WELCOME FRESHMEN
Maroon and Gold
PEP RALLY TONIGKC
Published by and for Elon Students
VOLUME 23
ELON COLLEGE, NX FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 24, 1948
NUMBER 1
Program For Eton’s Biggest Lyceum Series Announced
Mexican Student Follows
Prof .He Taught to Elon
It’s ‘turn about fair play’ with
Senor Ricardo Fuentes, 19-year-old
Mexican student, and Prof. Cloyd
Woodrow Paskins, Associate Prof
essor of history and sociology at
Elon.
Last summer, Prof. Paskins was
being instructed in Spanish by
Fi^entes, and staying in Fuentes’
home in Mexico. Came fall of the
year, Fuentes returned to Elon with
his pupil, entered school as a fresh
man, and took up residence in Prof,
Paskiins’ apartment.
“1 teach Mr. Paskins Spanish,”
says Ricardo, “and Mr. Paskins re
pays me with food.” The genial Mex
ican boy obviously consid?r« him
self well-paid for services renoered
his former guest in Mexico.
Slang Comes Easy
Senor Fuentes’ English is still
somewhat laborious, but he is fast
catching on to Joe-Cpllege slang.
In the presence of Miss Nancy Keen,
his English instructor, Fuentes, was
asked how he liked his English in
structor.
“Oh, she is a slave-driver!” he
answered with a wink.
In spite of the fact that four of
his five professors speak Spanish
and help him with his notes on
joccasion, Fuentes admits having
trouble with lecturers. He winc.es at
the thought.
Three years of studying English
in school in Mexico, he says, has not
erased his problem. However, given
time to frame his thoughts in Eng
lish, the modest adventurer does
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remarkably well. His greatest
trouble is perhaps, as he suggests,
in understanding spoken English.
Name Difficulties In The U. S.
Ricardo gets a kick out of the
difficulty he is having with his name
in the United Sates. He laughs at
a border incident that all but rob
bed him of his name.
A guard, as he examined his pass
port, advised Riclprd^ to practice
a certain way of writing his name
that would be acceptable to people
in the U. S.
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That involved, as Ricardo ex-
plai-is it with an amused smile, the
dropping of his mothers name,
which, in Mexico, is the last name of
the children
Ricardo’s real identity,, then, is
Ricardo Fuentes Castilla.
Visit Planned Long Time
The plan to come to the U. S.,
says, Ricardo, came to him when he
was ten years old. Then Professor
Paskins wasn’t responsible? Ricardo
Senior Ring Orders
Now Being Taken
Orders for 1949 class rings are
now being taken daily in the ro
tunda of Alamance building by Max
Storey, Senior Class president. Mr.
Storey’s hours are from 9:00
to 10:00 on Monday Wednesday, Fri
day, and from 10:00 to 12:30 on
Tujesday, Thursday, Saturday. .
Storey this week issued a plea for
all seniors interested In obtaining
class rings to place orders with him
as soon as (possible. Immediate ac
tion ori the part of Elon students
is necessary, says Storey, if conflict
with other schools in a late rush is
to avoided.
Approximately 50 per cent of the
senior class has placed orders to
date.
says not. Professor “Cloyd,” as he
calls him, gave him the opportunity.
Fuentes has a cousin in Colum
bus, Ohio, who has been in the U. S.
24 years. He is now a U. S. citizen
serving a stretch in the army. It was
he, apparently, who gave Ricardo
his desire to visit this country. ,
Changes His Mind
But it was a “visit” that Ricardo
planned. Even when he returned
with Professor Paskins, says the the
new student, he expected to stay
only one year—to study English.
“Now, I change my mind,” he
says. “I want to stay and get my—
how you say—yes—my degree.
“Fuentes” doesn’t seem to be such
a difficult name to pronounce, but
Ricardo has his truobles with it.
Some of the professors still refuse
to try to pronouncing it.
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Norfolk Represented
Weil At Elon
Has Norfolk, Va. furnished Elon
more Freshmen than any other out-
of-state city?
An unofficial report places Nor
folk high on the list with 21 Fresh
men. An official report from the
office of the Registrar is not yet
available.
The four members of the fairer
sex are Misses Shirley Boney, Jane
Peterson, Jean Carroll and Jackie
Wentz.
The boys, dominating the group
with 17, are; “Sonny” Addison, Billy
Beard, “Joohnny Boy” Broughton,
“Gay” Brown, Martin Conroy, Fran
cis Curling,, G e o r g,e Ethridge,
“Gusty” Hackney, ,“Bucky” Hudr
gins, Glenn King,, Dave Mondy,
Emmett Nesbit, “Guriy” Ritter,
Douglas Roane, Jimmy Sawyer,
Russell Lucus and Dick Bucannan.
Music, Drama, Lectures in
Varied Nine-Bill Program
First Program Features
Barter Players Nov. 4
Elon’s nine-bill Lycem series for 1948-49, announced this week bjr
Pres. Leon Edgar Smith, brings to the campus an impressive group
of musicians, dramatics groups and lecturers in what President Smith
describes as the biggest program of its sort ever offered at the college.
This second annual Lyceum series is built around names that sound
like extracts from a who’s who of the entertainment world.
The varied program includes; Norman Gordon, Metropolitan
Opera star; Dorothy Munger, pia
nist; Marcel Dupre, French organ
virtuoso; The North Carolina Sum-
phony Orchestra; the Barter Play-
Boys Make Top
Scores in Frosh
Placement Tests
ers; the Touring Players; Betty
Men students held a slight edge Smith, novelist; Semas MacManus,
over the women in upper bracket Irish poet; and Winifred Walker,
Jean Parks, Billy Hopkins and Barbara Haynes “on stage” at try
outs for “What A Life”.
