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MAROON AND GOLD
Here's Victory To The
Christiiins
In The Tournament
OLIME 34
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
VVEDNESDAV, FEBRl'ARY 23. 1955
N11MI5EK 10
Elon’s High School Day Proves Successful Event
Greek Groups Get ISeiv
Pledges At ‘Bid Night’
1
Sixty-Eight Schools Are Represented
The second of the semi-annual
Bid Night" ceremonies was held
the Elon campus on Saturday
ight. February 12th, with the
iofhers and sisters of Eton’s eight
;reeli letter fraternities and
srorities welcoming forty-three
;w pledges into the bonds of
rotherhood and sisterhood.
The intense cold that blanketed
campus that weekend failed
freeze out the gayety of the
Bid Night" festivities, and • the
flebrants were still able to get
and out on Sunday morning
the traditional church service.
The forty-three new pledges in-
luded twenty-three boys, divided
mong the four fraternities, and
lenty girls, distributed among
le four sororities. Sigma Phi
ria with ten boys and Beta Omi-
;un Beta with ten girls led the
;oups in the number of pledges,
'he other groups listed from two
five new members. The pledges
groups were as follows:
aPHA PI DELTA—David Frye,
Greensboro; Stuart Cass, of
reensboro; Bob Blanchard, of
reensboro: Don Stringer, of Ashe-
)ro: and Ted Fields, of Franklin,
IOTA TAU KAPPA — Bobby
«en. of Brown Summit; Jack
irapson, of Greensboro; Jerry
iaughter. of Fieldale, Va.; Tracy
'ritfin, of Greensboro; and Robert
iielps, of Lexington.
kappa PSI NU—Richard Pugh,
f Asheboro; Don Johnson, of
and Ronnie Qualls, of Bur-
■^gton.
SIGMA PHI BETA—Paul Yost,
f Portsmouth, Va.; Charles Foster,
f Burlington; Frank Pattishall,
■ Burlington; Tony DeMateo, of
Jitsville. Pa.; Tony Stump, of
^jnville. Pa.; Richard McCarthy,
' Brooklyn, N. Y.; Melvin Chris-
’’h, of Elon College; Bob Hend-
'fks, of Danville, Pa.; Richard
uth, of Brackenridge, Pa.; and
Jnn Newcomb, of Richmond, Va.
Beta OMICRON beta — Jean
■*Shilli of Henderson; Patricia
"shill, of Henderson; Dorothy
‘3Uldin, of Winston-Salem; Ruth
'“yd, of Sanford; Yvonne Win-
‘Md, of Roxboro; Miriam Guy,
Burlington; Carol Morrison, of
'Jrtington; Gail Stratton, of Bur-
"Slon; Rosalind Toney, of Bur-
“Ston; and Nancy Hall, of Bur-
^gton.
delta upsilon kappa —
"n Dula, of Durham; Betty Sue
‘'"fflons, of Burlington; and Ann
‘Ison, of Durham.
Pi Kappa TAU—Audrey Brow,
Graham; Paula Loy, of Burling-
W- Mary Sherrod, of Bennett:
’i'y Scott, of Semora: and
*>ccca Stuckey, of Graham.
TAU zetA phi — Doris Gad-
of Asheboro; and Jacqueline
‘"'S. of Burlington.
No Choir Pour
For I liis Year
With plans for the annual
northern tour of the Elon Choir
cancelled for this year, the stud
ent singers will be able to spend
spring holidays at their homes
this year for the first time in
eight years. The tour was called
off this year due to difficulties
in lining up an itinerary.
For seven years the student
musical group has been mak
ing a ten-day tour of the Middle
Atlantic and New England states,
during which a series of ten
or twelve concert programs were
presented in widely scattered
cities. It has heen announced
that the choir will probably
make a number of weekend con
cert trips this year in lieu of the
northern tour.
With a kindly Weather Man
turnishipg sunshine and a balmy
day. Eton's sixth annual “High
School Day” proved to be a high
ly successful event, with more
than 1.400 high school seniors and
senior sponsors flocking to the
campus for the afternoon and eve-
.ling program last Wednesday.
I'ebruary 16th.
Sixty-eight North Carolina and
Virginia high schools were repre-
'■ented among the visitors. Who
began arriving by bus and car be
fore 10 o'clock in the morning. A
few late arrivals checked in just
in time for the basketball game
nd the scholarship awards, which
were the climatic feature of the
program.
The attendance failed to match
!the record of seventy-five schools
I that was set last winter, but con-
Iflicts with several county basket-
i ball tournaments prevented sev-
jeral schools from sending deicga-
; tions.
