Volume XXVII.
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C, Friday, March 21, 1947
Number 20.
Mademoiselle Announces
College Fiction Contest
A College Fiction Contest offer-*
ing $1,000 in prizes is announced
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today by Mademoiselle for women
undergraduates. Manuscripts must
bo postnjarkod not later than mid
night, May 1, 1047.
Each of the two stories that show
the highest merit will be awarded
$500 for all rights and publication
in the August issue of Madem-
oisselle. Mademoiselle also reserves
the right to buy at the magazine’s
regular rate acceptable stories other
than the prize winners.
All manuscripts should be from
three thousand to five thousand
words in length. Stories should
also be typewritten, double-spaced
on one side of the paper only,
with the contestant’s name and
address, and college year. Only
manuscripts accompanied by
stamped, self-aildresstjd envelopes
will be returned.
Stories that only have been printed
in college publications may be
submitted, but they must not have
been published elsewhere.
Judges will be Mademoiselle
editors. Submitted manuscripts
must be sent to:
College Fiction Contest
MADEMOISELLE
122 East 42nd Street
New York, 17, N. Y.
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' ISAAC STERN
Civic Music Concert
Will Feature Violinist
Salem Players
Have Meeting
His Adventures
Mr. J. W. Clay was the gues
speaker in assembly on Tuesday
morning, March 18. His speech
“Adventure for a Noble Purpose,’
was the vivid account of his tri]
to Poland last suJnmer.
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On this trip, Mr. Clay, with
seven ' school boys, tended horses
that were being sent to the needy
people in Poland. The difficult
work and dangers of the voyage
were described as well as the ad
ventures he enjoyed after reach
ing his destination.
In the meeting of the Salem
Players held on Monday in Old
Chapel, Sal Mills announced May
7 and 8 as dates for the next
major production. The cast and the
committee heads have been chosen
and will be announced later. Lead-1
ing plays now running on Broadway' —
were reviewed. The Saleiu Players: IQJr
are planning a joint banquet with'
the Pierrettes in May.
Mrs. Bergland announced tryouts
for the forthcoming Pierrette pro
duction. Practice for the contest
play to be presented in Chapel Hill
has. begun.
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Music Students
Have Program
Mrs. Berglund announced tryouts
music by American composers was
held in Memorial Hall on Thursday,
March 20, at 4:00 o’clock. The pro
gram was as follows: Moon Market
ing by Powell Weaver, Jean Mc-
New; Pleading by A. Walter
Kramer, Jack Crim; Two Preludes
by George Gershwin, Lomie Lou
Mills; My Little Mohee by John
Jacob Niles, Helen Creamer, Jose
phine Patterson; Lost by Rebecca
Clapp, Rebecca Clapp; By A Lonely
Forest Pathway by Griffes, Dorothy
,Anglin; Dance by Carolyn Furr,
Carolyn Furr; Tell Me, O Blue Blue
Sky by Victor Giannini, Peggy Sue
Taylor; Lullaby for Marie-Brunette
•by Margaret Vardell, Jane Mul-
hollem^ Little Suite "Bells,” “Sad
l^ews,” “Children at Play,” “Slup-
ber” by Jfoy Harris, Sara Halti-
^ anger; Let "My Song FlU Your
Heart by Ernest Charles, Betty Lou
Ball; The Lawyer by Vaughan-
Williams, Paul Peterson, James
Lerch.
Tliis concert consisted solely of
music by contemporary American
^mposers with the exception of
Iiawyer by Vaughan-Williams,
a- contemporary English composer.
Two of the numbers were written
^•nd performed i>y Salem Music
Students, Carolyn Furr and Rebecca
Clapp. In addition, Jane Mulhollem
sang one of Margaret Vardell’s
*^ompositions.
Rondthaler,
Evett Speak
To Faculty
Dr. Howard Rondthaler and Mr
Kenneth Evett were guest speakers
at the meeting of the Faculty E>-
search Group on Tuesday night
March 18, in the Arts Studio. At
the business session, Miss Jess
Byrd was elected chairman of the
group for the coming year. This
was the last meeting of this year
Dr. Howard Rondthaler began
the program with a discussion of
the administration of his father
Bishop Edward Rondthaler, as pres
ident of Salem College. The Bishop
took office in 1884, at the worst
point of the' depression following
the Civil War. Dr. Rondthaler based
his lecture on excerpts from his
father’s diary and emphasized the
handicap under which Salem worked
at that time as a result of having
operated at a loss during the war
Mr. Kenneth Evett continued the
iwogram with a talk on the process artists will vary from realistic to
of painting a picture. He illustrated abstract to “social comment”,
his statements with his own works I ^0“''dman Robinson, 70, consider-
especially his prize-winning picture
“The Carpenter.”
