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Volume XLII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 20, 1961
Number 5
Snow And Lanchester Appear On Salem Lecture Series
Salem Establishes Civil Defense
Program For Fall-Out Protection
Mr. Jack White explained
Salem’s new “Civilian Defense”
program to students in assembly on
Thursday, October 19. The pro
cedure will protect students, staff,
and faculty—not from a bomb in
case one should fall on Winston-
Salem, but from fall-out that would
come to Salem from nearby
bombed areas.
The two best protectors from
Music Faculty
Give Recitals
Mr. Charles Medlin and Mr.
Hans Heidemann will perform the
second of the two recitals present
ing the cello and piano works of
Beethoven on October 23, in Me
morial Hall at 8:30 p.m. This will
be the second recital in the 1961
Faculty Series to be presented at
Salem College.
The performance Monday night
will include two of Beethoven’s
sonatas: Sonata No. 2 in G Minor,
and Sonata No. 5 in D Major.
These will reveal two stages of the
composer’s musical development—
his early and his late periods. The
first reflects the youthful composer
“reaching far beyond his grasp,”
while the second reflects a much
more austere and brusque theme.
The third number which Mr. Med
lin and Mr. Heidemann will per
form is Beethoven’s Seven Vari
ations on Duet from Mozart’s The
Magic Flute.
The first performance was given
on October 9. One person com
mented on Mr. Heidemann’s piano
W'ork by saying, “I’m glad he’s
playing those difficult passages,
and not me.”
Mr. Bill Raper, a local cellist,
said that Mr. Medlin played “as
well as I’ve ever heard him. It
was a very smooth, very mellow
performance.”
“He was in top form” w’as the
comment about Mr. Medlin from
Mr. H. C. Ward of High Point.
Mr. Ward’s wife said, “No sound
of beauty could exceed what we
heard tonight.”
Ensemble Sings
At Fort Bragg
On Friday, October 27, the Cho
ral Ensemble will leave for Fort
Bragg, N. C., to present a concert
for the officers and the enlisted
men. The bus will leave Salem at
3:30 p.m., Friday afternoon, and
will arrive at Fort Bragg in time
for supper.
The program will be divided into
three parts: religious, light classi
cal, and popular. The first part
will include “Clap Your Hands”,
“My Lord, What A Mornin’ ”,
“Kyrie from Mass IV”, and “Glory
to Thee, My God, This Night.”
These numbers will be followed by
a violin duet by Jo Dunbar and
June Beck.
The next part of the program will
include “Doctor Foster”, “Home
Thoughts”, “Dearest Swallows”,
and “Roumanian Rhapsody."
The final part will include “I
Enjoy Being a Girl”, with Normie
Abercrombie as soloist; “Tonight”,
from West Side Story; “Wouldn’t
It Be Loverly”, sung by Mary
Jackson; and “The Year’s at the
Spring.”
radiation are distance and density.
Since a warning of enemy attack
would not permit time for evacu
ation to a safe distance, and since
students can’t walk around encased
in a box of lead, the best solution
is an underground enclosure with
density above and around the room.
The best shelters on campus are
rooms in Sisters, Babcock. Strong,
Corrin Refectory, science building,
gym, library, office building, Leh
man, Pfohl, Bitting, Home Man
agement House, and Main Hall.
These are rooms which have
masonry and thick wooden ceil
ings and windows which can be
sandbagged shut.
Legislative Board has appointed
a committee of students to work
with Mr. White and other faculty
and staff members. This commit
tee is composed of a representative
from each floor in the larger dorms
and one representative from each
of the smaller dorms. The girls
are divided into smaller groups to
work on individual aspects of the
program such as first aid kits and
the list of things each girl will
bring with her.
Mrs. Cummings and Mrs. York
and their staffs are working on
the transporting of food and water
to the shelters in the hour we will
have after enemy attack warnings.
There is'enough food stored in the
dining hall to be rationed to the
girls for the two-week period; the
problem comes in getting the food
to the dorms. The seven gallons
of water required per person will
come from water that may be
stored on campus and from the
hot water tanks.
