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Two Freshmen Wonder:
Is Swimming So Relaxing?
THE SALEMITE
April 13, 1956
By Jane Rostan
Jane, you and Anne have a
caller.”
Armed with our bathing suits,
swimming caps, towels, life saving
manuals, and notebooks, we went
downstairs for what turned out to
be the most unusual series of dates
I have ever had. It all started very
carelessly when I decided to acquire
my senior life saving badge so that
I might be a waterfront counselor
at my summer camp job, and also
when I persuaded Anne Pearce to
go along for company. However,
I have found that there is a great
deal of endurance, hard work, in
convenience, and humorous exper
iences connected with such a
course.
A Rather Relaxing Sport
To me, swimming has always
been a rather relaxing sport, but
now I have found that it is an
athletic feat which requires great
physical and mental endurance.
The first Friday night one of our
instructions was to swim ten laps
around the pool.
After five laps doing the breast
stroke, my arms and legs ached
from the kick, glide, and pull
stroke; my stomach was practically
doubled with cramps from the icy
water; my eyes were bloodshot and
so filled that I couldn’t see; my
back had cuts and bruises where
muscle-bound boys had scratched,
pulled, kicked, or grabbed; and my
nails were filled with skin and hair
which belonged to the person in
front of me. Although my physical
strength was practically exhausted,
1 managed to use what little men
tal strength I had left deciding
whether my life or my life saving
was more important.
Our First “Goof-off”
Anne and I decided to have an
other try at our course, and the
next Friday night we returned to
the Y. W. C. A. Our first “goof-
off” of the night was telling Mr.
Lanier, the director and instructor,
that we felt the class should be
cut down in size; that we weren’t
learning anything because the class
was too large; and that we were
trying to decide if we should con
tinue.
After our little speech, we were
politely informed that we would
earn whatever we received; that if
life saving was too easy for us, it
could be made harder; that we
were not required to come; and if
we didn’t come, there would be
more room for others. Such catty
remarks only made us determined
to complete the course—come what
may.
Removing Clothing
One of our assignments was to
bring along a dress and a pair of
shoes to use in learning the proper
procedure for removing clothing in
the water. Since one water buddy
was to wear the clothes, I had
chosen to do so, and Anne was to
be second. However, as we walked
out into the pool area, Mr. Lanier
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instructed us to use the proper
dive for entering the water and to
swim five laps around the pool.
My shallow water dive left me
burning from face to feet, and I
never thought I would make even
one lap around the pool. With
water filled, stretched tennis shoes
holding me back, and' a fast shrink
ing home ec uniform binding my
arms, I finally completed my warm
up and managed to hoist myself
out of the pool.
Everyone Staring
When Anne and I prepared to
leave, we climbed the stairs to a
friend who was waiting to bring
us back to school. I noticed that
everyone was staring at us, but I
felt it was because we were girls
in the men’s section of the Y.
As Anne walked in front of me
I looked down and saw that her
straight skirt had not been zipped.
By this time Anne realized that
she had forgotten to zip her skirt,
and needless to say her blond hair
accentuated her beet-red face.
Monkey-like Positions
How to carry a victim from the
water was one of our final assign
ments. The fireman’s carry, which
consists of rolling the victim onto
the resecuer’s back, is quite dif
ficult. Mr. Lanier had demonstrated
this carry several times, and when
he asked for someone to rescue
him, the class had a wonderful time
laughing at another boy who
couldn’t do the rescue correctly.
Invariably he would come up with
Mr. Lanier hanging onto him in a
monkey-like position. When we
hit the water we learned what a
task it was to perform. Anne,
when rescuing me, somehow got me
on top of her head and I couldn’t
get off. After much pushing and
pulling Anne emerged, gasping for
breath and coughing up mouthfuls
of water.
Assignments Completed
Now that all assignments have
been completed and our final swim
ming exam is all that faces us, I
am looking forward to my summer
job.
My working hours had better be
good, the pay wonderful, and the
work easy in order to make up for
the strep throat, bad cold, bruised
legs, and newly developed muscles
that I have acquired in the past
six weeks of Senior Life Saving.
(Mr. Steve McArthur McNamara,
bachelor graduate of Princeton and
reporter for the V(inston-Salem
Journal, stumbled upon the faculty-
student softball game Tuesday
afternoon. His article follows.
Editor.)
By Steve McNamara
After decades of defeat the Sa
lem College faculty finally beat
the students in their annual soft-
ball game.
The stunning 11-9 upset took
place before a screaming, shouting
mob of 40 on the college’s athletic
field.
The students, accustomed to
drubbing their teachers annually,
apparently carried things a bit too
far last year when they pasted the
professors, 17-5.
Faculty twirler Paul (Iron Man)
Peterson, head of the voice depart
ment, said the faculty nine was
fighting mad after last year’s de
bacle. “We were determined to
avenge that defeat,” he panted in
a post-contest interview.
