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Volunje XXXV
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, May 6, 1955
Number 23
White Reigns Over May Day
Scorpions Induct Campbell,
Rogers, Parker, and Cash
The Order of the Scorpion, honor
leadership organization on campus,
has announced the four new mem
bers chosen this past week. They
Ann Campbell
are juniors Ann Campbell, Mary
MacNeely Rogers, Julia Parker,
and Betty Jean Cash.
Ann, the daughter of Mrs. Geo
rge H. Campbell, is an organ-re
ligious music major from Murfrees
boro. She has been chief marshal.
Marionette Show
Will Be Presented
The Children’s Literature class,
(Education 210) will present a pup
pet and marionette show in Old
Chapel Tuesday, May 10, at 7:00
p.m.
The puppet show, “Br’er Rabbit
and the Tarbaby”, will be given by
Jane Langston, Phyllis Sherrill,
Linda March, and Barbara Black-
well.
Emily Baker, Julia Parker, Rose
Dickinson, and Peggy Hawkins will
present a marionette show.
“The Five Chinese Brothers” will
be given in a Chinese shadowgraph
by Bebe Boyd, Mary Benton Roy
ster, Mary McNeely Rogers, and
Bunny Gregg.
Children of the college faculty
and staff will be guests.
treasurer of the Freshman class,
member of the Y cabinet, a Pier
rette, and is the new I. R. S. pre
sident. '
Mary Mac is president of the
F. T. A. She is a history major
from Mooresville. This year she
has been president of South and
has worked on the Sights and In
sights and Salemite staffs. She has
also been chosen a member of Phi
Alpha Theta honorary fraternity.
The new president of the Pier
rettes, Julia has been a marshal
and treasurer of the Sophomore
class. She is a history major and
her hometown is Ahoskie.
Betty Jean Cash is a day student
and has served as vice-president of
the Sophomore class. She has been
a member of the Y Cabinet and is
majoring in Latin.
Julia Parker
Dance To Feature
A Qenie On a Magic Carpet
By Judy Golden
This afternoon, just being na
turally curious, I decided to wan
der down to the gym and see how
the May Day dance decorations
were coming along.
. As I walked in the door, I was
greeted by Joyce Taylor and Mary
Jane Galloway, co-chairmen of the
Decorating committee. They were
busy setting up a huge shrimp-
colored Arabian palace at one end
of the floor. The palace spires,
colored with gold and black, made
the whole thing look big enough
to walk into. In fact, Mary Jane
told me that the May Court will
enter through the palace doors.
Martha Ann Bowles, Susan
Childs, and Nancy Blum, the rest
of the decorating committee, were
stringing azure blue crepe paper
around the walls and across the
ceiling. (Incidentally, the I. R. S.
spent $100.80 on crepe paper alone;
This just gives an idea of what the
whole thing must cost.)
Meanwhile, Denyse McLawhorn
and Pat Hogan were frantic. It
seems they couldn’t find one of
the props—a genie. When I in
quired fji()out it, I was told that it
is an er^act likeness of Terry Har
mon, the “Teenie-Weenie Genie,,.
The paper-mache figure will be fly
ing across the ceiling on a magic
carpet. Don’t ask me how, but it
sounds cute.
About that time Ann Campbell,
while running around directing,
was beseiged by chairmen of dif
ferent committees. Betty Saunders
wanted to know about the refresh
ments, which will be served from
10:30 until 11:00 in the dining
room. Judy Graham and Toni Gill
had questions about bids and pub
licity. Nancy Peterson asked some
thing about invitations and Eleanor
Smith wanted to give Ann the
plans for the figure, which will
take place at 10:00.
After the crowd subsided, I began
to pester Ann for information.
She made me promise to tell every
body about the pictures that will
be taken. They will be posed with
the girl sitting on a huge, gold
Aladdin’s lamp. (The props mana
gers hope to find a few palm trees
to make it all look authentic.)
