March 16, 195
I' H E S A L E M 1 T E
Page Seven
Staff Cooks,
Gardens,
And Hunts
By Lola Dawson
While they were frying chicken,
fixing center pieces of ivy, sweep
ing the floor and washing cups and
saucers, the staff in the dining
room stopped long enough to tell
me a little bit about themselves.
Their work ranges from running
back and forth to the kitchen for
Salemites, to raising zinnias, doing
church work and caring for a
family.
Clarence Page has been at Salem
longer than any of the kitchen
staff. He came here 39 years ago
and he helps with the cooking. I
found Clarence preparing to fry
chicken and he had that far away
look in his eyes. He told me that
he was dreaming about going on
a rabbit hunt. The largest number
of rabbits he has ever killed is 25.
Clarence loves to fish at High Rock
and he has a garden full of pota
toes, onions and cabbage.
Virginia Hester has been here
for only one year. Virginia is a
maid and came to Salem in Sep
tember. Virginia smiled, looked
down at her apron and said,
“Being my first year. I’ve enjoyed
every minute of it. I specially
loves the girls cause they’s so cheer
ful.” A member of the Lutheran
Church, Virginia is president of the
Dorcas Society which does a lot of
mission work. As she fixed the
last twig on the ivy center piece,
Virginia said, “One of my favorite
pastimes is my work in the House
and Garden Club.
Leaving Virginia with ivy, I
found Clara, Winona and Inez sit
ting around a kitchen table peel
ing tomatoes for supper and chat
ting about the Holy Week services
they were planning to attend. Clara
stopped peeling long enough to tell
me that she has 8 children, 4 boys
and 4 girls. Clara sings in the
choir of the Macedonia Holiness
Church. At the mention of church,
W i n o n a put down the kitchen
knife and said, “I’m a member of
the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and
I have two hobbies, working and
reading. I’ve recently finished
“Michael” and “Little Ole New
York.” Clara told me that Win-
nona is a member of the program
committee of the 14th Street School
P. T. A., and a member of the
scout committee. Winona inter
vened, “Yes’m, and all six of my
children are boy scouts.”
During this conversation, Inez
had continued to peel and slice
tomatoes. She never stopped as
she told me that she was a member
of the Rising Ebeneezar Baptist
Church and President of the Pas
tor’s League.
Leaving the tomatoe peelers to
their job, I caught Edith and
Dorothea while they were carrying
plates into the dining hall. After
Edith had unloaded her dishes on
the faculty table, she told me
that sbe had been at Salem 15
years. She has 4 children and she
is active in the Ebeneezar Church.
Edith went back to get more
plates as she told me she was
vice-president of the Pastor’s Aid
Society. I looked at Dorothea who
was singing and placing silver
around the table. After the first
bar, Dorothea told me she was
practising for the weekly choir
broadcast of the Macedonia Holi
ness Church.
Smelling something which made
me think of brownies. I followed
the aroma to the bake room and
found Mr. Brunner and Miss
Emma taking a batch of brownies
out of the oven. Mr. Brunner
gave me a brownie to test as he
told me that he has worked at
Salem 29 years. He came over
from Germany in 1896. Mr. Brun
ner offered me another brownie
as he said, “I try to please every
body if I can. I’m particularly
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Jane Watson
Margaret Thomas
Jane Troops From Sun To Catacombs;
Margaret Hopes For Active Stee Gee
V. V. Dreams
Continued from page five
die of her sheet for a triangular
bandage—Winkie would probably
never miss it—she was always so
tired after play practice—.
Neatly folding the percale band
age, exactly 40x42, she placed it
with a check for seventy cents,
pencil and horn-book in her red
plaid book-sack. Throwing the
strap over her shoulder, she made
her way toward Main Hall.
Now fully realizing her call to
civic duty, V. V. paused by the
willow tree. She had already for
gotten Oliphos, the seven good
movies showing this week and her
term paper due at 8:30 tomorrow
morninig. Yes, this was her call! mile from the beach—which helps
* By Sis Pooser
There is no essential connection
in the fact, but Margaret Thomas
and Jane Watson, who recently in
herited top jobs on campus for
next year, are about as hard to
find as any two students at Salem.
