A Hearty Welcome
To Our
High School Guests
MAROON AND GOLD
On To Statesville
For That
Conference Tourney
VOLU]\*i;; 30
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1951
NUMBER 9
High School Seniors To Visit College Campus
Eloii’s Summer Session
Open T o New F reshmen
VISTA OF OPPORTUNITY
The high school seniors of 1951
may enter Elon Collage in June as
lull - fledged freshmen, under
plans announced for the forthcom
ing Elon summer sehcol session.
The plan to accept freshmen in
June as well a= in September is
in Iceeping with a widespread
move to accelerate higher educa
tion during the national emer
gency.
This was revealed in the an
nouncement of the 1951 summer
session which is slated to get un
derway on Monday, June 4th, and
continue through two full terms.
The first term will end on Friday,
July 13th, with the second term
starting immediately on Monday,
July 16th, and coming to a close
on Friday, August 24th.
The main plan to accept in
coming freshmen will in no way
change previous policies of service
to regularly enrolled Elon students
or in-service teachers who may
wish to attend the summer ses
sions.
In announcing the summer
plans, the Elon administration
pointed out that freshmen enter
ing in June and attending both
regular and summer terms each
year would be able to graduate in
three years. Many regular stu
dents have cut short their college
years in the past by taking sum
mer work.
The new 1951 summer school
bulletin, coming from the presses
this week, lists courses in art, bi
ology, business administration,
chemistry, education, English,
French, geography, history, home
economics, mathematics, philoso
phy, physical education, psycholo-
gj', religion, general science, soci
ology and Spanish.
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A nnual High School Day
Planned For Tomorrow
Seen in classic
beauty through the Elon “E,” Alamance Building symbolizes educational opportunity for Elon’s own students and
for the high school seniors who will be Elon’s guests for “High School Day.”
Hundreds of high school seniors
from all parts of North Carolina
and Virginia will be guests of
Elon tomorrow for the college’s
second annual “High School
Day,” and plans are complete to
make the event even more suc
cessful than was the initial one
last year.
The high school visitors will
begin arriving on the campus
shortly after noon tomorrow, with
registration slated to get under
way in the Alumni Memorial
Gymnasium at 1:15 o’clock. The
visiting seniors will be formed
into groups there at the gymnasi
um for tours of the campus.
These campus tours, which will
continue from 1:30 until 3:30
o'clock, will carry the high school
groups through the various build
ings, where the different depart
ments of the college ^ave plan
ned special displays to illustrate
the work done by Elon students.
This will be followed by “Open
House” in the Student Union for
an hour, with provision for danc
ing or other amusement.
The youthful visitors, along
with the high school superinten
dents, principals and class spon
sors will be entertained at a free
supper between 4:30 and 5:30
o'clock. The supper will be fol
lowed by another interval of
freedom, when the visitors may
roam at will.
The entire group will assemble
in Whitley Auditorium at 6:15
o’clock, when President Leon E.
Smith will welcome the visitors to
the campus. Entertainment at
this gathering will feature a thir
ty-minute radio skit by the Elon
Players and a musical program
by the Elon Music Department.
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College To Have Week
Of Religious Services
Fifteen Are ^
Graduated
There were fifteen Elon stu
dents who completed requirements
for graduation at the closeo f the
fall quarter, according to a list
released from the office of Dr.
D. J. Bowden, dean of students.
They will be awarded their de
grees and diplomas at the annual
commencement late in May.
The faU quarter graduates In
cluded on the list were Staley
Avent, Joe Bateman, James Bow
en, Hunt Hedrick and Billy Love,
aU of Burlington: Joe Byrd, James
Hayes, Wayne King, William Rod
gers, Dwight Wall and Carl
W^oods, all of Elon College; Albert
Gravitt, of South Boston, Va.; Eu
gene Johnson, of Newport News,
Va.; Ralph Long, of Prospect Hill;
and John Vance, of Mason City,
Iowa.
Also announced by Dean Bow
den’s office was a group of addi
tional boys who have dropped out
lor armed service. Arthur Bromr
afield, Lonnie Crutchfield, Roy
CfTant, Walter Hartsell. Kenneth
Jacobs, Bobby Phillips, Robert
Rakes and Jack Steele did not re
turn after the fall quarter, and
added drop-outs this quarter in
elude WaUy Gaither, Roy Gilliam,
Ned Jones, Luther Mohtgomery,
James Pickard, Max Sharpe and
Wesley Staats. The total lost to
the services is now thirty-six.
The annual observance of Relig
ious Emphasis Week opens on the
Elon campus next Sunday, Febru
ary 18th, when Dr. Martin L. Gos-
lin, of Evanston, 111., will begin a
series of daily evangelistic ser
vices.
The services on Sunday will be
followed by two services each day
throughout the following week,
with Dr. Goslin speaking to the
Elon students at chapel services
each morning at 10 o’clock and
holding evening services in Whit
ley Auditorium each evening. The
meetings will come to a close on
Friday, February 23rd.
The Elon College Choir, with
Prof. John Westmoreland di
recting and with Prof. Fletcher
Moore at the organ, will sing at
both morning and evening ser
vices each day.
These Religious Emphasis Week
services are part of a nationwide
program, for similar series are
conducted in virtually all Ameri
can colleges and universities, in-
cludng the state-supported col
leges as well as the church-spon-
sored institutions. They are the
campus version of the old-time
“revival meetings."
Dr. Goslin,' who conducts next
v/eek’s meetings, is no stranger to
Elon, for he was here last winter
for a Christian Workers’ Confer
ence on the campus. He is pastor,
of the First Congregational
Church of Evanston, 111., and he
was formerly Professor of Biblical
Literature at the Boston Universi
ty School of Theology.
