PA«E FOUR
MAROON AND GOLD
Thursdtey, Oftober
30. 1938
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STEPPIN(i HIGH OLT FRO>T OF ELON COLLEGE BAND
oti eai'.li
They say everything
is for a purpose.
It took me a litilc time to see
the benefits of one Klon custom,
thouBh. B.ick in the Mid-Forties
the sophomores—those gay blades
—would select a choice freshman
for the questionable honor of hav
ing his head shaved. Oh, involun
tarily, of course. As I hinted, 1
failed to appreciate the worth of
all these goings on until my f;"esh-
man roommate. Leopold Malcolm
Smith, was the victim.
1 i^hould, at this stage of the
talc, supply you with the setting
Somt of you who are alien to
the hallowed (hollowed, too, by
now, I suspect I walls of North
Dormitory migiit not know some
)f the more peculiar features of
that old place.
A basketball court was on the
ground .floor. Upwards from that
were dormitories, the doors peep
ing over the athletic abyss. This
overhanis of men .s dorms pre
sented delightful possibilities—
water bombs on opposing and us
ually victorious roundball Rams
and such. The real sport, though,
lurked in a little room beneath
4h« basketball court, so far, far
out of sight and reach of the dor-
This Season
The Elon College Band, which
has developed rapidly in the past
three years under the direction of
Prof Dewey M. Stoweis, played
a big part in the Elon Homecom
ing observance last Saturday. The
band was featured in the Home
coming parade !>nd then appeared
ceremonies at the
in half-time
Elon-Catawba garae.
Leading the band in the parade
Eddie Burke',
Al
and at the game w*s
oi Burlington, as drum major,
so marching with the band was
a fine corps of majorettes, led by
Anita Liles, of Atlanta, Ga. Other
majorettes stepping high were Lu-
hi Roberts, of Dolphin, Va., Carol
Adams, ef Turbeville, Va., and
Sarah Barringer, of Salisbury.
Members of the Elon band this
vear, grouped according to instru
ments, include Earle Miller, Glen-
olden. Pa., Palsy Truitt, Glen Ra
ven, Louis Boyer, Winchester, Va..
Wesley Batten, John McLauchlin,
Glenda Baumgarner and Wallace
Gee, of Burlington, and Earl Har
ris and Nina Matlock, of Elon Col
lege, all with clarinets;
Bobby Sykes and Tom Swice-
Jood, of Burlington, Terry Clem,
Elon College, Bob Crawford,
Smithfield, Va., Larry Dewar,
Greensboro, Carl Whitesell, Gib-
.ionville, David Sorrell, Nelson,
Va., William Parham, Henderson.
James Coates, Garner, Mary Heleu
Wilkins, Virgilina, Va., and Rob
ert Van Der Linden, Oranteste.id.
mitories. A master light switch | jndies, with trumpets;
■was located in that basement j jjobby Keim and James Payne,
cubbyhole. Burlington, Charles Manikos, Elon
A deft manipulation of switch Barbara Day, South Bos-
would shut off slectricity for all|(on va., John Van Benschoten,
of North. In those days, Elon's | Mahon, Martinsville,
sports picture was dark, indeed, jjj Boelte, Vernon HiU,
any way you considered it.
jVa., with saxaphones; ,>immy Ger-
Catawba Defeats Elon
14-8 In Grid Contest
The disaster-ridden Christians
dropped their fifth successive
football game last Saturday af
ternoon when the Catawba Indians
came from behind in the last half
;o grab a 14 to 8 decision that
marred the festivities of Elon's
Homecoming weekend.
Ronnie Ball, who failed for the
first time this season to start at
quarterback for the Catawba out
fit, proved the hero of the Indian
victory when he raeed sixty yards
on a keeper play for the third
quarter touchdown that put his
team ahead for keeps. He then
passed to end Ted Bates tor the
two-poinler tha made the count
14 to 8.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
on Catawba
Well, back to another indoor Burlington, Tommy Lewis,
sport, the sacrificial freshmanGrady Radford, Dra-
lamb who was to be shorn, Leo- and Harrison Harding, Em-
pold Malcolm Smith. jporia, Va., with trombones;
One night—1 think it was about Walter Bass, South Boston, Va..
