Congratulations on
your graduation,
FRESHMEN!
Congratulations,
JUNIORS,
on your victory!
Volumn XLX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 4, 1968
Number 10
alem Welcomes Eight Transfers
s'*Sophomores^ Junior Classmen
College Meets Karin, Maryke
Kelly Named IRC Sponsor
By Karen Park
There are eight new transfers
boarding here at Salem; four are
third-year students, and four are
jophomores.
I Anne Campbell went to Stevens
College in Missouri for her first
I wo years and decided to come to
ialem on the spur of the moment
(in August, as a matter of fact)
Iccause she felt she was ready for
In academic change, and liked
lalem’s location. Anne is majoring
^ Spanish and plans to earn a
teaching certificate. Her plans for
the future also include a senior at
Princeton named Claude. Long
dark hair, brown eyes, and a bro
ther at Davidson are chief among
her charms.
Rosy Hufham is a sophomore
transfer. She is lavaliered to Roger
Powell who drives a ’53 MG and
|oes to Davidson. She came here
om Sullins in Bristol, Virginia,
;cause “Salem had all she was
oking for.” (I took this to mean
was near Davidson, though it
ay be that she was referring to
ilem’s curriculum!) From Wilm
ington, Rosy has one younger sister
and says sailing is one of her ruling
passions.
Becky Huguley calls Clinton,
South Carolina, home and has one
older brother. She spent her fresh
man year at the University of South
Carolina. However, she decided she
wanted to go into music and was
attracted to Salem by its School of
Music. By the way, Becky rooms
in 206 Gramley, an awfully long
way to walk to the Fine Arts Cen
ter!
Jennifer Johnson, a junior, grad
uated from Endicott Junior College
last year. She lives in Amesbury,
Massachusetts, and Endicott is in
the same state. Consequently one
of her reasons for coming to Salem
was to be in a new region, and to
meet different people. Also, she
had fallen in love with the campus
when she came for a visit. An
other reason was Jack Wellman,
her lavalier-mate from Davidson.
Jennifer has a twin brother at
Bowalin College and has two older
twun sisters. She plans to major
in history, minor in education, and
iaiemites Make Replies
To Comparative Survey
By Sterling Winetead
A "Questionnaire on Student and
jZollege Characteristics” was given
lo the Junior and Senior Classes
feonday, September 23. This quest
ionnaire has envoked much dis
cussion among the students.
! One question dealt with what
topics the students discuss mostly
kmong themselves. Social life is
post frequently discussed among
the girls but politics, religion and
fcampus events are also high on the
[ist. Many questions brought up in
the classroom are carried over to
[>ull sessions among the students.
cial problems were also men
tioned as a topic of concern to
Salemites.
Most students did not find it
necessary to leave blank any of
the questions dealing with the fa
ther's income was left blank oc-
^a.sionally. Many students said they
don’t know the income of their
father. One girl left blank the
question on religious preference.
When asked i f Salemites con
sider Salem conservative or liberal
the answers ranged from most
definitely conservative, from the
view point of a northerner, to
liberal, from the view point of a
southerner. Most people regarded
Salem as a conservative Southern
girls' school.
Surprisingly most Salemites were
in fvaor of having more radical-
oriented people to appear as speak
ers on campus. One person said
that radical speakers reveal how
conservative the views of Salem
ites are.
Salem’s social rules were con
sidered very satisfactory by most
girls. Sandy Kelley said, "The
rules are liberal for a Southern
girl’s school but conservative on
the national level.” Others said the
rules are good for a small girls’
school and a few expressed the
wish for more liberal social rules.
Even though Salem does not
close its doors to any ethnic
groups most girls were glad that
the college does not encourage
them to come.
With the impact that liberalism
snd conservativism play in our
world today many Salemites have
their own views how these apply
;to Salem. Sandy Kelley replied,
“Salem is a small, conservative
girls’ school that prepares girls
well for the type of society in
which they will live.’ Pat Sanders
expressed the opinion that, “As far
as a conservative liberal arts
school, Salem is more liberal than
most southern girls’ schools.’
"I like Salem,” says Sandra
Holder, “for its conservativeness
but I think that this is why many
people leave.” Emily Withers also
thinks, “Salem is a very conse^-
, ative school for the most part with
conservative girls.”
Jan Longley feels “The average
Salemite represents the top portion
of “society” and as such seems
opposed to controversy or radical
change of any sort.”
declares that she just loves Salem.
Another new sophomore is Sara
McDowell from Winston-Salem.
She has a winning smile, which she
flashed as she declared that she,
too, loved Salem. Sara first went
to Stratford College in Danville, a
girls school about the size of Salem,
though with a smaller campus. She
enjoyed Stratford, but her major is
home economics, and she felt Salem
offered better courses in this field.
She has three younger brothers.
Katrina McGurn lives in 321 Bab
cock. Her family is quite a large
one, with three sons and three
daughters, counting herself. They
live in Richmond, Virginia. Katrina
previously attended Mary Washing
ton, which is the women’s part of
the University of Virginia. She
became interested in Salem through
her mother, who grew up in North
Carolina. Sociology is her major
and English, her minor.
Barbara Phifer is the last of the
new students, and rooms with Rosy
Hufham in 316 Clewell. She trans
ferred from Maryville College in
Missouri, to Salem because her
father was born and raised in Char
lotte and passed his love of the
South onto her. Right now, Bar
bara’s main concern is the lavalier
she is going to receive in two weeks
from David Patterson, who goes to
the University of Alabama. On a
more mundane level, 'She plans to
make psychology her major and
elementary education her minor.
Speaking about Salem, Barbara was
very enthusiastic, but (with FITS
in mind) she really felt fortunate
to have transferred as a sophomore.
