Let’s Go To
“School For Lovers”
Tonight
MAROON AND GOLD
On To Statesville!
Let’s Win
The Tournament!
VOLUME 29
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1950
NUMBER 10
Dehate Team
Shows Well
At Davidson
On Saturday night, February
11th, the Elon Debating Club
journeyed to Davidson College for
a series of debates on the subject
of “Nationalization of Basic In
dustries of the United States,”
meeting groups from Davidson
and Randolph-Macon in a triangu
lar contest.
The speakers from Elon were
Ray Hayes and Bill Sinclair, rep
resenting the affirmative side of
the question, and Billy Mittel-
stadt and Emmett Nesbitt, speak
ing for the negative. They were
extended a cordial welcome by
the Davidson College debaters,
who were hosts at a good dinner
before the debates got underway.
The first affirmative debate for
Elon found Hayes and Sinclair
opposed to a Davidson team, com
posed of Shelly Beard and Mal
colm Doubles. After an hour of'
hot argument the Elon team
walked away with a victory,
this contest.
The first appearance of Elon’s
negative team saw Mittelstadt and
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AN OPERA LOVER
James Edwards, prominent Ral
eigh dentist, well known through
out the state for his baritone voice
and his work as a radio and con
cert artist, will sing the role of
Gratiano, one of the lovers, in the
Mozart opera, “School For Lov
ers,” to be presented in Whitley
Auditorium here tonight. Last
season he had the role of the
dashing toreador in the Raleigh
Opera production of “Carmen.”
He has also appeared as Lucas in
“The Student Prince,” and he is
one of the few baritones in the
country to do the title role in a
dramatized version of “Elijah,”
Forty-Three Pledges
Taken On ‘^Bid Nighf
BUSY DAYS AHEAD
WITH EXAMS NEAR
Days of play are about over
for Elon students this quarter,
and the next few days will be
busy ones as the entire student
body buckles down to work in
preparation for the winter quar
ter examinations, scheduled to
get underway just one week
from this morning.
Some students observe, how ■
ever, that every cloud has a sil
ver lining and ask pointedly “if
exams come, can holidays be far
behind?” The exams end next
Friday, March 3rd, with a ten-
lay holilay period scheduled
from that time until Monday,
March 13 th.
All English 12 and all after
noon classes are scheduled for
exams next Wednesday morn
ing, followed by 8 o’clock class
es that afternoon. Thursday
will bring exams on 9 o’clock
classes in the morning and
10:30 classes in the afternoon.
Exauinations on 11:30 classes
are scheduled for Friday morn
ing.
Blanchard Is
New Science
Club Prexy
Jake Blanchard, who is now
vice-president of the Science
Club, will assume the duties of
president when the students re
turn for the spring quarter. Blan
chard was elected to the office on
February 6th, when Freddy Wil
liamson announced that he would
graduate at the end of the winter
quarter. At the same time Na
varre Barron was elected vice
-president to fill the vacancy caus-
.ed by Blanchard’s elevation to
the presidential chair.
As part of the club’s bi-weekly
meeting, Roland Yii told the
members of the progress being
made by science in China. He
held the group’s attention , with
ease as he told of the backward
scientific policies of the Chinese
and of their deficiency in modern
mahinery and sanitation.
The glamour and excitement of
fictional “collitch days” hung over
the Elon campus on Saturday
night, February 8th, as the broth
ers and sisters of Elon’s eight
Greek letter fraternities and so
rorities welcomed forty-three new
pledges into the bonds of broth
erhood and sisterhood.
Two weeks of “rushing” came to
a climax that night with a round
of parties, which closed before
the midnight hour and set the
stage for the traditional serenades
by each of the four fraternities to
their sister sororities. The sere
nades in turn were featured by
the announcement of the names
of the new pledges by each group.
A dense fog, hanging low over
the £ampus in a manner to put
London to shame, threatened mo
mentarily to turn into rain, but
this failed, to dampen the spirits
or chill the enthusiasm of the
“brothers” as they sallied forth
from Alamance to sing and shout
their greetings to the "sisters,”
v/ho hung over the balcony rail
ings of West Dorm and Ladies’
HaU.
lota Tau Kappa led the way
out to the West Campus, followed
in order by Kappa Psi Nu, Sigma
Phi Beta and Alpha Pi Delta, and
“early-to-tted slumberers” awak
ened to the strains of sentimental
songs, lifted upward through the
fog to the girls on the balconies.
The soft strains of the sentimen
tal songs were broken by the stac
cato count of a-one, a-two, a-
three,” as the brothers chanted
the number of their pledges.
