The Student Body Wishes For
Retiring Editor Ted Parker a
Lifetime Audience, Good Hunting
MAROON AND GOLD
For Maroon and.Gold’s
Season’s Greetings—
See Editorial, Page 2
VOLUME 28
ELON COLLEGEk N. C.,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1949
JNUlVlBKH 7
M&G Editorship Opened To Student Candidates
—— Aliy Student Eligible For Job;
Dr. JV. M. Brown Joins Faculty To New Editor Souglit By Jan. 21
Head Dept. Of History—Sociology
Dr. L. E. Smith this week an
nounced that Dr. William Mosely
Brown, prominent educator and
author, has joined the Elon facul
ty and will become active as head
of the Department of History and
Sociology at the beginning of the
second semester on Jan. 24.
Dr. Brown, who was nominee
for governor of Virginia in 1929,
is perhaps best known as the foun
der and president of Atlantic
University, which opened its doors
in 1930 and was closed in 1932.
Nationally famous. Dr. Brown
has spent his time since 1932
writing, lecturing, and serving as
personnel consultant. Before the
first World War he served as di
rector of the Vick School of Ap
plied Merchandising.
During the war he rose from
Ralph Fleming,
World Federalist,
Speaks To IRC
Leading a panel discussion on
the subject, “Progress of the
World Federalist Movement,”
Ralph Fleming, from uke Univer
sity, last IVfonday night afforded
the campus IRC Club one of the
most stimulating evenings of the
year.
Fleming, who is National Chair
man, Student Division, of the
the enlisted ranks to the rank of United World Federalists
Robert S. Moore, Day Student,
Killed In Car-Truek Accident
2nd lieutenant, and is now a ma
jor in the Reserve Corps.
Born in Lynchburg, Va., Dr.
Brown was educated at Washing
ton and Lee University, where he
received his A. B. and A. M. de
gree. He was for several years
the head of the department of
psychology and- education at
Washington and Lee.
He and Mrs, Brown have moved
into one of the new homes near
Vet’s Apartments.
brought with him to Elon Miss
Eleanor Parager, also^ of Duke,
and Jake Wicker, a political
science student at the University
of North Carolina.
Baxter Twiddy, IRC president,
has announced that Tom Keehn,
Secretary of the Legislative Com
mittee of the Congregational
Christian Churches, will appear
on the IRC’s Jan. 31 program. His
talk will be: "Report on 81st
Congress.”
f
I Robert S. Moore, 24-year-old
Elon student and twin brother of
Richard J. Moore, also a student
here, was killed instantly Dec. 21
when his car collided with a truck
three miles west of Mebane on
Highway 70.
Moore was on his way to work
at the Mebane Floral Shop when
his car struck a truck belonging
to the Dr. Pepper Company of
Durham and driven by Boyd
Reaves Jones, Jr., of Durham.
The car was nearly demolished.
An unidentified observer of the
accident reported that the truck
was an the wrong side of the road
and was attempting to get back
in the right lane when it tilted,
striking Moore’s car. The car
traveled about 250 feet before go
ing into a field. Moore was dead
when he was reached.
Jones said, “The Moore car was
coming down the road at a high
rate of speed. The car was weav
ing and I could not avoid a col
lision.” Jones was charged with
manslaughter.
Moore is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Carrie Truitt Moore; his
parents, L. W. and Mrs. Meta
Ti'ollinger Moore; and his broth
er, Richard.
Robert and Richard were Seni
ors here, majoring in history.
gone
With the graduation of Ted Parker at the end of this semes
ter, Maroon and Gold seeks a new editor — by January 21 — ac
cording to Hoyle Bruton, faculty advisor.
Mr. Bruton states that any student — freshman, sophomore,
junior, or senior; male or female—is eligible for the office. The
only requirements are an interestin the paper and a willingness to
learn.
For those students who may be
interested in editing the Maroon
and Gold, and for the information
of the student body at large, the
following is an outline of the ed-
Steve Walker, president of the 1
During publication week the
iiiSrfs
George T. Parker: he came in March, 1946; he will have
January 22, 1949 . . . Maroon and Gold will miss him!
Big Theodore Steps Down
By the M & G Staff , aiism as much as he respected
Roaring. heavy-footed, finger-1 straight-forward reporting and
pointing George Theodore Parker | the freedom af an editorial page.
with this issue steps down from
His enthusiasm was always based
CAMPUS BRIEFS
editorship oif Maroon and Gold on a feeling of responsibility for
and joins the line to the right, Uhe things he respected and for
where a few good ^lon men and finishing wha the started, never
women are queueing up for Jan. on journalistic triteness.
