Shines

Salem

with Increased
Enrollment
 A Messa�e �rom the President
SALEM COLLEGE Magazine

Susan E. Pauly
President
Ann McElaney-Johnson
As I write this letter, we are celebrating a busy fall at Salem
Dean of the College, Vice President for
College, full of beloved traditions, new academic challenges and
Academic and Student Affairs
blossoming friendships. It’s particularly gratifying that we’ve
Vicki Williams Sheppard C’82
seen a 14 percent increase in total enrollment (traditional, grad-
Vice President of Institutional
uate and adult students) and an 18 percent increase in first-year
Advancement
residential students. Also exciting is that we not only finished
our combined campaign by raising $76 million (surpassing the
Alumnae Office
goal of $75 million) but also achieved the annual-fund goal for
Karla Gort C’00, Director, Alumnae
the College. Please see the insert at the back for ways in which
Relations
you demonstrated your incredible support for Salem.
Rosanna Mallon, Assistant Director,
We accomplished other important goals during 2008-2009, the first year of our five-
Alumnae Relations
year strategic plan. We focused on three different areas -- fostering academic distinction;
establishing a presence as a center for women’s wellness; and enhancing facilities – and I
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invite you to read more about these successes elsewhere in this magazine. Here are a few
and Public Relations
examples:
Jacqueline McBride, Director
To foster academic distinction, our outstanding faculty members are implementing
Ellen Schuette, Associate Director
a new general education program, the Salem Signature; have established the Center for
Contributing Writers: Ellen Schuette,
Innovative Teaching and Excellence, opening in spring 2010; and created 23 new courses
Suzanne Williams, Susan Gebhard,
(along with course-development grants for those faculty who will teach them) for the
Rebecca Dunn, Heidi Godfrey,
2009-2010 academic year.
Karla Gort C’00, Katherine Knapp
To establish a presence as a center for women’s wellness, we launched initiatives in
Watts C’80, Kathy M. Barnes C’81
spring 2009 to motivate a new healthier lifestyle, such as free yoga classes and fitness
Designer: Carrie Leigh Dickey C’00
trails; developed programs on diversity and inclusivity; and emphasized campus sustain-
Photography: Alan Calhoun, Allen
ability through our expanded recycling program. Last but certainly not least, we began a
Aycock, Herb Schuette. Class reunion
period of enhancing facilities by completing a survey of all classroom facilities, installed
photos by Snyder Photography.
technology equipment in an area of the Fine Arts Center and totally renovated the largest
classroom on campus, Science 102.
Even as we celebrate goals achieved, we are already hard at work on year two of
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All of these goals for the coming year will be pursued with our core values in mind.
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One of those is “community.” Every day, in a hundred different ways, it manifests itself at
faculty, staff, parents and friends of Salem.
Salem College. It can be heard in the refectory as students, faculty and staff enjoy conver-
sation over lunch; it is visible on the playing fields as women pass the ball to each other;
Salem College welcomes qualified students
and it is in the dark of Hanes auditorium as we light candles to celebrate the start of an-
regardless of race, color, national origin,
other academic year. It is in the murmur of voices coming from classrooms, labs and art
sexual orientation, religion or disability
studios, and there as students and I walk each fall up to the grave of Salem’s first teacher,
to all the rights, privileges, programs and
Elizabeth Oesterlein. Community lives inside the library reading room, where the sound
activities of this institution.
of soft conversation mingles with the quiet clicking of keyboards. And it is celebrated
on our annual Celebration of Academic Excellence day, when classes are cancelled and
For additional information about any
seniors present their outstanding research papers.
programs or events mentioned in this
Salem’s sense of community is present in the wider world, too, as our students
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complete Jan Term internships, take courses abroad and enter the workforce or gradu-
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ate school, where they will be leaders and scholars. And community shines through our
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in the knowledge that all individual gifts will be celebrated and all voices will be heard in
this community we know as Salem.
Salem salem college magazine 2009

Departments FEatures
Back Porch News 4 Commencement 2009 2
Fleer Center 22 School of Music 32
Admissions 24 Creating a Culture of Wellness 36
Graduate Studies 26 Reunion Weekend 2009 38
Giving to Salem 27
Alumnae News 28

On the Cover: Salem is celebrating

a record number of applications for this
year’s traditional class. Among them are,
left to right, Hope Kerr-Read of Winston-
Salem, daughter of Erin Read C’03;
Jordan Laham of Wilmington, NC,
daughter of Kelly Barnes Laham C’87;
and Victorea Austin of Prospect, KY.
Photograph by Nick Grancharoff.
“Go in hope. Dazzle us with boldness. Think imaginatively.”

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HandMade in
America Founder
Challenges Grads
B
ecky Chappell Anderson C’62, of Asheville, NC, found- of economic development for The Asheville Chamber of Com-
er of HandMade in America, was the speaker at Salem merce for 11 years. She was founder of HandMade in America
College’s commencement on Saturday, May 23, 2009. and executive director for 14 years.
As the founding director of HandMade in America, Ander- Anderson has received numerous honors including Distin-
son oversaw the operations and programs that involved more than guished Woman of the Year for Buncombe County and, in 2000,
3,000 citizens and 20 regional partnerships to position western one from U.S. News and World Report naming her one of the
North Carolina as the national center of the handmade object. country’s “top 20 visionaries” for her work in community and
During her tenure, HandMade received the 1994 Economic civic development. She currently serves as a consultant for cul-
Planning Award of the American Planning Association; the 1998 tural and economic development projects related to craft via the
Award of Merit for Sustainable Economic Development from firm Becky Anderson Consulting Inc.
Renew America Inc.; the Best Community Outreach Award from Anderson, a native of Canton, NC, was a member of Salem
Niche magazine; and in 2003, Worth magazine ranked Hand- College’s Class of 1962 before graduating with a bachelor’s degree
Made as one of the top 24 arts nonprofits in the United States. magna cum laude from Western Carolina University.
Anderson has served in various
capacities in nonprofits over Below are excerpts from her speech to the Class of 2009:
the years, including founding
director of the first federal “After today you will go in all directions – some to a job
day care program in in another community, some will return back to their
Buncombe County, NC; hometown, some will continue their education – and
first director of down- some of you will journey beyond our national boundaries
town development for the to an international experience. You will be required to use
City of Asheville; your knowledge, experience and passion as you undertake
and director new beginnings or enrich existing experiences. I will add to
this list one more requirement: leadership. John Gardner,
founder of Common Cause, often said: “The most important
position in the United States is that of a private citizen.”

So as you leave today: Go in hope. Dazzle us with bold-

ness. Think imaginatively. Be “critical lovers,” transform
indifference into action. Move things to the next level.
Ask the “Why not?” question. Be unrelenting in
your passion for civic en-
gagement. It is a cause and a
calling more relevant
than ever in the communi-
ties of today’s fractured
world.”

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 Back Porc� News
Salem
Establishing
Center for
Innovative
Teaching and
Excellence
As part of its five-year strategic
plan for 2008-2013, Salem will be
opening its Center for Innovative
Teaching and Excellence in the
spring of 2010.
According to Ann McElaney-
Johnson, dean of the college and vice
president for academic and student
affairs, “Salem College is dedicated
to offering an innovative liberal
arts education merging knowledge
and practice and preparing women
for lives of leadership and service.
Our faculty is fully dedicated to the
Salem Celebrates Forbes Rankings
education of our students, and I Salem College received news in late of only 23 schools nationwide to place in
am delighted that this Center will August for its standing on rankings pub- the top 100 of both lists. The only other
further facilitate the outstanding lished by two distinguished magazines. N.C. institutions on the list were UNC-
work of the faculty.” Salem ranks at no. 67 in Forbes’ second Chapel Hill (no. 13), UNC-Asheville (no.
The director will be Heidi annual ranking of America’s 600 best col- 43), N.C. State University (no. 61) and
Godfrey, director of academic leges. Other prestigious North Carolina UNC-Greensboro (no. 100).
advising and associate professor institutions included on the list are David- Forbes said the listings measured
of dance. She says her role will son College (No. 60), UNC Chapel Hill the quality of education, the student’s
be to “assist faculty in innovative (No. 68), Duke University (No. 104) and experiences while in school and gradu-
teaching by offering workshops, Wake Forest University (No. 130). ates’ achievements, based on information
panels, discussions, guest speakers, Also, this year Forbes partnered with compiled by the magazine and the Center
information about conferences and the Center for College Affordability and for College Affordability and Productivity
general resources.” Productivity (CCAP) to develop a ranking (CCAP).
of “America’s Best College Buys.” Salem For more information about the rank-
came in at no. 14 on this list, and was one ings, visit www.forbes.com.

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Newly Updated Salem Signature
Program Unveiled
This fall, Salem began a unique and
exciting academic venture: the new Salem
Signature. The Salem Signature is Salem’s
general education program, a core of re-
quired academic experiences that introduc-
es students to the liberal arts and supports
the development of such academic skills as
critical thinking, writing, oral communica-
tion, and the use of technology for com-
municating ideas and information. This
innovative program provides students with
a comprehensive liberal arts core over their
four years, using a variety of disciplinary,
interdisciplinary, and experiential courses
that will instill in students Salem’s core
values: excellence, community and respon-
sibility to one’s self and to the world.
The Salem faculty has joined with
both traditional and Fleer Center adult
students – all in the Class of 2013 – in
initiating the new Salem Signature, under
the direction of Dr. Gary Ljungquist.
How it Works for
Traditional Students
The Salem Signature Program is
divided into three
liberal-arts com-
ponents. These
three components
include courses,
internships and
service learning.
The program begins in the student’s first
year and continues through her senior
year.
The three components are Inter-
disciplinary Dimensions (encompassing
Second Annual
Celebration of
courses such as a global awareness seminar, Academic
women’s studies, the first-year experience Excellence
and a senior interdisciplinary seminar);
Where else but Salem can you
Disciplinary Dimensions (courses in
hear presentations about the effect of
mathematics, language of another culture,
dreams upon adult women; the state
social sciences and science, the arts and
of United States/Russia relations in
humanities); and Experiential Dimensions
the 21st century; and the importance
(including a service learning seminar, well-
of Caspase 8 in M51r VSV induced
ness courses and internship/professional
apoptosis in brain-tumor cells, and all
development).
in one day?
These and many other topics
How it Works for
invigorated the second annual Cel-
Fleer Center (Adult) Students
ebration of Academic Excellence Day,
The Salem
held on April 29, 2009. Classes were
Signature Program
suspended for the day and faculty,
is the same for
staff and students gathered at the Fine
Fleer Center adult
Arts Center to recognize the work
(ages 23 and up)
of Salem seniors, selected honors
students except
students and graduate students as well
that there are only
as their faculty advisors.
two components, interdisciplinary and
Each academic division, from
disciplinary (no experiential, as most Fleer
communication to business and eco-
Center students have past work experience
nomics, and from studio art/interior
or now hold jobs while they are studying);
design to the sciences and mathemat-
there are different requirements for Fleer
ics, showcased its leading students and
students studying for a B.A., B.S., B.M.
allowed them to speak about projects
or B.M. in music education, and for Fleer
near and dear to their hearts. Sessions
students studying for a B.S.B.A. degree;
were facilitated by faculty advisors
and all Fleer students take a course entitled
and graduate students, and questions
Transitions: A Changing Culture, in which
and answers were encouraged.
students participate in a creative collabora-
The day included a picnic lun-
tive project in small seminars that investi-
cheon on the grounds for the entire
gate an issue related to the changing global
College community and the evening
scene and its relevance to women.
Leadership Awards banquet held in
the Refectory.
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Salem Has Strong Presence Abroad
Opt Receives
Fulbright Lecturing in
Czech Republic
Susan Opt, chair and associate profes-
sor in the Communication Department
at Salem, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar
grant to lecture at the Masaryk University
in Brno, Czech Republic during the 2009-
2010 academic year.
Opt is one of approximately 1,100
U.S. faculty and professionals who will
travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S.
Scholar Program in
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the upcoming year. During her time in
Faculty Members
the Czech Republic, she will be lecturing
Lead Student Trips to
both in the department of media studies
Mexico, China,
and journalism and in the department of
United Kingdom
English and American studies.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are
China and Tibet – January 2009
selected on the basis of academic or profes-
By Richard Johe and Herb Schuette,
sional achievement, as well as demon-
Business & Economics
strated leadership potential in their fields.
Salem students experienced the
Three other Salem professors have been
contrasts between the “new China enter-
awarded Fulbrights in the past, Richard
prise” and “pre-Mao traditions” during our
Johe, Tom Mosley and Adam Steiner.
three-week travel course to China and Tibet
during January Term 2009. Business, history
Salem Students in England summer 2009,
left to right: Sadichhya Shrestha C’11,
Mary Lynn Paulson C’11, Sheetal
Tuladhar C’11, Trang Thuy
Hoang C’10, Miranda Cum-
mins C’10, Julie Yearry
C’10, Kat Williams
C’12, Karvika
Pandey C’10,
Moustafa
Elgamasy
C’10.
and culture were highlighted in Beijing,
Hong Kong, Chengdu and Lhasa (Tibet),
with the aid of a guide, fine oriental cuisine
and exceptionally cordial people.
Our first adventures were in and
around Beijing, walking through Tianan-
men Square, the Imperial Palace and
the Temple of Heaven accompanied by
excellent verbal portraits of the history and
traditions of ancient China. On a very cold
morning we made the climb up the Badalin
section (1500 AD) of the Great Wall, not-
ing the bitter winds that greeted the senti-
nels who once kept watch for invaders from
the north. Tours of a steel mill, a Hutong
village and the Olympic Park were among
several venues which helped to gauge the
extent of “westernization” in Beijing.
The 4000 km, 47 hour journey by
train to Lhasa, Tibet provided exceptional
scenery through farmland, desert and
mountains. For most of the students this
was their first long train ride, and in close Salem College business and economics students and professors visited the
summer palace of the Dalai Lama, in Lhasa, Tibet during January 2009.
quarters and the highest altitude for any There are more than 370 rooms inside its premises. It is called a summer
passenger train in the world (16,600 ft). palace because after the seventh Lama, his successors visited here
during summers to hold religious and government-related activities.
In Lhasa, the impressive Buddhist temples
and monasteries were set against a rapidly harbor brought a fitting end to this spec- Salem faculty and directed through St.
expanding business district. tacular adventure in business and culture. Peter’s College, Oxford University, with
One highlight of Chengdu was the participation by students from Shenadoah
Oxford, Scotland and Wales –
visit to the marketing and editorial offices University business school. The two-and-
of the Western China Daily newspaper. The Summer 2009 a-half week session in residence at Oxford
bustling enterprise of high-tech manufac- By Herb Schuette, Kimbrough Chair in featured an impressive list of guest speak-
turing and the rich agricultural base of the Business & Economics ers. Students engaged in a formal debate
region were all on display in print and on “Emerging Global Leadership” was on the likely winners in global economic
our travels in the region. the theme for our month-long study in leadership over the next 30 years.
Hong Kong brought us forward in Oxford and Scotland during July, which In addition to these classroom discus-
architectural time, but the food and street focused on the changes in U.S./European sions, our students took full advantage of
vendors on Nathan Road told us we were economic standing and the relative gains two weekend trips to London and Cardiff
clearly ensconced in another era. The Chi- of the BRICs – Brazil, Russia, India and (Wales), where the culture and history
nese New Year fireworks over Hong Kong China. The program was designed by our provided a vivid backdrop for our studies.

