Plan To See
That First
Elon Player Show
MAROON AND GOLD
And Let’s Make It
Three Straight
Wins Over Catawba
VOLUME
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 19S1
NLIMBEK 2
Fun^ Football And Fire Features Of Elon’s Homecoming
Hundreds Of Old Grads
Annual Dance Is Scene
Of QueerCs Coronation
The beautiful coronation cere
mony for Eton's Homecoming
Queen proved an outstanding
feature of tlie 1951 Homecoming
Ball, which was staged against a
background oil colorful decora
tions in Alumni P.iemoriul Gym-
nasium on Friday evenii'-s. Sep
tember 28th.
Assembled students, alumni and
faculty members formed the au
dience as Queen Nancy Vaughan,
surrounded by the members of
her royal court moved in stately
procession onto the spacious floor
of the gymnasium for the cere
mony that officially conferred up
on her the right to rule over the
festivities of the weekend.
The coronation ceremony was
staged at an early intermission of
the dance, with Matt Curiin, vice-
president of the Elon Student
Government, handling the micro
phone as master of ceremonies to
announce the entrance of mem
bers of the Queen's court.
The sponsors for tlie various
fraternities, dormitories and other
campus groups entered from
the southern end of the huge
gymnasium floor, marching to
the strains of soft music to form
a huge circle in the middle of the
floor. Each of the sponsors wore
gold-lettered ribbons for their
sponsoring groups, and beautiful
bouquets carried by each lent add
ed color to the scene.
The sponsors, in the order of
the appearance and will; tl'.e name
of their organization and escort,
included Anne Abercrombie, for
Carlton House, with Luther
Barnes; Martha Berry, fcr North
Dormitory, with Douglass Roane
Jackie Newman, for Alpha Pi
Delta, with Robert Coyner; Sue
Morton, for Iota Tau Kappa, witli
Scott Quakenbush; Arlene Staf
ford, for the Day Students Organ
Ization, with Ronnie McIntyre;
Betty Jane Boyce, for Sigma
Alpha Chi, with Jimmy Rhodes;
Helen Jackson, for East Dormi
tory, with Charles Joyner; Betty
Stafford, for Kappa Psi Nu, with
Philip Mann; Rachel Matthews,
for Sigma Phi Be'.a, wit'i Due-
ward Scott; Betty Peeler, for
South Dormitory, with Al Bryan;
and Rosamond Bromley, for Club
House, with Robert Ilarned.
(Continued on Pago D’o'jr)
WORK IS STARTED
ON ELON’S ANNUAL
Page Painter, who is editor-
in-chief of the Phi Psi Cli for
1951-52, reports tiiat everythin?
is underway in fine style for the
new edition of the Elon CoUege
annual. Virtually all pictures
have been taken, except tor a
few scattered pictures that have
been missed, and proofs were
due back this week.
Editor Painter announced
that Joe Spivey, wlio has been
sports editor of Maroon and
Gold for tvva years, will also
serve as sports editor of the Phi
Psi Cli this year. He also an
nounced that Reita Durham is
handling the business manager’s
duties. The engraving will be
done again this year by a com
pany in Charlotte, and tiie an
nual will once more be printed
by Edwards and Broughton in
Raleigh.
ALL THAT WAS LEFT AFTER KITCHEN BURNED
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Only charred and smoking ruins were left of the Elon College kitchen after firemen had extinguish
ed the blaze that struck on Saturday night, September 29th. The ruins are shown above, with the
Mooney building in the background. Firemen prevented the fire from spreading into Mooney
into the main portion of the dining hall, which adjoined the kitchen at the right in the picture
or
Enjoy Festive Weekend
COMMUNITY CHEST
CAMPAIGN SLATED
The faculty and students of
Elon College will be asked
within the next few days to
contribute to the annual Com
munity Chest camp.ii3n, accord
ing to an announcement made
this week by Mrs. V^. T. Scott,
who is cliairmuu for the drive
in the Elon College section,
which includes the town and
campus and the adjacent com
munities.
In announcing the Commun
ity Chest drive this yeai', Mrs.
Scott stated that the overall na
tional quota has been raised by
about 15 percent, with the ad
ditional funds slated to go for
USO work among the armed
forces. She also stated that
students are not expected to
make large gifts, but small con
tributions will be appreciated.
Elon Stiidenits Still Eating, Despite Fact That . . .
College Kitchen Is Destroyed By Blaze
Fire On Elon Campus
Inflicts Heavy Damage
The Elon students have contin
ued to eat, despite a fire of unde
termined origin, which destroyed
the kitchen wing of the college
dining hall on Saturday night,
September 29th, with damages to
ouiding and equipment estimated
at from $30,000 to $40,000 by the
administrative officials of the col
lege.
The blaze was discovered about
9:30 o'clock in the evening, while
virtually all students and faculty
were away from the campus at-
lending the annual Elon-Appa-
luchian football game, and the
lire itself v»as under control be-
■ ore the crowds returned from
'lie game about 10:30 o’clock.
Dinner had been served as usu
al at 5:30 o'clock on Saturday
evening, and the kitchen workers
were finished and gone by 8:00
o'clock, according to R. S. Hor-
lell. college dietiticiaa. Mr. Har
rell himself and the kitchen work
ers first knew of the fire when
they returned to campus about 10
o'clock to prepare a late supper
lor the Elon and Appalachian
football squads.
The burned building was a
frame structure, built in 1942 to
replace an older brick dining hall
that v.as burned early that year.
