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T-':xU Volume XXXIX Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 13, 1959 Number 1 8 Tesch Chosen Vice President Of Student Body; Ligon And Jenkins Fill Other Positions A rising senior and two rising from Conway, S. C., and is getting juniors were lelected this week to fill major campus offices in Student Government. Sarah Tesch was elected Vice-President of the Stu dent Government; Lynn Ligon, Secretary of th'e Judicial Board; and Churchill Jenkins, Treasurer of the Student Government. Sarah Tesch, a religion major from Winston-Salem, has had an active career at Salem. For three years she has been a member of the Choral Ensemble and the Mo ravian Student Fellowship. Last year she was a member of the Y Cabinlet. Presently she is treasurer of the SNEA, a re-write editor of the Salemite, and a member of the IRS. She recently became a mem ber of the Flonor Society. Churchill Jenkins is a sophomore her major in religion and a minor in primary education. During her freshman year, Churchill was a member of the IRS, and partici pated in the May Day Pageant. This year she is president of Bab cock Dormitory and class repre- Overstreets Appear For Lecture Series Monday i Sarah Tesch Lynn Ligon Churchill Jenkins sentative to IRS. Upon learning that she had been elected as Treasurer of the Student Government for next year, Churchill’s comment was, “I feel weak! Lynn Ligon, a sophomore from Wrightsville Beach, N. C., is a home economics major. For two years she has served on the IRS Council. This year she is vice-president of the International Relations Club, and is a member of the YWCA Council. Lynn is excited about her new office, but realizes the respon sibilities that lie ahead of her. ’T’ To Hide Easter Eggs The “Y” is sponsoring an Easter Egg Hunt Friday afternoon, March 20th, here on Salem’s campus for the orphans at Memorial Industrial School. Two buses will be sent for the ninety orphans and will bring them to the Athletic Field at 5 o’clock. Around the archery field there will be an Easter Egg Hunt for the children up to eleven years old. The others will play in the gym or maybe softball. If the weather is too bad to have the hunt outside, it will be held in the gym. After the hunt supper of hot dogs, etc. will be .served out-of- doors for everyone. If the weathter is bad, supper will be served in both the Dining Hall and the Club Din ing . Room. So everybody come on down to the Athletic Field at 5 o’clock Fri day and join in the fun! Indian Attache Teaches Course On Asian Affairs Bonaro and Harry Overstreet will arrive by plane in Winston-Salem Monday afternoon to appear as the lecturers of the concluding program of the 1958-59 Salem College Lec ture Series. The Overstreets, two of Ameri ca’s most distinguished leaders in the fields of Human Relations and Mental Health, will address the in terested Salem College Student Body, Faculty and residents of Winston-Salem on “What Emo tional Health Looks Like” at 8:30, March 16, in Memorial Hall. The “Overstreet Colloquy” is a platform conversation in which, with spontaneous back-and-forth, they develop together their central theme. It has often been said their colloquy is the ideal combination of personal charm, integrity, and easy platform manner. In addition to lecturing, the Over- streets havle written jointly Their Mature Mind, The Mind Active, The Mind Goes Forth, and What We Must Know About Communism, their current best seller. Although the Overstreets have developed a peculiarly effective form of team-lecture, both appear individually platform-speakers. Bonaro Overstreet, educated at the University of California and Columbia University, t a u g^h t in California until her marriage to Henry Overstreet in 1932. Since this time she. has worked with her husband in the fields of adult edu cation and mental ’ health. It has been said that what makes her speaking unique is the fact that no matter how large the audience may be, each person in it feels invited to think along with her as an in dividual and that each person grows a little in the prodess of this think ing. Henry Overstreet, educated at the University of California and Ox ford, was for many years Head of HARRY &■ BONARO OVERSTREET the Department of Philosophy and Psychology of the College of the city of New York: Endowed with the power to make complicated problems clear without “watering them down,” he has been called the ideal combination of scholarliness, personal charm and natural, easy platform personality. It has been said of him that “To know Harry Overstreet is to know what a better world would be like.” Before the lecture the Over- streets will have dinnier at 6 o’clock in Corrin