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VOLUME XX
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., SATURDAY. MARCH 16, 1946
NUMBER ELEVEN
PRIMARY TO BE HELD THURSDAY
Captain Howord Gravett
Returns To Elon
Captain Howard L. Gravett, form-
«r Director of Altitude Training and
Cliief of Strato-Chambers, Army Air
Forces Proving Ground Command at
Elgin Field, Fla., has returned to Elon
College as head of the Department of
Biology. He was placed on inactive
status with the air corps on January
24 after three years in the service.
At the conclusion of his terminal leave
Dr. Gravett will enter the reserve
corps with the rank of major.
Trained in 1943 as an aviation phy
siologist at the time (^f his release
from service Captain Gravett was of
ficer in charge of the testing of per
sonnel and equipment at simulated al
titudes and temperatures at Elgin
Field. He also organized and su
pervised the personnel equipment
program for the Proving Ground
Command and its detachments locat
ed at various points in the United
States.
As director of Altitude Training at
Bolling Held, Washington, D. C., in
1944, he gave strato-chamber tests to
men of all ranks including some of
ficers of the high command. He also
IN STEP FOR THE FRESHMAN-SOPHOMORE RECEPTION NEXT sX TURDAY NIGHT, are the Freshman
W if a tn ftthpr class officers and committee chairman for the formal affair. Standing from left to right they are: Don Kernodle,
wasnmgton, ana i a Ossipee class president; Floyd Boyce, Jackson, chairman of the entertainment committee; Jean West, Hamp
fields on tours ot mspec^^^^^^ secretary; Thomas Burton, Reidsville, class treasurer and chairman of the finance committee:
t n 11 1QQ7 nr rrav I Mary Jo Watts, Wadesboro, chairman of the refreshment committee; Bill Williams, New Bern, chairman of
at Etin college since ur dv- | committee; and Mildred Johnson, Pittsboro, chairman of the decorations committee. Not present when
ett was given leave ot absence during ^33 Qrville Robinson, Wilmington, vice president of the class; and Oabe Bray, Virgilina,
the war. He is a graduate oi James
Millikin University, Decatur, 111., and | V^.. chairman of the clean-up committee.
received his Ph. D. from the Univer j
sity of Illinois. Before coming to FAMOUS COKRESPONDENTS
Elon he did graduate research at the , TO LECTURE HERE
University of Kentucky and at the | „ ,
Woods Hole Biological Station in' John Goette and James R. Young
Massachusetts. Listed in “American I will appear in the final lecture series,
Men of Science” and “Who’s Who in sponsored by the American Business
American Education," he is also a 1 Club of Burlington on next Friday
Many
Candidates
Are On Ballot
BURNS, CATES NAMED
ON ALL CANFERENCE
member of the following organiza
tions: Phi Sigma Society, A A A S;
Sigma Xi; and the American Genetics
Society.
Dramatics Department To
Broadcast "Camille"
Tomorrow
DR, HOWARD S. GRAVETT
March 22 in Whitley Auditorium.
Mr. Goette, who has been chief cor
respondent of International News Ser
vice for twenty years, returned to this
country aboard the S. S. Gripsholm,
recently.
He was educated at Temple Univer
sity. After naval duty in the first
World War, and a trip to India, he was
sent to China as correspondent tor In
ternational News Service. From the
outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in
1937, Goette traveled with the Jap
anese Army 20,000 miles. Still cover
ing the Japanese Army at the time
the Pearl Harbor attack, he was in
terned by Japanese Gendarmes. Mr.
Goette has in publication a book about
jade gems, called JADE LORE.
Mr. Young, author of BEHIND
THE RISING SUN, is at present au
thor of a nationally syndicated news
paper feature “The Road to Tokyo.”
He served as a Tokyo newspaper man
on the ADVERTISER, an American
owned Tokyo daily, for thirteen years.
He has learned the Japanese langu
age, mannerisms, and gestures, in
cluding an accent which has not dis
appeared. Mr. Young has covered
every major story in Japan, up to the
time of his imprisonment in 1940,
when he \vas put in solitary for 61
days. The police disliked his articles
because they shed too much light on
Japanese political and business lead
ers, and militarists. Mr. Young was
one of the five correspondents pres
ent at the coronation of Emepror Hi-
rohito in 1928.
‘ MR. AND MRS. NORTH”
TO BE GIVEN SOON
“Camille,” the second in a series
of radio plays given by the Elon Col
lege Department of Dramatics over
station WBBB at Burlington, wHl be
broadcast tomorrow at 5:30 p. m.
Merritt Burns and Mrs. Elizabeth R.
