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

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Bimness Stajf The same day in London the Suez con- ferenie ended. Herbert Morrison lec- tured to Salem students, while Brook- lyn defeated the Yankees for the World Series. In the middle of October two fraternities serenaded. During the same week Dr. Rondthaler died and the Polish and Hungarian revolutions be- gan. The .Seniors gave a Halloween Carnival, Dean Sandrcsky was .soloist with the Winston-.Saleni .Symphony, and Britain and France sent troops into the Suez. Margaret ' ardell gave a harpsi- chord recital and Clare Booth Luce resigned as . mbassador to Italy. . . . But the old things still remained. Old Salem, Inc., still tore up the streets and hou.ses. Freshmen still entered school looking older than the .Seniors who met them at the door, the airport. Jane W ' ril.r, Bumiiss Manager

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Ch Sissie Allen, Editor ' HIS was the year of transition . . . of change. It was the year of new ideas, new buildings, new faces. . . . This was the year that Waive Forest came to Winston-Salem. There was a new student center on campus under Old CUiapel, and most nights there were boys and girls dancing, playing ping- pong, drinking coffee from Salem ' s newest coffee machine, watching tele- vision. And Wake Forest brought new rules. For the first time we could date every night on campus, though we found that fraternity houses were off limits except for official parties. There were boys now where before there were only tourists carrying cameras. . . . In September Dr. Gramley gave his keynote address and classes began. Sig lttA and SnHg ht Editorial Staff ■MMM

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the train. They still took the handbook test, and listened to lectures on how to budget their time. Sophomores still had the sophomore slump, ' ' even though Rat Week was the best ever. Juniors found their numbers depleted by trans- fers and weddings, but knew that they were almost Seniors and began v ' orking harder than ever on the organizations that they would head the next year. Seniors still left at eight every morning Mary Walton, Assistant Editor Shirley Redlack, Associate Editor Ams Ira, Brenda Goerdel, Art Editors Jane Bridges, Pttotograpliy Editor to practice teach, and talked about jobs and weddings after graduation. They wondered whether tassels went from right to left or left to right. . . . The fall meant getting used to Wake Forest, studying, football games, and the incessant noise made by the con- struction workers on Babcock Dorm. Ike was elected and the Republican professing majority on campus rejoiced while the Democrat minority specu- lated. Winter and Thanksgiving came Toni Gill, I inda Cliappell, Mickey Shuford Rosemary Laney; Class Editors the same week and brought the Sights AND Insights deadline, afternoons shop- ping, the dance, the banquet, and carols. The choral ensemble went to New York, and girls knitted Christmas stockings in the dorm, in class, at re- citals and lectures. . . . The year of 1957 brought rain, some snow, and exams. Salem girls played basketball and wished that they had a heavier coat. The Male Animal went 10 mattrnt mut