The faculty’s grim determination
was evident from the start. Team
captain Bill (The Claw) Spencer
of the history department curtly
refused a pre-game interview.
“I’m too busy whipping my team
into shape,” the wily mentor snap
ped as he pushed his charges
through a grueling set of pre-game
Iron Man Peterson opened the
epic struggle with a long pop _ fly
to left field. The scoring was fairly
even until the top of the third in
ning. The faculty exploded for
several runs. Ed (Speedy) Shew-
make, head of the art department,
pounded a slow ball into the tennis
court for a home run.
It was all over but the shouting
when the top of the fourth Iron
Man Peterson and The Claw Spen
cer blasted successive in-the-park
home runs to left field.
The faculty, tiring rapidly in
spite of their rumored secret train
ing sessions, grudgingly assented
to a fifth inning. But inspired by
veteran outfielder Roy (Killer)
Campbell of the biology depart
ment, they managed to stagger
through the final frame and pre
serve their lead.
Beyond The Square
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of Ceylon. The West received a
blow when Prime Minister Sir
John Kotelawala lost the recent
election and was replaced by Ban-
daranaike. Mr. Bandaranaike is
anti-Communist, but unlike Sir
John, says NO to ties with the
West.
♦ ♦ ♦
Are you clear on the Arab-1»-
raeli situation ? If not, an element
ary summary: for nine years the
U. N. has been trying to solve the
problem of Israel and the Arabs.
During this’ period this young He
brew nation has grown, fought with
the Arabs along a strip of land
called Gaza and has now obtained
a fragile truce. But Russia isn’t
helping things by backing the
Arabs with arms.
This week Secretary General
Hammarskjold of the U. N. is in
Palestine trying to patch up dif
ferences, but the Russian delegates
make it rather difficult for the
U. N. to agree on some really help
ful measures. Now, what are the
Big Three, United States, France
and England, doing to help Israel?
In 1951 the Tripartite Declaration
was signed between these countries
agreeing to act either within or
out of the U. N. to prevent further
war. Since Britain’s economy is
based on Middle East oil, she is
of course trying to get us to take
a stand and back Israel. So far,
we’re not saying anything. Why?
Election year, of course, and agree
ing to send troops to Israel
wouldn’t exactly make a candidate
too popular, Right ?
♦ * *
The denunciation of Stalin and
his men that’s been the rage in
Russia recently (He murdered his
wife, etc.) seems to have started
the dangerous practice of discus-
Students May Drink From Pump
By Anne Pearce
Old Salem Incorporated has completed the restoration of the square
by placing a’ water pump on the south corner of the square.
The water pump or cistern was placed where one which was built in
1768 stood. The original was a big well fed by springs a few blocks
away. The one now in the square is fed by city water which can be
'^™nderneath the pump is a storage vat in which Boats a valve which
makes the vat fill up with water. The brick base is eight feet square.
It is four feet high in the back, and the front slopes down to eight
inches. 'The cistern has a plank roof and a stone trough placed in front
where the water comes out.
In order to get water from the cistern it must be pumped two or three
times. The public as well as the students at Salem are invited to use
the pump,
sion and argument among the
people. So now action is being
taken to stop all the criticism, or
soften it, and end all this silly
public opinion.
* * *
Entertainment; This has been a
great year for Broadway. Last
week the top ten plays were: Pa
jama Game, Fanny, Witness-Prose
cution, Silk Stockings, Bus Stop,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Inherit
the Wind, Damn Yankee, Diary of
Anne Frank, and Will Success
Spoil Rock Hunter?
Speaking of plays, a new one is
Mister Johnson. Taken from a
character from Joyce Cary’s novel
about Africa, Mr. Johnson is a
Negro clerk to the British resident
in a small community in Nigeria.
A gay, carefree person, he carries
a black, furled umbrella but walkes
barefoot with his shoes hung
around his neck by the laces. This
is a study of a man who becomes
an orphan of two cultures, re
garded as a rogue by the whites
and as a fool by the Negros. Most
of the critics say that while there
are moments of candid insight into
this problem, the play as a whole
fails to come to any definite con
clusion.
Coming on May 26th is the open
ing of The Ziegfield Follies star
ring Tallulah Bankhead. Can’t
wait to see what the critics have
to say about that.
If you ever get a chance to watch
television, try to catch NBC’s Elder
Wise Men Series featuring such
people as poet Carl Sandburg,
Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska
and Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
People: It seems that Prince
Rainier has a few reservations
about giving T.V. cameras free ac
cess to the wedding. Says a spokes
man, “His Highness is sorely afraid
that somebody is going to advertise
soap or socks in connection with
his marriage.” And somebody pro
bably will.
“There’s a difference in amateur
and pro tennis . . . My game is at
least 25% better than when I was
an amateur-—still I lose.” Words
from handsome, 25-year-old Tony
Trabert as he continues his tour
with Pancho Gonzales. Of the 66
games played so far, Pancho has
won 51, I’m stifl rooting for Tony,
anyway.
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