this time of year—Leopold and Roland Hodge, Burlington,
I were in our top floor corner j,ass horns; Pete Curtis, Dur-
room studying. 1 don't lie to you.)),am, and Eldridge Matkins, Elon
Right in the middle of Cotton College, with French horns; Don-
Mather’s treatise on how to spot'ajd Suddarth, Sanford, and Wil-
a witch in one easy American .^it 'liam Hassell, Jamestown, with bar-
•era’.ure lesson, the lights went out. ijjonpg. Nancy Hager, Burlington,
We concluded this was anothei | (jutg. jane Owens. Richmond, Va..
form of deviltry, this light going Carolyn French, Franklin, Va , and
out, for it was too early for has- j„(jy Burkeholder, Reidsvile, Pa.,
Stepping high-wide-and-handsome out front of the EoKi College
Band this season one sees Anita Liles, of Atlanta, Ga., left above,
who is chief majorette, and Eddie Burke, of Burlington, right, who
is drum major for the musicians. They leed the band, which num
bers more than fifty pieces this year, and which has shown tremen
dous growth in the past three years under the direction of Prof.
Dewey M. Stowers. "
Wrecks Injure Elon Persons
ketball season.
with bells;
Soon, the patter of rascally foot-: pat Kelly, Pleasant Ridge, Va.,
steps were outside our door. They Richard Militeer, South Norfolk,
had the unmistakable thud of soph-'Va., James Tsighis, Millburn, N.
omore feet. Leopold was an ir-;j^ Linwood Hurd. New Britain,
repressible clod of a host. HejConn., Douglass Scott, Durham,
didn't swing wide the portal, much Louis Gentry, Greensboro,
less have a kind word for his with drums.
guests, who were waiting patient-^ Assisting Professor Stowers in
ly without in the dark. idirecting this year’s Elon Band i«
There commenced a bumping ^ Prof. Pat Johnson, of the music
against the door. Perhaps, with department, and Walter Bass, a
no light, the lads out there only snident from South Boston, Va.
lost their bearings, mistaking the I
(CoHtlnued Jro« Page One)
Hill Road and Tucker Street Ex
tension in Burlington about 8
o'clock Friday morning, when two
Elon College day students were
injured in a head-on collision, one
of them being hurt seriously.
The Elon students injured in
this accident were Mac Payne, var
sity baseball player, of Swepson-
ville, and Ben Davis Farmer, of
Route 1, Swepsonville, who were
enroute to classes at Elon in a
car driven by Farmer.
They were injured when their
car collided head-on with a car
driven by Joseph C. Hicks, of
Route 1, Burlington, at a point
about eighty feet oast of the Tuc
ker Street ifitersec'ion on the Cha
pel Hill Road. The cars met head
on in the westbound traffic lane
and it appeared that the Hicks car
was in the wrong lane at the lime
of the impact.
Mae Payne suffered the most
serious hurts, and reports from
the Alamance County Hospital
during the weekend were that he
was in critical condition. Farmer
was kept in the hospital for ob
servation at the time of the acci
dent, but he was not believed
seriously injured.
Joseph C. Hicks, driver of the
other car, was listed as suffering
multiple lacerations and abrasions,
and he was released from the hos
pital after receiving treatment.
(ioor for the way out.
’ It really must have been frus
trating out there. Soon iblushi,
Leopold and I detected swearing,
unmistakably in sophomore ac
cent.
"We must clean up their
speech,” Leopold said nobly.
He reached for our broom,
qaietly opened the door and heav
ed the broom.
I still marvel why the broom
didn't hit any of those hair-cut
ting sophomores. The broom did
make an awful clatter down the
steps, thovgk.
Leopold kept his full head of
vavT. black hair, too.
Naturally, the sophomores tried
to make it uncomfortable for Leo
pold. seeing as how they failed to
chop off hi« hair. A student gev-
crnment suit was instigated, cit
ing Leopold for creating noise with
a broom during quiet study hours.
A Junior student named Reid,
roommate o( Leopold, elected to
represent the defendant who was
acquitted (else you wouldn’t be
reading this' on a somewhat con
vincing argument. The broom
made the nois>e. not Leopold who
had remained discreetly silent.
So, as we hinted, everything has
its purposes, even sophomore
scalping rituals at Elon. It gives
a man an opportunity to develop
his ingenuity.
Or, if you prefer, the angles.
PKESBYTEKL4N
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attempted run for extra points fell
short, leaving the count at 21-6.
