, A Happy Vacation
To Each And
All Elon Students
MAROON AND GOLD
And Best Of liUck
To All You
Senior Graduates
VOLIME 33
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
TIESDAY MAY 25, 1954
NUMBER 15
Elon Plans Sixty-Fourth Annual Commencement
Outdoor Setting Planned
For Final Student Show
LEADING FIGURES IN ELON S (:L()SIN(; EXERCISES
Somothin!.. wv> in student dra-
Elon College will be
Jlflrcd U. I'.eatre-gcers of this
area tonight when the Elan Play
ed. will stage an outdoor presenta-
,lon of Slijkespeare's “As You
Li](e It " The play is to be pre
sented on the South Campus of
‘,»,e college.' almost directly in
li nt of the south facade of the
Alamance Buildmg.
The Shakespearean comedy,
ivhich is offered in a special 40-
Binute version,
will feature a
special musical score and arrange
ment, composed expressly for the
Hon Player show hjj Prof. Levin
Houston, member of the music
faculty of the Mary Washington
College of the University of Vir
ginia.
In presenting the compositions
(it Prof. Houston as a feature of
".is You Like It,” the Elon Flay
ers will offc both music lyvei>
and stage fans a treat, since the
Virginia composer has a long line
of successful numbers to his
credit, including a piano piece
nhich was presented by Ray Lev
in Carnegie Hall. He also com
posed a clarinet concerto for Artie
Shaw.
llis other compositions include
both piano and choral numbers
and eight full-length ballets for
orchestra, which have been played
throughout Virginia and by both
Symphony orchestra. He recently
Symphony archestra. He recently
did the incidental music for an
other Sliakespearean show, “King
Lear," which was presented at
Mary Washington College.
The cast for “As Y'ou Like It,”
which is one of the pastoral com
edies of Shakespeare, will include
a large group of newcomers to the
Elon Player ranks, with Judith
Ingram, of Greensboro, long a
featured soprano soloist with the
Elon Choir, taking the feminine
lead in the role of Rosalind.
Other members of the Tuesday
night cast include Nanette Match-
an of Charleston, S. C., as Celia;
Sue Moore, of Hurdle Mills, rs
Audrey; Woody Stoffel, of Strat
ford, N. J., as Orlando; Wright
Williamson, of Norfolk, Va., as
Touchstone; Nick Theos, of Char
leston, s, C„ in the double role
ot Duke Frederick and Amiens;
. Adolph Mellburg, of Elon College,
as Duke Senior; John Womack,
ot.Olivia, as Charles the Wrestler;
^largaret Sharpe, of Julian, as
Adam; Lewis Gwin, of Norfolk, Va„
as Oliver; Douglas Edwards, of
Middleboro
SCHEDULE LISTED
FOil FINAL EXA^IS
Final exams for flie Spring
Quarter get underway tomorrow,
witli exams scheduled both
morning and afternoon tomor
row and Thursday and with a
single exam on I'riday morning.
Students not slaying for com
mencement will be trekking
home as soon as they fini.sh
exams.
All senior 8 o'llcck classes
and all English 21 tests are set
tomorrow morning, followed in
the afternoon by all 11:30
classes. Exams for 10:30 classes
are set Thursday morning, with
9 o’clock courses to be given in
the afternoon. Tests for 8 o’clock
classes will be given Friday
morning and 2 o’clock each af
ternoon.
Siiiiimei* Term
Opens June 7
The 1954 summer school will
get underway at 8 o’clock on
Monday morning, June 7th, with
two six-weeks terms scheduled.
The first term will end on Friday,
July 16th, and the second term
vill begin on Monday, July 19th,
and continue until Friday, August
27th.
An attractive schedule of courses
is being offered this summer, in
cluding recently added courses
in public school music, organ,
piaiiO, foreign language and com
mercial subjects. It marks the
first time in many years that Elon
has offered the regular com
mercial subjects in the summer
The public school music courses,
which are not offered every year,
have been added to meet requests
of those needing the course to
comply with teacher certificate
requirements. It w'ill be taught by
Prof. John Westmoreland during
the first six-weeks term.
The addition of the commercial
subjects, to be taught by
:,.4
F.
