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

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' ' To Live in Hearts We Leave Behind Is Not to Die Mrs. Howard E, Rondthalcr, the friend of Salem College students, was a wonderfully versatile person. Her calm quiet faith and interest in others endeared her to all who knew her. Of all the groups whose lives were touched by hers, Salem students were perhaps the beneficiaries in a larger degree than any others. Miss Mary Jones, another friend of Salem Students, will long be remembered for her cheerful and unselfish service to Salem. . member of the Music School faculty for thirty years, she possessed a brightness of spirit, a wealth of kindness, and a devotion to her work that will be missed bv those of us who knew her here. 19

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■i :iy ,AC- . . . Aren I electric lights ivotjderful? I don ' t know how we could learn to sew withnul litem . . . The hardships of log houses determine first curriculum. In the early days when three girls composed the student body and one teacher the faculty, the curriculum was small but practical. The founders of Salem, the community, and Salem, the Academy, saw that the school would have to prepare its students for a new life in the New World Wilderness or be useless. Therefore, the courses were designed to equip the young ladies for living amid the hardships of log houses, tallow candles, and hand-woven cloth. Besides reading, writing, and arithmetic; music, drawing, and needlework early appeared in the curriculum. The select classes considered themselves greatly favored in being allowed to sit around a table on benches without backs in advanced classes. This was the reward for pursuing extra studies, such as reciting French to the principal at seven o ' clock in the morning. In the nineteenth century, Annual E.xamina- tions prior to Commencement Week were big features. Throngs of relatives arrived to see the exhibitions in the Church galleries. There were paintings, embroidery designs, footstools, and what- nots designed at school. After roll call there were various exercises, musical exhibitions, dialogues, etc., in which groups of girls named parts of flowers or worked algebra on a blackboard. The compulsory sewing hour known as ' plain needlework was abandoned — with joy — at the turn of the century. Courses were added as the needs arose, and a gradual streamlining of the curriculum took place. Today in nineteen hundred and tifty- 20