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Juniors Tie Seniors
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Ballerians
Interviewed
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VOL. XXVI.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C.. Friday, November 16, 1945.
Number 9
Court Election
Set For Monday
Candidates for May Queen and
May Court were announced Wed
nesday night as a result of student
nominations this weeik.
Election of May Queen and Maid
of Honor will take place Monday
night at 7:30 in Old Chapel. The
nominees are Meredith Boaze, Ann
Dysart, Julia Garrett, Hazel Slaw-
ter, Lou Stack, Polly Starbuck, and
Wink Wall.
Tuesday night the court will be
elected from the following: Anna
bel Allen, Dot Arrington, Miriam
Bailey, Berniee Bunn^ Ann Caroth-
ers, Teau Council, Louise Dodson,
Babe Efird, Betty Ann Epes, Bar
bara Folger, Augusta Garth, Jean
Griffin, Katharine Ives, Jane Jeter,
• Lib Jeffreys, Mary Ann Linn, Jean
Moss, Mary Patience McFall, El-
oise Parrish, Margaret Pierce, Ticka
Senter, Jean Sullivan, Pat Watson,
and Henrietta Walton.
Louise Dodson
Leads Freshmen
Louise Dodson of Miami, Florida,
was elected by the Freshman Class
as president on Thursday, Novem
ber 15. Thfe opposing candidate
was Katon Seville of Salisbury.
Louise graduated last spring from
Miami High School, where she was
a member of the Girls’ Council,
vice-president of the Girls Reserves,
and secretary of the Miami High
chapter cf .the National Honor So
ciety. She was voted the best-all-
around girl in her Senior class.
At Salem, Louise is secretary of
the Freshmtiu Dramatics club and
a member of the Spanish club.
Asked about her college plans,
Louise says she “hopes to get an A.
R., but just can’t figure out what
to major in.”
The freshmen will complete their
elections for class ..officers next
week.
Miss Covington
To Take Course
Miss Evabelle S. Covington, head
of the department of economics and
sociology, will leave Sunday by
plane for Atlanta, where she will
take an intensive course to prepare
to train volounteer workers for the
Home Service Corps of the American
Red Cross.
Miss Covington is taking this
course, which lasts a week, at the
request of the local service com-
niittee of which she is a member.
She plans to include the twenty
hours of class work required of vol
unteer workers in the course on the
community to be given sociology
and economic majors in the spring.
Upon the completion of the twenty
hours of class work, one class hour
each week will be spent doing actual
Volunteer work in Winston-Salem.
Others besides majors in the de
partment will be given the oppor
tunity to take the course if they
have the proper prerequisites and
if the number is not too large.
Later Miss Covington plans to of
fer the training to the people of
Winston-Salem.
The volunteer workers are enti
tled to wear the uniforms and pin
of the Red Cross and may transfer
their memberships in the Home Ser
vice Corps wherever they go. They
become staff members under the
supervision of the Home Service
Secretary and carry out case as
signments in providing services of
consultation and guidance, financial
assistance, communications, claims,
l>enefits, and information to men
and women of the armed forces, and
to veterans and their dependents.
Sally Boswell
Faculty Attends
NCCC Meeting
Mr. David Weinland, Miss Ivy
Hixson, Dr. Minnie Smith, Miss
Evabelle Covington, Mias Mary
Shamburger, Dr. Noble R. McEwen,
Miss Simpson, Miss Marsh, Dr. Jor
dan, Miss Byrd and other members
of the faculty and administration^jj
attended the North Carolina College
Conference held in Greensboro No
vember 14 and 15.
Dr. Paul H. Buck, Dean of Arts
and Sciences at Harvard, and
chairman of the committee of twelve
who assembled the “Harvard Re-
])ort” spoke on the subject of the
Report, “General Education in a
Free Society.”
Dr. Buck stressed the need of a
unifying force \^ithin a diversity
of subject areas and reconmiended
general education in the humanities,
social sciences, and natural sciences
(including mathematics) for all
levels of learning.
Miss Hixson and Miss Margaret
Simpson also attended. the North
Carolina Association of Collegiate
Registrars held at the O’Henry Ho
tel in Greensboro Wednesday morn
ing.
Junior Class
Plans Banquet
Betsy Meiklojohn was elected to
represent the Junior Class on War
Activities Council at a called meet
ing of the class November 12. Het-
sy is also chairman of World Stud
ent Sor\'icc Fund, an organization
of the Y. W. C. A., a member of
the Legislative Hody of ^ Student
Government, and vice-president of
the French Club.
