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VOLUME 21
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1947
NUMBER THIRTEEN
ELECTIONS ARE POSTPONED A WEEK
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WATSON TO BE NEXT YEAR'S EDITOR
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Staff To
Piiblish Next
Two M.&G.’s
From press boy to editor in one
jump! That is the amazing story of
John Watson, rising junior, of Engel
hard, N. C., who has been unanimous
ly approved by the student body as
editor of the 1947-48 MAROON AND
GOLD. Watson and his new staff
will begin their duties with publica
tion of the last two issues of the cur
rent school year, which will appear
April 26 and May 17.
The new editor succeeds A1 Bur^
lingame, of Cambridge, N. Y., who
wUl remain in an advisory capacity
until the end of the quarter. The
MAROON AND GOLD will not be
published during the summer months.
Watson, besides his experience with
the mechanical end of the newspaper
business, also has written numerous
articles and stories for the M. & G.
during his year as press operator.
He is an English major and well
qualified to edit next year’s paper.
Tentatively, his staff will include
D. B. Harrell, Jr., as business man
ager; Hal McDiarmid, associate edi
tor; James Parker, circulation man
ager; Peter Marshbum, assistant cir
culation manager; Ed Nash, Lewis
Lawrence, Betty Chilton, Amy Camp
bell, and Mike Copeland, reporters;
Betty Hill, feature editor; Ed Mul-
ford, sports editor; and Jean Scott
Fogleman, Ted Parker, and Betty
Benton, columnist. Other persons
will be added to the staff as soon as
the new editor .can interview avail
able taleat. , .
Cast Selected
For New Play
Casting for Elon Players’ new pro
duction “Best Foot Forward,” has
been completed and rehearsals are
well underway, according to Mrs.
Elizabeth R. Smith, director of the
play. The production features a
cast of more than twenty people,
with seventeen speaking parts.
Carrying the leading male role wiU
be Warren Johnson, as Bud Hooper,
the prep school student who must
choose between two very desirable
dates for the school prom, one, his
girl friend, Helen Schlessenger, play
ed by Frances Branson, and the other
a curvacious movie star whom he also
has invited to the prom, to be portray
ed by Betty Hill. A farcical situation,
which is not new but is still good for
many hearty laughs makes “Best Foot
Forward” a refreshing and sparkling
comedy piece.
In principal supporting roles are
Ray Day as Hunk Hoyt; Billy Hopkins
as Satchel Moyer; Jack Pierce as
Chuck Greene; Phil Gearing as Old
Grad; Jeanne Parks as Minerva; Sar
ah Maness as Ethel, Jean West as
“Miss Delaware Water Gap;” Eleanor
Argenbright as Blind Date; Ralph
Edwards as Jack Haggerty; “Yank”
Dickson as Chester Billings; Amy
Campbell as Miss Smith; and Fred
Patterson as Dr. Reeber.
The following comn^tfe^ have also
been named: Property: Mike Rae,
Betty Benton, and Miriam McKinney;
Tickets: George McCaughrean, Max
Neese, and Delmar Brown; Stage
Manager: Yank Dickson, Stage Crew;
“Speck” Walker, Kathy Young, and
Delmar Brown; House Manager; Floyd
Boyce; Makeup: Margie Moore, Kathy
Young; Publicity: Ed Moss and Bill
Williams.
“Best Foot Forward” will be pre-
Nominations Re-Opened
As Liberal Party Forms
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ATTENDANTS OF THE QUEEN. Recently elected to the 1947 May Court were these five charming young
ladies, Miss Verdalee Norris (center), of Sanford, who will serve as maid-of-honor; Miss Mary Coxe (top left),
of Wagrram, and Miss Louise Clayton (lower left), of Prospect Hill, seni w attendants; and Miss Flo Chandler
(top right), of Burlington, and Miss Elizabeth Johnson, (lower left), Suffolk, Va., junior attendants. Annual
May Day festival is only few weeks away. " ^
James Montgomery, tenor soloist
v^ho has appeared in opera and con
certs in thirty-four states, was spon
sored by the Department of Music in
his appearance in Whitley Memorial
Auditorium on Friday night.
Accompanied by Fletcher Moore,
Mr. Montgomery’s great voice, charm
of manner, and magnetic personality
won the audience at once.
Program for the evening included
Handel’s “Silent Worshp,” Rossini’s
“Tarantella,” Schubert’s “Serenade,”
“Forest Lullaby” by Montgomery, and
“E lucevan le stelle” from Puccini’s
“Tosca.”
The concert artist, is a native of
New Jersey, educated at Philllips
Andover and Princeton. He has
played leading tenor roles in opera,
and showed the result of this ex
perience in the interpretative charm
lie imparted to his songs.
MUSIC CLUB CONTEST IN
WHITLEY TODAY
The Junior Division of the Pied
mont District of North Carolina Fed
eration of Mkisic Clubs will hold its
annual competativefe stival in Whit
ley Auditorium today, Saturday, April
12.
At present there are seventy-five
entrants who have registered to take
part in the competition. These stu
dents come from Winston-Salem,
Greensboro, High Point, Burlington
and North Wilkesbora. Mr. West
moreland. of the Music faculty, is di-
ector of the festival.
