Wishing To All
A Very
Merry Christmas
MAROON AND GOLD
And A Happy
And Prosperous
New Year
VOLUME 29
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1949
NUMBER 6
Dr. Frank Lmibach Will Deliver
Three Addresses At Elon Today
Dr. Frank Laubach, world-fam
ous missionary educator and liter-
■acy expert, who has taught mllli-
ons of people all over the world
to read the printed page, will
speak three times today. and to
night in Elon’s Whitley Auditor
ium to conclude a two-day visit to
this community.
Arriving hers yesterday, his
first address will be delivered to
the Elon College students at their
regular ch~pel session at 10
o’clock this morning.
He will also speak to an assem
blage of women missionary work
ers from all over Piedmont North
Carolina at 3 o'clock this after-
non and will make his final ap
pearance in Whitley at 8 o’clock
tonight, when he is scheduled to
address a public mass meeting on
the subject of his literacy cam
paigns in all parts of the world.
Dr. Laubach, who has been th«
subject of feature articles in
LIFE and LOOK and in numer
ous other magazines and newspa
pers all over the world, is known
for his success in teaching read
ing to people of more than sixty
nations and tribes in over 175 of
the world’s languages .and dia
lects.
Just returned from a two-
months speaking tour of England,
his visit to Elon College is part
of a new itinerary, which will car
ry to many of the principal cities
in Eastern and Midwestern Unit
ed States. He was accompanied
to Elon by bis wife and by Rev.
and Mrs. Ralph Schrader, of Bos
ton, Mass., who represent the for
eign mission program of the Con
gregational Christian Church.
Yule Party
For Faculty
Big Success
Members of the Elon College
faculty staged th«ir annual
Christmas party in. the social
rooms of West Dormitory on
Monday night of this week, and
everyone present branded the oc
casion a distinct success.
The party opened with an old-
fashioned box supper, with the
faculty men bidding for the
sealed and unidentified boxes of
supper, which had been prepared
by the women of the faculty fam
ilies. The supper boxes were
auctioned by Dr. W. M. Brown,
acting in behalf of Santa Claus.
Miss Virginia Groomes, of
the Elon music department, di
rected the entertainment feature
for the occasion. She rendered
solo selections and then led the
faculty group in group singing of
Christmas music.
The faculty members were
then invited to participate in, an
hilarious period of bingo play
ing, prizes for which were pro
cured and paid for with the pro
ceeds from the sale of the box
suppers. Competition for the
bingo prizes was keen and the oc
casion of much pre-holiday mer
riment.
The parlors of West Dormitory
were attractively decorated in the
Yuletide scheme, the center of
attraction being the huge Christ
mas tree, which has become the
heart and center of the Christ
mas season.
ELON DELEGATES PLAY
BIG ROLE IN RALEIGH
The Elon delegation played an outstanding part in the annual
meeting of the North Carolina Student Legislature, which rtiet in
annual sessions in Raleigh on December 1st through 3rd, and Ar
thur Mizell, vice-president of the Elon student body, was elected
speaker pro-tem for the student House of Representatives.
The Elon delegation, which made the trip to Raleigh included
Emmett Nesbitt, John E. Todd,
Marion Adams and Raymond
Hayes as members of the Sen
ate, with Freddie Williamson as
alternate: and Alvin Pate, Arthur
Mizell and Ken Jacob as members
of the House, with George Ether
idge as alternate.
Ken Jacob was chairman of the
Elon representatives, and Prof.
William H. Struhs, their faculty
advisor, accompanied them to the
first two days’ meetings. The
sessions began on Thursday after
noon and continued through Sat
urday afternoon, most of the Elon
group returning here to spend
each night.
The Elon delegates received
much publicity while attending
the meetings, and Raleigh news
photographers must have consid
ered some of them photogenic,
since George Etheridge, Alvin
Pate and Emmett Nesbitt rated
spots in several news pictures.
Only O'ne of the Elon bills was
placed on the agenda for the
meetings, that being a proposal to
revive the North Carolina auto
inspection plan. Th« bill was
amended in both the House and
Senate and approved, but no joint
compromise bil was ever pro
posed.
Arthur Mizell ran a close race
for speaker of the House before
losing to Banks Talley, of Caro
lina, in a hard-fought election. He
was then named speaker pro-tem
by acclamation. Emmett Nesbitt
was named to committees on three
bills during the session.
HOLIDAYS START
AT NOON FRIDAY
The Christmas holidays for
Elon College will get underway
promptly at noon on Friday,
December 16th, according to a
faculty announcement, and the
vacation period will continue
until Monday morning, January
2nd, when all classes will be re
sumed upon regular schedule.
There will be no chapel period
on Friday, with the two final
class periods moved up half an
hour so as to end promptly at
12 o’clock.
Elon Students Play Santa Claus
To Children Of Local Orphanage
James B. West, Jr., of Norfolk,
Va., a former student of Elon
College, has just received his
wings and commission as a Navy
aviator, following graduation
from flight training at Corpus
Christi, Texas, on November 25th.
West, a graduate of Granby
High in NorfolkC attended Elon
College until he was called for
flight training in June, 1948.