22 graduation. i An extremely lazy person, he
Parker was made editor by fac-' respected laziness; but he hated
ulty advisor Bruton’s appoint- ^P^thy with a table-pounding vio-
ment in September, and this issue l^nce. His own laziness was based
is the seventh to roll off of Elon’s ^n inability to become ex
cited over what seemed to him in-
Membership Drive
Launched By Club
Steve Walker, president of th
Education Club, which is the Elon j
Chapter of The Future Teachers ! ^“^5 work as soon as class-
jf America, announced this week Monday. He works
that an annual drive for member-
hip has started on the campus.
all Monday afternoon and late
that niglit, receiving copy from
Walker said that any Elon stu-1 reporters, trying to see that all
dent interested in the education j copy for all pages is in, re-writ-
cield is eligible for membership.' ing or having the material re-
rhe only requirement for mem- written and re-typed.
jership in the club is that the stu-
ient be either a Junior or a Seni-
The linotype operator comes in
Tuesday morning about 8:00 and
works all day. The editor comes
Professor Colley, tne club’s fac- in Tuesday afternoon whenever
ulty advisor, said that the drive he is free. He supervises the
which has started will last for' making of galley proofs and
only a short while. j makes up dummies of three pages
Each member of the club is a of the newspaper. On Tuesday
member of the North Caorlina and Wednesday afternoons the
Education Association, and he re- headlines are written and on
ceives all rights of an NCEA Wednesday afternoon late they
member. !go to the Times-News, Burling-
Officers of the club other than for setting. The editorial
Steve Walker are Lenelle Fuller, P®S® i® on Tuesday night,
vice-president, Ed Gentry, secre-: ^he editor is off until Thurs-
tary, and Bill Anderson, treas- night about 6:00 or 7:00, when
urer. ) (Continued On Page 4)
There are still approximately
350 students who have not paid
their student fees, according to
college officials.
It has been pointed out that
payment of these fees is neces
sary in order that student body
obligations can be met.
Names of students who have not
paid are posted on bulletin boards
in Alamance Hall, and students
are requested to pay at their ear
liest convenience.
HARVEY FOUSHEE
Talks shop with Rocco Sileo
Foushee, M&G Photographer^
Got His Start In Berlin Barter
By VERONA DANIELEY a dental school because of their
c on/i-large enrollment, so he decided to
Five cartons of cigarettes and “ -,i
enter Elon. He will receive his
Dr. L. E. Smith last week de
faulted in his first high hurdles
attempt of the year, and will be
out of athletic competition for
several weeks.
In an attempt to cross a wire
bordering the grass around Moon
ey and inspect the progress of
some ditch digging taking place
he caught a foot on the wire, fell,
and broke his left wrist in three
places.
100-year-old press under his vio
lent but painstakign supervision.
With a typewriter under his
fingers or an audience to hear
him, thuvidering Theodore has
been a man to reckon with. He
has a consuming fondness fcr
consequential or false. The twit
tering energy of the giggler, the
liollow claptrap of idle brains, the
vapid disinterest of shallow
minds, were all as foreign to him
as the yo-yo.
Staff members will retain for
caling a spade a spade, and press
room lights have often turned blue : « impression of Big
when his tirades of identification
began.
Theodore stalking
'mo«g press room
in and oui
tables and
Editorially he put his fcot '^‘'aters in the concrete floor, wav-
down hard, and many a student | ^"8 "leaves of illegible copy and
can identify himself among those falling down magnificent curses
he eloquently condemned. How-* the heads of Joe-college il-
. u literates and glamour-gal irres-
ever, he was consistently above, & a
cheap name-calling; as violent as; Possibles.
his abuse seemed, his criticism I And the few who stucl^ with
was always on the level of prin- him will remember his 4:00 or
ciple.
There was one thing that Terri
ble Ted communicated to his staff
imemdiately. He had no roman
tic, tiirned-up-collar, cocked-hat
Hollywood Onception of newspa
per work. He deplored the gos
siping, tattle-tale aspect of journ-
5:00 a. m. exhaustion.
Ted never once suggested that
the paper was worth it. It seemed,
rather, that the paper served as a
challenge and a responsibility—
and Ted will answer a challenge,
meet responsibility.
We’ll miss him.
Radio Class To Broadcast Sunday
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$2.50 in cash won for Harvey
Foushee, senior from Greensboro,
a $90 camera and a hobby in Pho
tography. The barter between
two G.I.’s took place in Wiesbad-
«n, Germany, now one of the
fields for the Berlin airlift, while
i'oushee was overseas with the air
iorces.