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The speakers who will keynote the sixty-fourth annual commencement program at Elon College
are pictured above, portrayed against a background scene which shows Alamance Hall on the Elon
campus, a building which houses the administrative offices and many of the classrooms of the
college. The speakers are the Hon. Mills E. Godwin, Jr„ (upper leftr, of Suffolk. Va., an eminent Vir
ginia attorney and former state senator, who will deliver the ad Hess to the Seniors at the gradu
ation exercises on Monday morning. May 31; Dr. Aaron N. Meckel 'bottom lefti, of St. Petersburg,
Fla., pastor of the First Congregational Church in the Florida city, who will preach the bacca
laureate sermon on Sunday morning. May 30; and Mrs. Gwendolyn Patton Fogleman (bottom center),
of Burlington, N. C., successful educator and member of Elon’s Class of 1927, who will deliver the
alumni address at the annual Alumni Banquet on Saturday evening. May 20. Dr. Leon E. Smith
(bottom right), president of Elon College, will gaide the college through its 1954 commencement
College Will Close Year
WiihThi •ee-Day Program
The Honorable Mills E. Godwin,
STUDENTS INS'FALL Va., an outaanUing
iVir^iinia allorncy and former
Ll(;irrs on CAMI’US ^nator and a member of
il lo Kloii Collo;;e board of trustees.
New campus lights of the ; \il| deliver the baccalaureate ad-
“white way’ type have just been dress next Monday morning, May
installed on the South Campus
in front of .Mamanre Building
along tile walk that cunnerts
.'tlooi’ey Building ai.J VMiitley
Auditjrium.
The lights were a gift to the
college from Sigma Mu Sigma
Iratei nily and wer ■ installed
by Bill Mercer, Marvin Moss,
Dave Maddox and Iloyt Ken
nedy, members of t:ie I’hysics
32 class, which wor'.vS in elec-
Iricity and magnelism. The
lights are similar to the ones
about the front of Alumni Meni-
oiial (iynmasiniii.
Five Seniors Get Graduate Grants
:ilst, when Klon College closes its
si.xty-fourth annual commence
ment program «ilh the gradua
tion of the senior class of 1954.
The graduation exeicise;, which
iro sot for 10:S() o'clock Monday
morning, will close a commence
ment program that gets underway
with the annual conmiencement
ball on Friday night of this week,
at which time the members of the
graduating class will be honored
by the college administration and
i,,‘ .liuiiini.
Members of twelve Elon grad-
u,iting classes will hold reunions
)n Saturday of this week when
the annual Alumni Day program
i.'- planned. Classes which gather
back on the campus at that time
include those which graduated in
1949, 1944, 1939, 1934, 1929, 1924,
1919, 1914, 1909, 1904, 1899 and
1894. Many other Elon alumni
will also return to tlie campus at
that time to ramble once more
through scenes of their student
days.
The Alumni Day program on
Mumni Association will join with)Saturday will get underway with
Senior Dance
Friday Night
The senior Class of 1954 will
be honored guests and will be
formally welcomed into the fellow-
-hip of the alumni on Friday eve
ning of this week when reitre-
-entatives of the Elon College
President and Mrs. Leon E. Smith
n sponsoring the annual com
mencement dance, which is set
for 8:30 o’clock in Alumni Memor
ial Gymnasium.
breakfast gatherings of the re
union classes at 9:30 o’clock that
morning, followed by a picnic
luncheon on the South Campus at
12:30 o’clock. Immediately .'Her
the luncheon the General Alu:.ini
Five of Elon’s 1953 seniors have York Brannock,' Jr., of Burling-
been awarded graduate scholar- ton, was the recipient of a $1,350
ohips or fellowships for advanced grant at Duke University, where
study with the awards coming I he will be an assistant in the De-
from'four different institutions. I Partment of Chemistry. He will
and members of the group are
expected to enter graduate study
next fall.
The top award was won some
weeks ago by Charles Phillips,
Jr., of Burlington, who was award
ed one of the Morehead Scholar
ships for graduate study at the
Prof. i University of North Carolina. This
Thomas Fox, will be of particular I g^ard carries $1,500 per year and
interest to many graduating fromLj renewable each year for four
high school this spring, since they i ^ ^ satisfactory record is
can begin and finish their com
mercial training earlier.
do graduate work in that field.
Also in the field of CHemistry
was a grant of $1,300 received by
Phillip Mann, of Cypress Chapel
here four years, will do graduate
work in the field of nuclear engi
neering.