Sally Wilson from Jacksonville,
Florida, is a junior transfer from
Stratford in Danville, Virginia.
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Exchange students Maryke Mossink of Holland and Karin Hammar-
borg of Sweden chat with each other at the IRC Tea.
By Elaine Spicer
International Relations Club
Salemites gathered to meet our
new foreign students,Karln Ham-
marborg from Sweden and Maryke
Mossink from Holland, at the
first meeting of the year on
Thursday, September 25. N i n n i e
Olson, a returning exchange stud
ent was also welcomed back to
Salem.
During the club business. Dr.
Sidney Kelly was voted sponsor,
and plans for the next program
were discussed. Hopefully, repre
sentatives of each political party
will be able to come to Salem to
discuss the presidential candidates
and answer students’ questions
concerning them.
Karin and Maryke are very ex
cited about being in America and
here at Salem College. Karin, who
Founders Day Features
Thompson In Assembly
is from D r o m m a, a suburb of
Stockholm, applied for a scholar
ship and was surprised when she
received an answer a year after
her application. She was even more
excited to find she would be com
ing to the United States.
When Karin was sixteen years
old and in secondary school, she
chose to direct her studies in the
science field. After the “gymna
sium”., or three years of special
ization in secondary school, she
took oral examinations in math
and biology. Graduation is really
a grand event in Sweden, she says.
All the students parade, visit each
other, and party all night long.
Maryke, who is from Eysden,
Holland, near the border of Belg
ium, says that Salem College is
well known in Holland. She had
always heard so much about the
United States that she had to
come to see “what it was really
like.” She is very impressed with
the size of America, as Holland is
only one third of the size of North
Carolina. The people of Holland
are interested in international
politics, and demonstrations by the
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Who’s
Selects Seniors
Who’s Who at American Colleges
and Universities provides national
recognition for college seniors and
graduate students who have made
outstanding contributions to
individual colleges and to the insti
tutions of higher learning of the
nation.
This year, Salem was allowed to
place the names of thirteen Ro
dents in this select group. The
Salemite announces the names of
the recipients of this honor as fol
lows :
Montine Bryan, Winston-Salem
Pat Carter, Winston-Salem
Nancy Coble, Greensboro
Peggy Hart, High Point
Joan Hobbs, Spartanburg, S. C.
Nancy Holderness, Tarboro
Sara Hunt, Chatham, Va,
Helen Jones, Charleston, S. C.
Lynn Messick, Winston-Salem
Nancy Richardson, Richmond, Va.
Candy Stell, High Point
Nancy Taylor, Rural HaU
Sue Wooten, Kinston
Founder’s Day Assembly was held
October 2, in Hanes Auditorium.
Traditionally, the seniors wore their
caps and gowns and Salem Aca
demy students were present.
President of Salem College, Dale
H. Gramley welcomed everyone to
the formal celebration of the found
ing stating that 196 years, 5 months,
and 9 days ago the first dwelling
on the college site stood where
Main Hall stands today. He fur
ther stated that in 1805, the first
building for educational purposes
was built and is now restored South
Hall. In 1865, the College was
chartered for college work and in
1890 granted its first degrees.
Dr. Gramley then introduced
Clark Thompson, College Chaplain,
who spoke on the subject of “Vio
lence, Change, and Revolution in
Our Day.”
Mr. Thompson began his talk by
reminding the audience that they
have all had the experience of
wanting to strike out against some
thing they oppose. The desire is
there even if it does not result in
actions of violence. Revolution and
change can take on many forms—
war, violence on the streets, words
uttered, and even the subtle atti
tudes among us. Violence and revo
lution have become a major part
of our culture and way of life.
Mr. Thompson then commented
on the fear of change and forces
that demand revolution. He made
use of the ideas of author, Peter
Weiss to better express this
thought. Mr. Weiss feels that men
invent the revolution and then do
not know how to run it. All men
have a number of things that they
want to keep in the face of change.
On the topic of the nature of
revolution and violence, Mr.
Thompson shared with the audi
ence the thoughts of Hannah
Arendt. She asks that revolution
not be confused with war and
violence. She feels that violence
always stands at the beginning of
some social, cultural, or political
change—violence often accom
panies a new beginning.
Mr. Thompson continued by say
ing that the authoress feels that
revolution is something irresistable.
Once begun, it can never be turned
back or halted. No men know what
(they want in a revolution, they
know only that they want change.
In this sense, revolution is a pers
onal something involving each man
as an individual facing personal
change.
Mr. Thompson discussed four
of the main ideas of the “New Left”
involved in student protest. His
first point was that everyone must
think in terms of hope in order to
defeat despair and pessimism. New
hope is not entirely optimistic but
it can include enough hope on
which to act. Modern music and
entertainers seem to be trying to
tell us about this new hope.
The second concept of the “New
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young people are not uncommon.
Dutch ideas, which are not too dif
ferent from American ones, are
divided almost evenly between con
servatism and liberalism. The
Dutch educational system is much
like that of Sweden. At fifteen,
Maryke began her specialization in
science and language, and con
tinued these courses for six years.
The languages that she knows in
clude French, German, Latin,
Greek, English, and Dutch!
Ninnie Olson returns after a ses
sion of summer school at UNC and
a good trip home to Sweden.
Group Studies
"Asian Drama”
The discussion group studying
Asian Drama met for the first time
Wednesday evening, September 25,
in Main Hall. Attendance for the
group was strong with ten students
and six professors taking part. Dis
cussion of the preface and prologue
ensued.
Gunnar Myrdal, author of the re
cently published Asian Drama,
states that his purpose in writing
the book is to develop a theory,
“one that coordinates in a sys
tematic manner a general concep
tion of what is happening in the
region of South Asia.” Main emp
hasis of the W'ork focuses on India,
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