Volume XL
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 13, 1959
Number 8
Administration
Announces
Preca utions
ipr Gramley announced this week
the precautions that Salem College
vyill take to insure the students’
safety, and the responsibilities of
the students. This announcement
followed the early morning dis
covery of a prowler in Clewell
Dormitory last Friday.
(Salem will place screens in the
basement windows of all dorms,
and will leave 'campus lights on all
night. Additional lights will be in
stalled if they are needed. The
lights in Memorial Hall will also
be left on at night for music stu
dents. A police car will patrol the
square regularly throughout the
iThe attic doors are to be locked
every night and students can lock
the doors of their rooms. At night
the elevator shaft doors will be
closed. The nightwatchman will
give his report to Mr. White each
morning. This report will include
any lights on campus that have
burned out.
, [Salem also asks the students to
Weisgarber Will
Speak On The
Creative Arts
cooperate by
sponsibilities
accepting their re
They request that
all students pull down their shades
at night. This is especially impor
tant for girls who are studying in
the basement study rooms. Stu
dents are not to study in basement
areas alone late at night.
*The windows will be locked at
night now, and any student unlock
ing one will be responsible for
locking it again before she leaves.
The last student to leave a room is
also requested to turn off the lights.
This will cut expenses and help to
pay the extra costs of leaving the
campus lights on all night.
Twenty-Two Skidoo and All That Jazz!
back the Roaring Twenties!
Evelyn Vincent, Johnny Smith, and Colquitt Meacham bring
Rollicking Play, "Boy Friend” Promises
To Be Superb Comedy Entertainment
By Felicity Craig
One ■ dramatically wiggling hand,
brandishing a cigarette, protruded
from the curtains. The disembodied
limb belonged to Miss Battle who
suddenly erupted down the steps
leading to the stage with an em
phatic “All right, let’s go!” The
curtains slid apart, and Helen Lon
don, flicking Frenchily at stage-
Student And Faculty Committee
Begin Salem’s Self-Evaluation
[Eight students will join Salem’s
self-evaluation program which be
gins meeting next week. Bobbie
Morrison and Libba Lynch will
represent students on the subcom
mittee Education Program headed
by Dr. Byers. Carol Doxey and
Katie Kochtitzky will be on the
sub-committee studying the library
facilities, headed by Dr. Africa. Ann
Dunn Joyner and Jane Givens will
take part in research on the Stu
dent Personnel program, examining
such areas as the effectiveness of
Student Government, the orienta
tion program, and campus clubs in
a [subcommittee headed by Mr. Jo
hansen. Betsey Guerrant and Ma
tilda Woodard will take part in the
appraisal of the Physical Plant
gathering complaints about dormi
tory facilities, the Refectory, class-
Boms and maintenance problems.
This subcommittee is headed by
Mr. Campbell. The Legislative ap
pointed these students from nomi
nations by the Executive Board.
fThe subcommittee will complete
their reports by early February.
These reports will be compiled by
the Steering Committee made up of
deans and department heads. Their
report in turn will be sent to the
Visitation Committee, made up of
three or four representatives se
lected from the eleven colleges
which are members of the Southern
Association of Colleges and Secon
dary Schools. Salem has requested
that one of these three evaluators
be a representative from the Na
tional Association of Schools of
Music, in order to provide a cap
able judge of the music school. .
Five othei; committees do not
have student representatives. Dr.
Gramley pointed out that these
groups will be investing areas m
which common sense would dictate
that students would not be con
sulted. However, if students feel
they are involved, these subcom
mittees would be ^delighted to hear
■opinions from students. T'lese
subcommittees are Purposes, head
hv Dr Gramley; Financial Ke
Screes by Mr. Curlee; Orgam-
Tatbn College by Miss Palme^l
Faculty, by Dr. White, and
nae headed by Mrs. Sue Cox Shore.
To discover “What the situation
of Salem College is today will be
the first aim of these subcomrna-
tees Dr. Gramley stated. Beyond
that,” he says, “I would hope- they
will identify areas m which prob
lems exist.” By making recommen
dations for
a honors program for
dents he expects these self-evain
S.'report, “to reflect the ,h,.k.
ing of Salem today.”
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A third phase of the report will
be a statement of what definit
plans Salem has made for
^^Th^ completed report win not be
disclosed to the public. Howeve ,
the presence of student membe,
on the subcommittees will enab e
the student body to voice t
opinions through these representa
tives.
dust with a feather duster, was
transporting us back into the flap
per era of the 1920’s. Rehearsal of
“The Boy Friend” (’Winston-Salem
Journal notwithstanding) was - in
progress.
Even a rehearsal of this rollick
ing comedy was an experience. The
next moment the stage was inun
dated with the “perfect young
ladies” of the cast, who were obvi
ously having a gorgeous time as
they moved- into their first song
and dance number. Their artifici
ally high-pitched voices captured
with uncanny accuracy the nostal
gic scratchiness of one of those old
gramophone records. And then
came Polly, played by Evelyn Vin
cent. Innocently wistful, and look
ing as if butter wouldn’t melt in
her mouth. She clutched a letter
from an admirer in Paris. With
her clear, musical rendering of her
first song: “Any Girl Who’s Reach
ed the Age of Seventeen or There
abouts”, we know that this is Eve
lyn’s part, and this is Salem’s play,
and the whole thing is going to be
a huge success.
