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May Day
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MAROON AND GOLD
And \ JSucreisful
Year For The
Neu Student Officers
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21. 1D54
Mciy Day Festival Scheduled For Saturday^ May 1
JUDY INGRAM TO RULE OM i; >I\Y ISAV I '1J\ y,
I
THE KIN(;
Judith Ingram, Elon senior
from Greei-.sboro, who will rule
over the 1954 May Court, is
shown a' ivc. A music major
and known for her solo work
with the Elon Choir, the May
Queen will have the central role
in th; annual festival to be
staged here on Saturday after
noon, May 1st. At the left is
Gary ,‘?ears. an already gradu
ated senior from Portsmouth.
Va.. who was chosen by the
students as King of May, while
at the right is pictured Miss
Betsy Haley, director of women's
physical education, who is di-
rectin; the pageant for the
second successive year. She has
announced that the program will
feature the May Day observance
and danccs of various nations.
THE DHIECIOR
Cast Named
For Players^
Spring Show
The cast is complete for the
Elon Player presentation ot Shake
speare's "As You Like It,” which
"ill be presented by the Elon dra
matic group late in May.
The Shakespeare play, which is
abbreviated 40-minute version
of the original production, will be
rtesented as an outdoor produc-
tion on the South Campus.
Judith Ingram, a senior from
Greensboro, who has gained wide
scclaim for her musical accom
plishments, will appear- as Ros-
' while Nanette Matchan, of
f .lestor., s. C., will have the
Kle of Celia. Sue Moore, of Hur-
Mills, only other girl in the
will piaj the part of Audrey,
"wdy Stoffel, of Stratford, N.
" P^'ssidert of the Elon student
8'''emment this year, will appear
Orl;,r..jQ. ... jy., YVright WilUam-
•' ■’k Va., having the
P>rt of Touchstone.
Othe.i j,-, jjjg include
^%h -.lellburg, of Elon College,
Dulie Senior; Lewis Gwin, of
Va., as Oliver; Bill Ker-
of Xonoik, Va., as William;
Edwards, of Middleboro,
p','„ Corin; Jack Garber, of
as Le Beau: Nick
■■'50s. of .-leston, S. C., in the
role of Duke Frederick and
George Starkey, of Ma-
i City Pa aijQ jjj ^ double
Charles the Wrestler and
Pro?- Charles W. Cox, as
and Wesley Batten, as
t)3Pp There will al-o be two
roles.
President Smith Names
Com nieiifeinent Speakers
Speakers for Elon's annual commencement exetcises were an
nounced last week by President Leon E. Smith, who stated that
the carrimencement program will open with the annual alumni
gathering on Saturday, May 29t h, and will conclude with the grad
uation exercises on Monday, 'lay 31st.
Aiiiiiial Pageant Features
Dances Of Other Nations
Tlio custOi'' .’ind dancc^ of othr-r nations will form t!ie fvntm!
luiue of the aunu-stl May Day pageant, which is to be helil on Elon'^
Campu-! on Saturd;-.y afternoon. May 1st. The pageant will
!.e only one feature of a gala v.et>ko>'-: ti.:tt bf.sui- on Friday. '
The ?.Iay D:.y pE"iant itM.'lf '"ill ccntvi' ab'iut the coninatiun
;f Judith Ingram as the Elon May Queen of 19,->4. Ruling with her
■vill be Gary Sears, an alreaily graduated senior, who will return
) the campus to receive the hcncT
Lo\v!*r Kh'clcd Stii(ioiit Leader
Nif^ht School
Honor Roll
Is Announced
Ten students in the veterans'
night classes at Elon College, each
of whom was carrying a full scho
lastic load of college subjects,
made an ho»or average on all their
:ourses for the winter quarter and
have been placed on the Dean s
Libt.
The night class honor list in
cluded one with a grade of A
on all subjects and nine who had
in average of "B" or better .for
ill courses. The list forms an ad
dition to the regular Dean’s List
for day-time classes that was made
public earlier this quarter.
Fred Louis Keisling made the
"A” honor roll, while those with
a “B'’ average included Lester R.
Surke, Otis David Carey, Bobby
,\I. Cates, Carroll L. Craven, John
L, Cummings, Kenneth Wayne
Heltsley, John Paul Malone, Carl
.Jennings Oakley and William
Douglass Ratliff. All are from
Burlington and vicinity.
The Honorable Mills E. Godwin.
Jr., of Suffolk, Va., outstanding
\'irginia lawyer and a member ol
the Virginia State Senate, will de
liver the commencement address
at the graduation program on
•Monday, May 31.
The speaker, ,who is a member
of the Board of Trustees of Elon
College, is a leader in Old Domin
ion civic and political life, a past
national chairman of the Ruritari
Clubs and this year's state chair
man of Virginia’s Jackson Day
Dinner,
The baccalaureate sermon, which
is set for Sunday morning. May
30th. will be delivered by Rev.
