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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. —Thursday, October 4, 1973
Number 2
Archways Will Tour Military Bases
The Archway Singers of Salem
College will be singing their way
into military bases all over tbe
Caribbean during January. The
singers have been selected by the
National Music Council to par
ticipate in the USO-College Shows
Program, They will travel on a
four-week entertainment tour
lasting from January 7 to Febru
ary 5.
The program is sponsored by
the USO and the Department of
Defense. Each year the USO
selects for its show 15 choral
groups from colleges all over
America. To be selected, the
Archways had to make a 50 min
ute tape of their songs, obtain
recommendations from people in
the community and write a paper
for the January Term Committee
explaining why the trip would be
beneficial. In February of 1973,
they were notified of their selec
tion for the 1974 program. Salem
is the only North Carolina school
included in the list of choices for
the 1973-74 year.
The nine member group will be
directed and accompanied by Ron
Wilkins, husband of Debbie
Wilkins, one of the Archway
Singers. He is a Special student
at Salem and a musician too —
he plays the guitar. The girls that
will be participating, in addition
to Debbie, are; Beth Perry,
Carolyn Davis, Clark Kitchin,
Beecher Mathis, Leah Laine Mc
Donald, Camille Murphy, Ann
Poston and Kim Royster. For the
tour the Archways have designed
new outfits that are long white
halter dresses, and as a second
change, long pants.
The group will perform in the
Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
Guantanamo Bay and the Pana
ma Canal Zone. Their repertoire
will include popular hits, recorded
by such groups as “The Carpen
ters,” “The Fifth Dimension,”
and Carole King, along with show
tunes from South Pacific and
Hello, Dolly!, and a few country
folk songs in the John Denver
style. Each girl will receive $10
per performance day for ex
penses. The troupe will also have
two weeks to tour on their own.
On their way home they hope to
stop at the Virgin Islands to give
a performance for Nohlgren and
his students who will be there on
a biology January program. The
Archways will give a concert at
Salem shortly after returning
home in early February.
Salem Freshman Works With LOVE
Gray Tuggle, a freshman, did
volunteer work with a L.O.V.E.
group this past summer.
L.O.V.E., “Let our volunteers en
rich,” helps elementary school
age children who are slow learn
ers. The program was the pilot
program for the state of Tennes
see.
The group was organized last
March in her hometown of Mc
Minnville under the supervision of
Mrs. Milton Schklor. The mem
bership was small, but extremely
sincere and eager to work. The
L.O.V.E. volunteers started out to
be a summer group, but has de
veloped into a full time service.
L.O.V.E. gives special attention
to children from unhappy home
situations.
The group planned three trips
this summer. The county school
system gave the group a bus for
transportation for the twenty-five
members. The first trip was
to a local farm for fishing, lunch,
and studying. The volunteers were
on a one-to-one basis with the
Pierrettes Sponsor Design Contest
Attention! The Pierrette Play
ers are sponsoring a contest for
the best program design illus
trating the three one-act plays to
be presented this fall. The plays
are “Overruled”, “Chamber
Music”, and “The Gas Heart.”
Production dates are November
7, 8, and 9. The design should be
Inge and Lucia extend an invitation to students to learn about
their countries, Holland and Italy.
Foreign Students Share Views
Give Impressions of Home, Salem
students and each volunteer was
responsible for lunch for himself
and one student. Another trip was
to Readyville, Tennessee, to the
last water powered mill in middle
Tennessee. The children went on
a tour of the mill, visited a home
over two hundred years old, and
ate lunch at a roadside park. On
the way home the group visited a
riding stable where the children
were allowed to pet the horses.
The last journey for the summer
was to the Old Stone Fort in Man
chester, Tennessee. The group
visited the area, fished, studied,
and then held a party to mark the
end of the summer.
The group is still meeting twice
a month and has hopes for a
fund raising project, a L.O.V.E.
Afifair in October. The money ob
tained from the project would be
used to bring an opthalmologist to
McMinnville to check elementary
school children’s eyes.
