A
■ i
'I
I
'■'i
■I
m
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, December 2,
Students Elect Twelve I961 May Court Representatives
Formal dresses replaced the usual
skirts and sweaters, loafers and
socks in chapel Tuesday as the girls
nominated for May Court were pre
sented to the student body for vot
ing. The list of fifty girls had to
be narrowed down to twelve, and
the choosing brought grimaces and
faces twisted in thinking and trying
to recall who was who. But finally
all the votes were cast and the May
Court became more than just a
“maybe she’ll get it . . or “I hope
she gets it . . .”
The May Court this year consists
of three girls from each of the four
classes. One of the representatives
of the senior class is Sally Wood.
This is Sally’s fourth year on the
May Court. She’s also been a fea
ture girl in the Sights and Insights,
chairman of the Judicial Board,
secretary of the student body, a
member of Phi Alpha Theta, and a
member of the Scorpion. Sally is
a history major from Smithfield.
This is Carolyn McLoud’s fourth
year as a representative for the
class of 1961. Carolyn is in the
midst of practice teaching, but she
still has time to carry out her
duties as Vice-President of the
I. R. S. and to keep up her work
in English, her major. Carolyn has
served as Chief Marshal and as a
member of the I. R. S. Council.
She’s from Elon College.
Making her first appearance on
the May Court is Barbara Edwards.
Barbara is probably best known as
President of the I- R- S. She also
served as president of the class of
1961 during her junior year, as a
member of the Legislative Board,
as a junior marshal, and as a mem
ber of S. N. E. A. Barbara is from
Charlotte and is majoring in Art.
From the junior class. Dot Gray
son is the only girl who has served
on the May Court in previous years.
Dot, like Barbara, is from Char
lotte. She has been a member of
the I. R. S. Council and was secre
tary of her sophomore class. Dot
is majoring in English. She hopes
to get a job with the American Stu
dent Information Service in Europe
this coming summer.
Agnes Smith, from Richmond,
Virginia, is Vice-President of her
class and Assistant Business Man
ager of the Sights and Insights. She
has worked with the I. R. S. Coun
cil and the W. R. A. Council and
is the junior class representative to
the Judicial Board. Agnes is an
Art major and hopes to do work in
that field after graduation.
From Greensboro comes Anna
Transou. Anna is majoring in eco
nomics, sociology and plans to
spend this coming summer in Eu-
The Salem College May Court for 1960-61: Pam Truett, Sally Wood, Carolyn McLoud, Anita Hatcher,
Anna Transou, Martha Tallman, Lynn Boyett, Diane Fuller, standing, and Agnes Smith, Barbara Edwards,
Dot Grayson, and Anne Dudley, seated.
WRA Initiates Tennis Interest
Through A Traveling Team
This year a tennis club has been
formed on Salem campus. The idea
began last spring and was com
pleted this fall when the club was
organized as a part of the WRA.
Membership is open to any Salem-
ite who is interested in playing ten
nis. The purpose of the club is to
stimulate interest in tennis here at
Salem and to provide an organi
zation for any student who wishes
to play.
The tennis club’s first meet was
with the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill. Salem won
two doubles matches, losing one
doubles match and one singles
match. They hope to play Wake
Forest in the near future. The
major actions of the club will be
during the spring season when
matches will be arranged between
other colleges in the state.
Susan Ray Kuykendall is serving
as president of the newly formed
tennis club. Other members in
clude : Susan Ellison, Bonnie Bean
Riki Eikendall, Jackie Lamond,
Page Bradham, and Sue Smith. Any
interested student is urged to join
the club.
rope. At the present she is serving
as Advertising Manager from the
junior class for the Sight* and In
sights.
Anita Hatcher said that she
thought the girl who called to tell
her she’d won had dialed the wrong
number. Anita is a sophomore and
is majoring in home economics. She
wants to break into the world of
fashion designing. She says that as
a member of Dansalems she is busy
practicing for the recital. Last year
she was a member of the May
Court and was runner-np for the
title of Miss Winston-Salem. Anita
is from Fayetteville.
Another of the sophomore at
tendants is Lynn Boyette. Lynn is
from Smithfield, where she was
Homecoming Queen her senior year
in high school. She plans to trans
fer to the University of North
Carolina where she will major in
elementary education. She is serv
ing on the I. R. S. Council this
year.
From Augusta, Georgia, Martha
Tallman is the most Southern of
our beauties and was voted “Best
Looking” in her high school senior
class. A new member of Dan
salems, Martha is planning to major
in English and hopes to work in the
field of public relations when she
graduates.
The class of 1964 is represented
by Anne Dudley, Diane Fuller, and
Pamela Truette. Anne is from
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and
plans to major in English. She says
she has always wanted to be a
proofreader for a . publishing firm.
As for her activities at Salem, she
says she is studying and having a
good time. “I didn’t believe it . . .”
was her reaction to the news that
she had been elected to the May
Court. Anne was May Queen at
the prep school she attended in
Chattanooga.
