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Volumn XLX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C., Friday, October 3, 1969
Number 9
Salemites Welcome Students
From Around The World
By Karen Park
.Italy, The Netherlands and Swe
den are the homes of the three
girls spending this year at Salem,
H^ma Morros, Tonny Van Zeben,
and Elizabeth Herion. The first of
these, Emma Morros of Italy, is the
daughter of an Italian diplomat and
consequently has lived in many
places, including Paris and Rome.
Interestingly enough, she was born
in Washington, D. G., where she
sjent the first two years of her
life. However, this is her first visit
since those early days.
IWhy did she choose to come to
the U. S. ?—to learn about America,
to improve her English, and be
cause her father thought it was a
idea. (You see, the father is
the dominant figure in an Italian
family.)
|A rather gentle Emma found New
York a little frightening, especially
when accosted by some inebriated
“gentleman.” Seldom is drunkenness
seen in Italy. Also, the dating cus
toms of Italy differ from those in
America. Rather than “dating
^ound,” the Italian girl usually has
only one boyfriend.
|Emma has found that Italy and
merica differ in other ways, too.
For example, they eat their dinner
much later. Our windows slide up
and down rather than opening out
ward from hinges on the side. And
she thinks 8 a.m. classes are just
tpo early. Emma finds the work
level which she is doing here com
parable to that which she had in a
Parisian high school. However, she
says with a bit of dismay, “We have
not all these assignments”!
I An interesting contrast she noted
concerned the television systems.
In Italy there are only two stations
which are run by the government,
fhus, all the advertisements are
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shown at once on a program of
their own so that programs do not
have to be interrupted. She also
commented that American equip
ment was superior to that in Italy,
and she especially likes our candy
machines.
Emma likes Salem because it is
quiet and out of the world’s main
stream, and she loves the squirrels,
which are not found in Rome.
From the Netherlands is Tonny
Van Zeben who arrived in the U. S.
a month early to live with an
American family in New Jersey and
become a bit used to American life
before coming to Salem. She found
this experience to be quite bene
ficial, but still has trouble picking
up the slang. New to Tonny are
drive-in movies, pool, bowling, and,
of course, football (although they
play soccer in the Netherlands).
After studying at Salem, Tonny
plans to return home and study at
a Social Academy in preparation
for social work. A challenge ap
peals to her. Consequently, she is
interested in working with the re
habilitation of prisoners. Challenge
was also one of her main reasons
for coming to Salem.
She finds the atmosphere of cam
pus life completely different from
the rather impersonal atmosphere
of European schools, where stu
dents live off-campus, and she likes
the sociable quality of dorm life at
Salem.
The third foreign student is
Elizabeth Herion from Sweden.
Like Tonny she is happy about
the social interchange that dorm
life provides, but finds that she has
an awful lot to do. As she put it
“Salem is hard work!” (said with
some emotion.)
Having heard so much about the
U. S., she decided to come and see
what it was really like. She finds
a notable difference in the number
of courses taken at one time in the
Swedish schools (10 or 11). And
she finds much more emphasis
placed on class discussion in Swe
dish schools, especially in the last
two or three years since the edu
cation system has been undergoing
a number of changes.
Liss likes sports—to watch, and
about football she commented, “It’s
rather rough, isn’t it?” However,
she enjoys watching the game as
well as the halftime activities.
I room with Liss and have found
that she loves to talk; if there is
no one else around, she talks to
herself. She likes all sorts of
flowers, shoes, and gardening, and
she loves her Pooh Bear.
This summer before returning to
Sweden, Elizabeth would like to
travel around the United States to
see for herself the places and
things she has heard and read so
much about.
Salem greets Tonny, Emma and Elizabeth.
Discover your potential
Honors Program Provides
Opportunity For Creativity
Did you know that Salem offers
courses in Radiation Biology,
Dyslexia, Underachievers, Roman
Elegiac Poets, Creativity, and al
most anything else YOU can
"that you find fascinating because
you don’t have time?
imagine:
Did you ever get tired of going
to class, using one textbook, and
having to neglect areas of study
.ndre Marchal To Give Organ
Recital On Flentrop In FAC
By Libby Cain
The Salem community is for
tunate in having, for the second
jinie in recent years, the oppor-
;unity to hear the great organist
Andre Marchal. On his last visit
f in 1966, Mr. Marchal performed on
I fhe Holtkamp organ in Hanes
I Auditorium. His upcoming recital
to be presented Sunday, October 5,
St 8:15 p.m., will be played on the
4 Flentrop organ in Shirley Recital
he IS a
and beloved
^all-
Andre Marchal is one of the
Iflgreatest musicians living today. His
astery of the organ ranks with
asals’ of the cello and Kreisler’s
of the violin. Marchal was born in a
Paris in 1894 and entered the Paris
Jionservatorie at seventeen where
Fe quickly rose to First Prize in
Prgan and Improvisation. In 1915
^10 Was appointed organist of the
famous church of St. Germain-
des-Pres; he remained there until
1945, when he became organist at
f ’t- Eustache, which houses one of
he best organs in Paris. He left
;St. Eustache in 1963.