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Salem Students in Mexico, summer 2009, left to right: Rebecca Barnhardt C’10,
Anna Nieboer C’11, Amber Lankford C’10, Renata Brown C’09,
Jennifer Spillman C’10, Kim Wisen C’11
Visits to the BMW Mini Cooper manu-
facturing plant and the Ironbridge World
Heritage site in Telford set the bookends
for the legacy of the Industrial Revolution,
which began in part with the perfection
of iron smelting by Abraham Darby in the
early 1700s along the Severn River.
Following our Oxford stay, the Salem
group – including Professor Dick Johe
– took the train to Glasgow, Scotland. We
joined in Scotland’s homecoming cel-
ebration, inspired by the 250th birthday
of Robert Burns, by visiting the Burns
National Heritage Site and attending the
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Gathering of the Clans in Edinburgh. The
New Lanark World Heritage Site provided
a glimpse of early textile manufacturing
and the ambitious utopian village for
workers established by Robert Owen. The
cold passages of Cardiff’s Stirling Castle
stirred visions of Scotland’s proud inde-
pendence in bygone times.
Mexico – Jan Term 2009
By Dr. Ho Sang Yoon,
Assistant Professor, Spanish
The study-abroad trip to Mexico dur-
ing the January Term of 2009 was a great
immersion experience! Salem students had
a very productive three weeks expanding
their knowledge of Spanish and learning
about Mexican culture.
The academic component at the
Universidad Internacional was intense but
most students excelled in their grammar,
conversation and culture classes. Despite
the many daily class hours, we managed
to enjoy many extracurricular activities
including Latin dance, popular songs,
and soccer. On the weekends we went on
excursions to a variety of places of interest
such as the Aztec pyramids of Teotihua-
can, National Museum of Anthropology,
silver city of Taxco, Acapulco, the national
palace and the cathedral of Mexico. We
also attended a breathtaking performance
by the National Folkloric Ballet Company
and a light and sound show at the archeo-
logical site of Xochicalco.
While we were over there, some
Salem students even took the opportunity
to explore their professional field and
did a comparative study. The interaction
with host families and local friends also
turned out to be very rewarding. Many of
us established strong friendships, and the
wonderful thing is that we have been stay-
ing in touch with them using the target
language!
Student Travelers,
In Their Own Words
Sarah Boyenger C’10, Budapest
To better prepare myself for gradu-
ate school, I decided to supplement my
math courses at Salem by participating in
the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
 program. The program was
founded by Paul Erd_s,
the most prolific
mathematician
that has ever
lived. The
courses I
took in the
program were
therefore an
excellent addi-
tion to my edu-
cation, broadening
my knowledge of dif-
ferent fields of mathemat-
ics. In addition to the academics, I
would say my time in Budapest was one
of the most formative periods of my life. I
was able to visit some of the most beauti-
ful places on earth, eat the best food I
have ever tasted, and experience cultures I
previously knew nothing about. But most
importantly, I learned a lot about myself.
I discovered a new kind of independence
after living on my own in a foreign city.
Being a Salem woman has made me real-
ize how truly capable I am of taking on
new and unfamiliar challenges. Studying
abroad was certainly a great accent to my
college experience, and I think it is an
invaluable asset to a person’s education.
Sarah Eldred C’10, Peru
I am a history and Spanish major, so
I always knew I wanted to study abroad in
a Spanish-speaking country that had a rich
history. I chose Peru and Argentina specifi-
cally because of their long and interesting
histories, and how culturally different
these countries were from my own. I loved
spending my semester near a beach and
in a big city, I loved the food and learning
the dances and I loved the three families
I stayed with throughout my travels. On
the other hand, figuring out how to get
around and adjusting to new cultural
norms took much longer than I thought. I
think this experience made me a lot braver
and more culturally aware, which I hope
to bring to both my studies at Salem and
to just my everyday life experiences. And
certainly my Spanish skills have greatly
improved, which I hope to use to help my
community. I would definitely recommend
studying abroad to any and all Salem
students. It’s an invaluable experience that
will undoubtedly change your life for the
better.
Joelle Whited, C’10, Washington
Semester
I went to Washington, D.C. to
participate in a class entitled “Peace and
Conflict Resolution.” I am interested in
international relations and so a class that
offered some foreign travel was enticing.
I chose this program because I had once
been interested in American University
for undergraduate studies and I thought it
was a unique opportunity to experi-
ence D.C. for a semester. I
loved being in D.C.; it
was an exciting time
because President
Obama was being
sworn in to
office while I
was there. I
also enjoyed
my program
and the traveling that I did. The only bad
thing about D.C. is that it is a little more
expensive to live there and the price of
goods is higher. I did not know what to
expect when I went to D.C.; however, I
was able to adjust quickly to the new situ-
ations and environment. I feel like I have a
larger world perspective after being in the
Washington Semester. I believe that this
experience will help enrich
my studies at Salem
from now on. I
would highly
recommend the
Washington
Semester to
any Salem
students. I
believe it is
good to go
out and have a
change of scen-
ery, and a semester
away from Salem can help
expand the range of connections to
other people. Washington Semester was an
awesome experience and I would do it all
over again if I had the opportunity.
New Faculty and Staff Appointments, 2009-2010
Ron Cardwell, assistant professor of ac-
counting, business and economics
department
Degrees: B.S., UNC-Greensboro;
M.Accounting, Virginia Tech; J.D.,
Wake Forest University
Relevant Work Experience: CPA firm of
Leeper Kean Rumley in Greensboro,
NC; CPA with Arnold T. Brown;
associate attorney with Wishart Norris
Henninger Pittman PA; principal/
shareholder/director of Vernon, Wooten,
Brown, Andrews & Garrett PA, all
of Burlington, NC. Adjunct assistant
professor of business administration,
Elon University; adjunct instructor of
accounting, Alamance Community
College; instructor of accounting at
UNC-Greensboro
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “I’ve had
wonderful years both in private
enterprise and in the classroom. I’m
enjoying interacting at Salem with new
first-year students, adult students and
my colleagues who also enjoy teaching.”
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Mary Ann Campbell Davis C’74,
visiting instructor of education and clinical
coordinator for the education program
Degrees: B.A. Salem College; M.A.,
Gardner-Webb University
Relevant Work Experience: teaching
the academically gifted for 25 years in
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
School system; adjunct in Salem’s
education department since 2002
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “I have
held many posts at Salem – student,
volunteer, part-time instructor – and
now employee. To think about having
an office in Main Hall (2009) instead of
nervously walking by Dean Ivy Hixson’s
office in Main Hall (1970) is a very
strange but wonderful thing for me!”
Esther Gonzalez, director of career
development, internships and international
student services
Degrees: B.A., College of New Jersey;
master’s degree, Duquesne University
Relevant Work Experience: ESL teaching
assistant, Mineral Springs Middle
School; associate director of admissions
diversity, Wake Forest University; acting
history department chair, Salem
Academy; associate director of
admissions and director of diversity
recruitment, Lehigh University
Thoughts on Working at Salem: “As a former
faculty member at the Academy, I was
familiar with Salem’s mission and
community and was thrilled to have the
chance to come back! I think that it is
very important to empower young
women and to teach them life skills,
which will allow them to position
themselves in a favorable light so that
they can apply their educations to the
best of their abilities.”
Lori Lewis, director, financial aid
Degrees: B.S., Lees-McRae College;
M.B.A., King College
Relevant Work Experience: Account
manager and assistant vice president/
student loan corporation, Citibank;
regional school relations
representative, NextStudent Inc;
assistant director of financial aid for
Lees-McRae College.
Thoughts on Working at Salem: “Salem
College is a beautiful place to work ... the
campus portrays a vision of the past
meeting the present in beauty that you
can see and feel. From the first time I
walked onto this campus a few years ago
I knew it was a great place to learn but
also a great place to work. After I moved
to the area I am thankful an opportunity
opened for me to share my gifts, talents
and knowledge with the Salem
community.”
Johnna Lyons, instructor, education Joe Mills, visiting writer, 2009-2010
department Degrees: B.A., University of Chicago;
Degrees: B.S. West Virginia State College; M.A., University of New Mexico;
master’s, Longwood College; Ph.Ed., Ph.D., University of California
University of Sarasota Relevant Work Experience: Permanent
Relevant Work Experience: Exceptional faculty member, UNC-School of the
children case manager, Winston- Arts; published work includes poetry,
Salem/Forsyth County Schools; fiction, drama, and criticism; two books
exceptional children’s program director of poetry, Somewhere during the Spin
K-8 for public charter schools in North Cycle and Angels, Thieves, and
Carolina and Ohio, National Heritage Winemaker; third collection, Love and
Academies; assistant professor, school of Other Collisions, to be released in 2010;
education, Lynchburg College; editor, A Century of the Marx Brothers;
coordinator of special program, Oak co-writer, A Guide to North Carolina’s
Ridge Military Academy Wineries with his wife, Danielle Tarmey
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “I am
enjoying teaching college and
graduate-level courses at Salem, which
so far include action research and
two sections of the historical and social
foundations of education. My classes are
a mixture of traditional undergraduates
and Fleer students which allows for
discussions incorporating various
perspectives. Students are vocal,
involved, interesting, focused and eager
to make changes in our world!”
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Coach Jackson
Honored
Salem College’s
basketball coach James
Jackson was celebrated
on January 26, 2009,
for his longtime con-
tributions to collegiate
basketball in the Triad.
The celebration was put together by teams
that he has coached during his 25 years:
Rutledge College, Forsyth Technical Com-
munity College and Salem.
The honor was announced during
halftime of the Southern Virginia-Salem
College game. A surprise reception honor-
ing Jackson gave several of Jackson’s former
players the opportunity to speak about his
leadership and positive mentoring of them
as student-athletes.
Jackson, whose career had previously
been spent in high-school coaching in
South Carolina, began collegiate coaching
during the 1983-84 season at Rutledge
College (men) in Winston-Salem. Salem
hired Jackson as head basketball coach
in 2005. After a 3-15 record in his first
season, he turned around the program to a
16-8 season the following year. That team
also won the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association (NCAA) Division Three
Independents Atlantic Region Champion-
ship. He was also named the AD3I Coach
of the Year that year. He has compiled a
33-52 record while coaching at Salem. His
wife, Jeanette, is the scorekeeper for all the
Salem games.
Jackson was an all-conference bas-
ketball and baseball player at Dillon High
School, and the co-captain of the Mon-
treat-Anderson College basketball team.
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Elizabeth Novicki, public services librar- Rosa Otero, assistant professor of interior
ian, Gramley Library
Degrees: B.A., UNC-Greensboro; M.L.I.S.,
UNC-Greensboro
Relevant Work Experience: library
technican, Z. Smith Reynolds Library,
Wake Forest University; adjunct
professor in the library sciences and as
the metadata coordinator of the library’s
Digital Forsyth project, WFU; school
media assistant, Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Public School System; as chair
for the adolescent resource guide for the
Junior League of Winston-Salem;
project manager for The Gap Inc. in San
Bruno, CA
Thoughts on Working at Salem: “I encourage
Salem students and faculty to come and
experience Gramley Library – it’s not
just a place that stores books and
information – it’s a place to experience
those ‘A-ha!’ moments and to make
meaningful connections with what’s
happening all over the world!”
designer, director of interior design program
Degrees: B.E.D., University of Puerto Rico;
M.Arch., Virginia Tech; M.S. and Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania
Relevant Work Experience: Interior design
program coordinator, faculty member,
Forsyth Tech; coordinator of the
architectural technology program,
assistant professor, Essex County
College, Newark, NJ; intern architect
with The Hillier Group and Randolph
Henning Architect AIA
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “Because
I have a background in architecture,
I am interested in taking Salem’s interior
design program to a level where we
combine the traditional liberal-arts
courses with more technical ones.
Interior design is more today than simply
choosing paint colors and window
treatments. You must develop a
vocabulary that helps you talk to
builders, understand floor plans, consider
sustainability and many other issues. You
have to know a little about a lot.”

