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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, May 16, 1951
Westmoreland To Studv
J
In Europe This Summer
HEADED FOR PARIS
Prof. John Westmoreland, who
directs all choral music and
teaches organ and piano as a
member of the Elon College mu-
^ic faculty, will go to Europe this
summer for advanced study at the
Fontainebleu School of Music and
Fine Arts, which is located twenty
miles from Paris.
He is to sail from New York on
June 8th and will arrive in Eng
land June 18th for ten days at the
British Music Festival. He will
1 then go on to Paris for seven
vieeks of study at Fontainebleu
under Nadia Boulanger, who is
acknowledged to ue the foremost
French authority on choral music
and c; | iducting. He will saiil
I from Le Havre August 25th for
jthe return trip and will land in
jKew York September 4th.
Prof. Westmoreland, a native
of this community, graduated
from Elon in 1941 and received a
Master’s Degree at Columbia Uni
versity in 1942. He has since had
advanced work at New York Uni
versity and the University of
Southern California and has stud
ied privately with Robert Shaw
and Julius Herford. He has been
a member of the Elon faculty
since the autumn of 1943.
He stated yesterday that the
trip to Europe this summer is be
ing made at the suggestion of
Dr. Vincent Jones, head of the
School of Music at New York
University, who visited the Elon
PROF. JOHN WESTMORELAND
Orphans Top
Softball Loop
The Orphans softball squad,
composed of representatives of
several groups on the campus,
swept through the regular season
in the intramural softball league
without a defeat, chalking up six
straight victories to gain top rank
ing in the loop.
The first place in the regular i v. ■ .
^ campus briefly some weeks ago.
league season does not however
clinch the title for the Orphans,
for they must also win out in a
play-off series with Kappa Psl,
Alpha Pi and North Dorm teams.
The play-off starts next Tuesday,
May 14th.
The final standings:
W. L. Ave.
Grand Opera
Scenes Are
Big Success
The Monday evening presenta
tion of opera scenes by the Elon
College Opera Workshop proved
highly successful in the minds of
all who saw the Elon musical
group present a scene from Me-
notti’s “The Old Maid and the
Thief” and two acts of Mozart's
“The Marriage of Figaro.”
The audience reacted, quickly
to the clever complications in the
Figaro scenes, the general opin
ion being that the voices of the
entire group were pleasing and
their acting ability surprising.
Jus'tyn Carter gave her usual
fine perTcrmance in singing the
role of Countess Almaviva in “The
Marriage of Figaro,” and the vOcal
and dramatic ability displayed
by Judith Ingram was particular
ly pleasing in the lead role of
“The Old Maid and the Thief.”
It was evident from audience
reaction that the listeners appre
ciated music of the modern trend
as well as the classic, and it was
also evident that local singers
have profited much from the
Workshop this year.
The Monday evening program,
like other work of the Opera
Workshop this year, was under
STAR OF OPERA
Orphans , 6 0 1,000
Kappa Psi 4 2 .607
t Alpha Pi 4 2 .607
North 3 3 50c
Sigma Phi 2 4 .333
I- T. K . .. 2 4 .333
Day Students 0 6 .000
Dr. Jones, a former teacher of
Professor Westmoreland, .will
accompany the Elon man and two
other American students, both of
them doctoral candidates, on the
trip to Europe.
The Student Legislature held
its final meeting of the year on
Thursday evening, May 10th, with
nineteen of twenty-four members
in attendance. It was also the
;rirst gathering of the newly-
elected legislators. Most of the
business was left off till the first
September, meeting.
.4^
JUSTYN CARTER
Justyn Carter, of Greensboro.
v,as one of the outstanding per
formers in the grand opera scenes
^resented in Whitley on Monday
evening. She sang the role of
Countess Almaviva in Mozart's
“The Marriage of Figaro.”
he direction of Robert C. Bird,
of Raleigh, head of the North
Carolina Grass Roots Opera Com
pany. He was assisted in direc
tion by Miss Virginia Groomes of
the Elon College music faculty.
James Clyburn showed exception
al ability as accompanist.
Varsity Baseball Games
(Continued From Page Three)
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mound as he held the Bears to
for four hits and whiffed thir
teen men.
