MAROON AND GOLD
1-aGE four
REID THIS/
miD
AM) IN TIIK ia;GINMNG . . .
'’’h • fii^t tirr.o 1 saw Klon was
Juni; 6, 1H44. and 1 wishi J I had
stavfd on that Southfrn
It was, you see, raining-
1 ,1. uc,;l 1 ■■ ■
c-t>, clampt'si place on L'arlh wlicn
it rain'. -and i pcncrally does—
inu ■ -.hat chunk of Alam.mce
Cnun'.y 'vhcre O-Kcllys monument
serve- as a ^ort of target foi
ciui'ation.
In short,
all V.:!.
It U-Day, all ri;^ht: Deluge
n,iy. anti one that didn't shove my
pie-
1 thought Elon was
belated summer school start off
L.iylitly a! all-
Other than a crooked oak tree,
a -r...v w:.;i u 1-cep the rain se
curely on campus, and a few sober-
side» buildings, I didn t see what
I'd call exotic surroundings. Well,
thought I- there's one good thing
tha.-il come o! this. I'll have to
study to keep from getting bored.
Now, we'll play guessing games.
■Who was the first person 1 saw
at "'..1'.’
Com«>, now. Who is the first per
son most everyone sees at f:ion?
No strain. Obviously, Prof. A,
L- Hook-
That, friends, was the first big
ray of sunshine. He even made
me chortle with his grandiose spiel
of how comfortable T'd be in my
dorm, how very much like home
‘t was. 1 roomed at the Club
House.
It wasn’t long before Elon, in
a let me down. It made me
break a fat promise I'd made
T had vowed, in all that rain, I
■wouldn't cotton to Elon. ever, nev
er, no matter what. I hadn't count
ed on the sun's coming out, the
which it finally did. Then 1 saw
things in.a different light-
Meantime, I was adding to my
credits from William and Mary
from which I'd transferred. I slip
ped into the Elon way of doing
thinss in Prof. John Barney's Eng
lish class. We learned about Cot
ton Mather and all that stuff.
One day. Prof. Barney taught us
something very interesting.
“A wizard is a male witch,” he
paid.
Then he said for me and a rcd-
I.eaded girl sealed next to me to
leave the lecture.
To this day, 1 think Prof. Bar
ney misunderstood what I asked
the girl.
It was, "What would you call
a son of a witch?
Caiiit mints
Grahe Close
Game 66-62
The Christian cagers turned iu
one of their better games of a
rugged season against Western
Carolina here last Saturday night,
January 25th, but their effort ».■
still not quite good enough to halt
,;ie tall and talented Catamoun.-
,vho rallied to pull out a 66 to 62
victory-
the first half ended.
rony Carcati-rra pacid the tl'n
af.ack in the first half as Elon
forged to a 12-7 lead at one time,
.ind at one time the Christian cen-
bucketed eight consecutive
points to push his team into a 2.
.0 22 advantage-
Jack Frausun- Harris Pryor and
Randall Shields were big guns for
[he Catamounts when they came
I )ack on the floor after intermis-
-ion and rolled out to an 11-point
edge at ,^5'-44 after ele\en and
,i?li minutes were gone.
The Christians rallied at that
point and pulled up within two
points at 61-59 with a minute and
a half to go. but Captain Harris
Pryor broke away for a pair ol
driving buckets and a free throv^
at that point to pull out the final
4-point spread-
Frank UeRita topped the Elon
scoring for the night with eight
Id goals and three free throws
for 19 points, but Tony Carcaterrs
with 15 and Rob Bell with 13 were
also potent weapons for the Ma
roon and Gold quint. Jack Frau-
-ion. Catamount forward, was top
nan for the night for both team^
The line-ups—
•oi.—Elon (62) West. Car. (66)
DeRita 19 Frauson 2C
.•—Bell 13 Jones 11
j—Carcaterra 15 — Shields 1
O-^Bulla 6 H. Pryor 14
G—Leonard 4 Teague 7
Half-time — Western Carolina
!3, Elon 32.