Eve Rapp, associate professor of business
Degrees: B.S., DePaul University; Ph.D.,
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
Relevant Work Experience: Visiting assistant
professor, Babcock Graduate School of
Management, Wake Forest University;
assistant professor, Winona State
University; marketing and business
teaching positions at Northern
Illinois University, the Illinois Institute
of Technology, the University of
Chicago, the University of Notre Dame.
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “I try to
help students see and understand the
rapid changes in life so they can be more
effective in the marketplace in which
they live. I try to accomplish this by
teaching the science of marketing
through thought provoking readings
and classroom discussions along with
experiential learning projects. I’m
enjoying Salem’s emphasis on crafting
a very high-quality student experience. I
also value the long tradition of
developing women leaders.”
Salem Joins Great
South Athletic
Conference
Less than a year after Salem College
successfully entered Division III of the
NCAA, another achievement in athlet-
ics was announced: Salem College is now
officially a part of the Great South Athletic
Conference (GSAC).
Fred Schafer, instructor, teacher educat-
According to Kim Fierke, director of
ion and graduate studies
athletics and physical education, the op-
Degrees: B.S., M.Ed., Columbia University
portunity to belong to the GSAC was the
Relevant Work Experience: media support
culminating reward for the hard work of
technician, founder/president of the
the last four years.
Service Learning Group, Teachers College
“Moving through the NCAA process,
of Columbia; graphic arts computer
recruiting exceptional student athletes,
teacher, Martin DePorres Youth School,
integrating athletics into the campus
New York; ESL teacher, New Bridge
culture, and providing a quality and com-
Foreign Language School, Beijing, China;
petitive athletic experience were positive
founder, Schafer PhoneCall Enterprises,
factors that attracted the GSAC to Salem
Kwangju, South Korea
College,” Fierke says. “We now officially
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “I want to
have an athletic place to call home. The
provide a classroom environment
conference provides security in schedul-
conducive to real life project-based
ing contests, the cultivation of healthy
learning, whose end result culminates in
rivalries, the competitiveness of conference
service learning. Technology is only a
rankings, the culmination of a confer-
tool, second in importance to a
ence tournament and access to the NCAA
passionate and competent teacher. My
championships.”
goal for Salem students, at the
As a member of the GSAC, school
conclusion of the semester’s class, is to
athletes compete against other member
have them develop a digitalized
institutions, including Agnes Scott, Hunt-
portfolio library of their learning/
ingdon, LaGrange, Maryville, Piedmont
findings that will serve as their legacy to
and Spelman colleges.
the next incoming class to build on.
Every student will be a creator of
knowledge in his or her respective field.”
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Laura D. Slawter C’93, Cultural
Events Coordinator
Degrees: B.A., Salem College
Relevant Work Experience: Director of
development for CareNet Counseling;
assistant director and director of donor
relations, Salem College; associate
director of development with the Arts
Council of Winston-Salem; associate
director of development, Planned
Parenthood of North Carolina-West
Thoughts on Working at Salem: “I am
thrilled to be back at Salem College
planning cultural events for the campus.
The speakers and events Salem plans
every year adds so much to our campus
and to the Winston-Salem community.
We look forward to some exciting events
in the months and years to come!”
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Jennifer Stinson, associate professor of
history
Degrees: B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A.,
Brandeis University; doctoral degree
candidate, Indiana University
Relevant Work Experience: Faculty member,
Oberlin, Brandeis, Indiana University
and DePauw University; department
chair, history, Sturgis Charter School,
Hyannis, MA
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “I hope
my research and teaching on women
and gender will demonstrate to Salem’s
young women that, historically speaking,
there were–and still are–many different
ways to be a woman in American society.
I hope that Salem’s young women see
that there are choices about the roles,
the challenges that they take on in life
and the activism that they pursue.”
Katherine K. Thorington, visiting as-
sistant professor, biology department
Degrees: B.S., Mount Holyoke College;
Ph.D., Wake Forest University
Relevant Work Experience: biology
enrichment program facilitator, Center
of Excellence for Research, Teaching and
Learning (CERTL) at Wake Forest
University School of Medicine; teaching
assistant at Wake Forest; guest
naturalist/lecturer in Winston-Salem/
Forsyth County; medicinal garden
volunteer, Historic Bethabara Park
Thoughts on Teaching at Salem: “It is a
privilege to return to a women’s college
environment as a professor, and to have
the opportunity to teach so many
enthusiastic students. Through my
interests in vertebrate behavior research
and public outreach education I hope
to encourage Salem students to engage in
stewardship of our local and global
environment and natural resources.”
Cultural Events
for Spring 2010
Exciting, thought-provoking and enjoy-
able events will be sponsored by Salem for
spring 2010. Mark your calendar now for
these events taking place January through
May. For more detailed information, visit
the College’s website at www.salem.edu
or email culturalevents@salem.edu. Most
events are free, and all are open to the
public.
JANUARY
21 Revolve Film Screening (TBA)
31 WS/FCS Elementary Art
Exhibition and Reception
FEBRUARY
4 Black History Month
Worship Service
5 ScottCares Foundation
Step Program
11 Good Salty Rants: An Evening
with Jill McCorkle
18-20 The Vagina Monologues
23 AIN’T I A WOMAN!
25 Remembering Frederic:
A Musical Conversation between
Chopin and George Sand
27
Piedmont Chamber Singers
Presents: “Ain’a That
Good News!”
28 Big Skies: Panoramic
Photography by Marshall E.
Tyler/Exhibit and Reception
28 Lasting Impressions/Art Exhibit
and Reception
MARCH
2 Guest Artist Recital: Soprano
Carol Fitzpatrick; Baritone
Robert Barefield; Pianist Eckart
Sellheim
5 Black History Month
Finale Program
7 Duo Montagnard
9 Eaten Alive: Performed by
Eva Van Dok
11-14 Salem College Pierrettes Present
Little Women
18 When Your Neighbor is Naked:
John McNally Reads from After
the Workshop
April
9 Salem Art Faculty
Exhibition 2010
9 Sandresky Series: A 200th
Birthday Celebration of
Chopin and Schumann
10
15-25
International Show
Riverrun International
Film Festival
15 National Poetry Month
Celebration/Salem’s Visiting
Writer, Joe Mills
16 In Celebration of Chopin:
Piano Recital, Students of
Barbara Lister-Sink
25 Salem College Dance Company
Spring Concert, May Dell
28 Celebration of Academic
Excellence Day
30 Sandresky Series: Pivetta
Duo in Concert
May
2 Salem College Chorale and
Chamber Choir/Spring
Choral Concert
6 Spotlight on Salem:
Celebrating Salem Writers
7 Salem Senior Thesis/Exhibition
and Reception
8 WSPTA Moxley Competition
Piano Recital
S alem C ollege • 15
Sabbatical News
Chris Baker, Education
Dr. Christopher Baker, professor of
education, was on sabbatical for 2008-
09. His time away from Salem focused
on examining Caldecott Award pic-
ture-story books.
“The purpose of the study was to
determine the types and range of writ-
ers’ craft used in these award winning
texts,” he explains. “Each author’s creative use of crafts of struc-
ture, words and conventions was recorded and analyzed.”
The sabbatical time allowed Baker time to identify some
interesting common threads among the books. “One pattern that
has emerged is that the most creative use of writers’ crafts tends to
occur within texts where the author and illustrator are the same
person,” Baker explains. “Also, there appears to be a synergism be-
tween the author’s crafts and illustrations that is usually not pres-
ent in texts where the author and illustrator are separate persons.”
He says that so far the two texts with the most interesting uses of
writer’s craft are Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and Henkes’
Kitten’s First Full Moon.
Baker says his sabbatical findings will provide rich fodder for
discussion in classes this year. “We discuss craft in the undergrad-
uate and graduate classes that focus on teaching process writing.
The topic is also discussed in Children’s Literature classes,” he
says. “The sabbatical provided time for detailed analyses and deep-
er reflection on these books. This information greatly enriches the
discussions within these classes.”
Edyta Oczkowicz, English
Dr. Edyta Oczkowicz, associate
professor of English, says that her sab-
batical during 2008-09 gave her the
opportunity to “re-ignite my passion”
for both learning and teaching. “It is so
powerful to have time to not just read
and study, but also time to think and
internalize what you have learned …
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something that’s not often possible when you’re in the classroom
full time.”
In Oczkowicz’ case, time away from Salem was filled with not
only reading and studying and thinking but also traveling, publish-
ing and other new opportunities, some of which weren’t even on
her horizon when she began her sabbatical.
“My initial purpose was to return, after 15 years of teaching,
to researching Caribbean women writers, one of my passions,”
Oczkowicz says. To begin that process, she presented a paper on
author Jamaica Kincaid at the 11th International Conference of the
Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars in Grenada
in May 2008.
She also became “reengaged” with another author who had
long fascinated her: Thornton Wilder, writer of Our Town, The
Bridge Of San Luis Rey and other notable works, some of which
Oczkowicz had previously taught at Salem. She became assistant
editor of the International Thornton Wilder Society Newsletter;
then began to weave her own research into Wilder with that of
other Wilder scholars and fans. Among those were Salem’s own
Penelope Niven, whose biography of Thornton Wilder will be pub-
lished in 2010; Robin Wilder and Jackson Bryer, the editors of The
Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder (2008); and Tappan Wilder,
Wilder’s nephew and literary executor.
Oczkowicz was asked to co-lead, with Tappan Wilder, a
seminar on “Teaching Wilder” at the first International Thornton
Wilder Conference, held in fall 2008, as well as to present her
own paper entitled “‘Carving Some Cherry Stones’: The Role of
Disparities in Thornton Wilder’s The Angel That Troubled the Waters
and Other Plays.” She also conducted interviews with Penelope
Niven, Robin Wilder and Jackson Bryer that will be published in
the Thornton Wilder Society Newsletter this fall.
“The sabbatical gave me the opportunity to meet with these
notable Wilder scholars as well as to revisit his life and writings,”
Oczkowicz explains. The more research she did, the more fasci-
nated she became by some lesser-known aspects of Wilder’s life and
work.
“Everyone knows Our Town, whether they performed in it in
high school or watched a version on stage, yet few people know
that Wilder was already writing incredibly good plays during his
college years at Oberlin and Yale,” Oczkowicz points out. “He was
multicultural and multilingual, fluent in German, French, Italian
and Spanish; he traveled all over the world, including both Ameri-
cas, China, and much of Europe, but was at core very American;
he was involved in writing screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock
among others in Hollywood and spent years researching James
Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and dating Lope de Vega’s plays. And this
list does not exhaust all of the creative projects he was involved in.” the students you teach.”
Particularly useful to Oczkowicz during her sabbatical was
the fact that Wilder and so many of his friends and relatives
maintained such accurate and personal documents about Wilder’s
life and that she was able to see and study those documents, the
majority of which are at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library at Yale. She also visited the innovative Thacher School in
Ojai, California, which Wilder attended as a young boy.
This October, Oczkowicz presented “Wild Ducks and Cherry
Stones: The Artistic Temperament of the Young Thornton Wilder”
to the community as part of Salem College’s fall roster of cultural
events.
Another project that took wing during her sabbatical involved
translating into Polish the performance text created by Pamela
Howland of Wake Forest University to commemorate the 200th
anniversary of the composer Fredric Chopin’s birth. To critical ac-
claim, Howland performed her program “Remembering Frederic:
A Musical Conversation Between Chopin and George Sand,” in
Warsaw, Poland, in August, and she will bring it to Salem audi-
ences on February, 25 2010.
Oczkowicz believes the benefits of her sabbatical will be felt
not only by her personally but also by her students. “Having time
to do in-depth research
on an author, talk to other scholars and look at documents writ-
ten in an author’s own hand almost puts you into a sacred place
with the author,” she says. “Then you are better able to bring this
rich experience back into your own research as well as impart it to
Kim Varnadoe, art
Kim Varnadoe, associate professor
of art, has begun her sabbatical for
the fall semester, 2009. She intends to
explore several techniques for working
with large format photography and
combining multiple images. A signifi-
cant amount of time and energy will
be spent working with Polaroid films
and processes. She plans to travel to New York and schedule a
session at the 20 x 24 Polaroid studio. These large-format Polaroid
images will be used to create emulsion lifts, in which the Polaroid
image is lifted from its original surface and transferred to another
surface. (Detail below of her large-format art from series of work
entitled “Watching Over.”)
Varnadoe says, “The timing to explore this specific photo-
graphic application is critical. Polaroid recently stopped produc-
ing instant film, therefore the only instant film available is that
which is already in stock. I have stocked up on small-format
Polaroid film that I can use in my own studio but the 20 x 24
Polaroid studio in New York expects to have enough film for only
another year or two.”
Varnadoe is grateful that Salem is making
her sabbatical possible. “I am a mid-career
artist and the timing is right for this sab-
batical,” she explains. “I have been
teaching full-time since 1986. Nine
months out of each year I am
committed to my students.
The time I have to work in
my studio is precious to me,
and this sabbatical will al-
low the time for significant
growth in my artistic
career.”
Salem Enters First “Phenomenal Women” Retreat
Articulation Leads to First-Year Retreat
Agreement with

Community
Colleges
Salem College has entered into an
articulation agreement with the North
Carolina Community College System
that will benefit both transfer students
and the institutions involved.
The agreement allows eligible
students graduating with an A.A. or
A.S. degree from a North Carolina
community college to enter Salem
College as juniors, having satisfied their
general-education core requirements.
The articulation agreement, which goes
into effect this fall, applies to both the
traditional-aged female student transfer-
ring to Salem College, and to the men
and women ages 23 and up who trans-
fer into Salem’s Fleer Center for Adult
Education.
“We are delighted to forge even
stronger bonds with our state’s com-
munity college system with this agree-
ment,” says Ann McElaney-Johnson,
dean of the college and vice president
for academic and student affairs. “It not
only acknowledges the strong educa-
tional background that these transfer
students bring with them to Salem, but
it also strengthens our relationship with
the community colleges.” More than 40 students attended the diverse campus community. Students who
“This agreement has been a priority “Phenomenal Woman” retreat at Camp attended the retreat recommended that
for our institution since President Susan New Hope in Chapel Hill during January incoming students would benefit from
Pauly arrived three years ago, and it is Term 2009. The dean of students’ office having a similar retreat for their entire
thanks to her vision that we’re able to sponsored the retreat which featured class, with the result that the entering
now make the transfer process so much activities designed to raise multicultural Class of 2013 (pictured above) retreat took
easier,” she adds. awareness and celebrate the individual place on August 28 & 29 at the Moravian
differences which comprise our richly Conference Center in Laurel Springs.

