Hei/e's Happy Easter
Greetings
To Eac'j And All
MAROON AND GOLD
Let’s Start This
1951 Baseball
Season With A Win
OLUME
ELON COLLEGE, N.
WEDNEbuAi;, MARCH 21, 1951
NUMBER 11
The student soloists and en
semble groups proved high
lights on the programs offered
by the Elon College Choir dur-
mg its jurth annual tour of
the Mijdie Atlantic and New
England states, which fur
nished a delightful spring va-
' caiion i' ip for the Elon musi
cians. The s-lngersi left the
campus on Friday( March 2nd,
and returned on Sunday, March
11th, far the new quarter.
Shown in t>? p'. liii'r at tliC
right are the members of the
trio, which was acclriir.cd by
audiences everywhere ior its ex
cellent rendition of “My Soul
Doth t'le Lord.”
Those comprising the trio
Creading from left to right) are
Jimmy Rhodes, baritone from
Burr;'"to;i; Annie laaura Al
bright, soprano from Mebane;
and James Heffinger, tenor
from SchooK'eld, Va.
Campus Dramatic Group Announces
Busy Schedule For Spring Quarter
MUSICAL STARS OF CHOIR’S AmUAL TOI R
Another group of student mu
sicians, each of whom appeared
in solo performances in all cit
ies where the thoir offered its
program, is shown in the bot
tom picture. Fred Sahlmann,
pianist from Charleston, S. C.,
who played Liszt’s “Sonetto 104
Del Petrarco.” is pictured at
the extreme left; in the center
is Sharon Black, soprano from
Burlington, whose solo number
was Mendelssohn’s “Hear Y«,
Oh Israel;” and at the right is
Charles Lynam, baritone from
Wake Forest, who sang one of
Ringwald's) arrangjements of
“Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
Others doing special numbers
but not in the pictures, were
Jack Castle, of Schoolfield,
Va.; Judith Ingram and Justyn
Carter of Greensboro; and Ron-
nit Black and Dolly Foster
Shaw, of Burlington.
College Choir Reports Successful
And Enjoyable Holiday Trip ISorth
Successful and enjoyable were
the words to describe the annual
northern tour of the Elon Choir,
which carried thirty-four student
singers and their faculty leaders
through all the Middle Atlantic
States and into New England.
The singers left Elon by spec
ial bus on Friday, March 2nd,
and returned on Sunday evening,
March 11th, after appearing in
a series of six programs in Roan
oke, Va., Winchester, Va., Wash
ington. D. C., Hillsboro, N. H„
Lynn, Mass., and Jersey City,
N. J.
The first of a series of interest
ing experiences occurred on Sat
urday, March 3rd, when the
group visited the famous Luray
Caverns. While far below the
ground, the singers had a chance
to sing the beautiful “Ball Room'
that is a feature of the cavern.
So impressive was their singing
that a group of cavern visitors re
quested an encore.
There was little opportunity
for sight-seeing in Washington
this year, but the Elon students
had a day and night in historic
Boston, where they visited the;
“Tea Party Wharf” and saw
Bunker Hill Monument. All were
impressed by the hospitable spir
it of Boston people, a direct con-
rjxast With '.he reputed coldness
•of Bostonians.
The singers also spent two
'days in New York City, where a
round of shows included the fam-
• ous “Easter Pageant” at Radio
Ofty and views of such celebrities
as Jack Dempsey and Lionel Bar
rymore.
There were rumors of a few
exciting experiences by individu
als, but the trip was made this
year without once getting lost and
with not even a near-wreck
SIXTEEN GRADUATE
IN WINTER QUARTER
Sixteen students completed
requirements for graduation at
» the close of the winter quarter,
according to an announcement
from the office of Prof. A. L.
Ho^k, college i\igistrar. This
group will receive diplomas at
the reg'ular 1951 commence
ment late in May.
Those mid-term graduates in
clude Shirley Baker, Sam Bar
ber, Grover Costelloe, Frank
Copeland, Wilbur Crowder, Hal
Foster, Billy Hopkins, Bill
Kivett,' Bland Lebrick, David
Love, John Spirko, Lawrence
Sykes, Marian Tickle, Arnold
Ward, Francis Waters and Al
exander Wester.
Spring Term
Enrollment
Is Over 500
COLLEGIATE PRESS
GROUP PLANS MEET
The annual meeting of the
Nortii Carolina Collegiate Press
Association, of which the Ma
roon and Gold Is a member,
will be held in Raleigh during
the weekend of April 19th, ac
cording to an announcement re
ceived this week from Harold
Walters, of Wake Forest Col
lege, treasurer of the collegiate
news group.
Frat Banquet
Schedule Is
Made Public
The coming of spring is the
aignal for the annual series of
banquets and parties staged by
the Greek letter fraternities and
sororities, and dates have alreaay
been set and tentative plans com
pleted for a series of seven such
evenl« within the next two
months.
