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Volumn XLX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, November 22, 1968
Number 17
Mongum To Study In Florence, Dr. Brooks Speaks On
Photograph Medieval Churches Computers In Assembly
By Cyndee Grant
i“A mini-vilja on the outskirts of
Florence amid olive trees” and the
lovely Italian countryside is
William Mangum’s description of
his home while he is on sabbatical
leave, with his wife and three
children, from Salem next semes
ter. This is Mr. Mangum’s first
sabbatical leave from Salem, and he
looks forward to it with great ex
pectations.
iThe site of Florence for his
study vvas of his own choosing for
many reasons. Aside from the fact
that ‘‘Florence is one of the
greatest cities in the world,” Mr.
Mangum ascertains that its rich
ness in Renaissance art is incom
parable. At the University of
Florence he will take courses in
Medieval and Renaissance Art.
Another advantage of being in
Florence is that its foundries,
along with those of Rome and
Venice, are exceptional in their
method and skill. Mr. Mangum
hopes to observe the casting pro
cesses in the foundries with the
anticipation of setting up a sim
plified metal casting process at
Salem. He also wants to have
some of his own sculpture cast in
bronze.
^The Piedmont University Center
has offered Mr. Mangum a grant
to tour twelfth century pilgrimage
roads and to take slides of twelfth
century church architecture. Dur
ing the course of this project, to
be carried out over the summer,
Mr. Mangum will travel pilgrim
age roads throughout France,
Dr. Frederick P. Brooks spoke to
a “voluntary” audience at Salem
last Friday, November 15. The
audience was voluntary because Dr.
Brooks had requested that students
not be required to attend the as
sembly.
Dr. Dale H. Gramley introduced
Dr. Brooks, whose topic was “The
Design of Thinkers.” Dr. Brooks,
a computer specialist and Chairman
of the Department of Information
Science at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, emphasized
the philosophical and religious as
pects in the design of thinking
machines.
did not just happen. As a designer
himself. Dr. Brooks recognized a
design and purpose in the construc
tion of the human mind.
But these statements raise ques
tions. If the mind was designed
who designed it and why. These
questions are usually ignored in the
educational process. Dr. Brooks
feels. He said that the orthodox
Christian position is the only seri
ous attempt to answer these ques
tions and provides the best ans
wers.
NCSAPresents
Mangum works on sculpture as sabbatical draws near.
He pointed out the three parts of
computer design: the hardware or
the machine itself, the language
translation of facilities to state
what the computer is to do, and
the analysis of the task or the ap
plication program.
Dr. Brooks then explored the
philosophical effects of man’s con
struction of increasingly complex
thinking machines. First, he dis
tinguished between human and com
puter “thinking” by saying that if
it can be done by a machine, it is
not thinking. He said that although
the modern computer system is the
most elaborate of man’s inventions,
it is nothing in comparison to the
human mind.
Goldsmith Play
England. Salem’s collection of
slides for this period of art history
will be greatly enlarged, and
copies of the slides will be made
available to other members of the
Piedmont University Center.
Mr. Mangum, truly an Italophile,
would find it difficult to express
Northern Italy, Spain, and possibly
his anticipation and aspirations for
his study in only a few words.
“Just to be there is going to be
exhilarating, to be surrounded by
all the history, the language, and
the beauty of Italy,” was Mr.
Mangum’s summation of his hopes
for Iiis sabbatical study,
Then, as a professional designer
of “thinking” mechanisms. Dr.
Brooks commented on the human
mind. “The human mind, he said,
is strangely and wonderously
wrought.” There can be no real
comparison between it and a man
made mechanism. The human mind
“She Stoops to Conquer,” by
Oliver Goldsmith will be the first
production of the 1968-1969 season
to be presented by the drama de
partment of the North Carolina
School of the ,\rts.
Opening night is tonight. Other
performances will be given Novem
ber 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 and De
cember 1. All performances are at
8:15 p.m. except the two Sunday
evening performances set for 7 p.m.
The English comedy will be pre
sented in the drama theater at the
School of the Arts. Admission will
be $1 for students, $2 for adults.
Reservations should be made since
seating capacity is limited. (Tele
phone 723-2717, Tuesday through
Sunday from 1 to 8 p.m.)
“She Stoops to Conquer” or “The
Mistake of A Night” was first pro-
(CoatiaMd aa paca 4)
Club Offers Fellowships
To The Creative Writer
Registrar’s Office Announces New
Procedures, Special Instructions
■ jNew York, N. Y.—Harry Scher-
man. Chairman of the Board of the
Book-of-the-Month Club, has an
nounced that Ralph Ellison, Louis
Kronenberger, and William Styron
have been named as the National
Board of Judges of the Book-of-
thc-Month Club Third Annual Cre
ative Writing Fellowship.
*The Writing Fellowship Program
administered by the College English
Asso.ciatioh calls for the awarding
of 14 fellowships of $3,000 each to
seniors in American and Canadian
colleges and universities.
