SALEM COLLEGE LIBRARY
Wixutaiv^SttJrm, North Carclinji
VOL. XXV.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, April 20, 1945.
Number 22.
Sally Boswell Wins Ellection
Dances' For
Senior Class
Take Place
An atmosphere of excitement
covers the campus, for in a few
hours the highlight of the year foi*
all juniors and seniors, their annual
Prom, will be underway. The music
will start at' eight thirty “on the
dot” and as an added iilip, the
‘ ‘ Rerenaders”, from Greensboro, will
play, bringing back memories of
bygone days when an orchestra was
aj“niust” for a Salem dance. Many
wild guesses as to the theme of the
affair have been made, but it is ptill
a secret among the juniors.
They have worked hard and long
to make the dance a success, and the
committee chairmen have proved to
be both capable and efficient. The
committees ,and their chairmen are
as follows: Decoration, -Julia Garrett
and Helen MacMillan; TTefresh-
inchts, Winfred Wall and Virginia
Mclver; Music, Grace Lane; and
Invitations, Barbara Watkins.
In the receiving line will be Doris
Little and her escort, Mayo Little,
Dr. and Mrs. Ronfdthaler, Mr. and
Mrs. Weinland, Miss Katherine
Ronney, and Dr. Howard ’.Jordan.
J)uring the course of the evqning,
the officers of both classes will be
presented with their escorts. They
are: Doris Jjittle with Mayo Ijittle,
Sara Ilege and date, Elizabeth
Willis with Bill Combs, Nancy
Snyder with' Joe Bear; .Josephine
McLaughlin with Charles Delaney,
Mary Coons with Diivid Brushing-
ham, Lu^inne Davis with .Tim Ifliodes,
and Genevieve Frasier with .Joe
f^mith.
The tea dance will be at 4:30
in the Club Dining Room of Corrin
Refectory.
by Hazel Watta
On April 12, 194.‘5, Franklin
Roosevelt died suddenly. A man
that was virtually unknown to the
people wanted to know somethin_g
nation stepped into his shoes. The
about this nian whose ntime is
Harry 8. Truman. Over the campus,
Salemites have been asking, “What’s
Truman like?” They also want to
know just what w’e can expect from
him. Here are the pertinent biog
raphical facts.
Born in Lamar, Missouri, on May
8, 1884, Harry S. Truman entered
the world as the son of Mr. and
Mrs. .John Anderson Truman. His
parents • owned a small farm from
which they- gained their livelihood.
President Trum.an attended the
public schools through his high
school graduation in 1902, at which
time he secured employment as a
drugstore clerk making three dollars
a week.
In 1900, Truman returned to the
family farm because the love of
the land called him. He worked on
the farm and did not attend college.
In 1917 and 1918, Truman went
to France with American troops.
There he served first as a captain
and later as a major of a field
artillery group. It has been said that
Truman took a personal interest in
each of the men who served under
him. Since the close of Warld War
I, he has kept in touch with those
men and helped them whenever they
needed help.
Truman returned to the United
States and in 1919 married Miss Bess
Wallace, his childhood sweetheart.
It was not until 1922 that he first
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Student Government
Minor Offices Filled
KUMEE GOSHAL
Goshal Gives
Talk Monday
Kumar Goshal, actor and author
of The People of India, will speak
Monday, April 23, in Memorial Hall
at 8:00. He will have tea at Salem
Academy Monday afternoon and
dinner with the girls of Salem col
lege prioi; to his lecture Monday
evening. The following day Mr.
Goshal will go to Greensboro where
he will also lecture.
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Born in Calcutta, India, he ■was
educated at the University of Cal
cutta and studied music and theatre
arts at the Sangit Parishad (Aca
demy of Music). Goshal has spent
half of his life in the United States
and speaks English perfectly. Dur
ing his years of orientation and
while he was studying and writing
his book, Mr. Goshal supported him
self as actor and director in the
theatre, as commentator on the
radio, and by writing articles for
magazines.
It was inevitable, however, thKt
Mr. Goshal’s work as a writer take
precedence over his theatrical activi
ties. Prior to the publication of his
book The People of India he wrote,
in collaboration with Kate Mitchell,
a booklet for the Institute of
Pacific Relation entitl{^(l 20th
Century India which has sold ap
proximately 50,000 copies and is
recommended reading in soc^ial
sciences courses in high . schools.