Each student and each faculty
and staff member will be assigned
a shelter. Assignments will be
made by floors and dorms and each
girl, regardless of where she is at
the time of the warning, will re
turn to her shelter. Student mem
bers of the committee will be in
charge of the shelters.
Edgar Snow and Elsa Lanchester 1
will appear on the Salem College
Lecture Series on February 22,
1962, and March 13, 1962.
Edgar Snow, a veteran journalist,
has written ten books, four of
which have been book club choices
in the U. S. Best known is Red
Star Over China, a modern classic
consulted by students and histori
ans.
When Edgar Snow went to China
in 1960 representing Look magazine
and Random House publishers, he
was returning to a scene long
familiar to him. In 1928 during his
trip around the world, Edgar Snow
first saw China. Fascinated by that
ancient land and its civilization
seen under the assault of revo
lutionary change, he stayed in the
Far East for 13 years.
The story of Mr. Snow’s 26 years
as a roving foreign correspondent
is told in his recent autobiography.
Journey to the Beginning. During
his career he has worked for vari
ous newspapers; from 1949-1952 he
was a member of The Saturday
Evening Post Staff.
Elsa Lanchester, mistress of the
lively characterization and singer
of charming songs, has long been
a favorite both in England and the
United States. She has a genius
for sprightly, ribald mimicry and
sings delightful songs such- as
“Won’t You Buy My Sweet Bloom
ing Lavender”, “Our Threepenny
Hop”, and “When a Lard Has a
Piazza.”
Frehmen Elect New Representatives
The freshmen have elected their
representatives to the Legislative
Board and IRS. The two girls
chosen to serve on Legislative
Board are Sally Bacon and Karen
Kelly.
Sally, who is from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, attended Girls’ Prepara
tory School in Chattanooga. Dur
ing her senior year she was May
Queen, co-editor of the annual The
Kaleidoscope, and was a' merriber
of the National Honor Sqpiety.
Karen attended Lee High School
in Jacksonville, Florida, where she
was secretary of the Student Coun-
N. C. Symphony Selects
Troy Alternate Soloist
Tuesday, October 10, “Congratu
lations” was sung to Beth Troy,
who received a letter saying that
she is to be the alternate piano
soloist wdth the ■ North Carolina
Symphony. Beth auditioned before
judges on Saturday, October 7, in
the competition which is sponsored
every year by the North Carolina
Symphony. The winner of the con
test is featured as a soloist with
the Symphony during their Spring
Tour all over the state of North
Carolina, and the second-place win
ner is the alternate soloist. In this
competition for people ranging
from 17 to 35, Beth was the
youngest contestant. She played
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Schumann’s Concerto in A Minor,
Opus 54. Beth said no contestant
was allowed to hear the other con
testants perform. She described
her feelings as “a stomach full of
nerves.”
Beth started taking piano at the
age of four. She played with the
North Carolina Symphony when
she was 14, and in the same year
she won the Paderewski Medal
from the National Guild of Piano
Teachers. This award is presented
on the basis of successful perform
ance of the pieces played from
memory over a ten year period.
Beth has also placed “superior” in
the North Carolina State music
contest for several years.
At Salem, Beth is a music major
and a member of the Choral En
semble. She also plays the bongo
drums. After graduation, she plans
to study piano in graduate school
and in Europe. She hopes to teach
piano on the college level.
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Beth Troy
ANNOUNCEMENT
Lt. Mattie Parker, a representa
tive of the Women’s Army Corps,
will be a guest at Salem from 1:00
to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
October 25. She plans to talk and
to show films in the audio-visual
room to all girls who are interested
in spending a summer wdth or mak
ing a career of the army. She will
present a new plan to orient girls
to army life during the summer
of their junior year.
cil, a member of the National
Honor Society, and chaplain and
recording secretary for Y-Teens
her junior and senior years.
The girls who were chosen to be
on IRS are Jane Webster, Tinka
Lee, Susie Rablen, Barbara Gard
ner, and Nancy Gardner.
Jane, who is from Lexington,
North Carolina, attended Central
High School where she was a
cheerleader for four years and
Homecoming Queen her sophomore
year. She was a member of the
Glee Club and was voted “Best
Looking” by members of the senior
class.
