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Foreign Students Note Season;
To Celebrate American-Style
By Margaret Floyd
During the Christmas season,
Salemites’ thoughts automatically
turn toward family and home as
each family celebrates Christmas in
I its own way. If one were to de
scribe Christmas in America, he
liwould have to say that it is a com
bination of all customs and tradi-
‘tions brought here by ancestors of
■many different nationalities.
However, among us there are two
■students who live too far away to
go home, and who, for the first
time will not be spending the holi
days with their families. These
students are our foreign exchange
students. They look back to their
'own Christmas celebrations with
nostalgia, but excitedly anticipate
an American Christmas.
Karin Hammarborg, Salem’s Swe
dish sophomore plans to spend
Christmas in Birmingham, Alabama,
with the family of her roommate,
Susan Carrothers. The holiday
activities of the Carrother’s family
sounds exciting, for not only will
Karin have Christmas to look for
ward to celebrating, but a wedding
as well. Susan’s sister Katherine
is getting married over the holi
days. Already, Karin has seen as
pects of the] American Christmas in
tVinston;jSalem. She was amazed
when Christmas decorations ap
peared on the streets and in the
|shops so early.
Karin’s Swedish Christmas Eve
consists of a very large midday
dinner with a “whole big rear of a
pig” which is salted and overbaked,
herring prepared in all possible
f^'ays, cheesd, and sliced bread dip
ped in the gravy of the pig. The
climax of the Christmas dinner is
rice porridge in which a pealed
almond is placed. Whoever finds
the almond in her helping of the
porridge will be married within the
I new year. Pepper cookies, much
like Moravian Christmas cookies
are also a customary treat in Swe
den.
On the morning of Christmas
Eve, Karin and her family decorate
their live Christmas tree with white
lights and a few shimmering Christ
as balls so as -not to hide the
atural beauty of the tree. During
. -?the evening of that same exciting
^ay, “Epultomten,” the Swedish
equivalent to Santa Claus, dressed
in the same manner as Santa,
knocks on tljq door asking if all
Nutcracker
Opens Season
Peter Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker
Suite will be presented by the
North Carolina School of the Arts
December 14 and 15 in Reynolds’
Auditorium. Performances are at 2
P.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, Decem
ber IS of this year’s Nutcracker
Suite are Robert Lindgren and
^onja Tyven.,,
' The SchooLj- of the Arts has re
ceived much' recognition for its
production of the Christmas fairy
tale over the past years. Tickets for
Ibis year’s performances have been
sold out for over three weeks.
Starting December 18, the Nut-
l^acker Suite will go on tour in
Durham and Duke University for
two performances. December 19
and 20, the ballet will be at the
Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh.
At these two places the School of
Ibe Arts’ dancers will share the
honor with the accompaniment of
the North Carolina S3miphony with
Dr. Benjamin Swalin as conductor.
the children have been good. If
the answer is yes, “Epultomten”
enters with his large sack of sur
prises and passes the family’s
Christmas gifts around. Each gift
contains a poem from which the
receiver tries to guess what the
gift is.
On Christmas Day everyone goes
to church. Karin and her family
usually spend Christmas at their
country house and attend the ser
vices of a small candle-lit church
in the very early morning hours,
after'which the family returns home
to a warm cup of coffee and an
other big dinner later in the day.
On Christmas Day, all Swedish
homes display their national flag
because Christmas is a happy day.
Karin is looking forward to hang
ing her stocking on the mantle, a
cuirtom which seems very odd to
her right now. However, Karin will
probably miss her white Christmas
this year unless something extra
ordinary happens in the South.
Blackstone, Virginia, is thq... holi
day destination of our Dutch
Salemite Marijke Mossink, who will
spend Christmas in the home of
hor roommate, Mimi Farrar.
Marijke is excited and curious
about the whole asmosphere of
Christmas in America because in
Holland, Christmas is strictly a re
ligious holiday and no gifts are
given. The, Christmas tree and the
“creche” are two customary decora
tions along wdth the singing of
carols, the Christmas dinner of tur
key, the midnight mass, and the big
breakfast after the mass.
Marijke has also seen aspects of
Christmas in America. Here in the
Salem community, she has observed
that the Christmas season is not as
commercial as she expected. She
enjoyed the Moravian Candle Teai
and cannot wait to participate in
more Christmas activities.
May Candidates Model
Fashions By Montaldos
By Jane Cross
At Christmas time many Salem
ites’ thoughts turn to going home
for the holidays, white Christmases,
parties and balls, holly and mistle
toe, and as always, new fashions.
What better way to present the
candidates for May Day than with
a holiday fashion show ?