Refectory. They will be joined at the table by Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Moffie, Dr. and Mrs. John F. Dashiell, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Bray, Mrs. Amy Heidbreder, Miss Jess Byrd, Dr. Elizabeth Welsh, and members of the Advanced Psy chology class—Ann Brinson, Ann Pierce, Riley Matthews, Beverly Wollney, and Emily Vaughn. Following the dinner, the guests and all psychology minors will be served coffee by hostess Ann Brin- Rosemary Laney Assumes Chairmanship Of The Newly Organized Judicial Board Next fall Salem, along with Wake Forest and Winston-Salem Teach ers College, will initiate a five-year program of Asian studies. Dr. M. S. Sundaram, at present cultural at tache at the Indian Embassy in London, will teach a course at each of the three schools. “Since World War II the feeling has grown that there should • be more'emphasis on Asia, Africa, and the Middle Eas.J in tire curriculum of American colleges,” says Dr. Philip Africa, head of the Salem College history department. “A number of large universities have set up such programs; however, it is ha.rd for a small college to en large the curriculum. We are able IRS Plans Annual Party : The I. R. S. Council is entertain ing the faculty and student body W'ith a-birthday dinner on Thurs day, March 19. The party will be held in Corrin Refectory at 6:00 p.m. . Each table will_ be decorated ac cording to thJe months of the year. The guests are to be seated at the tables assigned for the month of, their birthday. I. R- S. members will be hostesses at each table and dressed with costumes depicting the various months of the year. ■. This ’dinner is another one of Salem’s traditions, and as always promises an extra-special menu. to institute this program with the aid of a grant from the Mary Reyn olds Babcock Foundation and the Asia Society of New York. The course which .will be taught next year is' tentatively entitled “Asia and the Modern World” and will consider the East as a cultural area. There will be one lecture and one seminar a week. Dr. Sundaram was educated at Madras University and Oxford Uni versity. His major field is English, and he has taught at Madras Uni versity Oxford University, and has been head of the Department of English at Annanialai University and Azera University. He has edited two volumes of English poe try and a volume of contemporary essays in English. Dr. Sundaram has also had wide administrativie experience as an edu cation officer and cultural attache for the Indian Government. He represented India at the Prepara- tory Commission of the World Um- versifies Conference at Utrecht, Holland, in 1948, at the, Interna tional Conference on Public Edu cation in Geneva the seventh and eighth UNESCO General Conferences in 1954 and 1956. , , , Since he has lived abroad, largely in the United States and for a period of three yfears in the United Kingdom. During this time he has participated in several academic programs and lectured under the auspices of many universities and cultural organizations. He ha,s visited over 250 colleges and uni versities in the United States and Canada and participated m aca demic seminars. Rosemary Laney, a junior from Coral Gables, Florida, was elected president of the newly established Judicial Board in an election on March 9. She was running against Caro line Easley, Ann Joyner, and Evelyn Vincent. Rosemary has participated in a variety of extra-curricular activities. During her fresh man year at Salem she served on the I. R. S. Council and was freshman editor of the Sights and Insights. For the first semester of her sophomore year Rosemary attended the University of Miami where she was a sister in the Delta Gamma sorority. Then she returned to Salem for the remainder of her college career. At the present time Rosemary is secretary of the I. R. S.; advertising manager of Salemite; a representative to the nominating committee; a member of the Music Club, chapel trio, and Canterbury Club; Assistant Director of the Academy Ensemble. She was member of the cast of the Salem College fall production “Mary Stuart.” Being a public school music major, Rose mary hopes to return to “The Sunshine State” to do her teaching. She enjoys all music ex cept hill-billy and bop. When questioned about her reaction to her election as Judicial Board President, Rose mary replied that she “couldn’t believe it and was really thrilled.” She added further that she “will need everyone’s cooperation since it’s a new system.” In her new position Rosemary hopes “to clarify the rules that are now vague, maintain consistency, but also to consider the individual in each case.” Rosemary Laney
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