Elon subs — Way 3, Hall 2.
• mith. Western Carolina subs —
Pryor, Elmore 3-
MEW OF TAB Ar.riVITV IN tHEMlSTltV DEi’ARTME^T
■
glimpse is seen in
Maroon and Gold’s exploring
the above picture of the wonders of the Chemistry department as seen
reporter during her tour of th Scieice Building. The human
elemenVin”the picture is furnished by Johnny Meadows, student o Jacksa.iville, and Prof. Hoy Ep ;
person, who joined the faculty this year.
Yn The Realms Of Cheiiiifa! Wizardry
:Continucd From Page Two)
I
half of my tour. '‘Had you noticed
tiiat?”
painting of Dr. Brannock. ‘The
Jhemiitry Club had that painted
dst year and presented it to the
Jepartment.”
“Well. now ", he went on, "the
aboratory at that end of me hall
5 . . . Oh, interview first? All
right.”
Dr. Paul H. Cheek. I learned,
was born at Saxapjhaw, not far
from Elon, and was one of eight
I Beyond the office,
upon a robot-looking
I turned out to be
III
Interest
(J asses On
Loadorsliip
A series of sessions of Elon
Area leadership Training School,
which attracted .several Elon Col
lege students and faculty niem-
Itrs. was concluded Wednesday
evening. January 22.
The sessions were held January
19-22 in the Elon Colle'::e Cnm-
niunity Church Parish House for
anyone interested in the wor'; oi
the church.
"Our Church .M Work Witli
Children" was taught by the Rev.
Juhn S. Graves. Mrs. A. D. Cobb
lectured each evening on "Our
Church At Work With "Youth
Mrs. Marjorie Hereford taught
■'Our Church At Work With
Adults." Teaching "Our Church
At Work With Its Sunday School
Officers" was Martin T. Garren.
The Rev. W. W. Snyder led a Bi
ble study. "Paul's Missionary
Journeys."
Elon College students who at
tended the sessions included Bev
erley Ward. Sue Fisk. Judy Burk
holder, Joyce Myers. David Horn
and Dwight Moore.
Students particlp^Jting in the
program were Wor len Updyke,
who led the devotioi'als for iht I
last session: and. Ton my Griffin
who presented a prog'-am (^f leli-j
gious irusir. I
(iirl Led
I5y Day Studonts
The Day Students, with Jane
Keck and Sara Summers leading
he attack, have grabbed top spot
n the girls’ intramural cage race.
■ inning their first two games over
■Vest Dorm and Virginia Hall.
Trailing with one win each were
)elta U, led by Betty Franks Rey-
lolds, and B O.B.. paced by Mar-
on Glasgow. In the lower division
in games played through last
cekend were West Dorm, Tau
'eta, ■Virginia Hall and Beta Chi
'■psilon. The Beta Chi team was
eplaced this week by the Vet's
Wives.
Seven teams are participating
n the round-robin. arranged iin-
ler the direction of Mrs. Jeanne
jriffin, girls' physical ed director,
*ith -Marion Glasgow and Katie
-angley as student chairmen.
we came
thing that
a water still.
he began, pointing to the ^Tga^jjy was a glass cabinet full
of bottles, bulbs, gadgets, do-hic
keys, etc., which, Dr. Cheek toic
me, were the materials Dr. Dan
;eley had used for b’s research
:>ii cyclo-butane (whatever that is.
\lso there was his apparatus froii
1 year of post-doctoral researc'f,
' O’. I'r^phyrins
or. in words 1 could understand
those things that give plants theii
color.
young'uns in that familj’. He went | .pjjg pg^t door led us into the
to college at Wake Forest when Quantitative Analysis laboratory.
