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Volume XL
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, December 1 1, 1959
Number 11
Annual Christmas Banquet
Clinnaxes Holiday Season;
Early Traditions Reviewed
'It’s Christmas time again, here at
Salem. As usual girls are doing
their Christmas shopping, decorat
ing dorms, and trying to get in a
ijtle studying on the side. With
this Christmas season comes the
traditional “peanut”, the putz, the
Christmas dance, the orphan’s
party, and as a climax, the Christ
mas Banquet.
iThis is all a part of Christmas
at Salem, but did you ever think
about how the Christmas season
has been celebrated through the
ypars ? Salem has celebrated Christ
mas since it’s beginning in 1772.
?When the college was an academy
for y o u n g girls, the little girls
Senior Vespers
I'ill Highlight
phristmasWeek
[Salem adds dignity and feeling to
the Christmas season again this
year with its traditional Senior
Vespers to be held in Memorial
Hall Sunday, December 13, at 7 ;30
plm.
jAlthough the Vespers are led by
the seniors, the sophomores parti
cipate as pages. The sophomores
are robed in white and the seniors
are just familiarly “robed”.
|Mr. Traylor of the First Christian
Church in Winston-Salem will give
a brief meditation. The singing of
Christmas hymns will contribute to
the majesty of the occasion and the
ifghted candles will lend a warmth
and spirit to this post twilight ser
vice. The seniors and sophomores
will give candles to everyone who
will join in the carol singing. The
feenior class will issue special music,
among which is the traditional
Iwmn “Morning Star”.
jSeniors will sit on the stage,
sophomores in the middle front of
the auditorium and the rest of the
place is left for you. We hope
you will come and bring your
friends.
>alemites Play
I'Santa Claus”
o Orphanage
IjChristmas spirit swings into high
^ear at Salem Tuesday night with
the annual “Y” orphanage party at
Memorial Industrial School.
Salemites play “Santa Claus” to
the boys and girls by furnishing
the only presents they will receive
On Christmas Day.
IChildren from the home and
Salem girls will present programs
during the party.
'The college will serve dinner at
5 o’clock Tuesday night in order
for the buses to leave at 5:30 p.m
from Clewell for Memorial Indus
trial School.
would have a festive mealtime with
stories of Christmas.
During the War Between the
States, Salem was one of the few
schools which remained opened
(even Carolina closed!). While
plantations were being occupied or
burned, many little girls remained
here for schooling and safety. At
one point in the war, near Christ
mas, food was so scarce that the
officials were certain that they
would be forced to close the school,
but parents had hoarded sides of
bacon, corn, and flour. These were
sent to Salem by two wagons pulled
by slaves, entering from the west
gate. This kept Salem going until
the crisis passed.
Each year the celebration gets
bigger and better until today it is
no longer a Christmas supper, but
a Christmas feast attended not by
i forty little girls, but around four
hundred “big” girls, the faculty, and
their families.
About nine years ago, the junior
class sponsored the banquet. Since
then, however, the sophomores have
taken over.
Now, as the Christmas holidays
draw near, you see seniors, both
happy and sad, smile as they think
of their last Christmas and Christ
mas banquet here at Salem. Juniors
are sympathetic, thinking of all the
hard work of the year before and
thinking ahead to when they will
be eating their banquet this year
(in the club dining room) due to
the large number of people attend
ing
The sophomores are excited, hop
ing that this will be the best ban
quet Salem has ever seen, and on'e
they will not soon forget. To the
freshmen, the banquet is a new and
thrilling experience. They’ve heard
about it, seen people busdy working
on it, but now they are actually
going to be a part of it
The theme is kept scret until the
night of the banquet. It’s always
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From top to bottom.
fun to think of what it might be-
“ ‘twas the night before Christmas,
or “German Christmas, or
“the littlest angel.” But no. These
are all themes used in past years.
Sorry we can’t add this years
theme to the list until after the
I'banquet!
To the student body of Salem
The Sophomore Class of Salem |
^°'*ReVests the pleasure of your
““^^”at the Christmas Banquet
Wednesday, December lo,
1959 at 6 p.m
honoring the Class of I960.
Corrin Refectory
Salem College
g 11 Wood CaroJyn McLeod, Louise Adams, Lou Scales, Maid of Honor, Sally Townsend, May Queen.
Evely. Suz...e DrJ,., Anil. G.y Au.ti., U. M.. Do. G,.y-
son, Vicky Van Liere, Jette Seear.
Sally Townsend Reigns As May Queen;
Scales, Maid Of Honor, In i960 Court
German Girl Guide
To Visit Campus
. Irmela Geilenberg, a student of
theology at the U n i v e r s 11 y oi
Heidelberg, will visit Salem e -
nesday, December 16.
Miss Geilenberg is touring
United States as a German
Se leader and is visiting Girl
Scout troops in this area.
While on campus, Miss
berg will attend assembly and a re
ligion 335 class.
By Nanci Bragg I
During assembly Monday the
May Day Committee presented the
May Court nominees for the stu
dent body’s final decision on the
May Queen, Maid of Honor, and
the three representatives from each
class. Marcia Black, before an
nouncing each nominee, stressed
that the girls chosen would be “our 1
representatives on our May Court;
therefore, “pick for beauty.” Each
individual exercised her subjective
objectivity and picked for beauty.
Homer would be pleased with the
results. Homer was a new farm
hand on the Townsend cattle farm
in Manquin, Virginia, who asked,
“Mr. Guy, may I have a look at
Miss Sally?” It seems “Mr. Guy’s”
daughter had a reputation for
beauty before Salem acknowledged
it with the title May Queen. Apart
from admiration at home, Sally was
chosen May Court Maid of Honor
during her senior year at St. Mar
garet’s Prep School.
Sally a sociology major who,
after graduation this spring, has
definite plans for the future, but
1 refuses to disclose them—for publi
cation. However, she does admit
her favorite pasttime is weekend
trips to Randolph-Macon.
Lou Scales, a senior from Rock
ingham, was elected Maid of Honor.
A blond with blue-green eyes and
the proverbial “peaches and cream
complexion, Lou has been on May
Court since her freshman year. Last
spring she was chosen KA Rose.
Also a sociology major, Lou plans
to combine social work and mar
riage after graduation.
The representatives from May
Court from the senior class are
Louise Adams, of Jacksonville, Fla.;
Beverly Wollny of Westfield, N. J.,
and Evelyn Vincent, of Danville,
Va. The junior class representa
tives include Carolyn McLeod of
Durham, Jette Seear of Gastonia,
and Sally Wood of Smithfield. The
three sophomores chosen are Dot
Grayson of Charlotte, Ida Mae Jen
nings of Statesville, and Vicky Van
Liere of High Point. The fresh
man class will be represented by
Gay Austin of Jacksonville, Fla.,
Suzanne Drake of Richmond, Va.,
! and Anita Hatcher of Fayetteville.