Volume XXXIX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 6, 1959
Number 1 7
STUDENT BODY ELECTS WILLIAMS PRESIDENT FOR 1959-60
Sally Wood New Secretary;
Elected In Run-off Voting
Nan Williams, rising senior from
Farmville, was elected to head the
Student Government Association
for 1959-60, by an overwhelming
majority in the student voting on
Wednesday, March 4. Nan has had
an active career in Student Govern
ment activities, culminating in her
serving as secretary of the Asso
ciation this past year. Her presen
tation of her objectives for Student
Government during the next year
were presented at the Kick-Off
Banquet Monday.
In Nan’s speech she presented
her views on Student Government
and endorsed the newly accepted
Student Government division of
power. She said’that she felt that
a student self-government based onl
personal honor was the most de
sirable form of campus government.
Nan states, “I believe the Student
Council is responsible for insuring
to every student fair regulations,
ample opportunity to understand
these regulations and both indivi
dual consideration and consistency
in decisions and policy.
Some of the objectives she would
like to see considered:
1. A specific plan for orienting the
newly elected officers.
2. Certain revisions of orientation
of new students.
3. A study of present social regu
lations for unity and charity.
She added that the success of the
Student Government depended
upon the cooperation and under
standing of the student body.
Sally Wood, newly elected Secre
tary of Student Government, is a
history major from Smithfield,
North Carolina. Sally, like Nan,
likes Salem, its students and faculty
and is happy over her position for
next year.
Interestingly enough, this will be
the first time Sally has been on the
Student Council. Her extra-curri-
Sally Wood
cula activities have included mein-
bership on the Freshman Y Cabi
net, the Nominating Committee,
and the Lecture Series. She is
treasurer of the 'Sophomore class
this year.
At the Kick-off Banquet Nan Williams, new president of Student Government, presents her objectives
for the coming year as Marcille Van Liere and Patty Kimbrough look on.
Ervin Comm©nts On Th© B©rlln Crisis
In an interview with a Salemite
reporter yesterday, U. S. Senator
Sam Ervin, Jr. subtly criticized
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles, saying, “It is unfortunate
that Mr. Dulles has acted as the
personal ambassador for the United
States these last few. years. The
valuable experience he has gained
Byers Leads
Discussion
On Equality
Dr. Byers will lead a panel dis
cussion on liberty and equality and
their meanings in^ America today m
assembly Thursday, March 12.
Sarah Tesch, Jean Smitherman
Sandi Shaver, Caroline Easley, and
Dr. Byers will make up the panel.
Dr. Byers will begin the discus
sion with a brief talk concerning
the problems of why liberty and
equality are controversial and chal
lenging, and the ways we^ are es
caping from the responsibilities of
freedom.
The discussion of freedom and
liberty will include such issues as
the amount of information released
to the public concerning foreign
policy and the misiles program to
the editing of the copyrighted
comic strip Pogo.
The panel will attempt to define
equality in workable terms in order
to provide some limitation' to the
discussion, which will center around
the question of whether it is pos
sible to have meaningful freedom
without emphasis on equality.
would be especially helpful now had
it been shared with the other mem
bers of the State Department.” ^
Especially in view of the Berlin
Crisis, which Senator Ervin sees as
a Russian move to aggravate inter
national tensions, the makers of our
foreign policy must not back down,
“We must protect our occupational
rights in Berlin, and especially are
we going to need Dulles experieitce
at the Foreign Ministers Confer-
ance,” said the Senator.
Senator Ervin is currently serv
ing on the special Senate committee
to investigate labor-management
relations. The committee has been
called on to investigate the current
eruption between strikers’ and non
strikers at a Henderson, N. C. tex
tile mill. In addition, he was instru
mental in securing the indictment
of Dave Beck, the former head of
the Teamster’s Union, whose locals
in North Carolina haven’t suffered
from the racketeering prevalent in
the larger Northern cities.
As all political figures are con
jecturing on the presidential candi
dates for I960, Senator Ervin
favored Kennedy, although, he war
ned, “his present popularity may
wane before election time. Stuart
Symington (Democrat from Mis
souri) was an especially good bet
were the convention to come to a
deadlock, he observed.
Senator Ervin’s only comment on
Attention
WHEN VOTING, REMEMBER:
freshmen USE YELLOW
BALLOTS.
UPPERCLASSMEN USE
[white ballots.
Humanities Club To Discuss
"Religion And Psychiatry”
the Republican side referred to
Nixon, whom, he said, “had a great
deal of political sagacity.”
Senator Ervin, who was in Win
ston-Salem to speak to the North
Carolina Traffic Club, spoke in as
sembly earlier in the morning on
what he called “simple things which
in this age of supersonic missiles,
are often overlooked.” Summing
up a speech delivered without notes,
he said, “We should strive to create
stepping-stones rather than stumb
ling blocks in our relations Dvith
others.”
Education 210
Will Present
Puppet Show
The members of the Education
210 class are currently preparing for
a March 11 production of their an
nual puppet show. The children of
the faculty and any Salemites who
wish to regress to the carefree days
o Old Chapel at 7:00.
^f make-believe are invited to come
The varied program will include
a shadowgraph, a marionette show
and a puppet show. “Lion,” the
story portrayed on the shadow
graph, will take your imagination
to heaven where the “king of
beasts” is being created. “Popcorn
Dragon,” the story chosen for the
marionette show, will introduce you
to an arrogant dragon that talks.
“B’rer Rabbit and the Tar Baby,”
the story presented with puppets,
will take you back to the days of
“Uncle Remus.”
“Psychiatry and Religion” is the
topic for the Humanities Club
meeting this Tuesday, March 10 at
7:30 p.m. The group will congre
gate at the Winston-Salem ,Art
Gallery; a list will be posted on
the dining room bulletin board this
weekend for those to sign who
need rides.
The Rev. Tom Fraser, Rector at
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and
Dr. Angus Randolph, practicing
pyschiatrist and teacher at Bow
man Gray Medical School, will be
the speakers. Each man will pre
sent a five-minute introduction to
his topic, giving a brief outline
about his work and the relations
to the other speaker’s field. Time
will be allotted for discussion from
the group.
“This is something you can’t get
from a textbook,” says club presi
dent Nancy Jane Carroll. “We
never settle or decide an issue, but
a lot of times ideas are clarified;
or this discussion might serve as
a starting point for you to think
about it on your own.”
(
The Humanities Club members
are anxious that more students will
become interested in their program.
The meetings are always interest
ing and informal—you may feel free
to leave whenever you wish. Cof
fee and cigarettes lend to the re
laxed atmosphere.
Mr. Paine has been selected as
the advisor. The program in April
will be related to the field of edu
cation. Dr. Edwin W^ilson, acting
Dean of Wake Forest, will be one
of the panel members.
Istomin Plays
Monday With
Civic Music
The final performance of this
season’s Civic Music Series featur
ing the concert pianist Eugene Is
tomin is on Monday evening,
March 9, at 8:30 p.m. in Reynolds
Auditorium.
; On his third world tour, the 33
year-old artist has been with lead
ing orchestras while on his North
American tour which includes six
performances with the Boston
Symphony and ten with the New
York Philharmonic. This fall he
will make his eighth European tour.
ot only a solo artist, Istomin
'also specializes in the difficult art
of ensemble playing. For the last
two summers he has been at Rudolf
Senkin’s Marlboro Music Festival
and School, where chamber music
is emphasized.
Born in New York City in 1925,
'Istomin’s parents were Russian-
born singers. He studied with
Kariene Seloti whose father was a
pupil of Liszt and Tchaikovsky. He
later studied at the Curtis Institute
of Music.