Carol Beckwith preside'l over the
meeting and appointed the follow
ing committee chairmen for pre]ia-
ration of the annual Christmas Ban
quet to be given in honor of the
seniors, December 15: Teau Council,
invitations and placecards; Janie
Mulhollem, music; Mrirtha Boat
wright, gifts. These chairmen were
requested to appoint their commit-
Correction
The Salemlte editor wishes to
apologize to the administration for
the mistake made in last week’s
paper. One good came of his mis
take, however . . . we discovered
tliat some people do read the Sa
lemlte. / *
Thanksgiving holidays officially
and formally begin at the rinjy;ing
of five bells Wednesday afternoon,
November 21, (or when your last
Wednesday class is over), anj end
sadly but surely at ten-thirty on
Sunday night, November 25. No
cuts may be taken on that happy
Sally Boswell
Is Chosen
Bond Queen
Sally Boswell, ’47, will be crowned
Queen of the Victory Loan Drive
in the gym Saturday night at ten
o’clock.
Other candidates running, in order
of votiifig, were: Jane Jeter, Ticka
Senter, Meredith Boaze, Mrs. How
ard Hondthaler, Luke Douthit, Ann
Dysart, and Hazel Slawter.
The total sales of the Victory
bonds and stamps were $4,1540.00.
Students are reminded that the sales
will continue till December 18 and
to ask parents to buy bonds through
Salem. The goal of $6,000 is still
to be reached.
The treasure hunt will be spon
sored by the Post War Activities
Council at 8 p. m. Admission for
each person is one ten-cent or twen
ty-five cent war stamp. Members
of the council will start five groups
out from the smokehouses. A lim
erick will be given to each person
ind from this limerick a clue will
be found pertaining to the treas
ure.
Everyone will meet in the gym at
ten for the crowning of the queen.
The Wee Blew Inn will serve sand
wiches and chocolate milk. Three
cakes will be raffled. The skit for
the crowning of the queen was writ
ten by Coit Redfearn.
Sally Boswell is tli.e chairman of
the Post War Activities Council.
Hixson And Marsh
To Visit Alumnae
Legislature Passes
Week-end Measure
Monday morning, November 10,
Miss Lelia Graham Marsh and Dean
Ivy Hixson will leave for Durham
where they will attend an alumnae
luncheon.
They will continue to Raleigh
where there will be an evening meet
ing, which will be held in the home
of Chancelor and Mrs. J. W. Harrel-
son of N. C. State College. Miss
Marsh and Miss Hixson will bo the
overnight house guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Ilarrelson on Stato College
ca nipus.
Dean Hixson will visit colleges in
Kaleigh on Tuesday.
Miss Marsh will continue alumnae
meetings in Wilson, Rocky Mount,
Goldsboro and New IJern.
‘Y’ To Sponsor
Song Contest
To secure new songs about Sa
lem, the Y, W. C. A. is sponsoring
a contest, with a Hattie Carnegie
Hat, a slipper-satin evening gown,
and nylon hose for prizes, which will
last from now until Easter vacation.
Any Salem student may enter orig
inal words to either an original or
non-original tune.
Dr. Vardell, Dr. Smith, Miss Byrd,
and a student committee will judge
the entries.
Plans for this contest, which was
announced in assembly Tuesday,
were made at a meeting of the ‘ ‘ Y”
cabinet ^Monday, November 19.
Other new projects are a permanent
store in the “Y” room oa the sec
ond floor of Alice Clewell Biiilding
(Cont. on page five)
Dean Improvises
In Assembly
Dean Vardell improvised on the
piano in chapel on Tuesday. This
annual affair, which has become
a Salem tradition, is called by him
“musical small talk—a musician’s
version of modern double talk.”
It is done very simply, he explain
ed. “ I just put my fingers on the keys
and play. Its just the same as
when you open your mouth and—
talk.”
Many peculiar tunes in various
moods resulted. Hig first theme was
minor and serious, which he contrast
ed with a lighter tune of the Span
ish tempo.
He used the Phrygian and Dorian
scales of Greek origin, which con
sist only of the white notes, for
the next piece, saying that “any
body can do this.”
Ultra-Modernism was illustrated
in an improvisation in no sjiocial key
at all. Exhibiting his impromptu
skill he turned into a “moody con
cert” a tlieme of eight notes furn
ished by the student body.
At tlie reijuest of the audience
he pl.ayed' “Cookie Jar.”
Wednesday nor on the following
blue Monday.
