• Salem at War
• Salemite’s Purpose
• Campus Poll
• History of Salem
• Story of the Waves
• Beginning of Aviation
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VOL. XXIII.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1942.
Number 1,
SALEM BEGINS 171ST YEAR
DEHYDRATED
NEWS REVIEWS
AT HOME—
On September 7, President Eoose-
velt asked the Congress for the
power to fight inflation—he urged
that a measure providing for sta
bilization of farm prices and wages
be passed before October 1. The
Senate shoved its approval over just
before the deadline, but the House
still has some ‘ ‘ dawdling" ’ to do.
Wlhat actually has been happening
during these three weeks is that
three able Southern politicians have
led the farm bloc into opposition
against the 100% parity stipulated
by th& President— they demanded
parity amounting to 112% and a
guarantee that the farmer will be
immune to economic loss in World
War II.
The President, meanwhile, was
none too happy with events upon his
return to Washington after an 8,000
mile survey of defense industries—•
says Mr. Roosevelt, the Nation’s
representatives are far behind the
Xation’s people in war spirit.
Rubber conservation is going to
begin in sections other than the
Eastern Seaboard before Thanksgiv
ing Xation-wide gas rationing, a
33 m. p. li. speed limit, and an O.
P. A. inspection every sixty days—
will become cflfective next motnh.
Meat rationing won’t wait until
the first of the year apparently—
meat packers have already been
asked to cut shipments on all meat
except veal.
IX THE PACIflC—
Xow that something other than
hero stories are slipping through
Navy censorship, we learn that our
position on the Solomon Islands is
something less than a bed-of-roses
triumph—that the “mopping up” of
Guadalcanal appears now to be a
holding-the-beachead for 6,000 yards.
And Australian divisions were re
ported last night to be advancing
through the thickest sixty-five miles
north of Port Moresby.
ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT—
Stalingrad’s crisis seems to be at
hand. So far, the Reds have been
able to withstand five ngw German
assaults and 600-1,000 German bomb
er attacks each day; they have kept
communication open to allow fresh
reserves to cross the Volga; and
they have even pushed the Nazi
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CHIEF WAVE COMING
MEET MR
WEINLAND
Lieutenant Commander Mildred |
H. McAfee, director of the WAVES,
and president of Wellesley College,
will speak this week-end in Me
morial Hall.
Lieut. Commander McAfee ■v^ill
be the guest of W^oman’s College of
the University of North Carolina
on Monday at their exercises 'in
celebration of the fiftieth anniver
sary) of the founding of the college,
and will come to Winston-Salem en
route to Greensboro. WJiile in the
city she will be the guest of Welles
ley alumnae here.
Slie was granted a leave of ab
sence from Wellesley College Presi
dency after she had been asked to
head the WAVES, the wom.an’s
auxiliary of the navy.
One of Salem’s alumnae, Eliza
beth Setze, ex-1923, is a Lt. (j. g.)
U. >S. N. R. She is now in officers’
Training School at. Smith College,
Northampton, IVlass. S'alem alum
nae who have applied for the
WAVES .ire Evelyn Armbrust, ex-
1919; Lois Berkey, 1938; and Alice
Brown Ritchie, ex-1938.
SALEMITES MAY
FLY
Last Spring, we asked your opin
ions on a course in flying here at
Salem. The response was so en
thusiastic that plans have been an
nounced, and you may now begin to
fly-
Although there are several courses
you might take, the one that you
are probably most interested in is
the private pilot course. For a
license, it is necessary that you have
eight hours of dual instruction; that
is, you will fly for eight hours un
der the supervision and instruction
of an experienced pilot. Then you
must have twenty-two hours of dual
cheek time; that is, the instructor
will continue to fly with you, but he
will oifer few suggestions. The final
step is to take the plane up alone,
and complete fourteen hours of solo
flying. All flying will bo done in
sixty-five horse jwwer Piper Cub
Trainers. The expense of the entire
course is three hundred and sixty-
eight dollars with a fifteen percent
discount for payment in advance;
or, with the discount, three hundred
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You’re cordially
INVITED
An exhibit of modern architec
ture in North Carolina will begin on
Monday (the place to be announc
ed). The history of the most mod
ern house is traced in a series of
excellent photographs — from the
Pioneer (Salem chimney house), thru
the Georgian (the Vogler home), the
Xeo-Classic (the Belo home), and
the Victorian types of architecture.