A graduate of Myers Park High
School in Charlotte, North Caro
lina, Tinka was a member of the
Student Council and the Mustang
Club, president of the French Club
in her junior year, and director of
choreography for the Senior Class
Follies. Tinka was awarded one of
Myers Park’s highest honors when
she became a member of Girl Am
bassadors.
Susie is from Fort Lauderdale
High School. She was a cheer
leader for three years and was re
cipient of the Latin Award her
sophomore year. She was voted
“Best All Around” and was Key
Club Sweetheart her senior year.
Barbara and Nancy Gardner have
been elected as the day student
representatives to the I.R.S. As
students at Reynolds High School
in Winston-Salem, they took an
active part in all phases of school
life. Both girls were cheerleaders,
senior marshals, and members of
all of the girls’ service clubs. They
were twin twirlers their junior year
and were members of Y-Teens and
the National Honor Society.
Both Nancy and Barbara held
positions on the Girls’ Athletic As
sociation Council, Nancy being
head of the Intramural Council
and Barbara being head of tennis.
Barbara was secretary of Y-Teens
and Red Cross representative from
her homeroom her junior year,
Nancy was a member of the
House of Representatives for two
years and was treasurer of the
Serviteers her junior year.
Her acting talents contribute
to the charm of her singing. She
can purr or roar and get more out
of a lifted eyebrow than a lot of
Hollywood movie queens. She has
songs of her night-club days, of
people standing on the street cor
ner after the pubs have closed and
delightful bits of sounds of London
cockney street-venders.
Last May the Lecture Series and
the Rondthaler Lecture Series
voted to merge. By combining, the
two committees felt they could pre
sent a more unified lecture pro
gram for the college. It was felt
that one committee could plan more
intelligently and give an overall
direction to the series.
The Lecture Series is financed by
the Student Budget. Due to the
size of the present auditorium and
the increased enrollment, a ticket
sale will not be conducted among
the townspeople in Winston-Salem.
This will eliminate the necessity of
issuing tickets to the students.
The Rondthaler lectures are
financed by the Howard Rondthaler
Fund set up by the Salem Alumnae
Association. The lectures have
been, and will continue to be, pre
sented in assembly. The lecturer
will remain on campus for a day or
two speaking to classes and to
small groups. This gives students
personal contact with outstanding
speakers that cannot be obtained
in a regular lecture.
The finances of the two commit
tees have been pooled for the use
of the unified Lecture Series Com
mittee. Additional money comes
comes from Salem Academy. The
Academy students are included in
the Lecture Series but not in the
Rondthaler Lectures.
Dr. Inzer Byers is chairman of
the Committee. The student up
perclassmen representatives are
Betsy Hicks, Jackie Barker, and
Anne B. Austin. A freshman rep
resentative will be elected. Faculty
representatives are Lucy Austin,
James Bray, Bertram Cosby and
Edwin Shewmake. The Academy
student representative is Paula
Henry and the faculty representa
tive is Ryland Swain.
IRC, Seniors
PlanAssemblies
Dr. B. G. Gokhale, professor of
Asian studies, will speak at as
sembly on .Tuesday, October 24,
on the United Nations. The pro
gram, sponsored by the Inter
national Relations Club, will be the
first of a series of programs on the
subject.
Dr. Gokhale’s topic will be the
“Neutralist Role in the United
Nations.” Since he comes from
India, a neutral nation, he will give
the Asian point of view.
A professor at Wake Forest and
Winston-Salem Teachers’ College
as well as Salem, Dr. Gohkale has
been in Winston-Salem for two
years.
Because Tuesday is United Na
tions Day, the IRC is using chapel
to initiate their series of programs
on the United Nations. Since the
U. N. plays a vital part in Ameri
ca’s past and future, all students
are urged to attend.
On Thursday, October 26, as
sembly will include the traditional
tree planting program. Each year
the senior class plants a tree some
where on campus. Agnes Smith,
senior class president, will deliver
a short address before the planting
ceremony. After this, everyone will
go to the planting site between
Bitting and Strong. Members of
the senior class throw pennies into
the hole for good luck. Senior
class officers, past and present, and
Dr. Gramley will shovel in the dirt.