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Salem Entering Reaccreditation Process
Focusing on the Quality Enhancement Plan
Every 10 years Salem must go through a reaccredidation
process. 2010 is our year. We all know that we are an excellent
liberal arts college that produces outstanding graduates who have
received the finest education that is available, but we have to show
that to our accreditation agency, Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools (or SACS).
Fortunately, we have great faculty, staff and administrators
who are in charge of the almost endless paperwork needed for
good accountability. Our reaccreditation agency also requires that
the faculty lead a campuswide initiative that will enhance student
learning. This process is known as the Quality Enhancement
Plan, or QEP for short.
The first goal for the QEP Planning Committee was to
identify a topic for the plan. This was perhaps the hardest task as
it had to be informed by our entire community and grounded
in Salem’s mission and values. We gathered topics from staff
and faculty and surveyed every major interest group on and off
campus. In fact, the response from the alumnae was so wonderful
that only 30 minutes after the survey link was sent out, we had to
upgrade to the next business level on Survey Monkey. Thanks to
all of you for your responses, they were incredibly helpful to our
process of selecting our focus: The Senior Interdisciplinary Semi-
nar. This will become the capstone course for our new general
education program, renamed The Salem Signature.
The overall goal for the Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar is
to enhance student learning through an interdisciplinary se-
nior course that empowers students to evaluate, appreciate and
integrate multiple perspectives as they prepare to be agents of
change. With the advent of our new general education program,
we see this course as being the missing piece of the puzzle that ties
together the breadth of our general education, the depth of the
major and the co-curricular activities that Salem College offers.
This course centers on interdisciplinary work which is one of the
defining elements of Salem’s vision and goals. Our vision state-
ment outlines four proposed student outcomes supporting the
mission of the college: Salem graduates will be able to 1) conduct
and effectively communicate significant scholarly, professional, or
creative work; 2) use interdisciplinary approaches to facilitate in-
novative thought; 3) apply knowledge and technologies effectively
in multiple experiential learning modes; and 4) engage in socially
responsible change.
Preparing to be global citizens requires that our students
understand issues and know how to solve complex problems in
multiple ways. While understanding the depth of a given field is
“SACS requires that the
faculty lead a campuswide
initiative that will enhance
student learning ... called
the QEP.”
still essential, such understanding in isolation is scarcely sufficient
in the 21st Century world where our students need to merge
knowledge and practice. The Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar is
securely grounded in research on interdisciplinary studies, evalu-
ation of data from our own institution, as well as an examination
of best practices for senior-year experiences in other institutions.
Salem’s QEP, the Senior Interdisciplinary Seminar, will not
replace the senior seminar or capstone course in the major. This
course will be in addition to the requirements for the major.
In fact, we hope to make sure that each section of the Senior
Interdisciplinary Seminar will have students from as diverse
backgrounds as possible. Based on their feedback, our students are
excited to have courses with students outside their major in their
senior year. This course will also give us a an opportunity to work
with the greater Winston-Salem community in new and interest-
ing ways. Each class will focus on a question and it is up to the
students to decide how they will approach the problem, who their
audience will be and how they will present their solution to that
audience. We look forward to piloting the course in spring 2010
and having it in full swing by 2013.
Rebecca C. Dunn and Heidi Godfrey
Co-Chairs of the QEP Steering Committee
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The Following Faculty Members
Were Published During 2008-2009:
Benjamin Blaisdell, assistant professor of education, had his
book published this spring. The book, entitled Seeing with Poetic
Eyes: Critical Race Theory and Moving from Liberal to Critical
Forms of Race Research in Sociology of Education, was published by
Sense Publishers of Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is part of a series
called Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education. For more
information on the book, visit www.sensepublishers.com.
Mary Jacobsen, assistant professor of psychology, has just
published a chapter in a new book from Springer Science that was
released at the beginning of March. Her chapter is titled “Intel-
lectual Giftedness, Leadership, and Morality: Parallels, Problems,
and Possibilities.” The book, entitled Morality, Ethics and Gifted
Minds, is described by the publisher as exploring “much of the
current wisdom on ethics and morality while developing new
perspectives on the ethical dimensions of high ability.” Also, last
fall Dr. Jacobsen was invited to submit an article on “Giftedness
in the Workplace” to the MENSA Research Journal. The article
“provides a detailed understanding of the opportunities and issues
that face gifted and talented individuals in organizations and for
those who aim to properly and
effectively support their
development.”
The MENSA Research Journal may be accessed at http://www.
mensafoundation.org. Jacobsen is also the author of The Gifted
Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius.
Gary Ljungquist, professor of modern languages at Salem
College, had a personal essay entitled “Dame Joan and I” pub-
lished April 1 by the University of Wisconsin Press. The essay was
included in a collection of essays titled My Diva, edited by poet
Michael Montlack. Ljungquist’s essay pays tribute to soprano Joan
Sutherland. My Diva has been reviewed in Publishers Weekly and
Kirkus.
Graciela Lucero-Hammer, chair of the
Modern Languages department and associ-
ate professor of Spanish at Salem College, has
published a second book, Naked Souls/Desnudos
del Alma. Press 53 of Winston-Salem has just
released a bilingual anthology of award-winning
stories by the Argentine writer Marisa Estelrich,
translated into English by Lucero-Hammer. These stories reveal the
complex and often contradictory character of the Argentine people.
Through descriptions of seemingly ordinary life routines,
Estelrich masterly leads the reader into unexpected
realms of existential angst, self-doubt, en-
nui, loneliness, suffocation and mad-
ness. About the translation, Amanda
Powell, University of Oregon, said
in her review of the work: “Gra-
ciela Lucero-Hammer’s deft
and lucid translations show
the plain-spoken at play
with the phantasmago-
ric. We are fortunate
to have these two fine
writers offer us Naked
Souls/Desnudos del
Alma.”
Daniel Prosterman, assistant professor of history, has recently presented a paper entitled “The Burning of Troy: Dynastic Myths
published The Big Book of World War II, co-authored with Melissa and Wittelsbach Courts, 1550-1650” at the annual meeting of
Wagner under the pseudonym Dan Bryant. The book is a history the Renaissance Society of America which was held at UCLA and
of World War II written for young readers, and is published by the Getty Center. That paper was based on part of his dissertation
Running Press (now in stores). Prosterman chose his pen name as as well as on a special-topics class on the history of the Greco-
a tribute to his wife, author Megan Bryant, who introduced him to Roman world that included classical mythology that he taught
children’s publishing. during fall 2008 at Salem.

