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VOL. XIX.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1938.
Number 1,
SALEM BEGINS i67th TERM
Old Students
Register Wednesday
Formal Opening Thursday
Morning In Memorial
HaU
The class of ’39 donned academic
cups and gowns for the first time
last Thursday morning as Salem Col-
iege formally opened for its 167th
consecutive year. Students, faculty,
Academy and alumnae assembled in
Memorial Hall at 11 a. m- for
opening exercises. Following the
traditional custom the first chapel
was opened with the singing of
“Standing at the Portals” and
closed with the recessional “Rise
Crowned With Light.”
Another tradition was followed
when Dr. Rondthaler read telegrams
and w’ords of greeting from absent
friends and alumnae of Salem Col
lege. Many of last year’s senior
class were present for the opening
exercise.
Briefly addressing the audience of
students Dr. Rondthaler used as his
text the words “Surrounded as we
are by such a cloud of witnesses.”
He urged each, bccause of this, to a
life of co-operative fellowship —
fellowship with faculty, classmates,
oit zens, alumnae, and the past. Th©
“cloud of witnesses,” he said were
both vi.eible and invisible and of
those invisible ones who made the
institution jwssible we should be dis
tinctly conscious.
He called to the attention of the
new students something in which the
old students already rejoice — the
remodeling of Main Hall — the
“lifting of an old face.” He spoke
of the improvement in South Hall
and in Alice Clewell and of the new
entrance to Memorial Hall. He told
of the long awaited memorial doors
that are soon to be put in. Then as
a last and probably most interesting
improvement, he told how the old
library had been restored to its old
position as a chapel.
“Today is not Thursday, Septem
ber 15, 1938. It is Tuesday the 23rd
of January^ 1939,” he said, “for
according to the old proverbs, well
begun is half done. Now it is. in
our hands to demonstrate. It is a
real challenge — genuine and re-
•sponsible. Let us lay hold upon the
task.”
OHOKAiLENSEMBilij; TO PiRESENT MOZART’S OPiERA “BASTIEN ET BASTIENiNE’' MOiNBAY
JOURNAL-SEXTINEL STAFF PHOTO.
Harriet Taylor, Kathryn Swain, and ,1>d Bodenheimer, voice students of Mr. Clifford Bair take the roles of
the three characters in the Mozart’s Opera to be pre sented in the old chapel next Monday evening.
ORIENTATION OF
FRESHMEN FINISHED
SUCCESSFULLY
ONE-ACT COMIC
OPERA OPENS FALL
MUSIC SEASON
“Bastien and Bastienne”
By Mozart Presented
The first important music event of
the fall is scheduled for Monday eve
ning, September 19 when the Choral
Ensemble will sponsor the presenta-
toin of Mozart’s one-act comic opera
“Bastien and Bastienne.” Harriet
Taylor, Kathryn Swain, and Ted Bo
denheimer, three of Salem’s voice
students, were trained by Mr. Clif
ford Bair during the past summer
for the roles of the three characters.
The opera was presented by the
same group the last of August at the
second annual Music festival in
Asheville, N. C., and found an en
thusiastic reception among music lov
ers there. A stage was improvised
at the north end of the Grove Park
lun for the presentation. Mrs. Clif
ford Bair assisted at the piano for
the opera which w.ts conducted by
Mr. Clifford Bair.
The opera is the story of Bas
tienne, a. young sliejfherdess played
by Harriet Taylor, and of her lover
Bastien, played by Kathryn Swaim.
Differences arise between the lovers
but a reconcilation is effected
through Colas, a bogus musician
I)layed by Ted Bodenheimer.
The! opera is iKistoral in mood and
full of delightful ballad-like songs.
According to the Asheville Times it
ends with “a finale that blends the
fine voices of Harriet Taylor, Kath
ryn Swain and Ted Bodenheimer,
deftly supported by unassuming ac
companiment from the orchestra.”
