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Volume XXVII.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, September 27, 19-^6.
Number 2.
Jane Mulhollem Names
May Day Committe Heads
The eommittees for the planningS'
of the May Day festival have been
announced by Jane Mulhollem, chair
man of the May Day committee.
They are as follows: vice-chairman,
Helen Spruill; the nominating com
mittee, Jane McElroy assisted by
Mary Patience McFall and Kathar
ine Ives; publicity, Mary Bryant;
costumes, Nell Penn Watt; finance,
Virtie Stroup; dresses and flowers,
Betsy Boney; music, Jean McNew
and Gwen Yount, co-chairmen;
dances, Peggy Broaddus and Mil
dred Hughes, co-chairmcn; proper
ties, Carol Beckwith; and programs,
Margaret Eaynal. Any student who
is interested in helping with the
festival this year is asked to con
tact the chairman of the committee
with which she would like to work.
A part of the expenses of May Day
is paid with the profits from the
sale of sandwiches at Wee Blew Inn.
This was begun last Wednesday
night and will be held every Wed
nesday night between 10:00 and 10:-
30. Claire Craig is in charge of the
sale in Clewell to serve the girls
in the upper dormitories; Mae
Noble and Euth Scott will manage
the sale in Bitting for the benefit
of the girls in Bitting and Strong.
Pierrettes Have
First Meeting
The Pierrettes held their first
meeting on Tuesday, September 24.
I'eggy Sue Tiiylor, president, intro
duced Miss Berglund, faculty ad
visor, who gave a brief talk.
Plans for a Little Theater produc
tion were iliscussed and will be an
nounced in the near future. Peggy
Sue also announced the following
1940-1947 Pierrette Committees.
Constitution Committee: Anne
Polger, chairman; Eleanor Davidson,
Jane Pointer, Rosamond Putzel, and
Betsy John Forrest.
Play Committee: Marion Gaither,
chairman; Hope Marshall, Bernice
Bunn, Pierano Aiken, and Boots
Lambeth. ^
Points Committee: Marilyn Wat
son, chairman; Ann Carothers, Euth
Mabry, and Miriam Bailey.
(Continued on page four)
Sosnik’stoHave
Fashion Show
Sip a coke, nibble a cookie, and
comment on clothes. This combina
tion will be featured at Sosnik’s
“Coke Showing” on Thursday, Oct-
tober 3, at 8:00 P. M. in the Day
Student Center.
The Coke Showing will include
lovely lingerie, dressy date-bait,
campus casuals, dinner dresses, danc
ing dresses—everything, especially
designed for you and your budget.
Your favorite and familiar fash-
ion-houses—Clare MeCardell, B. H.
Wragge, Junior House, Emily Wil-
kens—will make the showing a
‘ ‘Mademoiselle” eome-to-life, espec
ially since the mademoiselles will
come from the Salem campus. Hope
Marshall will be Niarrator,
After the showing, if it is possible,
there will be a focus-on-fashion
round table. Come belp mold the
fashion world with your constructive
criticism. Coeds are also invited to
come, crane, and comment.
Day Students
Plan Activities
Lucy Scott, president of the day
students, has announced that the
day students will play an important
part in campus activities this year.
Although plans have not been fully
completed, committees have been
appointed for each month to plan
social functions. There are already
plans for the day students to have
one party a month for themselves.
Among other plans already made are
four parties for the student body,
several tea dances, and a formal
dance.
To raise the money necessary to
give these functions, benefit bridge
games and bazaars will be held.
I
Miss Stout Adds Vim, Vigor,
Vitality To Salem Athletics
By Jean Sullivan
Miss Helen Stout has the spirit
Salem needs for sports to be a suc
cess. Her eagerness and fervor is
enlightening to those who love
Salem. She brings to our campus
new ideas in sports from the north
and from the west.
Miss Stout is a new resident of
Bitting. It is fine she chose this
as her home, for now the Seniors as
well as the gym students will know
her. She says slie wants to know all
the students and hopes that she will
soon meet them all on the hockey
field.
Philadelphia is the home of our
new gym teacher. Temple University
and New York University are her
alma maters where she received her
A. B. and M. A. degrees, respec
tively, in physical education. She
has taught at Gunston Hall, Wash
ington, D. C., Friends Select School
—a prep-school over one hundred
years older than Salem—and Wil
son College, Chambersburg, Pa. Last
year she resided at the University
of California. Here, she worked on
her Doctor’s Degree, but spent her
week-ends horseback riding on Cali
fornia ranches.
This year Miss Stout comes to
Salem with varied ideas towards
sports and participation in sports.
Her first suggestion is to increase
the number of gym classes and
divide them into beginners, inter-
Lablings Present First Check
For New Science Building
A check for $25.00 was presentedjjt
to Dr. Rondthaler by the Lablings
to be used for the purchase of an
electric water fountain which is to
be placed on the main floor of the
new science building. This money
and its additional amounts to be
given this year is the first tangible
evidence of interest in a better and
bigger building.
