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VOLUME XX
ELON COLLEGE, N. C„ SATURDAY, NOVKMTBKR 3, 1945
NUMBER FOUR
“MOOR BORN” COMING NOVEMBER IS
CAPT. JOHN W. BARNEY,
JR., IS GIVEN THE D. F. C.
COMMAND NAVIGATOR CITED FOR
VALOR, SERVED IN FOUR WAR THEATRES
Captain John W. Barney. Jr., a
Command Navigator of the Fourth
Troop Carrier Squadron of the
Twelfth Army, 62nd Group, is at his
home in Elon College after three
years in service. He is the son of
Professor and Mrs. J. W. Barney of
the Department of English, Elon Col
lege.
From October, 1943 to May, 1945,
Captain Barney flew more than 800
operational hours on missions, serving
in Sicily, Africa, Italy, and Greece,
and flying on missions to all parts of
southern Europe. Pe completed five
missions over Jugoslavia.
Holder of the Air Medal and the
D. F. C., Captain Barney describes
his army life as routine; but he ad
mits to a thrill coming home when
their C-47 ran into storm in an over
cast and fell three thousand feet out
of control. Twenty chaplains were
riding the plane. That three thou
aircraft fire, and possible tighter in
terception . . . displayed superior pro
fessional skill in leading his flight
accurately to the tiny drop zone lo
cated in mountainous area . . . insur
ed a maximum of safety to h|5 flight
over terrain infested by enemy gun
emplacements of all types.” This
citation was for a mission on New
Year's Day in the Po valley.
Captain Barney is a graduate of
Elon College, class of '42, and took
civilian pilot training here. His cadet
training was at Monroe Navy school
in I.ouisiana.
One of his assignments was to
drop English paratroopers in Greece
in October, 1944. Orders to drop an
other battalion in the Po valley in
Italy were canceled after the Eighth |
army broke through. Flights with
supplies to partisan troops in Jugo
slavia and Albania^ resulted opce ^in
a case lc>i capture by the Russiai\5,
A! Enrliegame To
Co-Star Witli .Ain'kt
Strader, Kat;,hiiee).»
Yoyng, Arid Doro
thy Shepherd.
sand foot drop at about 250 miles per | but this matter was straightened out.
hour made them sure-enough “sky-
pilots” praying for a miracle. The
navigator thinks the chaplains ha^d
something to do wi^i brifiging the
plane safely out of it. It was close
to the Atlantic when the fall was stop
ped, too close for comfort.
Citation for the Captain’s D. F. C.
reads in part: j
"For extraordinary achievement in
aerial flight as navigator of C-47 air
craft. Captain Barney flew a mission
in an unarmed and unarmored troop
carrier to deliver supplies vital t#
forces operating deep within enemy
lines in Northern Italy. Despite dif
ficult weather conditons, enemy anti-
The navigator said, “Cassino was
the toughest fighting terrain I ob
served in Africa and Italy. Anzio
beachhead bad—and a mistake.
Riding the Brenner Pass in a plane in
bad weather is enough to scare any
body. Mountains and weather just
don't mix.”
John WebsKX of Elon College, was
one of the tew men from this area
he saw overseas. They met in Rome.
On a mission after the Nazis quit,
Captain Barney lariAed ten miles from
Berchtesgaden, near Salzburg in the
Austrian Tyrol. He was on duty as
navigator for officers’ transport at
various times.
Music Stud enfs Giva
First Recital
Household Arts Club
iTokes New Members
I STARS OF “MOOR BORN" AND THEIR DIRECTOR. Top: Kathleen Young, Vernon, Ala.; Ann Strader. Car-
ithage; and AI Burlingame, Cambridge, N. Y. Bottom; Perry Ayscue, Hsnder-son; Dorothy Shepherd, Durham;
i and Elizabeth R. Smith, director of the play.
The Music Department presented its j The Household Arts Club met on
first student recital of the year in October 25 at Oak Lodge for the reg-
Whitley Auditorium at 4:30 p. m. last | ular monthly meeting. Senorita Cheg-
Thursday. Margaret Ann Boland j win was the speaker of the evening
Mary Sue Colclough, and Martha i and her sister, Asilda Chegwin was a
I College To Send Delegotes I Noted Chinese Actress
To Student Legislotur* Appears in Whitley
Dowdy, extension students, began the
program with piano renditions. Eloise
Fischel played “Prelude in C” and
“Postludium,” and was followed by
Violet Blackman who played two pre
ludes by Chopin. Ann Strader, Violet
Blackman, and Dorothy Shepherd sang
solos. Tom Horner played “Arioso”
by Handel on the organ, and Margu
erite Hudson concluded the program
with Beethoven’s “Sonata in C Sharp
Minor,” on the piano.
guest. Betty Bob Stone and Elizabeth
Parker acted as hostesses and served
light refreshment*.
The club has seventeen members
this year and the new members in
clude Alice Brewer, Catherine Coop
er, Ella Mae Morgan, Ellen Spivey,
Jane Warren, and Jo Watts.
The club plans to order a “Betty
Lamp” (Home Economics emblem of
the light of the home) and Home Eco
nomics pins in the future.