Plxamples are taken not only from
Winston-Salem but from all sections
of the State—interior scenes as
well as exterior scenes.
The material for the boards was
was gathered by J. V. Alcott, head
of the art department at Chapel Hill.
Mr. Alcott, whose specialty is archi
tecture, traveled the state exten
sively last year accumulating out
standing examples of the various
types of architecture.
Salem hopes to continue the ex
hibition for about two weeks.
^THE MAN —
THE SCHOLAR
Salemites On Vacation
Although some of us spent a leis
urely summer reading and recupera
ting from a “most tedious winter’s
w’ork,” there were others among us
who did their part for America. It
is not necesary to mention the
change that/ the war has brought to
tha lives of many of us, and we ad
mire those persons who have taken
this change courageously. We have
found faculty and students who have
taken this change courageously. We
have found faculty and students
alike working i this summer in de
fense industries or doing volunteer
work all over the country.
Delving into the very heart of one
of the greatest defense industries in
this country was Lawrence Kenyon
who was, and we quote,” a common
laborer.” He was an employee of the
American Aircraft Factory, located
in Middletown, Ohio, which turns
out at full production the Aeronca,
a small training plane. Mr. Kenyon
did not work on the actual produc
tion of planes bu-!- with a construc
tion company connected with the
factory. His jobs varied with the
amount of material which came in
each day, varied from digging ditch
es, and lifting tresses or beams to
acting as a carpenter’s helper. As
in all defense industries, activities
and workers were heavily policed,
lunch-boxes were searched, every
precaution possible was taken to pre
vent spying or sabotage. Such work
was interesting as well as valuable;
and we take off our hats to you,
Mr. Kenyon.
Further inquiry proved that
neither Margie Craig nor >Iary El
len Carrig had remained idle over
the summer months. We found
Margie continuing her music by
playing for Church services at Camp
Kilmer, located near Plainfield, N.
J. At other^ times, she played the
organ for services in Plainfield.
Margie also acted as hostess at the
U. S. O. center, and even became a
blood donor to the Red Cross.
Mary Ellen, on the other hand,
did clerical work, serving on the
gas, tire, and sugar rationing board,
as well as in small defense plants.
These industries manufactured ma
chinery parts that serve to reinforce
our tanks and modern weapons of
warfare. This work included a
knowledge of the value of each ma
chinery part manufactured and we
all appreciate Mary Ellen’s ability
and patriotism.
We found that Betty Moore
taught Bible school for two weeks
in Ashe county. Perhaps many of
us do not realize that the conditions,
sanitary and educational, are still
moat primitive in some parts of N.
C. To quote Betty, “Until I was
there I never stopped to think that
people still lived under such condi
tions.” As she described the coun
try—wooded hills, disgracefully neg
lected road construction, the people
illiterate and shy; we cannot help
but feel some of the spiritual pleas
ure which Betty herself experienced
as she taught these uneducated
children the word of God.
Miss Sarah Turlington, our dean
of day students, became one of the
million Washington defense workers
this summer. Upon inquiry we found
that Miss Turlington served as
receptionist for the war production
board. For those among us who are
considering Washington as a future
we mention the fact that in order
to be on time for her job, Miss
Turlington had to leave home at
least an hour beforehand. Tihs ;n
typical of Washington “for the rta-
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Several weeks ago, the Reverend
David E. Weinland was api>ointed
Assistant to the President of Salem
College; the announcement was made
by Bishop J. K. Pfohl, chairman of
the Board of Trustees.
Mr. Weinland was born in In
dianapolis, but his elementary and
high school education took plaVie
in Dover, Ohio; and his graduation
was from' the Moravian Preparatory
School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
From the Moravian preparatory
School, he went to the Moravian Col
lege for Men; and, in nineteen hun
dred and thirty-five, he graduated
with an A. B. degree in English and
education. For the next four years,
Mr. Weinland remained at the col
lege as instructor of English; then
ho attended Harvard and Princeton
for graduate work in English. He
later studied theology at Moravian
Seminary, and received his bachelor
of divinity degree, from Duke in
nineteen hundred and forty.
