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MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, January -0^
And Gold
Entered as second class matter at the
Post Office at Elon College, N. C. onder
the Act of March 8. 1879. Deliverad bf
mail. $1 SO the college year, 50c the
quarter.
Edited and printed by student.'^ of Elon
College. Published bi-weekly during the
college year under the auspices of the
Board of Publication. .
editorial board
Larry Barnes,’ Kditor-m-Chif
Chuck Oakley Assistant Editor
John Biggerstaff Assistant Editor
Louis Campbell Staff artist
Norman Riddle Staff Artist
Eddie Robbins . - Staff I’hotogra^rfier
James Waggoner Alumni Editor
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
Pl’SINESS BOARD
James Biggerstaff Business Mgr.
John Avila Circulation Mgr.
Carl E. Owen — Printing Advisor
Robert Somers Vpess Operator
SPOKTS STAFF
Walter Edmonds Co-Sports Editor
Bill Walker •ii-Sports Editor
reporters
Dorothy Apple Jack McKte
Joyce Barbour Shigemi Morita
Ed Davidspn Bobby Sharpe
Bill Drummond James Taylor
Ciene Duncan Sue Walters
Tommy King Shirley Womack
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 30, 1957
SPORTSMANSHIP
Sportsmnship is normally considered the
character that is revealed at athletic con
tests, but it may also occur in normal
cvery-day activititts. At the present mom
ent, this editorial is aimed primarily at
athletic contests. It is not trying to single
out any particular individual or thing. It
Is aimed at all the individuals composing
our student body.
Many believe that there is no better way
of judging a person than by playing a
game with him. The poor sport lacks both
manners and character. Good sportsman
ship demands fair play, strict observance
of the rules, the acceptance of victory with
out crowing and the taking of defeat gra
ciously. It is poor sportsmanship to make
many excuses for the loss of a game, to
r(*tle members of the opposing teams with
jil>es and cat calls, to put the blame on
the officials, to put the blame of defeat
on any one participant and like things.
In a contest or game a person should
work for the benefit of the team rather
than for himself. He shows true sports
manship by gentlemanly conduct both on
and off the playing fiefd. This not only is
true of the individual player but of the
individuals who compose a student body
such as the one we have here at Elon.
The college athlete usually learns that
“playing the game” is more than just win
ning. It means representing his college ,in
every way. We, as Elon's student ambas
sadors, should take meticulous care when
ever we go on the road for a game. It is
very important to the individual and his
school that he leave a favorable imptes-
sion in the eyes and minds of those at
opposing institutions. This is the way that
we are judged, and we should be prepared
to rise to the occasion.
Probably not too many of Elonites realize
that every year a trophy is awarded to
the college in the North State Conference
which displays the best sportsmanship via
the acts of its student body. It is called
the John D. Messick Sportsmanship Award.
Tournament time it fast approaching us,
»nd when we go to Lexington let us try
to show sportsman-ihip in our eveiy action.
Good, clean sportsmanship is worth a
lot. Let us try to show it in everything we
do—LEB.
ON BEAl’TIFICATION
It is good to sec the bull-dozers and
workmen in action on the northeast sec
tion of the campus and to read the an
nouncement elsewhere in the Maroon and
Gold that landscaping and beautification
of the Elon campus is really underway. Ttoo
long certain corners of the campus have
bee neye-soret to both home-lolks and vis
itors.
However, the beautification of the cam
pus brings added responsibility to us who
live here through much of the year, for
It behooves us to keep a cleaner campus
than has quite often been the case in the
past. Twould b« a pity to spoil the effects
of the new grass and shrubberj’. when it
^rows. by unsightly rubbish, €uch as papers
•nd Boft-drink t>ottlci.
Sounding
Off
By LARRY BARNES
Dorm Life
It i!s that time once acaln! Time has
crept upon me so very fast this week.
The deadline is one day in the past and,
as tisual. this mind of mine is temporarily
exhausted. Sitting alone at my desk ni
Carolina Hall, I hear the faint clink nl
\.eighkK being lilted across the hall fol
lowed by grunts and groans. The physical
culturalists are back at it again.
Nowadays one can't take a shower with
out acquiring a steam bath in tho process.
I walked into the showw room last week
and there was Len Groce doing set-up^
with four showers going full blast. The
rcom was drenched with low-flying steam
clouds. What some people will do in their
quest to lose avoirdupois!
Meanwhile, back at the column, the old
thinking machine is beginning to shake
out of its lethargy. Subject matter begins
to seep into my mind as I am aroused out
of my thoughts by a faint rapping a: the
door. I open it and in walks my favorite
copy, Walt “Square’ Edmond?.
