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VOL. XXVI.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., '^aturday, October 6, 1945.
Number 3.
Honors Day
Observed
Class Honor Members
Recognized in Assembly
Four students of the Juiie, 1945,
class graduated cirni laude accord
ing to an announcement by Miss Ivy
Hixson at the Honors Day program
in assembly October 2.
Honors Bay is held once each se
mester for recognizing those stud
ents who have excelled in schol
arship.
Membership in the Honor Society
is automatic. At present there are
four member.s. They are Sarah
Hege, Senora Lindsey, Virginia Mc-
Iver, and Lynn Williard.
Scholars Receive
Class Honors
Class honors are based on the rec
ord of one year. The general av
erage must be B plus and all grades
must be merit. Members of last
year’s junior class who made class
honors are: Mary Frances Garrou,
Sarah Hege, Senora Lindsey, Vir
ginia Mclver, Hazel .Slawter, Lynn
Williard, and Elizabeth Willis.^
Five members of last year’s soph
omore class rpeeived class honors.
They are Carol Beckwith, Bebecca
Clapp, Anne Folger, Martha Lou
Heitman, and Constance Scoggin.
The ten freshmen were as follows
Genevra Beaver, Mary Bryant, Ann
Carothers, Fay Chambers, Peggy
Bavis, Margaret Fisher, Patsy Law,
Abigail McCormick, Elizabeth Ped
en, and Barbara Stone.
The Bean’s list for the second se
mester of 1945 is as follows: Mar
garet Ardrey, Genevra Beaver, Car
ol Beckwith, Sarali Brown, Mary
Bryant, Ann Carothers, Fay Cham
bers, Rebecca Clapp, Peggy Bavis,
Margaret Fisher, Ann Folger, Sara
Haltiwanger, Sarah Hege, Martha
Lou Heitman, Light Joslin, Palsy
Law, Senora Lindsey, Virginia Mc
lver, Elizabeth Peden, Hazel Slaw
ter, Frances Sowers, Lynn Williard,
and Elizabeth Willis.
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Home Ec Club Has
First Meeting
The first meeting of the Home
Economics Club was held Thursday
night in the practice house. The
president, Betsy Thomas, extended
a welcome to the future members
of the club.
An orientation program which
included the accepting of the
pledge and the paying of dues,
ended the business meeting. Fol
lowing this games were played .and
the old members of the club served
refreshments.
Hear ye, hear ye—get this
bargain on Salem Campus! A
$25 war bond will be sold to you
for only $18.75 in the dining
hall, or in Bitting and Clewell
Thursday night, and in the oth
er dorms on Tuesday night. Take
advantage of this bargain. Bonds
and .stamps are availalile in all
dorms and the dining hall.
Staff Adds
Reporters
Betsy Boney, Xancy Carlton, Cath
erine Moore, Carolyn Taylor, Lomie
Lou Mills, Peggy Grjiy and Jean
Sullivan have been selected from
the try-outs as new* Salemite re
porters. The try-outs closed Wed
nesday.
Avis Weaver is to be pictorial
manager and Meredith Boaze, staff
typist.
Those of last year’s staff who are
working this year are Marianne Ev
erett,- Margaret Williams, Margar
et Fisher, Margaret Styers, Teau
Council, prances Carr, Helen Thom
as, Bernice Bunn, Henrietta Wal
ton, Carol Gregory, Lois Wooten,
Mary Bryant, Eva Martin Bullock
and Coit Redfearn.
In place of weekly meetings, the
editorial staff has planned to meet
once a month to, discuss the paper
and to hear journalistic speakers.
The first meeting will be held Wed
nesday night, Otcober 10, at 7
o’clock in the Salenrite office.
Staff members are to check the
bulletin board in the Salemite of
fice for weekly assignments on
Tuesday afternoons.
Council Plans
Activities
The Post War Activitie;^ Council
has made plans for opening the
Red Cross Room again and having
hospital work open to the students.
The Red Cross Room will open
October 8 and it will run for two
weeks on Monday through Friday
from three to five and seven to
nine. After that the most conven
ient student hours will be determ
ined. The work done in the Red
Cross Room will consist of rolling
Holland cloth. Although the war is
over, Holland cloth is still in de
mand because it is used for ban
dages.
