Volume XXXVIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 4, 1957
Number 2
Alistair Cooke To Open
Lecture Series Tuesday
Alistair Cooke, journalist, TV
M, C., and news correspondent, will
open the 1957-58 Salem College
Lecture Series on Tuesday, October
8 at 8:30 p.m. The topic of the
lecture is “The Foreign Corres->
pendent’s Job”; the place. Me
morial Hall.
Mr. Cooke is familiar to Ameri
cans as the M. C. of the brilliant
TV variety program, “Omnibus.”
In addition, he has won the Pea
body Award, the highest prize in
radio, for his fascinating accounts
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y-' if
Alstair Cooke
of the American scene. Since M
Cooke is a transplanted English
man, he enjoys the opportunity of
observing us Americans with an
unbiased eye, and, consequently,
seems to know' us better than we
ourselves.
The British are also acquainted
with Mr. Cooke, for he has ob
tained notoriety through his unique
interpretations of the United States
to the British. He is the Chief
American Correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian, and since
1938, has broadcast regularly over
B. B,. C. on U. S. Affairs.
Other noted personalities will
appear in this year’s series, Bosley
Crowther, film critic and Motion
Picture Editor of the Newr York
Times, will speak on “What You
Don’t Know About the Movies.”
After Mr. Crowther’s appearance
in February, Eddie Dowling will
Seniors Will
Stage Follies
October 10, II
The Salem Showboat will pull
into dock in Old Chapel on October
10 and 11 in the form of the
Senior Class Follies.
Highlighting this oldtime minstrel
show will be renditions of “Missi
ssippi Mud” and “Chattanooga
Shqeshine Boy” by a chorus. Gail
Landers will be at the piano; Jo
Marie Smith and Judy Golden will
dance; and Lynne Hamrick W'ill do
a solo. Of course, no minstrel
would be complete without end
men and their jokes; so the Salem
Showboat will bring along Jazz-bo,
Sippi Mud, Se-date, and Too Dumb,
with Jane Bridges as Mr. Inter
locutor.
Anis Ira is in charge of the pro
duction, with Curt Wrike, Shirley
Redlack, Mary Jane Galloway, and
Martha Jarvis assisting with the
script. Jo Marie Smith will do the
choreography. Martha Lackey,
Peggy Ingram, and Amory Merritt
will design the costumes.
The admission fee will be 75f.
and curtain time is 8:30.
visit the campus in March. Mr.
Dowling, actor, producer, director
and playwright, has won the Ne\y
York Drama Critics Awards four
times and two Pulitzer prizes.
From Shakespeare to Saroyan”
will be the topic of his dramatic
performance. Another Pulitzer
prize winner, historian Arthur Sch-
lesinger, Jr. will lecture in March
on “Challenge of the Future.”
Salemites will be familiar with Mr.
Schlesinger’s two books. The Age
of Jackson and The Age of Roose
velt.
The Lecture Series Committee,'
composed of faculty members and
students, and two representatives
from the city audience, conferred
several times before school closed
last spring. They took suggestions
from the townspeople, students, and
faculty; added their own suggest
ions ; did research on all possible
lecturers; and chose a tentative
slate for the year. The final de
cisions were made in early summer
when Miss Byrd, committee chair
man, learned when the chosen slate
could appear.
The student members of the com
mittee are Martha Jarvis, editor of
the Salemite, Nancy Walker, Sen
ior Representative, Jean Smither-
man. Junior Representative, Sandra
Shaver, Sophomore Representative,
Sally Wood, Freshman Representa
tive, Rachel Rose, Representative-
at-large, Lucille Benton and Sandra
Bullard, Academy representative.
Miss Edith Kirkland, Dr. Michael
Lewis, Mrs. Kate Pyron, Mr. Edwin
Shewmake, Dr. Philip Africa, Miss
Louise White, and Miss Alice Lit-
winchuk of the Academy.
Smitherman And Goddard Have Leads
In Shakespeare’s 'Twelfth Night ;
Second Leads Are Craig; Mcliroy
After a week of tryouts, Mrs.
