Let’s Give
Eton’s Old Grads
A Warm VVelccme
MAROON AND GOLD
And For
The Pirate Foes
A Hot Reception
VOLUME THIRTY-TWO
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1952
NUMBER TWO
— A *1
Plans Complete For Great Home Coming Event
Traffic Rules Explained
And Penalties Announced
The traffic committee of the Student Legislature this week
made public an explanation of the campus traffic regulations, wliich
are designed to inform students bringing automobiles to the camp
us exactly what is expected of them in regard to the college
parking problem.
There are four parking areas for student cars. One is on the
north side of Alamance Building, one on the south side of Ala
mance Building, one on the north side of West Dormitory, and a
fourth on the lot adjacent to the Alumni Memorial Gymnasium.
The committee points out that these four parking areas afford
ample space and that there is no reason for illegal parking on the
campus.
It is also pointed out that the Student Legislature enacted a
new rule on Thursday, September25th, which requires that a campus
parking permit must be displayed
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on the windshield of every car on
the campus. This regulation goes
into effect on October 15th, and
any student whose car does not
display such a permit on that day
and thereafter will be fined $1
per day for each day until such a
permit is affixed to the wind
shield. Those permits are avail
able to students and faculty free
of charge in the student govern
ment office.
The traffic committee requests
the whole-hearted- cooperation of
both Students and faculty in the
observance of the campus traffic
regulations,
It is pointed out that cars may
park on both sides of the circular
driveway on the south side of Ala
mance, but that cars may park on
only one side of the driveways
from the gate on the north side
of the campus. The following are
specific parking regulations:
(1) No car may be parked next
to a curb that is marked with a
yellow line.
(2) Only specified persons may
park in the five-car reserved space
in front of the north steps of
Alamance Building.
(3) No car may be parked
astride the lines that mark park
ing spaces.
(4) No car may be parked on
any part of the lawn.
(5) No car may be parked in
such a manner as to prevent any
other car from leaving or enter
ing an adjacent parking space.
(6) The speed limit on the
campus is 10 miles per hour.
(7) All infractions of these reg
ulations will invoke a fine of $1,
which must be paid before a stu
dent violator can take examina
tions at the end of the quarter.
One-Act Play
Casts Named
The casts are complete for the
two one-act plays, which the Elon
Plajers will present at a series of
alumni gatherings and other club
meetings daring the year. Both
plays are being produced under the
firena plan, which makes them
® aptable for banquet occasions.
The cast for ‘The Wedding,”
'^hich includes seven persons,
numbers one veteran performer
in the person of Joe Brankley, of
• ipwith, Va., along with six new
raembers of the campus dramatic
Sroup. Others in this play in-
Eiude Johnny Bolt, of Burlington;
na Stockard, of Braintree,
^ ass.; Jimmy Luke, of Holland,
a,, Ann Kearns, of Asheboro;
Bage, of Dendron, Va,; and
lanne Maddox, of Cincinnati,
Ohio.
) one-act play, entitled
a p f °™an’s Privilege,” features
as of only four persons, two of
oni are veterans of previous
seasons on the £lon stage and
two of whom will be making their
■^^itial a{)pearances here. This
numbers Lynn Cashion, of
SantorS', Ann Wilkins, of Suf
folk, Va.; Osvid Crowle, of Glen-
olden, Pa.; and Dianne Maddox, of
Cincinnati, Ohio.
^Bid Nighf
To Be Held
On Saturday
The four social fraternities and
four sororities on the Elon campus
will stage their first “Bid Night ’
of the new year on Saturday night
of this week, when prospective
new members will have an oppor
tunity to accept bids and be pledg
ed by the various Greek-letter or
ganizations.
Rushing has been in progress
for the past ten days, with each
of the fraternities and sororities
playing host to prospective mem
bers at a series of rush parties.
