The Salemite
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VOL. XIX.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939.
Number 24.
Salem’s New Student Govern
ment Officers Installed
Elizabeth Hendrick Is New
President
Friday morning at 8:30 the annual
chapel program of retirement and in
stallation of Student Government
oificers at Salem was held, ^le
Processional hymn was the tradition
al “Eise, Crowned with Light, Im
perial Salem, Eise.” Annette Mc-
Neely, outgoing president of the
Student Government Organization,
made a short farewell address and
then installed the new president,
Elizabeth Hendrick, with the oath of
office. Miss Hendrick installed all
other incoming officers and closed
the program with a short speech on
the general aims, purposes, and ideals
of the Student Government Organi
zation in this college. The Eeees-
sional was Salem’s Alma Mater. ^
The new officers are: vice-presi
dent, Louise Norris; off-campus vice-
president Sarah Burrell; Secretary,
Lee Eice; Treasurer, Catherine Har
rell. Eepresentatives: Senior Class
Virginia Breakell, Ella Walker Hill,
Jane Alice Billing, June Hire; Jun
ior Class — Emily McCoy, Ora Holt
Long, Marvel Campbell; Sophomore
Class — Dorothy Dixon, Elizabeth
Weldon, Margaret Vardell; Fresh
man Class — To Be Elected. Class
Presidents: Senior Class, Agnes Lee
Carmichael; Junior Class Patty Mc-
Neely; Sophomore Class, Eeece
Thomas; Freshman Class, To Be
Elected. Y. W. C. A. President, Betty
Sanford.
Students’ Knowledge
Of Salem Tested
Ann Whaling Found to
Know Most Facts About
The School
Two Music Students
Heard In Grad
uating Recital
Catherine Brandon and
Katherine Snead Give
Interesting Program
Miss Katherine Snead, violinist,
and Miss Catherine Brandon, pianist,
gave their graduating recital Mon
day evening, April 24, in Memorial
Hall.
Miss Snead, pupil of Miss Hazel
Horton Read, displayed good tone
quality well controlled and a fine
rhythmic feeling. Her interpreta
tion of the difficult Saint-Saens Con
certo in B minor was particularly
effective.
Miss Catherine Brandon, piano pu
pil of Miss Laurie Jones, showed
technical facility in her numbers
and interpreted artistically the idiom
of the various schools of writing rep
resented.
The program is as follows:
Sonata in P Major, Op. 24
Beethoven
Allegro
Miss Snead
Sonata in A Flat major, op. 26
Beethoven
Etude, op. 10, Xo. 5 Chopin
Miss Brandon
Concerto in B minor, op. 61
Saint-Saens
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HISTORY CLUB
ELECTS OFFICERS
On Tuesday at 1:30 the History
Club elected its officers for next
year. Those chosen were: Mary Jo
Pearson, President, replacing Emma
Brown Grantham; and Esther Alex
ander, vice-president, replacing Grace
Gillespie; Lucille Stubbs is the re
tiring secretary-treasurer, but that
office will be filled next year by
a freshman. During the past few
months the History Club has pre
sented two valuable reference books
to the library and is planning to pre
sent another book before school
closes.
One Wednesday, April 26, Miss
Margaret McLean gave an interest
ing test to all students in chapel.
The purpose of this test was to meas
ure the students’ factual knowledge
of Salem. Before giving the ques
tions, Miss jMcLean explained that
the question was to be answered as
briefly as possible; that a prize
would be given for the highest score.
The following questions and answers
comprised the test:
1. In what year was Salem
founded?
1772.
2. What was its name originally?
Salem Female Academy.
3. What is Salem’s oldest build
ing?
Sister’s House.
4. What was the room arrange
ment for the dormitories form
erly?
Alcoves. ^
.5. What was the original purpose
of the office building?
It was designed as a residence
for the principal of the school.
6. Who were the wives of two
famous Americans who came to
Salem?
The wives of James K. Polk and
Stonewall Jackson.
7. Give three distinctive features
of Salem architecture.
Hooded door%vays, dormer win
dows, tile roof.
8. Is there still a lover’s leap at
Salem?
Yes.
9. How many acres of campus does
Salem have?
561/0.
10. In what year did Salem receive
her charter to give degrees?
1866.
11. For what three sister alumnae
are the three buildings of the
Academy named?
Emma Fries Bahnson, Mary
Fries Patterson, and Carrie Fries
Shaffner.
12. What degrees are offered at
Salem?
