One Rlore Month
And Then
Exams Come Again!
MAROON AND GOLD
Hail The Cagers
And It’s
On To Statesville!
VOi-,jME 30
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1951
NUMBER 8
Russian And
Atom Classes
For Adults
GATE CITY MUSIC GROU P TO PLAY IN WHITLEY
A course in
the Russian lan
guage and instruction in regard
to the atomic bomb and effec
tive civilian defense will be fea-
tui-es of the fifth series of adulc
right classes, which will get un-
derv.'ay he ■ on Tuesday
evening, February 13th.
This was rever’- ’ ' ! - v.eekend
by Dr. W. W. S': )an. chy.ii.rcau of
ti.e faculty ccmii;> :o on adult
euu:;--.-. ' c. in’juneea the
time schedule for the nevy night
classes. The schedule has been
spread over a period of four nights
each week, thus providing a bet
ter opportunity for students to fit
the instruction into tiieir per
sonal schedules.
In announcing the new sched
ule, Dr. Sloan pointed out that
the night courses had previously
been concentrated largely on
Tuesday and Thursday nights.
The new schedule calls for at
least one class on each night from
Tue^ay through Friday for a
period of twelve weeks.
All classes meet in Alamance
Building, beginning at 7 o’clock
and lasting until 10 o’clock each
evening. Each of the courses of
fer either college graduation or
teacher certificate credit. Wives
of the students are especially
urged to take advantage of the
instruction, and a special tuition
rate has been provided for them.
The new course on tlie atom
bomb and civilian defense will be
taught by members of the Elon
science faculty, witli the cooper
ation of officials of the North
Carolina civilian defense pro
gram. It will bt given on Tues
day nights, along with a course
ir the psycholog> of adolescence,
by Prof. Gilbert Latham.
The class in spoken Russian
will be taught by Dr. Konstantinas
Avizonis and is scheduled for
Wednesday nights. The Thursday
night classes include a course in
Shakespeare by Dr. James Kowell
and a class in tlie history of edu
cation by Prof. J. C. Cooley. Dr.
W. W. Sloan will offer a course in
the New Testament on Friday
nights each week.
The Woman’s College Cham’.er Music Players, who will offer a program in Whitley Auditor
ium here on Thursday evening, February loth, are shown in the above picture. Left to right in the
front rov/, they are Anna Dic'jcieson, Greensboro; Nancy Pease, Springfield, Mass.; Jeanne Mont
gomery, High Point; Margaret Pritchett, Greensboro; Helen Mae Sarles, Greensboro; Mary Jo
Kelly, Winston-Salem; Susan Deyton, Spruce Pine; Elizabeth Cowling, W. C. faculty, Greensboro.
In the back row are George Dickieson, director. Greensboro; Emil Robinson, Charlotte; Julia Des
kins, Greensboro; Barbara Carvin Spruce Pine; Lucille Hassell, Henderfonville; Joyce Fishback,
New York City; and Shirley Leonard, 'Greensboro. Three ether members, not shown in the photo,
are Hugh Atlvater, Greensboro; Esther Elliott, Roanoke, Va.; and^lartha Talley, Greensboro.
Woman’s College Music
Group Coming To Elon
The appearance of the Woman’s College Chamber Music Play
ers in Whitley Auditorium on- Thursday evening, February 15th,
promises for music lovers of Elon College and the suirounding
points a fine program of musical entertainment.
The Gate City group is directed by Prof. George Dickieson, of
the Woman’s College faculty, and it includes a number of musici
ans of outstanding ability in its
DENTAL PROFESSORS
VISIT ELON CAMPUS
Dean John Charles Brauer
and Dr. R. E. Sturtevant, both
of t J‘ Dental School of the
Liiiversity of North Carblina,
were visitors on the Elon
campus on Monday night, when
they met v.Uh a group of pre
dental students.
The University of North Cai’-
olina men came here imder t’le
ausr'ces of the Science Depart
ment of t’le cr,!!jsre to fliscti^s
possibilities of ad-.iission to
dental school and to answer
questions that interested stu
dents inigl?t wish to ask in re
gard to the dental profession.
