VOL. XVIII.
WINSTON-SALEM. N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937.
Number 2.
LIBRARY FEATURES NEW
BOOKS AND KARDEX
SYSTEM
The Library is getting rather
“high-falluting” this year since the
new building is almost completed.
Miss Siewers has introduced the
Kardex to Salem.
The Kardex consists of two leath
er-bound books which, are on the end
of the desk. It contains a list of the
reserve books of each course with
their call numbers. The librarians
have asked that you use these call
numbers in requesting a reserve book
and that you write them down. Thus
they can give you quicker and more
efficient service. Of course you can
use the catalog to secure the call
numbers too.
There are also many new books
which have been added. Some of
the most popular are:
“The Years”
By Woolf.
"The Nile”
By Ludwig.
“Your Carriage, Madam”
By Lane.
“The Dangerous Sea; the Mediter
ranean and Its Future”
By Sloeombe
“The Birth of China”
By Creel.
“And So — Victoria”
By Wilkins.
“The Wind From the Mountains”
By Gulbranssen.
And many others which you will
enjoy reading . Try some of them.
However, the newest things in the
Library any September are the
Freshmen. But Miss Siewers has
done such a good job of initiating
them this year that you can almost
mistake their library behavior for
that of Seniors, or Juniors anyway.
One of them though told Miss Mc-
Annally, the other day, that she
could not find the book she wanted
in the History, Eeserve list. Miss
McAnally showed it to her The
Close of the Middle Ages.” She
said no wonder she couldn’t find
it. She thought the professor said
“Clothes.” She must have had her
mind on her latest style dress in
stead of the history assignment.
We also welcome Miss McAnally
as the new assistant librarian even
though she is not new to many of the
older students who have seen her
around doing her share for Salem
before.
SOPHOMORE CLASS
ELECTS OFFICERS
Nancy Court New President
MAY DAY COMMITTEE
HEADS ANNOUNCED
Successful May Day
Promised
succeeds
at
On Monday at one-thirty Nancy
Court was elected president of her
class for this year. She
Ruth Doerschuk who is now
William and Mary. Nancy, a pure
science major, is from Glen Head,
I.ong Island. Last year she played
both basket ,ball and hockey on her
class teams as well as belonging to
the German Club and being treasur
er of the Freshmen Dramatic Club.
At the same meeting Mary Eliza
beth Hatt, better known as “Be,”
was elected to be one of the sopho
more regresentatives on the Stu
dent Council. She fills the vacancy
left by Jo Lea who transferred to
the University of Tennessee this
year. “Be,” who is from Long
Meadow, Mass., is taking an A. B.
course and was captain of the fresh
man hockey team last year. She is
one of the newly chosen members of
the Salemite Staff and will be a re
porter in the Sports Department.
Other Sophomore Class Officei^
are: Vice-President, Margaret Hol
brook; Secretary, Jane Alice Dilling;
and Treasurer, Virginia Breakell.
Margaret Briggs, chairman of May
Day, is “on the job.” She has
announced the following committees
to help ‘ make the wheels go ’round. ’
Nominating:
Marianna Bedding, Chairman
Evelyn McCarty
Leila Williams
Louisa Sloan
Betty McNair
Anna Leak Scott
B. Sue Cox
Tea Room:
Mary Turner Willis, Chairman
Jessie Skinner
Francis Klutz
Virginia Hollowell
Jane Alice Dilling
Anne Mewborne
Mary Kerr Culbreth
Publicity;
Muriel Brietz, Chairman
Nancy Court
Cecelia McKeithan
Laura Bland
Music:
Laura Emily Pitts, Chairman
Helen Savage
Dorothy Baugham
Mildred Minter
Katherine Snead
Costume:
Charlotte King, Chairman
Pauline Daniel
Mary Margaret Johnson
Virginia Bruce Davis
Bill Fulton
Dances:
Edith Rose, Chairman
Mary Gwynn Williams
Frankie Tyson
Lenora Rice
Anne Cooke
Patty McNeely
Eunice Patton
Flowers:
Mary MeColl, Chairman
Margaret Ricks
Elizabeth Lambeth
Sarah Pinkston
Jeanne Bradshaw
properties:
Murtliii O’Keelfe, Chairman
Virginia Sisk
Lois Morgan
Elinor Sartin
Betty Bahnson
Jo Hutchison
Elizabeth Trotman
Program:
Mary Lee Salley, Chairman
Margaret Gillespie
Sara Harrison
Alice Horsfield
Ora Holt Long
Dresses:
Blevins Vogler, Chairman
Mary Thomas
Cramer Percival
Mildred Troxler
Margaret McGehee
CIVIC MUSIC CONCERTS
Civic Music Association To
Sponsor Noted Artists
Announcement of the Civic Music
Concerts has been posted in Memor
ial Hall.
Monday, November 3 —
Cornelia Otis Skinner.
Monday, November 22 —
Salzburg Opera Guild.
