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Volume XLIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, September 28, 1962
Number
Battle Chooses Cast For Musical
Comedy "Little Mary Sunshine"
(1. to r.) Mr. Booker, Miss Spencer, and Mr. Harris, new faculty mem
bers, relax in the faculty lounge after the first few days of class.
Salem College Adds Nine
New Professors To Staff
Nine new professors have been
added to the Salem College faculty.
Mr. Marshall Booker,' of Hampton,
Virginia, a graduate of the Univer
sity of Virginia, is a professor of
Economics. Dr. Changboh Chee,
assistant professor in sociology at
Wake Forest, will teach an Asian
study course. Dr. Stuart Deskins,
a visiting lecturer from High Point
College where he teaches history
and social sciences, gives a course
once a week in geography. Mr.
Alan Harris, from Oneonta, Ala
bama, and also from the history
department of the University of
North Carolina, is professor of his
tory. Miss Virginia Johnson is pro
fessor of physical education. Mr.
Juan Miranda, who is at Salem
Academy, is with the modern lan
guage department. The new pro
fessor of English, Miss Horence C.
Spencer from Nashville, Tennessee,
received her M. A. from the Uni
versity of North Carolina. Miss
Nancy Wurtele from Los Angeles,
California, received her M. S. from
Julliard School of Music. She has
given concerts and recitals at Har
vard, Julliard, and St. Paul’s Epis
copal Church in Rome. Mr. David
Wurtzel, professor of art, has had
experience with Life Drawing at
the University of Chicago. His
exhibitions have been in New York
City, Albright Art Gallery, and the
University of Chicago Galleries.
Several new courses have been
Cleino Receives
Music
Scholarship
Ann Cleino, a freshman music
major from Birmingham, Alabama,
has been awarded an Honor
Scholarship given by the Winston-
Salem Symphony Association. Ann,
whose father teaches music at the
University of Alabama, plans to
major in cello, studying under Mr.
Medlin.
This is the first year the Win
ston-Salem Symphony Association
has presented its scholarship. It is
a $600 Honor Scholarship to be
awarded each year to an outstand
ing incoming freshman majoring in
the field of string music and is re
newable for the three succeeding
years. The recipient of the scholar
ship must pass an audition for John
luele, conductor of the Symphony,
and is required to play in the Sym
phony itself. The Winston-Salem
Symphony Scholarship plans to pre
sent the award each year with the
hope of encouraging a great in
terest in the profession of string
music.
added at Salem for 1962-1963.
In the Art Department, Art 120,
Survey of Western Art, has been
added. Instead of the former two
semester course, it is a one semes
ter course and will serve as a pre
requisite for all art history' courses.
Art 2S7, Renaissance and Baroque,
centers on a study of painting,
sculpture, and architecture from
1400-1750. Art 380, Studio Prob
lems, has. also been added.
Asian Studies 200, Asian Thought
and Civilization, will be taught by
Dr. Gokhale. Still another course
about Asia is History 155 entitled
Eastern Asia. This will be taught
by Dr. Ghee.
Psychology 209, Systems of Psy
chology, will deal with a summary
of the major contemporary, theories
if personality.
Religion 340, History of the
Christian Religion in America, will
begin with the Apostolic Church
and trace the history of Christianity
n brief to the 17th century.
Competing For
Grant Starts
U. S. Government scholarships
for graduate study or research
ibroad are available for the 1963-64
academic year, under the Fulbright-
Hays Act. The grants, adminis
tered by the Institute of Inter
national Education, provide round-
trip transportation, tuition, and
maintenance for one academic year
in any one of 46 countries through
out the world.
General eligibility requirements
are: U. S. citizenship, a Bachelor’s
Degree or its equivalent in profes
sional training, language ability
commensurate with the demands of
the proposed study project, and
good health. Preference is given
to applicants under 35 years of age.
tape desks for music. Most of the
Application forms may be ob-
ained from Dean Hixson.
Vpists — Nancy Griffin, Susie Johnson,
Competition for the 1,000 first-
year graduate study awards offered
by the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation for 1963-64
is now under way.
Any member of the academic
profession may nominate a candi
date for a Fellowship if he or she
believes that the candidate gives
promise of becoming a valuable
member of the academic profession.
Student qualifications include: na
tive ability; solid undergraduate
preparation for graduate study
leading to the Ph.D degree; com
petence in foreign languages atid
other required subjects such as
mathematics; ability in writing of
essays and reports on independent
work accomplished.
