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

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5k:s This Ts Our Hcritao ' e Here is Salem College, lin cil l) those of us who li c here antl respected by those who know her. As we pursue our stuches antl social activities here within her time- honored buildings, we see around us the work ol ' hardened pioneer hands. Let us stop a while and examine Salem ' s past which so influences our present, as well as our future. Let us catch the atmosphere of those pioneer days long past. Try to visualize the ast uncultivated forest lands of early . merica. For it is here that Salem College began. . t first it was little more than an idea, but because of the vision and courage of a few Moravian pioneers, this idea became a reality. Now in nineteen hundred and fifty-three. Sights and Insiohts records the history of Salem College. It is our hope that no one will forget her heritage, for Salem stands as a living memorial to the courage and perseverance of those who ha e come before us. We pay tribute to those u ' jo have come before us. . . . ' ' Somel iina ntw has been added, ' said Joy. And there are Iwo of them. . . 4-V3 0

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A --. ' : r -■:i r ' .:l ' ' :- • f Our Example of a Perfect Lady When we leave Salem, it will be hard for any of us to forget Miss Covington, the little white-haired lady who wears the at- tractive shoes. We will remember her for many things. For the way she stops us on the street to say, Your ears should really be burning with all the nice things I heard about you yesterday. For her soft hello and smile as we meet her and o) in the hall. For her amusing anecdotes in to US. marriage class, and for her explanations of those mysterious things called stocks and bonds. We will remember her for her honesty and for her trust placed in us; for her sense of humor and for her hospitality. For all these things Miss Covington will be remembered, but most of all, for her example to us of a perfect lady. Because she is dear to us, we, the Seniors of nineteen hundred and fifty-three, dedicate the fifty-first edition of Sights .and Insights to Miss Evabelle Covington. Her love of shoes people endear her

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M s New scholars arrived in town accompanied by fathers. In seventeen hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and eighty- one years ago, and before the founding of our Republic, the village of Salem was settled. Soon after the land was cleared of forest, a school for the daughters of the Moravian settlers was begun. It wasn ' t long before little girls in the village were excused from their household duties in order to attend the new day school. Naturally, a school where young girls could learn housekeeping attracted widespread attention in those early days. When re- quests began to come from other communities that the school be opened to their daughters, the first principal was appointed. In 1804 the school was first referred to as the Boarding School for Female Education. New buildings were built as girls began to come here from all over the South. With the arrival of new students, who were any age from eight to twelve, great interest was apparent in the communitv. The new scholar would arrive in a coach or sometimes on horseback ac- companied by her father or brother. The side- saddle room where the saddles were stored until time to return home can still be seen today in the Alumnae House. Unlike the freedom enjoyed by us today at Salem, the pupils y . . . Gills! What are you doing out on the streets in public '