March 13, 1953
THE SALEMITE
Page Five
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Three Juniors Edit Salemite
And Live To Tell Their Story
By Alison Britt, Jean Calhoun
and Connie Murray
Now it can be told. Listen and
understand. This is the story of
“trois tres les rhiserables.” (Or is
it les tres trois miserables ?)
Perhaps we should identify our
selves. One of us has a curley head;
one of us has freckles, and one of
us wears silver glasses. It is nec
essary to remain incognito, for
they are looking for us. We do
not know exactly who they are,
but at night we see shadows on
the walls, hands (you expected us
to say Heidemann, didn’t you?)
well, hands twisted by occupational
diseases coming at us through the
transoms, threatening notes in our
broccoli. Sooner or later they’ll
get us (not the broccoli, but the
people—or maybe it will be the
broccoli.)
Anyway, we must tell our story
before we are gone and it is lost
forever.
We hardly know where to begin.
Vaguely we remember—a face—
Mac’s face—the face was drinking
NewsBriefs
The 1953 varsity has been chosen.
Those receiving the honor this year
were Emma Sue Larkins, Marian
Lewis, Lu Long Ogburn, Ann Mer
ritt, Betty McGlaughon, Allison
Long, Jean Currin, Louise Fike,
Francine Pitts, Polly Larkins and
Donald Caldwell.
;);****
The members of the International
Relations Club saw a movie last
Wednesday night which showed
how an Experiment on Internat
ional Living would work. The
'movie was entitled “The Way to
Peace.”
^ *
Dr. Dale H. Gramley and the
Police Department have issued a
warning to all students who have
cars here on campus. Students
who park their cars in the wrong
direction on Church Street will be
given a ticket.
Dr. Gramley says it must be re
membered that Church Street is
not a private area but a public
thoroughfare.
*****
The Honor Society of Salem
College will be hostess to the var
ious high school honor societies
throughout the state on March 20
and 21.
The high school members of the
honor societies will be entertained
at a banquet on March 20 given
by the Salem society. The college
will also provide sleeping facilities
for some of the girls.
*****
The Lablings will meet at 7:00
p.m. Monday night in the lecture
room of the Science Building. Dr.
Young, chaplain at Baptist Hos
pital, will speak on science and
religion. Refreshments will be ser
ved, and everyone is invited to
attend.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs. Gramley will be
hostesses to the Academy seniors
at the annual dinner to be held
March 18.
The College senior dinner given
by the Gramleys will be March 25,
followed by coffee at the Presi
dent’s home. Both events are to
be in the Club Dining Room.
coffee. Why? Because it had
nothing else to do. Why? Be
cause we were doing it all. Yes,
the time had come. For the next
three weeks we were editing the
Salemite.
We pushed our tired, sick little
bodies into the Catacombs and the
cave known as the Salemite office.
The bats in the rafters smiled down
at us: “Welcome, friends.” Alison
cleared the spiders off the type
writer, and Connie chipped purple
paint off her hands with the ice
pick. Selma dragged herself up
the steps into the Public Relations
Office. Throwing her hot, tired
body into Jane Watson’s lap, she
cried, “Prithee, may I see the cal
endar for next week?” This peti
tion being granted, she soon re
turned with news.
Bat Interviews Gramley
Alison and Connie were begin
ning to look very much at home
among the spiders and bats. Selma,
bats, Connie, spiders, Alison—to
gether we made out the assign
ments. (Or was it spiders, Alison,
bats, Selma, and Connie?) Being
a little short on reporters, we
sent the most intelligent-looking
bat to interview Dr. Gramley for
a feature on “Salemites: How to
Wuv ’em. Wow ’em. Woo ’em, and
Win ’em.”
Connie was destined for a jour
ney to the Alumnae House to get
cheap pictures. We mean pictures
that were cheap'—no, we mean in
expensive pictures. You see, pic
tures that have already been en
graved don’t cost so much, so we
decided to use ones from the 1772
edition. Connie found one of Lu
Long on the diving board—she was
just a kid then. It would do—front
page material.
Next two days: our habitat, the
Salemite office. A runner brought
us oxygen and crepe sus-broccoli,
kept warm by the torch he bore
from Mt. Olympus. We wrote, and
copied copy, and copied copy that
had been copied. With our heads
together, we wrote heads, (head
lines, that is), and with our ears
together we wrote ears (little
poems, that is).
We Emerged
Thursday we emerged, sweeping
cobwebs from our shoulders and
bats from our belfries. Our ene
mies knew we were going to press,
but we marched on to the Sun—■
we, the tres trios les miserables.