Of course the plot thickens and
mysteries abound. Why does the
letter bear a Nice postmark if it
comes from Paris? And who is
Tony, the mysterious messenger
boy who drops packages all over
the stage when he sees Polly? Does
he love her for herself alone?
(I’m not telling, so you’d better buy
tickets and find out.)
Nancy Jane Carroll, as Madame
Dubonnet, has somewhere along the
way acquired a very provocative
French accent. Colquitt Meacham
as Mazie, Mr. Bray as the British
Lord who takes an interest in for
eign relations not altogether shared
by his wife (the British, especially
the women, are so confoundedly
proper, you know) and Mr. Michie
as you’’ll-never-guess-who are going
to bring down the house. It seems
that Mr. Michie has hidden talents
as a' comedian only now brought
out into the open—y’all just san’t
miss this. The whole comedy angle
feet young ladies” centering on
is superbly handled—for the per
whether they will say yes or no
to four proposals of marriage (one
each, that is) ; for Lord Brbekhurst
hinging on how he can be naughtily
frivolous without his wife’s inter
ference — this culminates in the
hoop doop and doop dance with
Dulcie. Our Wake Forest brethren
are very much in evidence as those
indispensable articles which no gay
young thing can really do without.
(Namely and to wit: the boy
friend.) Then of course there is
the question of whether Mrs.
Browne will remember Kiki, and if
she can break down his iron re-
The Music Student Organization
will present Mr. Elliot Weisgarber,
composer and teacher, to the stu
dent body in Assembly on Wed
nesday, Nov. 18. Mr. Weisgarber,
who will speak on “The Problems
of the Creative Artist and Their
Solutions” is an associate professor
of music at Woman’s College in
Greensboro.
Originally from Pittsfield, Mass.,
Weisgarber did his undergraduate
work in composition and clarinet at
the Eastman School of Music. He
also completed his Masters there
in composition and in 1945 came to
Woman’s College to teach. On
leave of absence from Woman’s
College last year, he completed his
),ear of residence at the University
of Southern California where he is
working on his PhD.
Mr. Weisgarber has composed a
large number of works, both for
full orchestra and string quartet.
He is at present writing a sonata
for cello and piano, which Mr.
Medlin of our music faculty hopes
to play on his recital in February.
Mr. Weisgarber met his wife,
Bethiah, when they were both
studying at Eastman. Mrs. Weis
garber is a singer. They have one
daughter, Karen, who is five.
Mr. Weisgarber will be on cam
pus Wednesday afternoon. The
music students are planning a cof
fee in the Friendship Rooms of
Strong at 4:00. Students and fac
ulty are invited to meet Mr. Weis
garber.
Methodists To
Sponsor Rhine
serve.
It was cold in Old Chapel, but,
caught up into the spirit of the
thing, I hardly noticed. The action
came to an abrupt halt every now
and then with an exclamation from
Miss Battle.
“Nancy Jane, do you know how
to ooze across the stage? Well
ooze! That’s good—that’s what I
want!” (So if y all have seen
Nancy Jane acting strangely re
cently, she’s been practicing ooz
ing). Then there was the agonized
shriek as the cardboard door was
pulled open:
“No, not that way! It isn’t made
to open that way!”—and the tri
umphant-whoop as inspiration broke
loose and Miss Battle leaped on
the stage to demonstrate how Col
quitt should be carried off. Col
quitt, borne aloft and waving arms
and legs madly in mid-air, wasn’t
so sure about the inspiration.
So Sandy Wilson’s play, first a
hit in the West End of London,
will be brought to the Salem stage
on Wednesday, Thursday and F'ri-
day nights of next week, beginning
at 8:30 p.m. Owing to the unusually
large crowd expected Friday night,
Salem students are requested to aB
tend Wednesday or Thursday if
possible. Reserved seat tickets can
be purchased from Pat Weeks in
Bitting dorm: price, 50^ for stu
dents and $1 for everyone else.
Y’all come.
The Wesley Foundation at Maple
Springs Methodist Church will pre
sent Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, a
national authority on extra-sensory
preception, at 7:00 p.m. Sunday No
vember 15th. Dr. Rhine will speak
on “The Uncomfortable Facts of
Extra-Sensory Preception.”
Dr. Rhine is the director of the
parapsychology laboratory at Duke
which was founded in 1930.
Dr. Rhine explains ESP as “the
capacity of certain persons under
favorable test conditions to perceive
or acquire knowledge without the
use of recognized senses.” He dif
ferentiates between different forms
of ESP also. Thought transfer or
telepathy is “catching the thought
or mental state of another person.”
An “awareness of objective events
occuring beyond the range of the
senses” is clairvoyance. When the
preception is of the future, it is
called percognition.
Transportation will be provided
for students interested in attending
Dr. Rhine’s lecture. All interested
students are requested to sign the
list in the refectory.
Y Elects Frosh
Cabi netOf fleers
Freshman Y Cabinet officers
elected last Friday afternoon in
clude Peggy Legette as president;
Belle Searcy, vice-president; and
Mary Jane Crowell, secretary.