THE SALEM IT E
April 24.
Salamite Personalities Show
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In Souvenirs, Untold Stories
By Francine Pitts
Could a girl’s personality be ana
lyzed by a study of the souvenirs
she collects? If so, we really have
some oddies here at Salem.
In the scrapbooks, on the dress
ers and on the bulletin boards of
the rooms of every girl at Salem
are items ranging from a coffee
spoon from every city in the United
States and Europe that Jane
Schoolfield has ever been to, to a
tooth that Angela Howard’s date
knocked out when he was riding a
bicycle (so she says) when she
was in the ninth grade.
,If we were analyzing a person
ality, a significant clue would be
found in the fact that a girl won’t
tell the whole story behind her
souvenir.
Becky Won’t Tell
An example of this is the piece
of cotton Becky Powers has, that
she made Ken get for her because
it looked so pretty and sparkleing
in the moonlight that night. It
would have been better if Becky
had told the whole story. She
seems to have forgotten how im
agination grows and grows and
grows.
Another clue would be found in
the facial expressions of the stu
dent as she is being questioned
about her souvenirs. Jean Shope
beamed when she told about how
proud she is of a little piece of
Stan’s skin that she peeled off his
back when he had a sunburn. She
said, “I’ll be glad to show it to
you. It’s on the dresser in my
Libby Norris blushed, as only
Libby can, when she admitted that
she saved the tickets from every
time her date takes her to a drive-
in-theater.
Still another clue would be found
in the fact that girls won’t tell
about their souvenirs. Sue Harri
son started telling me about the
souvenir she has from a fishing
Campus Shots
Evening dresses being brought
down from the attics . . . old south
bracelets decorating the campus
. . . Helen, Carolyn, and Lu Long
as old Salem girls . . . Salemites
playing softball with Temple’s Joe
and Emily’s Bill . . . Betsy Las
siter’s two rings . . . Sue Harrison
in the willow tree . . . Anne Ed
ward’s favorite song, “Embrace-
able You” . . . Dr. Lewis’ French
class at the drug store . . . “Boop”
McGlaughon’s key to the K. A.
House in Chapel Hill . . . Tyler’s
cold and her Sunday date . . .
Connie Barnes in bliss with her
new pin . . . “Pro” Edwards think
ing Bonnie Bondurant has a cute
little swing ... Jo Bell and dozens
of B. C. headache powders . . .
Juniors feting the Seniors at the
Plantation Club . . . Pris Henrich
singing “I’m in the Mood for Love”
. . . mortality rate (restrictions) in
South decreasing slowly . , .
“praise” for Dr. Singer for keep
ing Salem’s standards high by rais
ing the “ante” on his term papers
next year.
trip and wouldn’t finish the story.
Then she started telling about why
she kept a string from the first
time she dated Zero and wouldn’t
finish that either.
Finally she remembered a $1000
I.O.U. she still has in her scrap
book. When she was twelve years
old, the owner of the G. S. K.
Restaurant in Danville had said
he’d give anyone $1000 dollars who
could guess what the letters G. S.
K. stood for.
Smart little Sue looked it up' in
the library and found it was the
initials of the former owner of the
restaurant. She also found that
the owner was only playing a
little game with her.
Lorrie Dirom couldn’t seem to be
able to look directly into my eyes
when she was telling me about how
she got a scar on her knee, a
memoir of a motorbike ride which
ended with a crash into a stone
wall in Bermuda.
Marlene Hedrick seemed to have
the same trouble when she told
me about the 4-leaf clover that she
saves because Joe picked it up and
gave it to her. I’m afraid these
must be some more cases of in
complete stories.
Some of the personalities at
Salem might be considered normal,
as some of the Salem girls have
some interesting souvenirs.
Norma Williams has some sale
slips for rice, vinegar and other
items which are dated back in the
years of the Civil War. She says
she found them in an old farm
shack about 60 miles Out in the
country from Wilmington, among
a pile of old papers.
Book Will Tell
Pook Johnson has a “Snorkle-
master” membership card. She
says, “It means I’m an honorary
member of the Guppie Snorklers.”
She received this card when she
toured a submarine called “The
Snorkle.”
Joan Shope is saving the piece
of glass she found in her head
about a month after her wreck.
Betty McGlaughon’s tempera
ment was revealed when she told
about the souvenir of the compro
mise she and Bill made at the
Old South Ball this past week-end.
They couldn’t decide who won a
dollar bill in a game of gin rummy
so they just tore it in half and
divided it equally.
Margaret Raiford’s temperament
was revealed when she told about
her souvenirs of hdr freshman year
at Salem. She has a collection of
notes from the librarian concerning
a matter of a book. ^
The conclusion of my analysis of
a Salem girl’s personality by the
souvenirs she collects is that she
is very interesting, although I know
there must be a nice, long psycho
logical word to describe it.
Welch, Opera
Win Awards
Salem was the recipient of
high awards, at the 30fh
two
annual
Carolina Dramatic Association’s
Spring Drama Festival held last
weekend in Chapel Hill
Dr. Elizabeth Welch, head of the
education department, won highest
honors in playwriting for her ori
ginal choric drama, “Hand Me A
Silver Platter,” which was pro-
duced for the festival by the Go *‘-
boro High School Goldmasquers
Dr. Welch has won more playwrit-
ing awards than any other North mm
Carolinian, and this time added to ^
her credit the.Carolina Playmaker’s ***
award.
Highest awards in the college
division of the festival went to the
Salem Production Committee’s pre.
sentation of “The Medium”, an
opera by Gian-Carlo Menotti. This
was a joint production of both stu
dents and faculty of the art, music
and drama departments. Duke Uni
versity also shared in these honors
for their production of “Waiting
For Lefty”.
Dickson Plans June Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Dickson
of Gastonia have announced the
engagement of their daughter,
Myra Sue, to Winfred Earle Myers,
son of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Myers
of Kings Mountain.
Myra is a member of the senior
class and is majoring in Latin with
a minor in history.
Earle was graduated from David
son in 1949 and did graduate work
at the University of Virginia. He
was a member of the S P E frater
nity while he was at Davidson.
The wedding is planned for June
16.
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