Volume XL
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 18, 1960
Number 18
Geraldine Mcliroy Gives
Voice Recital March 25
Geraldine Mcliroy, student of
Paul Peterson, will present the first
graduating music recital of the year
on Friday, March 25, at 8.30 p.m.
Geraldine Mcliroy
the “Frauenliebe und Leben” by
Schumann. Her program also in
cludes selections from Handel, Vi
valdi, and Vaughn-Williams.
Gerrie has studied with Mr.
Peterson for six years. She spent
the summer before becoming a day
student at Salem in Brevard at the
Transylvania Music Camp. The
next two summers she was a mem
ber of the choir in the cast of the
Lost Colony. The past summer,
Gerrie participated in the Berk
shire’Music Festival at Tanglewood,
Mass.
She is now a soloist at the First
Presbyterian Church in Winston-
Salem. During her junior year, she
was soloist at the First Presby
terian Church in Greensboro.
Gerrie will audition at The Curtis
Institute of Music in Philadelphia
on April 22. She plans to study
I for an Artist’s Degree, the equi-
Dr. Gokhale To
Teach Asian
Studies Course
Dr. Balkrishma Govind Gokhale
will teach Asian studies courses on
the campuses of Salem, Wake
Forest and Winston-Salem Teach
ers College next year, providing an
opportunity for students to reach
a clearer understanding of East-
West problems confronting the
world today.
Gerrie, a mezzo-soprano, will sing 1 valent of a Master’s degree.
Office Announces Several
ew Courses For 1960-61
The list of courses for the 1960-61
s|mesters will be posted by the first
of next week. Preliminary regis
tration will begin April 21, so stu
dents should check up on the
courses they need and want to take
as well as check for new courses
being offered next year.
The Home Economics Depart
ment is offering senior seminar for
the first time. It will be given as
a two hour course in the second
semester, and girls majoring in
li^me economics will be required to
take comprehensive examinations.
J^jNext year seminars will be of-
tored as the department decides—
either as it is presently with one
hour each semester of the senior
yjfar or as a two hour course given
one semester. Students should find
out how their seminars are to be
given so they
sdhedules.
(several
can arrange
their
new
courses are being
offered next semester with four of
them in Mathematics and Philo
sophy. The mathematics depart
ment is dropping finite math and
theory of equations and offering in
their place Mathematics 221 which
is jlntroductory Linear Algebra and
Mathematics 222 which is Algebra
and Theory of Equations (3).
fThe first course is a study of
vector and vector spaces, matrices,
rank and systems of linear equation,
t^nsformations of coordinates and
linear transformations in vector
spaces Over a complex field. The
prerequisite is Math 104 and per-
mi.ssion of the department. The
second course is a study of inte
gers ; rational, real, and complex
numbers; elementary theory of
group, rings, integral domains, and
fields; polynomials, matrices, and
determinants. The prerequisite is
Math 207 or permission of the de
partment.
The Philosophy and Religion de
partment is adding a new professor
to their staff as well as two new
courses in philosophy which are
Logic (3) and Ethics (3).
Logic is a study of the principles
of clear and rigorous thinking.
There are three emphasis; the na
ture of meaning; strict deductive
logic; and inductive logic and the
problems which it presents. The
emphasis is on principles and dis
tinctions that are useful in ordinary
reading and writing. Ethics is a
consideration of the most important
ethical systems of the past. Atten
tion is paid to systematic differ
ences in types of theories, and an
examination is made of representa
tive problems in modern ethical
theory.
The teacher education program
for next year will be similar to this
year except the secondary teachers
will spread their student teaching
over a 7 week period and will teach
bnly until noon with no full days
of teaching. The elementary stu
dent teachers will teach 6 weeks
until noon and then only 1 week of
teaching all day instead of two as
it was this year. The accelerated
courses in methods will continue
^ith the methods and practice
teaching being done in the same
semester. In 1961-62, however, it
is very likely that these courses
will be offered separately with the
methods course being taugh
Born in 1919 in Dworka, Bombay
State, India, Dr. Gokhale was edu
cated at St. Xavier’s College in
Bombay and the University of Bom
bay where he received his BA, MA
and Ph. D. degrees. Dr. Gokhale
taught at St. Xavier’s and served as
visiting professor at Bowdoin Col
lege and Oberlin College in this
country.
From 1956 to 1959 he was Pro
fessor of History and Indian Cul
ture at Siddharth College, Bombay,
and was chairman of this depart
ment. At the present, he is Visit
ing Professor at the University of
Washington in Seattle,
Dr. Gokhale is the author of four
books: The Story of Ancient India
(1947), Buddhism and Asoka (1949),
Ancient India, History and Culture
(1952), and The Making of the In
dian Nation (1958). He has also
written over eighty papers and arti
cles for periodicals in India, the
United Kingdom, and the United
States,
In December, Dr. Gokhale visited
Salem and spoke to the United
States and Foreign Affairs class,
and the favorable opinions of the
students who heard him combined
with his academic qualifications and
the fact that he has two daughters
indicate he will be a valuable asset
to our campus.
