Volume
LVIl
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N. C. - Friday, September 27, 1974
Number 2" 5
Baby, If May Be Your Lasf Chance
By Laura Day
Tt beean in October 1803. It was
first celebrated in 1915. And if
some students, faculty, and ad
ministration have their way, Sep
tember 30, 1974 may be the last
time we ever see it again.
Founder’s Day, that innocent
little Monday holiday tucked be
tween the end of summer freedom
and the beginning of midterms, is
headed for the grave. For some
faculty and administration it’s
just another goof-off time for stu
dents. For some students it’s a
wonderful excuse for taking a
three-day weekend. But for many
Salemites Founder’s Day is one
of the best times of the year.
The whole mess starts in early
September at the first class meet
ing. When you’ve got 125 females
clawing each other over the color
of T-shirts, you know you’re going
to have a good Founder’s Day.
What you do then is convince
some of the Amazons to sign up
for games — pie-eating, tug o’
war, caterpillar races, whatever.
Finally, you round up a couple of
Salem Sweethearts just starry
enough to suggest an Alice in
Wonderland skit, and there you
have it — Founder’s Day in the
making.
When The Big Day finally ar
rives, it’s anything but goof-off
time — 99-odd seniors pounding
on your door at daybreak is hard
ly conducive to extended relaxa
tion. So you fall out of bed, throw
on your clothes, dash to the
square, eat, dash to the refectory,
eat, fly to the hockey field, parade’
charge through the gym, play, fly
back to tbe refectory, eat, back
to the gym, perform, out to
Shakey’s, eat, and back to the
dorm — beat.
But Founder’s Day has another
side. It’s seeing an English pro
fessor parade around in Bermuda
shorts or a Latin teacher bring up
the rear of a human caterpillar.
It’s Dr. Chandler dressed as Cap
tain Hook, complete with eye-
patch and claw. Or that classmate
you always thought so serious
dancing her heart out on the re
fectory chairs. In short, it’s
people letting go and enjoying
themselves.
And this, I think, is what bothers
some students, faculty, and ad
ministration. They can’t see the
merits of setting aside an entire
day for pleasure. They’ve let
Nixon and Cyprus and Wall Street
and Standard Oil get them down.
They can’t remember the picture-
book beauty of a red rover game
in the square or the ecstasy of
shouting at the top of their lungs.
They’ve forgotten what it’s like
to have fun.
I’m not pressing anyone to at
tend Founder’s Day. I’m not even
making a gentle plea — it’s too
late for that now. I’m just going
to say that September 30 may be
the last chance you get to act like
a fool with 600 people, and get
away with it.
COUNT DOWN ... 5 MORE
DAYS TILL FOUNDER’S DAY -
ONE DAY IN THE COURSE OF
THE YEAR WHEN THE REG
ULAR ROUTINE IS SUSPEND
ED .. . sisterhood is promoted
.beer is free . . . student-fac
ulty relationships are relaxed . . .
SUNSHINE! !!!... the advan
tages of a small girl’s school shine
througn . . . entrance into the
world of magic—on the hockey
field ... the chance to return to
childhood (600 m a t u r e women
playing red rover?) ... 6 A.M.
senior surprise . . . FOOD FOOD
FOOD . . . Clark Thompson: Re
flections on Founder’s Day . . .
Everyone is a star . . . finale at
Ritter House Square. . .
l(VHAT A BETTER WAY
TO SPEND A MONDAY ! ! !
Schedule:
Schedule:
9:30 Breakfast in the MayDell
10:00 Clark Thompson speaks
11:30 Entrance onto hockey field
12:30 Lunch—sitdown in the re
fectory
1:00 Entertainment on the steps
of the gym
Beer (for r e f r e s hm ent
only) and soft drinks will
be served DO NOT bring
your own alcoholic bever
ages
1:45-4:00 Games on the hockey
field
4:00-5:00 More games: ping
pong, volley ball, and kick
ball
5:30 supper between the refect
ory and the science build
ing
6:30 Skits and songs in the gym
9:30 Everyone come to Ritten
House Square, 1650 Silas
Creek Parkway
Beer-350 f o r 12 Oz. of
draft 450 for canned beer
also, soft drinks, sandwich
es, munchies, and a juke box
Danworth
Inquiries about the Danforth
ellowships, to be awarded by the
R^anforth Foundation of St. Louis,
Missouri in March 1975, are invit-
raJ. to the local campus
epresentative, Mary S. Hill,-
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ns by November 20, 1974.
Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist and writer, lectured to Salem Students and Faculty on September 20.
Press Conference with Margaret Mead
Proves To Be An Informative Discussion
Fellowships
The Danforth Foundation does not
accept direct applications for the
Fellowships. Approximately 100
Fellowships will be awarded in
March 1975.
The award is for one year, and
is normally renewable until com
pletion of the degree or for a
maximum total of four years of
graduate study. Fellowship sti
pends are based on individual
need, but may not exceed $2025 for
single Fellows and $2200 for mar
ried Fellows for the academic
year, plus dependency allowances
for children and required tuition
and fees.
The Danforth Foundation was
created in 1927 by the late Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Danforth of
St. Louis as a philanthropy de
voted to giving aid and encour
agement to persons, to emphasiz
ing the humane values that come
from a religious and democratic
heritage, and to strengthening
the essential quality of education.
