Salem Academy - Quill Pen Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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hr Eiapnaitinn nf the I Errta nf the Olluh nf 1935 STATE UF NORTH CAIIoI.IN.x CoUNTv or FoRsYTI-I CITY oi-' XVINSTUN-SALEM SALEM ACADEMY To WHOLI IT MAY CoNcERN: VVe, this life, To tl To tl To tl the club of 1936, being supposedly of S0l1Illl lllllifl Rllfl body allfi realizing tlIe uncertainty of do hereby publish 2-lllfl declare this to be our last will and t9StI1lIlQlit. ARTICLE I Ie faculty as a whole we leave our good will and our superfluous accumulation of wisdom. ARTICLE II I6 Junior class we leave our inferiority complex with the hope that they use soIIIe of it. ARTICLE III I6 Sophomores we will our ability to keep our privileges ill times of great t6lIlptHti0ll. ARTICLE IV To the no longer green Freshmen we leave our Illillly IIIeIIIories of the days when we were struggling ill their place. ARTICLE V To Miss Sumner we leave our gratitude for helping us to increase our vocabulary by using Web- ster's Unabridged Dictionary. To Miss Jackson the Seniors of 1936 will a television service ill each room. so that she will Ilflt have to cliIIIb each pair of steps every IIiglIt to say Good Night. To Miss Wilson we bequeath our old knitting needles. 417 427 C37 447 457 467 177 C87 197 U07 C117 1127 1137 C147 U57 1167 4177 C1137 C197 ARTICLE VI Virginia Boyles leaves -her ability to stutter to To Marian Johnson, Elizabeth Sartin gives lIer Nita Montague wills her spring fever to every cause she has enough to supply many. Bettie MacNair bequeaths lIer feather Inattresses to Miss Vogler. so that slIe may put tlIeIn ill every I'00Ill next year. Ora JOIICS leaves lIer boldness and loudness to Nancy Clark. Katherine Read gives Ruth TeIIIpleIIIaII her excess height. so tlIat Ruth will be able to shoot basketball goals without jumping for tlIeIII. Dot Everett wills her love for sIIakes and spiders to Peg Jones iII hope that she may be Miss Shields's faithful helper ill biology class. To all Salem Academy girls WIIO have IIot shared ll6l' tlIrilliIIg trips. Eleanor Sartin leaves lIer many Georgia Caravan experiences. Desiring that two Carrie Shaffner will be less noisy next year. Ora Holt Long leaves her gentle-speaking voice Zllld Dot Everett her tloppy b6ill'00lll slippers to Jackie Ray. Sarah Hurlburt wills lIer habit of IIever being to IIICHIS oII time to Elizabeth Roberts. so tlIat it will be easy for Lib to reduce. To Spotty Coan, Edith WOIIIIJIB bequeaths her peaches aIId CTQHIII complexion. NaIIcy CaIIIpbell wills lIer IIIaIIy silent loves to Jackie Miller. BoIIIIie Ray wills her letter a day to Jiggs Parks. III hope that she will lllake use of it. Mary Lib Walston bequeaths lIer wicked aIId tierce backhand to Jonny Moore. To Nan My8l'S. Kathryn HOIIIICS leaves lIer love for Carolina. Bettie MacNair wills the famous fruit jar Zlllfl rope to Possum Moss. so that C0lllIllllIllCfltl0ll between two aIId three Carrie Shaffner will not be so had next year. Priscilla LHIIIIJCUI leaves her SoutlIerII accent to Agnes Colcord, so that she Call becoIIIe a real SaleIIIite ill voice. as well as in spirit. Sarah Mcffanless wills her perfect French pronunciation to Jackie Miller. provided that Jackie will Il0t try to outshine Miss Knox. To Barbara Shoemaker. Ruth Doerschuk leaves the art of telling ghost stories iII order that she IIIPIY HIIIUSS Myra Lucia Moore after lights oII Saturday night. ARTICLE VII Eleanor AIIIOS. kIIack at doing good work iII chemistry. unfortunate IIIeIIIber of the Junior class, be- To our sponsor, Miss Byrd, we give our sincere thanks for her unfailing assistance to us duriIIg this year. ARTICLE VIII To Miss Weaver we extend our gratitude for encouraging us iII times of stress not to stop work- ing but to keep 0Il trying. ARTICLE IX To Dr. aIId Mrs. Rondthaler we leave our love aIId gratitude for their personal interest ill each GDC of us. ARTICLE X III witness whereof we hereunto set our signature and affix our seal on this the tweiity-ninth day I'Vitness of May, IIiIIeteeII hundred thirty-six. Signed: CClub of 19367 SARAH AICCANLESS, Testutor. The Little Black Book. Page twenty-one

