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VOL. XXII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941.
Number I.
SALEM BEGINS 170TH YEAR
MOTHER STRONG GIVES NEW DORMITORY
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During the past summOT, before a
small gathering that included col
lege officials and special friends,
Mrs. Henry Alvah Strong generous
ly donated a new dormitory to
Salem College'. This gift came as
a complete but greatly appreciated
surprise.
Mrs. Strong, or “Mother Strong”
as Salem students know her, is
founder of the Hattie' M. S;trong
Foundation of Washington. She is
also the donor of the new Hattie
Strong
Refectory on Salem
campus.
Erection of the new building is
steadily progressing. Located just
west of the E«feetory, it will be
a combination home and dormitory.
In addition to serving as a residence
during her life-time for Mrs. Strong,
honorary alumna of Saleto College,
the new dormitory will accomodate
approximately forty students.
This building will be 75 feet in
length, 45 feet in depth, and three
stones in height. It will be
thoroughly modern, fireproof, and
styled after the familiar mode of
ancient and modern buildings on
the campus.
Plans for the new dormitory were
drawn by Northrup and O’Brien,
local architetets. Contract for the
construction was let to Frank h.
Blum, Winston-Salem contractor.
All of the members of the Salem
College administration are indeed
very grateful to “Moilur .Stiotig”
for her gracious gifts to the school
and are very happy to know that
■she picked Salem campus from a
number of places to make her home
for the) rest of her life. At pre
sent Mrs. Strong is temporarily
residing at Pinehurst, where she
will stay until the new building has
been completed, probably somrtime
in January.
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“Y” SPONSORS
COMMUNITY SING
Community sings will continue
with meetings on Tuesday and
Thursday nights directly after din
ner. The sings will be held in the
usual place on the terrace overlook
ing the gym.
Song sheets arc provided by the
“Y” and the sing is under the
capable leadership of “Lindy’
Stokes. These song meetings have
met with much approval, but if
every body would come, think what
a wonderful time^ we would have.
iss Laura Emily Pitts
An instructor of piaSio in the
school of music and official accom
panist for the college is Miss Laura
Emily Pitts of Lenoir .
Miss Pitts received the bachelor
of music degree from Salem Col
lege in 1938 and has studied
and coached in New York with Con
rad Bos, Frank La Farge and the
Julliard School of Music since that
time. She has traveled extensively
in New England, the South, and
the middle West, on concert tours
■with another musician and in ad
dition to studying in New York,
she has taught and done work in
accompaning.
Miss Pitts succeeds Miss Virginia
Thompson.
THREE
ADDITIONS TO
FACULTY
Mrs. Alice Rondthaler, Mrs. Nell
Brushingham Starr, and Mrs. Car-
lotta Ogburn Patterson are three ad
ditions to the Salem College faculty,
according to an announcement made
at the opening chapel by Dr. How
ard E. Rondthaler, president of the
college.
Mrs. Rondthaler succeeds Miss
Marjorie Knox in the business de
partment. For the past four years
she has taught commercial subjects
in Forsyth county. She has also
taught in Hartford Connecticut.
Her professional training was taken
at Baypoth Business College, Spring
field, Massachusetts; her academic
at Salem College.
After several years absdnce Mrs.
Starr returns o the school of music
as an instructor in voice. Among
the teachers with whom she has
studied are Charles A White of Bos
ton, Herbert Witherspoon of New
York, Daniel P'rothroe of Chicago,
Harry Reginak Spier and Arthur
Kraft of New York. She studied
.i!cently in New York at the Julliard
School of Miusic and with Alma
Ketchell at the National Broadcast
ing Company.
Mrs. Ogburn returns to be an in
structor in science. She will be in
charge of the chemistry laboratories
and teach nature study. She is a
graduate of Salem.
“Y” NEWS
ORIENTATION
FRESHMEN
FOR
Orientation began for freshmen
on Monday, Sieptember 15 with the
members of the Student Council
and Y Cabinet as hostesses. The
girls registered from 11:00 o’clock
until 1:00 o’clock when they stop
ped long enough for luncheon in
the new dining room. The mem
bers of the Student Council were
guides that afternoon on a ride
through the town including refresh
ments at Selected Darios. After
dinner Dr. Rondthaler welcomed the
new students emphasizing the “in
audible welcome” which character
ize Salem.
From Monday through Thursday
night the Senior advisors met with
their groups for a discussion of the
rules and regulations of Salem
Friday night a cheek up test Wa»
given on the handbook. Tuesday
the girls took psychology and ploce
ment tests. After a talk by the
freshment adviser. Dr. Minnie
Smith, the IBS’ invited the fresh
men for an evening of bridge.
