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Volume XXXIX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 13, 1959
Number 14
oddard Given Lead Role
f Miser In Spring Play
Martha Goddard, Pierrette Presi
dent, has captured the lead in the
'group’s spring production The
Miser by Moliere.
A senior from Oak Ridge, Ten
nessee, Martha will play the miser,
JHarpagon, who, she says, “hangs
'on to what he doesn’t have—the
^irl his son is in love with, for
instance—as well as what he has.”
"||Miss Barbara Battle, Pierrette
sponsor, says she chose Martha for
the part because she has a real
flair for comedy—an ability to cap
ture the comic spirit, and she looks
will play Cleante, Harpagon’s son
who is in love with Marianne; Ann
Luttrell, who plays Elise, Har
pagon’s daughter; Lynn Soryder,
who will play Valere,-Elise’s lover;
and Peggy' Brown, a freshman from
Bethlehem, Penn., who will play
Marianne. Lydia Seaber will play
Anselme, Valere’s father; Jean
Smitherman, Frosine, an adven
turess;. Mary Jane Mayhew, Mas
ter Simon; Sue Sample, a fresh
man from Statesville, N. C., Mas
ter Jacques, cook and coachman;
Toni Lamberti, Brindaboine; Fran
ces Gunn, La Merluche; Evelyn
Dawes, a freshman from Anderson,
S. C., Dame Claude; Mary Jo
■Wynne, La Fleche the Magistrate,
and Grace Walker, the Magistrate’s
clerk.
Lina Farr is Production Assist
ant, Millie Fary is Student Direc
tor, and Lib Long and Nan Wil
liams are stage managers. The
Dr. Perkins Speaks On
American Foreign Policy
The Office of the Academic
Dean announces that the Honor
able L. Corrin Strong, former
Ambassador to Norway and trus
tee of Salem, has again granted
two scholarships to Salem stu
dents for the 1959 summer ses
sion at the University of Oslo.
The scholarships are open only
to present sophomores and jun
iors with the stipulation that the
recipients return for the full aca
demic year 1959-1960.
Final plans, such as applica
tion procedure, deadlines and
eligibility requirements, will be
completed within a few days,
after the committee of judges
has been appointed.
On Monday, February 16, the
Salem College campus will be
visited by Dexter Perkins whose
lectures are made possible by the
Rondthaler Fund established in
honor of the late Bishop and Mrs.
Howard Rondthaler. He will speak
in the Day Student Center at 10:45
and for the Assembly at 1 ;30.
Dr. Perkins is a distinguished
historian. Besides serving as an
historian for the government after
the First World War and for the
United Nations, he was president
of the American Historial Society
in 1956.
He has a long career of teachipg
history. Dr. Perkins was head of
the History Department at the Uni
versity of Rochester from 1925 until
1954. He is now the John L. Senior
Professor of American Civilization
at Cornell University. He was also
the first professor of American
History and Institutions at Cam
bridge, England in 1945-46. Besides
the actual teaching of history, Dr.
Perkins has done much research
and writing. He is the author of
many books dealing with the Mon
roe Doctrine, as well as a study
of John Quincy Adams as Secre
tary of State. He may be con
sidered an authority on American
foreign policy as he ha’s published
such books as The Evolution of
American Foreign Policy and The
American Approach to Foreign
Policy.
Dr. Perkins has also held other
posts which indicate a wide variety
of interests. He was Chairman of
the Council of the Harvard Founda
tion for the Advancement of Study
and Research from 1951 until 1956.
He has held since 1950 the presi
dency of the Salzburg (Austria)
Seminar on American Studies. Dr.
Perkins was also the Moderator of
the Unitarian Church of the United
States and Canada in 1952.
It is evident from his illustrious
background, particularly the many
books he has produced, that Dr.
Perkins is well able to handle the
subject of American foreign policy.
This will be the general topic of
the discussion in the Day Student
Center at 10:45. For his lecture
in assembly Dr. Perkins will dis
cuss, “The Use and Abuse of His
tory”. A coffee will be held for
Dr. and Mrs. Perkins in the Friend
ship Rooms of Strong Dormitory
at 4:30, sponsored by Phi Alpha
Theta.
Ann Luttrell
Ithe part.”
Martha has had much experience,
having played Malvolio in Twelfth
-Night and Lord Burleigh in Mary
;Stuart. She feels that she has
learned tremendously from her
IfW'ork on the stage. “One has to
know one’s self well befdre one
can know in what ways and to ,
;fwhat extent one must charge in Nma
border to project a character,” Mar- other members of the produchon
tha explains “And,” she adds, staff are sets, Grace Walker profis
,^ne hL to be sensitive to the Betsy Gilmour, Nma Ann Stokes;
■ Mother people on this stage. The make-up, Peggy Jones; pubhcity,
''same sort of give and take which Dot Smith, Beverly Wollney; light-
-■'ioccurs in successful social relations ing, Jackie Reeves; programs and
, .'has to be sustained on the stage.” tickets, Anthea Taylor, Atm Beck;
Other members of the cast are: | costumes, Sybnlla Caudle Anna
MNina./Ain Stokes, a freshman day Yelverton; sound, Sally Ogburn,
■ student from Winston-Salem, who 1 house, Pat Weeks.
V
iCunningham Plays Flentrop
lln Recital To Full House
On Monday, February ninth,
^Mary Frances Cuningham was
.heard in her senior organ recital
before a full house of students,
faculty, and townspeople in Old
jChapel.
