Volume LVI
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. — Thursday, December 6, 1973
Number 9
Celebrate Christmas In Style;
Forget Those Papers Due
by Camille Murphy
' Are all those papers and the
' pressure of exams making it diffi-
' cult for you to believe that Christ
mas is rapidly approaching? You
^ shouldn’t be disturbed if you find
® yourself in this predicament, for
you’re in the company of about
600 other Salemites. What’s more,
there is a remedy: the annual
I Christmas Assembly.
formance of Britten’s “Ceremony
of Carols,” which will be accom
panied by guest harpist, Tammy
Hitchcock. Soloists include so
pranos Meredith Hardy, Susan
Finley, Catherine Coffer, Anne
Bell, and altos Jill Gledhill, Juli-
anne Kidd, Julie Heyer, and
Grace Sheppardson. Organist will
be Julie Kirkman.
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Help Recruit!!
! This year it will be held on
Tuesday, December 11, at 11:15
a.m. in Hanes Auditorium. The
\Choral Ensemble, under the di-
jrection of a new conductor, Mrs.
Janice Harsanyi, will present its
■first program of the year here at
Salem.
Dr. Thompson, College Chap
lain, will lead the traditional Mo
ravian Candle Service, which fol
lows the concert; and he will de
liver the benediction.
The program will consist of
carols by many well-known com
posers, including Bach, Vivaldi
and Berlioz. A very special part
of the concert will be the per-
Everyone is encouraged to at
tend. Those who have previously
taken part in this special cele
bration, as well as those of you
who have not yet experienced
Christmas at Salem, will find this
hour one you will remember.
Maybe you’ll be able to conjure
up a little Christmas Spirit — in
spite of those exams!
Do you remember the questions
and doubts confronting you as a
senior in high school making that
momentous decision of your life—
where to go to college? Can you
recall how much it meant to have
a college girl talk with you
about her school and her college
life?
Christmas is coming; the goose is getting fat; who’ll put a penny
in Chandler’s hat?
Don’t forget the Dean’s Coffee
which will be held on December
13, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
in the Club Dining Room. The
Dean’s Coffee is held in honor of
the beginning of examinations for
weary and frightened students.
Freshmen particularly are en
couraged to attend the Coffee to
enjoy coffee and other goodies
before exams start. Professors
are invited to drop in also!
Salem students can render in
valuable assistance to the Ad
missions office as well as to some
hesitant high school girl by talk
ing with her over the Christmas
holidays. Students are not ex
pected to give a party, to spend
an afternoon in an intensive in
terview or to prepare a pep talk
about Salem. All that is necessary
is for someone to express an in
terest in the girl concerning her
interest in Salem. It only takes
a simple phone call. You could
be the necessary reinforcement
of a girl’s already favorable im
pression of Salem, which could
change her status from prospec
tive student to enrollee.
Margaret Brinkley Addresses Orton Society On Disabilities
“ Margaret Brinkley, a senior
“psychology / special education
major at Salem, was recently
I asked to speak in Baltimore at
I the national convention of the
Orton Society, a national society
which Irecognizes the special prob
lem of learning disabilities in
children and works to help these
^ children.
Margaret explains that children
having learning disabilities (dys-
“lexic children) are those chil-
_iren who do not learn by the
_iiame methods as do children in
’he regular classroom. These
i^hildren are not mentally retard
ed. They are all of average or
above average intelligence. Rath-
ir than brain damage, they have
a type of brain disfunction. These
children have difficulties learning
ay the eonventional teaching
Methods. Teachers of those hav-
aig learning disabilities work
with the children individually and
work to find the method of teach-
Mg which suits the specific indi-
-vidual. For example, if the child
“las difficulties learning to read
through his sense of vision, which
s how most children learn to
■ead, another sense is emphasized
*■- oral, kinesthetic (where the
child feels the way the word is
formed), or auditory. Once the
child’s way of learning is discov
ered, the child is fine and can
learn just as rapidly as other
children.
Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a neurolo
gist, did much pioneer work in
this field of learning disabilities
and was the man to determine
that this was a physiological con
dition. After his death, his wife,
Mrs. June Orton, settled in Win
ston-Salem and began the Orton
Reading Center. Salem’s Dr.
Lucia Karnes, who has been
working in the field of learning
disabilities for thirty years, knew
Mrs. Orton. In 1972, Salem’s Cen
ter for Special Education was
founded. This was a combination
of the college facilities and the
old Orton Center facilities. In
addition to preparing students to
teach those children with learning
disabilities, this center works with
the children, giving them diagnos
tic tests to diagnose their disabili
ties, and giving them prescriptive
teaching, which is the highly
individualized teaching needed by
the children. Salem is lucky to
have this set-up, for it gives the
college students who are in the
field of special education, the
chance to work with the children
at the same time that they are
learning the material in their
courses.
dergraduate training program
specifically for learning disabili
ties.
At the Orton Society’s national
convention, Margaret was asked
to participate in a panel discus
sion. Their topic was “Future
Teachers — How and Where?”
which was concerned with how to
interest college students in learn
ing disabilities and how to train
teachers in learning disabilities..
Participating in the panel with
Margaret was one woman from
a graduate level program in
Texas and one woman from a
graduate level program in Mary
land. Margaret was the only rep
resentative from an undergrad
uate level program. She reports
that the “dialogue” in which she
was to participate ended up being
a debate, with Margaret arguing
in favor of an undergraduate
training program for learning dis
abilities, and the other two mem
bers of the panel arguing that a
graduate level program is neces
sary in order to train people
qualified to work in the field of
learning disabilities. Salem Col
lege, at present, is the only place
in the United States with an un
Margaret says she felt the con
vention was interesting and excit
ing. She admits being a little
nervous before the convention,
being the only undergraduate stu
dent participating in it, but once
the convention got under way she
was amazed at the background
she did have. She found that the
extensive training she had re
ceived in Salem’s undergraduate
program prepared her quite well
for the conference, and that she
could converse on the same level
with these highly educated people.
She feels that this says a lot
for Salem’s program, and that
our program is definitely worth
defending.
High school girls more readily
identify with someone in their
age group. They wilt talk more
freely with you than perhaps with
an older person in the Admissions
office or an alumna. Freshmen
can be especially helpful since
you retain the closest links with
your community, having only re
cently left the hometown environ
ment. As the newest initiates in
to the Salem community, fresh
men can also relate the new ex
periences college has to offer. Up
perclassmen can give them the
advice they have gained through
their own personal encounters at
college.
Margaret has not yet made
specific plans for next year, after
graduation but she knows she will
continue in the field of special
education, either continuing her
studies in graduate school or in
teaching. She finds it exciting to
be in on the groundwork of this
type of individual teaching, and
she feels that in the future, there
will be more of an emphasis upon
individual education.
While the Admissions office
does make the initial contact with
a prospective student, it is often
helpful for the applicant to re
ceive further communication
from the school via a student.
Salem’s best spokesmen are her
students for you are the ones
most intimately involved with the
college. So be a goodwill ambas
sador during the Christmas sea
son and share your love of Salem
with an interested girl. Drop by
the Admissions office between
now and your departure home
and get a list of girls in your
hometown area interested in com
ing to Salem. Remember, all it
takes is a simple phone call and
a little enthusiasm.
Winners
Anounced While
Juniors Posed
by Anne Manly
Incunabula proudly announces
the two winners of the Founder’s
Day Photography Contest. Mary
Dashiell, a senior, and Carol
Strader, junior, both select Hick
ory Farms gift certificates as
their prizes.
Mary’s winning entry is of the
junior class entrance onto Salem
Square and her excellence in pho
tography is exhibited in the com
position wherein she captured the
repetition of the “train.”
Carol’s pictures Ted Young dur
ing skit competition, shadow and
all, and embodies much of the
Founder’s Day Spirit.
'‘The Little Engine That Could” manned by the Junior Class rolls in
lor a fantastic Founder’s Day entrance. Congratulations girls!
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Ted Young, Superman of the Refectory, unveils his beautiful body
for the Junior Class’ Founder’s Day skit.
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