Volume XXVI.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N* C., Friday, March I, 1946.
Juniors Entertain Seniors
Students Adopt New
Nominating System
A new system for Bominating and
electing student officers is announc
ed by Miss Peggy Witherington,
president of Student Governnient.
As the new system now stands, the
election period will be shortened
to two weeks. The main part of the
voting will take place in assembly.
Under the old system, the election
of officers rotated yearly. In the
charge, there shall be group rotation.
Nominations will be announced at
dinner and posted the day before
the elections. Petitions will have to
be in by 9:30, the same night of the
posting of nominees. If there are
such petitions, thereby nominating a
new candidate, the name will be
posted by 8:30 the next m.orning on
the dining-room door, in the day-
student center, and in each dormi
tory.
The order of elections this year
is as follows;
Group I — Student Government
President—Tuesday Assembly
2nd Vice-presidents
Secretary
Treasurer
Group II — Sights and Insights—
Wednesday
Group III — May Day Chairman—
Thursday Assembly
Athletic Association President
Group IV — Salemite edit,or—
Monday
Group V — IBS President—Tues
day Assembly
YWCA President
(Groups II and IV rotate yearly
and Groups III and V, likewise.)
Class Presidents — Wednesday
Chief Marshall — Thursday
House Presidents — Following
week
Class Officers — Following week
The object in revising the elec
tion system is to shorten the time
in which elections take place. The
need of the change is proven by the
records kept last year of the per
centage of students voting ^
elections. For the first election, 94%
voted, while in the last elections,
only 50% of the student body voted.
Salem College
Is Giving
Beta Club Tea
Salem College is having a tea for
the delegates that attend the Na
tional Beta Club convention which
will be held on March the seventh
and eighth in the Robert E. Lee
Hotel.
Invitations have been issued to
two hundred and twenty-eight state
Beta Clubs, inviting the delegates
to a tea on March the eighth fr,om
4:30 to 5:30. Three hundred people
^ire expected to attend the tea which
■will be held in the club dining room.
Former members of the Beta Club
who now attend Salem College have
been asked to serve as hostesses
along with representatives from
other school organizations. The dele
gates will be taken on a tour of the
Salem campus before the tea.
Board Passes
New Petitions
The Legislative Board of Stu
dent Government, at its meeting
Thursday night, February 28, pass
ed all five petitions that were pre
sented. Miss Doris Little, vice-presi
dent of Student Government, pre
sided over the meeting and con
ducted the discussion in away tio
bring out the opinions of both facul
ty and student members.
The. following petitions were pass
ed by a great majority.
1) We the undersigned do hereby
petition that freshmen be allowed
one night out during the first six
weeks. This one night is of course,
in addition to Saturday and Sunday
nights.
2) We, the undersigned, do hereby
petition that boarding students be
allowed to spend the night in town
with friends after attending a Bow
man Gray Dance. The executive com
mittee of the Legislative Board
requested before the meeting that
if this petition was passed, it was
to be on a trial basis of one year.
3) We, the undersigned, do here
by petition that sophomores during
the second semester be allowed to
take one night out a week, instead
of the three a month that they are
now allowed. Miss Bonney explain
ed the new petition as now enabling
sophomores to take one night out a
week. However, if unusual circum
stances arise, students will be grant
ed more than one night out in the
same week.
4) We, the undersigned, petition
that the people working on the
Salemite and Sights and Insights
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Salem Students
Represented
In Art Forum
Three Salem College students won
places in the Arts Forum at Greens
boro, it was announced today. These
students are Sue Moore in English
and Nancy Ridenhour and Hazel
Newman Slawter in music. The Arts
Forum is sponsored by-the Woman’s
College of the University of North
Carolina and includes work in art,
music, the theatre, letters, and the
danc^.
Sue Moore’s sketch. Home' Again,
has been selected as one of the
student compositions for discussion
at the writing forum on Thursday
aflfernoon, March the fourteenth.
