Volume XXVII.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 4, 1946.
Number 3.
Salem Observes
Founder’s Day
Founder’s Day, which is to be
observed Friday, October 11, at
Salem College, will be the second
in a series of celebrations to be held
during Salem’s 175th anniversary
year.
Reverend J. K. Pfohl, Chairman
of the Salem College Board of
Trustees and Bishop of the Southern
Province of the Moravian Church in
America, will give the address on
Founder’s Day.
Founder’s Day exercises are held
every year, but they are to take on
added significance during Salem’s
175th anniversary. Bishop Pfohl’s
subject will be “The Founding
Father’s and Church Eelated Edu
cation.”
George D. Lentz, Mayor of Win
ston-Salem, will speak on behalf of
the city, and Miss Gertrude Hoyt
Parry will bring greetings from the
American Alumni Council. Winston-
Salem clergymen will participate in
devotional portions of the program,
which begins in Memorial Hall at
11:30 a. m. Friday. Following the
Founder’s Day address there will
be a luncheon for trustees of the
college and their wives.
Stee Gee Sets
Date For Dance
The Student Government Associa
tion announced on Tuesday plans for
the first formal dance of the sea
son. The dance will be given in
the gym on Saturday night, Octo
ber 19 at 8:30. Harold Gale and
his orchestra of Winston-Salem will
play for the dance. During the even
ing there will be a figure introduc
ing the officers of the Student Gov
ernment and their dates.
Committees in charge of the
dance, supervised by Connie Scoggin,
president of the Student Govern
ment, are as follows: invitations,
Eaton Seville and Maria Hicks;
figure, Peggy Davis; refreshments,
Anne Finley; decorations, Sally
Boswell, Mary Patience McFall, and
Kuth Scott.
New Members
Are Installed
The Executive Board of the Stu
dent Government and new members
of Student Government were install
ed at the traditional candle ceremony
in Old Chapel Wednesday night.
The new students, wearing white
attended in a body. After Connie
Scoggin, President of Student Gov
ernment, spoke on the Honor System,
the new students went up singly
and signed pledges. The ceremony
ended with the singing of the Alma
Mater.
The members of the Executive
Board are: Mary Porter Evans,
Eaton Seville, Mary Jane McGee,
Euth Scott, Sally Boswell, Peggy
Blum, Lucy Scott, Peggy Davis,
Mary Louise Parrish, Anne Finley,
Maria Hicks, Claire Craig, Mary
Hunter Hackney, and Connie
Scoggin.
Slogan Contest
Is Extended
Because enough cooperation hajb
not been shown in the Slogan Con
test for the new Science Building,
the SALEMITE is extending the
time limit until Founder’s Day,
October 11.
Everyone who is interested in
seeing a new Science Building
erected should submit at least one
slogan. Turn the slogan in to Martha
Boatwright by 6:00 p. m., October 11.
Male Students
Plan Smoker
At their business meeting last
Tuesday, the coeds made further
plans. A smoker to be held in the
club dining room is being arranged
so that men students may become
better acquainted with the men on
the faculty. The student committee
appointed to plan this get-together
includes Thomas Transou, J. B. Self,
Jr., and Dallas Cline.
Subscriptions to “Life,” “Time,”
Eeader’s Digest,” and the “Win
ston-Salem Journal” have been taken
for the men’s lounge, now being re
ferred to as “the Foxhole.”
Knickerbocker, Duranty Will Debate
On Russia’s Past Part Of "One World”
Mr. Lerch Joins Music Faculty,
Radio Interests Violinist
By Barbara Ward
In case you smell that special
combination of pipe tobacco, that
means that Mr. Lerch is around
the corner. Finally cornered in his
studio in Music Hall, puffing placid
ly on a small pipe, our new violin
teacher made his statements to the
press on the subject of his ever-on-
the-go life.
Those brown eyes (behind “shell-
rims”) and that neat little mous
tache got their start in Kansas
City, Missouri. That receding hair
line is certainly not due to age be
cause he’s under thirty. But sorry
girls, he’s been married “approxi
mately ten months and four days”
as of last Friday.
Music is an avocation as well as
a vocation to Mr. Lerch. He loves
to play in quartets and has done
professional work in them. Besides
much radio work (which he ex
pects to continue here), he’s been
heard in quartets at Town Hall and
the Brooklyn Museum as well as
on tour. Between work at the Uni
versity of Kansas and later work
at Juilliard—where he received his
degree—he did a short stretch in
the regular army.
Mr. Lerch has been impressed by
me. JAMES B. lilECH
the friendliness of. the people in
the South and likes living in a
“smaller community”—smaller than
New York. As he put it: “Down
here, people seem to care whether
one is alive or not.”
WALTER DUKANTY
Rev. Whitten
Will Speak
Eev. Joel B. Whitten, Jr. will
be the guest speaker at the first
meeting of the Westminster Fellow
ship on Friday, October 11. The
meeting will be held at the First
Presbyterian Church in the Ladies’
Parlor at 7:30 p. m. Current business
will be discussed and refreshments
will be served after the program.
Mr. Whitten, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Pulaski,
Virginia, is from Knoxville, Tennes
see. He was educated at Davidson
College and at the TJniversity of
Tennessee, where he had a fellow
ship in Psycholog.y. He did his grad
uate work in 1945 at the Union
Theological Seminary in Richmond,
Virginia, where he majored in the
ology for young people.
