May 6, I960
THE SALEMITE
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May Queen And Maid Of Honor Will Grace Salem Dell
Sally Townsend Reigns As
Salem’s 1960 May Queen
Saturday, lovely Sally Town
send, Salem’s 1960 May Queen,
will carry on well the tradition
as our May Queen. She is
five feet five inches and weighs
122 pounds. She has soft
brown eyes and wavy black
hair, adding to the freshness
and loveliness of our petit May
Queen.
Sally has an older brother
and younger sister and lives
with her family on a dairy cat
tle farm in Manquin, Virginia,
northeast of Richmond. For
the first nine years of her edu
cation, she attended a county
school and then attended prep
school at St. Margaret’s School
in Tappahannock, Virginia.
While at St. Margaret’s, Sally
was Maid of Honor in the May
Day ceremonies there. On
graduating from prep school,
Sally’s parents gave her a trip
to Europe. Her travel was
concentrated in the Scandinav
ian countries, and while there,
she lived in a doctor’s home in
Norway. Sally says that this
experience has influenced
greatly her desire to enter so
cial work.
Her days at Salem have been
spent studying, playing bridge,
dating, acting as stage man
ager and director of several
Pierrette plays. In her sopho
more year, she presented a one
act play entitled “Green Pas
tures”. Sally was also a mar
shal during her junior year. At
present, she is doing field work
at the Children’s Clinic in Win
ston-Salem. The other day, a
little child asked Sally about
the diamond on her hand. Sally
carefully explained that it is
an engagement ring, and that
she plans to be married. The
little girl said, “You’re not old
enough to get married. You’re
only a baby.” Another child
piped in with, “No she’s not,
she’s at least twenty-six years
old.” So you see, Sally’s work
is very rewarding.
When asked what she liked
most to do, Sally immediately
replied that she just loves to
go to the Steak House, using
such things as a good test
grade as an excuse that merits
reward. Since she received her
little green Opal for gradua
tion, she goes even more often
to the Steak House and takes
frequent trips to Richmond.
On graduating from Salem,
Sally lias some very exciting
plans to fulfill. Sometime in
the early fall, she will become
the wife of Jack Hart, now at
tending R a n d 0 1 p h-Macon.
After they are married. Jack
will attend law school at the
University of Richmond, and
Sally will be employed as a
social worker. She will be do
ing child welfare work either
in a county near Richmond or
in Richmond itself.
When asked what her re
action is to being Salem s
Queen of the May, Sally said,
“It is all very exciting, and I
feel like a bride with all the
attention I am receiving.”
Sally Townsend—Manquin, Va.
Lou Scales Will Represent Salem As
Maid Of Honor In Festivities Today
t . iimiciiQl alth6u^^h there s
By Peggy Brown
I finally cornered the attractive
blond from Rockingham, North
Carolina, who, for a person who
says she never does very much of
anything, is pretty hard to locate.
She stretched out on the bed in the
room in Lehman which she shares
with Helen London, and braced her
self to answer my barrage of ques
tions.
She is, as far as academic matters
are concerned, a senior majoring m
Sociology and Economics, and
minoring in English. She attended
Rockingham Senior High School
and, for her last two years, Salem
Academy. She says that after hav
ing spent this much time on the
campus, she definitely did not want
to come to Salem! But she heard
the girls who went here speak so
highly of it, that she finally made
THE decision—she says now, the
right decision.
After six years, (almost) on the
premises of this establishment, she
ought to be an authority, so I put
forward a few general questions
about things often discussed, both
off and on campus. When I asked
what she liked most about Salem,
she replied without hesitation, the
girls . . . and also the faculty”. As
for what she dislikes most about
Salem, she says there’s nothing she
just violently dislikes-there’s lots
of little things like rules, but we
have to have them so we just sort
of make the best of them.
Suddenly recalling that I was get
ting this interview for a special
purpose, I asked what her reaction
was to having been elected Maid
of Honor for May Day. “Oh my
fathers!” was her first reaction,
then-after a little contemplation-
she decided that she had of course,
been “real thrilled” and kinda
shocked”.
Then I popped up with a question
which I considered unique, and got
^^hat I think is a most sensible
answer. Lou roomed with Nancy
Gwaltney her first three years, unti
Nancy transferred to Bowman Gray
to complete her degree in Med
Tech. I asked whether Lou thought
it was a usual procedure for girls
who room together freshman year
to remain together throughout col
lege (barring ^ transfers and the
like).
She replied that it was most
unusual, although there are rarely
cases of freshmen roommates who
are violent enemies. Guess the ex
citement and newness of it all
binds freshmen together.
Finally I asked the routine, age-
old question: what about the food.
Pretty good, Lou conceded, but
after six years, it gets “pretty
monotonous”. She admits she’s
“ready for a change”, and from all
I hear, it could be to her own cook
ing. There’s a certain KA at Wake
Forest named Wallace (“Wally )
Freeman from Greensboro who just
may have a wife named Lou, come
the end of this summer. Lou says
she “just kinda knew him, and when
she got him a date with a friend
in her sophomore year, he asked
her out the very next night. Lou
'will work as a case worker for the
welfare department in whatever city
she is ill this summer.
And so we have the past, present,
and FUTURE of a Salemite, ex
cept one little item. This former
KA Rose Queen will be our Maid
of Honor for May Day, 1960, at
tending Sally Townsend, our May
Queen. Wally will be proud, Lou,
and so will we!
Lou Scales—Rockingham,
. C.