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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, May 17, 1950
Hundreds Of Old Grads
Coining For A lumni Day
TO STUDY DENTISTRY
Hundreds of the old grads of i
Elon College are expected back on |
the campus for the annual Alumni'
Day exercises, which will be held
cn Saturday, May 27th- The all
day alumni program will inaugu
rate the three-day commencement
season for the college.
The Alumni Day program will
open at 10 o’clock on Saturday
morning, when the senior class
will stage its annual “Class Day”
exercises in Whitley Auditorium.
Kichard Painter, of Luray, Va..
senior president, will preside over
this meeting, and the seniors will
present the class gift to the col
lege.
One of the most enjoyable parts
of the day will be the alumni pic
nic on the campus at 12:30 o’clock,
when the old students will have
an opportunity to mingle and
reminisce over old times. An
hour later at 1:30 o’clock the re-1 Prof. Albert V. Coble, a mem-
union classes will gather. Classes I ber of the mathematics faculty of
coming back this year include Elon College for the past three
AIR FORCE TEAM
HERE THIS WEEK
The United States Army Air
Forces will have their special re
cruiting team in the Student
Union here tomorrow and for the
rest of this week (May 18-19) to
interview students interested in
a career in military aviation.
The team will be a complete
processing: unit, and students in
terested in such a career can ob
tain full information and com
plete their enlistment here. The
team includes a veteran jet pilot,
with combat experience in the
Pacific.
SIX TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREES
those which graduated in 1900,
1910. 1920. 1925, 1930 and 1940.
The annual business sessions of
the General Alumni Association
will be held in Whitley Auditor
ium at 3 o’clock that afternoon,
with President Royall H. Spence,
Jr.. of Burlington, presiding.
President and Mrs. L. E. Smith
vail honor the senior class of 1950
with a reception at 6 o’clock. The
reception will be held in front of
Alamance Building unless bad
weather intervenes, in which case
it will be held in the library.
The final feature of the Alum
ni Day will be the annual aumni
banquet, to be held in the college
dining hall at 7 o’clock. Dr. I. W.
Johnson, of the Class of 1898. will
deliver the annual address for the
second time. At that time reunion
classes will be recognized, and
the seniors of 1950 will be honor
guests. The “Outstanding Alum
nus” award will also be announced
at that time.
years, has recently been accepted
in the School of Dentistry at the
University of North Carolina and
will be at Chapel Hill next fall to
begin preparation for that profes
sion.
VARSITY GAMES ’
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only in the seventh
R. H. E.
H. Point .... 000 000 000—0 5 3
Elon 0000 00 12x—3 6 1
Swiggett and Kimball; Siler and
DeSimone.
* ELON 3, A.C.C. 2
The Christians made it twelve
in a row in Conference competi
tion as they downed A.C.C. 3 to
2 here last Thursday afternoon.
Lefty Taylor went all the way on
the mound for Elon and held the
visitors to four hits. Elon rap
ped only five hits off the visitors’
Boykin, but they combined them
with A.C.C. miscues to score
ACC 020 000 000—2 4 4
Elon 021 000 000—3 5 1
Boykin and C. Tart; Taylor and
DeSimone.
I’M TELLING YOU
(Continued From Page Three)
nine was well on its way to its
second consecutive North State
championship. Coach Mallory’s
young rookie nine has come a sur
prisingly long way, surprisingly
that is to the coach himself. For, ^
always pessimistic. Coach Mai- j
lory always expects tbe worst and
is evidently rewarded with the
best. He has a fine disciplined
bunch of characters which is al
ways hustling, jockeying asd ready
to pull a joke on one another. .
A fine illustration of the char
acter of this ball club is depicted
in the dugout scene one day
when Carroll Feid was deeply de
pressed over his recent hitting
slump. Coach Mallory suggested
a pair of glasses might solve the,
problem. The speedy outfielder
always obedient and ever ready
to better himself, came out on the
field for the next few ball games
with a beautiful red-rimmed pair
of spectacles—minus the lens, no
less.
Elon^s May Day 1
Highly Enjoyable
The annual May Day Festival,
postponed from its original date
on Saturday, May 6th, out of re
spect for Mrs. D. R. Fonville who
met an untimely death in an au
tomobile accident, was staged on
I the west campus in front of West
Dormitory on Tuesday afternoon,
May 9th.
A large crowd witnessed the
pageant, which featured the coro
nation of Jim Elkins, of Siler
City, and Nina Wilson, of Burling
ton, as king and queen for the oc
casion. Their coronation was fol
lowed by a colorful series of
dances of many nations in front
of the throne.
