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The Team And Coach
VOLUME XIX
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1945
NUMBER EIGHT
THEATER PLAYBILL COMING FEBRUARY 8-9
CAROLINA ORGANIST’S GUILD STAGES PROGRAM
State Assembly Brings
Noted Artist To Campus
Stars Of "Out of the Frying Pan”
The convention of the American
Guild of Organists, North Carolina
chapter, met in Whitley Auditorium
on February 2. The program, ar
ranged by Irving D. Bartley. Dean of
the Chapter and director of the Elon
Department of Music, included re
citals by organ students and Guild
members and lecture and demonstra
tion on “Vibrating Air Columns” by
A. L. Hook, Professor of Physics, Elon
College.
Special feature of the day was an
organ rgcit»l, by Walter Baker, famed
artist from Philadelphia and Prince
ton and noted for his supreme use of
registration and color. Mr. Baker’s
program included Choral Preludes
from Bach, Concerto in F major by
Handel, Soul of the Lake (Karg-
Elert), Dupre’s Berceuse and Spin
ning Song, and other numbers.
President L. E. Smith welcomed
the guests to our campus. Leading
musicians from many parts of the
state attended the session. Among
those were Professor Stuart Pratt
andLila Le Van Loadwick of Mere
dith College, Mrs. Janie Sawyer
Truitt, University of North Carolina,
Hussell Broughton of Raleigh, and G.
M. Nichols, High Point.
Students showing splendid accomp
lishment in recital included Misses
Lucille Morgan, Elon College, Peggy
Haywood, and Evelyn Worsham, of
Greensboro College, and Mary String-
field, Jane Cheshire, and Almonte
Howell, the last three named being
from Universty of North Carolina.
Business session of the Guild was
held after luncheon in South Dining
Hall.
The convention opened at 10
o’clock. There were organ selections
by members of the North Carolina
chapter and by organ students from
colleges of the state. Lucille Mor
gan was the representative of Elon,
using “Vision” by Rheinberger as
her offering on the program.
Elon Over
The Globe
With the big, gala three-act
play as the main current of
thought in this issue, we decided
we might possibly need to give
you just a few words of advertise
ment .... Frst, see the play for the
story, and what a story it is when
three boys and three girls take
up housekeeping in an upstairs
apartment . . . Then there is the
scenery, and just wait till you see
it . . . And the characters, POP
Danielly, Mary Coxe and her re
marks, which will really floor you
. . . But that’s just a beginning.
What tender, glowing love scenes,
when your own star reporter, Tom
Horner, makes love ... Don’t miss
this sensation!
Wiiiliilliillllllllillliilli^
WITH THE PLAYERS
MARY COXE
Dear Editor;
A news reporter told me just now
that you couldn’t put in certain “hu
man" things when you are writing a
nev.'s story. It seems to me the re
port is sometmes incomplete when tiie
story behind the news isn’t told.
Take, for instance, the death of
Elon’s own Preston Townes. It was
not so long ago that Preston was on
campus entering into everything. You
couldn't miss him because he was so
tall. Yes, and Evelyn was right there
with him. As is the way with many
Elon romances, she later became his
wife. When “Townes” first came on
campus everybody said, “Look, his
brother was an Olympic and world
champion burdler.” But soon it came
to be, “Look, there's Townes, one of
Elon’s best basketball players.” Gee,
I’ve yelled myself hoarse from ex
citement when he would calmly take
the ball from the backboard and
just drop one in. Yes, and I remem
ber how the other schools tried to
get him, but he came to Elon. It
makes a lump in my throat when I
realize lie died fighting for our school,
our people, and our nation.
It’s funny—whereveryou go, you see
an Elonite. More than ever before
they are scattered all over this earth.
They tell me that it’s just like meet
ing someone from heaven when you
liaven’t seen anybody you know for a
long time and somebody yells, “Hey,
Elon!” It’s O.K. if they can’t remem
ber your name, and maybe you weren’t
the best of friends, or even fraternity
brothers, but you are fellow Elonites
and that does it. The boys over there
have written how they’ve talked for
hours on the subject—Elon!
Just the other day Lt. Pollard, who
is in England, wrote Professor Hook
that he met a young flight officer,
■ Red” Warren, who went to Elon.
Air Cadet Royall Spence was get
ting everything adjusted, just about
ready to step into the high-altitude
chamber, when the officer in charge
suddenly stopped preparations and
hit him on the back. “Royall Spence,
Gee! It’s great to see you!” It was
Floyd West, former Elon man.
