Welcome Students, Faculty
Miners Strike
Currency Cut
Hits Worlds
by Ruth Lenkoski
World-wide Shakeup
Following Britain’s act to reduce
the value of the English pound,
eighteen countrigs have devalued
their currencies. It was believed
that more countries would follow
suit in this world-wide monetary
shakeup.
Canada and France led off the
action and were followed by the
Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland, South
Africa, Australia, New ZeaEnd.
Egypt, India, Israel, Ireland, Cey
lon^ Maylaya,, Burma, Norway, Den
mark and Finland.
New York traders have not as
yet realized the full effects of this
devaluation on their markets. The
most obvious effect was seen in
the twenty jter cent drop in the
price of English cars in this
country.
Miners Walk Out
The United States has entered
upon her worst industrial crisis
since 1946. On September 19th,
last Tuesday, 480,000 of John L.
T.ewis’ United Mine Workers quit
work, stopping the production of
hard and soft coal in twenty states.
This combined with the threatened
national strike of steel workers
will tie-up the whole industry.
There will have to be layoffs by
the many railroads effected, parti
cularly by the three big coal-haul
ing railroads.
Union officials claim that the
walkout is not an official strike but
a rally by the mine workers to
protest a stoppage of pensions and
medical payments by the union wel
fare fund. The union claims that
there is a shortage of money in
the fund.
On the other hand the mine
workers claim that the walkout
was ordered by Mr. Lewis as a
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Day Student Center Has Face Lifted;
Miss Ada Allen Does Decorating
FormalOpening
Is Held Friday
On Friday morning, September
23, at eleven o’clock, Salem College
formally opened its 178th year.
Miss lane Hart, Chief Marsha),
led the academic procession. The
processional used was Verdi’s Grand
March from “Aida”.
Following the singing of “Stand
ing At The Portals”, Reverend R.
Gordon Spaugh read the Scripture.
Reverend Edwin A. Sawyer, in-
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Brandt Wants ’To Make
Salem Art Conscious
An interview of Warren Brandt,
one of Salem’s new art professors,
turned out to be one more of his
wife. Mr. Brandt was not at his
home in the Belo Apartments but
Mrs. Brandt volunteered to try to
set us straight on her husband s
activities in the past five years.
First she said that he is pri
marily a painter and secondly a
teacher—a point to be remembered
by all those who are planning to
study under him. Mr. Brandt
studied in Mexico and then did
more work at Washington Univer
sity in St. Louis, Mo. After he
had graduated from there with
honors, he was awarded a traveling
fellowship presented to an out
standing painter or designer. Since
then he and his wife have traveled
extensively throughout Europe,
studying in Paris and Rome.
While Mrs. Brandt was still giv
ing us this information, Mr. Brandt
stroled in with Mr. Barker who had
just been appointed a professor in
the art department. We were im
pressed immediately with the strik
ing resemblance Mr. Brandt bore
to a young Ernest Hemingway and
when the rest of the students see
him we have a feeling that there
will be more people signing up for
Warren Brandt
art courses.
■ Mr. Brandt said that he would
be teaching severa'i extension
courses at night and one for child
ren on Saturday mornings. One of
his ambitions is to rnake Winston-
Salem more art conscious and we
wish him lots of success. His wife
called him a man with a burning
mission and who has g''eat con
fidence in his achieving this.
New students registering at Salem#
last Friday found a room to be
proud of waiting for them on
campus.
' Old students coming in Thursday
were surprised, then enchanted by
what they saw as they entered the
Day Student Center.
And the whole campus waxes
lyrical on the subject of the change
which has come over the room, hub
of the local girls’ activities.
Instead of last year’s archaic wall
paper and drab draperies, the Day
green walls with a dadker green
Student Center now boasts pale
wainscoating, pale yellow draperies
with scalloped, flowered valance
boards, and dull green whicker
furniture with gay red cushions.
