Paee Two
THE SALE MITE
WiU Attend? . . .
The faculty-student open houses are plan
ned on a voluntary basis. The purpose of
these get-togethers is to give students a chance
to meet and talk informally with faculty
members.
■ Last Sunday night Miss Covington and Miss
Barrier were hostesses for the first open house
for the year. Although there was a good
crowd present, there was a noticeable lack of
freshmen and sophomores.
Both Miss Covington and Miss Barrier took
time to give personal invitations to faculty
and students—both in chapel and on the bul
letin boards in each dormitory. Miss Coving
ton arranged to use a friend’s home to enter
tain, and Miss Covington and Miss Barrier
each baked two cakes to be served with the
other refreshments they prepared.
If the teachers can go to that much trouble
and spend that much time preparing to enter
tain Salem faculty and students, why can’t
more students and faculty members at least
set aside a few minutes to come to the open
houses ?
Freshmen and sophomores should parti
cularly enjoy the open houses. The classes
of underclassmen are much larger, and chan
ces to talk with teachers informally are much
less than those of upperclassmen. Therefore,
it seems natural to expect that all students—
especially the underclassmen—would be eager
to come and take advantage of the oppor
tunity to get to know faculty members.
The open houses will continue throughout
this year. Some of the get-togethers will be
at the homes of faculty members. Others will
be sponsored by the students and held in the
vArious dormitories.
The next open house will be at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Russell on Nov. 16.
liirections concerning the location will be
posted on the Main Hall bulletin board and
transportation will be furnished for everyone
v/ho desires a ride.
There is, consequently, no reason why both
faculty members and students do not take
time to support a project planned to benefit
the whole school.
P. C.
9t^ ^ you.
Bach girl on the class hockey team co-
opprates with the other members of the team.
Every member of the Pierrettes cooperates on
the forthcoming production. Every member
of the “Y” cooperates with each new project.
Every member of the Junior Class is cooperat
ing for a successful Junior Breakfast.
But Junior Breakfast is not working.
Why? At the beginning of the year the
elunior Class decided to serve you breakfast
in. bed. Bach member of the class has co
operated to do this.
Don’t you like breakfast in bed? Don’t
you like coffee and doughnuts or milk and
doughnuts for breakfast? Is the price too
high? What do you want?
The first week that the class served Junior
Breakfast 87 people signed up for it. The
second week 45 people signed up. The third
week 27 people signed up. The fourth week,
10. Every week, every girl in the Junior
Class, signed up for it if they planned to be
on. campus. Why haven’t you? The Junior
Class is cooperating. Why aren’t you?
The purpose of Junior Breakfast is to raise
money for the Christmas banquet and the
d unior-Senior banquet. The Christmas ban
quet is for YOU. But how can the class give
this banquet if it does not have the funds?
YOU cooperate with the other organizations
on carqpus—your class, the hockey team, the
Pierrettes, the “Y”; why not cooperate with
the Junior Class?
C. M.
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By £ila Ann Lee
If 3'ou want to see a hilarious
sight, take a walk down the halls
of third floor at Music Hall. That
is where you will find the music
majors night and day. Of course
you probably won’t recognize these
contortionists as your roommates
or best buddies.
Musicians have the most precar
ious ways of “throwing themselves
into their music”. As proof of
this, I will take you on a tour of
the practice hall. Looking in at
the girls we find expressions vary
ing from an agonized and painful
one to those with that soulful
ethereal quality.
Suddenly the floor quakes under
our feet. Our first thought is that
this old building must be caving in
under the strain of all the bounc
ing pianos. We look around fran
tically to see if everyone else is
vacating the building.
To our surprise, we see no one
rushing around. I glance in a room
and see there the cause of our
anxiety. Someone is beating the
floor with her foot to keep time.
No metronome is needed!
Further along the hall we see a
pianist playing with the lid half
shut over the keys. This is a
matchless method of learning to
play without looking at the key
board. What are a few broken
fingers every now and then?
With all the noise (pardon,
music) coming through the thin
walls it s hard to hear yourself
busy
practicing. In order to tell what
you’re doing you must play just
a little bit louder than the fellow
next door. This momentum in
creases with each student, and soon
the noise becomes so ghastly that
it sounds more like a car going
the opposite direction on a
one way street than music.
