Volume XXXVIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.
C., Friday, February 7,
Number
1958
14
Carl Meigs, New English Teacher,
Takes Male Lead In Spring Play
Martha Jarvis Is Picked
"Miss Student Teacher”
After presenting a speech and
answering qvi'estions rendered by
the judges, Martha Jarvis was
selected during chapel last Tuesday
to represent Salem as “Miss Stu
dent Teacher”. Martha will be
sent to the State Teachers Con
vention March 21 and 22 in Ashe
ville.
The other candidates nominated
Jarvis, Cox
Take Female
Lead Roles
The cast of the Pierrette Spring
production has been annotinced by
Lynn Hamrick, president of the
organization. Mrs. Elizabeth Ste
vens completed casting VV edncs-
day night. The male lead, Tom
Wingfield, will be portrayed by
Carl Meigs of the English Depart
ment. Martha Jarvis will play the
lead role of Amanda Wingfield.
. A
Mrs. Stevens,
Director of Play
Mary Cox has been cast as Laura
Wingfield. Don Davis of Winston-
Salem will be Jim O’Connor.
The play, “The Glass Menagerie,”
won the New York Drama Critics’
Circle Award for its author, Ten
nessee Williams. Mr. Williams :s
matists to appear on the .American
theatrical scene since World War
IT. He is especially noted for his
plays dealing with the South.
“A Streetcar Named Desire” and
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” Iroth
won Pulitzer Priz.es for Mr. Will
iams.
In “The Glass Menagerie” Mr.
Will iams is trying to reveal the
conflict b e t w e e n the world of
reality and the world of dream.
Tills aspect is shown in the per
sonality of the characters.
.Amanda Wingfield is a little
woman with great but confused
vitality. She was a Southern belle
in her youth and now that she :s
older, she is clinging frantically
to another time and place. She is
not paranoiac, but her life is para
noia. Though her foolishness makes
her unwittingly cruel at times there
is tenderness in her slight person.
Amanda fails to establish contact
with reality and lives in her illu
sions.
Laura Wingfield, the daughter of
.Amanda, is cripple as a result of
a childhood illness. She collects
small glass animals. Stemming
'from her physical condition, Lau
ra’s separation increases till she
is like a piece of her own glass
collection, too exquisitely fragile
to move from the shelf.
Tom Wingfield is Amanda’s son.
PTe is the narrator of the play. He
is a poet with a job in a ware
house. His nature is not remorse
less, but to escape from a trap he
has to act without pity.
Tim O’Connor is a gentleman
caller to the Wingfield home. He
is a nice ordinary young man.
This play takes place in St.
Louis. The setting is an alley in
St. Louis onto which the Wingfield
apartment faces.
The time is now and the past.
The scene is memory and non-
realistic. Memory takes a lot of
omitted while others are exag
gerated according to the emotional
value of the articles it touches, for
memory is seated predominantly
in tlie heart. The interior is there
fore rather dim and poetic.
This play may be presented in
an unconventional technique. It is
not trying to escape its responsi
bilities of dealing with reality or
interpreting experience but is act
ually attempting to find a closer
approach. This technique attempts
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Mr. Stevens
Gives Recital
Mr. Willis Stevens, Instructor in
Piano in the Salem College Music
School, will present a recital in
Memorial Hall on February 10 at
8:30 p.m. The public, as well as
faculty and students of Salem Col
lege, are invited to attend. Selec
tions for the evening will include:
Partita No. VI in E minor, by
Bach, Sonata in C major, Op. .S3
by Beethoven and Ballade in F
minor, Op. 52 by Chopin.
Mr. Stevens received his B.A,
from Columbia College, his M.A.
from Columbia University, and his
M.S. from Juillard School of Music.
He also received private training
under Gaston Dethier and Edward
Steuermann. Mr. Stevens is ihe
husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens,
instructor of English and speech
in the college.
