Wednesday, April 17,
r'.GE Focn
MAROON AND GOLD
IMaroon And Gold Press
Was Built Back In 1881
LI’DYKE KELrS TRESS I P A>D ROLI.ING
The press which rolls the Ma
roon ar.'t Gold out with the news
of the Klon College campus each
fortnight could well be classed as
an antique, but it is a quite efii-
ricnt antique, for it seldom fail= ‘
to co”.ie forth with a clear print
on the campus news sheet. I
The press, which is a flat-bed
cyUnder machine, was man-
ufac ured by R. Hoe and Compar-. ;,,ne.run deficit and two out in the
of Ne* York City, in 1881, malt-; j,-jp glon Christians bounc-
ing the press a1m(.st lour score back to tie the couni and wen
years in age. The Ho‘ company (g back the Atlantic Chri;
If raieJ the top pre^s manufac- tjijj, Bulldogs here last Friday af
Elou Downs
Bulldog iSine
In 10 Inniniis
On the brink of defeat with
turiii;; loncern in the world, and , by a 3 to 2 Hcore.
it keeps ,i record of all its products. sophomore righl-
A reeent inquiry addressed from Laurinliurg, win
R. Hoc and Company by E. H. Tay- back East Carolina the
lor, chief pressman for the Bur-, Saturday, was the hero
lin^ic.T Times-News, brought a re- the Atlantic Christian
rponse from the Hoe records \vin, for he blasted a singleton
which disclosed that the Ma-|[,Qj^gr in the ninth to tie the scor-j
roon and Gold press was produced ^ and then set the stage for victory
In 1881 on a special order fromiwith three straight
Wright and Potter, of Boston, and ;he top of the tenth,
was shipped to them on May 18, fbe winning Elon tally in thatl
1881. extra frame came on four sue-.
The press wa? .subsequently sold|cessive singles before a single out
by the Wright and Potter firm in the tenth. The Christian safe-
to f'. B. StillinRS Co., also of ties, two of them of the infield
Hc:ston, and .ifter that sale the | variety, were by L-arry Bulla, Tom |
Hoc company lost track of the jshepperson. Buddy Montgomery |
pres. However, it moved by later'and Buddy Way. Way's winning j
talcs to a newspaper office ini blast was a hard drive to left'
Graham, from which Flon College i with the bases loaded. |
purchased the press some twenty i The Christians scored first iJ j
or twenty-five years ago. Prof. A. the opening round on three sin-
li. TMok well remembers Its pur-!g]es by Joe Teague, Larry Bulla |
clia.^‘, but he is unable to set the and Tom Shepperson, but the|
exact date it was bought and in- Bulldogs tied the score in the fifth
Commercuv
Students In
Interne Jobs
Combining practical experience
with their bock education, :
t;-seven students of the E'on Col
lege Commericial Department
',ivp been spending two weeks,
“interneship” in the offices of;
variou? firms ar.d organizations m
tl’.e Burlington area. Another group
was ready fjr such practica’j
,training when this firs! group com->
pleted its period. !
; The students, working under the,
s: me idea as is found in medi-.
cal interneships and in practice
leaching plans, v forked without
pay for the two weeks period to ^ ^
.secure an understanding of the
things expected of them when they ; j
cntiT the business world.
The plan, which operates under
; the direction of Mrs. Roland Long-
' c't ;.nd Mrs. Richard Phillips,;
: members of the college's com- j
'mereial faculty, was initiated on
; a single-day “observation basis 
two years ago. It has been broad-
I tENMS CAl^TAIN " Student Group
stalled on the Elon campus.
when John Williams double and
In filing the inquiry with the^scofetl cn Dickie Davis single, j
Hoe Company, photographs of the Davis then gave his team a 2 ^
Klon press were enclosed, and the j to 1 lead with a homer in tbt.
press company officials were able;eighth. |
to identify the machine from tha. It appeared that Davis homer |
hose photos, which were taken by had clinched the win when Elon s,
Eddie Robbins, staff photographer first two batters grounded out in ^
some months ago. I the bottom of the ninth, but thej^
ened this year to provide addi
tional experience.
