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Mdl'oon And GoUl
Edited and printed by students of Elon
College. Published bi-weekly during the
college year under the auspices of the
Board of Publication.
Entered as second class matter at the
?ost Office at Elon College, N. C. under
the Act nf March 8, 1879. Delivered by
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EDITOUI.^L BO.^RD
Joi.n staff . Editor-in-Chic-f
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Uick La^hley -- A'-'stan; tdilor
James Ifumphrey - Staff Photographer
JO Jones - Staff Typist
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
IiUSIVESS BOARD
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David Horn - Press Operator
reporters
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Vincent Bujan — Elizabeth Morris
Lucille Burgess Johnny Oakes
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Charles Foster - Jane Robinson
Lewis Fowler — Jerry Shouse
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Ann Joyce Barbara Tapscott
William Joyner — — Faye Weaver
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1958
BSAROON AND GOLD
866T ‘L
Around
With
S(juare
GKAND I I?ALE DANCE OF ANWAL :»1AY DAY PAGEANT
THEY STILL STUDY US
As long as we can remember, we have
been studied.
Our generation has been scrutinized by
every psychologist, sociologist and general
quack who ever had the urge to sell a
magazine article or write a book.
In our tortuous teens we first learned
just how hopeless we were. By reading any
good essay, we could learn, with wonder,
of the devious and dreadful things of which
we were capable. And, of course, we learn
ed of numberless fears and frustrations we
didn’t even realize we had.
Not taking the critic.s too seriously, and
never understanding exactly why they were
so concerned about us, our generation grew
to college age without succumbing to any
of the disasters our frivolity had foretold.
And now, as college ftudents, we still
find ourselves studied almost as much as
we study. Students are asked to write their
views of life for magazines and these views
ultimately become small books. Every
school we enter, every job for which we ap
ply, we are asked to take multitudes of
tests with questions designed to unearth
the smallest detail of our personalities.
Countless polls are taken to see what we
Uiink about everjthing from politics and
potato soup to the tenets of religion.
Whoever has assimilated this material
has come up with the term “Beat Gener
ation” in describing us. They say we have
bccome ultraconEervative, security-minded,
and interested only in the easy dollar and
the casual life. This is just what our fathers
were chastized for NOT being when they
were young in the rccklcss roaring and
lowdy ’20's.
We are different; of that there is no
doubt. But in truth we are neither more
promising, nor more hopeless than the
generations before us. Some of us are gooJ,
some arc bad. We know success and a pro-
t»>r{lnate amount of abysmal failure.
And through it all oiij: motives will be
Weighed, our »''tions subjected to study.
We, tco, will eye the next generation with
e skeptical eye. We will study it and com
plain. But all we vill leam is that we do
not understand: and whatever opinions we
pass may very well prove to be wrong.
—The Old Gold and Black
THE SACK
Have you noticed anything different
about girls and women lately. You would
be blind as a bat if you hadn't noticed
those "Sack Dresses." which are now so
stylish for the fairer sex. although pota
toes have been wearing them for years.
In my short lifetime I have noticed that
the biggest difference between boys and
girls is that girls have a pleasing shape.
In these days and times it is hard to dis
tinguish the sexes apart.
Why do women of America (and other
countries) follow the idiot ideas of a few
men? Men. in my experience, do not gen
erally wear dresses. Why should they, then,
say what is the style of dress women should
wear?
If women had been made straight up
and down with no curves then I could see
some reason for enveloping them in a tube
of cloth, but it remains that they have
curves in several different places which
look better if covered with an appealing
dress.
So let’s leave the potatoes in the sacks
and put the women back in sensible dresses.
—Western Carolinian
by
W.\LTER EDMONDS
Hey you, what are you looking down
there for? I'm up here this time, to stay
1 hope. No'.v that “Chuck ' has been neat-
1- placfd ‘un-1“r tlie oaks", 1 find the
pat'i' f” th'- renowned “yellow journa
lism ' wide open. It is no question what-
soev'.r to the axiom of journalism, that
“nnmes make news”, and I intend to knock
myseif out of my everloving mind to do
jusl that . . .
In this collcge of complexes, we find
with 5U7Timer rapidly approaching, and the
cominc of the sunshine, which will be chaos
on “rice paddies” around Elon, fellow stu
dents will itar: their summer occupations.
