We have finished for the year
With blood, sweat and many a
tear.
This is our last Salemite
To our Sorrow and Delight
Volume XXIX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, May 13, 1949
Number X X. s
YWCA Honors Rondthalers
Rondthaler
Speaks
In Chapel
Dr. Eondthaler reviewed his forty
years at Salem at assembly yester
day. Explicitly the audience heard
about the things, the persons, the
dreams and ideals that figured in
his presidency. Implicitly they saw
a bit into the president himself.
On an imaginary tour of the cam
pus Dr. Eondthaler pointed out the
old buildings and the new ones that
have been erected since 1909 and
little known features of each, for
no one has in his head such a store
of Salemesque as the speaker. He
informed assembly-goers, for in
stance, that the lightning rod on
Home Church stands 99.9 feet tall;
that the picture of the mountains
in the Beading Boom hangs appro
priately on the west wall as a
gentle reminder for homesick moun
tain girls; and that a gymnasium
large enough for a comfortable
game of tiddledy-winks once stood
where the steam plant is. He
urged students to use the "respec
table full names” of the dormitor
ies and revealed that the "gym”
is correctly called the Pauline Bahn-
son Gray Gymnasium. Spurred on
by Miss Marsh, he "rode his
hobby-horse to the Alumnae House
and hung his saddle in the Side
Saddle Boom.” Traveling north,
he described Park Hall, where Mr.
Higgins (former head of the Scie
nce Department) had ‘ ‘ attached the
attachments and unearthed the un-
earthments until it was re-ally a mar
velously conglomerated building”.
Besides Salem ’ s architectural
features, he discussed her people.
He paid tribute to the spirit of
service found among the workmen.
Dr* Anscombe
Will Retire
The college administration has
announced this week that Dr. Fran
cis C. Anscombe will retire at the
end of this term. He has been
head of the History Department at
Salem since 1926, but in the capa
city of Emeritus head for the last
two years. He states that he has
no definite plans for the future.
He has taught at Earlham Col
lege, Guilford College, and Univer
sity of North Carolina and sum
mer school at W. C. U. N. C. He
has also been pastor of several
Quaker Churches in Canada, and,
for 15 recent months, has been the
supply pastor of the Clemmons
Moravian Church. He is president
of the Forsyth Astronomical Soci
ety, and an honorary member of
both the American Institute of
Banking and the Civitan Club.
particularly Miss Anna B u t n e r,
whose flowers grew, he said, be
cause she loves them and they love
her. With his characteristic love
of the trees he included these
stately creatures in the people he
has known and urged Salemites to
become better acquainted with them
too. Then he considered the stu
dents themselves from ’09 to ’49
and the "home-likeness” that is
possible on a small campus.
In her dreams and ideals he de
clared that Salem must (1) be
loyal to an uninterrupted past and
(2) stay in step with a progres
sive present.
Finally he read from Proverbs
about the happy man who finds
wisdom and the trust that is right
fully placed in the Lord, rather
than in man’s understanding; and
then he prayed. In a last act of
guidance he directed his audience
to the source of his own success.
GraduationSpeakers N amed
For Exercises May 29-30
Betty Holbrook Heads Y;
After Dedication Gives Sigh
by Tootsie Gillespie
Keepistream is a constant enigma.
There’s no doubt about it. Since
the first day I met her (and dis
covered we lived only fourteen
miles apart), I have been con
stantly amazed. She is a maze of
efficiency, letter-writting, and get
ting things done, but mention go
ing to a movie and a herd of
elephants couldn’t keep her out of
'her little Dodge, beating her way
through traffic to the Carolina.
At the moment, Betty has several
big irons in the fire. Comprehen-
sives have left her just a shell of
a woman but an adequate tonic is
the expectation of a trip to New
York and (I’m jealous) a trip to
Europe in July. But the biggest
event of Keepstream’s academic
year was the dedication of the
Listening Boom to the Eondthalers.
There’s no end to
Keepstream’s likes—dangling ear
rings, Italian pizza pie, a life of
travel, and unusual experiences,
Olivier’s production of Hamlet, any
kind of movie, good or bad, and
a made-up bed. If you want to
see her curls straighten, just try
BETTY HOLBROOK
popping gum in her presence!
Life with "Holey” swings on a
.constant pendulum and the thing
that’s worrying me is—where am
I going to put all those cards and
letters I’ll surely get from her
when she goes to Europe this
summer?
HAROLD A. BOSLEY
The speakers for the 177th com-^^
mencement exercises at Salem will
be Dr. Harold A. Bosley and Dr.
Walser H. Allen on May 29-30. Dr.
Bosley, Dean of the Duke Univer
sity Divinity School, will make the
commencement address in Memor
ial Hall at 11 a. m.. May 30. Dr.
Allen is to deliver *the baccalaure
ate sermon May 29.
Commencement this year will
bring to a climax Bishop Howard
E. Eondthaler’s 40 years of service
as president of Salem. He is re
tiring at the end of the term.