At twenty-nine, Mr. Weinland al
ready has tiny streaks of grey in
his thick dark hair. He explained
the grey as a by-product of worrying
over Salemites; but, when backed
down into a corner, he admitted that
his courting was a more probable
excuse. He has been married for
less than a year, incidentally; and
his wife is a most attractive blonde
. . . they met while he was teaching
English and American Lit at the
Moravian College for Men, and she
was teaching at the Moravian Col
lege for Women.
Mr. Weinland’s hobbies cover an
extreme amount of territory. He
loves sports (tennis, golf, archery,
swimming, and hiking), and he loves
plu\s . . . from Shakespeare to Sar
oyan. He likes the country and
dogs. He doesn’t however, think he
would enjoy the life of an army
chaplain.
You’ll all know Mr. Weinland by
his nice dark eyes, his smile, and
his mustache . . . let’s wish him suc
cess.
HOW IT ALL
BEGAN
In this small Moravian community
in April 1772, two apprehensive lit
tle girls trudged up the steps of the
Gemein Haus, on the site where
Main Hall now stands. They were
to begin school under Single Sister
Elizabeth Oesterlein, the first teach
er at Salem Female Academy. On
that day, the beginning of education
for Southern women, the Sister
taught the two eight-year-olds read
ing, w'riting, sewing, and knitting
with amazing success. Arithmetic
was lacking in the curriculum, how
ever, because the Slater knew none
herself. I«'\irthermore, she evident
ly preferred a marriage career to
tliat of a mathematician; for in
1780, a leap year, she married Broth
er Rudolph Christ and resigned her
position at the Academy. She was
immediately replaced by Sister Cath
erine Schnert who was, among oth
er things, a sort of prehistoric Ein-
steiu.
But even arithmetic could not
hold back the devastation of the
Revolution; during that period, Sal
em Acadcmy, with a student body of
six, all but closed its doors. But in
1804, long after the horrors of war
had vanished, education in earnest
began at Salem. In addition, to the
villagers, ten boarding students
from the eastern part of the state
enrolled.
The Gemain Haus, nothing more
than a Moravian parsonage, was
then no longer large enough to hold
the growing student body; so on a
sultry day in July, 1805, forty-one
pupils moved into the newly erected
Sisters’ House. Their j>arents had
brought them from all parts of this
and neighboring states. Many had
come for miles on horseback over
rough, muddy roads. When the young
ladies arrived, tired and weary, they
had often travelled for weeks. Upon
their arrival, many sold their prize
saddle horses, hung their side saddles
in the old saddle room to accumulate
dust for from four to six years. Then
at the end of their college careers,
they bought new saddle horses for
the return trip home; for even if
travel had been good, the girls had
only a two week’s vacation.
Since the young Salemites could
n’t flit home every week-end, the
problem of clotliing baffled numer
ous mothers. Rumors circulated that
a child from Georgia came up to stay
five years and because she wasn’t
planning to return homo before she
had completed her education, she
packed her trunks in layers . . . each
layer of clothes was a year’s supply.
Her ingenious mother had “esti
mated” the child’s yearly growth
and had lengthened each year’s
dresses accordingly.
Annually Sisters and students wel
comed to Salem travel-worn fath
ers and daughters from Georgia antt
elsewhere. The new' comers were im
mediately assigjied to a room com
pany, a group of twelve girls who
had a common living-recitation
room on either the first or the second
floor of Sisters. There, with one of
the teachers, pupils recited and stud
ied around a huge table in prepara
tion for the public examinations
that were held on Salem Square in
the spring. Sleeping was reserved
for one big third floor room — also
watched over by teachers. The Sis
ters were the dominating figures
oven at six in the morning . . . the
hour they sang to the students to
awaken them. As soon as the girls
had arisen from their narrow, hard
beds, they sr.impered down four
flights of step.-> to their basement
dentally, in the house. There they
(To be continued.)