Let’s Give
Elon's Old GraJs
A Warm Welcome
MAROON AND GOLD
And For
The Moujitaineers
A Hot Reception
VOLUME 31
El,ON COLLEGE, N. C.,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1951
NUMBER 1
Plans Announced For Annual Homecoming
Elori’s 1951-52 Session
Gets Successful Start
The sixty-second annual sessionof Elon College is away to a high
ly successful start, with thecampus settled to its normal
stride after all the excitement of the opening weeks. The enroll-
Tnent has already. topped that of last spring, although it is slightly
below that for last fall quarter. The 1951-52 session got under-
Vv'ay with the arrival of the foot-ball squad and faculty the first
v'°ekend in September, with the opening faculty meeting held on
Monday morning, September 3rd,a session during which President
Leon E. Smith welcomed both oldand new members of the faculty
lo the campus and outlined the plans and program for the new
WILL RULE OYER FESTIVE WEEKENB
term.
A number of special events for
the school year were discussed, in
cluding the annual “Homecoming
Day,” the annual visit of high
school groups to the campus and
the possibility of contests in dra
matics and mu.sic.
The earliest freshmen began
arriving on Monday, September
3rd, but the most of the first year
students arrived on Tuesday for
the beginning of the orientation
program, which continued through
Thursday, September 6th. Place
ment examinations in English and
mathematics were given on Tues
day afternoon, and they were fol
lowed by guided tours of the
campus and a number of assembly
sessions to acquaint the newcom-
1113 :vs with the Elon campus and the
MA'arious phases of student life.
^ The upperclassmen arrived on
Wednesday and Thursday, and
registration of all except late ar
rivals was completed by Thursday
afternoon, with everything set for
the opening of the regular class
sf'hedula on Friday aiorning. Sep
tember 7th.
A special feature of the regis
tration week was the annual fac
ulty reception for the entire stu
dent body, which was held in the
parlors .of West Dormitory on
Thursday evening, followed by a
social and dance in Society Hall
on tlie third floor of the Ala
mance Building. Social programs
were also ou the calendar for
both F’.iday and Saturday eve-
that initial week.
Play er Group
Plans Show
The Elon Players wi^ open
their annual series of dramatic
productions this year with the pre
sentation of a roaring comedy,
“See How They Run,” a show
v;hicli set the theatre-goers of
London rocking with laughter a
few seasons past.
The choice of the first play
was announced by Mrs. Elizabeth
R. Smith, faculty director of dra
matics, at the first Player meet
ing of the year, which was held
in Mooney Chapel on Tuesday
morning, September 11th. The
date for the play has not been set,
but it will be presented late in
October.
It was also announced that the
PJayers are offering. season tick
ets again this year, which are
g^^od for all four productions dur
ing the year. The season tickets
seU for $1.80 each to students and
.$2.40 for adult non-students.
Officers of the Elon Players
lliis year include Ed Engles, of
Oshkosh, Wis., president; Bob
Walker, of Kernersville, vice-
president; Billie Greene, of Dur
ham, secretary; and Joe Brankley,
ijf Chase City, Va., treasurer.
New members of the Players
this fall include Ann Worley,
Barbara Chapman, Beverly Har
grove, Della Crutchfield, Annie
V. May, Louise McLeod, Louise
Spence, Carolyn Guthrie, Jack
Kennedy, Joan Wickman and Bob
Niemeyer.
Many Couples
Have Taken
Nuptial Vows
Mendelssohn must have smiled
from above this summer to hear
(he strains of wedding music ri.s-
ing from so many Elon weddings,
for there were no less thaft' 23
marriages solemni)ied or an
nounced for Elon students and re
cent Elon graduates. Among the
weddings of the vacation period
V are the following:
Laverne Russell to Fred Comp
ton, August 25th, Graham.
Hazel Lee Kernodle to Larry
Linwood Anderson, September
8th, Altamahaw-Ossipee.
Barbara Wrenn to Waybum
James, August 19th, at Greens
boro.
Vallie Wyrick to Gene Stewart,
August 25th, Greensboro.
Sharon Black to Sal Gero, Au
gust 25th, Burlington.
Marion Tickle to Richard Kokes,
August 25th, Burlington.
Peggy Longest to Bill Kivett,
September 2nd, Elon College.
