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VOL. XVIIl.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1938.
Number 16.
OPEN FORUM HELD
DURING EXPAND
ED CHAPEL
Thanksgiving Holidays and
Cuts System Discussed
The entire hour of expanded chapel
Wednesday morning was devoted to
a discussion of Thanksgiving holi
days and the cuts system. Dorothy
Hutaff presented a report, made by
the faculty and a student committee
after careful deliberation and com
parison with other schools. She said
that there was a possibility that we
should have four days for Thanks
giving or one day. The condition
for four days was the fact that no
cuts could be taken just before and
after the holidays. After all stu
dents showed willingness to follow
the decision of the majority, the stu
dent body voted unanimously for the
four day holiday.
Following the vote. Miss Coving
ton explained the change in the reg
ulations concerning cuts which will
be in effect next year, The main
provisions are as follows: During
the first semester, freshman and
new students will have three cuts,
not over one in a class. Upper class
men and second semester freshmen
who have an average of A minus,
will receive thirteen cuts; A. four
teen cuts; A plus, fifteen cuts; B
minus, nine cuts; B, ten cuts; B
plus, eleven; C minus, five Cuts; C,
six cuts; C plus seven cuts. The
number of cuts next year are then
to be determined.
ROTARIANS’ DAUGHTERS
AT SALEM TO BE
HONORED
Rotary Club To Honor Girls
At Luncheon
Next Tuesday from 12:30 to 1:30
the Eotary Club of Winston-Salem
will give their weekly luncheon at
the Robert B. Lee Hotel in honor
of the daughters of Botarians who
go to Salem College. After tOie
luncheon the Salem girls will be in
charge of a short program. The
resident students who have been in
vited are: Elizabeth Winget of
Albemarle; Lucile Stubbs of Lenoir;
Buth Schnell of West Point, Ga.;
Kelly Ann Smith of Monroe; Ella
Walker Hill of Eoanoke, Va.; Lou
ise Norris of Durham; Erances Britt
of Clinton; Nell Kerns of Durham;
Prances Huggins of Leaksville;
Germaine Gold of Shelby; Peggy
Jones of Charlotte; Helene Straus of
Tazewell, Va.; Emma Brown Grant
ham of Red Springs; Elouise Sam
ple of Fort Pierce, Fla.; Frances
Turnage of Ayden; Mary Thomas of
Knoxville, Tenn.; Marjorie Powell of
Edenton; Dorothy Hutaff of Fayette
ville; and Josephine Gribbin of
Asheville.
GERMAN CLUB MEETS
Laura Emily Pitts Presided
Wednesday Afternoon at 5:00
o’clock in the Recreation Room of
Louisa Wilson Bitting Building, the
German Club held its monthly meet
ing. Laura Emily Pitts the presi
dent, presided.
German love songs and poems were
read and sung in commemoration of
St. Valentine’s Day, by several of
the club members. Valentine games,
many of which were written by Mrs.
Arlen Curley, sponsor, were enjoyed
by those who attended.
Approximately eighteen members
were present.
SALEM’S POST OFFICE
HISTORY
Has Been Located On Main
Street For Several Years
Salem, as a community and as a
college, has, as we are all more than
well aware, a long and checkered
and interesting history in various
fields. And have you ever wondered
what is its post office-history ? Well,
I did; and here’s what I could find
when I hunted up six “likely
sources of information” on the cam
pus. All six of these “sources”
were people, and just think what I
would have found if I had gone to
the old “Salemites” and to their
predecessors The Academy and to
the five other people whom my six
suggested that I go to see; but this
article had to be finished before next
week, so I had to stop with this:
Miss Sallie Vest gave me a whole
page of “way-back” history. She
went even back before her own time
to tell me that the little Public
School Music Building, that was
torn down last spring to make room
for our new library, was once the
post office for the town of Salem.
Salem College or, and, and Salem
Academy has always gotten its mail
from the Salem town post-office; so
our mail once came from The Little
Red School House. The first post
office that Miss Vest remembers, as
a little girl, was in the building
which is between the Arden Farm
Store and the Widow’s House. The
post office was in the northern end
of the building; there was a drug
store in the southern end, and the
commissioner’s office was upstairs.
Then for a while the post office was
in the building with big columns
which is next to Welfare’s. At one
time it was in the Belo House, and
later it moved up Main Street, still
on that side of the street, to about
the middle of the coffee pot block.