Did anybody hear the boy broad
casting from a rest camp in Belgium
one Sunday afternoon not long ago?
Seems he was telling about a dance
the night before. And the music for
the dance, furnished by an all G.I.
orchestra, was under thff direction of
Jimmy Hamerick, Elon, ’41. And I
just think of the many times North
Dorm has vibrated from Jimmy’s mel
low trumpet notes.
Harvey Hook, who started out with
the present senoir class, 6ut accepted
Uncle Sam’s “invite” in his sopho
more year, was on a troop ship in the
middle of the Atlantic. Suddenly,
right there in the middle of the break
ing waves, Harvey tapped the next
chap up the line on the shoulder.
“Say, you’re Henry Kimery from
Elon!” And right he was.
Maybe some of you saw those Jap
knives, helnlets, the battle flag and
field glasses Lt. Howard Culbreth, ’42,
brough back from the Orient. And
he has some mighty interesting stories
to tell with the things. He, for you
who don’t know, is the tall, good-look
ing naval officer who has been to all
the basketball games recently. He
will spend three months teaching and
then back to the Orient.
Brevitt Hook, another Elonite, told
us in one of his letters that he hap
pened to be talking to the co-pilot
on his plane and they were discussing
the different places they had receiv
ed training. Strange as it may seem.
FRANCES PEGRAM AND ROBERT GRAHAM
Eton Defeats At^ntic
Christian 43-35
Staff Sergeant
L. E. Smith, Jr,f
Visits Home
S/Sgt. Leon E, Smith, Jr., son of
the president of Elon College, is home
on leave. A graduate of Elon in 1936,
Sgt. Smith continued his studies at
the University of North Carolina, ma
joring in law. He later studied art
andd dramatics at the Feagin School
at Rockefeller Center in New York.
Sgt. Smith has been in the service
three years, and has lately been sta
tioned at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma.
His furlough r/ants him an enjoyable
time with his parents and with his
wife and daughter.
the pilot said to Brevitt, “One of the
best places I’ve hit was a small school
down in North Carolina where I was
an Air Student. That place was tops.
The prof’s were swell and there was
an atmosphere there that I liked. But
ou’ve probably never heard of it.”
And with that conversation. I’ll
close.
A SENIOR.
P. S.: In case you couldn’t figure
it out, the school was Elon, and not
High Point.
WITH THE PLAYERS
TOM HORNER
In a fast game Thursday night in
old North gymnasium, the Maroon
and Gold basketeers took the meas
ure of Atlantic Christian for the. sec
ond time. Coach Adcox used ten
men in careful alteration to hold
the team fresh, for the pace was
speedy from start to finish. At one
time in the third period A. C. pulled
into the lead, but after the score
reached 34-32 Elon pulled ahead.
Box score shows Captain Register
leading the point records with four
field goals, and McEntire and Chand
ler supporting him with three each.
Team work accounted for the win,
however, as the scoring was fairly
evenly distributed. This peps up
the boys for the remaining games
on schedule, and we look for them
to upset a few more opponents. Next
game is at High Point on February 3.
And on February 7 the club wll try
to turn the tables on Guilford at
Guilford.
Line-up and results of last night’s
game follow;
ELON (43)
Pos.—Player G FG PF TP FTM
F—Banks 2 10 5 2
F—Taylor 110 3 1
F—Register 4 0 3 6 1
F—White 0 0 10 0
C—Chandler 3 13 7 7
C—Stone 0 0 0 0 0
G—McEntire 3 2 4 8 2
G—Owen 2 2 3 6 5
G—Foust 2 2 16 5
G—Rawls 0 0 0 0 1
’^“tals 17 9 15 43 24
A. C. C. (36)
Pos.—Player G FG PF HT FTM
F—Askew 7 2 5 16 2
F—Thilyaw 0 0 2 0 0
F—Rhodes 1 0 4 9 n
F-Smith : 0 0 b 0 !
F—Davis 0 0 0 a 0
C—Barnes 2 2 16 1
G—Benton 3 3 2 9 2
G—Hardison 1 1 5 3 2
Totals 14 8 23 36 8
Officals: Cheek, Carpenter.
