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THE SALEMITE
Science Council Grants
Fellowships To Citizens
Miss Nancy Wurtele practices the piano a full time job.
Miss Wurtele Recognizes
Students As Individuals
By Diane Fuller
“You must be freezing. Wouldn’t
you like a cup of coffee ? asked
Miss Nancy Wurtele, new piano
teacher. And so, over a cup of
coffee, music and the musician
were discussed from the University
of Southern California to Julliard,
and from the United States to
Italy. “At use music is played
to he music—for the personal joy
of the pianist and the pleasure of
the audience. Julliard is a factory,
and the students have to live real
istically, governed hy the stand
ards required for performing.
At this point Miss Wurtele ex
plained the intense rigor a concert
pianist experiences: first of all he
must arrive at a position of fame
in order to make a living. Secondly,
the constant tension and nervous
ness before each performance-
traveling all over the country, not
having time to practice before a
concert—and the cut-throat com
petition that continues when the
pianist enters a school such as
lulliard—these are a part of being
a concertizing pianist. Having
studied witli Mine. Rosina Lehi
vinne. V an Cliburn s teacher. Miss
Wurtele painfully recalls how
Mme. Lehivinne would pick her
apart at each lesson—every detail
imaginable. And no one but
musician would understand.
Teaching, and teaching at Salem,
offers the ideal combination of
being able to perform and continue
with music as a career and also
of earning a living without the
bloody cut-throat competition. The
IRC Sponsors
Political Debate
The International Relations
Committee sponsored a political de
bate between the Democrats and
the Republicans on campus Thurs
day, December 13, at 6:30 p.m. in
the Day Student Center.
Speaking for the Democrats were
Dr. Inzer Byers, Mr. Allen Harris,
Marguerite Harris, and Alice Reid.
They were challenged by Mr,
James Bray and Wendy McGlinn,
the spokesmen for the Republican
Party. Mr. Hewson Michie acted
as moderator.
The first part of the program was
devoted to bipartisan instruction,
with each side presenting party
views on various issues. Domestic
problems such as the national bud
get, federal aid to elucation, federal
medical care for the aged, the farm
program, and business, and foreign
issues such as the basis for the
foreign aid program, Latin Ameri
can affairs, especialy in Cuba, and
the value of the Peace Corps, were
discussed.
The latter part of the program
consisted of heated debate between
parties on the most controversial
issues.
public seldom realizes that an artist
has to devote hours to practicing,
and that any artist when he de
cides upon his art as a career
really has to be dedicated and his
work must come before anything
else.
'here is a great difference be
tween the musician in America and
in Europe. Although Italy was in
tellectually and artistically stimu
lating, musically it was poor. Ital
ians are poor people and the stand
ard of living is lower than in the
US. However, although the music
was not so good as that in the
US, the people did attend. Whet
her this responsiveness of the audi
ence cuts down on the calibre of
music performed, Miss Wurtele
questioned. But all the tension on
the concert musician in America
tends to make him unhealthy as a
person, she explained. Julliard, for
instance, is full of sick people. If
there were some means of state
support for the musician in Amer
ica, and artists in general, the US
would be able to produce some
thing more than an efficient musi
cian, she commented. She con
tinued, “I seriously doubt if we can
surpass the Russian musician who
is state-supported.”
Teaching—Miss Wurtele has no
“theory of teaching” because,
“luckily I teach individuals and not
groups of students. And each stu
dent is too individual to go by any
set theory or rules. In teaching,
too, I learn as I teach, and I learn
something from each one. I just
wish they could discipline them
selves to a more dedicated ap
proach to music.”
The National Academy of Sci-
mces-National Research Council
has been called upon again to ad
vise the National Science Founda
tion in the selection of candidates
for the Foundation’s program of
regular and postdoctoral fellow
ships. Committees of outstanding
cientists appointed by the Aca-
lemy-Research Council will evalu
ate applications of all candidates.
Final selection will be made by the
Foundation, with awards to be an
nounced on March 15, 1963.
Fellowships will be awarded for
study in the mathematical, physical,
nedical, biological, and engineering I
sciences; also in anthropology, psy
chology (excluding clinical psycho
logy), geography, economics (ex
cluding business administration),
sociology (not including social
work); and the history and philo
sophy of science. They are open
to college seniors, graduate and
postdoctoral students, and others
with equivalent training and ex
perience. All applicants must be
citizens of the United States and
will be judged solely on the basis
of ability.
