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Dr. Anderson Discusses
Pure Scientists’ Dilemma
On Thursday, May 10, the Rond-
thaler Lecture Series will present
Dr. Lewis E. Anderson, professor
of botany and Director of Graduate
Studies at Duke University. His
topic will be “The Dilemma of the
Pure Scientist.” Thursday after
noon Dr.'Anderson will lead a dis
cussion with biology students on
Trio Presents
Annual Program
The Salem College Trio will pre
sent its annual program on May 7
at 8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. The
Trio consists of members of the
faculty of music; Hans Heidemann,
pianist; Charles Medlin, cellist;
and Eugene Jacobowsky, violinist.
This program, which has been given
for the past 9 years, is a benefit
for the Mary Jones Memorial
Scholarship, which always goes to
a music student from Winston-
Salem, The Trio will play Arch
duke Trio by Beethoven and C
Major Trio by Brahms.
The Trio has played in Jackson
ville, Florida, Asheville, High Point,
and Chapel Hill. On May 13 they
will play at the Mint Museum in
Charlotte, Several years ago, they
gave a series of three recitals,
playing all of Beethoven’s trios.
the modern approaches and trend;
in biology.
A native of Mississippi, Dr. An
derson received his B.S. at Mississ
ippi State College, his .\.M. at Duke
and his Doctorate at the University
of Pennsylvania. He has been at
Duke since 1936 except for three
years service in the Naval Reserve
Dr. Anderson is now engaged ii.
research on Cyto-taxonomic studie;
of mosses and is writing a manual
of mosses of eastern North Amer
ica.
As part of the current assembly
series on Russia, ,Dr. Africa will
speak on “Russian and American
Foreign Policy Issues” in assembly
on May 8.
Brown Receives
Assistantship
Peggy Brown, a senior from Eas
ton, Pennsylvania, has received an
assistantship in the field of clinical
psychology at Connecticut College,
New London, Connecticut. She will
work twenty hours a week at the
Norwich State Hospital in connec
tion with her work at the college.
She will also work towards her
master’s degree during her two year
assistantship.
Peggy is a French major and has
taken part in several dramatic pro
ductions of the Pierrettes.
Order Elects Four Juniors,
Austin, Boswell, Lane, Wall
The Order of the Scorpion, an
honorary organization whose aim is
service to Salem students, inducted
four new members this semester—
Gay Austin, Becky Boswell, Lucy
Lane, and Linda Wall. Dean Ivy
M. Hixson, advisor of the Order,
announced the new members in as
sembly on May 3.
Gay Austin
The Order of the Scorpion is a
service organization established to
foster the true spirit and ideals of
Salem. It performs many tasks
around campus which might other
wise be left undone and is often
the silent, moving force behind a
large project.
Becky Boswell
All activities of the Scorpions are
kept secret in order for the service
to be done without thought of
praise for either the organization
or the individual members. Mem
bership is limited to fourteen jun
iors and seniors and is based on
service to Salem.
Gay Austin has been active on
the Sights and Insights staff and
will be Editor of the 62-63 edition.
She was Dorm Treasurer of Bab
cock in her sophomore year, and
Chief Marshal and member of Leg
islative Board this past year. Gay
is a math major and comes from
'Ocala, Florida.
Becky Boswell is an English
major from Charlotte, North Caro
lina. She has worked on the
Salemite while at Salem, being As
sociate Editor in her junior year
and is Editor of the 62-63 publi
cations.
Lucy Lane is another English
major who hails from Durham,
North Carolina. Lucy was secre
tary of her freshman class, presi
dent of the sophomore class, mem
ber of the Y Cabinet this year, as
well as the WRA Council.
Lucy Lane
Linda Wall is from Winston-
Salem and is also an English major.
She transferred to Salem for her
sophomore year from Duke Uni
versity. Linda has been a contri
butor to the Salemite, and a mem
ber of the Budget Committee. She
was editor from Salem for Choice,
a publication put out by Salem and
Wake Forest jointly.
Linda Wall
Present members of the Order of
the Scorpion are Betty Cox,
Beverly Heward, Linda Leaird,
Dean Major, Sallie Paxton, Nancy
Peter, Nina Ann Stokes, Judy
Summerell, Trisha Weathers, and
Anne West
Bishop Thomas A. Fraser, Jr.
Fraser Delivers
Baccalaureate
The speaker for this year’s Bac
calaureate sermon on June third
will be the Right Reverend Thomas
A. Fraser, Jr., Bishop Coadjuntor
of the Diocese of North Carolina.
A native of Atlanta, Georiga,
Bishop Fraser was born on April
17, 1915. He received his early
education in the New York City
High Schools. In 1937 he gradu
ated from the University of Jena
in Germany. In 1938 he received
a BA degree from Hobart Col
lege and in 1941 a B.D. degree from
Virginia Theological Seminary.
Following that he was rector of
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in
Winston-Salem.
Bishop Fraser has served as a
missionary for the Episcopal Dio
cese in Long Island, New York,
and from 1942 to 1944 he was Sen
ior Assistant Rector in St. George’s
Church in New York. From then
until 1951 he held the position of
rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
Bishop Fraser is a member of
Sigma Chi fraternity, the Rotary
Club, and the Torch Club. He and
his wife, Margery Louise, have two
children, Thomas A., Ill, and Con
stance.