Carolyn Kneeburg will be in charge
of payments and the pictures will
be $2.50 for two.
Ann also gave me a few facts
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Seniors Krepps
And Reiland
Win Honors
Sally Reiland and Mrs. Jessie
Krepps, senior English majors,
were notified last week by the At
lantic Monthly magazine that their
short stories placed in the top
twenty in a recent contest. This
gives them a rating of Honorable
Mention.
Sally’s story, “For Miss Weldon
—With Daisies In A Pickle Jar,”
tells the reaction of a group of
third grade children to their teach
er’s fear of death.
Jessie’s story, “The Hired Man,”
deals with an argument between a
New England mother and the hired
man, as seen by the teen-age
daughter.
Jessie Krepps also placed in the
second twenty entries in the essay
division of the contest. Her essay
was on the value of a Liberal Arts
education versus Engineering.
College Begins
Fund Raising
The Salem Academy and College
Progress Fund campaign will begin
Monday on campus. On the agenda
for the program is a new power
plant, an annex to the Academy,
increased faculty salaries, and a
new dormitory. This will require
$2,200,000.
The campaign will be conducted
on a competitive basis. A thero-
meter will be placed on the dining
hall bulletin board, and a daily re
cord of the percentage of class
participation will be kept.
Each girl will be asked to pledge
the amount she wishes to give.
This pledge will cover a period of
three or four years, so she may
give some now and pledge the
other for later. “Buy a Brick”
will be the slogan, so one can feel
that she has bought an actual part
of the building. A cornerstone
costs $4 or $5.
Edith Howell is chairman for the
Senior class, with Jane Little and
Carolyn Kneeburg, Nancy Florence,
and Rosanne Worthington as her
solicitors.
Chairman for the Junior class
Ella Ann Lee. Diane Huntley,
Betty Saunders, Bebe Boyd, and
Pat Malone will be her solicitors.
Head of the sophomore class
solicitors is Ann Miles and work
ing with her are Matilda Parker,
Pat Green, Carol Cook, Juanita
Efird, Bren Bunch, Ann Knight,
and Martha Dunlap.
Jane Bradford, head of the fresh
men, will be helped by Lillian Allen,
Mary Elizabeth Britt, Sue Davis,
Anne Fordham, Barbara McMann,
Sue Gregory, Jean Jacobs, Pam
Pennington, Mary Gladys Rogers,
and Jane Topping.
Sara Marie Pate is in charge of
advertising, and Dr. Gramley is the
advisor.
Dr. Gramley in his speech in
Chapel on Tuesday told a few de
tails of the fund raising drive
which has now begun in town.
The goal of the campaign, 2.2
million, has been divided into two
parts. The first 1.2 million, he
said, is for the building fund, and
it is hoped this can be attained
by the middle of July. Tjie second
million has been designated for
endowment.
'Arabian Nights’ Is Theme
Of Gala May Day Pageant
By Martha Jarvis
Just in case you’re wondering,
that music coming from behind the
gym is strains from Kismet, and
the thudding noise is the impact of
the steps of Salem’s own elephant,
Louise Fike (back end) and Emily
Heard (front end). Of course, all
of this adds up to May Day prac
tice which is really looking tops.
It’s not any too soon, for the big
moment is this Saturday at 5:00
p.m.
Pierrette Poll
Results Given
Here are the results of the poll
taken in chapel by the new Pier
rette president, Julia Parker.
Of the senior class, twenty-three
have worked with the Pierrettes on
a play; fifteen have not. They
liked Dark of the Moon best. They
liked The Importance of Being
least. Twenty-eight of the thirty-
eight that took part in the poll
saw The Heiress. Twenty-seven
saw The Would-Be Gentleman.
From the junior class, twenty-
seven have been working; fifteen
have not. They also liked Dark
of the Moon the best; The Heiress,
the least. Twenty-five out of forty-
seven saw The Heiress and thirty-
seven saw The Would-Be Gentle
men.