For instance. Martha Langley and Louann
Lambeth will sojourn all day in the sun-
splashed terra firma of the old tobacco
fields. All day mind you. Do your cigar
ettes taste differently??? "Woody’ Brown
will spend his summer in the Potomac
Re«t Home near Washington, D. C. A
senior this year, by the dint of the good
Lord only knows how. Brown will return
in the fall for another ageless year . .
All summer school girls have the “ovdl
orb ’ on Bobby Orr. It’s been known to all,
that he will ask a girl to go steady during
the summer months when there are no
compatriots in love to compete against
him ... It couldn’t be a complete issue
without mention of the Greensboro re-
claUse, Bob Willet. If by some strange
twist of fate Bob returns next fall, please
find a "roomie”. I’m so tired of you talk
ing to yourself and practicing idolism. It's
been said Dick Guite will be living in the
Vets; so I know you could move in with
Vince, even though it's next door . . . Mar
gie Putman has changed her major to "hus
bandry”, a counterpart to forestry. You
know cohorts, that’s the study of trees,
grasses, flowers, and bushes. I can’t see
any future in it. Maybe it’s due to all the
foliage . . . Lester Dodge’s former meal
ticket is moving back in Carolina Hall. I’m
not mentioning his name, not even his ini
tials. Libel is much more severe than slan
der . . .
Hooray for Short Shorts
Y’ou just can’t harness youth, and it’s
fun to live modern. It goes to show you
we’re average, and the average persons
make up the nucleus of the world, can’t be
disputed ... In a letter recently, which
was floating around the channels of ole
Elon, several gentlemen of a certain or-
R£.niza;io:i were defined as "hoods". Now
I say, that is not a worthy attribute to
pass upon the character of anyone. It just
so happens three of those so called "hoods”
have scholarships to graduate school upon
their graduation. You can bet your recently
new Easter bonnet, that no other organi
zation can boast the above premise . . .
May Day
May Day was a successful affair in ev
ery vein. I can’t go into a capsule form of
each event in the spectacle, but the entire
festivities were summits of wholesome en
tertainment . . .
Thoughts While Thinking
Sports participants, not to mention the
finest coaching staff in the North State
Conference, have displayed the essential
qualities which go to make up the best
rounded athletic program, near or far. In
a period of one year, Elon’s Fighting
Christians had an undefeated team in foot
ball, the conference baseball champs, and
runner-up in track. It seems we re off to
another banner year, so let’s give them
our fullest measure of support. Hals off to
those who will leave us this spring due to
graduation. We only hope your successors
will do half the Job you did, and then we
know it will be a worthy one . . .
Add Thoughts
Tony DeMatteo and Bob Stauffenberg
recently were rejected by the USMC . . .
The latter is not an item of special inter-
ese. It just happens to be ‘space filler”
. . . Doris Gaddis, the "giver” but not the
"receiver” of certain gems of irony, seems
to be in the same old tizzie she was in
•A'hen she returned from her last summer
trip in Washington, D. C. Maybe a vaca
tion in Florida could alter this condition
... 1 know a fellow who ran SHORT of
words recently, for I see him by HIMSELF
constantly. Just goes to show you it’s a
SMALL world.
In closing this issue, let me remind you:
Exams start in the very near future. Be
prepared for the final countdown, which
will decide your summer fate ... It sure
has been fun writing at you this year, and
I'm assured of one thing: if you owned all
>the syndicated columns in the world, I
kiTOW you 'Would read mine first . . .
K
The grand finale dance of Elon s twenty-sixth annual May Day pageant is pictured above, with
Tommie Elmore (extreme right) 1 ading a chorus in dancing to the rollicking notes of Dixie . The
!;ir's d'.;ncing in the "V ’ and those dancing in the two circles represent a composite of all those
who danccd in each of the separate numbers during the pageant. A portion of May Court may be
seen leit at the open end of the ‘ V’’ and in the background left is pictured the Elon Band group
w.iich p;a>ed the accompanying music.
luformative Article Explains ...
What Physieal Therapy Has To Offer
As pccple everywhere live out
heir timf on earth, a great deal
>f importance is attached to first
xperiences. A first doll is impor-
tai.t, and 5o is a first bike, a first
birthday party, or a first camping
trip. We rememl)er “firsts’ in
clothing bought for us to wear,
social affairs we have attended,
and less warmly, perhaps, that
first trip to the dentist and the
'irst day at school.
Everyone has a first date, a firs,
journey to make alone, a first best
friend, and a first sorrow. These
hings belong to the life experience
)f all human beings, and so we
think of them as mileposts in our
.ives.
