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VOLl >IK 35
ELON COLLEGK. N. C.
WEDNESDAY, XOVEMBEK 9, 1955
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Hoinei‘«iiiiug Is Declared
Highly Si R*oessfiil Event
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JAMES BIGGERSTAI'F
Day Student
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Croup Names
Bi^^erstaff
The Day Student Organization,
whicli has set its goal this year
to increase the day student par
ticipation in campus activities, has
snnounced the selection o£ James
Biggerstaff, sophomore from Bur
lington, as president it the group
for the 1955-56 college year.
Other officers named for the
group in the annual election are
Bobby Johnson, of Burlington,
vice-president; Emma Wagoner, of
Elon College, secretary; and Jo
Ann Wright, of Burlington, treas
urer.
Also selected at the same time
were the representatives from the
group to the Student Legislature,
including Dorothy Keck, Barbara
Carden, Bill Stanfield, Darrell
Shue, Bobby Johnson, Bo Riddle,
James Biggerstaff and John Big
gerstaff, all of Burlington.
In planning increased activity
by commuting students and
greater cooperation between day
and dorm students, the group has
laid tentative plans for a semi-,
formal dance after Christmas, with
possibility of an old-fashioned
SQuare dance later in the year.
Mrs. Butler To
Hiue Ec Meet
Mrs. Mary Butler, of the Elon
home economics deprtment, was
3 delegate last week to the meet-
■ng of the American Home Eco
nomics Association in Atlantic
City. The meeting, which was for
college teachers in the field of
clothing and textiles, lasted from
Thursday through Saturday.
One ot three delegates from
North Carolina, Mrs. Butler was
chosen by the assembled home
seonomics professors as one of
models to display the cloth-
>»g of various designs. She re
turned to the csoipus on Sunday
The 1955 Homecoming, which
vas celebrated in truly festive
style on Friday and Saturday.
October 28th and 29th. was hailed
by both students and alumni as
one of the most successful in the
history of the college.
There were many old grads back j
on the campus for the festivities,
which opened with the Homecom
ing Ball on Friday night. Many
ft ho could not make the dance ar
rived in time for the day-long pro
gram on Saturday, which was
marked by competition for the
best decorated dorm and by an
impressive parade through Bur
lington Saturday afternoon.
The Ball on Friday evening was
staged in Alumni Memorial Gym
nasium. which was transformed
into a scene of outstanding beauty
by the "Gay Nineties” decorative
scheme, and both alumni and
students enjoyed the dancing to
the tunes of Paul Zimmerman and
his Orchestr^.
A special feature of the Ball
was the intermission ceremonies,
during which Barbara Carden was
crowned as Queen for the week
end observance. She was escorted
at the coronation by Roger Nar-
delli, her chief attendant and Maid-
of-Honor being Ann Dula. es
corted by Moss Beecroft. Sponsors
{•■om various campus organizations
formed the royal court.
The trophy for the best dormi
tory decorations went to the boys
of South Dorm, with the girls in
West Dorm taking the second-
place award. Honorable mention
was accorded to the girls in Ladies
Hall and to the boys in the Club
House.
The parade on Saturday after
noon, hailed as the best ever
staged for an Elon Homecoming,
showed nearly fifty units. First
prize for the best float went to
the Elon Players, wih the Student
Christian Association and the Elon
Choir taking second and third
awards.
Only sour note in the entire
weekend was the fact that a sud
den shower of rain prevented the
presentation of the Queen and her
court at the football game on
Saturday night, and even this sour
note was drowned in the pleasure
of Elon’s 19 to 6 grid victory over
Western Carolina.
