Volume XLII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, January 12, 1962
Number 1 1
Pierrettes Will Produce
Mr. Carver's "Crisis”
The Pierrette Players will pre
sent an original play second se
mester— Crisis, by Raymond E.
Carver, director of the Players and
English teacher at Salem. The play,
scheduled for the week of April
9th, will be the first production of
Crisis.
The selection was announced by
Mr. Carver and the Pierrette Read
ing Committee, composed of Mary
Liz Buckingham, Louisa Freeman,
and Lucy Lane. The committee dis
cussed the aspects of different
plays under consideration with Mr.
Carver before the final selection
was made.
Crisis is a rehearsal play—a play
in which the actors are rehearsing
to be in a play. The play under
rehearsal concerns Tom Paine, a
New TV Series
Promotes Talk
Talk Back, a new TV series pre
sented as a public service by
churches in the Winston-Salem
community in co-operation with
the National Council of Churches
of Christ in the USA, will begin
on WSJS-TV Channel 12 on Sun
day, January 21, at 2:00 p.m.
The Talk Back films present a
vital personal issue in a dramatic,
fifteen minute story. No solutions
are given in the film however. They
are left up to the viewer who can
talk over the problem with his
family, neighbors, or study groups.
Talk Back is designed to start peo
ple talking and thinking about their
own, everyday problems and pos
sible Christian solutions. The TV
observer is a participator rather
than just an observer.
Thirteen of these films will be
presented on WSJS-TV every Sun
day afternoon at 2:00 from Jan
uary 21 through April 15. After
each drama, a panel will discuss
the ideas presented.
Dr. Elizabeth Welch, head of the
Salem College Psychology Depart
ment, is a member of the local com
mittee sponsoring the series.
Trisha Weathers, president of the
Y, urges that dorms watch the
series and form study groups to
discuss the films.
Music Society
Meets Here
Over Holidays
The fourth annual meeting of the
College Music Society was held
at Salem College December 27
through December 29. Dr. Carle-
ton Sprague Smith of New York
University, internationally known
musicologist, addressed the group.
Two public concerts and three
panel discussion sessions, open to
those interested in the development
and relationship of music in the
liberal arts college, were included
in the meeting.
This was the first time such a
meeting has been held in the South.
Salem College was selected, accord
ing to Clemens Sandresky, Dean of
the School of Music of Salem Col
lege, because of its unique char
acter—a separate school of music
in a strong liberal arts college
And because of the outstanding col
lection of American art music in
the Moravian Music Foundation
located in Old Salem.
Revolutionary War pamphleteer.
Part of the plot of Crisis is the
discovery of the play under rehear
sal by the actors. The action re
volves around the director as he
shapes the actor playing Paine.
Crisis has a cast of eight^—three
women and five men.
Mr. Carver came to Salem in
September from Yale where he
majored in play-writing and dra
matic literature. Two of his plays
were produced there; Suicide of
Private Greaves and Take Care of
Yourself. Mr. Carver took his
undergraduate work at Baylor Uni
versity where he studied play-writ
ing under Eugene McKinney. Two
of Carver’s plays were performed at
Baylor: Flower and Amy Hamil
ton.
“The best preparation for an as
piring play-write," said Mr. Carver,
“is a thorough knowledge of stage
procedure and all aspects of pro
duction. Playwriting," he commen
ted, “is not a chore but more of
a drive than anything else.” Mr.
Carver feels that exposure to an
original play will be beneficial to
oaiem.
Mr. Carver is directing Noye’s
Fludde, an adaptation by Benjamin
Britten of the Old Chester Miracle
Play, to be presented by the Sin
ger’s Guild on January 26 and 27 in
Memorial Hall. Mr. Richard Bloe-
sch of Salem College will conduct.
Tryouts for Crisis will be early
in March.
Examination
Announcement
The Dean of Students Office in
vites students to come to the
Dean’s Coffee on Reading Day,
Thursday, January 18 in the Club
Dining Room where coffee and
fruit will be served. The freshmen
and juniors are requested to come
between 10:00-10:45, and the sopho
mores and seniors between 10:45-
11:30.
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Due to the exams, lunch on Sat
urday, January 20, will be at 1:00.
Beginning on January 27 until the
next semester lunch will be served
at 12:10. The college will not be
closed between semesters.
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Any girl leaving campus between
semesters may sign out any time
during office hours. Page 38 of
the Handbook gives the rules con
cerning overnight absences and out
of town trips during the exam
period. Overnights and evening
engagements do not count after
exams are completed, but a student
must indicate that her exams are
over on her sign out card.
* * *
Main Hall will be open for study
during the exam period; faculty of
fices may be used only with the
permission of the faculty member
to whom the office belongs. Stu
dents may not smoke in Main Hall.
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The first assembly of the second
semester will be Honors Day on
February 1 at which time the
Dean’s List will be announced and
new members of the Salem College
Honor Society recognized.
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Work for the first semester has
to be completed by 6 p.m. Wednes
day, January 17. Any emergency
situations concerning exams should
be reported immediately to Dean
Hixon’s office. Grades will not be
given out until registration day
Tuesday, January 30, from 2-5 p.m.
Second semester begins with classes
at 8:30 Wednesday, January 31.
Libbie Hatley
Jane Thompson
Betty Cox
Cox, Hatley, Thompson Compete For
Salem’s 1962 Miss Student Teacher
Assembly on Tuesday, January
16, will be devoted to the selection
of Miss Student Teacher. The
winner, who will represent Salem
College at the SNEA convention
in Raleigh, March 16-17, will be
chosen from three finalists: Betty
Cox, Jane Thompson, and Libbie
Hatley.