Twenty - one North Carolina
I counties were repi;esented by
j fchool groups, with Alamance and
i Guilford each having 11 schools
: listed. Other counties and the num
ber of schools from each were
I :aswell 2. Chatham 6, Craven 1,
hk;ii school day
SCENES
Scenes from Elon's sixth an
nual “High School Day" are pic
tured atross the top of the page,
beginning at the left with a
group of Alamance High School
seniors from Guilford County
caught while registering in
Alumni Memorial (gymnasium.
Second from left is a group of
girls from Goldston High School
on a visit in West Dormitory,
and third from the left is a group
of Haw River High Scliool
youngsters wat^-hing the Physics
Department’s exhibit of water
from air. The fourth picture por
trays Charlie Michaux displaying
his domestic skill in the Home
Economics Department.
Davidson 1. Durham 3. Forsyth 1.
Granville 1. Iredell 1, Lee 3, Meck
lenburg 1, Person 2, Randolph 7,
Stokes 4, Surry 2, Vance 2 and
Wake 1. Two Virginia counties,
Norfolk and Halifax, were repre-
,=ented.
After registration in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium, the senior
groups were conducted by college
.'tudei.'t guides on a tour of the
Elon campus, during which they
viewed displays that portrayed
student life and activities at Elon.
The entire group was served
supper on the South Campus at
4;30 o'clock, after which the sen
iors and their sponsors were in-
Ivited to Whitley Auditorium for
a program that featured music by
the Elon Choir, a comedy skit by
four faculty members and a com
edy quartet. President Leon E.
Smith extended a formal welcome
to the guests at that time.'
Climaxing the day's program
,\'as a varsity basketball game,
which the Lenoir Rhyne Bears
won after a thrilling 77-73 contest.
Outstanding features of the game
program included the performance
of more than sixty high school
cheerleaders, who worked with
Elon's varsity pep group, and half-
lime ceremonies in which Dr.
Smith presented scholarships to
eight high school seniors.
High schools which were repre
sented by seniors included Ala
mance, Alexander Wilson, Allen
lay, Aitamahaw-Ossipee, Ander
son, Ayecock, Bartlett Yancey,
(Continued on Page Four)
Elon Players To Offer y
Ihsen Shotv This W eek
Exams r> Bcjjiii
Next WMliK‘slay
Final examinations for the
Wirtter Quarter get underway
next Wednesday. March 2nd.
and will continue for three days,
with the dark cloud of tests
showing its silver lining m the
fact that spring holidays get
underway at noon on Friday,
March 4th. Holidays will con
tinue ur/.il Mond>iy morning.
March 14th.
All hygience classes and all
afternoon classes will have ex
aminations next Wednesday
morning, followed by all 11:30
classes Wednesday afternoon.
All 10:30 classes are set for
Thursday morning, followed by
9:00 o’clock classes that after
noon. Last exams will be the 8:00
o’clock course.s on F riday morn
ing.
Scholarships Worth $6,000 Awarded To Contest Winners
In one of the outstanding fea
tures of the sixth annual “High
School Day" on the Elon campus,
the college awarded eight scholar
ships with a total value of $6,000
to four boys and four girls who
emerged winners in an all-day con
test that was staged here on Mon
day. February 14th.
It was the third year that Elon
has conducted the scholarship con
test in connection with the 'High
School Day” event, and the 1955
contest attracted a total of fifty-
one outstanding seniors from
thirty-four high schools. The en
tries included thirty girls and
twenty-one boys.
Interest was increased anr'. C'r'i-
petition rendered more keen this
year as the college increased the
total value of the scholarships
from $4,400 to $6,000. Top awards
this year in both the boys’ and
girls’ divisions were $1,200, with
second, third and fourth-place
awards valued at $800, $600 and
$400. The awards in each case will
he spread over the four-year col
lege course.
John Rex Thomas, of Sanford
High School, and Shelby Dill, of
Reidsville High School, emerged
as first-place winners in their re-
'.pective groups in the Valentine
Day competition. President Leon
F,. Smith presented them with their
awards and crowned them as king
and queen of the "High School
Day” program in ceremonies held
at the half-time of the Elon-
Lenoir Rhyne basketball game last
Wednesday night, February 16th.
Runners-up and second-place
winners were Bobby Layton, of
.I?mcstown High School, and
Nancy Allen, of Bessemer High
School; placing third in the event
w'ere Thomas Bobbitt, of Hender
son High School, and Janie Burch,
of Bartlett Yancey High School;
and taking fourth honors were Don
Adams, of Williams High School
of Burlington, and Nancy Hargett,
of North Mecklenbuig High
School.