The rushing season comes to an
official end on Saturday night,
and acceptance of an invitation to
the “Bid Night" party of any
group signifies a willingness on
the part of the rushee to become
member of that particular
group.
Students interested in joining
any of the groups must be eligi-
gible through completion of one
quarter of work with an average
of “C” or better.
Thp four fraternities include
Alpha Pi Delta, Iota Tau Kappa,
Kappa Psi Nu and Sigma Phi
Beta, while the four sororities in
clude Beta Omicron Beta, Delta
Upsilon Kappa, Pi Kappa Tau
and Tau Zeta Phi.
JVIap Two-Day Program
To Honor Eloii’s Aluiiiiii ^
The old grads will come flocking back to the Elon campus this
weekend for the annual "Home Coming Day” program, which will
get underway with the annual dance for the alumni on Friday eve
ning and will be climaxed by the Elon-East Carolina football game
on Saturday night.
Complete plans for the weekend event have been formulated
under the direction of Alumni Secretary Carl Woods, with tlie co
operation of the Elon College student government officials and
officers of the college administration. Efforts are underway to get
a record number of former students to return for the observance.
Rachel Matthews, a junior girl from Portsmouth, Va., will rule
over the two-day festivities as the “Home Coming Queen,” having
been elected to* the royal honor by a vote of the student body last
Thursday. She will be attended by Helen Nott, sophomore girl
from Graham,
Rachel Matthews
Helen ISott
MAID OF
HONOR
Popular Comedy To Be Presented
As First Dramatic Show Of Season
I The trials and tribulations of
BAND WILL appear' the Gage family, seeking peace
j and quiet in an old farm house,
AT GAME SATLI^RDAYr”'^”’®*^ domestic background
for “January Thaw,” a delightful
The Elon College band is
scheduled to make its first ap
pearance of the year at the
Home Coming battle with East
Carolina here on Saturday
night, but the new uniforms will
not be here in time for that
initial appearance of the new
band. This was revealed by
Jimmy Rhodes, student band di
rector.
It was announced this week
that the new uniforms tor the
band are scheduled for ship
ment early next week and will
be here in time for the march
ing musicians to appear in all
their glory for the Elon grid
battle with the Little Creek
Amphibs on Saturday night, Oc
tober 18th.
CIVIC MUSIC CONCERTS
BE OFFERED ON CAMPUS
An attractive series of five mus
ical concerts will be presented in
Whitley Auditorium during the
(foming months under the auspices
of the Alamance Civic Music As
sociation. The schedule of con
certs has been announced recent
ly by Miss Alyse Smith, secretary
of the music organization.
Thomas Hayward, tenor. Metro
politan Opera star, will appear in
Whitley on Tuesday, October 21st,
in the first concert of the series.
The second concert, scheduled for
Monday, December 1st, will be by
Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano,
also a star of the Matropolitan
Ope*.
The Reginald Kell players, fea
turing the great clarinetist, will
present the third concert in the
year’s series, this program being
scheduled for Monday evening,
January 19th. The fourth number
will offer a duo-piano concert
sometime in March.
The year’s series will be coi^
eluded in April when Sidney Fos
ter, pianist, and twelve instru
mentalists will present a program
of popular concertos. Exact dates
for the March and April pro
grams will be made public later.
Big Drive Planned
For ‘‘Red Feather^
The Elon students and faculty
will be asked to cooperate in the
annual “Red Feather” campaign,
which will be staged in a county-
wide effort throughout Alamance
County £rom October 23rd
through November 1st.
The gigantic fund-raising cam
paign is designed to meet a goal
of approximately $68,000, which
is 18 per cent above the amount
raised during the similar drive
held last fall.
This increase was forced by the
increased demands made upon the
various community and charitable
agencies, although leaders point
out that the budget has been kept
at an absolute minimum.