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Eh? Autlivntiratrh iranmlrtinnn nf the Qlluh nf IH?-E lr Oli one 'to find the place. the time. and the necessary equipment for contemplation is not diffi- cult. Notw that we are seniors we may think back over our years at Salenl without any strain on our gigantic brains- -which have been developed in that very place. The necessary equipment is a certain well-worn black notebook containing records ot' classes Cfor we don't know how longl ami the place may be indoors or outdoors. and the time midday or midnight as you desire. Tenderly turning the yellow pages of' this ancient notebook. we come upon the records of the wise and momentous transactions of the club of 1980. As we scrutinize the roll for the Freshman year. we find that of those who entered in 1932 a single member now remains--Nita Montague. To her the fact that Louise Kirk was president: Katherine Licklider. vice-president: and Betsy Hill. secretary-treasurer. may be important: but to us it seems rather vague like the Dark Ages or something. But in case that entry is important. I would hate to disappoint any one who is interested by withholding the fact that Louise Kirk dropped out of school at the end of the first semester. that Katherine Licklider was elevated to the presidency. and that Margaret Wood was elected vice-president. t'nder the direction of Miss Sumner. the faculty adviser. the club ot' 19:16 labored with indefatigable assiduity to perform with satisfaction the customary duties of the first year of our existence. 'With the money earned from keeping the store: selling food: and securing Dr. Flowers. a magician. to show us tricks. we en- tertained the .luniors by chartering a bus and taking them to see the play Green Stockings. in which several of our faculty proved themselves to be talented actresses. Having paid all the expenses of the year. we donated the remainder of the class money toward the fund for building a new gateway to Salem Academy. The following September the now remaining member of the club of 1936 was joined by Katherine Read. Dot llverett. Mary Lib VValston. and Sarah McCanless. who have stuck faithfully to the end. An increased sense of our own importance. along with our inherent vigilance and alacrity. made this a banner year for us. Here we pause to note lnlrriedly that Dot Everett was president: Mary l.ih Walston. vice-president: and Anne Florea. secretary and treasurer. At the end of the year after some difficulty in deciding how to entertain the seniors. the youthful sophomores announced that the decision was to appropriate the money. hard-earned by two fashion shows ami by sponsoring the movie. Alice in llvIlllfll'I'lflllfI, toward a luncheon: and this was doubtless' the most satisfactory conclusion it was possible to make at the time. The help of Miss Georgia iVatson. our advisel'. and much concentra- ticn enab'ed us to make th's a successful affair. Needless to say. the animated underclassmen were supremely happy to hover about their extremely dignified guests. Having heard much of the successful play Cnlilnrlyes rmrl Kings, given the year before. most of us flecided to test our dramatic ability by entering the Harlequin Club. VVith the graciously bestowed assistance of Miss Murray. we successfully produced four plays. The somewhat inspired members of the class also sold tickets for a concert given by a student orchestra from the Universty of North Carolina. This was an important event in our lives. for it enabled us to put a picture of our group in the annual. Several of our class were honored during the year by being elected student representatives. This was the year in which the lasting and important system of honoring a select number of girls to serve in the color guard at recognition program was perfected. A futher perusal of the little black notebook reveals interesting entries with regard to the transac- tions of our club during the two years that we were termed upperelassmen. Though on the first day of the 1931 school session most of us appeared. from our meditative and miserable countenances. to be contemplating suicide. our eyes were soon beaming and twinkling: for many girls joined our ranks. This restored to us every spark of our accustomed animation and we immediately organized our class. Jan- Norvf-II was first elected president. but resigned