/olume XLVI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 16, 1964
Number 4
paivi Koivistoinen Enrolls
Wt Salem For One Year
From Helsinki, Finland, to the
sophomore class at Salem, comes
tie brown-haired, vivacious Paivi
oivistoinen. Paivi’s personality is
attractive as her looks, and she
bubbling over with exciting im-
ressions of America.
Paivi enjoys art of all types, es-
orshel Relates
Africa Problem
By Judy Guillet
Alec Gorshel, a member of the
outh African Parliament, spoke on
s country’s political problems
ctober 8, in Memorial Hall. He
[roposed a solution to the problems
If South Africa and then related
em to the existing American sit
uations.
Mr. Gorshel emphasized: “As
any (Americans) as possible
iiould know as much as possible
I bout South Africa. To a majority
f people in the United States,
irica is Africa.” Contrary to this
elief, he proceeded to prove that
outh Africa is an entirely separate
nit of the continent. It could be
lied “a piece of Europe in Africa.”
here is a great deal of diversity
the Republic of South Africa, just
there is much diversity in the
frican continent, in regard to lan-
lage, religions, and political and
onomic factors.
At the time of settlement there
■'ere no Negroes in the area which
Fe white man occupied. In time,
Jowever, the Negro was attracted
the resulting prosperity of the
white community,
f Mr. Gorshel stated that there is
a considerable difference of opinion
Aween the white political factions,
he present government of South
frica has about 55% of the support
f its people. One unifying factor in
e continent of Africa, however, is
c general drive toward independ
ence. Thirty newly independent
^tes have arisen since World
ar I. Adlai Stevenson at the
nited Nations conference said that
he UN would try to bring about
jhanges in South Africa. “The ques-
^on,” Mr. Gorshel said, “as to what
yiis government will do is still
jpen”.
pecially music. Here at Salem she
is taking piano and has joined the
chorus. In Finland her pursuits
were along a literary vein. She and
her sister compiled some short
novels when they were children,
but she did not attempt to have
them published. She also wrote a
book of poetry.
She has attended the University
of Helsinki for one year and plans
to continue studying there for five
or six years after her year in the
United States. She will major in
English (of which she has had three
years) and German (which she has
studied for eight years).
Paivi has one sister two years
younger than she is. Her father is
a well known dramatic humorist who
does much traveling. Laughingly
she calls him, “irrational,” but
quickly adds, “I am, too!"
She arrived in the United States
shortly before school began, after a
trip across the Atlantic on a student
ship. She enjoyed her voyage in
spite of Cleo, but she had to con
fess that when the chorus sang on
board “they sounded like angels
because they almost were.” Two
days were spent in New York City
where she used one day counting
stories in buildings and taking in the
vastness of the exciting city. She
hopes to return there soon.
Paivi found Salem College to be
exactly what she had hoped for —
a small girl’s school emphasizing the
arts which she loves so much. She
is taking several English courses
and history. She comments partic
ularly about the helpfulness of the
students at Salem.
From past accomplishments
Paivi’s future could lean toward
the teaching profession; for in
stance, she tutored a high school
boy in language who later graduated
cum laude in her subject. However,
Paivi loves to travel and, although
she would hate to leave Finland,
she says she would enjoy being an
interpreter in another country.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Salem’s Four Honor Students Study
Varied Topics For Research Paper;
Subjects Include Lichens, Free Will
Salem’s four honor students this
year are in varied and difficult areas
of study. Sarah Rupprecht’s studies
are centered around biology; Jerry
Johnson’s, home economics; M'ar-
ianne Wilson’s, chemistry; and
Gaye Brown’s, religion. Each of
these girls has a full schedule.
Jerry is concentrating on a def
inite area of home economics; Re
naissance cookery and food customs
as depicted in the plays of Shakes
peare. In the present stage of her
study, Jerry is reading the thirty-
seven plays of Shakespeare. Last
week she read an old food diction
ary. She is trying specifically to
find information about the hospit
ality, diets, gardens, etc., that were
prevalent in the Elizabethan Era.
She’s looking for sixteenth-century
cookbooks, also, and from all this
rriaterial she hopes to obtain the
names of foods which she has never
heard of before and to find the
recipes for these foods.
Jerry talks with Mrs. Margaret
P. Snow of the home economics
department as often as she needs
help on her studies; Dr. Stephen
Paine of the English department
helps her, too.
Sarah Rupprecht is making her
study on lichens, a lower plant
combination of algae and fungprs.
She takes a specific series and
treats it with chemical cochicine
which changes the genetic make-up
of the plant.
To perform her study, Sarah
makes three series of isolations,
does each series one hundred times,
and plans to do the study four
times; this entails 1200 experi
ments.
As she makes observations on the
color of the isolate, the type and
rate of growth, Sarah compiles
the data and makes comparisons
between her control series and
regular isolates. She has written
her preliminary outline now, and
plans to have her preliminary paper
prepared by second semester.
Sarah’s advisor is Mr. Donald
McLeod.
Marianne Wilson is now in her
second semester of study in chem
istry since she plans to graduate
in January. Specifically, she is
syntheisizing and identifying fluor
ine compounds; this involves a ser
ies of approximately five reactions.
She has done this experiment in
numerable times. She sees Dr. B.
Carson French each week and
whenever she has questions. Bert
ram O. Cosby has also helped her
when she isolates a sample and
needs to use a machine to clarify
its identity.