Chief Brown Bear Jack White
Cpl. “Billy” Jester .......John Smith
Capt. “Big Jim” Warington Jack Armstrong
“Little Mary Sunshine” Mary Jackson
Mme. Ernestine von Liebedich Joan Jacobowsky
Nancy Twinkle ..Lynn Hall
Fleet Foot ......Marshall Booker
Young Ladies:
Henrietta Betsy Hatton
Gwendolyn Marty Richmond
Blanche Sandi Kimbrell
Sue Maier
Maud Zena Strub
^ ‘ ‘ - Landis Miller
Forest Rangers :
Tex ^....,. ... Bill Lancaster
Buster — Walter Watkins
Mank .....: .....:.......John Mock
Lecture Series Presents
Critic, Statesman, Actor
The Lecture Series will present
three guest speakers this semester
on October 10, November 1, and
December 12.
The first of the speakers, Vir-
gilia Peterson is a well-known
literary critic who has made guest
appearances on various television
programs and who, herself, has
written two books. Her book re
views appear in the New York
Times Review, The Saturday Re
view, The New York Herald Tri
bune’s Books, and various other
national magazines. Miss Peterson
will present “Books in Profile,” an
informal commentary on recent
fiction and biography.
Dr. Mario Amadeo, internation
ally k n own statesman, author,
jurist, and diplomat will be the
guest speaker in November. Dr.
Amadeo, a native of Argentina, ser
ved as a permanent delegate to the
United Nations and was formerly
Argentina’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs. He plans to discuss our
present and future relations with
Latin America under his topic The
Alliance for Progress.
On December 12, Basil Rathbone.
the noted English actor, will pre
sent “An Evening with Basil Rath-
bone.” Mr. Rathbone has appeared
in various plays in both the .United
States and England. He has made
nearly one hundred movies, the
most successful of which were the
Sherlock Holmes pictures. His pro
gram will be a dramatic presenta
tion of excerpts from the works of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dylan
Thomas, Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe,
Housman, Elizabeth Barrett Brown
ing, Shakespeare, and others.
Students are reminded that the
cost of the lecture series tickets
has been included in their tuition
and that there is no additional
charge for taking advantage of the
opportunity to attend the guest lec
tures.
“Mr. Besoyan has written an ex
cellent burlesque of the old-
fashioned girl-and-music nonsense,
but what he has given us is a fine
example of the eat-your-cake-and-
still-have-it-show. By adding an
affectionate regard to his mockery,
he offers his audience the double
experience in sophisticated super
iority at the innocence of an earlier
day and at the same time sharing
the simpler emotions it hasn’t out
grown.”—Watts, New York Post.
This is just one of the marvelous
reviews of Richard Besoyan’s Little
Mary Sunshine which opened off
Broadway on November 18, 1959,
and is in its third successful year.
Miss Battle is exceedingly enthus
iastic over this musical and pro
mises that it is such a fun-type
show that Salem will be singing its
songs long after its performances.
Little Mary Sunshine takes place
early in this century at the Colo
rado Inn in the Rocky Mountains.
The female lead is Little Mary
Sunshine, the proprietress of the
Colorado Inn. Her maid is quite a
comic by the name of Nancy
Twinkle. Also there is Madame
Ernestine von Lieberdich an old-
wor.n-out opera singer who never
really made the big time. There
are also the very proper young
ladies from the Eastchester Finish
ing School who comprise the female
chorus.
The male characters are Chief
Brown Bear, chief of the Radota
Indians; Corporal Billy Jester, a
forest ranger. Captain of the forest
rangers; Fleetfoot, an Indian guide;
Yellow Feather, Chief Brown Bear’s
son; General Oscar Fairfax, a re
tired Washington diplomat. The
men are, also backed up by a chorus
of forest rangers.
Little Mary Sunshine is a take
off on the musical comedy Rose
Marie done in complete seriousness.
There is one song that is a take
off on “The Indian Love Calk' and
one which is a parody on the Boy
Scout motto.
The production staff are as fol
lows : production manager, Louisa
Freeman; assistant director, Har
riet Haywood; stage managers,
Margaret Edwards and Jackie Zip-
perer; sets, Frances Bailey and
Becky Newsome; props, Janie Flee-
nor; publicity, Dottie Pooser and
Jo Phifer; lights, Lynn Morrison
and R o b b i n Causey; costumes,
Diana Wells; make-up, Aurelia
Robertson; house, Lucy Riddle and
Virginia Anderson; programs,
Karen Kelley; wardrobe, Joan Lu-
kens; sounds, Betsie Rickheimer.
Everyone can be a part of this
production, and every little bit of
help is welcome. Eager workers
are needed for the extremely elabo
rate sets, and there is a great need
for assistance in costumes, house,
and lights. If you wish to help
with any phas.e of production con
tact Louisa Freeman or sign up on
sheets that will be posted.
Welcome to Salem in the rain! Wet weather greeted the new Fresh
man class and cars wefe unloaded the hard way. (Other orientation
pictures can be found on page 4.)
GORT...
will be back
on campus
next
week
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