With this interest in photogra
phy, Foushee has been appointed
staff photographer for the Ma
roon and Gold. His assignments
for the paper range from glamor
ous poses of faculty members to
action shots of campus athletic
stars. The college furnishes
film, flashlight bulbs, and other
photographic materials, and for
Foushee’s office, the dark room
in science building.
I '“Making shots” is only one of
TousTiee’s interests, however. Af
ter finishing his pre-dental work
at Carolina, he could not get into
undergraduate degree in May
with a teacher’s certificate in phy
sics. He plans to get his M.A.
in educational administration.
To complete the requirement
for a physics major, Foushee’s
project is to build a permanent
base for a telescope constructed
here some years ago.
In his teaching Foushee plans
to use his knowledge of photogra
phy. “I am very much interest
ed in audio-visual aids,” he said
recently.
“In my practice teaching I have
observed that most high school
students find physics dull and
hard to understand.”
To create some interest in his
classes, Harvey is making 35 mm.
slides of laboratory procedure and
equipment. He makes slides also
for his wife, senior home econom-
(Contlnued' On Page 4)
Jeanne Meredith
Asks For Snapshots
The publication of the ’49
PhiPsiCli is progressing rapidly,
and a more definite date has been
set by publishers for students
to receive their individual issues,
according to an announcement
made by Editor Jeanne Meredith.
Materials have already been
given to the publishers, and they
expect it to be completed by or
before May 31.
There is still a need for snap
shots of campus life. Miss Mere
dith says. Students having pic
tures are urged to give them to,
some member of the PhiPsiCli
staff.
The staff is reluctant to pre
dict anything outstanding, but Ed
itor Meredith says “The ’49 edition
will be comparable to the one
last year.”
Elon’s first dramatic radio
show of the year will take place
Monday at 1:30 p. m. when Mrs.
Elizabeth R. Smith’s Beginners’
Radio Class presents Emily
Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” over Station
WBBB in Burlington.
The 30-minute show will have
been cast, produced and partially
directed by members of the cast
as part of their final examina
tion. Other students on the cam
pus will help in the production
by taking parts in the play.
Rehearsals are going on in the
radio practice room in Mooney
Building. The class has two pub
lic address systems, with outlets
in rooms off-stag^, which enable
the cast to be heard and not seen.
The cast for the “Jane Eyre”
production follows: Jane Eyre,
Jeanne Parks; Edward Rochester,
Bob Rubinate; Mrs. Fairfax, Pat
Sanford; Adele, Carolyn Poy-
(Continued On Page 4)
Dramatics Frat.
Initiates Members
On Monday evening, Jan. 10,
Kappa Lambda, the Elon College
chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, na
tional dramatic fraternity, took
eleven students into its member
ship in a formal initiation in
Mooney Chapel.
Those meeting the requirements
for membership were: Edwin
Nash, Robert Walker, Evelyn
Moore, Jeanne Parks, John Vance,
Carolyn Poythtess, Robert Rubi
nate, Joan Bolwell, Robert Wright
and Floyd Boyce.
The initiation was officiated by
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, director
of the Elon Players, and Mr. Earl
Qaniely, former members of the
Players. It was the first initia
tion of the Kappa I.ambda chap
ter.
JAMES L. LEWIS—A Freshman at 28.
James L. Lewis Jjcaves Berlin^
Big Pay For College Degree
By The M and G Staff j promotions, and in line for them.
Like the great Odysseus of ^ suppose, ’ Lewis says, but I
Greek mythology, James L. Lewis, was convinced that a background
28-year-old Elon Freshman from 1 of formal education would be to
Baltimore, Md., has traveled far i advantage,
and done strange things—but un The fact is that Lewis was up
like Odysseus, who wanted to get! for a promotion that had already
home to the wife and kid, Lewis
would probably be traveling yet
if he hadn’t begun to hanker for
college education.
In spite of the fact that he
been okayed by General Lucius
B. Clay when he asked to be re
lieved of his job and headed
home.
“I could have gone on working
loves traveling and was doing «ntil my background inadequacy
work that carried him all over pinched,” he explains. “But I
Europe, Lewis last fall left a well '^a^n’t getting any younger,
and
it seemed that a fellow 27 years
old couldn’t afford to put off
schooling very long.”
So, the young man turned his
In terms of salary or personal back on work he thoroughly en-
of his work, he un-|ioyed and came home with a hat
full of memories — and a clear
paying job with the Railway
Transportation Office in Berlin,
Germany, in order to come home
and enter college.
enjoyment
questionably had been more suc
cessful with a high school educa- , conception of what he wants m
tion than many men are with col
lege degrees. Yet, he wasn't sat
isfied.
“As it was, I was qualified for
the future. His memories are
perhaps reflected by more than
4,000 pictures that record his
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