Like Leap-year the faculty
play comes every four;
If you don’t see it now,
you won’t no more.
W. S. S. F. will get lots of
money
Because the faculty are so
funny.
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Volume XXX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 10, 195C
Number 1 2
Choir School
To Be Held
This Summer
Salem College will present a
Summer Choir School for Church
choir directors, organists, and sing
ers. Ten full days of instruction
from June 11 to June 20 are plan
ned. Charles G. Vardell, Jr., Paul
Peterson, and Henry Pfohl are the
instructors for the Summer Choir
School. Mr. Pfohl is the Director
of Music at the Plymouth Church
of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Incidentally, his wife, Elizabeth
Rondthaler Pfohl is the daughter
of our former president and wife,
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Rondthaler.
The Choir School is interested in
securing a mailing list of prospec
tive students. They would appre
ciate names of your local church or
community choir directors gr or
ganists who might be interested in
attending the summer school. The
purpose of the choir school is to
serve both as a refresher course
for experienced choir directors, or
ganists and singers, and as an aid
in techniques and knowledge for
people who are beginning in the
field of religious music.
Sawyer Speaks
To Faculty Research
The Reverend- Edwin A. Sawyer
will read a paper on “Some Mid-
Century Trends Among the World’s
, Living Religions” at the meeting
of the Faculty Research Group -on
Monday, February 17. The meet
ing will begin at 7:30 in the living
room of Bitting, it was announced
by Miss Jess Byrd, chairman of
the Group.
Mrs. Durham
Plans To Marry
Mrs. Sue Stillwell Durham, a
nurse at Salem College for the past
five years, has resigned from her
duties and will leave the school
on February 28. Mrs. Durham will
be married to Mr. Loyd Dewey
Hyatt of Winston-Salem on March
.3 in Covington, Georgia. After
the marriage the couple will make
their home in Winston-Salem. ■
"It’s A Riot”
Given Tonight
“It’s A Riot, or Gramley Get
Your Gun”, a tragedy in three acts,
will be presented tonight by the
faculty members of Salem College
in Memorial Hall at 8:30.
The faculty play is a tradition
at Salem every four years. It is
the time when our noble and wor
thy teachers and professors shed
their dignity and hilariously enter
tain the students. Long, hard
work has gone into the writing
and production of the play tonight.
In fact, the whole campus has
been jumping to the catchy tunes
coming from Old Chapel during
the rehearsals.
To revive our weary faculty mem
bers after their Pulitzer Prize pro
duction, Dr, and Mrs. Gramley are
entertaining them in the President’s
home.
In order that you may get all
of the cracks in the play, the full
script is printed in the Salemite.
Dr. Welch’s
Paper Printed
The January issue of the North
Carolina Education magazine con
tains an article, “Let’s be Gittin’
the Glory”, by Dr, Elizabeth Welch
which should be of much interest
to all teachers and future teachers.
Dr. Welch relates the progress of
a movement on many college cam
puses to emphasize the more glam
orous side of teaching.
This project which is now being
initiated and sponsored by the Divi
sion of Higher Education and the
Future Teachers of America in
volves the selection -of a represen
tative Mr. and Miss Student
Teacher. The predominant idea in
this project is to erase the, idea
that teaching has only a debt
side.
Dr. Welch states that there is a
unique privilege in developing the
youth in ways of clear thinking,
aesthetic appreciation, social under
standings, and spiritual values. She
wisely concluded the article by
saying, “the time has. come when
we as a profession should be busily
getting the glory, lest in the los
ing of our own sense of values we
transmit that attitude to those who
come after.”
WLYMA POOSER
EVELYN TATUM
Honor Socioty, Doan s List Announcod
By Dean Hixson In Chapel Tuesday
Mady Christians Lectures
OnGreatMomentsInDrama
Mady Christians, star of stage,
screen and radio, will appear in
Memorial Hall at 8:30 p.m. Thurs
day, February 16, as the third lec
turer in the Salem College Lecture
Series for 1949-50,
Her lecture is entitled “G r e a t
Moments from Dramas” and con
sists of anecdotes from her acting
experience and excerpts from well-
known plays.
