Herc’3 WisJrlns All
A Vpry
Merry Christmas
MAROON AND GOLD
And To Evrryonc
A Happy And
Prospprous New Year
ELON C0L1.EGK, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, nECEMBER 11, 1957
NI MBEK 6
Silver Anniversary ^Messiah ^ Will Be Given Sunday
Honor Students Listed
For Term Just Ended
of Dr.
dean of stu-
One hundred twenty-five Eton
Pollege students earned honor
^ades of -B- or better on all
heir courses during the Fall Quar
ter which ended Thanksgiving. This
(vas revealedl in the quarterly
Bean’s List, which has just been
released from the office
H. H. Cunningham
dents.
The number of honor students
for this Fall Quarter of 1957 com
pares well with the number ot
students who have made the Dean s
List in other quarters during the
past two years, a period which
has seen the Elon enrollment in
crease rapidly over that of other
recent terms. It will be noted that
the honor students comprise some
what less than ten per cent of the
total Elon enrollment.
Seventeen ot the group had no
grade less than “A" on any sub
ject and were placed on the “A"
honor roll, while 108 additional
students had no grade less than
“B" and earned places on the
■'B ' honor roll.
Those who made no grade less
than ‘A " incMided Nancy Dodson,
Drexel Durham, Carol Earle, Steve
Gibson, C. G. Hall, Jack Hender
son, Charles Howell, Robert Hult-
man. Lane Kidd, Judith Matlock,
Steve Mauldin, Chloe Dean Mc
Pherson, Joyce Myers, Richard
Stillwell, Sara Ellen Sumners,
Margaret Walker and Janet Welsh.
Those who made no grade less
than ‘ B” included Jean Abbott,
Wayne Allison, Doc Alston, Bar
bara Apple, Thomas Ayres, Era*
Batliwalla. Mai Bennett, John Big-
gerstatf, Tommie Boland, Hubert
Bolick, Mary Lou Booth, Rachel
Boswell. Grant Burns, Louis Camp-
hell, Edward Chambers, Roy Lee
Cobb, Jean Coghill,
Charles Cole, Nancy Crawford,
Albert Dalala, James Davis, Max
Dixon, Barbara Ellis, Harold
Faust, Norman Fields, Nancy
Forbes, Betty Garrett, Lloyd Gil
liam, Rose Gilliam, Faye Gordon,
Hugh Gravitt, Betty Sue Green,
Thomas Griffin, Robert Hall,
Douglass Hartsell, Mary Ann
Hartwell, Rebecca Hatch, Mae
Hawkins.
Mary Jane Hawkins, Charles
Holt, Herbert Horne, Virgil How
ell, Linwood Hurd, Patricia Jack
son. Dorothy Jessup, Henry John
son. Bobby Johnston, Willis Jones,
Donald Kimrey, Robert Kiapko,
Richard Kopko, Elbert Lake, Nan-
«y Lemmons, WBliam Lilley, Rob
ert Lowe, John McKinney, Nancy
McLeod, Jo McQuade, Joseph
Mcdlock,
Nancy Michael, Dwight Moore,
Lorene Moore, Johnny Oakes, Lu-
*‘lle Okey, Joyce Oliver, Lloyd
Parker, Kay Parrott, Linda Pet
ty. Kenneth Price, Gene Rhodes,:
Rebecca Rider, Rita Roach, Ed-1
''ard Robbins, Frank Robertson,
^laria Santos, Linda Simpson, Jer-!
Slaughter, Karen Smith, Ron-.
*l!l Somers, David Sorrell, Nancy i
S'arr.es, Ronald Starkper, Roger,
, “dith, Ikey Tarleton, Patsy Tay
lor,
Thomas, Robert Troy, Pa-
tncia Truitt, Richard Turner,
Ciaire Velie, Albert VonDoenhoff,
■ ''crron Waggoner, Lila Walker,
/llis Wallace, Douglass Walton,
’a Waynick, Sarah Wells, Har-
Wicker, Louis Wilkins, Robert
Ray Williams, Edward “Wil-
Sandra Wood, Jack Wrehn,
- Yancey and Jeanne Zellers.
KEY FKiLRES BEHIM) AINISUAE YULE SEASOIS ORATORIO
Aiimial Party
For Children
Tuesday Nile
The Elon College students will
stage their annual Christmas par
ty for the children of the Elon
Christian Orphanage next Tues
day night, December 17lh, re
peating a custom which has been
a big event of the campus Yule
season on the Elon campus tor a
dccade.
