VOL. XXIV.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ JANUARY 14, 1944.
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Number 1 2
Mai-Mai Sze
To Lecture Soon
Miss Mai-mai Sze, one of China’i
modern daughfers, a typical symbol
of the strength of China and her
hope for the future will speak in
Memorial Ilall, Friday evening
February 4, the third lecturer of the
current lecture series. Born in the!
Orient and educated in the Occident
Miss Sze is one of the few people
in America who knows the story
of China, its historical and cultural
background and has witnessed the
tremendous changes that are going
on in China as a result of the war
From this background and her per
sonal experiences, Miss Sze is able
to forecast China’s hope for the
future.
Since her return from China, Mai
mai Sze has toured the United
States spreading her hopeful message
about China. She has been acclaim
ed on all sides for her brilliant de
scription of China’s survival against
almost unsurmountable odds, and
because she knows the way of the
occidental mind, she goes a long
way in clarifying the situation in
the Orient for the benefit of her
listeners.
Miss Sze, the daughter of Dr.
Alfred ‘Sze, Chinese Ambassador to
the United States, is a graduate
of Wellesley and continued her art
education in London and Paris. .She
starred on Broadway in “Lady
Precious Stream” under the manage
ment of Morris Gest.
Mami-mai Sze is a wisp of a girl
pretty as a figure in a traditional
Chinese painting, but with the life
and individuality of the modern
paintings which she admires so much.
She was identified for so long as
the “ambassador’s daughter” that
she still remembers the thrill she
experienced in 1938 in Paris when
an art critic writing about a ]>aint
iug of hers in the Salon d’Automne
(the first she ever exhibited) called
her “the painter Sze”- Mami-mami
is still the painter S^e, but first
and foremost she is an earnest and
intelligent young woman who is
doing everything in her power to
make Chinese and Americans under
stand one another better as human
beings. To a certain extent, her
painting works towards this end,
for it is a thorough blending of
East and West, but it is through
her lectures—she has been at it
for seven years—and her newspaper
work that she reaches the most
people.
MISS MAI-MAI SZE
Assembly on Tuesday
m\\ Be Community Sing
A community sing will be the
feature of Assembly next Tuesday,
January 18. As last year, was songs
are to be sung in accord with' in
terests of all present.
Endowment Fund For
Salem Reaches $78,349
The total amount of contributions
to the Salem College and Academy
Endowment Fund from citizens of
Winston-Salem alone to date is
$78,349. ;
The kick-off fof this effort was
held Tuesday evening, January 4,
when approximately 240 people from
Winston-Salem had dinner in the
Corrin Refectory. This meeting was
described as one of the most rep
resentative gatherings ever held in
Winston-Salem.
At the meeting of the division
leaders and team captains on Tues
day, officials asserted that the volun
teer workers “brought good re
ports.” However, there are many
sjJecial gifts from persons in North
Carolina and other states which
have not yet been announced.
On J’anuary 11 in a Ijroadcast
concerning the progress in the cam
paign, Associate Chairman R.
Arthur Spaugh, Jr. told the radio
audience:
The campaign olijective has
been set at $500,000 and it is
planned that not only the residents
of Winston-Salem but also the many
out-of-town friends and alumnae
of the institution will be reached
through our efforts . . • There is
aside from the city campaign a
State and national solicitation which
will havcK a decided share in the
ultimate goal.
This campaign is not designed
merely to secure and insure the 172-
year-old institution. That need is
important. But greater than that is
the plan of advanced and intensi
fied educational offerings which we
are attempting to make possible . .
N. C. Orchestra
To Play Jan. 17
The Civic Music Association has
just announced that it will sponsor
a special program featuring the
fTorth Carolina Symphony Orchestra,
under the direction of Dr. Benjamin
P. Svvalin on Monday, January 17.
The orchestra, playing,’two con
certs that day, is devoting the 2:30
program to a children’s concert; the
concert at 8:30 that night, however,
is the main program, and is devoid of
anything pertaining to the afternoon
performance. Both concerts will be
held in Reynolds auditorium.”
