BEST WISHES
FOR A
HAPPY HOLIDAY
MAROON AND GOLD
AND A BIG WIN
OVER THE
GUILFORD QUAKERS
VOLUME 30
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1950
NUMBER 5
Elon Delegates Going
ToN.C.S tudent Meet
Seven student leaders from the
Elon campus will go to Raleigh on
Thursday of next week for the
fourteenth annual meeting of the
North Carolina Student Legisla
ture. The meetings, which will
get underway on Thursday, No
vember 30th, and will continue
through Saturday, December 2nd.
The state-wide Student Legis
lature, wliich was founded by the
Pi Kappa Delta debating frater
nity of State College in 1936,
meets annually in the assembly
halls of ttie regular North Caro
lina legislative body, and it draws
delegations from practically every
college in North Carolina. It is
an inter-racial body.
The Elon student body w'ill be
presented by three members in
the state-wide Senate. Members
of the upper house include Henry
Hoppe, Bill Kivett and Emmett
Nesbit. It will be the first term
cf service for Senators Hoppe anO
Kivett, but Nesbitt represented
Elon in that body last year.
There will also be four Elon
members in the House of Repre
sentatives. They are Bob Wright,
Ned Jones, Earl Todd and George
Etheridge. Three of this group
v/ill be serving their first term,
but Etheridge was a member of
the same body last year. Prof.
William H. Struhs is faculty ad
visor for the Elon delegation.
The Elon representatives took
an active part in the deliberations
last year, Art Mize41 was named
speaker pro-tem for the House
of Representatives. There were
also several Elonites on import
ant committees.
The Elon delegation has made
public no bills which it plans to
submit for consideration in the
meetings next week, but Ned
Jones and Earl Todd are taking an
active part in the state-wide plans
for the meet, both of them being
members of the interim council,
with Jones serving as publicity
director.
‘Dog Patch^
Is Brought
To Campus
Baled hay, corn stalks, and
Dogpatch costumes set the scene
as Elon College experienced its
first Sadie Hawkins Day party
under the sponsorship of the SCA
in the old Gym, Friday, November
14th.
Admission to the party was,
granted after each girl paid one
cent for every inch of her waist
line, and from then on it was open
season for the girls. Between the
dance sets a mass marriage wsa
performed in order to join all
couples in howlin’ wedlock, ac
cording to the Sadie Hawkifts tra
dition.
The costumes worn by some of
the Sadie Hawkins revelers con
tributed much to the evening’s
fun. Two or three costumes
threatened to out-Dogpatch the
characters in the popular comic
strip which gave rise to this col
legiate fun day.
Apparently the girls of Elon are
rushed for off-campus dates on
v/eekends, because they stayed
away from this party by droves.
Contrary to pre-party speculation,
there were many more males in
attendance than girls. Those pre-
detory females who attended were
kept busy trying to get around to
all the Dogpatch bachelors.
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Thanksgiving Holidays
Mark Close Of Quarter
Drama Group
Starts New
Radio Series
Last Thursday night marked
the opening of a series of radio
shows to be given by the Elon
Radio Players durign the remain
der of the year. These carefully
selected dramatic productions, di
rected by Mrs. Elizabeth R.
Smith, will be presented every
Thursday night at 8:30 o’clock
over WFNS-FM.
Thursday’s show, a story of
three blind street musicians who
found only disillusionment when
they searched for happiness, was
played by Bc-b tValker, Virginia
Trigg, Bob Wright, Jerry Allen,
Lois Walker, Charles Phillips, and I
Ed Engles, with sound effects by
Bill Kivett.
Although the Radio Players or
ganization already has a good va
riety of voices, new talent is still
needed, and anyone who is inter
ested in radio and who has a
good, clear voice may read for
any part in the shows. This is
not a curricMlar course, but an
outside activity for those inter
ested in radio.
Next play to be given is “I
Dreamt I Died,” a suspenseful
chiller that will fire the listen
ers’ imagination. This play has
already been cast, but announce-
zjBEfflts for the casting of future
plays will be posted on the bulle
tin board.
Mrs. Smith has also drawn up
tentative plans for several tele
vision shows to be produced in
Greensboro.
Sigma Alpha Chi
Elects Leaders
The members of the Elon
Square of Sigma Alpha Chi,
meeting in Society Hall on Mon
day night of last week, named
Matt Currin, of Burlington, pres
ident for the winter quarter. Oth
er officers chosen at the same
time were Bill Rodgers, of Elon
College, vice-president; Bob Yates,
of Chadbourn, secretary; and
Prof. John F. West, treasurer.
These new officers were install
ed in office by Dr. W. M. Brown,
who is national president of the
Sigma Alpha Chi.