At the first Lablings meeting of
the year Tuesday night, Betty Hat
ley introduced the plan to present
a check to Salem ('ollege for the
purchase of the fountain. The mem
bers voted unanimously to pledge
their cooperation to aid in secur
ing funds for a new Park Hall. They
also promised to complete the pur
chase of the fountain by raising ad
ditional money this year.
Presbyterians
Schedule Tea
The First Presbyterian Church is
having a tea Sunday, September 29,
for all Presbyterian students and
faculty members. This is the first ac
tivity of the year for the Presby
terian Fellowship Group, the stu
dent organization at Salom work
ing with our Church-away-from-
home.
The tea will be held in the Ladies’
Parlor in the First Presbyterian
Church from 3:30 to 5:00 Sunday
afternoon. The officers of the Fellow
ship Group will serve and Miss Mar
garet Wyatt and Miss Barbara Clark,
Directors of Religious Education at
the First Church, will be present.
At this time. Fall plans for the
Fellowship will be announced.
Home Ec. Club
Gives Donation
In memory of the late Mrs. Eliza
beth O. Meinung, former Head of
the Home Economics Department,
the Home Economics Club voted
last year to present a donation of
$5,000 toward the new science build
ing. At the first meeting this fall
the old and new members of the
club decided to raise this amount
within the next two years. Two
Gingham Taverns will be held this
year and with the help of the stu
dent body and the former students
and friends of Mrs. Meinung, the
Home Economics Club hopes to
succeed in making this contribution
possible.
Editor Invites
New Salemites
To Join Staff
Try-outs for positions as reporter®
on the l94()-47 staff of the Salemite
begin today. Any student interested
in working on the editorial staff of
the paper is eligible to try out. In
order to be considered for a position
on the staff a student must write a
personality sketch or feature, an
interview, and a news story. These
must be submitted to the editor and
approved by the staff. Some of the
articles will be published in the
Salemite in order to get student
opinion of the articles.
Articles will be judged on the fol
lowing basis: accuracy of facts, cor
rectness of writing, originality, in
terest, neatness of manuscrift, and
clarity of expression.
Any student interested in trying
out should contact Martha Boat
wright immediately to receive de
tailed instructions and concrete as
signments. Boys as well as girls are
eligible for try-outs.
Men Elect
B. F. Snyder
Under the direction of Dean
Jordan, the men students held a
very spirited election at their as
sembly Thursday in Old Chapel. The
following men were put in office:
Brooks F. Snyder, president; Sam
uel R. Pruett, Jr., vice-president;
Wesley H. Snyder, secretary; and
Anies R. Daye, Jr., treasurer. All
are former servicemen, three hav
ing served in Europe and one in the
Iran-Persian theatre. A meeting of
the officers was scheduled to out
line their program for the year.
mediates, and advanced students.
This is to give more individual aid
to the student. Her second suggestion
is to vary the number of sports to
choose from. Archery is to be em
phasized particularly indoor archery,
and preparations for battleboard
tennis have been made. This battle
board tennis game is primarily for
tennis practice.
(Cont. on page three;
You Name It
Don’t forget the slogan con
test that the Salemite is sponsor
ing for a Park Hall reconversion.
On with the call—win prizes off
of Park Hall. This campaign will
be used to raise funds for a new
science building. The winning
slogan is to be used widely dur
ing the campaign on the cam
pus as well as in the community.
Already slogans have been turn
ed in. Don’t forget to put your
plug in now. “Invest this fall,
for a new Park Hall,” “your
cash, will clean this trash,”
“Alumnae, it’s no lie, a new Park
Hall or die,” “.Just take a hint,
help Salem’s endowment.”
New Music Professor Gives
Secret Of His Big Success
By Margaret McCall
“I attribute my success to
Wheaties,” Professor Peterson, head
of the voice department and director
of the Choral Ensemble, statef in
his usual jovial manner. But by
the time he had told mo a few ,^f his
experiences and vocations, 1 was
sure that Wheaties was not the only
source of success.
Besides giving voice recitals, radio
broadcasts and singing the solo part
in the cantatas, The Ballad for
Americans and I Hear America
Singing, Professor Peterson has
spent four summers in the Cana
dian north woods and three summers
in Finger Lake, New York. Mr.
Peterson is originally from a town
in Michigan so small that he would
not even give its name. He attended
Western State Tcachers College,
Kalamazoo, Michigan and trans
ferred to Eastnmn School of Music,
Rochester, New York to complete
his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of
Music degrees. Ho taught in the
East High School, Rochester, New
York for five years.
The coed*s are not the only
veterans in Salem college. Professor
Peterson joined the Navy to see
the vcorld, specifically Africa where
he worked with hospital entertain
ment. Ho was even captain of a
softball team.
One of the Professor’s favorite
hobbies is work with boys’ summer
camps. If any of you tennis champs
are out for new competition, look up
this Wheaties champion, for next to
singing and conducting he likes ten
nis and softball, and I do not moan a
soft, volley ball game with twenty-
day old Carol Ann Peterson, the
new addition to the family of three.
When asked if he liked “Dixie
Land,” Mr. Peterson very quickly
replied, “Very much! I heartily
recommend the South. I’m a citizen
of the South now.”