Amy Rio-Anderson, chaplain for Salem Academy and College, Richard Vinson, visiting professor of religion, published a
had a chapter entitled “Being Formed by the Spirit: Spiritual For- commentary on the Book of Luke that utilizes art, movies, novels
mation and Christian Discipling with College Students” published and contemporary references – including a quote by comedian
in the book To Transform the World: Vital United Methodist Campus George Carlin – to help pastors connect the Scripture with today.
Ministries. She also last spring received her Doctor of Ministry Vinson completed the work while also teaching electives on
degree with a focus on spirituality and story from Wesley Theologi- Luke, and is now at work on a second commentary for Smith &
cal Seminary in Washington, DC. Helwys, this one on the book of 1st Peter. That work is expected
to be published in 2010, along with a new book on Luke’s version
Thomas Swenson, assistant professor of of the Lord’s Prayer.
music at Salem College and director of the
Salem College Community Music School, Christina Zenker, assistant professor of
has recently released both a publication and a economics, just finished her book on reforms
CD. His report on the goals and objectives of of the Swiss old-age security system called
group piano sequences at colleges and universities, which was com- AHV. The book is being co-authored with
missioned by the editorial board of The Piano Pedagogy Forum, Dr. Katja Gentinetta, vice director of the
appears in that publication’s January edition: http://www.music. think tank Avenir Suisse. The book describes
sc.edu/ea/keyboard/PPF/PPFswenson.html. Swenson’s recently the development of the AHV since 1948 and
released CD entitled We All Sing contains songs that have been talks about the problems the system faces in light of the demo-
used by a number of contemporary Christian-based churches in graphic changes. With a decreasing fertility rate and increasing
the past couple of years. Swenson was the composer, arranger and longevity, this pay-as-you-go-system that relies on enough active
producer. The CD is available through www.CDBaby.com and via people paying into the system is in danger of collapsing. The
his website, www.thomasswenson.com. publication suggests reforms that leave the entire Swiss system
of old-age security – a three-pillar system that is well regarded
Andrew Thomas, assistant professor of throughout the world – intact but that make it financially sustain-
history, won the 2008 Distinguished Disserta- able. The publication appears in German. The authors have been
tion Award for the College of Liberal Arts at invited to present the book in front of the Swiss parliament in
Purdue University for his work entitled “A October.
House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional
Court Cultures in Bavaria, the Palatinate,
and Bohemia, 1550-1650.” Also, Dr. Thomas
 Pictured above: Amanda White C’09 graduated with a sociology degree and is now in graduate school at Salem.
Pictured to the right: Elizabeth Messick C’09 graduated with a dual degree in studio art and art history.
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From Suzanne Williams,
Dean of the MarthA H.
Fleer Center for Adult
Education
T
he Fleer Center at Salem College has had a very busy as well as several who have moved to Winston-Salem from the
and exciting year since July 2008 when our adult degree midwest and the southeast because they recognized something
program was named for our founding mother, Dr.
Ed Hartgrove,
Martha H. Fleer. Enrollment increased in both fall and spring executive in resi-
2008-2009 with current fall enrollment running 8 percent above dence, business
and economics;
this time last year. now also pro-
From improvements and enhancements in our major depart- gram director
and coordinator
ments to the signing of the comprehensive articulation agreement
for academic
with our community college system, we are strongly positioned advising, Fleer
towards continued increased enrollment. The Fleer Center Center for Adult
Education.
remains the choice for adults in the Piedmont Triad Region
seeking a high-quality rigorous educational experience taught by very special in our adult degree program at Salem College. Our
dedicated faculty committed to academic excellence. I always tell fall class includes international students from South America, the
prospective students at Salem they will truly earn their degree; no Caribbean and Japan.
one will give it to them, but it will be a degree they will be proud All of our new Fleer students will enhance our already vi-
of when graduate from Salem well prepared to excel in their brant diverse student body. We have some new students with very
career and life path. little college experience working toward their first undergraduate
The new Fleer students for fall 2009 are a diverse and very degree and some with masters and doctorate degrees coming to
interesting group. They include a glass artist, several women who Salem to continue their journey of lifelong learning! Those of
have served our country proudly in the military, a writer for a us fortunate to work with our adult students consider it joy and
poetry journal, two animal privilege every single day to hear their moving life stories during
research scientists/animal the admission process, getting to know them through their Salem
rescue volunteers, nu- years, watching them grow and truly blossom in our rich environ-
merous musicians and ment.
several students currently We welcome you whether you are an alumna or propsective
employed in regional student to visit with us in the Fleer Center. You too will feel the
not-for-profit agen- energy and experience the excitement of our adult degree pro-
cies. We have parents of gram. As dean of the Fleer Center our students constantly fill me
special needs children and with a sense of awe and inspiration! Come by and say hello to our
teens as well as those caring Fleer Center staff, Susan Brawley, Administrative Assistant, Betty
for adult family members Telford, Coordinator of Courses for Community and Ed Hart-
with various needs. We have grove, Executive in Residence, business faculty and our newest
students commuting Fleer staff Program Associate/Coordinator of Academic Advising.
over an hour each We welcome you to share in the joy we experience every single
way to be a Salem day!
adult student
From Katherine
Knapp Watts C’80,
Dean of Admissions
and Financial Aid
I
t is truly Salem’s time to shine!
Enrollment of new first-year tra-
ditional students is up 18 percent
for fall 2009. The new students came
to Salem from 23 different states (from
California to Vermont and including
Alaska and Hawaii), as well as five foreign
countries (France, Tibet, Ecuador, Russia
and China). The class includes 36 student
athletes and eight legacies.
Salem has also won recognition for
our recruitment campaign in the past
year. Thanks to the generosity of Margaret
Pike C’94, the admissions office worked
with Mission House Creative of Raleigh
to produce a new five-minute video. The
video was recently awarded a bronze medal
in the Summit International Creative
competition (based on strength of the big
idea, quality of execution and ability to
persuade). A one-minute “trailer” for the
video can be seen on the home page of the
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Salem web site at www.salem.edu. The full
video is used at open house events and by
admissions representatives on the road.
The video and trailer were also key
components of a Salem’s student search
recruitment campaign with high school
sophomores and juniors in spring 2009.
Salem sent a personalized postcard to
sophomores and juniors who took the
PSAT and fit Salem’s profile; the card
invited them to visit a personal url
(PURL) and view the video trailer. If the
student responded to the PURL, she was
sent a personal thank-you email from her
admissions counselor (with the counselor’s
picture), a link to the full video and a
brochure personally printed for her – with
photos and text directly addressing her
areas of interest. (There were 561 different
possible combinations for the brochure!)
This campaign was designed by the
admissions staff together with Carrie
Pritchard Dickey C’00 and Keiger Print-
ing Company. It achieved a 303 percent
increase in student response and was rec-
ognized as one of 10 winners in the “Xerox
Best-of-the-Best Contest,” an international
competition, for use of technology in com-
munication!
In addition, Salem is spreading the
word to international markets – Katherine
Knapp Watts C’80, dean of admissions
and financial aid, took a two-week recruit-
ing trip to China in May 2009. During
the trip, which was funded by an anony-
mous donor, Watts visited 16 schools and
six agencies in Hong Kong, Chengdu and
Shanghai. This initiative has laid the foun-
dation for continued relationship-build-
ing in areas that send talented students to
college in the United States.
It has been a busy, exciting and suc-
cessful year in Salem College admissions
office. Spread the word!
T op 1 0 Ways A lumnae C an
Help Admissions
1. Bring a Student to Campus – Salem offers seven
open house events each academic year. Please consider bringing
a student or a group of students to one of these events or any
other time by appointment:
• Scholarship Weekend – Saturday, February 13 – Monday,
February 15 for accepted applicants by invitation of the
admissions office.
• Applicant Overnight – Sunday, March 14 – Monday,
March 15, 2010 for accepted applicants
• Spring Visit – Saturday, April 1, 2010 for high-school
juniors, sophomores and college transfers
• Legacy Day – August, 2010 for any high school-student
who wants to learn more about planning for college and
Salem. August of 2009’s Legacy Day brought together 20
alumnae and 22 prospective students from rising
7th-12th grades.
2. Send us a Name (better yet, a bunch of
names!) – if you know high school – aged girls, please
consider sending us their names and addresses. We would like
to be in touch with students whom our alumnae think will
SHINE at Salem. Alumnae referrals become some of our best
Salem students.
3. Share the Alumnae Fee-Waiver Card we sent
out in September with any high-school senior you know. It al-
lows her to apply to Salem free of charge. Contact admissions if
you would like more fee-waiver cards!
4. Visit a High-School Guidance Office in your
City – during 2008-09 alumnae took Salemgoodie bags (pro-
vided by the admissions office) to high schools in Wilmington,
Raleigh, Charlotte, Marietta and Atlanta. This is an easy yet
personal way to tell college counselors about the benefits of a
Salem education.
5. Volunteer to represent Salem at a Local Col-
lege Fair – admissions counselors travel in 14 states but we
can’t be everywhere. If you are willing to attend a college fair in
your city contact Shari White Dallas C’83at shari.dallas@salem.
edu. In 2008-09, 20 alumnae represented Salem at 30 college fairs
in NC, SC, MD, GA, NY, NJ, OH and Guam.
6. Write Congratulatory Notes to Accepted Ap-
plicants – a personal note to an accepted applicant is a won-
derful way to say “welcome to the Salem Sisterhood.” Admissions
can provide a list of students in your area who have been accepted
but have not yet decided where they plan to attend.
7. Open your home or underwrite an admis-
sions event at a restaurant in your city – high-
school students and their parents have busy schedules. Sometimes
appetizers or a dessert social with alumnae, an admissions coun-
selor and prospective students and their parents is the best way to
spread the word about Salem.
8. Host an admissions “Brainstorming Event”
with alumnae in your city – Bring together a small
group of local alumnae and an admissions staff member to brain-
storm about how to connect with students in your area.
9. Inform Salem of new high schools – cities change
and grow and new high schools are added each year. Please help
keep us up-to-date on high schools that are opened across the
country. We want to make sure we know where to visit when we
travel to your city.
10. Talk about Salem College, wear a Salem t-shirt, put
a Salem sticker or magnet on your car!! Spread the Salem Spirit!
There is nothing better than the hum of positive buzz … and
it’s cheaper and more effective, often, than paid advertising. Tell
everyone you know that Salem is a great school and that anyone
who knows a high school-aged girl should encourage her to take a
look at Salem. It might be the best advice she ever gets!
Contact Katherine Knapp Watts C’80, dean of admissions and
financial aid, at her direct number, 336/917-5563, if you have
other ideas or want to be involved.
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from Susan Gebhardt,
dean of Graduate Studies
From its founding in 1772 as a school
for young women (in a decidedly man’s
world), Salem’s ideals about teaching and
learning have remained forward-looking.
2008-2009 proved itself to be no less in-
Susan Gebhard is director of teacher
education and graduate studies as well as
assistant professor of education at Salem
College.
novative a time. In response to the North
Carolina Department of Public Instruc-
tion’s state-wide mandate to “re-vision”
teacher education programs, the depart-
ment of teacher education and graduate
studies undertook an ambitious overhaul
of class content and courses of study.
Building upon our rich legacy of relevant
educational experiences and constructiv-
ist paradigms, the department sought to
re-invent itself for the post-modern world.
New courses focus upon the kinds of
21st century educational strategies that set
this time and place apart from all others
– especially as related to technology – as
well as examining American teaching and
learning in relationship to the “flat world.”
The department is especially excited by
several new opportunities for educational
leadership. Potential study abroad op-
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portunities related to these new courses
at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels will help teacher candidates broaden
their views of the world and re-examine
the kind of diverse learners that make up
our global learning community.
Intentional service partnerships with
local social-service agencies will afford
Salem’s pre-service teachers meaningful
opportunities to interact with a variety of
learners in our own back yard. To build
upon the college-wide initiative regarding
health and wellness, plans are underway
to include an environmental immersion
and integration component to our meth-
ods courses. Other re-visioning changes
include streamlined courses of study, the
introduction of intentional instructional
design classes, a more clearly delineated
progression of courses, and carefully struc-
tured field experiences designed to help
Salem teacher candidates put theory into
practice.
The Department’s new tagline,
“Haven’t you always wanted to teach?”
seems to have resonated with Salem
undergraduate students, second-career
professionals, recent college graduates,
stay-at- home moms, downsized dads and
potential teachers from a wide variety of
other backgrounds. We are thrilled to
have admitted record numbers of new
initial licensure candidates to our M.A.T.
programs as well as to our Fleer and
undergraduate majors in elementary/spe-
cial education or to the middle/secondary
content-area licensure programs. These
candidates represent a mix of ages, inter-
ests, backgrounds, and circumstances, but
they all share a desire to make a difference
in the lives of learners.
Equally impressive are those in-service
educators seeking to hone their profes-
sional skills by pursuing the M.Ed. degree
at Salem College. In fact, Salem’s flagship
M.Ed. program, the master’s in language
and literacy, is currently so popular among
in-service that talks are underway to
develop additional M.Ed. programs to be
introduced during the 2009-2010 and
2010-2011 academic year. Be on the look-
out for an M.Ed. in elementary education
and, perhaps, special education as well.
It’s worth pointing out that there
have been some pretty significant physical
changes as well as the programmatic ones.
If you seek the department offices, don’t
head to the Fine Arts Center where we
once were located. During the 2008-2009
academic year, teacher education relocated
to the first floor of Main Hall. In terms
of faculty, the Department welcomes Dr.
Susan Gebhard (the new Director), Dr.
Tricia Cook (program coordinator for
special education), Fred Schafer (instructor
and educational technology specialist), Dr.
Johnna Lyons (visiting professor of educa-
tion) and professor Mary Ann Campbell
Davis C’74 (joining Salem full-time as
our Clinical Coordinator). We are equally
thrilled to welcome Dr. Christopher Baker
back from his sabbatical. It is quite likely
that you may see additional new faces in
education as we implement and refine our
re-visioned programs.
Historic Campaign Completed

Salem’s historic comprehensive $75
million campaign officially ended on
May 1, 2009. A total of $76,024,439
was raised. These monies were applied
to endowment for both the Academy
This wonderful achievement was family, faculty and staff. We are deeply
accomplished only through the dedication grateful for all the effort, time and treasure
and generosity of all of Salem’s friends, that produced this historic fundraising.

Ann Stone Hanes A’71,

and the College, capital and restoration
projects, annual fund, planned/deferred

chair o� the Combined Cam�ai�n, says,

gifts and programs. We received 15 gifts
of $1 million or more; a total of 155 new

“Hats off to Salem!”

endowment funds; and a total of 2,239
new donors to Salem.

A nnual F und N ews

Generous Contributions
Allow Salem to Succeed
Gifts from alumnae, students, parents
and friends to the Salem College Annual
Fund support scholarships, campus
improvements, faculty resources and other
student-centered initiatives that are not
covered by tuition alone. These generous
contributions allowed Salem Academy and
College to reach its fiscal year 2008-2009
Annual Fund goal. Salem College alumnae
giving was 86 percent of total Annual
Fund gifts to the College.
A gift to the Annual Fund is a perfect
way to pay tribute to family, friends or
faculty members who had a strong
influence upon your education. It is
an ideal way to celebrate a personal
milestone such as a child or grandchild’s
birth, honor a fellow classmate or
acknowledge a key event or special
person in your own life. These gifts are
listed in the annual President’s Report.
Gifts of any amount can help
raise the participation percentages that
are so important when foundations
and businesses consider supporting
Salem Academy and College. These
organizations want to know that the
people most involved with the institution
are supportive of its mission.
The Annual Fund continues to
support academic excellence for Salem
Academy and College students. As one
of our parent donors said, “I believe
my gifts help Salem teachers and staff
to continue their 238-year heritage of
developing each young woman’s spiritual,
intellectual, artistic, athletic and
humanitarian life.”

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 A�umnae News
Dear Fellow Salem Alumnae,
As I begin my term as your Alumnae
Association President, I am humbled
and grateful for this opportunity to serve
Salem. Since my induction at the May
meeting of the Alumnae Board, I have
spent time reflecting on my years at
Salem, reading a little of Salem’s remark-
able history and thinking about how we, as alumnae, can ensure a
bright future for the college that has given us so much.
Recently, I had the opportunity to enjoy dinner with current
Salem student leaders and alumnae board members. When asked
to summarize in one sentence what they would say to a high-
school student about Salem, one Fleer student commented, “If
you want something more than an ordinary college experience, if
you want a unique college experience, choose Salem!” A tradition-
al student answered, “You come to Salem to become a woman but
also to fully understand what it means to be a woman, and when
you leave you will be more prepared because you are a woman
who knows what you want and you have the tools necessary to
be a well-rounded woman in today’s world.” An alumna said, “At
Salem, you will find your sisters.” These responses inspire me!
Although the group was diverse in terms of age and ethnicity, it is
clear that we share a common experience—the Salem tradition.
In 1772, John A. Comenius made the case for the founding
of Salem. He said, “Why should we merely dismiss [women] with
the ABCs and drive them away from books: Are we afraid of their
meddling? The more we introduce them to mental occupations,
the less time they will find for meddling, which comes from emp-
tiness of mind.” Well, our founding Moravians would be pleased
to know that Salem women have spent the last 237 years doing
much more than mere “meddling.”
Salem alumnae are currently 8000-plus strong and have
a global presence. We are teachers, doctors, scientists, lawyers,
bankers, writers, artists, politicians, musicians, actresses, non-
profit managers, business owners, homemakers, community
leaders and much, much more. Our Salem experiences, while
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different in many ways, have helped to shape who we are. Because
this is so, we have a responsibility to do what we can to ensure its
future.
You’ll be pleased to know that there is much good news
to celebrate at Salem. Traditional student admissions are up 18
percent, and the student numbers in the Fleer Center and gradu-
ate programs are up, as well. In addition, Salem met its annual
fund goal for 2008-2009. However, given the current economic
climate, this is not enough.
Many of you are aware of the recent financial difficulties of
colleges and universities throughout our country. These inci-
dences are a disturbing trend, and Salem is not immune to these
challenges. Currently, the administration, faculty and staff are re-
viewing every aspect of the college to ensure that Salem continues
to thrive and remains true to its mission.
To continue to compete in these challenging economic times,
Salem needs its alumnae to be more involved. What does this
mean? It means:
– connecting with classmates;
– attending and hosting alumnae events in your area;
– giving annually whatever you can;
– talking to potential students about Salem and
bringing them to campus;
– educating yourself about what Salem offers young
women today.
Salem has given women extraordinary educational oppor-
tunities for 237 years. The fact is, passive alumnae support is
not good enough anymore. Salem needs us to be bold….to give
boldly and recruit boldly!
I look forward to opportunities to meet you and work along-
side you during the next two years. Together, we can do extraordi-
nary things for Salem. Salem women always do.
Sincerely,
Mary Martha Whitener Beecy C’88
President, Salem College Alumnae Association
Salem Alumnae Enjoy Gatherings Around the Southeast
(Page 28, top left) Wilmington Alumnae
Event: Susan Mixon Harrell C’77 and
Karen Smith Davenport C’77.