Eighteenth Rendition Of ‘^Messiah’’
To Be Given Sunday^ December 3rd
DANCE POSTPONED
UNTIL JANUARY 20
The annual “Fall Formal” will
be the ‘Mid-Winter Ball” after
all, according to an announce
ment released by members of
the dance committee last week
end. The first of two formal
dances had been planned for
Saturday night, December 9th,
but circumstances forced post
ponement until later, and the
new date set is Saturday night,
January 20th.
Conflict with other activities,
w^ich had t(jen unknown to
members of the student com
mittees in charge, made neces
sary the postpoticment. It was
announced that Jimmy Perkins
and his Orchestra, w«ll known
to Elon students from previous
appearances here, will furnish
the music for the affair
Gilbert And Marshburn
To Rule Over May Day
REPORTED IMPROVING
DR. LEON E. SMITH
Dr. Leon E. Smith, Elon’s pres
ident, who was stricken with an
infection on Sunday, November
5th, and confined to his home by
illness for two weeks, has been
improving in recent days and
hopes to be able to be about in
time for the Thanksgiving battle
with Guilford.
Flo Gilbert, of Dunn, and Pete
Marshburn, of Greensboro, will
rule over Elon’s 1951 May Day
festivities as the queen and
king, following their election in
balloting held on the campus last
Thursday, November 16th.
The chief attendants for the
May Day royalty will be Tessie
Taylor, of Reidsville, escorted by
Joe Erickson, of Bay Shore, Long
Island, N. Y. They were chosen
at the same time that the students
elected the May Court rulers.
The students also cast ballots
for two senior girls and two jun
ior girls, along with an equal
number of senior and junior boys
as their escorts. These four cou
ples will serve the court as at
tendants.
The senior girls chosen are
Martha Ellen Johnson, of Gra
ham, and Jane Upchurch, of Dur
ham. Their escorts for the May
Day will be Malcolm McCracken,
of Sanford, and Len Fesmire, of
Madeira, Ohio.
The two junior girls named
are Jane Peterson, of Norfolk,
Va., and Evelyn Booth, of Roa
noke, Va., and they will be es
corted by Ted “Spider” Webb, of
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Two concert artists from New
York City and a tenor from the
University of Michigan will join
with one of Elen’s own music
faculty in the sole roles of the
eighteenth annual presentation of
Handel’s “Messiah” |In ^Whitley
Auditorium here at 8:15 o’clock
on Sunday evening, December
3rd.
Miss Emily Katler, contralto,
and Philip Bond, bass, are the
two New York artists, slated to
come to Elon for solo roles in the
annual presentation. They will
be joined here by Harold Hall,
tenor from the University of
Michigan, and by Miss Virginia
Groomes, soprano from the Elon
music faculty.
Plans for the annual presenta
tion, which has become an annual
feature for the Elon Festival
Chorus, were announced last
weel-\,'nd by Prof. John West-i
moreland, who will direct the
singers, with Prof. Fletcher Moore
at the organ.
Prof. Westmoreland announced
that sixty members of the Elon
Choir will participate in the pre
sensation, which attracts, each
Christmas season, one of the larg
est audiences of tke entire col
lege year. The immortal oratorio
will also be heard over the air
this year through the radio facili
ties of Station WFNS
CHECK THIS!
Every now and then someone
writes a check and forgets to
sign it. That’s not news. But
when seven people let an un
signed check go through their
hands unnoticed, that IS «ews.
Recently an Elon student re
ceived a check from his mother,
who had forgotten to sign it.
Not noticing the lack of signa
ture, he took the check to a
local store, where it was cashed
without question. The local
merchant passed the check to a
salesman, who also accepted it
without looking for a signature.
The salesman turned it into
his office, where it was deposit
ed in a Greensboro bank.
Again it was accepted and for
warded back to its source in
Washington. The unsigned
check passed its seventh hand
when the Washington bank
honored it, and it was not turned
back until a book-keeper caught
it in balancing accounts.
PAPER IS EARLY
FOR THANKSGIVING
In keeping with a policy es
tablished last year, the Maroon
and Gold is coming out one
day early with this issue in or
der that the members of the
student body may be suer to
student body may be sure to
leaving for the Thanksgiving
holidays. Readers will note
that the paper is issued under
a Tuesday dateline instead of a
Wednesday date this week.
The earlier publication also
meant that members of the
Maroon and Gold staff would
have their rush of paper work
through and have more time to
apply upon their own examina
tions. Therefore, the editorial
staff offers the paper today
with the heartiest wishes for a
very pleE| ant Thanksgiving,
Air Forces
Group Visits
Elon Campus
Seniors interested in pilot and
navigation and other officer ca
reers in the United States Air
Force will have an opportunity to
be interviewed and completely
processed by air force pilots on
December 4th, 5th and 6th, when
an air force team will be in Stu
dent Union here.
The Selection Team is especial
ly equipped to give a complete
vision and hearing examination
and, along with the written test,
can advise immediately whether
the applicant is qualified. This
enables the applicant to get an on-
the-spot exam and eliminate trav
el, delay and uncertainty. The
applicant may select a class
eight months ahead—after grad
uation from college.