Diane Fuller is from Kinston, but
she’s known around Salem as “the
girl who looks like Alice in Won
derland.” Creative writing is the
career she looks forward to; and
she plans to major in history and
minor in English. She is a member
of Dansalems and the Humanities
Club, but she says “I’m interested
in everything . . .” She’d love to
get a job anywhere outside the
United States this summer.
Pamela Truette, from Albemarle,
makes the twelfth attendant. Pam,
as her friends call her, is quite in
terested in becoming a high school
teacher; but she isn’t sure what
her major will be. She says that
she loves to dance and hopes to
join Dansalems second semester.
She didn’t join first semester, be
cause “I wanted to ‘adjust.’ ”
Novelist Sarton Appears As Rondthaler Lecturer
Noted poet and novelist. May
Sarton, will visit Salem as the
Rondthaler Lecturer December 8
and 9. Her topic in chapel on
Thursday will be “The Holy Game .
Although Miss Sarton was born
near Ghent, Belgium in 1912, she
and her family were refugees of j
World War I and made their home |
in Cambridge, Massachusetts after
1920. She is the daughter of the |
late George Sarton, distinguished
Historian of Science at Harvard ,
and the Carnegie Institute. ^ ,
Miss Sarton acquired her lasting
passion for poetry while in elemen
tary school. The Shady Hill School,
in Cambridge. She attended high
school at Cambridge High and
Latin. After graduating, she
thought the theatre was to be her
life; and instead of going to col- |
lege, she became an apprentice at
Eva La Gallienne’s Civic Repertory
Theatre in New York, Later she
was a member of the company and
director of a student group.
Since 1936 she has devoted her
self exclusively to writing and lec
turing. She has lectured exten
sively all over the United States.
She was Briggs-Copeland Instruc
tor at Harvard for three years and
has participated in the Breadloaf
and Boulder Writers Conferences.
She has been a poet in residence
at Southern Illinois University and
a script writer for OWI educational
films used overseas during the war.
She taught Short Story in Radcliffe
Seminars and is now a lecturer in
Creative Writing at Wellesley Col
lege.
A few of her many honors in
clude : the Reynolds Lyric Award
from the Poetry Society of America
in 1953, a Lucy Martin Donnelly
Fellowship at Bryn Mawr for 1953-
54, a Guggenheim Fellowship in
Poetry for 1954-55, and Phi Beta
Kappa Visiting Scholar in. 1958.
Her poetry is mainly lyrical; and
among her poetic works are Inner
Landscape, The Land of Silence,
and In Time Like Air. She would
have written in French if she had
stayed in Belgium, but she is glad
she was brought up on English be
cause she is convinced “English is
the best language for poetry in the
world.”
Miss Sarton’s novels include The
Bridge of Years, Shadow of a Man,
Faithful Are the Wounds, and The
Fur Person. Her autobiography, I
Knew A Phoenix, was published in
articles published in the New
Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, and The
Reporter.
Concerning her career. Miss Sar
ton says, “I believe that poetry and
novels are a good combination.
Poetry comes in spurts whereas
after the initial imaginative cre
ation, a novel can and perhaps must
be written day after day on a very
regular schedule.” The backgrounds
of her novels have been laid in
both Europe, where her roots are,
and America, where her heart is.
Faithful Are the Wounds was her
first novel with an American back
ground. It was published in 1955
and dealt with the suicide of an
idealistic Harvard professor of
English Literature.
All students will have an oppor
tunity to hear Miss Sarton in
chapel. She will also speak to a
combined meeting of Humanities,
IRC, and Phi Alpha Theta Thurs
day night in the Day Student Cen
ter at 6:30. Friday morning she
will speak on “Uses of Memory in
Writing” in Miss Byrd’s Advanced
Miss Sarton
1959. She has had short stories and Composition class.
Ring Committee
Selects Design
Of Oval Onyx
Class rings for Salemites are in
the planning stages. The idea is
under consideration by certain
school organizations.
The idea of a class ring was
begun by the sophomore class as
one of its projects. Rooney Nelson
and Clarissa Joyce were named co-
chairmen of the ring committee
with representatives from the
senior class, Margie Foyles; junior
class, Lynn Robertson; sophomore,
class, Anne West and Jane Kelly;
and freshman class. Berry Thomp
son helping in the selection of the
design and in taking care of the
minute details.
According to the tentative plans
accredited sophomores may be al
lowed to order rings in the first
of their sophomore year and get
them around January.
A gold ring with an oval onyx
was decided on by the committee
to present to the student body. The
ring will have the person’s name
and year of her class engraved in
side with the school crest impressed
into the stone and perfectly plain
sides. The cost of the ring will be
approximately 20-25 dollars.
Yellow gold and white gold is
being investigated as a choice for
the buyer by the committee as well
as little finger rings and regular
rings.
This year rings will arrive on
campus in May. The committee
hopes to take orders for them be
fore Christmas at which time a five
dollar deposit must be made.
The ring committee tried to look
into all possibilities and to satisfy
the majority of people; they are
enthusiastic about the rings and
hope the students will support the
project.