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September 30, 1955 % oi jUa. 1959... Around The Square You are the Freshmen—the largest class in the history of Salem, the class with the pro mising future. Salem will soon have more bricks on her campus — bricks cemented to gether with one purpose—your benefit. You’ll have new dormitories, new class buildings, and Wake Forest, besides. You will h^ve all this and more. What will you give? Your choice? You’ve given us that. The old students, the faculty, and the president—, people Avho know Salem—sanction that choice. You’ve made a good start. Your co-operation? The senior advisers, who haven’t forgotten their first confused im pressions of Salem and who appreciate the good grades you made on the handbook test, will vouch for that. An open mind and a willing heart will be one of your biggest assets. Your effort? Maybe that assignment seems impossible. Or you have eight-thirtys every day of the week and two labs, besides. You don’t want to risk going out for the hockey team or working on the newspaper because you don’t know anything about it. Don’t let that stop you. Give it a try and you’ll find it’s much easier than you think. Your talents? Don’t keep these from us. We’re getting tired of ourselves and we need you to put a new spark into things. When we see you outshining us on the athletic field or in a Pierrettes’ production we’ll have to try just a little harder to keep up with you. Your tolerance? When things go wrong, bear \vith us. We make mistakes, and we ask you not to make yours by failing to for give us. If we aren’t there when you need us, if we overlook your talent, if our actions seem unfair, help us to improve by letting us know where our faults lie. AVe will profit by your suggestions. Your respect? Our school, which is your scdiool, too, deserves this part of you. How you conduct yourselves will determine your degree of respect for her. Her future is your future'—make it what you will. You are the Freshmen; Salem is for you. Are you for Salem? PubHflhed every Friday of the GoUese year by the Student Body of Salem College Subscription Price—$3.50 a year OFFICES Lower floor Main Hall Downtown Office-^—304-306 South Main Street Printed by the Sun Printing Company Edlfof-in-Chief Emily McClure Associate Editor Mary Benton Royster Assistont Editor .Bebe Boyd Managing Editor .Jo Smitherman News Editor Ann Knight Assistant News Editor Ann Crenshaw Feature Editor ...Judy Graham Assistant Feature Editor Martha Ann Kennedy Copy Editor Mariam Quarles Heads Editor _... Toni Gill Moke-Up-Editor Sue Jefte Davidson Pictoral Edhor Peggy Horton Music Editori Ella Ann Lee, Beth Paul Editorial Staff: Mary Mac Rogers, Sissy Allen, Marianne Boyd, Emma. McCotter, Sudie Mae Spain, Sarah Vance, Ann Coley, Nancy Warren, Dottle Ervin, Barbara Durham, Anne Miles, Marcii Stanley, Pat Flynt, Jeane Smitherman, Ann Summerell, Pat Houston, Mary Anne Hagwood. business Manager Ann Williams Adverjtising Manager Marian Myers By Jo Smitherman A governmental catastrophe al most as turbulent as the one caused by the President’s heart attack was the mail situation at Salem Station during the past couple of weeks. An undelivered letter, lying almost within reach or behind the glass in a newly-rented P. O. box, is a tax on the endurance. Especially the endurance of the long-enduring freshmen. * * * The seniors endured, with some understandable gripes, the ultima tum that their living room (“the one Ave have waited three years for”) was off-limits except when entertaining guests or attending a meeting. Somebody sympathized aloud with the attached seniors whose boy-friends are stationed around the world and cannot visit Bitting this year. * * * A Carolina boy was being enter tained in there Friday night B.F.D. '(Before Final Draping) during the Y’s scavenger hunt. Panting fresh men kept bursting in, asking for Louiie Barron or her last year’s post office box number. “Louise is out for the evening. See Bunny Gregg in Old Chapel,” they were told. The last frantic figure was Mary Lou Mauney, the Y presi dent. She had suddenly realized that she did not have answers to the scavengers’ questions. “See Runny Gregg in Old Chapel.” And Mary Lou joined the trek of ques tioners interrupting Emily Baker’s Senior Follies rehearsal. * * * The freshmen have made no more mistakes than freshmen ordinarily do, though. Even the uproar dur ing Convocation was somewhat ex pected and certainly not unique with the class of 1959. The htiman- est part of the whole thing is the giggling and buzzing that, uncon sciously, is a single but mass re action to indecision and embarrass ment. The traditional telegrams Louise read during Convocation showed varying pictures of “the outside world.” Two of the 1955 graduates, Betsy Liles and Gertrude Johnson, gave me a satisfying glimpse of the teaching profession. They had not seen each other since gradu ation—until Saturday night. And for almost an hour, while their steaks grew colder and colder, they talked excitedly about nothing but principals, superintendents, civics, problem children, algebra, English gramriTar, and homework. I was admittedly surprised by their sin cere enthusiasm. ♦ ♦ * A number of good Baptists were sprinkled in Bowman Gray Stadium on Saturday evening. And a num ber of Salem girls shared in the damp ceremony. The eleven Dea cons on the field were immersed in Winston-Salem terrain but put on a show that kept the viewers, umbrellas and all, on their feet. You can laugh at the Journal’s Sunday tribute to the team’s ^ “church-going, rule-abiding, grade making” record only if you did not see the spectacle in the stadium on Saturday. * * * Over four hundred high heels clomped along the back porch of Main Hall Sunday morning and be came soft on the carpets of the Home Church. I, for one, won dered how the Rev. Hughes made it through a sermon on pioneering without referring to Davy Crockett. Several people squirmed when he mentioned desegregation favorably. * ^ >|c Questions are popular at the first of the year. A new faculty mem ber wanted to knOAv how Salem came to s’ponsor a chapter of Alco holics Ananymous. One of the foreign students asked me what was that thing called a “term paper.” Everybody on campus stopped studying or playing long enough to see if anybody answered the $64,000 question. And There Circulation Manager.