Volume XXXV
White, Kapp,
Allen to Give
Final Recitals
Ernestine To Sing Tonight
Martha Ernestine Kapp will pre
sent her graduating recital Friday,
May 13, at 8,:30 p.m. in Memorial
Hall.
Ernestine, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest E. Kapp of Winston-
Salem, will receive her Bachelor
of Music degree in June. Her
future plans are to further her
study of voice.
At Reynolds High School, from
which she graduated in 1951, Erns-
tine was very active in musical
activities. Since she has been a
student at Salem, she has been
vice-president of her class, vice-
president of the I. R. S., and presi
dent of the Choral Ensemble. She
has also been active in the “Y”,
and is now a member of the Home
Moravian Church Choir.
Ernestine’s program includes:
Art Thou Troubled
Handel (Rocelinda)
Non Piu D’amofe Falconieri
Let the Bright Seraphin
Handel (Samson)
Verborgenheit Wolf
Miene Liebe ist Grun .Brahms
Apres un Reve Faure
Chere Nuit Bachelet
Mi Chiamano, Mimi
Puccini (La Boheme)
Laughing Song
Strauss (Die Fledermaus)
Prayer Ernestine Kapp
Ride On, King Jesus..-Spiritual
This Day Is Mine Ware
Ernestine will be accompanied by
Mrs. Nell Folger Qenn.
Barbara and SUsie Will
Perforin Monday
Barbara White, senior, and
Madeline (Sissie) Allen, sopho
more, will present a joint recital
Monday, May 16, at 7:30 p.m. in
Memorial Hall.
Barbara, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles White of Greenville,
is majoring in voice and minoring
in English. She attended St.
Mary’s Junior College for two
years and transferred to Salem her
junior year.
Barbara is a member of the Cho
ral Ensemble and the “Y” Cabinet.
This year she has directed the
Children’s Choir of St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church and has also been a
member of the Adult Choir there.
Barbara, a student of Mr. Paul
Peterson, was Salem’s May Queen
this year.
Her program includes:
Sammei Dei (Radamisto)
Handel
Quando m’en Vo Puccini
Du Bist Die Ruh Schubert
Ungeduld
Aria: Voi Lo Sapete. Mescagni
Bonjour Suzon Delibes
Black is the Color of My True
Love’s Hair Folk Song
Ride On, King Jesus ...Spiritual
Miranda Hageman
Sissy is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James Allen of Troy. A stu
dent of Dean Clemens Sandresky,
she is working toward a Bachelor
of Music degree in piano with a
minor in English.
Her program includes:
Partita No. 2 Bach
Sinfonia /'
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Rondeaux
Capriccio
Vaises Nobles a Sentimentales..
Ravel
Mode.re—tres franc
Assez lent
Modere
Assez anime
Presque lent
Vif
Moins vif
Lent
Nocturne Op. 15, No. 2 .Chopin
(Continued on Pa^e Three)
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, May 13, 1955
Number 24
Crowded Schedule Awaits
Seniors Graduation Week
Rear Adimral Ernest M. Eller, 'ng^to^^ms^ton^Sa
(Ret., U. S. N.) of Annapohs,
Maryland, will deliver the com- entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Gram-
ley at supper on the lawn of the
President’s House. Senior Vespers
will be held on the back lawn and
conducted by the Reverend J. C.
Hughes, pastor of Home Moravian
Church, following the supper.
The Senior class will be inducted
into the Alumnae Association at
12 noon on Saturday, May 29, at
the Sixty-ninth annual meeting of
the Alumnae Association. At 8:00
p.m. on Saturday, the School of
Music will present a Commence
ment Concert in Memorial Hall.
A reception will be given imme
diately afterwards in the Day Stu
dent Center.
Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller (Ret., U. S. N.)
Two Annual Outdoor Events
Close Out Pre-Exam Week
With spring comes an urge to be
outdoors morning, afternoon, and
evening , . . for play, sunning,
studying, and spiritual enrichment.