The fund goes to support four
teen different agencies, 'n^^luding
the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, i^er-
vice League Milk Fund, Red
Shield Boys’ Club, Salvation
Army, N. C. Children’s Home So
ciety, American Hearing Aid So
ciety, National Travelers’ Aid and
the United Defense Fund.
three-act comedy, which the Elon
College Players will present on
the stage of Whitley Auditorium
on Wednesday and Thursday, Oc
tober 29th and 30th. The play
has enjoyed great success on
Broadway and in numerous pres
entations in all parts of the coun-
liy.
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, who
directs the Player activities on
the campus, has assembled an ex
cellent cast for this initial pro
duction of the 1952-53 season, a
cast which will introduce many
new actors to Elon’s stage. No
less than nine of the thirteen per
sons in the cast are new members
of the student dramatic group.
The play itself shows Herbert
Gage, enacted by J. B. Pickard of
Greensboro, trying to write a
best-seller novel in the midst of
interruptions that arise in the
farm house home, where his wife.
Marge Gage, portrayed by Di
anne Maddox, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
remodels coffee-grinders into
lamps and tries out all sorts of
decorative ideas.
Lynn Cashion and Ann Wilkins,
two Player stars of years gone by,
appear on the scene in the roles
of Jonathon and Mathilda Rock-
wood, who claim the right to move
right into the farm house along
with the Gage family under a spe
cial clause in the deed, A contest
for possession ensues, with neither
the Gages nor Rockwoods able to
turn the others out of the house,
Jonathon brings back the cow
that his father has saved as a
fireman and stakes her on the
front lawn. He also plans to hold
the funeral of old acquaintances
in the house, and then the Gage
daughter, Barbara, and the Rock-
wood son take off on a merry mis
sion when the weather man
clamps down with a blizzard that
isolates the two families in the
old farm house.
The blizzard brings all sorts of
complications as the electric pow
er lines fail and the utilities go
out of commission, all of which
proves disastrous for the modern
Gage family and an opportunity
for the Rockwoods to prove the
value of their old-fashioned ways,
(Continued on Page Fourt
GROOMES TO GIVE
CAMPUS RECITAL
Miss Virginia Groomes, so
prano, will be presented in re
cital in Whitley Auditorium at
8:15 o’clock on Tuesday eve
ning, October 28th, appearing
in the first of a series of campus
musical programs to be given
during the year under the aus
pices of the Elon Music De
partment.
Miss Groomes, who is assist
ant professor and voice Instruc
tor with the Elon College music
faculty, has gained a wide musi
cal following since she came to
Elon three years ago. having
sung in a number of operatic
productions here and else
where in the state. She will be
accompanied at the piano by
Prof. Jonathon Sweat, also of
the college music faculty.
Staff Starts
W ork On ’53
Phi Psi CM
Work has already begun on the
new edition of Phi Psi Cli, the
Elon College annual, according to
David Crowle, of Glenolden. Pa„
who is editor-in-chief of the col-
kege y,earb)ook for the 1952-53
college year. (
Crowle announced this week
that he has completed the selec
tion of the Phi Psi Cli staff and
that he and his co-workers hope
to push compilation of the annual
material this fall as rapidly as pos
sible.
He stated that the Brumfield
Studio, of Charlotte, which has
been awarded the contract for
the individual photographic work
this year, will have its representa
tives on the campus on Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday of next week, and he urges
that all students and faculty mem
bers cooperate by having their
photographs made early.
Laverne Brady, of Robbins, is
the business manager of the year
book and has already begun work
on the advertising. Other staff
members include Jean Nunnamak-
er, of Durham, literary editor;
John Truitt, Jr., of Elon College,
feature editor; Curtis Lashley, of
Burlington, sports editor; and
Reuben Askew, of Norfolk, Va.,
photography editor.
GREEK LETTER GROUPS
FORM NEW FRATERNITY
as maid-of-honor.
The maid-of-honor was runner-up
in the balloting last week.