"What do you want from me and how
much will it cost?” I asked him before he
has a chance to utter a syllable.
"Nothing, just thought you'd like some
p*)peroni.”
1 quickly nodded "yes”, because even
in this modern age wonders never cease.
Hi& offering me something did shake me
somewhat. After I’d regained my com
posure, Walt re-entered my humble abode,
pepperoni and all. We proceed to devour
the Italian delicacy. A scant minute passes,
and out of the mute silence of the room
tic humbly asks, “Let me borrow your
sweater as I have a date tonight.”
Immediately he grabs his pepperoni and
makes a mad rush for the door. He beats
a sho? chasing him by a fraction of an
inch. Later on. I hear ‘ Square ' enter an
other room with his pepperoni in his search
for a sweater. Again there is a swift rush
for the exitj as the rndefatiqable Ed
monds beats another object. This time it
is a boot pursuing his head.
It is quiet once more, and the very quiet
ness of the room mystifies me. I know
that it is not usually this death-like. Sud
denly I realize that my roomie, “BooBoo”
is not around. Settling back into deep con
centration, another knock on my door is
heard. The portal is parted, and Chuck
Oakley, followed by two mean looking body
guards, walks briskly in. I glance casually
at the two bodyguards and discovery that
it is only one—Wayne Taylor.
Oakley blurts forth. ' They're after me!
They're after me!” A wild hystrical look
IS etched across his features.
“What—you mean those girls from two
cities over are looking for you again?”
“No, I don’t mean them. It's all those
people here on campus whom I've been
writing about.” Oakley proceeds to pull
out his comb and smooths down somewhat
his heavily pomaded hair. With his curly
locks now back iu order and the sweat oU
his furrowed brow, he asks, “C-C-Can you
help me?”
I think seriously for a moment. "Maybe
you could gel Harold "Toughy” Long to
help you. Understand he's a pretty good
boxer. At least, that’s what he said. "
By now there is. an angry crowd milling
outside my locked door chanting “WE
WANT OAKLEY! WE WANT OAKLEY! ’
Panic grips his body as h« searches for
some place to hide.
“What to do . . . where can I go?” Oakley
blubbers.
"Leave by the window. You can make
it OK. This is only the second floor.” I
suggest to him.
He and his bodyguard take my advice.
I hear them hit the ground safely. Then
come cries of recognition. "There's Oakley.
Let 6 catck him! ’ A mild scuffle ensues,
and Oakley is caught. Evfdently part of
the crowd thought he would leave by the
window and fofled the plan.
1 can hear Oakley yelling for mercy in the
far distance as I turn out the lights to go to
bed. I decided to wait and write the col
umn some other time after all the excite
ment.
P. S.: I learned the next morning that
Oakley was buried under the oaks. How
fitting.
Ei ON STLDENT ORCHESTRA OF EARI.Y ’TWENTIES
One ol t.tly slud.nl. orcl.«lr.. aC Hon College. elOKly .lliW -M !»• “Jj™
yesrs is pictured above. It is an orchestra which was active on the campus m 1923, and niembers
pictured left to right are Mildred Kirkland, (now Mrs. M. Z. Rhodes), B. W. Everett,
Gordon F Holland, M. J. W. Wliite. Jr., M. Z. Rhode;, who was director, and Julia Braxton (later
Mrs.-S. C. Deskins). F A. Rawles, also a member of the orchestra, was not present for the picture.
Except In Darkest Depression ...
Elon Band Has Been Active Group
By JAMES WAGGONER
Interest in band or orchestra
nii»ic continued high among Elon
students throughout the 1920’s, but
the depression curtailed many stu
dent activities in the early 1930's.
However, both band and orchestra
rebounded from the blows of the
depression by 1935 and continued
with high interest imtil World War
)I, when the war-time emergency
puce more curtailed many extra
curricular programs.
During the 1924 school term Miss
Lydia A. Berkley directed the
band, with Ernest Snotherly as a
stuednt assistant. The president of
thal band was W. T. “Bill” Scotl,
now tne Superintendent of the
Southern Convention Congrega
tional Church. Other officers were
W. W. Woody, vice president; J.
N. Denton, secretary; and W. A.
Lindley, treasurer; while members
included J. T. Rogers, R. L. Hill,
M. G. Wicker, W. S. Weathers,
F. A. Rawls, Garland Crews, C.
E. Sides and C. G. Foushee.
It was in this year that Elon
had a unique orchestra known as
the Two More Orchestra, the only
one of its kind found in all the
research. In the orchestra group
were O. O. Johnson, president,
and M. G. Wicker, secretary and
treasurer. Johnson played the Ha
waiian guitar, while Wicker play
ed the American guitar and the
tenor banjo. Others were C. G.
