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^ alem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 11, 1975
Number 11
Volunteers Needed For First
Annual Foreign Language Day
Model UN Planned SalemiteVisitsSouth Africa for Jan.
An Msrch 15, Salem
.nrollment will swell to 1,384 as
■ high school students arrive
or the first annual Foreign Lan-
juage D^y.
The day-long program, which is
,* ,i by the Salem College
Lartment of Modern Foreign
aiguages, is designed to pro
interest in foreign langu-
,oes as well as giving high
ichool language students the op-
tunity to improve their pro-
loiency Students of French, Ger
man, Latin, or Spanish will com-
ifte for individual and group
irizes in the catagories of drama,
loetry, and group songs. At the
md of the competition, an all-
anguage award will also be given
) the high school that accumul-
les the most points.
Students will be judged on ef-
;ctive interpretattion, clear pro-
unciation and understanability,
fective adaptation of text to
ne allotment, relative difficulty
id good choice of text, and poise
id appearance, including cos
ine. Judges will be drawn from
presentative staffs of the corn-
ting schools.
Dr. Alphonso Villarino, Lan-
age Day coordinator, emphasiz
that to insure the success of
z program he will need about
volunteers to act as hostesses
I the competing schools. Duties
mid include helping with regis-
ition. giving directions, and
ting as hostesses in the rooms
lere competition is being held,
lose Salemites whose hometown
gh schools are competing are
pecially encouraged to help.
Anyone interested in helping
1 contact Dr. Villarino in
13 Main Hall or leave a note in
is box.
Below is a list of the schools
I will be represented;
Asheboro High, Asheboro, N. C.
- French
Chapel Hill Sr. High, Chapel
N. C. — French, German,
Spanish
Charlotte Latin School, Char-
h N. C. — French, Latin,
Spanish
C, E. Jordan High, Durham,
i. C. - French
Durham Academy, Durham, N.
■ - German
Hillside High, Durham, N. C. —
Spanish
Enka High School, Enka, N.
C. —- Spanish
Page Senior High, Greensboro,
N. C. — French, Latin, Spanish
Smith High School, Greensboro,
N. C. — Latin, Spanish
Vance Academy, Henderson, N,
C. — French
Vance Senior High, Henderson,
N. C. — French, German, Spanish
North State Academy, Hickory,
N. C. — French
High Point Central, High Point,
N. C. — French
T. Wingate Andrews High, High
Point, N. C. — French
Cardinal Gibbons High School,
Raleigh, N. C. — French
Needham Broughton High, Ra
leigh, N. C. — French, German,
Spanish
Sanderson High School, Raleigh,
N. C. — French, Spanish
Reidsville Senior High, Reids-
ville, N. C. — Spanish
Salisbury High School, Salis
bury, N. C. — French
Wilkes Central High School,
North Wilkesboro, N. C. — Ger
man
Wilkes Central High School,
North Wilkesboro, N. C. — Ger
man
South Rowan High School,
China Grove, N. C. — French
South Iredell High School, Bar
ium Springs, N. C. — French
South Point High School, Bel
mont, N. C. — French
Northwest Senior High School,
Warrensville, N. C. — French
Carolina High School, Green
ville, S. C. - French, Spanish
Carlisle School, Martinsville,
Virginia — French, Latin, Span
ish
Carver High School - Spanish
— city
Hanes High School - French,
Latin, Spanish — city
Hill High School - French,
Spanish — city
R. J. Reynolds High School —
French, Spanish — city
Salem Academy — French,
German, Spanish — city
West Forsyth - Spanish, Ger
man — city
Parkland - German - city
North Forsyth — German —
city
Summer Jobs Availoble In Britoin
Hundreds of U. S. students will
^ able to work in Great Britain
J's summer with the help of
Council on International Edu-
ational Exchange’s Summer
^ in Britain program. Stu-
coniH thought that they
ouldnt possibly afford a trip
L this summer should re-
with a job in Great
Dav^tu enough to
atiH, expenses
an im ^ seemed like
fpgi:. trip can become a
amii/ of the common
)een ® ^ ^ ^ 1 n has always
(or 4r», ^ popular country
to students who wish
” abroad.