Monday, January a.5 —
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SALEM’S FACULH HAS
GALA SUMMER
Instructors Spend Vacation
At Vjiried Places
This article should ordinarily be
gin with the history of Dr Rond-
thaler’s summer; but since he was
the last person to be found on this
campus during the composition of
this list of forty varied rests, stud
ies, and adventures of our faculty,
he must close the whole series.
Suppose I give you the longest
account of one vacation first, ,by
beginning with Dr. Anscombe. He
warned me beforehand that I would
need plenty of space for him, and
here is his account. He attended
graduate coolege at Pendle Hille, Pa.
with students from 10 different coun
tries; he took a trip up through
Pennsylvania to Bethlehem, Dela
ware Gap, and Pocono Reserve; he
delivered a series of addresses on
historical subjects at Fries, Va., and
preached nearly every Sunday thro
ughout the summer at various places
in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, and New York. Did you know
that Dr. Anscombe loves confer
ences? Well, you will after this, be
cause he went to a world-wide
Friends or Quakers conference at
Swarthmore College, Pa., with over
a thousand delegates from 24 na
tions, to a Young Moravians’ confer
ence at Lititz, Pa., and another at
Hanes Camp, N. C., and to a Young
Friends’ conference at Lake Minne-
waskia, N. Y. And then sometime
before Salem opened again he went
to Manteo to see “The Lost Col
ony. ’ ’
Several others of our teachers saw
the Roanoke Island Pageant too.
Miss Barrow spent 6 weeks on the
North Carolina coast beside the
Neuse River and went ui> to visit
Manteo. Miss Perry, our new so
ciology and psychology teacher, vis
ited Sir Walter Raleigh’s colony,
spent two weeks in Norfolk, and
went to summer school at Carolina.
Miss Blair was fishing at Ocracoke
and boated up to Manteo; but the
outdoor pageant was rained out,
and she drove up another time to
see it; sight-seeing in Washington
was another part of her vacation.
Dr. Wenhold “stayed hero” except
for trips to Manteo, Raleigh, Chapel
Hill, Charlotte, Washington, and
Savannah. And here’s a little about
Dr. Rondthaler — he was the prin
cipal speaker at the Virginia Dare
celebration for the week before Pres
ident Roosevelt’s address there.
Fourteen of our faculty besides
Miss T’erry were at summer sclioola.
Mr. Owen, Salem’s new education
teacher, and Mr. McEwen taught in
the Duke summer school at Junalus-
ka. Mr. McEwen was also in Durham
and in Birmingham and in the hospi
tal (with flu). Mr. and Mrs. Hig
gins spent their summer in Maine
and went to summer school at Bates
College. Mr. and Mrs. Downs stud
ied at Carolina, kept house there,
and had little Johnny’s tonsils taken
out when he came back from 6 weeks
in Georgia, with his grandmother.
Miss Byrd, our new English instruc
tor, was in Chapel Hill’s graduate
school. Miss Stimpson studied bot
any at Cornell. Miss Aggie Brown
was in New York for seven weeks
at Columbia University, before she
came home to Davidson. Miss Knox
was here all summer except for 2
weeks at her home in Taunton, Mass.;
but for six weeks of her time here
she went back and forth each day to
summer school at W. O. U. N. C. at
Greensboro. Mrs. Meinung observed
at Columbia University to check up
on her teaching here; she stayed on
Long Island and made trips from
there to South Hampton and up the
Hudson to Hohonk. Miss Covington
attended Acadia University at Wolf-
ville, Nova Scotia and made trips
from there to New Brunswick, Prince
Edward Island, Montreal, and Que
bec. Mr. Bair studied in Chicago
before he went to the west coast to
see Yellowstone National Pork, Hol
lywood and San Francisco. He came
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SCIENCE NEWS
Science Depetftment Offers
Two New Courses
Two new courses are to be offered
in the Science Department this se
mester. A course in Physiological
Chemistry is being introduced this
year for the first time. It is a four
four credit course designed primarily
for home economics and pre-medical
s/tudents. A new laboratory has
been equipped and several new
pieces of equipment added. The
quatitative course has been changed
from micro to semi-micro analysis.
This is a step along the lines of the
modern trend of analytical chemis
try — that is toward the use of small
quantities in analysis. The equip
ment in this course is quite a con
trast to that of the former course.
The macro-qualitative analysis will
be introduced into the second semes
ter of the general chemistry.
In case you are one of the newer
girls on the campus let me introduce
to you the faculty members of the
Science department.
Mr. Charles H. Higgins is head of
the department and teaches most of
the chemistry courses as well as geo
graphy. Mrs. Higgins is an instruc
tor in the department. They both
spent the summer at Bates College
Lewiston, Main where Mrs. Higgins
took graduate work in Public Health
and Hygiene and Mr. Higgins did
special work in Clinical and Bio
logical chemistry.
Mr. R. J. Campbell, assistant pro
fessor of science, spent the summer
at Robinhood, Maine. He collected
biological specimens and made photo
graphs of aiiimals and plants in their
natural habitats.
iliss Janet Stimpson, instructor in
science, took graduate work in Bot
any for her master’s degree at Cor
nell University, Ithica, N. Y.
Miss Carlotta Ogburn, instructor
in science, remained in Winston-
Salem for the summer.