Gaye Brown, whose studies are in
the field of religion, is reading,
probing, and asking questions this
first semester of her honors work.
She meets with Dr. Mary S. Hill
once a week for discussion. By
second semester Gaye will have nar
rowed her topic and will write the
actual paper.
Gaye thinks now that she will
concentrate her work on the free
dom of will. She may make a his
torical study of philosophers whose
studies consisted of the pros and
cons of it, or take several different
views of one phase of freedom of
will, such as ethics, and make a
study of them, combining them
with her own views.
When each of the girls has fin
ished her research, she will turn her
paper over to the Honors Commit
tee for evaluation, and the paper
will then be turned over to the
library.
‘Dairy Barn’ Will Close
As ‘Farmer’s Dairy’ Opens
By Susan Jones
Times change and so does Salem
C. Saturday, October 17, that famil
iar college hang-out, “The Barn,”
will close its doors for the last time.
On Sunday and the days to follow,
Salem students and faculty will
make their way to the new Farmer’s
Dairy.
Constructed in the 1920’s, the
building which houses the Dairy
Barn was originally a drug store.
In 1958 it was bought by Arden
Farms, and “The Barn” came into
existence.
Four years ago when the building
was purchased by Old Salem, Inc.,
W. G. Stanford, or “Pops”, took over
the management of the Dairy Barn.
As long as Mr. Stanford has been
at “The Barn,” it has been a faculty
and student meeting place. Espe
cially when Mrs. Stanford worked
there, Salem girls would go to her
with their problems, particularly
the ones concerning their love lives.
In the summertime “The Barn”
was a rather lonely place, but the
Governor’s School at Salem the
past two summers helped business
considerably.
Associated with his son-in-law in
business as the distributor of Gener
al Food Products in this area, Mr.
Stanford would have liked to open
the Farmer’s Dairy, but he felt that
at his age the expenditure would
be too great. Mr. Stanford stated
that he does not like leaving the
Salem campus because the girls
make him feel young again.
In the future “The Barn” will be
torn down and the site landscaped
to comply with the original Old
Salem Settlement.
Babs Bodine Attends Indian Project
For Asian Seminar-1964 Workshop
All small organizations, such as
IRC, SNEA, classes, and dorm func
tions, should schedule meetings on
the calendar in the office of the
Dean of Students. Anyone wishing
to reserve school cars should sign
up on the calendar, too.
By Babs Bodine
My first look at India came at
2 a.m., July 18, as we bumped along
in a 1940 bus one hot, oppresive
night from Calcutta’s Dum Dum
Airport to the other side of the
city. I’ll never forget that 2 hour
ride, seeing the white figures asleep
on the straw mats in front of the
huts and then apartment and bus
iness buildings along the road.
Under the marquees of hotels and
buildings in the heart of the city
could be seen maybe 20 men sprawl
ed around, sound asleep, with a
sprinkling of cows dozing through
out.
I soon found out that most of
them had nearby rooms or families
and were merely enjoying the rela
tively cooler night air. This was
only one instance where a popular
notion was quickly discredited. I
was delighted to see the wide and
clean streets of this “infamous” city
of million people, the imposing
buildings, the well-kept and numer
ous parks with tropical flowers, and
the modern zoo.
I was one of 40 members of the
Asian Seminar-1964, sponsored by
the World University Service
and and YWCA and paid for
by our government. The purpose
of the trip was to send U. S.
students to India to take part
in a workcamp where an exchange
of ideas and a mutual understanding
could be reached. We took our time
getting there, stopping at Tokyo,
Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Bangkok.
Calcutta was to be my home for
four weeks, but before I settled
down with my workcamp, we head
ed to New Delhi, the capital of
India, for a 10 day orientation per
iod. We stayed in a plush, new
complex called the India Interna
tional Centre in New Delhi, and I
was bored. New Delhi is the “new”
section of Delhi, set up since in
dependence was gained, with care
fully laid out blocks for new embas
sies, imposing government build
ings, and lovely executive homes.
We spent our mornings at the
university at lectures by the pro
fessors, on topics ranging from
local economics to problems of birth
control to Indian arts and crafts.
One afternoon was spent at the
embassy where our ambassador,
Chester Bowles, spoke to us on
progress in India and on what a
huge part our foreign aid plays in
it.
At the end of 10 days I returned
to Calcutta with 5 other students
while the others on the tour went
off to their respective workcamps.
We were assigned to Jadavpur Uni
versity, which had set up a project
for us out at a Hindu mission in a
village south of the city. Here we
3 girls lived in a faculty apartment
— our bedroom consisted of beds
which were tables with a mat sur
rounded by thick mosquito netting,
a fan whirring above, w'hite-washed
w'alls with the many lizards hanging
on, and the windows without panes
but bars instead.
Our mornings were spent build
ing a short road for the mission and
the afternoons were spent at the
university with students or at sem
inars and such. One afternoon we
presented a Hootenanny to a stu
dent body of 1000 students scream
ing “Twist, twdst I” At first we
girls had difficulty in being accept
ed by the Indian boys — it seems
that they do very little socializing
wdth their females and thus were at
a loss of words with us.
It was a tearful farewell when we
had to leave our friends in Calcutta
and head for Bombay and a reunion
with the rest of the tour. We came
back via Rome and Paris; a trip
of about 30 hours of solid flying.
I hated to leave India — the people
are marvelously friendly, curious,
intelligent, and altogether different
in their whole line of thinking. But
that’s another subject.