Volume XXVII.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 14, 1947.
Number 15.
Miss Siewers Announces
Annual Library Contest
Miss Grace Siewers, head librarian,
announced today the beginning of
the Annual Library Contest. Stii-
dents interested in entering tlie con
test are asked to sign entrance cards
at the Main desk in the Library
by April 10. The library offers this
contest to all students in hopes of
encouraging and stimulating interest
in bulding up a personal library
while in college.
Juniors and Seniors may enter a
maximum of thirty books which
must be the personel property of
the student entering the contest,
and so marked. Textbooks, that are
designed expressively for classroom
use, may not be used. The prizes
offered in this contest are; for the
best general collection of a cultural
and practical nature, $25.00; for
the second best collection, which
may be a special collection, $15.00.
Freshmen and Sophomores enter
a booklist which may consist of a
maximum of thirty books which the
student desires to have in her own
personel library. Author, title, pub
lisher, price, and brief notes stat
ing reason for student’s choice of
each title must be included in the
typewritten list. For the best
general list, 410.00 will be offered,
for the second best list, which may
be a list for a special group of books,
$•".00 will be awarded.
Pri7.es will be awarded around
May 15. Lists and books are due in
tlie library by May 1. Winnng
h'braries and lists will be put on
exhibition in the library.
Tuesday afternoon Mr. Frank
Bordon Ilanes spoke informally at a
tea on preparing for a library. This
talk was In connection with launch
ing the Library Contest.
l^fr. TTanes expressed emphatically
that personal libraries should in
clude books that the owner wishes
to keep, to reread, and reread.
RightsTo Speak
To Faculty
A prominent minister, M.’. Douglas
Eights, former trustee and teacher
at Salem, will speak to the Faculty
Ilosearch group Tuesday night. His
subject will be “Events at Salem
During the Civil War.”
Miss H)ixsc»n will plresent the
last in a series of talks on the
history of Salem. The sources of her
material are paS^ catalogues of
Salem, which date from 1853 until
1909. The subject of her talk will
lie chiefly academic. Dr. Wenhold
began this series of talks with a
record of Salem from 1810 until 1830.
The next talk in this series was
presented by Miss Marian Blair, a
former member of the Salem faculty,
who Ijased her record from 1830 to
1850 on letters of students, prospec
tive students, and parents of stu
dents of Salem College.
Students Plan
Writing Forum
Mr. Peter Taylor of Woman’s Col
lege at Greensboro will conduct a
forum on writing for Miss Jess
l^yrd’s Advanced Composition Class
On Tuesday morning, March 4.
Mr. Taylor, who holds the chair
of Creative Writing at Women’s
tiollege, is a well-known writer and
Critic. He will discuss compositions
"’ritten by the students of the
class. Former members of the com
position class will be invited as
guests.
Honor Students
Are Recognized
Miss Hixson, the Academic Dean,
made the announcements of the
members of the 1940-47 Honor
Society and the first semester
Dean’s List in assembly on Honors
Day, Tuesday, February 11. As is
customary, Honors Day comes at
the beginning of the semester and
announces the students who have
completed at least five semesters of
work with a quarter of it of A
grade and who are, therefore, eligible
to be admitted to the Honor Society.
The Dean’s List is also announced
recognizing those students who have
obtained at least an average of B
plus in the preceding semester.
This semester’s total of ten new
student members and onenewfaculty
member is the greatest number ever
to be admitted into the Honor
Society. Mr. Leach was added to
the list of honorary faculty mem
bers which include Mrs. Harris, Mr.
Higgins, Miss Hixson, Miss Vest,
and Dr. Willoughby. In addition to
Virginia Mclver, Eebecca Clapp, and
Carol Beckwith, who had previously
been announced as activc student
members, the following also be
came members: Genevra Beaver,
Marilyn Booth, Ann Carothers,
Peggy Davis, Anne Eolger, Patsy
Law, Margaret Newman, Rosamund
Putzel, Frances Sowers, and Barbara
Ward.
There was a total of forty-one
students announced for the Dejjn’s
List. Those in the senior class in-
(Continued on page three)
Goodale Speaks
On Alchemy
Who will be Salem’s
Dream Man?
Mr. Gordon Goodale spoke to
the Lablings on Alchemy at the
regular meeting of the Lablings
Tuesday night. Mr. Goodale pointed
out that the knowledge of the
eleventh and twelfth century alchem
ists is the foundation of our modern
science.