Smith will read the leading parts, with
A1 Burlingame, Dot Shepherd, Anne
Strader, L. E. Smith, Jr., and Dr.
Hans Hirsch taking the supporting
parts.
Next week Ibsen’s “Pillars of Socie
ty” will be presented. Members of
the cast for this play will be Bob Gra
ham, Jack Sunburn, Ida Marie Parker,
Marjorie Moore, Merritt Burns and
A1 Burlingame.
The Dramatics Department will pre
sent a radio play each Sunday aft
ernoon at 5:30 in coordination with
the Burlington station.
“Mr. and Mrs. North,” con\dy-mur-
der by Owen Davis, Jr., is now in re
hearsal by the Elon Players and is ex
pected to be presented in the Little
Theatre sometime in the near future.
Under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth
R. Smith, head of the Department of
Dramatics, the play is the Player’s
second major production this year.
Heading the cast are A1 Burlingame,
as Mr. North; Jean West, as Mrs.
North; Bll Clapp as the police lieu
tenant; and Floyd Boyce, as the de
tective. Other members of the cast
are Bill Williams, Wally McCulloch,
Anne Strader, Nancy Jordan, Orville
Robinson, Kermit Inman, Jimmy Mad-
ren. Marjorie Moore is prompter.
The Elon dramatic group is also
now working on “Zengara,” an orig
inal one act play by Bill Clapp, which
is to be entered in the annual one-
act drama contest at Chapel Hill this
spring.
Forward Warren Burns and
Center Roney Cates, of Elon’s
Fighting Christians, were named
to the 1946 all-North State con
ference basketball team, picked by
the conference coaches, the
Greensboro Daily News announc
ed last Thursday. Elon was the
only college to place more than
one player on the first team.
High Point, winner of the confer
ence, failed to place a man among
the first five, but three Panth^s
were elected to the second team.
Burns, captain of the Christians,
from Englewood, N. J., and Irie
(Bunk) Leonard, of Guilford, who
was named to the other forward
post, were unanimous choices
and thus co-captains of the all-
Conference team. Both boys
polled the vote of every coach
but their own. The mentors were
not allowed to vote for their own
players.
Cates, from Burlington, gave
Burns and Leonard a race for con
ference scoring honors, finally
passing his teammate in the clos
ing week of the season to finish
second behind the Guilford star.
Bums, injured late in the year,
finished third.
Sharping positions on the all-
Conference first team with the
three men already named were
guards Tinker McGinnis, of Ca
tawba, and Albert Hiatt, of Ap
palachian. The second team con
sisted of forwards Jack Ham
mond. High Point, and Frank Ol
son, W. C. T. C.: Center Vincent
Cale, High Point: and guards
Fuller Brooks, Appalachian, and
Russell Lombardy, High Point.
/he primary of the annual spring
elections will take place next Thurs
day from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. in Dean
Bowden’s office, under the direction
of Fred Register, chairman of the
electoral committee. The voting will
be done by secret ballot and the names
of the primary winners will be placed
on the ticket for the general election,
which is set for two weeks after the
primary. In the spring elections all
student body, class, and Senate and
Council officers and class representa
tives to the Senate and Council are
elected for the follo'.#ing year—as
well as student publication editors, if
more than one candidate is approved
for the editorship of each publication.
Candidates for the four officers of
the student body are: President—Fred
Register and Steve Castura; vice presi
dent— Thomas Hoffman, Kermit In
man, and Wayne Taylor; secretary—
Harold Siler, Anne Byrd, Jean West,
and Don Kernodle; treasurer—Ermine
Davis, Bill Copeland, and Ace Harrell.
All candidates for the respective class
offices and Senate and Council rep
resentatives have also been nomin
ate. In the primary vote the number
of candidates for each office must be
narrowed down to two for the finals.
The electoral committee is compos
ed of Fred Regist>f, chairman, Martha
McDaniel, Lennings Howard, Bill
Clay tor, and Bill Clapp.
MISS OLA MEYERS IS
NEW DIETICIAN
Miss Ola Meyers of Cooleeme, N.
C., has accepted a position as dieti-
tician at Elon. Miss Meyers graduat
ed from Brevard College and her first
position was as dietician and manager
of a restaurant In Patterson, N. J.
Before coming to Elon she was dieti
cian of the Men’s Union on West Cam
pus of Duke University. The Maroon
and Gold joins with the student body
in welcoming her to Elon and wishes
'ler much success in her work.