Foushee, American guitar; C. E.
Sides, American guitar and vio
lin; and G. P. Crymes, ukelele.
guitar, and piano. A quartet was
also listed wtih this group, includ
ing C. P. Crymes, first tenor; O.
O. Johnson, second tencr; C. E.
SECOND CHAPTER
This is the second installment
in the story of the Elon College
band, picking up its history in
the early 1920’s and continuing
past the beginning of World War
II. Again the writer was able to
contact two of the band directors
for this period, having interview
ed both Mark Z. Rhodes and El
bert F. Rhodes, brothers who re
side in Burlington. The band
was frequently accompanied or
augmented by a student orches
tra in those early years, and one
of the early orchestras is pic
tured above. One of the Elon
Marching bands of the early
1940’s is pictured on Page 4 as
it maneuvered on the field at
the Elon ball park.
♦ ♦ ♦
Sides, baritone; and M. G, Wicker,
bass.
Although records are difficult to
find for this period the Elon band
of 1925 seems to have functioned
as usual with at least a student
director. John Newman Denton di
rected this band, and the only oth
er names found in research were
William “Bill” lerrell and Ernest
E. Snotherly. There was also an
orchestra during this year, but
names were not available.
The old PhiPsiCli of 1925 did
not picture a band group, but pic
tured in one of its pages was the
college orchestra. The members
of that orchestra were G. P.
Crymes, piano; S. M. Smith, cor
net; M. A. McLeod, Jr., violin;
E. E. Kipka, violin; T. R. Ruston,
drums; A. B. Johnson, saxaphone;
J. L. Meore, clarinet; and L. F.
Johnson, Jr., violin.
For the year 1927 no records
were available, but in 1928 Elbert
F. Rhodes, brother to Mark Z.
Rhodes, directed the band. Rhodes
was a graduate of Shenandoah
Conservatory of Music in the play
ing of viSin and band instruments.
He also directed the 1929 group
and recalled that during both years
the band played at the athletic
contests, at a few chapel programs
and during the commencement
program.
Although no records were avail
able from 1930 thru 1934, students
of those days recalled that during
these depression days many of the
school activities were discontinued,
partially due to the fact that at
times the enrollment was down to
ninety students and also due to
the financial status of both the
college and its studests in that
dire financial crisis.
The first evidence of another
band was found in 1935, with Lan-
don Walker directing the Maroon
and Gold musical ’group. Other
members included Margaret Joyce
Worth Cloinger, Raymond Can
non, Harold Hilbern, Luke Query
Bill Loy, Alfred Nelson, James
White, William Andes (now pas
tor of the Elon Community
Church), Bill Horton, Gradon
White, Alex Lineberger, Eugene
Lankford and Oliver Cook.
No band was pictured in the
1936 annual, but a 'snapshot of a
small group appeared on one of
the pages, indicating the fact there
was band music on the Elon cam-
(Continued on Page Four)
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On The Camp US
By JOHN BIGGERSTAFF
"On the Campus” presents an
informal chat with Professor Wil
liam Goodrum, member of the Ger
man Department, on the college's
re.^ponsibility to the student.
He began hy saying that the col
lege, in the true meaning of the
word, is a society of scholars, con
sisting of teachers and students.
Both are dedicated to the eternal
search for the Truth. The college
does not exist necessarily for so
ciety, but is founded mainly to
arouse a creative imagination. This
creative imagination must there
fore serve to criticize society con
structively. A church institution
must be able to criticize the
Church and the State, and a stale
institution mast criticize the State
as well as the Church.
Sccond, the college is not found
ed primarily for the purpose of
teaching skills. It is mainly for the
goal of self-discovery as a Spirit
ual Being with social responsibil
ity. A college education is not to
acquire knowledge to make biggsr
salaries, but it is dedicated to the
development of the individual who
has a contribution to make to hu
manity.
In order to achieve the above
goal, the college must be a tree
society where faculty and students
can discuss openly and without
fear, widely differing and conflict
ing views. Any college which en
deavors to enforce any degma on
its faculty or students completely
misses its reason for being and
■becomes a sort of nefarious Mis
sionary Society, Above all. the col
lege administratlOB, faculty and
students must respect the privacy,
verily the sacredness of the in
dividual.
Many thanks to Professor Good-
rum for the interest he showed in
presenting his views.
In the next edition you, the stu
dents, will be represented express
ing your views, so until then be
thinking—is the college offering
me the full trust I put into it?