R. H. E.
Elon 320 100 000— 6 11 2
L.-Rhyne ... 400 000 100—5 4 4
Brewer and DeSimone; Barkley
and Crook.
ELON 6. APPALACHIAN 1
The Christians continued their
winning ways, when they took Ap
palachian into camp 6 to 1 in a
battle played at Boone on Mon
day, May 7th. Lefty Taylor held
the Mountaineers to seven scat
tered hits in winning the import
ant North State Conference vic
tory.
R. H. E.
Elon 010 300 200—6 8 1
Appalachian.. 000 100 000—1 7 3
Taylor and DeSimone; Hodges^
Brame, Cameron and Whitlock.
McCRARY 5, ELON 1
The only defeat in the final two
weeks of the season came as the
Christians tangled with the Mc
Crary Eagles at Asheboro on Tues
day, May 8th. The semi-pros
chalked a 5 to 1 victory to break
Elon’s seven-game win streak.
R. H. E.
Elon 100 000 000—1 8 2
McCrary 020 003 OOx—5 3 1
Sykes, Hamrick and DeSimone;
Wolfe and Clodfelter, Lail, Kivett.
ELON 10, LENOIR-RHYNE 0
Austin Brewer, Elon’s freshman
right-hander, who has signed a
Boston Red Sox contract, turned
in a two-hit pitching job as the
Christians blanked Lenoir-Rhyne
10 to 0 here last Thursday, May
10th. The game crushed the
Bruin title hopes and assured
Elon of at least a tie.
Hank DeSimone pounded cut
three hits to lead the Elon at
tack, with Ben Kendall, Archie
Brigman and Austin Brewer each
pounding out two safeties. Brewer
struck out eight men and walked
only two in winning the battle.
R. H. E
L.-Rhyne .. 000 000 000— 0 2 2
Elon 120 007 OOx—10 13 1
Kantorski, Frye, Barkley and
Crook; Brewer and DeSimone.
ELON 2, CATAWBA 0
Climaxing the titular drive, the
Christians copped a thrilling 2 to
0 victory over Catawba here last
Friday, May 11, as Lefty Taylor
topped his college career with a
shutout performance. Taylor has
sign‘ed a contract with Pittsburgh
^ and will play with the Burlington
iBees. He fanned ten and walked
twelve, beirtg always invincible
in the pinches.
Elon tallied one run in the first
inning as Brigman singled, ad
vanced to third on Quakenbush’s
single and scored on an overthrow
at second. The other Elon mark
er was in the seventh as Reid sin
gled, stole second, moved to third
an a sacrifice and scored on De
Simone’s fly to center. Reid paced
the Elon hitting with two hits.
R. H. E.
Catawba 000 000 000-0 4 1
Elon 100 000 lOx—2 5 1
Baker and Luciano; Taylor and
DeSimone.
Choir Will
Sing ^Elijah^
In Whitley
The Elon Choir will sing Men-
delsshon’s ‘Elijah’' twice during
the final two weeks of the 1950-
.51 college term, with the great
oratorio filling an outstanding
place on the sixty-first annual
commencement program for the
college.
The Choir will sing the “Elijah”
for the first time on Wednesday
night of this week, when all
members of the EJon College stu
dent body and the ministers from
all churches in this area are in
vited to hear the program. The
singers will also offer the dra
matic presentation on Sunday
evening. May 27th, at 8:30 o'clocl
as an integral part of commence
ment weekend.
A. J. Fletcher, prominent Ral
eigh business man and a moving
force behind the North Carolina
Grass Roots Opera Company, will
appear here as a guest soloist in
the baritone role of Elijah. David
Witherspoon, Raleigh tenor, will
also be here with Mr. Fletcher
as a guest singer.
Others who will carry solo roles
are Miss Virginia Groomes, so
prano, a member of the Elon mu
sic faculty; Geneva Cooper Willi
ford, mezzo-soprano, and Jack
Castle, tenor, both of whom are
Elon music majors; and Dorothy
Jones Parker, ol Ejanbury, an
Elon graduate of a year ago, who
returns to do the contralto work.
The Elon Choir will also render
the special music for the bacalau-
reate sermon on Sunday morning,
May 27th, and for the graduation
exercises on Monday, May 28th.
