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THE SALEMiTE
_February 24 iqc|^
Barker
Sampling one of Russell Crew’, specialties of potato chips, are, left to right, Harriet Hall, Sallie Kerner,
and Janet Zimer.
by Carter Read
“1 came to Salem in 1919 to work
for a week to get enough money
to go to Pittsburg but I’m still
here!” And for that Salem girls
are still grateful to Russell Crews,
our chef.
Russell started out at Salem by
waiting on the senior table in the
old dining room. Then he went to
work as a helper in the kitchen
and next as a helper to the cook.
From here it was just a two year
jump to being head cook in 1924.
Cooking with Russell is not just
a nine months job, but a great art
which he practices all year working
during the summer at camps. He
wishes that he had more time for
fancy cooking, his true love, but
he is satisfied with his specialties
of salads, meats, french fried pota
toes, and potato chips. The main
thing interests him is “pleasing the
girls, which is always a pleasure
and a joy.” And his business of
pleasing the girls is not always an
easy one, but Russell has learned
by experience that they do not like
fish or creamed sweet breads while
they gobble up chicken and spagetti.
Four years ago Russell instigated
the tradition of the kitchen party
during exams and he says it is his
greatest success.
But it seems that another of
Russell’s great success is his family,
one of whom will be in Winston-
Salem’s lime light next week. Rus
sell has two sons and two daugh
ters. One boy is working on his
masters in education in NYC, one
girl has her master’s in Sociology
and will be home from Detroit in
April to be married. The younger
boy goes to high school here in
Winston-Salem and plays in the
band, but it is the other daughter
who will perform here next week.
Geraldine Crews Hayes, a lyric so
prano who has studied at Juilliard,
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Wlien he- entered the Missouri
show he .won the purchase award,
which meant that his winning pic
ture is hung in the museum in St.
Louis. “All that time hcwas exhi
biting in a lot of places. He is a
very popular painter in St. Louis
many columns are written about
him!”
The two Mr. B.’s patlns crossed
again when thye came to Salem to
teach art together. As Mr. Brandt
said, “Teaching offers the artist
the opportunity of earning a living
and still going on,as he wantsto
with his own creative work. Since
Mr. Barker came down here he’s
been doing very experimental work. ’
As to the “human interest” side,
Mr. Brandt grinned and said, “Well
—Mr. and Mrs. Barker have a con
vertible and a huge mammouth cat
—but the cat ran away Christmas.
Mr. Barker loves cats!” Mr.
Brandt chuckled and said, “There
are a lot of funny things I could
tell, but I don’t know that the
Salemite would—”
.\s to Mr. Brandt’s opinion of
Mr. Barker as an artist, he said
1 like his work very much, but
any o])inion T would give would
sound awfully arty. But his work
Is good and strong, and in a couple
of years he’ll be well-known!”
And that is Mr. Brandt talking
about Mr. Barker.
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already has her every dav i-
m,d five place settings of her
Dont. forget the broom and n'
dust pan, Mlary Anne'
A hou.se and Mike a;e about
only wedding plans Miss f
Stowers has completed thus ,
Sue is our most recent
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we’ll let you know then!
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