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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, December 15, 1967
May Couit
members
members
3^^ elected for '68.
See page 3.
\Salem Joins Discussion
At Huntsville, Alabama
A conference on teacher educa
tion and school integration was
held in Huntsville, Alabama, No
vember 30-December 3. The con
ference was ninth in a series of
ten such meetings held throughout
the southeastern states as an Emory
Jniversity project in cooperation
hvith SNEA and the Institute for
[services to Education. These con-
[ferences deal with the role of the
beginning classroom teacher in the
[continuing process of school inte
gration. It was found that many
college students were not finding
sufficient opportunity for experience
in integrated student-teacher situ
ations. The conferences were not
designed to solve all the problems
of school integration but rather to
bring together the people who will
be involved in these situations in
an atmosphere condusive to open
discussion and consideration.
Three juniors—Kristin Jorgenson,
busan Kirby, and Lee Torrence—
fattended the meeting for the Geor-
gia-Alabama region. They agreed
fthat the situation in that area was
iiore challenging and exciting than
Sn the North Carolina-Virginia re
gion. There were ISO representa-
|tives present from colleges through-
[aut Georgia and Alabama, with ap
proximately equal numbers of Ne
groes and Whites.
The activities of tlie weekend,
vhich were sponsored by Emory
Jniversity, included a discussion by
[regional teachers of the problems
encountered in integrated schools,
and visits to various schools in
Huntsville where integrated facul
ties and student bodies have been
in operation for several years. The
girls noted that Huntsville seemed
to be quicker to integrate, prob
ably due to the high percentage of
NASA employees in the community
who bring with them progressive
ideas and plans for modern edu
cation.
Not every minute of the weekend
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Salem Pianist
Gives Concert
By Sissie Walker and
Sallie Barham
Hans Heidemann, Associate Pro
fessor of piano at the Salem Col
lege School of Music, gave a very
successful concert, December 11.
It was well attended as Mr.
Heidemann has earned the reputa
tion of being an excellent pianist.
He has made concert tours in both
the United States and Europe.
The program that he played
Tuesday evening consisted of the
Sonata in C minor, Op. 10, No. 1,
by Beethoven, Camaval, Op. 9 by
Schumann, and the Sonata in B
minor by Liszt. The responsive
audience called for an' encore.
This concert was sponsored by
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Eva, Ninnie Explain Their Season,
Celebrations To Salemites
Eva Drexler and Ninnie Olson,
Salem’s foreign students, will ex
perience their first American
Christmas season this year. Christ
mas customs very from country to
country, and Eva and Ninnie would
like to add an international flavor
to Christmas at Salem by relating
the customs observed in Austria
and Sweden.
Eva says that Christmas is the
most important holiday of the year
in Austria. It is celebrated on
Christmas Eve. The popular cus
tom is for the Christmas tree, us
ually of fir or pine, to be kept in
a locked room, decorated by the
parents with candies wrapped in
brightly colored paper, with Christ
mas cookies, all kinds of ornaments,
gold and silver garlands and a large
number of candles. The children
are not admitted to the room where
the tree is hidden until Christmas
Eve, when the candles on the tree
have been lit. The presents are
spread out beneath the tree, but
the center of attraction is a Man
ger scene of the Blessed Parents
with the child Jesus. Nearly every
family in the country owns hand
carved Manger figures, often hund
reds of years old and handed down
from generation to generation,
which are placed beneath the
Christmas tree every year. Then it
is the custom for the family, stand
ing in front of the tree, to sing
Christmas songs. Only after this
tudent Teachers Switch Roles
or Hazard'Filled Six Weeks
By Patsy Mathews
6;15 a.m. Ring! The student teacher
begins another fun day. As she
springs from her bed, her room
mate blinks, groans, and subcon
sciously renews her hate for her
early-rising chamber campanion.
7:15 a.m. Time to jet to the Re-
I fectory for a lavish breakfast
I most definitely necessary to hold
j the practice teacher until the
1 12:37 lunch bell.
7:40 a.m. Car-pools pull out to local
schools—provided some efficient,
dumb-dumb student teacher has
j not overslept.
1 And so the day begins, and that
^s only the beginning of what is to
jJJome in the next eight hours of the
, yudent teacher’s day.
!_Hazards are numerous to the no
vice teacher. There is always the
danger of falling madly in love with
Ihe little blonde boy in your sopho-
teore English class. Senior Follies
Newspaper pictures proved to many
mortified practice teachers that
their students do keep abreast of
frrrent events. Next is the hazard
of glaring down a sixteen-year old
heast-monster—all the while fear-
mg that he is going to soon stand
op and thrash you.
i Practice teachers are soon tested,
ften accepted or rejected. Miss
students gave her the
^7.K.” when they found out her
nickname and greeted her with a
chorus of “Hey, Mar, Mar!” Miss
.• Mathews acceptance was a little
more involved. One day, overcome
y 0 combination of the smell of
her kerosene heater and the noon
®cal, she found it necessary to dash
tfom her charming trailer unit to
Loaded with books and papers, Randy Chastain returns to Salem
after eight hours at the blackboard.
the nearest bathroom. Distance
being quite long and time quite
short, she got sick in the main hall
of the building just as the Mixed
Chorus was marching down the hall.
