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VOL. XVIII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1937.
Number 4.
MRS. GRACE OVERTON
HAS ARRIVED AT SALEM
Delightful Speaker to Spend
Week Here
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Grace
Sloan Overton, a last year’s visitor
on Salem’s campus, arrived to spend
a week here. When we heard her
speak in chapel this morning, we old
students immediately recognized a
friend; we remembered her unusual
and inspiring chapel talks of a year
ago. The new students realized that
in her they had found what we
found last year — an interesting,
understanding, and helpful speaker
This afternoon she met the off-cam
pus students at tea in South Hall at
5 o’clock, and she is to meet the
boarding students informally, to
night at 9:30 in Louisa Wilson Bit
ting Building.
Each afternoon she will hold a
special group meeting at 5 o’clock
and each night there will be a gen
eral group meeting at 9:30 probably
in Louisa Bitting Building. Various
groups will undoubtedly wish to have
her with them for informal discus
sions of different subjects. During
the day her time will be open for in
dividual appointments or for groups
of two or three. These personal chats
can be arranged or scheduled with
Miss Turlington in the Dean’s office.
Mrs. Overton hasn’t named her
topics yet, because she’s going to
select them as she learns our special
interests and desires and needs here
at Salem.
Sunday night at 8 o’clock in Me
morial Hall she will address a Com
munity Young People’s Meeting for
young men and women. All of the
college and academy girls on and
off campus students — are invited to
come and bring their friends )to
hear a speaker whom those who know
her are anxious to have again and
again and whom those who are still
waiting to know her will soon ap
preciate.
SALEM GIRLS PRESENT
AT RECEPTION
Presb5rterian Ministers and
Wives Honored
Twenty-four Presbyterian girls
from Salem College enjoyed a re
ception given at the Presbyterian
Church, Friday night from 8 to 10.
The reception was in honor of the
Presbyterian pastors and their wives
and the church members. In the re
ceiving line were Rev. J. R. Cunning
ham, pastor of the church and Mrs.
Cunningham, Rev. .Tohn J. Hayes,
assistant pastor and Mrs. Hayes, and
the church officers and their wives.
Refreshments were served by the
young girls of the Church, and a
musical program was given.
Girls who attended the reception
were:
Esther Alexander
Jeanne Bradshaw
Mary Frances Carlton
Agnes Lee Carmichael
Eleanor Carr
Carolyn Cherry
Nancy Court
Louise Early
Elizabeth Erwin
Margaret Gillespie
Mary Graham
Elizabeth Hawthorne
Emily Havey
Mildred Kelly
Nell Kerns
Mary Knox
Emily McCoy
Cecelia McKethan
Pattie McNeely
Margaret Morrison
Margaret Patterson
Clara Pou
Elizabeth Scott
Lucile Stubbs
IN MEMORIAM
ROBERT D. SHORE
He left us almost in the twinkling of an eye and
as if he had said:
“Let me go quickly, like a candle light
Snuffed out just at the heyday of its glow.
Give me high noon — and then let it be night;
Thus would I go.”
Having preceded us in the inevitable pilgrimage
through the beckoning shadows that trail beyond the
borders of this world, it is eminently fitting that we
pause to recount his good deeds and gracious qualities
of mind and heart.
Comparatively a young man, he had solved the
great mystery of life and death, and awaits u,s on
the farther shore; but he has left the sweet influence
of a lovable spirit and the worthy example of an up
right and honorable citizen.
When the sudden strangeness of this hour shall
have passed, there will remain with us and with all
with whom he came in contact an abiding apprecia
tion of him as a man in the world of work, as a citi
zen and a leader in his Church. We say now only that
we mourn a friend who was a just man, and wise, and
of sure knowledge in the field where his interests lay;
who won and held men’s hearts. His loyalties were
abiding, his abounding zeal, his tremendous laboi-s
were consecrated by a spirit in which devotion to his
family, his friends, his work and to the welfare of his
commninity and his Church burned a steady flame.
Words of faith and hope have been spoken by
those whose ministry it is to comfort the sorrowing
and interpret the ways of God to man. Our kindliest
thoughts follow him into the great beyond and such
solace and heartfelt sympathy as the members of this
Club can bring to the bereaved ones are theirs.
THE ROTARY CLUB.
