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mMaaaMBaaaaaogmmm Page Four THE SALEMITE November 1, |C M rs. Blevyn H. Wheeler, new English teacher, serves as a freshman faculty advisor. Wheeler Teaches English, Enjoys Salem Atmosphere Mrs. Blevyn H. Wheeler, a new member of the Salem department of English, taught at Salem Aca demy last year and is now teaching during the first semester. She says that she enjoys the atmosphere of two-hundred-year-old Salem, the attitude of the students, and the enthusiasm of her freshman classes. Mrs. Wheeler, who was raised in Oakboro, North Carolina, attended Wake Forest for her undergraduate work, and received her Master’s de gree from the University of North Carolina in 1956. In 1960, after teaching at a Rochester, New York, high school, Dr. Gramley Construction Recommends Of Building Tuesday afternoon the Board of Trustees met to discuss, among other things, the problem caused by a deficit in the Twentieth De cade Fund. The fact that only $1,650,066.16 of the needed total of .$2,250,000 has been raised has de- ANNOUNCEMENT Freshman Seminars for the com ing week will be optional and will consist of various inventories of personality traits and vocational in terests. Held during the assigned hours for the seminars, the groups will be limited only to freshmen and to fifty girls per session. The California Inventory of Per sonality will be administered on Monday. Wednesday, and on Tues day the Occupational Interest In ventory will be given. Dean Ileidbreder stresses the fact that these seminars are optional, but adds that they are excellent 0])portunities for utilizing the in ventories and that much personal information may be gained. layed the final decision to begin the proposed Fine Arts Building. Dr. Dale H. Gramley recom- tTiended that the building be begun regardless of the amonnt of money needed, saying “The building is urgently needed; the nearly 3,000 donors to the Fund deserve to see the building materialize, and our faith will be justified in time.” “The college has a loyal consti tuency of alumnae, church mem bers, parents, and friends,” he con tinued. “These people, who have invested so much in Salem, will continue to support us, especially in a period when the quality of its service is constantly upward and its quantity of service so important tc the state and the nation.” Kromer Strives To Reveal In Pla Connections Of Churchman, Artis The idea of For Heaven’s Sake was conceived in January of 1961 when an inter-church committee of young people met to plan the 1961 North American Ecumenical Youth Assembly held in August on the University of Michigan campus. Robert Seaver, director of religious drama at the Union Theological Seminary in New York and a for mer professional actor himself, pro posed the use of a musical. He suggested Helen Kromer to write such a musical. Miss Kro- mer’s Measure of Moment with a cast of one hundred, narrated by Raymond Massey, was given at the Congregational Foreign Mission Conference in Omaha in 1955. She had established a reputation for “religious spectaculars,” including choral-dance accompaniments. De lighted with the request, she wrote the book and lyrics in two months. Mr. Seaver asked Fred Silver to write the score. Mr. Silver had worked his way through Julliard School of Music by playing piano in a Fifth Avenue bar. He had composed church music and also knew jazz. Three weeks after be ing commissioned for the work, Silver had written the score. The authors of the play were she and her husband, also an Eng lish instructor, moved to Winston- Salem, where he is teaching courses at Wake Forest. They are living in the faculty apartments at Wake Forest. During her semester at Salem, Mrs. Wheeler is teaching several courses in freshman Eng lish, composition, and sophomore English. Her future plans include taking her 14 month-old son to Reynolda Gardens in the spring, taking a more active interest in the clubs to which she belongs, and adding a little girl to the family. Recent Poll Reveals Students’ Interest In Radical Tenets Twelve Salemites were recently polled on their knowledge of Salem’s censorship of speakers. The girls were also ask^d whether they would object to hearing a Communist speaker on campus. In answer to the question of whether Salem censored speakers, two seniors, two