I. R. S.Gives
Martha Jarvis
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Faculty Committee Offers
Ideas on Cuts System
On Thursday, January 30, the
S t u dent Council met with the
Faculty Advisory Committee, com
posed of Dr. Gramley, Dean Pleid-
Ineder, Miss Palmer, Dr. White,
and Mr. Wendt, to discuss our
cut system and a possible program
of faculty evaluation. Mary Cur
tis Wrike, president of Student
Government, led the discussion.
‘ Faculty evaluation was discussed
first, with the Student Council pre
senting their ideas and requesting
the opinion of the Faculty Advi
sory (Tommittee as to whether they
should continue work on an evalu
ation system and present plans to
the entire faculty for their con
sideration.
The major suggestions of the
Student Council were:
1. That a questionnaire be used
for evaluation on which the
student would be asked to rate
the faculty member as excel
lent, average, or below average
in answer to specific questions
on content of courses, present-
tation of subject matter, and
manner in which faculty mem
ber evaluates the student.
2. That, in recognition of the fact
that experience and academic
standing would make a differ
ence in a student’s opinion,
each student be requested to
state her classification and
average for the previous semes
ter. i
3. That each |tudent fill out a
questionnaire! for each class she
is taking and ithat this question
naire go directly to the faculty
iuember involved.
4. That evaluation take place dur
ing regular class periods near
the end of each semester.
5. That the q u e s t i o n n a i re be
drawn up by a student com
mittee with the aid of a faculty
member from each depaitment.
In general, the reaction of the
faculty was favorable. Mr. Wendt
said that he would hke to see
faculty evaluation tried. Dr. White
said that he thought an expression
of student opinion would be valu
able.
The faculty made some sug
gestions, however. Dr. Gramley
thought evaluation every semester
would take up too much class time
while Mrs. Heidbreder expressed
the opinion that evaluation would
become perfunctory if carried out
every semester. The possibility of
a different questionnaire for dif
ferent subjects was considered, the
suggestion of the faculty was that
there be a basic questionnaire with
slight cliianges made for different
departments if necessary. ^
There was also some discussion
on whether or not first semester
freshmen should participate. Ihe
general conclusion was that, even
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Rules For
Refrectory
The I. R. S. Council is concerned
about the lax manner in which
Salem students are responding to
the 1. R. S, policy concerning
actions in the dining room. For
this reason the council voted to re
emphasize its position.
The following states briefly the
council’s policy:
1. Singing in the dining room
should be confined to a recognition
of engagements, pins, offices, and
birthdays.
2. Any songs, in order to be
more meaningful should be sung
by at least four tables, sung one
at a time, and restricted to lunch
as much as possible.
3. The Music Club in cq-opera
tion with the I. R. S. is furnishing
dinner music on certain night
from now on. If there are any
songs to be sung on these night:
the pianist should be informed be
fore hand.
4. It is the maids’, not the stu
dents’, job to take food or silver
from another table.
5. The blessing should be prayed
in unison and reverently.
6. No one should seat herself or
begin eating until after the bless
ing has been said.
for the honor also giving speeches
and answering questions were .Anis
Ira and Mary Curtis Wrike.
In the speech which Martha gave,
she defined the task of education
by quoting Henry Adams, “Edu
cation must teach a way of ‘run
ning order through chaos, direction
through space, discipline through
freedom, unity through :miltipli-
city’. ” Martha climaxed her speech
by telling the student body, judges
and faculty why she is in the
teaching profession. “I like it and
I’ve enjoyed what experience I’ve
had in the field. I have faith in
..hat teaching is trying to do. I
enjoy the occasional feeling of ac
complishment and I believe 1 can
give something to the students and
know that they can give me
something and that I am always
student of what they have to
teach.”
In the talk given by Anis Ira,
she outlined the reasons she now
as in feeling prepared to accept
, job in the teaching profession.