ALPHA PI DELTA, with twenty-
six active members on roll this
quarter, pledged only two. Active
members of this group include
Dallas Berry, Jake Blanchard,
Stuart Cooper, Delmas Core, Har
old Daniels, George Etheridge,
Russell Godfrey, Carlos Hart,
Muril Hughes, Harry Keeton, Joe
Kent, BiU Kivett, Walker Kivett,
Bill Love, Art Mizell, Richard_
Painter, George Patterson, Har
vey Scoggins, Bill Stiteler, Jake
Thompson, Ireland Upchurch, Ar
nold Ward, Bob Williams, Freddy
Williamson, BiU Yeager and Rob
ert Yates. New pledges are J.
Alva Minor and Wink Ward.
IOTA TAU KAPPA, with twen
ty-one active members this quar-
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OFFER SCHOOL FOR LOVERS’
ON ELOr^’S CAMPUS TONIGHT
IN SOPRANO ROLE
If, as the old adage has it,
coming spring brings thought
of love, then Elon students will
be offered a rare opportunity
to leam of that gentle art to
night when a company of North
Carolina’s own singers present
Mozart’s great opera, “School
For Lovers,” over in Whitley
Auditorium. The curtain will
rise at 8:15 o’clock.
The presentation, which is ex
pected to attract music lovers
from Burlington, Greensboro
and other cities in Piedmont
North Carolina, is part of the
new “grass-roots” opera pro
gram now underway in the Tar
Heel state under the auspices
of the opera department of the
North Carolina Federation of
Music Clubs and designed to
let people in all parts of the
state hear opera by native mu
sicians.
The plan was originated by A.
J. Fletcher, well-known Raleigh
attorney and business man, who
is known throughout the state
as both a singer and actor. His
idea of presenting grand opera
in plain English, minus its high
hat and stuffed shirt dressing,
has caught on in other states,
and he has been honored re
cently by appointment as na
tional opera chairman for the
National Federation of Music
Clubs.
One of the Tar Heel musici
ans—even though an imported
one from far away Iowa—to ap
pear in “School For Lovers”
here is Miss Virginia Groomes,
a member of Elon’s own music
faculty. Miss Groomes, who
came to Elon last September,
will sing one of the leading so
prano roles, that of Leonara, in
tonight’s show. She has already
earned a large following, both
in the student body and in sur
rounding communities, for her
very excellent work with the
Elon College Choir.
The remainder of the cast for
the opera will come from the
memgership of the Raleigh op
era group. One of them is
Miss Marie Van Hoy, Salem
College graduate, who will sing
the role of Desplna. Out~ of
school only a short while, she
has crowded a great deal of
stage experience into her few
years. She sang the role of
Cherubina in the Piedmont Mu
sical Festival production of
“The Marriage of Figaro,” and
later she played leading roles
in “The Bartered Bride” and
“The Student Prince.” She has
also appeared in several plays
with the Raleigh Little Theatre
group.
"School For Lovers” tells the
story of Don Alfonso, an old
bachelor, who tried to convince
two young' soldiers, Ferrando
and Gratiano, that their sweet
hearts, Leonora and Dorabella,
will prove disloyal to them if
given a chance. This is stoutly
denied by the young lovers, and
a wager is laid that, if the men
will follow Don Alfonso’s in
structions, the girls will accept
other lovers within forty-eight
hours.
Under terms of the wager,
Ferrando and Gratiano agree
to become the instruments of
their sweethearts’ undoing, so
Don Alfonso accoonts for their
contemplated sudden departure
with the story that they have
been called on for military duty.
A sad farewell is said, and then
they return in the guise of Alban-
an noblemen, each to make love
to the other’s sweetheart. The
unravelling of the situation
teaches all a lesson in the
School For Lovers.”
The, showing tonight will be
hnder the direction of Robert C.
Gird, who came to North Caro
lina recently to direct the state
wide opera movement. A grad
uate of Ohio University, he
studied voice in New York with
the late Oscar Seagle and opera
dramatics with Enrico Clay
Dillon.
The opera tonight will not be
included on the regular student
and music association tickets,
but a special rate will be offer
ed to the Elon students, and
family tickets may be purchased
at gieatly reduced rates by
members of the faculty and
people of the community.
ELON CHOIR TO MAKE NORTHERN TOUR
m:w?i
The Elon College Choir, which leaves on Friday, March 3rd, for a tour of the Northern States,
is shown in the above picture. Members who will make the trip shown left to right, are as fol
lows: FRONT ROW: Virginia Pla, Margaret Kipg, Helen Jackson and Barbara Bailey. SECOND
ROW: Melba Foster, Emma Jean Clayton, Jean Fuqua, Jane Fuqua and Jane Transou. THIRD
ROW: Marion Turk, Wynona Womack, Jane Upchurch and Sharon Black. FOURTH ROU: Jimmy
Rhodes, Charles R. Johnson, James Clybom, Bill Foley and Fred Sahlman. FIFTH ROW: Virginia
Davis, Martha Veazey, Ann Truitt and Geneva Cooper. SIXTH ROW: Charles Lynam, Jack Castle,
Warren Johnson, Cecil Graham Womack and Oscar Holland. SEVENTH ROW: Dorothy Parker,
Jane Dougherty and Annie Laura Albright. BACK ROW: John Truitt, John Vance, David Chand
ler, Roger Wilson and Baxter Twiddy.
