STUDENTS ELECT RICHARDSON PRESIDENT
Student Government elected of
ficers for 1968-69 today in assembly,
i'he results are as follows:
Nancy Richardson, President of
Student Government; Sue Wooten,
Vice-President of Student Govern
ment; Paige French, Secretary of
Student Government; Joan Hobbs,
Secretary of Judicial Board; Lind
sey McLaughlin, President of IRS.
The remainder of the officers will
be elected in a call meeting of StUr
dent Government at 11:00 a.m.,
Monday, March 4.
Newly elected editors and Day
Student President were announced
in assembly. These officers were
elected by the publications’ staffs
and day students, respectively. The
following students were elected:
Competition for Rondthaler
Awards begins,
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Volumn XLIX
Carol Carson, Editor of The
Salemite; Kristin Jorgenson, Editor
of Sights and Insights; Marianne
Gingher, Editor of The Archway;
Pat Carter, President of Day Stu
dents.
Salem defeats Queens,
See page 4.
Salem College, ^X^inston-Salem, N. C., Friday, March 1,
1968
>r. Hardre To Speak
0 Salemites^n France
J|Dr. Jacques Hardre of the Un
iversity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill will address students
and faculty in assembly, Wednes
day, March 6. His speech is en
titled “DeGaullfe, the Statesman
and Writer.”
|Dr. Hardre’s visit to Salem is
sponsored by the Piedmont Un
iversity Center’s Visiting Scholars
P^fogram. Following the assembly
the speaker will be present at an
informal coffee in the Day Student
Center. He will then attend lunch
in the dining hall with students
and faculty. At 3:30 p. m. he will
present a talk in Shirley Audi
torium.
[professor Hardre recently re
ceived the French government’s
highest honor, the Knight’s Cross
of the Legion of Honor. It was
a^varded jointly by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs for his teaching
^cornplishments in the United
States and by the Ministry of
War for services in World War
II. Dr. Hardre fought with both
AJ'mies, He was trained at Ribbes-
fqrd-St. Cyr, the military academy
in England founded by DeGaulle
Other awards received for military
service include the Croix de Guerre,
Medaille de la France Libre, and
Medaille de Combattants Volon-
taires. ; f
Born in Dinan, France, Dr.
Hardre was educated both in France
and the United States. He received
the French baccalaureteate degree,
an A.B. from Guilford College;
and MA and PhD from UNC at
Chapel Hill. Before World War II,
he taught at Guilford College, the
Sewanee French House and UNC.
Since 1945, he has been a French
professor at Chapel Hill, and is
now Chairman of the Humanities
Division. He has also served two
terms as President of the American
Association of Teachers of French.
He is presently a member of its
executive council. Dr. Hardre is
the founder of the Alliance Fran-
caise at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Hardre’s research specialties
include surrealism, existentialism,
and contemporary French theatre.
His teaching areas are contempor
ary French literature and civiliza
tion. Amoung his publications are
“Letters of Louvoirs,” published
in 1949. He has recently co-edited
two text books with UNC .Assis
tant Professor George B. Daniel.
They are Jean Paul Sartre’s “Huis
Clos’ and Albert Camus’ “Le
Malentendu.”
Wilkinson, Novelist, To Speak;
Address, Discussions To Fill Day
By Carol Watson
Salem students and faculty will be
honored to have North Carolina
novelist Sylvia Wilkinson as a guest
during the afternoon and evening of
Tuesday, March 5. Miss Wilkinson
will be in the Reading Room of the
campus library from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
to carry on informal discussions on
any topic students or faculty mem
bers may suggest. At 8 p.m. she
will present readings from her
works and a lecture about her writ
ings to the Friends of the Salem
College Library.
A native of Durham, Miss Wil
kinson has been writing since age
fourteen. Her first novel, Masi on
the North Side, was published in
1966 and quickly climbed the best
seller lists. It won her the Made
moiselle Merit Award for Litera
ture in December of that year, and
Mademoiselle acclaimed her as “one
of the most talented Southern belle-
trists since Carson McCullers.” The
New York Times comments that in
this work she uses “the old and
tried themes of childhood innocence
in a corrupted world, the individ
ual’s search for identity.” A Killing
Frost, her second novel, was pub
lished in September, 1967. Her
writing has been influenced by Ran-
dell Jarrell.
The twenty-seven-year-old aut-
lalem Selects Coble Best Dressed;
^LAMOUR Holds Judging In March
By Sandy Gills
ancy Coble, this year’s candidate
for Glamour’s Best Dressed College
GW, can be seen elegantly dressed
advertising a gas pump or in rela
tively less formal attire working on
an art project. However, regardless
of,the extreme, she will be recog
nized as the ”best-dressed girl on
campus.”
fclancy is an art and French major
who hopes to go into interior de
signing after graduation. Her crea
tive talents also extend into the
r^lm of clothes. In order to sup
port a well-designed wardrobe,
Nancy has modeled for various com
panies in Greensboro and High
oint, one of which included ad
vertising a Gilbarko gas pump.
During vacation she is a draftsman
a civil engineer in Greensboro.