juniors, two sopho mores and one freshman said they didn’t know. Pat Tillery and Bebe Anderson, freshmen, said they “didn’t think so,” but weren’t sure. Babs Bodine, a junior, “didn’t think so” either. Jackie Lamond, senior, stated, as did Bitsy Fulcher, fresh man, that “only state schools, not Salem, censor speakers.” The following replies were given in answer to the second question, “Would you mind hearing a Com munist speaker on campus ?” Donna Raper, senior: No, I would not object, but I’d like to know if he claims publically to be a Communist. Suzanne Worthington, freshman: Yes, unless I knew he were a Communist. Sarah Jolitz, junior: No, because it wouldn’t change my views. Babs Bodine, junior; No. I’d love it! Ann Wilson, sophomore: No. I think we need to learn more about Communism; I don’t think I’m gullible enough to be taken in by it. Bebe Anderson, freshman: No, not if you knew he were a Com munist. Jan Norman, sophomore: No, be cause I feel you’ve got to see both sides of a question in order to understand it. :0- FOR SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS YEARBOOKS PROGRAMS COLOR-PROCESS PLATES Let our experience solve your problems. PIEDMONT ENGRAVING CO. PA 2-9722 WINSTOM-SALEM, N. C. r K& W CAFETERIAS 3 Locations • Downtown 422 Cherry St. • Parkway Plaza Shopping Center Soon also at • Thruway Shopping Center Open for your convenience 7 days a week 1 worried about the acceptance of it. At the end of the performance, however, there was a ten minute standing ovation. Since it was so well received, it was repeated in New York. It has since been per formed on television and reviewed in the Saturday Evening Post and Christian Century. For Heaven’s Sake is a direct effort to bring together the church man and the artist, with the hope that the artist might be able to ex press with freshness and precision how things are in the world.^ It deals with the usual sermons in a new kind of worship service, and it accomplishes what a review seldom, if ever, accomplishes. It handles delicate issues and does not words. The play begins with a strai forward prologue describing as playing God. It invites the a ence to watch the performance also to see themselves. It ^ signed to hit hard on a subject needs exploring in an up-to- manner. As an official who w with youth said in discussing Heaven’s Sake, “Church cornm cations are still operating ni Victorian shackles • . . Chi authorities have too often insi upon ‘nice plays about good pe( and have wound up with sometl having no recognizable connec with real life.” Faculty Members Choose Eight Contest Winners For Best Frosh Rooms Winners of the IRS Freshman Room Contest, October 24, were selected by faculty judges. Prizes given were theater tickets donated by the Winston Theater. Clewell winners are Laurens Min- sor, Marty Plummer, first floor, and Susanne Bunch, Lucy Mills, second floor. The two winners in Babcock were on second floor: Suzanne Worth ington and Nan James, Anne nings and Carol McCrary. Judges were Mr. Roy Camp Dr. Margaret Weitzner, Mr. Wa Allen, Mr. Edwin Shewmake, Miss Anne Woodward. Jean Ann Werner was chain of the contest, and Happy P and Mary Elizabeth Barker v hostesses. College Representatives Will Attend Conference The annual meeting of the North Carolina College Conference will be held November 6-8, at the Jack Tar Hotel in Durham. Represent ing Salem will be Dr. Dale Grarrt- ley. Dean Ivy Hixson, Dean Amy Heidbreder, Miss Edith Kirkland, and Miss Margaret Simpson. The NCCC is an association made up of all North Carolina colleges, whether exclusively white, exclu sively Negro, or integrated. All junior and senior colleges are also represented. The total this j has been brought to 58 colleges. On Wednesday noon, a brand the NCCC, The North Carolina sociation of Collegiate Regist and Officers of Admissions, will scmble. Miss Simpson will act a panel entitled “Records and B istration in a Small College.” On Wednesday afternoon North Carolina Association of demic Deans will begin sessi (Conitinued on Page Three) SALEMITES EAT AT THE PETER PAN STEAKS — SEAFOOD — SALADS OPEN 7:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. CLOSED SUNDAYS Girls! Mr. SnavelySays: THE BOTTOM PART MAY BE CLOSED, BUT WE HAVE JUST AS MUCH UPSTAIRS. by Bitsie Richheimer
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