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

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From Seniors to Alumnae HE change from Seniors to Alumnae, which comes in the natural sequence of events, is exceedingly important and interesting. If the four years of college life and training in Salem have done their legitimate work, the Salem Stamp. as a rule, is not to be effaced by the roughest, hardest experiences of life. The system of room-company life, which characterizes all of our schools, is the best substitute for careful home training that has, thus far, been devised. The work of character building goes on steadily, from day to day, fostered by little duties well and regularly performed — rounding off a corner here, chipping off a little bit of selfishness there — until a well-rounded personality is insensibly formulated. The simple pleasures, happy games which rounded oul the lime. And made ihe busy months seem days, from breezy chime lo chime. The old clock in the belfry, that lold the fleeting hours; The stroll up Cedar Avenue, mid springing grass and flowers; The happy Chrislmaslide ; the blessed Easier morn. X hen on ihe forming mind and hearl eternal ihings are born — All ihese. and more lhan tongue can name, or moving finger wrile. Have had their molding influence, to nobler lhin°s incite; And not alone ihe knowledge of chemicals and rays. Of Greek and Latin classics, of angles, years, and days. Have gained, beside ihe faithfulness, the ready hand and skill — The naming thai has slood ihe lest of human good or ill; Have made the fiome the biding-place, where love and influence flow. In ever-widening circles, as the ages come and go. And as the passing yea s go by. so full of stress and care. This forming influence slill is felt, a benediction rare. The young woman is then ready to go from college walls to be a power, a leader, wherever her lot may be cast — in the home, the church, in society, in the educational world — and wherever you find her you will see that her work is well done; you will find a capable, efficient, modest, womanly woman. As we glance over the lists of our fifteen or sixteen thousand Alumnae of the past, and of the present, we see noble names gleaming, like stars, in the hollow dark of one hundred and ten years. Beginning at the White House, two of our girls presided there with singular tact, grace, and dignity. As wives of senators, governors, military leaders — such as Stonewall Jackson, Hill, Pender, and others — they rise up before us so numerously we can not even name them. They have been and are the very heart of our Southern life, and their influence spreads all over our land.

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Miss Lehman

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When the awful news of the Titanic tragedy came flashing over the wires, before sunset a Salem Alumna in New York had gathered about her a band of sixteen devoted women, and before the Carpathia touched the wharf they were there, ready to feed, clothe, and help the pitiful survivors. Nor are these the only instances; others may occupy less prominent positions, but the trained eye, and ear, and hand, and heart are ever ready to help, to soothe, to comfort, and to bless. You will not find our girls clamoring for recognition or distinction, but modestly, quietly filling the niches where the Great Master of Life has placed them. They are the very pulse of the machine, with the endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, which Wordsworth so aptly gives them. We do not want this stamp to be blurred, or effaced, in the mad rush of so-called Modern Progress, and we are sure they will go on — in no wise inferior to those who have gone before — veritable King ' s Daughters, polished stones fitting into their several places in the complex structure of our strenuous modern age. E. A. Lehman.