This forum will be presided over by
Lionel Trilling, New York writer
and professor. Sue and other mem
bers of the composition class ex;
pect to attend the forum witli Miss
Byrd.
Two pieces for the piano, Dusi
and Lanterns by Hazel Newman
Slawter, will be played by Nancy
Ridenhour at the recital of student
compositions on Friday, March the
fifteenth. Nancy will also play her
own composition for the piano.
Three Preludes. Tliese three com
positions are in the modern idiom.
Howard Hanson, composer, Director
of the Eastman School of Music, will
review the compositions. Mr. Vardell
and a number of the music students
plan to attend the recital.
Art Field Day
Is Scheduled
An Art Field Day will bo held
tomorrow at Miller’s Park in Ard
more from nine to four.
Mr. Ray Carson, who is from the
National Recreational Association,
will come from Greensboro to help
all people interested in art.
The Art Field Day which is under
the direction of Mrs. Chester Morris,
is open to anyone who draws, any
one who would like to draw, or to
anyone interested in art.
If the weather permits, the draw
ing will take place outdoors. As the
Art Field Day is an all day event,
participants are urged to bring box
lunches with them.
Delegates Leave
For Atlantic City
Frances Carr and Emma Mitchell,
junior representatives of the YWCA
of Salem, will attend the 17th Na
tional Convention of the Young Wo
men’s Christian Association at At
lantic City, New Jersey, from Febru
ary 28th until March 7th. They will
leave Thursday night for Wash
ington where they will meet other
delegates for a tour of Congress.
They will attend sessions of Congress
and meet with persons who can in
terpret national government.
Salem delegates, along with other
delegates, will leave Washington
Friday night and arrive in Atlantic
City a few hours later. Saturday,
Sunday, and Tuesday morninga and
Thursday afternoon, all representa
tives will meet in assembly. One of
the principal speakers at those as
semblies will be Dr. Uroy, who is an
important scientist and authority on
the atomic bomb. Dr. Urey will dis
cuss world affairs, race relations, and
the far East and Russia. Besides
these planned discussions, there will
be workshops for an exchange of
practical ideas.
The Salem representatives will
stay at the Monticello Hotel in
Atlantic City, N. J.
Weinland Speaks
To Church Groups
The Westminister Fellowship met
Wednesday evening at seven o’clock
in the Day Students’ Center. The
president, Frances Carr, introduced
the speaker of the evening, Mr.
David Weinland. Mr. Weinland
spoke on World Affairs. His discus
sion was based on Mr. Ray Holders’
talks of the previous week. After
Mr. Weiiiland’s talk, the group dis
cussed plans for spring socials and
i^abin parties. A brief rehearsel of
the Fellowship choir was held, and
the meeting was adjourned with a
social hour and refreshments.
This is the first of the annual
.Junior issues of the Salemite. This
week’s paper was edited by Martha
Boatwright and Virtie Stroup.
LAUEITZ MELCHOIB
Melchoir Will
Give Concert
On March 5
by Becky Clapp
Next Tuesday night, Winston-
Salem will get a rare treat when
Lauritz Melchoir ai)pears in a concert
at Reynolds Auditorium. How can
one person bo so versatile f Ho steals
movie scones from Van Johnson,
he sings in both concert and opera,
he performs astounding feats as a
big game hunter; but above all ho
is a human being. It is the surpris
ing combination of both clown and
singer that makes his personality so
unusual and interesting. At a recital
in Boston some years ago, he was
singing an exalted passage from
PARSIFAL as encore when ho sud-
was still laughing, swoopcyl up to the
denly stopped and remarked, “Good
old Wagner!” and while the audience
next phrase of the song . . . when
audiences at recitals refuse to leave,
he has a trick of walking out on
the stage with his overcoat on. Of
course, we all know the classic com
ment he made during a performance
of LOHENGRIN. The swan depjirt-
ed early and loft him stranded
he turned with a grin to the audi
ence and said, “When does the
next swan leave t”
The record of his Wagnerian roles
alone is impressive. He has sung 144
Tannhausers, 125 young Siegfrieds,
170 Siegmunds, 101 Lohengrins, 100
OOETTERDAMMERUNG
Siegfrieds, 75 Parsifals, not to men
tion a mere 208 performances of his
favorite role, TRISTAN.
