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PAGE TWO ^ MAROON AND GOLD Ttursday, September 29 1955 Maroon And Gold Edited aod printed by gtudeots of EIoo College. Published bi-weekly duriDg the college year under the auspices of th« Board of Publication. Entwed as second class matter at the Post Office at Elon College, N. C. under the Act of March 8, 1879. Delivered by mail, $1.50 the college year, 50c the quarter. EDITORIAL BOARD Gary Thompson Ann Stoddard Charlie Oates Gary Thomjjson Judith Chadwick Neil Johnson Reuben Akkew . Luther N. Byrd Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Feature Editor . Feature Editor Music Editor . Art Editor Staff Photographer . Faculty Advisor BUSINESS BOARD Jack Lindiey . . Business Manager Carl E. Owen Printing Advisor Worden Updyke . . Press Operator SPORTS STAFF Bill Walker Sports Editor REPORTERS Whitney Bradham Doris Chrismon Walter Edmonds John Fuquay Yvonne Winsled George Hall John McGowan Margaret Stafford Girleta Vestal Hillary Motsinger Emily Scott THURSDAY SEFTE.MBER 29, 1955 ELON — 1955 With the fall term of 1955 .well under way here at Elon, the reports show that vthe college’s enrollment has already sur passed all previous records in the history cf the college, which has been providing educational opportunity to youth of this area for well over six decades. The figures released within the past few days show that the enrollment of indi vidual students has already passed the 1,100 mark, although that figure includes both the day and evening enrollments. With both day and evening classes set ting new marks, it is interesting to note that, in addition to the new freshmen and returning students of last year, there is a larger number of transfer and foreign students on the Elon campus at this time than in any previous term. Such being the situation in regard to the student enrollment, it follows that facili ties on the campus are in many cases be ing taxed to the limit. Classrooms that were not intended for large groups have been "stretched " by the addition of chairs to St at the overflow. The same is true in regard to room accommodations for board ing men. a number of whom have had to seek shelter in Mooney and in the old Bank Building, neither of which have been used for dorm space in recent years. However, it Is with pleasure that we note that both the faculty and the slud- enti have met the increa.sed enrollment and the resultant over-'.axmg of some facilities with a very fine .spirit and with a helpful and cooperative attitude. All recognize that the condition.s, which offer evidence of Elon s growth and progress, »re to a great extent temporary. The three new buildings now rising so rapidly on the campus will go far to relieve the " grow ing pains■" of this fall. In spite of the increased enrollment, it Is a pleaiMure for us to pass on to the administration and faculty the opinion that the registration procedure this fall was the ■moothest ever held at our college. It is true that there were some lines to be sweated out." but we have not yet heard of a college which has a found a pleasant substitute for registration lines. To our new students, both freshmen and transfers, we want to extend the heart iest welcome to Elon for this 1955-56 term, ■^oull sometimes find some of us old stud ents sounding off with a "gripe. " but deep down we are proud of our college and proud to be a member of Elon s largest family to date. In the past our reputation has been that »f « friendly campus, and we hope that each of you will find such to be true. We hope, too, that you will join with us in keeping that spirit of friendliness alive at Jill times. We of the Maroon and God will try to bring to you at intervals information of the happenings on the campus. It Is your p»per as well as pur paper, and construc tive criticism and suggestions will be wel comed, for constructive ideas and effort will make our good Elon a better Elon I . —G.B.T. ♦ the quidnunc By GARY TttO.MPSON Si^n Of Grou'th And Progress .... Ten New Members Join Elon Faculty Hello for another school year. Ye old Quidnunc is back once again with what s new, who's it to, who's due and who's fool ing who around Christianville . . . Elon s pig-skinners are slated for home opener against a rugged Appalachian squad. The tilt is scheduled for Burlington's Memorial Stadium at 8 o'clock this coming Satur day night. Suggest each and everyone of >ou be on hand . . . Hear Professor West and his wife are expecting a bundle from heaven soon . . . Jim Calhoun, soft- spoken Elon student engaged to be mar ried soon. All you girls—pinkies offi . . . Sigma Phi Beta's Dick McCarthy chosen to an all-star outfield berth in th^ Class B Carolina League ... A new style has hit the campus. Arms worn in a cast and draped in the folds of a cloth sling. . . Dr. Cunningham to sponsor Kappa Psi Nu frat men, and the same popular prof has just been named as statewide leader of Pi Gamma Mu, the national honorary social science fraternity, which has a chapter on the Elon campus . . . Prof. Tom Fox is tc head the Sigma Phi Betas . . . The an nual autumn "Bid Night" for the fra ternities and sororities has been set back a week and will be held on Saturday night, October 15th, . . Phi Beta Kappa honor ary fraternity proposed by the Student Legislature, subject to the approval of the faculty . . . And, of course, subject to the approval of the powers that be in Phi Beta Kappa itself . . . Rumors favor Buddy Morrow and his orchestra for the Spring Dance in '56 . . . That is if such a dance can be held. Remember the spring event was cancelled last year when collections \)f student body dues fell far short ... It Ooes take the long green to make the music go round and round . . . Hear there are student jobs now available, and those interested might check by the Business Of fice ... 