Wednesday morning Dr. Bond
service. In the afternoon the lib
rary training course began. After
a picnic supper given the fresh
men by their big sisters, the juniors,
Miss Covington spoke to the girls
in the Recreation Room of Bitting
Mrs. Oerter showed moving pictures
of college activities later in the
evening.
All classes assembled Thursday
morning for chapel services. After
the formal banquet Miss Lawrence
gave some helpful hints on getting
adjusted to lift at Salem. On Satur
day night the Y. W. C. A. enter
tained at a square dance in the
gym. This closed the orientation
program.
SALEM STUDENTS
PARTICIPATE IN
MOZART FESTIVAL
Sunday Vespers
Sunday evening at 6:45 Vespers
will be held in the Old Chapel. The
program is in charge of R>uth
O’Neal. Special music and a re
view of “Education in the World
Today”, an article in the Intercol
legiate magazine, will make up the
program. Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend.
STRONG REFECTORY
The next time you walk into
Strong Refectory, take note of
the portrait hung in the vesti
bule. It is of Mrs. Henry Alva
Strong who made that building
possible. Most import nt is the
name engraved on the brass
plague in quotation marks,
“Mother Strong.”
This is particularly fitting be
cause Mother Strong has, in a
sense, adopted Salem. She has
found in the spirit of this in
stitution the qualities that are
necessary to make us worthy of
such gifts. Salem sends to her
heartfelt thanks and sincere
wishes for her happiness here at
3alem.
The nationally famous Mozart
Festival held in Asheville, North
Carolina, August 28 to 31, again
featured Salem students as promi
nent soloists. The Festival was
founded by Thor Johnson in 1937
foster performances of the works
of Mozart and to give young Ameri
can artists, particularly those from
North Carolina, an opportunity to
Darticipate in musical undertakings.
The highlight of the festival was
the presentation of Mozart’s opera
“The Elopement from the Harem,”
which was directed and produced
by Mr. Clifford Blair, head of our
voice and opera dramatics depart
ment. Leading roles in the opera
were sung by Katherine Swain, so
prano, Lindy Stokes, soprano, Elroy
Alexander, tenor, Clifford Bair,
tenor, and John Cashion, bass. Jack
Ward Holton was a deaf mute. Six
weeks of prepatory rehearsals of
the opera preceded the final pro
duction. Members of the cast are
grateful to Salem College for per
mitting them to use Louisa Bitting
Building and the Old Chapel for
rehearsals. The accompanist was
Margaret Leinback, and Salem girls
in the chorus included Marian Gary,
Doris Shore, Betty Withers, Jane
Frazier, Ruth Hege, Eloise Hege,
Johnsie Moore, Margaret Leinback,
(Contlnuad on Pag* Fhre)
AT
THE PORTALS”
Once more, on Thursday morning
September 18 at 11:00, Salem Col
lege and Academy students, faculty,
and friends joined in singing the
traditional opening hymn, “Stand
ing at the Portals” as fifty-six
seniors, wearing caps a'nd gowns
marched in academic procession
down the aisleig of Memorial Hall.
The Reverand Gordon Spaugh,
pastor of Home Moravian Church,
read the scripture. He was fol
lowed by Bishop J. Kenneth Pfohl
who welcomed the students, appeal
ing to them to dedicate their lives
to Christian service *'in a world
which needs fixed spiritual value.
In speaking of the new refectory,
the new dormitory and the other
changes, he said, “Old Salem is
having her face lifted.” He called
attention to the need at Splem of
keeping abreast with the times and
of widening her program to meet
the demands of the time. He ap
pealed to students, faculty, and
trustees for full cooperation aind
expressed the hope that all might
‘ ‘ share the vision ’ ’ without which
“the people perish.”
Dr. Rondthaler read greetings
from Eleanor Carr, Nancy O’Neal,
Nell Kearns, and Margaret Patter
son, all graduates of ’41 and an
nounced the following additions to
tho faculty: Miss Rebecca Averill,
department of physical education;
Mrs. Harold Patterson, science de
partment; Mrs. Ernest Starr and
Miss Laura Emily Pitts, music de
partment; Mrs. Theodore Rond-
thaler, business department; anfl
Miss Charlotte Denny, secretary to
registrar.
Miss Rebecca Averill
Miss Rebecca Averill of Frank
fort, Ky., succeeds Miss Minnie
Atkinson as director of physical
education and hygiene.
Miss Averill has been assistant
professor of physical education and
hygiene at Florida State College
for Women in Tallahasee for tho
past four years, and prior to that
held the same position at the Uni
versity of Kentucky in Lexington
for seven years. She has a B. S.
degree from the University of Penn
sylvania, and an M. A. degree from
Teachers College, Columbia Univer-
American Association of Univer
sity Women, American Association
for Health, Physical Education and
Recreation, an associate member of
the American Guild of Organists and
belongs to the National Education
Association.