Mozelle Robertson to Harmon
Oakes, August 25th, Axton.
Patricia Gilliam to George
Shackleford, June 10th, Elon Col
lege.
Polly Stucky to Waldo Dickens,
July 14th, Burlington.
June McCracken to Henry
DeSimone, August 28th, Waynes-
ville.
Virginia Trigg to Fred Haw
kins, May 25th, Elon College.
Mary Neff to Rocco Donato, Au
gust 23rd, Huntingdon, West Va.
Ann Truitt to Baxter Twiddy,
August 5th, Elon College.
Mary Elizabeth Harris to L. C.
Wood, July 15th, Burlington.
Marie Payne to Richard Carli,
June 30th, in Virginia.
Lou Zaza to Branch Bragg, De
cember 26th, but announced dur
ing the summer.
Mary Louise Huffines to Wal
ter Boyd, January 14th, York
S. C., announced during the sum
mer.
Irene DuGann to Bob Wright
August 18th, Springfield, Mass.
Gerry Robertson to John Hud
son, June 9th, Graham.
Betty Jean Moser to James Mc
Donald, June 29th, at Burlington.
Phyllis Smith to Donald Brand,
June 2nd, Wilmington.
Doris White to Robert Lindsey,
May 27th, Luray, Va.
Nancy Vaughan
Homecoming Queee
Ruling as “Homecoming:
Queen” over the festivities of
the coming weekend on the Elon
campus will be Nancy Vaughan,
a freshman from Hopewell, Va.
She will be attended by Reita
Durham, a junioir from Bur
lington, who will be maid of
honor. The Queen and her chief
attendant were chosen by vote
of the students in an election
held last Friday. Coronation
ceremonies have been planned
as the main feature of the an
nual Homecoming Dance at
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium
on Friday evening, with special
ceremonies at half-time of the
-Saturday night football game.
Sponsors for various campus or
ganizations will be members of
the royal court.
Reita Durham
Maid Of Honor
Westmoreland Wins High Honors
In European Music Competition
High honors were awarded to Prof. John Westmoreland, of the Elon College music faculty,
for his excellent work in conducting vocal groups while studying under Nadia Boulanger, world-
famous teacher and director at the Fontainbleau School of Music and Fine Arts in France during
the past summer.
Prof. Westmoreland was award jd the first prize in conducting and a first mention in sight-read
ing, and he was also the recipient- of the “Lili Boulanger Prize” for all-round excellence. All
awards were won in competition with highly trained conductors from nations in various parts of
the world.
The latter prize is one which was made possible some years ago when Lili Boulanger, younger
aistnr of Nadia Boulanger, left h?r estate at tl.ne of her death lo set up a foundation for young
students. The prize is in the form of a cash award, which the recipient may use for further study
Old Grads Will Return
For Two-Day Program
Hundreds of old grads will be back on the Elon campus this
weekend for the annual “Homecoming Day” program, which will
get underway with the annual dance for the alumni on Friday
evening and be cilmaxed by the Elon-Appalachian football game on
Saturday night.
Complete plans for the event have been formulated by the Stu
dent Entertainment Committee, with the plans being approved by
the college administration and by Alumni Secretary Carl Wood,
who is cooperating in the movement to get a record number of for
mer Elon students to return to the campus.
Nancy Vaughan
Lar^e Group
Is Graduated
August 17 th
Thirty-six seniors received di
plomas and degrees from Elon
College at summer graduation ex
ercises held on Friday evening,
August 17th. '
annual event.
Hon. L. Y. Ballentine, of Ral
eigh, North Carolina commissioner
either at Fontainbleau or else
where.
The Elon man, who directs all
choral music and teaches both
organ and piano here at the col
lege, left New York on June lltli
on the same ship with 530 col
lege students and faculty mem
bers, all enroute to Europe. He
had ten days in England, during
which he visited London and Ox
ford and points of interest near
those cities.
He arrived in France on July
1st, and mo.st of his time in that
country was .spent at Fontaine
bleau, although he was in Switzre
land for one weekend. While in
Switzerland, he encountered Miss
of agriculture, was speaker for the
occasion, with Dr. W.T. Scott pre- Nancy Keene, a former member
of the Elon English faculty, wko
Day Student Meet
Held In Whitley
The Day Students Organization
held its first meeting of the cur
rent school year in Whitley Audi
torium on Tuesday morning, Sep
tember 18th. Matt Currin, named
president of the group last spring,
presided over the gathering.