Now we ask, is this diffistand to
undercultf Is everything copis-
thetic with no defugalties?
If not, go to it! Have a whale
of a Happy Thanksgiving . . . just
for us struggliu’? scribes.
Shown above rehearsing a scene from ‘f Cradle Song” are Betty Hat
ley, Peggy Broaddus, Teau CouncU, Peggy Sue Taylor, Helen Slyo, Bet
Barnwell, and Mary Bryan.
‘Cradle Song’ FeaturesMen
Cradle Song, by Grogario and
Martinez Sierra, to bo given by the
Pierrettes on November 29 and .'10,
features three men in the cast. Dr.
^>ancis Anscombo and Mr. Kenneth
Evett of the faculty, and Mr. Wort-
inock, member of the Winston-Salem
Little Theater.
This announcement was made to
day after several weeks of secrecy
concerning the male members of
the cast. Tickets for the produc
tion may n*w be secured from any
Pierrette at the rates of fifty cents
for students and sixty cents for
adults
The cast is as follows: Prioress,
I’eggy Sue Taylor; Vicaress, Helen
Slye; Mistress of the Novices, Teau
Council; Sister Joanna of the Cross,
Hope Marshall; Sister Marcella,
Helen Spruill; Sister Tornera, Betty
Hatley; Sister Inez, J’eggy Broad
dus; Sister Maria Jessis, Marilyn
Watson; Sister Sagrario, Jane
Greeuwald; Theresa, Mary Bryant;
Antonio, Mr. Evett; Doctor, Mr.
Wortineck; Countryman, Dr. Ans-
combe; poet or narrator, Ann Car-
ruthers.
Cradle Song is the story of a
child, Theresa, loft at tho steps of
a convent and the changes Iier
presence brought about in tho nnns.
As she grows up, the nuns lavish
upon her tho tenderness usually not
experienced in their lives. While
she is still very young Theresa falls
in love with Antonio.
Mr. Evett is designing the back
drop, scenery, and program cover
for the production.
All Students To Have
At Least Two Week-ends
Girls who are failing or condition
ing subjects will be allowed two
week-ends off campus between of
ficial report periods, according to
the petition from the student body
passfed by the Legislative board of
Student Government at its first
meeting of the year Thursday night,
November 15.
A week-end includes two nights
if the class in which tho student is
failing or conditioning is not cut,
it was explained by Dean Bonney.
Formerly conditioning or failing
students were allowed only one
week-end between official re|>ort
periods. This new ruling goes into
effect immediately.
Discussion of tht petition brought
out the opinion of both faculty and
student members of tho board thaf
short trips away from school often
refresh a student and enable her to
tackle her work with a more opti
mistic outlook.
Ann Dungan was elected secretary
of tho board. Doris Little, Student
Government vice-president, presided
and announced that a petition con
cerning later hours for signing in
on Sunday night had been rejected
by tho executive committee of tho
board.
“However, the deans have con
sented to work with this problem,”
slie added.
Miss Lewis
Challenges
Students
Miss Nell Battle Lewis, lawyer,
former schocd-teacher, newspaiK'r
columnist, and proniinenl North
Carolinian, entitled her talk “T'o
He or Not to He,” when slie spoke
in .Memorial Hall, Tliursday morn
ing, November 15.
Miss Lewis’ subject was concerned
with saving civilization from com-
|>lete destruction by tho atomic
bomb. Her address was directed
to her favorite imdience,” students,
and carried an important message
for their generation, for a possible
third world war would mean “the
annihilation of your generation and
your children,” she stated.
The title,' taken from Hamlet’s
suicide soliloquy, was chosen, so
Miss Lewis remarked, because tho
eventual question is one “not only
of the survival of the western world,
but of the whole world” against the
terrific power now unleashed by the
atomic bomb.
Miss Lewis declared that tho duty
of this younger generation is to
work to prevent another war which
would mean the destruction of civ-
ilizaticn. .\s tlie answer to the
problem of war. Miss Lewis outlined
the “Four Faiths”: (1) Faith in
oneself, (2) Faith in peace as an
eventual possibility, (3) Faith in
internationalism as opposed to bel
ligerent nationalism, and (4) Faith
in God.
The short, energetic, white-haired
lady continued with an explanation
of tho “Four Faiths.” Although, in
this vast universe, a person feels in
significant and inadeiiuate “to halt
this dreadful thing and bring a new,
happier world,” one must realize
that “the individual does count
in tho sum total.” The success of
the new world “depends on tho fi
delity of you and me.”
(Cont. on page five)