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MARY LIB WEAVER
Volume XXX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 24, 1950
Number 1 4
Vocational
Conferences
Announced
During the next few weeks sev
eral people will be on campus to
discuss vocations with any Salem
students interested, Dean Hixson
announced this week.
Dean Florence K. Wilson of the
Duke University School of Nursing
will be on campus Monday, Febru
ary 27. She will have lunch in the
college dining room and will be in
Bitting basement afterwards to talk
with any students interested in the
nursing profession.
Miss Louise Davis, registrar of
the school of nursing at the Medi
cal College of Virginia in Richmond
will be on campus Friday morning,
March 3. All students interested
in talking to Miss Davis are asked
to leave their names in Dean
Hixson’s office.
A representative of the Virginia/
Council of Churches will be at
Salem on or about, March 21 to
discuss with interested students the
opportunities open to college stu
dents in the field of religious edu
cation.
Dean Hixson has also announced
that Salem has received inquiries
as to college students interested in
summer camp work. All students
interested in this type of summer
work are invited to see Dean Hixson
as to the opportunities available.
"Silver Cord”
To Be Given
The “Silver Cord” will be pre
sented by the Winston-Salem Little
Theater next Tuesday . night, Feb
ruary 28, at 8;30. The play will
he given in Reynolds Auditorium.
The “Silver Cord” is the story of
a possessive mother who trys to
break up the marriages of her child
ren. She has an especially hard
struggle with her daughter-in-law.
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Shown in the Alumnae House are (left to right) Miss Julia Moore, Dr. Robinson, and Miss Helen Creamer,
r. Robinson is the Religious Emphasis Week Speaker at Salem College.
Dr. Robinson Is Guest Speaker
For Salem Religious Emphasis Week
Pierrettes
Set Dates
The Piereltes announce that try
outs for the three one-act plays
will be held Monday, February 27,
at 7 ;00 p.m. in Lehman Hall. The
three plays are “Lost Victory”,
“Lima Bean”, and “Sunday Costs
Five Pesos”. Tryouts will be open
to everybody. These plays will be
presented at Salem in March.
* L>r. VVilliam Childs Robinson will-j^-
finish his series of talks tonight in
the Day Students Center where
he will speak on the topic, “Deb
tors To .'Ml.”
In observance of Religious Em
phasis Week at Salem during the
past week, Dr. Robinson spoke to
the students on the following sub
jects: “Harvest of the Years; “Im
manuel—the Clue to Life’s Mean
ing;” “God’s Blueprints For Life;”
“Not To Be Served But To Serve;”
“The Saviour of Sinners;” and
“The Lord’s Prayer.”
Besides speaking formally to the
students he has spoken to them
(Continued on page four)
Economist, Commentator
To Discuss Foreign Policy
James P. Warburg, economist
and commentator on United States
foreign policy, will appear on the
Salem College Lecture platform
Monday, February 27, at 8:30 p.m.,
as the fourth speaker in the col
lege lecture series.
His announced topic will be
“American Foreign Policy—Last
Call For Common Sense”. The
program, will take place in Memor
ial Hall, and admission will be by
season ticket only.
Mr. Warburg describes himself
as a “reformed banker”. His hard-
liitting analyses of America’s post
war policies in Europe have ap
peared in recent issues of Harper's
Magazine. He is described as “an
intelligent idealist, devoted to the
building of a decent world order,
yet he has no romantic tendency
to Overlook the obstacles.”
Born in Germany, educated at
Middlesex and Harvard, Mr. War-
Burg’s career has included service
us an executive of a number of
uuportant banks and corporations.
His government service ranges from
naval aviator in the first World
War to financial adviser at the
1-Dndon Economic Conference and
'kputy director of O. W. I in the
Second World War.
He isj a trustee of the Juilliard
School in New- York and the- New
^ork Philharmonic Society.: Au
thor of a score, of books, hiS-most
James P. Warburg
recent publications are “Germany,
B r i d g e or Battleground”, “Put
Yburself in Marshall’s Place”,
‘Foreign Policy Begins at Home”,
and a 1949 jniblication bearing the
same title as his schedule told at
Salem.
Mr. Warburg has recently re
turned from a trip to Europe to
survey economic conditions, and
will incorporate observations drawn
from this experience in his lecture
at Salem College.
Al umnae
Group Meets
Dr. Gramley and Miss Delia Gra
ham Marsh attended the meeting
of the Danville Alumnae Club. It
was held at the home of the presi
dent, Mrs. Ruth Reeves Wilson in
Cascade, Virginia.
Alumnae from Leaksville, Mayo-
dan, and Martinsville also attended.
Faculty Goes
To High Point
Thursday, February 23, Dr. Gram-
ley, President of Salem College, Dr.
Todd and Reverend S p a u g h at
tended the inauguration of Dr. Den
nis Cook, the new president of High
Point College in High Point.
