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VOLUME XIX
ELON COLLEGE, N. C„ SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1945
NUMBER SIX
MILLION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN IS UNDER WAY
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GUILFORD OPENS CONFERENCE SCHEDULE HERE
First League Game
In Gym Tonight At 8
North Dormitory tonight will be
the scene of the first Elon College
intercollegiate basketball game since
competition was halted thre^ years
Ego, Strangely enough the oppon
ents tonight represent the same col
lege that the Fighting Christians
played in their last game. Yes, three
years ago the last game of the col
lege season was with the Quakers of
Guilford College. Even though there
was a North State tournament after
the regular season, the Guilford five
was the last opponent of the local
squad losing to the boys in Maroon
and Gold by the score of 45 to 29.
Tonight's results will be much
closer, and a capacity crowd is ex
pected to jam the newly overhauled
gym. The Guilford squad is an un
known quantity to Coach Adcox’s boys
and a scrap is expected from the
opening gun. The teams have met
only one common.opponent, this being
ORD of Greensboro, and both teams
were defeated at the hands of the
soldiers by approximately the same
score.
The Fighting Christians tonight will
be without the services of Bobby Mc-
Cotter who has recently enlisted in
the Navy Air Cori>s. His place will
be filled by Bill McEntire who start
ed in the last game. The rest of the
Elon starting team will probably be
Register and Banks at forward.
Chandler at center, and Wayne Taylor
at the other guard post with McEntire.
The proceedings are scheduled to
begin at 8:30 and Captain Fred Reg
ister will bring his squad out on the
floor for warm up practice about 8.
Big plans are being made and it is
rumored that the cheer leaders will be
very much in evidence with their
new outfits. Come on students let’s
help those cheer leaders!
Phi Psi Cli Editors
Announce Work On
Annual Underway
Compilation of material for the
Elon College year book, tlie Phi Psi
Cli, is well under way. according to
tlie editor, Liza Boyd, and copies will
be ready for the students well before
the spring quarter is over.
Miss Boyd says that the proofs are
being distributed, and the photog
rapher will be back somewhere near
the middle of the month for retake
pictures and to take other group pho
tographs and various views of the
campus.
“We have started arranging the
written material, and we hope to have
the photographs ready for the en
gravers by the first of February,”
states Miss Boyd.
“We need a lot more snapshots of
campus scenes and personalities,”
she'continued, “and if anyone has any,
Fd appreciate it very much if they
would turn them in to either Lib
Holland, the associate editor, Mary
Coxe, the business manager, or me.”
Tlie Phi Psi Cli was first published
for the students of Elon College in
1913, and derives its name from the
three literary societies that were re
sponsible for its creation, the Philo-
logian, Psiphelian, and Clio groups.
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HAL WATTS, VETERAN OF
PACIFIC WAR, VISITS
CAMPUS
DR. AND MRS. HANS HIRSCH
ATTEND MODERN LANGUAGE
ASSOCIATION CONVENTION
DECEMBER 27-30
Memoirs Of 1944
By TOM HORNER
No one likes to read a long drawn-
out column from the annals of the
past; therefore, “ye ole scribe” strives
to make this as light as possible, re
cording some of the lov.' ■'s tlie
higlitlights of the past year. We, at
Elon, don’t like to “drag skeletons
out of the closet,” but we remember
v/ith pride the things we do and love,
for these are the things which make
us what, we are.
The New Year of 1944 was ushered
was the “bud of the rose” and Bon
nie Davis was the “peak of pyra
mid.” rememf’."r? We were all so
proud of 01 ” handsome black-haired
king, Earl Farrell, and the pretty red
headed queen, Hazel Walker, as they
marched dow 3 to the throne to the
tune of “Pomp and Circumstance.”
Wasn’t Lib Holland beautiful in that
purple gown?
And then commencement—Faye
and Jeffreys wept on each others i
shoulder, and Mary began to weep;
with them. Then we all said good-
returning! bye. remember?
