I This Week’s EUiitor Is
I Jane Watson.
Next Week’s Elditor WiD Be
Margaret Thomas.
Volume XXXI
Salem College, WinstomSalem, N. C., Friday, February 23, 1951.
Number 14
Elections
To Begin
Tuesday
The nomination and election of
officers of the major organizations
on campus will begin Tuesday,
February 27. The schedule is as
follows:
Feb. 27, Tuesday 12 :10. Election
of the President and Secretary
of the Student Government.
V March 1, Thursday 12:10. Elec
tion of the Vice-president and
Treasurer of the Student Gov
ernment.
March 5, Monday 1:30. Staff
elects Salemite editor,
: March 6, Tuesday 12:10. Elec-
f tion of I. R. S. and Y presi-
3 dents.
' March 7, Wednesday 1:30. Elec-
j tion of Sights and Insights
editor by the staff.
V March 8, Thursday 12:10.
Election of the May Day chair-
I man and A. A. president,
t; March 12, Monday 1:30. Elec-
■I tion of Class presidents.
March 13, Tuesday 12:10. Elec-
; tion of the Chief Marshal.
I "March 14, Wednesday 1:30.
I Election of the Pierrette pre-
I sident by the club,
f Both the Sights and Insights edi
tor and the Salemite editor are
■ elected by their staffs. The Pier-
: , ette president is selected by the
: members of the club, and the class
I presidents are elected by their re-
' .spective classes. All other officers
■are voted upon by the student
.body. Following the elections there
■will be an orientation period for
the new officers during which they
will be shown their various duties.
Installation is to be on April 3,
after which the new leaders will
' take over their organizations.
Noted Pianist
To Play Here
Percy Granger will appear in
concert with the Winston-Salem
Symphony, Monday, February 26,
at 8:30 p.m. in the Reynolds Mem
orial Auditorium. Under the dir
ection of James R. Lerch, the or
chestra will include several Salem
girls. This concert was previously
postponed because of weather con
ditions. z
Welch Represents
Salem At Raleigh
Dr. Elizabeth Welch will repre
sent Salem at two educational
meetings in Raleigh tomorrow.
The first meeting that Dr. Welch
will attend will be the State Plan
ning Commission. This is the ad
visory committee of the North
Carolina Education Association.
The second meeting will be the
Special Committee on Future
Teacher Education of the State F.
T. A. This group will make plans
for the state meeting of the F. T.
A. in Asheville in April. Mary Lib
Weaver, who is secretary of this
group, will also attend the meet
ing.
Sgt. Welfare Killed
Sgt. J ames Richard Welfare,
youngest son of Sam E. Welfare,
was killed February 16 in Korea
while flying supplies to the front.
During the second World War,
he was wounded on Iwo Jima. He
reenlisted in 1947 and was recently
awarded the Air Medal and the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
Sgt. Welfare was a native of
Winston-Salem and had attended
local schools.
SKotP Displays
Local Talent
The Pierrette-sponsored talent
show cleared $30 fast Wednesday
night in Old Chapel. The money
will be added to the fund for the
curtain.
The talent show was directed by
Ruby Nelle Hauser. The first act
was done by Nancy Ann Ramsey
—one of acrobatics.
This was followed by a musical
number by Peggyan Alderman.
Peggyan sang “Love Is Where You
Find It”.
The Mistress of Ceremonies, Flo
rence Cole, remarked at the begin-
ing of Lola Dawson’s recitation
that “Maybe, as she is the only
person in the act she had a chance
to steal one scene”. Lola did ex
cerpts from Anna Christie.
Lucy “Marlena” Harris gave a
scene from Black Market, under
subdued lights with only a park
bench used as a set. Jack Crim
played with her, portraying a
Frenchman from the gutter.
In the next act Joan Wampler
emerged from a broken-down hill
billy house and in slurred Tennes
see tones told about the time she
and Joe and Jedge Ferguson went
to visit Mrs. Patton’s Hotel.
This was followed by the “Kash
miri Song” by Connie Reynolds.
The final act was a miniature
show in itself. The set was onq
of an underground night club com
plete with red-checked table cloths
and beer bottles. Three couples
entered and sat a the tables: Sybel
Haskins, dressed as a man with
Dee McCarter; Cacky Moser with
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Merle Miller
Will Lecture
“The New Writers and What
They Are Thinking” will be dis
cussed at 8:30 p.m., February 27
in Memorial Hall by Merle Miller
as the third of this year’s Salem
College Lecture Series.
Mr. Miller’s first fame followed
the publication several years ago
of “That Winter,” a novel about
veterans of World War II. Many
critics compared it with the works
of Don Passos and Scott Fitz^
gerald.
He was educated at the Univer
sity of Iowa and the London
School of Economics. Before the
Merle Miller
war he was Washington Corres
pondent for the Philadelphia Re
cord. During the war he founded
and edited the Pacific edition of
Yank, later the continental edition
and finally became executive edi
tor of all fourteen editions of the
army weekly.
After the war Mr. Miller worked
for Time Magazine, then became
editor of the Saturday Review of
Literature, and from there went to
Harper’s Magazine as editor until
recently.
His latest book. The Sure Thing,
was described by the New York
Times as "arresting and provo
cative—extremely well written,
tense, engrossing, dramatic.”
Choir School
To Be Held
June 10-20
The Salem College Summer
Choir School will be held June 10-
20.
The purpose of the choij, school
is to serve as a refresher course
for experienced choir directoft, or
ganists and singers and to aid
those who are new in the field of
religious music.
The following courses will be of
fered : fundamentals of voice, ser
vice playing, organ training, con
ducting and choir methods. The
school will be under the direction
of Charles G. Vardell, Jr., Paul
Peterson, Henry Pfohl, and James
Hart.
