/olume XLVII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. Thursday, November 11,1965
Number 14
barter Speaks At Dinner
Honoring Salem Scholars
The Honors Dinner was held
'iiesday, November 9, in the Club
lining Room. The dinner honored
the Salem Scholars. Seniors in
honors work, and members of
Salem’s Honor Society were also
fcuests. It was given by the Faculty
Committee on Honors and Salem
Scholars. Members are Miss Jess
‘Jlyrd, chairman. Dr. Mary Hill,
pugene Jacobowsky, Donald C. Mc
Leod, and Dean Ivy Hixon. The
speaker was Dr. John Carter, asso
ciate professor at Wake Forest Col
lege.
Dr. Carter spoke on the Wake
Forest College Honors Program.
|ie has worked with this program
for a year and a half participating
on the Honors Committee and as a
senior member in the honors course
seminar.
In an attempt to provide an aca
demic opportunity not offered in
Regular courses, the Wake Forest
Honors program emphasizes inter
departmental disciplines and at
tempts to put the faculty members
on equal footing with the students.
|The program consists of four three
hour courses to be taken over a
four year period.
Two of these courses are classi
fied as lower division courses and
must be taken during the freshman
And sophomore years. These lower
division courses study three import
ant men, not usually included in
basic courses, who represent more
than one discipline. The classic ex
ample is Leonardo da Vinci, who
may be studied from the viewpoint
of art and science.
The two remaining courses taken
in the junior or senior years fall
into the upper division and concern
a given intellectual problem, which
may be viewed from at least two
departmental lines. The group at
present is studying the concept of
“Romanticism” with faculty mem
bers from the English and psycho
logy departments. The courses are
only loosely structured to allow ap
plication, for example, of romantic
ism to art, music, politics and con
temporary life.
The students are required to do
outside reading each week for a two
and a half hour class, write three
short papers per course and one
long paper before graduation.
Dr. Carter discussed the many
problems involved in maintaining
this program, the expense and the
problems of selecting both student
and faculty participants. On the
whole he was very pleased with the
program and has great hopes for
its progress in the future.
New members of the Order of the Scorpion gather for their first meeting; (top, I. to r.) Mary Lucy
Hudgens, Roberta Frost, Finley Stith, Ann Richert, Jill Stewart; (bottom, I. to r.) Jan Norman, Jean
King.
Begins In 1920;
Scorpions Reveal New Members;
Tap Three Seniors, Four Juniors
elebrates 45th Birthday
j Have you quickly glanced at this
issue of The Salemite and decided
to toss it aside? W'ell, look again
for this paper has been around for
quite a while. November 17 marks
the 4Sth anniversary of the first
publication of the Salemite in 1920.
Begun under the direction of Miss
Mildred de Barritt, this four-column
paper had a definite purpose of ser
vice to the student body of Salem
College. This purpose was stated
in an editorial by Marie Edgerton
the first editor-in-chief. She wrote,
^lie staff thinks that a live, soci
able publication coming out every
two weeks will be a new interest
and a helpful means of spreading
ideas, opinions, and college news of
all kinds.”
'The material which made up the
paper was quite different 45 years
ago, for the staff printed not only
items of news interest but poetry,
short stories and jokes as well. All
of these things were packed into
four short pages of print, four
columns wide.
'The motto of the Salemite was
‘‘Sail on Salem” and this the staff
took literally. In 1923 on its 3rd
birthday the staff celebrated at a
banquet in the Robert E. Lee Hotel
with a new five-column edition of
the paper and longer pages. The
staff consisted of an editor-in-chief,
a business staff, and reporters.
[in 1926 the staff was reorganized
to include an associate editor, edi
tors for various departments such
as music, current events and off
campus events, and a reporters club.
The purpose of this reorganization
was to promote greater efficiency
in publication and to improve the
quality of the news submitted.
Now in 1965, after 45 years of
service, the Salemite still preserves
the 5-column page, the general plan
of staff organization, as well as the
traditional ideals of service to the
student body.
Happy Birthday, Salemite!
AHENTION
As of November 19 the publi
cation day for The Salemite will be
Fridays instead of Thursdays. We
hope that this alteration will facili
tate printing and news coverage.
Dean Hixon announced the seven
new members of The Order of the
Scorpion in assembly Wednesday,
November 10. The new members
from the senior class are Mary
Lucy Hudgens, Jean King, and Jan
Norman. From the junior class the
Order has tapped Roberta Frost,
Ann Richert, Jill Stewart, and Fin
ley Stith.
The Order of the Scorpion is the
only non-academic, honorary or
ganization at Salem. While its
membership is made known, the
Order strives to serve the college
without reward or recognition of its
activities. Its projects are impor
tant to campus life but are un
known and unrecognizable.
The Order selects its members
from the junior and senior classes.
No more than fourteen members
belong to the society at one time.
All three of the new senior mem
bers number among those recently
selected to represent Salem in
Who’s Who. Like all seniors, their
chief interests are their present
activities as Salemites and their un
certain future as graduates.