number of the outstanding
firms and offices in this area are
cooperating in the progrnra. among
them Security National Bank, Li-
iberty Hosiery Mill. Inc., Burling-
|,on Industries, Old Dominion Bo.x
Worden Updyke, student press jpcra'or for the Maro:n and Gold, Cherokee Flooring Cor-
V.teps the ancient press strictly n the up-and-up when the timf. ^Qj.2tjon Sears-Roebuck and Co.,
comet around for the college news ^heet to roll once again. The I southern Bell Telephone and Tel-
.or - . m Angola, N. Y., is now iniiis sccond term as operator ^ Chester H. Roth Com-
the ancient press, which was first urned out by R. Hoe and Com-j Alamance County Hospital
r.„;.y in 188!. He recently rc- u-nt-d to the post he held j .^jamance General Hospital, Bur-
liie Maroon and Gold last yearard is rolling the campus news
ht fortnightly intervals. The above photo gives a fine view of the
printing pre^s that has been serv-i.".g all the way from New England
:o North Carnl na for nearly four core years.
LESLIE JOHNSTON
Approximately 75 stnde-'
from 20 North Carolina CoUe;e-
sathered at Moonelon, Cong .
national Christian camp and co-.
ference center here for a tn"
day meeting on Saturday ar'
Sunday, -\pril 6th and 7th. Tr.^
meeting was the second annn.'
session under sponsorship of n-
\orth Carolina Christian Con
ference,
Rev. John Bryan, chaplain cf
the Bennett College in Greens-
I:oro, was the prinicpal speaker
for the gathering which included
students from various denomi-
nations and institutions. He spoke
twice of the central theme ot
“Christian Cnity Challenges
Your Campus.”
.\mong the small Elon dele
gation in att?ndancc at one or
all of the meetings were Guy
Lamberi, Pat Coghill, Joyce
Myers, Mary Lou Booth and
Sylvia Smith.
?^etters And
Golfers Seek
WiimiiigWavs
Leslie Johmton, a senior from
Holland, Va., is the newly elect
ed c.^ptain of the Elon College
tennis team. The Tidevvater rack
eteer has been on the Christian
lie* squad since his freshman sea
son and has compiled a fine rec
ord for the more than three years . , • » .v. • > i
ot competition. He plays Number I sfll to break mto the victory cl-
Two on the current Elon net squad, tim.n
The Elon golfers have turned
back Belmont Abbey at Belmoit
on April 11 and broke into the
victory column for a season mart
of one win in four starts. The
Christian netlers, however, have
dropped five
ere we’l represented with all of j
ie squad members returning to |
In replying to the inquo'. the, furnished a drama-' courts except Burling-
Ki(ai Ilatl f.can Soaisons
!C*Bt;r.jec .'rcm Page Two' i The season record for the six-
,_.„iyear period follows:
The Fighting Christians of 1948,
lington Chamber of Commerce. i
Dr. Albert V. Coble, the Elon
Community Church and the ot-,
fices ot the dean, field secretary,',
registrar and business manager of |
Elon College. i
Students participating in the ]
first period of training included
Hoe officials enclosed photostatic
copies of certain pages in their hon’^r.
1881 catalogue, which shows that Tom Shepperson paced the Elon
tic setting for Watts' powerized , jjje second straight year
the Elon netters finished second
in the North State race, with]
1951—Won 0, Lost 13.
1952—Won 2, Lost 12.
1953—Won 8. Lost 10.
1954—Won 3, Lost 11.
1955—Won 3, Lost 13.
1956—Won 2. Lost 7.
There have been a few excel-
the original cost of the machine team with a double and two sin-jjr-), point repeating as champs. individual players to repre-
70 years ago was $1,250. The
catalogue shows that the press is i
gles. while Larry Bulla contri-' jncn’s total season record stood
buted a pair of singles, Davis led eight wins and three losses.
