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Volume XLII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 9, 1962
Number 16
Brown^ Clark Cast As Leads In 'Crisis’
Lecture Series
Brings Mowbray
March 29
A'l a n Mowbray, the Hollywood
actor, will appear on the Lecture
Series on Thursday, March 29. The
lecture will be held at 8:00 p.m. in
Memorial Hall.
Mr. Mowbray will give “Alan
Mowbray’s Alumanic of Humor.”
In his Alumanic of Humor, Mr.
Mowbray uses the works of humor
ous ' writers on both sides of the
Atlantic such as Saki, Master of
the understated; Stephen Leacock,
Oscar Wilde, Ogden Nash, Samuel
Hoffenstein, and W. S. Gilbert.
Mr. Mowbray has appeared in
299 films in which he has played
a variety of roles ranging from
George Washington or historic
French heroes to German villains
and an assortment of rogues. His
best known appearances were in
“Around the World in 80 Days,”
“My Man Godfrey,” “Topper,” and
“Alexander Hamilton.”
The actor has also starred in the
“Colonel Humphrey Flack” tele
vision series and was featured as
the polisljed maitre de in “Dante’s
Inferno” series.
In adding to his success as an
actor, Mr. Mowbray is a man of
wide-ranging interests. Among his
other accomplishments, he is a
playwright, having written several
dramas.
Hobbs Speaks
In Assembly
In the assembly on Tuesday,
March 13, Lablings will present Dr.
Marcus Hobbs, Assistant Provost
Dean of Duke University. Dr.
Hobbs, also professor of Chemistry
at Duke, will speak on “The Impact
of Science on Sosiety and On Our
Education Structure.” If anyone
would like to speak with him, he
will be on campus until 4:00 p.m.
Lablings extends an invitation to
all to hear Dr. Hobbs’ lecture in
Memorial Hall on Tuesday at 12:10.
Notice
Preliminary registration for the
fall semester will begin after Spring
vacation. Rising seniors will regis
ter the week , of March 26, rising
juniors the week of April 2, and
rising sophomores the week of
April 9. A list of courses to be
offered in the fall will be put in
student boxes before the vacation;
instructions for registration will be
placed in the boxes and the Salem
College Catalogue will be available.
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The registration fee of $25, which
entitles a girl to draw for a room,
is due April 2-3. This fee is paid
at the Treasurer’s office. No one
may draw for a room without this
receipt.
Peggy Brown and Carl Clark
have been cast in the leading roles
of Crisis, Pierrette players’ produc
tion for this semester. The rest of
the cast includes Joe Keenan, Liz
Wilson, Nina Ann Stokes, John
Smith, and Ralph Hill.
Crisis, written by Pierrette Direc
tor Raymond E. Carver, will be
presented April 11, 12, 13, and 14.
The action of the play takes place
in rehearsal on the stage of a
theatre which houses a repertory
company.
Peggy, who appeared as Kathe
rine in Taming of the Shrew, will
portray Sarah, an actress. Peggy
has also played in Christ in the
Concrete City, The Boyfriend, and
The Miser at Salem. She directed
Overtones, a Pierrette play during
Orientation Week, and was assist
ant director for No Exit.
Carl Clark is cast as Harry, the
director. Mr. Clark is the football
coach at Kernersville High School.
He has had featured roles in Horn
in the West and played Doc in
Come Back, Little Sheba for the
Winston-Salem Little Theatre. His
last role at Salem College was in
Shin Of Our Teeth.
Joe Keenan, a speech therapist at
Baptist Hospital, will play Buddy,
Liz Wilson
the stage manager. Mr. Keenan
had featured roles in Noye’s Fludde
and the Little Theatre’s The Lady’s'
Not For Burning.
Liz Wilson is cast as an actress.
She has appeared in No Exit and
Taming of the Shrew at the college
and in Salem Academy productions.
Nina Ann Stokes
Liz was elected editor of the Arch
way this week.
Ruthie, the script girl, will be
played by Nina Ann Stokes, Presi
dent of Pierrettes. Nina Ann has
appeared in The Miser, Christ in
the Concrete City, and the First
Born.
John Smith portrays Hal, an
actor. Mr. Smith, who operates a
P«ggy Brown
millinery shop in Old Salem, has
appeared at the. college in No Exit,
The Boyfriend, and Christ in the
Concrete City. He designed the
costumes used in The Lady’s Not
For Burning.
Ralph Hill, comtroller at Salem
College, is cast as Joey, an actor.
Mr. Hill attended Duke University
and is a former math instructor.