Of the sophomore class, twenty-
four have worked; twenty-three
have not. They liked Dark of the
Moon the best and The Would-Be
Gentlemen the least. Forty-seven
out of fifty-seven saw The Heiress,
and forty-one saw The Would-Be
^Gentlemen.
Twelve of the freshman class
have worked; fifty have not. They
were all for The Heiress. Fifty-six
saw The Heiress and fifty saw The
Would-Be Gentlemen.
Seventy-five per cent of the stu
dent body attended the plays in
the last four years; half of them
have worked on the productions.
GordonToGive
Recital Monday
Suzanne Gordon, a violin major,
will present her Sophomore recital
in Memorial Hall on Monday night
at 7:30 p.m. Martha Thornburg
will accompany her.
Suzanne, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Newton Gordon of Lynch
burg, Va., is studying for her B. M.
degree under Eugene Jacobowsky.
She has been a member of the
Winston-Salem Symphony for both
her freshman and sophomore years
here and has been active in the
choral ensemble this year.
Suzanne’s summer plans include
playing in the Early Moravian
Music Festival orchestra under
direction of Thor Johnson.
Numbers to be presented on the
Monday night program are:
Sonata No. 6 Handel
Adagio
Allegro
Largo
Allegro
Slavonic Dances Dvorak
No. 1 in G mihor
Scherzo-Tarentelle ..Wiewawski
Op. 16
Sonata—A major Franck
Allegretto ben moderate
Allegro
Recitatiyo-Fantasia
Allegretto poco mosso
Saturday afternoon when you see
a sultry-looking brunette shimmy
ing (o the Oriental music, you’ll no
longer see Jean Humphrey, but the
beautiful Scheherazade .... danc
ing and telling her tale of magic.
Thus the May Dell will be trans
formed into the island where Sin-
bad the Sailor, Betty Morrison,
has an adventure in the cave of
the jewels . . . containing such
sparkling gems as Myra Eaves,
Judy Graham, Dayle Dawson, Mary
Avera, Pat Flynt, and Pat Greene.
In the cave, Sinbad finds a bub
bling little friend who is no other
than the Teenie-Weenie Genie,
usually known as Terry Harmon,
who helps Sinbad get away fnom
the evil magician. Gloss Jennette,
Just because the Genie is teenie
doesn’t mean that she isn’t power
ful, and Terry doesn’t have any
trouble making an Arabian market
place suddenly appear in the dell.
Here in the market place, mean
old Francine Pitts, the slave dealer,
beats the lovely slave girls, Elsie
Harris and Tinkie Millican.
Here, as anywhere else,, there
has to be someone trying to get
something for nothing and Diane
Huntley does a wonderful job in
the role of the beggar. No market
place would be complete without
a merchant; so Marion Harris will
be there to sell her wares and
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Redlack Heads
Clewell Dorm
In a freshman class election on
April 28, Shirley Redlack was
chosen house president of Clewell
Dormitory for the 1955-56 year.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
T. R. Redlack of Statesville, Shir-
j ley is majoring in history and
minoring in education.
Shirley’s leadership ability was
recognized at the beginning of her
j career at Salem when she was
elected president of the freshman
class. Her duties as president have
included serving on the Student
Government, the I. R. S., and the
President’s Forum.
Faced with the responsibility of
Shirley Redlack
orienting next year’s freshmen to
Salem life and looking after the
general welfare of Clewell during
the coming year, Shirley commen
ted on her election: “Being house
president is a very high honor, and
although I realize it will be a hard
job and will take a lot of respon
sibility, I am looking forward to
it.”
When asked how she felt about
following Pat Greene and Louise
Barron, recent past presidents of
Clewell, Shirley said, “It will be
hard to fill their shoes, but with
their help and the eo-operation of
the girls in Clewell, I shall strive
to fulfill the duties of house presi
dent.”