'WHO'S WHO' TO HONOR ELON MEN
membership. Another member of
the Woman’s College faculty, who
is a member of the group, is Miss
Elizabeth Cowling.
Prof. Dickieson, in addition to
directing the Chamber Music
Group, plays first violin in the
college’s Faculty Trio and is also
concert-master and associate con
ductor for the Greensboro Sym
phony Orchestra. He holds a
Master’s Degree from the Cincin
nati Conservatory of Music and is
a member of Pi Kappa Lambda.
Miss Cowling, the other faculty
•T.cmber, holds the Master's De
cree from Northwestern Univer
sity. She is also a member of Pi
Xappa Lambda and of Phi Beta
.'lappa. During the past summer
she studied with Pablo Casals in
France, and is cellist in the Facul
ty String Quartet and the princi
pal cellist in the Greensboro
Symphony Orchestra.
Also included are three gradu
ate students in music. They are
A. Hugh Altvater, with a degree
of Baclielor of Music from the
University of Michigan; and Susan
Deyton and Nancy Pease, both
with degrees of Bachelor of
Science in Music from Woman’s
College. Outstanding undergrad
uate music students complete the
chamber music group.
LEGISLATIVE MEET
TOMORROW NIGHT
The Student Legislature will
hold its first meeting of 1951 in
Society Hall at 7:30 o’clock to
morrow (Thursday) night. This
was the hopeful announcement
released by officers of the Elon
Student Government, since they
“hope” that enough legislators
will be present to make a regu
lar meeting possible.
This meeting tomorrow night
is really supposed to be tlie
third meeting of the new year,
but the two previous meetings
have failed to materialize*when
no quorum of members ap
peared for the gatherings. In
fact, officers state that the
combined attendance-of the two
January meetings was not
enough to make up a quorum
of the membership.
Mid-Winter
Meetinfj^s
On Campus
The Elon campus will be the
scene of three exceedingly import
ant meetings iA mid-February,
oach of them having a direct bear
ing upon the' continued success of
the college. The three meets, in
:he order of their dates and all
aetween February 10th and 13th,
are the mid-year alumni gathering,
a session of the Elon Sustaining
Fund Committee and the mid
year meeting of the college
trustees.
The first of the three will be
the mid-winter meeting of Elan’s
General Alumni Association,
-cheduled for Saturday, February
10th. This gathering has been
Dlanned by Alumni Secretary
James F. Darden, and many out
standing Elon graduates will be
back on campus for the sessions
The second big meet of the se-
ies is that of the Elon Sustaining
Fund Committee, which will con-
ance of the Sustaining Fund plan
to consider plans for the further-
anceo f the Sustaining Fund plan
that originated at the last general
-ession of the Southern Conven
tion of the Congregational Chris-
'.ian Church. Church leaders
from all over the convention area
will join in discussing plans for
:he raising of the Sustaining Fund
on the basis of $1 for each churcii
member. Dr. Allen Stockdale, who
proved so popular with tlie stu
dents at a recent visit in chapel,
will address this meeting as the
feature speaker.
Closing the series will be the
annual mid-year gathering of
Elon’s Board of Trustees, which
Elon Group Outstanding
In Three Opera Scenes
The students of Elon’s new Opera Workshop, which was intro
duced into the curi'iculum for thi; first time last fall, tried their
wings^ on the stage of Whitley Auditorium on Thursday evening,
January 18th, when a series of tiiree opera scenes was presented to
a delighted audience.
First of the scenes presented was one from “The Marriage of
Figaro,” by' Mozart. Those singing roles in this scene included
Miss 'V'irginia Groomes, of the
PLANS ANNOUNCED
ON RELIGIOUS WEEK
Plans are complete for the
annual Religious Emphasis
Week, which will be observed
on the college campus during
the week beginning on Sunday,
February 18th. The week will
be characterized by twice daily
religious services from Sunday
through Friday that week.
Dr. Martin L. Goslin. pastor
of the First Congregational
Christian Church m Evanstoi?,
HI., will be the speaker for the
Religious Emphasis program
this year. Dr. Goslin, who ranks
as one of the outstanding minis
ters in Congregational Chirtsian
ranks, was a visitor on the
campus last year when he ad
dressed the students in chapel.