1 would like to extend my per sonal congratulations to the Student Legis lature for the fine job it has done m such a short time . . . Leave us not forget those dances, which are to be held in the Student Union after each home foot ball game this year ... A combo has been lined up to play for these dances . . . And speaking of combo's, one hears that Prof. Stewers has already lined up such a group of music-makers among Elon's own stud- ♦^■nts . . Larry Barnes is selling men's sweaters for Shulman's Clothiers, of Nor folk, Va. Anyone desiring some nice garbs should see him. (This was an unpaid ad vertisement.) Quips Dave Hardy, Elon graduate of last spring now working on his master's at the Uni versity of Maryland . . . '.Member that col lection of boa constrictors Dave brought back alive" last Christmas . . . ji„, Wag goner. former Maroon and Gold editor is now preparing himself for the ministry at he Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Ky. . . . Kichard Cooke, ,who N'as married recently, is also following tlie same ministeria path, but he is doing his prepai.tion at the Harvard Divinity School . . Alumnus Holland Taylor is to enter he Naval Air Force soon. While waUing -- -s working at the Sears and Kni2 Corp. ,n Newport News. Va -Morns, another Elon grad of '55,'has al - hearth-Id form I** ' “‘'"’"I'-r bride the former Helen Craven, also Elon '55. motoi- ed over from Pensacola to Hattiesburg for he tlon-Mississippi Southern game . Wha happen ,0 the last year's Phantom;' Most f * '““ked into' Most of us students have our free time on Saturdays and Sundays. Vet the li brary ,s clo.sed except for a short time on aC .hi^""* ‘ •nlrf I. . ' ^^ral members of the tionatry'fe^-Tftr™ y lew of the names, some I hav*. ATkin^n '’T Oee • he a;hletic'’d «hv ^he a.hlet c department is all smiles these . . . Congrats to all the recnntw 1-p™, '■ll *nd I.., .11 ,1,, " I;'’” """»™ oriess and other points of interest on tK campus lall numbers listed are for the pay Station phones) Carlton House East Dorm North Dorm I-adies Hall West Dorm Vets' Apartment (Pay Phone) 9871 Student Union "“'J South Dorm No Ph • Club House N PK i_ m . No Phone In the words of that Bard of Avon -A .MRS. ."VIAKY G. Bl’TLEK MRS. JEANNE P. GRIFFIN PROH. C. T. .McK.W'TS PROF. n. M. STOWER 9831 9881 9271 9851 9801 SAM T. WEBSTER * Ten new faculty and staff mem bers were added by Elon College for the 1955-56 college year, the sixty-sixth annual session since Elon was founded in 1889. The ad ditions included a new field secre tary, along with faculty members in the fields of business admini- ; stration. dramatics, English, geo- I graphy, history, home economics, I mathematics, modern languages ? and women's physical education, j The new members are pictured in j I alphabetical order from top bot- II tom of this page. I, MRS. MARY G. BUTLER, is a ;lnew addition in the home econom- i ics department. Prior to her mar- ; riage she was Miss Mary Griffin ; of Sanford. She is a graduate of j Elon, where her husband has held the post of business manager for the past several years. She holds the master’s degree in home eco nomics from the Woman’s College of the University of North Caro lina and has taught for several years in the schools of Alamance County. PROF. WILLIAM D. GOOD- RUM, a native of North Carolina from Cornelius, joined the depart ment of modem languages. He lad his undergraduate work al Davidson College and later grad uated from the Duke Divinity School. He also holds the master s Jegree from Duke University in ihe field of languages. He has previously taught in North Caro lina high schools and at Choate School in Connecticut. MRS. JEAN P. GRIFFIN is the new head of the women's physical education program. The former Miss Jean Pittman, a native of Smithfield, Va., she is a graduate of Elon College and was active in many phases of student life in her! undergraduate days. Since her graduation she directed the wom-i en's program at the Mayodan VMCA and was engaged in social! ork in Kansas while her husband was in armed service. DR. JAMES M. HESS, who is a newcomer to the English depart ment this year, is really no itranger to the Elon campus, for I i^e taught here for two years from 1952 until 1954. A native of Cam- irien, N.J., he had his undergrad uate work at Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania and later received the master's degree and the bachelor of divin ity degree from the University of Chicago. He spent 37 years as an .."ducational missionary at the University of Madras in India, and he was honored for that servic, when Elon awarded him the Doc tor of Divinity degree last spring. PROF. C. T. McKANTS, who also joins the English faculty, is a na tive of Anderson. S.C., and is a graduate of Erskine College, from which he received the A.B. degree in 1954. He has since done gradu ate work at Duke University, from which he is to receive the master'c degree this year. He had a sister Miss Mary Ellen McKants. to grad uate from Elon some years ago prof. ALBERT C. SHEN, a lative of Peiping. China, is a new member of the business adminis- ration and math faculty. A grad uate of Ven-Ching University