Here’s Wishing All A Very Merry Christmas MAROON AND GOLD And To Ev«ryone A Happy And Prosperons New Year ELON COLLEGE, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1955 NUMBER Students To Play Santa To Orphanage Children Eloii Delegates At Miami Meet D,-, Leon E. Snuitli, Eton’s president, and Dr. J. E. Dan- ieley, dean of students, were re presentatives of the college at the annual meeting of the Southern Association of Col- legeft and Sel3ondary Schools, which was held at Miami Beach, rla., for four days from Monday, November 28th, through Thurs day, December 1st. The meetings, which had the Shore Club Hotel in Maimi Beach as headquarters, attracted representatives from practically every college in the South, and both Dr. Smith and Dean Dan- ieley reported interesting dis cussions, with particular atten tion to the prospects of rapidly increasing enrollments within the next five to ten years. Pi Gamma Mu Names Five New Members Five outstanding students in the field of history and social science have been named to membership in the Elon College Alpha Chap ter of Pi Gamma Mu, national social science honary society. The Pi Gamma Mu organization, dating back to 1924, is designed to improve scholarship in history and social science, to encourage social service to humanity and to inspire a more intelligent ap proach to social problems. To be eligible for membership a student must have no failures in any sub ject and and outstanding record in history and related fields. New members of the Elon group are Bobby Robertson, Robert Bax ter and Edgar Murray, all of Bui^ lington; and Jerry Moize and James Sears, both of Gibsonville. 'Rose already holding member ship include Barbara Carden, of Burlington, Terry Emerson, of Lewes Beach, Del., Kenneth Lam bert, of Norfolk, Va„ and Marjorie Sutton, of Elon College. Officers for the current year are Terry Emerson, president: Robert Baxter vice-president; and Mar jorie Sutton, secretary-treasurer. Dr. H. H. Cunningham, head of the Elon College history department, is faculty advisor for the group. The members of the local chap ter are planning as a special pro ject for this year a review of the work of the United Nations during the first ten years. T*he students of Elon College will partake of the real, spirit of Christmas tonight when members of the student body join once more In playing Santa Claus to the children at the Christian Orphanage. The occasion will be the annual Christmas party, to be held in the Student Union at 7:30 o'clock. Tlvs Christmas party for the orphanage children is not new on the Elon campus, for the 1955 event marks the ninth year that the college students have enter tained the children, and past years have proven that the college students have just as much fun at the annual event as do the child ren themselves. The first Yule season party was staged Tn 1947 under the spon sorship of Alpha Pi Delta fra ternity, with individual credit for the idea going to Ralph Edwards, who was at that time a member of the fraternity and president of the Elon student body. The Alpha Pi Delta boys have sponsored the Christmas party each year since There are now 76 children liv ing at the orphanage, according to a statement this week, the num ber being almost equally divided between tlie boys and the girls and with ages ranging from five to seventeen years. A list of their names, with ages and sex, has beef>' availablle in the College Book Store for more than a week, and college students have been •‘adopting ’ them by signing their names beside the names of indi vidual children. The Pan-Hellenic Council, which includes representatives of the four fraternities and four sorori ties, has already made plans to provide once more two new bi cycles, one for a boy and one for a girl, with recipients of these shiny gifts to be designated by the Orphanage authorities. The Greek letter groups which will cooperate In staging onight’s party include Alpha Pi Delta, Iota Tau Kappa, Kappa Psi Nu, and Sigma Phi Beta fraternities and Beta Omicron Beta, Delta Up- silon Kappa, Pi Kappa Tau and Tau Zeta Phi sororities. Chapel Concert Given By Band The Elon College Band, with ap pearances limited to the football games during the fall quarter, made its first concert appearance of the year in a chapel service in Whitley Auditorium at 10 o'clock Monday morning. The band, playing under the di rection of Prof. Dewey M. Stow ers, played a program that fea tured a number of marches, along with some specialty numbers and Christmas selections. This was the first concert appearance for an Elon band in a number of years. Large Audience Hears Choir In Annual Rendition Of ^Messiah Holiday Period To Begin Friday The 1935 Christmas holidays for Elon College will get under way on Friday of this week, ac cording to an announcement from the office of Dean J. E. Danieley, and the entire caippus is aglow and agog with Yule- tide spirit. The Yule season holidays will continue for two full weleks, with classes to resume on regu lar schedule at 8 o’clock on Monday, January 2nd, with the extra weekend stiletching the vacation to sixteen full days. The exodus of students will begin as soon as each student has finished clas«)es Friday Many of the faculty will get away at the same time for vis its with home folks or friends. m m f S>l X OUl Saiala Himself He was chubby and plump, a right iollly olid eff. And i laughed when i saw him in spite of mysaff; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know i had nothing to dread; He.spoke