^ /^oy choose from two
in Britain^^iu^ summer
Pre-arrD„' ^®y k'^ve a job
of |75) for them (for a fee
they can o b t a i n the
necessary working papers through
CIEE and then find their own
job (for a fee of $25). One student
who found his own job last year
spent the summer working as a
grouse flusher on the estate of a
Scottish marquis!
Applications and details of the
Summer Jobs in Britain prograni
are available from CIEE, Hotel
McAlpin, Suite 2200, Broadway
and 34th Street, New York, New
York 10001. CIEE will also help
students find jobs in Germany
and France this summer; in
formation 0 n opportunities in
these two countries is available
at the above address.
CIEE has been actively in
volved in student travel for over
25 years and has been operating
the summer jobs in Britain pro
gram for six years.
Want to earn a half credit and
see New York at the same time?
Salem Forum is sponsoring a
trip to the Model UN April 22-26.
Students will meet with UN dele
gates and participate in mock
legislative sessions, as well as
listening to various speakers from
the Assembly. In the evening,
there will also be time to explore
New York.
Salem students can also earn
a half credit for the trip, if they
desire. For details, see Mr. Von
Nicolai, Main Hall.
Total cost of the trip should
not exceed $175, which includes
round-trip air fare to New York,
lodging for four nights, and meal
allowance.
Anyone interested in going
should contact Vickie Moir, 303
Bitting, for further details.
McGill Fund Offers
Writing Scholarships
ATLANTA, GA. — Aspiring
young Southern newspapermen
and women in need of financial
assistance to attend the last two
years of college have until May
1 to apply for Ralph McGill
Scholarship Fund grants for the
1975-76 academic year.
The Ralph McGill Scholarship
Fund was created to honor the
late Ralph Emerson McGill,
publisher for The Atlanta Consti
tution.
The Fund’s Advisory Committee
has stipulated that grants will be
made in amounts not to exceed
$1,500 for a full academic year
of college for each recipient.
Awards will be based on journa
listic interest and aptitude plus
need.
Jack W. Tarver, president of
The Atlanta Journal and Con
stitution and chairman of the
Fund’s Advisory Committee, said
the group agreed that the amount
of each grant would be based
on the individual’s own financial
requirements.
(Grants are available to qualifi
ed young men and women whose
roots lie in the fourteen South
ern states. Tarver said the Ad
visory Committee also will act as
the selection committee. He said
applicants must show an “abiding
interest” and aptitude for news
paper writing and editing and
successful applicants must con
vince the committee that they
are determined to make a career
of newspapering.
Other members of the com
mittee are: Herbert Davidson,
editor and publisher of The Day
tona Beach News-Journal; John
Popham, managing editor of The
Chattanooga Times; Reg Murphy,
editor of The Atlanta Constitution
and William H. Fields, vice presi
dent and executive editor of The
Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Application blanks may be ob
tained from the Ralph McGill
Scholarship Fund, Box 4689, At
lanta, Georgia 30302.
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KIKI FRENCH
Jambo, habari? This is the
typical Swahili greeting meaning
"Hello, How are you? During
January while touring South
Africa, Kenya and Tanzania I
was able to pick up various vital
phrases in Swahili, But the langu
age was only a fraction of the
experiences which I encountered.
Beginning in South Africa my
parents and I visited Johannes
burg, world famous for its gold
mines. Travelling south for 26
hours by train we arrived at Cape
Town where the winds blow up
to 75 miles an hour. Cape Town
is an international port attracting
ships from all over the world only
by carefully guiding them around
the treacherous Cape of Good
Hope where the Indian Ocean
meets the Atlantic, From Cape
Town we toured the southern
coast of South Africa; Outshorn
with its ostrich farms, Pletten-
berg Bay, an old whaling center,
Port Elizabeth, a major port and
finally Durban with the Land
of the Thousand Hills, a Zulu re
serve, We left South Africa only
after a Zulu chief, his four wives
and nine daughters danced the
rythmical dances so character
istic of their tribe.
Flying to Nairobi, Kenya
marked the start of our three
week safari. Driving north to the
Samburu Game Reserve we had
our first view of animals in the
African summer. Imagine if you
Need Summer Job?