.1 was at Wake Forest, then served I several students were try-
in the Army Air Force as a B17 ,jjjg jq make a light bulb light up
lavigator, did graduate work atjj,y sticking its cord in water,
he University of North Carolina, we came on back to the lecture
.vhere he got his Doctorate in ,-o„m then as Dr. Cheek had prom
1950, and has been teaching here jsgj jo show me how to mix up
since- fuel for the rockets that launch
His wife is the former Ruth sputniks. I watched closely and
l.loyd of Charlotte, and they have he took some stuff out of a con-
;our children; Graham and Shel- tainer marked z-i-n-c, then som.
aon. six-year-old twins; Janet. 4-|oyt of one marked s-u-l-p-h-u-r
plus; and Mary. 3-plus. Mrs. Cheek (hen lit a match and . . . v.hli
received her Masters in Chemis-
I.NTUAMIKALS
(Continued From Page Three)
■jrs, with their individual marks
are shown in tabulated form, in-
■li'ding Dave Moseley, of Mose
ley's Stars: Bill Graham, Max
Clayton and Lloyd Parker, of North
try at Carolina also, but Dr. Cheek
added that “right now she's ap
plying it to cookery."
Dr. Cheek’s hobbies are ham
radio and rock collecting and his
motto is "One day at a time.”
Interrogation terminated. Dr.
Che^k led the way to the second
half of the Chemistry Department.
■This is the main Chemistry store
room, " he said as we entered a
room across the hall. "There’s one
of most anything in here. '
He browsed in and out among
the shelves, pointing to one thing
and then another. "There's some
aluminum - - . some formaldehyde
without the cats . - - bone char
coal . . . chloroform to induce
sleepiness - - - metallic-sodium—
Not that’ll give a fizz in water!—
and sodium cyanide, the last odor
to reach the olfactory glands of a
condemned criminal . . - and, yes.
new pink Dreft. The test tube
washers weren't complaining ot
detergent burn. We just needed
Dorm: Bill Oliver, of Sigma Mu more soap and that's what we
ligma; Wayne Taylor, of Kappa
'■^si Nu; Mai Bennett, of Veteran.^;
'iilbert Gates, of lota Tau Kappa;
'•V’hitey Austin and Nick DiSibio,
)f Sigma Phi Beta; Jim Hum
'hreys, of Alpha Pi Delta; and
Oon Burchfield, of the -Apple Men
I'LAYEK snow
(Continued From Page One)
as Mary Warren, Putnam’s ser-
,an, a sly and merrcUess girl;
■Mrs. Marjorie Hereford, better
cnown as Elon’s dean of girls, as
lebecca Nurse, a pious old wom-
in: Sam White, of Pittsboro, as
5iles Corey, a knotty, canny and
r.quisitive old man; Nils Boas,
if Middletown, Conn., as Mr. Chee-
er. a strong spirited marshal;
nd Reynolds Van Cleve, of Erie,
’a , as Governor Danforth, a grave
man in his 60 s, filled with humor I
■>nd sophistication. |atory.”
got.’’
We saw more chemicals, solu
tions and so forth, then hied our
selves back across the hall to
the office. In the entrance were
several large faculty-constructed
shelves full of the departments'
proudest possession—a complete
set of Chemical Abstract Journals
dating back to 1907.
Below these was an assortmen'
of new equipment just arrived and
unpacked, including a Science Sur
vey Chart of Electromagnetic Ra
diation. which fho-Aed which rays
you could see and which you
couldn't, a new set' of weights-
for a Analytical Balance Room,
a Heathkit filter kit to smooth the
current of battery eliminator kits
(1 didn't know what he was talk
ing about either), and film strips
on everything from
hhoo-ooommmml A bright greei
fire shot toward the ceiling- Be
fore I could decide where to run
the fire was gone and all that »a^
left was a billowy smoke that
stunk like - - - well, anyway, il
stunk.
When the smoke cleared. Dr
Cheek was ready to demonstrate
another gadget—this one for de
ecting right and left-handed mole
cules- "It's a paloremeter," he be
;an. 'and you see, the light goes
across here and strikes. . ” He
ost me.