The Homecoming sponsors and
their escorts, who formed the court
for the Queen, included the fol
lowing. listed in the order of pres
entation at the Ball on Friday
night:
Kappa Psi Nu — Ann Puckett
with Jack Garber; Sigma Phi Beta
—Sylvia Grady with Homer Hob-
good; Iota Tau Kappa—Marlowe
Matlock with Clark Dofflemyer;
Alpha Pi Delta — July Clark with
Ted Fields; Sigma Mu Sigma —
Margaret Patillo with Eddie Rob-,
bins; Club House — Jo Ann At
kins with Robert Rickover; Carl-|
ton House — Evelyn Fritts with
Walter Edmonds:
South Dorm—Sue Hughes with
Bucky Fleming; North Dorm Pat
Chrismon with Buddy Smith; Day
Students — Myma Hockaday with
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ELON PARADE SCENES
Scenes from the most succ.*ssful Homecoming parade in Elon s history are poitrayed in
the layout, which stretches across the top of this page. At the left is shown some of the floats
and det;orated convertibles on which members of the Homecomipg court rode. Centered is a
shot of the llomecoming Queen. Barbara Carder:, and her Maid-of-Honor, Ann Dula, riding atop
the' huge float which the Student Legislature provided lor them. At the right is a shot of the
Elon Band, which occupied one of the leading posts in the long procession as it wended its way
through the heart of Burlington.
President Smith Enters
Silver Anniversary Year
WjIi lour ^ip'hts To (ro . . . .
Player Show Well Received
The Elon Players rang the bell
ol audience appreciation for their
performance last night of Francis
Swann's mirthful comedy, 'Out o
I he Frying Pan." whion prov;'C
highly entertaining to the audi
cnee in Mooney Chapel.
It was onlj the first of five
shows to be offered by the stud
ent dramatists this week, tor the
Players will repeat the rib-tickling
farce tonight and for the ensuing
nights through Saturday, giving
every Elon student and faculty
member a chance to see the show.
Not least interesting feature of
the Players’ first show of the
1955-56 season was the success of
their switch from the cavernous
reaches of Whitley Auditorium to
the more intimate confines of
Mooney Chapel. It was the first
time in several years that a Player
performance had been given in
Mooney, and many of the audience
seemed to enjoy the better acous
tics and the closer acquaintance
with the cast.
In announcing the switch of lo
cation some weeks ago. Prof. M.
K. Wooten poii;ted out that the
r?raoval from Whitley would avoid
:onflicts with the activities of the
~ollege Music Department and,
■,ould thus give the student drama-
ists a tet'er opportunity to pre-
■are s-tage sets for their shows.
While admitting that Mooney
does not seat nearly so rpany
.‘spectators as does Whitley, the
Player officials pointed out that
Whitley Auditorium had never
been tilled anyway, and the five
perfoi'mances offered this year
v.'ill give everyone a chance to see
the show. It is again pointed out
that the Player shows >are free to
students on presentation of their
■cctiviy tickets, and all students
are urged to see the show on one
ot the other of the four nights
left this week.
The play itself, one of the most
entertaining to be presented on
the Elon stage in many a moon
centers about the experiences ot
three two-some combinations of
stage-ttruck young people, who
seek to impress a hard-bitten New
York producer with their ability
as actors and actresses. But the
young people almost literally find
I ^hemseives leaping from the fry
ing pan into the fire to the in-
I finite amusement of the audience.
The play last night hit a mirlh-
‘'ui tempo in the first scene, and
the cast held that pace until the
final curtain. The watchers laugh
ed, and what’s more wonderful,
they laughed at the right time
In fact they could hardly miss,
for the time to laugh was all the
time.
Excellent performances were
Siven by every member of the
cast, which includea Margaret
Sharpe, Chuck Oakley, Dorothy
Perkins, Leslie Johnston, Jennie
^Keck and Roger Rush as the six
would-be stage folk; Dottle Apple,
jas the landlady; Jane Davis, the
slightly snippy acquaintance; Tom
I.ewis, as an irate father; Bill
Watson, as the theatrical producer;
land Donald Howell and Eugene
'Harrell, as the slightly wacky
l.mbs of the law.
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j “Diit of the Frying Pan,” which opened last night
The theme of the of a hit show, is grap’iically portrayed in the photo-
in Mooney Chapel with all the nroduct of the Ul-'.ed pen of Bo Riddle, portrays
cartoon combo J^^j“";^'ptayer show, some of them alrea ly out of the frying pan and into
oU members of the cast for the ^ y actresses,
the fire, others still dancing on (,y working roughly from tx>p to bottom of the pic-
whom the readers may pick out Chadboume;
ture are Leslie Johnston, ganford; Chuck Oakley, of Roxboro; Dorothy
Margaret Sharpe, of Bear Cree . Burlington Donald Howell, of Courtland, Va.; Roger Rush, of
Perkins, of R.oxboro; jgnnie Keck, of BurUnston. The new show wUl be repeated
rMrey'cr;i“:ih?2:ienr^^^^^^ be adm.ttc. by use week through Saturday, and stu
of their student activity tickets. —
Dr. Leon E. Smith began last
week his 25th and what may be his
final year of service as president
cf Elon College, the longest presi
dential administration in the his
tory of the school: since he sur
passed some years ago the prev
ious record that was .‘•et by the
bte Dr. William A. Harper.