From there it was moved across the
street to the middle of the block in
which Truelove’s Dry Cleaning Plant
now is. Mrs. Meinung’s father, Mr.
Ormsby, was postmaster while the
post office was there, and he was
postmaster for awhile after it moved
back across the street to the building
next to Truelove’s, which was then
a drug store. And Salem’s post
office’s last move, to date, was when,
on June 1, 1927, it moved into the
little building across the street where
it is now. A Mr. Jones owned the
property on which that group of little
stores stands; and a Mr. Fogle
bought the property, tore down the
stores that were there, and built the
present ones. The first thing to oc
cupy his new stores was Salem’s post
office.
For years and years Ch^^rlie Sheeks,
a negro employee here, has gotten
our mail from the town post office
and brought it to the campus. He
used to bring it down from the
building next to Truelove’s, and he
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HISTORY CLUB TO
MEET TUESDAY
Rev. Douglais Rights Will
Speak
Rev. Douglas Rights of Trinity
Moravian Church will speak to the
History Club at their meeting Tues
day evening in Louisa Wilson Bitting
Building. Mr. Rights is President
of the Wachovia Historical Society
and is particularly interested in un
covering and studying Indian history
and customs. He has made an in
teresting collection of Indian relics
for the Wachovia Museum. Everyone
is invited to attend this meeting and
hear his illustrated lecture on
“Scenes Along the Yadkin River.”
DR. GROVES’ LECTURE
MUSIC NEWS
CKOEAIi ENSEMBLE ENTEE-
TAiNS littij: symphony
Sentinel Staff Photo
DR. GROVES
A little man dodged the welcome
committee and wandered around the
campus, Friday evening, February
the eleventh, because he fooled us
and came on the bus instead of the
train. This lone man, who was ac
tually Dr. Groves, found his way to
the recreation room of Louisa Wil
son Bitting Building where he gave
an enlightening lecture to juniors
and seniors. His topic for the first
talk was “The Approach to Mar
riage” and the next topic will be
“Preparation for Marriage.”
The lecture culminated in an ear
nest discussion during which stu
dents presented problems and ques
tions about love, courtship, and mar
riage to Dr. Groves for his wise so
lution and sound advice.
Members of the Little Symphony
were dinner guests of the Choral
Ensemble, in the College Dining
Room, Tuesday evening, February 15,
and after the concert were overnight
guests of various members of the
Choral Club.
Saturday evening, February 19, at
Carnegie Hall, a concert of the
American Guild of Musical Artists
will be given. Artists who will be
on this program are Lawrence Tib-
bett, Gladys Swarthout, Helen Jep
son, Jose and Ampara Iturbi, Jascha
Heiftes, Pinna, Martinello, Rose
Bampton, Bonelli, CascaBo, Fagel,
and Marjorie Lawrence.
The cantata by Serge Prokofieff,
written for the 20th Anniversary of
Soviet Russia, is ready and will be
heard in U. S. S. R. sometime in early
April. This work is of great intrest
because it must be played by four
instrumental and 2 choral groups
consisting of about 500 performers.
There will be a full symphony, a
military band, a band of Russian
accordions and a percussion band.
The only soloist at the Mozart
j concert in the famous Mozarteum
in Salzburg, August 6, will be Ma-
jorie McClung, young American
lyric soprano, graduate of the Uni
versity of Michigan.
SCHERZO IN “BE SHARP’
31. Name the Keyboard in a pipe-
organ.
32. What is the military signal at
daybreak called?
33. What is the military signal at
nightfall called?
34. What wind instrument utilizes
the reed mouthpiece of a clari
net?
35. By what name is an instrumen
talist of masterly technique
who demonstartes his skill pub
licly, known?
36. Give the name for a mechanical
device that marks time.
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MAY DAY PLANS
ARE UNDERWAY
Original and Attractive
Program Promised
Now that the first crocuses are up
and spring no longer seems to hope
lessly far away, it cannot be out of
order to bring up a subject that will
soon be of tremendous importance to
us all — that is. May Day at Salem.
Exciting things have been going
on behind our very backs. While the
rest of us have had our noses glued
to books and things, Margaret Briggs
and her committees have been mys
teriously bustling around plotting
and planning and pulling all sorts
of rabbits out of hats.