Greensboro Alumnae Event: Amy Woodard Kemp C’94, Julia Anderson Cox C’98,
Jeri D’Lugin A’73 and Leigh Anne Harris Buchanan C’89.

The founders of the Charlotte Gramley

Dinner were honored at the 15th
Annual Dinner held on November 10,
2009. They are Velva Whitescarver
Woollen C’61, Joyce McLain Poe C’72 Triangle Alumnae Event: Nancy Kester Brewer C’97, Lee Ann Kennedy C’97,
and Eleanor Walton Neal C’56. Carrie Mobley Seck C’96 and Deborah Coxe Hensley C’96.

2009 Charlotte Gramley

Dinner Co-Chairs:
Leslie Crow Flanagan C’89 and Atlanta Alumnae Event: Abby Pruczinski C’05, Bridget Rierson C’05, Amanda Dean
Eleanor Cross A’97 C’06, Ann Wilson Cramer C’66, Susan Smith C’08 and Emily Peterson C’08.

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Save t�e
Date:
Reunion Wilmington Alumnae Event: Anne Jordan Craven A’53, Cecelia Black Corbett C’57,

Weekend Grace Walker Sanders C’60 and Frances Beman McMillan A’55.

April
23-25, 2010
Update Your Info!
Richmond Alumnae Event: Susan Hatz Wilburn C’81,
Susan Maley Rash C’80 and Monica McGurn Walsh C’81.
Have you moved? Have you
changed your name? Do you have a
new job? Did you have a baby? Do
you have a new EMAIL address?

Here are TWO ways to update your

contact information if you are a Salem
alumna:

1. Send us your business card and we

will send you a Salem luggage tag!
Asheville Alumnae Event: Paula Greene Webb C’77,
Mail to: Salem College, Alumnae Cindy Taylor Walton C’79 and Meg Copple C’07.
Office, 601 South Church Street,
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

2. Choose the online method:

1. Go to www.salem.edu.
2. Click on “Alumnae” at the top of
the page.
3. Choose “Update Biography” in
menu on left.
4. Fill in form and click “SUBMIT” at
Greenville, SC March Event: Paula Jeffords Wynn C’75, Martha Hart Kent C’86,
the bottom of the page. Nancy Adams Quinn C’74, Anne Richbourg C’72, Becky Fitch Walters C’84,
Sidney Campen Surles C’71, Sydney Timmons Taylor C’71 and Laney Frick C’87.

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 VOTE FOR:
Alumnae Awards
Presented Each
Year During
Reunion Weekend
We invite you to vote! Please submit the
name and class year of the nominee/s to
Karla Gort C’00, director of alumnae
relations, via email to karla.gort@
salem.edu or mail to Salem College,
Alumnae Office, 601 South Church
Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101 Self-
nominations are accepted.

Distinguished Alumna Award -

College Class of 1948 March Event at Salem: recognizes a Salem alumna’s achievements
Jane Church Fuller, Margaret Fisher McIver, Marilyn Booth Greene, Paige Daniel Hill,
Sally Hamilton Sharpe, Peggy Blum Hill, Barbara Folger Chatham, in volunteer service and/or her professional
Frances Sowers Vogler and Peggy Taylor Russell. distinctions.

Alumna Service Award -

recognizes a Salem alumna’s outstanding
service to Salem through leadership,
student recruitment, alumnae club
leadership, internship opportunities or
other beneficial activities.

Young Alumna Award -

Atlantic Beach, NC: Senora Lindsey Carrow C’46, Jean Norwood Anderson C’47,
recognizes a Salem alumna, who within
Anne Moye Mayo C’54, Bunny Bun Lea C’47 and Jean Sullivan Proctor C’47.
15 years of her graduation, exemplifies the
outstanding leadership qualities, through
professional and/or volunteer service.
A commitment to the College since
graduation must be evident.

Atlantic Beach, NC: Frances Temple Civils C’68, Lisa Mabley Kirby C’68,
Allyson Bullock Sugg C’68 and Cecilia Moore-Cobb C’68.

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 Pictured above: Maegan Lewis C’12 performs as part of her music studies at Salem College.

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School of Music
Looks to the Future,
Honors the Past
Barbara Lister-Sink Named
New Acting Director
Barbara Lister-Sink, artist
in residence and professor of
piano at the Salem College
School of Music, has been
named acting director for
2009-2010.
A graduate of Smith
College and recipient of the
Prix d’Excellence from Utre-
cht Conservatory, Lister-
Sink’s critically acclaimed
video/DVD Freeing the Caged Bird – Developing Well-Coordinated,
Injury-Preventive Piano Technique, won the 2002 MTNA-Frances
Clark Keyboard Pedagogy National Award.
Formerly keyboardist for the Royal Concertgebouw Orches-
tra of Amsterdam, Lister-Sink has taught at Duke University, the
Brevard Music Center and was on the artist faculty of the Eastman
School of Music from 1979 to 1986. She has performed as soloist
throughout Europe and North America and has collaborated with
some of the world’s most distinguished musicians. She was also
named an experienced evaluator by the National Association of
Schools of Music.
As a world leader in teaching injury-preventive technique,
Lister-Sink has given presentations for the MTNA, the World
Piano Pedagogy Conference, the Canadian Professional Piano
Teachers Association, the International Klavar Foundation and
the European Piano Teachers Association. Her articles and reviews
have appeared in leading music journals, as well as in the Southern
Medical Journal and Current Research in Arts Medicine. She was
cited in the 2000 Centennial Edition of Piano & Keyboard as one
of the pedagogical leaders of the 20th century.
Lister-Sink was the dean of the Salem College School of Music rector of the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra in Geneva, New
from 1986 to 1992. She also created and now directs Salem’s fully
accredited professional certificate program in Injury-Preventive
Keyboard Technique, the first of its kind in the US.
David Schildkret
Returns as Visiting Scholar
David Schildkret
has returned to the Salem
College School of Music,
where he was once associ-
ate professor and dean, to
be the 2009-2010 visiting
scholar. He will be con-
ducting the Salem College
choirs and teaching courses
in music history, among
other projects.
Schildkret says, “I am delighted to return to Salem College,
even for a short time. Salem, as everyone associated with it knows,
is a very special place – it kind of gets into your DNA.”
Schildkret is on sabbatical from the Herberger College
School of Music at Arizona State University where he is professor
of choral music. He earned both master’s and doctoral degrees in
choral conducting from Indiana University School of Music, and
a bachelor of arts in music degree from Rutgers University. In ad-
dition to posts at Arizona State University and Salem, Schildkret
also taught at the University of Rochester and at Centre College.
While teaching at ASU, Schildkret was director of music at
Scottsdale United Methodist Church. He is the founding editor
of The Choral Scholar, the online journal of the National Col-
legiate Choral Organization (NCCO); is active in the American
Choral Directors Association (ACDA); and served as the reper-
tory/standards chair for four-year colleges and universities in the
Arizona ACDA. He was recently named to the Fulbright specialist
program by the US Department of State, meaning he is available
for overseas projects.
His conducting experience includes eight seasons as music di-
York, numerous appearances as guest conductor with regional
choirs at all levels and appearances with various small orchestras
and ensembles. From 1997-2002, he was a frequent guest con-
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Sandresky Series Honors Legacy of
Clemens and Margaret Sandresky and has returned to that group as their interim music director for
A new series of artist faculty performances, inaugurated
on October 3, honors the memory of the late Clemens Harold
Sandresky, dean emeritus of the School of Music, and pays tribute
to the career of Margaret Vardell Sandresky, A’38, C’42, professor
emerita of music. Future performances will continue to showcase
Salem’s distinguished performing faculty in collaboration with
other renowned artists.
Clemens Sandresky, who passed away June 25, 2009 at the
age of 93 in Winston-Salem, earned an A.B. in music with distinc-
tion from Dartmouth College and a master’s in music degree from
Harvard University. In 1952 he became dean of the School of
Music at Salem Academy and College. The 34 years between 1952
and his retirement in 1986 were marked by his yearly piano
recitals, solo performances with the Winston-Salem Symphony
and chamber music concerts with his artist faculty. During his
tenure the Salem Fine Arts Center was constructed; it was the first
state-of-the-art facility of its kind in the city. He and his faculty
produced many outstanding students and distinguished alumnae.
His wife, Margaret Vardell-Sandresky A’38, C42, attended
Salem Academy and graduated from Salem College in 1942 with a
major in organ performance. She earned a master’s of music degree Olsen was the first-prize winner of the 2002 National Young
in composition from the Eastman School of Music, then won a
Fulbright Award for music study in Germany.
Sandresky taught at Oberlin College Conservatory; the
University of Texas/Austin; and UNC School of the Arts. She was
organist at Home Moravian Church, the First Baptist Church
and Centenary United Methodist Church.
Vardell-Sandresky is a Standards Award-winning ASCAP com- American Guild of Organists, and will be a featured recitalist and
poser. She is the recipient of the 2004 American Guild of Organ-
ists “Distinguished Composer Award,” the Distinguished Alumna
Award from Salem Academy and the Distinguished Alumna
Award from Salem College. She received the Sam Ragan award for
extended exemplary service to the arts in North Carolina in 2006.
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ductor with the Piedmont Chamber Singers in Winston-Salem,
2009-2010.
Schildkret says he looks forward to helping Salem assess its
musical history and plan for the future. “Music is at the heart of
Salem’s heritage. Our challenge -- and it’s very exciting! -- is to
keep music at Salem’s core in a way that makes sense for the 21st
century.”
Timothy Olsen
New Associate Professor of Organ
Timothy Olsen is the
newly appointed associ-
ate professor of organ at
Salem as well as the Kenan
Professor of Organ at the
University of North Caro-
lina School of the Arts.
A native of Frost, Min-
nesota, Dr. Olsen began his
study of the organ at the
age of 13 and studied with
Peter Nygaard at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, where he
received a bachelor’s of music degree. He went on to the East-
man School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he earned
the doctor of musical arts and master’s of music degrees in organ
performance and literature, as well as a master’s of arts degree in
music theory pedagogy. He was for four years the Wanda L. Bass
Chair of Organ at Oklahoma City University, and also has served
on the faculty at Ithaca College, and as sabbatical replacement at
Binghamton University and Cornell University.
Artists Competition in organ performance sponsored by the
American Guild of Organists. He has recorded a compact disc
on the NAXOS label, and has been featured multiple times on
Minnesota Public Radio’s Pipedreams. Olsen has performed solo
organ recitals in 23 states. He frequently presents master classes
and workshops for universities, churches and chapters of the
workshop presenter at the 2009 Region VII AGO Convention
in Albuquerque, NM. He has also been featured as soloist with
orchestras, and performs collaboratively in organ/trumpet recitals,
organ duo recitals and as organist for major choral works includ-
ing Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem and Messe Cum Jubilo.
S chool of M usic
Celebrates Second Reunion
Hundreds of music-lovers as well as staff, alum- Lister-Sink, piano, Carmen Fantasy on themes from Bizet’s opera;
nae, faculty and students took part in the and Margaret Rehder, violin; Anne Sellitti, cello; and Lister-Sink,
School of Music Reunion held Friday piano, Trio in B Major, Op. 8 by Brahms
and Saturday, October 2 - 3, 2009. The reunion committee members were Frances Speas Kohut
Organized by the Friends of the C’64, Sally Duran C’88, Elizabeth Hill Gulley C’87, Lynn Mes-
Salem College School of Music, sick C’69 and Amy Murray Orser C’69.
this was the first reunion to be
held since 1991. It drew an ap-
preciative crowd of enthusiasts
who celebrated the program’s
past, present and future.
An alumnae recital was held
in the Fine Arts Center on Friday
evening that showcased some of
Salem’s most outstanding alumnae per-
formers from throughout the United States.
Among them were Mary Louise Harris Baker C’99;
Rebecca Miller Saunders C’90; James Gregory (1986-89); Timo-
thy Durkovic (1987-91); Barbara Acker-Mills C’92; and Heather
Martin Cooper C’92; Kristina Henry C’03; Carmine Mann C’98; Upper right: Longtime SOM faculty member Joan Jacobowsky,
Patricia Barnes Griffith C’72; Elaine Creasy Grella C’85; Fran acting dean Barbara Lister-Sink and reunion committee member
Amy Murray Orser C’69 enjoyed the festivities. Above: Honoree
Cartier Creasy C’61; Patricia Barnes Griffith C’72; Patti Hay
Margaret Vardell Sandresky A’38, C42 is pictured with her
Peterson, C’71: Monica Wood Sparzak C’00; Virginia L. Vance family: son Chip Sandresky, daughter and acclaimed pianist
C’69; Amanda Gardner-Porter C’00; Jessica Beitel C’06; Molly Eleonor Sandresky A’75, Chip’s wife Loretta and their two
sons: (left to right) Jake Sandresky and Charlie Sandresky.
Brannock C’07; Sara Lee Robinette Michaels C’83; Laura Dan-
gerfield Stevens C’02; Carmine Mann C’98; and Heather Martin
Cooper C’92.
On Saturday evening, the Sandresky Artist Faculty Series was
inaugurated with a heartfelt tribute to the late Dean Sandresky
and to his widow, Margaret, who attended. Hosted by Barbara
Lister-Sink, acting director and artist-in-residence, the first
concert in this exciting new series featured Salem music faculty
and special guest artists in an evening of piano, vocal, organ and
chamber music. The performers were Lister-Sink, piano: Brahms’
Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2; Timothy Olsen, organ:
four movements from L’homme arme Organ Mass by Margaret
Vardell Sandresky and Transports de Joie by Messiaen; Thomas
Swenson, piano, Impromptu in A-Flat Major, Op. 142, No. 2 by
Left to right: Enjoying conversations about music were
Schubert; Barbara DeMaio Caprilli, soprano, and Lister-Sink,
Ann Nisbet Cobb C’38, longtime faculty member John Mueller,
piano, O Don Fatale by Verdi; Debra Reuter-Pivetta, flute, and Sarah Barnes and longtime faculty member Margaret Mueller.

