Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Thursday, May 6, 1965
tudents Discuss South’s Future;
ew Wonder About Past Year
By Ann King
i Although many are talking about
outh’s future restoration, few have
thought about her past, and her
,^ast is a full one.
® South was built in 1804 as the
first building for the Academy and
jollege. At that time it consisted
of two stories and an attic. The
Inspector (Principal of the Aca
demy) and his family lived there,
and day students attended classes
there.
In 1811, due to the need for more
om, additional space was tacked
on to the north end of the building.
I'hen in 1855 Main Hall was built
and South was raised to four floors
to match Main Hall. South existed
then as we know it today.
|Miss Edith Kirkland, Director of
Admissions, lived on the fourth
f|oor as a senior in the Academy
before the present Academy had
been built. Seniors were given
fecial privileges: they actually had
^ms, while the underclassmen liv-
[|g on second floor slept in alcoves
with curtains separating their beds.
According to Miss Kirkland, all
was not “wine and roses”. The
rooms were shared by three girls.
She explained that usually two of
the girls got along fine, but the
third moved out every week-end to
another room.
In spite of their special privil
eges, seniors were generally, as
Miss Kirkland commented, “a
pretty ratty bunch of kids”. Such
adventures as crawling through the
attic of Sisters and making use of
the South fire-escape were not un
common.
Dating was something less com
mon among the “ratty bunch.”
When dating on campus, girls were
required to sit with their dates in
the office building, accompanied by
a teacher. If you were in good
favor with the house mother, you
could go to the movie with a date
and a chaperone. However, there
were dances at the gym, but boys
were never invited. The girls had
their own dance, and of course an
orchestra consisting of the musi
cally-minded group.
C. Author Visits Salem;
Rrst Book Wins Honors
Heather Ross Miller
|(A vibrant young writer who grad
uated Magna cum laude from Wo-
■ ian’s College of UNC and makes
hir home in North Carolina’s Bla-
County will visit Salem on Fri
day. May 7.
(She is Heather Ross Miller, a
I twenty-six year old brunette whose
fi^st novel. The Edge of the Woods
: Y>zs published in 1964 by Atheneum
of New York. Mrs. Miller will
meet Friday morning with Miss
^rd’s Creative Writing Class.
Part of her time will be devoted
to discussing the class’s papers
which have been sent to her.
2^Irs. Miller is married to Clyde
H. Miller, Superintendent of State
Lakes. She has two children and
is presently living at Singletary
Lake State Park in Bladen County.
The Edge of the Woods is pre
sently being translated by the
House of Gallimard in Paris. It
was selected by the National Asso
ciation of Independent Schools as
one of the ten best books for 1964
for the pre-college reader. She has
written two books which are slated
for publication in late 1965 or early
1966: a novel entitled Tenants of
the House and a book of poetry
which she has named The River
side Wife and Other Poems.
Mrs. Miller’s poetry has been
published in Reflections, Impetus,
The Red Clay Reader, and The
Raleigh News and Observer. She
wrote a non-fiction article which
appeared in the March 1 issue of
Vogue.
Then Thanksgiving Day was in
deed a wonderful time. Everyone
stayed at school and participated
in the basketball tournament.
Usually the girls in South studied
from 7:00 to 9 ;30 in the proctored
study halls on first floor. Study
ing could be fun if you were placed
in a corner. The house mother’s
daughter practiced her harp on se
cond floor at this time, and if the
proctor wasn’t looking, the girl in
the corner could mimick the har
pist.
In recent years, Mrs. Floyd, the
housekeeper in Clewell, lived on
fourth floor. There was certainly
nothing to bother a person there.
Although she moved out two years
ago, she still uses her old room as
a dressing room. Of all the people
who have lived in South, Mrs,
Floyd will probably feel the most
regret when it is restored.
Teachers Dine
With Students
The annual SNEA teacher banquet
will take place in the refectory May
18 at the usual hour of the evening
meal, 6 p.m. The students who are
not participating in the banquet
will eat in the club dining room.
Those who •will attend the banquet
are the sophomores and juniors in
child psychology who have been
observing classroom procedure in
nearby schools, the juniors in the
education department who have
also been observing in the schools,
and the seniors who have been
practice-teaching. Teachers of the
Winston-Salem-Forsyth County
schools who have helped our ob
serving students, the administration
of these schools, and the elemen
tary and secondary supervisors of
the local school system have been
invited as guests of the education
department of Salem.
Kay Ascough, President of the
SNEA, notes that students tradi-
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New dorm presidents look at the new dorm.
Upperclassmen Elect Five
AsN ew House Presidents
Tuesday, May 4, the rising jun
iors and seniors elected their house
presidents for next year. These
girls will not only be responsible
for the management of their re
spective dorms, but they will also
serve on the 1965-66 Judicial Board.
Because of her outstanding ser-
■vice this year as house president of
Strong, Becky Russell, a psycho
logy major from Tarboro, has been
elected to serve in this capacity
again as senior house president of
Bitting. She is very pleased that
the senior dorms are located closely
together and express the desire
that because of this there will be a
closer unity in the senior class.
Lee Cothran, a rising senior from
Florence, South Carolina has been
chosen house president of Strong.
