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Library Announces student Government Contest Plans Dance, Nov. 9 VOL. XXI. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1940. Number 7. WHO’S WHO HONORS EIGH1 PREVIEW OF JOBS GIVEN BY CHAPEL SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES OF SALEM STUDENTS TO BE IN YEAR BOOK Eight Salem students ■will be in cluded in the 1939-40 issue of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. The book, to be released in Jan uary or February, is published through the cooperation of over 500 American universities and colleges. It is the only means of national recognition for graduates which is devoid of politics, fees, and dues. Several students from accredited colleges are selected each year by an unprejudiced committee. Biogra phies of these students appear in the books, copies of which are plac ed in the hands of hundreds of companies and others who employ outstanding students. The purpose of Who’s Who is to serve as an incentive for students to get the most out of their college careers; as a means of compensa tion for their achievements; as a recommendation to the business world; and as a standard of meas ure for students comparable to Phi Beta Kappa and the Ehodes Schol arship Award. The students from Salem are: Kathryn Cole, from Durham, N. C.; Lee Rice, from Lancaster, S. C.; Patty McNeely, from Mooresville, N. C.; Katharine King, from Leaks- ville, N. C.; Margaret Patterson, from Charlotte, N. C.; Sue Forrest, from Winston-Salem, N. C.; Ruth Schnedl, from West Point, Ga.; and Catherine Harrell, from Winston- Salem, N. C. ACADEMY ALUMNAE TO HAVE PARTY Salem Academy is honoring its Alumnae with a house party this week-end, inviting the classes of ’29, ’31, and ’36 — '40. The house party will begin with a formal banquet at 6:30 Saturday night. Greetings from Dr. Rond- thaler, Mrs. Rondthaler, Miss Weav er, the classes of the reunion, and the present senior class will be on the program. The banquet is to be followed by a brief, interesting meeting, planned to bring back academy memories. Then an “after lights” party will be given by the faculty. Sunday morning the alum nae will be entertained at a break fast party. The Academy hopes that each of its alumnae at Salem will come to the house party. Margaret Vardell is chairman of the house party committee. MRS.MDNUNG GOES TO m Last week Mrs. Elizabeth Mein ung attended the annual meeting of the American Dietetic Association. The meeting was held in the Penn sylvania Hotl in New York City from Oct. 18-25. Some of the most outstanding figures in the field of dietetics were present to speak for the series of meetings, the general theme being “Nutrition in Relation to Defense.” Times have changed since 191 In.stead of a food administrator with a slogan of “Conserve Food in charge of feeding the people, we have, owing to the great advance of nutritional facts, organizations with scientific knowledge of food requirements who will be in charge of this problem. The vital importance of nutrition is just being recognized. We must adjust our food habits to conform to scientific knowledge of foods. To make Americans nutritionally conscious is the aim of The Ameri can Dietetics Association realizing that we do not need to be without food to be nutritionally deficient. Human defense requires best physical and nervous conditions. “Make America strong by mak ing Americans stronger,” was the theme and idea on which emphasis was placed. Mrs. Meinung has recently been appointed a member of the House of Delegates for the American Die tetics Association. HOME EC. CLUB SPONSORS MOVIE On Thursday night of last week the Home Economics Club sponsor ed a movie telling of the history of canning and preserving of foods from Napoleon’s time to the pres ent day. The movie which was in technicolor and very well presented, was produced by the H. J. Heinz Co. After the movie was shown, the audience enjoyed cups of hot mush room soup and upon presentation of a recommendation card each person received free a can containing this product. GHOSTS WALK TUESDAY NIGHT Tuesday night at 7:30 the Alpha Iota Pi assembled in the social room of South Hall to modernize the ancient Roman celebration into a Hallowe’en party. Bettie Sprunt spoke to the club on “Auguries.” Doris Shore spoke on “oracles.” Since no Hallowe’en celebration would be complete with out a good ghost tale, Miss Hix*son proved to the group that the an cients did have such stories by tell ing the Mostellarla, a story written by Plautus. Soon the weird vapors of the or acle came floating through the air. At this time each member of the group was taken to the mysterious oracle where she asked a question concerning secret interests and was answered by the unseen oracle. The game “misera fellx” and “bobbing apples” delighted the group. Miss Hixson and Ruth O’Neal won prizes for theirskill in the game of “Hoops.” Refreshments, as the colorful decorations, carried ont the Hallowe’en motif. “GOOD EARTH” ACTRESS HERE Last Saturday some students