Volume XXVII.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 14, 1947.
Number 19.
Three Cleisses Elect Presidents
Arts Forum
Will Include
Salem Work
Salem students will be represented
at the fourth annual Arts Forum
to bo held in Greensboro on March
20, 21, and 22. The forum concerns
college students’ work in music,
writing, art, the theater, and the
dancc; it is sponsored by the Wo
man’s College.
A short story, Quarter Past Four,
by Rosamond Putzel, is included in
those to be discussed on th« fiction
forum. Carolyn Furr will play her
composition “Dance” for the piano.
Eebeeca Clapp’s song “Lost” will
be sung by the composer, with Sarah
Haltiwanger as accompanist. The
Modern Dance Club will present a
choreography called “Lead ’em
Out” composed by the group; the
music for this was arranged by
Margaret Vardell.
The Arts Forum was originally
planned to include only those col
leges in the vicinity of North Caro
lina. It has been expanded to take
work from representative American
Schools.
Sponsors
Stunt Night
Stunt Night takes place tonight
at seven thirty in the Old Chapel.
I'^ch class will present a skit.
One prize, a cash prize of five
dollars, will be given to the class
presenting the best skit, the skits
being judged by Mrs. James K.
Paul of Winston-Salem; a faculty
member Miss Elizabeth Hedgecock;
and a member of the administra
tion, Mr. Peter Mann.
Admission to the skits is fifteen
cents, and chances for a cake to
be raffled off between the skits will
be sold at the door. The proceeds
from the sale of tickets and chances
will go to the W. S. S. F., in hopes
of reaching the close-by $1,000
mark—a mark which will top
iSiilem’s W. S. S. F. budget.
Lerch To Lead
Civic Orchestra
Mr. Janies .Lerch, head of the
violin department, will conduct the
concert of the Winston-Salem Orch
estra at 8:30 p. m., March 19 in
Memorial Hall.
The program will consist of:
“Piano Concerto in D Minor” by
Mozart, ‘ ‘ Symphony No. 1 in C
Major” by Beethoven, “Overture
to Egmont” by Beethoven and “In
termezzo” form 'Cavaleria Bustican-
na’ by Mascagni.
This will be the first performance
of the Civic Orchestra, and Mr.
Lerch’s first appearance here in
this capacity. The organization of
the orchestra was partly the re
sult of Mr. Lerch’s appointment
through a grant-in-aid which was
given Salem by the Juilliard School
Music in New Tork, with the
'*rtderstanding that the community
^ould benefit from his presence
here.
Tickets will be sold by the Salem
College Chorale Ensemble and any
Oiember of the orchestra for sixty
®ents.
BEVEBLY JOHNSON
NELL PENN WATT
ANNE DUNGAN
60 Chemists
Will Meet
Here Soon
The Piedmont Section of the
American Chemical Society will
meet here at Salem College on
Thursday, March 20th. Approxi
mately sixty leading chemists from
this territory will be present for
dinner Thursday night and for a
meeting to be held afterwards in
the old chapel. Dr. H. Mark of
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
will be the speaker of the evening
session and will discuss “Mechan
isms of Polymerization Reactions”.
The American Chemical Society is
one of the most active and highly
organized professional groups in our
country. They are responsible for
.'the publifljiition of the technical
magazines in this field and have
encouraged and united chemists all
over the world.
Several of the advanced chemistry
students of the Salem Science De
partment will attend the meeting.
Goossens Predicts Future
For Women Musicians
Dean Vardell
Attends Meet
Charles G. Vardell, Jr., Dean of
School of Music, Salem College rep
resented the school at the 22nl an
nual meeting of the National As
sociation of Schools of Music held
recently at the Hotel Jefferson, St.
Louis, Missouri. The Association is
the only national accrediting body
for educational institutions in the
field of music in the United States.
Its membership consists of more than
one hundred and sixty of the fore
most colleges, universities, and con
servatories of music throughout the
nation, including a select list of pre
paratory schools and junior colleges
MAEGAKET EAYNAL
BETSY HONEY
Raynal, Boney Are Elected
To Head Annual, May Day
Margaret Raynal was elected
editor of the Sights and Insights for
next year by members of the ris
ing senior class. Margaret has served
as cartoonist for the Salemite this
year; she has also been art editor
of the annual and a member of the
May Day committee. In previous
years she has served on the Y. W. C.
A. cabinet and the legislative board
and has been a member of the
French Club. Catherine Gregory was
the other candidate for the office.
Miss Betsy Boney of Kinston,
North Carolina was elected Chairman
of the May Day Committee for
1948 in Assembly, Thursday. Since
she has been at Salem, Betsy has
been active as a member of the
Spanish Club, the Stirrups Club, In
ternational Relations Club, and the
Freshman Dramatic Club. During
her Sophomore and Junior years
she has be^n on the Salemite staff,
and this year she is serving on
the May Day Committee having
charge of costumes. Betsy, is also
one of the Junior marshalls this
year. Jane McElroy was the other
candidate for Chairman of the Mayj
I>ay Comjnittee.
