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

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Christianity, which he thinks should have a large place in the education of a college girl. He sees a definite need in modern life for people who can judge with mercy, who have deeper under- standing and less prejudice. The best kind of education, he believes, heightens faith in God and creates broad spiritual aflfirmation. Not a soberside. Dr. Gramley be- lieves that work and fun loom large in college acti itics. A one-time college journalist and football player, he might still play a pretty good tackle. He looks pretty good down on the athletic field with his four sons. And, if you want to shift the line-up, he looks pretty good in another position. As president of Salem Gollege, he ' s good enough to make the first string— because here ' s a man who is the product of those quali- ties he wants his students to possess. 13

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Dr, Qramley, President of Salem ... is there — whether it ' s the per- formance of the Pierrettes ' new play. Senior Vespers or a picnic supper on the athletic field. Since he arrived at Salem last year as its thirteenth presi- dent, his brown suit and horn-rimmed glasses have become familiar all across campus. A real person, interested in what ' s going on in the life of the youngest freshman, he ' s proof to stu- dents that a college president is not a distant and aloof executive concerned only with faculty meetings and mys- teriously important papers. Knowing and helping students themselves, he believes, is a good start toward the goal he set for Salem on his inauguration: to make it the best possible girls ' college in the South. He doesn ' t think it a waste of time to spend several hours discussing needed improxements in last week ' s Salemite, or to turn his hand at helping the Junior class get rid of a leaky washing machine. This interest in each student as an individual stems from a desire to see each attain what he believes should be the ultimate goal in everyone ' s life — happiness. He believes that education plays a basic part in this attainment. Rather than being simply the tech- nological training needed to prepare men and women for a vocation, edu- cation is the humanistic indoctrination necessary for a development of inner resources. Education, he o nce said in characteristic fashion, should prepare one for ine itable solitude. But education, he believes, must be more than a means of securing happi- ness. In addition, it must teach people to think, to develop right attitudes, to realize their responsibilities as members of a democratic community. We talk too much about rights and free- doms, he ' s said, and not enough about responsibilities. It was charac- teristic that as a member of the Lehigh faculty he played a part in changing the wording of Lehigh ' s diplomas from ... is awarded all the rights and privileges to . . . all the duties, rights and privileges . . . Spiritual needs — and obligations — thus assume a high place in his scheme of things. His background — he is the son of a minister and a lifetime church member — has made him a firm be- liever in the attitudes and practices of 12 £

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k ' 3 ii jV ' gk 1 i - T m :i Board of Trustees Bishop J Dr. A. H. Bahnson Mrs. Agnew H. Bahnson, Jr. Mr. F. F. Bahnson, Jr. Mr. Archibald Craige Re -. I. Howard Chad wick Mr. C. E. Elberson Mrs. Gilbert Fry Rev. George Higgins Mr. W. P. .Sandridge Mr. W. F. Shaffner Mrs. Ronald Slye Dr. R. G. .Spaugh Mr. C. S. Starbuck Mr. W. N. Vogler Mr. F. F. Willingham Dr. Dale K. Pfohl, Chairman Mr. Julius A. Woodward Mrs. Thomas Barber Mrs. Hugh Johnson Mrs. J. Harold McKeithan Mr. Charles N. .Siewers Miss Ada Allen Dr. Fred Linebach Mrs. Emil Shaffner Mrs. John T. Simpson. Jr. Rev. Herbert Johnson Mr. H. M. Brandon Col. L. Corrin Strong Mrs. Gordon Hanes Mr. Howard Gray Mr. E. F. Tulloch H. Gramley, ex officio 14 ' i,9mrvMf-i iJt tv t ' in tKn:f9ir vs!F-. w