CAMPUS HUMOR: “Dick”
Lashley, day student and radio an
nouncer in Leaksville, was about
to cut on the microphone to iden
tify the statiOB, and while in the
control room the staff salesman
aided his indigestian with a dose
of Bromo-Seltzer. As “Dick” said,
‘■This is staUon , the sales
man responding to the drug,
sounded with a B-UUURP, So com
munity radios sounded thus, "This
it station B-UUURP, a good morn
ing and may all troubles today be,
small, B-UUURP. So goes radio, j
CAMPUS THOUGHT: "To act is
easy; to think is hard.”—Goethe. !
under
thQ oaks '
With
CHUCK OAKLEY
Hi Everyone!
Once agaia it’s time for.^’oftj%;i;i^
scribble off the latest happeningr and
veal to the public the things thjey’rV ask
ing for. As I dip my pen in ink I take :
quick glan«e over my left shoulder to see
)£ my body guard has been knoc’r^ed off.
No soenjr than I begun to wriij when
someone applied a favorite line of Edgar
Allen Poe . . . “There came a rapping at
my door ...” A crash, a thud, and a
groan followed. Then a deep silence pre
vailed. My body guard no longer existed.
There were three things left for me to
do . . . Call for another body guard, call
the insuHpnse *cpmpa“y. ahead witii
my column and live dangerously . . , seek
ing adventure, I, of course, chose the lat
ter.
This And That
Elon's Grace Kelly (Laura Little) re
ceived what is termed as a Girl's Besl
Friend . . . Since she is a piani^t, siie will
be accompanist for the “Four Sparkles."
Since a certain girl at Carolina jot
strict-campused, maybe a certain plump
gentleman by the initial.s of A. P. can spend
his spa-oe time picking up hints from
Groce’s weight-reducing formulas.
Woodrow Brown, in my opinion, should
be in night school, so everybody wouldn't
be mistaking him for the father of the gang
he runs around with.
Dot Perkins switches from Winstons to
Tampa Nuggets.
Dottie Neal can't decide which gives her
the biggest thrill ... a ride in a Tliun-
derbird or the driver . . . maybe the ab
sence of a tooth will help her decide.
If Fats Domino’s “Blue Monday" can be
classified as mood music, its sales should
do fine at Elon . . . Am I right, Turner?
Students in a certain English class drew
up a petition to put a stop to the constant
tapping of girls’ slippers. It was suggested
that a collection be taken up to get her
two rubber heels or break both of her
legs.
Although June (Driver) Thompson has
been back over three weeks, when some
one questions her about her honeymoon,
all she manages to get out is a deep sigii
followed by an exhalation to match that
of an ocean breeze.
It Could Happen To You
In the last issue of the Maroon and Gold,
the ten top stories of 1956 were listed.
I like to close my eyes, relax, and picture
the ten top stories of 1957. Read tliese with
the thought in mind that any one of them
could happen to you.
1. Reidsville Girl Strangled to Death
When Pop Beads Failed to Pop. Lovey
Dudley held for Murder!
2. Curley Long’s Car Smashed by Train
while En Route to 'Visit His Fiancee . . •
another fifty feet and he would have made
it.
3. Two High Point Girls Hit by Water
Bags while Chasing two Freshmen around
Carolina Hall.
4. Betsy Watson Suspended for Two
W’^eeks for Singing Repeatedly aloud in
class, ‘‘A Girl Can’t Help It.”
5. North Dorm Collapses ... No One
Hurt . . . Warned Beforehand By President
Kopko.
» 6. South Dorm Riot Among Students at
Its Re-Opening. . . Students Fighting lor
Rooms.
7. Chief Horrell Crushed to Death as
Dining Hall Doors Give Way to Hungry
Mob. It’s Reported That He Was On His
Way to Check Chow Cards.
8. Larry Barnes Crucified in Front of
The Maroon and Gold Office . . . Residents
of Second Floor, Carolina Hall Held For
Questioning.
9. Janet Crabtree Missing as Hurrican*
Sweeps Florida Coast. According to her
companion, Joyce Perry, she had a
w ay ticket to Cuba on a Banana Boat. Jos**
Returned to Elon A Week Early After Hav-^
ing Been Hit by a Coconut While SW-
Bathing.
10. Marge Putman, Local Frosh. 2*^
Jane Davis, Old Enough to Know Betwr.
got what Elvis Presley would term as
•‘Too
Much”, and “On My Word Of Honor", thej
were "Playing For Keeps”, but "One ®
A Million” gets caught, and were they
“Paralyzed?”!!!
I’m leaving tonight for Siberia .... j