The Salemite
Volume LXIII
Number 11
May 15,1981
serving the salem college community since 1920
Preyer to
Speak at
Graduation
Richardson Preyer,
r m e r U . S .
u?8gressman from the
,'*th District, will
eiiver the address at
Salem College
t "itimencement pro-
sfam Sunday, May 24,
“ Salem Square,
i^reyer, who spent 12
on Capitol Hill
^‘Ore losing his seat to
)• Eugene Johnston
November, is
.'-'‘'•rentiy the William
Reynolds Visiting
oiessor of Public
Jeal
ll|^“irs to the University
ni North Carolina-
I "^Pel Hill.
will address his
to ap-
-aduating seniors at
program which will
at 2 p.m. and
5ch wiU be moved to
Auditorium if it
o> n^accalaureate ser-
D' with Dr. W.
j Lolley as
faker will be on
cl'5^ay. May 23, in
f'U*Pe Moravian Church
‘ p.m. The former
Ilf |i“*‘ster of First Baptist
>c' j,’**‘ch in Winston-
is‘ (1962-1974) is
p!|omt® ^ e n t of
I'ff eastern Baptist
iehj?‘°gical Seminary in
i4 j"® Forest.
'f® a recent interview,
^.,y®r deplored the
1 L^e in numbers of
people aspiring to
^i(H®al careers.
5.;®ars ago, when
‘aiedy was president,
|,ap remember how
people of that
jjtod were anxious to
L into government;
i/ thought that that
Where the action
k, and that it was
jkJPy of effort,” he
iV^g people today,,
Ikfaid, should be en-
l^aged to run for
|L.®al office by both
P'es.
h ayer, who was born
/®ensboro, holds the
1^' degree from
Bjacton University
ijua law degree from
ard Law School.
He began his law career
in Greensboro, became
city judge, was ap
pointed to the North
Carolina Superior
Court, and, in 1961, was
appointed as federal
judge (Middle District
Court) by President
Kennedy. He was
elected to Congress in
1968, where he served on
the Committee on
Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, the Com
mittee on Government
Operations, and the
Committee on Stan
dards of Official Con
duct. He has served on
many boards and
commissions in the
community and is the
recipient of the 1973
Greensboro Chamber of
Commerce’s “Uncle Joe
Cannon” Award for
outstanding public
leadership, the 1975
Distinguished Service
Award from the
University of North
Carolina School of
Medicine, and the 1978
Phillip Hart Memorial
Award for Conscience
by Washingtonian
Magazine.
Lolley holds degrees
from Sainford
University (Birming
ham, Ala.) and
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
He was president of the
North Carolina Baptist
Pastors Conference in
1967, has served on
various church boards,
and has received the
“Certificate of
Appreciation” from the
Red Shield Boys Club of
Winston-Salem and the
Presidential Award
from Campbell College.
Others who will
participate in the
Baccalaureate service
will be Dr. John
Mueller, organist; Dr.
Clark Thompson,
college chaplain; Dr.
Wayne Burkette, pastor
of Home Church; and
Mrs. Joan Jacobowsky,
soloist. Dr. Richard
Morrill, Salem
president, also will
Salem News Bureau
A Walk Into The Past
An old wagon road
that winds through the
Shenandoah Valley will
once again guide aj
group of women along
part of the 500 mile trek
from York, Pa. to North
Carolina. This summer.
Dr. Dudley Shearbum,
associate professor of
education at Salem
College will retrace the
path of the first
Moravian women who
came to the Piedmont in
1766. “Four Single
Sisters and four Older
Girls” managed to
make the j ourney in just
over a month, ac
companied by a
married couple and
another married Sister.
The girls came as
wives, nurses, and
teachers, very im
portant to the
Moravians, who
believed that education
helped bring one closer
to God.
Several men from the
Moravian colony of
York, Pa., or Single
Brothers as they were
called, had settied on
the north edge of a
hundred thousand-acre
tract of land they called
Wachovia. The
Brethren bought the
land in 1752 from John
Carteret, Earl of
Granville, and called it
Wachovia because it
reminded them of the
Wachau valley in their
ancestral homeland of
Austria. Wachovia is the
Anglicized form of
Wachau.
This little village,
destination of the
women travellers, was
planned as a temporary
one. The Single
Brothers called it
“House of Passage,” or
BeOiabara. In 1772, all
but a few residents left
Bethabara to begin the
town of Salem, in
central Wachovia, as
the move was ordained
by God.
This settlement was
the beginning of what is
now the restored Old
Salem, the All-America
city of Winston-Salem,
and most important to
Dr. Shearburn, Salem
College.
Dr. Shearburn ex
plained that the com
memorative walk to
honor these Moravian
women “gets people to
realize that the Single
Sisters were in
dependent, intelligent,
educated young women.
That’s what we’re
trying to teach our
Salem students now - to
be independent, in-
telligent and
educated!”
Dr. Shearburn will set
out from Moravian
College in Bethlehem,
Pa. early on the mor
ning of May 17.
Traveling west along
county and state high
ways, she will hike
through Gettysburg,
Pa., Frederick, Md.,
Winchester, Va.,
Berryville, Va., and on
to Front Royal, Va. The
Shenandoah National
Park and the Blue Ridge
Parkway will lead her
further south to
Staunton, Va., where
Dr. Shearburn will head
southeast to Roanoke,
then due south to
Madison, N.C., just
south of the North
Carolina state line.