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C reating a
Culture of Wellness
Pictured above: A group of Salem students and staff enjoy walking the Salem fitness trails.
S
alem College defines wellness
in terms of learning grounded
in the pursuit of excellence
and the education of the whole
person. A Salem education transcends
the traditional model of education inside
the classroom to merge knowledge with
practice through a multidimensional
learning experience.
In addition to the intellectual
dimension of learning, wellness at
Salem offers opportunities for learning
in the spiritual, emotional, physical,
environmental, occupational and social
dimensions. This holistic model of wellness
education has been adopted by Salem
as the College seeks to create a culture
of wellness and introduce programming
that provides students with resources to
support their academic success.
Beginning in 2008, wellness was a
major focus within the College’s five-
year strategic plan, and the first steps
were taken to focus on wellness. A
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wellness committee made up of faculty,
staff and students was formed to study
existing wellness programs and make
recommendations. Some early steps
were put into place, such as requiring all
students to have health insurance, and
providing them (and faculty and staff)
with an e-magazine called “Student Health
101.” Students’ parents are sent their
own version. Students were also asked to
complete the ACHA student health survey
in spring 2009 in order to help Salem
know the predominant health, safety and
wellness concerns on campus.
This past spring, a fitness challenge
was launched to reward faculty, staff and
students who did some form of physical
activity 30 minutes a day for a month.
The college website provided data sheets
for recording exercise as well as suggested
activities, and prizes were given to top
participants.
Other wellness-focused initiatives have
included:
Intellectual Wellness
– Speaker Anna Lappé - award-winning
author and activist; the library on
March 9 (Center for Women Writers
and Cultural Events)
– Library purchase of updated fitness
and relaxation videos
– Use of MyStudentBody® in health
and wellness courses. (MyStudentBody®
promotes healthy behaviors and
responsible decision making at the
individual- and student body-level on
campuses across the country. For info,
visit wwww.mystudentbody.com).
Spiritual Wellness
– Providing regular worship services
(Lovefeasts, monthly Christian Praise
and Worship, Ash Wednesday, Black
History Month, Interfaith worship
service)
– trip to Hindu Center in Charlotte
– “Listening Post” in Grille on Tuesday
evenings (where students could discuss
their spiritual life and other associated
issues with the assistant chaplain)
– denominational campus ministries
offering weekly opportunities for
students to engage in spiritual
exploration
– Free yoga class during second semester
(February – April)
Physical
– Created several walking trails around
the College
– Established and monitored the Spring
2009 Fitness Challenge
– Integrated wellness into the Salem
Signature general education curriculum
 – Offering of new activity classes
Social
– Phenomenal Woman Retreat in
January
– Leadership Lunch & Learn
– Salem Elections 101 Lunch & Learn
– Leadership training – conflict
management
– “Social Sex & Excess” speaker
(March 10)
Occupational
– Leadership training on May 9
“Meeting Management” and “First
Impressions”
– Regular, informal seminars on
interviewing, writing cover letters,
business etiquette and other
career topics
Emotional
– First-Year Transition Group (fall 08)
Pictured below: The Salem community participates in Yoga in the Square, one of the new wellness programs on campus.
– Depression Screening Week
(March 9-14, 2009)
Environmental
– Since August 2008, Salem has recycled
more than 10 tons of waste equating to
13,700 lbs. paper, 3,860 lbs. cardboard,
903 lbs. aluminum and 2,527 lbs.
plastic.
– The College dining hall implemented
several strategies to reduce waste.
(EcoClamshell reusable to-go container
saved 20,000 Styrofoam containers a
year; going trayless reduces energy and
water waste; used fryer oil is filtered and
recycled.)
– In preparation for the fall 2009
EPA audit and to ensure environmental
compliance, Salem participated in a
peer audit program.
– Salem is nearing completion of the
energy benchmarking program
sponsored by Advanced Energy
Corporation (AEC) in cooperation with
NCICU.
Salem is looking forward to
continuing to emphasize wellness during
the 2009-2010 academic year. Among
the programs underway are another free
fitness class for students, faculty and staff;
a meditation course taught by professor
George McKnight; 10 bikes and three WII
fitness systems purchased for student use
on campus through redemption of Salem’s
BB&T credit-card points; additional
speakers and seminars on wellness topics;
and the planting of an organic herb garden
to produce seasonings for dining-hall
meals.
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 Reunion News
the 1988 Smith De-
sign for Institutional
Diversity.
In 1995 Dunn
became Pforzheimer
Foundation Director
of the Arthur and
Elizabeth Schlesinger
Library at Radcliffe
College, serving
there until 1999
when she became
acting dean of the
Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study
at Harvard Universi-
ty. In 2002 she took
the post of co-ex-
ecutive officer of the
American Philosoph-
ical Society, which
is the nation’s oldest
learned society,

Dr. Mary Maples Dunn
Spoke at Founders Day
The Founders Day speaker for 2009 was Mary Maples
Dunn, former president of Smith College, authority on the his-
tory of women in America and holder of nine honorary doctor-
ate degrees.
Dunn received her BA degree from the College of William
and Mary and her master’s and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College,
where between 1958 and 1985 she served as lecturer, assistant
professor/professor, dean of the undergraduate college and aca-
demic deputy to the president. She served as president of Smith
College from 1985 to 1995 at a pivotal time in that institution’s
history. One of her administration’s many notable programs was
founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743; she retired from that
position in 2008. She currently serves Salem College as honor-
ary counsel to the Board of Trustees.
Dunn is an authority on William Penn, colonial American
history and the history of women in America, and has pub-
lished several books including The World of William Penn, The
Founding of Pennsylvania and Women of America: A Teacher’s
Guide. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and was awarded fel-
lowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and
the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. She
has also received nine honorary doctorate degrees, from institu-
tions such as Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Brown.
Dunn is the mother of Dr. Rebecca Dunn, who is associ-
ate professor of biology at Salem College.

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D. Wayne Burkette Given Comenius Alumna Service
Award: Honored by Salem for Award
Service and Achievement
Dr. D. Wayne Burkette, Burkette has excelled in all five
longtime Salem categories. He received his bachelor’s
supporter and degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he
former Head was a Morehead Scholar; his M.Div. and
of School D.D. degrees from Moravian Theological
for Salem Seminary; and his D.Min. from Union
Academy, Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA.
received the Burkette is currently the president of
John Amos the Provincial Elders Conference (PEC)
Comenius of the Moravian Church in America,
Award of Southern Province. Before that, he was
Distinction Head of School at Salem Academy from
during 1994-2006. He has held past positions
ceremonies held with Salem Academy and College,
as part of the annual including vice president, 1997-2006;
Founders Day celebration chaplain and chief planning officer, 1992-
on April 17 in the May Dell at 1994; and chaplain, 1990-1992. He has
Salem Academy and College. served as a member of the Salem Academy
The Comenius Award is named for and College Board of Trustees and Board
John Amos Comenius, an early Moravian of Visitors.
bishop and advocate of universal education. Burkette has held several area
The award, last made by Salem in 2004, pastorates, including those at Fairview
is given to individuals who meet one Moravian Church, Home Moravian
or more of these criteria: longstanding Church and Olivet Moravian Church.
service to Salem; exceptional professional He has served on a number of boards,
and/or artistic achievement; significant including the Moravian Theological
leadership in public affairs; outstanding Seminary, the Board of World Missions,
community service; or distinguished the NC Association of Independent
scholarly achievement. The selection is Schools (president, 2003-05) and
made by a committee consisting of the the Morehead Scholarship Selection
Board of Trustees chair, the presidents of Committee.
the Academy and the College alumnae He is married to Nancy Witherspoon
associations; two trustees; a former award Burkette and they reside in Pfafftown,
recipient; and the president of the NC. They have two daughters, both of
combined institution. Past award winners whom graduated from Salem College:
have included Calder Womble, Howard Allison Burkette-Tschumper C’93 and
Gray, Gordon and Copey Hanes and Amanda Burkette Grimstead C’97.
Archie K. Davis.
Patrice Black Mitchell C’89, a native
of Winston-Salem, is dean of admissions
at UNC-Asheville. She graduated from
Salem with a bachelor’s degree, earned
her master’s of public administration
from UNC-Greensboro and is a doctoral
student at N.C. State University.
Mitchell was formerly admissions
director at Forsyth Technical Community
College, former director of admissions
at Winston-Salem State University and
former assistant director of admissions at
NC State University.
She is a member of Alpha Kappa
Alpha sorority and serves on boards of
organizations such as the Crosby Scholars,
the Shugart Women’s Center; the Guilford
Technical Community College Transfer
and Advisory Board and the Preserve
Historic Forsyth Executive Board. She
has received the YMCA Black Achievers
Award and the Emmanuel Baptist Church
Women Achievers Award.
Mitchell was Salem’s first minority
recruitment/retention coordinator. She
also chaired the Alumnae Board’s student
awards committee; was a member of the
Friends of the Library and the Center for
Women Writers; and is a member of the
Board of Visitors. She advises Salem’s Ad-
missions Office on a variety of topics from
diversity initiatives to general recruitment
and retention of all students.
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Distinguished 2009 Oesterlein Award Winner
Alumna Award Salem College Senior Samantha ternational English honor
Cortez Selman of Atlanta, GA received society; was metro
the Elisabeth Oesterlein Award – the editor of The
school’s highest honor for a member of the Salemite; re-
graduating class – during Founders Day ceived the
ceremonies. Junior
The Oesterlein Award is named in Spirit
honor of Salem’s first teacher when it was Award;
Nancy Taylor Sumner C’69 gradu-
founded as a school for girls in 1772. and
ated from Salem with a bachelor’s degree
Candidates are nominated by members of was
and earned her master’s degree in public
the entire Salem community – faculty, staff selected
administration from UNC- Chapel Hill in
and fellow students – and each nominee to pres-
1983.
must compete against other truly out- ent her
She recently retired as the director of
standing seniors. Among the criteria are: paper on
development for Urban Ministries of Wake
attend Salem all four years of college; make the Honors
County, a non-profit, interfaith organiza-
a notable contribution to the quality of life panel during the
tion that provides essential basic services
at Salem and exemplify quality leadership; College’s first annual
to close to 20,000 diverse families and
and be conscientious and diligent in the Celebration of Academic Excel-
individuals in Wake County every year.
pursuit of academic excellence, attaining at lence.
Formerly she was a teacher with the Wake
least a 3.0 average overall. During all four years, Selman was
County School System; assistant to the
Selman, who is majoring in English active in the College’s annual performance
director in the facility services division of
and creative writing, has a GPA of 3.771. of the Vagina Monologues, becoming the
the NC Department of Human Resources;
While at Salem she has been active in nu- co-organizer during her senior year. Also
and Salem Society gifts officer.
merous campus projects and organizations. while a senior, she was editor-in-chief of In-
She has served on the boards of the
During her freshman year she was named cunabula; represented Salem College at the
Raleigh Fine Arts Society and the Wake
to Alpha Lambda Delta, the first-year Sigma Tau Delta International convention;
County chapter of the North Carolina
honor society and was an active member was a member of House Council represent-
Symphony, and as a member of the Wake
of Open Up. During her sophomore years ing Bitting Dorm; and was named to both
County United Way Allocations commit-
she was on the staff of The Salemite and In- Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leader-
tee. She is active in many committees at
cunabula, the College publications; was a ship honor society, and Mortar Board, the
White Memorial Presbyterian Church.
member of the international, German and national honor society for seniors.
Sumner has been both secretary and
HOLA clubs; and received the Jess Byrd Selman was known on the Salem cam-
president of the Salem College Alumnae
Merit Scholarship, awarded to one rising pus for organizing and leading innovative
Association; a member of the Board of
junior who demonstrates excellence in the student projects, including organizing and
Visitors and Board of Trustees; and is
field of English. hosting “Speak Out!” a night of spoken
currently on the steering committee of
During her junior year she became word, performance and slam poetry. The
the Triangle Salem Alumnae Club. She is
editor of Incunabula, the literary magazine; evening’s performances were included as a
married to Bob Sumner and has two sons,
was president of SAM (Student Activist CD and given with the first 100 copies this
Brian and David.
Movement); served as vice president of past spring of the College literary maga-
Salem’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the in- zine, Incunabula.