Seconds later, however, Presby
terian had another counter, for
David Morgan, Blue Stocking half
back, grabbed the kick-off after
the Elon touchdown and raced 90
yards down the field and over the
goal. The try for point failed, but
it widened the PC margin to 27-6.
Homecoming Weekend
(Contimuert From Page On»' Women’s Athletic Association —
ris, of Norfolk, Va.; Sigma Mu Fuqua, of Elon College, with
Sigma — Sandy Neighbors, of For-i Daggett, of Mount Kisco, N.
est City, with Ronnie Bergman, Womans Dormitory — Faye these
of Uncasville, Conn.; iGordon, of Suffolk, Va., with Jack
Elon Choir — Julie Waldo, of Collins, of Brattleboro, Vt.; Slu-
Holland, Va., with Paul Duke, of Christian Association — Ted-
Holland. Va.; Elon Players — Win-1cly Standley, of Wenham, Mass.,
nie Ann Watson, of Sanford, with j"*'*’ Hank VanHelden, of Wash-
Jimmy Gross, of Sanford; Min-j‘■'Ston, D. C.; South Hall — Sylvia
isterial Association — Shelby Gun-j^'™®, of Winston-Salem, with John
ter, of Moncure, with Rex Thomas, j of Virginia Beach, Va.;
of Sanford; Chemistry Club —land Day Students — Jane Keck.
Another pass interception set up i Becky Hatch, of Burlington. with|°f Burluigton, with James McCau
'r
ihe final Blue Hose touchdown Ken Dudley, of Hagerstown, Md.;
oarely seven plays later. Bill Og
den, Presbyterian guard, intercep
ted on the Elon forty-tire and
raced 38 yards to the Elon seven,
ind four plays later Joe Nixon
pushed over from the one. The
placement w'as good for the final
i4 to 6 score.
ley, of Burlington.
Active In Churches
PLAYER REMEW
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lists; Ben Rushion, Mrs. Mel Woo- church". and LesUe Johnsion, who
(Continued From Page On^
er Moore served as organist and
Prof. Patrick Johnson as choir
iliiector for the Elon College
church; Prof. Fred Sahlmann was
organist at the Lutheran Church
in Burlington; Prof. and Mrs.
Charles Lynam were present and
became members of the Elon
at Zion, Rev. Robert Hultman at
Biscoe, Rther, Providence Chapel
and Shady Grove, Rev. William
Joyner at Liberty, Rev. Garland'
Bennett, at Ramseiir, Antiock and
Shiloh in Randolph County, Rev.
Ly«wood Hubbard at Pleasant
Ridge and Spoon’s Chapel, and
Rev. William Parker at Elk Spur.
Other students were serving
WATCHTOWER
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stairs to the right. The only way
we could see this being accom
plished would be through some
sort of monitor of "police” sys
tem. We certainly are not in fa
vor of such a system in this col
lege and we believe that the
majority of students will agree
with us. True, it might be well
and good for a safety commit
tee to encourage students to
walk to the right on the parti
cular stairs which they are us
ing. The advantages of keeping
to the right might be stressed
by clever posters or other re
minders. However, we wonder
if there is a definite need even
for this. We can't seem to re-
mem'oer anyone being tardy to
class because of congestion on
the stairs. We believe that most
Elon students politely walk le
the right on the stairs . . . Many
of us have a number of meet
ings to attend several times each
week. Sometimes we become al
most overburdened with work
because we accept too many
extra-curricular duties in addi
tion to our regular academic
load. It is not unusual to hear
some of us complaining absut
these things. But, how many of
■'overburdened” folks
could you talk into changing?
Not many, we feel . . . Perhaps
no single thing would make any
of us happifH- than the forma
tion of the habit of stopping five
minute* each week to count our
blessings. It would be well for
all of us to think regularly of
those persons who would give
their right arm to be in college,
but who, because of finangial
condiiions alone, are denied the
privilege and opportunity to at
tending BOllege. If we wonld cul
tivate this little habit of being
thankful for all of the wonder
ful things that we have, we
could expect to meet a sea of
happy faces every time that we
walked out on the Elon CoU«;;e
campus.