MR. ROBERT D. SHORE
Mr. Robert D. Shore steadily deepened his loving
concern in the affairs of Salem College both as Trus
tee and as chairman of the Finance Committee. His
admiration of the past 165 years was sincere and prac
tical. He desired to see the past honored in the pres
ent and to him Salem’s ancient walls, roofs and very
chimnies were dear. Again and again his generosity
strengthened the activities of Salem Academy and
College and this was almost done in secret.
Many, many hours were given by him to the care
ful study and discussion of financial, structural and
public problems. His vision was always forward and
his faith ever bright. He will be greatly missed in
the administi'ative councils of the College and the
Academy.
SALEM’S METHODIST
STUDENTS FETED
Banquet Held At Centenary
Methodist Church
On Thursday night at six-thirty
o’clock. Centenary Methodist Church
entertained the Methodist students
of Salem College. The Methodist
members of the faculty were also
present. Approximately forty-five
students attended the banquet.
Mr. B. S. Womble, chairman of the
Board of Stewards, gave the opening
address. A welcome to Salem girls
was then given by Mr. Wilson O.
Weldon. The toastmaster, Roland
Carroll gave impersonations of radio
celebrities and concluded a “ques
tionnaire.” The remainder of
the program consisted of sev
eral piano selections b y Miss
Laura Emily Pitts and Mr. B. C.
Dunford, and readings by Miss Isa
bella Carroll and Miss Elizabeth
Trotman. Dr. G. Ray Jordan, Pastor
of Centenary Methodist Church gave
the closing address.
The dining room was decorated
with the Salem colors yellow and
white.
FIRST cmc MUSIC CON
CERT TO BE PRESENTED
Cornelia Otis Skinner To
Give First Concert
The first of the 1937-38 varied
civic concerts presents Miss Cornelia
Otis Skinner, a gifted American
I diseuse, who has established a wide
reputation for her solo-dramas, of
which she is both author and inter
preter, as well as general director,
star, and company. Here is a special
ized field, requiring a thorough
knowledge of the theatre from every
possible technical angle, from co.s.
turning to lighting and staging.
She was born in Chicago on May
30, 1901, the daughter of beloved
Otis Skinner. She attended Bryn
Mawr College, where she demon
strated a decided flair for acting.
After graduating from Bryn Mawr
in 1922, she became a student at the
Sorbonne in Paris, she studied for
the stage with Cocitaires of Comedie
Francaise and at the School of Jac
ques Capeau. In 1928 she married
Alden Blodgett and now has a young
son.
Miss Skinner is a tall, statuesque,
regal brunette. She is a remarkable
mistress of keen, exciting, realistic
characterizations.
A few years ago she expanded
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EDWARD WEEKS TO
LECTURE AT SALEM
OCTOBER nth
Editor-in-Chief of Atlantic
Monthly Press Will Discuss
Current Books
Edward Weeks, Editor-in-Chief of
the Atlantic Monthly Press, will
open the 1937-38 season of the Salem
College lecture series, Monday night,
October 11, at 8:30 o’clock in Me
morial Hall.
Mr. Weeks has been called “one
of the few great lecturers on con
temporary literature. ’ ’ He was born
in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and at
tended Cornell, Harvard and Trinity
College at Cambridge. In 1928 he
became editor-in-chief or the At
lantic Monthly Press book depart
ment. Under his direction the press
has nearly doubled its production.
For the past ten years Mr. Weeks has
been constantly in touch with out
standing books and authors. His
close and continuous association with
such writers as James Truslow
Adams, Mazo de la Radie, Theodore
Dreiser, Eugene O’Neill, Bertrand
Russell, Nordhoff and Hall, and oth
ers, together with hi» real under
standing of writers and what they
write, give him the background
which has resulted in tremendous
popularity as a lecturer.
The Salem girls and faculty mem
bers who heard Mr. Weeks in Greens
boro last spring remember him as a
very tall, dark young man with a
remarkable ability to “hold” his
audience without benefit of the usual
platform jokes and one who could
answer impossible questions from the
audience with poise and spontaneous
wit. They concur heartily with tlie
opinion of Dr. Russell Potter, of
Columbia Universitv, who Tt-niarked^
“Edward Weeks aiscusses current
books with the easy assurance of a
nian who knows *l’s stibjcci thorough
ly — yet he is Mever dogmatic. He
ij ])'c!isant and w;se and witty. He
never lectures ‘.it’ his aiid.cnce;
nor does he ever ‘talk down’ to it.
Rather he makes it his partner for
an evening’s adventure.”
