Volume XLIV
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 11, 1963
Wesley Foundation Takes
lay Scholarship Applications
The Community of Lay Scholars
s accepting applications for the
new first year community which is
now being formed. The Community
£oard Meets
[Causey Reports
Monday afternoon the Finance
Board met to distribute funds to
the various organizations on cam
pus. Student Government Trea
surer Robbin Causey reports that
almost $11,000, collected from stu
dent activity fees, was given to
club and class treasurers.
Mr. Ralph Hill, college comptrol
ler, spoke to the group, giving ad
vice on efficient record keeping.
In addition the Executive Com
mittee, composed of Mr. Marshall
Booker, Dr. William White, Fran
ftamer, Julia Miley, Pam Truette,
Mrs. Amy Heidbreder, Dr. Dale
Gramley, and Robbin Causey, was
named.
Student organizations wishing to
secure approval of fund-raising pro
jects may petition this executive
(>mmittee, and, upon approval, put
the projects in motion.
of Lay Scholars, sponsored by the
Wesley Foundation, is an attempt
to delve more deeply into the signi
ficant religious questions of our
day. The various areas to be ex
plored are contemporary social
ethics, the nature of the Church,
Church history, theology, and the
Bible.
The first year community will
begin the second week of October.
The plan is to meet for two hours
each week to have dinner, discuss
the topics assigned, and worship
together. In addition, it will" be
expected of each participant that
he will spend a minimum of two
hours each week preparing for the
session.
The only cost involved will be
for the materials used, which will
not exceed five dollars this first
year. Materials to be studied this
year will include Dynamics of Faith
by Paul Tillich and The New Es-
sense of Christianity by William
Hamilton. Also, several papers will
be read on the nature of the
Church.
All students who are interested
in applying for membership should
contact the Methodist Chaplain,
David Riffe, by telephoning 723-
4766. Upperclassmen will be given
preference.
Alice Reid
Phi Alpha Theta
Holds Induction
SupperMeeting
[^SA Receives Invitation
From Turtle International
^Tliis week in the various mail
which NSA receives, came quite an
unusual invitation: “Salem College
is requested to enter a contestant
in the Intercollegiate Turtle Inter
national." It seems that American
University in Washington, D. C.,
culminating a six-week drive for
Muscular Dystrophy, is sponsoring
ijthirty-five foot “dash” for turtles!
[if Salem should choose to be rep
resented at the Turtle International,
Jiall entrance and turtle-rental
Bes would be required, all proceeds
?oing to the Muscular Dystrophy
E^und. Having chosen a name for
ts turtle, colleges entering the race
lave the opportunity to rent an
'^ilete” from the National Zoo.
December 6 at 4 p.m., the gun
vill sound, and water terrapins
^presenting colleges all over the
Jnited States will descend a thirty-
ive foot slope. The winner will
'e the first to reach a water trough
‘Pthe bottom.
Frizes for the winning turtle in-
lude a ride on one of American
diversity’s Homecoming floats, a
i|Ss from the Homecoming Queen,
a trophy, and valuable prizes for
the sponsoring school.
Should Salem’s unseen hero be
declared one of the three top
racers, prizes, including encyclo
pedias and gift certificates would
be awarded to the school.
IRC Discusses
S. Viet Nam;
Gokhale Speaks
hs
Entertains
New Professors
*l^onday,Oct.l4
IRS is sponsoring a coffee in
onor of the new faculty. The
^ffee will be held in Strong
Wcndship Room on Monday, Octo-
14, from 3 to 5 p.m.
Faculty to be honored are Mr.
ames E. Burgess, Mr. Errol M.
lauss, Mrs. Betty Crossley, Mrs.
^rge Henry Horne, Mr. Donald
IcLeod, Miss Agnes O’Hara, Mrs.
Ilrilyn Stowers, Dr. Margaret
^eitzner, and Mrs. Blevyn
^heeler.
j^ll students and faculty are in-
ited. -i-
The International Relations Club
will meet Thursday, October 17, at
6:30 p.m. in the Day Student Cen
ter. The guest speaker will be Dr.
B. G. Gokhale, visiting professor at
Salem and Wake Forest College.
