DAMERON, KING, WILSON EXPRESS VIEWPOINT
Mary Dameron
Acceptance of the candidacy for
Student Govpnment president
means that decisions must be made.
A^hen such decisions may affect
! :he future life of a college campus,
^hey must be based on the wants
and needs of that community. My
desire to serve comes from my
tnowledge of many of the wants
and needs of Salem students. I
t m aware that Student Government
an be improved with such addi
tions as adult advisers for every
carnpus organization, more emp
hasis on, and financial support of,
participation in conferences, more
specific responsibilities for class
representatives. Student Govern
ment questionnaires once each se
mester, and continued communi
cation with the faculty and admi
nistration.
I have served on Judicial Board
as freshman class vice-president,
and on Legislative Board as NSA
Co-ordinator. I am presently the
secretary of Student Government.
Jean King
Student Government is a privi
lege we have as Salem students.
Its effectiveness depends on what
each of us puts into it. After our
school years, we will be more cap
able of being contributing members
of our democratic society because
we have learned how it works
through governing ourselves as stu
dents.
The president of Student Govern
ment must listen to others’ ideas
and help make these work by pre
siding over Legislative Board. She
must represent the students and
their opinions both “within and be
yond the square.” She must have
a desire to work hard and to do
the job well. She can do nothing
alone.
I advocate more participation by
more people in student government,
for it is through such involvement
we learn. As president, I would
hope to maintain the effectiveness
of our student government and help
further its progress.
I have served on Legislative
Board as sophomore class presi
dent. 1 am presently serving as
secretary of Judicial Board.
Ann Wilson
This year Student Government
has forged ahead at a record-
breaking pace, yet the more that
is accomplished, the more we see
has to be done. Only the surface
of potential has been scratched.
The first goal is to stimulate in
terest in student affairs and to
make each student aware of her
vital role in this community. By
acting on committees and working
on the forthcoming symposium,
many more students will feel their
worth at Salem.
I would definitely advocate an..
extension in the conference pro
gram as it benefits the school and
the individual. Also I vdll stress
the importance of a good student-
faculty relationship and the impor
tance of students on faculty com
mittees.
Because I was president of our
freshman class and am treasurer
of Student Government, I have ser
ved on Legislative Board two years
and Executive Board one year. Last
year I served on Judicial Board as
■president of Clewell.
olume XLVI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Thursday, February 25, 1965
Number 14
lESDA Provides View
f Life In Early South
A new tourist attraction has
opened recently on Main Street
ibout three blocks from the square.
-This new brick building in the
%iidst of Old Salem houses the
Museum of Early Southern Deco
rative Arts or MESDA as it is
affectionately called by Old Salem,
Inc., its owner and operator.
t lESDA opened January 4, 1965.
[ours of exhibition are weekdays
i-om 9:30 to 4:30, and Sunday from
2:00 to 4:30. Admission is $1.50.
The purpose of the MESDA pro-
Jfect is to add to the interpretation
of historic Old Salem. It is hoped
to show the accomplishments of
the agrarian South in the way of
the decorative arts, and something
of the societies wdiich surrounded
the town of Salem. This museum
will be dedicated to the study of
the work of cabinetmakers, metal-
yriths, artists, potters, and the
crafts of Southern homes.
MESDA consists of fifteen.
. period rooms and four galleries.
,-?the rooms are from southern
^lomes and date from 1690 to 1820.
BJrranged in date order, they are
furnished principally with the deco
rative arts of Maryland, Virginia,
and the Carolinas from about 1640
to 1820. It is hoped that other
areas of the South will be given a
more prominent place in the future.
The main collection consists of
furniture and paintings. It is hoped
that the collection can be expanded,
particularly in the field of silver,
pewter, ironwork, pottery, and tex
tiles. The study and publication of
material relating to the Museum’s
purpose is underway and first
effort, a book on the arts and
crafts of North Carolina, is sche
duled in late 1965.
Accessory items throughout
MESDA are selected to duplicate
those things used in the South dur
ing the period . of the Museum,
based on study of early documents
and reports of archeological find
ings. They include pottery and
porcelain from England, Germany
and the Orient, and brass and iron
ware from England and Holland.
While old fabrics have been used
where possible, old documents have
also been copied, in both fabrics
and wallpaper, especially for
MESDA, by Brunschwig and Fils.
John E. Winters, Inc., of New
York City, has been the Museum’s
design consultant and upholsterer.
Source: Fact Sheet on MESRA
from Old Salem, Inc.
Junior Studies In France,
Relates Adventure Abroad
^alemites Participate In ’65 SSL,
Ijx^in 'Best Legislation’ Award
' By Pat Hankins
'Eight students and one faculty
member left Thursday morning,
F|ebruary 18, for Raleigh and the
State Student Legislature with
atms and minds laden with infor-
I mation and facts concerning bill-
blfcards and outdoor advertising.
[) They returned Saturday, February
20, tired, but with the award for
presenting the best legislation in
the 1965 State Student Legislature
■-an award which they received in
a tie with the Duke men.
'The members of the committee
who attended were Mary Dameron,
,;jfan King, Robbin Causey, Judy
|Banipbell, Carson McKnight, Peggy
Ipfooker, Pat Hankins, and Anne
. McMasters. Miss Jane Bush ac-
I TOmpanied the students as an ad
viser. Salem’s bill was presented
late Friday afternoon in the se
cond legislative session. It passed
both the senate and the house by
an overwhelming margin. Then in
a meeting of the Conference Com
mittee it was voted, along with the
Duke men’s bill to revise the sta
tutes concerning fornication, adult
ery, and deviate sexual conduct, as
best bill.