Ligon And Huss Will Fill
Major Stee Gee Offices
Salem’s elections have been in I gard to her new office Alice says,
full swing this week as students “I realize the responsibility the stu-
chose a new slate of officers to!
lead our student body in 1960-61.
Lynn Ligon, vice president-elect
of Student Government is a rising
senior majoring in home economics.
For the past six weeks she has
been living in the home manage- .
ment house on campus. Lynn is!
considering graduate work on grad- j
nation from Salem, but so far she I
hasn’t made any definite decisions.
This summer, she plans to be a
counselor at Camp Sea Gull. Lynn
says that she is' enthusiastic about
her new office and looking forward
to working on the Legislative
Board, as it will be a new ex
perience for her.
Alice Huss, a rising, junior,
elected treasurer of the student
body this week, also plans to be
a counselor at Camp Sea Gull for
several weeks this summer. After
graduation from Salem, she hopes
to teach the second grade. In re-
Lynn Ligon
dent body has placed in my hands.
I hope I can uphold this responsi-
bilitv.”
Salemite Editor Nuckols
Makes Plan For Next Year
By Becky Boswell
Enthusiasm ... a familiar word
. . . coupled with hard work ... a
not too famiiar commodity . . .
This is the formula that Mary Lu
Nuckols plans to use in her new
position as Salemite editor.
“Unity among the staff is one of
the most needed things ' on the
paper,” Mary Lu feels. “We must
create a united staff so that when
a member hears about potential
news, her first thought should be
that the Salemite can use it. The
70, no. 1
Summer School
Credit Changes
In an effort to raise academic
standards of Salem, the changes in
the summer school program now re
quire that the quality point average
of 2.0 necessary for graduation be
earned at Salem.
Under the new system grades
made in summer school will tiot be
counted in awarding honors. No
quality points earned in sumrner
school will count toward the quality
point ratio which is necessary for
graduation. Work done in summer
school will still count toward classi
fication as has been the policy m
the past. Students register for
summer school at the same time of
preliminary registration.
Trio Will Give
Benefit Monday
The Salem College Trio will pre
sent a benefit concert Monday
night, March 21, for the M
Jones Scholarship Fund.
The Trio consisting of Eugene
Tacobowsky, violinist; Charles Med-
lin cellist; and Hans Heidmann,
pianist will begin its program at
8:30 in Memorial Hall.
Selections for the concert include
Beethoven’s Trio in D Major, opus
and Brahms Trio in A
Mary Lu Nuckols
writers must be made to feel that
they are an important part of the
staff, since without them the paper
cannot be published. Their names
will appear on the masthead.
‘This campus suffers from a lack
of communication between various
roups. One way that this situation
can be remedied is to make the
clubs aware that their greatest
source of informing the student
body is the newspaper. If the clubs
will get their information in a week
ahead of time, then the job of an
nouncing speakers and meetings of
interest will be nearly solved. More
interest would be shown in activities
if the student body were completely
,aware of them.”
“One of my goals is to create a
greater interest in the paper, with
out turning it into a four-page gos
sip column,” continued Mary Lu.
“I think that this can be done by
a more complete and accurate
coverage of all activities outside the
ivy-covered walls.”
/ “College students in general and,
our jchief concern, Salem students,
must be made aware that something
is going on other than term papers,
quizzes, and Saturday nights,” she
emphasized. “With a greater in
terest in notable speakers and in
more than required reading, I think
this awareness would come about.
We can build from “Beyond the
Square” to a more thorough inter
pretation of more world news—the
students should therefore develop
more awareness and more interest.
“Back to concrete improvements,
we will have more streamlined
make-up on the theory that if a
page is open, without column rules,
then it will draw the reader s at
tention outward to greater interpre
tation. We also hope to have book
reviews on current books.
“In general, we must build on
what the present staff, under Susan
Foard, has done,” concluded the new
editor.
Mary Lu has been news editor
for the past year. Previously she
was Stee Gee reporter, and worked
at the Sun office where the paper
is printed.
History Society
Sponsors Panel
In Chapel Mon.
The Phi Alpha Theta Honorary
History Society will sponsor a panel
discussion in assembly Monday. The
discussion will be based on The
Changing Values in College by
Philip E. Jacobs. Student panel
members are Susan Foard, Sally
Wood, Lina Farr, Caroline Easley,
Sarah Tesch, and Mary Lu Nuckols.
Dr. Inzer Byers will be moderator.