Dr. Gokhale will speak on the
conflict in South Viet Nam. Be
sides discussing the war with North
Vietnamese, he will also discuss the
internal conflict between Diem’s
government and the Buddhist
majority. After twenty minutes of
discussion, the members of IRC
will have an opportunity to ask
questions.
Dr. Gokhale is an outstanding
Asian historian. He has traveled
widely and written on Indian his
tory and culture. He has also made
a study of Asian history and poli
tics.
The officers of IRC are: Mary
Alice Teague, president; Barbara
Gottschalk, vice president; Bitsie
Richheimer, secretary - treasurer;
Wendy McGlinn, program chair
man; and Pat Hankins and Bar
bara Mallard, publicity. Mr. Errol
M. Clauss is the advisor.
Membership for IRC is open to
all interested students. Programs
are held every third Thursday night
at which time panels, debates and
speakers discuss current issues.
Other programs this semester will
include talks by the Oslo Scholars
and the foreign students.
Phi Alpha Theta, national honor
ary history society, will induct two
members on Wednesday, October
16, in Strong Friendship Room. The
new members are Alice Reid and
Mr. Errol M. Clauss. Require
ments for membership are twelve
hours of history with a B plus
average and an over all B average.
The induction, which will begin at
5:15 p.m., will be followed by a
dinner meeting.
Senior Alice Reid from Harts-
ville. South Carolina, is an English
major and a history and chemistry
minor. Business manager of The
Salemite, she is also active in IRC.
As well as being treasurer of the
senior class, Alice is now preparing
for her parts in the fall production
of For Heaven’s Sake! This past
summer she studied in Norway as
an Oslo Scholar. Upon completion
of her B.A. degree, Alice hopes to
go to graduate school.
Histor}^ professor, Mr. Errol M.
Clauss, received his B.A. from
Gettysburg College and his M. A.
from Emory University, where he
has begun work on his Ph. D. He
has been an instructor, graduate
teaching fellow, and research assis
tant at Emory.
The other active members of Phi
Alpha Theta are: Nancy Knott,
president; Tish Johnston, Wendy
McGlinn, Frances Bailey, Dean Ivy
Hixson, Dean Amy Heidbreder, Dr.
Inzer Byers, Mr. Hewson Michie,
and Dr. Lucy Austin.
Wurtzel Gives
Faculty Concert
Miss Nancy Wurtele, a piano in
structor at Salem, is planning to
give a piano concert October 14 at
8:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. She
will play a set of Beethoven vari
ations, Brahm’s First Sonata, Sona
tina by Ravel, and two works by
Chopin: F Sharp Major Impromptu,
and F Sharp Major Ballade.
Miss Wurtele has been playing
the piano since the age of five. She
was awarded her B. M. at the Uni
versity of Southern California and
her M. S. at Julliard School of
Music in New York. She studied
professionally at Harvard Univer
sity in Cambridge, Massachuetts,
Tanglewood Music Festical in Mas
sachusetts, and the Academic di
Santa Celia in Rome, Italy, as a
Fulbright - Italian Government
Grantee. She has played chamber
music and has given many solo re
citals.
The public is invited to attend
the recital.
University Center Initiates
Five Cooperative Proj'ects
To Benefit Area Schools
With fifteen other colleges and
universities of the area, Salem Col
lege has entered upon a cooperative
program designed to promote great
er academic strength, to provide
additional services, and to achieve
more operational efficiency. The
Piedmont University Center opened
its headquarters in Winston-Salem
March 1.
The Piedmont University Cen
ter’s institutional membership rep
resents a desirable cross-section of
liberal arts institutions—men’s col
leges, women’s colleges, co-educa-
tional, state-related, church-affilia
ted, white, and Negro. The pro
gram promises to virtually revolu
tionize the institutional philosophy
of many colleges and universities
throughout the land.
The following five cooperative
projects comprise the beginning
efforts of the center’s program;
Visiting Scholars Program, Spon
sored Faculty Research, Coopera
tive Artists and Lectures, Library
Affairs, and Cooperative Professor
ships.