As President of Pierrettes, Mary
Lucy has been particularly pre
occupied with the preparations, re
hearsals, and performances of
Chekhov’s The Three Sisters. The
final results of Mary Lucy and the
Pierrettes’ work this semester is
being presented Wednesday, Thurs
day, and Friday of this week. When
asked about her future plans, Mary
Lucy stated that she was “consider
ing graduate school in theater or
working in order to finance future
study in the field of the theater.”
Mary Lucy will graduate with a
history major and drama and
French minors.
In carrying out her duties as
Vice-President of Student Govern
ment, Jean finds that her problems
with the Handbook and assemblies
each week are rarely solved for
ExtracurricularWorkClaims Interest
Of Several Salem Faculty Members
Lost and Found
*This year the Lost and Found is
located in the Clewell office. It
will be open during the regular of
fice hours.
[if anything is lost or found,
please inquire or turn things in dur
ing these hours.
I Items now in the office:
(1) Black rimmed glasses
1(2) Silver cigarette lighter
I (3) Gold key chain, keys,
; gold lighter attached
I (4) Silver trunk key
(5) 2 umbrellas
and
By Betsy Barnes
There has been a steady click,
click, click of typewriter keys heard
in many professors’ offices lately,
and an informer reports that it’s
not necessarily our mid-term grades
that are being typed out. Salem’s
faculty has gone on a writing
binge and the word seems to be
“publish or perish!” Most faculty
members have written, are writing,
or are doing research to write an
article, a book, a dissertation, or
even a play.
’ Dr. Stephen Paine, for example,
is adding to his information on Ed
ward Eggleston about whom he
wrote his dissertation. Our English
professor hopes to publish a book
soon about this writer of American
realistic fiction. Mr. Eggleston be
came famous upon publication of
his novel about school teaching,
Hoosier Schoolmaster, which was a
bestseller from 1910 to 1930. After
this successful book, the former
Methodist minister and Sunday
School journalist wrote seven suc
cessive books of which the last
three are the better written, accord
ing to Dr. Paine. Since many peo
ple choose the wrong areas of Mr.
Eggelston’s career to discuss in
order to analyze his writings. Dr.
Paine hopes to discuss this author
in a different light and show his
development as a writer.
While one professor is exploring
the life of a writer, two prominent
members of our Psychology depart
ment are developing their talents as
playwrights. Both Dr. Elizabeth
Welch and James L. Bray have
written several plays. Dr. Welch,
however, has deserted the field of
drama to write on education.
Though Mr. Bray has recently writ
ten a program of self-instruction to
teach stage directions to novices, he
also finds time to work on several
plays at a time. Mr. Bray explains
that playwrighting is his form of
recreation. Nevertheless, he and
his twin brother have become so
well-known as a playwrighting team
that they have been asked by a
certain fraternity to write a play
for its centennial celebrations. Mr.
Bray alone has done over thirty
teleplays and is currently working
on several plays now. He has four
plays published, and a biographical
play about Patrick Henry, which he
and his brother wrote, has just been
completed.
Among the interesting theses the
faculty are writing are A. Hew-
son Michie’s dissertation on the life
of Pierre Laval and his connection
with the Vichy government. He
hopes to explore Laval’s life and
determine the reason for his be
havior. Mr. Michie believes that
Laval considered himself patriotic
and thought he was doing the best
thing for France. Since 1958, when
he did his master’s thesis on Laval,
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long. Recently she has been speak
ing at various alumnae meetings
around the state. With her music
education major Jean would like to
teach public school music in a new
and different place but hasn’t yet
made definite plans.
Jan, too, would like to teach in
some new place but in secondary
English or history. At present,
however, she and her staff are busy
working together to put out The
Salemite each week.
Three of the juniors, Roberta,
Ann, and Jill are also planning to
teach in secondary education. Fin
ley is interested in library science.
Since last April Roberta has
found that she is constantly battl
ing money problems as Treasurer
of Student Government. She also
carries out duties as one of the
marshals. With her major in Eng
lish and minor in psychology, Ro
berta plans to go to graduate school
before beginning to teach and work
in guidance counseling.
Ann holds the office of Junior
Class president this year. Last
summer she studied in Norway as
one of Salem’s two Oslo Scholars.
Ann is working toward a double
major in Spanish and History’,
which she will rely upon in her
teaching after graduation.
Jill, like Roberta, is considering
graduate school after graduation.
Eventually she does plan to teach
English or world literature. Her
courses are chiefly based around
languages as she works toward her
English major and minors in Latin
and French. As Chief Marshal Jill
is primarily concerned with the
execution of assemblies and other
programs, but she also serves on
the “Y” cabinet.
Finley, also a marshal, is Vice-
President of the Y. W. C. A. She
helps Jean as a member of the as
sembly committee. With her Eng
lish major and French minor, Finley
is considering graduate work in fol
lowing her interest in library sci
ence.
These seven new members have
now joined the five girls chosen by
the Order last year: Margaret
Bourdeaux, Mary Dameron, Zelle
Holderness, Gretchen Wampler, and
Ann Wilson.