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Volume XXVII.
Salem College. Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, May 9, 1947.
Number 25
Administration Announces
Leave For Miss Hixson
News Commentary
Miss Ivy Hixon, academic dean*
at Salem College, lias been granted
a leave of absence for 1947-48 to
continue ’work on her doctor of phi-
losoi)liy degree at the University of
North Carolina. An announcement
to this effcct came from the Ad
ministration of Salem College this
morning.
Dr. Minnie Smith, head of the de
partment of classical languages, -will
assume the position of acting dean
in Miss Hixou’s absence, it was
stated.
Dean Hixon came to Salem Col
lege in the fall of 1930 as instructor
in Latin and History. She served
suecessefully in that capacity and
in 1942-43 was given leave of ab
sence to do further post-graduate
work. L’pon her return in 1943, Miss
Hixon was appointed dean of the
College, a position which she holds
at present.
Miss Hixon holds a B. A. degree
from the University of Georgia and
an M. A. degree from the University
of North Carolina, and has done pro
fessional study at the American
Academy in Rome, the University
of Michigan, and Duke University.
DEAN HIXSON
"Y" Appoints
Committees
Choral Group
ives Concert
e
The Davidson College Male Chor
us, under the direction of Earl F.
Berg, will present a concert in Me
morial Hall Tuesday evening, May
13, at So’lock. Composed of forty-
six selected voices, the group is
rated one of the finest male chor
uses in the South. Members of the
chorus have participated in the pre-
seutatill|n of Hhndel’s “Messiah”
and “The Pirates of Pensance” this
year, and the group broadcasted
over CBS to the entire nation on
Saturday, April 12, from New York.
Sponsored by the Salem Y. W. C.
A. and the Choral Ensemble the
chorus will arrive at Salem at 5:30
Tuesday afternoon. Along with the
Y cabinets of both schools and the
Choral Ensemble, the chorus will eat
dinner in the Club Dining Eoom.
Following the concert, a party for
the various groups will be held in
the Day Student’s Center.
Admission to the concert is fifty
cents and the tickets are being sold
by the Choral Ensemble.
Seniors Get
Test Schedule
The senior comprehensive exami
nations for 1940-47 will be given on
two separate days within the week
May 12-17. These |Comprehensiye
examinations shall challenge the
students to demonstrate a compre
hensive view of a particular field,
to show grasp of. her major sub
ject, and to indicate ability to cor
relate, analyze or synthesize. They
are given to find out what the stud
ent knows rathfr than what she
does not know.
Following are the dates for the
comprchensives in the various fields:
HistoiT!', May 13, 2-5 p. m.. May
15, 2-4 p. m.; Spanish, May 13, 2-4
p. m., May 15, 2-5 p. m.; Latin,
May 13, 2-4 p. m., May 15, 2-5 p. m.;
French, May 14, 2-5. p. m. May 15,
2-4 p. m.; Economics-Sociology,
May 13, 2-5 p. m., May 15, 2-4 p. m.;
Education-Psychplogy, May 14, 2-5
p. m.. May 13, 2-4 p. m.; English,
May 13, 3-5 p. m.. May 16, 3-6 p. m.
The annual retreat of thC Y. W.
C. A. was a supper meeting at Arden
Farm on Tuesday. The. new com
mittee heads announced are: Mary
Willis, “Y” Store; Betty McBrayer,
“Y“ Watch; Betty Wolfe, social;
Mary Billings and Helen Creamer,
music; Catherine Moore, W. S. S. F.;
Betty Peirce, community service;
Helen Creamer, coke machine; Vir
ginia Smith, room committee and
scrap book; Margaret Carter, pub
licity; Peggy Watkins, posters;
Mary Harriet White, research; Ruth
Lenkoski, religious discussion; Dot-
tie Covington, clothing.
The ‘*Y” is planning an exchange
of vesper programs, religious em
phasis week with Mr. “Scotty”
Cowan “scheduled bull session” for
any students interested in sharing
ideas, better cooperation with the
city Y. W. 0. A. , Salem-Daviilson
day, and similar days with ten other
nearby schools.
Committee chairmen of the old
cabinet gave reports and suggest
ions to the new cabinet and Cath
erine Moore, treasurer, presented
last year’s budget.
