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MAROON AND GOLD
^eLUME 38
ELON COLI,EGE, N. C.
THURSDAY, HECEMBF.K 18. 1958
Nl'MBER 5
\^TST DORM IS SPLEINDOR OF A WINTER WONDERLAND
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Seen in the midst of a real ‘ Winter Wonderland," the night view of West Dormitory pictured
above is typical of Wie beauty of the Elon campus wearing the ermine blanket that was Isft after
the first snow of the winter sea-on, which struck last week and brought dre.ims of a ‘ White
Chrislmas" to one and all
Twenty-Four Students Are ISumed
For Collegiate ‘TF/io’s W ho’ Honor
Pi Ganima Mu
Takes Three
New Members
Twenty-tour Elon College stu-,listed as juniors a year ago.
d»nts have been named for a place
in the 1958-59 edition of “Who’s
Who in American Colleges and
Universities,” acc»rding to an an
nouncement received by Dr. H.
H. Cunningham, dean of the col
lege, from the headquarters of
the national collegiate honor
group.
This is one less than the group
of 25 honored from the Elon Col-
Other seniors chosen this year
for the first time are Ronnie
Bergman, of Uncasville, Conn.;
Nick DiSibio, of Inwood, L. I.,
N. Y.; Kenneth Dudley, of Hager.s-
town, Md.; Carol Earle, of Burling
ton; Guy Lambert, of Newport.
R. I.; Louan Lambeth, of Brown
Summit; Martha Langley, of Sta
ley.
Richard Lashley, of Leaksville
The Elon College chapter o£ Pi
Gamma Mu, national honorary so
cial science fraternity, initiated
three new members at a lunch- student body last year, butjJohn McLauchlin, of Burlington;
eon meeting in McEwen Memor-^u jg (,£ [[jg largest groups I Wayland Medley, of Greensboro;
ial Dining Hall on Wednesday, I j,gnopg(j ffon, Elon by the “Who's j Tommie Boland Sparks, of Elon
December 10th, with a program ^ljg” publication. All of tho.sa;College; Ikey Tarleton, of Durham;
Holidays To Be^in Tomorroii
The annual Christmas holiday |
period will gel underway tumor* I
row for the hundreds of Elon !
College students and for facul
ty members as well, with the va*
cation for day-time students to
begin at noon and for the Kv-
ening School students to begin
when the Friday night classes
close at 9:45 o’clock, accord
ing to an announcement from
the office of Dr. 11. H. Cunning
ham. dean of the coHege.
The Vule season holidays will
continue for two full weeks, with
the classes to resume on reg*
ular schedule on Monday, Jan
uary 5th, giving an extra week
end that extends the vacation
to sixteen full days. Day class
es will resume at 8 o'cUok that
Monday morning, and night
classes will begin that night at
7 o'clock.
The exodus of students from
the campus will begin as soon
as they are through with their
riasses and many of the fac
ulty members will depart
the campus at the same
time for visits with
home folks or
friends.
which featured
cers
election of offi-1 cifoseii
are members of Elon’s j Gilbert Watts, of Laurinburg;
and the reading of a paper] junior and senior classes, with I Clyde Welch, of Burlington; and
the list including eighteen seniors j Peggy Zimmerman, of Elon Col
and six juniors. | lege.
Four of the group, all of them Members of the
seniors, are honored for the sec
ond time. They are Douglas Al
bert, of Lahore, Pakistan; Joyce
Myers, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Lin-
I da Simpson, of Elon College; and
Blaze Damages
Chapel Theatre
by one of the new members.
The new members initiated were
Richard Kopko, of Monessen, Pa.;
Clyde Welch, of Burlington; and
Mrs. Vera Mae Jones, of Graham.
Kopko read a paper entitled
“Southern Politics, A Study in
Historiography.”
New officers named at the of Sanford. All were
luncheon include Nicholas DiSi-j - .
bio, of Inwood, L. I., N. Y., pres-!
ident; Clyde Welch, vice president;
and Vera Mae Jones, secretary. |
Dr. H. H. Cunningham, dean-
of the college, is faculty advisor*
for the group, which seeks to |
stimulate the study of the social
sciences among both students and
faculty members in colleges and
ur.iversities throughout the world.