Guiding spirit for the remodeling
was Miss Ada Allen, who was also
responsible for much of the in
spired decoration of the Alumnae
House. Following her careful plan
ing, the large day student room
and the smaller smoke-house and
ladies’ room behind have been com
pletely renovated (the latter done
in baby-pink with big flower ap
pliques). ■
Throughout the year the Day Stu
dent Center will be used for tea
dances, teas and receptions. Al
ready it has played an important
part in school life as the setting
for many of the orientation meet
ings this week.
New day students spent the days
from Sunday to Wednesday on
campus, rooming in Clewell as
guests of the college, in order to
be qn hand for the whole orienta
tion program. Returning local girls
took part in the opening program
in various ways, some guiding new
day students around campus as
they registered, others acting as
hostesses in the Center.
During the past week, some of
the returning local students con
ducted tours of Winston-Salem for
out-of-town girls, and served punch
Sunday afternoon to arriving stu
dents and parents.
Sally Ann Borthwick, off-campus
Stee-Gee vice-president, and Jane
Krauss, Stee-Gee treasurer, are
directing the day , student work
this year.
I. R. S. Shows
"Jane Eyre”.
The I. R. S. will feature Joan
Fontaine and Orson Wells in Char
lotte Bonte’s Jane Eyre Saturday
night at 8:00 in the Old Chapel
Theatre.
Besides having the opportunity to
see Jane Eyre again there is an
additional attraction—you can see
it FREE! Of course all students
and faculty are invited but the I.
R. S. especially urges freshmen to
attend.
New StucJents
Finish Week
Of Activities
Today the freshmen began the
regular grind so familiar to the old
students. After almost a week of
meetings, parties, instructions, and
new faces the formal opening of
school and those first classes were
quite a change, and somewhat of
a welcome one.
.Monday morning the freshmen
were greeted by Dr. Gramley and
other college officials. Following
this fees were paid and psycho
logical and English tests were
taken. Monday night the new stu
dents were briefed on the various
campus organizations and the work
and fun involved. The night ended
in a Bitting base'ment party with
varied entertainment.
On Tuesday language tests and
registration were the order of the
daj^—after this, however, matters
were gre,atly relieved by a swim
ming party in the afternoon. The
Athletic Association entertained at
an outdoor supper above the May
Dell.
On Wednesday afternoon the new
students were conducted over the
campus by their senior advisers;
after dinner they heard a talk by
Miss Covington concerning college
citzenship. Another busy day ended
with a party when the Education
Club entertained in Davy Jones’
locker.
Thursday was mostly devoted to
old students’ registration, but was
ended by a night party given for
the freshmen by the “Y”.
And so end the days before the
ew and old students begin to
realize that all is not play!
Barker Is Newest Comer
To Salem Faculty
Walter Barker
Walter W. Barker, formerly of
St. Louis, Mo., yesterday was
named assistant in art in the Salem
College Art Department.
He will work with Warren
Brandt, who heads the departrnent.
The new instructor is “known
primarily for researches in oil
painting and the development of
a contempoVary idiom within this
field,” college authorities said.
At present he is working for a
PhD degree in education at the
University of North Carolina. He
holds an MA from Indiana Uni
versity and a BA from Washing
ton University in St. Louis.
The paintings of Mr. Barker
have been exhibited extensively
throughout the country, and he is
represented in the St. Louis City
Art Museum, in the collection of
Dr. Henry Hope, director of the
art department of Indiana Univer
sity, and in numerous private col
lections. He was a first prize win
ner in the seventh annual Missouri
Art Exhibition.
Mr. Barker studied under Bax
Becgmann, widely known German
expressionist painter at Washing
ton University; under Phillip
Guston, American muralist; and he
also was a member of the Iowa
Print Group, which worked with
Mauricion Lassansky, Argentinian
print maker.
Other honors have included a
veterans scholarship at Washing
ton University and a John T. Mil
likan Foreign Travel Fellowship
for art study in Mexico.
Mr. Barker lives with his wife in
Winston-Salem at 1321 South Sun
set Drive.