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Volume XXVII.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 8, 1946.
Number 8.
CAROL BECKWITH
JOANNE SWASEY
MART HUNTER HACKNEY
hope marshall
Dean Hixson An nounces
I946-*47 Who's Who
Pierrettes Announce Cast
For Their Fall Production
SARAH HALTIWANGER
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FRANCES CARR
Music Hour
Is Successful
Music Hour was held on Thursday,
Jfpvember 7, at 4:00 o’clock in
Memorial Hall. This was the first in
a series of Student Recitals given
throughout the year.
The program was as follows:
‘‘Dear to My Heart, O Lord, Art
Thou,” Ruth Scott; “Two Part In
vention in F minor,” Polly Harrop;
“Two Part Invention in A minor,”
Frances Horne; “Lungi Dal Caro
Keno,” Lila Fretwell; “Les Filles
•le Cadix,” Emalyn Gillespie;
“Pagatelle Op. 5, No. 1,” Josephine
I'atterson; “The Devils are
■'^roused,” Anna Kamer; “The Rails,”
Lomie Lou Mills; “Chanson de Marie
-Antoinette,” Peggy Sue Taylor;
‘^Valse Romantique,” Betty Jean
Bolleman; “Crying of Water,” Mary
^^ells Bunting; “Nebbie,” Jean Mc-
New; “Prelude and Fugue in C
’^ajor,” Mary Hunter Hackney.
Mrs. Elizabeth Berglund, director#
of the Pierrettes, and Peggy Sue
Taylor, president of the club, have
announced the east for their first
dramatic -production of the year.
The play is a mystery story called
Nine Girls, written by Pettit. The
action takes place in a mountain
cabin,, where the members of a
college sorority are spending a week
end.
The charactors and the students
who will take part in the production
are as follow!^: Mary, Ann Carothers;
Sharon, Peggy Sue Taylor; Alice,
Boots Lambeth; Shotput, Marian
Gaither; Tennessee, Marilyn Watson;
f]ve, Barbara Folger; Shirley, Helen
Spruill; Phyllis, Betty Hatley; Jane,
Jane Pointer; and Frieda, Mary
Bryant.
The play will be presented in the
Old Chapel on the nights of Decem
ber 11 and 12; faculty, students, and
townspeople are invited.
Class Of ’47
Will Plant Fir
Chapel on Tuesday will feature
Ivy and Tree Planting. The stu
dent body will leave chapel in a
group and proceed to the refectory
where this year’s Senior Class will
plant ivy.
Mary Hunter Hackney, Class
president,-will make a short presen
tation and Dr. R’ondthaler will make
a formal acceptance. The seniors
will then plant a white fir tree at
the left of the path leading to the
fountain in front of the infirmary.
Each officer will throw on a spade
of earth, and the members of the
class will tofis pennies at the base of
the tree for luck. The traditional
ceremony will be concluded with
the singing of the Alma Mater.
I. R. S. Will Fete
Faculty At Tea
The faculty tea, to be given by
the I. R.. S.j
living room of Bitting Sunday after-
■noon, November 17, from four to
five-thirty. This year the Board of
Trustees ^ is to be invited as well
as the faculty and students. The
purpose of the faculty tea is to
promote good-will and friendship
among Salem faculty and students.
The I. R. extends a cordial in
vitation to all.
Music Students
Will Perform
The Salem College School of
Music will present the first Stu
dent’s Evening Recital at Memorial
Hall on Monday, November 11, 194G,
at 8:00 p. m. The program will
bo as follows: “Canzonetta” by
Buxtehude—Tim Cahill; Aria: “I
Know that My Redeemer Liveth”
from the “Messiah” by Handel,
Betty Lou Ball; ‘‘Valse Romanti-
que” by Debussy, Betty Jean Holle-
man; Aria: “Je dis que rein
m’epouvante” from “Carmen” by
Bizet, Jean McNew; “Mazurka in
B minor” by Chopin, Margaret Mc
Call; “Mandoline” by Debussy,
Jane Mulhollem; “Sonata in D
Major” by Handel, Wolfgang Sicbel;
Aria: “Let me wander not unseen”
by Handel, Rebecca Clapp; “Pre
lude and Fugue in C Major” by
Bach, Mary Hunter Hackney;
Rapunzel” by Sacco, Gwen Men
denhall Yount; “Ballade in G
minor” by Chopin, Sara Haltiwanger.
