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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas Johnson of Burling-
iTi. engagement of their daughter.
Mabel Gertrude, to James Guy Reveile, Jr., son of
Mr. i,and Mrs. James Guy Reveile of Woodland The
wedding is planned for June 30. Miss Johnson was
graduated from Salem in 1955.
LeRoy Grady Rogers of Bennetts-
ville, S. C., announce the engagement of their daugh
ter, Charlton Isabelle, to Thomas Eugene Breeden,
son of Arch Lamar Breeden of Bennettsville and the
late Amanda Manning Breeden. The wedding is
planned for June.
Malin Tells About Her Easter In Miami
By Malin Ehinger
We were somewhere on the east
coast on our way to Miami. The
.sun was rising and I suddenly
caught sight of the silouhette of a
palm tree against the flaming red
sky. This si far unknown sight
suddenly made me realize that I
was in Florida.
Later I saw plantations where
oranges were growing and I defi
nitely had to mistrust the story of
my childhood that oranges were
Soph Comp
Scores Are
Made Known
On April 9, the results of the
Sophomore Comprehensive tests
were released by Dr. Hixson’s
office.
The girls who made the highest
scores on the General Culture test
were Martha Ann Bowles, Martha
Ann Kennedy, Jean Jacocks, and
Betty Rene Webster, respectively.
Jean Jacocks, Betty Lou Hamner,
Martha Ann Bowles, and Nancy
Walker made the four highest
scores on the Contemporary Affairs
test.
The General Culture test which
was three hours long included so
cial science, literature, fine arts,
science, and mathematics. The
Contemporary Affairs test included
public affairs, science and medicine,
and literature and fine arts.
News Briefs
Preliminary registration will be
held during the week of April 23.
The courses being offered for 1956-
57 are now posted. All students
are reminded to see their faculty
advisors and make tentative regis
tration for both semesters of next
year.
sun-eggs.
Then I came to Miami, or rather
to one of the surburbs, and I
really had to stop giving a yell for
every palm tree. There were so
many of them.
I was brought to a low, white,
Spanish-looking house where my
breakfast oranges were brought in
fresh from the garden and where
I myself could pick the hibiscuses
and gardenias for the dance in the
evening.
That first night we went out to
the famous Beach to look at the
people, the cars, the hotels. And
there really was a variety of every
thing. Women wore anything from
fancy, often exclusive, cocktail
dresses to blouse and pedal-pushers
of leopard skin. Neither was it
unusual to encounter people in
■sun-back dresses and mink coats,
which were worn for display even
in the summertime.
The hotels were flooded with
multi-colored spot-lights, and only
names like Lido and Fontainebleau.
A peep through the door into one
of these palaces could be enough
to turn the head of anybody.
Parties also belong to holidays
and Miami, and I shall remember
especially one of them in such a
place that only America can pro
duce. A wonderful home, a tropi
cal garden by the canal, at one
side a swimming pool, where those
who wanted could get a refreshing
dip at any time, willingly or un
willingly. And shining over all was
the tropical moon. Everything
worked like a perfect Hollywood
movie.
Then there was the beach, where
I got my suntan, that everybody is
now catching up on by the Sale'm
College pool. And to be able to
bathe in March without hitting ice-
chunks seemed rather unreal to me.
But Florida was like a fairytale,
the whole environment like a side-
scene, and I shall never forget it.
Editor’s note: Malin was the gfuest
of Martha Jarvis daring spring
I vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Harding AV. Rogers announce the engagement of their
daughter, Mary McNeely, to Donald H. Morrow, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Bennett Morrow of Mooresville.
Three Students To 0ive
Drama Reviews April 17
Rennie Receives Fellowship
For a Year’s Graduate Work
On April 17 Mrs. Heidbreder and
Mrs. Patterson will leave to attend
a meeting of the North Carolina
Association of Deans of Women to
be held at Duke University. Mrs.
Heidbreder is president of this state
organization.
* * * ♦
The Board of Trustees, accord
ing to Dr. Gramley, has approved
the appointment of a new biology
assistant for the fall term of 1956-
57. Another announcement from-
the president states that Clewell
Dormitory will have new bureaus
and desks when school begins next
year.
Last week Agnes Rennie became
the. recipient of a Woodrow Wilson
Fellowship for one year of gradu
ate study at the school of her
choice. The Fellowship is spon
sored by the Association of Grad
uate Schools of the Association of
American Universities, and its pur
pose is to recruit and encourage to
teach at a college or university
level those who have not definitely
decided upon an academic career,
though teaching is not obligatory
to winners of the fellowship.
The Fellowship has been in ef
fect since 1945 and is awarded to
approximately 150 college seniors
each year for study in a North
American university.
Agnes plans to use -her fellow
ship to study French with the view
to teach on a college level. She
will attend the University of Wis
consin where she will work toward
her Masters degree.