Next on the agenda was a dem
onstration about powder in closer
-paces. I watched while he sprink
ed a little flour in a can. set a
lighted candle in said can, put lia
in said can. picked up rubbe
ube. backed off, blew into tube
ind . . . Ka-bla-ammy!
When I crowded out from under
;he desk, students from all over
third floor had flocked to the
scene. "Oh ", said one, "though
Dr. Cheek had blov/n his top."
"And 1", was the disappointed
reply from another, "was expect
ing to find him with his face al
black, his mustache singed . .
And one put in. "Now. myself, 1
was hoping the lecture room was
no more”
And t-there I-I was h-happy tc
b-be alive. But 1 didn't figure I'd
stay alive if 1 stayed there. 1 left
Dr. Cheek had mentioned that
Dr. Danieley was still a full-fledg
ed chemistry professor, though
now his duties as president kept
him too busy to teach. So I de
cided to see if I couldn't include
Dr. Danieley in my account ol
third floor, science building,
I skipped over to Alamance ant*
located my prey. Mere minute?
later. I had amassed the following;
Dr. James Earl Danieley wa.'
bom in Alamance county, attend-
everything from "Nuclear |ed Elon College, where he maj-
to "Safety in the Labor-jored in Chemistry, then took up
I teaching Chemistry here right
after graduation.
In 1948 he married the former
,'erona'Daniels, and now they have
w'o youngsters, Ned, 5 (named af
ter Dr. Brannock), and Mary, 3.
Dr. Danieley received his M.A
and Ph.D. from the University o
■;orth Carc^ina, then did post-doc
'uoral research at Johns Hopkini
University. He was formerly dean
iiere at Elon, and now, of course
he's president. His hobbies art
lardening and cooking.
The questions had al! been ask
ed, but still my insatiable quest
lor interviews hadn't been satis-
ted- A little thought (strenuou
though it was) told me to go see
Dr, Brannock,
it was raining rather hard then
0 I puddle-j'amped past the Stu
dent Union, swam past Carolina
Hall, and hitched a ride on
floating log down to Haggard Ave
nue. Just as my direction-givers
rad said, I found Dr. Brannock’s
lomp across from the high 'School
beside a house with a white pic
ket fence. I knocked.
Oh, come in,” smiled a little
white-haired lady, and it wasn't
long before I was talking with Dr
Brannock. .
.Modesty thr^w a monkey-wrenc!
into the interview, though, and it
took a little doing to get Dr. Bran
nock to talk about himself. Some
time later, 1 had gathered the
facts:
Dr. Ned F. Brannock had taught
it "Ion for fifty years, serving as
•ead of the chemistry d^partmon*
nost of that time, and still teach
es a night class in chemistry, be
sides spending most of his time
working as Chemical Consultant
for the Carolina Biological Supply
Company.
He is now eighty-four, and plug
ging happily on to eighty-five. His
favorite pastime is gardening.
His wife was the former Mary
Lula York, granddaughter of the
founder ot Duke University, and
the couple have four girls and
one boy, plus two grandchildren.
The girls are Edith, who lives at
homeland teaches Home Ec. at
Valte - William- High in Burling
ton; Mary, who married Brinson
Rouse of Burlington and also
leaches Home Ec. at Walter Wil
liams: Madge, at home; and An
na Lou, who married Derward
Harward and lives near Wilming
ton. The son is head of the Bur
lington Water Works.
Dr. Brannock was born in Ala
mance County, went to school at
Elon tor his A.B., then to the Uni
versity of North Carolina for his
M.A., and later to Johns Hopkins
and Columbia Universities for
more study. In Defiance Col
lege in Ohio conferred a Dr. of
Lit. degree on Elon's "Undo Ned.'
I couldn't think of any more
questions so I thanked my host
plowed back upstream to West!