By sixth period the latest pupil
scoop” was “Be kind to MRS. Mat
hews—she’s pregnant because she
got sick in the hall.” Acceptance,
cooperation, and ultimate consider
ation have been hers since.
As the seasons come and go, how
ever, so do practice teachdrs. As
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are the children allowed to examine
their presents. Then comes a Christ
mas supper, usually consisting of
fish and a variety of pastries.
At midnight, Christmas matins
are celebrated in all Austrian
churches and in the country the
peasants usually hold torches in
their hands as they come down
from the mountains to attend ser
vices in the valley.
One old tradition still preserved
in rural areas is that of “Showing
the Christ Child.” A sacristan and
two altar boys carry a Manger
from house to house, singing
Christmas carols along the way.
They are followed by so-called pas
toral singers (children dressed as
shepherds and angels who are in
vited into the houses to act as pas
toral, episodes, for which they are
rew'arded with Christmas cookies
and candies.)
There is no Santa Claus in Aus
tria. Christmas presents are at
tributed to the Christ Child, who
is represented as a baby with
angel’s wings and who is really a
symbol for the new-born Jesus
Christ. The Christ Child comes
from - Heaven and is accompanied
by angels who help him decorate
the Christmas tree and distribute
the gifts.
December 25 and 26 are con
sidered to be the two most import
ant holidays of the year. On these
days members of families and close
friends visit each other and enjoy
a large dinner, usually of roast pork,
ham and all kinds of cake and
cookies.
The Santa Claus known in Am
erica does appear in Austria in an
other form, however. On Decem
ber 6, St. Nicholas’ Day is cele
brated, a custom which has been
shown to go back to the 11th cen
tury, when the people began to
honor Bishop Nicholas as the pat
ron saint of Children. St. Nicholas
makes his appearance accompanied
by the devil. The children must
give both of them information
about their good and bad deeds.
Salem, 1967,
Salem, 1800,
By Katherine McCarty
Salem girls will be homeward
bound and bubbling with Christmas
spirit, especially after Monday
night, December 18. Old Salem, Inc.
is sponsoring “Christmas in Old
Salem,” recreated as it was in 1800,
and centered around activities de
signed to recapture the spirit of
the little Moravian congregation
town of Salem a century and a half
ago.
Salem Square will be the setting,
decorated with boughs of holly and
greenery strung along the white
fences. Candle lanterns at the door
ways and candles in the windows
will flicker, and hopefully, all the
lights in the college, including the
library, will be temporarily extin-
quished during the event. Adding
to the authenticity, a night watch
man in early Moravian dress will
walk up and down Main Street,
calling the hours with the blowing
of a conch shell and the singing of
chants that were written in 1727
for the Moravians in Herrnhut,
Germany. A costumed sentry, lan
tern in hand, will trot his horse
The devil prepares to hit them with
a rod or to carry them off to Hell
in a tub. Then St. Nicholas,
dressed as a bishop, chases the
devil away, gets the children to
promise that they will be good
from now on and gives them lots
of nuts, fruit and candy.
Ninnie’s family, as other Swedish
families, begins Christmas celebra
tions on December 12. Actually,
that day is St. Lucia’s Day, and
the festivities celebrate the longest
night of the year. On this day the
daughters in the family dress in
white gowns and wear wreaths
adorned with candles in their hair.
Dressed in this garb, the girls serve
their parents breakfast in bed.
December 23 is reserved for
decoration of the Christmas tree.
On that night the family retires
early, while the mother stays up
later to decorate the rest of the
house.
Christmas Eve is the day of the
greatest Christmas celebration in
Sweden. A big meal is served in
the middle of the day, consisting
traditionally of ham. That after'!
noon is spent watching Christmas
cartoons — Walt Disney cartoons—
on television. ’
At the smaller evening meal oh
Christmas Eve a special porridge
made of rice is served. An almond
is put into the porridge and the
one who gets the almond in his
portion is destined to get married
within the year.
During this evening meal the
smaller children will ask where
Santa Claus is. The father leaves
the room and returns dressed as
Santa and loaded with gifts. After
distributing the presents, “Santa**
disappears and the father returns
shortly. The children are dismayed
that their father missed seeing
Santa Claus. One year Ninnie’s
mother dressed as Santa Claus. As
she entered the room, she tripped,
fell, and lost her beard! , ■.
Swedish families hold open houses
on Christmas Day and visit friends
and relatives.
To Become
On Monday
along the streets, and the Moravian
band will play chorales that were
used at Christmas in Salem nearly
two hundred years ago.
The music played will not be
familiar to the public, for it was
only recently discovered in the
archives of Moravian history. At
the John Vogler House, member's
of the School of the Arts will pre
sent vocal, harpsicord, and flute
numbers known to have been used
in the early 19th centuary. Twelve
members of the Choral Ensemble
will be joined by male voices in the
singing of early rnusic inside the
Brothers’ House and will be accom-
"panied by a string quartet and the
1797 Tannenberg organ. At the
Miksch Tobacco Shop (1773) there
will be cooking over an open fire
and “illuminations” (transparent
pictures) in the window.
Following the re-enactment of
Christmas in early Salem, Salem
girls will be joined by the public
in singing favorite traditional carols,
and many girls will return to cam
pus for dorm parties. The girls 6f
South Hall at the early boarding
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