Volume XLI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 21, 1960
Number 5
Office Issues
Important
Announcement
HYGIENE EXAM
The Hygiene exam will be held
November 14 at 3 :45 p.m. Persons
interested in taking the exam at
this time must sign up in the Re
corder’s Office by November 7. A
bibliography is available in the Re
corder’s Office for preparation.
Students will be tested on their
knowledge of these outside reading
requirements. Students must pass
this exam before entering their
senior year.
FORMAL INSPECTION
The formal inspection of the ad
dition of the Science Building was
held Tuesday, October 18. Mem
bers of the Board of Trustees,
Administration, Faculty, Contrac
tors, and Architects comprise the
inspection group which decides if
the building meets the require
ments and shall be accepted.
gramley travels
Dr. Gramley will travel to
Greensboro, Reidsville, and sur
rounding areas to solicit funds for
the North Carolina Foundation of
Church-Related Colleges. This or
ganization, comprised of 25 member
schools, receives funds from busi
ness and industry for operating ex
penses of the schools. Last year
Salem received approximately
$12,000 from the campaign.
STEERING COMMITTEE
The Steering Committee of the
Salem Self-Evaluation Study Pro
gram will meet Monday, Oct. 24,
to review the results of the study
and plan new objectives. Dr. Gram-
ley is chairman of the committee.
TRUSTEES
The Board of Trustees will hold
the fall meeting on Thursday,
October 27. After the meeting they
will eat in the Club dining room
with the Administration and mem
bers of the faculty from the Aca
demy and College.
FRESHMAN TEST
During the week of October 24
the freshman will participate in the
California Personality Test, accord
ing to the Office of the Dean of
Students. Further information will
be announced later.
CLASS MEETINGS
Class meetings will be held dur
ing assembly on October 27. The
freshman class will discuss projects
for the year.
Dr. Hixson will talk to the sopho
more class about academic matters.
She will answer questions about
majors, minors, teaching certifi
cates, summer school, and foreign
study. Plans for after graduation,
graduate school, and the Graduate
Recommendations Record Exami
nation, and professions will be dis
cussed.
The junior class plans to con
tinue discussion of class projects.
Tree planting and speakers for |
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No Exit” Staff Prepares For Opening Night
Sue Randak, kneeling, is watching Catherine Eller, Ann Davidson, Peg
gy Brown, and Louisa Freeman sort costumes as they work on the play.
Faculty Advisory Board
Makes Petition Decisions
The Faculty Adyisory Board met
with the Executive Council of Stu
dent Government on Thursday, Oc
tober 13, to discuss several issues.
Final action was taken on two
petitions.
The petition to extend the time
to go off campus in the evening to
obtain food was granted. Students
may now leave campus for 45 min
utes to obtain food after 7:30 with
out it counting as an evening en
gagement.
This extension, however, does not
change the meaning of the rule.
As now stated, this applies only to
“ . . . absence from campus to get
food in groups of at least three
girls.” It does not mean, and
should not be interpreted to mean,
that a student and her date are
permitted this time in the evenings
to go off campus for food. A stu
dent’s date might chauffeur three
or more girls off campus to secure
food, but a girl and her date may
not go alone without it counting
as an evening engagement.
The freshman class also pre
sented, a petition to be allowed
three ‘‘Parents’ Nights” before mid
semester. These parents’ nights
would be to allow the freshmen to
have dinner with parents visiting in
Winston-Salem. This petition was
denied for the following reasons:
1) Most parents who visit their
daughters do so on weekends, when
present rules provide adequate free
time for this purpose. ,
2) Present rules permit oppor
tunity for dinner off-campus^ with
parents — until 7:30 p.m.—without
requiring a free evening engage
ment.
3) Mothers who might visit dur
daughters can locate empty beds.
4) It has always been possible to
petition Student Government for
special free time in event parents
from a distant state plan to stop
by at Salem . . . There have been
only two such cases as far back
as the records reveal.
5) To permit the proposed three
extra evening engagements in order
to be hospitable to parents 'could
promote excessive visitation by
parents who live nearby and might
not really be a service to the out-
of-state freshmen about whom the
class seems so concerned.
6) Too much visiting by parents
too early in the freshman year is
not necessarily a good thing for
either the freshmen or the parents
if both are to adjust to the fact
that a “change has taken place.”
graduation and baccalaureate form
the agenda for the seniors.
ing the week may be accommodated
in the dormitory if enterprising
Library Open
Sunday Nights
Beginning October 23rd, the Col
lege Library will be open, on a
trial basis, Sunday evenings from
7-40 p.m.
To assure students that Reserve
books will be in the Library and
available, new weekend regulations
concerning their circulation are
necessary.
Books taken out Saturday at 4:30
p.m. will be due Sunday 2 p.m.
Books taken out Sunday at 4:30
p.m. will be due Sunday 7 p.m.
Books taken out Sunday at 9:30
p.m. will be due Monday 9 a.m.
As soon as it is convenient, a
Return book slot will be cut in the
front door and books may be re
turned when the Library is closed.
Home Economic Girls Observe Child
Development In Baptist Day School
Have you noticed someone in
your dorm signing out for Nursery
School and wondered if she were
regressing? Chances are, if you
ask her, you’ll find she knows a
great deal about the child
two to six—and a great deal more
about why she is the way she is.
For two hours every week members
of the Child Development class
(Home Ec. 260) have been observ
ing at Salem Baptist Day School.
