Kerri Hughes

Introducing Pierrette’s President Kerri Hughes

By Eva Andrews In 1909, long before the Student Government Association, there was a group of thespians who formed a theater group. First called The Dramatists and later renamed the Pierrettes, this campus club has been entertaining Salem College for over a hundred years. This past March, they performed The Addams Family Musical, a story […]

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SGA 2016-17 Election Results

By Sarah Vick The Salemite extends its gratitude to the excellent and efficient election co-chairs, Emily Rutledge and Brianna Youngblood for running this year’s Student Government Association (SGA) elections so well. Congratulations as well to all of the elected officers for the 2016-17 academic year! Here are the final results for Salem’s 2016-17 Student Government […]

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The Addams Family Visits Salem

By Emily Ramser Wednesday, Morticia Uncle Fester, and Gomez are all here. Salem College’s Pierrette Players are putting on The Addams Family for the 2016 spring musical. In this musical comedy, based upon The Addams Family television show, Salem students are playing the creepy, kooky roles. The Addam’s Family stage manager Molly Blanchard refers to […]

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These Shining Lives: Pierrettes Tell Story of Strong Women

By Emily Ramser Real women, real stories; it sounds like the tagline for The Vagina Monologues, but it means something different when applied to Pierrettes’ fall semester production, These Shining Lives. These Shining Lives is a play from the early 2000s written by Melanie Marnich, an American playwright and television writer. These Shining Lives it […]

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The JanTerm Experience: “Adventures in Mexico”

You haven’t experienced culture shock until you can’t flush toilet paper. That was the first thing I learned upon landing in Mérida, México for Jan Term 2015. Seriously. The pipes can’t handle it, so you have to throw it away. And that was only the first in a laundry list of things that are different […]

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The Pierettes Present “Anton in Show Business”

The Salem College Pierettes presented their fall play, Anton in Show Business, from September 25-27 this year. The play followed the lives of show business members such as actors, producers, directors, and critics. While the play was enjoyable overall, the plot was difficult to follow due to the introduction and change of many characters. The […]