It will also cffer a vesper pro
gram at 4 o’clock on Sunday af
ternoon of commencement.
Darden Resigns Post
As A lumni Secretary
James F. Darden, secretary of
the General Alumni As.sociatio ;
of Elon College for the past five
years, will terminate his services
in that post on June 1st. Ilis res
ignation was made public on Mr.y
3rd by President Leon E. Smith.
In submitting his resignation,
Darden stated that he is leaving
the work with the college in order
to accept a position with the Sav
ings Bond Division of the United
States Treasury Department. He
will take up his new duties June
1 working with headquarters in
Greensboro, but he will continue
to reside at Elon College.
A native of Suffolk, Va., Dar
den graduated from Elon College
in 1943 and entered the Navy im
mediately afterward. He was in
naval service until February 20,
1946, when he was discharged with
the rank of lieutenant, junior
grade.
He accepted the post of alumni
secretary here March 10, 1946, and
since last September he has com
bined with that post the duties of
secretary of the college.
As alumni secretary, he has
served as editor of the Elon Col
lege Alumni News, which he en
larged from a four-page sheet to
a 16-page quarterly magazine. He
also cempileG « complete directory
of all Elon alumni, and he was a
leader in the great fund-raising
campaign which made possible the
erection of the new Elon College
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium.
The alumni work itself has pros
pered under his leadership, mem
bership in the association having
grown from 1,800 to 4,500 at the
present.
Darden has led in the reactiva
tion of alumni chapters at Bur
lington, in Eastern Virginia and
in New York City, and 10 new
chapters have been formed.
ACCEPTS NEW JOB
BASEBALL AVERAGES
(Continued From Page Three)
Brewer 1, Kendall 1, Brigman 1.
SACRIFICE HITS— Reid 3, De
Simone 2, Brigman 1, Riley 1.
BASES ON BALLS — Taylor 37,
Brewer 30, Hamrick 20, Sykes 20, ]
Weaver 9. STRIKE OUTS —
Brewer 65, Taylor 62, Hamrick
54. Sykes 10, Weaver 7. HITS—
Taylor, 40 in 68 2-3; Brewer, 36 in
56 2-3; Hamrick, 31 in 51 2-3;
Sykes, 22 in 21 1-3; Weaver, 19 in
18. GAMES WON— Hamrick 5.
Taylor 5, Brewer 5, Sykes 1
GAMES LOST—Weaver 3, Brew
er 3, Sykes 2, Taylor 1.
Sophia White Is
WAA President
Sophia White, of Sanford, is
the new president of the Women’s
.Athletic Association, having been
elected at the regular elections
held last week. She succeeds to
the post held for the past two
yars by Jeanne Pittman.
Other officers named in the
election to serve during the com
ing year include Anne Strole, of
Chadbourn, vice-president; Lacala
Wilkins, of Burlington, secretary;
and Rachel Matthews, of Ports
mouth, Va., treasurer.
Student music recitals held
within the past week included
those given by Jimmy Rhodes,
Jane Upchurch, Geneva Willi
ford, Annie Laura Albright, Dolly
Foster Shaw, Judith Ingram, Peg
gy Johnson and Virginia Davis.
JAMES F. DARDEN
SPYING ON SPORTS
(Continued From Page Three)
Just a reminder that intramur
al golf, tennis, softbaU, and bad
minton offer competition for those
who do not participate in varsity
athletics. Come on out. It’s free!
And there’s still time for a lot of
fun this year.
♦ • ♦
Well, right along here I waiir
tc say that this is the last issu3
of ye old Maroon and Gold far-
this year, (who said, ‘Thank good
ness’) and I would like to than.;
my faithful readers (both of their'
for the opportunity of expressing
my humble views in this column.
Seriously, I appreciate all the
criticism, both constmctive and
destructive, and I hope that you
have enjoyed reading YOUR
newspaper. We on the sports
staff have tried to give you as
much of the Elon and North State
sports picture as possible. Tn
George, Shag, and Jeanne my
hearty thanks, and to Mr. Byrd,
our faculty advisor, not enous’i
can be said for his generous co
operation.
♦ ♦ ♦
Just bear in mind one thin-r,
“Whether we win, lose or tie, al-
iways be good sports.”
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