In honor of Mr. Melchoir’s twen
tieth anniversary of his Metro
politan debut, which took place
February 17, 1926 in TANNIIAUS-
t-R, the Met Opera Association pre
sented a special concert made up
of three independent acts from
Wagner operas—on the same date,
February 17, 1U40 ... the first act of
DTK WALKURE, the second act of
TRISTAN, and the third act of
LOHENGRIN.
This opera star was born in the
Danish capital, where his father ran
a boy’s school. Air. Melchoir says
ho owes his career to his blind sister
because as a boy he used to ac
company her to the State Opera,
where a box was provided beneath
the stage for those who could not
see. He started .out as a baritone—
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The Junior class will entertain
the Senior class with their annual
Junior-Senior prom Saturday, March
2, at the gymnasium from 8:30 un
til 11:45. Johnny Peddicord and his
orchestra will furnish the music for
the dance.
The chaperones for the occasion
are to bo Dr. and Mrs. Howard
Rondthaler, Mr. and Mrs. Weinland,
Miss Katherine Bonney, and Miss
Jess Byrd. The receiving line will
be made up of these chaperones and
Virginia Mclver, president of the
Senior class, and Carol Beckwith,
president of the Junior class.
During intermission, there will
be an intermission party in the
club dining room for the juniors
and seniors.
This year for the first time in a
number of years the dance will bo
a program dance. However, every
dance will bo a break dance as well
as a card dance. There will be
twenty scheduled program dances
throughout the evening and inter
mission will come after the four- »
teenth dance.
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The theme for the prom has been
kept a secret, but from all reports
it seems to bo a most unusual one.
One junior was heard to remark,
“That it was really out of this
world.” lu carrying out the theme,
the juniors have some very unusual
addwl attractions which cannot be
announced until the guests of honor
see them for themselves.
Hayes Speaks
In Assembly
Dr. Francis Hayes, profesaor of
Romance languages at Guilford Col
lege and formerly government-ap
pointed lecturer at a Bolivian uni
versity spoke in assembly Thursday.
He interpreted Bolivian student life,
and explained good will procedures
towards South America and partic
ularly to Bolivia.
When Dr. Hayes arrived in Sucre,
the former capital of Bolivia, where
he was to teach, he found that
touches of American civilization had
preceded him there. “Pistol Packin’
Mama” wa.s blaring out over the
radio, and films of Mickey Mouse,
Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Cos
tello, and “The Bad Man of Bloody
Oulch” stiirring “Gabby” Hayes
were being advertised at the local
theaters.
Bolivia is l,ocated in the heart of
South America. Most of the popula
tion is centeriHl in the Andos Moun
tains. A comparatively few people
live in the tropics in Bolivia.
Dr. Hayes explained the invasion
of South America by North Ameri
cans is directed by the United States
Department of State which realizes
the power of good will among neigh
bors. This is not a military inva-
.iion, but an intellectual and cultur
al one. The United States sends
engineers to build roails in tho
Latin American countries, hygiene
commissioners, leaders and profes-
sors.
Dr. Hayes’ objectives were to
teach American English and Ameri
can literature to tho natives as well
as to establish his home and j,oin
civic and social clubs in the com
munity of Sucre.
He told intenwting details of his
air trip from Miami. One of tho
stops of the trip, Panama, l>r.
Hayes described as “full of Ameri
can soldiers, sailors, and saloons.”
Dr. Hayes commented on the
Bolivian embrace which consists of
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