The program for bringing scho
lars to member institutions begins
this fall. Dr. Lucy Austin, Salem’s
representative to the Center Com
mittee for Visiting Scholars, has
announced that three internation
ally known scholars will come to
the Salem campus early next year,
and a total of eight will visit the
area.
Dr. Paul B. Sears, Professor
Emeritus of Botany at Yale, will
speak at the assembly hour at
Salem on Thursday, February 13.
His topic will be “Man and Na
ture in Today’s World.”
Dr. Willard Thorpe, professor of
English at Princeton University,
will spend a full day on campus
Thursday, February 27, and will de
liver a lecture entitled “How We
Got the English Major.”
Also of Princeton, where he is
professor of history. Dr. Arthur S.
Link will spend a half day on
campus Thursday, March 12. If he
can plan his arrival in time, he
will speak at the assembly hour on
“Writing Contemporary History:
Challenges and Opportunities.”
All three of the scholars will be
invited to meet with certain classes
or other groups during their time
at Salem for general discussions
within their fields of specialization.
According to Dr. Austin, “Both stu
dents and faculty will have a great
opportunity for intellectual stimu
lation and growth through contact
in large and small groups with
these scholars.”
A great step has been taken by
the Center in the area of library
affairs. An arrangement has been
made whereby the binding of books
and periodicals for member libraries
will be done by their private bind
ers at wholesale prices. This would
mean a great saving with no loss
in quality of binding. Mrs. Anna
J. Cooper, Salem’s librarian, has
been active in the project for pre
paring a Union List of Periodicals
of all the member colleges. This
will lead to an exchange of periodi
cal material in the future between
colleges.
Dr. William B. W^hite of Salem
explains the work of the Committee
on Faculty Research as a program
to encourage faculty research pro
jects. Based on Piedmont Center
Grants, they could be used to
bring a research project to a point
where a foundation could be in
terested in a sustaining grant for
the project. The Center has at
present about $8,000 set aside for
these “seed grants,” which will be
awarded by January, 1964.
Due to Salem’s small size, the
limited budget allocated for avail
able lecturers, and the lack of an
adequate place to accommodate a
ticket-buying audience, the Center
Program for Artists and Lecturers
seems at present not advantageous
tc) Salem. Dr. Inzer Byers, Salem’s
representative to this committee,
feels that the Center may be of
possible advantage in other ^reas:
cooperative booking action, trans
portation of students to outstand
ing attractions at member colleges
in the area, and the sharing of art
events.
The presidents of the sixteen
member schools serve as the Pied
mont University Center’s Board of
Directors, and Salem’s Dr. Gramley
is vice-president of the organi
zation.
Pierrettes Begin
HarlequinGrant
In addition to the five familiar
awards now given annually by the
Pierrettes, another award will be
given to deserving people who work
on the various Pierrette produc
tions at Salem. Established re
cently by the Pierrettes, the Harle
quin Award can be earned for work
on a Pierrette production.
The Pierot Award for the best
actress has been the coveted award
of those girls who were members
of the cast in one of the two an
nual productions. In the past, only
four other awards, Certificates of
Merit, were given for outstanding
contributions in one aspect of pro
duction over a period of two years.
The only requirement for the
Harlequin Award is sixty hours of
work on one Pierrette production
but may include work in various
areas. Freshmen can now earn
recognition for work on the pro
duction staff.
Frances Bailey, president of
Pierrettes, has explained the new
award thus: “The purpose of this
new award is to give recognition
to the many people who work on
Pierrette productions since, accord
ing to the Pierrette Constitution,
we may give only four Certificates
of Merit.”
College Begins
Lecture Series
With Handler
The Salem College Lecture Series
opens the 1963-64 season November
4 with a lecture by M. S. Handler,
foreign correspondant of The New
York Times. His topic will be “As
East and West Europe View U. S.
Foreign Policy.”
April 20, the Lecture Series pre
sents Hans Conreid, motion picture
and television personality, who will
present a program with readings
from Shakespeare and other poetry.
The third speaker for the Lecture
Series has not been chosen, as the
possibility of a symposium is still
under discussion. A decision should
be made by early November.
Since the fee is included in the
student budget, all Salem students
are members of the Lecture Series.