By Frances Winslow
The Winston-Salem Civic Music
Association presented The Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra under the
direction of Eugene Goossens Tues
day night, March 11, in Reynolds
.\uditorinm. The Orchestra played
to a large and responsive audience.
The program opened with the bril
liant Overture to the “Roman Car
nival”. Opus 9 by Berlioz. The next
number, Prelude, “The Afternoon
of a Faun” by Debussy showed
thoughtful, poetic interpretation,
particularly in the expressive rendi
tion of the solo by the flutist.
Tchaikovsky’s Overture Fantasia,
“Francesca da Rimini” was filled
with many haunting themos which
vividly described a poet’s journey
into hell. The sharp, sudden con
trasts of loud and soft passages
came to a whirlwind climax with
the rapid tempo of the strings.
Following intermission the remaind
er of the program consisted of the
l^erformance of Cesar Franck’s
Symphony in D minor. The weaving
of the various themes of this long,
complex work wa% expertly done
with careful precision and artistic
expression. Throughout the symphony
the intensity of feeling built up un
til the final movement, when the
first theme triumphantly reentered
and carried the symphony to a dra
matic climax. The two contrasting
encores, “ifarch” from Coq d’Or by
Rimsky-Korsakoff, and “Immola
tion Scene” from Gotterdammerung
by Wagner were well received.
During intermission the conductor,
Mr. Goossens received your Salemite
reporter in his small dressing room
baekstago to give a “behind the
Scene” view of the eighty-two men
and four women who were giving
such an inspiring concert. “Only
half of my orchestra are native
Americans.” said Mr. Goossens in a
crisp English accent, “We have at
h;ast eight or nine nationalities rep
resented.”
When asked about the four wo
men in his orchestra, Mr. Goossens
quickly exclaimed, ‘‘Yes! There
were more during the years of the
war. I believe there will be more
women in the field of orchestra in
the future—that is, if they are
good enough.”
At the end of this, his last sea
son with the Cincinnati Symphony,
Mr. Goossens will go to Sydney,
Australia to conduct the Sydney
Symphony and to become head of
the Conservatory of New South
Wales.
May Day Green
Comes With Spring
Keep off the grass
That’s your ta^I
The results of the election of
class presidents was announced to
day. Anne Dungan is president of
the rising senior class; Nell Penn
Wiitt will load next year’s junior
class; and Beverly Johnson is the
sophomore president.
Senior Class President
Anne Dungan has been active in
various campus organizations in tho
past three years. She was a repre
sentative to the Legislative Board of
Student Government her freshman
and sophomore years and was sec
retary of the Legislative Board her
sophomore year. She has been a
ni(^iber of the Home Economics
Club all three years and was vice-
president this year. She has been a
member of the Lablings, the Spanish
Club and the Modern Dance Club,
and served on the editorial staff
of the Salemite for the past two
years. Peggy Gray was the other
candidate for the office.
Junior Class President
Nell Penn Watt won out over
Louise Dodson for junior class presi
dent. Nell Penn has been active
in sports, being a member of the
class hockey and softball teams
her freshman and sophomore years.
She made freshman sub-varsity in
softball and is on the sophomoro
hockey varsity. She has worked on
the business staff of tho Salemite
for two years and is costume chair
man of the May Day Committee.
Acitive, too, in Student Govern
ment she was a freshman represen
tative to the Legislative Board and
sophomore representative to the
Judicial Board.
Sophomore Class President
Beverly Johnson of Mayodan, a
freshman this year, defeated Louise
Stacy for the office of sophomoro
class president. Beverly was elected
into the Latin Club this year and
was chosen manager of tho fresh
man basketball team. She made tho
Dean’s List first semester.
Speech Choir
Will Broadcast
Salem College will again be on
the air next Friday, Maich 21, at
8:00 P. M. over station W. S. J. 8.
The Speech Choir under tho direction
of Mrs. Berglund will present tho
Choral Reading ‘^Voices of America”
with Mr. Paul Peterson singing tho
solo, “I Hear America Singing.”
This is one of a series of programs
broadcasted once a month from
Salem College campus.
Art Exhibit
Opens Mar. 26
Kenneth Evett, associate pro
fessor of art, has announced that a
contemporary American artist ex
hibition will bo on display in the
Art Gallery in Salem College Library
beginning March 26. The meeting
will last approximately a month.
Also included will be the prize-
winning oil by Evett entitled “Car
penter”. The painting placed first
in the recent North Carolina Art
contest and now belongs to the
North Carolina Art Gallery.
Different points of view will be
represented by fifteen artists, rang
ing from complete abstraction and
social conscious painting to realism.
Among tho artists to be included
in the exhibition are Ben Shahn,
Jacob Lawrence, Karl Zerbe, Bordon
Kqbinsoi