Founded in 1924, the group now
has more than 5,000 members.
The national organization has
more than one hundred chapters, i discovered about 1 o’clock.
It is a member of the Association confined to the theatre area
of College Honor Societies and isja„(j (jjd little damage to the re-
affiliatcd with the American As-, of the three-story brick
sociation for the Advancement of j
Science and with the National 1
Academy of Economics and PoU-| The fire apparently started m a
tical Science. j back-stage storage room of the
(theatre, which is headquarters for
I the Elon Players, student drama-
1 tic group, and most of the damage
1 was in that room and in an ad-
junior class
chosen this year are James Elder,
of Burlington; Kay Hughes, of
Elon College; James Humphrey,
of Southern Pines; Linwood Hurd,
of New Britain, Conn.; and Steve
Mauldin, of Winston-Salem.
Mooney
Monday
The Mooney Chapel Theatre, lo-i trucks from Gibsonville and Gra-
cated on the second floor of the ham also answered the alarm and
Mooney Building on the Elon Col-|remained on^ a stand-by
lege campus, was damaged Mon-
I day afternoon by a fire of un-
I known
origin. The blaze, which
Added Members
For Legislature
Rfcognizine the need tar addi-1 joining dressing room, with some
tlonal representation due to the damage to the stage itself. The
increa-.,ing student body, the Elon 1 theatre was unoccupied at the
student voters approved the allot-
nient of added members for the
Student Legislature in a special
election held on Thursday, De-
tember 4th.
The constitutional amendment,
"hich provides for three addition
al legislaKve members each for
!)oth Smith Hall and the Day Stu-
lienls, was passed by a »»te of
to 43. Ths amendment is
‘ake effect immediatelr.
time, although a class in drama
tics had been held there about an
hour earlier.
Passing stuJents discovered the
fire when smoke began seeping
around closed windows of the the
atre, and put in the alarm that
brought ‘rucks from the Burling-
to^ton and Elon College fire depart-
1 meats within a few minutes. Other
Fall Quarter
Honor Group
Is Announced
One h'undred forty-'.hrce Elon|
students are on the Dean's List I
after making honor grades on all^
Iheir work for the Fall Quarter, ^
•iccordfng to an announcemeni
from Dr. H. H. Cunningham, deaa
of students. Eleven of the group
had no grade less than “A” on
any subject, and 132 others had
.lothing less than ‘‘B ' on any
course.
The eleven all “A” students
ncluded Mabel Anderson. Mary-
dell Bright, Phyllis Hopkins, Dc-
loios James, Richard Kopko, No
lle Luce, Chloe Dean McPherson, |
Jeffrey Melvin, Nancy Michael,'
Joyce Myers and Helen Wright. ■
Those on the “B” honor list
include Carol Adams, Carolyn An
derson, Tommy Andrews, Carolyn
Apple, Thomas Ayres, Marshall;
Barnes, liosalie Beal, John Bede,
iTrcddie Bell, Mary Lou Booth,
Vanda Kay Bowman, Deanna
Braxton, Etta Britt. Martha Brit
tle, Maurice Bro.sky, Woodrow
UroRvn, Mary Ann Buck, Kainey
Burch, Robert Burgess,
June Campbell, Angie Cham-
bless Robert Chandler. Watt Cobb.
Charles Coleman, Billy Coley, Bill
Dag5(?tt, Albert Dalola, Jimmie,
Dal n Claude Davis, James Da-]
vis, Nick DiSibio, Ken Dudley,!
Annie Edwards, James Elder, Tom-1
mie Elmore, Doris Fitzgerald,!
Earl Fogleman, Vivian Franks,'
Carolyn French. I
Lloyd Gilliam, Oliver Gilliam, j
Loretta Glo.^son, Bobby Goodman.
Faye Gordon, Willard Gordon,
Hugh Gravitt, Stanley Griffin,:
James Gross, Willie Mae Haizlip.