B.A., B.S., B.S. in Home Ec.,
and B. Mus.
13. What is the A. A. TJ. W.?
The American Association of
University Women.
14. What is the yearly cost of an
A. B. Course?
$740.
15. Approximately how many fac
ulty members does Salem have?
Fifty-five.
16. Approximately how many stu
dents does Salem have?
Three hundred and twenty-five.
17. What does the word Salem
mean ?
Peace.
18. Who is the chairman 6f the
Board of Trustees?
Bishop J. Kenneth Pfohl.
19. Who are the editors of the
"Salem Alumnae Record”?
Mr.=!. Cortlandt Creech and Miss
Elizabeth Zachary.
20. What 1937 Graduate of Salem,
has been given a scholarship at
Woman’s Medical College in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Jane Leibfried.
21. Name three members of the
Salem faculty who have held
offices in City, Regional, or Na
tional Association of Educa
tions.
Dr. Eondthaler, Miss Lawrence,
Mrs. Meinung.
22. Is Salem an "A” accredited
college ?
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OOMMENOEMENT SPEAKER
COUHTESY JOURNAL-SENTINEL
JOSEPHUS DANIELS
Josephus Daniels
Will Be .Speaker at
Commencement
Baccalaureate Sermon Will
Be Delivered By Rev.
D. H. Stewart
Josephus Daniels, ambassador to
Mexico, will deliver the graduating
address at Salem College commence
ment finals June 5. The baccalau
reate sermon will be given by Rev.
Donald Houston Stewart, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church in
Chapel Hill.
Commencement activities will ex
tend over a period of three days,
beginning with Alumnae Day Satur
day, June 3. At that time twelve
classes will hold reunions. The morn
ing win be given over to an execu
tive board meeting of the General
Alumnae Association followed by a
session of the Association and an
Alumnae luncheon.
Saturday evening, two acts of Mo
zart’s opera, “The Marriage of Fig
aro,” will be presented by the School
of Music. This will take the place
of the annual concert given at this
time. The president’s reception will
close the events of the day.
Sunday’s program includes the
baccalaureate sermon in the morning
and seniors vespers in the evening
with the traditional talk by Dr.
Rondthaler.
There are fifty-nine seniors in the
class who are candidates for degrees.
Detailed plans for all events will
be announced later.
Mu Alpha Theta
Elects Officers
The Mu Alpha Theta (Math Club)
met Wednesday night, April 26, at
7:15 P. iM., to elect officers for the
coming year and to discuss other
matters of business.
The new officers are Anne Mew-
borne, replacing Josephine Hutchison
as president; Frances Angelo, tak
ing Martha McNair’s position as
vice-president; Ruth Schriedl, replac
ing Anne Mewborne as secretary;
and Eleanor Hutchison, succeeding
Margaret Wilson. Wyatt Wilkerson
was elected as assistant treasurer.
After the election of officers the
constitution was revised and the
club pins were discussed.
Broadway Season Discussed
By John Mason Brown
New Cabinet
To Be Installed
Sunday
Sunday evening at 6:45 the new
Y Cabinet will be installed with a
candlelight service in the Old Chap
el. This service is for the recog
nition and installation of the girls
who will serve as chairmen of the
committees in the Y Cabinet, and
marks the official beginning of the
Y Cabinet for the year 1939-1940.
The service itself will be short,
and, as in past years, the procession
al will be “Father of Lights.” The
recessional will be “Follow the'
Gleam.”
Mary Thomas, w^ho has been chair
man of the Vesper Program Com
mittee for this past year, will con-
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Practice Teachers
Entertain Supervisors
Second Dinner Given By
Senior Teachers
Salem College practice teachers
entertained their supervisors at an
informal dinner Tuesday evening,
April 25, at six o’clock in the Old
Chapel.
Members of the student group and
faculty representatives met the
guests in the lobby of Main Hall and
conducted them to tlie Old Chapel
which was decorated with a May
Day theme. In the center of each
table was a miniature Maypole with
streamers leading to the place cards.
Frances Watlington, Edith Mc
Lean, and Gertrude Bagwell, music
students, sang the M;iy Day carol.
Dr. Howard E. Eondthaler conclud
ed the evening program with a short
address. Miss Annette McNeely
served as toast-mistress.
General chairman for the dinner
arrangements was !Miss Peggy Rogers
who was assisted by all other seniors
who are practice teaching.