Applicants for the graduate
awards will be required to take the
Graduate Record Examination de
signed to test scientific aptitude
and achievement. This examina
tion, administered by the Educa
tional Testing Service, will be given
on January 19, 1963, at designated
centers throughout the U. S. and
certain foreign countries.
The annual stipends for graduate
Fellows are as follows; $18(X) for
the first level; $2000 for the inter
mediate level; and $2200 for the
terminal level. The annual stipend
for postdoctoral Fellows is $5000.
Limited allowances will also be pro
vided to apply toward tuition,
laboratory fees, and travel.
December 14, 1962
Board Names Two
The Board of Trustees held a
reorganization meeting Thursday,
December 6. The following new
trustees were elected: Mr. Albert
I - L Butler, Jr., president of Arista
Further 'u Mills of 'winston-Salem, and Mr.
cation materials may be obtained jMills oi __ ^ ^
from the Fellowship Office, Na
tional Academy of Sciences-Na-
tional Research Council, 2101 Con
stitution Avenue, N.W., Washing
ton 25, D. C. The deadline for the
receipt of applications for graduate
fellowships is January 4, 1963.
Calder Womble, a member of the
Winston-Salem law firm of Wom
ble, Carlyle, Sandridge, and Rice.
A reorganization meeting was re
quired by the Moravian Synod
Iwhich met earlier on campus.
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DECK THE HALLS
When you think of Christmas gifts you naturally think of
Marlboro cigarettes, leading seller in flip-top box in all fifty
states—and if we annex Wales, in all fifty-one—and if we an
nex Lapland—in all fifty-two. This talk about annexing Wales
and Lapland is, incidentally, not just idle speculation. Great
Britain wants to trade Wales to the United States for a desert.
Great Britain needs a desert desperately on account of the
tourist trade. Tourists are always coming up to the Prime
Minister or the Lord Privy Seal or like that and saying, “Pm
not knocking your country, mind you. It’s very quaint and
picturesque, etc. what with Buckingham Palace and Bovril
and Scotland Yard, etc., but where’s your desert?” (Before I
forget, let me point out that Scotland Yard, Britain’s plain
clothes police branch, was named after Wally Scotland and
Fred Yard who invented plain clothes. The American plain
clothes force is called the FBI after Frank B. Inchcliff, wLo
invented fingerprints. Before Mr. Inchcliff’s invention, every
body’s fingers were absolutely glassy smooth. This, as you
may imagine, played hob with the identification of newborn
babies in hospitals. From 1791 until 1904 no American parent
ever brought home the right baby from the hospital. This
later became known as the Black Tom Explosion.)
But I digress. England, I was saying, wants to trade Wales
for a desert. Sweden wants to trade Lapland for Frank B. Inch-
cliff. The reason is that Swedes to this day still don’t have
fingerprints. As a result, identification of babies in Swedish
hospitals is so haphazard that Swedes flatly refuse to bring their
babies home. There are, at present, nearly a half-billion un
claimed babies in Swedish hospitals—some of them w^ell over
eighty years old.
But I digress. We were speaking of Christmas gifts which
naturally put us in mind of Marlboro cigarettes. What could
be more welcome at Christmas time than Marlboro’s flavor,
Marlboro’s soft pack, Marlboro’s flip-top box? What indeed
would be more welcome at any time of year—winter or sum
mer, rain or shine, night or day? Any time, any season, when
you light a Marlboro you can always be certain that you will
get the same mild, flavorful, completely comfortable smoke.
There are, of course, other things you can give for Christmas
besides Marlboro cigarettes. If, for example, you are looking
for something to give a music lover, let me call to your atten
tion a revolutionary new development in phonographs—the
Low-fi phonograph. The Low-fi, product of years of patient
research, has so little fidelity to the record you put on it that if,
for instance, you put “Stardust” on the turntable, “Melancholy
Baby will come out. This is an especially welcome gift for
people who have grown tired of “Stardust”.
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
) 1962 Max Sbulman
The makers of Marlboro cigarettes, who take pleasure in
ringing you this column throughout the school year, wish
to join old Max in extending greetings of the Season.