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Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. — Thursday, November 8, 1973
Number 7
Janie Barkman and American Swim Team
Visit Commnnist China, Meet Madam Mao
Janie Barkman, Olympic gold medalist, found China fascinating
in “living color.”
By Clark Kitchin
“It was incredible,” says Janie
Barkman, in reference to the life
style of Chinese people she ob
served last summer. Janie got a
chance to see Communist China
during the month of June, her
ticket being her performance as
an Olympic swimmer and Gold
Medal winner. The State Depart
ment sponsored the exhibition
tour of U. S. Swimmers and
divers — eight of whom are
former Olympic athletes—to four
major cities in China during
June; Canton, Chang-Sha, Shang-
Hai, and Peking. There was no
competition with any group of
Chinese athletes during their
stay; the American group, which
included diver Micki King, gave
two exhibitions and several clinics
in each city they visited. The tour
was a goodwill endeavor by the
State Department in its efforts to
strengthen friendly relations with
Red China.
maining awake throughout the
entire procedure!
Janie raves about Chinese food,
which she says is much better
than Chinese food in America.
Peking Duck was one of the
group’s favorite dishes.
Besides giving exhibitions, Janie
says the group saw a good deal
of Chinese everyday life. The
group even got to watch an acu-
punture operation, the patient re-
Traveling a great deal through
out the stay, Janie got to see the
scenery of China. “The country
side is beautiful and is just like
you would expect—the rice fields,
mothers carrying babies on their
backs, everything.” Her impres
sions of the typical Chinese people
also fits in with an outsider’s
notion; she says they were not
“overly-emotional,” but they be
came warmer as the young
Americans came to know them
(through the Chinese interpreters
who helped them communicate).
Janie noted that while the Chinese
are an extremely nationalistic-
oriented people; they were, sur
prisingly, almost apologetic about
the strained relations between the
U. S. and their country. They
expressed a hope that perhaps
soon the two nations could be on
friendlier terms.
From meeting and mingling
Faculty Assist in Y-Auction
by Claudia Lane
Come one, come all to the an
nual Y-Auction to be held in
Hanes Auditorium on November
13, 1973. Salem College’s own pro
fessors will be auctioning off their
talents. You will have the oppor
tunity to buy exciting things like
an evening of dessert and bridge
with Dr. Kurtz, a champagne
Sunday brunch with Clark Thomp
son, a cruise around Salem Lake
in a sailboat skippered by Mr.
The Winston-Salem Civic Music
Association is sponsoring the
Budapest Symphony Orchestra to
give a concert November 20, in
Reynolds Auditorium. The per
formance will start at 8:15.
Andras Kiss.
Under the direction of conduc
tor Gyor Lehel, the program will
feature several soloists; pianist
Gyula Kiss, French horn player
Ferenc Tarjani, and violinist
with Chinese schoolchildren, the
group ran the social gamut (if
there is such a thing in China)
right to the top — they were all
invited to meet Madame Mao
Tse Tung one night. Janie de
scribes her as being a “very
impressive” woman, slender and
stately. She wore a western style
dress for the occasion instead of
the usual Chinese costume, which
was rather unusual.
The group also visited Mao Tse
Tung’s birthplace; and they
noticed his pictures and his quotes
placed everywhere. “They put
his pictures and sayings up in
stead of billboards,” notes Janice.
This feature was just one of
many which pointed toward the
powerful propaganda forces at
work in the People’s National
Republic. Janie and the group
saw four Chinese operas, all of
which had strong nationalistic
themes.
A not so pleasant surprise
awaited the group when they re
turned home. They found out that
they had, unknowingly, violated
a F.I.N.A. regulation, which stipu
lates that no one in a member
nation of the organization could
have any dealings with a non
member country. Janie and Micki
King, who were both on the
Olympic Committee, were re
lieved of their duties; and the
entire group was suspended from
A.A.U. indefinitely. The story has
a happy ending, however. Three
weeks ago the A.A.U. met and
reinstalled the members; and
Janie and Micki King are now
back on the Olympic Committee.
Janie seems pleased about the
group’s overall impression of the
people they met. She admits to
having trouble even believing
that she has actually seen and
done all the things she did—“It
still hasn’t hit me,” she says. “I
still haven’t developed my film
from the trip yet.” Well, Janie,
maybe when you see yourself in
living Kodak color, you’ll really
start believing!
von Nicolai, or maybe even a
night with Ted Young at the
Barn Dinner Theatre. All these
things plus many more will be
auctioned off by the Y.W.C.A.
Albright Performs
Jazz Musical
by Catherine Delbridge
The money will go to the World
University Missions. This organi
zation sets up education centers
in countries where they are des
perately needed.
Come to the Y-Auction. You
owe it to yourself!