The performance next Monday eve
ning will be watched with particular
interest because it marks the ope
ning of the beautiful little stage just
erected in the old chapel, known to
former students as the old library.
A small admission fee will be charg
ed and proceeds used for new stage
eiuii>ment.
INFORMAL PARTY
WILL BE HELD IN
RECREATION ROOM
Freshmen To Be Entertained
By Juniors
The Big Sister Class will be hos
tesses to the Freshmen Saturday eve
ning at an informal party to bo
held in the recreation room of Alice
Clewell Building at eight o’clock.
After the picnic supper on the lawn
the two classes will assemble in the
recreation room to dance and play
games. After two hours of fun, re
freshments will be served and then
the Freshmen sent home, but you
can be sure that there will be a
stronger bond of friendship between
the two classes thereafter.
NEW COURSE ON
FAMILY RELATIONS
OFFERED SENIORS
Miss Evabelle Covington
Will Be Instructor
In answer to the wide demand of
previous years Salem College is this
year offering to its seniors a course
in family relations. Courses of this
type are l>eing introduced in sever
al hundred of the nation’s most pro
gressive colleges and universities.
i\Iiss Kvabelle Covington, head of
the department of economics and
sociology, who is to teach the class
said:
“The purpose of the course is both
cultural and practical. It is prac
tical in that it attempts to lay the
factual foundation for enduring and
satisfactory marriages, and cultural
because it gives the student an un
derstanding of the development of
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MANY CHANGES MADE
ON CAMPUS
Restorations and Improve
ments Meet Eyes of Re
turning Students
Have yon see the improvements
made on our campus this suinnier?
Old students are gaping n» open-
mouthedly as freshmen. It’s beauti
ful! Take a tour of the campus
starting with Memorial Hall. A
beautiful new entrance, fitting to
the quiet dignity of Salem, has re
placed the “ teni])orary ” porch
which was there for so many years.
The three memorial doors originally
planned for this building will soon
be placed. Theso doors commemo
rate three of Salem’s former teach
ers; Miss Lydia Stauber, Miss Emma
Lehman, and Miss Adeline Vogler.
Many were the surprised “ohs”
and “ahs” when old girls returned
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Student Self-Government
Sponsor Orientation
Program
Salem College buzzed with activity
last Monday morning when dozens of
freshmen and new students invaded
the college campus and were led im
mediately into the opening features
of the orientation program. The two
days of freshman activities were
]>lanned with the intention of giv
ing freshmen a chance to beconit^
ac(iuainted with each other, to meet
the faculty, learn about the school,
campus and student orgiinizationg
and to feel at home when the old
students arrived on Wednesday.
Orientation activities were plan
ned by the Student Self-Government
Organization of which Annette Mc-
.\eely is president. She and mem
bers of the association arrived Sat
urday and Sunday to complete final
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OLD LIBRARY USED AS
CHAPEL AND SMALL
ASSEMBLY HALL
New Stage Built This Sum
mer In East End of Hall
The eighty-year old ivy-covered
building, long used by Salem as the
collego library, has now been re
stored to st'rve itij original purpose
as a chaptil and assembly room. This
hall in the center of the college
ampus is an exact reproduction of
the famous Harmony Hall in Boston,
Mass., recognized as having the most
porfect acoustics of any building in
America.
I‘>ected in 1856 as a chapel and
general assembly hall, this college
building like the old Boston build-
nig became famous for its fiiie acous
tics. It was the center of cultural
and musical activities and the scone
for many a commencement and col
lege gathering.
Later with the erection of the
larger Memorial Hall and the de
mand for more library spiace, tho
assembly room was turned into a li
brary. Then last spring Salem Col
lege opened to the public its new
and beautifully complete library
building acrns.s from Alice Clewell
Dormitory, and once again tho old
assembly hall was vacated.
During the summer months a stage
complete with dressing rooms and
necessary e(iuipment was built in the
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REGISTRATION DAY
21996
PLAYING “DO YOU KNOW?’*
~JOURirAI.>HSNTINKIi STAFF PHOTO.