Features:
The Years At The Spring
Dear Little Sister
News:
World’s Troubles Continue
Class Officers Elected
Volume XXX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, September 30, 1949
Number 1 1
Science Building Site Named
Ruth Views
Coal, Steel
Situation
by Ruth Lenkoski
Violence threatened among the
miners involved in a labor dispute
this week in Pennsylvania. For
protection from striking union coal
miners, non-union workers were
seen carrying guns as they filed in
to work past picketing strikers.
Tension in the mines combined
with tension among the railroad
workers- who are threatening a na
tion-wide strike, has upset the en
tire industry. Although there is a
possibility of a strike among the
C. I. O. United Steel W o r k e r s
threatening the U. S. also, there
seems to be more optimism regard
ing this dispute' than there is re
garding the coal dispute. A settle
ment might be affected if the terms
for a ten cent insurance pension
package plus the workers’ contri
butions are accepted by Mr. Mur
ray and his associates.
In Britain, Winston Churchill
rose and blasted forth with his
ideas concerning their currency de
valuation program. Speaking at a
debate on devaluation, Mr. Chur-
diill blamed Britain’s economic
crisis on the Socialists, who are
now in office in that country.
lie demanded an early general
election to oust the labor party
which Mr. Churchill said, has bled
the people'of their money and spent
forty per cent of that country’s
National Income on government
administration alone.
Pointing out that Britain has only
gold and currency enough to last
for a few months after which that
country will suffer national and in
ternational bankruptcy, he demand
ed that there be a quick election
of a new House of Commons.
Churchill offered the party con
flict and the atomic bomb as se
cond and third reasons for the elec
tion. In commenting on the atomic
bomb he stated that the Russians
got the bomb before Great Britian
(Continued on page four)
First Civic Music Concert
Presents Ebe Stignani
Ebe Stignani
Salem Observes
Founders’ Day
Salem College will celebrate
Founders’ Day on Tuesday, October
4, with an assembly at 10:15 a. m.
and classes will be suspended at
1 :00 p. m. for the remainder of
the day.
Dr. Howard E. Rondthaler,
Salem's president from 1909-1949
has been announced as speaker for
the morning chapel.
Further plans for the day in
clude a meeting of the executive
board of the Salem College Alum
nae Association at 11 :30 a. m. in
the Alumnae house, Alumnae Sec
retary Delia G. Marsh announced.
At 1:30 p. m. the board will be
guests of the college at luncheon
in the Club Dining Room. Three
students are to attend the meeting
and luncheon as associate members
of the Alumnae Board: Louise
Stacy, president of the Student
Government Association. Lynn
(Continued on page four)
The Winston-Salem Civic Music
Association opens the year on Fri
day, October 7, with a recital by
Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano, at
8:30 p. m. at Reynolds Auditorium.
Off stage Mm. Stignani is a gay
little woman who admits being
“only as old as I look”. Her in
terests other than music include her
four-year-old son Dino. Mm. Stig
nani finds that a happy homelife is
quite compatible with the demands
of a career. She is also very in
terested in people, especially young
singers.
Mm. Stignani loves touring' and
travel. She is fascinated by the dif
ferences in the American language
from state to state. New York
City is her favorite, but she likes
11 all of the United States.
Mm. Stignani was born in,Naples
and studied ot the Naples Conser
vatory. She has appeared at all
leading opera houses in Europe and
also in South America and the
United States. .Her first appear
ance in the United States was with
the San Francisco Opera in 1939.
She was to have come back in 1940
with a Met contract, but war broke
out and she could not leave Italy.
On December 13- 1948, she made
her New York debut at Carnegie
Hall for a sold-out hot;se. New
York critics gave Ebe Stignani
highest praise. One said that “Ebe
Stegnani could make Three Blind
Mice sound like celestial music”!
Classes Elect
Officers, Marshal
Feature Girls
Salem Suits Spagenbueg
Who Writes And Skates
by Liz Leland
Locating Salem’s new Sociology
teacher for an interview proved to
be a campus wide search. I knew
she was little, but—! She had
gone to Raleigh for the day, I dis
covered, so the next morninng T
cornered her in the hall and made
an appointment with her.
Besides being petite and pretty.
Miss Spangenburg is a very in
teresting person with whom to talk.
Her home town is Clarks Summit,
Pa. and she attended Dickinson
College in Carlyle, Pa., where she
graduated with honors. After this-
she won a scholarship to the Dick
inson College Law School. To
keep her Alma Mater in the family,
she has two sisters attending Dick
inson at present.
Following her graduation. Miss
Spangenburg worked for the In-_
ternational Correspondence School
in Scranton, Pa. It was there that
she wrote a text book on commer
cial law, which was published last
year. The purpose of her book is
to simplify the text material for
students taking the correspondence
course. Having done much free
lancing. Miss Spangenburg pro
fesses that writing is her hobby.
Doris Spangenburg
All those interested in writing take
note: She has many valuable tips
about publishing up her sleeve.
Miss Spangenburg is already look
ing forward to the Student-Faculty
games, for she loves to play basket
ball and hockey. Ice skating, the
envy of all southern girls, is one
(Continued on page three)
At a Senior Class meeting on
Tuesday afternoon, Peggy Osborn
was elected as- the new day stu
dent marshal. Peggy , a tall blonde,
replaced Janice Wear who did not
return to Salem this fall. Betsy
Evans was unanimously chosen as
the class representative to the IRS
council.
