Volume XXXIX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, February 27, 1959
cllroy Is Featured In
iCollegium Musicum Salem
Founded in 1780, the Collegium
usicum Salem is in its one bund
ed and seventy ninth year of per
formance. Mr. John Mueller is
Director of the Collegium
Gerry Mcllroy
&Musicum and Donald McCorkle is
i^Co-ordinator. They will present
their firsf program of the 1958-59
-.'season on March 1 in Old Chapel
.,at 8:00 p.m.
* The Collegium Musicum will pre-
jsent this year a concert of Mo-
IQuartet Will
|Perform On
iMarch 2
\ On March 2, the Wake Forest
.'tlCollege Chamber Music Society will
'■present the Quartette Italiano. The
■'’-Jquartet of two violins, a viola, and
, i'.r a cello will play at 8:30 P.M. in
S.The Magnolia room at Wake Forest.
j‘iPaolo Borciani and Elisa^ Pegreffi,
^Tviolins, Piero Farulli, viola, and
..Slpranco Rossi, cello, make up the
y Quartette Italiane.
Their program consists of four
^numbers. The first is ‘Quartet^ in
'■yiG major. Opus 44, No. 4” (“La
|Tiranna Spagnola”) by Boccherini.
IThe second, “Quartet in B flat
Imajor, K. 458” (The Hunt”) by
iMozart. “Three Pieces for String
iQuartet” by Stravinsky is the third
fpiece. -The fourth is “Quartet in
|F major” by Ravel.
W. S. Littlel
Theatre Will
j0ive Comedy
The Winston-Salem’s Little The-
Satre’s latest production, “Visit to a
1 Small Planet,” will be presented m
[the Community Center on March
I3-7 at 8:15 P.M.
1 The play, a brisk three-act com-
I edy by Gore Videl, has been de-
[scribed by Tennessee Williams as
]“a brilliant satire on the follies of
[society in our time done with great
fwit and humanity.”
(.'.j The lead role of Cretan, a crea-
■i? ture from outer space, wEl be
played by Douglas Lewis. Cretan
..^Mnvades earth with the intentions 01
‘h) taking over at the time of the Cm
ij|War. It seems, however, that his
calculations are a little off for t e
time is next summer. All the action
takes place in the living room ot
Roger Spelding’s home.
The Little Theatre feels that the
.1, Salem students will thoroughly en
joy this amusing production and in
vites you all to attend.
ravian Music. This performance
will have Donald McCorkle as con
ductor, Margaret Mueller as or
ganist, and Geraldine Mcllroy, a
Salem College junior,' as mezzo-,
soprano. The orchestration will ’be
prepared, by Hans-Karl Piltz.
Those comprising the orchestra
members are : Irene Piltz, Marjorie
Angell (violins) ; Hans-Karl Piltz
(viola); Charles Medlin (violon
cello); Carl Alexius (bass).
The chorus, composed largely of
Salem students, includes: Joan
Brooks, Nancy Jane Carroll, Mrs.
John luele, Peggy Jones, Rosemary
Laney, Lydia Seaber, Marie Stimp-
son (sopranos) ; M a 11 i e Beroth,
Eleanor Fishel, Geraldine Mcllroy,
Mrs. Clayton Persons, Sarah Tesch
(altos); 'William Hutchins, Dr. Ro
bert Morris, Rev. Kenneth Robin
son (tenors); and Rev, John Johan
sen, Rev. E. T. Mickey, Jr.
(basses).
The program will include three
Moravian Chorales by John Antes
“Sinfronia in D Major for Strings”
by Joseph Riepel; three anthems
for chorus and strings by David
Moritz Michael, John Fredrik
Peter, and Francis Florentine
Hagen; and two anthems for cho
rus and strings by Johannes Herbst
and John Antes. Geraldine Me
Ilroy will be featured in two sacred
songs for soprano and strings.
United States Senator Sam Ervin
Speaks In Assembly On March 5
Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr,, senior
senator of North Carolina, will
speak to Salem students and faculty
members in Chapel, March 5. Sena
tor Ervin, a native of Morganton
(Burke County), North Carolina,
will be in the city to address the
Winston-Salem Traffic Club on
March 4. He has consented to re
main through the fifth for the pur
pose of visiting our campus.
Senator Ervin graduated from
the Gniversity of North Carolina
with an A.B. in 1917. He served
in the first World War and was
twice wounded and cited for gal
lantry in action. He was awarded
the French fourragere, Purple
Heart with one Oak Leaf Cluster,
the Silver Star and the Distin
guished Service Cross. At the end
of the war. Senator Ervin went to
Harvard Law School (class of 22).
His law practice in Morganton
has been interrupted several times
for judicial and political reasons.
He has served as a judge for the
Burke County Criminal Court and
the North Carolina Superior Court.
Freshmen Plan Banquet,
Tour,.Skit For Parents
Once again, as layers of shoes
are untangled, floors will be visible
in freshmen closets, and rooms dis
playing a neatness never before
seen will be open to visitors on
Parents’ Day, Saturday, March 7.
This annual event, which has been
highly enjoyable in years past, will
begin on Saturday morning with
registration from eleven to one
o’clock in Strong Dormitory, where
visiting parents of freshmen will re-
Stee Gee Candidates
To Campaign At Banquet
one
The Student Council at their
meeting Monday discussed the elec
tion of officers and the function of
the nominating committee. The
elections will begin next week with
the election of the president and
the secretary of the Student Gov
ernment.