Enrollment .Leaps As New
Vets Register
Approximately 500 students regis
tered for the spring quarter here, ac-
ci»rding to the latest estimates from
the Business Office, ft’his does not
include special students who are tak
ing courses in music or science and
are not members of student body. Of DARDEN ACCEPTS POSITION
the 100 new students who came in this | aS ALUMNI SECRETARY
quarter, all but six are discharged !
veterans and thirty more vets are ex- James F. Darden, was recently ap-
pected to enroll before Monday. j pointed full-time executive secretary
With women filling Ladies’ Hall, j of the Elon Alumni Association and
East, and West Dormitories, the men , last week arrived on campus to as-
students are occupying North Dor-sume his duties. Mr. Darden suc-
mitory and the Publishing House. An j ceeds George D. Colclough, who for
additional building, the Veterans’, several years has served in his capac-
Court. is now under construction in I ity part-time.
back of the College Station. Until this! Mr. Darden, who will also edit the
dormitory is finished new veterans J Alumni News, is a native of Suffolk,
will live on the third floor of Mooney 1 Va., and graduated from Elon in
Christian Education Building. j 1943. Shortly after graduation he
Married veterans and their wives j entered the United States Navy and
are living in Oak Lodge, Atkinson became a lieutenant (j. g.). He mar-
House, and the Clubhouse Apart
ments, with the remainder living in
private homes in the Community. The
thirty housing units which have been
ordered from the FHA are to be set
up on the golf course. These are to
be given over to married veterans and
their families.
ried Miss Virginia Jeffreys in 1944
and they have one child, a daughter.
While a student here Mr. Darden
v,as a member of Kappa Psi Nu fra
ternity and in his Senior year was
listed in ‘'Who's Who Among Students
in American Universities and Col
leges.”
T
Freshman-Sophomore
Reception Set For
Next Saturday
The Freshman Class will play host
to the Sophomore Class at the tradi
tional Freshman-Sophomore Recep
tion, which is to be held in the college
gymnasium next Saturday night,
March 23, at 8:00. An “Old Southern
Garden” decoration theme will be car
ried out for the elaborate formal af
fair. Extensive plans have been made
by the officers and members of the
Freshman class and various commit
tees have been appointed. The com
mittee chairmen are: Thofiias Burton,
chairman of the finance committee;
Mildred Johnson, chairman of the
decoration committee; Bill Williams,
chairman of the music committee;
Floyd Boyce, chairman of the enter
tainment committee; Jo Watts, chair
man of the refreshment committee;
and Oabe Bray, chairman of the clean
up committee.
The receiving line will consist of
the Fresman class officers—Don Ker
nodle, president; Orville Robinson,
vice president; Jean West, secretary;
and Thomas Burton, treasurer—and
their dates; the Sophomore class of
ficers—Betty Benton, president; Jane
McCauley, vice president; Faye Rick
ard, secretary: and Ermine Davis,
treasurer—and their dates; Dr. and
Mrs. L. E. Smith, Dean and Mrs. D. J.
Bowden, Dean Ida M. Greenfield, Dr.
and Mrs. Merton B. French, sponsors
of the Freshman class, and Mr. and
Mrs. L. B. Adcox, sponsors of the
Sophomore class.
All members of the Sophomore class
have been invited and have been
asked to bring their dates. Special in-
vitationl have been issued to the of
ficers of the Student Government As
sociation, the officers of the Junior
class, and the officers of the Senior
class and their dates, and all fac
ulty members and their wives.
JUNIOR MISSES
NO, THIS ISN’T A GIRLS SCHOOL. But fate willed it that the Junior class officers be all girls, just as four men
were selected to fill the Senior officers seats. From left to right they .are eBtsy Smith, Burlington, president;
Louise Clayton, Prospect Hill, vicepresident; Dale Hensley, Elon College, secretary; and Catherine-Cooper, Bit'ling-
ton, treasurer. The Junior officers are making plans for the Junior-Senior Dinner, which is to be given some
time in the near future.
SENIORS ENTERTAIN JUNIORS
AT PARTY
The members of the Senior class
entertained the Juniors at a delight
ful party in Society Hall last night.
The Irish green and shamrock was the
decoration theme for the informal af
fair. Chaperones were Dr. Paul Red
dish, Senior sponsor, and Mrs. Red
dish, and Miss Lida Muse, Junior class
sponsor. Comrtnittees for the party
were as follows: Program—Bill Clapp,
class president, Carl Neal, and Eliza
beth Braddy; decoration—Ida Marie
Marie Parker, Elizabeth Braddy,
Jack Sunburn, and Elizabeth Apple;
refreshments—Mary Lib Simpson,
Eloise Fischel, Jean Bower, and Ivan
Ollis.