With this in mind, the “Y” is plan
ning its last Vespers for 6:30 p.m.
Sunday evening on the hill beyond
the May Dell.
All students—and their dates if
they wish to come—are invited to
sit around a campfire at the out
door fireplace on the hill for a
worship service and marshmallow
roasting afterwards. The “Y” sug
gests that the people who intend
to go meet outside the dining hall
at 6:25 in order that all ma^ walk
over together.
A well-founded rumor has it that
there is to be a rather unusual
type of music included in the ser-
Two Rising
Seniors Will
Head Dorms
In recent elections Betty Saun
ders was elected house president of
Bitting Dormitory, and Ann Wil
liams was elected house president
of Society Dormitory.
Betty, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Saunders of Conover,
is a Home Economics major and
is getting a secondary teaching
certificate. She has been a repre
sentative to Student Government,
an IRS representative, a Home
Economics member, an F. T. A.
member, and a Salemite reporter.
She recently was head of the Jun
ior-Senior Banquet committee and
is now a campaign solicitor for the
student “Buy a Brick’’ campaign.
Ann is also a Home Economics
major, with a double major in
Sociology. She is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Williams of
Henderson.
She is present business manager
of the Salemite, and a Home Eco
nomics club member. She was pre
sident of the Baptist group on
campus for two years.
vice, furnished by a source of hid
den talent on Church Street. The
‘Y’’ will say only that this source
is well-known to students in a
capacity other than musicianship.
Come and enjoy this and the
spirit of worshipful fellowship Sun
day evening!
Hat-Burnins on the Athletic Field
The Class of 1955 will hand over
their senior responsibilities to the
Junior class at the traditional Hat
Burning ceremony Monday, May
16, at 9:30 p.m. on the athletic field.
On this occasion the Juniors will
throw their hats of frivolity into
the fire and will assume the re
sponsibility of being seniors.
The burning of the blue books
by the seniors will symbolize the
end of their college career. As'
each girl burns her exam book, she
realizes that the happy years of
college life are nearly over and
that soon she will be confronted
with many changes. The seniors
then extend their best wishes to
the juniors as each girl places her
senior robe on a junior.
The ceremony will end with the
song “Moonlight on the Campus,’’
after which the Class of 1955, led
by the rising seniors, will recess
to the Salem Alma Mater.
Everyone is invited to attend the
impressive ceremony of Hat Burn
ing.
News Briefs
At their last meeting of the year
the members of the Canterbury
Club elected their new officers.
Bunny Gregg was elected to the
post of president. The other new
officers include Anne Miles, vice-
president; Beth Paul, secretary;
Duffy Russell, treasurer; and Jean
Jacocks, reporter.
* * *
A communion service will be
held in the Little Chapel on Wed
nesday, May 18, at 9:00 p.m. Mr.
Robinson from St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church will conduct the ser
vice. The Canterbury Club, spon
soring the communion, invites stu
dents of all denominations to at
tend.
* * *
The installation service for the
new Y cabinet will be held Sunday
night at 9:00 in the Little Chapel.
The old cabinet members are re
quested to attend.
mencement address on Monday,
May 30, at 11:00 a.m. in Memorial
Hall. Admiral Eller, is a former
faculty member of the U. S. Naval
Academy. He is a well known
author of several books. Of special
interest to Salem is his work
Houses of Peace, which deals with
the founding of the Salem com
munity and early Moravian life in
North Carolina. He has also writ
ten several articles for National
Geographic Magazine. Admiral
Eller is the husband of a former
Salemite, Agnes Pfohl of the class
of ’23.
