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Volumn XLIX
Delegate reports on 1967
NSA Conference.
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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., September 29, 1967
Number 7
Transfer Students Adjust
Quickly To New Campus
By Edith Allen
Salem College has fourteen trans
fer students this year, nine of whom
are boarders. Most of the transfers
Pnd that they are generally loaded
down with extra courses and the
temporary problem of getting ad-
Histed on another campus with new
students and teachers.
The girls from St. Mary’s don’t
find moving into a group of already
established juniors a problem. They
Sfere juniors their first year at St.
Mary’s with two underclassmen
groups below them. Also, they don’t
anticipate having the time to worry
Ibout outside activities. Ann Copen-
haver from Roanoke, Va., Lander
Marshall from Montgomery, Ala-
jama, Francis Breeden from Ral
eigh, and Clarine Pollock from
Gatesville feel that coming en masse
from St. Mary’s makes the campus
look at least a little familiar.
Ellen Gaffney of Mooresville went
to UNC-G. She and her roommate,
JVnn Copenhaver, live in Strong. Be
sides the distance from the other
juniors, they aren’t having much
{rouble getting into the swing of
things.
I Mary Jane Boren of Greensboro
jransferred from Sullins College.
She and Kathrine McCarty from
Charlotte are both sociology majors.
I^athrine came from Centenary, a
Junior College in Hackettstown, N.J.
iCathrine moved into a triple with
|wo new roommates so she got a
double dose of adjustments to make.
She found it somewhat difficult at
first to get used to the timidity be
tween old and new students. But
now she is much too busy to be
bothered by the little problems.
Sophomore transfers Becky Mor-
risett and Peggy Budd have a head
start on the junior transfers. Becky
is glad that she has a year to get
oriented so that she can enjoy her
last two more. Becky was a music
major at UNC-G, but is now an
English and drama major. “Learn
ing at Salem,” she says, “is a
real joy that I didn’t experience last
year.” Peggy, who transferred from
Catawba, is from Woodbury,, New
Jersey. Her concern, also, was for
more stimulating academic exper
ience. She also admitted that a
Wake Forest boyfriend influenced
her decision.
Inspector’s House
Yields 1847 Maps
A collection of seven world maps
dated 1847 was found in the garret
of the Inspector’s House when re
pairs and renovations were being
made on the building this summer.
The maps were probably used by
Salem students in the mid 19th cen
tury, but no one knows just how
long they were in use. Although
they were printed by Pratt Wood
ford, and Company of New York,
they were colored by hand, perhaps
by a Salem student or teacher. The
colors were bright green, aqua, pink
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Dr. E. M. Tate Speaks At Salem;
Relates Facts About Asian Studies
Dr. E. Mowbray Tate, visiting
professor of Asian Studies, began
the first of a series of faculty lec
tures Wednesday, September 27,
with a talk on China and Japan en
titled “Where in the World.”
After being introduced by Dr.
Dale H. Gramley, Dr. Tate began
by calling himself the “Traveling
Teacher of the Thruway,” among
others, because he teaches courses
in Asian Studies at Wake Forest
University and Winston-Salem
State College as well as at Salem
through the Mary Reynolds Bab
cock Foundation.
Dr. Tate began his talk asking
“Where in the world have we
been?” considering China in the
traditional light. He emphasized
that one can learn about a country
through books, television, and ask
ing questions as well as through
traveling. He also said that to study
a country and its culture, one should
consider not the differences and
similarities to one’s own but the
way in which this culture affects
one’s culture, mentioning oriental
art as an example.
The political history of China was
his next topic in which he reviewed
the Communist-Nationalist conflict
between Mao Tse-Tung and Chiang
Kai-Chek. He gave as reasons for
the Communist take-over the fact
that corruption could not be check
ed by the Nationalist and that in
flation was at a height making the
peasants, which comprise eighty
Scholars Add Interest
[To Salem, The Class Of 1971
I By Jane Horton
i Freshmen bring exciting new
fialent to Salem “C,” but especially
to be noted this year are the four
Salem Scholars in the Class of 1971.
