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Reporter Discovers Faculty
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Has Its
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This week I again visited several
l;iculty members and discussed with
them their activities outside the
classroom.
During the past summer, Mr. Ed
Shewmiake of the art department
stuclied at Carnegie Tech in Pitts-
1,„rgh. He spent his summer in
the study of etching.
During the summers and in his
spare time, Mr. Shewmake enjoys
painting. And now he will include
Shewmake has had paintings dis
played in the Statesville Museum;
and he now has painting in a re
volving exhibition which is being
taken to schools in this area.
Recently Mr. Shewmake sold one
of his paintings. This was a study
with bottles as the subject. He
now has four etchings which he
hopes to sell.
Mr. Shewmake's style of worl^
belongs to the school of expres-
Mr. Shewmake
etchings in his summer activities.
Very often Mr. She\'(nnake has
his works on exhibit. At the pre
sent time, he has a painting on ex
hibit at the Winston-Salem Art
Gallery.
This summer Mr. Shewmake. ex
hibited some of his paintings at the
John Brady Art School in Blowing
Rock. He also joined with the As
sociated Artists of Winston-Salem
in an outdoor exhibit at Roaring
Gap.
In addition to these exhibits Mr.
Mr. Wendt
sionism.
In the sociology department, Mr.
Robert Wendt engages in book re
viewing for several religious maga
zines.
His most recent review to be
sent to the publishers is one con
cerning the anti-Billy Graham cam
paign. Mr. Wendt presents _ his
articles from the sociologist’s view
point rather than the theological
viewa This article will_ appear m
the magazine, “Christianity Today.
He has been asked to do a re
view on why there are so many
views in the Protestant denomina
tions. This too will be from the
sociologist’s viewpoint.
Mr. Wendt had three reviews
published in the October issue of
the magazine, “Eternity.” The
books which he reviewed were “The
Kingdom Beyond Caste,” “Seeking
to be Christian in Race Relations,
and “Progress Against Prejudice.”
Mr. Wendt is one of the official
book reviewers for the “Eternity,
Mr. K. Carl Meigs in the English
department is busily engaged in
work on his doctorate degree.
This summer Mr. Meigs finished
his Master of Arts degree at Tulane
University.
He did his dissertation on “The
Feminine Principal in the Novels
of Virginia Wolfe.” When he
writes his . doctorate dissertation,
Mr. Meigs will probably do it on
eighteenth century literature, pos-
I sibly the novel.
He has only one more semester
of course work to complete on his
doctorate.
At present Mr. Meigs is study
ing German.
Fie is doing his graduate work at
Tulane University.
Rev. John FI. Johansen started
working on his doctorate degree
this past summer at Duke Univer
sity. He is still in the course work
1 stage on this endeavor.
Rev. Johansen has had several
articles published on hymnology.
These articles have dealt with men
like James Montgomery and Ger-
hardt. He makes studies of the
w^ell known hymn writers. Rev.
Johansen’s articles have been pub
lished in “The Hymn,” a publi
cation of the Hymn Society of
America in New York City.
His longest work is_ a thirty five
page pamphlet. This is a study of
the Olney Hymns which were edi
ted by John Newton and William
Cowper. Rev. Johansen’s pamphlet
presented biographical material on
Newton and Cowper. And it also
tlip hvmns in the col
Salemite Editors Find
Conference For College
Journalists Worthwile
Last week end Jeane Smitherman
and Martha Jarvis attended the As
sociated Collegiate Press’s thirty-
third annual conference at the
Hotel New Yorker in New
They were among a total of 936
who were attending the meeting,
representing 205 colleges and uni
versities from 38 states, the Dis
trict of Columbia, and Canada.
The conference was opened oij
the night of November 7 with an
address, “Life of a Columnist”, by
Hal Boyle, an Associated Press cor
respondent.
Friday brought a series of group
meetings with noted people in the
field of journalism and panel dis
cussions led by student editors of
the college newspapers wdneh re
ceived an all-American rating, the
highest rank. These covered dif
ferent problems which face the
collegiate newspaper and ideas for
improvement.
The first program which the
Salem representatives attended w>as
a short course in feature writing
given by Allen Keller of the World-
Telegram and Sun. This was fol
lowed by a similar program on re
porting and writing news, con
ducted by Judith Crist of the Her
ald-Tribune who covered the Royal
visit. Other specialized courses
covered editorial writing which was
conducted by Frank Gibney, As
sistant Editorial Writer \vith Lite
Magazine, and critical writing which
was conducted by Justin Gilber,
movie theatre critic for the Daily
Mirror.
The Makeup and Typography
Clinic was under the directon of
Glenn Hanson of the School of
Journalism and Communications of
the University of Illinois.
Martha also attended two student
editor discussions on the place o{
politics and national events in the
college newspaper, and on the
treatment of sensitive news and
However, all was not of a serious
nature. Max Schulman, author of
the “Marlboro Column” and Rally
Around the Flag Boys, kept the
convocation laughing for thirty
minutes while he gave a brief ac
count of the trials of writing books,
magazine articles, and plays.
The other conference speaker was
Thomas J. Hamilton, Chief U. N.
Correspondent for the New York
Times, who spoke on “Behind the
Scenes at the United Nations” at
the conference luncheon in the
main ballroom of the Hotel New
Yorker.
Some of the ideas which our staff
members gained were; having a re
porter at open Student Council
meetings to record discussion and
each representative’s vote, review
ing current popular books and
movies, interviewing faculty and
administration for their opinions
on current happenings, including
editorial comment on recent events
and ideas, and making general im
provements in makeup and techni
cal organization.
All of the professional speakers
at the meetings felt that the field
of journalism was open and was
looking for new talent, and that
women were becoming more pro
minent in the newspaper world.
The one exception to this statement
is New York City where the com
petition is quite hard and several
years and forms of previous ex
perience are necessary before a
new person would have a chance
of getting a position.
When asked about general pre
paration for a journalistic career,
the speakers also agreed that a
general liberal arts background was
most important and that practical
training in a school of journalism
should be taken as graduate work.
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