may have seen a rather odd looking fig ure sight-seeing about Salem campus. Perhaps it would be better to say they saw a figure that mere ly looked out of place. The person was Miss Soo Yong, the Chinese woman that has made a place for herself in American movies. Be cause Miss Yong’s visit to our campus was rather unexpected, only a few students were able to meet her. Those students that did see Miss Yong saw a small lady, with lovely black hair, plaited and wrapped around her head. She had clear fea tur^ and graceful, expressive hands, which she used often as she spoke, calling attention to her long finger nails, painted a bright red. She wore a native dress of blue and grey design, several inches longer than those of today’s American styles. Her skirt was slit for about six inches on each side and back of these slits were ruffles of embroid ered white silk, stitched along the edge of the opening in her slip. The pumps she wore looked somewhat like the American shoes that were worn several years ago. -\fter her tour over the campus Miss Yong had mid-morning coffee at Mrs. Rondthaler’s, where some of the members of the dramatic clubs of the college and academy met and talked with her. Most of her listeners remembering her fine acting in The Good £artb were an xious to hear about her experiences in the movies. She also talked of her own country and of the influ ence of America on the stude.uts of her country who Lave studied in America. Miss Yong seemed to have a very high regard for America and its citizens. Here in Salem’s peaceful atmos phere “East met West” and the few who talked with Miss Yong felt particularly fortunate to be intro duced to this representative from the Orient. DANCE NOTICE All students who have not yet turned in names for invitations to the Nov. 9 Stee-Gee dance please do so no later than Sat urday noon, Nov. 2. Hand all names to Kathryn Cole. This dance is being given in honor of the new students. In order to give the girls of ■■^Saiem College and Academy an idea of the many vocations open to them. Miss Caroline Hood of Rocke feller Center, New York City, spoke in expanded chapel Wednesday morning, October 30. Miss Hood is the daughter of one of the men who handled the blueprint end of the planning of Rockefeller Center, Raymonde Hood. Through the medium of colored slides and her informal manner of lecturing she presented high lights of the Center including suggestions of every job and position. Accord ing to Miss Hood there are 14 build ings in the entire group in which is represented almost every indus try in the United States. Mr. Rocke feller spent one hundred million dollars on the project which covers three city blocks, from 48th to 51st Streets, from 5th Avenue to 6th Avenue, and which is appropriately called a city within a city. The buildings are “staggard” to give light and air to every office. Each building is named for its largest tenant. The tallest structure is the R. C. A. also called Radio City looming 860 feet in the air. Other buildings are the Music Hall, Cen ter Theater, Time and Life, TJ. S. Rubber, and Eastern Air Lines. The newest building. Eastern Air Lines, was dedicated recently by the seventeen governors of the states served by the company. Among these was North Carolina’s Hoey. The lease for this building was signed 10,000 feet in the air by a representative of the Air Line and Mr. Rockefeller. The National Broadcasting Com pany has its studios in the R. C. A. Building. Where there are broad casting booths furnished like rooms of a home to decrease stage fright. Miss Hood discussed the sound ef fects and television with all its op portunities for jobs saying that tele vision is no longer ages away but merely half way up the block. Tele vision with its operas, concerts, home ec demonstrations, art, script, producing, and acting aspects is the field second only to commercial avi ation. Not in the Rockefeller Center but 2 blocks north of it and closely af filiated with it is the new Museum ctf Modem Art built of glass, on the site of the old John D. Rockefeller house. Two of the features are the film library to preserve the best movies and the sculpture garden. On Rockefeller Center one million dol lars has been spent in mosaics, sculp ture, murals, and paintings. The lecturer showed a beautiful slide of Atlas on the Plaza in front cf (Continued on Page 4) CONTEST ROLES AWOONCED Buies and Regulations for Student Library Contests 1. Personal library contest —Juniors - Seniors. A. Number of books to be en tered: Maximum 30. B. All books must be the prop erty of the student entering the contest, and so marked. C. Text books designed primari ly for classroom use may not be in cluded. Prizes: 1. For the best general collec tion: $25.00 worth of books. 