Volume LXIV
Number 5
November 20,1981
The Salemite
serving the salem college community since 1920
Brookstown Mill
Where the Past Meets the Present
By Kathy Glover
Exposed modern heating
and cooling ducts, red metal
columns and heavy, exposed
beams are somehow in
congruous with, but do not
detract from the charming
original wooden floors and old
brick of the renovated
Brookstown Mill Architects
Glave Newman and Chris
Knight, current project
managers, preserved the
exterior of the old mill and
opened up the interior to pave
the way for the various shops
it now houses.
Founded in 1837 by Frances
L. Fries as a cotton mill, the
Brookstown Mill has been
designated a National
Historic Landmark by the
federal government. Since its
founding, the mill has served
many purposes.
During the Civil War, the
.^townspeople used the building
to make yam for Confederate
uniforms, but Union soldiers
confiscated their inventory at
the end of the war. By 1881,
the business had recuperated,
and Fries added a second
wing. This new wing was the
first building in the South to
use electrical lighting.
The top floor of the older
wing once housed women
from Surry and Forsyth who
had come to work in the mill.
They left behind a “graffiti
wall” that reminds viewers of
the days of industrialization
in the Piedmont.
The mill served a wartime
function once again during
World War II when it became
A Moravian Experience
Class Travels to Bethlehem
Dr. Thompson’s Moravian
Experience class is traveling
to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
this weekend.
Participating students are
studying the founding of the
Moravian sect which began in
Czechoslovakia in 1457.
Students follow this study
through the Moravians’
settlement in America. Old
Salem is the focus for the in
depth study while the trip will
compare Old Salem with an
earlier Moravian settlement.
Students are driving the
school van and private cars
on the 10-hour trip to the
Moravian settlement similar
to Old Salem. Bethlehem was
founded in 1741, a few years
before the founding of Old
Salem. It was a bit more
advanced than, the Salem
community as it was more of
an industrial settlement.
The class will tour the in
dustrial complex, the church
and several other buildings.
Two informal discussions are
scheduled; one by a professor
of church history at the
seminary and the other by a
Moravian archivist. Penn-
sylvania-Dutch food will also
be sampled.
Two outside trips - one to
Nazareth, home of Zinzendorf
and the other to E par ate, a
utopian community - are
planned, if time allows.
Nazareth, about 15 miles
outside of Bethlehem, is,
significant to Thompson’s
class as the home of Zin
zendorf. Count Zinzendorf
offered his estate as a refuge
to the persecuted Moravians
in the 18th century. He was
impressed by the Moravians’
sincerity and religious
devotion.
Epharate, south of
Bethlehem, was settled by
another religious group in
Pennsylvania as a utopian
society.
Missing Books...
Library Problem Examined
a munitions factory and
produced the Bazooka - an
anti-tank weapon.
Several years ago, Billy
Packer and Mr. and Mrs.
Addison Brown bought the
mill. The idea of renovating
the old mill to preserve its
history and make it useful
received their approval, and
the project began.
After three years of
planning, and two and a half
years of renovating, the cost
of the project approached
$5,000,000. The Salem Cotton
Company, the large
restaiu*ant between the two
wings of the mill, made up
approximately $850,000 of the
overall cost. Additional funds
for the project came from
see Brookstown, p. 3
By Barbara Meskill
The problem of materials
being taken from Gramley
Library has become critical.
In the words of several
students, “It is as if the honor
code does not apply to the
library at all.” The Honor
Council, in conjunction with
the Library Committee has
begun to analyze the
problem. The surveys which
were distributed to the
student body at the
November SGA meeting have
been carefully tallied and
studied.
The core of the problem is
that students frequently fail
to sign out the materials that
they take. Some reasons for
this were that it is too much of
an inconvenience, they
forget, or they do not wish to
risk incurring a fine.
Also, a significant number
of people from outside of
Salem use Gramley Library
and may be taking material.
The general consensus is
igcauS^flia^tudents are not
forced toTJHeck materials out
of the library, they frequently
do not.
The problem is serious. Not
only is the library ner-
manently losing valuable
materials and incimring the
expense of replacing them,
but students are increasingly
inconvenienced when the
materials they need cannot
be located. The surveys in
dicate that most students
think the only solution is for
the library to tighten its
control over its materials. It
was suggested that signs be
put up to remind people to
sign their materials out, or
that a theft detection system
be installed.
Other ideas were that a
staff member supervise the
signing out of materials or
that a guard be posted at the
door to check each person
leaving the library. Many of
these measures would be
expensive, yet the severity of
the problem requires that
some significant change be
made. The faculty, library
staff, Honor Council, and the
Library Committee will be
considering the alternatives
carefully before any changes
will be implemented. In the
meantime, changes in the
overdue fine structure and
the length of borrowing time
may be implemented ex
perimentally in an attempt to
alleviate the problem.
Dr. Rose Simon, head
librarian, stressed that it is
good that the student body
has thought about the
problems. She also said that
student input is most helpful
in clearly outlining the nature
of the problems with which
the library must deal.
Honor Council is extremely
concerned. They wish to
stress again that removing
materials from the library
without signing them out is an
honor code offense.
The Honor Council and the
Library Committee hope that
by bringing the problem to
the attention of the students,
they will help to lessen it by
their cooperation with library
regulations.
Judy Mcliwee
A paper by Judy Mcliwee will appear in the December issue
of the Western Sociologist Review. The paper is based on her
dissertation research and is entitled “Organization Theory and
the Entry of Women into Non-Traditional Occupations.’’