and Dot lflverett was appointed to take her place. Marv Lib Walston was vice-president. and Katherine liead competently filled the office of secretary and treasurer. Miss Anne Faulkner was chosen to guide our footsteps in this difficult year. We thought that perhaps the dramatic members of our class would this year be suffered to remain in peace: but not so. for an infiuence in the form of l'i Delta Phi intervened. Bettie MacNair. Katherine llearl. and Dot liver:-tt were the girls invited to the Cypress Trees. In addition to staging several short plays at the school. we entered the first one-act play tournament ever held in Winston-Salem. To entertain the seniors- -the really great project of the year- -we gave a Rainbow Banquet at the Forsyth Country Club in May: and our guests proclaimed the results of the plan worthy of the great minds from which it emanated. Whatever money remained in the treasury after the banquet we donated to the library to be used in buying books in the field of history. Thus another time the sun peeled the skin from our expressive countenances. and the spring rapidly passed. 'l'o return and be the Senior Class of 1936 was almost too great a strain for the usual hat size which we had worn for the previous two or three years. The responsibility and Joy of being Seniors at Salem Academy. however. soon tempered our pride: and we assumed the duties of the year. Many surprises came to us during the fall. the most important being that Dr. and Mrs. Rond- thaler. who had been absent from us and whom we did not expect to return soon. came back at Thanksgiving. To have the ltondthalers with us at our Christmas vespers. party. ami pageant meant very much: so we went home extremely happy. The remainder of the year we seemed to find much to do to blend amusement with inst-ruetion and to beguile the tediousness of the long wait until commencement. On George Washington's birthday the I. R. S. Council of Salem College gave a dance in our honor. ln March we had our first formal dance at the Academy. and soon afterward Mrs. Rondthaler royally entertained us at a formal dinner. Most of the Seniors in Pi Delta Phi took part in the play She' Sfoops fo Conquer, which was pre- sented on the eve of spring holidays. On April the twenty-fifth we were delighted guests of the Juniors at the Junior-Senior banquet. Later the faculty members were our guests at the Senior-Faculty breakfast. When the last page is turned and our necessary equipment. the little black notebook. is stored away. we catch final glimpses of graduation. Here our brains tire from the long reverieg but as we separate from a loved place. we realize that between it and us there exists a steady and reciprocal attachment. which nothing but death will terminate. Donornv Evaar:'r1', Histo-rirm. Page twenty

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Uhr Bnathumua Hanna nf the Qlluh nf 1935 9' 'I' was a little more than a decade after my graduation from Salem academy that I returned for my lirst visit. Having left my office at Lord and Taylor's in charge of my newly acquired secre- tary, Dorothy Everett. I looked forward to my visit with the double joy of one who is contident that her work will be capably handled during her absence and is eager to renew acquaintances at a place where she had spent many happy days. As I drove up to the front door. I w'as impressed by the quiet. pleasant air of the place: and I wondered why at 10:10 o'clock in the morning of a warm spring day no sounds were emanating from the open windows of the second-story classrooms. Imagine my surprise upon being told by the maid who opened the door that the faculty and students were at that time taking their daily jaunt by aeroplane. In my eager haste to see the familiar rooms again I walked on into the deans' office. And what shouid I spy' on the desk but the same little hlacik notebook in which Miss Zacshary has kept the records of the alumnae for many years. Knowing that it was no private document and naturally wond ring what the years had brought to my classmates. I turned to the records of the class of 1936 and tread as follows fthe entries were excerpts from various letters Miss Zachary had recently re- ceive J: Eleanor Sartin, who is now full-time traveling representative