Legislature
Enacts Bills
The Student Legislature, in
regular meeting on Wednesday
night, December 7th, passed two
important' bills, amended one
other bill and approved a new for
checking class attendance. The
resignation of Bill Barger and C.
K. Siler, two of th« legislators,
was reported unofficially at the
meeting, although no official res
ignation had been received by
the clerk.
The first bill passed was to in
crease the student body fee from
$1 per year to 50c per quarter,
along with the recommendation
that the fee be collected through
the Business Office along with
other college fees. If such goes
into effect, the 50c would be
turned over to the Student Body
within twelve days after registra
tion date. The bill passed with
only two dissenting votes.
The second major issue involved
the appropriation of funds to help
defray the hospital bills for in
juries incurred by Billy Hopkins
while participating in an Intra
mural tag-football game earlier
in th€ fall. This bill passed unan
imously.
The amendment was to the
parking bill, which was changed
to reserve five spaces in front of
Alamance for administrative offi
cers, who must move in and out
constantly during each day. These
spaces will also be available to
visitors and delivery trucks. The
new attendance checkings was
approved after a trial in the
Science and English Departments
and approval by the Administra
tion.
“The moon on the breast of the
new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to
objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes
should appear,
But a miniature sleigh and eight
tiny reindeer.
With a little old driver so lively
and quick,
I knew in a minute it must be
Saint Nick.
4e «
As dry leaves that befofe the wild
hurricane fly
When they meet with an obstacle,
mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the
coursers they flew.
With the sleigh-full of toys, and
St. Nicholas too.
TEN STUDENT LEADERS
IN COLLEGE WHO’S WHO’
Ten of the outstanding students of Elon College have been
chosen for a place in the new edition of “Who’s Who In Amer
ican Colleges.” The list, which includes nine seniors and one jun
ior, was announced through the office of Dean D. J. Bowden this
week.
Two of the ten students chosen for the list this year are re
peaters, having been included in
last year’s edition of “Who’s
Who.” The two repeaters are
James Hailey and Baxter Twiddy.
Others listed in alphabetical or
der are Ira Cutrell, Arthur Fow
ler, Claude Manzi, Arthur Mizell,
Richard Painter, Luther Vance
Reece, George Stanley and Har
old “Freddie” Williamson.
Each of the ten students hon
ored have played a leading part
in many and various phases of
student life on the Elon College
camplis. Complete individual
sketches will be held up to be
published with photographs in a
later issue of the Maroon and
Gold,
Cutrell is editor-in-chief of Phi
Psi Cli, the college annual; Fowler
is president of the new Elon stu
dent government this year; Hailey
is president of the Ministerial As
sociation and chairman of the
Honor Council; Manzi, with four
years of brilliant football behind
him, has been president of the
“E” Men’s Club; and Mizell is
vice-president of the student
body.
Painter is president of the Sen
ior Class; Luther Vance Reece is
treasurer of the Senior Class and
veteran football player; Stanley
has been active in intramural ath
letics and on the Inter-Dormitory
Council and is on the Maroon and
Gold staff; Twiddy, a ministerial
student, has been very active
with the Singers and the SCA;
and Williamson is a member of
the Legislature, on th« Maroon
and Gold staff and active in club
work.
Large Crowd Hears Elon Choir
In Annual Rendition Of ‘^Messiah"'
Student Guests
At Sunday Supper
All .students of the college were
invited last Sunday evening to be
guests at a "progressive supper,”
and a big percentage of them ac
cepted the invitation and moved
across the campus from west to
east for the various courses, which
replaced the conventional Sunday
night bag supper.
The supper, which was planned
as a feature of pre-Christmas ac
tivities, began with the cocktail
course served by Mrs. Leon E.
Smith at the presidential home
near the West Gate, moving from
there to the parlors of West Dor
mitory, where Mrs. Sadie D. Liles,
Dean of women, served them a
course of sandwiches and drinks.
The guests then moved out
through the East Gate to the home
of Prof. and Mrs. A. L. Hook,
where Mrs. Hook served the des
sert course.
Attractive Yule decorations
added to the festive spirit of the
occasion, a particular feature be
ing the huge Christmas tree in
West Dormitory. Traditional
Christmas music helped bring the
guests into the festive mood.
By JENNINGS BERRY
The immortal oratorio, Handel’s
“The Messiah,” was rendered in
inspiration-commanding magnifi
cence by the Elon Festival Chorus
at 8:30 o’clock Sunday night, De
cember 4th, in Whitley Memorial
Auditorium.
In this, Elon’s seventeenth an
nual presentation, the sweeping
recitatives, arias, and the stirring
choruses achieved a height of dig
nity, dramatic effectiveness, and
splendor unsurpassed in past
years’ performances. Director
John Westmoreland held the 87-
voiced chorus in the perfect con
trol that indispensibly must exist
in order to attain Handel’s pur
pose.
The oratorio was enriched fur
ther by Professor Fletcher Moore
at the organ. The effect was set
by the playing of the Overture
and then carried forth by solos
and choruses, mingled in an en
chanting weave with organ accom
paniment. Mr. Moore held muslc-
lovers spell-bound in his playing
of the interlude, the Pastoral
Symphony.