Aaron Meckel, pastor of the First
Congregational Christian Church
in St. Petersburg, Fla. He is a
well known figure on the Elon
campus, having conducted Relig
ious Emphasis Week services at
Elon four years ago. He has also
,poken on the campus on other
occasions.
Mrs. A. Brown Fogleman, of
Burlington, was named as ‘‘Alumni
Orator” for 1954, and she'will de
liver the principal address at the
annual alumni banquet on Satur
day evening. May 29. The banquet
A'ill climax an Alumni Day pro-
■^ram that wiU include reunions of
1 number of Elon graduating
classes, some of which graduated
before 1900.
'hich was voted him by student
Cl;;ef attendants fi:r the royal
lair will be Betty Thompson a"-
ii!' Maid-of-Honor, escorted by
Woody Stoffel. Other members
•)f the royal court will be V'irginia
Icrnegan and Ernestine Bridges,
i.'i senior attendants, escorted' b\
;’hil Mann and Dud Ivey. Junior
ittendants will be Arlene Stafford
;nd Mary Sue Colclough, escorted
)y J. C. Disher and Charles Crews.
Narrator for the pageant will
be Tom Targett, W'ho will an-
lounce the featured dances c^f
’ther nations. These dances are
.0 be presented by members of the
four sororities cn the campus.
Presenting the national dance
if Switzerland will be the Tau
/Ceta Phi sorority. Those partici-
lating include Marie Weldon, Bar
bara Weldon, Lou Knott, Shirley
Cox, Ann Rav.ls, Peggy McKee,
Sylvia Jones, Patsy Tate, Lois
Scott, Shirley Presnell, Ann Puck-
tt, Margaret Patillo, Margaret
Boland, Grace Holt, Jo Ann
'.Vright and Kathleen Euliss.
The Delta Upsflon Kappa group,
presenting the dances of Scanda-
navia, will include Mary Wisse-
man, Ann Kearns,, Nanette Math-
n. Ginger Ballard, Grace Bozarth,
Joyce Perry, Evelyn Fritts, Eliza
beth Beckwith,. Carolyn Aber
nathy. Joann Tucker. Ann Clif
ford, Annie Vince May, Barbara
Carden, Sue Moore, Nancy Bain,
Kathleen McDonald, Susan Fuchs
ind Helen Craven.
The Beta Omicron Beta dancers,
featuring English numbers, will
nclude Judy Chadwick, Gwen
oyner, Shirley Strange, Martha
iValker, Marlene Johnson, Meryle
Mauldin, Betsy Johnson, Dianne
Maddox. Doris Chrismon. Ann
Stoddard, Harriett Talley, Eliza
beth Stephenson, Ann Holt and
Marissa Caussade.
The dances of Palestine will be
presented by a Pi Kappa Tau
?roup that includes Sara Murr.
Sarah Miles, Jayne Jones, Edith
McCauley, Joan Darling, Marjorie
Sutton, Billie Faye Johnson, Polly
Payne, Ruth Williams, Clara
Sharpe. Janice Williams and Fran
ces Foster.
Spring Dance
Will Climax
May Festival
Plans are near completion for
Elon's annual Spring Formal,
which will be held in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium from b
o'clock until midnight on Satur
day evening. May 1st, as the
climatic event of May Day week
end. The dance will feature a
Mardi Gras theme and will be to
the music of Paul Zimmerman
and his orchestra, which plays out
of Martinsville, Va.
The plans for the event are in
charge of the Student Dance Com
mittee, which is headed by Phil
.Mann and Alice Cole, co-chairmen
for the group. They have assigned
the various tasks to different indi
viduals or groups, named from the
remaining members of the commit
tee.
Decorations have been assigned
to five persons. Cooper Walker,
Nanette Matchan and Holland Tay
lor arc planning the wall decor
ations, while Ashburn Kirby and
Jack Garber will decorate the ceil
ing of the gymnasium.
Others and their assignments
are Wright Williamson, lights;
Furman MoseTey, band stand;
Woody Stoffel and Sylvia Eaton,
jr.KKY LOWDEK
Jerry I.owder, a rising senior
from Kurlincton, is the m w presi
dent of (lie rion College student
Rovernment organizatiin'. lie was
t'lerted last '1 , .-April l.'ith,
by vote of the student- in the an-
laial campus election and will sue-
eed to the pcrst held during the
present year by Woody .sioffel. of
.‘^Iratford, N, .1.
I.owder was the only regular
nr'minec for the chief executive’s
post, hut space was provided on
the ballot for a write-in vote. How
ever, I.owder. who has been very
active in student musical activi
ties since entering college, was the
\ inner by a comfortable margin.
New Officers Are Named
To Govern Student Body
Elon Singers
Are Guests
At Churches
The Elon Choir, which attracted
:in appreciative audience to Whit
ley Auditorium for its eighth an
nual presentation of “ I'he Seven
Last Words of Christ” on Sunday
evening, April 11th, is i.iaklng
three guests appearances in
churches of this area during the
month.
