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THE SALEMITE
Sept. 24, 1943.
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EDITORIAL DEPAETMlllSrT
Editor-in-Chief Mary Louise Rhodes
Assistant Editor Sebia Midyette
Associate Editor Lucille Newman
Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd
This week’s paper was assembled with the aid of:
Janet Johnston, Nancy Hyatt, Sarah Ilegc*, ■ Rosalind
Clark, Henrietta Walton, Helen Thomas, Senora Lind
sey, Katherine Manning, Katherine Schwalbe, Mary
Lucy Baynes, Martha Boatwright, Martha Lou Heit-
man, Effie ITuth Maxwell, Mary Ellen Byrd, Bernice
Bunn, Nell Denning, Marianne Everett, Mildred Avera,
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
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Bettv Harris, Mary Gordon W^alters, Sara Lee Bran
don, I^fary Platt Hall, Nancy Kenny, Jacque Dash,
Betsy Thomas, Caroline Hill, Kitty Angelo, Kathleen
Phillips, Katy Bly Love, Juanita Miller, Mary Charles
Watson, Phyllis Hill, Snookie Willis, Frances Elder,
Norma Rhoades, Mildred Garrison, Ruth Scott.
CIRCULATION STAFF
Jean Hodges, Edith Longest, Ruth Maxwell, Bar
bara Watkins, Margaret Iluckabee, Bccky Clapp, Dor
othy Langdon, Rosamond Putzel, Martha Lou Heitman.
Margaret Winstead, Sarah Merritt.
WELCOME
To all the new students and faculty members,
the Salemite bids an eager welcome. To the old
students and faculty, it’s “Glad to see you back
again.”
In this, the first issue of the paper and on the
start of another year, we ask your suggestions
and co-operation, for, remember, the Salemite is
everyone’s paper.
A FRESHMAN SPEAKS
The Y. W. C. A. began its activi
ties of the year with a community
sing on Thursday of last week. With
Dean Vardell and Mr. Bair conduct
ing the program, everyone joined in
the singing of patriotic, familiar and
favorite songs. Spe'cial army and
uavy songs \vere dedicated to the
girls who have particular interests
in the armed forces.
Sunday was a busy day for the
Y.” Following the tour of the
campus given by Mrs. Kondthaler
for the new students, the ‘ ‘ Y” gave
a tea from four to five.
Vespers Sunday night were given
in the form of a candle light service.
Tlie small lighted candles were plac
ed around the? room and encircled
the cross standing on the stage.
With the theme of the cross, the
program consisted of the reading of
poetry and the music of the
choir.
The new group plan of thcf “Y”
began its work by having its first
meeting Tuesday night. At tha
time the entire student body met
with one of the ten groups which
have been formed by the “Y” cab
inet. These groups will have spe
cific work to do %ach month and
will make each student a more ac
tive member of the Y’'. W. C. A.
‘ Y”
WHAT THEY’RE
DOING THIS YEAR
“Hello, Freshmen! Do your feet hurt?
Aren’t ya sleepy? Why don’t ya go to bed?
You haven’t anything else to do—have you??”
When someone greeted me with these ques
tions my first impulse was to say, “Aw, let
me alone!” Since thinking it over, I’m glad
I merely grinned and bore it.
Now that the first confusion of a new school
life is over, freshmen realize how grateful they
are for a program which filled every minute of
the early days away from home. The tradi
tion of “rushing” the freshmen is not merely
for the purpose of entertainment. It has many
beneficial aspects.
In every class there are a few timid souls
who would close themselves in their rooms
with their books. They would seldom make
friends during the first days. Here at Salem
these folks are given an opportunity to meet
classmates socially. How quickly we’ve be-
•come acquainted at the “get-togethers” plan
ned for tis by upper-classmen I
Everyone sympathizes with the girl who is
away from home for the first time. She is, in
all probability, homesick. The best cure, is
activity. There were very few moments dur
ing the first week of school to think of Mother,
Dad, or the gang at home.
Some of the girls are ever so eager to make
friends. They need little help in adjusting
themselves to collge life. The parties, teas, and
other entertainments add to their convictions
that college life is wonderful.
The daze of the first school days here at
Salem has brought true from the very start our
dreams of college. A freshman’s “date book”
is filled during orientation because of the plans
and work of the older Salemites. We should
remember this and make a resolution that, in
our time, we shall give other freshmen classes
as hearty a welcome as has been ours.
SALEMITES SPEND
BUSY VACATIONS
W^ell, Salem is putting out her best
again this fall — after a full sum
mer of meeting people (any spec
ial?), working, taking trips, sleeping
and loafing in general, we’re back
to start off another school year. But
just now let’s take a gaze at the Sa
lemite’s summertime doings.
Highlight of the highlights is
Sebia Midyette who worked down in
Florida as a Spanish interpreter sec
retary.
Relentless gals seeking extra I.
Q. were: Nancy Snyder, Mary Heef-
ner at Roanoke College; Peggy Bol-
lin, Angela Taylor, Mary Ellen Byrd,
Frances Crowell, Dot Langdon, Jen
ny Jenkins, Betsy Casteen, Nell
Denning and Katherine Manning at
Carolina; Greta Garth, Lenoir
Rhyne; Nellie Sewell, American U.;
Nancy Kenny at T'uscum, and Helen
McMillan, Julia Garrett at U. of
Tenn.; Nancy Ridenhour at David
son and Grace Lane at N. C.
Margaret Bullock and Dot Farrell
k^yit their interests in medicine;
“Bull,” in a Charlotte hospital and
Dot, assistant to a woman doctor in
Avon, New Jersey.