Sustaining
Fund Drive
Is Planned
Efforts to raise an Elon College
Sustaining Fund through the an
nual gift of $1 for each an every
member of the Congregational
Christian Churches in the South
ern Convention will be launched
in the near future under plans
mapped at a meeting of church
leaders held on the campus Mon
day of this week.
Pastors and representatives of
many churches in the Convention
were in attendance at the all-day
session on Monday, which was
marked by meetings in both the
morning and aftemoen. The del
egates were entertained at lunch
in the Elon dining hall through
the generosity of interested friends
Dr. Harry K. Eversull, pastor of
the Walnut Hills Presbyterian
Church, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who
is a member of Elon’s board of
trustees, addressed the committee
and members of the faculty and
student body at 11 o’clock on Mon
day; and the Sustaining Fund
Committee also heard an address
Monday afternoon by Dr. Allen
Stockdale, publicity director for
the National Associatinn of Man
ufacturers.
A number of churches in the
Southern Convention have already
met their quotas of $1 or more for
each of their members, and an
intensive drive is to be launched
to put all the churches over the
top. An Elon scholarship of $100
value is to be made available for
a young person in each church
that reaches its goal.
PAPER DEDICATED
TO ELON VISITORS
This issue of the Maroon and
Gold is dedicated especially to
the hundiV;ds of high school
seniors, who are expected on the
Elon College campus tomorrow
as guests for the school’s annu
al “High School Day” program.
The staff of the Maroon and
Gold extends to each of the high
school visitors a hearty welcome
to the Elon campus and express
es that hope that many will like
It so much on a visit that they
will wish to return later as a
bonafide Elon student.
Elon Alumni Hold
Mid-Year Meeting
Leading members of the Elon
Alumni Association braved icy
roads and inclement weather to
attend the annual mid-winter
alumni gathering, which was held
at Society Hall on the third floor
of Alamance at 2:30 o’clock last
Saturday afternoon.
Royall H. Spence, Jr., of Bur
lington, president of the Elon
alumni organization, presided
over the session, which heard a
report of past year’s alumni ac
tivities from Secretary James F.
Darden.
After considering plans for the
annual gathering of the college
alumni at the forthcoming 1951
commencement and the nomina
tion of candidates for the biennial
alumni election, the group was
entertained by Secretary and Mrs.
Darden at an open house in their
home.
Mid-Winter
Meet Held
By Trustees
Problems confronting Elon Col
lege as a result of the internation
al emergency represented one of
the principal matters for consid
eration at the annual mid-winter
meeting of the Board of Trustees,
which w4s held on the campus on
Tuesday of this week.
Dr. Leon E, Smith, president of
Elon, made his annual report on
the progress of the institution
during the year, pointing out that
fact that the past year has been
a highly successful one. He
cited and expressed appreciation
for the generosity of the Woman’s
Missionary Union of the Southern
Convention in redecorating Whit
ley Auditorium.
The trustees were told that ap
proximately $767,000 has been
raised toward Elon’s great ten-
year campaign, designed to raise
$2,000,000 for expansion and im
provements. The group discussed
the advisability of employing a
professional money-raising agency
to direct the remaining five years
of the drive.
The possibility of securing an
R.O.T.C. unit for the college was
also discussed, as was the possi
bility of affiliation with the Ferree
School of Art in Raleigh to enable
Elon to offer a full major in art.
It was pointed out that such a tie-
up would in no way affect the art
work on the campus. Also dis
cussed was the expansion of the
ctirriculum to include pre-nursing
and ontometry.
Air ROTC May Place
Unit On Fionas Campus
Hearty approval of efforts to
bring a unit of the Air Forces
R.O.T.C. to the Elon College
campus was voiced by members
of both the college faculty and the
student body in votes taken with
in the past few days, and the Elon
authorities are bending every ef
fort to secure such a unit for the
college.
The possibility of securing an
R.O.T.C. program for Elon was
presented to the students by Pres
ident Leon E. Smith in chapel on
Monday morning, February 5th,
and virtually every student pres
ent expressed aproval and a desire
that the project be carried for
ward. The faculty also approved
the idea in a meeting held that
night.
It is revealed that an officer of
the United States armed services
visited the Elon campus sometime
ago and inspected the facilities
here with a view to allocating a
unit to the college. It is said that
the inspection report w«as favor
able, especially so in regard to
the physical education plant as
embodied in the new Alumni Me
morial Gymnasium.
If such a unit comes to Elon
College, it will not be the first
time that military training has
been offered here. The college
had a student army training pro
gram during both World Wars,
and in each case it was highly suc
cessful. A formal application is
going to the army authorities at
ince, but a final decision is not
likely for some time.
W. C. Music
Group Coming
One of the top entertainment
events of the week on the campus
will be the appearance of the
Woman’s College Chamber Music
Group, which is to appear in
Whitley Auditorium on Thursday
night of this week under the aus
pices of the Elon College Music
Club.
The Greensboro music group,
which is directed by Prof. George
Dickieson, of the Woman’s College
faculty, is composed of members
of the faculty and student body
of that institution and has gained
much acclaim in the Gate City
and this area for the high quality
of its programs.
The program for Thursday night
will include “Organ Concert in A
Minor,” by Venaldi-Bach; the
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G
Major,” by Bach; and the “Con
certo Grasso for String Orches
tra,” by Black.
Officials of the Elon College
Music Club, in announcing this
program, stated that admission
will be free, and they extended
an urgent invitation to the Elon
faculty, students and townspeo
ple to hear the visiting group. The
invitation also includes visitors
who may be on the campus for
Elon’s second annual “High School
Day” on Thursday.