■ V^olume XLVI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Hiursday, March 4, 1965
Number 1 5
jHamilton Puts Soul In Rock’n Roll;
IRS Urges All To Attend Weekend
Don’t miss top night spot per-
fprmer Koy Hamilton who will
bring such hits as “You’ll Never
fV’alk Alone,” “If I Loved You,”
‘(Ebb Tide,” “Hurt,” “Unchained
H e 1 o d y,” “Everybody’s Got A
Home,” “Somebody Somewhere,”
and “Only You” to Salem’s campus
Friday night, March 5, at 8 p.m.
Roy has made outstanding tele
vision appearances on The Ed Sul
livan Show, the Jackie Gleason
Show, and the Steve Allen Show,
as rvell as the Canadian and the
Brazilian Network.
When asked how he liked “rock
’n roll,’ Roy commented, “when I
am singing this type of music, I
don’t like to think of it as rock
’n roll, but rather as rock ’n soul.”
unior Studies In France;
delates Adventures Abroad
Lucy McCallum
The first question anyone wants
iiswered in connection with a jun
ior year abroad, but which I had
sbme difficulty finding some one to
Answer for me last year, is “Does
alyear
in Paris really change you :
This question is often asked by
people like me who have seen too
:(|any “Bohemian” movies and can
picture nothing but walks by the
Seine, cafe political discussions,
and “questionable” relationships in
the apartment-workshop of a strug
gling young artist. I’m sure I have
changed a lot, but I don’t know
and probably will never know how
much of this is due to the foreign
^mosphere and how much can be
attributed to the normal junior year
self-evaluation.
jParis is a big city somewhat like
b^ew York without skyscrapers but
ajlittle different in spirit. At any
rate Paris is large enough and
diverse enough to offer something
vSiich appeals to everybody if
you’re not scared off (as I was at
first, the little country girl from
North Carolina) by the “bigness”
and the “busyness” w'hich are much
like the American “hustle and bus-
tlP’ so bitterly critized as the
American way of life. In Paris,
just as anywhere else, your life is
w^at you make it; and you get out
of it what you put into it.
The courses I have taken this
first semester at the Sorbonne are
so specialized (for example Les
Destinees of Alfred de Vigny) that
I also took several courses taught
by French professors arranged by
and for the Sweet Briar group.
Since I am a French major almost
all my courses are literature but
there are lots of art, political sci
ence, and history majors in our
group.
My general impression of my
courses is that they have left
enough up to the individual that I
think I have finally learned to work
on my own and have discovered a
real love for French literature.
As to living conditions I am with
three other American girls and a
French widow on the fourth floor
of an apartment on the corner of
the Champs-Elysee. We have hot
water at least once a day, some
heat and two baths a week. This
is not as upsetting as it might
sound, and we have developed very
good habits in conserving gas and
electricity.
All in all we’re pretty comfort
able, although every time I get in
the tub I think about those lovely
showers in Babcock. Well, I guess
I’d better close now and start
studying for my oral exam Satur
day at the Sorbonne.
Pierrette Production Goes
k Steady, Hilarious Pace
By Jane Hall
“'Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s
Hung You in the Closet and I’m
Fjfelin’ So Sad” is moving toward
P|oduction at a steady, hilarious
pace.
^This production is requiring much
of the usual hurry-scurry to dig up
the ordinary props, but the extra-
o^inary props are another matter!
A_h urgent appeal has been issued
for a piranha fish, for example. If
^u happen to own such a fish,
^ase let Tripp Tate, the head of
prop committee, know. (She
Jmises to feed him on his unique
, lerrettes work to finish scenery
for “Oh Dad . . . .”
diet of Siamease cats.) Mr. Yar
borough is also working on several
of the other props. One of his
present projects being a coffin; an
other, a ‘magic’ device to move a
chair across the stage.
Ann Ferguson and the others on
her costumes committee are pre
sently buried under yards of ma
terial adding bustles to skirts and
making skirts for the bell girls.
The scenery and lighting com
mittees, headed by Mary Lucy
Hudgens and Lisa Mabley respec
tively are also hard at work. A
request though has been made for
a few extra tall people to take care
of the lights. If you are over six
feet, please let Lisa know.
The stage manager, Beth Pre-
vost, Lisa and the production assis
tant, Feme Houser, are also find
ing their home in Old Chapel these
days.
Judy Smithson, chairman of the
poster committee; Susan Young,
head of the house tickets comnnt
tee; Sue Ann Brooks, chairman of
make-up; and Jean King, head of
newspaper publicity, will be run
ning around with the others in the
next few weeks, so make way!
Each member of the crew and the
actors promise everyone a most
entertaining production of this
slap-stick farce, so don’t miss it on
March 10, H, and 12.
When sung with expression he
feels it is like any other type of
music. It is what you put into it
that counts.
High hopes are in the air for
the IRS Concert-Dance weekend.
Girls, give that special one a last
minute ring and join your class
mates in this weekend’s exciting
events.
Don’t forget the Shirelles will be
here Saturday night with “Mama
Said,” “Ooh Poo Pa Doo,” “Dedi
cated to the One I Love,” “To
night’s the Night,” “Soldier Boy,”
“Make the Night A Little Longer,”
Foolish Little Girl,” and many
others. See you there !
Needs
Salemites’ Help
The Salemite needs your help,
particularly now that a reorgani
zation of the staff is taking place.
