WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1937.
VOL. XVIII
Number 5.
MRS. GRACE SLOAN
OVERTON SPEAKS AT
EXPANDED CHAPEL
“Marriage and Family Life”
Subject of Interesting Talk
Weclnesday morning in expanded
cliapel Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton
gave another of her interesting lec
tures to the student ladies and fac
ulties of Salem Academy and College
on ‘ ‘ Marriage and Family Life. ’ ’
Mrs. Overton began by saying that
although in many countries the ro
mantic element in marriage is lack
ing, we Americans still have it and
as a result have more divorce and a
decreasing birthrate. We don’t re
alize how much the home has been
fundamentally disturbed.
Mrs. Overton compared our homes
of today to those of our pioneer an
cestors. In the old colonial days the
home was a unit within itself, and
every member worked for and was
interested in the family. There were
three principal elements which bound
the family together, the first of
which was economic. These people
had to struggle and fight for their
food and shelter and warmth. To
day we take these things for grant
ed, and unless we shop, we will de-
teriate and become soft. The sec
ond element which bound the family
of yesterday together was vocational.
At that time everyone worked to
gether at the same thing and for the
good of the family. Practically
everything, including education and
religion, was done at home. Today
each member of a family has his
individual career, and the family is
not so solid as it was. ‘ ‘ College stu-
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MES. OBACE OVEETON
ALUMNAE LUNCHEON
TO BE HELD OCT. 22
Association Officers and
Elxecutive Board Will
Meet with Braoich
Presidents
Friday, October the twenty-second,
members of the executive board, offi
cers of the association, and the
branch presidents will meet at 1:30
in Louisa Wilson Bitting Building
for the Alumna Luncheon, Miss Mar-
PIERREHE PLAYERS
DISCUSS PLANS FOR
YEAR IN MEETING
Try-outs For Upperclassmen
To Be Held Tuesday
The Pierrette Players had their
first meeting Thursday afternoon to
discuss plans for the coming year.
They announced that try-outs for
upperclassmen who wish to become
members of the club would be held
Tuesday night at 8:30 in the Eecrea-
tion room of Louisa Bitting Build
ing. The relection to by used by
the judges is a short one-act play,
“The Twelve-Pound Look,” by
James Barrie. Copies of it are on
the reserve shelf in the library and
both the contestants and members of
the club are asked to read it before
Tuesday. There are quite a number
of vacancies in the membership this
year, and the President, Miss Louise
Preas, is urging all Sophomores,
Juniors, and Seniors to participate
in the try-outs to help make this one
of the most successful years the club
as ever had. Dr Pearl Willoughby
is the faculty advisor and will super
vise the campus productions and the
club’s contribution to the annual
Winston-Salem Play Tournament.
SOPHOMORES HONORED
AT TEA
Mrs. Haddon Kirk Elnter-
tains Resident Students
Mrs Iladdon Kirk and daughter.
Miss Jane Kirk, entertained .the resi
dent students of the Sophomore
class at tea, Friday afternoon, Oc
tober 15, from four o’clock to six
0 ’clock.
At their cabin, between the Coun
try Club and Hanestown Road, tea
was served to approximately fifty
students attending. Miss Lawrence
and Miss Turlington were present.
The guests were entertained in the
living-room of the cabin, which was
attractively decorated with fall
flowers.
CHORAL ENSEMBLE TO
GIVE PROGRAM
First Public Appearance
This Year
The Salem Choral Ensemble has
been honored by receiving an invi
tation to give a program at the Na
tional Educators’ Convention to be
held at Reynold’s High School, Oc
tober 22. This program marks the
first public appearance of the choral
group thi» year.
The Ensemble will sing the follow
ing numbers:
“Thus, Then the Law,” Bach
“O Domine Jesu” Rrumel
“Ave Maria” Holst
* * •
“Peace” Gerrard Williams
“In These Delightful Pleasant
Groves” Henry Purcell
“The Turtle Dove”
R. Vaughn Williams
garet McLean, Mrs. John Creech,
Dr. and Mrs. Rondthaler, and Miss
Mary Louise Mickey, former secre
tary of the association, will also be
present. Preceding the luncheon
there will be a business meeting in
the trustee’s room, presided over by
Mrs. Daryle Hart (Mary Robinson),
president of the Alumna Association.