First of all, the pageant, which
is Brigg’s literary offspring, is fin
ished and ready for action. The
dances are to be under the direction
of Miss Grace Carpenter, assisted by
Edith Rose. B. 0. Dunford, of the
graduating class of ’37 is composing
original music for the occasion. The
making o fthe costumes is to be tak
en up as a project of the Home
Economics Club of which Charlotte
King is president.
It looks as if the situation is very
well under control!
Harmonious, a musical society in
Bergen, Norway, has been given
200,000 kronen by the estate of Ed
ward Grieg, and his wife.
“Beethoven” by Hugo Von Hof-
mannathal, which consists of the
Beethoven lecture given by the au
thor at Zurich in 1920 has been pub
lished in Vienna, where it is issued
in a bibliphile edition.
Bach’s “Mass in B minor” will be
given under Albert Stoessel’s direc
tion at Carneigie Hall, March 1.
Albert Spalding will play the
Mendelssohn violin concerto in
Elizabeth, N. J., February 23, with
the Elizabeth Philharmnoic Orches
tra.
Baden, near Vienna, one of Bee
thoven’s favorite country resorts,
where he wrote part of the Ninth
Symphony and some of his later
works, has formed a Beethoven As
sociation to sponsor at the beginning
of each September as International
Beethoven week.
INTERESTING PROGRAM GIVEN
AT MUSIC HOUR
Students of the School of Music
presented the following representa-
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Saturday, February 19 —
Academy Senior Dinner.
I. R. S. Dance for new out-of-state
girls.
Monday, February 21 —
Students’ recital in Memorial
Hall at 8:30, by Miss Mary
Jones’ pupils.
Tuesday, February 22 —
Luncheon given by Rotary Club,
for Salemites who are daughters
of Rotarians.
Rev. Douglas Rights speaks to
History Club, at 7:00 P. M.
Thursday, February 24 —
Miss Tucker’s high school pupils
present music hour, in Memorial
Hall, at 4:00 P. M.
Friday, February 25 —
Dr. Groves talks to Juniors and
Seniors.
Saturday, February 26 —
Junior-Freshman dance.
KATHERINE JANE
HANES CLUB TO
ATTEND MEETING
State Home Economic Clubs
Will Hold Meeting at Salis
bury, February 19th
Saturday, February 19, the Kath
erine Jane Hanes Club will go to
Salisbury to attend the State Meet
ing of The Home Economics Clubs.
The members will leave Saturday
morning returning that night. A
Greyhound bus has been chartered
for the occassion. The meeting is
to be held at Catawba College.
Two college clubs, Catawba and
Salem, have each been asked to
dramatise an outstanding program
of the year. The Katherine Jane
Hanes Club will present the meeting
that was given on hobbies. Miss
Evelyn McCarty will be the speak-
L R. S. TO GIVE DANCE
New Out-of-State Students
Honored
The big event of this week-end,
at least as far as new girls are con
cerned, will be the I. R. S. dance.
This gala affair will take place in
the recreation room of Louisa Wil
son Bitting Building on Saturday
night at eight-thii'ty. To it the
I. R. S. Council invites all new girls,
who come from out of the state, and
their senior advisors. Here’s your
chance girls (if you haven’t had one
before now), to make a hit with the
local lads and even though they
aren’t Virginians, New Yorkers, or
Texans, you will probably agree that
they are pretty nice. Music will be
furnished by fifteen different orches
tras (in the form of a nickelodeon),
and refreshments will be served.
UTTLE SYMPHONY GIVES
UNUSUAL CONCERT
Sponsored By Choral
Ensemble
An unusual and interesting con-
cert was presented by the Little
Symphony of Michigan under the
able direction of Thor Johnson, Feb
ruary 15 in Memorial Hall. The
thirteen members of the Symphony
showed excellent technique, precision
and balance of tone throughout the
performance.
Mr. Johnson, the efficient and able
conductor, a native of Winston-
Salem, proved himself worthy of the
praise which recently won for him a
year’s study in Europe,
The program was as follows:
Sinfonia in E flat major
J. 0. Bach
Concerto in D, Major for Flute
Mozart
Soloist: John Krell
Five Russian Folk Songs, from
Op. 58 Liadov
Allegretto Scherzando, from
“Dixtner in D minor”
Dubois
Vigil of the Guardian Angel
Pierne
Overture in D, to “Cephale
et Procris” Gretry
Two encores were enthusiastically
received by the oudience.
The Little Symphony was spon
sored by the Salem College Choral
Ensemble.