This Week’s Editor
Is Connie Murray
Next Week’s Editor
Is Alison Britt
Volume XXXIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 27, 1953
Salem Makes
Plans For
Elections
The election to major offices at
Salem for 1953-54 will begin Tues
day, March 3. The president and
secretary of Student Government
will be elected in chapel on that
day. Elections will continue
through the middle of March. On
March 31 the new officers will be
installed in a chapel program.
Except for officers of the Stu
dent Government, the election to
major ‘offices rotates each year.
The vice president and treasurer
of the Student Government will be
elected in chapel on March 5. This
year the editor of the Salemite will
be elected by the Salemite staff on
Monday, March 9. In chapel on
March 10 the president of the I.
R. S. and the Y. W. C| A. will be
elected.
The editor of the Sights and In
sights will be elected by the staff
on March 11. The chairman of
May Day and the Athletic Asso
ciation president will be elected in
chapel on March 12.
The chief marshal will be elected
in chapel on March 17. The mem
bers of the Pierrettes will elect
their production manager on March
18.
Freshmen will receive % vote in
the elections which are voted on
by the entire student body. In in
dividual organizations they receive
a whole vote.
The nominating committee nomi
nates two candidates for each of
these offices. The committee began
its meetings on Monday, Feb. 23.
Members of the committee are;
Marian Lewis, chairman; Florence
Spaugh, Jane Smith, Lu Long Og-
burn, Jean Davenport, Fae Deaton,
Elsie Macon, Emma Sue Larkins,
Marilyn Summey, Jo Bell, Nellie
Anne Barrow, Bobbie Kuss, Alice
McNeeley, Faye Lee, Connie Mur
ray, Joanne Moody, Edith Tesch,
Miss Covington and Dr. Gramley.
The candidates nominated by the
committee will be announced the
day before their respective elec
tions. The student body has the
right to petition for additional
candidates.
These petitions, signed by 10%
of the student body, must be sub
mitted to the nominating committee
by 9:30 the night before the elec
tion. The nominating committee
will then meet in order to consider
petitions.
Teachers Will
Hold Meetings
Every Monday in March the
heads of each department will dis
cuss Salem’s eligible majoring sub
jects. These meetings will be held
in the Science Building and will
comply to the following schedule:
March 2—
Mathematics Mr. Curlee
Sociology-Economics
Miss Covington
March 9—
English-Drama (minor)
Miss Byrd
Biology . Mr. Campbell
March 16—
History Dr. Singer
Modern Languages Dr. Lewis
March 23—
Art Mr. Shewmake
Chemistry Mr. Russell
March 30—
Home Economics
Miss Hodges
Classics Dr. Smith
After Easter, several additional
meetings will be held to explain
teachers’ certificates, majors in
music and minors in religion and
psychology.
Number I 7
The Medium
To Be Given
March 5,6
The Salem Productions Commit
tee will present its first program,
Menotti’s The Medium, at 8:30
p.m. on March 5 and 6 in Old
Chapel.
The opera, under the direction
of Miss Elizabeth Reigner, will
feature both faculty and students
in the vocal roles:
Madame Flora
The above scene is one from the forthcoming The Medium, to be given by the Salem Productions Com^
mittee. Pictured, left to right are Mrs. Joan Jacobowsky, Peggyan Alderman, and Dave Pardington.
Elizabeth Krauss Gives Speech
In Chapel For WSSF Week
“The students of the world be- | ing that students in other countries
long to each other in one big I are concerned and wish to offer
world wide fraternity,” pointed out ! help.
Elizabeth Krauss, Salem’s foreign | Elizabeth corn-
student from the Netherlands, m'
chapel last Tuesday. Elizabeth
spoke in connection with World
Student Service Fund Week now
being conducted on campus.
After first telling how the fund
developed through the effort to
give a college education to young
people in foreign countries left
destitute by war, Elizabeth also
showed how the W. S. S. F. gives
foreign students security in know-
Musical Opens
Here Tonight
Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular
operetta, “H. M. S. Pinafore,” will
be presented at 8:30 p.m. tonight
and tomorrow, Feb. 27 and 28, at
Reynolds Auditorium.
Miss Catherine Nicholsan of
Salem’s faculty is advising in the
production . of the operetta which
is under the sponsorship of the
Winston-Salem Operetta Associa
tion.
Two high school students who
are pupils of Mrs. Nell Starr, Lynn
Hamrick and Sue Durham, will
appear in the performance. Miss
Gwenn Ewell, Winston-Salem
teacher, will play the role of But
tercup.
Tickets for the production are
$1.00 and may be obtained from
Miss Nicholson.
Welch’s Play Chosen
Dr. Elizabeth Welch, head of
Salem’s education department, has
recently been notified by the Caro
lina, Dramatic Association that her
choric play, “Hand Me A Silver
Platter,” is the only original play
selected for production at the State
Drama Festival. The festival will
be held April 18 and 19 at UNC in
Chapel Hill.
Dr. Welch’s play will be pro
duced by Clifton Britton and the
Goldsboro High School Goldmas-
quers on the last night.
Twice before her plays have won
highest awards when given at the
festival by this same group. Dr.
Welch has twice won the Betty
Smith Award in playwriting and
12 awards for original playwriting.
mented on how American students
seem to lack enthusiasm for their
studies. Yet, she said, “everyone
at least once while studying ex
periences a feeling that he is gain
ing real knowledge”. This enthus
iasm, she continued, should be
shared and all students should have
a chance to experience this feeling.
This is the purpose of the World
Student Service Fund, Elizabeth
showed.