Newly-elected Executive Board is ready to work; (1. to r.) Carroll Roberts, Wookie Workman, (seated)
Heather Peebles, Judy Summerell, Marguerite Harris, Tish Johnston,
Summerell, Peebles Capture Top Spots;
Johnston, Workman Are Secretaries
This is the last Salemite be
fore Spring Vacation. The next
issue will be published April 6.
Remember the Billy Butter
field concert on March 27 in
Memorial Hall. Tickets may be
purchased from members of the
senior class.
Judy Summerell was elected
President of Student Government
for the coming year during election
assembly last Tuesday, March 6.
Judy has a double major in
Spanish and history. A member of
Legislative Board for two years,
she will be completing her business
as Treasurer of Stee Gee imme
diately. She plans to review the
work of Student Government for
the past year and to arrange for
the completion or re-evaluation of
unfinished business. Her primary
concern is Salem’s Honor Tradition
Evaluation.
Tish Johnston is double majoring
in English and history. She served
on the Judicial Board this year as
vice-president of the sophomore
class. As the new secretary for
Student Government, Tish hopes to
see the changes proposed by the
Honor Evaluation Committee put
into effect, giving each student an
increased interest in and respect for
their Student Government.
The new Chairman of Judicial
Board, Heather Peebles, is an Eng
lish major. She served on Judicial
Bokrd this year as South Dorm
president and is a member of IRS.
Heather has stated that she “wishes
the Judicial Board to be respected
more than feared by the students,
with the realization that the
Board’s purpose is to interpret, not
make, the rules.” Objectivity in
dealing with problems is her main
goal.
Wookie Workman, a math major,
has served in Student Government
for two years, this year on Judicial
Board as president of Babcock
Dorm. As Judical Board Secre
tary, she hopes to carefully review
previous cases to ascertain their
value in guiding decisions and to
assure that the Board’s decisions
will not be bound by precedent.
Carroll Roberts, the new Vice-
President of Student Government,
is a math major. A member of
Legislative Board for two years,
she expressed her plans: “I would
like to organize a series of as
sembly programs which would be
more interesting to the students
and which would stimulate more
active ideas.”
Marguerite Harris is a history
major. She is president of the
sophomore class and a member of
the Honor Evalua,tion Committee.
Concerning her new job as Treas
urer of Student Government, Mar
guerite recommends a policy that
organizations be informed before
the financial meeting if a cut in
their budget is being made. She
would also like to see a “loan” sys
tem go into effect, whereby an or
ganization may borrow on its next
year’s allotment if the need arises.
The following major officers were
also elected Tuesday: Editor of
Sights and Insights, Gay Austin;
President of IRS, Mary Jane
Crowell; Chief Marshal, Mason
Kent; President of YWCA, Martha
Still; Chai r m a n of May Day,
Nancy’e Umberger; President of
WRA, Nancy Joyner; President of
Pierrettes, Louisa Freeman; Presi
dent of the Day Students, Pat
Ward; NSA Coordinator, Janet
Wales; Editor of the Archway, Liz
Wilson; and Editor of the Salemite,
Becky Boswell.
The new officers will officially
assume their duties after installa
tion of officers on April 3.
Salem Offers
New Courses
Three new courses will be of
fered next year. They are Art 120,
Survey of Western Art;, Art 257,
Renaissance and Baroque Art; and
Chemistry 218, Inorganic Chemis
try,
Inorganic Chemistry, a three hour
course, will be a study of the
modern aspects of inorganic chem
istry, which deals with the periodic
table, theories of valency, and rep
resentative elements according to
their position in the periodic table.
Chemistry 104 is a prerequisite for
this course. It is ^n advanced
course which will provide a more
balanced program for the chemis
try major. The course, necessary
for students planning to go to
graduate school, will consist of
three lectures weekly; there will be
no labs. Chemistry 218 will be of
fered in alternate years and will
follow Chemistry 216, Advanced
Analysis, which is already offered.
Art 120, Survey of Western Art,
a new three hour course, will re
place Art 101, 102, History and Ap
preciation of Art, which wilh not be
offered next year. Art 120 will be
offered each semester so that it
may serve as a foundation course
for period courses such as Medie
val or Modern Art. The new course
will be a general introduction to
the history of art, covering- major
periods from prehistoric times to
the present; it will be open to all
students above the freshman level.
Art 257, Renaissance and Baro
que Art, will be a study of paint
ing, sculpture, and architecture
from 1400 to 1750. The prerequisite
for the three hour course is Art
120. The new course will be of
fered in the first semester next
year, and will be followed by Art
258, Modern Art (now numbered
208).
None of the courses will be listed
in the catalogue for next year, be
cause it is being printed now. All,
however, will be offered during the
academic year 1962-63.