Volume XLVIII
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 10, 1967
Number 22
■ Dr. William C. Steere will
speak in Hanes Auditorium
on April 5. Dr. Steere, a
Rondthaler Lecturer, is com
ing to Salem through the
Piedmont University Center.
His lecture topic will be "Bot
any and our Botanical Gar
dens." Watch the school
bulletin boards for the hour
of Dr. Steere's talk.
Students Elect Olficeirs For'67-'68
\ssemblyBrings
^oet, Miss Kizer
Carolyn Kizer, a well-known con-
smporary poet, presented the as-
embly program on March 8. Miss
iizer read various poems of con-
emporary writers in order to make
lie audience more aware of the
oetic response of modern times
nd more aware of contemporary
oetry.
Many of the poems she read were
written by women. In explanation
f this. Miss Kizer said that Amer-
:a is going through an extraordi-
ary period in which there are just
s many good women poets as men
oets.
Miss Kizer’s selection of poems
?as realistic. She said that pain,
uffering, and death are common
opics of poetry today. The speaker
oncluded by saying that poetry is
. “way of solving our problems and
way we face life.”
By Sandy Kelley
Salem students elected Student
Government and Judicial Board of
ficers in assembly Friday, March 3.
Officers for the Student Govern
ment Association are Mary Alice
DeLuca, President; Linda Moore,
Vice-President; Sue Wooten, Secre
tary; and Nancy Richardson, Trea
surer. Judicial Board officers are
Chairman, Marilyn Lowry; and
Secretary, Sara Hunt.
The new Student Government
President, Mary Alice DeLuca, is a
junior from Mayodan. Mary
Alice said of her- election, “I
was surprised at being elected and
also very humble, because I realize
that there is a lot involved in the
office.” Her primary objective is
to include as many people as pos
sible in Student Government func
tions. She hopes that students will
take advantage of the great number
of educational and cultural activi
ties provided by the college and the
non-budget organizations and the
many opportunities that a city such
as Winston-Salem has to offer;
thus being active members in the
college and the community.
Dansalem Set
April Concert
The Dansalems will present a
concert in Hanes Auditorium at 8
p.m. on April 16. Directed by Miss
Nan Rufty, the dancers will per
form the Lord’s Prayer; the
Twenty-Third Psalm; the Story of
Ruth; the Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth
Commandments; Traffic, which is
choreographed by Miss Rufty;
Whoopee; and Magnificat. Parti
cipating in the show will be Reen
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New Student Government officers Linda Moore, Vice-President; Mary Alice DeLuca, President; and
Marilyn Lowry, Chairman of Judicial Board, relax in the Student Center after elections Friday, March
3.
She expressed anticipation in
working on both Legislative and
Judicial Boards, and especially at
the idea of working with people
with whom she has not previously
worked.
She plans to continue the Curri
culum Study next year and to alter
any rules that indicate a need for
a change. She hopes to continue
the movies and will try to offer
broader, more frequent variety. She
has considered the idea of petition
ing for more assembly cuts.
To make students more aware of
Leg. Board activities she plans to
open meetings to observers and
perhaps have a meeting on stage in
assembly. To increase the scope
of students she encourages attend
ing conferences and symposia not
only to help the students who go,
but to bring back ideas for Salem
to incorporate into our symposium
and assemblies. This will also help
to make students aware of what
goes on in the world beyond Salem,
on national and international scopes.
Mary Alice remarked, “It hasn’t
hit me yet. I’ll have to start fol
lowing Dabney around.” But don’t
be surprised to hear a knock on
your door and to see Mary Alice
when you open it.
Marilyn Lowry, a junior from
Charlotte, is the new Chairman of
Judicial Board. Having served on
the board as secretary this year,
Marilyn said that she plans to con
tinue the work that Jane Grimsley
(Contiauad oq
Faculty Approves Changes
In Spring Exam Schedule
' The Streets Of New York ” Offers
Oomic, Musical Show For Audience
lohnnie Collins, the chestnut boy, begs for an extension of his loan
From Jim Austin in this scene from the Pierrette Players production
'The Streets of New York." The play, which opened Wednesday,
March 8, offers a nightly performance at 8 p.m. through Saturday,
March 11.
By Suzanne Britt
The Pierrette Players’ production
Df ^The Streets of New York” pro-
tiises a large supply of laughs and
ttiusic for the audience. The sad-
iest moments are the funniest, the
lenouement is right on schedule,
ind virtue wins again. This nine
teenth century melodrama serves its
audience well, both for the comedy
it offers and for the relief from the
plot entanglement at the final cur
tain.