^ Faculty ^dvispr ... - Ann Darden Webb -.Miss Jess Byrd Busings Staff: Bunny Gregg, Katherine Oglesby, Becky Doll McCord, Betty Byrum, Jane Shiflet, Peggy Ingram, Mary Curtis Wrikej K^y Hannan, Sue Davis, Jean Jacobs, Margaret Hogan, Jar\e Little, Mqrgaret Fletcher. By Emma McCotter Moscow; At the meeting here of West Germany’s Chancellor Aden- aeur and Russia’s masters, the Rus sians did give in to one of the re quests of Adenaeur. They agreed to allow the return, of West Ger man war prisoners still in Russia. However, it is too early to predict vyhat will come of the exchange of diplomatic relations. The effect of the prisoners’ release will depend first on whether they get home, and perhaps to a great extent on the stories they tell of others who died or remain behind. The ques tion of reunification of Germany is still pending and perhaps at the Big Powers meeting in Geneva this month this problem will be studied. Without abandoning the teachings of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, the Russians say they want peace. Is this possible ? Finland: Russian troops have left Helsinki after eleven years of se cret occupation. Such an act does not seem logical. They will prob ably maneuver a big drive against U. S. Military bases in view of the forthcoming Geneva Conference. Egypt: At Gaza strip the uneasy truce between Israel and Egypt was marred by frequent incidents. Israel has moved troops into a de militarized zone and said they stay until Egypt removes its forces. Britain: Everyone is wondering who will succeed Clement Richard Atlee as leader of the British Labor Party. Some of the older members of the split Labor Party have sug gested Cockey Herbert Morrison, whereas the more modern “Labor- ites favor radical Nye” Bevan and moderate Economist Hugh Gaitskell. The latter, favorite of the big trade unions, is by far the stronger candidate. Even though the “moderns” lose this time there is no doubt that they will be vic torious in the 1960 elections. Argentina: Here revolution has toppled the nine-year-old regime of Juan D. Peron. It is naturally hoped that the new government will be a democratic one. United States: The countrv as well as the rest of the world was shocked at the news of President Eisenhower’s illness. He suffered' a heart attack while vacationing in Denver. This immediately brings to our minds these questions: Will he run again? If not, who have the Republicans got for nomina tion ? By Judy Graham A boy—a real, live, two-legged boy—sat next to me in class. His eyes had grinned at me as he sat dotvn, and I couldn’t help but sense liis presence as the professor droned on in a maddening monotone. Well,- after all, this was a unique experience after two years of Salem’s three hundred females. He was one of many males seated in that bare room with the sickening green walls and poor ventilation; and later, as I watched his grinning eyes over a Coke, he told me the in’s and out’s of the university which was to be my college for a nine-week summer session. It was hot for June—even in Florida—and 1 remember so well how the ice tinkled re- fresliingly in the glass. I also recall the things my new-found friend told me about his school. He talked listlessly about where I could buy second-hand books, the professors who he thought Avere all stupid, and why an honor system could never work there. I ad.mit that I felt rather guilty Avhen he con fessed that he Avas not there through choice blit because of a financial handicap. Yes, I AAmll remember his listlessness and near pessimism as he began this new phase of his studies. And- as the nine weeks were sloAvly reduced, 1 noticed it more and more. Not only in my grinning-eyed classmate, but in other members of the student body. For Avhether they sat almost asleep in that green-Avalled room or chatted over Cokes in the soda shop, my sixth sense told me that something Avas AAWong. I have never felt that Avay at Salem, and I still can’t express in con crete terms Avhat AA'as missing. I guess it can be summed up best in that general attitude called “Salem Spirit.” He, too, knew that something was wrong. He said that the professors were stupid, but 1 found them not stupid—simply unchalleng ing. I never worried about doing the home work, for I kncAv the professor would simply reiterate what the text has said. Then, too, both my friend and I knew there was no danger of being called on for class dis cussion, because the prof didn’t know us from that eat Adam Avas said to Itave had around his house. Yes, 1 felt guilty after talking to this boy because he’d never had a chance to sit in a Salem classroom and feel the sense of pride that steals over jmu when the prof respects your ideas enough to ask you to share them with the class. He’s never been able to say that even though the class was difficult he’d enjo,ved working on it because it was worth while. He’d never dealt with teachers who not only kncAv his name but were interested enough to stop for a friendly chat after supper. He d also knoAV that the honor system was something he Avas missing. He said that such a system would never work there. As we sat together during an exam, we heard answers whispered cautiously and saw book opened Avarily even while the professor played police man in the room. Yes. I felt guilty, for he’d never sat in a balem classroom during an exam where the professor respects the integrity of the student enough to leave him alone with his conscience. Hoav I wish he could be here to experience our Salem Spirit. But since he can’t, I’m sure that 111 profit by knowing him; and also by knowing that I’m fortunate—Amry fortunate— to be a Salemite.
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