THANKS FOR AIDING
THE M. & G. POLL
F^aroon and Gold
Published By And For Eton Students
CONGRATULATIONS
TO “WHO’S WHO”
VOLUME XIX
ELON COLLEGE. N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IL 1914
NUMBER FOUR
Religious Education Week Begins Nov. 19
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Quarter Ends December 1 —Who's Who Announced
Fov-i*teen Elon Stud©nts
Make “Who’s Who”
Fourteen Elon students have been
nominated to be listed in the 1944-45
publication of WHO S WHO AMONG \
J^TUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVER* |
SITIES AND COLLEGES, according 1
to an announcement of the Student- j
faculty committee at its first meetinj
in President Smith s office on No
vember 8-
There are twelve seniors on the list.
Mary Ellen McCants. Anderson, S. C ;
Eli'^a Boyd, Henderson; Mary War
ren, Staley; Doris Chandler. Walstein
Snyder, and Nell Crenshaw, all of
Eurlington; Jeanne Hook, Iris Boland,
and Edna Rumley. all of Elon Col-
li*ge; Theo Strum of Roxboro; Lula
Lrown of West Palm Beach, Fla,;
and Earl Farrell. Pittsboro. who is
now a student at the Divinity School
at Duke University The Juniors who
were nominated are Junius Peedin,
Glendon. and Jesse Thurecht, Eliza
beth City.
The nominations were made by a
committee of faculty members and ap
proved by the newly-organized Stu-
dent-Faculty committee. The selec
tions were based on achievement in
leadership, scholarship, and charact
er.
The candidates were carefully con
sidered and their qualifications dis
cussed. Those nominated are all
pctive in campus life, showing lead
ership in extra-curricular activities,
and are eacji outstanding in some
special field—in student government,
scholarship, literary, or religious
work.
BILL OF ONE-ACT PLAYS SET
FOR TUESDAY EVENING
Lt. L. A. Simonson
Writes From India
On November H. al 8:15 p. m.
in the Little Theatre, the College
players will pre.ent their first
bill of the year. Joe Franks will
make his farewell appearance be
fore reporting to the Army Air
Corps, playing opposite Kathleen
Young in the clever comedy,
“Angels Dou’i ftiairy.”
Ann Strader. Thomas Horner,
and Gene Poe will carry the leads
in a stirring play called “The
Terrible Meek.” This drama has
an iutense religious background.
Frances Pegram and Lem Allen
will do “A Girl and a Gob,’* a
short comedy skit.
The Dramatics Committee of
the faculty is reading a group of
plays from which one will be
chosen for the first major pro
duction of the Players. Tryoats
for this will be held the first week
in December.
Admission Tue«d:^y evening
will be fifteen cents.
**!&■ J! iwl* .
Freshman class officers, pictured abo right, Francis Det
rick. DeGraff. Ohio, treasui'er; Bill M Intyre. Spindale, vice-oresident; Dan
ny Banks. New Bern, president; an d Ruth Webster, Haw River, sec'y
Federation Of Music
Clubs Holds Piedmont
District Meet At Elon
Student Senate Is
Renderins Service
Student government is no new
thing on the campuses of America
a became popular about the year
191S. although it is much older than
that. The movement began in the
United States as a means of prepar
ing within our schools a background
fnr I'itlfenchm anH nartiri.
Pi‘'dmo"t District of the North
Carolina Federation of Music Clubs
held its eighteenth annual meeting
November 8th in the Whitley audi
torium.
The senior grcftip met'at'10 a. m..
opening their meeting with the sing
ing of their Federation Hymn under
■ the direction of Miss Margaret H
V'hittington, of the Elon faculty. In-
I vocation was given by Dr. D. J. Bow-
I den. dean of the college. Mrs. J.
Kenneth Pfohl, state president, led
the Federation Collect. Dr. L. E.
Smith, president of Elon College wel
comed the Federation to the Elon
campus: and Mrs. Mark Hoffman,
president of the F.iifppn«» rinh nt
organist, Elon College; Mrs W. E.
Cook, pianist, Mebane; Miss Anne
McClenny. pianist. Elon College; and
the Guilford choir under the direction
of Dr, Ezra H. F. Weis.
Luncheon was held at I in Mooney
Hall. At this time reports of the
district committees were given.
The afternoon session was devoted
to tlie junior division of the federa
tion. Miss Nell Clapp, district chair
man. presided. The meeting was
opened with the Federation Hyran.
The Junior Collect was led by the
Mendelssohn Club of Burlington. Pro
fessor Irving D. Bartley, of the Elon
faculty, welcomed these active jun
iors to Elon. Miss Sarah Ann Slawt-
Dr. Jesse Dollar Will
Conduct Religious Service
MISS PEGGY MORRIS
ELON S PLVl’P GIRL
Chapel Thursday morning, No
vember 9. saw a calvacade of
beauties In a contest sponsored
by the Tau Zeta Phi Sorority.
And the beauty of it all is that
Elon now has three pin-up girls.
“Gentlemen prefer blondes”
slogan held true when th^ men of
the faculty as judges chose for
the “Dream Chile,” Peggy Morris,
popular day student sponsored by
the Doctor Johnson's Literary So
ciety. Winners of second and
third places were Margaret
Rawls, representing the Maroon
and Gold staff, and Frances De
tick, sponsored by the choir.
There were fifteen girls in the
contest who were sponsored by all
four classes, the sororities, the
publications, literary organiza
tions, and the law-making bodies,
the council and the senate.
LEON GIBBS AND JOE FRANKS
CALLED TO SERVICE
Leon Gibbs, junior and major in
mathematics and physics, of Reids-
ville, and Joe Franks, sophomore and
pre-law student, of Elon and Bur
lington, have received orders to re*
port for military duty within a week.
Gibbs has requested naval duty, and
Franks has registered with the Army
Air Corps. Both these men have
been prominent in dramatics for the
past two years, and have been pop
ular in many tampus activities. Good
Dr Jesse Dollar, pastor of the
Christian church at Newport News,
Virginia, will be the guest evangelist
during Religious Emphasis Week No
vember 19-24. Chapel and eveaiiig
services will be announced.
Dr. Dollar was graduated at Elon
in 1925 His Divinity school was
Vanderbilt University, and he has
been made a Doctor of Divinity for
outstanding services as a Christiaci
minister. He is a native of Alabama.
Under hi5 leadership tae Newport
News church ha» shown more pro
gress tlian any other Coagregational-
Christian church in the Southern Con
vention during the past five years.