Through the observations, the
girls put into practice the theories
they learn in the lectures. Each
girl observes two special children
which she has selected, watches
them as they play, listen to a story,
from ' and eat lunch, and keeps anecdotal
records to use in class in order to
analyze various reactions of the
children to their own feelings, their
physical world, and to other p'eople
in relationship to their physical,
social, emotional, and mental skills.
Mrs. Faye Honeycutt, instructor
of Child Development, purposes
that the observations provide a bet
ter understanding of the child from
one to six years of age, makes the
students’ social contacts with small
children easier and more rewarding,
and will help the girls when they
become mothers (or aunts) in living
with the young child and guiding
him wisely. The students them
selves have already found out that
by interpreting behavior accurately
they have learned to understand
more about their own actions.
Despite inconvenient rehearsals,
amusing but disrupting incidents,
and tedious work on characteriza
tion, Miss Battle and cast members
“grin and bear it”. The play must
go on, and it won’t be until after
opening night that cast and staff
decide that every frantic minute
was well worth it. Salemites can
agree with them after “No Exit”
is presented in Old Chapel Novem
ber 16 and 17.
“The play must go on” also has
a familiar ring for the production
staff, and the staff is already mak
ing preparations for “No Exit”.
When Linda Bashford, stage man
ager, is not pulling curtains, check
ing lights, and trying to remember
not to light a cigarette, she and
Peggy Brown, assistant director,
are working industriously over
combined blocking cues. For you
lliterates, that refers to the place
ment of the actors on the stage.
Betsy Hicks, publicity head,
spends afternoons and evenings in
the art lab madly painting shocking
Make Correct
Announcement
All students are reminded to fol
low the procedure for making an
nouncements in chapel. Any per
son desiring to make an announce
ment should:
1) Fill out a card and give it to
the chief marshal. The card may
state the announcement which the
presiding chairman will read, or it
may state the name of the person
and/or the organization who is
making the announcement.
2) .Sit on the front row nearest
the stage and microphone.
3) Make announcements which
only concern large portions of the
student body. Announcements con
cerning small groups, or council
meetings, or meetings not open to
the entire student body should be
posted on the Refectory bulletin
board or the Student Union bulletin
board.
4) Announcements should be brief
and to the point—this is especially
important when there are guest
speakers present.
Wallace Speaks
To Scientists
The 85th meeting of the Central
North Carolina Section of the
American Chemical Society will be
held at Salem College on Friday,
October 21, at 8:00 p.m. The
speaker will be Dr. Richard M.
Wallace from the Savannah River
Atomic Energy Plant.
The Central North Carolina Sec
tion consists of the five counties in
piedmont North Carolina. Repre
sentatives from Winston-Salem,
Burlington, High Point, and
Greensboro will be present.
Science majors will serve as
guides for the repreSentatives dur
ing the meeting. In addition to the
address by Dr. Wallace, there will
be a tour of the new addition to
the Science Building, which is now
completed and is in the final stages
of being equipped. All science
majors and interested persons are
cordially invited to come hear Dr.
Wallace speak.
pink posters while eating hard-
boiled, eggs. Her first masterpiece
was posted in the Little Theater
at the opening of “The Frist Lady”,
and Miss Battle wants all twenty-
two finished sometime soon !
Johanna Johnson and the scenery
committee are busy constructing, as
well as trying their hands at sus
pending, their scenery. The stage
design for “No Exit” is basically
constructivistic — in such a design
only the outlines of the set are con
structed. The idea of the stage de
sign is impressionistic. In other
words, the scenery as well as the
color scheme will be used to aid
in evoking the mood of the play.
Two stage extensions also form
parts of the set design.
The house committee, headed by
Lucy Lane, is considering a unique
seating arrangement that will be a
“first” in plays at Salem. Other
hard-working department heads on
the production Staff are: costuming
—^Sybrilla Caudle, lighting — Ann
Saunders, make-up—Betty Cox and
Joy Robinson, programs — Sally
Beverly, properties — Liz Wilson,
sound—Marji Jammer, and ward
robe—Mary Oettinger. These girls
(and the girls in the theater
course!) will appreciate the help o
any interested students.
Artists Exhibit
Their Displays
In Main Hall
The new art show, put up by
Mr. Shewmake last weekend, shows
that abstract expressionism, often
linked with the New York school,
is not applicable only to the New
York school. The quality of this
style is illustrated in the paintings
of Michelangelo, Cimabue, Brazil’s
Mabe, and Clifford Still, a San
Fransican who is a leader of ab
stract expressionism.
The works of the artists closely
associated with the New York
school are shown in reproduction
in Main Hall. These works illus
trate many of the stylistic char
acteristics which are similar to the
features of the artists’ works which
are shown by the courtesy of the
Winston-Salem Gallery of Fine
Arts. These artists are from five
states — North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and
Tennessee. Their works are pre
sented in the stairway of Main
Hall and in the Music Hall.
Mr. Shewmake points out that
the question of origin is not seri
ously important because most of
the most celebrated artists of the
past were working in a framework
invented by lesser known artists or
by the cultural patterns. This is
illustrated in Main Hall.
Mr. Shewmake also points out
that the art show is designed to
illustrate the international rather
than the regional quality of the
style known as abstract expression
ism. He successfully does this by
showing similarities of quality of
earlier artists, artists associated
with the New York School, and
regional artists’ works. Thus, the
New York School should not be the
only link to abstract expressionism.