Chemical Group
Meets Here
The Carolina-Piedmont Section of
the American Chemical Society hold
its spring meeting in the Old Chapel
at Salem College Thursday evening,
March 20, following a dinner in
the Club Dining Room. The guest
speaker, Dr. Herman F. Mark, who
was introduced by Mr. D. E. Truax,
gave his lecture on “The Mechan
ism of Polymerization Reactions.”
Dr. Mark was born in Vienna,
Austria, where he studied at the
University and obtained his Ph.
D. degree summa cum laude in 1921.
L’^p until 1940, Dr. Mark did re
search work and became Professor
of Chemistry at the University'of
Vienna, where he stayed until the
Some of the contributors to this dismissed him. He left Europe
Art Exhibit
Opens Mar. 16
An exhibit of paintings by con
temporary American artists will go
on display in the Art Gallery of
the Salem Library, beginning March
36 and lasting approximately one
month.
exhibit are Ben Shahn, Jacob Law
rence, Karl Zerbe, Bordon Robin
son, and Anton Refrigor. Mr. Ken
neth Evett, who placed first in
the $1,000 art competition of the
in 1938, became Research Manager
of the Canadian International Paper
Company in Ontario.
At the present time. Dr. Mark
has a professorship in organic
display his prize winning painting
entitled “The Carpenter.”
Mr. Evett is responsible for the
display of the other artists, who
range in age from 70 years to the
late teens. The work of the different
ed the leading illustrator of this
country, according to Mr. Evett, will
display a group of his paintings.
These will illustrate “Moby Dick”.
The director of painting of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Karle
Zerbe, will exhibit paintings also.
Salem College will be represented
by Sue Moore from Winston-Salem.
Her work is purely in the abstract
manner.
Kenneth Ness, professor of art at
the University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, will be the only other
North Carolina artist.
Another feminine artist, Minna
Citron from New York, will be
represented. She has recently had
her work well received by the
critics at her show in New York
City.
The expressionist approach to
painting will be seen in the work of
Paul Burlen. Bernard Karfiol a semi-
realist, and Mr. Burlen are both
older painters of the group to ex
hibit here.
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North Carolina Art Society, will' ®i^®™istry at the Polytechnic In-
■ ' stitute of Brooklyn. Besides being
the author of many books, Dr.
Mark has done research work in
X-Rays, electron diffraction, and
the structure of high polymers. He
is a member of the American
Chemical Society, the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science, in New York, Vienna,
Budapest, Madrid, and Bucharest.
Speech Choir
Performs Today
The Speech Choir, under th
direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Bor
glund, will present “Salem on the
Air” tonight, at eight o’clock over
Station WAIR.
The speech choir will deliver a
poetic drama, “Voices of the Past.”
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler will al
so be featured on the program. He
will open the drama with the read
ing of the first chapter of Genesis,
and Mr. Paul Peterson, will sing a
cantata ‘‘I Hear America Singing”,
The Salem College Men’s Chorus
will also make its radio debut with
the singing of “Lo, How A Rose
E’er Blooming.”
The program consists of selections
from the poetry of Walt Whitman
and selections from philosophers of
past ages. These are given inter
changeably by the speech choir. The
philosophers represented are Con
fucius, Plato, Jesus, Spinoza, Locke
and Thomas Jefferson.
^ txiu iiioiiias jeiicrsuii.
ctv ivic OvchestrcL Gives Interesting Pvogram
By Barbara Ward
The Winston-Salem Civic Orches
tra played to a capacity audienc
at Its first concert on Wednesday
evening March 19, 1947, in Memor
lal Hall. Mr. j^mes Lerch con-
ducted and Mrs. Marjorie Keige
Halpern was guest soloist. The
ofthestra was organized and spon
sored by a number of leading citi
zens an includes people from all
walks of life personnel. This
concert was sponsored by the Junior
League.
Mr. James Lerch of Salem College
has organized and conducted this
appointed to
TT f * T. original committee
e as had ample training in this
wor and is vitally interested in the
development of the music field in
is ^ Cl y. His conducting showed a
preciseness of technique as he
brought coordination to the orchestra
^ He was graciou
to both the orchestra, and the aud
lence.
