January
31, 1958
THE SA'LEMITE
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pr. A. A. Thaeler Charms
Students In Assembly
Calendar
Although Mary may have been a
bit embarrassed by what her father
said, the others of us in chapel on
January 14 thoroughly enjoyed Dr.
David Thaeler’s address. For a
topic he chose seven locks and
seven keys as symbols of different
situations and the women involved
in them; each of us is a key of
a certain shape that must be
ground and filed to fit the complex
lock that is life. .
Nicaragua has been Dr. Thaeler’s
home for the past twenty-three
years. He went there—after finish
ing theological and medical schools
and serving for awhile as the late
Bishop Rondthaler’s secretary — to
preside over the fifty-bed Moravian
mission hospital at Bilwaskarma.
Now he is head-surgeon as well; he
and Mrs. Thaeler also run the nur
ses’ training school.
The doctor was in the United
States in January to buy supplies
for a new twenty-five bed hospital
to be located ninety miles from
Bilwaskarma in Puerto Cabezas.
Originally, the Moravian Church
told him that, if he could raise half
the money toward a new wing on
the old hospital, they would provide
the other half; but the Seventh
Day Adventists wanted to sell their
building in Puerto Cabezas. This
would mean the Moravians would
not have to build, so they bought
it. Money had never been raised
in that area for anything; Dr.
Thaeler was afraid it might be im
possible. But $9000 was forthcom
ing—in American dollars, not the
Indian cordova which has deflated
in value from one dollar to fifteen
cents.
The nurses at the training school
and the hospital are Creole, descen-
dents of early African slaves; the
nurses’ aides and the kitchen girls
are Miskito, the natives of the
area; the patients are mainly Am
erican and Canadian, though many
Nicaraguans benefit from the hos
pital clinic.
Mrs. Thaeler is a nurse by pro
fession. She was sent to Bilwas
karma after she finished her train
ing at the Rochester Mayo Clinic.
“She arrived on a Sunday morning
and did she look good! ?”
By Wednesday — via meetings
under a huge pine tree that stood
halfway between the nurses’ home
and the hospital—the two were en
gaged. They were married six
weeks later—“very happily, I might
add.”
When asked what he thought
about the Wake Forest dance con
troversy, Dr. Thaeler said, “Well,
you know—we have much the same
situation in our little community.”
It seems that the Indians have
banned dancing in Bilwaskarma and
for a rather logical reason; a dance
usually means liquor, riots, and
fights. The doctor commented that
there was not much trouble with
the nurses on this issue; they real
ize how any neglect of the ban
would reflect on the hospital and
the quality of the care it gives.
—Anne W. Howes
with
Friday, January 31—
Movies:
Carolina “Tarnished .Angels,”
with Rock Hudson
Winston “Eighteen and Anxi
ous” and “Girl in the Woods,”
with Forrest Tucker
Sunday, February 2—
Movies;
Winston “Peyton Place,"
Lana Turner
Monday, February 3—
1:15 Day Student Meeting
4:45 Basketball Practice
5:00 Student Government
6:30 “Y” Cabinet
Tuesday, February 4—
1:45 The “Miss Student Teacher”
Program
4:45 Basketball Practice
Wednesday, February 5—
4:45 Basketball Practice
5:00 Faculty Meeting
Thursday, February 6—•
Movies: Carolina “Pal Joey”
1:45 Organ Program, Mr. Muel
ler. Old Chapel
4:45 Basketball Practice
6:30 Lablings
Friday, February 7—
4:45 Basketball Practice
Around the Square
Every Salemite is turning over a
new leaf — and every professor is
assigning another term paper.
is now doing graduate work in the
Russian language at Columbia.
♦ ♦ *
Nuclear
Barbara Cornwell is being con
gratulated for being SAE Sweet
heart at Davidson College.
♦ ♦ *
Beth Taylor and Nyra Boyd are
showing off their pins. Nyra is
pinned to Bob Riddle, a Sigma Phi
law student at Wake Forest Col
lege. Beth (after numerous false
claims) is pinned to Curtis Siever,
a Phi Gam at the University of
North Carolina.
* * *
Mary Jane Galloway is conduct
ing chapel with added zest. She
was recently pinned by David Quat-
tlebaum, president of the Pi Kappa
Phi fraternity at Duke University
* * *
Judith Anderson is still talking
about; her spring trip with her
fiance in Vermont. Judith and Bob
Barrett have many things in com
mon—-besides being “only children”
they both majored in Spanish. Bob
(CentinaMi fram poflS Iwa)
will be marriage number five for
greatest catchers in baseball, may
Miss Hayworth!
Roy Campanella, one of the
have ended his career this week.
An automobile accident broke his
neck and left him paralyzed. The
operation may have been success
ful, but it is doubtful that he will
play again.
—Sue Coope
FOR ANY BEAUTY PROBLEM-
-CALL
HAHIMIHM
Harry is back in
Away.”
his “Hide-
The freshmen look like “little
men in white coats”. Their ^ar-
coal gray trimmed blazors were
given out last Tuesday.
When Dr. Gramley stated in
chapel last Tuesday that every class
cut cost us approximately one dol
lar, Cuka turned to Silvia and
asked, “Well, why don’t they pay
us a dollar every time we cut
class ?”
♦ * ♦
With mid-winters at Davidson
and Wake Forest in the immediate
future, telephones are ringing in
every dormitory.
—Margaret Mac Queen
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smoolSi mildness in a cigarette? -— —
5. Do you believe two coeds in your brother’s class
are worth one in yours? —
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