Major McLaurin announced
that with the recent Armed
Forces Pay Bill the cadet, while
in training, receives $105 a month,
plus all expenses; and the flying
Lieutenant receives more than
$4700 if single and more than
$5100 a year if married.
To be eligible for pilot training,
men must be single, betw’een the
ages of 19 and one-half; and 26
and one-half; citizens, and pass
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Mrs, Smith Injures
Vertebrae In Fall
Mrs. L. E. Smith, Sr., suffered
a fractured vertebrae early last
Friiiay afternoon in a fall on the
stairs at her home near the camp
us. The fall was caused when she
missed the bottom step while des
cending the stairs.
With President Smith confined
to his bed by a leg infection,
friends rushed Mrs. Smith to Ala
mance General Hospital, where
she is reported resting as well as
could be expected. She will be
in the hospital for two weeks or
more.
Barter Players Offer
Shakespearean Comedy
Robert Porterfield’s famed Bar
ter Theatre of Virginia, well re
membered at Elon College for
the smooth and suspenseful pro
ductions' of “Dangerous Corners”
and “Hamlet” in past years, will
return to the Elon campus on De
cember 11 with the gala costume
production, “The Comedy of Er
rors,” by William Shakespeare.
One of Shakespeare’s earlier
and lesser known works, the com
edy is a merry confusion of ship-
.wreck and mistaken identities and
will be carried out in a Greek
motif along lines similar to Bar-
ler’s “Twelfth Night” and “Much
Ado About Nothing”
The confusion in the show is a
result of a shipwreck in which a
pair of identical twins are acci
dentally separated. Years later,
one twin goes in search of the
other. When he fails to return,
his father goes after him, only to
get himself arrested in a foreign
country. Then the other twin
arrives on the scene, ignorant of
his fathers whereabouts and un
aware that his twin brother is
there. To make the ensuing
merry mixup even more so, the
slaves of the twins are also iden-
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DRAMATIC STAR
Nearly seven hundred Elon
students and members of the fac
ulty will take a break this week
from the normal routine of scho
lastic life as the annual Thanks
giving holidays bob up on the
calendar once rriore.
The first holiday season of the
scohlastic year marks the end of
another quarter, with its conse
quent change of schedules and
beginning of new courses for
both students and faculty. This
change means a clean slate for all
and for the students a chance to
chalk up new grades and added
credits.
The fall term comes to a conclu
sion tomorrow morning. Once
those exams are over, the studi
ous atmosphere which has pre
vailed with the “cramming” of
recent days will lift like a fog.
The Thanksgiving holidays be
gin officially at 12 o’clock on
Wednesday and will continue un
til next Monday morning, when
the winter quarter gets underway
with regular 8 o’clock classes.
Most of the students and many
of the faculty will get away from
the campus, many going to their
homes for the traditional Turkey
Day dinner, while others seek
places of amusement.
The highlight of the holidays
for many Elon students and alum
ni in this area will be the twenty-
eighth annual Elon-Guilford foot
ball game, which will be played
in Burlington Memorial Stadium
at 2:30 o’clock Thursday after
noon.
The stage is set for the begin
ning of the new quarter, most of
the students having completed
registration for their new courses
last week. A few late ones are
still signing up, and others will
register next week and pay the
penalty for late registration.
CADDELL BURROUGHS
Caddell Burroughs, who plays
one of the twins in “Comedy of
Errors,” is a native of Texas and
a former student at the Universi
ty of Texas. He' kept busy in
radio work until he joined the air
corps for the war years, and since
that time he is remembered best
for his work in George Abbott’s
■'Kiss and Tell” on Broadway.
Dehate Team
Is Opposed
By Davidson
Clever reasoning, hot argument
and real oratory featured the op
ening debates of the 1950-51 sea
son, held here last Friday night,
with double teams from Elon and
Davidson opposed on the national
intercollegiate topic of a new in
ternational organization against
communism.
The Elon and Davidson debat
ers broke even in the contest,
which was a dual affair that pit-
t e d Elon’s affirmative pair
against the Davidson negative and
the Elon negative against the
Presbyterian affirmative. The
i decision in each division of the
I contest went to the negative
speakers.
Celia Oakley and Jane Boone,
both participating in their first
intercollegiate debate, gained the
decision for Elon, sucessfully de
fending the negative side of the
query against Paul Guthrie and
Robert Combs, of Davidson.
David Moylan and Hubert Can
non, who represented Davidson on
the negative side of the ques
tion, also gained a decision over
the Elon affirmative pair, William
Sinclair and Matt Currin, Jr. The
decisions were termed very close
by the judges in both divisions of
the debate.
The contests were del-ayed in
starting for nearly two hours,
when the train that brought the
Davidson speakers to Elon was an
hour and a half late. However,
the visiting speakers phoned
ahead the reason for their delay,
so the Elon teams were waiting
and ready when their opponents
arrived.