Dr. Bosley has been at Duke Uni
versity since 1947. Prior to that
he was pastor of Mt. Vernon Place
Church in Baltimore for nine years
and, for four years previous to
that, was director of religious acti
vities at Iowa State Teachers Col
lege. He received his A. B. de
gree from Nebraska University,
and his B. D. and Ph. D. degrees
from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Bosley also holds an honorary
degree of Doctor of Divinity
awarded him by Nebraska Wesle
yan. He is the author of The
Quest for Religious Certainty, The
Philosophical Heritage of the
Christian Faith, On Final Ground,
and Main Issues Confronting
Christendom.
Dr. Allen is pastor of the oldest
Moravian church in America, Cen
tral Moravian Church in Bethle
hem, Pa. Until his call to that
(Continued on page four)
Education Club
Sponsors Tea
On Tuesday, May 17, from 3:0b
until 5:00, the Education Depart
ment will give a tea honoring the
critic teachers from the Winston-
Salem schools. The tea will be
given in the campus date room, at
this time, the various projects done
by the Education students in con
nection with their units will be on
exhibit in the newly-decorated
education classroom. The projects
will include posters and stage set
tings.
The principals and superintend-
ants of the city and county schools
will also be invited. The tea is
under the direction of Bernice
Pierce and Mary Patience McFall,
assisted by Dr. Elizabeth Welch
and Mrs. Lucia Karnes.
WALSER H. ALLEN
Gray Presents
Annual Report
The Salemite
Financial Report
for the period:
October 1, 1948 to April
6, 1949
RECEIPTS
Balance brought forward
$278.34
Advertising
981.97
Student Budget
793.75
Subscriptions
10.25
Organization pictures
3.96
Accounts receivable
,
as of April 6, 1949
431.71
$2,499.98
DISBURSEMENTS
Sun Printing Company
$1,452.55
Journal-Sentinel
16.37
Piedmont Engraving Co.
106.37
Salem Book Store
12.77
Stamps
37.00
Miscellaneous
14.28
Accounts payable ’
as of April 6, 1949
468.18
$2,107.52
Salem Y
Dedicates
Music Room
by Liz Leland
Who says a woman can’t keep a
secret? Since before Christmas over
250 girls have kept one, a big one
too. We can all let out our breath
now and talk freely, because yester
day Betty Holbrook dedicated the
Rondthaler Listening Room to our
President and Mrs. Eondthaler dur
ing the regular Chapel period.
After Dr. Rondthaler spoke on
his "Forty Tears Service At
Salem” Betty presented the Listen
ing Boom plaque to the Eondthal
ers, as being given by the 1948-1949
T. W. C. A. The Eondthalers were
then led by Betty to the third floor
of the library, where they saw the
room for the first time. Pour turn
tables, twelve ear phones, two book
cases and a large picture of the
Eondthalers are the furnishings of
the room. Very attractive chairs
have been ordered to complete the
room.
It wasn’t easy to keep the Listen
ing Room a secret. There was the
job of taking the Eondthaler pic-
■(ure without their knowing why,
and there was the time that Dr.
Eondthaler got loose on the lib
rary’s third floor with the master
key, only to mention a few of the
incidents that required much tact.
Oh, Miss Siewers discovered Dr.
Eondthaler before he found the
room! •
It was only due to the wonder
ful cooperation of the entire stu
dent body and the faculty that the
Y, through the initiative and the
planning of Betty Holbrook, was
able to see the Listening Room
through to completion. Special
praise goes to: Dr. Vardell, who
found the turn tables for us, to
Miss Siewers, whose interest and
helpful suggestions made the room
possible, to Miss Marsh, who gave
us the alibi for the picture, to Mr.
Cast, who worked with us through
out the year, to Mr. McKennie, who
put the final touches on the tables,
(Continued on page four)
Bett Ann Epps Pearson
Finds Tete Not Fearsome
BETT PEARSON
by Cammy Lovelace
Who’s the envy of practically
everybody at Salem? Why Bet
Pearson, of course, the married gal
on campus. That alone puts Bet
in a class above the rest of us, but
added to that, she has naturally
curly hair and maintains a good
scholastic average without knock
ing herself out. Some people just
have everything!
Having everything isn’t enough
for Bet, however; she. does every
thing, too. Although Bet is a
Home Ec. major, her energies are
spent in other ways too: sports.
May Day, Order of the Scorpions,
and I. E. S. are just a few. We
don’t see how she does it, but in
spite of everything else Bet is al
ways a willing worker, and cheer
ful about it too. She seems to be
one of a rare species that never
gets down in the dumps. In fact.
Bet is just the person to chase
gloom.
Bet hails from Gastonia, N. C.,
where she and "Tete” have a dup
lex apartment. She has already
made her living room draperies and
her bedroom curtains and bed
spreads—enough proof of her domes
tic abilities. Perhaps one of her
greatest accomplishments was hav
ing her in-laws over for dinner.
(Incidentally, she didn’t burn a
thing!!)