In her essay to Glamour, Nancy
as described the evaluation of her
ashion taste from a chubby adoles
cent to her predictions for the
nture.^ Being overweight increased
ancy’s development of a critical
eye for clothes with slimming lines
at Would flatter her body type,
Jv ich gradually evolved into a slim
j f
Influenced by the ingenuity of
’Mother, Nancy has learned to
^ c many of her own clothes,
specially those dressier outfits
^4
Nancy Coble, Salem's contestant In Glamour's Best Dressed com
petition, models the outfit that won her the nomination.
be blouses with French cuffs.
The preliminary judging
Which
hard
are perfect for work and so
oj .. find. She prefers simplicity
I me and easy-care fabrics and ,
bright colors! An ideal outfit
is a three-piece suit which can
converted into a skirt and sweater
accented by chunky, stable heels.
Although Nancy has no specific pre
ference for brands, she uses them
as an indication of good quality.
Nancy’s campus favorites include
sweaters and long-sleeved white
of the
Glamour contest will be in March,
and the winner should be announced
in April. Besides being photo
graphed for the August college is
sue of Glamour, the winner will re
ceive a trip to New York.
horess is a graduate of the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Greens
boro and has done additional study
as the recipient of a creative writ
ing fellowship at Hollins College.
Formerly a faculty member of Stan
ford University and later of Ashe-
ville-Biltmore College, she now
teaches creative writing at the Col
lege of William and Mary. Last
summer she was here serving as
one of the Governors School in
structors.
Creative writing and teaching are
not Miss Wilkinson’s sole talents.
Besides being a sports car fan, she
enjoys painting and has illustrated
several children’s books. She has
won several awards in tennis mat
ches.
Miss Wilkinson has very definite
views on public education reforms.
In a recent article printed in the
Winston - Salem Journal titled
“What North Carolina Needs
Most,” she says that college to a
freshman is a “strange, new world.”
“He (the college freshman) in
tended to take a step forward when
he chose to continue his education,”
she reflects, “but he finds himself
exhausted from taking one step for
ward and sliding back two.” This
dilemma she implies is mainly due
to the laxity of public schools in de
manding that students learn to
think during the high school years.
“Every year he advances,” she con
tinues, “a student should feel the
demands increase but he should
never feel cheated out of his pre
paration. ... To begin to solve the
problem of the high school-college
transition we need more teachers,
better teachers, better salaries, bet
ter libraries, more refresher courses
8 To Attend
SSL In Raleigh
Eight students will represent
Salem in Raleigh, March 6-9, at the
annual session of State Student
Legislature. Jenny Griswold, Kat-
hie Carpenter, Julie Johnson, and
Palmer Smith will be delegates to
either the Senate or the House of
Representatives. Alternate dele
gates are Christy Davidson and Lyn
Davis. Ginny Coffield and Susan
Greene will attend as observers.
John Sanders, advisor for the club,
will accompany the group.
The purpose of State Student
Legislature is to further students’
interest in government and to en
courage debate on current issues.
Twenty colleges and universities in
North Carolina will participate.
Each school presents a bill for de
bate. In 1965 and 1966 Salem won
the Best Bill Award for a small
college.
This year Salem delegates are in
troducing a bill that will redefine
criminal insanity for North Caro
lina courts. As the definition now
stands, a defendent shall be excused
on the grounds of insanity only if
he is unable to tell the difference
between right and wrong. This
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at the state’s colleges for high,
school teachers. These are obvious
needs, and the state should do all
it can to fill them.”
Miss Wilkinson goes on to sug
gest that a system of student-
teacher course evaluations might
help to remedy the situation. Her
theory, however, is that instead of
asking today’s high schoolers for
evaluations, it might be of even
more value to have the high school
students of five to ten years ago to
evaluate in retrospect the courses
they took. In this way deficiencies
might be spotted more readily. “I
would conclude,” Miss Wilkinson
declares, “that no eight-hour day is
so wasted as that of the average
high school student and that no
state can afford such a waste.”
Ackerson Joins
English Faculty
By Sterling Winstead
New this year to Salem’s English
department is Duane Ackerson. He
spent his first three years of col
lege at George Washington Univer
sity then transferred to the Univer
sity of Oregon where he finished
his senior year and got his masters
in the Fine Arts.
Mr, Ackerson began writing poe
try his senior year in college. Many
of his poems have been printed in
such literary magazines as the
Northwest Review and the Colorado
Quarterly. His talents do not stop
here. In 1967 Mr. Ackerson’s short
story “Dust of August” Was men
tioned in the Best American Short
Stories list. For his masters in the
Fine Arts (English and creative
writing), he wrote a collection of
plays.
While he attended the University
of Oregon, he was a teacher assist
ant for two years. He was also as
sistant editor of the Northwest Re
view. It was also at the University
of Oregon where he met his wife
Cathy.
At Salem Mr. Ackerson teaches
two freshman literature courses, a
modern poetry course, and an ad
vanced composition group.
Below is printed one of Mr.
Ackerson’s poems. He got his in
spiration when he and Cathy (be
fore they were married) tried to
liven up his apartment by pasting
black polk-a-dots on his old re
frigerator.
Listening to the Refrigerator
It sounds like an endless crap-
game
Where someone rattles and rattles
The same old pair of dice
Till the corners bevel from rub
bing
Against each other, but never
throws them down.
Afraid they can’t be trusted.
It’s too bad the refrigerator
Can’t at least get snake eyes
And take a look out of itself
With two black eyes—
Life is better than holding ice
cubes.
Even if you’re losing.