Paul Stassevitch, a noted New
York pianist, will be the soloist at
the evening concert in Winston-
Sftlem, and he will play the popular
Tschaikowsky concerts. Other se
lections on the program include the
Bach-Eigir chorale, Prokofieff’s clas
sical Symphony, Borodin’s “On the
Steppes of Central Asir,” and Liszt’s
Los Preludes.
Caroline Taylor, 10 year old daugh
ter of Senator Taylor, of Wades-
boro, will be the guest artist at the
children’s concert. She will play the
first movement of the piano concerto.
The North Carolina Symphony will
make its next appearance at Duke
University in Durham on February
S. At that time, the distinguished
Dutch pianist, Egon l>etri, will play
in the auditorium on Duke’s East
campus.
Margaret Slattery
Talb During Week of
Religious Emphasis
A> A. Will Give
Valentine Dance
The Athletic Association announc
ed Thursday that the annual formal
A. A. Valentine dance will be held
on February 19 in the gymnasium.
The dance was formerly scheduled
for February 12, but due to con
flicts that date had to be changed.
On the committee for decorations
are Mildred Garrison, chairman;
Lucille Newman, Nell Griffin, and
Frances Jones. The, committee for
refreshments includes Mary Frances
McNeely, chairman; Jane Angus,
and Mary Alice Neelson. ^
WEEK'S NEWS
IN REVIEW
Two Floridians Test Snow;
They Eat, Throw and Slide
Frozen noses and frozen toes were
“in the Vogue” last Sunday morn
ing. The campus was beautifully
white until the dorms began to
empty and everything form jeans
‘i'Ud lumber jackets to silk dresses
and high heels trodded over the
snow.
And then thre is the story of
the two freshmen from Florida who
practically tore up the place. Dress
ed in pajamas, dungarees, sweaters,
ultra.^long plaid shirts, numerous
pair* of socks, boots, gloves, and
kerchiefs, Jane Mulhollem and
Eleanor Rodd succeeded in getting
their first taste of snow. The first
thing Janie did was to take a
“tailspin” slide right to the front
of Bitting, while Ellie sat on a snow-
covered b^^ch, vainly trying to
catch the precious flakes as they
fluttered down. ■ '
Running through the largest drifts
of snow and stopping every three
seconds to bite a hunk of snow
fiom the big lumps in their hands,
the girls finally reached the hockey
field. After taking several snap
shots to send to all the family, they
discovered the novelty of sled-rid
ing. Ellie proved ■ herself to be a
born artist at this sport, but Janie
have you seen the new dent in the
Water fountain?
When the big snow battle be
tween the freshmen and the sopho
mores, was over two weary, frost
bitten freshmen returned to collapse
on their beds, never to forget their
now experience and the wonders
of Nature.
ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT:
Moscow spoke out January 10th
and defined its position on the Polish
border dispute. Russia was pre
pared to guarantee a “strong and
independent Poland,” a Moscow
broadcast said, if the Poles would
abandon the pre-war frontier and
accept the 1919 “Curzon line” as a
basis.
ON THE ITALIAN FRONT:
The Fifth Army in Italy advanced
as much as two miles nearer Cassino
and was using tanks in the outskirts
ofCervaro, less than five miles from
Cassino. A heavy force of Ameri
can bombers from Italy struck Sofia,
Bulgaria, at noon on January 9th for
the fifth time in less than two
months. Other allied plane^ smashed
the submarine pens and harbor at
the Italian Adriatic port of Pola.
ON THE PACIFIC ITIONT:
Allied fliers in the Southwest Pa
cific delivered many blows on the
New Guinea'coast and in the Celebes
area. In a thirty-five minute battle
six, and probably four more, Jai>-
anese interceptors were shot down.
MISS MARGARET SLATTERY
ON THE HOME FRONT:
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill and President Franklin D. Roose
velt, in a joint statement, reported
that merchant shipping losses are
due to U-boat action in 1943 were 60
per ccnt less than in 1942.
Students To Make
Surgical Sponges
Under the leadership of Mrs.
Howard E. Ifondthaler as head super
visor, the Salem College Surgical
Dressings Room was officially op
ened on Tuesday afternoon.-
This week the room was open on
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
afternoons from 3 to 5>30. However,
in the future it will be open on
Tusuay and Thursday nights from 7
until 9 in addition to tlie afternoon
hours. Only students and faculty of
Sajeni College and Academy may
work in the room.