Some representatives of the mO"
rale builder-uppers were: Jacque
Dash in a Stage Door Canteen; Vic
tory Gardener—Jane “Bean Spray
er” Lovelace; Red Cross Staff Assist
ant—V. V. Garth; Defense plant of
fice worker — Sarah Mefrritt;
Roaming the Old Nor^h State, Peggy
Witheringtpn, Farmer Brantly, Bet
sy Thomas, Grace Lane, Julia Max
well, Mary Paige Swift and Ann
Douthit heaped together for a
houseparty. California was taken
in by Jane Angus and Jeanne John
son; Miami by Bet Hancock. Mary
Miller worked in an office of Beth
lehem Steel.
“Gone, but not forgotten” is the
class of ’43. Its members are scat
tered over 11 of the'48 states, but
their memory lingers. And So that
we may not lose contact, here is a
bit of news of them.
Five of the class are married.
Mrs. Aline Shamel Phillips is living
in San Clements, Calif., where her
husband. Captain Ted Phillips is
with the marines; Mrs. Doris Nebel
Beal is living at New ITiver, N. C.,
where her husband is a lieutenant
in the marines; Mrs. Elizabeth Read
Anderson is in Casper, Wyo., where
her husband is stationed with the
army air corps; Mrs. Vivian Smith
Engram’s husband is overseas and
she is ■ at home in Georgia; Mrs.
Marie Fitzgerald Jones is teaching
public school music at Clemmons
while her husband is overseas.
Ten members of the class are
teaching this winter, four of them
in the Winston-Salem city schools
and two in the country. Frances
Krites, Virginia McKenzie, Julia
Smith and Sara Bowen are teaching
here in the city; in the country,
in addition to Mrs. Jones, ar3
Mozelle Beeson and Kathleen Dun
can. Mot. Sauvain is teaching near
Concord, Charlotta Carter near
Washington and Ethel Stevens in
Wake County.
Unable to give up school is Ceil
Nuchols, last years’s editor of the
Salemite, who is working towar^
her master’s degree at Columbia
University. Marian Gray, Lillian
Stokes and Margaret Leinbach are
studying music in New York. Mary
Lib Rand is continuing her studies
as technician and Lib Griffin, Ellen
Stucky, and Mary Chambers have
been accepted as student psychi
atric aides at the Neuro-Psychiatric
Institute of the Hartford Retreat
in Connecticut.
Carrying on in various positions
are Flrances Yelverton with the
Goldsboro Air Base; Mary Louise
Rousseau with the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine; Barbara Haw
kins with the OPA in Blackstone,
Va.; Ruth O’Neal, social case worker
in Walnut Cove. Barbara Whittier
and Sara Henry, after taking a
special course in Boston this Sum
mer, are now working as policy
holder service representatives for
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company,
Sara in Charlotte and Barbara in
Atlanta. Jennie Quinn Cavanaugh
has finished a business course in
Raleigh and is undoubtedly employ-
-e4 by now. Peggy Sommers is
working in Washington, D. C.; Jane
Perry is at Langley Field, Va.; Iren6
Cooper at Silver City; and Annie
Hyman Bunn at Henderson. Eliza
beth Johnston worked through the
Summer at the National Carbon
Company; Lib is now accompanist
for the Salem College of Music.
Inez Parrish and Nancy McClung
are- now working at the National
Carbon Company.
OPEN FORUM
THE “WHY” OF A. A. COUNCIL
In the last issue of The Salemite of 1942-32
there was- published an editorial questioning
the set-up of the Athletic Council. Since' ev
eryone pays membership dues to the A. A., it
is their right to know the requirements for
Council membership, the method of electing
oificers, and the functions of this association.
The new members of the A. A. are elected
by the Old Athletic Council on the basis of
active interest and competence in a particu
lar sport. The old members of this Council
are qualified to elect the new managers of
sports because, during the time in which they
worked, trying to get the support and interest
of the students in games, they were .able to
observe the cooperation and sportsmanship of
the various girls.
The other functions of the Athletic Asso
ciation include serving refreshments to the
freshmen between their entrance tests at ori
entation time, sponsoring a bond drive, spon
soring a dance, and having a formal banquet
during which the athletic awards for the year
are made.
This year the A. A. would like every student
to be an enthusiastic supporter. They realize
that there are many who would make good
sports managers. Therefore, let the A. A.
know that you are sportsmen by your actions!
S. H.
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night; this is the only night I have that I
can read for my own pleasure all of those good
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for tomorrow with the library under lock and
key?” . . . “Silence is golden, but where in a
dorm will one find its glitter?” . . . “No,
couldn’t get my sociology for today, .’cause
Bill was here from camp in the afternoon, and
the library wasn’t open last night. I surely
hope that she understands.” . . .
No doubt, remarks just like these were
made Monday morning. I heard any number
of them. Remarks, similar to J;hem, will con
tinue to be made on all of the following Mon
day mornings unless some arrangements can
be made to have the library open on Sunday
nights, at least for a short while.
The library would be a place to go if you
wanted to spend a quiet evening browsing
through the books, peeking at those old Salem
books and articles of interest, preparing those
fatal Monday morning lessons after a big
week-end, or just reading that /hometown pa
per. Yes, everything is blamed on the war,
but since all the boys are gone, we don’t get
to date as much as before, and I believe the
library would be a morale builder on the Sa
lem College front.
It is understood that there is a shortage of
library staif, and that having the library open
Sunday night would mean extra wprk for the
librarians, but, if we, the Salemites, really
want the library open on Sunday nights, some
thing will be done about it. Wouldn’t it be
wonderful to not hear all of those Monday
morning complaints? Let’s see just what we
can do.
—N. H.