Volume LX
Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, October 14,1977
Number 5
\Big4^s Halloween Treat
By Page Jones
Get ready Salemites, because
I Interclub Weekend is just around
I the comer once again. Mark off
I Oct. 28 - 30 on your calendars
[because the new “Big 4” has a
[new and different weekend
[planned from 8:30 Friday night
[right through Sunday at 2:00!
Two dances are scheduled as is
[traditional for Interclub - a tape
[show for Friday night and a
[casual dance for Saturday night.
[The Firday night dance has an
[unusual twist this year. In
[keeping that true Halloween
[spirit, it is a costume dance.
[Everyone is required to dress-up.
[“Big 4” urges you to use your
[imagination, try something new,
(dye your hair hot pink and green -
ANYTHING! The most exotic
[and best all around costumes will
[win dinners for two. Possibilities
[for the prize dinners are at
[Berry’s, Tuesday’s, La Chateau,
[Pizza Garden or Town Steak
louse. Remember, everyone
[must come in costume so start
[planning now!
The Saturday night dance will
[be casual dress, no jeans, in the
[Refectory. The band, “Justice,”
[will start at 8:30 and play until
[l2:30. “Justice,” from Columbia,
[S.C., is an eight piece band
[including the following
[instruments: keyboard, trumpet,
jdrms and percussion, rhythm
[guitar, baritone saxophone, flute
[and trombone. They play a lot of
[beach music, a little disco, soft
[sounds, and heavy to soft rock.
Before the dance on Saturday,
“Big 4” has two events planned.
This year the Interclub formal
brunch will be on Saturday rather
than Sunday. There will be
entertainment during the brunch
- some folk music sounds.
On Saturday afternoon from 2 -
5 p.m. there will be a Scavenger
Hunt. The list of things to hunt for
has over 50 items. And “Big 4”
promises that this Scavenger
Hunt will be a real challenge to
ANYBODY! The hunt will begin
at the tennis court parking lot
where a list will be given to
groups of 2-8 people. Each hunter
must pay 25 cents to take part.
Here are a few hints as to some of
the items you will search for:
1) Round up a “variety” of
your frat friends.
2) Go to IHOP’s for an
afternoon snack.
3) Get your boyfriend to give up
his magazine centerfold (and you
give up yours too).
4) Be sure you know to get to
Bowman Gray.
5) Say hi to Jimmy Carter (long
distance is the ne^ best thing).
First prize winner will receive
a case of beer for Saturday night.
Interclub Weekend will finish
up in style with a day at shelter
No. 1 at Tanglewood. Lunch will
be served from 11:30 - 1:00.
“Oconee” will be performing
from 12:30 - 2:30. “Oconee,” from
Macon, Ga.; is an electric
bluegrass band. Just last month
they won the Atlanta Battle of the
Bands, so don’t miss ’em.
“Big 4” has planned it so come
and enjoy it - INTERCLUB
WEEKEND: Oct. 28-30.
Interclub Weekend Schedule:
Friday: Tape show with Wink Hillard (8:30 - 12:30)
Costume Dance
Outside between Refectory and Science Building
BYOB
^^aturday: Formal brunch (11:30 - 1:00)
Scavenger Hunt (2:00 - 5:00)
25 cents charge
Dance in Refectory (8:30 - 12:30)
casual dress - NO JEANS
raixers and ice provided
Sunday: Lunch at Tanglewood - Shelter No. 1 (11:30
1:00)
®™uee” performance (12:30 - 2:30)
gYQg charge per car
Tickets will be sold beginning the Monday after
Break
Sat. Brunch - $3.00
1 ^uest tickets will go on sale at the same time.
I Fri. night dance - $3.00 per couple
^at night dance - $3.00 per couple
wth - $5,00 ^
John Groth demonstrates his widely-acclaimed water color technique
for art students.