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CROSS SECTION OF SEA
SON’S BEST BOOKS
GIVEN BY MRS. ADAMS
Chapel Hill Librarian Guest
At Salem Library
Thursday afternoon we were taken
on a trip to Carolina’s “Bull’s
Head” Book Shop, and were shown
through the stock rooms by Mrs.
Adams, its librarian — all while we
were sitting quietly in our own li
brary at five o’clock listening in
tently to Mrs. Adams reviewing
some of the latest books that she
considered to be most important at
present.
It seems that two “evil females”
have dominated the field of literature
this year. Those two are, of course,
“Rebecca” (the tonic for sleeping
sickness!) and “All This and Heav
en Too.” Better, though she thought,
than either of those is Virginia
Wolfe’s “Three Guineas.” She also
spoke favorably of Dorothy Thomp-
sn’s “Political Guide.”
One of the very best books in
her opinion is Elizabeth Bowen’s
latest book, “The Death of the
Heart. ’ ’ Along with this stylist she
commented most highly on that mas
ter in the field of stylists, Somerset
Maughm, and upon the book
“Christmas Holiday.”
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Brilliant New York Critic
Speaks Last on Salem
Lecture Series
John Mason Brown, eminent dra
matic critic, author and lecturer
spoke in Memorial Hall on Thursday
night at 8:30 o’clock — reviewing
current Broadway plays of the 1938-
39 season. As last year Mr. Brown’s
enthusiasm, brilliance and wit com
pletely capitivated his large audi
ence.
He began his lecture by saying
that the Broadway season this year
had not been a real season at all,
but rather “ a long night-school in
history.” The historiial plays have
been of two types in general: first,
those positive historical j)lays poetic,
imaginative, that rather dictate to
history than are dictated to by his
tory; second, those historical plays
that lean on the audience’s knowl
edge of the history of the subject.
Chief among the historical plays
of the first type, Mr. Brown discuss
ed Maurice Evans’ production of
‘ ‘ Hamlet ’ ’ and ‘ ‘ Henry IV,’ ’ Part I.
Of “Hamlet” he said that Maurice
Evans, turning aside from the old
concepts of the Prince as an intro
vert, a “man of inaction doomed to
the tragedy of a life of action,” a
“refugee from the psycopathic
ward,” had instead created an ex
trovert Hamlet, a man who could
make friends, who would have cared
for and governed well his land. Mr.
Brown mentioned also the work of
Henry Edwards as “the first charm
ing Claudius, ’ Miss Mamie Christians
as tlie first innocent Gertrude,” and
Miss Katherine Locker as the “first
Ophelia who seemed to have a mind
to lose.”
These two productions, “Hamlet”
and “Henry IV.” Part I succeeded,
according to Mr. Brown in doing
what all modern Shakespearian pro
ductions must do — “get Shakes
peare out of academic hock.” Of
the other type of historical play,
those that lean on the audiences fore
knowledge, the critig mentioned
Helen Hayes ’ ‘ ‘ Victoria Regina,”
the Sherwood play, ‘ ‘ Abe Lincoln In
Illinois, ’ ’ which, he said, has dignity,
reverence, and document but
which lacks any real creative art;
“Oscar Wilde” (which likewise
bears the “Anthologist touch,” but
which i.s distinguished by the acting
of Robert Morley), Elmer Rice’s
“American Landscape,” the pag
eant-like “American Way” and oth
ers.
From historical dramas Mr. Brown
turned to a group of “family plays:”
“The Little Foxes” by Lillian Hel-
man, which, he said, the author did
almost too well but which was made
outstanding by the actress, Talullah
Bankhead. Katharine Hepburn’s
]X)rtrayal in Philip Barry’s “Phila
delphia story” was heartily praised
by the lecturer, as also, was Kath
arine Cornell’s first comedy, Judith
Anderson in the role of Mary in
“Family Portrait,” and the re
vival of Clifford Odet’s ‘ ‘ Awake and
Sing.”
A play of exceptional beauty from
this season is “My Heart’s in the
Highlands” which has a quality of
experiment whiclv makes one almost
‘ ‘ believe the unbelievable, ’ ’ sair Mr.
Brown. ^
The most distinguished foreign
play of the year was “White Steed”
by Paul Vincent Carol, author of
“Shadow and Substance” of last
season.
Among the musical comedies Mr.
Brown mentioned such plays as “You
Never Know,” “Boys From Syra
cuse,” “I’d Rather Be Right,”
“Stars In Your Eyes,’ and what he
termed the best musical of the year,
‘ ‘ Leave It to Me. ”
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