Dormitory, and got out the old
a-s-d-f-k-1 mechanism. And one 1
• —■ I to m- ■ I m glad M.&G. I
Exterminators fail again. j
Apps Down
Elon Cage i
Squad 51-50
Inability to cash in on free-throw
chances proved costly for Elon s
JhrUtians as the Appalachian
louiUaineers came from behind,
!i the final two and one-half min
utes to edge the Elon baiketoersj
jl to 50 in a North State Confer-;
.■nee batt.le at Boone Tuesday,'
January 21st.
The Christians held a command-
;;C S-point lead with two znd one-
i;;ii niii'.utes to go. and the Apps
.-•ere fouling desperately as they
pressed to get-the ball- Seven times
iie Christians went to the line with,
one-and-one charity chances, and |
'ieven times they misscd.
Five times the Mountaineers re
covered after the free throws and
scored to overcome the lead. Max
l.Iiatt, App senior guard, hit for
live points, Don King got two, and
nick Howe hit his only basket of
'he entire game with nine seconds
ief. on the clock to put his team
ahead and clinch the win.
The game proved a defensive
battle all the way, with neither
team able to hit well in the face
3f tight defensive play. The Chris
tians were ahead at half-time by a
low 19-14 margin at half-time af
ter twenty minutes that sav, the
Christians hit 26 per cent and Ap
palachian 22.7 per cent of their
first-half shots from the floor.
The marksmanship of both
teams improved in the final halt
as Elon posted a 43.3 average and
the Apps a 41 per cent mark in
floor attack-
Frank DeRita, Elon forward,
racked 7 field goals and 8 for 11
at the free throw line tor 22 points
the only Christian to score in dou
ble figures. Max Hiatt with 15
and Don King with 13 were the
op performers for the
Mountaineers.
The line-ups—
PCS.—Elon (50) Appalachian (51)
F—DeRita 22 Muller 8
F—Bell 5 Howe 2
Carcaterra 8 Swift 1
G—Bulla 7 M. Hiatt 15
G—Watts 5 __ King 13
Half-time — Elon 19, Appala
chian 14.
Elon subs — Turner 3
Burke. Myers. Appalachian sub
Wednesday, January 29, 1933
Nee'l Members
For Legislature
Officials of the Student :
lature, citing the lack of in*-,
est prevailing much of this year,
urged presidents of all jrc
on the campus to proceed at one;
to elect representatives no*
lacking in thoir delegationi.
• Groups lacking delegates anil
the number short for each group
include Day Students 2, Caro
lina Hall 3, West and Virginia
Hall 3. Other delegates may be
lacking soon, since legislative
officers plan to enforce the
“three-absence" rule to unseat
seme c: tho-.«' Eiroa:'.- uarael
Accounthifr
Class iVsits
Burliu0on
Students in the Business 43 cla.ss
m advanced accounting, which is
taught by Prof. W. T. Reece, vi^
ited the First Federal Savings and
Loan Association in Burlington (
Tuesday, January 21st, to o'oserve
accounting operations in the build,
ing and loan field.
There were eleven students par
ticipating in the field trip, whicli
is part of the program used by
many of Elon’s business admini
stration classes to familiarize stu
dents with modern business prac
tices.
In visiting the First Federal
Savings and Loan offices, the Elon
students were guests of D. R. Fon-
ville. Sr., long-time member of ihe
Elon College board of trustees,
who retired January 1st after manj
years as head of the savings and
List All-Stars
For Volley Ball
winning
Ten girls were named to tlie
All-;Campus volley ball team
the close of the tournament, which
was won by Beta Omicron Beta
The all-star squad, listed by Mn
Jeanne Griffin, included four from
the winning team, three from Del
ta U, two from West Dorm am
one from Day Students.
The all-stars are Marion Glas
gow, Martha Langley, Katie Lang
ley and Lannie Wright, of B.O.B;
Wright I Norie Luce, Faye Weaver and
Jackie Williamosn. of Delta U;
Ferebee Abbott and Beverly Ward,
Muse 2, Glendenning 6, K. qj West Dorm: and Jane Keck ol
Histt. -Day Students.
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