By Mandy Lyerly
One might have imagined a
smoke filled room packed with
pushy reporters and flashbulbs,
questions and answers flying. But
there were none of these on
Friday. Margaret Mead slipped
quietly into the music library and
took her seat before many of the
twenty present took notice of her.
She was dressed in her red cape
that did not come off throughout
the conference, and she settled
herself into a chair with the aid
of her staff. Elbows propped on
the table in front of her, she sug
gested we wait until the appointed
time. “I hate to start things
early.”
Once we did start, the questions
came rather timidly from the
floor. “What kind of future do you
see for the world in five hundred
years?” Mead immediately an
swered, “You can’t make pre
dictions that way.” She explained
that man has not yet defined a
standard of time. We do not know
the time involved in an ice age,
for instance. No predictions can
be made until we can define where
we are now.
The next question (which was
repeated after Dr. Mead com
mented, “You people have such
soft voices down here.”) dealt
with the role of elderly people in
our society. Mead assured the
listeners that grandparents are
not intentionally being dispensed
with. The population has become
more transient with people mov
ing about in search for jobs and
in doing this, moving away from
grandparents. After World War II,
the migration to the suburbs left
grandparents isolated from the
young. If they were rich, the
elderly went to Florida or traveled
from child to child in trailers. But
the energy crisis put a damper on
this solution. Now, says Mead, we
are looking for a community with
housing cheap enough for older
people and close enough to young
families to reestablish this lost
bond.
Picking up on the energy crisis,
one reporter asked Dr. Mead
whether or not it would change
American life: “I hope so,” she
stated, “But it didn’t last long
enough to do any good, just long
enough to jolt people. The only
residue is lower speed limits
which are saving energy, lives
and nerves. By the way, I under
stand that you have four cops to
every speeder in N. C. . . . We
will have to go back to more con
centrated living, better ways of
transportation. Los Angeles had
the best street car system in the
country in 1939, but the oil com
panies bought them out and got
rid of them . . . You can’t con
vince people to give up air con
ditioning, it just gets too ex
pensive.”
When asked if this reduction in
fuel use simply on the basis of
price was really fair, Mead re
plied, “What’s fair? Go and look
at how some of the people in this
town live.” She spoke of the need
to stop the growth of “soulless de
velopments spreading for miles
and miles” and to channel money
for housing into renovation of
older homes and buildings.
By now tbe room had relaxed.
Dr. Mead’s informal manner had
turned the conference into more
of a discussion group.
Someone mentioned the move
ment for women’s rights about
which Dr. Mead replied, “You
always have to give credit to the
squawkers.” She believes that it
is not an evolutionary movement
but one that needs the leaders that
have arisen. Often in history, said
Mead, the right leader was not
there at the right moment. Mead
feels this situation existed during
the war when Roosevelt refused
to ration soap in order to con
serve fats. As a result six million
people died of starvation.
Getting back to the women. Dr.
Mead explained that the female’s
role is changing in respect to
child-bearing. Women are having
fewer children, and the paternal
role takes up fewer years of both
parents’ life. After this period is
over, women must not expect to
be supported while they are “sit
ting at home for thirty years
polishing the brass.”
The next question, one about
social classes, led Dr. Mead to
comment on a future type of class
division between people who have
careers and those who simply
have jobs. “A career is something
you would do even if you had to
pay someone to let you do it.”
She sees young people attracted
more toward careers that mean
something to them. They are
changing institutions and fields as
they enter them instead of for
getting their youthful ideals.
Finally, Dr. Mead was asked
whether or not she planned to
retire in her advancing age. She
replied, “I don’t intend to slow
down; I may be slowed down.”
She cited incidents of tribes in
which elderly people continue to
live the same way and work only
to a lesser degree until they die.
Doctors in this country have the
advantage, whereas some “col
lege professors are dropped out on
their noses.” Dr. Mead has a posi
tion in the American Museum of
Natural History that she can keep
indefinitely. She firmly declares
that she “wlil stay right there” so
that a destructive retirement will
not be her fate.
The press conference adjourned
shortly afterwards so Dr. Mead
would have a minute to collect
her thoughts before her lecture.
However, listening to this bright,
friendly, determined little woman,
one doubts that she needed time
to collect anything or that even at
72 she has any intentions of slow
ing down at all.
Art Collects in FAC
For the past week the gallery of
Fine Arts Center has glowed with
the works of Rembrandt, Rubins,
and Van Gogh. In the middle of
the foyer stands an Egyptian
mummy case complete with a
gold goatee. These are all part of
the Association Council’s of the
Arts exhibit taking place Sept.
22-29 in conjunction with the ACA
convention being held in Winston-
Salem.
The exhibit includes selections
from the 5 major museums in
North Carolina. Each museum
has sent works for which it is well
known. The North Carolina Mu
seum of Art, which is coordinat
ing the exhibit, has contributed
works by Flemish, Danish, Brit
ish, and Egyptian artists.
Ackland Museum sent several
Princeton drawings, for which it
is famous. American paintings
and sculpture of the Twentieth
Century were provided by the
Weatherspoon Gallery. Duke Mu
seum provided Peruvian tapestry,
Chinese bronze, and works by
African and Medieval Artists. The
Mint Museum in Charlotte sub
mitted pieces of Pre-Colombian
sculpture and Southeastern crafts.