In the telling of the story of
the Messiah, the soloists have the
important part of carrying the
thought between the choruses.
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SCA Cabinet
Holds Meeting
The Student Christian Associa^
tion had as a recent speaker
Charles Whitworth, of Atlanta,
Ga., the associate student secre
tary of the Southern Regional
Area of the Young Men’s Christi
an Association.
He spoke informally on the job
and purpose of the S.C.A., em
phasizing the fact that worship,
study and action are vital needs.
He elaborated on each of th«se
vital needs and their application
to the group program.
The speaker also held a series
of informal talks with various stu
dents in the organization, discuss
ing with them the ideas and plans
of other Christian Associations.
The S.C.A. officials announced
that th« group has been invited
to join the Elon Choir in the sing
ing of Christmas carols on Thurs
day night of this week, and an in
vitation is extended to all mem
bers to participate.
Oliver Howell, president of the
association, also states that a
membership drive will get under-
It jway in January, to be followed by
a dedication service.
The students of Elon College
will join together in playing Santa
Claus for the children at the Elon
College Christian Orphanage,
with plans calling for a gigantic
Christmas party for the boys and
girls in the Student Union or in
Whitley Auditorium at 7:30
o’clock tomorrow night.
This Yule party for the orph
ans is not new this year, for this
marks the first year in succession
that it has been held. The event
was first started in 1947 under
the sponsorship of the Alpha Pi
Delta Fraternity. The credit for
the idea that first year was due to
Ralph Edwards, a member of that
fraternity and at that time presi
dent of the Student Body.
Alpha Pi Delta is still the guid
ing organization behind the an
nual Christmas Party, but all the
other “Greek letter organizations”
on the campus now cooperate
with the Alpha Pis in making it
go over in big style, since the Pan
Hellenic Council unites to furnish
two bicycles each year to be given
to the boy and girl with the best
record for the year. The lucky
pair is chosen by the Orphanage
officials.
There is now a total of seventy-
three children enrolled at the
Christian Orphanage, including
thirty-four boys and thirty-nine
girls, varying from four to eight
een years of age, and each and
every one of these is assured of
a present at the Elon Christmas
Party tomorrow night. A list of
their names has been on display
in the College Book Store, and
the college students have been
signing up to provide presents for
the various children. Leaders of
the movement pointed out today
that there is still time to sign up
to give some of these children a
present nd spread little Christ
mas joy.
IRC Members
Hear Talks
Dr. W. W. Sloan, of the Elon
faculty, and Baxter Twiddy, well
known senior, were feature speak
ers at two meetings of the Inter
national Relations Club since
Thanksgiving holidays, and the
club concluded its pre-Christmas
schedule by atending the lecture
by Irme Kovac in Whitley Audi
torium last night.
Dr. Sloan, in addressing the
club on Monday night, December
5th, took Sweden as his topic and
illustrated his lecture with an in
teresting motion picture on life
in the Scandinavian country. The
speaker, who spent part of the
past summer in Sweden stressed
the economic life of the country,
pointing out that much of Swe
den’s economy is cooperative in
character. It was brought out
that life in the country does not
differ too much from that in the
TJnited States, with extensive use
of electric power, many Ameri
can automobiles and much the
same style of dress that is found
in America.
Baxter Twiddy, who spoke be
fore the IRC on Monday night,
November 28th, told of his exper
iences in Germany during the
past summer, when he was a
member of one of the work
camps, sponsored by the Ameri
can Friends Service Committee.
Twiddy pointed out that service
in this camp was voluntary and
without pay, and he told of the
various nationalities contacted
and the attitudes observed among
people of various districts,
peopleo f various districts.
Player Show
Is Postponed
Till January
Because of th« press of holiday
activity on the campus, “Kind
Lady,” the second Elon Players’
production, has been postponed
untU the 5th and 6th of January,
according to an announcement by
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, director
of the Players.
Headed by Jeanne Parks, a cast
of veteran Players, including
Robert Wright, Kenneth Jacob,
Rosamond Bromley, and Jerry
Allen will present “Kind Lady”
as the first attraction in Whitley
Auditorium after the Christmas
holidays.
Newcomers who will be seen
behind the Whitley footlights for
the first time include Edward Eni
gles, Patsy Milan, Shirley Joyner,
and Sonja Albert. Robert Walker
is the stage manager for this pro
duction.
“Kind Lady” is a suspenseful
drama which shows th-e struggle
of an old lady, who was too kind
for her own good, against the evil
intent of a group of people who
have forced themselves into her
home. When at last the “Kind
Lady” is freed from the machina
tions of her plotting house guests,
the audience feels the end of the
tension which is maintained from
the first time the curtains part.
A boxoffice will be set up in
Whitley Auditorium to accommo
date patrons who have not availed
themselves of season tickets. The
usual curtain time, 8:15, will be
observed when the Elon Players
present “Kind Lady” on Thursday
and Friday evenings, January 5th
and 6th.