Economists See
Price Decline
On Horizon
The result of President Truman’s
plea for lower prices was felt even
at Salem when the cost of bubble
gum came down from ten cents to
six cents a pack. Seriously, however,
the wage-verses-price problem has
been a difficult one since last Nov
ember, when most government con
trols on prices wer emoved. The hope
was that the forces of demand and
supply would lower inflated prices,
but the outcome was that most pri
ces are higher now than they were
in October, some are still rising.
For iwo weeks, at the request of
the President, there has been a cam
paign to lower prices, particularly
those of food. To reduce food costs
in general it would be necessary
first to cut down farm prices. .The
New York Times says, “The rise in
farm prices has been the basic fac
tor in food costs since 1939. Since
that date retail food prices have
risen 140 per cent, but farm prices
have risen 180 per cent.”
The picture was rather gloomy
when the President’s plea for lower
prices came. The spread of mark
down prices by retailers was spotty,
but encouraging, especially to some
housewives who had the unusual ex
perience of finding articles reduced
from 50 cents to 10 cents. The Nat
ional Association of wholesalers pro
posed steps to keep prices down, and
their report was greeted by the
President as “a fine response.”
Quizzer Notes
Interest Lags
Like the pre-symposium sym
posium, we want to probe. We won’t
however, make this a series of lec
tures on the Lecture Series, but rath
er a “detecture”.
ilake your wishes known to
the Lecture Series Committee.
Eva Martin Bullock: “People
that can talk.”
Mart Harrison: “If we had a
chance to meet the speakers before
hand and find out that they are hu
man beings with something to say
I think there would be more en
thusiasm.”
Kosalie Green: “Local celebri
ties—Paul Green, etc. Put zip into
the advertising.”
Nancy McColl: “An augmented
budget would help.”
Gloria Paul: “I think better pub
licity would help. Students who
take time to do nothing, certainly
should take time to do something
like supporting the Lecture Se
ries.”
Watson, Bowers To Be
Senior House Presidents
Salem Players Score Unusual Hit
MISS JESS BYRD
Byrd Leads
Lecture Group
Jfiss Joss Byrd has been appoint
ed chairman of the Lecture Com
mittee for 1947-48. She presided
at a dinner meeting. In the club
dining room on Wednesday to con
sider the program for the next year.
Among the chief topics for dis
cussion at this meeting were reas
ons for the lack of student attend
ance at the lectures this year. “The
main objective of the lecture com
mittee in planning a program for
1947-1848 is to make a program
which will appeal to the students,”
according to Miss Byrd.
The committee which has been
ably headed by Dr. Noble McEwen
for the past throe years is made
up of both students and faculty.
The faculty members for the year
1947-48, include Miss Byrd, Robert
Leach, Peter Mann, Miss Edith
Kii'kland, Miss Lelia Graham Marsh
Miss Grace Siewers, and Mr. David
Weinland. Student representatives
for 1947-48 are: Peggy Davis, Jane
Iforris, Carolyn Taylor, and Ruth
Lenkoski. Student representatives
are chosen from all classes in order
to get a cross-section of student
opinion. Representatives from the
Academy are Miss Laura Sumner
from the faculty, and Lee Flesh-
man and Natalie Goodman from the
students. Representatives from the
city are Mrs. M. G. Sanders from
the Junior League, and Mrs. Agnew
Bahnson from the Alumni Asso
elation. Last year’s student rep
resentatives also serving on the
committee are Martha Lou Heitman,
Cat Gregory, Mary Porter Evans,
and Frances Horne.
by Peirano Aiken
For two years we have attended
Salem’s dramatic eiforts with mixed
feelings of apprehension and duti
ful loyalty to what is fondly called
“home talent.” However, after the
first ten minutes of The Importance
of Being Earnest, -we happily real
ized that any misgivings were un
founded. Without feeling too
guilty about letting our ego show,
as Dr. !Mackie said, we might add
that the Salem Players performance
far excelled the Winston-Salem Ijit-
far excelled the Winston-Salem Lit-
Dulcy.