Education Club
In January Meet
The Education Club held its
regular January meeting in the
Music Listening Room last Thurs
day night, with only a small group
of members in attendance. The
topic of discussion for the group
was the writing of a proper let
ter of application for a teaching
position.
The discussion of this topic was
is scheduled for Tuesday, Febru- , ,
. led by Luther Clapp, club presi-
ary 13th. This will be an all-day ^ ^ ^
'.ession, and it will be featured by
President Leon E. Smith’s annual
eport on the progress and pres
ent status of the college.
dent, the feature being criticism
of a sample letter. A series of
games and contests were enjoyed
during the social hour, along with
delicious refreshments.
ELON TO STAGE SECOND AmVAL
HIGH SCHOOL DAY’ FEBRUARY 15
DR. F. E. REYNOLDS
DR. D. J. E9WBEN
Two outstanding miembers of
the Elon College faculty have
been listed for inclusion in the
next edition of “Who’s Who In
America.” Tlie two are Dr. D. J.
Bowden and Dr. F. E. Reynolds,
both pictured above. Dr. Bow
den, a native of 'Virginia, was
leducated at Virginia Polytechnic
3nstitui,e and at the Divinity
School of Yale University, where
he took the Ph. D. Degree in 1937.
He has been a member of the
Elon faculty in the Department
of Philosophy and Religion since
1935 and has been dean of the
college and dean of men since
1944 Dr. Reynolds, a native of nation, and he is now engaged
Indiana, was educated at Butler in writing the series of lessons for
University, at Hartford Theolog-'use in 1952.
ical Seminary and at the Univer
ity of Edinburg, having received
the Ph. D. Degree from the Scot-
;ish institution. In addition to
his duties as a professor in Elon’s
Department of Philosophy and
Religion, he is also pastor .of
Providence Memorial Congrega
tional Christian church, the de
nomination’s oldest church in
North Carolina. He has also
been active in the writing field.
He is the author of the Young
People’s Quarterly and of a teach
er’s guide, which is now being
used in the Evangelical and Re
formed Church throughout the
Elon College will stage its sec
ond annual “High School Day”
on Thursday, February 15th, and
the college hopes to have as guests
at that time iiundreds of high
school seniors from all over
North Carolina and Virginia.
Plans for the day are nearing
completion, according to Prof.
J. C. Colley, chairman of tlie fac
ulty committee on arrangements.
The college observed this oc
casion for the first time last year,'
and the first annual gatliering of:
the high school seniors proved
highly successful. More than 1,000 |
of the seniors were here for the
occasion, which was climaxed by
a football game that night.
A varsity basketball game be
tween Elon and Lenoir-Rhyne will
climax the entertainment for the
forthcoming “High School Day,’
but the committee is outlining a
Dr. Russell Henry Stafford, j schedule of interesting activi-
• J . i J rrv, ties for the high school guests, a
president of the Hartford Theo-
HEADS COMMITTEE
Dr. R. H. Stafford
\
Is Elon Speaker
time view the beautiful athletic
facilities of Elon’s Alumni Me
morial Gymnasium.
I Members of the committee in
charge of arrangements include
Prof. J. C. Colley, chairman. Dr.
James Howell, Dr. Paul Clieek,
Alumni Secretary James F. Dar
den, Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith,
Mrs. Judy Burns and Prof. Luther
N. Byrd.
Sion Music faculty, Madeline
Heffinger, Justyn Carter, Roger
jibbs, Jack Castle and Charles
Lynam. Each of the students
lave a pleasing performance,
^ith Miss Groomes outstanding
in her rple.
A scene from Bizet’s “Carmen”
was next on the program, with an
all-student cast singing well. The
cast included Virginia Davis, Do
lores Evans, Geneva Cooper Wil
liford, Jack Castle and James Hef-
finger. Especial mention is due
to Virginia Davis for excellent
voice range shown.
The concluding number for the
evening was a scene from
“Martha,” by \?an Flotow, in which
Annie Laura Albright and Judy
Ingram did outstanding work,
with fine support from Prof.