Donning our plumed hats and
monogrammed striped printers taf
feta aprons, we crossed our eyes
in the usual manner so we could
read print upside down and back
wards. Mr. Cashion, staring at the
bags under our eyes which we had
tucked in our belts, and fearing we
would petrify and fall into a print
ing press, brought us coffee and
broccoli chips. It w^as with these
new coffee $lled bodies that we
continued our work. Before we
knew it the paper w^as a Salemite.
Tattered and torn we dragged
ourselves back toward our Mora
vian settlement. It was then that
we saw them: they gazed at us,
they stared at us — from behind
each store corner, from under each
loose brick, from around each fire-
hydrant, from behind each ilangi-
lang. They were after us—each
tres trois les meserables—because
they knew we had misspelled
Salem.
Jean Davenport PlansTo Wed
Josheph Nelson In June
The engagement of Frances Jean
Davenport to Joseph Higgins Nel
son has been announced by her
Chapman Given
Dinner Party
Miss Margaret Chapman was
honored at a dinner party and
kitchen shower given by South
Dorm last Wednesday night in the
basement of Tom Perry’s Grill.
“Best wishes to you” was sung
to a much surprised gym teacher
and house mother when she arrived
at the party. After dinner. Miss
Chapman opened individual gifts of
the miscellaneous kitchen-article
variety. >
This was followed by the pre
sentation of a gift from the entire
dorm which was accompanied by
a poem. In closing, another poem
was read which included happings
in the dorm and again expressed
everyone’s best wishes.
Miss Chapman will become en
gaged over Spring vacation and
has plans for a July wedding.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. David
Walter Davenport.
Joe is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Neill Arthur Nelson of Rocky
Mount. He is a senior at the Uni
versity of North Carolina and is
President of the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity.
Jean graduated from high school
in Rocky Mount and is now a sen
ior at Salem, where she is major
ing in English and minoring in
history. She is editor of this year’s
Sights and Insights and is on the
staff of the Salemite.
The w'edding will take place on
June 13 at 8:00 p.m.
Club Hears Talk
The Home Economics Club met
at the Home Management House,
Monday night. Guest speakers
were Mrs. Marie Cameron Brown
and Miss Carolyn Johnson, both
1951 graduates of Salem.
Mrs. Brown spoke on teaching
as a profession for home economics
majors, and Miss Johnson spoke on
dietetics as a profession.
Refreshments were served by the
group now living in the Home
Management house.
Campus Shots
Bartender Bowman stealing the
show Saturday night ... Jo Bell’s
ice cream cone . . . Sara Sue’s 21
voses from an admirer . . . Rooney’s
dilemma, “Where do I stop?” . . .
Casey’s clean-up campaign . . .
Emma Sue’s two new pairs of
basketball shoes . . . Book’s elated
cry, “Jimmy’s coming!” . . . Louise
Barron dressing up for a basket
ball game . . . Fearing’s new Sigma
Chi mug . . . Alison trying to
protect her apples . . . Dr. Lewis’
spring fever . . . Alice absence
whenever the phone rings . . .
Loma Faye’s caller . . . Betty Mc-
Glaughon’s proposition . . . Mr.
Sandresky borrowing a dollar for
church . . . Mrs. Harrison’s visit
. . . Sun burns in March . . .
Home sick upperclassmen . . .
Tyler’s neck trouble . . . Susie
Glsaer’s adopted father ^ . .
Beauty’s half face . . . Parents
carrying daughters to Sunday
breakfast . . . Nanny’s bearded
date . . . Louise getting a ring and
Anne Merritt wearing a pin . .. Miss
Chapman looking surprised as
W. C. loses ... A shower from
South . . . Medium cast and crew
anticipating a trip to Chapel Hill
... A variety of men for Sue
Harrison . . . Kappa Sig’s invading
Strong ... A longer wait for
Boots Hudson . . . Happy home
life for Joan and Mai . . . the
antics of the faculty Thursday
t night . . . the catastrophe of no
drug store charge accounts . . .
Guesses as to whether Marian’s
hair in chapel was a wig or not
... 19 days till Easter.
Contributions
Total $350
W. S. S. F., world student ser
vice fund, has reached a total of
$350 according to Alice McNeely,
chairman of the committee. Most
bf the student pledges have been
received, and the others are being
.collected daily.
The W. S. S. F. fund-raising
campaign is among the most suc
cessful drives at Salem, Alice an
nounced. Students have responded
well in co-operating and contribut
ing generously to this fund.
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