Mrs. Marjorie Keiger Halpern is
^ resident of Winston-Salem. She
began her study here and continued
it at both Hollins College and
Eastman School of Music in Bo
Chester, N. Y. The orchestra and
Mrs. Halpern played the “Concerto
in D minor” by Mozart to begin
the second half of the program
Mrs. Halpern was under a strain,
having been ill for several days
but none of this showed in her
playing. She played with facility
and did not seem overtaxed. Of the
three movements, the “Romanza”
showed the best understanding of
the style. The “Rondo” was bril
liant and impressive.
The program was begun with
B«ethoVen’s “Symphony in C
major.” The fourth movement was
particularly interesting as the the
matic material was passed from
section to section. The ‘‘Inter
Him “that ye may know Him and
the power of His resurrection.”
Just now we must adventure with
mezzo Sinfonica” from “Cavalaria
Rusticana” by Mascagni brought in
the harp as solo instrument. The
“Overture to E g m o n t” by
Beethoven brought the concert to
a brilliant close. This composition
was the best thing on the program
from the standpoint of progrim
value. The “Syncopated Clock” by
Leroy Anderson made a delightful
encore. The tympani player imitated
the “tick-tock” of a clock with
syncopated taps on a wooden box
The encore and the Mascagni “In
termezzo” were particularly well re
ceived by the audience.
. Several of the thirty-six persons
in the orchestra are familiar to
Salem students besides the conduc
tor. Miss Jean Sloan was featured
on the harp in the second number
‘Pete” Smith played both the
clarinet and the saxophone. Wolf
gang Siebel was in the first violin
section. Mr. Peter Mann was one
of the three trumpet players.
, Issac Stern, concert violinist, will
be presented by the dlvic Music
Association at the Reynolds Audi
torium, Thursday March 27, at
8:30 P. M.
Issac Stern is twenty-six years
old and made his concert debut at
the age of eleven, lie began the
study of piano when he was six
but changed to the violin within
two years. Mr. Stern was born in
Russia but moved to the United
States before ho was one year old.
Since then hp has called San Fran
cisco his home. He has played with
the major orchestras at Carnegie
Hall and on tl^e Concert Stage
throughout the country. Ho has also
toured the country on two U. S. O.
tours. His skill has won for him the
name of “master fiddle player.”
Rondthaler Is
Chapel Speaker
Dr. Rondthaler was the guest
speaker in Assembly on Thursday.
He spoke of the width of our
horizons today, partifcularly just
now at the beginning of the spring
season of the year.
Is the ride into Jerusalem on
Palm Sunday with the man on the
beast included in our horizons?
Does it have any impact upon our
emotions and inner consciousness?
Dr. Rondthaler quoted from the
Bible the statement that should
bo uppermost in our minds in these
next few weeks—“He came unto
His own and His own received Him
not.” We stand today in judgment
of that event of almost 2000 years
ago.
Among the name days of that
week is also Maunday Thursday.
Its name was so given because
of Christ’s command on that night
at the Lord’s Supper, “This do.”
Good Friday, known as the day of
the betrayal and the night of the
trial, and the Great Sabbath, the
day of the Passover on which Christ
Jay in the tomb, carry a challenge
today to widen our horizons.
Again we see how Christ ex
perienced great hostility from his
tamily, friends, and disciples as
well as from his enemies. Every
one turned against him, taunting
him, and saying he was beside him-
^If. ‘He camev unto His own and
His own received Him not.”
Photo Contest
Is Announced
The second annual 50 print Col
legiate PhcJtography Exhibition,
sponsored by Kappa Alpha Mu,
national pictorial journalism honor
fraternity, will be held at the Uni
versity of Missouri during “Jour
nalism Week,” W. J. Bell, secretary,
announced today.
Deadline for entries is April 30
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Prints will be judged by three
outstanding judges, who will also
select those for representation in
the fourth annual “Fifty Print”
professional show.
The winner of the show will re
ceive a new Eastman twin-lens re- '
flex camera, donated by “Popular
Photography” magazine.
Floyd Bright, University of Okla
homa, was last year’s winner. He
received ^a week’s all-expense paid
trip to Chicago.
Fifty-eight photographers, rep
resenting 16 colleges and universi
ties, submitted 185 prints last year.
Any college or university stu
dent is eligible to enter from one
to eight prints, using news, features
or pictorial subject matter.
There is no entry fee, but pic
tures must be sent prepaid. Prints
may be any size but must be
mounted on standard 16” x 20”
boards.