Alchemy, as Mr. Goodale defined
it, is a system of philosophy to un
derstand the mystery of life. Early
alchemy was connected with relig
ion; the alchemists wanted to help
mankind. They^ were searching for
the elixir of life and the philoso
pher’s stone which would change
baser metals into gold. These medi
eval scientists wanted to make' gold
not for personal wealth or power
but to prove their theory that all
matreial was composed of one sub
stance gold. Mr. Goodale llustrat-
ed his talk by comparing the com
plicated medieval chemical symbols
with recent ones.
These mystical chemists whom we
falsely associate with dark robes,
black cats, skullg^ qdj heavy vapbrs
steaming around them really gained
a vast kno-vvledge of chemistry.
Pangle Gives
Guidance Tests
This past week, on Monday, Wed
nesday, and Thursday afternoons
Miss Pangle, new vocational
guidance director, gave the Strong
Vocational Interest Blanks to about
fifty of the members of the Senior
class. This is the first phase of the
Vocational Guidance program that
is being started this semester. The
blanks were only given to seniors
at this time because there is less
time to work with them now on
vocational guidance.
This series of blanks was not a
test. It is designed to show a per
son’s fields of interest. Miss Pangle
plans to combine the intelligence
tests taken during the freshman
year here at Salem and the Sopho
more Comprehensives, and thereby
get an overall picture of each in
dividual girl. After these Strong
Blanks are scored and studied Miss
Pangle will work individually with
interests and possible ideas for
jobs and placement. Additional per
sonality and interest tests may be’
given separately later on to go
further into each personal study.
Students Give
Music Recital
The School of Music presented a
Students’ Recital in Memorial Hall
at 4 P.M. Thursday, February 13. The
program consisted of the follow
ing: “Arioso,” Bach-Pirani, Sara
Hamrick; “Lasciatemi Morire,”
Monteverdi, Lila Fretwell; “Sonata
in E minor,” Haydn, Polly Ilarrop;
“Spirate pur Spirate,” Donaudy,
Mary Louise Huntley; “Andante
con variazione,” Beethoven, Fay
Chambers; “Du bist wie eine
Blume,” Schumann, Wesley Snyder;
“May Night,” Palmgren, Mary
Brown Hill; “La fille aux cheveux
de lin,” Debussy, Jean Sloan; “In
Spanish Mood” and “Mischief,”
Tansnian, Eula 5Eae Cain; “Gretchen
at the Spinning Wheel,” Schubert,
Gwendolyn Youn^; “Traumerei,”
Richard Strauss, Virginia Summers;
‘■‘The Linden Tree,” Schubert, Jean
McNew; “Prelude, Fugue and
Variation,” Franck, Mary Hunter
Hockney;' “Visions Fugitives,”
PdokofiefE, Carolyn i\irr.
Annual Staff Sponsors
1947 Salem Male Review
Seniors Plan
Spring Recitals
The Salem College School of Music
has announced the schedule of grad
uation recitals for the spring of
1947. They are as follows:
March 10—Gwendolyn Mendenhall
Yount
March 24—Jane Mulhollem
April 14—Jean McNew
April 21—Rebecca Clapp
May 0—Mary Hunter Hackney
May 12—Sara Haltiwanger
May 19—Carolyn Furr
Salem Players
Present Plays
The Salem Players will present
two plays Thursday, February 20,
The first play is “Music on the
Menue,” a comedy, by Alice Dono
van. Included in the cast are Betty
Shepp, Sal Mills, Betty McBrayer,
Betsy McAuley, Rebecca Huggins,
Anies Day, Jimmy Littlejohn, Glenn
Taylor, and Ed Bean. The second
play is an unusual drama called “A
Poet Passes” by Paul Gant. The
cast includes Virginia Sergeant,
Joyce Martin, and Jimmy Smith
This is the first performance since
the formation of the Salem Players.
The club was organized this fall
and its purpose is to crente an in
terest for all classes in dramatics.
Anyone with dramatic interest or
talent is eligible. By joining the
Salem Players, one may gain points
that are necessary to get into the
Pierrettes.
Admission to the plays is $.25.
IRC Will Have
Forum Monday
Colette Spiegelberg and Evie Knox
will be the principal speakers at
the meeting of the International
Relations Club Monday evening at'
:45. After their short talks about
France, there will be an informal
liscuasion by the other members of
he club. Refreshments will be
served.
Anyone who wishes to become a
member of the International Rela
tions Club is invited to this meet
ing. Members are reminded to bring
their dues to the meeting or to pay
them to Emma Mitchell, treasurer
of the club.
Any member of the club who also
belongs to the Pierettes is requested
to attend the Pierette meeting.