The tall sailor with the string of
star-marked ribbons who has been
visiting the Colcloughs is Hal Watts,
the third of four brothers in service
to return to campus this year. A
seaman with five years of service, he
is on a 39 day leave from San Diego,
California, with the prospect of six
months tour of duty at home as a
reward for his long service overseas.
His ship made Iceland soon after
Pearl Harbor, but he has been down
under” long enough to have fought at
Tarawa, New Guinea, Tinian, Saipan,
the Marianas, and the last big naval
battle of the Philippines in which so
much of the Jap fleet took honorable
nose between thumb and finger as
it went under Pacific watei's to see
how deep.
After February 1, Hal expects to
be at the Commissary Steward’s
School, U S N, San Diego. He at
tended Elon during 1935-38.
JOINS MERCHANT MARINE
At the national meeting of the
Modern Language Association of
America, December 27-30. Dr. and
Mrs. Hans Hirsch of the faculty repre
sented Elon College. This association
is the greatest scholatic research or
ganization in languages and literature
in the United States.
The meetings this year were held
in New York City, with headquarters
at the Hotel Pennsylvania, Dr. Hirsch
states that the association was well
attended, with about 1000 representa
tives there, and that the general result
of the discussions was a “remarkable
upswing in interest in modern lang
uages.”
Ordinarily, the national group
meets annually; but because of the
war, this was the first meeting in
three years. This year the host to the
association was New York University,
assisted by other colleges and uni
versities in and around New York
City. The next meeting is scheduled
to be held in Chicago if the war
emergency does not cause it to be
postponed for the duration.
in as usual, with everyone
after the holidays exceedingly pleased
with themselves and inquiring of ev- I
eryone else, “Did you have a nice
Christmas?” The first issue of the
M & G. came out on JarKiary 15—a
darn good issue, too. Faye Thomas
was the capable editor and the staff’s
present boss labored under her so
rority sister as feature editor. In
the second issue there was a two-
column cut of freshmen officers with
Wayne Taylor displaying a broad
grin.
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We had a big snow that month—
seven inches! Everyone pranced out
on the campus for a gala snow fight.
Yours truly had his mouth open once j jose!
too often (as usual) and a huge snow- j Smith’s Dramatics Class gave
ball landed therein, thrown by Lu- I three one-act plays and there was a
cille Morgan, sharpshooter, in re- j Ministerial Banquet just before
compense for his putting snow down
her back.
Do you boys remember rising at 5
a. m, over at the Publishing House
and then walking over to the dining
hall in the dark to serve breakfast to
300 hungry Cadets? Don, didn’t you ‘ the good and forget the bad . . . “thus
have a time waking Bill Meac]jum! ! God fulfills Himself in many ways,
“Fred, you take those three tables | lest one good custom should cor-
over there. Hot cakes, again, oh rupt the world.”
boyl’T I
H. Reid stepped upon the scene
last summer and chaflenged Gene
Poe for BMOC while Shorty Smith
was saying, “Earl, don’t do that!”
Then, last fall the freshmen griped
and griped until the initiation was
over and then they were all smiles,
so we gave them a reception. And
with the fall came the intramural pro
gram in touch football; the old for
gotten thrill returned and everyone
began to overflow with school spirit.
Then, at last, we began to practice
for the long-hoped-for intercollegiate
basketball! And with a coach like
Adcox, Register on the floor, and
Rumley to lead the cheers, we can’t
Christmas.
We could go on forever . . . record
ing forgotten words, remembering
lost moments, dreaming dead dreams
. . . East Dorm, West Dorm, all about
the town . . . and we try to remember
“Out of the Frying Pan,” a three-act
comedy by Francis Swann will be pre
sented by the_Elon Players during the
first week in Feljruary in the Little
"heatre. Gene Poe, president of the
organization, recently announced. Mrs.
L. E. Smith, Jr., instructor in dra
matics, will direct the production.