Graduation from school is one
■)f the most meaningful mileposts
lo be reached. It is a point we
work toward from our first day I
n school, through the remaining
years of childhood, and into our
;arly maturity. It is a time we
dream about, talk about, and make
plans for many times at home and
among friends.
We come to think of graduation
as end to a long pull, but actually
the exciting significance we feel
is created not only because we
have reached a finality, but be
cause we have come to another
beginning; a beginning that waits
on thoughtful decision, for it will
go on to end in realization and
will be an inevitable factor in what
we speak of as destiny.
A Decision To Make
What we decide to do with our-
EDiTOR'S NOTE
With the Elon seniors nearing
ftraduation and the time when
they mast choose an occupation
and a life jol>. it is fitting that
the Maroon and Gold offer this
highly informative article on
Physical Therapy as a profes
sion, an article which reached
the Maroon and Gold office
through Untie Sam's mails.
elver, as citizens and wage earn
?rs is no small matter. This de
cision involves our family status,
our sense of responsibility toward
life, our attitude toward service to
'lumanity, as well as element ol
financial reward; and it also in
volves the peace and contentment
of the latter years of our lives
when we will naturally make
private assessment of what we
have or have not accomplished
since that first day at school.
Graduates in our country have
the opportunity to choose a career
which can mean all things in the
course of time, these things being
in part security, pride in labor,
dignity in human relationships
pleasure in being of use to others
and that general happiness we
know when all is well where we
happen to be.
Many career seekers have found
these rewards in the field of Phy
sical Therapy. In this field, ex
ploration and development are
still young and unlimited and the
on the
campus
JOHN BIGGERSTAFF
With only two more editions left of
Maroon and Gold for this year and with
my own service to our campus new, n-.j.
dium nearing its close, I .vant to dedicato
ihis column in this issue to ons who mijht
be called the brains and the bad^’jiine of
the Maroon and Gold.
Over stories of inaugurations, spjjtj
Ftories, feature stories and ju^t stones oi
everyday school life hovers the guiding sil-
houette of a man who has .'pent more th.m
twenty-five years spreading the news, and
it took some manipulation to get this to
the linotype operator without the knowledge
of Prof. Luther Byrd.
Having worked with him for several
years and having seen much of the “be.
hind the scenes” and the late hours re
quired of the newspaper and publicity
man, I felt that this dedication was due
such a person. This article is more in tlie
editorial form so as to see some of the
highlights of one of Elon’s professors.
For discussions in politics, history, Eng
lish or just plain jabber, a few minutes
with Professor Byrd will always fill tlie
need and be both enlightening and enjoy
able.
possibility quotient is excitingly
high. Physical Therapists work
closely with the members of one
of the most respected professions,
doctors who practice medicine and
surgery and devote their time to
research in an effort to help men
live not only longer, but better.
In working with doctors, thera
pists are trained to carry ret>overy
rom illness, accident, or misfor
tunes of birth beyond the stay in
the hospital, the sickbed at home;
they are trained to tie of use when
the verdict is, “You are going to
live, but you need to learn how
lo use every ability now at your
command in living.” There is a
areat demand for people who are
trained to help crippled limbs
move again, to help hands to see
where eyes cannot, to show how
independence may be achieved
tlirough learning to do simple
thipgs for oneself, and most of all,
0 bring by kind ministrations and
patient understanding, new hope
for happiness and in many cases,
perhaps, the necessary will to live.
Physical Therapists Needed
Both men and women are need
ed as Physical Therapists, and
the curriculum and clinical train
ing is the same for both. Student
applicants are very carefully se
lected because of the very nature
of the work they will learn to per
form. They will work not only with
doctors but with nurses, occupa-
-ional therapists, speech thera
pists, vocational counselors, and
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Here And There
(Mostly Here)
"Spring has sprung — the
grass has riz — I hope the win
ter ain’t left you frizzi"
Sprin-g might have sprung, but
around Elon it seems as if it
has overflowed. The uniform of
the day has been raincoats and
boots, becau.se "ole man weath
er” has surely poured down the
moisture lately. Now when Dr.
Haff discusses water tables and
water levels in his Geology class,
hi.s bright-eyed, young students
should certainly kno'W what he’s
talking about.
Oh well, as the saying goes,
"April showers bring May Flo
wers”, and speaking of May, that
reminds yours truly of some
thing else that May brings.
Exams! Have you ever noticed
how the professors’ briefcase'
seem to become the center of
attention about this time of year,
and how the professors make
doubly sure all their office doors
are locked and their desks are
cleaned of all papers? Wonder
why?