The first Christmas party was
.'taged in 1947 under the sponsor
ship of Alpha Pi Delta Fraternity,
with individual credit tor the idea
going to Ralph Edwards, who was
member of that group and also
president of the Elon student gov
ernment that year.
The Alpha Pi Delta boys have
continued to sponsor the party
each year since 1947, although oth
er Greek letter fraternities and
.sororities have joined them each
year in supporting the plan, and
many individual students partici
pate by “adopting” an orphanage
child for whom a gift is provided.
There are now 78 children living
at the orphanage, the number be
ing about equally divided among
the boys anid girls and with ages
ranging from about four to seven
teen years of age. With such a
range in age, it is pointed out that
gifts may be of varied types, but
all of them always prove highly
PROF. JOHN WESTMORELAND
Key fieures behind the Silver
.Anniversary presentation of
Handel’s “Messiah” in Whitley
Auditorium at 4 o’clock Sunday
afternoon are Prof. John West-
morealnd. left, who has directed
the great Yule season oratorio
for many years; and Prof. Fletch
er Moore, right, head of the
Elon College music department,
who has been the organ accom
panist for a long period of time.
Both the Elon faculty members
are graduates of Elon, having
received their early musical edu
cation here, and both were par
ticipants in the "Messiah” pro
grams in their student days
(Picture of many of the Elon
alunuii soloists for this 1957
presentation of the “Messiah’*
are shown on Page 4).
Alumni Singers Invited
To Keturn As Soloists
PROF. FLETCHER MOOUE
Eloii Players Present ^All My Sons’
On Mooney Chapel Stage This Week
Drama in electrifying intensity Deever ran a machine shop and McCants, ot the colleqe I.r.gUsh
wUl be offered to Elon College made parts for airplanes. Deever faculty, as Joe Keller; Odlie Faye
theatre-goers tor three nights thU was sent to prison because the Barrett, of Windsor, Va., as t.ic
week, when the Elon College Play- firm made defective parts, thus Keller wife and mother; and
ers present Arthur Miller's “All causing the deaths of many men. Chuck Oakley, of Roxboro, as
My Sons" in Mooney Chapel The- Keller went free and made much | youthful Chris Keller,
atre as their second feature money.. i Sharin? the romantic lead with
full-length play ot the college year.' shadows ot this ca-,Chuck Oakley is Kay Hughes, of
With performances .set tor Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday
nights of this week, ihe curlain
tastrophe and the tact that the | Elon College, in the role of Ann
young Keller son was reported Deever; ,*vith Eddie Robbins, of
each night at 8:30 o’clock on I missing during the war dominate j Greensboro, in another great role
the great World War II tragedy | dramatic action. The love at- as George Deever, who returns
which had a long and successful
run on Broadway. Prof. Melvin
E. Wooten, who directs the show,
points to the fact that the Miller
play received the drama critics’
award as the best play of 1944 in
to the.America.
acceptable and enjoyable
youthful guests, and it is needless J The story ot the play concerns
to say that the college students the fortunes of the Keller and
partake of the real joy of Christ-[Deever families during World War
mas in watching the children. 11, when Joe Keller and Herbert
fair ot the Keller son with the; from the war to find his father in
Deever daughter plays a big part prison.
' In supporting roles are Lloyd
Farthing, of Mocksville, as Dr
in the play, which also highlights
the bitteiuDs ot young George
Deever, who returns from the war Jim Bayliss; Winnie Ann Watson,
to find his father in prison and
his father’s partner tree.
ot Sanford, as Sue Bayliss; Sam
White, of Pittsboro, as Frank Lu
It is practically an all-star cast j bey; Dixie Edwards, ot Spring
which Prof. Wooten has lined up .Hope, as Lydia Lubey; and Ken
for the show, with Prof. Clyde]Price, of Danville, Va., as Bert
Yule Holiday
t]\tended To
January 6th
The annual Christmas vacation
lor students and faculty ot Elon
College was extended this week
until Monday morning, January
ini. which means an additional
tour days for the college personnel
at the expense of only two class
days.
The annual mid-winter holidays
will get underway nexl Wednes
day, December 18th, and original
plans had the students and faculty
back 0.1 campus for the re
sumption of class schedule at 8
)'clock on Thursday morning, Jan
uary 2nd. However, a poll of both
.ac.tty and studctns taktn this
week changed the return date to
Monday, January 6th.
The usual Elon Christmas sclie-
iuel has usually called for classes
to close on a Friday, with two full
weeks and an extra weekend, but
that schedule was necessarily
changed last year by the manner
in which weekends fell on the cal
endar. The same situation pre
vailed this year, and the change
was made at the behest of both
acuity and students.