Using as his subject, “A Review
of Current Book.s, ” Mr. Weeks will
discuss the following books: “The
Seven who Fled,” by Frederic Pro-
Koseh; “And So Victoria,” by
Vaughn Wilkins; “Northwest Pas
sage,” by Kenneth Roberts; “En-
chant»3rs Night Shade,'’- l)y Ann
Bridge; “The Citadel, by A. J. Cron
in; ‘Slogum House,” by Mari San-
doz; “To Have and Not to Have,”
by Ervest Hemmingway; “Life
With Mother,” by Clarence Day;
“Animal Treasure,” by Ivan San
derson; “John Jay Chapman,”
by M. A. deWolfe Howe; “Con
versation at Midnight,” by Edna
St. Vincent Millay; “Letter to
Robert Fro.st and Others, ’ ’ by Rob
ert Hillyer; “The Good Society,”
by Walter Lippman.
In addition to his activities as a
lecturer and a publisher, Mr. Weeks
has been a crusader in the fight
against obscene literature. He was
an outspoken advocate of revision of
the book censorship law in Massa
chusetts.
MRS. UNDSEY
PATTERSON SPEAKS
Talks On Coronation At
Elxpanded Chapel
Wednesday morning, October 6, at
expanded chapel, Mrs. Lindsey Pat
terson spoke t othe students and fac
ulties of Salem College and Academy
of her experience at the coronation.
Mrs. Patterson considers the Corona
tion one of the three great events of
her life, the others being the growth
of the Balkan States to a new civ
ilization after the World War, and
the rising of the Russian peasants
against their oppressors.
In the Coronation Mrs. Patterson
saw the beauty and splendor of the
whole world brought together mark
ed with a spiritual quality which
made the services quite impressive.
In the course of her speech she
told an interesting legend about the
development of Westminster A.bbey.
In the sixth century, the English
built a little church on the Isle of
Thornes. The old fisherman who
served as ferryman to the island took
a strange old man over the day be
fore the church was to be dedicated.
After being paid in strange gold
coins, the ferryman started back but
was arrested by the sound of beauti
ful, celestial music that was coming
from the direction of the church. He
decided to investigate and saw the
old man with the key of heaven and
angels blessing the church. St. Peter
told the fisherman that he was to tell
the people that God had hallowed
their church. This little church
existed until the people felt that
they needed a larger and finer one.
They put French beauty into Eng
lish worship, and the re.sult was
Westminster Abbey, in which all -of
the English Kings are crowned.
Mrs. Patterson told another inter
esting story about the Stone of Des
tiny on which all English rulers but
“Bloody Mary” have been crowned.
It is supposed to be the rock upon
which Jacob had his vision. It was
taken to Egypt, through the wilder
ness, and finally kept at Jerusalem.
One of the, prophets fled with it to
the Island, and a princess of Judah
married an Irish King and took the
stone to Ireland. It was captured
and taken to Scotland, and then to
Westminster Abbey, where it is to
day.
The entire cornation services are
deeply religious. Not one thing is
put on the King until it has been
put on the altar for the blessing of
God. All of the swords and crowns
have significant meanings which go
far back into the history of the
country. Especially beautiful and
fitting is the prayer for the queen:
“Make her a great example of vir
tue and piety and a blessing to this
kingdom.”
WILSON ANGE TO
GIVE CONCERT
MUSIC STUDENTS
RECEIVE LETTER
Clever Letter Comes From
Sartor Resartus
The following letter of interest
has just been received from Apart
ment 42, Haddon Hall, Apartment
505 University Avenue, Rochester,
New York:
“To the Music Holders, who sent
us such a pleasant and heartening
telegrams, we send best wishes and
hearty thanks. We hope you all
will play like Paderewski, Heifetz,
Salzedo (or sing like Plagstead), by
the time we see you again.
Sartor Resartus, or The Teacher
Monday, October 18, In
Memorial Hall
Wilson Angel, baritone of Win
ston-Salem, will give a concert spon
sored by the Altrusa Club, October
18, in Memorial Hall.
Mr. Angel, who was national win
ner in voice at the Atwater-Kent
audition in New York in 1932, was
soloist for several years at the Horae
Moravian Church.
In 1933 he was a student of Rosa-
tie, and for the past summer he was
coached by Conrad Bos. About a
year ago he went to Richmond where
he appeared with the state symphony
orchestra and in concerts.
About six years ago, the Altrusa
Club presented Mr. Angel in concert,
at which time Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt was honored guest.
Retaught.
In plain, unequivocal English:
“Eleanor and Charles Vardell”