The Day Students chose .\rlene
Stafford, of Burlington, as spon
sor for the Homecoming weekend.
They also named George Nall and
Lacala Wilkins as representatives
to the Intramural Council.
senting the senior Bibles and
President Leon E. Smith present
ing the diplomas.
Summer graduates were Mabel
Alcorn, Ruffin; Joe Bateman.
Greensboro; Irma Boland, Elon
College; Guy Boswick, Newport
News, Va.; Marcus Cameron, San
ford; James Cobb, Burlington;
Philip Cothran, Durham; Harold
Daniel, Elon College; James Eanes,
Lexington; Joe Erickson, Bay
Shore, N. Y.; A. L. Eubank,
Lynchburg, Va.;
Len Fesmire, Madeira, Ohio;
Walter Graham, Gibsonville; Fred
Hawkins, Placerville, Calif., Vir
ginia Trigg Hawkins, Elon Col
lege; Adeline Horner, Alamance;
Rachel Jones, Burlington; Clarence
Leonard, Louisburg; James Mad-
ren. Fancy Gap, Va.; Marjorie
Madren, Fancy Gap, Va.; Pete
Marshburn, Greensboro; Jack Nall,
Burlington;
Charles Norfleet, Norfolk, Va.;
Raymond Parker, Suffolk, Va.;
George Patterson, Burlington;
Jeanne Pittman, Smithfield, Va.; |
Laoy Pressnell, Ramseur; Evan |
Ray, Durham; Henry Richards. I
Leaksville; James Snow, Wilming-l
ton; Percy Thompson, Snow
Camp; Earl Todd, South Norfolk. ’
Va.; Pattie Wall, Burlington; Ray
Wesson, Greensboro; William
Whisnant, Boiling Springs,
Robert Yates, Chadbourn.
Elon Student
With Summer
Sta^e Group
Joe Brankley, Elon College
junior, who was very active in
dramatic activities on the campus
la.st year, was the winner of a
scholarship to work with the Cape
Theatre summer stock company,
of Cape May, N. J., and he spent
much of his vacation period with
that group.
Summer stock companies are
composed in the main of profes
sional actors, and an apprentice
like Brankley receives scholar
ships only because of exceptional
ability in both acting and back
stage work. Apprentices without
scholarships must pay for the
privilege of working with such
groups, which offer contacts with
Broadway actors and actresses,
good directors and well known
critics.
Brankley was quite modest
when questioned about his activi
ties with the Cape Theatre Com
pany, explaining that the group
HONORED IN FRANCE under the auspices of
/ale University and that he and
(he other members had classes in
acting, speech and general theatri
cal work. He further explained
that much of his work was back-
stagc.
“We worked hard and loved it,”
he said, “because we knew that
ihe actors and actresses on the
stage were depending on us be-^
hind the scenes to help them and
make the audience like our pro
ductions.”
Brankley ran the lights for “Arms
and the Man,” and he was stage
manager for “Death of a Sales
man.” He also had acting parts
in the latter production and in
‘Come Back, Little Sheba,” and
in “Emperor’s New Clothes.”
is now with the American Embas
sy at Berne.
The return trip started from Le
Havre, and Prof. Westmoreland’s
shipmates on the home voyage in
cluded 1,400 college students and
faculty members, 300 of whom
were German students . enroute
to the United States for exchange
study. His ship landed in New
York on September 4th, and he
came home from there by plane
to re.sume his duties heie at
Elon.
, SC A Plans
Yearns Work
On Campus
Forty Elon College students
were in attendance at the first
overnight “Retreat” of the Stu-
Jent Chri.stian Association, which
«'as held at Quaker Lake Camp
near Liberty on Friday night,
September 14th, The overnight
outing was for the purpose of plan
ning the year’s program for the
religious group.
The outing, which was held un
der the direction and sponsorship
af Rev. H. P. Bozart, pastor of the
Elon College Community Church,
was al.so for the purpose of fa-
niliarizing members of the fresh
man class with the functions of
the Student Christian Association
in campus life.
