July 9: Happy Birthday! Mary Fries Blair
Mary Eleanor Fries Blair was born on this day in 1873, in Salem, to John William and Agnes de Schweinitz Fries. She graduated from Salem Academy and Salem College, and did graduate work at...
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June 25: Happy Birthday! Grace Louise Siewers
Grace Louise Siewers was born on this day in 1889, in Salem, to Dr. Nathaniel Shober and Eleanor de Schweinitz Siewers. Grace graduated from Salem College and taught there following graduation. She attended Columbia...
May 17,1907: First Public Performance in Memorial Hall
Memorial Hall was built to house rehearsal halls for music students, and to provide a venue for Salem Academy and College students to perform. It was located on S. Church Street, near Academy Street....
May 1,1936: Stone Bench for Salem College’s May Day
On this day in 1936, an announcement appeared in the Winston-Salem Journal that a gray stone bench has been given to Salem College for use in the May Day celebration. The bench will be...
April 14: Happy Birthday! Hans Heidemann
Hans Heidemann was born in Germany on this day in 1911. He came to the United States in 1926. His parents played a variety of musical instruments, and Hans began taking piano lessons...
March 28: Happy Birthday! Katharine King Johnson
Katharine King Bahnson de Braganca Johnson was born in Leaksville in 1921. She graduated from Salem College, where she was Queen of the May in 1941, the year she graduated. Also in 1941, she...