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Miss Virginia Grooms, who
has gained a wide following since
joining the Elon College Music
faculty last September, will sing
one of the leading soprano roles,
that of Leonora, in Mozart’s op
era, “School For Lovers,” which
will be presented in Whitley Au
ditorium here tonight. Miss
Groomes, a native of Menlo, Iowa,
is a graduate of Simpson College
and received her Masters De
gree in Music from the Teachers’
College of Columbia University.
She had experience as music
councillor at Montlawn, Nyack,
N. Y., and as a public school mu
sic teacher before assuming her
duties as a voice instructor here
at Elon.
Legislature
Names New
Officers
The Student Legislature wound
up its proceedings for the winter
quarter of 1950 last Wednesday
night, when the group .passed
three bills and one recommenda
tion. It also recognized the resig
nation of Arthur Mizell, Joe Kent,
Jack Ketner and Freddy William
son, four of its members who will
graduate at the end of this quar
ter.
A1 Pate was elected to replace
Joe Kent as speaker pro-tem, and
Fleetwood White was elected sar-
liamentarian to fill the place made
vacant by Marion Adams earlier
in the year. The legislature did
not have the authority to elect a
speaker, since the constitution
states that the vice-president of
the Student Body shall be speak
er. This office will be left vacant
until the regular elections, the
duties being filled in the mean
time by A1 Pate.
The bills passed and the one
recommendation to the adminis
tration are:
(1) An election has been au
thorized to fill vacancies in the
Student Legislature.
(2) Authority has been granted
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Choir Leaves March 3
On A nnual Trip North
Just back from a triumphal
tour of Eastern Virginia last
weekend, the Elon College Choir
leaves again on Friday of next
week for an 11-day tour, which
wiU carry the singers through the
Middle Atlantic States and into
New England. This marks the
third consecutive year that the
group has made the long trek
northward.
The choir, directed by Prof.
John Westmoreland and with
Prof. Fletcher Moore as accom
panist, left here last Friday after
noon, February 17th, on the Vir
ginia tour and returned on Sun
day night after appearing in six
Congregational Christian church
es in the Tidewater section.
The first program was at the
church in Suffolk at 8 o’clock on
Friday night, followed by a sec
ond appearance in the Christian
Temple in Norfolk at the same
hour on Saturday night.
There were four programs on
Sunday, the first at 11 o’clock
Sunday morning at the Liberty
Spring Christian Church near
Suffolk, followed by other ap
pearances at Rosemont Church in
Norfolk at 2:30 o’clock and at
South Norfolk Church at 4:30
o’clock that afternoon, with the
final program at the Christian
Church in Franklin, Va., at 8:00
oc’lock Sunday night.
The program offered by the
Elon singers in each case featured
the organ music of Professor
Moore, several numbers by the
entire choir and by a small en
semble of singers, along with solo
renditions by Miss Virginia
Groomes, of the music faculty,
and by Sharon Black, Dorothy
Parker and Charles Lynam, stu
dent soloists. Fred Sahlman also
did one solo number at the piano.
This program, which was re
ceived with enjoyment and praise
in each appearance, is the same
which will be offered by the stu
dent group on the longer trip
into northern states. The itiner
ary for the northern trip has not
been made public, but the choir
will be gone throughout the
spring holiday season, leaving on
Friday, March 3rd, and returning
on Tuesday, March 14th.
NEW DANCE RULES*
FOR FRATERNITIES
The various Elon sororities
and fraternities will be permit
ted to dance at their annual
banquets, which are planned
for the spring quarter, accord
ing to a new ruling handed
down last week by the faculty
social committee. The ruling
was made public by Prof. J. L.
Pierce, committee chairman.
The permission for dancing
came as an answer to a peti
tion filed recently by represen
tatives of the various fraterni
ties. The committee, after con
sidering the request, recom
mended to the administration
that the request be granted, and
the recommendation was duly
approved.
Mid'W inter
Meet Held
By Trustees
The board of trustees of Elon
College held its annual mid-winter
meeting in the office of President
Leon E. Smith in Alamance Hall
on Tuesday, February 14th, with
twenty-one of the thirty-five mem
bers of the group in attendance.
Dr. W. H. Boone, of Durham,
chairman of the board, presided
over sessions held in both the
morning and afternoon, with D.
R. Fonville, of Burlington, secre
tary to the group, also present to
carry out his duties.
President Smith, in his regular
report, told the trustees of the
completion of the Alumni Memor
ial Gymnasium and declared that
the coUege has had a highly suc
cessful year ahead. The financial
condition of the college was des
cribed as healthy,
The registrar’s report showed a
steady growths in enrollment for
the past five years, with a peak
enrollment of 1,043 students in
1948-1949 and with a total enroll
ment for this year of 1,016 stu
dents. ^