The queen will be crowned at
the dance on Friday evening, and
she and her court will also be
presented in half-time ceremonies
between halves of the East Caro
lina game on Saturday night. The
royal coul't will include girls
sponsored by the various frater
nities and campus organizations
and by the dormitories and resi
dence halls on the campus.
The Home Coming Dance on
Friday evening, which will be
informal, will feature the rhyth
mic music of the Riffs, Burlington
dance group which includes sev
eral Elon students. The dance
will be held in Alumni Memorial
Gymnasium, beginning at 8:00
o’cUlck,( Laverne Brady, chair
man of the Student Dance Com
mittee, is in charge of plans for
the dance. (
Each dormitory on the campus
is planning for gala decorations
for the Home Coming weekend,
and alumni judges will view these
decorations at 10 o'clock on Sat
urday morning to pick the winners
in a decoration contest. Winners
will be announced at the football
game,
A gigantic Elon parade through
Burlington is planned for Sat
urday afternoon. The parade will
form on the campus at 2 o’clock
Saturday afternoon. Immediately
ailer the parade a pep rally
is planned at the Alumni Gymnas
ium.
The Elon-East Carolina game,
which marks the first appearance
of the Elon grid squad on tho
home field this season, is expected
to attract a large crowd to the
Burlington Memorial Stadium.
Brdxton President
Of ‘E’ Men’s Club
The “E" Men’s Club, which is
composed of a variety athletes in
all sports played here at Elon, has
completed its organization for the
1952-53 year and has laid plans
for a club outing on Sunday, Oc
tober 19th.
Isaac Braxton, of Goldsboro, is
the new president of the monogram
organization, succeeding to the post
held last year by A1 Ludwig, of
Baltimore, Md. Other officers of
the club include Bobby Rogers, of
Williamston, vice-president; Bobby
Jones of Monticello, secretary; and
Dwight Dillon, of Martinsville, Va.,
treasurer.
The “E” Men's organization has
long been one of the mo.st active on
the Elon campus, always ready to
participate in any movement for
cami)us benefit. It has for several
years had charge of the operation
of concessions at the Elon gymnasi
um during the winter sports sea
son.
Sigma Alpha Chi is Sigma Mu
Sigma now. The change of name
was assured early in August when
the two national college fraterni
ties with similar programs and ob
jectives voted to merge under the
Sigma Mu Sigma name, and the
Elon College chapter v.’ill be
known in the future by the new
name.
The fraternity announces that
it will continue its program of ser
vice and recognition on campuses
where it is now located, and plans
have been adopte'd to provide ex
pansion into new chapters on
other campuses. The fraternity
also plans renewed emphasis on
the development of loyalty to
American principles and the
American way of life
The Elon - College chapter was
established in 1950 and has made
ignificsf.t cXntriblitions to
campus life, numbering both stu
dents and faculty members on its
roll. Meetings are held each Mon
day evening.
Officers cho.sen for the fall
quarter include Joe Morris, presi
dent; Jerry Smyre, vice-president,
Richard Newman, secretary;
■Tames Clybum, treasurer; and
James Rhodes, sergeant-at-arms.
Draft Test
Dates Set
Draft deferment tests for col
lege students will be given twice
during the present college year,
according (to an announcement
just issued by the national Selec
tive Service officials. Dates for
the test this year are December
4, 1952 and April 23, 1953.
It was also announced that ap
plication blanks for these tests
are now available at local draft
boards throughout the country,
and all students inte;rested in tak
ing the tests on either dates are
urged to obtain these blanks and
file their applications at once.
Bulletins of information will be
given along with the application
blanks.
The tests are administered by
the Educational Testing Service,
of Princeton, N. J,, and officials
of that service point out that ap
plications for those wishing to
take the test on December 4th
must be in the mails not later than
midnight on November 1st, They
say it is a distinct advantage to
have the applications filed as
quickly as po,ssible.
Draft officials state that 413,395
students have already taken the
tests and that there are now about
190,000 college students deferred
on the basis of these tests or their
class standards.
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