The Alpha Pi Delta fraternity
and the Pi Kappa Tau sorority
will lead off the spring social
parade with their banquet and
party, which is scheduled on the
college calendar for Saturday
night, Marah 31st. The others
will be spaced throughout April
and early May.
The Kappa Psi Nu fraternity
will follow next in line, having
announced its annual banquet for
Saturday night, April 7th. An
idle weekend then intervenes be
lore the Beta Omicron Beta so
rority stages its annual party on
Friday night, April 20th.
The final wee’Kend in April will
bring the banquet of Delta Upsilon
Kappa sorority, which has been
set for Friday evening, April 27th.
It will be followed one week later
by the Sigma Phi Beta fraternity
event, which has been carded for
Saturday night, May 5th.
The Tau Zeta Phi sorority will
wait until Friday evening, May
11th, for its annual banquet, and
the closing event of the entire se
ries will be the Iota Tau Kappa
fraternity’s annual gathering on
Saturday night. May 12th.
None of the Greek letter groups j
RULES ANNOUNCED
ON MUSICAL PLAY
Rules governing the writing
of scripts for the projected
student musical play are listed
below.
1. No drinking, cursing, or
vulgar language may be used
in the show.
2. The show should not be
less than one and one-half, and
not more than two hours long.
3. Only one set may be used,
unless the author can devise
a method by which changes of
scenery can be effected.
4. If music is original, it
must be arranged for piano or
orchestra. Other music must
be orchestrated.
5. The Players reserve the
right to deal with any difficulty
that may arise, after consulting
the author.
6. Try to keep costuming
within the limits of everyday
dress.
7. Three copies of the script
will be required, which will be
due about April 1st.
The scripts will be sub
mitted to the judges anony
mously. The judges will be
faculty members chosen by
President L. E. Smith.
Lists of songs and orchestra
tions may be obtained from
Sherwood Music Service, 1585
Broadway, New York 19, N. Y.
Bob Wright Takes
Post With WFNS
Bob Wright, president of the
Elon College student government
and a former editor of the Ma
roon and Gold, is now “on the
air” daily from Burlington’s
have announced thua far any station WFNS, having ac-
plans for their banquets other
than the dates, but all will be
formal events and will serve to
enliven the spring social season.
Many alumni members of the var
ious groups are expected to re
turn for the various events, thus
giving the banquets an air of re
union, and home-coming.
cepted a part-time position with
the local station earlier thi^
month.
Wright, who has been very ac
tive with the Elon Players, has
appeared with that group in num
erous radio programs and has
worked up to his present post
tlirough the various radio and
(Continued on Page Four)
One of the busiest quarters in
,he history of the Elon Players
lies ahead, according to plans
made public this week by Mrs.
Elizabeth R. Smith, director of
the organization.
The Players' plans for the
spring quarter include a produc-
lon of one of the funniest com
edies ever to hit the stage, an
all-student musical production,
two one-act plays, and individual
participation by a number of the
Players in one of Burlington's
Little Theatre productions.
The next Player production to
appear on Whitley stage will be
“You Can't Take It With 'You,”
a hilarious comedy that has play
ed successfully on stages all
over the country, and was made
into a movie, starring James
Stewart and Lionel Barrymoi^,
that proved to be one of the most
popular movies in screen history.
The cast, not yet completed at
this writing. Includes Emma
Jean Clayton, Lois Walker, Ed
Engles, Bob W^alker, J. B. Pickard,
Happie Wilson, Nash Parker,
Betty Jean McLeod, Lynn Cash-
ion, Joe Brankely and Dick Le
vine, with other parts yet to be
fillea
About the play, Mrs. Smith
states, “I feel sure that ‘You
Can't Take It With You’ will ap
peal to all tastes, and the play
should rival “The Man Who Came
to Dinner’ for entertainment
value.” She added that although
the date of opening has not yet
been made definite, the play will
appear during the second week of
.April.
Production of the student mus
ical, which is becoming a tradi
tional annual event on the camp
us, will, as in the past, depend
entirely on the efforts of stu
dents, the rule being that it must
be written, acted, and directed by
students of Elon College.
The column of bold-faced type
Easter Program
Offered By Choir
The annual presentation of
“The Seven Last Words of
Christ,” offered by the Elon Choir
in Whitley Auditorium last Sun
day evening, marked an impres
sive opening for the Easter sea-
With spring holidays a thing
of history, the final quarter of j
the 1950-51 term got underway j
at Elon on Monday, March 12th,,
and members of the senior class |
faced the fact that they were on |
the last lap of their campus ca-j politics is yet to strike the con-
reers and facing graduation in fines of the Elon College campus
POLITICAL POT TO START BOILim
SOOr^ AS CAMPUS ELECTIONS NEAR
The annual furor of campus RETURNS TO CAMPUS
the not too distant future.