Marie Cameron was elected the
new vice-president of the Junior
Class at their first meeting of the
year. For their class project the
juniors have decided to sponsor a
movie every week with the IRS.
The movies will be full length fea
tures and will be shown each Sat
urday night. The price of admis
sion will be twenty-five cents.
The Sophomore class discussed
its project which will be announced
later as soon as it is approved by
the administration. Two feature
girls for the annual were chosen
by the sophomores and every other
class, but these names will remain
a secret until the publication of the
annual.
Lucy Frances Harper of Lenoir,
N. C., was elected the new House
President of South. Lucy’s past
activities on campus include fresh
men representative to the Judicial
Board, a sophomore member of the
IRS council and secretary of the
Choral Ensemble, and at present a
junior marshal. This year South
Hall is under a new set-up as it has
boarding house counsellor s
that the responsibility is headed up
in the house president.
Davidson
Men Host
To Salemites
by Mary Lib Weaver
Tomorrow, Saturady, October 1,
will see^ another Salem vs Davidson
Da)c Donned in their very newest
suits, coats, and dresses, approxi
mately 140 wondering students will
board busses in front of Clewell
Dorm at 1 :00. Upon arrival at
Davidson, these same girls will be
paired off with their dates for
the day, as assigned by Fate.
From the .moment of the first
meek “Hello”, a full afternoon and
night of entertainment is planned
for the visiting Salemites. That
afternoon a dance, complete with
orchestra and hill-billy band, will
be the order of the day. Following
that, dinner at the respective fra
ternity houses or boarding houses
of her date is planned for each
Salemite. That night at 8:00 will
find everyone at the football stad
ium to watch the Davidson. Wild
cats tangle with the mighty foot
ball boys from Presbyterian Junior
College. Then at 12:00 the Salem
girls, blissfully exhausted, will board
busses to return to Winston.
These Salem-Davidson Days have
quite a long history behind them,
and everyone has something to look
foreward to. For example, Lyn
Marshall is dating Bill Van Story,
a boy whom she met on a blind
date during Salem-Davidson Day
two years ago. Cammy Lovelace
is traveling down to date Bill Alex
ander, president of the Davidson
Y. M. C. A. They met at a “Y”
Retreat last spring. Several other
girls are going down to date some
one special. Betsy Farmer will date
Raymond Holland, Jane Parker and
Bobby Nimocks will spend the day
together, Carolyn Butcher and Bill
Cheld are planning a nice time to
gether, and Marilyn Moore is look-
(Continued on page three)
L A. O’Brien
Is Architect
The site for the new science build
ing has been selected.
. By a unanimous vote of the
Trustees the science building will
be erected opposite the court
formed by the east wing of the
rear of Main Hall and the back
wing of the Old Chapel it was an
nounced today by Dr. Gramley. The
Memorial steps which are now on
the site will be moved to form an
entrance to the building. The front
of the building will line up with
the Home Economics Practice
House and the Corrin Refectory as
is shown in the sketch on page 2.
The architects and planners for
the building were Mr. George K.
Trautw’ein, college planner and
architect of Philadelphia, and Mr.
L. A. O’Brien, Winston-Salem
architect. It is hoped, said Dr.
Gramley, that the plans will be
complete this fall after the ap
proval of the administration and
science professors so that bids can
be received and contracts let. Con
struction may be started in Febru
ary if things go according to the
present schedule.
In order to receive the gift of
the General Education Board the
building must be completed by Dec- .
ember 31, 1950. The total cost of
the building will be $200,000 which
is the combined result of the cam
paign and the gift. It is expected
that the building will be approxi
mately 200,000 cubic feet in size.
Men Students
ChooseOfficers
The Men’s Association of Salem
College elected officers to serve
during the coming year at 10:30
A. M. Tuesday.
Robert Gray was re-elected as
president. Kenneth Fansler re
ceived the office of vice-president.
Norman Jarrard was made secre
tary of the group. The funds of
the organization were entrusted to
Treasurer Robert Sawyer.
(Continued on page three)
Dr. Todd Likes Salem;-
Salem Likes Dr. Todd
Dr. William B. Todd
by Betty Leppert
Dr. William Todd, our new Eng
lish department head, is by this
time a familiar figure around the
campus. With his crew cut and
horn-rimmed glasses one almost
would mistake him for a student;
he is> however, a graduate, magna
cum laude, of Lehigh University.
Dr. Todd came to us straight from
Illinois where he has just completed
his Ph. D. work at the University
of Chicago. ' The Todd tots are
Marilyn, 5, who has found her first
few days in thq south a gay ex
perience what with entering kinder
garten and Susan, 3, who is enthusi
astic about everything—including
living in her new house before the
furniture arrived.
The day we talked with Dr. Todd
the furniture for their new home
had just arrived. All the Todds
were in shirt-sleeves (or the juve
nile equivilent thereof) and trying
to impose some order on the g«n-
eral chaos of piled up furniture,
rolled up rugs and unhung pictures.
Their house at 2311 Westover
Drive is new and shiny as a 1949
dime, and quite an improvement
over their cramped basement apart
ment in Chicago, they say. In fact
they’re almost as pleased with
Salem as Salemites are with them.