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C' Volume XLVIII Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 14, 1966 Number 1 0 RestoredHouses InSalem Recall Moravian Settlement Early Dr. Raper To Give First Of Rondthaler Programs By Paige Bishop 6'here is more around the square! than meets the eye. Of course every Salemite is aware of the campus surroundings, the square itself and|‘ the picturesque buildings which are Old Salem. Few, however, have ven-L tured inside any of these pictures-| que places to see how the Morav-' ians of the past two centuries lived. There are five buildings in the reconstruction which are open to the public. These are the Miksch Tobacco Shop, the Wachovia Muse um, the Brothers House, the John Vogler House and the Salem Tavern. 'I'he Wachovia Museum is nearest the campus as it is located next to the Salem bookstore. Inside is a visual chronicle of life around the square in the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries. The first floor houses an ancient printing press and alcopy of the first newspaper print ed in North Carolina. Also on this floor are some of the originals of those objects so familiar to Salem students—bricks and red roof tiles. Other artifacts include cooking and farm utensils, a crude washing machine, toys and games. lUpstairs are several rooms, one of which is filled with relics from the original Moravian church. The collection includes an old love-feast tray, several communion cups and a lot-bowl from which lots were drawn so that “questions hard to decide were thus referred to the vi-ill of God.” ^Iso on this floor is a new addit ion to the museum, the Moravian music round room. Here various in struments long familiar to the Mor avian community are on display. By means of earphones one can hear the history of Moravian music and recordings of music played by the instruments displayed. One of the best tapes is that of the Moravian band playing the antiphonal music for which they are noted. There is even a tape of “Dixie” as played by a Moravian Civil War band. The next level of the museum houses such things as stagecoaches, old fire-engines, carriages and sleds. Here, too, are old doctors’ instru ments, a doll collection and clothing worn in the eighteenth and nine teenth centuries. The third floor is a display of Indian relics which complete the museum’s collection of relics from the Indian to the nineteenth cen tury Moravian community. Near the museum is the Miksch Tobacco Shop, built in 1771. The in side really does smell like a tobac co shop. Here one can see how a private shop owner both lived and ran a shop in his home. Here, too, is a fine example of a Moravian kitchen. Behind the house is the little building where the tobacco was twisted and sold by the yard, ground for smoking and chewing, or flavored for snuff. Behind this man ufactory is a small eighteenth cen tury garden, the design of which is based on plans drawn by Goltleib Reuter a surveyor of the period. Across the corner from the To bacco shop is the Brothers House, built in 1769 and expanded in 1786. Ninety-two per cent of the furniture in this building is original and made at Salem. This is true of much of the Old Salem restoration. In the Brothers House, there arc also craft shops, several of which are still used today. The tinsmith makes cookie cutters, candle molds and sconces which are for sale, and the potter makes salt and pepper shakers and clay pipes. In addition to these, there is a tailor shop, a gunsmith, a weaving room, a wool dying room, a bootshop and a fur niture shop. Much of the original flooring re mains in the Brothers House. In the kitchen is the first running water system, (all of Old Salem had run ning water by 1778), and in the dining room is a set of pewter-ware imported from England in 1800. Most of this building remains today as it was when occupied by the Moravian single brothers. The John Vogler house, which every Salemite passes on her daily walk to the post office, was the' home of Salem’s first silversmith and clockmaker. The house was built in 1819 and has many original features which other homes in Old Salem do not have, such as a single entrance to home and shop rather than separate ones. Besides the tricks of a silversmith’s trade, one can also see the home environment in which the Moravians lived and worked. The last building in this group is the Tavern, built in 1784. The Tavern was built by the church as a place for strangers in the commun ity to eat and sleep, not for the use of the Moravian brothers. It is in teresting to note, too, that the mat erials used in building the Tavern were originally intended for the con struction of the Sisters House. How- (Continued on page 4) By Susan Jones Salemites will have the privilege of hearing Dr. John Raper, Profes sor of Biology at Harvard Univer sity, in assembly on Friday, October 21. A Rondthaler. Lecturer, Dr. Raper’s topic will be “Thirtv-three Thousand Sexes and Other Fungal Oddities.” At 2 pm. Friday after noon in Room 102 of the Science Building, Dr. Raper will speak to Dr. Edwards’ class, and all other interested persons, on “Genetic Control of Sexual Morphogenesis in a Mushroom.” A tea in honor of the visiting professor will be held in the Strong Friendship Room at 3:30 p.m. At this time students will have an opportunity to meet Dr. Raper personally and to ask him any questions they may have. A Moravian himself and a native of Welcome, Dr. Raper has relatives living in this area. He received his B S' degree from the University of North Carolina and his Ph.D. from Harvard. Dr. Raper has also done post-graduate studies at Chicago and Cal. Tech. He has been on the faculty at Harvard for almost twenty years. While at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Raper was taught freshman chemistry by B. O. Cosby, Dr. John Raper will lecture in assembly on Friday, October 21. now Associate Professor of Chemis try at Salem. Mr. Cosby remem bers that Dr. Raper was the only student in a class of 126 to receive an “A” in freshman chemistry. Mr. Cosby states that Dr. Raper is re garded as one of the world’s fore most authorities in the field of fungi. Dr. Raper has lectured at leading universities in .America and in Western Europe. He will be at Duke the same week that he speaks at Salem. Two Ballet Stars Will Appear Oct. 20 In Reynolds Auditorium When Toni Lander, the dazzling Danish-American ballerina, and her co-star and husband, Bruce Marks, appear here as two of the great stars of the American Ballet The atre on October 20, at 8:30 p.m. in Nancy Rufty, Adam Stiener Bring New ideas To College Community By Carol Carson . Nancy P. Rufty, an addition to the college faculty in the Physical Education Department, is a gradu ate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While ful filling her major there in physical ' education she placed particular emphasis on dance education. In addition to her teaching schedule here at Salem, she works with the Dansalems one night each week and spends two other nights each week doing her Master’s study at UNC-G. Miss Rufty came to Salem be cause she heard of the opportunity to teach modern dance, although she had considered giving private instruction in the field rather than working in an elementary or secon dary school situation. She will spend the first and fourth quarters in the P. E. department teaching tennis, golf, and archery; the se cond and third quarters working with the modern dance classes. Miss Rufty says that she is happy here because of the friendly atmosphere and the excellent facilities which Salem has to offer. When asked about modern dance itself. Miss Rufty was quick to an swer that although it won’t help anyone lose weight, it will help to harden that extra padding. She says that her first exposure to dance was in college. Modern dance is truly an American form of dance, and Salem’s new instructor feels Mr. Baskin and Paige Bishop converse at the Student-Faculty Tea. that it is important for all educated persons to know something about the persons connected with the art form and to have some knowledge of the subject. As a dance student one should expect to learn a sense of rhythm, a sense which some people have not yet cultivated by this age. This rhythm should influence coordina tion to some degree although the dance course itself is not really long enough to make any extensive changes. Miss Rufty hopes that Salemites will realize that the prime importance of the course is not to emphasize choreography, but to teach technique and body control. Hungarian-born Adam Stiener came to the United States in 1957 at the age of seventeen. He lived in South Nuremburg, Germany, prior to coming to the States and settling in Akron, Ohio. There he studied at the University of Akron until he met his wife. After their marriage, the couple returned to Mrs. Stiener’s home state of Ore- (ContiniMKl on pago 2) the Reynolds Auditorium, it will be for the first time since they and the company enjoyed their great triumphs this summer in the Soviet Union. The young stars were married last winter during the American Ballet Theatre’s successful season at the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center. Later, they were with the entire company as it played to capacity audiences in Moscow, Leningrad, Yalta, and Kharkov. Mr. Marks’ performances in both classic and dramatic works have placed him well forward in the ranks of the leading male dancers in the United States. But it is his wife’s performances this year that have been acclaimed as nothing short of a revelation. Her exquisite evocation of the title role in ‘ La Sylphide,” her joyous leaps and breathtaking virtuousity in “Etudes,” her dramatic brilliance in the newly- staged production of “Moon Rein deer,” are all hallmarks of a true prima ballerina. Miss Lander first joined the American Ballet Theatre six years ago, having already won fame throughout Europe as a major star of the Royal Danish Ballet. A native of Copenhagen, she began her study of ballet as a small child of six. Two years later she entered the School of the Royal Danish Ballet, and at the age of seventeen, bqcame a member of that company. It was last winter in her perfor mances with the American Ballet Theatre in New York, and in its subsequent engagements in Russia, that Miss Lander truly came into her own as a dancer. The ballets selected for the troupe’s nationwide 1966-67 tour of 90 American and Canadian cities, include not only favorites from the company’s tour of the Soviet Union, but other popular and celebrated works now being restored to the repertory. For 27 years the troupe has been directed by Lucia Chase. Her co-director is Oliver Smith, the noted scenic designer and Broad way producer. Together they are now hard at work on future plans for the company, including its an nual four-week engagement at the New York State Theatre in Lin coln Center in May, 1967. A recent statement confirms Miss Chase’s opinion that the tours re present the company’s most vital responsibility. “For more than 23 years, it has been our aim to bring ballet, full-scale ballet, to every part of this country, to every one of the 50 states. The government has now recognized this and our tradition of being, in effect, the national comp any. It has done this in the most ef fective and urgently needed way, by awarding us subidizing grants to make it possible to continue our nation-wide program. Our gratitude to the National Council on the Arts for its assistance is not enough. We are fully conscious of the honor that has been given us, but even more so of the great responsibility it has placed on us.” Miss Chase accompanies the troupe throughout its tour, and on occasion leaves her observation post out front to appear on stage as the malevolent step mother in staging the Lizzie Bor den murder case of the “Fall River Legend.” The principal dancers comprising the .American Ballet Theatre in clude Lupe Serrano, Royes Fernan dez, Toni Lander, Scott Douglas, Bruce Marks, Sallie Wilson, Elea nor D’Antuono, Gayle Young and Paul Sutherland. Conducting the symphony orchestra is Milton Rose- nstock. Regisseur is Dimitri Roman off, and Ballet Master Enrique Mar tinez. Former dancer John Kriza is now Assistant to the Directors. The American Ballet Theatre is presented by the Ballet Thetare Foundation, whose president is Harold Taylor.
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