Another award from Duke Uni
versity was made to Curtis Wel-
borne, of Greensboro, who re
ceived an $850 scholarship for ad
vanced study in Philosophy. A
similar award came to Elon last
I made.
Va., from Clemson College, where I year, when Bill Blackstone was
he is to be an assistant in the the recipient. It is reported that
Chenvistry Department. He will
do advanced study in Chemistry.
Marvin Moss, of Burlington, has
also been awarded a grant of
$1,300 from N. C. State College,
■' here he will be an assistant in
f51ackstone s grant has been re
newed for another year.
Additional scholarship or fellow
ship awards may also be forth
coming for other Elon graduates,
_ but no announcement has been
the Department of Physics. Moss, | made on t:ie campus concerning duction into the alumni organiza
,ho was a varsity football player them. |tion.
All alumni of the college will gather,„ ^hit-
urged _ to attend this dance _and:,^y Auditorium at 2-y^," for
its annual busine ■ ■ _
!'Snion.
The Alumni Ba. to be
held in the coile|;
6:30 o clock th^^
Mrs^ Gwendolyn F.,gleman.
of Burlington a
Class of 1927, . Alumni
Orator” and featur ^ ^he
members of the sei.
to be guests at this banqu.. ivhich
will be followed by an Elon PlayLr
;>resentation of Shakespeare's “As
Vou Like It ’ in an outdoor show
on the campus,
A full program is scheduled for
Sunday, May 30th, when Dr. Aaron
N. Meckel, pastor of the First
to help welcome the new grad-,
uates into the alumni ranks. It;
was impossible to send special in
vitations to every alumnus, but
individual invitations were sent
to each senior, the faculty mem
bers, to the board of trustees and
members of the reunion classes.
The seniors in turn have invited
other members of the student
body to be their guests.
Clyde Watson and his Orchestra
from Greensboro will furnish the
music for the dance, and a special
decorative scheme has been plan
ned to transform the huge gym
nasium into a place of gaiety and
LARGE GROUP TO GRADUATE WITH CLASS OF 1954
out from Elon College with di
plomas and degrees and will join
the ranks of the alumni following
the graduation exercises, which
will be held on Monday morning.
May 31st. A tentative list of the
Mass., in a- double 11954 graduates, has just been re-
role as Gorin and Le Beau- Bill leased frcm the office of Prof,
Kerman, of Norfolk, Va., as’wil-'-'- L- Hook,
liam- Prnf Ph 1 nr r. ! t^is Ust is subject to change and
m. Prof. Charles W. Cox. as finaL
cques; and Wesley Batten, of ^he group is almost exactly the
on College, as the page, same in size as that which re-
leeiving diplomas will come from
'-HE.AI CLUB MEETS meneement, and, just as was the
“"Sro—“jsE^IOR 1-ltESIDEM-
degree requirements by the last
of the summer.
Each of the graduates will re
ceive Bachelbr of Arts Degrees,
but each will finish with a major
field of study, which will variety;
to the group. A study of the senior |
list reveals that of those included |
m the following group, there are'
17 with a major in Business Ad-,
ministration, 10 with a major in.
English, 8 with a major in Mathe-'
matics, 7 with a major in Physical j
Education, and 6 with a major in
I'on Allen, of Burlington, is the
"e" president of the Elon Chem
which is composed of stud-
majoring in chemistry. He
elected at a meeting held in
Student Affiliate
case last spring, the roll of the
Class of 1954 will be swelled by
the names _of those who receive
their degrees at the summer com-
meneement late in August. The
summer class in recent years has
usually included about thirty per-
room last Wed- sons, and that group may swell
•■'^sday evening. May 19th. The
Club
and a
IS a new organization,
committee is working on
P “f.s for next fall. Members of
t^e faculty of the Chemistry De-
l^rtment were guests at the meet-
*“5 last week, which featured a
°'^''°*'tful social hour.
the 1954 class past the hundred
mark.
A new and interesting feature
of the 1954 graduation lies in the
fact that a number of those re
ceivin gdiplomas will come from
the ranks of the veterans’ night
flasses, which have now been in
operation for three years or more
Chemistry. Other fields with one
or more listed are Religion, Music.