He served as a Naval Chaplain
until the end of the war when he
returned to the University of Ten
nessee for graduate work.
Lablings Plan
Program Series
.The Lablings will meet in the lec
ture room of Park Hall Tuesday
night, October 8th, at 7 p. m. The
guest speaker will be Mr. Wylie
Sims, representative of the United
States Government Weather Bureau
at Smith Reynolds Airport. Mr.
Sims will speak on a phase of his
work in weather forecasting. The
secretary and the treasurer will al
so be elected at this time.
Miss Florence Neely of the Biology
Department will speak at the next
meeting on October 22nd. On No
vember 5th, Dr. Arthur Roe, As
sociate Professor of Chemistry at the
University of North Carolina, will
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Remember?
Miss Evabelle Covington, Chair
man of the Cuts Committee,
wishes to remind the students that
no cuts are to be taken in any
classes the Wednesday before
Thanksgiving holidays or the
Monday after Thanksgiving holi-
During the war the Thanksgiv
ing holidays were limited to one
day. Last year the students petit
ioned for a Thanksgiving holiday
beginning the Wednesday after
noon before Thanksgiving and
continuing until 8:30 a. m. the
following Monday. This petition
stated that' the students agreed
not to cut any classes the day be
fore or the day after the holiday.
H. B. KNICBOGRBGCKEE
I R C Will Have
Informal Tea
The International Relations Club
will entertain the lecturers, Mr.
Knickerbocker and Mr. Duranty, at
a tea in the Day Student’s Center
Monday afternoon at 4:30. This in
formal gathering will be the I. R.
C.’s first function of the year.
A preliminary meeting for the
purpose of organization was held
Tue.sday afternoon. Notices have
been posted on the bulletin board
in order th,at those who failed to
come to the meeting may sign up
for membership in the club.
Martha Lou Heitman, president,
announced the plans for the year.
The bimonothly meetings will be
held on the first and third Mondays
of each month at seven o’clock in
the living room of Louisa Wilson
Bitting Dormitory. The first Monday
is designated for invited speakers,
while the second meeting of the
month will feature an open student
forum.
The Hnickorbocker-Duranty de
bate will open the 194G-47 Salem
College lecture series Monday night
at 8 o’clock in Memorial Hall. The
speakers will discuss the question
“Can Russia Be Part of ‘One
World’?”
After David E. Weinland, who is
serving as chairman for this lecture,
introduces each speaker, Duranty
will talk for fifteen minutes on the
affirmative side of the question.
Knickerbocker will then reply for
fifteen minutes for the negative
side. Each speaker will be allowed
five minutes for general rebuttal.
Mr. Knickerbocker is a well-known
roving correspondent for Interna
tional News Service, and Mr.
Duranty is a distinguished author
of many books on Russia.
Audience participation will be
encouraged in this first lecture which
is also being presented as part of
the celebrations of the 175th anni
versary of Salem. Strips of paper are
to be distributed on which anyone
who desires may write a question
to Knickerbocker or Duranty. These
will be collected and submitted to
the speakers.
Students Study
Civic Problems
Salem College Sociology students
and the city commerce are cooper
ating in civic and community work
in Winston-Salem and Forsyth
County.
The ten members of the Sociology
203 class begin October 10th to par
ticipate in the Community Chest
Campaign.
The Junior League and the Com
munity Voluntary Office are jointly
extending to the Sociology class
the opportunity to participate in
the “Know your community” course.
This course will be held two to three
weeks, meeting three times a week
at the Robert E. Lee Hotel.
During first semester, Harry
Krusz, Secretary of the Winston-
Salem Chamber of Commerce, will
instruct in the Labor Problems
course on subjects such as “Indus
trial Safety” and “Employee Re
lations.”
Robert M. Hanes, President of
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company,
has been invited to speak again on
the Bretton Woods Plan to the
Money and Banking class.
Petite West Virginian Lady
Likes Photography, Athletics
MESS LOtnSE WOOD
By HalUe Mcl>ean
Miss Louise Wood, the petite new
public school music teacher, is one
of the most versatile and interest
ing of our new faculty. Miss Wood,
who is from Lewisburg, West Vir
ginia, “a town similar to Salem in
its historic background,” attended
Greenbrier College in Lewisburg,
Breanau in Gainesville, Georgia^ and
Northwestern University. She has
also done summer school work at
Juilliard and the University of
West Virginia.
Before coming to Salem, Miss
Wood taught in Georgia and in the
coal mine region of West Virginia,
which experience, according to her,
“was very rare.” As a government
girl in Washington, Miss Wood was
employed by the Foreign Economic
Administration. Her special duty
was to hand out checks to people who
resigned, until one day she decided
to hand one to herself.
Her hobbies and interests, besides
music, are many and varied. At one
time she had her own dark room
for developing films. Slie is accom
plished at needlepoint. For all
athletic-minded girls: Miss Wood
has her senior life saving in swim
ming, and is an expert at tennis and
ping-pong. At the present she is
taking art lessons here at Salem.
Possessing the spirit of a gypsy.
Miss Wood has at one time or
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