On Thursday morning, September 14th at 10 o’clock Salem College and Salem Academy will open with usual chapel exercise. On this occasion, however, several added features will lend interest to the first meeting of the student body for the year 1923-24.
It will be interesting to watch class mates as they exchange hurried greetings. The enthusiasm will in no wise wane, however, when the first strains of the processional are sounded.
Down the left aisle, in Academic array, will move the new Senior class; just yesterday, it seems, they were Juniors. Every one has progressed.
The Freshmen of last year, having acquired a bolder countenance, will have forfeited their places in the Hall to the incoming Freshman class, and the old Sophomores will have claimed the Junior benches as their own.
Every year a portion of the first exercise is devoted to the reading, by our President, of the greetings which have been received from Alumnae of many states. Salem girls are always expressing their desire to stand with us at “the Portal of the Opening Year.”
Announcements concerning classes and other matters of student interest will be made. Dr. Rondthaler, Bishop Rondthaler, Mr. Heath, and Dr. Kenneth Pfohl will each say a few words to the students.
After an hour together, the student body will be dismissed as the bell in Main Building rings for the first class, since Salem prides herself on the fact that real work begins the very first day of school.
From page 3 of The Salemite, Salem College’s newspaper, Sept. 12, 1923
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