William H. Struhs and Jimmy
Rhodes.
The program was staged under
the personal direction of Robert
C. Bird, of Raleigh, who heads
up the Elon Opera Workshop and
is also director of the North
Carolina Grass Roots Opera Com
pany. Mr. Bird, with many years
of experience in opera work in
various parts of the United States,
expressed himself as “amazed at
the quality of the singing of the
youthful Elon group.” Mr. Bird
introduced each of the scenes witii
a brief background sketch.
The Elon singers repeated the
performance of the scene from
“The Marriage of Figaro” in Bur
lington the following night, and
the scene from “Martha” is to be
sung over the. radio on February
19th under the sponsorship of the
'Elon College Music Club. Plans
have also been made to stage
a complete performance of “The
Marriage of Figaro” here later in
the year.
logical Seminary for the past five
years, and for many years an out
standing leader in Congregation
al Christian activities, addressed
the Elon student body twice in
chapel exercises held on Wednes
day and Friday of last week. He
also addressed the faculty in a
special meeting during the week.
His hearers expressed them
selves as amazed at the extent of
Dr. Stafford’s vocabulary and
listened with enjoyment as he
spoke each day. His special mis
sion on the campus was to offer
advice and guidance to ministerial
students of the Elon student body.
program designed to acquaint the
1951 high school graduates of
North Carolina and Virginia with
the educational advantages that
Elon College has to offer them.
The plans call for the visiting
groups to arrive on the campus in
the early afternoon for a complete
tour of the Elon campus, with
each and every department in the
college to proviae special exhib
its that will illustrate class activ
ities and student work.
The high school groups will be
guests of the college for the eve
ning meal, after which there will
be a special program in Whitley
Auditorium by the Elon Players
and students of the Elon Music
PROF. J, C. COLLEY
Prof. J. C. Colley, head
Elon’s Department of Education, quarters.
Rushing Season
Now In Progress
This week is a busy one for the
i members of Elon’s four Greek let-
' ter fraternities and four sorori
ties, as they plunge into the round
i of parties and entertainment for
I prospective pledges, which is al-
I ways a feature of the rushing
of j season in the fall and winter
Ministerial
Banquet Is
Successful
is chairman of the faculty com
mittee on arrangements for ' the
college’s second annual “High
School Day,” which is to be ob
served on the campus in mid-Feb-
fuary. /
Department. At that meeting,
too. President Leon E. Smith will
extend a welcome on behalf of the
college.
Topping off the entertainment
for the youthful visitors will be
;he second battle of the season
with the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears,
which will give the high schoolers
a chance to watch some tip-top
college basketball and at the same
The rushing activities got
underway this week and will con
tinue unabated until Saturday
night, February 10th, when the
semi-annual “Bid Night” cere
monies will be concluded. Sev
eral of the social groups have lost
members recently, and rushing
activities indicate that each or
ganization will pledge several
new brothers or sisters.
Both the rushing season and
“Bid Night” activities are carried
on under the direction of the
Pan-Hellenic Council, of which
Joe Spivey of Suffolk, Va., is
president.
The annual banquet of the Min
isterial Association, which was
held last Friday night at the Prov
idence Congregational Christian
church at Graham, proved highly
enjoyable. About thirty were
present, including M. A. members
and their guests. Faculty guests
were Dr. and Mrs. D. J. Bowden,
Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Reynolds, and
Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Sloan.
Warren Matthews, president of
the group, welcomed the guests,
after which Sam Barber offered a
toast to the sponsor, to which
Dr. Reynolds responded. Lois
Walker toasted the seniors, with
Melva Foster responding; and
John Truitt, Jr., gave the toast
to the new members, with David
Crowle responding.
A special feature of the pro
gram was a skit staged under the
direction of Max Vestal and David
Crowle, with Warren Matthews,
Lois Walker, Max Vestal, Paul
Varga, Helen Jackson, Melva
Poster and David Crowle enact
ing the character roles. A high
light of the skit and also of the
song-fest that followed was Max
Vestal and his banjo.
The gathering was staged against
a colorful decorative background
which had been planned by Helen
Jackson, Betty Sharp and Mrs. O.
F. Sterling.