Prof. William H. Struhs, of the
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
Elon Colelge will confer honorary degrees upon six eminent
men at the forthcoming commencement. The recipients include
three from North Carolina, one from New Jersey, one from New
York and one from the District of Columbia. The six to be honor
ed, shown in the above layout, are the Honorable Ralph Bradford,
of Washiniton, D. C. (upper left), executive vice-president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Rev. George W. Law
rence, of Ventnor, N. J. (upper center), pastor of the Congrega
tional Church in that city; Rev. Arthur Stanley Wheelock, of White
Plains, N» Y. (upper right), pastor of the Church in the Highlands
at White Plains; Prof. M. E. Yount, of Graham (lower left), superin
tendent of the Alamance County Schools; Rev. Robert Lee House,
of Southern Pines (lower center), veteran Congregational Christian
minister and now editor of “The Christian Sun;” and Prof. Hiram
Earl Myers, of Durham (lower right), member of the faculty of the
Divinity School of Duke University.
Movie Machines
Given To College
The renewal of the weekly mo
tion picture shows at the College
this year was made possible
through a gift from Phil Wicker,
Greensboro business man, of two
modern Motiograph 35-mm pro
jectors,
Mr. Wicker, who is manager of
the Standard Theatre Supply’s
Gerensboro branch, rated as one
of the top theatrical places in the
state, also presented Elon with all
needed accessories for the two
new projectors.
Aleef, EAT and Play Checkers at
THE CAMPUS SHOP
Milkshakes, Ice Cream, Sandwiches,
Patent Medicines
“If we make ya sick, we've got the stuff to cure ya!”
Complimenfs Of
Brannock's Barber Shop
Elon College, N. C.
LIST OF GRADUATES
(Continued From Page One)
Martha Veazey, Burlington.
Brantley Wall, Danbury.
Carl Wallace, Greensboro.
Charles Wallace, Elon College.
Winfred Ward, Burlington.
James Watson, Bear Creek.
Henry Wentz, Rockingham.
Carl White, Waverly, Va.
Harry Wigmore, Elon College.
Vernon Wilkie, Burlington.
Thomas Williams, Mebane.
William L. Williams, Elon Col
lege.
Harold Williamson, Burlington.
Nina Wilson, Burlington.
Those who completed their de
gree requirements in summer
school and will be awarded the
degrees and diplomas at the forth
coming commencement are as fol
lows:
William Andprson, McLeans-
ville.
Garnet Beamer, Mount Airy.
George Brannock, Burlington.
Archie Braxton, Murlington.
Oabe Bray, Virgilina, Va.
Nell Brittain, Mullins.
M. G. Burke, Jr., Burlington.
James Cooke, Mebane.
John Duhl, Elon College.
Foy Euliss, Burlington.
Wade Euliss, Burlington.
Harvey Foushee, Greensboro.
Jack Gabbay, Teheran, Iran.
Gus Galanes, Burlington.
Garland Gentry, Greensboro.
Russell Gbdwin, Kenly.
David Griffin, Elon College.
Helen R. Hardy, Gibsonville.
William Harvey, Burlington.
Annie Ruth Lee; Elon College.
Edgar Lynch, Mebane.
Paul Messick, Burlington.
John D. Moody, Burlington.
Leroy Neese, Burlington.
Sidney Perkins, Roxboro.
Virginia Rebick, Franklin, Va.
Philip Reid, Charlotte.
James Robertson, Leaksville.
William Scott, Elon College.
Clarence Shipton, Elon College.
Doris L. Shipton, Elon College.
Kathleen Shoffne^ Liberty.
George Shumar, Elon College.
Johnnie Sparks, Burlington.
Clarence Swinney, Burlington.
John Weldon, Louisburg.
Walter Wentz, Rocfeingham.
Thomas Wolfe, Burlington.
Fred Yarborough, Roxboro.
I. R. C. CLOSES YEAR
Prof. J. Earl Danieley, member
of the faculty of the Elon Chemis-
Elon English Department, was the, try Department, will be on leave
announcer for the program, and of absence next year for advanced
he gave background information
for the various dances of England,
Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, Swe
den, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Switzerland, Italy, France and the
United States. Dolores Evans, of
Roanoke, Va., was piano accom
panist for the dance groups, '
YEAR OP LEARNING
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one of the pages most black of the
history Spanish.”
The foreman will soon find that
I am extremely well informed on
study. He will attend summer
school at the University of North
Carolina and will remain there
next year to pursue work toward
his doctorate.
to come out and permit them to
make use of my learning.
But I will have to turn them
all down cold, for I will let noth
ing interfere with my education.
I want to learn how to speak
Spanish even better than I do
now; and maybe next year I will
become acquainted with Greek
and Religion, the better to be pre-
Ecuador, and he will have to give
me a raise. I will be a success, of P^red to hurdle the obstacles life
course, and will become very pop
ular with all the girls, and the big
bullies will never dare to throw
sand in my face again while I am
at the beach with my girl. I will
get offers of fabulous jobs when
The International Relations j the word gets around that I
places in my path.
I can’t wait until
September
The faculty members and their
families will gather at Gant’s
am' Cabin next Friday afternoon. May
for the final social of the
according to plans an-
me frantic telegrams, increasing nounced this week by the faculty
its offers hourly, just to get me social committee.
Club closed its program for the so well informed on these vital j 19th
year on Monday night of this subjects. Hollywood will send year,
week, when Dr. Avizonis spoke
for the second successive meet-
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