An art major, Lee enjoys paint
ing with oils and sketching. This
summer to further her interest in
this area, she is planning to work
on her senior art exhibit by paint
ing at the beach, the mountains and
in Charleston, South Carolina along
with taking art lessons. After
eproductions Distort Original Salem Seal
By Robbin Causey
■Jlave you ever noticed the seal
on the cover of a yellow Salem
ncftebook ? Have you ever noticed
the error in the Greek letters?
Did you ever wonder what on earth
Bmma, Kappa, Delta stand for, or
why the pictures of a jagged row
of books, a wreath, and a scroll
were used ? I did, so I went to
find out, and I got more than I
gained for.
It seems that the seal commonly
used today, or rather the several
se^s used, are distorted replicas of
one designed in 1907 by a Salem
student, Dorothy Doe, who is now
Mrs. Clarence P. Ryman of Ashe-
'fille. Several rumors of the pur-
Pok and symbolism of the original
design exist. One of the theories
Was that Dorothy Doe designed the
cIms pin (each class had a different
one) which was later adopted as
the college seal. I went to the de
signer herself. Mrs. Ryman wrote;
"Pilot Mountain was on my seal
(not books) for strength; a scroll
lor learning, and a wreath for vic
tory—-the letters on the seal were
|he class motto and I believe stood
"Knowledge and Virtue.”
The editors of Sights and In
sights asked me to draw a seal for
the class annual—and I took it from
there—with no help or criticism.
When I submitted it, they liked it
and accepted it. I feel reasonably
certain the seal on the cover page
was my drawing—to be certain I
would have to see it—I do not know
who designed the die for the en
graved seal. I do not remember
being asked for my approval, but
they certainly had it. I was pleased
that they could use it as I am not
an artist in any sense of the word
... It was not my intention that
the Greek letters would be asso
ciated with the symbols.”
Sights and Insights gives the
closest history of the seal. The
original seal had Salem Academy
and College and the founding date
1802. From 1921 to 1923 the seal
disappeared from use on the an
nual altogether, but in 1920 an un
usual seal with the letters S, A & C
entwined and the date 1772 was
used. In 1924 the old seal was re
vised to have 1772 as the founding
date and in 1927 Salem College was
used without “Academy and.”
In 1961 a new seal began to be
used—the smaller one with ribbons.
It was designed by Mrs. Esther
Mock who combined the several
existing seals. Her drawing is
closest to the original design—the
books look more like the mountain
in the original seal, the scroll is
rolled the same way, and the
wreath is circular and closed.
Still another seal is used by the
college—the one on the letterhead
of the stationery. It is elaborately
surrounded by frills, topped by an
old English “S” and has a ribbon
below it bearing the founding date
as 1772.
You may wonder how or why so
many seals can be used. The an
swer is simple: no record of an
official adoption of a seal can be
found. With continued use the seal
has become distorted—the original
engraving on the cover of Sights
& Insights had Pilot Mountain
shaded with diagonal lines. Later
engravers shaded up and down. The
jagged lines even resembled a city
skyline at certain points. Through
the years they came to be a shelf
of books, a logical assumption for a
college.
So we have several distorted
seals. So what ? Since we are a
college of traditions, I suggest we
formally adopt the original seal,
Dorothy Doe’s design of 1907. Or
at least we could correct the mis
spelled Greek words on our sweat
shirts and notebooks.
Administrators
Attended eeting
Dr. Dale Gramley, Dean Iw Hix
son, Mr. Jack White, and Mr.
Charles Miller attended a reg
ional meeting sponsored by the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools and the
Southern Association of College
and University Business Officers.
The meeting was held May 2 and
3 at the Jack Tar Hotel in Durham
■graduation, Lee hopes to continue
I iher studies in this area by study
ing interior design at Parsons in
New York.
Elizabeth Johnston, a rising jun
ior from Littleton will serve as
house president of Lehman next
year. A history major, Elizabeth
is also planning to get an elemen
tary teacher’s certificate—hopefully
in order to teach the sixth grade.
During this past year, Elizabeth
was an active member of the WRA
where she was captain of the so
phomore volleyball team. Likewise,
continuing in this organization this
coming year, she is serving as trea
surer of the WRA Council.
Molly Leight newly elected house
president of Sisters is presently
living in Athens, Greece, having
lived in Turkey for sixteen years.
This rising junior -who is majoring
in biology and minoring in English,
is Chairman of the Student Center
Committee, and is on the WRA
Council and the Lecture Commit
tee.
Serving as the first house presi
dent of Gramley Dormitory will be
Ann McMaster, a rising junior,
Ann, from Charleston, W. Va., is
majoring in Latin and minoring in
French and religion.
Y Cabinet has occupied much of
Ann’s time for the past two years.
She headed the Ladies Home Pro
ject and the Easter Orphan’s Party
and worked with Religious Emp
hasis W eek this j'^ear. She was re
cently elected to the vice-presi
dency of the Y, but her office as
house president requires , that she
relinquish the former office. Ann
has also worked on the SSL Com
mittee for two years.
Students Work
Until Midnight
It’s that time again, time to hear
the midnight clack of typewriters,
to see students scurrying to the lib
rary at all hours and emerging
laden with scholarly volumes, and
to hear those weary sighs of “I’ll
never have this done by Friday.”
All of these things add up to one
dreadful word—tennpapers.
Did you know that there are
approximately 912 termpapers writ
ten per semester, and if one person
were doing all of this writing and
research it would take her 86,640
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