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October 10, 1952 THE SALEMITE Page Three Connie Barnes Likes Shrimp; Enjoys Standing On Her Head By Peggy Chears ‘Tm crazy about teaching,” Con nie Barnes, house president of Bit ting, said. “As a matter of fact, [ even got an apple my first day.” Connie admits, however, that the only trouble with teaching is get ting up so early. “I nearly drown in those early morning showers.” Connie was elected mother of 28 seniors last May. Her first re action was “what to do!” The chief problem with my job, Con nie says, is getting rid of the dates at dormitory closing time. She is a history major and pri mary education minor. Because of practice teaching, Connie now gets up before seven, races to get fp the dining hall before Mr. Camp bell. and rushes to her third grade children at Walkertown before school opens. Connie is from Wilson — the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Barnes. Other members of her household are two brothers, Don and Boisie, and a dog, Penny. In her junior year, Connie trans ferred to Salem from St. Mary’s. Camp Holiday (Continued from page two) ful. This impressed the directors, and that night they let us have a party to celebrate the occasion. Since we were quite busy, the time passed quickly. On the last night we had a banquet. We put on dresses for the first time, and we all had dates. The party was in the dining room of the casino, which was on the gulf. The room was gaily decorated and pur din ner was delicious. After the meal we had the pre sentation of awards. I thought my ears were deceiving me when T heard my name called as one of the four best campers! The yel low dog had become a success, and she was speechless for a minute. All of the worries and unhappiness of the month disappeared. Even today Miss Matthews and Miss Turner are not my favorite people, but I feel I owe them a great deal. They did use high handed methods in working with us—I don’t know whether the psy chologists would approve or not; however, i" know their camp helped Last year she was a member of the May Court and active in the F. T. A. Pork chops rate highest in Con nie’s food preference. Second choice is “shrimp or any other kind of cocktail.” It takes a lot of time, talent and patience to be house president of a dorm at Salem. Connie finds time to keep. Bitting in order and to paint. Connie has still another talent—that of “standing on her head for five minutes.” Library Announces The freshman library seminar wall be held Oct. 13, 14, and 16, at 2 ;00 p.m. in the main reading room of the library. The test on this seminar will be given the fol lowing week. The record collection in the Rondthaler Listening Room of the library has been completely re catalogued. The new catalogue cabinet was presented by the Class of 1952. me. It made me more mature—I learned to give and take, I con quered my homesickness, I learned to tolerate sports, and most of all I gained more self-confidence. I learned I could do things which I had before felt impossible—I could even stay away from home a whole month ! Frosh Discuss Their Problems In Seminar Freshman seminar is being held once a w'eek this semester. The students attending the discussion are given a chance to ask questions about any' problems they may have encountered. So far there have been two meet ings. At the first meeting Mrs. Amy Heidbreder talked about ad justment to new surroundings, in cluding roommate relations and social regulations and privileges. She discussed the importance of college life in the building of char acter, leadership and personality. Dean Ivy Hixson conducted the second session and cleared up sev eral academic misconceptions. She explained thoroughly the grading system, semester and merit hours and graduation requirements. These meetings serve to make ad justments easier and to make the students better acquainted with the faculty and officers of the admini stration. Salem Offers New Courses Three courses are being offered for the first time this year in music and home economics. Service play ing, which will be instructed by Miss Margaret Vardell, is a course for all senior organ majors in which they will study the accom paniments for hymns, athems and chants for various church services. Textiles is a new course that all home economics students can take to add to their major. Miss Vir ginia Hodges will be the instructor and will teach the girls the care and quality of various materials. Several field trips will be taken for this. Another important course in ac companying will be given by Cle mens Sandresky for all junior and senior music majors. News Briefs The first general meeting of the Canterbury Club this year was held Tuesday evening. Miss Ann Tea gue, former resident of Winston- Salem, talked about her work with an Episcopal mission school in Nenana, Alaska. Nell Phillips, president, intro duced the other officers of the club for the year. They are: Anne Simpson, vice-president; Bessie Smith, secretary-treasurer; Miss June Samson, faculty advisor. Higgins Speaks In Chapel Mr. George G. Higgins spoke in chapel yesterday on the topic “The Word of Life in Living Language.” He explained the significance of the Revised Standard Version of ithe Holy Bible, which was pub lished on September 30, 19S2 after IS years of study by America’s leading Biblical scholars. There has been a great need for a revision of the King James Bible, Mr. Higgins said. New dis coveries of ancient biblical manu scripts and archeological discover ies have added to our knowledge of the Bible. More than 300 words used in the King James Version have changed in meaning. This Revised Stand ard Version of the Holy Bible has also corrected the mistakes made in the translations of the ancient Bible. This revision Las given its read ers a more accurate knowledge of the Bible written in a more under- stanable language, the speaker said. It has been recognized by 40 denominations. Table assignments began Thurs day night and will last for six weeks, changing every three weeks. Also, the blessing will be said at lunch and sung at dinner. * * * * Vespers last Sunday night were held in the Friendship Rooms of Strong with Mrs. Cecil C. Hine of Winston-Salem as guest speaker. Neva Bell introduced the speaker and presided over the program. Next Sunday night Mr. Paul Peterson will be guest speaker and will talk on some phase of music. * ;c The Comenius Chapter of the F. T. A. met last Tuesday night, j Mary Campbell Craig and Kitty Burrus, 1952 graduates of Salem who are now living in Winston- Salem, told the group of their new teaching experiences at Ker- nersville. A group discussion fol lowed their talks. « ^ ^ A special meeting of the F. T. A. was called Oct. 8 to discuss at tending a statewide F. T. A. meet ing in Durham on Oct. 18. Ap proximately 10 Salemites plan to be present then as representatives. The meeting will be held on Duke University campus. '5HOPPiNS C5NTE*' Cf MORRIS SERVICE Next To Carolina Theatre a * a a Sandwiches—SMads—Sodas “The Place Where Salemites Meet” oooIButon^Tbne wiH TMl JOIN yoi/RE AUTOAAATICALUV T BO^ DO THE AROUND J WOMEN GO FOR HERE/ A TTr square/ / ®NLY TIME WILL JELL ABOUT A FRATERNiryf and only time will. Tax ABOUT A CIGARETTE/ TAKE Y5URTIAAE...AAAKETHE SENSIBLE 30-CAY CAMEL MILDNESS TEST. SEE HOW CfiMBS SUIT VOU AS >t?UR STEADY SMOKEl CAMEL leads all other brands by billions of cigarettes per year! 7. 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