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

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Moward L dlondlhaler, Plx.K, £.2)., M. A., 3).3). .3). Twelfth President of Saiciii Acadcin ' and Clollefre Scrvinsj 1909-1949 Bin,, J urn- 17, IS7l—Died Octuher 22, I ' m He was the son of the Re ' . Edward and M.ir Rondthaler; sjrandson of Bishop John C hristian Jacobsen; and the great-grandson of the Rev. Immanuel Rondthaler, Diaspora Pastor of the Moravian Churches in Poland. His wife was Katharine Boring Rondthaler. ■ Dr. Rondthaler was not a morbid person. . . . He saw death frankly and forthrightly as inevitable, btit not as the end of everything. ... In his iew, death was for some an untimely event, for others a liiessed release, and for all a normal transition into the eternal. . . . . . . During his forty ears at .Salem a nineteenth century boarding school became a twentieth century college. . . . . . . He was a li%ing example that true greatness lies in the quality of mind and heart. . . . . . . He talked aljout the cvcljrow arches, the curves abo e the windows and doors of buildings. He said to look for them . . . that they would make .Salem friendK . . . and they did. . . , . . . . s a ci ic leader he used his vast fund of cultural knowledge, his rich repertoire of wit and anec- dote, his power of eloquence and satire, and the force of his d namic personality to further every worthy cause and aid in the building of a finer community. 19

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l H me y acuity and Administration THOSE NOT PICTURED Ro - Jones Campbell, B.A., M.P.H. Professor of Biology Francis C harles Anscombe, B.A., LL.B., M.A., Ph.D. Professor of History, Emeritus Minnie Jameson Smith, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Professor of Classical Languages, Emeritus Lucy Leinback Wenhold, B.A. Professor of Modern Languages, Emeritus B. Carson French, B.S., Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Edwin F. Shewmake, B.A., M.A. Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Pollyanna Gordon Stewart, B.S. Lnstructor in Home Economics Harriet Mariel Greider Lnstructor in Piano Eleanor Shaffner Guthrie, B.. . Lnstructor in Harp Louise Cox Bowen Lnstructor in Piano Paul Willard Peterson, ' B.A., M.M. Professor of Voice Ralph Robert Bell, B.A., B.M.E. Lnstructor in M ' ood-wind, Brass, and Percussion Eugene M. Jacobowskv, B..S., M..A. Assistant Professor of Violin Joan E. Jacobowskv, B.A., M.A. Instructor in ] ' oice Charles R. Medlin Lnstructor in I ' ioloncello and Piano Donald M. McCorkle, B.M., M.A. Assistant Professor of Musicologv Thor M. Johnson, Litt.D. Alusic Consultant Nell Folger Glenn, B.S. Accompanist B.A., M.M., LL.D., Edith Ann Kirkland, B.A. Director of Public Relations Glenn Orrick Vorkman, Jr., B.S., M.S. Assistant Professor of Biology Bertram Oliver Cosby, B.S., M.S. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Mary Stockton Cummings, B..A. Dietitian Jane Lewis Carter, B.A. .Vfjt ' j Bureau Anna Keger Hanes Assistant to the Treasurer Samliel Frederick Pfohl, M.D. College Physician Ruby Louise Fulp, R.N. Nurse Molly VV. Johnson, B.S. Research Assistant in Chemistry Mary Lou Lewis Prongay, B..S. Assistant in Physical Education Thurman Edwards Assistant in Physical Education Myrtle R. Hall Secretary to the Academic Dean Edith Neligh Tesch Secretary to the President Edythe Denny Brown .Secretary to the School of Music Frances Cecil Teague Secretary to the Treasurer Virginia Brandon ■Secretary, Office of Public Relations Shirley E. Buckingham Secretary and .Stock Room Clerk Waiter R. Varbrough Superintendent of Buildings and Cirounds Ess ie .Shouse ■Superintendent of Houses 18

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Classi Groans liven breakfast table stalemates when the bell rings. Books stacked on the tin tops of radiators are often branded in pencil with SPE or Duke or just Ed. But there are notes on the margins inside and sentences underlined. . . . And people stack up their cereal bowl and saucer and go to class. . . . Even when it is raining and water fills between the bricks. . . . ' . ' •ffk ■ »■. ; ' , • X s