7 feet 3 inches in bn-th "by Bulf3ogs with the home and -he Fighting Christians lost only
feti 7 inches in overall width. ; * ®
Few ot the readers of the Ma-', Score by innings-
roon and Gold realize that the col-
'sent Elon during
one conference match, and that
Iwas at the hands cf the Panthers
r h Bill 'Winstead, BiU Godfrey,
. 000 010 010 0-2 8 1 Bob Wooldridge, Jack Spirko, Pe-
100 000 001 1 3 12 2 “ro Godwin and Lawrence Paige
since the size of the Fulghum; Rouse and Williams; ''-re members of that '48 team^
the Watts and Hargrov*. / The 1949 tenms season saw the
, . ■ . , netlers of Elon College, under the
staff to print only one page at
lege newspaper must be run ACC.
through this press four times for Elon
each issue
flat bed and rolls enables
a time. Of course, modern press- ^thirteen of them being of the same
cs will print up to 9C pages at size and type as the one now being
a time, or even more, but
little .Maroon and Gold Press was
quite a machine is its day.
ciirecticn of Jet Picrce. win eight
, and lose seven matches, while
chalking up five conference wins
by the Maroon and Gold, aggjusj three losses. All of the
The R. Hoe Company, now 152 members ot the '48 squad retum-
vears old. still manufactures a cd except Paige and Wooldridge.
The Hoe Company rewrds show , the printing ’ and Frank Tingley. Rodney South
that there were 22 roller presses “ig percenia.ge oi me priniuig _
shipped by that concern in 1881. presses used in the world.
CIRCLE
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WEDNE.SDAY-THIRSDAY
APRIL 17-Id
“TEA AND SYMPATHY”
with DEBORAH KERR
AIsa
“THREE BAD SISTERS”
with MARLA ENGLISH
FRIDAY — .S/^Tl'RDAY
“THE PEACEMAKER”
with JAMES MITCHELL
“ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES”
JAMES CAGNEY PAT O'BRIEN
“EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUH”
DOST MISS OIR BIG E.\STER SHOW
IT'S OCR FIRST BIRTHDAY
“KING AND FOUR QUEENS”
Clark Gable Eleanor Parker Jovao Fleet
ALSO
“TASK FORCE” Starring Gary Cooper
Free Pass To Future Attraction To Everyone Attending
YOUXL LOVE BANKO
EVERY SATl’RDAY AND SUNDAY
2 GIANT JACKPOTS — 10 SURE WINNERS
erland and Johnny McAdams
rounded out the Chri.stian net ros
ter.
r In the North State Conference
tennis tournament, which was
played at the Elon on three new
, clay courts. Bill Win.stead went to
the semi-finals in singles' com-
petliion and Walter Temple and
Bill Godfrey reached the semi
finals in doubles’ play.
T.^e Fighting Christians main
tained their winning ways during
ithe spring of 1950, claiming their
only conference championship
j since the war. Eton's racketeers
showed an 8-3 record, losing only
one match in the conference, and
the Maroon and Gold squad gained
the loop crown.
' C?plain BiU Winstead clinched
the individual singles title for the
year, having defeated High Point's
Jack Steele 16-14 and 6-2 in
straight sets in the finals at High
Point. Frank Tingley and Walter
Temple went to the finals in the
doubles but lost out 6-0 and 9-7
to the Maddux brothers of High
; Point. Other members of the Elon
I team included Jack Spirko. Pete
iMarshbum and Jim Parker.
! Elon's tennis fortunes since that
19o0 campaign have been at a low-
cbb. From the 1951 to the 1956
season, the Christian managed
only 18 wins against 66 losses
and failed to develop any real
threat for the conference cham
pionship. The best record within
that period came in 1953 when
the netters won eight and lost
itcu meets.
HOME EC 3IEETING
Mrs. Mary G. Butler, head of
the Elou College Home Econo
mics Dep.irtment. accompanied
by two of her students, attend
ed the North Carolina Home
Economics .Association meeting
held at Flora McDonald College
Patricia Balint. Ruth Ann Bate-! at Red Springs on Friday and
Saturday, .April 5th and 6th.
Elon students attending, along
with Mrs. Butler, were Jeanne
Payne, of Asheville, and Doris
Gaddis, of Asheboro. Sixty dele
gates and advisors from twelve
colleges were in attendance.
man. Sandra Bentz. Lena Brame.
Anita Brothers. Helen Bunker. Bet
ty Clark, Carol Cox, Kitty Cran
ford, Nancy Green, Cornelia
Guthrie, Jerrie Harder. Nancy
Lemmons, Diane Long, Ann Mar
lin, Mary Lou Overman, Billy Pri-
vette, Peggy Ramey, Betty Rhodes.
