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Volume XXVI.
S?lem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, April 5, 1946.
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Shown above is a portrait of Mary Dnncan McAnally and a Becordak
Library Microfilm Beader. These memorials were presented at the
Friends of the lilbrary meeting.
Dean Reports Many
Careers For Women
Miss Katherine Bonney attended
a meeting of the State Deans’ As-
Boeiation on Friday, March 29, in
Asheville, N. C., at which time Miss
Mitchell of the Placement Office
of Duke University spoke on careers
for women.
“The greatest openings this year
arc in the field of human relation
ships,” Miss Mitchell stated. Wo
men belong in the field, and it is
there that they are most needed.”
The increased emphasis on recre
ation calls for workers who can
supervise and organize, according to
Miss Mitchell. Social work has
diversified openings, and welfaie de
partments are especially in need of
administrators. In some cases there
are chances for girls to work tem
porarily before doing graduate
study.
The Red Cross, Travelers Aid,
Girl .SC|0ut8, Camp-fire Girls and
(Continued on page four)
It's Really Just
Falling Off A
Give up that futile fan-tan game,
Greta and Helen; put away your
plans to sell coathangers, Eva
Martin and Lnke; no need t,o hand
out a beauty parlor sign in front
of your door, Barrett and Mae;
Janet, you and Henny can stop wash
ing clothes (you didn’t have paying-
customers, anyway); Gaither, you
can give up your weekend job.
Here’s the golden opportunity!
Exerting a minimum of brain
power, you can obtain a miximum
of, financial aid. There’s nbsolutely
nothing to it.
Here’^ new kind of contest!
It has loopholes. The Salemite
Literary (that doesn’t mean you
have to be a Bluestocking to en
ter) Contest doesn’t say that your
short story has to be short;, your
poem doesn’t have to be poetic; and
your essay can be written on any
thing! More than that—you get
paid for anjrthing you write that
the judges like. (They’re Mrs. Con
fer, Miss Marsh, and Dr. Jordan.)
Here’s how you do it:
Now Joyce, while you’re sm,oking
your cigarette after dinner, you
can look around the room and de
scribe the different kinds of cigar-
ette-types that are to be found in
As Easy As
Wet Log!
the Sisters’ Smokehouse. Dungan,
y.ou can write your personal opinion
on anything. There’s your essay. If
the judges like it, there’s your $10.00.
Mart, just write down as briefly or
as prolifically as you want to, some
of those tales you tell the girls in
Clewell. You’ve got a good chance
of winning $10.00 for just putting
them in black and white. And
Phyllis Langdon, if you’ll just type
off some of those poems you’ve been
hiding from Salemite talent scouts,
y,ou can get cash dividends from
them.
Here’s all there is to it:
You can submit as many of any
thing you feel inspired to write
or have written this year. Type it
(double spaced), don't sign your
name, and give your endeavors to
Jayne Bell or Effie Kuth Maxwell.
Then you can just sit back and
watch the cash roll in.
Here are the details:
Poems must not be longer than
fifty lines—not shorter than two;
the essays from 800 to 1000 words;
and the short stories or sketches a
maximum of 500 words—as short
as you want to make them. (Lib
you c,ould easily “sketch” your man
in a couple of pages, couldn’t you!)
Library Gets
Memorials
A memorial service for Mary
Duncan McAnally, at the Friends of
the Library meeting, Thursday even
ing, March 28, was the occasion
for the presentation of two memorial
gifts to the Salem College Library.
The Order of the Scorpion presented
four hundred dollars for the Mary
Duucan McAnally Book Collection.
The family of Miss McAnally pre
sented a Kecordak Library Microfilm
Reader, a portrait of Mary Duncan
McAnally and plaque, and an ad
ditional monetary gift for Microfilm
and books.
The four hundred dollars given
by the Order of the Scorpion, in
memory of the life and local service
to College of Mary Duncan Mc-
Anally in her nineteen years on the
college campus, was presented by
Mrs. Gordon Spaugh. The gift was
presented on behalf of, friends of
Miss McAnally, classmates, her fel
low charter-members of the Order
of the Scorpion, and other members
of the Order.
To express the sentiment of the
friends presenting the gift, Mrs.
Spaugh quoted the statements of
several of the memorial donors. Mrs.
Spaugh made the presentation “for
the Scorpions and other friends,”
to Dr. Bondthaler, a check for four
hundred dollars “to be spent for
(Cont. on page live)
Junior Class
Elects Marshals
Junior Marshals for 1945-46 were
elected by the Junior class in a
meeting held Thursday afternoon.
The six girls elected from the pre
sent Sophomore class are as follows:
Betsy Bpney of Kinston, N. C.;
Debbie Darr of Winston-Salem;
Martha Harrison of Charlotte, N.
C.; Barbara Folger of Mt. Airy, N.
C.; Babe Efird of Albemarle, N. C.;
and Jane McElroy of (fleneoe, 111.
These six girls, under the leader
ship of Chief Marshal Jean Griffin
of Rocky Mount, N. C., will marshal
next year at all student assemblies,
lectures, and at graduation.
Council Plans
Campus Drive
Sally Boswell, Chairman of the
War Activities Council, presided at
a panel discussion given by the
council during assembly, Tuesday,
April 2. At the program there was
ann,ounoed a drive for clothes and
money for war-torn countries.