The theme song for the group
is “What the world needs now is
L.O.V.E.”
submitted to Peggy Bullard in 8
Sisters by October 25. The prize
for the best design will be two
free tickets to the Winston-Salem
Little Theater production of
“Auntie Marne.” Put those crea
tive minds to good use and win
yourself an evening of fine en
tertainment — free!
Inge Angenvaare greets visitors
to her third floor room in Clewell
with an enchanting smile and a
scrapbook full of pictures of her
native Holland.
Three floors down, Lucia Tonna
sheds her more reserved manner
when she talks of her family’s
summers on Sardinia, across the
Tyrrhenian Sea from her native
Italy.
The two girls are this year’s
foreign exchange students at
Salem College. They won scholar
ships for a year’s study here,
awarded by the Institute of Inter
national Education after they had
taken a number of examinations
in their own countries.
Inge came prepared to show
her new classmates scenes from
her life in Alpen aan den Rijn,
the Netherlands. Her fluent Eng
lish flows as she flips pages in
her photo album.
“I am a person for modern
languages,” she said.
Besides her own language and
English, she knows French, Ger
man, Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
She hopes someday to attend the
School of Interpreters in Brussels,
Belgium.
A close rival to her love of
languages is her interest in jour
nalism. Inge is former editor of
her high school paper in Holland.
If she had not won her scholar
ship to Salem, Inge probably
would have entered the School of
Journalism at the University in
Holland.
There Inge would not have been
able to ride her bike to school as
she did every morning in her
home town. She prefers a stand
ard, no gears bicycle as opposed
to the 10-speed bicycle so popular
in America. Many of the older
teen-agers in the Netherlands
rode motorbikes to class but Inge
did not because of the air pollu
tion created by the exhaust.
Motorbikes and bicycles are tbe
main source of transportation for
many Hollanders — teen-agers,
housewives and farmers. A bike
was Inge’s transportation to high
school every morning at 8:30 a.m.
for her seven class schedule which
lasted until 3 p.m. She went to
three classes on Saturday as well,
which meant a total of 38 hours
per week in class.
She attended the same high
school for six years, grades 6-12,
with 1,000 other students. In Hol
land the high school system in
cludes 20 different types, organ
ized according to the capabilities
of the students and their interests.
The fashion in clothes was the
same in Inge’s high school as in
most American high schools —
blue jeans and T-shirts.
Yet, in Inge’s high school no
one played football but everyone
loved soccer. Inge finds the foot
ball games at Wake Forest fascin
ating. She especially enjoys the
electric atmosphere created by
the bands, the cheerleaders and
the fans.
Another thing that has impress
ed her is the expansiveness of
America. Holland has 30 million
people in an area one-third the
size of North Carolina. Two-thirds
of this land area is under water
with machines constantly at work
pumping out the excess.
Her family lives in the country
side, Alpen aan den Rijn has a
population of 35,000. It is near the
larger cities of Amsterdam, Rot
terdam and The Hague.
Most of the citizens, including
her family of eight, live in town-
houses since land is so expensive.
Her father is an accountant, and
her mother is a busy housewife
occupied with her six children.
Inge is the second oldest of five
girls and one boy, and the first
in her family to visit America.
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Diversified Freshman Class Exhibits Enthusiasm for Salem
By Kathy Black
The 178 member Freshman
class of Salem College has de
veloped its own distinctive per
sonality. Of these 178 freshmen,
171 are boarders and seven are
day students. Forty-nine percent
are from out of state, a decrease
in the usual percentage of 53-55%
of students having permanent
residence outside the state. Four
teen states are represented in
geographic distribution, ranging
north to Connecticut, south to
Florida and west to Texas.
A total of 121 different schools
throughout the country are repre
sented. Of these many institu
tions, 57 freshmen attended pri
vate schools and 121 graduated
from public schools. Class rank
for the members of this freshman
class is outstanding. Three girls
were fourth in their graduating
class, seven were third, three
were second and three girls
achieved top honors as valedic
torians.