Elon Players Bacic on Boards
To Launch Biggest Year
^ on/i rtiViAarsal the house.”
Australian world traveler and
photographer.
Definite dates have not yet been
set for every bill in the series, says
Dr. Smith. .
However, the Barter Players will
open the Lycem series with their
on the English test with 208 p~oints production of Patterson Greene’s
out of a possible 227. He lead the “Papa ^ light domestic com-
next highest comoetitor by 21 points. about the Pennsylvania Dutch.
This play was originally presented
Jack White ,a High Point high by the New York Theatre Giuld.
school graduate, was tops on the
freshmen placement exam scf)res,
with menfolk taking top honors in
both English and math, according
to a survey of the ten top scores in
each exam.
Robert Dalrymple, graduate ot
Winona high school and Staunton
Military Academy placed highest
With casting over and rehearsal
begun on “What A Life”, the Elon
Players this week launched a pro
gram calling for five major pro
ductions this year, the most am
bitious undertaking in the dra
matic group’s history. The players
have previously produced three
plays each year.
Mrs. Betty Smith, director,
states that this year's expanded pro
gram will cost the students “not
much more than before, if any.”
“Our objective,” she says, “is to fill
the house.”
With the schedule of plays the
popular and' highly capable direc
tor has undet cfcnslderatlon, she
should have little trouble on that
the plays has not been made, but
the general plan, according to Mrs.
Smith, is to select iplays “appealing
to the public.”
The Whitley Auditorium
Bill Of Fare
“What a Life,” production num-
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math placement with a score of 83.
six points ahead of the field.
Mr. Dalrym{)le plans a major in
business administration, and Mr.
White will work in pre-engineering.
The next highest scores in Eng
lish, in descending order, were made
by Robert Walker, Kernersville, N.
The Barter Players, who toolc
their name from their early prac
tice of bartering theatre tickets for
Dotato“‘!, slabs of
ever their country audiences could
offer as a substitue for money, will
be appearing before an Elon audi
ence for the third successive year.
Marcel Dupre, one of the fore-
C., Miss Evelyn E. Booth, Roanoke, most living organists, is appearing
Va., Roger Gibbs, Greensboro, N.
C., Miss Helen Jackson, Winston-
Salem, N. C., Jack White, High
Point, N. C., Miss Doris White,
Luray, Va., Miss Rosamond Brom-
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INTRODUCING FOUR OF OUR NEW FACULTY MEMBERS
Elon has a new “model teacher”
this year in Miss Dorothy Penning
ton, who joins the music staff as
instructor in piano, harmony, count
erpoint and music appreciation.
Last year is Pennington modeled
in New York city, through the Bar-
bizon Agency, which handles free
lance fashion illustrations. Miss
•.Pennington has also worked with
Eastman Kodak’s color film depart
ment.
She has taught at the Marlboro
School for Girls,
Miss Pennington lives on the cam
pus in the West Dormitory.
Prof. Joshua Corbett Colley was,
he is careful to point out, named
after that parti(?u|iar Joshua who
“commanded the sun to stand still.”
The very unassuming and not-at-
all-commanding Prof. Colley joined
the Elon faculty this sumer as pro
fessor of psychology and education.
Fifteen years a high school princi
pal, and eight years the superin
tendent of Rockingham County,
Prof. Colley brings rich experience
and understanding to his position.
Prof. Colley took his A. B. degree
at Emory and Henry College, Emory,
Va., and his M. .A. degree at the
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Mrs. Stella Bruton, an addition
to the English staff, comes from the
University of North Carolina, where
she has been instructing in Eng
lish for the past two years and
studying for the Ph. D. degree since
1945.
A native of Reading, Mass., Mrs.
Bruton took her A. B. and M. A.
degrees in English at Stanforfl
University in California. She was an
English instructor there in 1944-45.
Mrs. Bruton’s chief extra-curric-
ular activity at present, apparently,
is adjusting hereself too the apart
ment in which she lives at Elon.
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Miss Cecile Hope Pate is here
to “make a man” of the Elon
women. That’s the nonsensical way
of saying she is the new women’s
physical education instructor.
Miss Pate comes to Elon from
High Point College where she has
been instructing. Previously she
taught for two years at Soiphie New
comb, the women’s school of Tulane
University.
A native of Goldsboro, N. C., Miss
Pate attended Woman’s College ot
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, where she took her
B. S. degree in physical education.
on the Whitley Auditorium stage
Dec. 2. M. Dupre recently played
a series of summer recitals in the
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at
the University of Chicago. He will
make appearances at Elon College,
.\tlanta and San Antonio before re
turning to Paris.
Feb. 4 The Touring Players, Inc-
make a returrn engagement to Elon.
with a production of “The Corn is
Green.” A Hollywood production of
Emlyn Williams’ play was issued
during the war with Bette Davis in
a leading role.
Australian-born Winifred Walker
will present one of her lectures, il
lustrated by moving pictures in
color. The Elon audience will be
treated to the same show given an
nually in New York’s Town Hall.
Dororthy Munger, young Ameri
can pianist,, will appear sometime
in February. Miss Mungfer, who-
has appeared widely in solo recitals:
and with symphony orchestras, !s
unanimously acclaimed by critics
for her sensitive and sincere inter
pretations.
The North Carolina Symphony
Orchhestra, und^r the direction of
Benjamin Swalin, will be pre
sented in April, in. cooperation with
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Dormitory Inspection
Begins Monciay
Weekly inspection for all male
dormitory students is scheduled to
get under way on Monday afternoon,
Sept. 27, according to an announce
ment made by Dean D. J. Bowden.
Inspections will begin at 1;30