The cast is as follows: Tom Hornei
as Norman Reese; H. Reid as George
Bodell; Frances Pegram as Marge
“n.soiT Bob Graham as Tony Den
nison; Mary Coxe as Muriel Foster;
Elizabeth Johnson as Kate Ault; Jane
McCauley as Mrs. Garnet; Ermine
Davis as Dottie Coburn; Earl Danielly
as Mr. Coburn; Ralph Neighbors as
Mr. Kenny; and Jack Sunburn as Mac.
Those who will assist in the pro
duction and act on committees are as
follows:
House manager: Ann Strader.
Prompter: Kathleen Young.
Assistant Prompter: Helen Gunter.
Stage-Manager; Lem Allen.
Assistant stage manager: Gene
Poe.
Advertising; Gene Poe, Verdalee
Norris, Pal Faulker, Betty Benton.
Tickets: Ann Rader, Margaret Web
ster, Ann Strader.
Props: Mare Bogue, Dale Hensley,
Ethalinda Griffin.
Costumes: Ethalinda Griffin, Ruth
Webster.
Ushers: Emerson Whatley, Gene
Poe, Margaret Webster, Helen Gunter.
I Scenery: Dale Hensley, Marie
I Bogue, Allen Hurdle.
President L. E. Smith has announc-
I ed the initiation of the first steps in
I the campaign to raise a miillion dol-
I lars for our college. The immediate
goal is $100,000 to be raised by March
1. This amount, unless other need
arises, is to be designated for the
Staley-Atkinson-Newman Memorial
Foundation for Christian Education.
An enlarged program of religious ed
ucation, additional buildings and im-
piovements on campus, and some re
vision of the general academis struc
ture of the college will result from
the increase in resources.
The total constituency of the col
lege—the community, the churches
and alumni in North Carolina and
neighboring states, and all friends
of Elon—will unite in the effort. Dr.
Smith has secured authorization from
the trustees of the college and the
convention of the Congregational-
Christian churches. An executive
comrmittee of five and a general com
mittee of fifteen have been establish
ed. The organization for the drive
has been completed, and the work
is under way. Final plans were ap
proved on January 4 at a meeting
held in the First Congregational-
Christian church of Henderson, Dr.
W. E. Wisseman, president of the con
vention, presiding, and Dr. Stanley C.
Harrell, secretary.
REGISTER ELECTED NEW
VARSITY CAPTAIN
JUNIOR MANAGER FOR GIRL’S
SPORTS NEEDED
V. B. Harrell
U. S. M. T. S.
Station 712, Bks B 3
Camp J 98, Sheapshead Bay
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Junior girls are advised that
there is an openingr for a junior
manager. Report to Coach Adcox
if you will be available—or notify
Miss Edna Reitzel. Here is an op
portunity to get some valuable ex
perience in managing athletic
contests and in learning how to
handle the details connected with
them. Students who plan a major
or a minor in physical education
should not neglect this chance.
And if for no other reason than
sportsmanship and good will,
there should be a number of ap
plications for the position.
At a squad meeting held Wednes
day, January 3, Fred Register of San
ford, N. C., was elected captain of
the 1945 edition of the Maroon and
Gold basketball team. Fred is a
regular starter at forward and to date
has been leading the team in the scor
ing department, having racked up 24
points in three practice games.
Wayne Taylor of Efland, the other
upperclassman on the team and a
regular guard, was elected co-cap
tain. Taylor, to date, has seen more
playing time than any other player
and has been especially outstanding , 7 p. m
LT. BERNARD ALLISON ON
LEAVE FROM EIGHTH
BOMBER COMMAND
Lt, Bernard F. Allison of Hills
boro, brother of Major Steve Allison,
visited campus on Friday. Lt. Alli
son began his training at Elon in
the W. T. S. C. P. T. in ’42. He
was sent to Europe in May, ’44, as
pilot of a.B-17 Flying Fortress, and
has served under Col. Ralph Terry
of New York.