EDWARD WEEKS GIVES
INTERESTING LECTURE
Editor-In-Chief of The At
lantic Monthly, Lectured
Last Monday Night
Last Monday night at eight-thirty
in Memorial Hall a ‘ ‘ dream became
a reality” when Edward Weeks,
Editor-in-Chief of the ‘ ‘ .4tlantic
Monthly Press,” spoke to a large,
appreciative audience.
Ml-. Weeks believes that authors
in America enjoy a rare privilege in
comparison with authors in Italy,
Germany, Spain, and Russia, because
in this country men are able to
write as they please w’ithout fear of
censorship.
Today literature is so complex that
the individual must distinguish be
tween those books which are worth
reading and those which are not.
Ever since 1914 propaganda has
taken an important part in literature,
making the task of discrimination
even more difficult.
With these few opening remarks
Mr. Weeks began to comment brief
ly on some of the most recent books,
both fiction and non-fieition, dis
cussing first the novels.
The historical novel of Kenneth
Roberts called “Northwest Pass
age,” has enjoyed amazing popu
larity — possibly equal to that of
“Anthony Adverse,” “Gone With
the Wind,” and “Drums Along the
Mohawk,” although, according to
Mr. Weeks, Roberts’ book is not as
good as any of the three mentioned
above. In the first half of the book
the story is direct and manly, with
plenty of local color, but in the sec
ond half of the book there is a
swift deterioration in both charac
ters and story. The source material
becomes obtrusive and monotonous.
In speaking of “Ahd So Victoria”
by Vaughn Wilkins, Mr. Weeks said
that the highly over-rated novel has
“the window dressing of Dickens
but none of his genius.” “And So
Victoria,” is a large, pic.aresque,
melodramatic novel which is in no
way comparable to “Gone With the
Wind.”
“Enchanter’s Nightshade” by Ann
Bridge was very favorably reviewed.
The author, the wife of a British
diplomat and a cosmopolitan wom
an, is best known as the author of
“Peking Picnic.” In her new book
Ann Bridge displays much skill in
writing a novel primarily of char
acter, the purpose of which is to
contrast the moral standards of
England with those of the conti
nent at the beginning of the twen
tieth century.
The title to Ernest Hemingway’s
new book, “To Have and Not to
Have,” suggests the author’s in
terest in the discrepancy between
those who have wealth and those
who do not have wealth. Three ele
ments which make the book outstand
ing are: the swift, absorbing action,
the unusual dialogue, and the social
satire (which the author does not do
as well as action and dialogue).
‘ ‘ Slogum House, ’ ’ by Marie San-
doz, depicts the lives of crooks and
rascals of the West, showing how
they were as important factor in
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FUTURE MUSICAL EVENTS
Five Programs To Be Given
During First Semester
There will be five musical events
of interest during the first semester.
October 25 —
Evening Recital.
November —
Faculty Recital:
Miss Read and Mr. Bair.
November 7 —
Buxthude Program
At Home Church.
December 6 —
Choral Ensemble Program.
December 16 —
Academy Pageant.
FASHION PARADE GIVEN
FOR STUDENTS
Montaldo’s To Have Fash
ion Show October 20th
Next Wednesday evening, October
the Twentieth, Montaldo’s is having
a fashion show in honor of Salem
College and Academy students as
well as the faculty. Models from our
own campus will display advance
styles of winter fashions. 'Cars are
to be waiting for you at 7:30 Wed
nesday, don’t miss this occasion!
Models are:
Mildred Troxler
Virginia Lee
Betty McNair
Peggy Jones
Mary Lib Walston
Meredith Holderby
Frances Cole
Peggy Brawley
Dorothy Wyatt
Mary Louise McClung
STATE GARDEN CLUBS
TO BE ENTERTAINED
Salem College Will Give
Tea October 21st
Salem has a part in the program of
the State Garden Clubs. The col
lege will give a tea on Thursday
afternoon, October 21, for visitors
who will be in Winston-Salem to at
tend the garden school lasting from
October 20 through October 22. Un
der the auspices of the Garden Club
of North Carolina and the University
of North Carolina extension division,
the school will be directly supervised
by the Winston-Salem Council of
Garden Clubs which the hostess or
ganization.
Other features of the program will
be talks by Mrs. Dorothy Biddle
Johnson, editor of the “Garden Di
gest, from New York City and Miss
Hazel Ilis.'senbuttel, al.so of New
York.
