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VOL. XVIII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937.
Number I 1,
SALEM STUDENTS TO
BE IN WHO’S WHO
Six Student Honored By
Annual Publication
For four years there has been an
annual publication in this country
known as Who’s Who Among Stud
ents in American Universities and
Colleges, and this year Salem’s fac
ulty has already chosen our six al
lotted representatives. These so-
honored students on our campus are
Anna Wray T’ogle, Dorothy Ilutaff,
Helen McArthur, Annette McXeely,
Virginia Lee, and Eloise Sample.
These girls were selected on the
]>rinciples of character, scholarship,
leadership in extra-curricula activi
ties, and possibility of future use
fulness in business and society.
For the other years of its exist
ence this national book has includ
ed only the biographies of certain
outstanding college students, but
this year it will cover every phase
of college activity in the college
world, with a brief history and ac
count of each American university
and college, fraternities and sorori
ties, unique ways in which college
students pay for their education, and
various other statistics and infor
mation that are both interesting and
beneficial.
Resides being for students them-
selve.s, this several-hundred-page
book which will appear in March, is
a valuable source-book for libraries
and reference-book for the business
and social world. Copies are circu
lated to over 200 large Arms with
which students may be considered
for employment.
This publication furnishes for
recognition of students a basis de
void of polities, initiation fees, and
dues. Since it was begun, it has
been endorsed by more than 2,000
presidents of student bodies, 500
deans, and 1,000 presidents of va
rious college organizations.
Freshmen and sophomores are not
eligible for recommendation to this
catalogue; only juniors, seniors and
students in advanced work can be
selected. In no case are more than
1 1-2 per cent of a student body
nominated, and in larger institu
tions the percentage is even small
er. In eo-educational schools the
number to be chosen is distributed
proportionately between men and
women.
To be included in this group of
college leaders will serve as an in
centive for future efforts and as a
reward for past accomplishments.
We are justly proud of our six
Salemites who have attained this
unusual honor.
HOFMAN’S GOLDEN
JUBILEE HELD AT
METROPOLITAN
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Have you ever paused to look at the glistening icicles on the fountain by the dining room as you hurry to breakfast
these cold morning.^? If you haven’t you are missing something because the little court yard is one of the most delight
ful spots on our campus. A good many years ago this space was bare and Doctor and Mrs, Rondthaler decided, after one
of their trips to Europe, it was the ideal place for a fountain. The court is a copy of one they had visited in’ Italy and
the paths and hedges vs^ere arranged exactly as they are in the original court. The fountain was given to Salem by the
late Bishop Rondthaler when he was president here.
Assisted By the Curtis
Sjmaphony Orchestra
On Sunday evening, November
28, Josef Hofman, famous pianist,
p'ayed at the Metropolitan Opera
House on the fiftieth anniversary of
his first appearance there. He was
assisted by the Curtis Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Fritz Eeiner.
The program was as follows:
Academic Festival Overture
Brahms
Tntroductor words by Walter Dam-
rosch; Concerto in D minor for
piano and orchestra
Anton Eubengtein
Ballade in G minor; Nocturne in E
flat; Valse in a flat! Andante
Spianato, Grande Polonaise
Chopin
Chromaticon, Duologue for piano
and orchestra
Josef Hofman
ANNUAL FACULH TEA
TO BE HELD DEC. 9th
Will Be Given By Seniors in
the Home Ex. Department
The seniors in the Home Econom-
ic.s Department -will give a tea at
the Home Management House in
honor of the faculties of Salem Col
lege and Academy on Thursday, De
cember the ninth, from four until
five-thirty. Mrs. Meinung and the
five seniors will receive the guests.
In the dining room the juniors will
serve refreshments.
The house itself will be decorated
in Christmas fashion, red flame
globes being used to give the effect
of candle light. The living room
will be decorated as one would ex
pect to find the living room of a
home on Christmas Eve.
It would be unfair to disclose the
rest of the plans which have been
made for the tea. It is certain,
however, that the faculties have a
treat in store for them.
DAY STUDENTS AND
MOTHERS HONORED
WITH TEA
On Friday, December the tenth,
the old day students will give a tea
from five until six o’clock in the
Day Students’ Building. Although
all the day students will be invited,
the tea is to be in honor of the new
day students and their mothers. Dr.
and Mrs. Bondthaler, the deans, and
faculty members who teach the
freshmen will also be guests. Mary
Louise McClung has appointed va
rious committees to take charge of
the tea, headed by the following
girls; Dorothy Wyatt, service;
Frances Alexander, invitations;
Jane Nading, refreshments; Flor
ence Joyner, decorations; Helen Mc
Arthur, publicity, and Willena
Couch, music.