There are two bright aspects
of May, however. The May Dance
and Graduation Day. The May
BY DICK LASHLEY
Dance is all over now along with
the May Day festivities.
Our “devoted" former Student
Body President, Jerry Loy, was
in quite a dither shortly before
toe date for the dance. It seem
ed for a while he had spent our
"hard earned” money on an or
chestra that wasn’t going to
show up. He was already seeing
.stripes and bars in front of his
face before he finally received
confirmation of the orchestra's
appearance via numerous tele
phone calls and as many grey
hairs.
Will Elon be on the semester
system next year? There have
been a few rumors floating
around the campus to that ef
fect. If our old “Alma Mammy”
does switch over, it sure is go
ing to be rough on u£ industrious,
money-hungry students who
work after school. Shouldn’t
worry though, 'cause it's no use
crossing bridges afore you get
to them.
I hear the administration is go
ing to reopen North Dorm again
next year. From what little un
confirmed info I have received,
I understand they are going
park the Freshmen men in the
old joint. Oh well, if they do re
open North, the new men on the
campus can have fun squirrel
hunting and pigeon-tail-salting
in the attic.
It seems we have a "snake
charmer” on the campus now-
a-days.
He took his snakes from the
five and ten;
To gaze at their beady eyes
was his yen.
In Alamance, West, and Moo
ney they knew his fame.
Goozami is what they called
him,
Lynn Newcomb is his name.
The snake wasn’t real folks—
honest.
Getting back to the May Day
festivities, we would like to of
fer our hearty congratulations
to the Dance Committee for the
swell decorations in the gym—
not only for the May Dance, but
the others as well. As long as
we re throwing congrats around,
let’s toss a few to Mrs. Griffin's
and her crew for a wonderful
May Day program, too.
That’s all for now. See y’all
■next issue.
Professor Byrd is a graduate of tlie
University of North Carolina, wh«re be
was sports editor of both the student ne»-3-
paper and the university annual. There,
too, for four years he served as director
of all athletic publicity for the Carolina
Bports teams and for the same period as
director of the University's intramural ath
letic program.
After graduation at the University he
accepted a position as teacher of history
and math and coach of all athletics at
Westfield High School in northwestem
North Carolina. At the same time he served
as reporter and later news editor of ;he
Mount Airy Times, a weekly newspaper,
did news reporting for a number of North
Carolina dailies and wrote a number of
historical articles concerning northwestern
North Carolina for those newspapers and
for “The State Magazine.”
During the last three years of the nine
teen which he spent at Westfield he served
as principal of the high school, and through
all of the period he was active in civic and
religious affairs of the Westfield commu
nity.
He gave up his position there in 1943
to do graduate work at the University
North Carolina, where he received Ihe
M.A. in History in 1949, and since thac
time he has completed most of the worls
for his Ph.D. in History at the University.
He joined the Elon faculty in the fail
of 1949 as Director of Publicity and Pro
fessor of Journalism, and he has also
•taught many courses in History here. He is
now completing his ninth year on the Eloj
faculty. His chief hobbies are sports of
all kinds and research in local and family
history.
With printer's ink in his veins, a poem
from “Selected’ which is entitled ".Mea
sure of Success,” illustrates the spirit si
news work in Prof. Byrd.
When sunset falls upon your day and
fades from out the west.
When business cares are pul away aid
you lie down to rest,
The measure of the day’s success or
failure may be told
In terms of human happiness and not
in terms of gold.
Is there beside some hearth tonight
more joy because you wrought?
Does someone face the bitter fight wtli
courage you have taught?
Is something added to the store of
human happiness?
If so, the day that now is o’er has
teen a real success.
So, to Professor Byrd — "Here’s to a
job well done.”
• * « • »
Congratulations are due to Billie Kaye
Barrett and Chuck Oakley for receiving
“Eppies" as the leading actress and aetor
of the year in student theatrical produc
tions, and also a round of applause is
due to all the Elon Players and their di
rector for their "Successes" this year and
appreciation for al the time and worlt they
put into each and every production.
*****
Oh Those Moments!
Joey DelGais has been having nightly
lectures over in West Dormitory.
Hey, “Boo,” when is your next trip tfl
Virginia.
Square Edmonds and Woody Bro'va
now teaching (he Massachu.setts Hop-
you are interested, please contact them
immediately.
Kaye Tyson seems to think that Easi
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