The student council decided that
the function of the nominating com
mittee will be to screen the can
didates suggested on the student
nomination sheets and to check on
the candidates’ eligibility. They
would also decide upon the number
of candidates to run for office.
It was announced that the kick
off banquet, which begins elections,
will be next Monday night. At
that time the candidates for the
president of the student body will
make their campaign speeches. The
first election for the president and
the secretary of the student gov
ernment will take place at lunch on
March 5
ceive name tags and programs.
In the afternoon, between
o’clock and four, freshmen will take
their parents on tours of the cam
pus, at which time the gym, science
building, library, and other build
ings will be open.
There will be Open House in
Clewell and Babcock dormitories
from 4-6 p.m., and all visitors are
cordially invited to visit in these
dormitories.
Also during the afternoon will be
a tea in the Day Student Center,
to which faculty, parents, and
freshmen have been invited, giving
parents an opportunity to meet
their daughters’ professors.
Freshmen are inviting their par
ents ' to a banquet which will be
held in Corrin Refectory at six
o’clock on Saturday night. "Winnie
Bath, freshman class presideilt, will
formally welcome the parents, and
Dr. Hixson, Dean Heidb'reder, and
Dr. Gramley will give talks entitled,
respectively, “Grade Wise,” “Social
Wise”, and “Otherwise.”
At 8 p.m. in Old Chapel, the
freshmen will present “Memoirs of
First Semester.” This production
will include skits about orientation,
rat week, and other events of the
past semester.
Senator Ervin represented Burke
County in the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly three times between
1923 and 1931. He represented the
tenth North Carolina district in
the 77th Congress and served on
the North Carolina State Board of
Examiners in 1946.
In 1948 Senator Ervin was ap
pointed associate justice to the
North Carolina Supreme Court, a
position he held until 1954 when he
qualified as a U. S. Senator from
North Carolina under the appoint
ment of Governor William B. Um-
stead as successor to the late Sena
tor Clyde Hoey. Senator Ervin
was nominated and elected to the
Senate in 1954 without Democratic
or Republican opposition for an un
expired term which ended January
3, 1957. He was nominated and re
elected to the Senate in 1956 by
the largest majorities ever given a
Senatorial candidate in North Caro
lina for a full term which will end
January, 1963.
In the Senate, Mr. Ervin serves
the Armed Services Committee,
the Government Operations Com
mittee, and Judiciary Committee
and on the select Committee to
Investigate Improper Activities in
Labor-Management Relations.
Besides these many accomplish
ments Senator Ervin serves in the
capacity of trustee for both David
son College and the University of
North Carolina.
All Salemites And Faculty Will Greet
Dave Brubeck Quartet Next Friday
Shewmake
Gets Prize
For Etchings
Mr. Edwin Shewmake, Salem
professor of fine arts was notified
last week that “Waiting,” a print
of one of his etchings, has made
[him a recipient of the Lucy Hanes
1 Chatham Purchase Fund “Purchase
Prize,” given by the Winston-Salem
Gallerv of Fine Arts.
The most controversial figure in
jazz today is coming to Salem—
Dave Brubeck and his quartet. The
Brubeck quartet will arrive on cam
pus Friday evening, March 6 to
give a two-and-a-half hour concert
in Memorial Hall beginning at 9:00
p.m.
The jazz quartet began as a
workshop band formed by a group
of Mills College students. In 1951,
Paul Desmond joined the trio with
Dave Brubeck
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his alto sax and the group became
a success overnight. Since the
quartet joined Columbia Records in
1952, the public has bought more
of its records than any jazz group.
Brubeck him§elf attributes the
success of the quartet to their im
provisation, a quality which Bru
beck believes in with the greatest
devotion. “To me,” he says, “im
provisation is the care of jazz. It
is only through improvisation that
jazz is going to survive. When
there is not complete freedom for
the soloist it ceases to be jazz.”
The quartet is made up of Bru
beck on the piano; Desmond, alto
sax; Joe Morello, drum; and Eu
gene Wright on the string bass.
Mr. Dave Perry, of W. S. J. S.
T. V., is going to interview Mr.
Brubeck Friday night and make a
tape recording of the concert, to be
sent to “Monitor” for their week
end radio show. Mr. Perry will
also play parts from the tape on
his Saturday night radio Jazz Show
in Winston-Salem.
The Salem students are not the
only ones excited over Mr. Bru-
beck’s appearance. Mr. Paine con
siders it “real cool” and Dr. Lewis
“a cultural advantage that Salem
should be glad to take advantage
of.” Welcome to Salem, Brubeck!
Edwin Shewmake
The Purchase Fund, Mr. Shew
make explained, buys works of art
instead of awarding cash prizes.
Selected from a five-state region,—
Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, these
works of art pass before a jury,
Which decides upon those to be
bought and exhibited. When the
jury meets again to view a new
group of works of art, the old
group often becomes property of
the public library. This is probably
what will happen to “Waiting,” ac
cording to Mr. Shewmake.
Besides receiving the only local
prize, Mr. Shewmake entered the
only print. As he said “I did feel
pretty good about winning, since it
is hard for a print of an etching
to compete with oils.”
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