of the Georgia Caravans. writes that she has recently returned from an extended visit to her sister Elizabeth in New York City. fEhzabeth 18 now experimenting with beauty culture, and she promises to be one of the nation's leading b92llItlCI?iIIS.l One night, she says, we went to the premiere of L'Amour Trcrgirfue in which Nita Montague starred. The play was really marvelous. and Nita did exceptionally wel. I was not surprised to, see her starring, for she had a monopoly on the dramatic ability in our class. After the play. N1ta's manager, the former Nancy Bradsher. gave a combination New Year's Eve and theater party for her in the luxurious night club owned by Ora Jones. Remember her? tBy the way, while discussing the coming political campaign with Ora in her office, I noticed the walls were papered with the pictures of a certain movie hero. It seems that after ten years our Ora is still collecting pictures of Robert Taylor.p As we entered the spacious club we were greeted by none other than Ora Holt Long. She looked lovely in a creation of blue by Doerschuk. who is the same Ruth R. Doerschuk we went to school with: she is now a famous designer for Vogue. But back to the party. We were ushered into a gorgeous ballroom of red and silver lined with modernistic shaped tablesfyou know. the new ones in the shapes of letters .of the alphabet. The rhythmic music of Jimmy Layner's orchestra greeted our ears. After recognizing the music I, of course. looked about to see whether I could find Bettie MacNair and Mary Lib Walston. ies, indeed, they were seated at the tirst table gazing hopefully at the musicians. When we were seated at the long S-shaped banquet table, who should be on-my right but Frances Cooke and her husband. You know she is now quite a leader of New York society and never misses a thing. They say she is number 399 of the four hundred. There was much gavety' during the meal and Nita insisted on a speech from all the celebrities. Among them were seyeral of our classmates and I yyas certainly proud of our Alun Maters influence Sllem was represented by Nhrgirt Courtney now a funous golfer Sarah Hurtlburt New torks first woman specialist in yxolet rry and Sarah NlcCanless the fieriest woman politician for the new ad ministratlon lye he lrd her speak and she IS quite to the point 'lhe floor show was yery entertfumng and it proyed to be the chmix of the eyenin,, The feature number produced none other than lxathryn Holmes at the piano singing one of the newest blues numbers I was really taken aback for I cant remember Kathrvn with 1 particularly fine yoice In the middle of the show the lights yyere turned clown and an unearthly creature with 1 rigid and histly stire in its eyes appeyred I was quite surprised to behold our dear friend Iyatherine Read She llyy nys did lmye 'I pecuhlr knack for Ill9II10I'l7IIl, and as 1 lengthy imperson itor she is mfnryel ous Prom Fclith Womble de-in of VS omen at Duke Umyersity comes this bit of information Recently I yisitecl Priscilla I imbeth it her home on y large farm in eastern North C lrohnl She is a perfect wife for 1 farmer Xir una Boyles who w as yac IIIOIIIIIB in I-loricla lbout 1 month ago dropped me a circl siyin I hiye just inspected '1 unique school l'he principal is our own Bonnie Rly and the one ann of thc scliool is to teach children how to be witty fxlfffllll by the yy IX is myrrled md llyes in High Point She his two hne cluldren whom shc displays with much DTIIIEI lo this fibsorbin account yy is appended 1 note by Xliss Zachary herself which re ld lhe class of llbih his made quite a record lust then my elr clu ht the hum of an ieropllne motor incl I rushed out the front door to see the Idllfllll, on the athletic held Grelt indeed yy ls my funfwement when I siyy that there were three plines and thlt the pilots were 'yliss fIl?llI0ttl lackson Nllss Elin heth 71chury ind Nhss 'NI Carrington Shields co-directors of athletics 'nt Silem Academy Pqually grtit were the miny other surprises that greeted m luring lny four diy st y it Syle but tle owicr of the little black notbook will soon disclose them to 'ill 'ylumnle Nyxcy K VNIIBI-ll Plophff Paar' lrwnl u Iwo 22 , A , .. . . y - 2 2 Q v 2 f ' v 2 2 -2 - v I I .2 2 . 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