CLASS OF’37 PUTS NOSE
TO THE GRINDSTONE
News From Old Grads
MISS PRESTON BECOMES
BRIDE OF JOHN CREECH
Aliss Cortlandt Preston and John
afternoon in Charlotte, with Dr.
Edgar Gammon, pastor of Myers
Park Presbyterian Church, officiat
ing. The ceremony took place at
3:30 o’clock in Dr. Gammon’s study
before a small gathering of mem
bers of both families and intimate
friends t>f tlio
For her wedding the bride wore a
dark grey tailored suit with grey
accessories and a grey poke-bonnet
hat with veil. Her blouse was ma
hogany satin, and her shoulder cor
sage was o forohids.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Preston, of Wash
ington, D. C., formerly of Charlotte.
She is a graduate of Salem College
with the degree of bachelor of arts,
majoring in English. For the past
year and a half she has been asso
ciated with the college as campus
secretary and director of publicity.
She is a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. Creech is the son of Charles
Creech, Sr., and the late Katherine
Spach Creech. He graduated from
Davidson College in 1932 with the
degree of bachelor of arts, majoring
in political science. He is a member
of Phi Gamma Delta. Mr. Creech is
affiliated with his father in the furn
iture manufacturing business. He
is a member of Home Moravian
Church.
After a brief wedding trip they
will make their home at 620 Glade
Street in the Park View Apart
ments.
Present at the wedding were Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Preston, Washington,
D. C.; Charles Creech, Sr., Winston-
Salem; Mr. and Mrs. Emil Shaffner,
Winston-Salem; Miss Julia Preston,
Washington, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs.
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Every year it takes “old girls”
about three months to get used to
missing the preceding year’s senior
class, which by that time is out earn
ing bread and butter or winning
laurels or doing something equally
interesting.
The class of 1937 lost no time in
scattering itself about. Its various
members are now doing everything
from opening cans for hungry hus
bands to practicing bows before the
mirror to use on the hypothetical,
but wildly enthusiastic first night
audience.
A very large number of last year’s
seniors are now disseminating some
of their hard-earned knowledge. A
list of these girls and the places
where they are teaching, runs as
follows: Cordelia Lowry, Bedford
Springs, Va.; Ruth Norman, Win
ston-Salem; Katherine Sisell, Mayo-
dan; Sara Grace Easterling, East
Bend; Arnice Topp, Leaksville;
Carolyn Byrum, Hiddenite; Bernice
Mclver, Hiddenite; Helen Diehl,
Winston-Salem; Viola Farthing,
Clemmons; Helen Jones, Ashboro;
Corrinne Pate, Atkinson; Jeannette
Sawyer, Winston-Salem; Margaret
Stafford, Mayodan; Elizabeth Tor
rence, Candor; Lalya Tucker, some
where in Forsyth County; Sara In
gram, somewhere in Virginia; Mary
Snipes, Winston-Salem.
Rose Siewers became the first bride
of the class when she married Heg-
gie Kapp August 28. She is now
keeping house in Montreal. Jane
Rondthaler went to New York City
to become a groat singer, and when
last heard from was preparing to
enter the American Academy of Dra
matic Art, which opens in October!
Ethel J. Highsmith, Alma Cline, and
Louise Wurreschke are doing social
service work in Fayetteville, Ashe
ville, and Guilford County respec
tively. Jane Crow is doing graduate
work in Home Economics. Eloise
Baynes is working for her M. A. in
Latin at Chapel Hill, where Caroline
Diehl is working for the same degree
in Spanish. Other former Salemites
at Chapel Hill are Virginia Grump
ier and Alice Lee Googe, who are in
the school of library science. Eloise
McCorkle and Frieda Blumenthal
are holding down jobs in Winston-
Salem. Jane Leibfried is on the
long, hard road to an M. D., and is
spreading her own peculiar brand of
Leibfried cheer at the Woman’s
Medical College in Philadelphia.
HINTS TO THE NEW
GIRLS
Perhaps you’ve heard all your life
that if you just get a good start in
college everything will be all right.
Strange as it may seem to you —
that statement is absolutely true.
Ask any upperclassman, and I be
lieve that she will toll you the same
thing. The thing that puzzles some
girls is what one means by a “Good
start.” At Salem I think those two
words mean many things. Some of
them are: hard work in your class
es; co-operation with the Student
Government, with the faculty, with
the Cuts Committee, with the deans,
with your fellow-students; interest
outside a,ctivities such as tl»«
publications and athletics which are
not recognized; an honest desire and
effort “to strive, to seek, to find, and
not to yield! ”
Perhaps you have heard an upper
classman suggest cutting chapel. She
may say that she has done it several
times and gotten away with it. Still,
in the long run, your mistakes will
catch up with you, then you will com
plain and become angry because you
must undergo a week’s restriction.
Take a hint from an old student —
keep in line every Tuesday, Thurs
day and Friday at 8:30 and every
Wednesday at 11. You’ll see that it
p9ys! Besides, chapel programs be
come more interesting every day.
We hope to have some very well-
known speakers this year.