Wr. Marchal first visited the
United States to give a series of
recitals in Cleveland, presenting al
most all of Bach’s organ works;
since then he has made many
American recital tours. He also
tours extensively and often in
Europe, Australia, North Africa,
and Canada, presents yearly reci
tals on the best concert organ in
France, and makes prize-winning
recordings. In addition,
greatly respected
teacher, drawing students from all
of Europe and the United States
(inclpding Mrs. Margaret Mueller
of the School of Music).
Marchal’s Bach playing stands m
class by itself, and his insight
into Bach is completed by his
knowledge of Bach s contempor
aries and precursors. His modern
repertoire is also wide, including
both composers of the generation
preceding him, such as Vierne and
Tournemire, both of whom ded
icated works to him, and his junior
contemporaries such as Alain,
Langlais and Messiaen. His perfect
music taste is reflected not only in
sensitive interpretations of
his
music of all periods, but also in the
improvisations which are a feature
of his recitals. Blind from birth,
Mr. Marchal reads music from
Braille and plays his entire, huge
repertoire by heart.
Sunday’s program ranges over
four centuries, including Toccata
by John Blow (1649-1708); Toccata
per I’Elevazione by Frescobaldi
(1583-1643); Tiento No. XVI by
Cabanilles (1644-1712); Verset de
Magnificat by Pachelbel (1653-
1706); a musical precursor of
Bach; Praeludium, Fuge and Cia-
cona by Buxtehude (1637-1707), who
influenced the young Bach; Gloria
de-la-Messe a I’usage des Convents
by Couperin le Grand (1668-1733);
Fantasia in C minor by Bach (1685-
1750); Choral-Prelude “Schmucke
dich, a biebe Seele”, by Brahms
(1833-1897); Variations sur un
theme de Clement Jannequin by
Alain (1911-1940) ; and Prelude and
Fugue in E Flat by Saint-Saens
(1835-1921).
Admission is free and the public
is cordially invited.
How, where, and what am I
talking about? HONORS STUDY I
“Ah, yes,” you say, “The program
only for the brains, the students
with 2.8 cumulative averages and
3.0 averages in the areas in which
they wish to do their honors study.
Take a minute and read on. In
addition to the above criteria the
faculty also adds that “The poten
tialities of the individual student
should also be taken into consider
ation. In some cases, the depart
ment may wish to modify the scho
lastic average requirement.” This
means that if you find something
fascinating and would like to study
this subject working at your own
rate and designing the experiment
according to YOUR own ideas, and
if you are a junior or senior and
wish to get at least 3 hours and up
to 12 hours credit for this study
then HERE IS YOUR CHANCE!
Apply for Honors Study next
semester!
This semester Ann Gibbs,, Di
anne Mitchell, Beth Cronister, Jon
Hagen, Barbara Homey, and Gale
Landress are participating in the
Honors Study Program. What
prompted them to apply for in
dependent study? Most of them
said that Honors Study would give
them a chance to get out of the
usual regimented academic program
and study something that interested
them at their own speeds. Sure it’s
a lot of work, they say, but taking
on the responsibility of such a
Do you think it would be worth
while to study something that fas
cinates you in your own way and
get credit for the work you’ve
done? Why not give Honors Study
a try ?
Gossett Goes
To Press
study and being on
worth the work!
your own is
Dr. Louise Gossett, Assistant Pro
fessor of English at Salem College-,
is one of the authors of a recently
published work, A Bibliographical
Guide to the Study of Southern
Literature.
The guide, edited by Dr. Louis D.
Rubin, Jr., of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was
published this year by the Louisiana
State University Press.
Dr. Gossett has done the chapter
“Southern Writing Since 1945.,”
and in the section On individual
writers, she did the .work on
Truman Capote.
Dr. Gossett is also the author, of
the book, Violence in Recent
Southern Fiction, published by
Duke University Press.
She received her B.A. degree
from Berea College, her M.A.
degree from the University of Min
nesota, and her Ph.D. from Duke
University. She joined the faculty
of Salem College in 1967.
Dr. Gossett is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma,
the Modern Language Association,
the South Atlantic Modern Lan
guage Association, the American
Association of University Profes
sors, and the National Council of
Teachers,