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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 16, 1956
Number 18
M.Thornburg
Will Present
SeniorRecital
On Monday, March 19, the Salem
College School of Music will pre
sent Martha Thornburg, pianist, in
a graduating recital at 8:30 p.m. in
Memorial Hall.
Martha, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
J. L. Thornburg of Hickory, has
studied with Clemens Sandresky,
Dean of the Salem School of Music,
during her four years here. Before
coming to Salem, Martha studied
with Miss Rosa Lee Watts of
Statesville and Mr. Kenneth B. Lee
of Lenoir-Rhyne College.
During her years at Salem, Mar
tha has been active in extra-curri
cular affairs. She has served on
the 1. R. S. Council, Student Gov
ernment Council, and is retiring
editor of Sights and Insights. She
is a past president of South Dormi
tory, has served on the YWCA
cabinet, and worked with the
Saleraite staff.
As a recipient of the Corrin
Strong Scholarship, Martha studied
at the University of Oslo during
the summer of 1955. She has been
inducted into the Honor Society,
The Scorpions, and was chosen to
represent Salem in Who’s Who In
American Colleges and Universities.
Having been a member of the May
Court for three years, Martha, in
the fall of this year, was chosen
May Queen for 1956.
Martha Thornburg
Martha and Ann Campbell will
present a joint recital in Hickory
on Friday, March 16.
The program for her Memorial
Hall recital follows:
Tgcatta in E Minor Bach
Adagio in B minor, K.V. 540—.
Mozart
Fantasia in C major Haydn
Sonata in E major. Op. 109
Beethoven
Vivace
Prestissimo
Andante moeto cantabile ed
Le Tpmbeau De Cauperin
Ravel
Prelude
Fugue
Eorlane
Rigaudon
Menuet
Toccata
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Election Week Determines Six New Officers
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Martha Duvall, Dr. Warren Spencer, and Betty Rene Webster listen attentively to Mr. William S. White,
reporter for the New York Times, as he discusses the forthcoming presidential election.
Kennedy Plays Boswell to “Brilliant
Conversationalist’’ White’s Johnson
By Martha Ann Kennedy
The scheduled lecturer didn’t
quite make it, but a brilliant con
versationalist did. When William
Fulbright cancelled his engagement
at Salem because of “senatorial
duties’’, the Lecture Committee,
namely Miss Byrd, got busy Sun
day and contacted Wallace Carroll,
formerly with the Winston-Salem
Journal-Sentinel. He recommended
a William White.
Since there are three prominent
William Whites in the United
States, “our” William was thought,
at first, to be a “slightly older”
distinguished senator from New
England—80 years old, to be exact.
But, this erroneous information
was corrected, and it was certain
that Salem was to receive a “hand
some, smooth, and polished” Wash
ington correspondent for the New
York Times.
Of course, the only reason that
I w'aited for three hours in the
rain for his plane, was to get the
story for the Salemite. Finally, I
found out that he was arriving
much later from Greensboro, ap
propriately enough, by limousine,
and I regretfully returned to school.
That night, when I arrived at
the coffee in Strong, he was al
ready in the center of a group and
being bombarded with questions
Y” Vespers To Feature
Story Of Five Missionaries
For Vespers Sunday night, March
18, the YWCA has secured a tape
recording of an account of the
deaths of the five missionaries in
Ecuador which took place in Jan-
urary, 1956. It is through Mr.
Robert Wendt that the tape is
available to the Y.
The recording was made in Costa
Rica by the brother-in-law of one
of the missionaries as he was
speaking to a group after the in
cident. This man, the Rev. David
Howard, gives the story of the
whole mission from the very earl
iest plans in 1952 through the last-
minute preparations, the mission
itself, and the effects of it and the
deaths up to the present.
Mr. Howard reads excerpts from
the diaries of the men, gives their
educational background, and relates
information provided by the wives
of the men to give a very complete
picture of the extensive mental,
spiritual, and material preparations
made for the mission to these here
tofore uncontacted Indians.
Mr. Howard himself knew four
of the five men well and thus can
give a firsthand account of their
planning and individual attitudes
toward the mission.
The tape will be played in the
Little Chapel after a short de
votional at 6:30 Sunday night. Both
students and faculty are cordially
invited to hear this inspiring and
authentic account of the first mis
sion to the Alca Indians.
about this year’s main interest, the
forthcoming election of the Presi
dent and the choice of a running
mate for Ike. He answered them,
as he did in Memorial Hall, care
fully. and added little observations
of his own concerning Washington
and its personalities.