Salem also had two other dis
tinctions at the Legislature. Mary
Dameron was elected to serve as
recording secretary of the Senate
and Carson McKnight was ap
pointed as a member of the Con
ference Committee.
It should be noted that Salem
has only been participating in the
State Student Legislature for two
years and this is the first year
that it has presented a bill. To
achieve these honors is a very
commendable performance.
LIONEL WIGGAM
Lecture Series
Brings Wiggam
Monday, March 1, the Salem
Lecture Series will present Lionel
Wiggam, an outstanding poet, play
wright, and short story writer.
Aside from his literary achieve
ments, Mr. Wiggam has led an
astonishing life. His face familiar?
Small wonder. For over seven
years it has been in advertisements
in every major magazine and news
paper in the country. The New
York Times has called him “the
most in demand model of all time.”
But pounding a typewriter is in
finitely more attractive than posing
before cameras. His first short
story was published at age thirteen;
subsequently some thirty other
stories and over two hundred
poems have appeared in The At
lantic Monthly, Harper’s, and al
most every national magazine of
literary importance.
A cum laude graduate of Prince
ton, Mr. Wiggam was selected by
the Indiana librarians as winner of
the Author’s Award for the best
new book of poetry in 1962.
As a dramatist, he received the
Ford Foundation Award for play
writing and has written motion
pictures for Susan Hayward,
Eleanor Parker, and others. Tal
ented, likeable, he appeals to all
those interested in creative writ
ing; in other words to all those
young in spirit and heart. Please
don’t miss him. It should be re
warding.
By Lucy McCallum
(Editor’s Note: This article is
taken from a letter from Lucy
McCallum, a junior from Raleigh
who is studying in Paris. Another
part of her letter will be included
next week.)
I don’t really know how to start
or what you want to know, but Dr.
Lewis has written me that there
are several sophomores thinking
about a junior year obroad. I will
be glad to write them and answer
any questions they have about the
Sweet Briar program or if I can,
about Smith or Hamilton which
have their Paris offices in the same
building as Sweet Briar.
A frequently asked question is
“What do you think of French
men ?” There are two catagories
of Frenchmen who would interest
Salem girls, the university students
and the young businessmen. The
students are studying to be doc
tors, lawyers, scientists, or profes
sors.
In general, they know exactly
what they are going to do the rest
of their life by the time they are
old enough to be of interest to
Salem girls. This is practically
necessary because the universities
(that is the Facultes, of the Uni
versity of Paris—Law, Medicine,
Political Sciences, Beaux-Arts, and
Science) are so specialized that
when one enters at the age of ap
proximately 18 or 19, there are
absolutely no freshmen courses, re
quired courses, or anything other
than the specialization we find in
our major at the beginning of the
junior year.
Back to the boys . . . they are
dedicated and, I think, sincerely
interested in their studies. They
are much more serious and spend
much more time studying (at the
end of the year as they have no
exams except in June) than the
average “Mr. Joe College USA.”
There are no dormitories, frater
nity houses (or fraternities), or any
sort of community life. The only
signs of real unity I have seen
have been in the student “syndi-
cats” at the Sorbonne striking for
more classroom space. There are
few student organizations (one is
Centre Richelieu which is spon
sored by the Catholic Church and
gives lectures and has campouts at
youth hostels to discuss literary
and religious subjects), no student
athletics, and no officially organi
zed and recognized student govern
ment as we know it.
The Political Science Institute,
fondly known as “Science Po,” is
somewhat the exception to this rule
as they have a sort of unity within
their Faculte wdth several parties a
year and organized debates.
Alas! With no IRS dances, Wake
Forest, Carolina, Davidson, Duke,
or State fraternity parties or base
ball, basketball, or football games,
what does the French student do
for social life? He walks by the
Seine, goes out to dinner, sees a
movie or a play. Or if he is a
“struggling young student” he
might spend the whole evening in
a cafe drinking expresso coffee or
beer and talking. The lost art of
conversation is not yet lost in
France which is only beginning to
discover television.
The students really talk and dis
cuss current events, politics, or
literature casually over a cup of
coffee like we used to do in the
Dairy Barn when it was only two
steps from the Salem Square.
As for the business man, he has
more financial resources and if he
knows 3’ou are a lost American, he
is the one who is likely to take
you restaurant hopping ending up
in Les Halles at 3 or 4 a.m. seeing
the farmers bring in their produce
at the “Pied de Couchon.”
This young businessman is seri
ous about his business, but likes
his weekend as much as any Ameri
can bourgeois. He has only gotten
out of school a few years ago and
is more than willing and qualified
to discuss politics or art no matter
what his specialty was. I have seen
two lawyers in a violent discussion
at a cocktail party over the dif
ference between Racine and Greek
tragedy. In general Frenchmen
are very different from what the
Salem girl has met in the way of
men but quite interesting to talk
to.
Paine, Mangum
To Discuss Art
At Coffeehouse
The YWCA is sponsoring a Y-
Coffeehouse on Tuesday, March 2,
at 6:30 p.m. in the (51ub Dining
Room. William Mangum and Dr.
Stephen Paine will be the featured
speakers for the evening.
The topic for the coffeehouse is
“Religion in Art and Literature in
the 20th Century.” There ■will be
refreshments served while you lis
ten.
A group discussion will follow
the talks by Mr. Mangum and Dr.
Paine.