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Volume XXXVI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, January 13, 1956
Composition
Forum To Be
Tues., Jan. 17
On Tuesday, January 17, at 4:00
p.m, the annual Composition Forum
will be held in Miss Jess Byrd’s
apartment. At this time a panel
of critics will evaluate and criticize
selections from the semester’s work
in English 211, Advanced Com
position, taught by Miss Byrd.
The panel will consist of: John
Fries Blair, editor, publisher, law
yer, and former teacher of English
at Salem College; Annie Lee Sin
gletary, Woman s Editor of the
Twin City Sentinel and head of
the creative writing group of the
American Association of Univer
sity Women; Betsy Liles, last
year’s editor of the Sights and
Insights and a former member of
the composition class; Jessie
Krepps, another former member of
the class who won awards for her
entries in the Atlantic Monthly
creative writing contest; Clemens
Sandresky, Dean of the Salem
School of Music.
Selections from the semester’s
work were chosen and compiled
into a booklet by a committee com
posed of class members Judy Gra
ham, Jo Smitherman, Anne Miles,
and Pat Flynt.
There are twenty-four selections,
ranging from person and place
essays to the recording of personal
experience. The work of each
class member is represented in the
booklet.
The class consists of: Linda
Abueg, Sarah Vance, Sarah Eason,
Toni Gill, Barbara Blackwell, Mary
Avera, Anne Miles, Nancy War
ren, Marcia Stanley, Judy Graham,
Madeline Allen, Pat Flynt, and Jo
Smitherman. Mrs. Margaret Mad-
docks, an auditing class member,
has one entry.
Refreshments will be planned
and served by Toni Gill, Sarah
Eason, Sarah Vance, and Barbara
Blackwell.
Peggy Horton, senior, makes wedding plans as she compares bridal gowns by the light of her sparkling
diamond and beaming smile.
Eleven Smiling Faces Tell How, When, And
Where They Were Given Their Diamonds
By Jeane Smitherman
Eleven “Best Wishes” were sung
around the dining hall last Thurs
day, and eleven Salemites acknowl
edged them with a shy curtsey and
a slightly conspicuous left hand.
Although everyone knows why, not
everyone knows when, where or to
whom these eleven became en
gaged.
So, to answer the questions that
will be asked anyway, the girls
were interviewed wherever they
could be found. But whether they
were in bed, out of bed, or even
under the bed, they spoke quite
freely about their Christmas gifts.
What appeared to be a normal
after-Christmas party became an
engagement party for Anne Holt,
a Burlington junior. For the party
was at Rick McAdams’ home; and
he is the 1953 grad of Duke that
Fulbright Postpones Visit
is forced to postpone his lecture tour because oi mg y
rate hearings set was made to get the
hellingf posTpLed Z "that the trip Jlrch
“Itat ^grwlJot -de b; the Salem College
Lecture Committee for the current school year.
Explenation Of Tax Law
Following is an interpretation of
the enforced Forsyth County Per
sonal Property Tax law, as con
firmed by the local tax office.
Certain items of personal pro
perty must be listed on , the tax
books by each citizen, regardless
of age of the citizen. In the case
of Salem students, this listing must
take place either in Winston-Salem
or in the student’s home-town.
Under no conditions should the
property be listed in both places.
Here are the items of personal
property to be listed:
Radios (if the trade-in value is
over $10.00); ,
Record-players (if the trade-m
value is over $10.00);
Television Sets;
Organs and Pianos;
Watches;
Diamonds, Jewelry;
Musical Instruments (if the
trade-in value is over $10.00);
Cameras (if the trade-in value is
over $10.00);
Moving Picture Projectors;
Sports Equipment;
Bicycles;
Typewriters, Adding Machines;
Automobiles. , .
In order for a Salem student to
come under this law, she must have
been a resident of Forsyth County
for a total of six months of the
preceding year. This includes all
Salem students, both Academy an
College, except present Freshmen.
The law further says that the
merchandise must be owned by the
student on or about January 1st ot
the current year in order for it to
be eligible for listing. 'There is no
exemption applying to Salem stu
dents.
Anne has been dating for seven
months. Now Anne has a diamond
to replace his college ring she has
been wearing since September.
Another junior, Katherine Scales,
is planning a summer wedding. She
was “pinned without a pin (he
forgot it) last Christmas to Bobby
Patterson, a pre-law student at
Davidson. On December 18, the
Scales, on their way to Augusta,
Georgia, stopped by to have din
ner with the Pattersons m Wades-
boro. Katherine and Bobby ex
cused themselves from the table
and returned several minutes later,
an engaged couple.
Nancy Cridlebaugh s father was
a little forgetful—he didn’t remem
ber to tell Mrs. Cridlebaugh that
Nancy, a High Point sophomore,
would be engaged when she came
in Christmas Eve. So Nancy and
Henry Brockmann, a Davidson
graduate now at Union Seminary
in New York, had a little difficulty
convincing her mother that the
ring on Nancy’s left hand was
“really real.” ,
The old trick of a box-in-a-box
threw Charlton Rogers off the
track when Tommy Breeden, who
is a pre-med at Davidson, gave her
a dress box wrapped in brillmnt
red paper on Christmas Eve. The
Bennettsville sophomore was
speechless when she opened the
final box, which was tied^^ m a
“ridiculous nine-colored bow , and
peeped in at the engagement ring.
