Salem College President I
since 1982 He received his degrees from Washim^mn t1 n 7 5
He received his degrees from Washington and lL bTc.111
hxude, Yale University, The Divinitv Srhnni r rj i j'
Dean of Students Virginia
Johnson majored in physical
education at Wake Forest
University. After graduating she
worked with mentally
handicapped children for a year.
Then she moved on to theYMCA in
Albermarle where she was the
women and girls' physical director
for five years. She then moved on
to the Y in Elkin where she taught
gymnastics and started a class for
handicapped children. Through a
former professor at Wake, Dean
Johnson heard of an opening at
Salem. She worked at the
Academy teaching health and ,
physical education. She also taught two courses at the Then
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by Beth Barksdale
Beaches, the story of a lifelong friendship between C.C. Bloom, an ambitious
brassy entertainer and Hillary Whitney Esser, a pensive waspish princess, has the
ability to bring all cherished friends together for an hour of silent communication
c-onmining the classical ingredients of a woman-to-woman relationship the
movie presents a replication of everybody's best friend. Laughter, tears, romance
jealousy, glamour, poverty, birth, immortality, and the search for'
self-actuahzation, characterize Gary Marshall's attempt to direct a film about
understanding.
Bette Midler, an undeniable asset and talented performer, is cast as the
au hentic recording artist, C.C. Bloom who is first introducedto Hillary, Barbara
Hershey as an eleven-year-old kid on the beach of Atlantic City. Though they
speak only briefly at the time of their first acquaintance, the two continue to build
eir relationship through letter correspondance over the next ten years. It is not
unhl the faces of adolescence have been wasted away that they reunite,
c j" ^ Francisco patrician who leaves heritage to practice law for ACLU
finds Bloom in New York singing for a local run-down jazz juke. Hoping to be
rejuvenated by the amibition of her long-distance confidant, Hillary accepts
become housemates. And here the story unfolds as the two
Social corarr;™^
Though often the detail of Beaches and the time flow sporadic, as the viewer is
submerged into the 60's and 70's simultaneously, and subjected to the
coexistence of success and failure, it is not until we have left the theater that the
relationships seem arbitrary and the motivations thin.
Until then however. Beaches captivates its viewers as it redefines for each of us
the many labors of friendship and the qualities of unconditional love.
Album Review:
The Travelling Willbury's
talent combination of Bob Dylan, Tom
Petty, George Harrison, Jeff Lyne, and
Roy Orbison. Their album debut
isVolume One, a one of a kind album
that had a warm low key and upbeat
"rootsy" kind of melody throughout.
The first single is "Handle With Care,"
with other good songs such as "Tweeter
and the Monkey Man," sung by Dylan,
"Not Alone Anymore" and "End Of The
Line," a ballad that is really well done,
and Tom Petty sings "Last Night," so for
those of you who are willing to try
something different, the Traveling
Wilbury's won’t let you down.
by Karen Jordan
You know those times when you get
so sick of those bouncy songs they play
on the radio over and over again, tiien
you pull out your collection of music
and stare endlessly and realize you just
aren't in the mood to hear any of them.
Suddenly you get this spontaneous urge
to buy something different. Well, if you
want different give the Traveling
Wilbury's a try. Yes, the title does tend
one to question what kind of music this
group projects. However, the music on
this album is made up of the great
Bookless Students?
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Dean of the College Eulalia B. *
Cobb received her degrees from *
Birmingham-Southern College, X
B.A., University of North Carolina X
at Chapel Hill, M.A., and Ph.D J
from the University of Alabama. J
Dean Cobb taught modern J
languages before coming to Salem ♦
College. Outside of her Main Hall ♦
Office she relaxes by reading *
french novels. ♦
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by Gaither Smoot
The Gramley Library has a
policy that professors are
permitted to check out books for one
semester. Why then are some
professors keeping them for over
the designated time period?
Professors do not have to pay
overdue fines. Yes, there are still
books checked out from 1978 because
some professors have failed to
return them or report them as lost.
If the book is lost then the
faculty member must pay for it. The
library recently started a new
system of sending out overdue
notices to professors. The notices
drew much attention and several
books were returned to the library,
however; many books still remain
missing.
If a student needs a book, which
is not on the shelf, she should check
with the circulation desk. If a
professor has the book, the
librarian can call him/her to lend
it to the student. Dr. Rose Simon at
the library commented, "There has
never been an incident where the
teacher wouldn't lend the book."
This policy of semester check out
is not unusual for college professors.
If a professor checks a book out in
the middle of a semester, then he
does not have to return it until the
end of the next semester.
Although librarian, Susan
Taylor, says, "It's not as much of a
problem as it used to be," one still
has to wonder if students are being
put at a disadvantage. The
professors should be commended for
their dedication to learning, but are
they using all of those books that
they check out and never return?