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Salem Legacies
Lucinda Oliver Denton C’59,
Madeline Baird C’10 and
Liz Denton Baird C’83
Kendra Gordon Clopton C’08 and
Jennifer Lind Thomas C’08
Young Alumna
Award
Meenal Khajuria, C’04 earned her BA
with departmental honors in sociology from
Salem, then her master of arts in politi-
cal management from George Washington
University. She is currently working on
her master’s of social work degree at North
Carolina State University in Raleigh.
She is policy analyst/assistant director of
the N.C. Metropolitan Coalition of the NC
League of Municipalities. In this role she
interacts with leaders of the 24 largest cities
in the state, helping research and develop
policy positions; analyze legislation and poli-
cies that affect those cities; and implement
annual conference sessions. While with this
organization, she helped develop a compre-
hensive strategy to obtain passage of gang
legislation, something North Carolina didn’t
have until two bills passed in 2008.
Before joining the NC League of
Municipalities, she was an assistant in the
mayor’s office in Winston-Salem, and a
congressional associate with the Washington
Linkage Group in Washington, DC.
Khajuria was an active community
volunteer in Washington and is now active
in the Junior League of Raleigh; volunteers
with SAFEchild, a child abuse prevention
agency; and is in this year’s class of Leader-
Doris Schaum Walston C’44 and
ship Raleigh 24.
Schaum Lamm Hunt C’74
She serves by appointment on the Wake
County Commission for Women and on the
North Carolina Council for Women.
S alem C ollege • 41
Salem College Reunion Weekend

Left to Right: Caroline Pfohl

Carter, Annette McNeely Leight,
Jessie Skinner Gaither, Josephine
Hutchison Fitts, Peggy Rogers Gainey

Class of 1939
Seated: Katy Bly Love Blackburn,
Tap Swinson, Weathers, Margaret
Winstead Spainhour, Geachie
McGeachy Ward, Mary Lewis Lawhon
Standing: Nancy Stone Watkins,
Doris Schaum Walston, Becky Cozart
Smith, Kaka Schwalbe Leinbach,
Virgina Gibson Griffith
Class of 1944
Front Row: Patsy Moser
Sumner, Ann Lanier Spencer, Martha
Brannock Mickey, Betty Wolfe Boyd,
Boots Lambeth Hinkle, Dotty
Covington McGehee, Nell Penn Watt
Spencer, Augusta Garth McDonald
Row 2: Peggy Watkins Wharton,
Alice Hunsucker Latta, Jeanne Dungan
Greear, Nancy Wray White, Diane
Payne Arrowood, Katherine Ives
Gheesling, Bet Epps Pearson

Class of 1949
Front Row: Ann Bondurant
Young, Alison Britt Barron, Jean Shope
Haynes, Laura Mitchell Mayfield
Row 2: Edith Tesch Johnson,
Elynor Fishel Rights, Joan Shope
Bennett, Jody Moody Clark

Class of 1954
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 April 17-19, 2009

Front Row: Margaret Fletcher

Kleber, Noel Vossler Harris, Mary Anne
Boone Thomas, Anne Summerell Davant,
Susan McIntyre Goodman, Frances
Cuningham Nobert, Marilyn Fishel
Griffin, Mary Lois James Hilliard
Row 2: Dena Fasul Potter, Betty
Jon Satchwell Smith, Nancy Willis Evans,
June Gregson Gregory, Louise Hill Gunter,
Carole Cole Martin, Sue Cooper
Huffman, Anne Pearce Archer,
Mary Jane Mayhew Burns
Row 3: Anthea Taylor Tate,
Lucinda Oliver Denton, Sarah Price
Whitty, Mary Thaeler Mowrer, Camille
Suttle Smith, Patty Kimbrough King,
Katie Teague Covington, Jane Bailey
Burts, Ann Brinson Hensel
Row 4: Martha Duvall Jones, Ann Lee
Barefield, Eve Van Vleck Trumpore, Faye
McDuffie Gardner, Shirley Hardy Harris,
Meriwether Lewis Walker, Jane Rostan
McBryde, Jerome Moore Newsome Class of 1959

Front Row: Barbara White McLarty,

Jan Horner Rainero, Becky Newsome
Clingman, Barbara Gottschalk Wiltshire,
Nancy Lytle Martin, Jane Hedgpeth Wells,
Suzy Forbes Howard, Jo Dunbar
Faulmann, Jane Hanling Shavender
Row 2: Irene Rose Owen, Donna Raper
Stallings, Frances Speas Kohut, Martha
Paisley, Mary Jane Harrell McKnight,
Ann Stafford Buchanan, Anne Griffis
Wilson, Alice Reid, Frances Bailey
Broaddus-Crutchfield
Row 3: Anne Romig Decker, Bonnie
Hauch Danser, Becky Gaddy Wright,
Ann Marie Martin, Tish Johnston
Kimbrough, Jackie Lamond Turbidy,
Margy Harris Holt, Sandi Kimbrell
Livermon, Sarah Kirk Albright

Class of 1964
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Salem College Reunion Weekend

Front Row: Susan Kirby Browder,

Jeanne Garner Clay, Sylvia Lynn
Messick, Martha Dillard Gomer, Linda
Camp McElwee, Amy Murray Orser,
Mary Jane Boren Meeker, Ann Todd Free,
Joanna McGrath Reynolds
Row 2: Lili Powers Ouzts, Kristin
Jorgenson Oliver, Elisabeth Bosch
Biggerstaff, Nancy Taylor Sumner,
Jannet Bowers Kramer, Mary Lou Ford
Stott, Ann Copenhaver Cotton,
Katherine McCarty
Row 3: Tina Gwaltney Baird,
Liza Pond Rainey, Sue Wooten Wilkins,
Betsy Shelburne, Mary Sheppard, Sue
Palaschak Willis, Candy Stell Shivers, Jane
Boyd Hoover, Jane Ellen Tilman Boehm,
Cathy Clements Bradshaw

Class of 1969

Front Row: Mary Denton Roberts

Lyerly, Becky Hewit Rauenhorst, Dee
Wilson Davis, Gwen Smith McKee, Betsy
Beard Holbrook, Lynne Mappus, Joan
Spangler Means, Jean Wetzel Nance, Anne
Manly Smith, Libby Bragg Grey
Row 2: Winn Currie Ballenger, Deborah
Warner, Margaret Brinkley Sigmon, Cathy
Hunsucker, Kathy Bacon Ely, Ada Parker
Shields, Harriett Willson Bosiack, Julie
Barton Collins, Camille Murphy Jones
Row 3: Le Newell Erwin, Averell Pharr
Stuart, Betsy Hester, Mary Dashiell, Susan
Phillips, Stewart Taylor Butler, Sally Phil-
lips, Laura Turnage McNair, Nan Wilson
McLendon, Schaum Lamm Hunt
Row 4: Suzanne Hornaday
Birmingham, Carol Perrin Cobb, Sue
Nell Carter Fuller, Chris Minter-Dowd,
Meredith Hardy Vogler, Nancy Adams
Quinn, Marcy Priester Choate, Betsy
Wilkins Robinson, Peggy Bullard Barnes,
Beth Pollard Buechner Class of 1974
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 April 17-19, 2009

Front Row: Liz Boyd Rader,

Ann Miller Pardue, Robin Brown Nail,
Mary Crowley, Becky Talton Bump,
Pam Wilburn Tilley
Row 2: Susan Miller Brink, Melanie
White Stancill, Connie Caldwell Breeser,
Cindy Taylor Walton, Paula Myers
Rowland, Caroline Wannamaker Sink,
Kate Wallace McCoy

Class of 1979

Front Row: Mary Weeks Fountain,

Harriette Neuburger Reid, Paula Corbett
Simmons, Chris Marks Suit, Mary Anne
Craven Moldenhauer, Leigh Sobel
Row 2: Laura Vincent Camp,
Elizabeth Clark Hill, Lee Ann Manning,
Sally Hill Shore, Betsy Morrow Elliott

Class of 1984
Front Row: Meg Cox Stott, Mary
Bryan Pierce Smith, Beth Barksdale,
Bridget Maley-Cannon, Cole Cannon,
Felicia Lamm Wilson, Patrice Mitchell
Row 2: Mary Poole Reese, Kay
Costenbader McCann, Leslie
Crow Flanagan, Alison Gill Falkoff,
Sheila Elliott Parker

Class of 1989
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Salem College Reunion Weekend

Front Row: Alice Peschl, Amy

Woodard Kemp, Sally Johns Tidmore,
Michelle Arnoczy Holcomb, Allison
Bruce Anderson, S. Margaret Pike,
Ashley Mattox Wood
Row 2: Shan Woolard, Gwen Brennan,
Susan Cochran Moser, Ashley Houston
Franklin, Arden Ney Brewer, Alison
Spears Boyle, Amy Faulk Welton

Class of 1994

Front Row: Anne Mar Liles Kirby,

Sarah Evans, Mary Louise Harris Baker,
Sara Roberts Hepler, Cynthia Barber,
Blair Strickland Bergevin, Erika Madden,
Laura Holland Luke, Rebecca Hensberry
Neiberg, Emily Meyer Jolly
Row 2: Jamie Mungle Rorrer, Jennifer
Norvell Bergevin, Amy Regrut de Leon,
Wendy McClung Talley, Jennifer Reid,
Sally Lockard Nichols, Aimee Martin
Williams, Shannon Lawing McGinnis,
Johnna Chatham Modlin, Josie Jenkins
Row 3: Jessica Atkinson, Anna Cheek
Williams, Amanda Thomas, Diane
Bonham, Helen Schlabs Baker, Torva
Larson Smith, Bridget Archibald
Meadows, Kathryn Sander Elliott
Row 4: Molly Plemmons Shaner,
Jennifer Sosnowki, Katherine Ferrell,
Jennifer Forbes, Peggy Ethier Crane,
Jennifer Hartman Tucker, Stephanie Talbert
Goldsborough, Sarah-Henning Snellings,
Jill Shelton, Shirley Moritz Vaughan Class of 1999
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 April 17-19, 2009

Front Row: Elisabeth “Lizard”

Royston, Noni Person, Monica Godoy
Bruce, Livni Mendez, Angel McArthur,
Beth Young, Conschetta Wright,
Allison Crooks, Emily Ustach
Row 2: Jessica Cecil Rogers, Ashley
Watts, Katie Burge, Chelsea LaVoie
Brown, Jennifer Cassels, Danielle Bowers
Sanders, Vanessa Wright Hollifield,
Mary Joyce Gibson, Melissa Esposito
Row 3: Erica DeCoeur, Lesley Simmons
Reece, Tiese Roxbury, Rehanna Khan,
Andrea Falden, Priscilla Christensen,
Rebekah Bray Davis, Meighan Mahaffey
Row 4: Casey Kiser, Rosemary
Johnson, Holly Palmer, Carolyn Lukason,
Liz Smith, Elissa Gall Drumm,
Joyell Nevins, Heidi Schneble

Class of 2004

Front Row: Whitney Combs,

Whitney Smith, Jacqueline Mathis,
Jessica Williams, Katie Gunter, Melissa
Wilson, Lauren Cole, Susan Smith,
Jennifer Thomas
Row 2: Tatum Fishel, Noel Clark,
Brittany Owen, Amy Litz, Anna Claire
Pliszka Croghan, Annemarie Wess, Anne
Donovan Clark, Rebecca Simmons
Row 3: Alexandra Cesare, Kelsey
Finnie, Stevie Bechtel, Erin Wilson,
Anne Rutherford, Joanna Littrell,
Sarah Williams, Kendra Clopton,
Sandy Romanac

Class of 2008
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Salem Trivia Challen�e
Are you up on your Salem history? Take the Salem
Academy and College Trivia Challenge. Check your
answers at www.salem.edu/trivia.
1. The Salem alumna who became First Lady of the
United States was:
a. Dolley Payne (Mrs. James Madison)
b. Rachel Donelson (Mrs. Andrew Jackson)
c. Sarah Childress (Mrs. James Polk)
d. Eliza McCardle (Mrs. Andrew Johnson)
2. We all know that Elizabeth Oesterlein was the first
teacher of the little girls at Salem. Who became the sec-
ond teacher?
a. Polly Vogler b. Elizabeth Meinung
c. Sarah Kramsch d. Christina Sehner
3. The image that ultimately became the Salem seal was
based on a class pin designed for the Class of:
a. 1899 b. 1907
c. 1914 d. 1920
4. In the early 1970s, consideration was given to building
an INDOOR pool in the basement of:
a. Main Hall
b. History Wing
c. Rondthaler Science Building
d. Corrin Refectory
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5. The name of the first printed Salem
annual was:
a. The Ivy b. Sights and Insights
c. SemFem d. Pinafore
6. The motto on the Salem Seal is:
a. Gamma Delta Alpha b. Delta Alpha Gamma
c. Alpha Kappa Gamma d. Gamma Kappa Delta
7. The names of the TWO student literary societies at
Salem were the:
a. Phythian and Hesperian
b. Hesperian and Euterpean
c. Euterpean and Ephesian
d. Ephesian and Phythian
8. The Salem inspector / president who served for the
longest term was:
a. G. Benjamin Reichel b. John H. Clewell
c. Howard Rondthaler d. Dale H. Gramley
9. Emma Lehman, teacher of English and amateur bota-
nist, discovered a plant that (for a time) was considered
to be an original find–Monotropsis lehmani. This plant
was a kind of:
a. Buttercup b. Lily
c. Aster d. Indian pipe
10. The Great Storm that felled most of the oak trees in
Salem Square and along Cedar Avenue in God’s Acre oc-
curred in May of:
a. 1978 b. 1984
c. 1989 d. 1993
11. Ivy May Hixson, first Academic Dean of Salem Col-
lege, originally taught:
a. Latin b. English
c. Philosophy d. French
12. Which of the following women has
NOT officially visited Salem Academy and College?
a. Helen Keller b. Eleanor Roosevelt
c. Madeline Albright d. Beverly Perdue
13. The first non-Moravian President of
Salem Academy and College was:
a. Dale H. Gramley b. John H.Chandler
c. Richard Morrill d. Julianne Still Thrift
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Can you identi�y this photograph �rom the Salem archives?

This photo of Salem students on the edge of the swimming pool comes from the Gramley
Library archives. If you know the approximate date when the photo was taken and can
identify any of the women pictured, please email alumnae director Karla Gort at
karla.gort@salem.edu. We’ll post the findings at www.salem.edu on the alumnae news page.