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Volume XLII Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, April 13, 1962 Number 18 Mrs. Esther Robbins Dean Major May Brawley Phi Alpha Theta Inducts Three Members, Brawley, Major, Robbins Three new members were in ducted into Phi Alpha Theta, Delta Lambda Chapter, Wednesday, April 11. May Brawley, Dean Major, and Mrs. Esther Robbins were initiated at the service in the Babcock Club Room. The initiation service cen tered around The Ages of History with each member representing an age. Officers for the coming year were elected at the same meeting. Due to the resignation of Dr. Phillip Africa, an adviser to the organi zation was also selected. After the business, the Salem chapter went to the home of a Wake Forest mem ber of the honorary history society for a joint meeting. There a Ger man student discussed the Euro pean Common Market. May Brawley is a junior from Salisbury. She is planning to grad uate in three years. May partici pates in the Pierrette Players pro ductions. member of the Order of the Scor pion and the Honor Society. She is editor on this campus for Choice magazine, a joint publication of Salem and Wake Forest, Mrs. Robbins is a senior English major. She has great interest in history and taught social studies for a while. At graduation from Salem she will be certified to teach high school English. Membership in Phi Alpha Theta requires an overall B average and a B plus average in history courses, and a minimum of twelve hours of history. Members are not required to be history majors, but must have an active interest in the study of history. Students meeting the re- j quirements for membership must be approved by the present Phi Alpha Theta members. Phi Alpha Theta was founded at the University of Arkansas in 1921. The purpose of the organization is Other members at Salem are Lynn Robinson DeMent, Steve Lesher, Jane Thompson, Libbie Hatley, Nancy Peter, Elizabeth Smith, Kay Kearns, Marsha Ray, Mrs. Heidbreder, Dr. Hixson, Dr. McCorkle, Mr. Michie, Dr. Africa, Dr. Byers, Dr. Austin, Miss Eva- belle Covington, and Dr. Minnie Smith. Miss Covington and Dr. Smith are retired Salem faculty members. Salem Dansalems Present Annual Spring Recital Dansalems will present its annual spring recital on Tuesday, April 17, at 8:30 p.m. in Old Chapel. There will be no charge for admission. The program will consist of three parts. The first part will be a series of dances depicting scenes from various countries. “Calypso Carnival” will be the first dance with Nancy’e Umberger, Anita Hat cher, Jane Kelly, and Kathy Chalk taking part. Next is a jazz number, “Oriental Fantasy,” with music by Henry Mancini. Dancers will be Alice Reid, Kaye Pennington, Alice Wilson, Pam Truette, Sandi Kim- brell, and Jane Hedgpeth. Nancy’e Umberger will be soloist in “La Fiesta,” which is an interpretation of a bullfight. Feme Houser, Doris Cooper, Lynn McClement, and Babs MacRae will be the “Banderillas.” The last dance of this series is “The American West,” which de picts the journey of a few pioneers across the desert by wagon train. “The Death Valley Suite” will be used as the musical background. Kaye Pennington, Alice Wilson, Pam Truette, Jane Hedgpeth, Bon nie Hauch, and Alice Reid will be the dancers. The second part is called “Sea sons.” Pam Truette and Alice Wilson will dance as “Spring.” “Summer” will be danced by Kaye Pennington. Alice Reid and Sandi Home Ec. Club Meets; Williams Presents Message Salem College will be host this pj-. Gramley represented Salem weekend for the Regional Voice College yesterday at the inaugura- auditions sponsored by the National C. Moore as the scholar. She was vice-president of her freshman class and she is a ictions. . . ^ . -1 to recognize excellence in the study Dean Major is past secretary rf His- Student Government and an Oslo ^ Delta Lambda Chapter at Salem was established in 1952. Kreusler Begins Chapel Series The second Rondthaler lecturer. Dr. Abraham Kreusler of Ran- dolph-Macon College in Lynchburg, Virginia will be on campus April 17 and 18. Dr. Kreusler will speak in chapel Tuesday on “The World of the Soviet Union.” He will talk with students informally at a cof fee on Tuesday afternoon and will speak at 11:1S, April 18, in the Day Student Center. His topic will be “Fallacies of Communism.” Dr. Kreusler is also the first of five speakers in the next chapel series, “The U. S. and Russia, Today and Tomorrow.” Dr. Kreusler, who was born in Russia, will speak on Rus sia in general. Following Dr. Kreusler in subse quent programs will be Mr. Low ell Tillot of the Wake Forest his tory department. Miss Litwinchuk of the Academy, and Salem’s Dr. Byers and Dr. Africa. Each of these speakers will compare Russia and the U. S. from one of the fol lowing viewpoints: social, economic, and political. Mr. Harris Harris Enters History Dept. David Allen Harris, newly ap pointed history instructor for Salem in the 1962-63 year, will enter the history department under the new head. Dr. Inzer Byers, who was recently promoted. Mr. Harris holds his B.A. and M.A. degrees, which he received from Auburn University. He is working for his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. A captain in the Air Force Reserve, Mr. Harris served two years in the United States Air Force. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Harris of Oneonta, Alabama. Announcement Association of Teachers of Sing ing. High School and College singers from the Southeastern and South ern regions will arrive Saturday, April 14, for a one day final com petition. Host for the occasion will be Paul Peterson, assisted by Nell Starr and Clifford Bait. Joan Jacobowsky has been selected as one of the three judges. Hugh Deen, voice professor of Georgia State Teachers College is audition chairman. ♦ * * Nancy Hutchins will give her sophomore recital on April 16 at 7:30 p.m. She is a piano major and is studying under Dean Cle mens Sandresky. Her program will include “Prelude” and “Fugue No. 5 in C Minor” by Bach, “Ten Vari ations in G”, “Unser dummer “Pobel meint” by Mozart, and “Sonatine” by Ravel which consists of three movements, “Modere,” “Mouv't,” and “Anime.” * * * The Home Economics Club will meet on Tuesday, April 17 in the Science Building at 6:30. Mr. Chadwick from Chadwich Jewelers will speak on the “Selection and Care of Diamonds.” * * * Student Government officers, class presidents, organization heads, and publication editors should be in the News Bureau office at 1:30, Tuesday, April 17 for pictures. ♦ ♦ * The Salem College Choral En semble will be heard on the Voices of Easter program over the NBC radio network on Monday, April 16 10:05 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. ♦ ♦ ♦ The Rev. Brevard S. Williams, assistant rector of St. Paul’s Epis copal Church here in Winston- Salem, will present the Easter mes- I. R. S. reminds students that they are not to wear bermudas while they are riding bicycles ex cept on back campus. Bermudas may be worn on front campus on y . c i n 4- ^ when a student is going to an off sage to the Salem College student campus affair where bermudas are body in assembly, on Thursday, the proper attire. t April 19. first president of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Salem Students CompeteInCity Beauty Pageant Two Salem students, Gretchen Morgan and Normie Abercrombie, have entered the Miss Winston- Salem contest which will be held in Reynolds High School auditorium on Saturday, April 14, at 8:00 p.m. The thirteen contestants who have entered are between the ages of 18 and 25 and have resided in Winston-Salem for the past six months. Prizes for the winner of the contest include: trophy, crown, traditional American Beauty roses, and a scholarship to the school of the winner’s choice. Local stores will also provide the winner with a wardrobe to wear in the state con test. To win the contest, the entrants will be judged according to three categories: evening gown, talent, and swim suit. Gretchen Morgan, a freshman from Mooresville, North Carolina, will play an original piano arrange ment of “Warsaw Concerto” and “Mangos.” A Spanish major, she already holds the title of Miss Mooresville and was among the top ten in last year’s Miss North Carolina contest. For the talent section of the con test, Normie Abercrombie will sing two arias from “Carmen”—“Haban era” and “Sequidilla.” She is ; voice major from Greenwood, South Carolina. Kimbrell will dance to excerpts from “To Autumn” by Keats. The selection will be read by Bonnie Hauch. Dancing as “Winter” will be Nancy’e Umberger, Anita Hat cher, and Jane Kelly. The concluding part, “Spirituals,” will consist of four dances. The first, “Little David Play on Your Harp,” will have Pam Truette, Sandi Kimbrell, Alice Reid, Kaye Pennington, and Jane Hedgpeth as dancers. Alice Reid, Kaye Pen nington, Bonnie Hauch, Pam Tru ette, Kathy Chalk, Jane Hedgpeth, and Sandi Kimbrell will dance to ‘Go Down Moses.” Soloist for ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Mother less Child” is Nancy’e Umberger. “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” will have Sandi Kimbrell, Kaye Pennington, Kathy Chalk, Bonnie Hauch, and Alice Reid taking part. Arts Calendar April 16 Wake Forest College: Dave Guard’s “Hill Singers” (lawn, Reynolda Hall, 8 p.m.) April 17 Wake Forest College Music Department: Trumpet Recital by Emerson Head, di rector of instrumental music (Magnolia Room, Reynolda Hall, 8:15 p.m.) Salem Dansalems: Dance Re cital (Old Chapel, 8:30 p.m.) April 21 Salem Congregation: The Great Sabbath Memorial Ser vice, with Dubois’ oratorio “The Seven Last Words of Christ” (Home Moravian Church, 8 p.ra.) Exhibits: April 15-27 Associated Artists: Paintings by Elizabeth Ross. The Arts Council Gallery. April 14-21 Paintings by Mary Ellen Webster. The Arts and Crafts Association. April 16-May 4 “Andre Derain,” Museum Modern Art (Mon.- Fri 2-5, 7-9; Sat. 2-5) Public Library of Winston-Salem. April 1-May 1 Baroque and Ro mantic Reproductions (M a i n Hall, Music Hall) Salem Col lege. April 8-19 Two-Man Show: James Bumgardner, Robert Partin. Winston-Salem Gallery of Fine Arts. Byers Heads History Dept. Dr. Inzer Byers, Miss Barbara Battle, and Mr. A. Hewson Michie, Jr., recently received promotions from Salem’s Board of Trustees. Dr. Byers will become head of the history department, replacing Dr. Phillip Africa. Mr. Michie has been promoted to assistant profes sor of history, and Miss Battle, now on leave for study at New York University, will be assistant professor of English. The Board accepted the resigna tions of Dr. Africa and Dr. Alfred M. Denton, Jr., professor of eco nomics and sociology. Dr. Africa will become chairman of the his tory department at Keuka College at Keuka, New York, in the fall. Dr. Denton will join the faculty of Appalachian State Teachers Col lege. Dr. Byers, who came to Salem in 1957, received her B.A. degree from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Radcliffe College. She will retain her title as associate pro fessor.