Music Association Sponsors Symphony
Harold Shonberg, of the New
York Times says one could match
this orchestra “with the best of
them.” The performance is sold
out to all the season ticket hold
ers. No tickets will be sold at the
door, but Salem students are
urged to either use their tickets
for the performance or make
their tickets available for other
students who would like to attend.
Dr. Norma Bernhardt, Salem’s newest Education professor
returns to teach at her alma mater.
Bernhardt Stresses Vitality
Shakes Educational View
by Chris Moran
A flaming redhead, tall, slim,
and attractive. Dr. Norma Bern
hardt is Salem’s vivacious new
director of teacher education. Dr.
Bernhardt is a Salem graduate
with a B.A. in English and piano
and a teaching certificate from
the State of North Carolina. She
received her master’s and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
writing her dissertation on
“Trends in Teaching English
Composition.”
hardt claims. This interest began
to take hold while supervising
student teachers in her own class
room and has culminated in her
present position as director of
teacher education at Salem.
A dedicated professional in edu
cation, Dr. Bernhardt has taught
at all levels from a church kin
dergarten to elementary, junior
high, senior high, and college.
Her college teaching experiences
have included Lane Community
College in Eugene, Oregon, UNC-
Charlotte, and now Salem. Work
ing with student teachers is her
niche in education, Dr. Bern-
Having spent most of her teach
ing career in the state of Ore
gon where “education is progres
sive and cherished at every
level”. Dr. Bernhardt returned to
North Carolina enthusiastic about
sharing her broad educational
views with the school systems of
her native state. She decided to
settle in Winston-Salem because
of the active cultural program
available, describing the city as
an “Eden of culture.” Teaching
at her own alma mater, supervis
ing student teachers, and pursu
ing the tremendous cultural op
portunities in Winston has been
for Dr. Bernhardt a “dream
come true.” What is the key to
successful teaching according to
Dr. Bernhardt? “Vitality!”
Mission of Mercy Fulfilled
Dr. Pennell Exhibits Skill
By Janne Morris
Salem College seldom has
strange and exciting things sud
denly occur on campus. Tuesday,
November 6, however was an ex
ception for William Albright was
here.
Albright is a modern musician
and composer. He is widely
known as an interpreter of classic
ragtime and early jazz styles,
such as stride and boogie. As a
composer he has written works
for almost every medium, involv
ing electronic, visual and theatri
cal elements.
His awards and commissions
include the Queen Marie-Jose
Prize for his Organ Book I, and
an award from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters
(1970), a Fullbright Scholarship
(1968), the Symphonic Composi
tion Award of Niagara University
(1968), and two Koussevityzley
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Dr. T. C. Pennell, our school
physician, has returned within
the past two weeks from a tour of
six South American countries.
Gone from Oct. 15 to Oct. 28, Dr.
Pennell traveled with Dr. Frank
T. Fowler of Richmond, Va. under
the auspices of several medical
and mission organizations. Dr.
Pennell spoke at hospitals, medi
cal schools, and churches, worked
in clinics, and performed demon
stration operations.
The two physicians traveled
through Colombia, Venezuela,
Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and
Peru. The trip was financed by
the Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention; co
sponsors with the board were the
Bowman-Gray School of Medicine
and the N. C. Baptist Medical
Center.
Dr. Fowler, an acquaintance of
Dr. Pennell’s through the Foreign
Mission Board, is an internist
and consultant for the board in
Richmond. He served as Dr.
Pennell’s interpreter, when neces
sary, throughout the trip.
While on tour. Dr. Pennell sub
mitted a list of 16 topics from
which the various hospitals and
medical schools could choose for
lecturing. The topics covered sur
gery of the liver and chest, drugs.
medical education, shock, cancer,
and trauma. Dr. Pennell used all
16 topics.
Dr. Pennell met with the min
isters of health in several coun
tries. He evaluated mission hos
pitals and worked in them
Dr. Pennell worked, as well, in
several mobile clinics in remote
areas. Elsewhere, he performed
operations demonstrating tech
niques of vascular surgery for
trauma and liver surgery that
were new to the communities.
Dr. Pennell, in his mission
function, also met with leaders of
the Catholic church in Brazil,
Argentina, and Paraguay to dis
cuss missions and delivery of
health care. He lectured at sev
eral churches.
Dr. Pennell feels that a lot was
accomplished in the countries he
visited, on their behalf and on his.
“I gained a great deal of in
sight into the work, progress, and
problems in South America —
medically, religiously, and socio
economically.”
This was Dr. Pennell’s third
medical mission. His other travels
covered areas of Africa and the
Middle East.
Dr. Pennell expects to be re
quested to make many lectures
here in the U. S. on his activities
in South America.
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