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Volume XXVIl.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 11, 1946.
Number 4.
Alumnae Workshop Begins
Interesting Program Today
Miss Barry will discuss elub-
organization to supplement the col
lege program, and fund raising as a
natural part of tho alumnae pro
gram.
Mrs. May Coan Mountcastle,
Chairman of the General Alumnae
Committee, will present the Ways
and Means of achieving the goal
of the Specific Alumnae Project in
the 175th Anniversary Year—tho
NEW SQIBNCE BUILDING.
The Workshop will continue at
10:00 A. M. Saturday, October 12,
in the parlor of the Lousia Wilson
Bitting Dormitory Mrs. Mary Mc-
Kelvie Fry, Salem, ’25, of Philadel
phia, Pennsylvania will lead a dis
cussion on Club Programs.
Mrs. Bessie Pfohl Campbell, Salem,
’32 will lead a discussion on Alumnae
Co-operation with the Administra
tion.
Miss Parry and Miss Marsh will
summarize the Workshop Findings.
The Workshop will adjourn with a
luncheon at the Saturday morning
session.
Mrs. Leinbach, president of the
Alumnae Association, presided at the
Alumnae Workshop in the Reading
Koom of the Library today. Presi
dent Rondthaler outlined the purpose
of the meeting.
Mr. David B. Weinland, assistant
to the president, gave a gfeneral
picture of the college showing 1)
purpose of the institution, 2) gover
nance of the institution, 3) present
conditions, and 4) future- plans con
cerning students and faculty, build
ing and equipment, and financial
aspirations.
Following a questions period, Dean
Ivy M. Hixson presented a general
program of admissions and academic
matters.
At 8:00 P. M. the Workshop will
continue in the parlors of the Presi
dent’s house. Mias Marsh, Alumnae
Secretary will introduce the guest
speaker and advisor, Miss Gertrude
Hoyt Barry, Alumnae Secretary of
Wilson College, Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania, and Secretary of the
American Alumni Council.
Lablings Elect
New Officers
The new officers for the Lablings
were elected at a meeting Tuesday
night in Park Hall. They are Bettye
Hatley, secretary, and Margaret
Fisher, treasurer.
Mr. Wylie Simms, representative
of the U. S. Government Weather
Bureau at the Smith-Eeynolds Air
port spoke to the club. Mr. SiM
pointed out that the weather bureau
serves aviation, agriculture, trans
portation, records, and the general
public. It also makes forecasts, four
times daily, extended ones over a
period of three or four days, and
airway, marine, and hurricane fore
casts.
Mrs. Bowman Gray
To Entertain At Tea
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church will
entertain the Episcopalian faculty
members and students of Salem Col
lege and Academy at a tea on Tues
day, October 15, at 4:30 o’clock.
The tea is being held at the home
of Mrs. Bowman Gray on Arbor
Road. Cars will call’ for the guests at
4:15 in front of Alice Clewell Build
ing.
This tea is being given so that Mr.
Cox, Mr. Drake, and the parishioners
may become better acquainted with
the Salem students and faculty mem
bers.
Y.W. C. A. Plans
Grand Review
The Y. W. C. A. at Salem College
will hold a grand review Monday,
October 14, and Tuesday, October
15, in the Day Student Center. The
Y. W. C. A. Cabinet under the
direction of Frances Carr, president,
will present the review in an effort
to familiarize students with the
activities of the. different branches
of the campus organization.
Booths will be set up in the Day
Student Center and will be decorated
to represent the various committees
connected with the Y. W. C. A. stu
dents will be give'n the opportunity
to sign up to work in one of the
following committees: program and
worship, music, foreign affairs, com
munity service, social life, and pub
licity. The exhibit will be open all
day Monday and Tuesday, and after
lunch and dinner on these days,
special programs will be given. Al
so, at this time, surprise packages
will be awarded to members of the
audience.
The Y. W. C. A. Cabinet is com
posed of Joanne Swasey, Lomie Lou
Mills, Catherine Moore, Emma Mit
chell, Martha Walton, Hallie Mc
Lean, Jean McNew, Peggy Broaddus,
Virginia Smith, Katherine Ballew,
Mary Elmore Knley, Preston Kab-
rich, Betty Wolfe, Betty Holbrook,
and Margaret McCall.
Bitting Dorm
Receives Funds
Airs. Kate Bitting Reynolds’ will,
which shows widespread distribution
of her estimated $8,000,000 estate,
has Salem College listed among its
beneficiaries. Mrs. Reynolds died
September 23.