DOROTHY HUTAFF IS
CHAIRMAN OF PRO
GRAM COMMTTTEE
Student Program Committee
Has Charge of 50 per Cent
of Chap'el Programs
This Year
The new and very much alive
Chapel Program Committee has al
ready begun to take its duties very
seriously and prospects for interest
ing chapel programs, sponsored by
the students, are looking up. The
present committee, of which Dorothy
Ilutaff is chairman, is composed of
the following girls: Mary Louise
McClung, Martha O ’Keeffe, Felicia
Martin, Mary Worthy Spence, Mur
iel Brietz, Mary Venable Rogers, and
Helen McArthur.
This student committee meets once
a week with Dr. Rondthaler to dis
cuss past chapel programs and plan
the ones for the week to come. A
startling innovation is seen in the
new system .by which the student
committee is in complete charge of
fifty per cent of the year’s programs.
If a speaker is presented on one of
these programs he is introduced by
a member of the committee.
According to Dorothy HutafE, the
chairman, future plans are being
influenced largely by the survey tak
en last spring by the Student Govern
ment Association, in which girls were
asked to criticize past programs and
JUNIORS FETE FRESHMEN
AT CLASS PARTY
School Session Held In
Louisa Bitting Building
The big school bell rang, and Teach
er Annette McNeely called her class
to order in the Louisa Bitting School
on Wednesday night at 6:15. The
stern old maid wore horn-rimmed
glasses and no make-up; she car
ried a stack of books and a ruler. All
of her pupils, even Mrs. Rondthaler,
Mrs. Overton, Miss Lawrence, Miss
Turlington, Aggie Brown, and Cokey
Creech, were dressed as little chil
dren and sat around the room on lit
tle chairs in the first-grade class.
Over their heads on the wall were
Baby Ray and Mother Goose pic
tures; the invitations to the party
too were in the primary school-room
theme — they had a blackboard cov
ered with words and numbers and
pictures on the back and th« invi
tation itfself on the front.
The juniors took their little sis
ters to school with them, but when
they got to school they were all put
in the same class. (Slam on the
juniors!) Everybody sang “Good
Morning to You” for the teacher,
and five or six stragglers came in
late with apples and flowers to ap
pease her. After they had all pled
ged allegiance to the flag, the prec
ious little teacher’s pet Virginia
Bruce Davis brought in Principal
E. B. Grantham to make an address.
Bashful Lizzie Trotman gave a story
book reading, and cute little Jo
Hutchison sang.
Has “Miss McNeely ever asked
you how to spell words? Well, she
asked those poor little kiddies some
on Wednesday that woul^d stump
even Dr. Rondthaler I’m afraid.
That spelling bee was a fierce one!
Tiny little Frances Turnage was
tenderly appealing when she sajig
(No, surely I shouldn’t call it
that!) “Feathers.” That she was
going to be in that performance was
a big surprise to her too!
Evelyn McCarty was a perfect cut
up as the mean boy; he threw spit-
balls, knotted the little girls’ curls,
bullied everybody, talked to his
sweety .lesse Skinner, and ended his
fast and furious pranks on the dunce
stool in a corner.
What a history test the youngsters
hud! Even Mr. Holder would have
had a hard time answering those
questions — who fought in the Span-
ish-American War?, Who is buried
in Grant’s Tomb? When was the
War of 1812? etc.
Mother Mary Turner Willis tried
to run the whole school because her
sissy little boy Percival Bowen was
in tlie class. She told “Misss Mc
Neely” just how her son should be
treated to “humor his idiosyncrac-
ies;” she managed to tell every one
about Sonny’s life history and what
a darling he was! She did some fine
taking care of Junior and his cold
too — she blew his nose, wiped his
mouth, buttoned and unbuttoned his
coat, and told him where to sit so he
wouldn’t be too hot or too cold.
When the recess ,bell rang, the
cunning little pupils played .several
ridiculous games and then had lunch
from boxes in picnic style. While
everything was going on, improptu
tricks on the teacher appeared on
every side until she finally gave up
i n desperation and announced
“School is out.”
®"SS6st new ones. It is understood
that there will be many musical pro
grams, usually given on Friday morn
ings, in which the faculty and stu
dents of the School of Music will
take part.