This racket is far worse on the
voice students than the pianists.
While singing lovely Italian arias
in “sotto voce” they find them
selves accompanied with Bach In
ventions. No wonder we find them
ready to throw themselVes down
the elevator shaft!
Ah, yes, the elevator! That is
the one blessing music students
are endowed with. This ingenious
invention serves two purposes for
the girls getting a B.M. (batty
mind); (1) to give them a “lift”
when they need it most and (2) to
furnish a point of no return”
when they realize there is no pos
sible way to make up 30 practice
hours.
Despite all our ups and downs
there (and this is off the subject
of elevators), we music majors hold
that battered old building close to
our hearts.
Music Hall reminds me of a
unique music box which plavs
jnany tunes at one time. It plavs
continuously all day, till at night
there comes just a tinkle growing
lainter and f;ii .-i. ^
fainter and fainter till it runs down
completely, only to be rewound
again the next day.
By Cyndy May
Innocent Ennis sat at the edge of the group
crowded together in a corner of the basement
All of the girls were chattering about the big
weekends they had been to or were going to,
Innocent Eunis had never been to a big col-
lege week-end and she wanted to go very
much.
She had heard the girls speak of wonderful
places. Why just last weekend Igotago went
to Dude University to the big homecoming
weekend—a football game and a dance after
wards. Igotago rushed around all week try
ing to decide what to wear to the game and
then what to wear to the dance.
Next weekend Attagirl will leave in a flurry
for Church Knoll for the fall Russians. In
February Ima What is going to Dirtmouth for
the Pink Doorlocker. She is going to leave
on Thursday, and it will take all of her cuts,
Ida Wana has already been invited to the
After Winter Rompers at Dividspop.
And Innocent Eunis sat, wishing she could
go. At that moment Ina Sense rushed into
the basement. “Innocent, Innocent, you have
a long distant call from Hars Mill. It’s a
boy! Hurry”. Innocent ran up the stairs and
breathlessly screamed, “Hi?”
The voice on the other end was a boy from
home and he asked Innocent to the Autumnal
Flurries. Innocent was so excited that she
dropped the phone without even answering
and sailed to the basement with her news.
No one had ever heard of Hars Mill, bnt
the girls politely said they had and exclaimed
about what a wonderful place it was. Then
they started planning what Innocent should
take with her. Attagirl said Innocent could
borrow her mink furs. Then Roommate do
nated her aqua suit with brown specks. In
nocent’s pink ruffled evening dress would not
do for this big affair. Lemelenyou insisted
that Innocent borrow her black strapless,
p e n c i 1-skirt, slit-up-the-front, fur - trimmed
evening dress.
Innocent was thrilled, and when it came
time for her to leave, she could hardly con
tain herself. When she arrived at Hars Mill
her date Brunson Burner met her at the bus
station. When she saw him, she was afraid
that she was a bit Over dressed. Brunson
was dressed in his rat cap, short sleeved
flowered sport shirt tucked out and brown
pegged pants. But she didn’t care; this was
her big weekend.
Hars Mill lost the football game. Guesswe-
beatya High School was just too much for
even the mighty Hars Mill players.
When Brunson Burner arrived to pick up
Innocent for the dance, his mouth fell open
in amazement. He had expected to see the
pink ruffles. He was not prepared for the
“I see you” dress with fur. Innocent threw
back her shoulders, stuck out her chin, aud
off they went. The less said about the dance
the better. It was informal!
When Brunson put Innocent on the bus the
following day, she heaved a sigh of relief that
the weekend was over. She was ready to go
back to Salem.
When Innocent got back to the dorm,
rushed into the room, threw her arms around
Roommate and screamed what a wonderful
time she had had. Then she fell on the bed
in a blissful trance of remembrance.
Roommate interrupted Innocent’s reverie to
tell her that she was going to the Jack Knife
and Ax at Georgies Tex the following week-
end.^ Innocent smiled and said how wonder'
ful it was and silently hoped it would
be like her weekend.
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