a m»mber of the
faculty of the Duke University sum
mer school at Lake Junaluska.
Active in civic and educational
affairs, Mr. Owens was awarded the
Silver Beaver by the national coun
cil of Boy Scouts in recognition of
his distinguished service in 1934.
Teachers of the state honored Mr.
Owens by electing him vice-president
of the North Carolina Council of
Teachers of English. Once he pub
lished the English Forum. He also
served as chairman of the committee
for the reorganization of the English
course of study in high schools and
was asked to revise the state course
of study in English. In 1928 he was
second vice-president of the National
Council of Teachers of English. The
following year he became a member
of the steering committee of the
curriculum commission of the na
tional council, serving as chairman
of the committee on grammar. Find
ings of the commission were publish
ed in a volume “An Experience Cur
riculum in English.” Mr. Owens
comes here to succeed Miss Sallie B.
Marks in the Department of Educa
tion. Miss Marks is teaching this
year at Meredith.
Miss Mary Duncan McAnally can
not truly claim to be a “new face,”
as hers has been a very familiar
face at Salem since she graduated
in 1928 with a B. S. degree in home
economics. She assisted in the li
brary and in the •Hepartment of
home economioc until two years ago.
She has done graduate work at Co
lumbia University. Noted for her
dry wit and remarkable versatality,
she will be welcomed back to Salem
as assistant librarian, succeeding
Elizabeth Jerome, who is now in the
Children’s Division of the New York
Public Library, New York City.
Miss Sara Turlington, another dis
tinguished member of the class of
1928, returns to Salem to become
the assistant dean of resident stu
dents. President of the Y. W. C. A.
her senior year, she w'aa also very
active in almost all sports, a member
of the Glee Club, History Club, Le
Cercle Francais, Science Club, and
a Scorpion. Since her graduation
she has been busy teaching history
and coaching girls ’ athletics at
Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk,
N. C., and working for her master’s
degree in history, which she received
on Prvp
DEAN VARDELL TO GO
TO ROCHESTER
Today we e.vtend congratulations
to Dean Vardell who begins a year
of study in advanced composition
and orchestration, September 20 at
Rochester, N. Y.
Granted a leave of absence from
the college, he wiil do work on his
master’s degree at the Eastman
School of Music of the University of
Rochester where he holds a fellow,
ship. The award of the fellowship
is a more or less direct result of
the j)erformance and publication of
Dean Vardell’s orchestral compo
sition, “Joe Clark Steps Out.”
Mr. Hanson, director of the East
man School of Music, became inter
ested in this composition in January,
and has played it with various sym
phony orchestras. The performances
of the Rochester Symphony and the
Minneapolis Symphony were broad
cast over a national hook-up. The
Composition was also performed at
the festival of American music in
-\pril, received a performance with
the Los Angeles Symphony in the
Hollywood Bowl during July, and has
been played by the North Carolina
Symphony, and the National Sym
phony in W ashington.
A second composition, “Skyland”
which adopts an ancient folk tune,
“Barbara Allen,” has been publish
ed recently by the H. W. Gray Com
pany of New York.
Dean Vardell is taking with him,
“Yonder Comes a Little Man Ped-
ders’ By” — composition in the folk
song idioms which he has just com
pleted. This number is a special or
chestration of a folk tune given to
him by Mr. E. M. Holder of the
History Department.
During the absence of Dean Var
dell, Mr. Clifford Bair will be acting
dean of the School of Music and will
also direct the choir of Home Mo
ravian Church. Miss Anna Withers
will be church organist, and will also
teach two courses in musical history
and appreciation. Miss Mary Cash
and Miss Mayme Porter will teach
Dean Vardell’s cla.sses in composi--
tion and orchestration. Miss Laurie
Jones, Miss Viola Tucker, Mrs. Hugh
Harris, and Miss Mai:y Jones will
teach his piano and organ pupils.
Mrs. Vardell will accompany Dean
Vardell to New York while their
daughter, Miss Margaret Vardell
will be a boarding student at Salem
Academy where she is a senior.
Recently, Dean Vardell stated that
a year’s work at the Eastman School
where many concerts of American
music and annual festivals of works
by native composers are given,
should prove advantageous in ideas
and inspiration to him when he re
turns to resume his work in the
college and community.
17 STATES AND GREAT
BRITAIN REPRESENTED
IN ENROLLMENT
Salem begins her 166th year with
a great deal of promise. The total
number of both on and off-campus
students shows a marked increase
over the number with which Salem
opened its 1936-37 eession. New
students this year have come from
seventeen different states and the
British Isles. Miss Lillian Parks of
Cavendish Square, London, England,
has entered as a freshman this year.
Other new students have come from
Delaware, Tennessee, South Carolina,
Virginia, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Ok
lahoma, Wyoming, New Jersey, New
york, Ohio, Florida, Arizona, Con
necticut, West Virginia, and North
Carolina.
There have also been several
changes made on the campus at
Salem for this session. The dining
room has been completely redecora
ted, including new draperies. The
Day Students’ Building has been re
papered and painted, and new drap
eries and rugs have been added. The
Home Economics laboratory has been
done over and provided with new
and modern equipment. On the sec
ond floor of Main Hall a new Mod
ern Language office has been made
from a section of one of the class
rooms.
Altogether Salem’s 166th year
promises to be one of the biggest
and best she has ever had.
HAVE YOU SEEN—?
—The Dining room since it has
been repapered, repainted, and re-
draperied?
—The Day Students’ Building
since it has been re-tecorated ant re
fixed ?
—Alice Clewell Building sinc« the
walls and beds and chairs have been
painted?
—Dr. Wenhold’s office on second
floor of Main Hall since it has been
re-modeled ?
—The Home Economics Lab. since
it has been renovated?
—-The New Library since two
more floors and a roof have been
added?
Looks as if the carpenters and the
painter and the paperer have had a
busy season!
A BIRD’S-EYE VEW OF
LAST YEAR
The other day I started thinking
about everything we did last year,
and what fun we had, etc. Some
things stand out in my mind, more
than others, and the first thing I
think of is the beauteous new office
building that greeted us on our re
turn. That was just the right start
for a grand year, Then after that
everyone was very busy getting set-
(tled, talking over old times, and
trying to meet all the new girls.
About Hallowe’en, things began hap
pening — The Katherine J. Hanes
Club had a Hallowe’en party, and
soon after that Christopher Morley
paid Salem a visit, which was quite
a thrill! (I think he spent most of
his time autographing books. You
can be sure we have plenty to re
member him by).
The hockey season reached its cli
max just before Thanksgiving, and
the fiinal game between the Juniors
and Sophomores, which ended in a
tie, was not just a little bit excit
ing! The Hockey Banquet was real
ly fun, and Mrs. Stockton was at her
best.
The Glee Club Fantasy, December
10 was the first thing of its kind
at Salem, and I thoroughly enjoyed
it and hope it will be repeated this
year — when Christmas came, so did
a lot of never-to-be-forgotten oc
casions. Senior vespers to which we
so eagerly look forward to every
year, and do you remember the
Christmas party, and how excited
everyone was to be going home?
After Christmas we had another
thrill in a visit from Louis Unter-
meyer, and we had our fling at the
Junior Frolic before exams came
and kept us quiet for a while, that
was our first dance except one for
the new girls early in the fall, there
fore we were very pepped up over
it.
Starting the second semester with
a loud bang was the opening of the
new gym. We were all glad to see
it open for more reasons than one,
and had been going down there every
day to see if it “wouldn’t be ready
soon” — there was the formal ope
ning and presentation by the trus
tees February 5th and then the next
day the big Athletic Association
dance! It was such a success with.
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