These eight cof'estants, along
with fort>'-three others, partici-
nated in the competition that got
underway with 9 o'clock registra
tion on Monday morning of last
week. The competition itself in
cluded two objective tests, one for
scholarship and the other for apti
tude and ability ,and a series of
individual interviews before com
mittees of judges, who had been
carefully chosen and invited to the
campus for the event. During the
interviews the contestants were
rated for poise, personality, ex
pression and appearance.
Throughout the tests and inter
views the boys and girls were
known only by number, with
neither the administrators of the
tests nor the judge knowing the
names of the entries or the schools
from which they came. Each of
the three phases of the contest had
a possible score of 200 points, and
results were tabulated and the
winners chosen by number before
the names were coded back to the
numbered list.
Comments of the contestants fol
lowing the announcement of the
winners were quite interesting.
Naturally, the winners were high
ly pleased, but more interesting
were the comments from many of
those who failed to win. Without
exception they stated that the ex
perience had been highly bene
ficial, and many cited the fact
hat they had made new friends
among their fellow contestants.
Judges who participated thisJ
vear included Mrs. John Harden
In their second full-length show
of the 19.54-55 stage .season, the
Elon Players will present Henrik
Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People’’
in Whitley Auditorium on Friday
and Saturday nights of this week.
Curtain time each evening will
be 8:15 o’clock.
The play, which is rated one of
the best of Ibsen’s productions,
will feature an almost ^entirely
new cast in the principal roles,
but a number of the newcomers
to the Elon stage are expected to
turn in sterling performances in
the play.
The show revolves about the
persecution of Dr. Thomas Stock
man, who plays to construct pub
lic baths, using the beneficent
waters of his native town, only
to di.scover that the water is bad
ly polluted by the refuse from the
tanneries and is spreading ty
phoid fever.
The role of Dr. Stockman is
played by Curtis Young, of Dur
ham. who is branded as an enemy
of the people by his fellow towns
men, who resent his efforts to
remedy the situation and continue
with his plans to construct the
baths.
Thomas Lewis, of Chadbourne,
plays the role of Peter Stockman,
a brother of the doctor and the
mayor of the town. He joins with
the newspaper publishers and a
majority of the townspeople in
opposing the doctor's plan
Another outstanding role is that
of the printer, played by Edward
Robbins, of Greensboro. Others
in the cast are Rebecca Stuckey,
of Graham, as Dr, Stockman’s
wife; Betty Carson, of Greens
boro. and Wesley Batten, of Elon
College, as children of the doctor.
Wright Williamson, of Norfolk,
krtown for his work in previous
Player shows, appears as the
master tanner and the foster-
father of Mrs. Stoekman. Also
appearing in the main cast are
William Walker, of Durham, as
the newspaper editor; Roger
Rush, of Burlington, as a new.s-
paper staff member; and William
Walker, of Greensboro, as a ship
captain.
A number of others, appearing
briefly as townspeople, include
Diane Maddox, of Cincinnati,
Ohio; Anne Stoddard, of Brain
tree. Mass; Margaret Sharpe, of
Bear Creek; Edwin Via, of Ridge
way. Va.; Leslie Johnston, of Hol
land, Va.; Grove Biddle, of Dover,
Del.; Nanette Matchan, of Charles
ton, S.C.; Donald McDaniel, of
I Fayetteville; Bill Kerman, of Nor
folk, Va.; and Hilary Motsinger,
of Kernersville.
The show will be^ presented un-
_ T)r Leon E Smith, Elon’s president, is pictured center above with eight winners in Elon’s "High
SCHOLARSHIP WIN. _ winners left to right, are Don Allen, fourth boy, Williams High School; Janie Burch, third
School Day ’ scholarship con es . ^ Reidsville High School;
John Rex Thomr'firtt Ly. Sanford High School; Nancy Allen, second girl. Bessemer High School: and Nancy Hargett, fourth girl.
North Mecklenburg High School.
of Greensboro; Mrs. J. B. Newman,
of Burlington; Mrs. J. H. McEwen. der the direction of Prof. Charles
of Burlington; Carl Jeffreys of " ■ Cox. Working as an assistant
the Greensboro Daily News; Frank
Spencer, i6f the Winston-Salem
Journal; and Howard WTiite, of the
Burlington Times-News.
to the director will be Jane Davis,
of Raleigh. As was the case with
the first Player show this year,
student activity tickets will be
good for admission ■