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Friday, October 6, 1939. THE SALEMITE Page Three. fOiUMBUS DAK On October twelfth we celebrate Columbus Day or Discovery Day. The first celebration of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus took place in New York City on Oe- tober 12 1792, three hundred years after the event. The celebration was arranged by members of the or der of Tamany, which organization still exists. There were few more celebrations of the kind made until 1892. In that year a great exposition was planned and supported by a Federal appro priation. Chicago was selected as the site for the exposition, and a great world fair was held there, attracting millions of vistiors from this and other countries. Gradually the different states be gan to adopt measures legalizing this holiday and it is now a legal holiday in thirty-four states. ALUMNAE NEWS Salemites are always interested in what former Salemites are doing. From the class of ’37 we have the following reports: Grace Carter received her M. A. from Peabody this summer. Ethel Highsmith is Secretary to the Superintendent of City Schools in Fayetteville. Margaret Briggs, a social worker in High Point, N. C., and Marianna Redding attended the lecture of Dr. Phelps here last Friday night. Virginia Crumpler is on the Li brary Staff of Hollins College. From the class of ’38: Dot Hutafp is studying at Colum bia University in New York. She is living at the Parnassus Club. Laura Emily Pitts and Edith Rose are sharing an apartment in New York. Laura Emily is studying mus ic and is also doing secretarial Work. Edith is studying voice and working part-time in a book-shop. Anna Wray Fogle is working for “Time” Magazine in New York City. Blevins Vogler studied Interior Decorating this summer, and is now Working at Shepherd’s. Frances Alexander is^fivorking in the Junior League Shop in Winston Mrs. Julian Lowe (Mary Louise McClung), who was in Turkey, where her husband was employed with a Tobacco Company, was forced to re turn to the United States because of the war. Slie is now in Winston- Salem. Mary McColl is studying at Chapel Hill. Sarah Ingram is running an An tique Shop at South Hill. Virginia Lee, the May Queen of ’38, is taking a Technician course ^t Duke. Meredith Holderby visited Salent. this past week-end. She was Tir- ginia’s Maid-of-Honor in the '38 May Court. From the class of ’39: Mary Worthy Spence, President of I. B. S., visited in Winston-Salem last week-end, as the guest of Lizzie Trotman. While here, she admitted that she really likes her teaching job ia Wadeaboio. Mary Turner Willis and Edith Mc Lean, who .both teach in Fayette- yille; Tootie Powell, who is teach ing at Qibson, N. 0.; and Jessie Skinner, who is studying at Chapel Hill, are all planning to visit Salem this week-end. WhyDoJ^anYou We’re proud of you freshmen. We think you’re a bunch of swell kids, the way you “stood up and took it” on Wednesday night. Even those al mighty proud and haughty sopho mores think j'ou took your beating beautifully; you know your big sis ter .Juniors have loved you for about three weeks now; and the senior;, too, admired your spirit long before they ever saw you give your excel lent request performance before t4ie crowned heads of Salem. And we liked those cute little did- die.i* you wrote (You certainly don’t want us to call tht-m themes, do you?) about—Wei), what were they about anyway f In fact, some of you seemed to be in such a fog that we wondered if you and we would like to see a couple of your frantic attempts to explain it all. IBEADX AND ARR^ WHY DO I? I do because from the end of the beginning of that one what we knew went back to school. I do when the sun comes back between things that have before passed over. There are many who don’t but from the start of the corner we do when all is clear. It does in Kansas the way I do in North Carolina. The hall ways are clear to do. It is an art that I have perfected and I love to do. If the sun sets in the middle and all things are equal it is much more fun for me. The way I like to do the best is with the books and doors open. Eating is why I do best and most. Getting the gong is of no matter for I do when we must have courage to all hang together. —Louise Hartsell. (Continued On Four) “YEAH, YOU’D LOOK GOOD IN UNIFORM” European echoes here today: ‘ ‘ Hey, boy, you’d look good in a uni form! ”... If somebody would shoot Hitler — . . . Nigger ain’ I tol’ you dem Germans’d fight? I know. I done been deh. . . . My son is in the reserve corps and he thinks . . . My opinion, sir, is that the Germans will repudiate Hitler within a . . . Heet- Icr py dam’ I spit on heem. . . . Say, boy, you’d look good in a uni form. Didja hear them English school kids lea,vin’ London — so Hitler could bomb their homes? ... I told my Sunday .school class months ago that the Germans ought to lock Hit ler in an asylum. . . . Say, boy, you’d look good in a uniform ... If they have Bed Cross nurses, I’m going ... I said all the time they’d have a war, was I right, I ask you, ivas I right? • . . What kind of ex- ■?mptions you reckon they’ll have? . . We’ll be in it in six months _yeah—it takes us to finisli what they start ... I could make some money outa this thing if I knew how . . . Dam’ Jap, heh, heh, heh, he dam’ flop now — fooie to Jap. . . . I knew a fellow who was bom in Poland and he said. . . . Say, boy, you’d look gfood in a uniform. They will hand you one about Christmas!” (Quoted from the Charlotte Nows, Sept. 10, 1939.) aBTOon Louise and Jack, it seems have gotten off to a good start again thia year — three years straight sounds awfully serious — eh Lou? . . .No body could call V. Mac. a slow leak either — Doug being here two week ends straight and two certain calls from Richmond Sat. and Sun. sound okay jane for any senior . . . Grace, wlio was the attractive young gent Sunday — local talent? — makes a right good substitute for the Virgin ian ,huh? . , . More local talent—did you see Shm. and ilaigaret Morrison learning all about the Greyhound Bus line Sunday afternoon^ Sara you aren’t going back on the old bike, are you . . .John from Greens boro was here Sun too, and from the look on Jane Alice’s face, it must be “Derr Keal S'tuff ” . . . .Vgnes l.ee has decided to go out for cross country. We agree she can cross right much of it waiting when ;Mac's com ing ... It’s too liad to have so many men that you get them mixed on a long distance phone call, eh. Hiss Morrison ? . . . So “ the merry-go- round broke down" eh, Willy?’ Ox was it the ferris-wheel? and did it break down or pick-up? . . , Eve says .she’s juse dying to have that pic ture of “her love.’» It’s out at the Fair, and everybody’s seeing it but her and she’s so busy practicing in the House, she hasn’t time to go out yonder. . . . Why is Kluttz going home again this week-end? Is it teeth or Ellis Wood. . . . I’liblic an nouncement: For the benefit of all who might (?) be interested, Eve and Agnes Lee want it known that they are now spending several weeks in the Practice House. We hear, by the way, that there is some pretty neat house-keeping and some pretty yummy cooking going on over there too. (,\re you listening. Mac and .Timmy ?) . . . Graeie, how come sm-li a pleased, cat-swallowed the canary look on your face this week? It couldn’t be that Jim’s coming for the week-end ? . , . ilack Rousseau and his lovely new Plymouth have prac tically moved to Winston this week, :t seeni^. Marv Jo, we admire vour drawing power . . Bend down,' sis ter Norfleet. Gettin’ in shape for Senior Dinner, y’all . . . We DARE you, Kve, to tell Jimmy that Dicky brought you back to school last Suti- day night after you were home for, of all things, a wedding . . . Some how we feel that there’s a tale be hind the fact tliat Agnes Lee and Mac went to Greensboro last week end and that A. L. giggles most slv- ly when we ask her, “Are you still hungry?’’ I DARE SAY That the P^eshmen were sore distressed to hear that, according to Mrs. Downs, the first verse of Canterbury Tales is only the first line, and not the eighteen line stanza they thought they were supposed to learn. That we’ve never heard anything talked about quite so much as that stroll a couple of our faculty members too, walking arm in arm. across the campus one day after lunch. TchI Tch!, girls. We thought you were more broadminded than that. It’s the year 1939, you know! That there couldn’t possibly be anything worse than waiting in the Infirmary an hour and fifteen minutes for Dr. Pfohl and then to have Miss Maynard come in and smile sweetly and say: “I’m sorry girls. Dr. Pfohl has acall from a dying patient and can’t see you now. You'll just have to come back tonight.” Then we wait and wait somemore. Oh! Gee oh! Gosh. It’s enough to give a gal galloping consumption. That now that winter is here wo will put away all such childish' things as jitterbugging, jumping jive, moonlight nights spent with the gang in the old car and go in for a bit of Civic Music Series, Lectures, Contemporary Theatre Series and the like. ’ That we didn’t misunderstand the Gossip editor when she remarked there wasn’t much for the best-read-column-in-the-Salemite. Don’t ,worry, old dear, it’s just the calm before thestorm. The dance, you know! That our group of marshals are certainly the cream of Salem’s crop! We saw them in action for the first time at Dr. Phelpa’ lecture last IViday, in their new dresses, and they and the dresses were truly delovely. I That the poor fruit tree outside the library’s outdoor reading room is really in for a shock when it wakes some morning- to find all ^s purty white blossoms frost bit. i Hats off to the chapel committee this year! And the programs this week have been extra ’specially liked. We liked very much the way Dean Vardell made Memorial Hall ring with his music Thursday morning, and those messy children in Friday’s skit were awful cute, too; weren’t you, kids? Bahnson, the wonder man (wonder what he’s going to do next), roaming around in the vicinity of Alice Clew- ell . . , Everybody oughta tell these new ideas they get, for instance, the one Louise had about keeping a foot ball schedule handy when it comes to issuing dance invitations! . . . Well, bless Pat, if Jo Pope doesn’t get mo’ long-distance calls! . . . and did you see how fast Nell dressed last Sun day nite — gosh! that she would say “yes” today, if the right man would only ask her. FRESHMAN SOPHOMOKE JUNIOR Hi di ho, things have come to a pretty pass when the president and five other Juniors can line-up six whole males outside the dining-room of a Sunday evening . . . but, be fore we go any further, the suspense is terrific about the little trip that Jackie and “Boots” made across the state-line last Sunday. Haven’t heard beans about it! . . . S’ome peo ple have all the nerve, but would you think Lee had enough to take ‘ ‘ that ” man to see ‘ ‘ the Old Maid ?’ ’ . . . this new technique Billy Cohen has must be cave-man stuff. Don’t know, but I’ll betcha twisted necks are painful — well, they hurt the next day, anyway . . . Surprise, Coley’s having “Huck’’ to the dance. He was here Sunday, too ... I ’11 bet there wil be a pile of Salem gals at Junaluska next year. Have you heard that Dobbin and Teenie are truckin’ off to the Duke-Golgate game this week-end? . . . The flood last summer might have washed off Patterson’s clothes; but it sho wash ed up something better — namely, one insurance man. Saw him up here last week, too , . . Guess what else I saw — none other than Agnew Dot McLean, we hear you are hav ing difficulty in deciding whether to sit on the Davidson or Carolina side at the Carolina-Davidson game. . . . Jennie, we hope your heart is not as easily wounded as your head. . . . Congratulations, Allene. Is it a freshman or persistence that is get ting Lee to the dance this year? . . . Marge, we are awfully glad that you are picking on the yankees this year, thus leaving the Southern boys for the other girls. . . . Tell us more about this man from Richmond, Lucy ... It looks like Fitzey has changed her preference in military schools from Oak Ridge to Riverside, as witnessed by the Riverside cap in her room. . . . Reece and Adele think the 9'ience co-eds are pretty cute. We had better follow Lib Weldon’s example and change to a pure sci ence cour.se! ... Jo .A.nn, and Emily Nee.se, have a good time at the Duke- Colgate game . . . Who was Ruth Burton’.s visitor Thursday, whom she was anxious to avoid? .. . Your bone- cracking ability makes a cute parlor trick, Leila, but Roberta Kate and Lucy “can’t take it.” . . . Breaking up steady romances in the home town seem.s to be a habit for Betty, Aren’t you an old meanie? . . . Why was Rachel .so excited over seeing the Mt. Airy-Reynolds High football game? Was it because of a certain player? There are some pretty cute players in the picture of the team that graces her desk! . . . When Mrs. Downs asked Martha in class which she preferred, a man with virtue or charm, Martha dutifully but quaver- ingly replied, “I’d take the virtuous one, I guess.” . . . Ann Pritchett’s room has a great attraction for the freshmen because of the unusual paper-weight which she has. (It is whispered that the paper-weight is her grandfather’s petrified brain!) • . . Did Ha sign her own name to the love-letters which she had the Freshmen write? What about the other sophomores who made the Frsshmen write love letters? . Mickey’s hand cuff bracelets are good for holding her man, she informs ua. Pat, we are sorry you are going home this week-end, and will not have one of your cute men at the dance . . . Marion Norris was heard to say Hi keeds — all hear? ... We un derstand that Mary Ruth Alien goes off every week-end. Whats it all about, huh? . . , “Phil” Utley seem ed to be the center of attraction at church Sunday. We needn’t won der! . . . Crooning to dolls is such a pleasant pastime, n’est-ce pas, E.? . . . Better stay here this week-end, Louise H., he MAY come — then what? . . . Still like blind dates, A. Ewing? . . . Ting-ling-a-ling (phone) ANNE VOGLER !!!! ... These girls that roll down the aisle to “reduce.” tch! . . . We hear the week-end at Blowing Rock was grand ’cept for “Stormy Weather,” Swell, and Carter, D. Nebel, L. Miller, and many others should know (by now), “how to write the perfect love let ter!’’ , . , There’s a certain Cooper gal who gets a special air mail every day! (‘Ohio want to be in Ohio!”) . . . Freshie theme (death) song — “The Sophies are comin •-” . . . Lou “sho”’ does study — more power to you, keed . . Speaking of the Sophomores — ever noticed the Busy signs popping up when the “warning” is given? U-m-m-m . . Louise Miller’s thome song: “Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Ape?” — for more info, ask M. R. A. . . . Who is the mysterious male escort for Sat., nite, Eddie? We want to meet him — All the others too!!! “Ohio” wish! . . . Birthdays seem to be “in season” along Freshie Hall this month. Here’s to many more . . O.K., O.K., I’m coming! Bye now! DAY STTOENT Our apologies to Lily Sutton for the item in last weeks “Salemite.” She did have a date for the Greens boro Game ... We hear that Betty Sprunt has been seeing a good deal of a certain Welfare boy. Not a ser ious we hope. Betty seems so young . . . Johnny’s visit seemed to have caused a big mix-up in Mary Alice’s life Sunday . . . Virginia 8. nearly went into spasms over the mere de scription of George Lelandis. Watch out, Chesson! . . . Gretchen Clapp, one of our transfers, seems to be get ting the mail by handfuls from one ‘Shorty” More power to you gal! You’ve got the old Salem spirit . . . Well, “Sunshine” Sams started her jaunts to Davidson last week . . Paschal had a bid to W. & L, last woek-end. Wonder why she stayed at home? . . . Ann Hanes asked a man to the dance, but she’* forgotten whether he said “yea” or “nay.”
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