More than $1,150,000 will be'dis
tributed in trust and outright gifts
to public and private hospitals,
schools, and other institutions; and
more than $1,825,100 in trust and
outright gifts to estimated 100 re
latives, friends, schools, employees
and the remainder in a residuory
estate dedicated to charity. “In
cluded in church, school and institu
tions beneficiaries are: Salem Col
lege, Winston-Salem, $25,000 in trust
for the maintenance of ‘■‘Louisa
Wilson Bitting Memorial Building.”
Some of the other schools receiving
beneficiaries are Peace, Flora Mac
Donald, Davidson, and Barium
Springs.
EEV. JOEL B. WHITTEN
Rev. Whitten
ToTalkTonight
The Westminster Fellowship Group
will have its first meeting of the
year this Friday, October 11, at
the First Presbyterian Church at
7:30 P. M. The Rev. Joel B. Whitten
Jr., will be the guest speaker. His
general subject will be “The Chal
lenge of Christianity to College Stu
dents.”
The meeting will be held in the
Ladies’ Parlor of the Church Friday
night. After a brief business meet
ing, Virginia Smith will lead in a
short devotional service before in
troducing Mr. Whitten.
Mr. Whitten, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Pulaski,
Virginia, is from Knoxville, Ten
nessee. After attending Davidson
College and graduating from the
University of Tennessee, he went
to the Union Theological Seminary
in Richmond, Virginia. There he
majored in Theology for young
people. He served as a Naval Chap
lain for several months after he
graduated from the Seminary in
1945. He then returned to the Uni
versity of Tennessee for further
study.
Mr. Whitten will be on campus
for part of Friday afternoon and
will eat dinner here at school with
the Fellowship Officers and the two
Directors of Religious Education of
tho Presbyterian Church.
Bishop PfoHI Speaks
On Founding Fathers
"Y” To Install
New Members
Y. W. C. A. Installation is to
be held at seven o'clock on Sun^
day night, October 13th, in the
Olil Chapel.
The order of the program of pre
vious years has been changed this
year. While the participants will
wear white as usual, the service
will be closed with a consecration
service outside, around the lighted
cross. The members of the “Y”
cabinet will have charge and Frances
Carr, president of the “Y” will
welcome the new members.
Freshmen and new students are
required to come and all students
are cordially invited to come to
the Y. W. C. A. Installation Service
Dean Vardell
Traces Anthem
Dean Vardell spoke on the orgina-
tion and composure of The Star
Spangled Banner, Tuesday morning,
October 8, in Chapel.
Dean Vardell began by saying
that he became interested in the
history of the beginning of songs,
through a book by Oscar Shenack.
In this book was the story of The
Star Spangled Banner. Our national
anthem was written during the war
of 1812. On August 1!^, 1814, a British
fleet sailed into tho Chesapeake Bay,
and four thousand men debarked.
These men marched west fourteen
miles to Bladensborough, encounter
ed an American unit, and won the
battle that followed. Then the
British continued on to Washington.
Some of the wounded British
soldiers went to Upper Marlborough
for treatment. The doctor treating
them was a Doctor William Beanes.
Some of the not too seriously wound
ed soldiers began plundering the
town. The citizens of Upper Marl
borough banded together to fight
the British soldiers, and in the
course of time, did capture some.
Dr. Beanes, however, was captured,
also, and sent to a British vessel
anchored in the Chesapeake Bay.
The townspeople of Upper Marl
borough wanted Dr. Beanes back,
and asked one of his friends, Francis
Scott Key, to appeal to president
James Madison for his release. Key
did, and was told to contact a Mr.
Skinner, and on his boat, the two
(Cont. on page six)
Knickerbocker, Duranty Debate Ferrets
Answer To Vital Issue Of Russian Policy
By Mary Bryant
“It isn’t I who says ‘no’. It’s
Josph Stalin,” H. R. Knickerbocker
said when discussing the question
“Can Russia Be Part of ‘One
World’!”
Mr. Walter Duranty, taking the
affirmative side, said, “I believe
that there is still a great possibility
of world peace through adjustment
of our misunderstandings.”
These distinguished speakers de
bated this vital and interesting
question Monday evening in the
first of the 1946-47 Salem College
Lecture Series. The debate was spon
sored by the 175th Anniversary Com
mittee.
