Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. Monday, March 12, 1973
The deadline for contri
butions for the spring Incu:
nabula issue is Monday,
April 2.
Number 20
Anna Cooper,Librarian,
Retires at Year’s End
Abbie Hoffman spoke to a full house at Salem on
ance will be in the April 9 Salemite.
Thursday, March 8. An article on his appear-
- by Chris Moran
Associate Editor
Who is that tiny woman with
the white hair, friendly blue
eyes, and quick smile continual
ly roaming through the stacks of
the Salem College library? She
is Mrs. Anna Cooper, retiring
this summer after 13 years as
head librarian. A graduate of
New York University with a B.S.
in library science and an M.A. in
American History, Mrs. Cooper
received her M.A. in library sci
ence from Peabody Library
School in Nashville, Tennessee.
Before joining the library
-staff at Salem as assistant li
brarian in 1954, Mrs. Cooper
held positions as assistant librari
an at Brooklyn College, reference
librarian at Dickinson College,
librarian of the Caldwell Coun
ty, N.C., library, and head of the
catalog department of the Win
ston-Salem Public Library.
Project Raises National $3,200,000
Moves into Phase II
- by Dee Wilson
Feature Editor
In December of 1972 while
Salemites were engrossed in
exams, the Third Century Fund
coordinated by James A. Gray,
vice-president for development,
publicly announced that the goal
of $3 million had been reached.
In fact, completion of Phase I,
the local phase of the campaign
had received pledges and gifts
totalling $3,200,018, truly a suc
cess. The campaign’s second
phase, the national phase, began
with a kick-off dinner in New
York City on November 8,
1972 and will continue until
May 31, 1973. This phase is
aimed at a constituency of alum-
Senior Follies
Are you tired of sitting alone
in your room watching TV? If so,
come join the rest of the school
in Hanes at 8:00 on March 13 to
watch Salem’s own channel
WSSF (Welcome to Salem’s
Senior Follies). It will be a great
show for the stars are numerous
and varied. NBC has gratefully
loaned the senior class their
peacock, Critch Miller will be
there with his singing troup, and
a surprise guest will be shaving
for Gillette. Tickets may be pur
chased for only 50^ from Dennie
Hill in Gramley, Linda Casanova
in Clewell, and Pam Poe in Bab
cock, in the Refectory at lunch,
and at the door. Come, bring
your popcorn, and enjoy the
show.
nae and their husbands of both
the college and academy, parents
of current and recent students of
both institutions, as well as
friends of the academy and col-
lege. ,
The goal of Phase II is
$1,300,000 and the appeal will
include fund drives in 16 North
Carolina cities and cities in other
states. With the money received,
endowments are planned for the
Center for Special Education,
the Life-Span Counseling Center,
for the current library expansion
and for the renovation and re
storation of Sisters House, Cle
well Dormitory, and the Acade
my Building.
Renovation of the two dor
mitories includes new plumbing
and heating systems, plus new
electrical circuits. The fund will
also provide money for a faculty
development program at the col
lege and academy, as well as a
student development program.
The faculty development pro
gram will mean an increase in
faculty salaries. The student de
velopment program would fund
new interdepartmental and off-
campus programs. The projected
program includes a Freshman
Seminar, sociology held pro
grams, and a program in commu
nity arts adminstration, which
would provide for lectures by
museum curators. ,. ^
The Third Century Fund is the
first organized campaign to allow
alumnae and parents the oppor
tunity to make a substantial
financial committment to Salem.
The campaign is seeking not only
monetary pledges and gifts, but,
it is also an effort to strengthen
relationships between parents
and alumnae with the school.
The campaign is working closely
with the Director of Alumnae
Affairs and hopes to benefit
from the drive by consolidating
efforts to recruit able students
through the dinners held in the
Mrs. Cooper served as assis
tant librarian at Salem from
1954 to 1958, returning in 1960
as head librarian. She is a mem
ber of the American Association
of University Women, the Amer
ican Library Association, the
North Carolina Library Associa
tion, the Southeastern Library
Association, and has appeared in
the second edition of Who’s Who
in Library Science.
By no means leaving Salem
like a lamb, Mrs. Anna Cooper,
defying her demure appearance,
has tackled like a lion the monu
mental task of re-constructing
the library in her last year as
head librarian. The expansion of
the library has involved pains
taking hours of careful prepara
tion in all areas, from the most
complex financial details to the
exact placement of every stack
as pictured on precision plans of
each room in the library.
Construction is expected to
be completed by September of
this year. In addition Mrs.
Cooper has undertaken a reclas
sification of the library from the
Dewey Decimal system to the
more flexible Library of Con
gress system. The entire refer
ence room was reclassified
during the month of January.
Salem Appoints
various cities.
The second phase of the cam
paign is not far enough advanced
to provide any financial returns.
However, Mr. Gray did state that
the committee was still receiving
gifts from the New York area, a Ubrarv Chief
good indication that this phase '
of the campaign will be as sue
cessful as the first.
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Naltsmal VViWKk Fecteration
Mr. W. Robert Woerner, orig
inally from Louisville, Kentucky,
has been selected as the new
head librarian for Salem College
replacing Mrs. Anna Cooper who
is retiring after 13 years of dis
tinguished service as college li
brarian.
Mr. Woerner received his B.A.
and M.A. in history from the
University of Louisville, his M.S.
in library science from Columbia
University, and has continued
with post-graduate work in his
tory at New York University.
At 36 years of age, Mr.
Woerner has behind him 12 years
of library experience in such po
sitions as cataloger at the Colum
bia University library, reference
librarian for the New York His
torical Society library, and social
science librarian at Rutgers Uni
versity. He is presently the li
brary director at the Behrens
Campus of Penn State Univer
sity, in Erie Pennsylvania.
Having had a similar experience
at Penn State, Mr. Woerner is
fully qualified to handle the clas
sification change from Dewey
Decimal to Library of Congress
which is presently being under
taken at Salem College.
Mr. Woerner will take over as
director of the library June 1st.
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