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I One of the most turbulent student
government election campaigns to be
held in several years on the Elon
College campus appears likely within
the next two weeks, as a technicality
in the nominating procedure has caus
ed the re-opening of nominations and
the postponement of primary and
final elections for one week. The
primaries originally scheduled for
April 15, will be held instead on Tues
day, April 22; and the finals, planned
for the 22nd, have been pushed back
to Tuesday, the 29th. Nominations
will be made again Monday morning,
in chapel.
Re-opening of nominations was ef
fected coincident with the formation
of a “Liberal Party” which opposed
the manner in which original «om-
inations were made at student chapel
Marh 26, and which pointed out that
an eligibility list had not been posted
ten days before that date, in accord
ance with the student handbook.
In a speech before the student body
in chapel l>3t Monday, Vernon Phelps
Liperal Party spokesman, stated that
the aim of his party was to elect th&
best qualified person for every of
fice, and he hinted that the frater
nities and sororites had “framed” the
original nominations. The ' Liberals
held a meeting Thursday morning
and promptly nominated several men
fLom their own ranks to run for the
top offices.
The race for president of the stu
dent body looms as the big issue in
the fprthcoming campaign. “Yank”
Dickson of Sigma Phi, Wayne Tay
lor of Kappa Psi, and James Mobley
were the original nominees: but t&e
Liberals will back Alton Wright, one
of their own leaders, while Mobley,
also a Liberal, plans to withdraw
from the race; and if one of the fra
ternity candidates is withdrawn also,
a hot fight should develop between
the social organizations and the newly
formed party.
NEW ORGANIZATION
FORMED
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A new club has been formed and is
meeting, regularly on the Elon cam
pus. The organization, which does
not care to be known as a fraternity,
but which will be composed of men
not associated with fraternities, is
called Omega Beta Beta and is an
independentr club with twenty mem
bers at present. The club does not
intend to take part in campus politics
but will have its own athletic and
social functions. Officers of the club
are: Graham Erlacher, chairman; Jack
Andrews, vice-chairman; Steve Walk
er, treasurer, and Joe Dunn, secre
tary. Other members are Jim Mc-
Swain, Leon,Pope, Jim Huyett, Ed
Mulford, Ed Ellis, Harold Wright,
Dick York, i'Bus”, Wigmore, J. B.
West, Joe Golombek, Harold Gibson,
Bill Peek, Roney Cates, Ed Griffin,
and Lefty Hollander.
sented in Whitley Aurditorum Thurs
day night, May 15. A second per*
formance will be given In the Bur
lington City Auditorium Saturday
May 17. Season tickets will be hon
ored as usual. In view of many act
ivities planned for May, students are
urged to obtain their tickets as soon
as possible and to make olans accord
ingly.
ELON TOPPED ATLANTIC
CHRISTIAN IN THEIR OPEN
ING CONFERENCE GAME, AS
JACK ANDREWS. WENT THE
DISTANCE FOR ELON.
STUDENTS ATTEND
I.R.C. CONFERENCE
Three Elon College students, rt\em-
bers of the college’s International Re
lations Club, are attending the two-
day conference of the Southeastern
Intel-national Relations Clubs affili
ated with the Carnegie Foundation
for World Peacle, comprising lS4
colleges and universities, which open
ed yesterday and will end today at
Randolph-Macon College, Ashland,
Virginia.
The student delegates, Alton
Wright, of Jonesboro, Gordon Poin
dexter, of Warrenton, and Miss Amy
Campbell, of Upper Montclair, N. J.,
are accompanied by Dr. Hans Hirsch,
of the Elon College faculty, sponsor
of the Elon I.R.C. Wright is presi
dent of the local club.
The conference is sponsored by the
Walter Hines Page International Re
lations Club of Randolph-Macon Col
lege, which, in setting as its theme
“Peace Through Understanding,” be
lieves that through the studyof the re-
llationship of the United States with
I other countries world peace can be
! achieved. This is the first South-
i eastern Jurisdiction sonference held
since 1941.
EASTER CHORALE IN
WHITLEY IMPRESSIVE
“The Seven Last Words of Christ,”
by Dubois, was presented by the
college choir in Whitley Auditorium
on Thursday evening, April 3, under
the direction of Professor John West
nioreland.
The chorus of sixty included mem
bers of the Front -Street Methodist
choir of Burlington. Soloists were
Miss Dorothy Shepherd, soprano; Pro
fessor Millard Walker, tenor; and
Clarence O. Southern, baritone. Dr.
L. E. Smith was the narrator.
Floodlights on a portrait of the
Christ placed above the singers, and
the Cross figured forth by the
lighted sandles, made the chorus set
ting both beautiful and impressive.
The Cantata was also presented
on Palm Silnday at the Front Street
Church in Burlington. General ap
proval of this as one of the finest
chorales in recent years was voiced.
SUMMER QUARTER
ANNOUNCEMENT
two
Summer quarter will consist of
term:», June 2-July 11 and
July 14-August 16, it was an
nounced today by Dean Bowden,
Students expecting to attend
should consult the Dean at once.
Schedule of courses may fte ob
tained from the office.
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QULiiN jiEl5Y. This is Miss Betsy Maude Smith, of Altamahaw,
was iilec-ted to reign as Queen of the annual May Day ceremonies new
month. Steve Castura, of Hazleton, Pa., who was chosen to rule with
Betsy as King, is out of school at present but is expected back for festival.