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This Week’s Editor
Is Betsy Liles
Next Week’s Editor
Is Alison Britt
Legette Blythe, Successful
Author, Speaks At Meeting
Legette Blythe, former Charlotte Freedom.”
newspaper reporter who is now ^ in.o
successful author, was the guest ligious novel The Bold G Tl
speaker at a meeting of the Friends was published. It was a book' chd;
of S.lem College Libra,, a, 8,30 s.lec.ion .„d e“o„ ” . “
o.m., Feb. 23, in the main reading sale. A T»e..
p.m., Feb. 23, in the main reading
room of the library.
Mrs. Agnew Bahnson, Jr., presi
dent of the group, presided. All
interested persons were invited to
Legette Blythe
join the members in hearing Mr.
Blythe.
Mr. Blythe told of his experi
ences with Dr. Mary Martin Sloop,
“Mother of the Year,” during the
time he was writing his latest book
on her work, The Miracle of the
Hills. In connection with his stories
of Mrs. Sloop, he played several
tape recording of his conversations
with her which gave the audience
insight into the character of this
woman.
Mr. Blythe has gained much re
cognition from the various books
he has written. His first book,
published in 1937, was Marshal
Ney: A Dual Life. Alexandia, a
novel of the South during the
Revolution which has its setting in
Mecklenburg County, followed in
1940. He has written two plays,
“The Chatham Rabbit” and “Shout
In 1948, Mr. Blythe’s first re-
The Bold Galilean,
- „ good
sale. A Tear For Judas, a novel
based on the life of Christ’s be
trayer, appeared in 1951.
The Miracle of the Hills won
for Dr. Sloop and Mr. Blythe the
Mayflower Cup for literary achieve
ment for 1953.
At present Mr. Blythe is at work
on a novel based on the time of
Paul, Nero and Claudius. It is ex
pected to be published sometime
during this year.
FacultyToQive
Play March 8
The faculty play which is pre
sented- every four years will be
given at 8:00 p.m. on March 8 in
Memorial Hall. The cast wdll be
composed of 50 faculty members
and will include dancing, chorus
lines, costumes, and music.
Mr. Paul Peterson and Dr. Eliza
beth Welch will direct the play.
Admission of $1. will be charged,
which will be given to the World
Student Fund.
The production is under the aus
pices of a committee headed by
Miss Catherine Nicholson and
formed of Miss Evabelle Covington,
Miss Margaret Barrier, Miss Vir
ginia Hodges, Miss Elizabeth Feig
ner, Mr. Warren Spencer, Mr.
Edwin Shewmake, Dr. Elizabeth
Welch and Mr. Paul Peterson.
Since the play is kept a secret.
Miss Nicholson, committee head,
only disclosed that the production
w'ill be a musical comedy located
“north of^he equator in the west
ern hemisphere,” and that the
comedy centers around the solving
of a dilemma.
In past productions, the faculty
have done take-offs on the Trojan
war. King Arthur’s court, and the
Salem May Day.
(For faculty play review, see pg. 4)
Biswas Views
Pakistan And
Youth Service
The guest speaker in chapel on
Thursday was B e n i t a Biswas of
Lahore, Pakistan. Miss Biswas,
who has been a college student in
both Pakistan and the United
States, attended Forman Christian
College in Pakistan, Maryville Col
lege in Tennessee, and Wooster
College in Ohio. At Forman she
served as secretary of the Student
Christian Movement and president
of the International Youth Circlle
of the Y. W. C. A. She was spon
sored on campus by the “Y”, and
Jean Edwards introduced Miss Bis
was.
Miss Biswas’ subject concerned
the Student Volunteer Movement
and Pakistan. The Student Volun
teer Movement is a Christian or
ganization which sponsors student
tours in order to promote inter
national student relations. The
Student Christian Council heads
the Student Volunteer Movement
and discusses questions on Christ
ian denominations and missionary
work.
One of the chief problems of the
Movement is co-ordination of the
missionary work under many de
nominations. Miss Biswas cited
that in India the different denomi
nations each take a different sec
tion of the country in which to
carry on missionary work.
On observation of the American
attitude toward India, the speaker
expressed the imperial attitude
which seems to be present in the
American desire for air bases in
India. Miss Biswas also said that
if India went communistic, so too
would go Pakistan. She pointed
out, howev.er, that the Christians in
India, Pakistan and even China are
working against communistic ag
gression. Miss Biswas said that
the Student Movement held con
ferences annually to discuss the
Christian way to stop communism.
Miss Biswas then turned to a
discussion of Pakistan, describing
it as the largest Moslem country
in the world. The two sections
the east and west countries, are
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Charles Medlin, Newest Addition To School Of
Music, Chosen ‘‘Sweetheart Of Salem” For 1954
Charles Medlin now reigns as the
new “Sweetheart of Salem”. He
was chosen by the student body in
a recent contest sponsored by the
senior class. Dr. Dale Gramley
was the “Sweetheart” last year.
Mr. Medlin’s picture was entered
in the contest by a secret admirer
and was a portrait done by an an
onymous artist.
A member of the music faculty,
Mr. Medlin instructs students in
piano and violin-cello. He also per
forms with the Winston-Salem
Symphony Orchestra.
I'A native of High Point, he at
tended the University of North
Carolina and Julliard School of
Music. He has been a cellist in
the North Carolina and Indianopolis
symphonies.