Salem’s May Queen will have a
doubly busy schedule this spring
for Martha Thornburg and John
Cauble, who receives his degree m
dramatic arts from Carolina this
month, are planning a late spring
wedding. John gave her the en
gagement ring before their movie
Lte on the Thursday after Christ
mas. “Then of all things, Mar
tha reports, “we went on to see
The Tender Trap.
Jane Shiflet, a junior, met her
fiance, Jackie Jimeson, a business
major at Western Carolina College,
when they were acting m a min
strel show in their hometown ot
Marion. This Christmas Eve, the
couple were delivering Christmas
gifts, when Jackie stopped the car.
Said Jane; “He offered me a piece
of fresh chewing gum, and when
I reached out to take it he slipped
this ring on my finger. All I could
r say was “Oh, me!’
The Winston-Salem location tor ^
listing taxes is the lobby of
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doubt what
... Oh, me!” is no
David Freshwater said when he
first met Ann Darden Webb, a
junior from Morehead City. On
their first encounter, Ann Darden
soaked young David (they were
only five at the time) with the
garden hose. David, who is now
preparing for Carolina School of
Dentistry, and Ann have dated since
they were in high school, so Ann
had an inkling of what her gift
would be on Christmas Eve.
The living room of Bitting was
the scene of Betty Morrison’s en
gagement to “Rock” Johnson, a
second year student in law school
at Carolina. “I have it dated from
the very minute,” said the blond
Asheville senior. “It was Thurs
day, December 15, at 8:00, the
night of Senior Caroling. I missed
it.” Betty may have missed the
traditional caroling; but after all,
Cupid has priority over tradition.
Betty had it figured to the hour,
but Temple Daniel, who plans a
June wedding in New Bern, had it
dated to the minute. “It was on
Sunday night, the 18th, at 10:42.
We were parked in front of his
father’s store. He just said ‘Here’.”
Temple and Joe Pearson, who will
receive his mechanical engineering
degree at State this spring, will
live in Raleigh where Temple says
she’ll be the “housemother of Bag-
well dorm.”
While Susie Glaser of Washing
ton, D. C., and Bob Fisher, a Yale
med student were on their way to
the Shoreham Hotel to go dancing,
he stopped at a red light on Wis
consin Avenue. When the light
changed to green, Susie was en
gaged. She and Bob, who is also
from Washington, will live in New
Haven, Connecticut, after their
wedding in August.
Peggy Horton will keep Temple
Daniel company in Raleigh next
year, for she and Bobby Honey;
cutt will have a late summer wed
ding and then move to Raleigh
where he will continue his studies
in electrical engineering at State.
Peggy admitted surprise on receiv
ing her ring on Christmas Eve, for
she expected it some other time.
It all happened by chance. She
insited that he move his overcoat
from an oft-set-in chair, and he
hesitated for fear the ring he had
concealed in the pocket would fall
out. “Finally”, says Peggy, “he
just said ‘Here.”
Only one more question, girls
which is yet to be answered: “How
did you do it?”
Number 1.1
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Eight Tennis
Courts To Be
Constructed
Miss Elizabeth Collett, physical
education department head, has
announced that work will begin
within the next two weeks on
eight tennis courts for Salem CoL
lege and Academy.
New courts are scheduled for
jompletion by April 15. They will
be at the same location as the
present clay courts. Six of the
courts will be on the athletic fieEd
between the college and academy,
campuses and two near the aca
demy building.
They will be covered with green
top composition of asphalt and a
special surfacing which will make
them permanent and require no
maintenance.
The number of courts will not
be increased by the new construe
tion, but the area covered will be
larger to include wider sidewalks
and backdrops. The two at the
academy will be increased to reg
ulation size and will get new fenc
ing and netposts.
F. C. Feise Company, Narbetb,
Pa., which will build the courts,
has constructed similar ones at
Bryn Mawr College, The Univer
sity of Delaware, The University
of Florida, William and Mary, ajid
Wake Forest.
The Athletic Association is look
ing forward to the possibility pi
sponsoring both singles and doubles
tournaments in the spring. Pre -
viously, because of cramped space
and lack of time, only a singles
tournament was scheduled.
Salem to Run
For President
At Meeting
In a Wednesday night meeting,
the Athletic Association voted JO
submit Salem’s name for the office
of president of the state federation
of women’s athletic associations.
The election of new state officers
will be a significant part _ of Ae
annual convention beginning Jo-
night and lasting through tompr •
row afternoon at Women’s College
of the University of North Caro
lina. Official representatives from
Salem will be Betty Morrison and
Jo Smitherman.
Other delegates include Sissie
Allen, Derry Jo Hardage, Jean
Stone, Mary Curtis Wrike, Dhu
Jeanette, Anne Miles, Brenda
Goerdel, and Katherine Oglesby,
Miss Collett and Miss Bryson.will
accompany the girls.
The office of presidency will in
volve holding the state convention
on Salem campus next fall. And
the Salem association will provide
both the presiding officer for the
convention and the recording secre
tary for the state organization.
Speakers for the Woman’s Col
lege convention will be Miss Ce
leste Ulrich, a professor of physical
education at Madison College, Vir
ginia, and Dr. Franklin McNutt,
Associate Dean of the Graduate
School at W. C. and a professor
of education.
Highlighting the entertainment
will be a banquet on Friday night
and an annual water show by the
Dolphin-Seal Synchronized Swim
ming Club.
Lacrosse and hallball will be de
monstrated during the convention.
The Salem delegation will enter its
association scrapbook, the claSs-
team plaque, and a school blazer
in the exhibits department.