;1 First Downs 18
i9 Yards Gain Rushing 325
iO Yards Lost Bushing 35
)9 Net Yards Rushing 290
:3 Passes Attempted 15
12 Passes Completed 5
163 Yards Gain Passing 143
522 T»tal Gains Scrimmage 433
( Opp. Passes Irdercepted 3
9 Runback Int. Pasess 50
8 Number Punts 4
38.8 Ave. Yards Punts 26.5
105 Runback All Kicks 36
2 Fumbles Lost 2
55 Yards Penalties 10
Score By Periods:
Elon - 0 8 0 0— 8
Catawba 0 6 8 0—14
Elon Touchdown — McLean (8-
pass from Maidon). Extra Point —
Markosky (2-pointer on plunge).
Catawba Touchdowns — Morrow
(S-fun), Ball (60-run). Extra Point
— Bates (2-poiBter on pass from
Ball).
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The Indians had scored first in
the ball game early in the second
quarter when Sam Morrow, a sub
stitute halfback, ripped five yards
into the end zone to climax a 44-
yard Catawba drive. Larry Gil-
i dersleeve failed on the plunge for
extra points, and Catawba was
ahead at that point by 6 to 0.
Elon bounced back like a r»b-
ber ball to take an 8-6 lead in
that same quarter. Charlie Mai-
dnn, who played the full game
despite injuries that had handi
capped him for two games, com
pleted four passes in five tries to
spark the Christians on a 63-yard
drive, and he topped it off with
Thomas Leader
Of M. A. Group
Rex Thomas, #f Sanford, u
the leader ef the Elon ■\i’i„is.
terial Association this
serving as president of the shj!
dent ministers. Other officer,
are Bob Hultman, of Elon C»|.
lege, vice president: Mary .\n»
Hartwen, of West liarnstablf,
Mass., secretary: and David
Horn, of Phil.:(de!phia, treasurer.
Faye Gordon, of Suffolk, Va.i
is chairman for the Congrega'
tional Christian Home for Chil-
dren; Beverly Ward, of Roci;.
ville, Conn., is fellowship chair
man; and Siisanne Fisk, of Mon
tague, Mass., is publicity chair
man. The group is already oil
to a busy start, having had a
number of fine programs which
featured Dr. Dearborn, of the
Catawba College faculty, jnd W.
B. Terrell, Elon Alumni secre
tary. The group has also paid
a visit to the Congregational
Christian Home for Children
which adjoins the college oani-
pus.
an 8-yard pass to Bob Molvean in
the end zone for the score. Tony
Markosky plunged for the points
that gave Elon the half-time lead.
Then came the fatal third quar
ter when Ronnie Ball broke away
for the 60-yard touchdown sprint
that proved the winning play. .4
number of Elon players had
chances to stop Ball, but he
squirmed loo.se and dashed into
pay-dirt after Larry Gilderslesve
threw the key block.
Charlie Maidon, who leads the
Conference in both pa.^^.sing and
total offense, had a great day with
iiis whip-sling passing, completing
to of 20 passing attempts for a
total of 137 yards. He had 17
yards rushing but lost 16 for a net
of *ne yard that gave him 138
yards total for the day and kept
him well above the 100-yard aver
age per game.
Bob McLean, Christian half
back, also had a fine day in the
pass-grabbing field as he caught
seven passes for 97 yards and one
touahdown. Tony Carcaterra, who
caught two of Maidon’s passes, al
so intercepted two of Catawba's
passes during the game.
1
Hundreds of other Elon students
and many faculty members were
on, costumes, and David Horn, 1 3 managur of the College Book '“^t same Sunday ia the field of'*“ attendance at churches here or
lighting. I Store, was directing the choir at music, with Wynn Riley as in their h*me communities, and
And proving to be courageous conj^-egational Chris-Avenue Metho-
tian Church. Church in Burlington; Tom-
While the faculty members were'^*^ Boland Sparks as choir di-
;hus engaged, a number of stu-' ^‘^‘^tor at Bethany Presbyterian
dents were serving pastorates of i h, Donald Harris as organist
^■oung troupers and rising on all
occasions to what was expected of
theme were Betty. Barbara. Bev
erly and Bob Benson, children of
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Benson, who
played Annie's sisters and brother.
They added much to the show.
widely scattered churches, among, Hocutt Memorial Baptist
them being Rev. Grant Bums Stanley Carey as 01-
Carclina, Rev. Thomas Liverman,[ganist at Grace Methodist Church pus
many of them not listed were
serving as members of the choir
or as active participants in Sun
day school, attesting to the strong
current of religious interest pre
vailing on the Elon CoUege cam-
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