These girls are Jane Dimmock,
.Sara Engram, Martha Ann Fulton,
and Jane Roberts!
A Virginian, Jane Dimmock was
born in Charlottesville and now re
sides in McLean. However, Jane
received her high school education
at Morristown High School, Mor
ristown, New Jersey. She has three
.younger brothers, and her father is
a physicist. Music is very much a
part of Jane’s life, since her study
of piano began at the age of four.
She has studied organ for three
years and plans to concentrate on
her study of this instrument. Pres
byterians will be interested in the
fact that Jane will be Assistant Or-
"anist at the First Presbyterian
■hurch in Winston-Salem. Her
ncle, the Rev. Bob White, is pre-
ently serving there. Also Jane as-
isted at the Presbyterian Confer-
nce at Massanetta Spring, Vir-
inia, this sumer. What drew Jane
» Salem? She was impressed with
he Fine Arts Center and with
ramley, her present “home” on
campus. So far music is the big-
est challenge and delight that
alem College has offered Salem
Scholar Jane Dimmock.
From Enterprise, Alabama, Sara
■ngram came to join the ranks of
alem Scholars. Water sports rank
^'gh among her favorite pastimes,
nd she enjoys these activities with
icr two brothers, one a second-year
^est Point cadet and the other a
•Ootball-playing high school sopho
more. Sara also enjoys reading,
•md she plans to choose her major
among the social sciences. This
summer was busy for Sara since
she toured Belgium, Germany, Italy,
France, England, and Switzerland—
and also Chicago. As a Salem
Scholar Sara feels that she is be
ginning college with an honor and
a challenge. This Salem Scholar is
eager to go.
North Carolina, specifically Wil
son, sent Martha Ann Fulton to be
a Salem Scholar in the Class of
1971. Martha Ann attended Ra p
L Fike High School in Wilson. She
enjoys water sports and French and
English novels. Martha Ann has
quickly learned to appreciate the
percent of the Chinese population,
willing to accept the Communist
promises of land. The peasants got
their land and inflation was checked
but at a great cost of life, and,
shortly thereafter, the land was put
into communes.
Dr. Tate stated that the Chinese
were better off than they ever had
been, lacking only freedom. He
gave four points which the Chinese
use as propoganda against the Uni
ted States. These were that (1)
in Korea the Chinese fought be
cause they thought the United
States would invade their land, (2)
they were not allowed a seat in
the United Nations, (3) Americans
are involved in Viet Nam, which is
near their border, and (4) the Uni
ted States is friendly towards the
Soviet Union.
The recent rift in the Chinese
government positions including the
changeover of party power in the
number two position and the estab
lishment of the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution was his topic
for recent political occurrences in
China. He elaborated by telling
how schools had closed, students
were urged to join the Red Guard,
and the Thoughts of Mao were cir
culated in an anti-western cam
paign. Dr. Tate read a few of the
slogans of Mao which were in part
“the socialist system will replace
the capitalist system” and refer
ences to the United States as a
“paper tiger” like Hitler and the
Czar of Russia, which would even
tually fall. This Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution along with some
actual warfare this past summer
with anti-Mao forces has probably
set China back several years ac
cording to Dr. Tate; but if there
should be no Third World War
within the next twenty-five years,
China would probably follow in
Russia’s footsteps in its buildup.
Turning his talk in the direction
of China’s close but very different
neighbor, Japan, Dr. Tate began
with the Second World War atti
tudes of the Japanese and Ameri
cans. He referred to the fact that
war time often changes customs
and habits of a people as reasoning
for the atrocities of the Japanese
during the war and for their will
ingness to become allies after the
war. t
Presently, Japan must decide
whether to enter a defense pact
with the United States and allow
U. S. military bases on their soil,
risking a possible threat from
China. Although the Japanese gov
ernment is in favor of the treaty,
there is some opposition from so
cialists and students who tend to
join leftist groups; but Dr. Tate
stated that a Japanese student never
holds political views against indi
viduals.