Following this, the Institute asked
Mr. Goshal to lecture. Recently
Goshal ■ was invited to Harvard
University to address the Summer
Conference of High School Teach
ers and give them an overall picture
of India ... Its history—religions
economic and policial- After his
Harvard lecture tli^ conference out
lined a plan t opresent the material
on India to students throughout the
entire United States.
College Catalogs
Are Distributed
The Salem College Catalogue for
194.5-46 became available to stu
dents this week, announces Miss
.Jess Byrd, Chairman of the cata-
logue committee. / The white cover
bears printing and the Salem seal
in maroon, and the catalogue has
incorporated inside all information
concerning such new items as next
year’s seminars, comprehensive ex
aminations, and the tuition rise. All
usual information appears, such as
scholastic requirements and a i'Oster
of the students of 1944-45.
Noted Poet
To Lecture
Tristram Coffin, American poet
and novelist, will lecture in the
Main Reading Room of the Salem
College Library Tuesday night,
April 24, at 8:00 P. M.
Mr. Coffin writes, “I am a New
Englander by birth, by bringing up,
by spirit—while T was living abroad
and in New York—and now, again,
by residence.” He graduated from
Bowlin, Princeton, and Oxford uni
versities and holds many honorary
degrees, one of which is membership
in Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
. Along with his writing and te;ich-
ing of poetry, Mr. Coffin is taking
his poems and ideas to the various
colleges in this country. In the past
few years he has presented more
than five hundred lectures. Mr.
Coffiiis most outstanding books in
clude “Strange Holiness,” for which
he won the Pulitzer Poetry Prize in
lO.'lfi; “Primer for America”; “Lost
Paradise;” and “Maine Ballads.”
At the present Mr. Coffin is Book
and Poetry Editor for “Yankee.”
f Mary Ann Linn is the newly
elected Secretary of the Student
Government 'and Sara Haltiwanger
is Treasurer of the Student Govern
ment as a result of elections held
for those offices Wednesday. Eva
Martin Bullock, of Charlotte, and
Connie Scoggin, of Reidsville, were
the other candidates for Secretary;
Emmie Lou James, of Winston-
Salem, wag the other nominee for
Treasurer.
Alary Ann, who comes from Salis
bury, is a member of the May Court
for 194-'). She is also a member of the
I. R. S. and during her Freshman
year was a representalJive on the
judicial board of the Student Govern
ment.
Sara, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
R. S. Haltiwanger of l.'ll.’) Horace
Afann Avenue, Winston-Salem, was
tennis chani))ion last fall. A music
iilhjor, she was vice-president of her
Froshmnn class, and now sei'ves as
vice-))resident of the German club,
publicity manager of the (’horal En
semble, and tennis ma,nager.
Percentage of the student body
voting in the joint elections was (i2.4
per cent. '
Librarji Looses Assistant
Library Contest
To Close Soon
All students who wish to enter
the library contest must give, their
names to the librarian by April 2,3.
Books and book lists are due May
The Personal Library Contest is
open to juniors .and seniors. All
books entered must be the property
of the student entering the contest.
For the best general collection of a
cultural and practical nature there
is a prize of $2.').00 for purchasing
of books. For the second best col
lection there is a prize of $1.5.00.
The contest for freshmen and
sophomores is the Personal »Library
Booklist Contest. The student en
ters a typewritten list of books
which she would like to own. The
information to be' given is the
author, title, publisher, price, and
notes stating reason for the choice.
For the best general list, there is a
HO.OO prize, and for the second
best list, there is a prize of $5.00.
Davidson Boys
To Give Plays
The French Club of Davidson Col
lege, under the direction of Dr.
George Watts, will present two. one-
act plays on Wednesday, April 25,
at 7:30 in the Old (’hapel. Summar
ies of the plays, “Cupidon, Den-
tiste” and “L’Anglais Tel Qu’on
le Parle,” will be written in Eng
lish and given to the audience.
The cast includes twelve boys
and two girls. Peggy McClelland,
a former student at Salem will be
in the second comedy. These plays
are being sjwnsored by the French
Club, the Pierrettes, and the Fresh
man Dramatic Club.