.{Preliminary screening will be
done by a board of 21 regional
judges, three from each of seven
geographic areas, which have ap
proximately equal student popula
tion.
The Book - of - the - Month Club
Writing Fellowships were created
with the thought, Mr. Scherman
said, that there are many -fellow
ships available for those who wish
to pursue scientific and scholarly
investigations but relatively few are
available to the young creative
writer. “We hope this program will
help rectify this situation. We have
designed it to give the gifted col
lege senior an opportunity to de-
■ v'elop his creative talents in the
yiar following his graduation.”
^The Fellowship Program is open
to any person who will be a senior
in an accredited college or univer
sity in the United States or Canada
on January 1, 1969. Closing date
for entries is January 1, 1969.
jApplication blanks and full infor
mation about the Program may be
obtained from any college English
department or by writing to Miss
Margery Darrell, Managing Direc
tor, Book-of-the-Month Club Writ
ing Program, c/o College English
Association, 280 Park Avenue, New
York, N. Y. 10017.
Winners will be notified May 1,
1969, and awards presented on June
15, 1969.
Noffslnger Has
Y Service Lead
Dr. Jack Noffsinger, pastor of
Knollwood Baptist Church here in
Winston-Salem was featured to
day in Salem’s annual recognition
of the Thanksgiving season.
The morning assembly program,
a campus YWCA function, was
arranged this year by a committee
headed by Lee Largen.
The singing of “Come Ye
Thankful People Come” opened
the service in Hanes Auditorium.
The students participated in a
Thanksgiving Responsive reading
taken from the Baptist Hymnal.
Dr. Noffsinger’s formal message
followed.
Dr. Noffsinger’s benediction and
the final hymn, “We Gather To
gether,” closed the program.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Foreign Language Club will
meet Monday, November 2o, at 6.30
p.m. in Shirley Recital Hall.
Preliminary registration for next
semester has been planned with a
two-day procedure for the actual
registration and filling out of
class cards.
It is the responsibility of each
student to make an appointment to
confer with her faculty adviser
and to plan her courses for the*
next semester. This should be done
at any time before December 11.
Copies of the schedule of classes
and preliminary registration cards
will be available in the Registrar’s
Office. The faculty adviser should
sign the card at the time of con
ference.
On the afternoon of Wednesday,
December II, seniors will take to
the Registrar’s Office the prelim
inary registration cards signed by
their advisers, and will sign class
cards from 2—6 p.m. On Thursday,
December 12, from 9 a.m.—5 p.m.
and on Friday, December 13, from
9 a.m.—1 p.m. all other students
will secure their class cards at the
Registrar’s Office.
A revised form of the prelimin
ary registration card has been pre
pared t o . indicate courses that
must be taken in the next semes
ter, other courses to complete the
full program and a listing of ap
proved alternate courses in the
event that preferred courses are
filled.
With their advisers students
should list courses on the prelimin-
arv registration card by number,
section and semester hours credit.
In continuation courses which have
sections (A, B, C, etc.) register for
the same section in which they are
now enrolled except in special
cases. Check the first semester
schedule posted on the bulletin
board in case of uncertainty of
present sections.
If a course at Wake Forest
seems advisable* a student must
secure the necessary approval
blanks from the Registrar’s Office
and fill them out. After securing
the necessary two signatures,
return the blanks to the office.
The course will be listed on her
registration card by her adviser.
All juniors, and any student who
expects to graduate in 1970 (Janu
ary or June),, must fill out green
cards listing courses needed and
desired in the senior year. These
are to be turned in to the Regis
trar’s Office.
Sophomores who anticipate com
pleting a teaching certificate (ele
mentary or secondary) must look
ahead to the Block Program that
will be scheduled for the first sem
ester of 1970-71. This means a
careful check with advisers in
order to assure completion of the
major and other requirements, as
well as the teaching certificate.
If there is a conflict with a re
quired course or with a course
very much desired, report this on
the form Schedule Problems se
cured from the Registrar’s Office.
Registration for specific physical
educaton activity will be handled
by the Physical Education Depart
ment, but it must be listed on the
preliminary registraton card and
a class card for Physicial Educa
tion Z, 102, or 202 must be filled
out with the others.
Juniors and seniors who wish to
register for one elective course on
a pass/fail basis next semester are
to fill out a form in the Registrar’s
Office. This can be done at any
time up until the end of the second
week of classes in the second
semester.
Students who wish to change
their majors should confer with
Dean Ivy Hixson and secure the
necessary card.
Special students will register
with Dean Hixson or Miss Mar
garet Sirtipson, Registrar.
Please remember that the Reg
istrar’s Office may have to make
some changes in the schedule be
fore the second semester begins.
Should a student’s choice of sub
jects’ be changed after preliminary
registration, she should notify
Miss Simpson. Changes on Feb
ruary 3 will be possible if schedule
and size of sections will permit.
Amid a jubilant crowd of
fans,, Dr. Gramley crowns the
"Star of Homecoming '68"—
Ruby Bagonia.