I remember thinking that even
24 Salemites
Will Attend
Convention
Salem College will be represented
at the annual convention of Future
Teachers of America in Asheville,
March 22-24. Twenty-four mem
bers of our college chapter will
register late Thursday afternoon,
March 22, in the Hotel George
Vanderbilt.
Voting delegates elected are:
Bren Bunch, Jane Wrike, Mary
McNeely Rogers, and Judy Graham.
The highspots of the convention
will include an address by Gover
nor Luther Hodges at the first gen
eral session of NCEA on Thursday
night.
On Friday the ETA will meet
alone for the morning session with
Dr. William G. Carr, Executive
Secretary of NEA, as speaker.
That afternoon Emily Baker of
Salem College will participate in a
panel discussion on “Problems in
Student Teaching and How They
May Be Solved.”
At the Friday night banquet Miss
and Mr. Student Teacher will be
introduced. Susan Glaser will be
Salem’s representative. After the
banquet the ETA will meet in joint
session with the NCEA, at which
time Susan will be presented to
the entire convention.
The group will return to Win
ston-Salem on Saturday morning.
though his lecture might not make
an impression on Salemites, his
wearing apparel certainly would.
With the “basic” gray flannel suit,
he wore a dark red silk tie, and
a dapper gray silk vest with tiny
steel buttons.
Jo Smitherman and I were de
legated to take him up to the audi
torium, and I noted, with satis
faction, that he was wearing a very
reporterish tan trench coat. It was
our turn to fire questions, and we
asked first if he knew the now-
famous E. C. Daniel. He replied
that they had been good friends
while working for the Time*
abroad, and that he was just as
debonair as the newspapers de
picted.
He commented that “Margaret
and E. C. are very good for each
other, and Marge is a very intelli
gent person herself.” While Tru
man was in office, he went out to
Independence several t i m e s —- on
newspaper business, I hope.
We found out, among other
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Tournament
Is NextWeek
The intramural softball tourna
ment will begin Tuesday, March
20, at 5:00 p.m. The Freshmen
will play the Seniors and the So
phomores will meet the Juniors.
On Wednesday at 5:00, pairings
will be: Freshmen-Sophomores and
J u n i o r s-Seniors; on Thursday,
Freshmen-Juniors and Sophomores-
Seniors.
The final scheduled practice day
will be the Monday before the
tournament begins.
Softball manager for the season
is Ann Crenshaw; Mary Hadley
Fike directed practice while Ann
was away from school; Derry Jo
Hardage is assistant manager.
Senior captain is Jodie Meilicke;
junior, Katherine Oglesby; sopho
more, Betty Rene Webster; and
freshman, Hila Moore.
Four Chosen
In Assembly
In the final week of student body
elections, Anne Miles, in a Tuesday
assembly voting, was chosen head
of the Athletic Association, and
Joan Reich was elected Chairman
of the 1957 May Day program.
In Thursday’s assembly, Kay
Williams was elected president of
the Y. W. C. A. and Joyce Taylor,
president of I. R. S.
In staff elections during the
week, Sissie Allen was elected to
the editorship of the Sights and
Insights, and Jo Smitherman was
voted editor of the Salemite.
Anne Miles of Summerville, S. C.,
is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs.
Louis S. Miles. She has a major
in biology and a minor in French.
Her athletic activities on campus
include serving as treasurer of the
association for the current year;
last year she was badminton mana
ger.
Ann participates in all organized ;
athletics on campus and has been :
named consistently to basketball,
softball, hockey, and volleyball varr
sities.
Other extracurricular activities
include the staff of the Salemit* ■
and Sights and Insights; Lablings,
May Day, for which she was nar
rator last vear and assistant man-
Anne Miles
ager for this year’s pageant; and
Pierrettes. This fall, Ann was
chosen for membership in the Scpf-
pions.
Joan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Reich of Statesville, is a
junior marshal. She has been
chairman of Rat Court, chairman
of the Little Sister program, and
chairman of Parents’ Day. Joan
is a member of this year’s May
Day pageant. She is majoring in
sociology-economics.
Kay is a history major and has
an elementary minor. Daughter of
Sissie Allen
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Williams, Kay
is president of the I. R. C. Her
other activities have been YWCA
secretary, a member of the Pier-
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