In order to extend the holiday
eriod until January 6th, the facul
ty voted to conduct classes on
Saturday, February 8th, and to
cut the examination period lor
ne Winter Quarter to four day-!
r.stead of five The same proposi
tion also received the approval of
a cross-section group ot the stu-
d«nt body. The holiday period from
Orcember 18th until January 6th
will prevail for both day and
evening classes.
SCENES AND STARS ERO:\I ELON {’LAYERS’ SECOND EEATLRE SHOW OF COIJ.ECiE YEAR
Portrayed here are two of the
drama-loaded' situations which
abound in Arthur Miller’s "All
■My Sons,” the three-act Broad
way stage success, wliich is of
fered by the Elon Players in
Moflncy Chapel Theatre on Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday
nights this week. The curtain
Iises each night at 8:30 o’clock.
Pictured left are Kay Hughes,
of Lion College, and Chuck Oak
ley, of Roxboro, who appear in
the romantic lead roles of the
play. She appears as Ann Dee
ver and he as Chris Keller,
daughter and son of the Dee
ver and Keller families that are
embroiled In a tragedy of World
War II profiteering and graft.
At the right is pictured Bil
lie Faye BarreU, of Windsor,
Va., and Eddie Robbins, of
Greensboro, she as Kate Keller,
mother and wife of the Keller
family which has profited im-
m^sely by shady war-time prac-
t'ces, and he as George Deever,
the Deever son, who returns
from the war to find his father
in prison.
. Each of the four are exper
ienced Elon stage stars and have
outstanding parts in this great
war-time tragedy, which may
reach a new high in Elon cam
pus) drama, giving Prof. Mel
Wooten another in his long line
of Mooney Chapel Theatre suc
cesses.
m
The Silver Anniversary presen
tation of Handel's immortal ’Mes
siah’’ by the Elon College Festi
val Chorus, which is set for Whit
ley Auditorium on the Elon cam
pus at 4 o'clock next Sunday af
ternoon. will be an "All-Elon” pro
gram.
This 'All-Elon " plan was re
vealed by Prof. John Westmore
land when he stated that the Elon
lirectors would break the annual
precedent for this Silver Anniver
sary year and would use outstand-
ng Elon graduates of recent years
as soloists instead of bringing in
the top professional soloists who
have usually had solo roles in
he world-famous Yule season ora
torio.
The Handel masterpiece, which
has thrilled Yule season audienccs
in both Europe and America tor
more than 200 years, was first
presented by the Elon College stu
dent singers In 1933, and it has
oeen a high light ot the winter
nusical calendar in this area each
year since that time, attracting
annually capacity audiences to
Elon's Whitley Auditorium.
The intervening years since 1933
lave seen many of the finest con
cert arli'ts in America appear at
Elon in the "Messiah ’ solo roles,
but the same productions have
■ilso seen many sutstanding stu
dent singers appear in the pres-
ontations. This W57 production
will feature ten of those for
mer Elon students as starred sing
ers.
Adding to the "All-Elon” plans
for this 1957 offering ot “The
Messiah” is the fact that Prof.
John Westmoreland, who will again
direct the chorus, and Prof. Fletch
er Moore, who will once more be
organ accompanist, are both Elon
graduates. In fact, each of them
were students on the Elon cam
pus in the early years ot Handel
presentation.
The former Elon students who
lave been invited back as soloists
for 19.'i7, many of them now sing-
ng as professionals, include Jean
Meredith, now of Greensboro, Ju-
,lilh Ingram, now ot New York
City, Annie Laura Almright, of
Burlington, and Dorothy Shepherd
Hilliard, of Durliam, sopi'anos;
and Dorothy Jones Parker, of
Sunbury, and Patricia Melton, Bur
lington girl, now of Miami, Fla.,
contraltos.
Also invited back for male solo
roles include Jerry Smyre,
of Greensboro and the United
Stales Army, tenors; and Ci;arles
Lynam, now of Burlington, Roger
Gibbs, of Southern Pines, and
lames Rhodes, formerly of Bur
lington, now of Manassas, Va.,
'3SS soloists. A number ot other
former student singers have been
i;ivited to return to the Elon cam
pus as members ot the chorus for
lie Silver Anniversary presenta-
'lon.
A special feature of the “Mes
siah” weekend tor the choir will
lie the annual Christmas banquet
for the Elon Choir members and
invited guests. This banquet Is set
Irir Saturday night and promises
' to be one of the most enjoyable
events ot the Y'ule seasan on the
oampus. .