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Page Four THE SALEMITE March 28^5. Salem Professor Spends Her Time Teaching, Creating Interest In French, Entertaining Mrs. Mary L. Melvin By Eleanor Fry "Come back anytime, girls,” Mrs. Melvin said as she stood in the open door of her home on Waugh- town. She always welcomes Salem students who frequently drop in to see her. The comfortable grey sofas in her living room, the open fire and the record collection of popular French songs are a pleas ant change from dormitory routine. Mrs. Mary L. Melvin came to Salem to teach French less than two years ago, and already she has aroused a new interest among her students for France and the French language. She has formed a French table in the dining hall and has placed some of her own records in the listening room for her classes. Besides this she has open house every other Tuesday night for her conversation class to give them an opportunity to speak every day French. One wonders how she finds so much time to spend with her stu dents, for she has three lively boys to mother and amuse in her ‘“spare time.” They are David, Butch and Ronnie, who continually turn flips over the backs of her grey sofas or play hide and seek in the cabi nets under the kitchen sink. Mrs. Melvin’s greatest ambition is to go back to France. She spent a year there in 1939 teaching English at the University of Paris just after her graduation from Pembroke. Her first disillusion came the day that she asked direct ions in her “most perfect French,” of a French policeman. He im mediately replied in English. She still insists that he must have recognized her nationality by her American-styled clothes and not by her American accent. “It is easy for the French to recognize Amer icans in their tweeds and flat shoes,” she explained. “Parisien women have more of a flair for Morrisette’s Dept. Store 4th at Trade Superior Self-Service Laundry m Complete Washing & Drying Service NO WAITING WASHERETTE, Inc. 1122 S. Main at Waughtown Phone 3-3303 L.^Lerts WINSTCN-SALEM. N. C. ti I HOME LAUNDRY ^ AND DRY CLEANING “We Specialize in Evening Dresses” 1422 S. MAIN ST. PHONE 2-4212 - 2-5512 clothes than we do.” When war broke out in Europe, she returned to the United States to tutor at Clark University in Worchester, Mass. In 1945 she was again in Paris doing special work for the OSS. After four years of this work, she came to Winston-Salem and accepted a teaching position here. Mrs. Melvin was amazed when she heard several days ago that she was elected by the freshman class as their advisor, for she hardly knew what being an ad visor meant. “I still don’t know exactly!” she claims. But the stu dents have no doubts about their choice. For one hardly thinks of her IS a teacher but as a friend. CAREFUL AND COURTEOUS DRIVERS DIAL 7121 DAY & NIGHT SERVICE BAGGAGE TRANSFER VALERIA HAT SHOP We re Glad to Have Your Patronage Nissen Building An Invitation To SPRING INTO SPRING With Jonathan Logan Dresses Sacony Bathing Suits Nardis of Dallas Sportswear GLYNNS “‘Personal!?rd Service” I 422 W. 4th St. Phone 3-4171 I Take the esculator to our new JUNIOR CENTER 2nd Floor \iN’CHOR Dial 4-3611 4th at Trade ELECTRIC SERVICE CO, And HUNT’S, Inc. FIXTURES - WIRING - SUPPLIES “Gifts For All Occasions” China and Glassware 116 W. 4th St. Dial 2-3743 Our Exclusive-" and priced so right Surrey’s fine two-piece Cham- bray, tailored to perfection with a parasol pleated skirt, stitched for permanancy, white pique collar and cool short sleeves. Comes in charcoal, green, coffee or wine. 10-18. if'i 14-95
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