Biology. Home Economics, Gen-^
eral Science), Commexcial F.du-
cation. Primary Education and
Philosophy. - ;
The seniors, as listed by Prof.,
Hook, are as followe;
Allie Abercrombie, Burlington
Ann Abercrombie, Burlington
Don Barrett. Burlington
Ronnie Black, Burlington
Russell Borjes, Portsmouth, Va.
Laverne Brady, Robbins
York Brannock, Burlington
Ernestine Bridges, Lawndale
Stanley Bunch, Norfolk, \ a.
Bernard Butler, Gibsonville
Alice Co!:-, Burlington
Nelvin Cuoper, High Point
Jonn Cummings, Burlington
Dolly Dennis, Gibsonville
Dwight Dillon, Martinsville, Va,
Kathleen Euliss, BurUngton
ulary Lee barlow, Seagrove
Ho't Fo'i. ier, Erwin
Ned Gauldin, Fieldale, Va.
Ann Harris, Burlington
Jue Harvey, Greensi)oro
Rcbert Hajes, Burlington
David Henry, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Judith Ingram, Greensboro
Lynwood Ivey, Aberdeen
Jean James, Durham
Virginia Jernegan, Godwin
Mary Jo Johnson, Elon College
Lowell Kernodle, Burlington
Ramona Keinodle, Burlingtor.
Carlton Langston, Tim’sville, S.C.
Leon Long, Roxboro
Thomas Madren, Albemarle
Jack Malloy, Lynchburg, Va.
John Malone, Burlington
Phillip Mann, Cypress Chapel, Va
John Womack, of Olivia, Is Annie Vince May, Spring Hope
president of the Senior Class of j McCraw, Burlington
1954, and will preside over the I Hugh McFarling, Durham
final meetings of the class. An : Joseph McVey, Graham
outstanding student throughout , Calvin Michaels, Greensboro
his college career, he graduates garah Frances Miles, Burlington
lOHX WOMACK
beauty. Members of the senior, Congregational Church in St.
class will participate in a special. Petersburg, Fla., will deliver the
dance figure, featuring their in- baccalaureate sermon in Whitley
Auditorium at 11:30 o’clock. This
will be followed at 4 o'clock Sun
day afternoon by the annual ves
per recital and by the Elon Sing
ers' presentation of Fatwe’s “Re
quiem" in Whitley at 8:30 o'clock
Sunday evening.
The graduation exercises at
10:30 o’clock next Monday morn
ing will mark the formal con
clusion of Elon’s sixty-fourth an
nual commencement and the close
of the year for faculty and stud
ents, but members of the Board of
Trustees will attend a luncheon
at noon and will gather for their
annual spring meeting at 1:30
o’clock that afternoon.
with a major in Chemistry.
William Moore, Graham
Marvin Moss, Burlington
Sammy Nelson, LaGrange, Ga.
Richard Newman, Mebane
Walter O’Berry, Halrellsville
John Olinger, Mt. Pleasant, Pa.
John Owens, Graham. ^
Joseph Parker, Durham
A. II. Patterson, Burlington
Erwin Porterfield, Burlington
John Permar, Graham
Bob Peters Reirisville
Roger Fu=ips, fort Smitii ' 'k.
Amelia Phii:-, Burlinc.ton
Charles Phillips, , , .h ;
Erwin Porterfied, L lint;i''n
Richard Pugh, Winchester, Va.
Norman Ray, Mebane
Norman Rinaldi, Durham
William Ross, Burlington
Charles Schrader, W.-Salem
Gary Sears, Portsmouth, Va.
C. K. Siler, Siler City
William Snow, Mount Airy
Elizabeth Stephenson, Ramseur
Robert Stockard, Graham
William Stoffel, Stratford, N.J.
James, Terrell, Burlington
Bett.T Thompson, Burlington
Robert Vernon, Mayodan
Cooper Walker, Elon College
Emma Lou Warrick, Gibsonville
Curtis Welborne, Greensboro
John Womack, Olivia
BIRTHDAY HONORS
Dr. Ferris E. Reynolds was twice
surprised with birthday parties
last week, when both the mem
bers of the Ministerial Association
aud students ' in his Greek class
staged parties to celebrate the
occa^iion. The ministerial group
itaget.' their party at the Reynolds
home (n Monday evening. May
17th, anj the Greek class had its
party all .^set up when Dr. Reyn
olds arrivetf at his classroom on
Tuesday martping. May 18th. ^