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Mtinchen^ April 27, 1949 To the Home Economics Club! I received at Easter a package with clo thes from the New Newspaper (publishing- house of the American army). I should like to ^thank you sincerely for it. I can use the things well. I have three brothers 18, 16, and 14 years of age. My father Avorks as a driver for the NeAv NeAvspaper. It is not easy for him to make enough to keep all four of us and especially since everything is so expen sive. We are therefore of course very much pleased with the things that I have received. My father was in an American prison camp in Oklahoma for two years from 1944- 1946. He knoAvs therefore this beautiful land and has told us much about it. There was an address on the p9,ckage and I have been glad of that. In conclusion most sincece thanks. Right friendly greetings sends to you Edith Brunner As the mother of Edith, I should like also to thank you sincerely. Life today is really hard so one is happy Avhen he receives some articles of clothing Avithout cost. Hearty Greetings Mrs. Agnes Brunner Avith her husband and children. The ncAV “Y” cabinet has been* installed by you for the forthcoming year. I knoAV I speak for the cabinet when I saj^ Ave Avill try our best to serAm you in every AA-ay Ave can. We cannot do our best unless you Y. W. C. A. members help us and work with us. As a ncAV year approaches Ave’ll think of neAV ideas and neAV opportunities and new fields to ven ture into and without your backing your Y. AY. C. A., cabinet cannot serve you and others to the best of their ability. AVe Avon’t let you doAvn if you don’t let us doAvn.> Betty McBrayer President, Y. AA^. 0. A. alemite Ifprth Carofia* CePegialt Pi Published every Friday of the College year by the Student body of Salem College - * PoAvntown Office—304-306 South Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company Lower floor Main Hall OFFICES Subscription Price—$2.75 a year EDITOEAL DEPAETMBNT Editor-in-Chief Dale Smith Associate Editor Joan Carter Eead Associate Editor Ruth Lenkoski Assistant Editor Clara Belle Le Grand Make-up Editors Betty Biles, Mary Turner Eule Copy Editor Mary Lib Weaver Music Editor : Cammy Lovelace Editorial Staff: Betty Leppert, Polly Hartle, Sybel Haskins, ‘ Winkie Harris, Lee Eosenbloom. Editorial Assistants: Helen Creamer, Lila Fretwell, Lola DaAvson, Polly Harrop, Nancy Duckworth, Sis Pooser, Clinky Clinkscales, Fay Stickney, Marcia Stahl, Euth Finnerty, Betsy Farmer, Patsy . Michael, Liz Leland, George Melville. Typists: Ann Sprinkle, Ann McConnell, Janet Zimmer Pictorial Editors: Jane Kugler, Marianne Kirkpat rick. Faculty Advisor Miss Jess Byrd Business Manager Eobert C. Gray Assistant Business Manager Mary Jane Hurt Advertising Manager . Mary Faith Carson Assistant Advertising Manager —- Eosalyn Fogel Circulation Manager Helen Kessler A . / ©VARSITY Magaiin* for Young Men 7EIX THEM ITS A SOROBiXy HOUSE. THEY'LL MAKE BETTER TIMS, Reznick Reviews Fries Fries Reviews Forsyth by Frances Reznick Evidences of the Forsyth County Centennial are now more than hir sute. In honor of the county’s birthday Dr. Adelaide Fries has edited an interesting collection of data called "Forsyth, A County on the March. Dr. Fries and- her assistants, Mary AA'ilej-, Douglas Eights, Har vey Dinkins, Charles Siewers, and Flora Ann Lee, could not have given their county a better birth day present than this. The book is a tribute not only to the county but also to these six painstaking citizens wdio are working hard in 1949 to perpetuate the memorv of 1849. Miss AA’iley is well qualified to contribute to Forsyth. She has been educated in North Carolina, a teacher in Winston-Salem for many years, and a student of North Caro lina history. She has done much historical research for her “Mostly Local” column in the Twin City Sentinel. “Aliss Mary’s” chapter in the book,. “Glimpses of SmalbTown Winston,” is oh the st\de of her newspaper column. It is filled with short notes about nineteenth cen tury sites and people in Winston. Many local yiti::ens ’ ancestors can be traced in Aliss AViley’s Avritings. Her bits of nice detail and remarks about the changes made over the \-ears in AAGnston-Salem add a Avarm 'nostalgia to the book. Flora Ann Lee, on the other hand, brings a modern tone into the writ ing. Director of the Publicity of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, she has facts at hand ‘about present day Winston-Salem. Her chapter, the last of the eight, tells of the city’s physical expan sion, government, schools, churches, ho.spitals, transportation and com munication, means of public infor mation, and various agencies. Miss Lee appreciates, though, Salem’s “weathered brick buildings that re present the beginnings of the herit age” of Winston-Salem. j The three male authors of For syth represent three different fields of interest. Douglas Eights, Pastor of Trinity Moravian Church in AA’inston-Saleift, does not confine himself to his church work, but is absorbed in a study of North Caro lina. A chapter by him, ‘ ‘ Smaller Towns, Villages, and Hamlets,” is one of the most comprehensive in the book. His task of Avriting about Friedburg, Hope, • Belews Creek, Eural Hall, Lewisville, etc. is not exactly a slight one, for he must manage to make those small North Carolina communities sound like more than dots on the map. He succeeds in doing this b}^ giving a mixture of fact and ineidenl Mr. Eights, indeed, seems to love these little North Carolina towns, “ ’where folks send you good things to eat when you are sick and talk about you rvhen you are rvell.” His friend and colleague, Harvey Dink ins, is interested in the farm and the advancement of agriculture. Farm Editor of the Journal and Sentinel since 1926, Mr. Dinkins writes on ‘ ‘ Eural Fojsyth. ’ ’ His contribution to the book deals with the pioneer citizens and the forests and agriculture of the county. Quite naturally, Mr. Charles Siewers, as president of the Chamber of Com merce of IVinston-Salem, is inter ested in business. In “A City