His most recent solo performance
Was his faculty recital last Monday
night.
The “Sweetheart of Salem” con
test is sponsored annually by the
senior class.- The voting is done
with pennies. Each entry is 10c.
Among the numerous entries in
the contest were fathers, brothers,
sweethearts and faculty members.
The winner was presented a carton
of a nationally advertised brand of
cigarettes.
Bowen, Irish-English Novelist
Will Speak In Memorial Hall
Elizabeth Bowen, the well-known Irish-English novelist, will speak at
8:30 p.m., March 1, in Memorial Hall here at Salem. Miss Bowen, the
fourth speaker in the Salem College lecture series, will speak on “The
Novel on Both Sides of the Atlantic.”
She is visiting the United States for two months for the purpose of
speaking before college and literary groups from coast to coast. Her
discussion will include comments on her own work as well as her con
temporaries.
Miss Bowen will arrive in Win
ston-Salem on Sunday, February 28.
Tentative plans formed by a com
mittee of the advanced composition
class include the speaker’s meeting
with the composition class, lunch
in the refectory, and informal visit
ing of the dormitory smoke rooms.
The following night Miss Bowen
will make her address on the novel.
Miss Bowen’s discussion will in
clude comments on her work as
well as her contemporaries. She is
well known to Americans for her
novels. The Heat of the Day, a
Literary Guild selection in 1949, and
The Death of the Heart—both of
which are best-sellers in this coun-
try.
Her Collected Impressions, a ser
ies of critical essays, published here
in July, 1950, received nationwide
attention. She also has contributed
articles and critical essays to The
Saturday Review of Literature, At
lantic Monthly, and Vogue.
Born in Dublin at the turn of
the ceritury, Elizabeth Bowen
showed promise-of literary success.
At fourteen, she was sent to board
ing school in Kent. There, the head
mistress perceived her growing
talent and encouraged her to be
come a writer.
After boarding school, she re
turned to Ireland and spent the
last year of World War I working
in an army hospital near Dublin.
After two years she returned to
London and began her long, suc
cessful career as a short story
writer and novelist.
Miss Bowen’s critics have placed
her among the great of English and
American literature. She is refer
red- to by her colleagues as “the
writer’s writer.”
ELIZABETH BOWEN
Charles Medlin
Gramley Talks;
Medlin Plays
Chapel last Tuesday was con
ducted by Dr. Dale Gramley. He
announced that his program would
be divided into two parts.
“First we will hear the best music
to be found anywhere between New
York and Key West,” promised Dr.
Gramley. The president then in
troduced Charles Medlin, cellist,
accompanied by Dean Clem e n s
Sandresky, pianist, as also “the two
best looking men to be found any
where between New York and Key
West.”
The two music professors per
formed for the Salem College
Chapel by playing three numbers:
Brahms’ Sonata in E Minor, Opus
38; “The Swan”, by Saint-Saens
and Beethoven’s Schizo, Allegro,
Molto from Sonatina in A Major,
Opus 69. These numbers were
selectidtis from Mr. Medlin’s re
cital of the previous evening.
Then Dr. Gramley read several
selections from a diary of residents
of Salem over a hundred years ago,
providing interesting and amusing
Continued on page three
Salem Offers
Choir School
Salem College’s fifth annual Choir
School will be conducted June 20
through June 27. Paul W. Peter
son, head of the voice department
at Salem, will be director of the
school.
Clemens Sandresky, dean of the
school of music, and James Hart,
minister of music at the First Pres
byterian Church, will be local mem
bers of the faculty. Other members
are Henry Pfohl, director of music
at Plymouth Church' of the Pilgrims
in Brooklyn, New York, and John
H. Johansen, member of the Hymn
Society of America.
Special instructor of the session
will be Mrs. Ruth Krehbiel Jacobs,
executive director of the Choristers
Guild. An authority on children’s
voices, she will conduct classes on
junior and primary choirs.
Organ, voice, conducting and
musicianship will be some of the
main topics of discussion at the
school. Other subjects will be rep
ertoire, hymnology and children’s
choirs.
A. A. News
Six members of the Salem A. A.
and Miss Elizabeth Ann Collett at
tended a conference of the Athletic
Federation of College Women held
in Chapel Hill last Friday and
Saturday.
One of the new projects adopted
by the organization was the publi
cation of a quarterly bulletin (to
begin next Fall) to keep each school
informed of the activities of the
other schools. Salem was elected
editor of these bulletins.
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This Saturday, Feb. 27, Salem
will send a basketball team to
Woman’s College in Greensboro to
attend a Sports Day. Since no
honorary varsity has been elected
as yet, all the girls who were in
terested in going signed up and a
committee composed of Miss Eliza
beth Ann Collett, Jean Currin,
basketball manager, and Ann Cren
shaw, assistant basketball manager,
selected a representative team of
ten players.
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On Saturday, March 6, Salem
College will be hostess to a basket
ball Sports Day. Five nearby col
leges have been invited to attend.
Members of the 1954 varsity, which
will be elected after the final game
of the intramural tournament, will
compose Salem’s team.
The first game will begin at 10:30
a.m., using the round-robin method
of elimination. The teams will be
served lunch in the college dining
hall and the games will continue
after lunch, concluding with an in
formal social hour.