Mary Frances is better known on
.bur Salem campus as Frankie, vice-
(.president of the Student Govern-
i^ment Association, or Frankie, ac-
jcompanist for the Salem Choral
LEnsemble, or . . ■ We hear her
play in the Dining Room on Sun
day, see her rushing off to practice
teach, see her preside over chapel,
.i'or hear her practice in Old Chapel
■'or in Memorial Hall. In fact, we
.'can find Frankie anywhere, doing
Editor Makes Several
Changes In Paper Staff
Good News!
Vacation
Is Extended
most anything.
The combination of Salem s Flen-
Atrop Organ and Frankie’s musical
technique provided an evening of
. exciting music. She played Fran
cois Couperin’s “Messe pour les
Covents” and Louis Claude
;d’Aquin’s “Noel sur les Jeux d’An-
ches” with great clarity and m-
■ dependence of hands, evoking dif
ficult trills while maintaining a bril
liant rhythmic accompaniment. In-
. eluded in the first half of the per-
. formance was the very beautiful
Wivaldi-Bach “Concerto in D
Minor.”
Frankie opened the second half
of the concert with Franz Lizt’s
“Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H.”
It is interesting to note that the
title has a double meaning. It
spells the name of the famous Ger
man composer, but it also spells
the first four notes of the musical
theme. The German letter B means
the B-flat tone, while the letter H
in German means the B natural
tone. Thus the musical theme B
flat. A, C, and B natural is heard
throughout the Prelude and Fugue.
It is especially interesting that this
romantic composition sounded so
well on the Flentrop, which was not
built for the Romantic style of
music. Frankie’s performance of
this composition showed her sur-
perb ability as an accomplished or
ganist. She closed her program
with the very difficult and unusual
modern composition, “L’Ascension,”
by Olivier Messiaen, the contempo
rary French composer and organist
of La Trinite’ in Paris.
A reception was held immediately
after the recital in the Day Student
Center.- Frankie’s was the first of
a series of recitals to be given on
the Salem campus this spring.^
With the publication of this issue,
several changes have been made in
the Salemite staff by the editor.
The new assistant editor is Susan
Foard, a junior history major from
Asheville, who replaces Mary Jo
Wynne. Susan’s former position
was managing editor, in which capa
city she was responsible for the
technical production of the news
paper.
Replacing Nancy Jane Carroll as
news editor is Carolyn Ray, a jun
ior from Raleigh who formerly ser
ved on the news staff. Grace Wal
ker, an English major from Kins
ton assumes the position of feature
editor, where Erwin Robbins for
merly served.
The new headlines editors are
Alta Lu Townes and Joanne Dore-
mus, both of whom worked under
Sarah Ann Price, who formerly held
this position. The regular columns
have changed hands, with Mary Lu
Nuckols covering the Stee Gee, re
placing Sally Tyson; and Bobbie
Morrison begins her series of
‘Around the Square.”
Voice Majors
To Audition
Here Feb. 21
Salemites
Attend Y
Conference
Voice auditions, sponsored by the
National Association of Teachers
of Singing, will be held here at
Salem on Saturday, February 21.
Competing against students from
colleges-of Western North Carolina
will be Geraldine Mcllroy, Harriet
Thomlinson, and Ruth Minter from
Salem.
Competitors may enter the audi
tions in one of three divisions:
Preparatory, Student, and Ad
vanced. The Advanced division,
which was won last year by Geral
dine Mcllroy, includes a full re
cital. In the other divisions, each
contestant sets up a program from
which the judges choose two songs
for performance. ■ j
The winner of the auditions at
Salem will enter the Southeastern
Regional Auditions, including col
leges from five sttaes, which will
be held in Columbia, South Caro
lina in March.
A motion to extend the college
Spring Recess for one day was
passed in the faculty meeting Feb-
urary 4, Dean Ivy M. Hixon an
nounced yesterday. The spring
vacation will begin on Wednesday,
March 25 at 5 :00 p.m. and will end
on April 1 at 8:00 a.m. at which
time classes will resume.
Milton Gets
Assistantship
Joan Ruth Milton, of Winston-
Salem, recently received a teaching
Assistantship in the Department of
Chemistry at the University of
North Carolina for the academic
year 1959-60. As an Assistant, Joan
Three Salem sophomores, Becky
Shell, Mary Louise Howell, and
Mary Oettinger, who are presently
serving on the Y. W. C. A. Cabinet,
left yesterday for a national Christ
ian Vocations Conference spon
sored by Union Theological Semi
nary in New York City today
through Sunday.
Featured speaker for the confer-
ance is John Knox, considered by
some one of the five top theo
logians of our time. In addition to
Knox’s lectures, the girls will at
tend a tea on Saturady evening
given by Henry Van Dusen, the
president of Union Seminary, after
meeting in various discussion
groups. On Saturday afternoon
they will tour the famous churches
of New York including Saint Pat
rick’s Cathedral and the Church of
the Master.
The conferance is sponsored an
nually by the Seminary for college
girls from all over the nation, in
order to interest them in choosing
vocations in the field of religion,
such as social foundation work,
missionary work, and religious edu
cation.
Joan Milton
will spend between six and eight
hours per week instructing in
undergraduate 1 a b o r a t o.ries, and
from six to eight hours grading
papers or helping with lecture
demonstrations.
A chemistry major, Joan is a
senior at Salem and is a day stu
dent. She is a member of the
Order of the Scorpion and has ser
ved on both the IRS and WRA
Councils.