2. For the second best collection, which may be a special collection: $15.00 worth of books. II. Booklet contest — Freshmen & Sophomores. A. A type-written list of not more than 30 books of a general cultural nature which the student would like to own and which would form the nucleus for a personal li brary. B. Give author, title, publisher, price, with brief notes (not to ex ceed 50 words), stating reason for the student’s choice of each title. Prizes: 1. For the best list: $10.00 worth of books from the list. 2. For the second best list: $5.00 worth of books from the list. Closing date of both contests March 31, 1941. Date of awards, around May 1st, 1941. For helpful suggestions see: Good Keadlng 1939 edition; a guide for college students briefly describing a thousand books which are well worth knowing, enjoyable to read, and largely available in in expensive editions. This book-list has been carefully prepared as a service to college students by the Committee on College Reading of the National Council of Teachers of English. (It is intended to provide guidance not only for the varied and extensive reading, which is essen tial to a genuine education, but also for the purchase of books worthy of inclusion in a personal library. One feature of note is the list of One Hundred Significant Books of all time. The Highlands Called It ain’t much fun to plan to go on a trip and get all dressed and ready and talk Dr. Anscombe out of a Bible test and then have to wait an hour and a ha'f before the “Chauffeur” finally decides to come back and get you . . . not even if it’s a departmental trip. After the first half hour, all four of us were hanging out the upstairs windows and trying to decide whether to go look for him or whether to just sit down and pray that he would come and get us to Fayetteville in time for the 8:15 performance, going by way of Fort Bragg, of course. Deciding finally on the latter method, we lined up on one side of the bed with our chins in our hands and meditated. Just as rigor mortis was about to set in, we heard a screeching of brakes and a squealing of tires. At long last we were off! Nothing at all exciting happened on the trip down. Unless you want to mention the time that one lass tried to light a cigarette with the whole package of matches instead of only one and almost set the back seat on fire. Or the truck driver (By Frances Yelverton) who got peeved and mouthed pro fanity as we drove by just because we wouldn’t stop and help him push his transfer out of a ditch. At Fort Bragg we all got the same impression—soldiers are fresh! At 6:15 we panted into Fayetteville and found Mr. Holder where he was supposed to be — at the Prince Charles Hotel. Miss Turlington and her gang hadn’t showed up; so we stood around and waited and chat ted with one of our Salem Alumni hostesses who had come around to take us to dinner. When the rest of the crew arriv ed, we headed to the Sugar Bowl and one of the best meals that I have ever eaten. When you read this, or am I assuming too much? it will be just the right time of night to be hungry; so I’ll tell you what we ate. Everything homemade —no sto’-bought stuff. There was creamed chicken in patty shells, string beans,, baked potatoes with cheese and baked apples with a wonderful sauce. Also — hot rolls, coffee, nuts, mints, ice cream and cake. One of our hostesses even passed several packages of cigar ettes around, but I won’t .say which hostess. She doesn’t want Miss Lawrence to know! At 8:15 we hoisted ourselves up from the table, said our little thank- you speeches and departed, tip-toe ing into the auditorium just in time to see the lights dim and the spots come in to pick up “Mr. Mac” who read the prologue. The part of the pageant that I could see from my seat behind the lady with the peacock’s tail on her hat was for the most part excellent. Just among ourselves, we decided that there were some real actresses and actors on the stage and also a sprinkling of drips. Sandy Ochil tree, played by .the Lost Colony’s Wanchese, stole the show. And we also decided that anybody who could be that cute on stage would be powerful cute off; so after the performance we headed backstage to introduce ourselves. After we rounded up a few lost articles from all over Fayetteville we headed for Winston-Salem, pass ed Mr. Holder’s gang and Miss Turlington’s en route, and crawled into our own little beds about 2:30. We recommend: A new book — a new paper: The Way Out of War by Cesar Saerchinger. MacMillan, 1940. Brief study of the forces that make for war, and what can be done to prevent war. Not a book of persuasion or special pleading but on objective examination of facts and an honest attempt at common sense deductions and search for a workable solution of the world’s problems of the hour. Represents the collaboration of one of our ablest news commentators with the Readability Laboratory set up by the American Association for Adult Education. The American Obasrver, publish- by Cury Education Service, Wash ington, D. C. A weekly news digest which is in a sense a perfect week ly supplement to the Saerchinger book. LECTURE SERIES NOTICE Mr. Holder announces that Le- land Stowe is remaining in Greece to cover the war. How ever Mr. Stowe will return to America in January and will be our guest on February 10, 1941.