To win the Fellowship, Agnes
was first nominated for it by Dr.
Lewis. Then.she filled out an ap
plication blank which included a
1000 word essay on “My Scholastic
Interest in My College Career and
My Plans for a Future Vocation”.
Then she was interviewed by the
regional selection committee in At
lanta, Georgia.
Agnes said this was the worst
part as she had to spend ^enty-
four hours riding on a bus just for
a twenty minute interview. At the
interview she was asked questions
about her major and minor sub
jects (French and Spanish) and
about her trip to Europe last sum-
Agnes Rennie
Fellowship Winner
mer and her attitude toward Euro
peans.
When asked why she chose the
University of „ Wisconsin, Agnes
answered that it was one of the
outstanding graduate schools in
America and for years has had a
good modern language department.
She also explained that she
wanted to get in a different part
of the country and that she is look
ing forward to learning all the
winter sports like skiing and ice
skating, but is definitely not look
ing forward to getting tired of
wearing nothing but winter clothes.
On April 17 the students in Miss
Elizabeth Riegner’s second semes
ter Introduction to Theatre class
will present their annual drama re
view. Its purpose is to give those
students who are interested in
drama a chance to do some direct
ing and producing on their own.
A one-act play and scenes from
three-act plays will be presented.
The students themselves will be re
sponsible for their own plays, and
will use very simplified technical
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song—and chock-full of meaning.
* ♦ ♦
Tuesday brought a full house in
chapel and installation of new of
ficers. It was kind of “throat-
lumpish” to see the old officers
silently get up and leave their
chairs, to make room for the new
ones coming on stage. I didn’t
know there could be so many dif
ferent shades of white dresses,
sweaters, and skirts.
Cecelia Corbett, Louise Pharr,
and Griff Wooten ought to pose
for the picture that appears on
boxes of Jergens Face Powder, with
their vivid red, blonde and brunette
coiffures!
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Everyone seemed to like the star-
studded Picnic, which played at the
Carolina this week, but a few com
mented that Bill Holden was “mis
cast” and that Marlon Brando
could have done a much better job.
Perhaps—but, frankly, I can’t quite
picture Brando executing all those
shenanigans and playful antics at
a Kansas picnic.
I think the picture deserves an
award for uncanny duplication of
small town life. Made several of
us homesick.
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The accounts of the Kelly-Rainier
extravaganza get more fabulous
and colossal everyday. One maga
zine described the circus that is
going to be held the day after the
'ivil ceremony.
It seems that the high point of
the show is to be a tight-rope
walker’s unfurling American and
Monacan flags, holding them in his
teeth, while he balances on one
foot.
One of the “fabulous” stories
going around Salem this week was
that Mary Walton’s family had re
ceived an invitation to the wedding.
effects. Emphasis will be placed
on the play itself rather than on
the production angle.
Patsy McAuley is directing sev
eral scenes from Ondine, by the
French playwright Jean Giraudoux.
This play will star Terry Harmon
and Bill Darcy.
A realistic play by Tennessee
Williams, Mooney’s Kid Don’t Cry,
is being directed by Bob Grubbs.
It will star Lou Bibbinghauser and
Jim Sirns, an announcer at radio
station WSJS.
The third play, directed by Judy
Graham, is Christopher Fry’s A
Phoenix Too Frequent. Acting in
it will be Barbara Evans, Barbara
McMann, and Riley Matthews.
The review will begin at 7:30
p.m. and no admission will be
charged. Immediately afterwards
there will be a discussion of the
productions, and anyone wishing to
stay will be welcome.
Someone’s kidding remark was
given just as much credence as
Associated Press stories.
I was among the gullible ones
but I can’t quite go the remark
Miss Kelly made as she was about
to sail to Monaco. After telling
reporters in a newsreel of her ex
citement and fifty new hats, she
paused and added, almost as if she
had forgotten, “Oh, yes—I’m very
much in love.”
* * *
Blue Cross Plan, Inc. is probably
viewing Salem’s faculty as a pretty
risky group this spring . . . Mi«s
Ainsley at the Academy has a
broken wrist . . . Miss Cash was
not ill, but made history by giving
her classes the first free cut any
one here can remember. She went
to a wedding . . . Dr. Africa’s his
tory class had to wait approxi
mately five minutes for his cough
drop to dissolve before he could
begin lecturing Wednesday . . .
Mr. Britt is still wearing his spot
less sling as the result of a crip
pled collarbone . . . Mr. Ysu-brough
is recuperating on crutches from a
knee operation. He injured his
knee last year in the Student-
Faculty softball game. Actually,
though, he takes very good care
of himself, because I saw him down
at the infirmary getting treatment,
and he asked if I wanted to know
the only sure cure for a cold. I
sniffled that I did, and he soundly
advised, “Don’t catch one.”