With the friendly cooperation of
Montaldo’s, this morning’s assem
bly presented to the Salem student
body some of Winston’s loveliest
new ideas in fashion,, as well as
forty beautiful girls. The choice to
pick the final representatives from
each class was really a hard one.
Everyone seemed to love the
showing which included outfits
from casual sportswear to the most
elegant formal evening gowns. An
appropriate mood was set by Mrs.
Nona Gallant, of Montaldo’s in
Winston-Salem, who did an ex
cellent job of narrating the fashion
show.
The freshmen wore comfortable
and cozy sportswear, to keep them
warm on those chilly Christmas
time sleigh rides. Among the fresh
men candidates were Amy Arren-
dell, Anne Blanchard, Susan
Brooks, Eleanor Fisher, Nell Hoop
er, Kathy Manning, Anne Marsh,
Jeff Seume, Shannon Shuford, and
Suzanne Wyatt.
They were f ol 1 o w e d by the
sophomores who were ready for
that last minute Christmas shop
ping for informal get-togethers in
their colorful and versatile date
dresses. Stylish sophs included;
Barbara Bewley., Justine Blow,
Janice Burns, Martha Ann Fulton,
Lynn Gayle, Jean Hodges, Betsy
MacBryde, Sara McDowell, Mary
Sue Morgan and Ellen Walker.
Dressed in all their festive’ finery
the juniors looked romantic, each
one ready for a very special date
to a holiday show, like the “Nut
cracker”, or dinner in some small
but luxurious restaurant. The jun
iors ready for the breath-taking
holiday season were Alice Cline,
Florence Dunn, Sissie Kincaid,
Margie Lee, Katrina McGurn,
Martha McMurdb, Poo Mullan,
Celia Watson, and Nancy Wetzell.
Lee Wood, another junior nominee
was not present.
To top off the showingj the sen
iors appeared all glitter and glow
ing in their elegant evening gowns
suitable for those formal occasions,
like the many annual Christmas
dances or Holly Balls. The seniors
included Carol Anderson, Nancy
Coble, Sara Hunt, Anne MacBryde,
Molly McPherson, Robin Rickman,
Kathy Sherrill, Barbara Smethie,
Candy Stell, and Sue Wooten.
Each:; of the nominees as well as
each student seemed caught up in
dreaming of the joy and magic of
Christmas. The world of fashion
and beauty combined to make a
very enjoyable assembly, and added
to the suspense of the lucky ones
who will be on May Court.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Archway publication goes to
press this week and will be distrib
uted around January IS.
Community To Present
Christmas In Old Salem
The fifth of December is Saint
Nicholas Day in Holland—the day
when Saint Nicholas, or “Sinterk-
laces,” comes to visit the children
along with his clownish helper
Black Peter. Saint Nicholas is a
Bishop and comes from Spain and
Black Peter is a Moor. The cos
tumes of the two characters are
always elaborate. Saint Nicholas
arrives delivering presents to the
good children and threatening to
put the bad children in his bag to
take back to Spain with him. The
gifts are always anonymous and
have little poems attached to them.
The poems may criticize a person’s
fault and on this particular day, he
is expected to read the poem aloud
and take it in good nature.
Before they -gg to bed, the child
ren place thfeir • shoes near the
hearth with hopes they will be filled
with candy from Saint ^ficholas the
next morning. Saint Nicholas and
Black Peter are supposed to ride
across the rooftops on a white
horse during the night of Saint
Nicholas Day. As they stop at each
chimney. Black Peter is supposed to
come down the chimney leaving the
candy. Good children always leave
carrots, bread, and water for the
horse.
Christmas as it was in the little
Moravian town of Salem in 1800
will be,, portrayed in Old Salem
Tuesday evening, December The
program, sponsored by Old Salem,
Inc., will be open to the^ public ifprn
7 p.m. until 9 p.m. , :■
The historic area, between Walnut
and' Bank streets will be blocktd
to vehicular traffic for the ..^yent.
Outdoor activity will include a sen
try on'horseback ..and a night \yatch-
man blowii|ig a conch shell and call
ing the hours with chants that date
back to -the mid-eighteenth century.
A Morayian band in costume will
move about' the"'af*^" playing cho
rales known to have been used by
the Salem congregation in 1800.
The fence around Salem Square
will be festooned in greenery, and
candles will be in the windows of
the historic buildings.
Five buildings will he open with
special activites in each. In the
recently restored Winkler Bakery,
costumed bakers mil be making
bread and Moravian sugar cake. Irr
the Miksch T o b a c co . Shop, an
“illumination” (transparqht picture
similar to those used by the early
Moravians) .will decorafe 'a window.