It is permissible to state that he
has had 30 missions over Germany,
including bombing runs over Berlin,
Leipzig, Hamburg, Bremen, and Han
over. He wears the Air Medal with
five Oak Leaf Clusters, and has a
Presidential Citation. The men of
his crew were from various states, in
cluding, S. C., Penn., Cal., Ohio and
Texas.
Campus Csdendar
Regular Weekly Meetings
Ministerial Association, Mondays at
8 p. m.
Choir, Mondays and Thursdays
at
And, then bid-night—do you re
member? but, of course everyone re
members bid-night last spring.
And then Easter morning, when the
famous “Incident in Ladies’ Hall” oc
curred. These was also a minor in
cident that day in the same dorm—
somebody sent Eva Carpenter an or
chid and everyone blamed it on Tom,
simply because his name was on the
card.
But do you remember that “If You
Were The Only Girl” was No. 14 on
the picolo in the bookstore, and “I
Love You” was No. 16? Helen Mor
ris remembers.
POE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF
DR. JOHNSON’S
Gene Poe was elected president of
Doctor Johnson Literary Society for
the winter quarter at a recent meet
ing in Lecture Hall. Other officers
elected are Emerson Whatley, vice-
president; Wayne Taylor, secretary-
treasurer; Carl Neal, sergeant-at-
arms; John Rossi, parliamentarian;
and Don Miller, the out-going presi
dent, was chosen to be corresponding
secretary
And the boys physical training | Seven new members were taken in,
classes went swimming twice a week which brings the total membership of
in the Sellars’ pool last spring.
It rained on May Day, but every
one “pitched in” and assisted Director
Westmoreland and May Day was
celebrated in the gym. Patricia Hook
the society to twenty. The new
members are Jack Morgan, Tbm
Horner, Richard Stanford, Danny
Banks, Bob McCotter, Harvey Rawls,
and Fred Chandler.
on defense
These men were elected to their
jobs after having played three games
and each acting as captain in at
least one game. Both are sophomores
and each has fiad experience in high
school basketball circles, Taylor hav
ing played with Efland high and Reg
ister having seen action with Gre^is-
boro high.
. A unique twist to the story is the
fact that the boys are roommates and
have been inseparable companions
since entering Elon in the fall of
1943, However Uncle Sam and Gen
eral Arnold are working togethej;, and
as Taylor is a member of the United
States Army Air Corps Reserve, it is
feared that he will not be around I
when tournament time rolls around
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Band, Mondays a 4:30 p. m.
S. C. A., Tuesdays at 8 p. m.
Senate, Tuesdays at 8 p. m.
Literary Societies, Wednesdays
8 p. m.
Sunday Church Services; January
7, Sunday school at 10 a. m.; Morning
worship at 11 a. m., Minister Dr. D. J.
Bowden, dean of the college. Vespers
at 7:00 p. m.
Saturday, January 13, D. J. L. S.
banquet at 7 p. m.
Basketball, see schedule on page
3.
Moving pictures, Fridays and Sat
urdays at 8 p. m.
MARTINSVILLE DUCOS TOP
VARSITY 49-42
A veteran quintet of cagers, the
Martinsville Ducos outpaced the
young Elon varsity in the second half
of a thrilling basketball game Thurs
day evening. At half-time the Chris
tians led 19-15, but the visitors pulled
away at the finish. Captain Register,
Co-Captain Taylor, and Owens star
red for the locals.
IRIS BOLAND NEW PRESIDENT
OF S. C. A.
Iris Boland has automatically be
come president of the Student Chris
tian association, because of the grad
uation at the end of the fall quarter
of Walstein Snyder, president. Miss
Boland, who is a senior this year
has been active in the work of the
S. C. A. throughout her career at
Elon. Prior to Snyder's graduation
she was vice president of the group.
A new vice president will be elected
in the near future.