Their tentative majors include
37 English, 29 history, 21 music,
21 math, 16 science and 14 cite
foreign languages as a prospec
tive major.
In general, the Admissions Of
fice characterized the freshman
class as “heterogeneous in terms
of schools attended, travel and
work experience, courses taken
in high school, religious back
ground, and plans for the future.”
During Orientation Week, daily
activities were scheduled for the
freshmen. Peggy Bullard, chair
man of orientation, said the week
showed that the freshmen “have
a positive outlook on things. They
seemed to enjoy Orientation
activities and weren’t critical —
and they were appreciative of
what the Orientation Committee
planned. They’re confident but
feel they have a lot to learn.
“The main difference from last
year’s freshman class is they’re
more relaxed and natural — for
example, in dress .... On the
whole, they’re a good class with
a good outlook.”
One freshman said this about
Orientation: “I loved it! They
make you feel so welcome.
They’re friendly and keep you
busy.”
When asked about her choice of
Salem, she said: “I feel I made
the right choice. Academically,
it’s good. There’s a closeness
here. You like being somebody’s
friend. You meet lots of neat
people, and you meet some real
weirdos, too!”
The freshman class is shaping
its personality into what would
appear to be a good addition to
Salem’s campus.
Faculty Attend
Education
Conference
For two and a half weeks last
summer Dean Clemens San-
dresky. Dr. Mary Stewart Hill,
Dr. Roy F. Gratz and Dr. Sally
P. Rackley attended a symposium
on education sponsored by the
Danforth Foundation and held at
Colorado College. The subject was
Alternative Futures for Liberal
Arts Education. Twenty-five uni
versities and colleges from all
over the nation were represented
as well as one group from Wad-
ham College at Oxford, England.
Dean Sandresky gave a very
favorable review of the sympos
ium. He said that a wide variety
of colleges participated, ranging
from experimental schools to the
traditional liberal arts colleges;
including three or four black col
leges and three women’s colleges.
The representatives gathered to
discuss problems being encounter
ed in their respective educational
systems. They also hoped to learn
of new instructional techniques
and theories through the seminars
which they attended during the
two and a half week period.
Each representative attended
one scheduled seminar which met
three times a week and could
audit other seminars as well.
Some of the subjects of the semi
nars were “The Rhetoric of Pro
test and Theoretical Grounds of
Denial,” attended by Dr. Hill,
“Can a Student Prepare for Life
by Studying Liberal Arts,” and
“Academic Policy and Constitu
tional Law,” attended by Dr.
Rackley. Dr. Gratz chose the
seminar on “Fruitful Change in
the Liberal Arts College.” Dean
Sandresky said that he found the
sessions highly stimulating. He
participated in thought provoking
discussions of films varying from
old classics to recent movies by
directors like Ingmar Bergman in
a seminar called “Movies and a
Film; Purposes and Methods of
Teaching the Arts.” He also audit
ed a good seminar on “Student
Development During College.”
At least once each day there
was a panel discussion in which
one of the schools presented its
philosophies on education princi
ples.
It is Dean Sandresky’s feeling
that our representatives at the
symposium learned a great deal
of valuable information, particu
larly from the other women’s col
leges. The problems here at
Salem are surprisingly few and
minor compared to those of other
schools. The Salem professors be
came aware that certain aspects
of the system at Salem College
may be much greater assets than
had been realized. The panel dis
cussions and conferences in Colo
rado revealed that women often
have different educational needs
than men. One such need appears
to be more experimental learning.
The January Program and Life
span Counseling Center at Salem
provide excellent opportunities to
fulfill this need. Also Salem offers
smaller class-sizes, with the re
sulting increase of individual at
tention, which has been shown to
have a positive effect on students.
Dean Sandresky was impressed
and fascinated by the new
theories and perspectives in
teaching that were introduced by
the advisors, several of whom
were outstanding authorities in
their fields. He believes that the
ideas presented at the Colorado
symposium could be very helpful
in making Salem’s program even
more beneficial to today’s women.
Kathy Gedeon