Lois Simmons, Shelvey Simmons.
Peggy Simpson. Marie Stone, Bar
bara Thomas, Shirley Turner and
that period
Among them have been Frank
Tingley and Bill Blackstone on
the 1951 and 1952 teams. Bill j Jerrie Watson.
Blackstone and Johnny Howell ini
1953, Charlie Schrader in 1954. ] CASH AWARDS
and Ben Kendall and Ray Whi;-i (Continued From Page Ona)
ley on the 1955 and 1956 squads.'
The Elon netters this season i research paper of at least
have met defeat in their earlythousand words of some sub
matches, but they have been show-'encompassed by the Division
I
ing improvement in each match, I
in which he is competing. This
and under the tutelage of Charlie ^
lohnson, student coach, local „et, ^“”"8
fans hope for a threat by con
ference tournament time.
Elon \ arsit V
Tops Oberliii
In 2 Games
FACULTY SPORTS
and have
straight matches.
The golfers opened with two
straight losses to N. C. State by
I counts of 23 1-2 to 3 1-2 and
'18 1-2 to 8 1-2. They then dropped
I a North State Conference match
' to the Guilford Quakers by a
il2 1-2 to 5 1-2 margin. At Belmont
I Abbey ^obby Loy was medalist
: as he led the Christians to t
i 14 1-2 to 12 1-2 victory.
The tennis team, which opened
by two straight shutout losses to
East Carolina by counts ot 9 to 8
and 7 to 0. .also lost two shutouts
to High Point by 7-0 margins in
ervch instance. They then lost to
Belmont Abbey by a 7-2 count
and to Guilford by another 7-0
shutout margin.
A number of faculty members
have taken advantages of the “Fa
culty Nights" staged for the past
Friday nights at the gymnasium
REPORTS READY
The Student Council and the
Honor Council members who have
\ served through the present year
The Physical education leaders | reports of the
urge more faculty members to year’s activities to the Student
come out and take pari. Legislature at its next meeting.
candidate is notified that he is
to submit such paper to the Cen
tral Committee of Judges.
Four Evaluation Committees
composed of the Chairman of the ■
Departments of Instruction, each
I serving as a representative to the i
I one Division in which his Depart-1
! ment fall, shall make the original i
: selectfon of the candidates from
j their Division by its own rules of
i procedure, in as much as theyj
The Elon diamond crew boosted do not conflict with the regula-|
its winning percentage by two, tions set forth above. Such selec-
lop-heavy triumphs over the Ober- j tions shall be completed during
lin College outfit from Ohio, de-;the second month of the Spring!
Icating the Oberlin crew by scores! Quarter. j
of 12 to 1 on Tuesday. April 2nd. The accepted nominees shall re-
and 10 to 1 on Wednesday, April iceive final evaluation through a
QoCOrQo&l, dx>i^ AOyMWjiiA
3rd. I Central Committee of Judges,
Frank Goss, Gary Henson, and ^ composed of on Representative
Gil Watts combined to hold thelfrom each of the four Divisions.
Ohio outfit to four scattered hits to be appointed by the President
in the first of the two games on^of Elon College with the assis-
April 2nd, and Buddy Montgomery |tance of the Dean of the College,
unlimbered his long bat and The President of Elon College
pounded out two homers to pace shall be an ex officio member of
the Christian attack. ' this committee. The Student Nom-
It appeared that the Elon squad inee's shall submit their research
had found its batting eye as it
chalked the second .straight win
over Oberlin by a 10-1 margin on
April 3rd. Charlie Frye topped
homer and two singles. ^
FIRST G.\ME
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Oberlin 001 000 000— 1 4 5
Elon . 100 071 03x—12 7 4
Shrider. Webster and Chivily:
Goss, Henson, Watts and Sharpe.
SECOND GAME
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papers to this Central Committee,
who shall have free judgement of
both the research paper and the
class performance of such students
before selecting the three award
winners in each Division.
The awards shall be presented
by the President of Elon College
or his appointed substitute to the
winners at the final regular meet
ing of the Student Body in the
Spring Quarter.
SECTION B ♦
Provision is made for the es
tablishment of a student Legisla
ture Committee to investigate the
mateup of a shingle to be pre
sented to the honor winner at the
time of awards.
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