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

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In this volume of Sights and Insights we have attempted to condense life on the campus at Salem, so that as you leave you may carry with you cherished memories of familiar spots and congenial friends. If, in the distant future, the rays of this book of sunshine awaken in your hearts sunny recollections of your Alma Mater, we shall feel that our earnest efforts have not been in vain.

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To CHARLES HENRY HIGGINS Whose keen interest in every progressive college movement is the source of inspiration to all Salem Students, the Senior Class dedicates this volume of Sights and Insights

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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SALEM In 1772, when the Moravians at Salem, North Carolina, established Salem Female Academy, there was no other school of its type in the South. It was established as a day school to meet the educational needs of the Moravian community; but by 1802 the demand for education in adjacent communities was so great that a boarding department was added. In its beginnings Salem Female Academy was an elementary school. Its curriculum developing with its students, it grew almost imperceptively first into a high school, and then into a college. In 1866 a charter was granted which provided for a collegiate department. So high were the standards of the Salem faculty and trustees, however, that, in spite of the authorization to grant degrees they were not granted until 1890, when the degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred upon seven young women. Since 1910 Salem Academy and Salem College have been maintained as separate institutions, although under the same administrative head and the same trustees. Salem College is now a member of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Southern States, thus attaining classification as an A class college. This year, 1926-27, marks the one hundred and fifty-fifth year of unbroken progress for Salem College. Her many alumnae retain their loyalty and love for their Alma Mater, whose progress is assured and whose future, by the aid of their co- operation, is sure to be marked by the same steady and wholesome growth that has distinguished her history since colonial days.