Smith Visits
Switzerland;
Lives In Home
Sue Smith will fly to Paris the
latter part of June to take part in
the Experiment in International
Living. There she will receive in
structions as to details concerning
the family with which she will live,
their traditions, the history of the
country, and local expressions. She
is to live with a family in Switzer
land for a period of one or two
months. One member of the family
will take a group of these students
on a tour of Switzerland during
this time. Sue may travel an extra
week with the family and will re
turn around August 20.
The purpose of this experiment
is to promote better understanding
between countries. By this plan,
people from other countries can
come in contact with other Ameri
cans than the tourists.
Sue is a junior from Mount Airy,
N. C. She is a French major and
a Spanish minor. Sue is a member
of the Y-Cabinet and is active in
the WRA. She will teach on the
secondary school level after gradu
ation.
Shirley Addresses Orads
At Salem Commencement
Dr. John W. Shirley will make
the graduation address at com
mencement exercises at Salem Col
lege on June 3. Dr. Shirley has
■served as dean of the North Caro
lina State College faculty since
1955. This spring he resigned his
position at North Carolina State
College to become vice president
and provost of the University of
Delaware, effective July 1.
Dr. Shirley, a native of Iowa, was
graduated cum laude from the Uni
versity of Iowa in 1932. He did
graduate work at the University of
Nebraska and in 1937 earned his
Ph.D. degree from the University of
Iowa.
He was a teaching fellow at the
University of Iowa from 1935 to
1937. In 1937 he became a member
of the faculty of Michigan State
University, teaching in the depart
ments of English and Physics until
1949.
Dean Shirley was a visiting lec
turer at the California Institute of
Technology during the 1946-1947
academic year and during this same
period engaged in post-doctoral re
search at California’s Henry E.
Huntington Library. The following
year, he did further post-doctoral
study and research in England as
a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow,
concentrating his investigations on
16th and 17th century scientific
achievements.
Joining the North Carolina State
faculty in 1949, he first served as
dean of the School of General Stu
dies. In 1955 he was promoted to
his present position.
As President of the North Caro
lina College Conference, Dr. Shir
ley is a prominent figure in pro
fessional affairs. He has served in
various capacities in the educational
organizations: representative for
Dean John W. Shirley
liberal arts on the National Council
of the ASEPl, a member of the
national committee of the Human
istic-Social Research Project, and
elected representative of the Lib
eral Council of the ASEE, a mem
ber of the national committee of
the LIumanistic-Social Research
Project, and elected representative
of the Liberal Arts Division of the
National Senate of the Association
of Land-Grant Colleges and State
Universities. He is also the vice-
chairman of the Committee on Ex
aminations of the College Exami
nations Board and a consultant to
the National Science Foundation.
His other honorary and profes
sional affiliations include member
ship in the Modern Language So
ciety, the History of Science So
ciety, and the American Society
for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Shirley is the author of two
books and numerous professional
articles.
Mr. Brantley Discusses
Controversial Novel
By Diane Fuller
Tired, a bit bored, but still proud,
Russell Brantley spoke to the
Humanities Club Tuesday, May 1,
about The Education of Jonathan
Beam. He began with the com
ment that he would be happier now
if he had never heard of Jonathan,
but was still not sorry he wrote it.
Anyone who reads a paper in North
Carolina has heard of the contro
versy over author Brantley and his
book. The book was not written to
create controversy, said the author,
but he did intend to “lampoon”
certain elements in the Baptist
Convention and in Baptist preach
ers,—and lampoon them he did.
“But the point of the book,” he
explained, “was to show the tre
mendous mental turmoil a boy goes
through when at college, having
been from a closed background and
put into a relatively liberal atmos
phere.” Brantley was not trying
to depict Wake Forst, nor was the
book meant to be biographical. The
dancing controversy was to be the
basis of his plot simply as a main
spring for the action. The idea
came to him, he mentioned, “one
morning while putting on his socks.”
His basic purpose was to write a
funny book, to write lightly of this
absurd controversy. The more he
wrote, the angrier he got — “so
much time wasted over absurdities,”
he muttered.
Other than the controversy over
the lampooning of the Baptists, the
criticism directed towards him for
using the four-lettered words has
bothered him more than anything
else. Brantley himself referred to
the book as '“dirty,” but he ex
plained that he was trying as
simply as possible to give a picture
of dorm life and the language in
the book was certainly, compara
tively, mild.
Jonathan is a fast moving book.
Brantley was anxious for it to move
as rapidly as possible and deliber
ately kept it simple for this reason.
At the present this is his style be
cause he wants it as true as he
can get it—also, he admitted, be
cause he may be a little lazy.
Out-of-state reviewers and non-
Baptists consider Jonathan to be a
good book. Brantley’s trying to
sweep its existence under the car
pet is obviously due to all the fuss
raised by the Baptists and his em
ployers at Wake Forest; there is
still a lot of feeling for the book
and he is proud of it—who wouldn’t
be? It’s selling.