When I finally ran them down
in Strong basement, Margaret was
playing bridge and Jane was puz
zling over the Congressional Re
cord.
But an interview is something
else, since as Jane put it, inter
views are usually conducted with
“somebody with a past.” "But each
finally agreed to tell about the
other, so the' story amounts to
something like this:
Jane, it seems, “keeps calm all
the time and never gets excited—
not even over boys.” She’s from
Clearwater, Fla., and lives only a
V. V. walked into Room 8 and
sat in the chair with Miss Biggers,
since she was the sole occupant.
The rest of the chairs were already
filled with two or more people.
“Two in a chair for two hours
wouldn’t be bad at all,” V. V.
thought. “Besides, there would be
plenty of time for individual at
tention.” Mr. Alexander (no kin
to Graham Bell) passed out note
cards and asked for names, addres
ses and so forth. Then the lecture
began. “Why do we study FIRST
AID,” he asked. At once a seem
ingly meek, gray-haired lady began
to orate verbatim the first four
pages of the text. Upon immediate
observation, V. V. surmised that
she had taken the course before.
Other questions followed. What
is FIRST AID? What are the
general directions for FIRST AID?
The meek, unknown, gray-haired
lady also answered these questions.
Then Mr. Alexander demonstrated
bandages for the first row. . V. V.
couldn’t see. Mr. Spencer, V. V.’s
history teacher, was standing in the
chalk trough trying to watch the
demonstration. V. V. made her
way to the back of the room, and
blew the chalk dust off his shoes
(licking boots, for she had made
an F—on her six weeks). En
deavoring to see also, she climbed
up beside him and balanced her-
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to explain the year-round sun-tan.
At home she swims a lot, and,
according to Margaret, manages to
“keep a few men on the string.”
At Salem, Jane works on the
May Day Committee (dance divi
sion), but spends most of her time
floating from the Sun Printing
Company to the Catacombs. She
has a few ideas for editing next
year’s Salemite, but admits that
most of them, at this point, are
still a little hazy. She’s interested
in creative writing, and thinks she
would like to work on a newspaper
after she graduates — writing, as
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things.”
Margaret is a Tarboro girl, and
enthusiastic about her new job as
president of Stee Gee. She has
high hopes for next year’s Student
Government, particularly student
body meetings. With student parti
cipation and interest, she feels,
they can all be as interesting as
they have been in the last few
weeks.
Although she is an economics
and sociology m a j o r, Margaret
plans to do her practice teaching
next year in math in the local high
schools. This year, besides dash
ing to’ and from meetings and
writing letters for the Stee Gee—
she’s been its secretary—, she has
put in long hours at the Sun,
where- she did make-up for the
Salemite.
New Clothes
shown To
Salem Girls
By Carolyn Harris
Salem girls were guests at an
informal party and fashion show
Wednesday afteroon at one of
Winston-Salem’s leading stores.
Between the hours of 3:00 and 5:00
cokes and dainty party food were
served to the Salem guests.
Modeling the various spring en
sembles were Mary Joyce Wilson,
Sis Pooser, Connie Murray, Laurie
Mitchell, Mabel Taylor, Mary
Mtualas and Edith Flagler.
In her Easter morning ensemble
Mary Matalas was dressed 'in a
navy blue file coat
pleated skirt w o r n
blue tie silk dress,
of white milan straw trimmed with
white violets.
Dressed for that
with a
over a
Her hat
full
light
was
morning tea,
Sis Pooser modeled a purple shan
tung dress with fitted lines and
short sleeves. Her only accessory
was a pink s t r a w Iiat with a
purple veil.
A stunning cocktail dress of
polka dot tie silk over pleated or
gandy studded with rhinestones
was worn by Mary Joyce Wilson.
Completing her outfit were wliite
linen shoes with patches of pastel
blue kid.
Mabel Taylor was ready for the
spring pledge dances in a lavender
nylon net evening dress. The full
length dress with a two tone bouf
fant skirt of lilac and purple was
made complete with a matching
stole.
Man}' styles and fashions were
featured, but lavendar for the
dresses and suits and white straw
for the “chapeau” will be the
trend for the Easter Parade this
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