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We Are Salem - February 17, 2021

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Salem’s 250th Celebration

As was shared in an email last week, we are excited to announce the yearlong celebration to commemorate the 250th Anniversary of Salem Academy and College.  We will celebrate throughout the 2021–2022 academic year, including opportunities to engage in inclusive reflections on our history and honoring the resilience, contributions, and experiences of those who paved the way.

Since this will be a momentous year for Salem, this issue of We Are Salem is taking a slightly different format than usual and is almost entirely dedicated to the 250th Celebration.

One important thing that we wanted to reiterate is that it is not too late to volunteer to help with the 250th!  Salem has many exciting events and activities planned and will need as many volunteers as possible to help shine a light on Salem and this milestone year.  We hope you will join our team.

Please be sure to check the section of our website dedicated to the 250th Celebration for information, updates and how to volunteer.

Katherine Knapp Watts C’80
250th Celebration Chair
Vice President for Strategic Initiatives
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Get Excited, Students! The 250th Celebration is Going to Rock!

We are super thrilled to start planning the campus events for students at both the College and the Academy to celebrate Salem’s 250th.  Throughout the whole 2021–2022 academic year, we will have monthly activities to honor the history and make the future of Salem come to life—starting with a big celebratory “welcome back” dinner on September 25. We also will celebrate the return of the Walk from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to campus on October 26, revel in finals with a midnight Moravian breakfast, and wrap up the year with Salem’s first ever Dance Marathon to raise funds for Brenner Children’s Hospital.  Get ready to spend 24 hours dancing and celebrating the past and future of Salem with all your friends—we cannot WAIT!

Starting this spring, we are looking for students to join our committee so that we create events and experiences that are meaningful and fun for all—so please reach out if you are interested in joining us to plan—we NEED you!  Interested college students can contact Collier Lumpkin at collier.lumpkin@salem.edu and Academy students can contact Ashley Pearson at ashley.pearson@salem.edu.

Here’s to 250 more!

Collier Lumpkin
Executive Director – Global Leadership and Career Innovation
 
Ashley Pearson
Director of Student Life, Theatre Teacher
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Salem’s 250th is Meaningful for All!

I am so excited for Salem’s 250th Anniversary and have been since my first year!  When I first came to campus, the Class of 2022 was always told that our graduating year was going to be incredibly important because it would be a marking point in our history.  Since then, Salem has grown to be a core part of my life, defining so many elements of my identity.  It is not just an educational institution, it is a community built on the foundations of integrity, equal opportunity, and personal growth.

I believe that this yearlong celebration will bring us closer together after what may have been one of the most stressful times of our lives.  Juniors and Seniors will finally have a chance to show the incoming First Years and Sophomores (who have never been on campus) what makes Salem special to us!  The opportunity to celebrate what Salem has done for me as well as thousands of women throughout the years is an honor that I cannot wait to share with my fellow Salem Sibs!

Alaina Mills, Class of 2022

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The Road to the 250th

As part of the 250 Celebration History Committee, Michelle Lawrence is writing a monthly history column on Salem Academy and College.

Column 1: January 2021

This is the first in a series of columns designed to highlight the history and traditions of Salem Academy and College as we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of the institution in April 2022. Beginning this fall, Salem will spend the academic year in celebration, starting with a Kick-off Concert in September 2021.

The Road to the 250th is meant to recall the 500-mile journey of the 12 Older Girls and four Single Sisters who travelled from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to the Wachovia territory in North Carolina in 1766. These young Moravian women and girls were about the same age as Academy and College students today. Their journey was motivated by their faith and the call to service. In Moravian communities, everyone was called to serve. No one was supposed to be idle, so a basic education was considered to be essential for girls and boys alike. When Moravians formed new communities, meeting spaces for worship and classes were usually the first to be built.

The first students in April 1772, all under the age of 10, met under the supervision of Elisabeth Oesterlein (born in 1749) in the Gemeinhaus on the corner of Salem Square where Main Hall stands today. For nearly 250 years, girls and women have been educated in this very same spot. The buildings on the north east corner of the square today (Inspector’s House, Home Moravian Church, and Main Hall) appear almost unchanged from the photos taken in the mid-19th Century. This is a testament to the importance of education in the Salem community.

We can learn much from the first students and teachers of the girls school. These include teachers, such as Elizabeth Oesterlein, and students who returned to teach, such as Martha Miksch, who was the first in a long line of teachers who began their Salem careers as students.

Academy students in this year’s Jan Term class The Remarkable Women of Early Salem had the following to say: The girls and women of 1766 showed courage to act on their beliefs. They were bold enough to travel far from home to an unknown place and determined to make a new life in Wachovia in order to serve others according to their Moravian faith. Each year, we ask Salem students to emulate the girls and women of Salem’s past in their dedication to education and service to others.