Miss Christians reached her
greatest fame in such plays as
“I Remember Mama” and “Watch
on the Rhine” and in such movies
as “All My Sons” and “Tender
Comrade”.
The actress was born in Vienna
and came to the United States in
1912 with her actor father. In a
few years, however, she returned
to Europe and was soon acting in
plays and motion pictures in
Berlin, London, and Paris and was
starring with such actors as Mau
rice Evans and Charles Boyer. Her
first New York stage appearance
! "'as in Vicki Baum’s “A Divine
Tfrudge”, with Walter Abel. After
some film work in Hollywood, she
j returned to the stage in New York
1 to play opposite Paul Lukas in
“Watch on the Rhine” in 1941.
[ This play won the New.-'York
MADY CHRISTIANS
Drama Critics award.
Her most recent success was in
John Van Druten’s play, “I Re
member Mama”. She played the
title role in this play for 750 per
formances on Broadway, and then
appeared in it in Chicago and
London. .
Her lecture for Salem will in
clude dramatized excerpts f r o rn
Shakesp^eare’s “Twelfth Night ,
Strindberg’s “The Stronger , Maug
ham’s “The Constant Wife”, Ander
son’s “Anne of a Thousand Days”,
Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” and
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet .
Todd Proves
Editor Wrong
Early publishers had their censor
ship problems too—knd ways of
getting around them—according to
Dr. W. B. Todd, head of the Eng
lish Department at Salem College.
An article by Dr. Todd dealing
with this subject occupies a feat
ured position in the annual issue
of “Studies In Bibliography”, pub
lished by the Bibliographical Soc
iety of the University of Virginia.
Dr. Todd deals specifically with
“The Monk,” an eighteenth cen
tury novel by Matthew Lewis, of
which innumerable third edition
copies have been masquerading as
first editions for some two hundred
years.
“The Monk” caused such a sen
sation at its publication. Dr. Todd
asserts, that by ' the time it had
gone into three editions a court in
junction was made against it under
the anti-vice laws. Since the in
junction was against the third edi
tion only. Dr. Todd says, the pub
lisher substituted first edition title
pages in what was already printed
as the third edition and thus was
able to avert a great financial loss.
The Salem , professor proves his
points in part by citing advertise
ments in the spurious first editions
for books published after the date
of the true first edition.
A Bibliographical note in the Uni
versity of Virginia publication
states that Dr. Todd recently re
ceived his doctorate from the Uni
versity of Chicago with a disserta
tion on new procedures for deter-
(Continued on page three)
Winston’s Thor
Given Ovation
The Cincinnati Symphony under
the direction of Thor Johnson pre
sented a concert Tuesday, Febru
ary 7, at Reynolds Auditorium. The
program included the following sel
ections : Concerto Grosso in D
minor by Vivaldi, The W^hite Pea
cock by Griffes, Suite from “Der
Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss,
and following intermission Sym
phony No. 5 in E minor. Opus
64 by Tchaikovsky. Dr. Johnson
was given many curtain calls by
an enthuaistic audience, and he con
ducted the Symphony for two
encores.
Graham Dances
In Greensboro
Martha Graham with a cast of
twenty and orchestra will appear
Tuesday night, February 14, at the
Aycock Auditorium in Greensboro.
Tickets may be ordered from
Virginia Moomavv, Department of
Physical Education, W. C. U. N. C.,
Greensboro. Tickets are $2.40, $1.80
and $1.20, tax included.
-•* The new members of the Honor
Society and the Deans List for
firsh semester were announced in
Honors Chapel by Dean Ivy Hixon
on last Tuesday morning. After
the honors were read, Mr. Archi
bald Craig, Winston-Salem attor-
iiey, talked to the student body.
,1 ,, c- 1 Fvelvn Tatum, Winkle Harris,
Regulations passed by tl|€ Salem ti.veiyn lamm.
College Faculty to go into effect : and Wylma Pooser are the new
New Salem
Cuts System
Announced
for the second semester of the
year 1949-50.