Elizabeth R e i g n e r Stevens an
nounces the all-girl cast for the
Pierette’s fjll production of Shake
speare’s “Twelfth Night.” Juniors
Jean Smitherman and Martha God
dard, newcomers to college theater,
have the leading roles of Viola and
Malvolio. Felicity Ann Craig, a
special student from Jamaica, and
sophomore Geraldine Mcliroy, will
play Olivia and Sir Toby Belch.
Martha and Jean have been
roommates for three years; Mar
tha is a music major and secretary
of the Music Club; Jean, an Eng
lish major, is feature editor of The
Salemite.
Felicity, an old hand at Shake
speare, is one of qur “foreign” stu
dents this year. Her uncle 'in the
play. Sir Toby Belch, will be played
by Gerry Mcliroy, a voice major
who has sung in the Lost Colony.
The complete cast is:
Orsino, Duke of Illyria—Nan Wil
liams
Sebastian,, brother to Viola—Sarah
Ann Price
Antonio, sea-captain, friend to Se
bastian—Ann Howes
A Sea-Captain, friend to Viola—
Melissa Kerr
Valentine and Curio, gentlemen at
tending the Duke—Nancy Walker
and Toni Lamberti
Sir Toby Belch, uncle to Olivia—
Geraldine Mcliroy
Sir Andrew Aguecheek—Mary Ja
Wynne
Malvolio, steward to Olivia—Mar
tha Goddard
Fabian, a gentleman attending Oli
via—Margaret Fletcher
Lynne Hamrick
Pierette President
Feste, a clown, servant to Olivia
Peggy Jones
Olivia, a rich countess — helicity
. Craig
Viola—Jean Smitherman
Maria, Olivia’s woman — Loretta
Honey
First Officer—Melissa Kerr
Second Officer—Jane Bridges
A Priest—Nancy Jane Carroll
The stage manager for the pro
duction is Sally Townsend. Pier-
ettes in the cast include Peggy
Jones, who appeared last spring in
“The Male Animal”; Loretta Honey
and Sarah Ann Price. Mary Jo
Wynne and Peggy Jones, with,
Gerry Mcliroy and Loretta Honey,
form the comic quartet.
Lynn Hamrick, president of the
Pierrettes, has also announced the
production staff for the perform
ances which will be November 20
and 21.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reigner Stevens,
head of the drama department will
direct the play with Toni Lamberti
serving under Her as student direc
tor.
Peggy Newsome is designing the
sets with Sandy Shaver heading the
scenery crew. Merebeth Bunch is
lighting technician; M. G. Rogers,
properties; Margaret Fletcher,
sound.
Jean Humphreys is designing
costumes for the Elizabethean char
acters with Lucinda Oliver in
charge of costume construction.
Rennie Hauser and Lynn Ham
rick will sare responsibility for
make-up.
The opening curtain of the four
act comedy is in the city of lOyna
which lies on the sea. From here
the action progresses into three
cases of love at first sight. The
versatile character, Viola, keeps the
plot from being as uninvolved as
it might seem. She takes on the
disguise of a page boy^ in the
Founders Day
To Be Held
On Tuesday
Next Tuesday, October 8, is
Founders’ Day.
Dr. Dale H. Gramley will intro
duce our speaker, Dean Carroll
Weathers of Wake Forest College
Law School. Dean Weathers prac
ticed law in Raleigh before becom
ing a member of the Wake Forest
faculty with which he has been
associated for over ten years.
Salem College has progressed a
long way since the day in 1772
when two little girls entered Salem
Female Academy as day students.
Classes were held in a building
which occupied the site of what is
now Main Hall.
In 1802 South Hall was built at
a cost of $6,041.50 because of the
request that Salem Female Aca
demy become a boarding school.
During this period the young girls
learned embroidery, needlepoint,
and flower pressing along with
some academic subjects.
It was not until after the Civil
War that Salem was chartered to
offer college courses, but no college
degrees were bestowed until 1890.