Oscars, if we had them, would go
to Jimmy Littlejohn, who as Al
gernon evoked Wilde’s epigrams
with almost professional natural
ness, and to Jean McNew, who ex
ploited all the character possibili
ties in Lady Bracknell. Second
honors go to Nancy Shields who
was a properly pristine Miss Prism,
and Wesley Snyder, who managed in
a few lines to convince us that he
really was the sophisticated, re
sourceful Merrimon. (We would
like to see him in a movie version
of Jeeves.)
One of the things we learned in
the course of the freshman year was
that it is indiscriminate and most
unfashionable to say that every
thing about anything ' is good.
Therefore, we shall try to be criti
cal. Although the audience caught
and responded to most of the lines,
many good witticisms suffered in
glorious death by being swallowed
in good Southern fashion. An
other speech difficulty, which rather
startled us, was the combination of
English vowels and Carolina drawl.
Littlejohn and McNew, on the oth
er hand, achieved an English enun
ciation very commendable, when one
considers their lack of professional
experience.
A background of authenticity was
furnished by attractive late-Victor-
ian costumes and scenery. It seems
a wise decision for Pierrettes and
Salem Players to continue ordering
their costumes from professional
houses. The advantages are two
fold: the costumes are usually bet
ter looking, and helpful Miss Essie
is not /divested of all her shawls
and bonnets. The effect of the twi-
light glow in the second act was
very pretty, but it was hardly in
keeping with the time of the ac
tion, which was early afternopn.
The unusual success of The Im
portance of Being Earnest both in
acting and in audience response
seems to us to give a positive an
swer to a question long debated in
Salem dramatic circles: Can our
amateurs give a really first-class
play? Admittedly, the performance
was by no means professional, but
it was so superior to the usual sec
ond-rate creations that it is sig
nificant proof of the value of good
play—both for the stimulation of
the actors and the enjoyment of the
audience.
* Marilyn Watson was elected house
president of Bitting Dormitory and
Agnes Bowers was elected house
president, of Strong Dormitory, in
elections held by the seniors Wed
nesday night.
Marilyn, a rising senior from
Charlotte, defeated Ann Mills and
Lomie Lou Mills. Since she has
been at Salem she has been a mem
ber of the Freshman Dramatic
Club, Spanish Club, Modern Dance
Club, and an especially active mem
ber of the Pierrettes.
Aggie, of Morganton, N. C., has
been, a member of the International
Relations Club, French Club, has
worked on both the Salemlte and
Sights and Insights, and has served
on the May Day Committee. The
other candidate in this election was
Jane McElroy.
Gaither Heads
Drama Club
Marian Gaither was elected in
coming president of the Pierrettes
at their meeting Monday night.
Other officers for the new cabinet
are Marilyn Watson, vice-president;
Peirano Aiken, secretary; and El
eanor Davidson, treasurer.
Plans also were made for a dinner
and initiation service for new Pier
rette members who did outstanding
work this year with the Salem Play
ers.
Editors Attend
Press Meet
Peggy Davis, Salemlte editor, and
Marion Gaither, Senior editor of
Sights and Insights, will represent
the Salem College publicatons at the
reorganization meeting of the North
Carolina Collegiate Press Associa
tion to be held in Raleigh this week.
The program for the meeting to
day included seminars on make-up,
new approaches to copy, and the re-
la,tionships of construction to readi-
bility. The delegates attended meet
ings divided into discussion gfoups
to consider editorial, art, and bus
iness problems that confront publi
cations. Josephus Daniels is the
speaker for the banquet tonight.
Afterwards the State College publi
cations staffs will entertain at a
dance. Business sessons will com
plete the meeting Saturday morning
This will be the first meeting of
the N. C. 0. P. A. to bo held sineo
the war influenced activities on col
lege campuses. Student publications
of all North Carolina colleges will
be represented at the meet.
Jane Morris
To Head IRC
Jane Morris was elected president
of the International Relations Club
for 1947-48 at a business meeting
Thursday. Janie is a rising senior
from ]Mocksville and is majoring in
History and English. She will also
serve as business manager of Sights
and Insights, on the A. A. Council,
and on the May Day Committee
next year.
Other officers of the club will bo
elected at the first meeting of the
organization next fall.
Mr. Robert Leach addressed tho
members of the club last night. Ho
related some of his personal war
time experiences in the Civilian
Public Service. Mr. Leach served
in Maryland, Oregon, and Virginia.