The students left the campus
shortly after noon on Friday, and
the program at the camp featured
an evening discussion session.
Dean D. J. Bowden was the prin
cipal speaker for that meeting,
and he stressed the fact that stu
dents should regard college as a
real vocation and not as four
years wasted in life.
Also speaking during the eve
ning were Rev. Bozarth, who
pointed out the services of SCA
on the campus; and Dr. E. P.
Douglass, who participated in an
open forum discussion and told
the students how to adjust them
selves to the role of campus citi
zens and of the proper attitude
toward college
The officers of the Student
Christian Association for this
year inchide Evelyn Booth, of
Roanoke, Va., president; Philip
Mann, of Cypress Chapel, Va.
vice-president; Ernestine Bridges,
Lawndale, secretary; and Roger
Phelps, of Fort .Smith, Ark., treas
urer. Emma Jean Clayton, of
Durham, is membership chair
man.
freshman girl
from Hopewell, Va., will rule over
the two-day festivities as the
"Homecoming Queen,” having
been elected to the royal honor
by a vote of the student body
last Friday. She v/ill be attended
by Reita Durham, of Burlington,
as maid-of-honor. The maid-of-
honor was runner-up in the bal
loting last week.
The Queen will be crowned at
the dance on Friday evening, and
she and her court will also be pre
sented in half-time ceremonies be
tween halves of the Appalachian
game on Saturday night. The
royal court will include girls
sponsored by i the various frater
nities and orj;anip"*^i —j
the dormitories Jim KTaflory s
halls on the c‘*ting tooth-and-
The Homeco ^o avenge
day evening, whlBf.
mal, will feature the’® here
Jimmy Perkins and his O?”
It will be held in tl”’ who
Memorial Gymnasium, from''t/«;-
ginning at 8 o’clock, and plans
have been made for elaborate dec
orations for the huge gymnasium.
Each dormitory on the campus
is planning ■‘gala decorations for
the weekend, and alumni judges
will view them at 10 o’clocjfe'Sat
urday morning to pick the win
ner in the decoration contest. A
gigantic Elon parade through
Burlington Is planned for Satur
day afternoon at 2 o’clock, after
which a pep rally is scheduled
for 4 o’clock in the parking lot
adjacent to the gym. - - 1
The annual grid battle with Ap
palachian is expected to attract
the largest crowd of the season.
Cheerleaders Ask
More Cooperation
The Elon cheerleaders voiced a
plea this week for more coopera
tion on the part of the Elon stu?
dent body in the cheering at the
football games, pointing to the
fact that very few of the students
joined in cheering at all at the
game with Norfolk Navy Flyers
last Thursday night.
Jane Peterson, of Norfolk, Va
is the head cheerleader this year,
and she and her corps of pep
makers have announced plans for
a rousing pep rally on the parking
lot adjacent to the gymnasium on
Saturday afternoon of this week
in an effort to promote more yell
ing in this week’s crucial battle
with Appalachian.
Other members of the cheer
leader squad this year are Delores
Hagan, Martha Berry, Pat Gates,
Betty Stafford, Rachel Matthews,
Carolyn Abels, Phil Mann, Oscar
Holland and John Truitt.
Legislature
Passes Bills
The student lawmakers of Elon
College opened the new term with
an a.ssembly last Wednesday night
in Society Hall, at which time of
ficers of the legislature for the
year were elected and two bills
approved.
Matt Currin, speaker of the
house, presided over the session,
welcomed the representatives and
urged them to continue their in
terest in student government.
Currin announced that the time
of meetings would be changed
from 7*30 until 8 o’clock.
The first bill passed appropri
ated $225 to the Entertainment
Committee from the student treas
ury to be used for Homecoming,
the unused remainder to be re
turned to the treasurer.
Provisions were also made re
garding representation from Vet’s
Court, and one additional repre
sentative was allotted to West
Dorm in the absence of a delega
tion fi’om Ladies’ Hall, which is
closed this year.
Officers elected included Ron
nie Black, speaker pro-tem; Lynn
Cashion, recording secretary;
Robert Harned, reading clerk;
Henry Hoppe, parliamentarian;
and Joe Durso, sergeant-at-arms.
The next meeting will be on Oc
tober 4th.