Try Working Abroad
“The best way to find out about
a country is to work there,” says
Mynena Leith, consultant to Sum
mer Jobs in Europe and editor
of Summer Employment Direc
tory of the U. S.
“College students and other
young people looking for an
exciting and low cost way to
explore Europe have an un
rivaled opportunity to do this by
joining the Summer Jobs in Eu
rope program. The combination
of work, pleasure and the chance
to exchange ideas is hard to
beat.”
The program has a unique
range of jobs from archaeological
digs to hotels and holiday centers.
In all, there are seven job cate
gories available for periods of 3
to 9 weeks from June to Septem
ber. Summer Jobs in Europe
offers a job, a four-day orienta
tion in London, documentation and
full back-up service for $149.
Placement can be made through
May but the early applicants will
be the most likely to get their
first choice of jobs.
Many of the jobs are in English-
speaking Britain—England, Scot
land and Wales. There are jobs
with families in France. Young
men and women who speak Ger
man can join a group of British
students in Switzerland during
August and work on small alpine
farms while living with the farm
family.
Vacation Work Ltd., who ar
range the program, have 8 years
of experience in finding summer
jobs for Americans. Although
based in Oxford, England, Vaca
tion-Work has an office in Cincin
nati where Mynena Leith, with
over 20 years’ experience in the
field of summer employment, is
consultant to the project.
Students can receive a free
“Summer Job in Europe” bro
chure with details of available
can giraffes delicately chewing
tree tops as elephants splash in
the river near by. Lions rest in
the under brush to avoid the
sweltering heat while zebras
warily graze on the scruffy grass.
We were charged by an elephant,
plagued with tse-tse flies, stuck
in mud, sunburned, chased by a
water buffalo and thoroughly ex
hausted at the end of each day.
Driving into Tanzania we noticed
a marked difference between the
open friendly atmosphere of the
Kenyans and the cool reserved
quality of the Tanzanians. Re
gardless of this factor the
animals were magnificent with
the Masai Mara Plain migration
of zebras and gnus, the leopards
sleeping in trees at Seronera and
the hippopotomases submerged in
pools in Ngorongoro Crater. We
were fortunate to see Olduvai
Gorge where Dr. and Mrs. Louis
Leakey discovered the bones of
prehistoric man, Zinjanthropus
and Homo Habilis. Throughout
Tanzania and Kenya there are
many tribes which can be seen
herding their cattle to or from
their huts made of cowdung,
mud and sticks. We left Africa
with a sense of disbelief at all
the thousands of different experi
ences we had encountered. Al
though it is one of the longest
trips I have ever taken it is with
out a doubt the most fascinating
January of my life.
Whatever
Happened?
By Betsy Roberts
Freshmen don’t know about one
of the luxuries we had at Salem
until this year. Every Monday
morning we would drop our
laundry bags filled with sheets,
towels, and clothes down to' the
basement of the dorm. By Thurs
day we could go down to the
Laundry (next to Maintenance)
and find everything we had put
in the bags clean and folded or
hung (ironed!) on hangers. Then,
the cost of doing just about any
thing went up, the laundry equip
ment became out-dated, and the
volume of clothes was not suffi
cient. This summer letters were
sent to parents, explaining that
the laundry would be discontinued
so that the tuition would not have
to go up to cover the increased
cost of operation.
During the summer, washers
and dryers were put in all the
dorms, in the housekeeping de
partment, and in the gym. The
National Linen Service also came
to Salem and provides sheets and
towels for students for rent. Mr.
Talbert, our Business Manager,
said that many freshmen took the
service, and he feels that as more
students come to Salem who do
not have their own linens as most
of the upperclassmen do, more
will use the linen service.
Students have wondered what
has happened to the people who
worked in the laundry. Mrs.
Parris, head of the Laundry for
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jobs by sending a long, stamped
return envelope to Vacation Work
Ltd., 252 Ludlow Ave., Cincinnati,
Ohio 45220.
Announcement
REMINDER; Entry forms for
the Student-Faculty Tennis Tour
nament must be in by March 12.
The date has been set for the
25th and 26th of April.