Dr. Gramley represented Salem;
Dr. Todd, the University of Chi
cago; and Dr. Spaugh, the Mora
vian College and Theological Se
minary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Durham Honored
At Coffee Hour
On Wednesday, Febmarjr 22, Mrs.
Sue Durham was honored by the
faculty and staff with an after din
ner. coffee in the faculty living
room. ,, Mrs. Durham was presented
with a wedding gift of two place
settings in her silver pattern. Mrs.
Durham’s 'Wedding to Mr. Hyatt
will take place on Mao^h 3.
Classes Make
Preparations
Stunt Night, sponsored by the
Y. W. C. A., will be presented
next Thursday evening, March 2,
in the Old Chapel. An unusual
affair, Stunt Night i;: an activity in
which the four classes—freshmen,
sophomores, juniors and seniors,
perform in competition for a prize.
Stunts may be given in the form
of pantomime, skit, musical, or in
dividual performance. Some mem
bers of the faculty will judge the
stunts on the basis of originality
and performance. The first and
second prizes will be five dollars
and two dollars respectively. Ad
mission will be thirty-five cents and
the proceeds will be given to the
W. S. S. F.
Art Department
Has Show
Two events spotlighting the work
of Rembrandt were staged by the
Art Department of Salem College
this week.
An e.xhibition of thirty-two coil-
type reproductions of Italian paint-
cr’,s sketches of Bibical scenes were
on display in Main Hall from Mon
day through the end of this week,
a.s the larger of the two projects.
The second phase of the plan was
the showing of the film entitled
“Rembrandt” at 8:00 Tuesday night
in Old Chapel. The film depicts
the origin of graphic art, drawings
of cave men, work of .skilled drafts
men in ancient Egypt and the use
of color ill Greece. The film also
shows the work of Raphael and
da Vinci, and the German, Flemish
and Dutch.' schools of art which
Rembrandt ■; made famous. An
English dialogue editioh'of a fam
ous French film, the picture is
called, the “finest yet offered in the
history of painting”.
Both events were open to the
public.
Salem Ranks
High In
Three Fields
Salem College has received a high
rating in a three category survey
conducted by the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Secondary
schools. The three points for which
the schools are rated are as fol
lows ; library expenditures, faculty-
student rates and instructional ex
penditures.
Tlie report covering the 158 in
stitutions in the association shows
Salem as one of the private wo
men’s colleges included.
Salem ranked first in library ex
penditures among the private wo
men’s colleges for the year 1948-49.
The college was 11th in the entire
association. The average expendi
ture for this type college was $10.-
50 per student. Five dollars is the
minimum standard for colleges in
the association that do not offer
graduate work.
The faculty-student ratio at Salem
is one teacher to every ten students.
This is an everage rating among
the schools in the same class. One
teacher to seven students was the
best ratio in the association with
one faculty member to 20 students
as the standard.
Salem ranked fifth among wo
men’s colleges in the amount spent
per student for instruction with an
expenditure of $420 per student.
The under-graduate schools spent
$150 per student. The experiditure
for the highest ranking school was
$531.
The report concerning the rank
ing was received by Salem author
ities from J. M. Godard, of Char
lotte, association executive secre
tary of the committee on standards
and reports.
Missionary
To Speak
Dr. A. David Thaeler, Jr., well-
known missionary of the Moravian
Church, will be the speaker for
-Assembly Tuesday, February 28, in
Memorial Hall.
Dr. Thaeler is a native of Beth
lehem, Pa., having spent his boy
hood in Nazarath, Pa. He attended
Nazareth Hall Military Academy;
he received his A. B. degree from
Moravian College in 1924, his B. D.
degree from Moravian Theological
Seminary in 1926, his M. D. degree
from the University of Pennsyl
vania in 1930. He took his intern
ship at the University of Pennsyl
vania Hospital in 1931 and spent
his second year of internship in
Honolula where he studied tropical
diseases.
In 1933 he went to Nicaragua
where he established a hospital at
Bilwas Karma. This is the only
hospital within a radius of one hun
dred miles of the east coast.
He pioneered in this work. First,
building a small clinic which ser
ved as doctor’s residence and dis
pensary. Later a hospital was con
structed, a nurses’ home, a doctor’s
residence, a power plant, a hospitaj
kitchen, and an out patients’ clinic.
Patients pour into the little
“Medical Center” of -eastern Nica
ragua from miles around. They
come by plane, by boat,. and they
walk. During the . first thirteen
years of his medical ministry in ■
Nicaragua, he has treated more than
seventy thousand patients.
He is the only doctor at , the Hos
pital, but he is ably assisted by
his -ivife, who was Miss Margaret
Heidenreich prior to her marriage.
The Thaelers have three children
who are enthusiastic supports of
this parents’ work.