Bethabara, first home
of the Moravians in
North Carolina, is less
than 20 miles further
south.
Dr. Shearburn
researched the travels
of the Sin^e Sisters
through the Moravian
Archives in Bethlehem,
Pa., and found diaries
detailing the trip south
to Bethabara. She found
the names of the little
girls who travelled so
far when they were so
young. She found dates
and places, descriptions
of events and
discussions of Moravian
Lovefeasts and other
religious celebrations.
The Moravian Brethren
faithfully kept
meticulous diaries of
their lives, and so have
played a major part in
preserving their own
heritage for historians
to follow.
One Salem alumna
has voiced an interest in
going along on the
month-long hike, but Dr.
Shearburn says she will
make the trip alone if no
one else wants to go with
her.
She plans to walk
about 18 miles a day, for
thirty walking days.
Such extensive hiking,
even with rest periods
after lunch and dinner,
can be extremely
painful and even
dangerous to the un
prepared hiker. “I have
great feet,” she giggled.
Dr. Shearbum added
quickly that she has
discussed her hike with
a podiatrist and the long
distance track coach at
Wake Forest Univer
sity. Both okayed her
plans; she has been a
serious walker and
runner for almost 12
years.
“Well, I was raised in
Alabama, where it was
quite inappropriate for
girls to be physically
active, so I didn’t do
anything,” she said.
Soon after Dr. Shear
burn reached the age of
forty, she began to
worry that she wouldn’t
have the stamina to
enjoy the coming years.
She quit smoking, and
she began to walk. And
run. And bicycle. While
on vacation in Greece in
1978, she decided to run
the classic Marathon
route alone, “just for
fun.” She covered ten
miles in each of the first
two days, “... and I ran
into the stadium on the
sixth mile” of the third
day, shesaid.Two years
ago. Dr. Shearburn
finished the L’Eggs
10,000 Meter Race,
averaging a ten minute
mile.
Now, at the age of 52,
Dudley Shearburn
walks two or three miles
a day, 5 days a week.
Weekends offer time for
her longer hikes of 8 to
15 miles.
Dr. Shearburn’s
appetite is satisfied with
natural foods, high in
protein, she explained.
“I just recently gave up
eating refined sugar. I
think that’s very im
portant,” she said.
The Single Sisters
hunted their food in the
wilderness andcookedit
over fire in 1766. Dr.
Shearburn will hunt her
favorite foods in the
grocery stores along the
way south. She has
made plans to sleep in
churches and hotels,
from where she will
telephone a secretary at
Salem College every
morning to announce
her progress. “This is a
really populated route,
with little towns about
every three miles or so
in most regions,” she
said.
Since food and lodging
will be provided. Dr.
Shearburn is travelling
very lightly. Her
featherweight back
pack will carry three
pairs of Nike tennis
shoes, which she will
change every few miles
to avoid blisters.
Besides blue jeans and a
few shirts, she will tote
a very light sleeping
mat and a “space
blanket,” in case she
has to camp out. Also on
the list of take-alongs
are a down vest and
booties, raingear, a
flashlight, reflector tape
(for walking at night),
and a can of Mace.
Dudley Shearbum has
no doubt that her trip
will be a success. She
takes heart in the
achievements of the
Moravians she follows.
Matthew Schropp’s
dairy is preserved in the
Moravian Archives in
Bethlehem, Pa., and as
husband of one of the
women travellers, he
gladly welcomed his
wife and friends to
North Carolina. On
November 23, 1766, he
recorded, “They were
happy and in good
condition. They were ...
received with the sound
of trombones (playing).
God bless your entry ...
One could see tears in
the eyes of all the little
girls. Then they were
led into the Sad for a
little Love Feast.”
By Carolyn M
McCollum
Social
Probation
Valentine’s Dance
1978 was held at the
Benton Convention
Cente^ There were
numerous incidences of
improper behavior.
Salem College’s
reputation in Winston-
Salem declined
dramatically. The
administration at
Salem, however,
decided that it was “one
of those things” that
wouldn’t happen again.
After Salem made many
promises of good
behavior, the con
vention center agreed to
let Salem have their
Valentine’s Dance there
again.
To insure that the
improper behavior of
the year before would
not ^ repeated, Becky
Talton, the Big Four
chairman at that time
went in front of the
study body at SGA
before the Valentine’s
Dance. She listed the
incidences of improper
behavior and told
everyone not to do them
again.
When the dance came
that Saturday night,
Salem girls and their
dates committed the
same acts as the year
before plus a few more.
There was several
hundred dollars damage
done to the convention
center. The word was
passed around Winston-
Salem and it seemed as
if no one would ever let
Salem College use their
facilities again.
The administration at
Salem decided that this
type of behavior would
never occur again and if
it did would be properly
handled. So social
probation was created.
Effective immediately,
(Feb. 1979) if at any
social event there is
improper behavior by
Salem students or their
dates, there will never
be any more social
events at Salem. Social
probation will continue
on for a long time and is
still effective now.
However, the past two
years, Salem students
have proved that they
know how to conduct
themselves properly. A
social probation is
nothing for anyone to
worry about as long as
this good behavior
continues.