in Peiping, he earned the M A de gree from Nankai Economic In stitute in China and later received a second M.A. degree from Har vard University. He is now a cand idate for the Ph.D. degree from the University of North Carolina I'' here he has studied since 1951 i DEWEY M. STOWERS ■whose work is in the fields of his tory and geography, is also direct- i‘ng the Elon College band this >ear. He is a native of Springfield. III., and is a graduate of Dicken son College. Carlisle. Pa. He holds ;the masters degree from Peabodv College. He taught last year at Tower School, Wilmington, Del prior to joining the Elon staff during summer school MRS. DARTHEA M. TUNNI CLIFFE, Who was a part-time Tn! structor here last spring, i* s,jn another Edition to the English staff. She IS a daughter of Dr Hess and with him forms a father^ daughter combination on the faculty. Bom in Kobe, Japan, she "as education in schools and col- (Continued on Page Four) i PROF. W. D. GOODRVM DR. JAMES M. HE.SS PROF. ALBERT C. SHEN MRS. DARTHEA Tl NMCLIFF PROF. M. E. WOOTEN person to person By CHARLIE OATES It's amaazing! With that exclamation I express my sentiments upon my return to Elon this fall. I had scarcely expected so much progress in the' campus building pro. gram, nor had I expected such an in crease in the campus population. In fact, I could scarcely believe my eyes but, as I roamed about briefly and ot>. served my environment in a little more detail, I did find such familiar landmarks as historic North Dorm and the O'Kelly Monument, and I knew that I must indeed be back at Elon. It took a little more looking at the crowds of students, who milled about the rotunda and through the colonnades, but I did find enough familiar faces to convince me that I was indeed ‘back home” once more. If I needed anything else to convince me that such was the case, then the long grind of getting registered was just the thing. Standing in a seemingly endless line, shifting first on one foot and then on the other, I thought that everyone seems slower in getting registered each year. The lines are beyond question getting longer, but they also seem to get slower. Everywhere I turned I heard of the large membership in the new freshman class, and everyone seemed glad to see so many new students. Like others of the o'd students, I eyed the " new-comer" fresh men with interest. I made a mental note that I must meet some of them, especially some of those cute new coeds. It's always a fall-time thrill to see again so many of my friends and acquaint ances of the previous year. This fall was rie exception, and each of them stirred some memory for me as they passed by me there in line. I noticed Nick Theos giving several of the girls a lecture, and I recalled .some ot Nick’s fine work in dramatics and singing ■ along with his football. Near Nick was the I new Student Body president. Furman Mose ley, who thinks that Charleston is a pretty swell town. Beats me why he is so fond of that particular city, but they tell me that his mother and dad simply can't keep him at home since they moved to Colum bia. Furman is amost as fond of Charles- 'ton as Jerry ‘"The Comrade" Moize is of the neighboring metropolis of Gibsonville. Just give ‘‘The Comrade” at little sup port this year and see if he doesn’t break all records with that Student Legislature. James Simpson came by, and I kept trying to find out his reason for getting up so early. Why, it wasn’t even noon yet: However, I learned later that Les Brewer and Lloyd Sparks had “broke out the cards ’ a bit earlier than usual that morn- 'ing, and for that reason the Dean didn’t have to wake James that day. Henry Flythe was waiting in line, and quite naturally his Commanding Officer was with him. I spotted a cigar in the distance, and T guessed that it was Mr. Byrd somewhere close. I was right, and I was glad to see him, since it was too early for him to jump me about my column and the all-too-fre- quent M. and G. “deadline." From him I learned that Gary Thomposn would edit "tile Maroon and Gold this year and that Bill Walker would take enough time off from dramatics to be sports editor. Bill made quite a name for himself last year '"ith his performance as “The Imaginary Invalid." Like many other students, I was happy indeed to find Dr. Hess back on the cam- pus. He taught here previously in the English department, but he took time out l^st year to visit a few more continents, and he is listed among this year’s "new comers. It’s nice to welcome him back . . . at home. Special excitement flared at the sight of so many of Elon’s former students who are back on campus after a whirl of mili tary or naval service with Uncle Sam. So many of them left about two years ago lor a visit with their favorite uncle, and now they are through and ready to hit the books again. Harder, maybe! Among the service returnees — and I haven’t yet seen them all—are Roger Mc Millan, Earl Lewis, George Stewart, Ar nold Duncan and others of that old North orm gang. Then. too. there’s Charlie At- ■us, Carroll Reid. Dee Atkinson and Ben Kendall. Several of these boys brought "■Jves back with them. , ^ I m still browsing about the campus. apping hello’s”, queries about vacation. ^ “'^served with joy that the band is 0 an early start under new leadership. t s all remember that the band and the ^eerleaders can't da It all and that every- y from six to sixty-s/x' needs to give ou with a lot of school spirit this year '■‘n make it Elon's best in every way and Jevery day.