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
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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.
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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.