Column 2: February 2021

Last summer, The Washington Post ran a story about Daniel Smith, an 88-year-old Washingtonian whose father was enslaved. Slavery ended almost 166 years ago in the United States, but the story of Mr. Smith and others like him show how present the legacy of slavery is. Many living Americans are only a generation or two removed from slavery.

In the 21st Century, we are still coming to grips with the truth of our past and the legacy of racism. Why? The answer lies in the fact that the victors get to write history.

After the failure of Reconstruction, Confederate leaders and segregationists wrote the story of the antebellum south. The myth of the lost cause and the image of a genteel southern culture became the main story in place of the truth of dehumanizing violence. The myth and the stereotypes were told so well, partially through American entertainment and advertising, that they became the dominant image of Black people across America. They contributed to the apology for slavery that argues slaves received free food, housing, and medical care. Of course, these things were not free; they came at the cost of people’s families, a chance at an education, and the right to control their bodies.

For many years, Salem celebrated its current diversity while neglecting its segregated past. In this century, more and more institutions have grappled with the truth of their past connections to and benefits from slavery. Locally, the Southern Province of the Moravian Church apologized for its participation in slavery in 2006. College students in 2017 and Academy alumnae in 2020 challenged our community to conduct an honest investigation of the institution’s relationship with slavery and the legacy of racism. Salem Academy and College issued an apology for its use of enslaved labor in 2018, and The Anna Maria Samuel Project was created as direct results of this generation’s refusal to accept the myth.

Today, Salem Academy and College is working with Universities Studying Slavery and with Old Salem Museum & Gardens’ Hidden Town Project. This work began in 2017 and is continuing through Jan Term internships and classes at the Academy as well as public programs on campus. Forsyth County’s Historic Resources Commission has approved new historical markers on Church Street highlighting those enslaved men and women who worked at or attended Salem. There are also plans to provide additional information in the Single Sisters Museum, which will be open to the public at no cost. While campus is closed, you can access information about past research and current projects by visiting The Anna Maria Samuel Project.

Michelle Hopkins Lawrence
Co-chair, The Anna Maria Samuel Project: Race, Remembrance, and Reconciliation at Salem Academy and College
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Get to Know the Salem Board of Trustees 250th Subcommittee

Over the next several weeks, we will profile one member of the Salem Academy and College Board of Trustees 250th Subcommittee in We Are Salem.

This week we are pleased to profile Ellen Todd Drew C’81. After graduating from Salem with a degree in Arts Administration, Ellen worked in the development offices at the Peabody Essex Museum and the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center.  She also worked as an administrator at the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services in New York City before becoming a full-time mother.  While raising her four children, she served on the board of the PTA and was also a Girl Scout leader and a member of the Junior League. In addition to serving on the Salem Board, Ellen currently helps the fundraising efforts for Alzheimer’s research though the Part the Cloud Committee and serves on the board of Second Harvest Silicon Valley.  She lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

Don’t Miss the February Speakers for “At the Intersections: A conversation with womxn on gender and race”
Camille Woods

As mentioned last week, Camille Woods, the first speaker for the Spring 2021 “At the Intersections: A conversation with womxn on gender and race,” will share her story tonight (February 17) at 7 p.m. Woods is a recent Salem graduate. At Salem, she was a campus leader involved in many organizations. Perhaps her most notable contributions were her leadership in Salem’s Fun, Fit February program, her work as a member of the Salem Ghost Ryders, and her engagement as an Orientation Leader. She was also involved in Black Americans Demonstrating Unity (BADU).

Jennifer King

Mark your calendars for February 24 at 7 p.m., when Jennifer King will share her story. King’s career is marked by many firsts. In 2019, she worked the football season at Dartmouth College where she worked with the wide receivers and assisted with offensive quality control for the 2019 Ivy League Champions. While at Dartmouth, she was the first black female to coach in a NCAA Division I game. Recently, she again distinguished herself following the 2020 professional football season, when she was promoted to Assistant Running Backs coach for the Washington Football Team making her the first black female position coach in NFL history.

These events are presented by the Activities, Leadership, and Intercultural (ALI) office at Salem College. The ALI office is centering on Black women for the “At the Intersections” speakers this February in celebration of Black History Month and are pleased that our first two speakers both represent history in the making.

Celeste Banaag
Multicultural Leadership Graduate Assistant
 
Alex Prusator
Student Center Leadership Graduate Assistant
 
Alan Mueller
Assistant Dean of Students for Student Activities, Leadership, and Intercultural Education
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