There were some faces missing
as the new term got started, for
several students had completed
graduation requirements, some
had flunked out and some few
others failed to return. How
ever, Prof. A. L. Hook, the
college j-egistraP, reported that
the enrollment had moved well
past the 500 mark by the middle
of last week.
This enrollment was not too
disappointing to the college ad-
n-linistrj/tion, especially in view
of the military situaton which
had loomed as a serious threat to
college attendance throughout the
winter quarter. Prof. Hook
son. stated that the drop in enroll-
The program, directed by Prof. ment, as compared with that for
the winter term, was not far from
a normal decrease.
John Westmoreland, was well re
ceived by the audience, but the
formation of the lighted cross and
the storm scene, as rendered by
Prof. Fletcher Moore at the organ,
proved especially pleasing.
All members of the choir par
ticipated, with solo roles sung by
Sharon Black, soprano; Jimmy
Rhodes and Charles Lynam, bari
tones; and James Heffinger and
Jack Castle, tenors.
The spring quarter will offer
one of the busiest schedules of
the entire year, including two ly-
ceum attractions, the various fra-
ternty and sorority banquets,
baseball games and other athletic
events, an Elon Player show, a
visit by the North Carolina Sym
phony, the annual May Day and
finally commencement.
this year, but it is only the calm
before the storm. In fact, the
political pot may even now be
simmering underneath, for less
than two weeks remain before the
nomination of candidates, and
less than one month intervenes
before the final balloting on stu
dent body and class officers for
the coming year.
The annual nomination of can
didates for the various student
body officers is slated for one
v,'eek from next Monday, which
falls on the calendar date of
April 2nd. This is in keeping
with the constitutional provision
that all officers except class of
ficers shall be nominated at a
general student assembly on the
first Monday in »*pril.”
The constitution also provides
that on Tuesday after the second
Monday in April, just one week
and one day after the nomina
tions, the students shall go to the
polls and vote in a primary elec
tion designed to narrow the field
of candidates to two for each of
fice. The constitution also de
clares that class officers are not
to be voted upon in this primary.
The nomination of candidates
1
DR. E. P. DOUGLASS
Dr. E. P. Dougalss, Elon his
tory professor, is back on the
campus and has assumed his
regular duties for the spring
quarter, following a leave of
absence for the winter term.
Dr. Douglass spent the past
quarter at Princeton Universi
ty, where he was doing research
and working toward the com
pletion of a new historical
book.
for the various class offices will
fall on Thursday, April 12th, since
the constitution provides that such
class candidates shall be nomi
nated at class meetings to be held
jon Thursday immediately succeed-
mg the primary balloting on stu
dent body posts. The same con
stitutional article provides that
"if more than two are nominated
for any class office, tiTe number
shall be reduced to two by vote
i of the class in this same meet-
mg.”
The final election of all stu
dent body and class offices will
fall on Tuesday, April 17th, this
year, in keeping with the consti
tutional provision that such final
balloting shall be held one week
from the date of the primary elec
tion.
With all these political activi
ties in the immediate future, the
campus will probably be the
scene of widespread activity by
prospective candidates and their
supporters within a very few days.
Last year’s elections produced
two distinct party factions and
well-organized campaigns, which
included caucus meetings, cam
paign posters, torchlight parades
and all the usual activities that
go with a bonafide American elec
tion.
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on the left states the rule? fpr
qualifying as author of a play,
and any additional information
can be obtained either from Nash
Parker, president of the Players,
or Mrs. Smith, director. The
rules were drawn up by the Play
er group at a special meeting, and
they were passed on with staging
limitations of Whitley stage in
mind. The author of a play usu
ally directs the play himself, it
might be added, although this is
not a hard and fast rule.
Two one-act plays, “The Rope,”
and “Curse You Jack Dalton,” di
rected by dramatics students Jack
Goodwin and Dick Levine, are
slated to appear during the month
of April, although the exact date
of showing has not yet been re
leased by the student directors.
The plays are the result of Mrs.
Smith’s class in play production,
and serve as a final project for
the students.
One other one-act play, “The
Valiant,” directed by Virginia
Davis ,and Bob Walker, was suc
cessfully presented at the close of
the winter quarter.
Further laurels are forthcom
ing for several members of the
Elon Players in Burlington’s Lit
tle Theatre production of “Family
Portrait,” a dramatization of the
family of Jesus, the story for
which is taken from Mark 6: 1-5,
Taking part in the play, which
will be presented in City Audi
torium at 8;30 o’clock on the eve
ning of March 23rd and 24th, are
Joe Brankely, Dink Underhill,
Bob Walker, Lynn Cashion, Char
lie Philips, and Lois Walker, in
a dual role.
All seats for both performances
of “Family Portrait” will be re
served, and tickets, priced at
$1.20, including tax, can be se
cured at the Treasure House, in
Burlington.