Miss Geraldine Baynes, who has
been connected with the Salem Col
lege library, will leave Salem soon
to enter the Women’s Army Corps.
Miss Ba}’nes took her e.xaminntion
last week and has been accepted for
enlistment in the, W. A.' C. She will
report for basic training at Fort
Des Moines, Iowa, on May 10.
Miss Baynes will take six weeks
basic training as a medical techni
cian and then will be assigned to an
army general hospital. She graduated
from Salem with the cjass of 1940,
and has held the position of assistant
librarian in the Salem libr.iry for
the past two years.
Recognition is due Miss Bnynes
for the attractive displays which
she has kept posted in the library
entrance during the course of the
year. Miss Baynes is responsible for
the interesting exhibits which have
attracted groat attention on the
cnnipus.
She has prepared a succession of
up-to-date displays on latest mater
ials seciired by the library on world
conditions. In the aeries have been
displays on Russia and China, a
Pan-American exhibit, a display of
new books on art, and treatments of
other recent topics of interest. The
present display is on World Piace.
It consists of an arrangement of
the latest books dealing with the
post-war world and the settlement
of the pence, and jiamphlets on
the Moscow Conference, the Teheran
Conference, the Dumbarton Oaks
Proposals, the Yalta Conference, and
the San Francisco Conference. These
displays have received many ap
preciative comments from students
and visitors on the campus.
Registration Plans
Miss Hixson announces that pre
liminary registration for the fall
semester es well as approval for
summer school plans will be made
May 8-10. Freshmen are to register
with the faculty member in whose
department they expect to major.
^ ^ally Hoswell was elected as
Chairman of the War Activities
Board for 1945-4(!, in an elec
tion held by the student body
yesterday. Her opponent was
Mollie Cameron.
Sally, a rising .Junior, is from
Roanoke, V'irginia. This year she
has served as a Red Cross supervisor
and as Sophomore Representative on
the War Activities Council. Sally
has been a member of the Business
Staff of the Salemite this year, and
next year she is to be on the Busi
ness Staff of the Sights and Insights.
As a freshman, Sally was a member
of the riding club, and for the
past two years she has been a mem
ber of the French Club.
Students Pass
Four Petitions
At a called meeting of the
Legislative Body of Student Govern
ment Tuesday night four petitions
were submitted and passed by the
body. These j>etitions are: (1) that
Salem girls be allowed to smoke in
drug stores in town/ (2) that a girl
taking a light cut may spend the
night with another girl who is also
taking a light cut, (3) that the
Secretary and Treasurer of Student
Government be elected immediately
following the election of the Presi
dent of Student Government, there
by electing all minor offices of Stu
dent Government at the sumo tinie^,
and (4) that the duties of the
Secretary and Treasurer of Student
Government be increased so’ that
they may help the Vice-Presidents
in the publication of the handbook.
As the latter two petitions are
amendments to the constitution, they
were submitted to the Student Body
at a required Student Activities As
sembly on Thursday, at which time
they \^ere passed by the Student
Body.
The petition “that girls attending
dances at Bowmen Gray Medical
School may spend the night in town
as girls attending dances from out
of town do” was deferred at the
re(]uest of the Executive Committee
of the Legislative Committee. Other
petitions turned in were considered
administrational mattel-s and and
were referred to the administration.
Junior-Senior
Choral Ensemble
Gives Pinocchio
The members of the Choral En
semble are presenting this week and
next a three-act operetta, “Adven
tures of Pinocchio”. The production
is sponsored by the Children’s
Theater of Winston-Salem and is
directed by Clifford Bair. Helen
Slye is student director and Sarah
Haltiwanger, accompnnist. Perfor
mances were given Monday at Hanes
High School, Friday at Reynolds
High School, and the final one will
be given at Gray High School Mon
day at 2:15. Mary Wells Bunting
leads the cast as Pinocchio; Frances
Elam is Gepetto; Lib Price, Mr.
Cricket; Hallie McLean, the Fire-
Eater; and Gwen Mendenhall, the
Blue Fairy. The members of the
Choral Ensemble compose the sup
porting 'cast.
The perceiitafres of voting
in the Friday’s
election were
a.s follows:
Seniors '. .
. . 76%
Juniors . .
. . 67%
Sophomores
. . 73%
Freshmen .
. . 41%
Total . .
. . 60%