Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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FOREWORD NOW. AS WE COMPLETE OUR WORK HERE AND JOIN THE LISTS OF THE ALUMNAE, WHO HAVE EVER RE- JOICED IN THE ATTAINMENTS OF THEIR ALMA MATER. WE LEAVE THIS NINETEENTH VOLUME OF SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS AS A RECORD OF THE SALEM WE KNOW AND LOVE BEST. IN FU- TURE YEARS MAY WE RETURN TO SHARE THE GREATER GLORY AND ACHIEVEMENT WHICH WILL INEVIT- ABLY BE HERS, AND TO REFRESH AGAIN THOSE MEMORIES WHICH HAVE BEEN SO LOVINGLY RECORDED HERE. jmrnmamummmm

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m Dean H. A. Shirley The subject of this sketch, H. A. Shirley, a direct de- scendant of William Shirley, Esquire, a Governor-General of the Massachusetts Bay Grant, which now comprises Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and a son of William H. and Caroline Williams Shirley, was born at Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, September 15, 1865. He graduated from the New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1887; studied organ under S. B. Whitney, Boston, and piano under the late Edward MacDowell, after which he was or- ganist and teacher of piano at Winchendon. Massachusetts, for eleven years. On July 30, 1 896, he married Anna Robinson, of Worcester, New York. In the same year he became dean of the music department of Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he has maintained the same position even until the present time. He has held a prominent place in musical circles as a colleague of the American Guild of Organists, a member of the North Carolina Music Teachers ' Association, of which he was president in 1915, and director of many choruses and orchestras both here and elsewhere. It is largely due to his efforts that many of the organs in Winston- Salem and the surrounding country have been installed. During the quarter of a century that Dean Shirley has de- voted to Salem, the music department has made great strides toward the heights to which it has attained. Nor has his interest in Salem been solely confined to the work of his own depart- ment. Every phase of college life has always found in him an ardent supporter, and it is through his love of the great out-of- doors that many Salem girls have come to know and love him best.

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Historical Sketch of Salem In the year 1772, Salem College had its foundation in Salem Female Academy, a day-school for students of the Moravian community. As such it was maintained until 1802, when a boarding department was added. From that time the institution continued to grow until, in 1866, a charter was granted which introduced a strictly collegiate department. Thus Salem Female Academy became Salem Academy and College. Since 1910, these two institutions have been main- tained separately, although under the same administrative head and board of trustees. Through four wars Salem, whose ideal has ever been the Christian education of young women, has carried on her work, and has been in constant operation for one hundred and fifty- two years. She has become an A-class college through mem- bership in the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools in the Southern States. With such a glorious past and with hundreds of alumna who are eager to support their Alma Mater in whatever she undertakes, Salem looks forward to a future of ever more effi- cient service. ■•■■■■■if 111