FRESHMEN; First semester: One
absence for each class.
Second semester: Absences to
the number of credit hours car
ried “by the student. This num
ber is to include all absences for
any reason whatever. The num
ber of absences in any one class
must not exceed the number of
credit hours which the course
carries. Observe: The number
of absences in a class is deter
mined by the hours’ credit and
not necessarily by the number of
times the class meets each week.
These are often the same but
not always.
Sophomores: Same as for Second
Semester Freshmen.
Juniors: Same as for Sophomores
and Second Semester Freshmen,
Seniors: Unlimited absences ex
cept thgt they must attend at
least 80 percent'of the meetings
of a class in order to receive
credit.
Dean’s List: Same as for Seniors.
General Regulations Applying to
All Students
1. Students are expected to at
tend classes regularly and
promptly.
2. Absences are not permitted in
laboratory work, in a class
where a student has a special
report assigned, in a class in
which the last official grade
in the Recorder’s office is below
passing, in a class in which an
I has been incurred, or in a
class where a test has been
previously announced. If a
student absents herself because
of an unannounced test, she
will receive an F on the test
3. No absence may be taken on
the day before or the day
after a college holiday.
4. A student, who for any reason
is absent from a course twenty
percent of the meetings of the
(Continued on page seven)
Scholarship
Announced
The North Carolina Federation
of Women’s Clubs will present this
year, for the third consecutive
year, the Sallie Southall Gotten
Scholarship award of $250 to the
rising senior of Salem College. The
purpose of this scholarship is to
build outstanding leadership among
graduates from North Carolina
The scholarship is awarded to a
colleges.
girl who is a resident of North
Carolina and who has the highest
scholastic average in the junior
class of Salem College.
members of the Honor Society.
Evelyn has a special interest in
music, which is her major. She is
a member of the Choral Ensemble
and has appeared on Music Hour
several times.
Winkle is very active in Student
Government work. She has served
as president of the Sophomore Class
and is now secretary of the Stu
dent Government Association.
She is also on the editorial staff
of the Salemite.
Wylma is on the editorial staff
of the Salemite and Sights and In
sights and also a member of the
Education Club and the Inter
national Relations Club.
They are all juniors. The senior
members are Beverly Johnson,
Wesley Snyder, Polly Harrop,
Love Ryder, Norman Jarrard, and
Homer Sutton.
The Deans List for first semester
was also announced. The Senior
members are: Polly Harrop, Nor
man Jarrard, Beverly Johnson,
Doris Keith, Love Ryder, Robert
Sawyer, Dale Smith, Joseph Smith,
Wesley Snyder, and Louise Stacy.
Juniors on the List are: Betty
Gwen Beck, Jack Grim, Winkle
Harris, Jane Krauss, Joan Mills,
Wylma Pooser, Evelyn Tatum,
Frances Tucker, and Mary Lib
Weaver. Kitty Burrus, Mary
Campbell Craig, and Jane Parker
are the Sophomore members. The
Freshmen on th# List are: Jackie
Bachelor, Ellen Bell, Ruth Der
rick, Fay Fuller, Virginia Herman,
Sallie Kerner, Eleanor McGregor,
Marilyn Samuel, Betty Lou Selig,
Anne Simpson, Gloria Smith, and
Betty Tesch.
After the honors announcements.
Dr. Dale Gramley introduced the
speaker, Mr. Archibald Craig, who
is a member of the governing
board of the national chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa and a member of
the Board of Trustees of Salem
Academy and College. Mr. Craig
opened his address by pointing out
the importance of the Greek pro
verb “Know thyself”. He said that
this is an important part of our
culture. Then Mr. Craig defined
culture as “total expression of
spiritual, intellectual, and industrial
life of a people”. He further
pointed out that individual intel
lect has for a long time been an
important part of our culture. He
challenged us to keep carrying this
idea forward. Mr. Craig closed
his talk by stating that formal
education does not end with col
lege graduation. He urged us to
kindle the spirit of “Know thy
self” and there to find happiness.