Of course, every area of putting
out our paper is open to new in
terests and ideas, from writing arti
cles to working at the printer’s and
acquiring inky fingerprints.
However, typists for either Mon
day or Tuesday nights are in parti
cular demand. We also need an
early bird who will take the week’s
copy to the printer’s every Tuesday
morning at 8 a.m. We need two
girls willing to carry the pictures
to Piedmont Engraving’s office be
tween 11 and 12 the same morning.
And Tuesday between 4:30 and 5
p.m., the galley proofs must be
picked up at the printer’s and
brought back to school.
If you are interested, drop by
The Salemite office or contact Jan
Norman, 101 South.
The new editors, Carol Gerrard, Jan Norman, and Dottie Girl
ing, tackle their jobs and find that good grammar doesn't always
help.
Salem Publication Staff
Choose 1965-66 Editors
By Susan Jones
The staffs of Salem’s three publi
cations, The Salemite, Sights and
Insights, and The Archway, have
recently elected their new editors
for 1965-66. The girls chosen are
capable workers who have had ex
perience on their respective publi-
catio:'is, so next year promises to
be a good one in regard to Salem’s
journalist'c ; nd literary efforts.
The new editor of Sights and In
sights is Carol Gerrard. Carol is
from Andersoti, South Carolina,
and she is majoring in piano and
minoring in French. A former hall
president of first floor Babcock,
Caro! is serving as vice president
of .WRA and secretary of the jun-
Chaplain Initiates Program,
Plans Informal Discussions
The Rev. Clark Thompson is be
ginning a new experiment in pro
graming in an attempt to raise and
discuss religious issues in the wider
context of community problems and
the approaches of other disciplines
and vocations. At this Informal
Alumnae Give
Creative Award
Again this year the Alumnae As
sociation is sponsoring the competi
tion for the Katherine B. Rond-
thaler Awards to be given for out
standing achievement in the fields
of creative writing, music, and art.
The competition is open to all
students in any major field, and
any work except that which has
been submitted for this competition
before may be entered.
The works will be judged by a
panel in each field, and the awards,
engraved silver trays, will be given
to the winners in the Awards As
sembly in May. For further infor
mation, see Miss Jess Byrd, Eng
lish, Dean Clemens Sandresky,
music, or Edwin F. Shewmake, art.
The deadline for submission is
April IS.
According to the committee
chairman, Mrs. Rom Weatherman,
this award was made for the wife
of the late President Howard B.
Rondthaler and has been sponsored
by the Alumnae Association since
1951.
Chaplain’s Evening guests will be
various people from the Winston-
Salem community. There will be
no formal program but an oppor
tunity to discuss informally over a
cup of coffee problems and issues
of the student’s own interests.
The first program will be held
March 9, 8-10 p.m. in the Alumnae
House. Students are invited to
drop in at any time and stay as
long as they wish. The guests will
be Miss Virginia Pfohl from the
City-County Welfare Department
and Vic Corbin from the North
Carolina School for Advancement,
who was a member of the Peace
Corps serving in Costa Rica for
two years.
The next program will be March
30 with Dr. Joseph Cutri, promi
nent Winston-Salem psychiatrist.
Come, meet some interesting peo
ple and join in the discussion.
ior class. She has been on the
annual staff for two years. Carol
has appointed Ann King of Nash
ville, Tennessee, as business man
ager of Sights and Insights. Ralph
Hill is adviser.
Jan Norman from Richmond,
Virginia, will serve as editor-in-
chief of The Salemite next year.
Double majoring in English and
history, Jan has been on The
Salemite staff since her freshman
year. As a freshman, she was also
NSA representative for her class.
A former house president of Bab
cock, she has been a member of
Dansaiems and Phi Alpha Theta.
Concerning her plans for The
Salemite next year, Jan hopes to
establish a stronger connection be
tween The Salemite and campus
organizations and between The
Salemite and the faculty. She de
sires more participation by the stu
dents such as letters to the editor.
Miss Jess Byrd is advisor.
A native of Taunton, Massachu
setts, Dottie Girling is the new
editor of The Archway... An Oslo
Scholar, Dottie served during her
sophomore year as a representative
to Legislative Board and is cur
rently associate editor of The Arch
way. She is double majoring in
English and French. Next year
Dottie hopes to have two issues of
The Archway, one with a sym
posium. She wants the staff of
The Archway to serve as criticism
for Salemites who are trying to
write or to create in the arts. Lit
erary advisor is Dr. William White,
and art advisor is Edwin Shew
make.
Other staff positions of the publi
cations will be filled by the respec
tive editors in the near future.
Committee Plans Symposium
A temporary symposium commit
tee, headed by Elinor Trexler, has
announced that the faculty has
voted to have a symposium every
two years.
As yet there is no specific data
except that the symposium will be
held after Easter next year. No
topic has been decided upon and
therefore no speakers have been
contacted. The committee urges
suggestions for topics from stu
dents.
The symposium will be on a con
troversial subject, possibly in the
field of religion, the death of re
ligion, existentialism, church and
the college girl, foreign policy, the
South in continuity and change, the
status of women, or the role of the
college girl in society. If anyone
has attended a symposium at an
other college on these subjects or
other topics and would like to offer
suggestions, please contact Elinor
Trexler in Strong Dormitory.