LT. FLETCHER MOORE
REJOINS ELON FACULTY
LIEUTENANT MOORE WINS BRONZE
STAR IN NORTHERN ITALY
Dr. Merton B. French, chairman of
the faculty committee on debate, has
announced that the college will send
delegates to the Ninth AniiUal'SKident
Legislature Asembly, held in the State
Capitol at Raleigh on November 30
and December 1. The assembly will
be sponsored by Pi Kappa Delta, na
tional honorary forensic fraternity, of
State College.
Delegates from colleges all over the
state will come to discuss and pre
sent bills of vital importance. 'J'he
assembly is run in accordance with
parliamentary procedure, and will be
divided into House and Senate.
Elon students who wish to attend
the 1.945 assembly should propose a
bill and present the argument for and
against it. This material should be
written and given to Dr. French on
or before November 17.
Pre-Medical Group
Bronze Star medal by Brig. Gen. Geo. Df. P. Y. Greene AddreSSeS
I. Back, Chief Signal Officer for the
Mediterranean theater. He wears rib
bons for service in England, North
Africa, and Italy, and three battle
stars. The medal is for meritorious
service in military activities in North
ern Italy.
Assigned to the 849 Signal Intelli
gence Service, his three years of ab
sence contain episodes which it is
not permissible to reveal, for they
are still classified as "secret” or “top
secret.” He was in Naples at the
time he received the decoration for
valor with the intelligence section in
Northern Italy.
Lt. Moore was graduated at Elon
in the class of '34. He received his
Lt. Moore was decorated with the
street, Burlington, N. C., has returned
to his position in the department of
music at Elon College. "He an or
ganist and pianist known throughout
the state for hi.s artistry, and especial
ly for dual piano concerts with Stuart
Pratt of Raleigh.
Lt Moore was decorated with the
M. A. in music from Columbia in ’35.
In addition he studied at Julliard In
stitute of Music in New York, and
did special work in piano under Guy
Maier and Saspha Gordonitzki, one
year of this being in California. He
had been a member of the music fac
ulty at Elon College up to the time
of his enlistment. Lt. Moore was ad
vanced from the rank of sergeant to
that of officer during combat in the
field. Now on inactive duty, he has re
ceived his discharge. He will main
tain studios at Burlington and Elon
College.
Dr. P. Y. Greene, of Burlington, ad
dressed the Pre-Medical Association
of Elon College at * recent meeting
of that organization in Alamance Lec
ture Hall. He was Introduced by
Carl Neal, president of the pre-med
group. Stressing the importance of
education in liberal arts before en
tering med school. Dr. Greene dis
cussed the young doctor’s college and
university training.
He emphasized the study of lan
guages—Latin, Greek, and German—
and the fundamental sciences—^biol-
ogy. physics, and chemistry—as be
ing of prime importance. “Medicine
is not difficult; there is just so
much of it. Do not become discour
aged wtfen all of this is thrown at
you in med school."
Dr. Greene pointed out that in the
first Two year^of med school the po
tential doctors study the animals re
lated to man and in the junior and
senior years study clinical medicine
and the results of disease upon the
bofly. The third stage is internship.
The Pre-Medical Associatiou is
planning a social for tl^jV' meet
ing.
Actress Anna May Wong, brilliant
stage and screen artist, offered scenes
from some of her most powerful per
formances in “Leaves From a Chinese
Fan” Friday evening in Whitley Me
morial Auditorium.
Miss Wong, an American herself
but the«daughter of Cl^iese parents,
presented her program under the
sponsorship of the American Business
Club of Burlington, to an audience of
approximately 1000 persons,
“Leaves From a Chinese Fan” is
a dramatic presentation which in
cludes scenes from her screen and
stage successes; “Shanghai Express,”
■Java Head," "On The Spot,” “Chu
Chin Chow," “Dangerous to Know,”
and “King of Chinatown,’’ i
In the Chinese theatre each actor
comes out and introduces himself and
tells all about himself . . . what fam
ily he belongs to . . . where he comes
from . . how he became an actor,
etc. Miss Wong followed this cus
tom, explaining to the audience why
she does so . . . that in her years in
the theatre and before the cameras
of Hollywood she has never before
had the opportunity of being “the
whole show.”
She made her first visit to China
in 1936 and was tremendously im
pressed with what she saw . , .
through the eyes of an American. She ]
told of many of thequaint customs
she encountered and some of the
amusing situations which occurred
when she failed to understand the
tradition that patterned life in China.
She is capable of telling a joke on
herself and making you chuckle.
Don Totheroh's five act play
•’Moor Born," will be presented by
the Elon Players in Whitley Audi
torium on Thursday, November 15,
under the direction of Mrs. Elizabelb
B. Smith, college instructor in dr*
matics. The production will stai
Kathleen Young, Vernon, Ala., as Eml
ly Bronte, author of “Wutherinf.