Dramatics Club Will
Offer Broadway Comedy
Captain Preston
Townes Dies On
Western Front
Capt. Preston Eugene Townes, for
mer student, of Augusta, Ga.. died re
cently from wounds received in action
on the western front. He transferred
to Elon College from Augusta Junior
College at the beginnirlg of his soph
omore year, and from the junior class
here in 1942 he entered the armed
forces as a second lieutenant. V/hile
at Elon he was an outstanding basket
ball player and a member of Iota Tau
Kappa fraternity.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Matthew H. Townes of Augusta and
his wife is the former Evelyn Holmes,
an Elon graduate. Capt. Townes’
brother. Forest “Spec” Townes, is the
former Olympic and world champion
hurdler, and is now also serving as
an army captain somewhere in France
Allen Hurdle
Speaks To
Ministerial Group
Allen Hurdle of Burlington, one of
the first soldiers to return to college
under the new federal plan for the
education of veterans, recently gave
a most interesting talk to the min
isterial group. His subject was “Fu
ture Missions in the South Pacific.”
Noting that missionary work has al
ready made great progress there
among a people who were largely
pagan and cannibal, he explained that
the opportunity remains great.
Only fifty years ago the Fiji
Islanders were cannibals. Christian
education has brought some degree
of civilization to them. But much
may yet be done, and he hopes to
return as a missionary.
Serving fourteen months in the
service, Mr. Hurdle received a medi
cal discharge after beng accidentally
wounded while on duty in the island
of Fitliva, one of the Fiji group. He
had been eight months overseas,
touching the Society Islands and New
Caledonia, and being stationed for
brief periods on Guadalcanal and the
New Hebrides.
WITH THE PLAYERS
“Out of the Frying Pari,” three-act
Broadway comedy by Francis Swann,
will be presented by the Elon Players
on February 8 and S at the Little
Theater on Elon College Campus.
There will be a matinee for high
school students on Friday, February
9. Seats for the evening perform-
aacej are being reserved.
Tiiij play had a successful run in
New York and on tour, and the Elon
production promises to be excellent
comedy. It is under the direction of
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, head of the
department of dramatics. Mrs. Smith,
formerly with the': Stamford Little
Theater and the original road cast of
the metropolitan production of “Oiit
of the Frying P^n,” has a clevef cast
at work.
Students starring in the play are H.
Reid, Norfolk, Va.; JFraijces Pegram,
Henderson, N. C.; 'Tom Horner, New
Bern, N. C.; Elizabeth Johnson
Whaleyville, Va.; Jack Sunburn of
New Britain, Conn.; Leo Smith, Blue-
field, W. Va.; and the following Caro
linians; iVIary Coxe, Wagr^m; Bob
Graham, Mebane; Ermine Davis, Dur
ham; Jane McCauley, Henderson; and
Earle Danielly and Ralph Neighbors,
of Burlington.
Metropolitan papers agreed in
praising “Out of the Frying Pan;”
The New York Times called it “Hell-
zapoppin’ crossed with “You Can’t
Take It With You’™ and “Charley’s
Aunt.’. The fiillboard. New York
Journal, Baltimore ^n and The New
Yorker variously callfcd it “heart
warming,” “hilarious,” “brigl;; and
inventive ” and “bedlam on both sid.es '
of the footlights.” Don’t miss the Elon
production.
Stage managers for the two day
bill will be Lem Allen, Roxboro, N. C.,
Ann Strader, Carthage, N. C., and
Kathleen Young, Vernon, Ala.
An entirely new experimental set
ting adapted to Elon’s theater has
been prepared as an educational pro
ject within the department of dra
matics. Plot of the play develops
around the comic mix-up of young
Broadway stage aspirants trying to
get the attention of a producer w’ho
lives in the same apartment house
with them.
LT. JAMES PRITCHETT TO
REPORT TO WEST COAST
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ERMINE DAVIS
A recent visit proved to be pleas
ant as well as profitable to us when
Lt. (jg) James G. Pritchett, Elon, ’42,
spent a few hours on the campus Fri
day afternoon. Lt. Pritchett, who is
a member of the Naval Air Corps, is
enroute to NATS VR-2, Alameda, Cal
ifornia, having just completed two
years’ training in Pensacola, Fla.,
and one month at Atlanta, Georgia.
Jimmy tells us that several MA
ROON AND GOLDS caught up with
him in Atlanta, Georgia, and that not
only did he enjoy them, but he found
several other Elon graduates who also
wanted to read them. And he was
kind enough to give us several of
these addresses of Elon men with
whom he wil be stationed in Califor
nia.
Ens. Tom White
NATS VR-2 ,
Alameda, California - S
Lt. (jg) Clyde Foushee ’ !
NATS VR-2 ;
Alameda, California
Lt. W. O. Fonville
A & R Officer
Naval Air Station
Atlanta, Georgia
Bob Wingard, Sp. 3/c
Athletic Dept.
Naval Air Station
Atlanta, Georgia ,
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