A registration fee of ten dollars
wall be charged toward tuition for
those enrolling to assure reserva
tion and should be payed before
May IS, 1951. The remaining fif
teen dollars of tuition fee and all
other fees will be paid at registra
tion.
Concert Given
By Julie Alvin
Juliette Alvin, internationally
known celloist visited the Salem
College campus Sunday, February
18 and presented an informal con
cert in the Strong living room.
Miss Alvin comes from a French
family of musicians and became a
British subject in 1929. She met
Catherine Birckel in Devonshire,
England, while Catherine was visit
ing there. These two became close
friends, and Miss Alvin took a
break in her tour of Chapel Hill
to see Catherine again.
The cello soloist has performed
abroad with the leading orchestras
of Paris, Vienna, Prague, Euch
arist and other European cities.
She is now making a tour of the
United States. Her performances
in North Carolina have been in
Greensboro and Chapel Hill.
Vespers To Be Held
South Hall will be in charge of
the vesper program Sunday night
at 6:30 in the basement of Bitting
Dorm.
The program will consist of
prayer, poetry and' a community
sing. Betty Griffin is serving as
chairman of the group that is plan
ning the program.
Music Hour
Is Presented
The Salem College School of
Music presented its w'eekly Music
Hour Thursday, February 22nd at
5 :00 p.m.
The program w’as as follows:
Prelude in B flat major....Bach
Joanne White
Prelude in A flat major. Chopin
Lu Long Ogburn
Largo Veracini
Daniel Hodge
Les Filles de Cadix Delibes
Katherine Faucette
Zueignung . Strauss
Blake Carter.
Toccata in C major
Rossi-Bartok
Florence Cole
Three Seniors
Win Contest
Anne Moseley, C 1 i n k y Clink-
scales and Cammy Lovelace are the
winners of the Letter-to-the-Edi-
tor contest in the Salemite this
\veek.
Their winning letter, will be found
on page two.
These girls will be given a car
ton of cigarettes by Clara Belle
LeGrand, campus representative
for a nationally advertised cigar
ette.
McCarter
Wins Student
Teacher Title
Dee McCarter was selected “Miss
Student Teacher” of Salem by a
committee of faculty members and
city and county representatives.
She was chosen from a group of
three finalists who were elected by
the student body. The other two
girls were Jane Hart and Betty
Griffin.
Dee is a Spanish major and did
her practice teaching in Spanish at
Gray and Mineral Springs high
schools. Her last class at Mineral
Springs proved the most interest
ing as it was composed of “the
football team and one girl!”
The biggest plan in Dee’s future
is a wedding in June. Next fall
she will begin teaching at home
in Gastonia. Her main interests
are dramatics and singing. She is
a member of the Pierrettes, the
Education Club and the May Day
Committee.
The “Miss Student Teacher”
contest is a statewide project spon
sored by the F. T. A. Dee will
be presented as Salem’s represen
tative at the state N. C. E. A.
meeting in Asheville April 13.
The audition committee for
choosing the representative student
teacher of Salem was made up of:
Mr. J. W. Moore, Superintendent
of the City Schools; Miss Grace
Brunson, Supervisor of Elementary
Education, City Schools; Mr.
White, Principal of Sedge Garden,
representing the County Schools;
Dr. Gramley, Dr. Todd, Miss Hix
son, Dr. Lewis, . Mrs. Heidbreder,
Mrs. Scott, Miss Carlson, Miss
Covington, Dr. Welch and Mr. Cur-
lee.
Salem Ranks
Third In N. C.
Salem enrolls four foreign stu
dents sponsored by the Institute of
International Education, a number
exceeded in N o r t h Carolina col
leges and universities by only two:
the University of North Carolina,
which has ten, and Duke Univer
sity, which has six. This infor
mation was revealed in the Report
of the Institute published in New
York last fall.
Other colleges in North Caro
lina with Institute students are:
Appalachian State Teachers Col
lege, two students; Catawba Col
lege, one; Davidson College, two;
East Carolina Teachers College,
one; Guilford College, one; North
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Pravda Reports On Problems
Behind The Iron Curtain
By Anne Blackwell
Most of us Americans, wonder
what kind of a life the average
Russian citizen of today leads.
Actually they have many petty an
noyances, many daily problems just
as we do. A Russian journal, the
Pravda, dared to publish a few of
these complaints. Here are some
examples:
Men’s yellow shoes, out of fash
ion in America, are choice special
ities in Russia. They are the latest
style and are worn by well-dressed
citizens, even though they do turn
green after a few day’s wear.
Soviet cooks have their worries
also. The pots and pans supplied
to them are all green. The cooks
complain that the green gets mono
tonous.
Not only are articles of men’s
clothing difficult to obtain, but
articles of any kind. Even when
they are obtained, most articles
are practically worthless. For ex
ample at Moscow a woman bought
a talking doll for her daughter at
the price of thirty-five dollars.
Within two hours the doll had
stopped talking, and one of her
legs had dropped off. The dura
bility of the volley ball is another
example. The women athletes find
that after bouncing a volley ball
purchased from a Russian store the
spherical roundness of the ball
changes to the oblong shape of a
football. After two or three games
the cover breaks. Just as “durable”
as the volley ball is the Russian
accordian. Two Red Army sold
iers bought one which was manu
factured by the Red Guerrilla Fac
tory in Leningrad. The first time
they stretched it open all of the
insides fell out without a sound.
These complaints are due to a
mass of red tape created by the
Soviet system, but affecting all of
the Russian people. The majority
of the Russians are complaining.
They have their headaches.