Knickerbocker, a smooth-talking
Texan, stated that Stalin told us
what he thought in ’39. In that year
he declared that it was inconceivable
that the Soviet Union could exist
side by side with imperiaUstie na
tions. “One of the other MUST
conquer.”
Knickerbocker referred to Huxley,
a true Pacificist, who was not con
verted by the mad ideas of Hitler.
His theory was that if you are kind
to man, he will nearly always re
spond with kindness. “This is not
true,” said Knickerbocker firmly.
“Some would always sneer at justice.
Look at Stalin and Hitler.”
Stalin ,began by desiring to bring
about an idealistically better world,
but he changed his policy. There
were two reasons for this change.
The most important is the guiding
principle of conduct of the Bolshe
vist Party. The end is all important
and the end justifies the means. To
day the end has become POWER
and power corrupts. Next, Stalin
wanted power for himself and his
party over the world.
Stalin’s practices are recorded on
the map of Europe to a certain ex
tent. Since 1939 Stalin has taken
over twelve European states includ
ing 145,000,000 people—people like
you and me. In the Far East he has
made startling conquests and added
50,000,000 more people to the Soviet
Vnion. “Who says they aren’t
aggressive ?”
Turkey is at the top of Stalin’s
program. Turkey is armed because
she knows that Russia will take
the, Dardanelles, which control the
Mediterranean. This would break the
back of the British Empire.
STALIN’S ONE THOUGHT IS TO
ATTACK AND BREAK DOWN
THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND
LEAVE AMERICA ALONE.
Greece is next in line and then
Trieste for Tito. Trieste would give
him control of the Adriatic. All this
would mean control of the gateway
to tho Middle East.
The above picture is not too pessi
mistic. Despite the fact that Stalin
controls 1/6 of the land surface of
the globe, he would not dare to
challenge the tT. S. “Why?” Knick
erbocker asked. “I’ll tell you whyl
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL PRO
DUCTION won the war and the free
American laborers can produce seven
times as much as Russian workers.”
The Texan quoted figures proving
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^ Founder’s Day, observed today,
was the second in the series of
events marking the 175th anniver
sary of Salem. Commemorating the
beginning of Salem Female Academy
as a boarding school in 1802, the Rt.
Rev. J. K. Pfohl, Chairman of the
Salem College Board of Trustees and
Bishop of Southern Province of the
Moravian Church in America was
the guest speaker in a special Found
ers’ Day assembly. His subject was
“The Foounding Fathers and Church
Related Education.” George D.
Lentz, mayor of Winston-Salem, and
Miss Gertrude Hoyt Parry, Counselor
to the Alumnae Workshop Con
ference, also spoke. Clergymen from
this city participated in the de
votional portion of this program
which was held in Memorial Hall
at 11:30 a. m.
Following assembly, a luncheon
was given for the Trustees of the
college and their wives. All classes
were dismissed for the remainder
of the day in honor of the founding
fathers.
Davidson Plans
Salem Day
Salem-Davidson Day is scheduled
for October 26. This joint meeting
is being held in cooperation with the
Davidson YMCA, and tho Salem
YWCA.
Busses for the girls wishing to go
will be chartered at a minimum bus
fare. Students may sign up on the
bulletin boards in Clewell, Strong,
and Bitting for blind dates.
Other features of Salem-Davidson
day will be announced at a later
date.
Quinerly Meads
Monogram Club
Agnes Quinerly was unanimously
re-elected president of the Monogram
Club at its first meeting Monday,
October 8. Peggy Watkins was un
animously elected vice-president;
and “Ticka” Senter was unanimous
ly re-elected secretary and treasurer.
Plans were discussed for giving a
tea dance before the A. A. Valentine
Dance. The main project of the
Monogram Club will be selling food
and drinks at the games. On tho
food committee are Eaton Seville,
Virtie Stroup, and Eva Martin
Bullock.
An initiation party for the now
members was debated, and the mem
bers adopted a motto for this year,
“Charge.”
1. R. S. Will Give
Scrip Tea Dance
The I. R. S. will sponsor a tea
dance in the Day Student Center
from 4 until 5:45 P. M. Saturday,
October 19. The dance will be a
scrip dance, and tickets will go on
sale next week in the dormitories.
Admission will be 50c a couple or
35e stag. The dance will be girl-
break with music furnished by a
nickleodeon.
The committees for this dance are:
Helen Spruill, decoration; Ticka
Senter and Ruth Hayes, refresh
ments; and Betsy Long, music.