The death of Captain Fairweather
occasions most of the ensuing
plot. He deposits one hundred
thousand dollars in Gideon Blood-
good’s bank and then drops dead
at the door. Bloodgood, the arch
villian, takes Captain Fairweather’s
money, while Badger, a smooth
operator, pockets Fairweather’s re
ceipt for the money and goes to
California. Meanwhile the virtuous
Lucy Fairweather and her arthritic
mother are forced, because of the
Captain’s death, to move in with
Mr. and Mrs. Puffy—a low class,
kindly couple. Mr. Mark Living
stone, ah aristocrat who has gone
bankrupt, is forced to swallow his
pride and beg Bloodgood for a loan.
Alida Bloodgood, the equally con
niving daughter of her conniving
father, sets her cap for Mark and
his aristocratic blood. But Lucy
loves Mark, too! The love triangle
becomes awkward, hecause Mark
loves Lucy but is beguiled into
marrying Alida. Badger meanwhile
returns to blackmail Bloodgood with
the receipt. Mrs. Fairweather and
Lucy are starving, while Mr.. and
Mrs. Puffy do their best to survive
on chestnuts. The plot thickens,
but don’t worry. Does virtue ever
fail?
This play is not meant to be pon
dered. One is invited, instead, to
let himself go and laugh at the
slapstick, predictable, and hilarious
predicaments of the characters.
Rand Schaffner is the chivalrous,
but foiled, Mark Livingstone. Cheri
Rose plays the innocent, tormented
Lucy Fairweather, and Susan Kelly
is her harassed, hypochondriac
mother. Jim Austin lays his evil
plot as Bloodgood, while Joan Vin
cent fights for her Mark as her
“entrance into the best homes.”
Badger, played by Johnny Smith,
is a villian with a good heart. The
Puffies, Johnny Collins and Suz
anne Britt, decide along with the
Fairweathers that poverty and
chestnuts aren’t so bad after all.
It is a hectic play, but an enter-
While student’s were busy elect
ing new Student Government of
ficers for 1967-68 in Assembly on
March 3, the faculty was unani
mously approving a new exam sche
dule for next semester in response
to much on-campus discussion. The
plan is experimental; if it proves
satisfactory to both students and
faculty, it will be continued.
Reading Day has been eliminated.
All written work will be due on
Friday, May 19, by 6 p.m. Follow
ing the weekend, the first exam
period will be Monday morning at
9 a.m. The entire student body is
given a period free of exams after
two scheduled exam periods. Out
of nine days of actual exams,
divided into eighteen periods, six
will be free periods. Thus, no stu
dent will have more than two exams
in a row.
Schedule conflicts have also been
eliminated by extending the num
ber of days exams are given by
two. Only illness or death in the
family will change a student’s exam
schedule.
Preliminary registration was also
set up. Rising seniors will register
on April 11-14; rising juniors, April
17-20; and rising sophomores, April
21-27. Rising sophomores are going
to have academic “open house” on
March 13, April 3, and April 10.
The first one will concern teaching,
both elementary and secondary, and
will feature a discussion with Dr.
Welch. The other two are left open
in order that the student may look
into any department that she thinks
she might want to major in.
Monday
May 22
A.M.—Exam
P.M.—Exam
Wednesday
May 24
A.M.—Exam
P.M.—Free
Tuesday
May 23
A.M.—Free
P.M.-—Exam
Thursday
May 25
A.M.—Exam
P.M.—Exam
Friday Saturday
May 26 May 27
A.M.—Free A.M.—Exam
P.M.—Exam P.M.—Free
Monday Tuesday
May 29 May 30
A.M.—Exam A.M.—Free
P.M.—^Exam P.M.—Exam
Wednesday
May 31
A.M.—Exam
P.M.—Free
Pupils To Hear
Faculty Recital
Miss Nancy Wurtele of the college
music department will present a
piano recital in Shirley Recital Hall
on Monday, March 13. Her pro
gram will begin promptly at 8:15
p.m.
Miss Wurtele’s program will con
sist of the following selections:
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugu®*
Sonata in F-sharp Major, by Bee
thoven ; Vaises Nobles et Sentimen-
tales, by Ravel; and Sonata in B
Minor, by Chopin.
After receiving her undergraduate
degree from the University of Sou
thern California, Miss Wurtele con
tinued her study in music at Juil-
liard School of Music in New York
City and completed her masters de
gree there. Following her work at
Juilliard she studied in Rome for a
year. This immediately preceded
her coming to Salem where she has
been in the music department for
the past five years. During the
coming school year of 1967-1968,
Miss Wurtele plans to leave Wins
ton-Salem to work on her doctor
ate at the University of Southern
California. After completing this
study she will return to her position
in the Salem music department