First because of the training ;md
education that I have received, se
cond, because of the confidence
given to me by Salem’s education
e p a r t m e n t and my directing
teacher, and third and last iiecause
of the feeling of acconiiilishnient
ind satisfaction.” Anis concluded
her thoughts by saying, “Demo
cracy and education are closely re
lated, and education takes place
only when there is thinking, rea
soning, and understanding. So
througli education one should dis
cipline the mind and the body; it
should teacli him today how to
teacli himself tomorrow more in
dependently.”
Growth is the primary function
of education, and 1 as a teacher
want to aid in this process.” was
one of the ideas carried out in the
speech by Mary Curtis Wrike. She
,.,ave several methods of accom
plishment; “1 believe that you :nust
lake an individual where he is, and
from this ])oint, work upward . . .
I believe that all teachers must
never forget the individual differ
ences of children, for long division
will mean very little to a child who
never understood the basic prin
ciples of addition and subtraction.
... 1 believe that unless a teacher
feels that the things she and the
children have planned for that day
and ever3'day are going to be fun
as well as an exciting learning
process, she will begin with a de
ficiency of that mucli needed trait,
enthusiasm ... As a teacher, 1
want to help my students develop
the ability to think for themselves
. . . And finally, I believe that
every tetjeher should want for her
children the development of the
moral and spiritual values which
she as an individual feels are right
and good.”
Notice
The Corrin L. Strong Scholar
ship to study abroad at the Univer
sity of Oslo, American Summer
School will again be offered to two
Salemites. Rising juniors and sen
iors are eligible to participate ii
the competition. Dr. Gramley will
announce dates for opening com
petition as soon as possible in ns-
.semhly.
Editor Is
Top Teacher
Martha Jarvis, petite, blond and
pinned, is Salem’s new “Miss Stu
dent Teacher.” Although she looks
like a high school girl herself,
Martha plans to tackle the job of
teaching English and speech to
high school students. Her teaching
plans for next year are still in
complete; she has applications in
for the Dade County School Sys
tem in Miami, Florida, for the
Philadelphia Public School System
and for some private schools m
Philadelphia.
A senior and Editor of the
Salemlte, Martha did her practice
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Stee Gee Recommends
Students Choose Friday
Or Sunday Night Free
The Student Council held a busy
session this past Monday after
noon. They acted upon two items
mvolving Salem’s social life; sent
a recommendation to the Presi
dent’s Forum; and discussed briefly
the setting of the Student Govern
ment budget.
The first topic discussed was a
possible evaluation of the House
Presidents’ Council and the system
established at the beginning of the
year whereby each student is re
sponsible for reporting any infrac
tion of social rules to her House
President.
Nan Williams moved that a study
be made of the system by checking
call down records in the minutes
of the House Presidents’ Council
meeting with the records in the
Dean’s officce. If it were found
that the system was not working,
the matter should be presented to
the student body to decide what
should be done. Her motion was
carried.
The other item concerned with
social life at Salem was the mat
ter of giving each student two free
nights out per week. After con
siderable discussion, the Student
Council voted to recommend to
j the Dean of Students that each
student be allowed either Friday
or Sunday night out, in addition
to Saturday night. Each girl would
be required to specify when she
signed out whether or not she Was
using one of her free nights.
The recommendation to the Pre
sident’s Forum was concerned with
a special handbook to be sent to
incoming freshmen. Lidie Swan,
Freshman Class President, said
that this year’s freshmen had felt
need for a handbook which com-
.lined the information in the letters
from campus organizations, from
the IRS book, and from the Hand
book. This would give freshmen
some idea of what to expect at
Salem. The Student Council urged
that the Presidents’ Forum compile
such a booklet.
The matter of setting the Stu
dent Government budget was in
troduced by Finance Board Chair
man Ann Brinson. The budget is
set in May, shortly after the elec
tion of the new officers. The new
officers in past years have not felt
that they had had enough exper
ience by that time to set the bud
get. At the close of the discussion
general opinion as to a solution
was that the old and new treasur
ers should set the budget together.
There was no action taken, liow-
ever.