Mueller
Recital
By Suzanne Eggleston
Have you seen her, bobbing
across campus, a woman with
red hair flying in all directions
and an indelible grin announcing
her face after crying out a
breathy “Hello?” Then you have
seen Margaret Mueller, who,
although she has been at Salem
for quite some years, has never
succumbed to being ordinary.
And you are in store for
something extraordinary on
Monday, Oct. 24, when Mrs.
Mueller will present her next
recital, only the third at Salem in
the space of 10 years.
Mrs. Mueller is an associate
professor of organ and also
teaches courses in piano
methods, church music, and in
the preparatory piano
department. She is organist at St.
Paul’s Church and an active
member of the American Guild of
Organists. In addition to playing
at Salem, Mrs. Mueller will
present her recital in Mars Hill;
Atlanta, Georgia; Wilmington,
Delaware; and Red Banks, N.J.
The recital will consist of music
Cont’d. on two
Groth: The Gentle Touch of Class
By Nancy Stephens
He was a warm, generous, and
seemingly indefatigable guest.
By the end of his two-day visit at
Salem he denied being tired.
“Just exhausted!”
Illustrator-correspondent John
Groth, except for a fine thatch of
white hair, has the mien of a
young man. Now nearing his
seventieth birthday, he has
retained the capacity to enjoy. He
speaks and responds to people
and situations as he must have
years ago when he launched his
career in illustrating with the
then inchoate Esquire magazine.
While here, he arose early at
the Alumnae House, bedded down
late; banqueted and conversed
with students, faculty, specid
guests; appeared on WXH’s
Midmorning Show (leaving the
Alumnae House at 8:30 a.m. after
an interview with Genie Carr of
the Sentinel); taped an hour’s
interview for WFDD (which later
may be aired on National Public
Radio); presented a two-hour
workshop (by this point perched
on a high stool in deference to a
hip that rebels against too much
standing); delivered a fresh talk
to a smaller-than-expected
audience; answered questions at
length; and mixed with artists
and non-artists at the late
reception, pausing to autograph
books.
During his evening lecture,
Groth took his listeners from the
apartment of his childhood in
Chicago where he began his
drawing days, using meat
wrapping paper donated by his
first “patron,” the butcher
downstairs; through the swamps
of Indochina with French Foreign
Legionnaires, to Korea, where
younger soldiers jumped ditches
“like ballet dancers,” making
him aware of his 40 years; to a
classic encounter with the
“master” Picasso the day of the
French Liberation; and into
Ernest Hemingway’s well-
fortified (both with guards and
alcohol) jeep at the German lines
during World War II.
The delight with which he
related his anecdotes and the
sensitivity with which he told of
more serious aspects of his
coverage of war, sports, and
historical moments in history
made the listener feel almost like
a participant. The man is an
artist, both with pen and ink and
with words.
During the afternoon
workshop, he explained that an
artist should be able to use any
tool necessary to create his work.
He told one story of finding ducks
and a woman to extract quills so
that he could draw on very damp
paper in the humid Normandy
climate during World War II. He
also told of a 13,000 mile trek for
Sports Illustrated in search of
Buzkashi (sheep dragging)
games in Afghanistan, a story he
finally got after hardship travel
and cajoling khans and
horsemen.
Groth’s credentials are
impressive. His experiences are
impressive. The man. himself, is
even more impressive. He began
his serious work by taking the
advice of a magazine editor who
suggested that he draw “at least
100 sketches a day." Years later,
he discovered that the advice was
given “just to get rid of the
ambitious kid." His relentless
drive, his contacts and empathy
with people, a "''ility to
extract meaning as well as the
action from an event, aii have
combined to make him a special
human being.
Does he do any drawing now-
just for the sake of drawing'!’
“I'm so used to meeting
deadlines after all these years
that when I get a break I’m tired
enough that I just enjoy reading a
good book or watching
television.”
Salem was fortunate to have
such a person share his talent and
experiences. She also is fortunate
that an alumna, Abbie Suddath
Davis, helped to bring him here
for the Lecture-Assembly Series.
We thank them both.