The hospital work will consist of
writing letters for those patients
who are unable, arranging flowers,
running errands for nurses or being
Richard Harkness Will Open
Lecture Series Monday Night
College To Award Dr. Fries
On Founders’ Day, October 9
Tuesday, October 9, will mark the
143rd celebration of Founders’ Bay
for Salem College.
This year in recognition of the
occasion Br. Adelaide L. Fries, a
noted authoress and alnmna of
Salem College, will be honored with
a special citation. Br. Fries has
received many honorary degrees,
among which are the Master of
Arts degree from Salem and the
Boctor of Letters degree from both
Wake Forest and the University of
North Carolina. Her position in
Winston-Salem at present is that
of Archivess of the Moravian
sons today who can translate the
Church. She is one of the few per-
flne, original German manuscripts,
and she has written many trans
lated pamphlets of old diaries and
letters for the North Carolina His
torical Society. The book for which
she is to be honored in assembly
Tuesday is The Koad to Salem.
Following assembly the Executive
board of Salem College Alumnae
Association will meet in the trus
tees’ room with Mrs. C. T. Leinbach
presiding. At 1:00 a luncheon for
the general alumnae board mem
bers and special guest will be held.
Classes will suspend for the after
noon, giving anyone who chooses
an opportunity to visit the museum.
On October C, 1802, the corner
stone for South Hall, the first build
ing erected for boarding students^
was laid. This remained the only
dormitory for many years and only
Moravian girls were enrolled. Thirty
years later, after numerous requests
from neighboring towns and states
had been received, other girls were
admitted to the academy. It was
then that Founders’ Bay was first
celebrated.
IRS To Fete
Alumnae
The I. R. S., assisted by the mem
bers of the I’resident’s Forum, will
give a tea for all Winston-Salem
Alumnae on October 10, at 4:30 in
the Club Bining Room.
From the Club Bining Room
guests will be shown around the
campus by the hostesses in order
that they may see life at Salem
from the student's viewpoint. Mem
bers of the receiving line will be:
Mrs. Rondthaler, Miss Burrell, and
the officers of the I. R. S. Council.
One hundred and fifty guests are
expected.
Guests will be greeted at the Old
Chapel by the Chief Marshal, Hen
rietta Walton, and directed to the
Club Bining Room. Ui)on leaving
the Club Bining Room, they will’be
met at the door by two Salemites
who will take them through the
dormitories and over the campus to
show points of interest and im
provements.
Club To Have
Tea For Speaker
On Monday, October 8, the In
ternational Relations Club will en-
tartain at a tea for Richard Hark
ness, world-famous commentator,
from 4:00 o’clock to 5:15 in the
recreation room of Bitting. A cord
ial invitation is extended to both
the faculty and student body to
attend. Mr. Harkness will talk in
formally and answer individual ques
tions.
This tea for Mr. Harkness is the
first entertainment given by the In
ternationa] Relations Club this
year, but many interesting programs
including lectures and movies, have
been planned to bring to students
news of this country and other coun
tries.
Membership to the International
Relations Club is not restricted to
students of Jiistory, but it is open
to everyone interested in interna
tional affairs. Anyone wishing to
join the club should give her name
to Molly Cameron, the president, or
to other officers.
G. R. E. Results
Announced
Mary Lucy Baynes, Mary Ellen
Byrd, and Nancy Helsabeck, Salem
graduates of 1945, made the highest
scores ih their class 'on the general
test in their Graduate i?ecord Exams,
it has been announced by Miss Ivy
Hixson, Academic Bean.
Other high scorers were ^ Helen
I’hillips, Frances Crowell, Hazel
Watts, Elizabeth Beckwith, Nell
Benning, Marguerite Mullin, and
Emily Harris Amburgey. '
Highest scores in advanced sub
ject tests were made by Nancy Hel
sabeck in botany, Mary Ellen Byrd
in English, and Edith Stovall in
mathematics.
The Graduate Record E.xams and
advanced subject tests have been
given at Salem for four consecutive
years. This year, however, senior
seminars and comprehensive exams
will take their places^
At present seminars carrying one
hour of credit each semester and
comprehensives to be given in the
spring are required for majors in
English, Latin, sociology and eco
nomics, education and psychology,
French, Spanish, and history.
RICHARD HARKNESS
Dance To Be
November 10
Because of a conflict in dance
dates, the Student Government has
announced that our first dance of
the season has been postponed until
November the tenth. Both Bavid-
son and Woman’s College at Greens
boro were planning a dance on the
same night as ours.