of Industry,” he giA'es a municiplo build up that any Chamber of Com merce would be proud of. But Mr. Siewers has much to choose from in industrial Winston-Salem the tobacco industries, the textile plants, the woodworking shops, and the many financial institutions. Eesearch into North Carolina, Forsyth County, and AVinston-Sal- em’s historAq hoAvever, cannot be managed rvithout the Avisdom and experience of Dr. Adelaide Fries. Archivist of the Moravian Church and Avell knoAvn for her book. The Road to Salem, Dr. Fries not only edits Forsyth, liut also includes in it seAmral chapters of her oAvn. She begins the book Avith an ex planation of the founding of For syth County. This “Fifth-Genera tion CountAq” as she calls it, for- merlA' contained the land that makes up part of Anson County, EoAvan County, Surry County, and Stokes County noAV. Gathering in formation on Benjamin Forsyth, for AA’hom the county AA'as named, Avas a particularly hard job for the historian, because she had to trace any small clue concerning him through the records of five counties! IMaiiA^ of the court houses she Avent to had no records of her subject, or, often when records were kept, they were not indexed. The author had to track down some of her clues as far as Ealeigh. Dr. Fries Avas aided a great deal by records kept by her own family, particularly by her grandfather, Avho was the early chairman of the board of county commissioners. A less formidable subject than Benjamin Forsyth is Salem. Dr. Fries has access to many records kept by the educated men of Salem. The co-operative community was founded from Wachovia. The place chosen for Salem itself Avas on the hill leading from the Wach—Salem Creek—to the Annaberg—Winston. Dr. Pries relates numerous anec dotes and details in the chapter, ‘ ‘ Around Salem Square, ’ ’ perhaps the best Avritten and most authori tative in the book. Dr. Fries is responsible, too, for the idea of publishing a book con taining the history of this county. At her casual, half joking sug gestion, the planning committee for the Forsyth Centennial decided to have a book Avritten. Dr. Fries had only six weeks in which to pre pare it, and so enlisted the willing assistance of those Avriters men tioned. The outcome of their efforts is a book valuable for its wealth of material on Winston-Salem and For syth County. It is, furthermore, attractively illustrated by Mr. Joe King, Avell-knoA\m artist in Wins ton-Salem. Mr. King’s sketches and maps are a cheerful and artis tic complement to the historical Avork. The book is, nevertheless, too localized to be appreciated or even enjoyed by readers outside of the Forsyth area. For one who is a citizen or visitor to this area, tho ugh, the simple chapters add up to a unified picture of the develop ment of a county and its promise of future progress. by Joan Carter Read To the juniors there is one year left in Avhich to soak up the traditions of Salem Almost before aam can realize it Ave are ap preaching onr last year of college. If thg next year goes as rapidly as the first'three A\M Avill no sooner reach this high status than AA-e Avill liaAM completed it. Yes, we still have a year left to AAmtch Dickie Spangh and Chris French ford the creek. We can still play Avith the children in the laundry and talk to Miss Essie about the troubles of the AA'orld. But there Avill be some changes on the cam pus next year that are going to affect us all. For one thing Ave aauU have a neAv presi dent, but the thing that makes us Avonder Avhat Ave Avill do in our senior year is that Ave are going to be the ineumbants of the major student offices. What do Ave juniors think of becoming seniors? Here are just a few opinions. Louise Stacy: “I think it Avill be heaven on earth but I just can’t believe that we are finally there after these three years. It just' seems like yesterday since Ave arrived here for that first hectic day.” Bev. Johnson; “I Avish next year at this time Avere already here. When I thing of all I’ll have to do next year it scares me, but I can’t Avait .for September to come.” Carolyn Dunn: “I don’t even Avant to talk about it. I’m thrilled at the idea of finally being a senior, of course, but at the same time the idea scares me. What are m going to do Avhen Ave_ get out of here?” Liz Leland: “AVell, it Avill be fun to have cars up here and not have to worry about light cuts. But Avith graduation really star ing us in the face I think we are all going to havm to turn out a lot of hard Avork. It is going to .be difficult to stay here and grind with all those privileges just waiting to be used.” Helen Kessler: “I can’t wait to get into Bitting. It Avill be so much fun to have our Avhole class together so Ave can all really knoAv each other before Ave leave. Jean Starr; ..“The one thing I keep thinking about is practice teaching. What AAdth all the fun Ave can have and being able Ausit all night it is going to be kind of hard to settle doAvn to Avorking out tomorrows lesson plan. But I still cannot Avait to get to Bitting.” Dot Massey; “I was so relieved when I found we Avere all in Bitting that I haven t thought much more about it. But now Toot sie tells me that I won’t be living there except from 11 ’til 7 and the rest of the time I wuH be found in the catacombs. That vyill be quite a change from three years of Clewell. These are only a feAV of what some jun iors think of becoming a senior. There are some Avho think it Avill be just like any 7®*’’ except with a little more work. There are others who feel that we will have more time for play. We don’t really know what to peet for it seems that being a senior is ' having the measles. You can see one, watc it develop then sort of Avither away, bui’ can’t really tell until you’ve had it- the way w^ are. We are thrilled and scare ^ We think it will be fun and work. Avon’t really be able to tell you until we those caps and gowns for opening ® Then if we are able to remember ever ® a lowly junior maybe we can tell you it is like to be a senior.
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