*■ Subjects of the discussion were
problems of Europe today. Eleanor
Davidson talked about the sejjarated
families in Europe. Connie Scoggin
discussed the problem of schools and
school children in Europe. The pro
blem of the distrup(tiou of the
churches was discussed by Agnes
Bowers. A picture of the food situ
ation and starving people of Europe
was given by Betsy Meiklejohu.
Another vital problem is the cloth
ing shortage. Lois Wooten discussed
this and stressed the need for
supi>lying durable cl,othes.
Miss Jess Byrd told about the
American Friends’ Service Com
mittee in Philadelphia to which will
be given the money and clothes
received in the drive at Salem. The
War Activities Council has already
contributed $70 to start the drive.
It is hoped that each student will
participate.
Mrs. Howard Rondthaler an
nounced that the Salem Ked Cross
ro^im is closed after a total of
5,363 hours of work by students
and faculty of the academy and
college.
Boxes have been placed in each
dormitory for the clothes collection,
and each student will be approached
for donations of money by a mem
ber of the W. A. C.
EDWABD WEEKS
Capt;. Kunkle
Speaks Here
The Faculty Group for Kesearch
and Creative Work held its third
meeting of the year on Wednesday
night, April 3. Their guest for the
evening was Captain Charles
Kunkle, M. D., who is attached to
the Medical Safety Section of the
Order of Flying Safety.
Captain Kunkle spoke on accident
prjOneness in aircraft pilots. His
discussion was based on eight
months of intensive research during
which time he interviewed two
hundred pilots (one hundred of the
pilots had been in airplane crashes)
and studied innumerable accidents.
The United States Governnieiit gave
Captain Kunkle permission to re
veal the results of his research to
the faculty gr,ouj> before publication.
The important objective in his
work had been to determine the re
lationship between accidents in past
life to accidents in army life. He
found that there is a very close re
lationship between the two. From
his findings will be set up a testing
program for Air Cadets which will
eliminate those men who becjiuse of
some past experience would not
make competent pilots.
Captain Kunkle’s picture of an
ideal pilot is interesting and sur
prising in that he describes him as
being a modest, calm, and colorless
“average.” He said that the best
pilot is one that lias a pessimistic
expectancy of accidents and that
the most dangerous pilot is one who
is colorful, daring, and impetuous.
Editor Weeks
To Return
To Campus
The venerable “Atlantic Month
ly” has always picked its editors
young, and its ninth editor, Edward
Weeks, who comes here on April
10 at 8:30 o’clock in Memorial Hall
under the auspices of the Salem
College Lecture Series, upholds
“The Atlantic’s” traditions in youth
and in' personal distinction.
In his lecture here Mr. Weeks will
discuss the dominant trends in
American letters today and will re
late many illuminating and emus-
ing anecdotes from his experiences
as The Atlantic’s editor.
In his early forties with a
highly successful publishing career
and several distinguished books of
his own already a part of his record,
Weeks is in the judgment of his con
temporaries a worthy successor to
such famous editors of “The At
lantic” as James Kussell Lowell,
William Dean Howells, Thomas
Bailey Alrich, Horace E. Scudder,
Walter Hines Page, Bliss Perry and
Ellery Sedgewick.
Ferris Greenlet, who is himself a
former acting editor of “The At
lantic,” says of Weeks that he has
inherited the following character
istics from his illustrious predeces
sors:
“Like Lowell and Fields, ho
charms the public with ready
speech; like Howells, he is aware of
foreign literature, and is in touch
with the wide world; like Aldrich I
hope, ho loves the colon; like Scud
der, he is as industrious as the
busy bee; like page, his cars are
open to the whirring wheels of the
world of work; like Perry he makes
his readers his friends; like Sedge
wick, he has learned that editing a
magazine is big business as well as
a profession.”
Mr. Grtvenlet c-oncludes his de
scription of Mr. Weeks by saying
that he “revols these assets with
incredible velocity!”
It is said, too, of Mr. Weeks that
no editor in the business writes a
better letter of rejection or signs
it with a greater air of finality.
As a lecturer, Mr. Weeks has al
most as far-reaching a reputation.
During the past five yeiirs ho has de
livered more than 200 lectures and
does what is probably the greatest
“repeat” business of any speaker
on the American lecture platform.
He has, for instance, appeared ten
times at the New York City Town
Hall and twelve times at Columbia
University’s McMillin Theater.
Born in Jersey, educated at Cor
nell, Harvard and Cambridge uni
versities, Mr. Weeks saw service in
France during the World War and
won the Croix de Guerre for bravery.
He likes travel and meeting people,
(Cont. on page six)
Martha Boatwright Elected
Editor For 1946-47
MAKTHA BOATWBIGHT
Miss Martha Boatwright was
elected edit^or of the Salemite for
the year 1946-47. She is tho daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Boatwright
of Reidsville, N. C. Miss Becky
Clapp of Siler City, N. C. was the
other candidate for the office.
Martha has worked on tho Salem
ite each year and ■ is As^istaujt
Editor this year. She is also Proof
Editor of the annual, vice-president
of Pierrettes, and junior represen
tative to the Judicial Board of
Student Government. She was on the
“Y” Cabinet her freshman and
sophomore years. She is getting an
A. B. degree in English.