Blanche Thebom Has Pulchritude, Personality
by Peggy Davis
Blanche Thebom was as gracious
signing autographs for fifty awed
teen-agers as she was snging arias
for the thousands of awed music
lovers who thronged Reynolds’ aud
itorium Monday night. Her poised
dignity and radiant smile are not
stage affectations. She is genuinely
beautiful a brunette with greenish-
blue eyes, a wide mouth and a
thoroughly AmeTican look. She
doesn’t even have an accent.
And her success story fills all the
Cinderella qualifications. Six years
ago she was pounding a typewriter
in the office of a business man in
her home town, Canton, Ohio. She
had attended business school and
had suppressed her musical aspir
ations, thinking that operatic train
ing was too expensive for the daugh
ter of a steel worker. Four years
later, on December 14, 1944, after
being “discovered” by a former
accompanist of Marian Anderson
when she sang in a ship’s concert
during a voyage with her parents
to their native Sweden, Blanche
Tliebom was making her debut at
NewYork’s Metropolitan Opera. Her
superb mezzo-soprano voice made
a magnificent .impact on America’s
musical world. Since then she has
had two opera seasons and four
concert tours under the magic touch
of S. Hurok.
Miss Thebom’s stage presence is
tremendously impressive. She wore
a very low-cut gown of heavy rust-
brown velveteen with a full train
that she managed with Amazing
grace. She signaled her accompanist
by a hardly noticeable tilt of her
head. She commented bn programmed
numbers fluently and sang several
humorous encores—the line of her
last encore ended, “If you want
anymore, sing it yourself.”
Back stage she smiled and spoke
to each of the wide-eyed little auto
graph fiends. She even carried on
an animated five-minute eonversa-
{Con tinned on Back
I It’s almost here—that most ex
citing and entertaining event, the
Male Review 1 This contest is held
annually to pick the winners of
the coveted title, Salem’.s Pin-Up
Men. Salem girls enter their favorite
pictures of their favorite fellows.
These are placed in review and then
the doors are thrown open for the
voting. The winners are chosen by
the number of votes cast for them
and arc formally given their titles
for the year.
This year the contest will be held
in the Club Dining Room, Tuesday
afternoon and night, 3-6, and 7-9.
Winners will be chosen for the
following ten titles:
Cutest
Best Looking'Cocd
Best Looking Import
The Boy You’d Like to Marry
The Boy You’d Like to Spend an
Hour With in The May I>oll
Freshman Favorite
Sophomore Favorite
Junior Favorite
Senior Favorite
The big winner and absolute cham
pion of the contest will be named
Salem’s Dream Boy.
Added Attraction
Wonderful entertainment will bo
furnished during the afternoon from
to (>—the Coeds are putting on
Fashion Show! This event will
feature their impressions of Salem
Girls and they will wear appropriate
costumes. This groat extra feature
will J>e an added attraction to the
main event and shown in conjunction
with it.
The admission at any time during
the day will be 10c, and votes are
Ic each, pictures to be entered should
be given to Jean Griffin, Carolyn
Taylor, or Rosamond Putzel by
Monday. There is a 5c entrance fee
for each picture. The Annual Staff
is sponsoring this event.
Walton Leads
Dance Figure
Henrietta Walton, president of
the Athletic Association, will head
the receiving line at the Valentine’s
Dance Saturday night with Bill
McKenzie. Following will be Jean
Sullivan, “Snookie” Proctor, Miss
Helen Stout, Miss Adole Pangle,
Miss Josei>hine Wilson, and Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Goodale. Every girl
should ifrtroduce herself and ' iier
date to each person in the receiving
line.
Music by Harold Gale’s Orchestra
will begin at 8:30 with the first card
dance beginning at 9:00. There will
be two dances for each numb.-r on
the cards, and the la.st one vvill
end at 11:45. The dance will function
similarly to the Christmas da^ice.
Each girl will meet her date under
the letter of her last name.
At 10:45 Henrietta Walton will
lead the figure with Bill McKenzie.
Other officers of the Athletic As
sociation who will be in the figure
are Jean Sullivan, vice-president,
with “Snookie” Proctor; Peggy
Watkins, secretary, with Jimmy
Gunn and Ann Carothers, treasur
er, with Stewart Gregg.
The council members who will
also be in the figure are as follows:
Ticka Senter with John Morrow.
Margaret West with Charles Vernon,
Ann Barber wth Claude Strickland
Betsy John Forrest with Bud Ed
wards, Ruby Moye with Charlie
Stokes, Carolyn Taylor with Tommy
Craft, Anne Finley with Ed Eden,
Eaton Seville with Bill Boyd, Mary
Porter Evans with A1 DiZerega,
yirtie Stroup with Roy Mosse, and
Maria Hicks with J. W. Brooks.