Until 1931 Salem Academy and
College were on the same site.
Yes, Salem has progressed since
1772 and is still progressing which
is evidenced by the new Babcock
dorm and the addition being made
to the gymv
Humanites Club To View
Modern Cultural Trends
The calendar in Miss Kirkland’s
office announces a meeting of a
Humanities Club at 8:00 on Wed
nesday evening, the result of a dis
cussion between Jane Bridges, a
senior art major, and Mr. Edwin
Shewmake, head of our art depart
ment.
Their discussion centered around
the relationships of students to
faculty, the fact that outside the
classroom, excluding Harry’s, they
had no place to speak person to
person and share their ideas and
opinions. Hence, The Humanities
Club is a temporary name for the
new organization which will become
permanent as soon as a constitution
and budget can be submitted to the
administration and confirmed.
The expressed purpose of the
club will be to discuss modern cul
tural developments. The four pro
posed meetings appear tentatively
to be:
1. An exhibition of local modern
art, with discussion and criti
cism led by the artists and Mr.
Shewmake.
2. Modern musical sounds pre
sented by Mr. Sandresky and
Miss Gentry performing some
modern dance sequences.
3. Dr. Lewis presenting and lead
ing a discussion on existen
tialism.
4. The reading and discussion of
a new literary work by Mr.
Paine.
Dr. Lewis and Mr. Shewmake
have consented to be faculty ad
visors for the organization, which
is the first of its kind on our
campus. Jane added that the plans
also include a Beaux Arts Ball to
conclude the year.
So, all psendo-intellectuals, Bo
hemians, summer residents of
Greenwich Village, world travelers,
and secret philosophers, poets,
writers, actresses, musicians, and
artists, take note.
Notice
When a student returns from out
of town late, she indicates this in
formation on her card in the sign
in blank. Because a student has
signed in late and because the per
son on duty is aware of the late
sign-in, many students have as
sumed that the information was
given to Student Government or
the House Presidents, and that
Student Council will, in turn,
penalize the student.
This information, in the future
will be given to no one. Each in
dividual is on her honor to report
her late return to her house presi
dent immediately. The house pre
sident will report this to the Stu
dent Government. This applies to
all phases of signing in and out as
well as to returning late.
If you want to discuss any situ
ation or question regarding rules
or policies, contact your house
president or see the President of
the Student Government in the
Student Council Room any Monday
afternoon.
Duke’s palace making any amorous
ideas rather complicated.
Calendar
Friday, October 4—
8:00 Morning Chapel
4;45 Hockey Practice
Movies;
Carolina “The Prince and the
Showgirl”
Winston “The James Dean
Story”
Center “Riding Shotgun , and
“Francis in the H o u n t e ^
House”
Flamingo “The Sun Also Rises
Saturday, October 5—
Duke-Maryland, Davidson-Ota^
del, U. N. C.-Navy, Wake
ForestWirginia
Sunday, October fr—
8:30-5:00 “Y” Retreat at Camp
Planes, King, N. C.
Movies: „
Carolina “House of Numbers
Winston “Tip on a Dead
Jockey”
Center “The Restless Breed
and “Toward the Unknown”
Monday, October 7—
8:00 Morning Chapel
1:45 Day Student Meeting
4:45 Hockey Practice
5:00 Student Government
6:30 “Y” Cabinet
Tuesday, October 8—Founders’ Day
1:45 Dean Weathers, Wake For
est, speaker
4:45 Hockey Practice
6:30 F. T. A.
8:30 Alistair Cooke, Lecture
Series
Wednesday, October 9—
8:00 Morning Chapel
4:45 Hockey Practice
6:30 A. A.
Salemite
8:00 Humanities Club
9:00 'Senior Follies Dress Re
hearsal
Movies;
Carolina “Man with a Thousand
Faces”
Center “Silver River”
Thursday, October 10—
1:45 Library Quiz, Freshmen—
Class meetings, Upperclassmen
4:45 Hockey Practice
6:30 Denominational Groups
7:30 Senior Follies in Old Chapel