John Peddicord and his twelve-
piece orchestra will play for the
dance. Reginald Marshall, a lyric
tenor, will sing with the hand,
which is from Winston-Salem. This
orchestra is a welcome addition and
a good way of celebrating V-J
Bay.
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President Warns
Against Revenge
Br. Rondthaler spoke in Chapel,
October 4, on the condition and
problems which face us in thjf post
war era. He statel that since, the
problem of “What to do to our
foes?” has been settled, the major
question before iis today/is “What
are we going to do with our sur
rendered foes?”
The conditions facing the con
quered nations this fall were
brought out. He stressed our duty
to establish high living standards
and prosperity in these countries.
His view, as stated, was that “re
venge accomplishes nothing.” i’ll
attempting to take revenge wo are
stepping into the territory of God,
who said, “Vengeance is Mine,”
Br. Rondthaler read parts of
General MacArthur’s message to
the German people, pointed out the
hardships facing Germany now
and discussed the problems which
will confront us as wo attempt to
deal with the conquered people and
fulfill our intentions.
The latter part of the program
consisted of a short speech by Miss
Kirkland, the head of the Public
Relations Office. She explained
the duties of her office, which con
sist of contacting state papers, and
local publications in the home
towns of Salem students in order
to give personal recognition. She
requested each student to fill out the
blanks with the information nec
essary for her. duties.
Richarl Harkness, NBC’s Wash
ington commentator, will lectufe
here in Memorial Hall on Monday
night, October 8, at 8:00. Mr.
Harkness is noted for the integrity
of his comments, reliability of his
sources, and the smoothness of his
voice and style. It was he who,
standing outside the White House
gates, first broke the news about
the Japanese surrender over NBC.
Jlr. Harkness was born in Artes
ian, South Bakota, in 1007. Complet
ing his education at the University
of Kansas, he got his first newsi>aper
job in Kansas City for the I'nited
J’ress. He started modestly by
chasing fire engines and wound up
following lioosevelt and Willkio
around the country in 1940, and also
covering the last presidential cam
paign.
Harkness Exposed
Pendergast Machine
But the reporting that earned him
national recognition was his expose
of the Pendergast political machine
in Kansas City. Following this ho
si>ent several years in UP offices in
the southwest, including Oklahoma
City, Dallas and Jefferson City. He
was with the Philadelphia Inquir
er’s Washington bureau when ho
joined the NHC staff in September,
1942.
Washington reporting has given
Richard Harkness the “inside track”
on developments in our nation’s
capital. He enjoys intimate friend
ship with many of the country’s ma
jor political figures. Democrats and
republicans alike.
Buring the last presidential cam
paign on one of his broadcasts
(which originate in Washington)
Harkness pledged himself to pro
vide his listeners with impartial
“middle of the road” reporting ou
on the two major campaigns and the
■two candidates.
From a Real Reporter
Said Harkness in part (and his
words constitute a landmark in ra
dio reporting:
“I have seen too much of poli
tics, and of politicians, Jo be naive,
but I also have the theory that a
candidate’s words, and a candidate’s
deeds will find him out. So, I
should like, to the best of my abil
ity as a reporter, to give you the
political news as it develops . . .
to report to you the background of
the men who make this political
news, and to interprt't the issues
as they are interpreted in the po-
litically-wise city of Washington,
la m neither a Democrat nor am I
a Republican. Perhaps I’ve been
living too long in the vote-less city
of Washington.’’
This statement is typical of Mr.
Harkness’ fairmindedness and im
partiality.
Admission to the Lecture Series
is covered by payment of the Stud
ent Budget. All other lecture tick
ets have been sold. Students may
obtain their tickets from Dean Bon- ,
ney during office hours from now
until Monday.
Stee-Gee Holds
First Meeting
At a meeting of the student body
on Monday night, October 1, Peg
gy Witherington, Student Govern
ment President, explained the pur
pose and procedure of such general
meetings.
“The student forum is the logical
place for you to bring problems,
suggestions, and discussions which
involve the college as a whole,”
said Peggy. She mentioned that
Student Government regulations
and problems would have need of
discussion throughout the year.
Requests from the administration
concerning the use of dormitories
were made by Peggy.
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