A pig will be roasting in the.:”open
fireplace at the Salem Tavern, and
there will be' live' animals in the
Tavern barn.
A highlight of the program will
be the presentation of music known
to have been used in Salem in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. This music, recently dis
covered in the Moravian^ Music
Foundation Archives, has it>een re
stored for this special event.
In the living room of the John
Vogler House, . s t u d e n t s at the
North Carolina School of the Arts
in Moravian costume will present
vocal, flute and harpsichord selec
tions. In the Single Brothers
House, a group from the SaJem Col
lege Choral Ensemble, also in early
Mora-yian dress, will sing '.antherns
of the period. The singers—accom
panied by a string quartet of School
of the Arts students —■ will be
directed by Paul Peterson of the
Salem College faculty. James V.
Salzwedel, minister of music at
Home Moravian Church, -will be gt
the 1797 Tannenberg organ.
Visitors will be served ginger
bread and cider in the dirtinji' hall
of the Single Brothers’ House.
An admission will be charged for
the buildings ($1 for adults and 25
cents for students). Tickets .will
be on sale to the public at the Old
Salem Reception Center and at the
Market-Fire House on Salem
.Square. All Salem students will re
ceive tickets from their dormitories,
and will; be welcomed to the cele
bration as guests of Old Salem, Inc.
Miss Frances Griffin, of Old Salem,
Inc., urges all Salem girls to come
to Christmas in Old Salem, “the
band will be out and there’ll be lots
of fun!”
Dean Aids In
Ruder Recital
By Elizabeth Cain
It could be. written on a fence:
“Phil loves Violin.” Phillip Ruder
does not just play the vfolin; he
dances with it, he makes love to
it. .'And they make beautiful music
to'gether.
ML Ruder is a member of the
Claremont Quartet and an artist in
residence at the North Carolina
School of tlie -Arts. His recital with
CiemCHg.. ,Sandrdlky iof the Salem
Collef.eJ School of Music Monday
night did >not contain high spots—-
.it consisted of high spots. The
pfograni displayed to perfection the
many and varied facets 'of Mr.
Ruder’s art.
TJl?., I> t o gram lipened ' with a
graceful Sonata in D Major J)y Jean
^arie; Leclair, a French contem
porary _^f Bach. Here the piano
took a .lgTibor^inate .continuous role
as a foil tS The melodious violin
part. The violin , was sin.poth and
perfectly facilej the many orna
ments all apparently effortless.
The ■'Second item on th6 program
was J. S. Bach’s Partita in D minor
for Solo Violin. In fhd five move
ments of this work and particularly
in the final CiaccCma, Mr^ Ruder
achieved a powerful, maje'sfic sound
that seemed too lagje^ for a single
instrument. Mr. Ruder took two
curtain calls at the end ^f this
work.
The third and final work on the
first half of the 'program Waj Mau
rice Ravifl’s Sonata. In thip more
modern work a wide range ^f new
effects appeared, j In the opening
Allegretto the violin sounded first
like a jew’s-harp, then like a banjo,
with pizzicato like a peashooter. In
the second movement, titled Blues,
the violin sobbed and sang lover a
cakev.'alk in the piano. Mr., Sand-
resky’s mastery was particularly
apparent in this very independent
piano part.
The second half of the program
opened with Charles Ives’ Second
Sonata, prefaced by some remarks
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Salemites, Snoopy Bring
Cheer To Veterans
By Mary Murchison
Loaded with Christmas gheer and
laughing faces, Salem girlfe left for
the Veteran’s Hospital in Salisbury
at . 6 p.m. Wednesday. Their pur-
pose'"was to bring to about 75 vet
erans of all wars of this century a
Christmas' party that they would
never forget.
They presented a play for the
veterans starring all of the Peanuts’
characters entitled “What is Christ
mas?” Our own original cast:
Charlie Brown — Marily Saache,
Lucy—D. A. Vaden, Sally—Melissa
Turner, Linus — Joyce McLean,
Schroder — Fossie Webb, Pepper
mint Patty — Susan Hendrick, and
Snoopy—Celia Watson, searched to
find the true meaning of Christmas.
Throughout the entire play sing-
along songs were sung by the char
acters and all of the veteran^
After the skit, Salem girls and the
veterans played games. Refresh
ments w'cre then served and every
one decorated a Christmas tree with
“Salemite - made” decorations. A
special added entertainment was
provided by the men themselves as
they sang songs, and told jokes and
stories.
The YWCA on campus worked
with the Jaycees in Winston-Salem
to provide the rides for the Salem
girls. The veterans had looked for
ward to this party for quite a long
time, and thanks to Barbie Barton,
Suzanne Wyatt and many others,
they were not disappointed.