The first of the three guest pro
grams was presented in Muir’s
Chapel Methodist Church near
Greensboro on Friday evening be
fore Easter, at which time the
student singers once more pre
sented Dubois' great Easter can
tata of the sufferings of Jesus on
the cross. This program was in
tables, Maiy Sue Colclough, table | the home church of Juditli In
cloths; Ernestine Bridges, Vir-lgram, one of the eight student
ginia Jernegan and Annie Vince
May, refreshments; Walter O'Ber-
ry, finances; and Jayne Jones, in
vitations.
CHAD\\ICK RECITAL
The Elon
will present
junior music
Music Department
Judith Chadwick,
major from West
Boxford, Mass., in a piano recital
in Whitley Auditorium at 8:15
o’clock next Wednesday night,
April 28th.
.soloists who were featured in the
cantata.
The singers will make two guest
appearances next Sunday, April
25th. The first of the two pro
grams will be on Sunday after
noon in Laverne Brady's home
church at Robbins, followed -by
an appearance In the First Con
gregational Christial Church in
Greensboro on Sunday evening.
The program in each of these
churches will be the same which
the Choir presented in a series
of eleven concerts during its re
cent 1954 northern tour,
Elon Ministerial Alumni Return To Cam|>us
Ministerial alumni of Elon Col
iege from throughout North Caro
lina and adjoining states returned
to the campus yesterday for the
first annual Religious Leadership
Conference, which was staged un
der the sponsorship of the campus
ministerial association.
Student leaders ot the Minis
terial Association, who worked
with the cooperation of the a!-mni
office in planning the event, de
clared last night that they were
well pleased with the attendance
and results, and plans are to make
the convocation an annual affair
on the campus.
Dr. O. W. S. McColl, of Wood
ford, Conn., who is retired from
the active ministry, spoke twice
during the convocation, firit at
workshop ses.s(Lon in the after
noon and again as the featurer'
speaker at a banquet meeting last
night. Also speaking at a work
shop gathering during the after
noon was Rev. Wofford C. Tirr.-
mons. pastor of the Congregational
Christian Church at Southern
Pines.
The presence among Elon’s re-
SPEAKERS AT ftHMSTERFAF. MEE I ING
i
DR. O. W. S. McCOLL
DR. WOrrORD TIM.MONS
urning ministerial graduates ofUional Christian Church served to
large number of outstanding pa - show clo.iily *he great value of
ors from all parts of the South-
■m Convention of the Congrega-
hlon Colltge to the Convention
3s a source of trained leadership.
The Elon Colle^.e studcHts
trekked to the polls last Thursday,
April 15th, to cast their ballots
for student government leaders
for the coming year, naming Jerry
Lowder, a senior music major
from Burlington, to the presi
dential post.
Other student body officers
named at the same lime were Phil
Carter, of Liberty, vice-president;
and Shirley Cox, of Elon College,
seeretary-treasurer.
Named to the Student Council
.were George Starkey, of Mahoney
City, Pa., and Glenn Beal, of Nor
folk, Va., men's representatives;
Mnry Sue Colclough, of Elon Col-
ege, and Betsy Johnson, ,of Fuquay
Springs, women's representatives;
and Pat Chandler, of Fayetteville,
representative-at-large.
New members of the Honor
Council are Sherrill Hall, of King,
and Arlene Stafford, of Burling
ton, from the senior class; Meryle
•Mauldin, of Winston-Salem, and
Lois Scott, of Elon College, for
the junior class; and Wanda Dof-
flemyer, of Elkton, Va., for the
sophomore class. The freshman
member will be named next fall.
Stacy Johnson, of Dunn, was
elected president of the rising
senior class. Other senior officers
are Dave Maddox, of Thorsby,
Ala., vice-president; Fred Rice, of
Burlingtnn, treasurer; and Joe
Widdifield, of Winston-Salem,
student legislator. A new election
will be needed to name the senior
secretary.
President of the rising junior
class is Dalton Parker, of Suffolk,
Va, Other junior leaders are Gary
Thompson, ot Norfolk, Va., vice-
president; Jo Ann Wright, of Bur
lington, secretary; Grady Drake,
of Burlington, treasurer; and Ter
ry Emerson, of Morehead City,
fludent legislator.
Leading the rising sophomore
class as president will be Don
•Johnson, of Dunn. Other sopho
more leaders are Margaret Patillo,
uf Burlington, vice-president; Syl
via Smith, of Henderson, secre-
lary; Danny Thomas, of Raleigh,
tieasurer; and Fred^ Prior, of
Laurel, Md., student legislator.
Following formal inauguration
f-eremonies, these new student
body and class officers will as-
ume their duties this spring for
the remainder of the present col
lege year. This period in the
?-luring serves as an opportunity for
tlie new officers to acquaint them
selves with the duties of their re
spective offices while their pre
decessors are still available on