Elizabeth was introduced by Alice
McNeely, W. S. S. F. chairman,
who also urged that Salem stu
dents take an active part in the
drive which will be put on a class-
competitive level.
At the close of chapel, slips were
passed out by the marshals in order
that students might make their
pledges. The drive will last
through March S.
Juniors, Sophs
Are Winners
In Two Games
In the Junior-Senior game Tues
day night the Juniors won 39-32.
LuLong Ogburn swished the net
from every point of the court, for
a game total of 35 points, sparking
her team to pull ahead of the Sen
iors. Emma Sue Larkins connec
ted for IS points, seconded by
Marian Lewis with 11.
On Wednesday night the Juniors
met the Sophomores, who racked up
a 47-41 win. LuLong Ogburn again
was high scorer with 29 points,
giving her a 100 point total for
the current season. S. J. Calhoun
contributed 10 points to the Junior
Cause and is to be credited with
'setting up many of LuLong’s shots.
Jean Currin. hooked in 21 points
and was matched by Alison Long
with 22 in their march to victory
over the Juniors. Ann Merrit and
Betty McGlaughon, guards, contri
buted much to the Junior defense.
Mrs. Joan Jacobowsky
Monica Peggyan Alderman
Toby David Pardington
Mr. Gobineow . Paul Peterson
Mrs. Gobineow . Ella Ann Lee
Mrs. Noland
Miss Margaret Vardell
The musical accompaniment will
be furnished by Clemens Sandresky
and Hans Heidemann who will
play spinet pianos back stage.
The Medium was first presented
at Columbia University in 1946.
The writing was commissioned by
the Alice M. Ditson Fund, but its
first real fame came when it was
performed in the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre in 4947 as a tragedy in
two acts.
In spite of the critics’ skeptical
attitude toward the contemporary
work, the opera ran for 212 per
formances on Broadway.
Briefly, the story involves a fake
spiritualist, the medium, who sud
denly suspects that she has really
made contact with the spirit world.
The medium, who supposedly
brings messages from her cust
omers’ dead lovers, feels a ghostly
hand upon her throat one night
during a seance.
Trying to escape the possibility
of spiritual contact, she places the
blame for the incident on Toby, a
mute gypsy boy. The conflict be
tween the medium and Toby finally
leads to murder.
The opera has been made into a
film starring the original Broadway
singers, but the films were taken
in Rome.
The composer, Gian-Carlo Men-
otti, is a 40 year old Italio-Ameri-
can. He was born in Italy, one of
10 children. Both the parents and
all the children were musical. They
formed a family orchestra which
played chamber music each night.
Menotti began composing when
he was six and wrote his first
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Jo Bell Finds Salem “Working’^ Girls Prefer
To To Mix Their Business With Pleasure
By Jo Bell
A yellow piece of paper was
dropped on the table. It began,
as always, “Dear Jo”, and it "ended
as always, “Loving Love, Selma”.
It’s other contents—“Please do an
article on working girls at Salem.”
Working girls ? Why, there are
300 and some working girls at
Salem, or they would never have
passed the first semester of their
freshman year!
There are, however, two kinds
of work — that which is called
studying, or “academic work”, and
that which is called off-campus or
“non-academic work”. That is, it
involves not studying, but making
money. Using the latter definition
of work, statistics filed in the
Dean’s office prove that only 2%
of Salem College girls — boarding
students—^do any work!
One of these select, ambitious
few is a brown-eyed, brown haired
senior—none other than “Peerless”
Peggy Chears. It seems Peggy is
always wanting to teach people
their ABC’s, at least as far as
cigarettes are concerned.
Peggy began her work as campus
representative for a well-known
brand of cigarettes in September
and will continue her work through
June. She spends most of her time
contacting groups of smokers and
writing bi-monthly reports to her
employers.
Of course, she spends quite a
few hours entertaining company
officials--nothing like mixing bus
iness with pleasure I (They’re all
male.) Peggy enjoys the job, but
her roommate, Jeanne, says that
the posters and samples clutter up
the room. Peggy says that people
are learning their ABC’s very well:
“Always Buy . . . Cartons, not
packs!
Peggy’s Rival
Peggy’s rival in the cigarette
world is “Jolly” Joan Shope. Joan
started her job as a campus repre
sentative the first of October, and
she, too, will work until June.
She agrees with Peggy .— she
likes to mix business with pleasure.
It seems that her firm sends some
most attractive representatives
around. Joan can be seen almost
anytime, running around with a
big box full of free samples, saying
to everyone she meets, “Have one.”
There’s one gal that believes in
service with a smile. She likes her
job, and she says that forevermore
her motto will be, “I’d walk a
kilometer for a dromedary!”
Don’t complain of a toothache,
or Allison Long will take you
right to work with her when Sat
urday rolls around. Allison is the
only veteran we have — she has
been working as an assistant for
her uncle, who is a dentist, since
1948!
Salem’s Florence Nightingale
When asked what she did, she
said, “Oh, a little bit of every
thing.’ You may find her any Sat
urday morning, catching the 8:15
bus, in a white uniform. Allison
is Salem’s Florence Nightingale,
for she also works for a doctor
during the summer.
All people who may have a
toothache, heed this warning. Look
out for Allison, for if you happen
to run into her, you will find your
self, mouth open, exposing your
teeth to a thorough examination.
No doubt she’ll shake her head
and give her fatal diagnosis, “Your
teeth are all right, but I’m afraid
your gums will have to come out I”
“Ruthless” Ruthie Derrick, an
other senior, who doesn’t have
brown hair, but blonde, and doesn’t
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