Heights;" Ann Strader, Carthage, pu
thor of Mane Eyre;” and Al Burlin
game, Cambridge, N. Y., as liran-
v^ell Bronte, the Bronte sisters’ broth
er. Dorothy Shepherd, as Anne
Bronte, the third sister, and Perry
Ayscue, as Rev. Patrick Bronte, also
have lead roles. The supporting ease
includes Helen Newsome, Ida Marie
Parker, and Oabe Bray.
The setting of fSie play is in the sit
ting room of the parsonage at Hay
worth, the Bronte home in Yorkshire
Conflict centers around the thret
sisters' desire for a life beyond the
moors. The moral collapse of Bran
well, still considereda genius by hi.'^^
father, deepens the plot.
Tt is not usual that a college cam
pus can produce an actor who act.‘
I his part as well as does Al Burlin
1 game, in the role of Branwell Bronte,
I "the lost hero” of “Moor Born.” Bui-
! lingame, no doubt, tops his fine sup
— — j porting cast.
_ . i Kathleen Young as Emily, the si
Student-Foculty Committee reserved, and sympathetic ,sL‘
1 ter, stands out among the cast.
Has First Meeting The following committees from the
I I Players are assisting in the produc
' tion:
.. „ -14 1 Program committee: Dale Hensley,
TheStudent-t aculty Committee was I
organized or e year . . I committee: Marjorie Moore, Ermine
meeting held Tuesday evening the | E,i,abeth Brady, and Al PiWce;
stage crew: Dale Hensley, and Mat
dining hall. Dr. Merton B. French I
and Margaret Rawls were ^ garet Webster; stage assistants, JacK
be co-chairmen of the committee, and uoi.
Martha McDaniel, secretary.
Topics of student body problems
which are to be discussed at later
meetings were suggested.
The committee is composed of the
faculty members who are appointed
to be on the committee, the presi
dent of the student body, the presi
dent of the Senate, the president of
tJie Council, and three members fvom
the Senate and three members from
the Council who are appointed by the
presidents of those bodies, respective
ly. ThL> foil/owing are members of
the committee this year; Dean D. J.
Bowden, Dean Ida M. Greenfield, Dr.
Merton B. French. Professor A. L.
Hook, Emerson W’natley, Elizabeth
Parker. Mar(>M« Rawls. Betty Sue
Lloyd, Martha McDaniel, Junius Pee-
din. Jack Sunburn, Carl Neal, and
Sunburn, Margaret Webster, and Hel
en Gunter; and prompter, Jean Wes
French Club Is Organized
On Campus
OUARTKR KNDS
NOVF.MBKR 21
Students are reminded that exam-
in;j(tio)is will be given the week of No
vember 21. Instructors have the
opion of giving one two, or thNe hour
examinations. Regular class periods
v/ill be used: two periods for the two
hour examinations, three for the three
hour quizzes, etc. Instructors will
announce their own schedules.
S. C. A, Tacky Party
Was Fun, Thrilling
Register Is Klon’s
Pin-Up Boy
A gala tacky-i^asquerade HaUowt*-
eii Carnival was given last Saturday
night in the gym. The affair wa.s
under the direction of the Senio:
Cabinet and the Student Christian
Association and those working (hi*
various committees were Jack Sut
ijurn. president; Martha McDaniel,
vice president; Jane McCauJtey, KC/ -
mit Inman. Carl Neal. Lticiile ivloi •
gan. !^nd Eloise Fischel. ' ’
Each women’s organizaion on cam
pus sponsored a candidate for V)'
honor of Elon's pin-up boy. The caii-
didate under whose name the larges.i
amount 'of money was collectcd kL
one cent per vote won the contesi.
Fred Register, sponsored by the Tai*
Zeta Phi sorority, received the mo:.'
votes and became the 1945 pin-up boy
of Elon. Sam Glascock, representing
the Panvio Literary Society, was run
ner-up in the contest. Other cand>-
dates were Pep Watkins, the ideal Oi
the Delta U’s, and Floyd Boyce, fav
orite of the girls of Beta Omicron
Beta. The Pi Kappa Tau sorority diri
not enter a contestant.
The gymnasium was attractively
decorated in the traditional orang. •
and black of Halloween, with booUi".
adding to the color of the eveniiin
The Panvio Literary Society, the Dof -
tor Johnson Society, the four Grcel-
letter clubs, the Freshman S. C. A .
and the Freshman class each ha^
booths which contributed to the an
teitliinnient at the fete. Piocecd
A group of students who are inter
ested in the study of the French lang-!
uage met Thursday evening, October
18, at the home of Dr. and Mrs. H. E.
Hirsch and organized Le Circle Fran-
cais under the sponsorship if Mrs.
Hirsch, the college instructor in
French. Earl Danieley, a Senior who
has completed three years of college
French, was chosen to be president of
the organization.
Other officers elected were Jo Earp,
vice president; Jane McCauley, secre
tary; and Tom Horner, treasurer. The
group decided to meet monthly in
Alamance parlor and have regular
dues.
After the business ses.sion, the
group enjoyed playing Fi'ench games,
sinuina folk songs of France, and con-
versing in the French language. Mrs. from U,o af.an will go n,to t^.e gon
llir.sch served delightful refreshments ! eial funds of the Student Chus.u*
of ice cream and cake.
Association.