not a word, but went straight to his work. He placed all the gifts and he turned with a jerk And laying his finger aside of his nose. And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whastic. And away they all flew like the down of a th5:s?lc. But 1 heard him excioim ere he drove out of sight--— "Happy Christmas to all and to all a Go-od NiijDr(‘," Players Choose ^Little Foxes* For Second Show Of Season One of the largest audiences of recent years heard with appreci ative awe the Elon College Choir in its twenty-third annual presen tation of George Frederick Han- oels "Messiah,” which was pre sented in stirring style in Whit- Auditorium on Sunday night, December 4th. / There was no distracting sound >n the auditorium from beginning to end, for the audience listened with rapt attention to the sweep ing recitatives, the arias and the f^honises that have thrilled lis teners since Handel composed them in 1741. The solo parts were sung bril- isntly this year by a quartet of °uest artists, which included two ® d favorites and two new visiting stars. Harold Haugh, tenor and member of the University of Mich igan faculty, was back for the eighth time in the annual produc tion; and Miss Beatrice Donley, contralto, of Raleigh, a member of the Meredith College faculty, made her third appearance with the Elon Choir. Miss Maude Nosier, of Chicago, acclaimed throughout the Mid west for her work with symphon ies and choruses, was heard v./ith pleasure as soprano soloist. The other new guest was Clarence Southern, bass, director of the Southern Music Studios in Bur lington, who agreed at the last moment to take the place of Wal ter Vassar, of Greensboro. Vassar was stricken ill and was unable to make his scheduled appear ance. The Burlington singer won high praise for his excellent work on such short notice. Supporting the soloists and sing- ipg the beautiful choruses of the Handel oratorio was the Elon Choir, with returning Choir mem bers swelling the total to eighty voices. As always the mighty "Hal lelujah Chorus" was a favorite. Prof. John WeatmtpreUnd re turned to the podium after being absent in Europe last year and ex hibited his usual perfect control. Adding much to the enjoyment of the hearers was the organ accom paniment, which was played by Prof. Fletcher Moore, chairman of the Elon music department. Ford Foundation Grant For Elon With the huge Ford Founda tion giving half a billion dol- ars to privately endowed col leges and hospitals, Elon Col lege Is to be one of the benefici aries of the huge fund. The col lege Is to receive $125,700 from the huge fund, according to stories in state newspapers yes terday. President Leon E. Smith was away from the campus yester day. and the Maroon and Gold was unable to get complete de tails of the grant and its effect* upon Elon College in time for use in this issue. Further data concerning the fund will appear In a later Issue. The growth of industrial inter est and power in the Deep South about the turn of the century is the theme for Lillian Heilman's ‘‘The Little Foxes,” which is to be the next stage production for the Elon Players. The Broadway success will be staged in Mooney Auditorium late in January. In announcing the selection of Miss Heilman’s great play, Prof. M. E. Wooten cited the highly suc cessful run which the play had on Broadway with Tallulah Bankhead in the leading role. It was later made into a very fine movie, with Bette Davis as the outstanding Prof. Wooten who made a highly successful start as director of the Players this year with his very fine production of “Out of the Frying Pan,” admitted that the Players are taking an ambitious step upward in choosing ^The Lit tie Foxes” for the next show, but he expressed confidence that the ing the play equally as fine as was the initial show this fall. The new show is laid in the Deep South, the time being 1900, and its story revolves about the despotic Hubard family, which is scheming to erect a cotton mill in the home town, and conflict arises over efforts of the Hubbard broth ers, Ben and Oscar, to raise the money that is needed to finance the new venture. The two brothers plan in highly dramatic fashion to obtain the money from their ailing brother- in-law, caring not how the money ie obtained. In fact, they even go so far as to steal the money from Horace, the brother-in-law. Re gina, wife of Horace and sister of the Hubbards, U quite as unprinci pled as her brothers, and she uses the knowledge of the theft to blackmail them into giving her a major interest in the business. Adding to the complications of student actors are capable of mak- ] the plot is the intimidated and lonely wife of Oscar Hubbard and the wistful daughter of Horace and Regina, each of whom is en tirely out of tune with the un scrupulous tactics of stronger members of the family. The cast of the new Player show is virtually complete, according to Prof. Wooten, who stated that there is only one minor role to be filled at this time. That part is expected to be filled within a few days. Already named for parts in the show are William Davis, of Gresh am, S.C.; Helen Gilbert, of Bur lington: Prof. William Goodrun, of Elon College: Roger Rush, of Bur lington: Margaret Sharpe, of Bear Creek; Tommy Lewis, of Chad- boume; Bill Watson, of Sanford; Carolyn Duncan, of Woodsdale; and Eugene Harrell, of Suffolk, Va. No less than five of this group had parts in the production of ‘‘Out of the Frying Pan” earlier this year.

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