The accompanists will be Nell Folger
Glenn, Margaret Vardell, and
Genevra Beaver.
Story-Teller
To Speak Here
Miss Mary Gould Davis of the
New York Public Library will ad
dress a dinner meeting of Dr. Mc-
Ewen’s Primary Education class at
6 p. m., November 15. After the
dinner Miss Davis will conduct a
storytelling in the Day Students’
Center at 6:45. Mrs. E. M. Holder
will introduce Miss Davis. Miss
Davis is being sponsored here by
the Junior League.
Miss Davis will come to North
Carolina as the guest of Straughan’s
Book Shop in Greensboro for Book
Week, November 10-17. The theme
for Book Week is “Books are
Bridges’.’ This theme was picked to
help in understanding other people’s
ideas.
Nine seniors will represent^Salem
in Who’s Who Among Students in
American Colleges and Universities
this year, according to the release
today from Dean Ivy Hixson.
Those named are Carol Beckwith,
Bernice Bunn, Sally Boswell, Frances
Carr, Rebecca Clapp, Mary Hunter
Hackney, Sarah Haltiwanger, Hope
Marshal], and Joanne Swasey.
Carol Beckwith, Chemistry and
Biology major, has been a member
of the International Relations Club,
German Club, and Lablings, and
was Junior Class President and
member of the Dean’s List and Honor
Society last year.
Majoring in history, Sally Boswell
was Red Cross supervisor,. Chairman
of War Activities Committee, Vic
tory Loan Drive Queen and Junior
marshall last year, and this year
On-campus vice-president of the
Student Body’.
Frances Carr, ,Home Economics
major, has been active in “Y” work
and Presbyterian Westminister
Fellowship. She is President of the
“Y” this year. Frances is also a
member of the Home Ec. Club, Lab
lings, and Pierrettes.
A voice major, Becky Clapp, who
has been active in the music field,
has also worked on the Salemite.
This year she is Assistant Editor of
^ the Salemite, a member of the Ger
man Club, president of Choral En
semble, on the Dean’s List, and in
the Honor Society.
This year Mary Hunter Hackney
is Senior Class president. Organ
major, “Hack” is a member of the
German Club, and on the Dean’s
List.
Sarah Haltiwanger, piano major,
has not only held offices in the
Choral Ensemble, Student Govern
ment, Westminster Fellowship, and
the Gorman Club, but she has also
been vice-president of her Freshman
class. President of the German Club
and on the Dean’s list.
Hope Marshall, A. B. in History,
is a member of the German Club
Modem Dance Club, International
Relations Club, Pierrettes, and
Chorale Ensemble.
Majoring in Spanish Joanne
Swasey has been active in Y. W.
C. A. work and Girl Scouts. This
year she is president of the Presby
terian Westminster Fellowship.
‘ ‘ Who’s Who” was created more
than fourteen years ago as a cross
section of the most outstanding per
sonalities in America’s undergrad
uate college life today. The selection
of these girls is based on their leader
ship, ’character, scholarship, and
participation in extra-curricular ac
tivities. The potentialities of these
students are stressed as possibilities
for future usefulness to business and
society. Emphasis is laid on extra
curricular activities as indicative of
the girls’ versatility.
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BECKY CLAPP
BERNICE BUNN
SALLY BOSWELL
Juniors Plan
Barn Dance
The Junior Class will sponsor
a barn dance in the gym Saturday,
November 16 from 8:30 until 11:45.
Mary Jane McGee, class president,
announced committees for the dance
today. They are as follows: decora
tions, Mary Bryant, chairman, Anne
]\rillikan and Ruby Moye; publicity,
Nancy Carlton, chairman, Beverly
Hancock and Petey Thomas; refresh
ments, Anne Carothers, chairman,
Aggie Bowers and MaryDavis.
Since the affair is being given as
a means for increasing the Junior
Class budget stags will be admitted
for, 35 cents, couples, for 50 cents.
Dr. David Thailer
Speaks At Salem
Dr. David Thaler was the speaker ■.
in chapel Tuesday morning. Twelve
years ago, he founded a hospital in
Nicaragua and today he is still the
head of it. Dr. Thailer told how he
overcame such difficulties as leaky
thatched roofs, pretty nurses, cook-
ing, and worms. He explained how
he had begun to treat the first of
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