In addition to the building iitself,
the losses involved much equip
ment that was destroyed or badly
damaged, including three walk-in
refrigerators, an ice-cream maker,
a meat saw, a large stove, a gas
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STUDENT PRESIDENT CROWNS (^UEEN NANCY
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crown
Roger Gibbs, president of the El a SluJent Governmeat, is shown a)>ove as he placed
upon the head of Nancy Vaughan who ruled as Homecoining Queen during the final weekend m
September. Left to right in the foreground of the picture is seen Reita Durham,
Larry Gaither, her escort; Rogor Gibbs, student president; Nancy V:\ugban,
nnd George Etheridge, escort for the queen.
maid-of-honor;
Homecoming Queen;
FLASHBACK
—1942—
ANOTHER FIKE
Tlie fire which destroyed the
kitchen wing of the college din
ing hall on Homecoming Satur
day night brought back memor
ies of another disastrous fire,
which struck the Elon campus
nearly a decade ago to destroy
the predecessor of the present
college eating establishment.
’Twas on January 17, 1942, a
frigid cold Saturday morning,
that the earlier dining hall was
destroyed, and the fact that it
ocurred in the early morning
hours while practically all Elon
students were still pounding
their pillows was sufficient to
cause far more excitement thaa
did the recent blaze.
The old dining hall was a
brick wing, extending northward
at the rear of West Dormitory,
and only a fire wall and the
fact that someone closed the
heavy doors leading into the big
reception parlor in West pre
vented the big dormitory itself
from going up in flame and
smoke.
The newspaper reports of
that 1942 fii’e stated that the
blaze was discovered by the
night watchman about 4:30
o'clock, and there was a graphic
description of the excitement as
hallf -> dress«d
out into the
freezing morning air
In the excitement following
the alarm, many of the girls in
West had thrown theix' clothing
out of the windows when it ap
peared that the blaze might en
gulf the dormitory too, aud
there were many articles of
wearing apparel still decorating
the shi-ubbery beside the dorm
when daylight illumined the
scene.
It was quite a coincidence
that Elon’s athletes met and de
feated an Appalachian team on
the date of that other dining
hall fire, too. In that case it
was the Christian basketball
team, which left without any
breakfast that long ago Saturday
morning and went to Boone to
defeat the Mountaineers
Trustees Discuss Plan
For Building Program
The possibility and prospect of plans to complete the long-range
a new dining hall and some new
dormitories on the Elon campus in
the not-too-distant future loomed
bright last week, following a spec
ial called meeting of the Elon Col
lege trustees, which was held on
Monday, October 1st.
The trustees meeting, which
had been called prior to the fire
that destroyed the kitchen, was
nevertheless just at the right time
to authorize President Leon E.
Smih to start construction at once
of a temporary kitchen and to
start immediate action to raise
funds for a complete new and per
manent dining hall.
This step fitted well with the
original purpose of the gathering,
which had been called to discuss
building program for the college,
a program that is estimated to cos.
between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000
New dormitories, long needed on
the campus, are an integral part
of the long-range plan.
The trustees asked Presiden"
Smith to negotiate an early set
tlement with the insurance com
pany for the loss sustained in the
icitchen fire, with the insuranc
funds to be earmarked for re
placing the burned structure. The
trustees asked that any nev/ kit
chen equipment bought be such as
would be usable in a new dining
hall.
In discussing the long-range
building plans, the trustees voted
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Everyone was in festive mood,
even the Weather Man, as hun
dreds of old Elon students return
ed to the campus for a 1951
Homecoming weekend that was
celebrated on Friday and Satur
day, September 23th and 29th, be
neath clear autumn skies and in
weather that had just enough nip
of the fail season to be pleasant.
The Student Entertainment
Committee, which took over the
annual Homecoming observance
a year ago with great success, car
ried on in the same fine style this
year, and “Fun and Fellowship”
was the keynote of a program that
meant much to both present and
former students of the college.
The old grads came back to
find the campus gaily bedecked
in traditional Maroon and Gold,
as the various dormitory groups
vied with each other for the win
ner's laurels in a decoration con
test that was judged by a special
committee of alumni.
First prize in this contest went
tr, the boys of East Dorm, who
disguised the historic old struc
ture as a night club, complete
,vith accessories that included a
doormaa. Second place went to
the boys in North Dorm, who
decked their huge structure as a
theatre and advertised a show that
featured the Mallory boys in “The
Massacre of the Mountaineers.”
Third place went to the Day Stu-
Jents Organization, which as
sumed th^ task of decorating the
Alumni Gymna.sium, >
The Homecoming program it
self got underway with the annual
Homecoming Ball on Friday eve
ning and continued Saturday with
a gigantic Elon parade through
the streets of Burlington. Seven
teen open convertibles bore the
Homecoming Queen and members
of her court, and more than twen-
ty-five other decorated automo
biles joined the convertibles in
the trek through the city.
Several members of the Elon
football team of 1933, first Fight
ing Christian team to bring home
a North State Conference cham
pionship, were back a.s honor
quests for the 1951 Homecoming,
and the college was host to a
number of these former grid stars
■jt dinner in the dining hall.
PARADE STIRS ELON SPIRIT FOR GRID GAME
ijgemr ,
slBepy-fcyed ^and
students tumbled
Ol
annual
A portion of the gigantic Elon p ii'.dc, vi'aich stirred tlie Figliting '.'’.i.iljjn spirit for the
battle with Appalacliian, is shown above as it formed beside the coUege wall in readiness for the trip
thi’ougli Burlington. Included in the parade were seventeen gaily decorated convertibles, which
carried the Horaecoming Queen and the ladies of her court. In the foreground is the Queens car,
followed by that cf the M:ii:l-of-Honor.