The Reverend Thomas Fraser,
Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, will give the Baccalaureate
sermon on Sunday, May 29, in the
Home Moravian Church at 11:00
a.m. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, the
Rev. Mr. Fraser was graduated
from Virginia Theological Semi
nary and was a special student in
Jena, Germany. He was a senior
assistant at St. George’s Episcopal
Church in New York City, and
Rector of St. Paul’s Church in
Alexandria, Virginia, before com-
Students Make
Drama Efforts
In Final Class
By Martha Ann Kennedy
No, it wasn’t the Pierrettes this
time but some of Miss Reigner’s
Oral Interpretation pupils putting
forth their final efforts on the Old
Chapel stage. Under her direction
three types of dramatic selections
were presented to a small, but ap
preciative audience Thursday night.
Judy Graham was first with a
reading of Clytemnestra from the
Greek tragedy, Agamemnon.
Simply dressed in a black robe,
she gave a moving portrayal of the
wicked and defiant queen. Judy’s
voice, strong and intense, added
much to her performance.
Gull-Mari Lundberg was next
with a scene from the Shakespear
ean tragedy, Hamlet. Her natural
British accent and fine technique
are well-suited to the Shakespear
ean style, and she handles the roles
of both Ophelia and Hamlet ex
ceedingly well.
Terry Harmon and Martha Ann
Kennedy were in the last number
of the show. Juanita Efird, a
member of Miss Reigner’s Play
Directing class, directed the two
girls in Tennessee Williams’ one-
act play, “This Property is Con
demned.’’
Juanita should be congratulated
on the fine job she did in design
ing the set and costumes and
coaching the two young actresses
in their lines.
Terry played the part of Willie,
an orphan girl who had ambition
to be just like her dead sister,
Alva. The sister had been the
“main attraction” in a boarding
house for railroad men, but Willie
was still too young to realize the
'immorality of such an ambition.
To her, Alva was the symbol of
Popularity and Beauty.
She told all this to a disinterested
and scornful listener, Tom, (Mar
tha Ann), who happened to be
playing on the railroad embank
ment when she walked by. As the
play ended, there was a feeling of
hopelessness because the boy be
gan playing once more and the
girl walked on down the track
still cherishing her dream of be
coming like Alva.
Griffin Talks
To Athletes
On Wednesday night the annual
Athletic Banquet was held in the
Club Dining Room. Betty Mor
rison, recently elected president of
the association, presided and all
students who had participated in
intramural activities were invited.
Special guests were Mrs. Lou
Prongay, Deans Hixson and Heid-
breder. Miss Collett, Mr. and Mrs.
Britt, and the speaker.
Miss Ellen Griffin associate pro
fessor of physical education at
Woman’s College, urged 150 Salem
girls to seek pastime that will
be “self-satisfying” and will afford
the individual a "fuller life”
through enjoyable use of leisure
time.
Climaxing the awards division of
the program, Louise Fike, senior
from Wilson, was named winner
of the traditional white blanket-
awarded annually to the senior who
has accumulated the most points
during her four years at Salem.
Louise, a math major, has been
a member of the council since her
freshman year and a participant in
practically every phase of intra
mural activity.
An additional honor was awarded
Lou when she received a medal
for her fourth consecutive campus
ping pong championship.
Other tournament winners in
clude Louise Pharr, archery cham
pion, and Betty Morrison, winner
of both the recent badminton and
tennis championships.
The Freshman class received
mention for winning Tuesday’s
swim meet during chapel period.
In accordance with the associa
tion’s point system, the following
girls, having received at least 30
points, were awarded letters: Sis
sie Allen, Ann Crenshaw, Brenda
Goerdel, Jane Langston, Anne
Miles, Katherine Oglesby, and
Agnes Rennie.
For having achieved not less than
45 points, Sissie, Nellie Ann Bar-
row, Francine Pitts, and Betty
Morrison received gold stars.
The 55-pointers, awarded an Ath
letic Association blazer in the color
of their choice, were Nellie Ann,
Francine, Betty, and Carolyn Wat-
lington.
The Sophomore class, winner of
the four team sports, (hockey,
basketball, softbfill, and volleyball),
will be the first name engraved on
a new plaque to be placed in the
gymnasium and inscribed each year
with the class winning the most
intramural tournaments.