The Salemite
Vol'LXVm No. 1
Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
September 1988
Dean Cobb: Salem's Newest Arrival
by Hanan Abdul Rahim
This year Dr. Eulalia Cobb has
been appointed as the new Dean
of the College. Dr. Cobb has a
B.A. in Biology and French from
Birmingham-Southern College,
an M.A. in Romance Languages
from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and a
Ph.D. in Romance Languages from
the University of Alabama.
Dr. Cobb's husband works for
Westing House in Baltimore. He
flys down every weekend. Dr.
Cobb has two daughters, Allison,
a sophomore at Salem Academy,
and Sonya, a freshman at the
college.
When asked how they manage
with Mr. Cobb in Baltimore all
week. Dr. Cobb replied, "It's very
hard and it's a good thing I like
my job so much. It makes
everything else bearable."
Dr. Cobb has moved twice in
three months. Her first house
was in Lewisville, which is too
far away from the college. Last
weekend, she moved into a house
much closer to the school.
On being asked how she and
her daughter felt about both
being at Salem, Dr. Cobb replied
with a smile,"you’ll have to ask
Sonya." She explained that
Sonya graduated a year early
from Irigh school and spent a year
in Spain. She took with her a
list of six women's colleges, one of
which was Salem. Sonya was
very impressed by the
correspondence from the faculty.
At the time. Dr. Cobb did not
know about a job opening at
Salem. Smiling, Dr. Cobb
said,"We both applied and we
were both accepted."
"She (Sonya) believes as I do
that it is important to have the
experience of being in a college
where you can compete
intellectually and in other
activities without paying the
penalty," says Dr. Cobb, who
,until the age of fourteen, was
educated at an all-girl school. "I
found out the hard way that
there's a difference in behavior
when there are boys."
When asked about any new
ideas she might have in mind.
Dr. Cobb said she couldn't reply
yet. She had a lot of listening to
do first. She did say that she
believed in making sure that the
faculty and students grow
intellectually as much as
possible. Dr. Cobb expressed an
interest in finding out what the
people want. She believes there
cont. on pg. 4
Challenging Experiences
at Camp i\/liniwanca
elected to explore, knew not of
by Beth Barksdale
Contrary to the majority of
Salem students' vacations,
M-I-N-I-W-A-N-C-A does not
spell relief. However, a team of
eleven was selected, or more
realistically, volunteered to
participate in an intense
eight-day leadership conference
in which the only effects of sun
tan oil were mosquito bites, and
the closest thing to a whirlpool
was lukewarm water pouring
from a mechanized rope in a
biffy. Now, those who traveled
to the many waters of Michigan
for this prime time in the sand,
asked the same question...What
is a biffy? And even more
importantly, what does a biffy
have to do with an expedition
involving a week vacation, all
expenses paid, to the new
country? Fortunately, those
what these grounds entailed. For
otherwise, the lack of desire to
expede, would have
disintegrated along v/ith the rest
of the crowd. Yet, blindness is not
always a handicap, and it is a
result of twenty-two eyes that
the Michigan crev/ learned to see,
and developed their vision.
The purpose of the National
Collegiate Leadership
Conference of the American
Youth Foundation is to develop
leadership based on balanced
living, the pursuit of excellence,
and service. Of course, the
accomodations to experience such
philosophies were not
conveniently located in the
Embassy Suites. Rather, the
definition of challenging one's
self extended far beyond mental,
physical, social, and spiritual
aspects. For the key to survival,
cont. on pg. 5