The present summer has been very closely occupied by the College and Academy administration in an extensive interior renovation of both the college and Academy plants in addition very considerable improvements upon the Campus particularly in the vicinity of the new Henry T. Bahnson Memorial Infirmary which will be opened for the first time with the new term in September. Fewer changes that every before has been the case are being effected in the Faculty.
Miss Jackson, former Head of the Mathematics Department in the College, retired for rest and recuperation, and is succeeded by Miss Mary S. Day, who has completed her work leading to the Doctors degree in Mathematics at Columbia University and is a teacher of extended experience in this subject. In the Academy Miss Mary A. Weaver, degree graduate Randolph Macon Women’s College and for several years successfully engaged in teaching Mathematics in the Grove Park School at Asheville, will take charge of the subject of Mathematics and will also assist in the physical training program of the Academy, which this year will be considerably enlarged. Miss Elizabeth Zachary of Brevard, N.C., becomes the assistant in Salem Academy to Mrs. Herndon, House Mother. Miss Zachary is well known in Winston-Salem, having graduated at Salem College two years ago with the degree A.B. And having served as Head of Student Self Government and as President of the Athletic Association. She has bene successfully engaged in teaching in the Brevard High School.
Enlarged work will this year be offered in the Department of Social Sciences and Economics under the direction of Miss E.S. Covington, recently Dean of Women at Meredith College and Professor of Social Sciences in that Institution, and previously associated with the North Carolina College for Women and earlier with Davenport College. Miss Covington received her A.B. degree from Shorter College and her A.M. from Columbia University. At this time a graduate thesis which she prepared on “Unused Land in North Carolina” attracted much attention. She has travelled extensively in Italy, France and England.
Temporary arrangements have been effected with Rev. George Heath, now on furlough from mission fields in Nicharagua, for college instruction in Modern Languages and a readers position in English. Mr. Heath, well known in this community, was prepared for college at Fulneck, England, Moravian School and the Manchester Grammar School, having passed the Cambridge and Oxford local examinations with honors, he became a student in medicine for several years at Manchester University and later perfected his knowledge of various foreign languages in Spain and Germany. Mr. Heath is the author of a Miskito Indian grammar and several brochures in the native languages of Nicaragua, Central America. Most recently under the direction of the American Bible Society and the Moravian Mission Board he has been engaged in completing a translation of the New Testament into Miskito Indian. This translation is now appearing from the press.
From the front page of The Salemite, the Salem College Student newspaper, Winston-Salem, N.C., Sept. 12, 1925
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