Bringing the issue closer home.
Dr. Tate asked what college stu
dents were doing about the world
situation and gave the Peace Corps,
missionary work, and keeping up
with world events as answers, dis
cussing their values and pitfalls. He
emphasized his stay in Thailand as
an example where Americans had
infiltrated a country from one hund
red Americans when he was there
as head of the Bankok Christian
College for ten years prior to World
War Two to today when there are
several thousand American civilians
as well as thirty thousand .Ameri
can troops.
Dr. Tate spoke of the great op
portunity today to be aware of in
ternational affairs, saying college
provides the environment for a per
son’s growth so that “Where in
the World are you Going?” will be
a question that one can begin to
answer while here, but which will
never be completely answered
throughout a person’s life.
Dr. Tate grew up in Portland,
Oregon, received his B.A. from
Whitman College and his Ph.D.
from Columbia University. He spent
ten years in Thailand at Bankok
Christian College until he and his
family were interned for nine
months by the Japanese at the be
ginning of World War Two until
being sent to the United States.
He served in administrative posi
tions at Columbia University and
at Lafayette College. He was Dean
of Hanover College for thirteen
years and took a position there as
Professor of Non-Western Studies
for six years after that. He spent
a year at Harvard studying under
a Ford Foundation grant and the
summer of 1963 at Sophia Univer
sity in Tokyo also under a Ford
Foundation grant.
He is familiar with Salem’s Mo
ravian heritage after having lived
in Pennsylvania’s Moravian area.
This is his first time he has ever
lived in the South, and he says also
that he likes teaching in small col
leges although this is the first time
he has ever taught at an all-girls
school. Dr. Tate remarked that he
particularly liked Salem’s location
in Old Salem while it was still near
everything in Winston-Salem.
He lives with his wife on the
Wake Forest campus. They have
two daughters; one lives in Durham
with her husband, and the other
lives in Boston working as Exe
cutive Director of the Arts Council
of Massachusetts.
C t c,bnlars left to right, Jane Dimmock, Sara Engram, Jane
Roterts antMirth" An„° ulion t»0e.h«r f»r « 9ome of pool.
congenial, helpful atmosphere of a
small girls’ school. Last year an
exchange student from Holland
lived in her home and taught her
that many young people from every
part of the world are much alike.
At Salem Martha Ann wants “to
grow in the right direction—socia
lly, academically, and spiritually.”
A Durham girl, Jane Roberts, is
a Salem Scholar who plans to major
in math. This lucky girl turned
down the chance to teach male
freshmen at Duke hqw to swim.
She was in high school then and
did instruct younger children. Jane’s
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Dr. Gramley To Host Tea
In His Remodeled Office
An open house will be held in the
newly remodeled office building
next to the Salem Bookstore Wed
nesday, October 4.
Originally the Inspector’s House,
the building now contains the of
fices of Dr. Gramley, Mr. White
and Mr. Hill, the college comptrol
ler. Major redecoration was made
possible through a gift from a local
family to Old Salem, Incorporated.
The family is Mrs. Robert D. Shore,
her son Robert Shore, Jr. and
family, and her daughter, Mrs. Dal
ton D. Ruffin. All three have for
merly been trustees of the college.
Changes in the building include
restoring the back porch, improving
the dormer windows, and providing
air conditioning. The college has
also done further interior decorat
ing and painting.
In the process of remodeling, sev
eral maps of special interest were
found in the attic. The maps were
printed in 1847 and used in the ear
lier school years of the college.
They now hang in Dr. Gramley’s
office, Mr. White’s office, and the
history department.
All trustees of Old Salem, Incor
porated and students, faculty and
trustees of the college and academy
are cordially invited to come tour
the building between 1:30 and 5
p.m., Wednesday, October 4.