Betty Cox, from Laurinburg,
North Carolina, is a Spanish major
with a minor in elementary educa
tion. Her practice teaching was
with third grade students. She was
secretary of Student Government
her junior year and is now serving
as vice-president. Betty is also
listed in Who’s Who in American
Colleges.
Jane Thompson, a history major,
is from Statesville, North Carolina.
She completed her practice teach
ing at Northwest High School
where she taught one United States
Salem Will Campaign
For New Building Funds
Salem College was granted per
mission to conduct a public cam
paign this spring to raise $2,250,000
by the Public Solicitation Com
mittee of Winston-Salem and For
syth County. Money raised will
go to the construction of a Fine
Arts center costing $1,850,000, and
a new dormitory accomodating ap
proximately 85 students costing
$400,000.
When the Fine Arts center is
placed in use in 1964, Memorial Hall
will be demolished. The Fine Arts
building is to be located north of
the May Dell. Parking facilities
for the building will be provided
where land is now being filled.
This will be the second floor level
of the new building. The air-con
ditioned, two-story center will be
similar in architecture to the pres
ent college buildings.
The departments of art, music,
and drama wall be located in the
new building. Corridors will be
Board Sponsors
Book Exchange
Legislative Board is sponsoring a
Book Exchange to eliminate the
confusion in buying and selling se
cond-hand text books. A list of
books to be used second semester
is posted on the bulletin board in
Main Hall.
Next Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, January 15, 16 and 17,
students may sell and buy text
books in the old Judicial Board
room in the Student Center. Stu
dents wishing to sell books are re
quested to list their names and the
price for which they wish to sell
the book in the book and bring it
to the Student Center.
This is the last issue of The
Salemite before exams. The next
paper will be February 9.
used for art galleries to display
exhibits of student work as well
as traveling exhibits. Both will be
open to the public.
A concert auditorium will seat
800 persons. This auditorium is to
be available for use by the com
munity and Wake Forest College
as well as Salem College. Work
shop facilities will be provided in
the dramatic arts area of the fine
arts building. A large library for
music, fine arts, and dramatic de
partments will be centrally located.
Teaching studios, practice rooms,
class rooms, and listening rooms
(for music appreciation) will be
furnished with modern euipment.
Space now occupied by Pfohl
House will be used for the new
dormitory. This dorm will be sim
ilar in plan to the present Babcock
dormitory. Study, laundry, and
storage rooms are to be located on
the ground floor. On the main
floor will be an apartment suite
for the house counselor, lobby, and
some student rooms. Other stud
ent living quarters will occupy the
second and third floors.
A twofold purpose will be ac
complished when the new dorm is
opened in September of 1963. The
additional 85 girls who live there
will bring the total number of
boarding students to 500, the ideal
number decided upon by the Board
of Trustees. The tuition of these
girls will provide salaries for seven
more faculty members.
A steering committee for the
campaign has been named by the
chairman of the Board of Trus
tees. F. F. Willingham, R. Philip
Hanes, Graydon O. Pleasants, Rob
ert D. Shore, Jr., Charles B.
Wade, Jr., and Dale H. Gramley,
President of the College, form this
committee.
The Board of Trustees assures
that no other form of request will
be made for funds before the
200th anniversary celebration in
1972.
It is expected that solicitation ef
forts will be organized within the
Alumnae,
history class and one sociology
class. Jane is president of IRC,
secretary-treasurer of Phi Alpha
Theta, and vice-president of SNEA.
Libbie Hatley, from Albemarle,
North Carolina, has a double major
in English and history. She taught
two senior English classes at
Northwest High School in order to
complete her practice teaching.
Libbie is president of SNEA, pre
sident of Phi Alpha Theta, vice-
president of the Humanities Club,
and is listed in Who’s Who in
American Colleges.
Each girl will give a two minute
talk during assembly concerning
her philosophy of education and her
feelings about teaching. She will
then draw a new topic about which
she must make a one minute im
promptu speech, followed by a
seven minute question and answer
period. The program will be hand
led by a panel of seventeen judges;
three from the county school sys
tem, three from the city school
system, and eleven members of the
Faculty Teacher Education Com
mittee. Selection will be based on
personal character, intellectual
achievement, and professional com-
petancy.
Salem Receives
Added Funds
Salem College received a gift of
$16,000 from the Mary Reynolds
Babcock Foundation to establish a
Language Laboratory. The money
will be used to purchase booths and
equipment. It is not anticipated
that the laboratory will be ready
for use until next September. The
money will be used to provide at
least 20 listening booths.
Twenty thousand dollars worth
of additional gifts have also been
received by the college. Included
in the gifts are: $7,400 to initiate
the Mary Ann Wolff Jones
Scholarship for girls in the blood
relationship and/or residents of
Surry and Forsyth Counties which
is the gift of Mrs. Maude Perry
of McLean, Va.; $5,020 in addi
tional support for three existing
scholarships; $2,808 addition to the
Chloe Freeland Horsfield Fund in
support of faculty salaries, the gift
of Basil Horsfield of Florence, Ala.,
brings that fund to nearly $20,000;
and approximately $2,750 to reduce
the debt on the new Science Build
ing. $1,500 to initiate the Virgina
Dowdell Shober Anderson Fund in
memory of his mother to support
faculty salaries has been given by
E. O. Anderson, Jr., of Charlotte.
Mr. Anderson is the father of Vir
ginia Anderson, a junior at Salem.
$1,200 toward the campaign to be
held this spring, and $100 for gen
eral endowment has been donated.