I The probable terminaiion ot
Dr. Smith's long and successful
[service looms after the announce
ment late in the summer that he
had requested the Board of Trust
ees for retirement in 1956 or at
the pleasure of the trustees after
that time. The request was filed
in keeping with the expressed
policy of the board to terminate
active faculty duties after the age
of 72 years. '
In this, the Silver Anniversary
Year of Dr. Smith's sei-vices,
there is a record enrollment of
students in both the day and eve
ning classes and a great building
program moving rapidly ahead on
the campus, a program which will
see the completion of two new
dormitories and a new dining hall
by the close of the present college
year.
President Smith came back to
his Alma Mater to become its
leader on November 1, 1931, and
the succeeding twenty-three years
have comprised a period of tre
mendous growth and progress. A
graduate of Elon with the Class
of 1910, he relinquished a suc
cessful career as a Congregational
Christian minister to assume the
post as Elon's president. He was
pastor of the great Christian
Temple at Norfolk, Va., when he
was called to the college post.
Coming to Elon in the midst ot
the nation’s worst financial de
pression, he found the college
burdened with debt and with an
enrollment that numbered only
130 students. His first task was
to place the school on a sound
financial basis, a task that had its |
beginning with the great fire of
1923.
He guided the college success
fully through the depression dec
ade that preceded World War II.
and by January 26, 1943 he was
pble to clear the institution’s in
debtedness, an achievement that
launched the college upon a new
era.
Since that time no effort has
been spared to enlarge the Elon
endowment and to add to the
college’s invested funds. Since
1946 the alumni and friends of the
college have raised almost a mil
lion and a halt dollars, and they
are even now engaged under Dr.
Smith’s leadership in a fund
raising effort designed to reach
a goal of $2,500,000 tor Elon's ex
pansion and improvement.
Student enrolln»ent has kept
pace with the financial growth,
and Dr. Smith has seen the total
enrollment this year reach a total
almost nine times the enrollment
that greeted him when he as
sumed the presidency in 1931.
SI[N(;S AT KLON
MISS NAOMI I'AKR
Soprano Is
To Appear
On Campus
Naomi Farr, versatile American
soprano, who is to appear in Whit
ley Auditorium on Thursday night
under the auspices of the Ala
mance Civic Music Association,
has the distinction of a triple ca-
leer as a dancer, singer and ac
tress.
A native of Salt Lake City, Miss
Farr was first trained for the bal
let, but she later studied sing
ing in Los Angeles, New York and
Paris, where her sensitive inter
pretation of the songs of Debussy
won the admiration of Debussy's
step-daughter and a place in a
musicians.
Using her singing as a vaulting
point, she has gained much ac
claim for her dramatic act^g in
a number of Broadway musicals,
notably “Mexican Hayride," "Red
Mill" and ‘ Sweethearts." She has
also starred in “The Merry Wid
ow," and her operatic repertoire
includes such leading roles as
Euridice. Juliet. Manon and Mile-
sande.
A descendant of one of the
original Mormon pioneers who
trekked across the plains to .set
tle Utah. Miss Farr recently aip-
peared as a leading soprano .solo
ist in Leroy Robertson’s oratorio
of "Book of Mormon" with the
I Utah State Symphony.
(Jieek Is Named
By (^hem Group
Dr. Paul Cheek, member of the
Elon chemistry faculty, has ju.st
been selected as president-elect
for the Central North Carolina
Section of the American Chemical
Society tor the coming 1956 term.
This means that he will automatic
ally be advanced to the post of
president during the 1957 term.
[Dr. Cheek has been .■serving «s
I seqiietary tor the orSaaization,
i which included both educationti
I and industrial chemists in this
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