HISTORY CLUB TO
MEET
Miss Adelaide Fries to
Speak
“Coming to America in Pioneer
Days” was Dr. Adelaide Fries’ topic
of discussion at the second History
Club meeting of the year. The mem
bers and their guests assembled
Thursday night at seven o’clock in
the recreation room of Louise Wil
son Bitting building. Miss Rebecca
Baynes, president of the club, pre
sided over the meeting.
Dr. Fries, well-known Winston-
Salem historian, spoke of the length
and discomfort of the over-sea voy
ages in the days when people ‘' pick
ed up and came” to America. The
difficulties of traveling over land
after landing in the new world were
also brought out. Dr. Fries told of
how she gathered her information
from old travel diaries of pioneers
who kept records of their experi
ences on their trip to North Caro
lina.
MRS. HAZEL SMITH
IS CHAPEL SPEAKER
Gives Interesting Talk On
Russia in Expanded
Chapel
Wednesday morning in expanded
chapel Mrs. Hazel Smith, assistant
dean of women at Duke ITniversity,
spoke to the student body and fac
ulty of her impression of Russia
after visiting it last summer. In
the course of her lecture, Mrs.
Smith said that the name“Russia”
was a misnomer, for since the over
throw of the Czars, Russia has been
correctly known as the TTnion of
Socialist Soviet Republics. This year
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CHORAL ENSEMBLE TO
GIVE CONCERT IN
CHARLOTTE
Vesper Program Will Be
Given Sunday Dec. 5
The Salem Choral Ensemble will
give a- Vesper Concert Sunday after
noon, December 5, at the Myers
Park Presbyterian Church in Char
lotte, N. C. This program is spon
sored by the Charlotte Chapter of
the Salem Alumnae Association and
the Charlotte Music Club. The fol
lowing numbers will be presented
under the direction of Mr. Clifford
Bair:
Pastorale Symphony Handel
Elizabeth Tuten, organist
A Christmas Musiclogue in
Ancient Guise
O Domine Jesu Brumel
Quem Vidistis Pastores Dering
How Far Is It to Bethlehem,
Donovan
Thus, Then, the Law Bach
The Choral Ensemble
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TWELVE MORE SCHOOL
DAYS BEFORE VACATION
College Closes For Christ
mas December 18th
MR. TALLEY
CELEBRATES 35th
ANNIVERSARY
This week Mr. Talley, our chief
electrician, rounds out thirty-five
years of service on the Salem camp
us. A capable and energetic me
chanic, he has superintended work
men on our campus since 1902l The
Salem students and faculty wish to
take this opportunity to thank Mr.
Talley for the services he has ren-
dered to us.
Thanksgiving is a thing of the
past now. Everybody is getting the
Christmas spirit. It seems prema
ture, but—can you imagine itt—
There are only TWELVE MORR
SCHOOL DAYS BEl!X)RE WE GO
HOME!
Downtown the merchants are
dre.ssing their store windows in the
gayest of tinsel and red displays.
At night lighted stars and bells of
blue, yellow, red and green arch over
the shopping district. Santa Clauses
are taking the moth-b|lls out of
their beards;—even the weather
man is paging a Christmas sky.
And what about Salem? Down in
the gloomy basement of the Widow’s
House, the little Red Man dances
in glee while he watches Miss Ellie
Butner dip tallow for the Christ
mas candles.
At the Academy the Christmas
Star has already been hung, and the
Academy seniors are busy with their
annual bazaar.
Mr. Bair and the Choral Ensemble
are preparing a program of Christ
mas music, for it would not be
Christmas without the beloved car
ols. Two nights before the holi
days begin, the Seniors will go car
oling by candle light through Salem
—like the revellers in the days
when England was Merrie England.
Christmas is a time of worship,
too. Corregio’s “Holy Night” will
come alive in its frame when Dr.
Rondthaler reads the loveliest Christ
mas story in the world at the annual
Academy Christmas pageant.
The entire pre-holiday season
reach«s ■ its climax in the gala
Christmas party for the seniors—
which will bring forth a Santa
Claus, a Christmas tree, many, many
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