The quota for the month of Jan
uary is 500 dressings. Only one
kind of dressings will be made down
here—2x2 surgical sponges. A total
of 1100 sponges were made this
week, reducing the number still to
be made to 1400. Attendance seem
ed to have been heaviest on the
opening day when a total of 25 per
sons was counted.’. This was distrib
uted by dormitories as follows: Bit
ting—5; Sisters’—11; Clcwell—8;
Lehman—1; Strong—0. 400 sponges
were made that afternoon. On Wed
nesday the representation was: Bit
ting— 4; Sisters’— 0; Clewell— 4;
Lehman—0; Strong—1; Others— 5.
These 14 |>ersons made 325 sponges.
On Thursdixy there were 12 workers
who made 375 sponges. Representa
tion was as follows: Bitting—4; Sis
ters ’—1 ■ Clewell—4; Lehman—1;
Strong—0; Others—2. This makes
a total of 51 out of an approximate
390 persons comprising the student
body, faculty and administration of
the College. A survey of the names
of the workers would no doubt show
duplication throughout.
The room will be open during ex
ams for those who wish to work to
finish the quota. Formal recognition
will be made in chapel at the e^id
of each month of the dormitory
which has made the largest represen
tation in the Surgical Dressings
Room for that month. This should
act as a stimulus to each dormitory
to increase the number of workers
representing it in the room. Pins
will be given by the Red Cross for
50 hours of work by an individual
worker.
Jje Margaret Slattery, noted speaker
and authoress, is a vistor at Salem
this week, and has been speaking in
chapel and each night in the Day
Student Center.
For her topic in chapel Tuesday,
Miss Slattery chose “I Think, I
Say, I Do, and so I Become.” She
stressed the point that'no one acts
without thinking, and she pointed
out the ways jin which man had
progressed.
“I Stand By Consenting” was
Miss Slattery’s subject for Thurs
day’s chapel. Miss Slattery said,
“Be yourself—free physically, and
free mentally.” She illustrated the
dangers of alcohol and stated that
people just stand l>y consenting to
let these dreadful dangers continue.
She closed her talk by reading the
poem, “The Mosquito.”
Tuesday night Miss Slattery spoke
to a group on the topic, “Can the
Wicked AVin?” Her answer was
“no,” but she added that this ques
tion was one that could not be an
swered for a number of years. On
Wednesday night slfe spoke on the
question, “Does It Pay to Bo
Good?” She defined goodness as the
definite, constant, continual choice
of the better things. Miss Slattery
stated that nothing has value except
a man gives it value. Thursday .
night’s topic was “Is There a Goal
in Life?” Tonight at fi:45 she will
end the seTies of talks.
Flyers To Present
“Air Force Capers”
The “Air Force Capers,” a mus
ical comedy given by the Laurin-
burg-Maxton Army Air Base, consist-
ing of a cast of about oighty-five
members who are stationed at that
base, will ,be presented if’riday, Jan
uary 21, at 8:00 P. M. at ,the Rey
nolds High School Auditorium.
Entire proceeds from the show,
which is sponsored by the Winston-
Salem Junior Chamber of Com’merce,
will go to the Welfare Post for the
air base.
Student tickets, for which stu
dents of both Salem College and
Bowman Gray Medical School will
be admitted, are fifty cents, and
adult tickets are seventy-five cents.
These tickets will go on sale Monday,
January 15, at Salem Book store.
Choral Ensemble Heard
Over WAIR Tuesday
Broadcasting over station WAIR
7:30 Tuesday, the Choral Ensemble
under the direction of Clifford Bair
presented a program of vocal sel
ections in connection with the Salem
College and Academy Endowment
Fund. The Salem Alma Mater was
used as an introduction and also
at the end of the program.
Lord Jesus, Our Blest Redeemer,
by Palestrina opened the fifteen min
ute program. Norma Rhodes and
Ella Loxi Taylor were soloists in
Prayer of the Norwegian Child,
arranged by Arthur Spaugh. The
Ensemble concluded with Gerrard
Williams’ Symphonic Chorale. Mar
gery Craig played the introductory
phrases.