C. G ilaii, Dennie Harvey. Re
becca Hatch. Bob Hendricks. Mary
Ann Hepner. Kenneth Hill, Wi>-'
Hilliard, Charles Howell,,
Prof. M. E. Wooton, director of
dramatics at the college, stated I liam
that he had left the theatre about jyjrgii Howell, Betsy Huffines, Kay
12; 30 o’colck and that he detect-j Hughes, Bob Hultman.
ed no sign of a blaze at that time, j Hedrick Isley, Wallace Jerne-
He was called from his lunch atjgai,. Ronald Joinesi, Vera Mae
home about thirty minutes later!.Tones, Ann Joyce, Jackie Joyce,
when the alarm sounded. I^ane Kidd, Guy Lambert, Martha
» I- f n>=i Langley, Bobby Lawson, Loren
The fireproof construction of the.
building, which has concrete floors, Bobby Loy, Jimmy Mar-
helped prevent spread of the fire. | {.hall, David Matthews. Jo Mc-
and there was no damage to the Adams, V'ayland Medley. Melba
Student Union and book store on! M^-letiou. Earl Miller. Frank More,
J .V,' - J^ek Newman. William Parham,
the first floor and nothmg . Parker. Floyd Parker. Uoyd
than smoke damage to e'^ssrooms ^ ^^^a Patterson, James
and offices on the upper floors, p^yae, James Pegram, Howard
The costumes used by the Play-'Pennincrton, Linda Perry, Frances
»r= in oresenting “The Heires.^”' f'iekard, Nuel Qulsenberry, Gene
, Riiodes, Kenneth Rogers, Vernon
week were removed without' ■ o
” Rogers, Donald Same, Judy Sam
uels, Thomas Sears, Stuart Sem-
ple, Betty Shoaf, Jacqueline Simp
son.
Sylvia Sims, Margaret Smith,
Nancy Smith, Thomas Sparkman.
Tomr ,e Sparks, Kay Stewart,
Oliver Strickikand, Roger Sud-
last
damage, but much stage equip
ment was burned, and the thea
tre auditorium suffered smoke and
water damage. President J. E-
Danieley could not estimate the
damages, but he expressed the
hope that insurance would cover
most of the loss.
t
A
Esso Foundation
Grant For Elon
Klon College, as one of eleven
North Carolina liberal arts col>
l«C^es receiving; anmial grants
from the Esso Education Toun-
dation> received on December
8th a check for $2,000 from the
foundation that Is sponsored by
the Esso Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey. The reception
of the check was announced by
Dr. J. E, Danieiey, Elon -
president
Other North Carolina
liberal arts col-
leipes receiving
e:rants this year
included Catawba.
Duke. Greensboro.
Guilford, lligrh
Point, Meredith,
Pfeiffer, Queens,
Salem and Wake
Forest.
The North Caro
lina institutions
were among 350 in
the United States
to share a total
of $1,423,000 in
grants. The 1S58
funds brings Esso ^
^ifts since 195!^
to $5,000,000 or
more.
There were 279
of the jrrante for
unrestricted use. in
keeping with educators’
desires, who stat«d that
such unrestricted funds
are the most useful type
of educational aid. since tliey
can be used for faculty sala
ries and other oj>eratljig ex
penses.
The Foundation also gave spe
cial grants to the National Fund
for Medical Education, to the
' United Negro College Fund and
! to the Council for the Advance-
I ment of Small Colleges. Elon’s
I last previous grant came in
I 1956, since the grants rotated
among a large number of col
leges.
Cunningham Given
Award By Sh
(Continued on Page Four)
Dr. H. H. Cunningham. Elon
College’s dean, was presented re
cently with the R.D.W. Connor
Award for the best article pub
lished during 19.58 in the North
Carolina Historical Review, which
is the official magazine of the
5tate Department of Archives and
Hi.story.
The award was announced De
cember 5th at the annual meet
ing in Raleigh of the North C«r-
olina Literary and Historical As-
Mciation and was one of several
awards presented to North Caxo-
j lina writers in varying fields
literature.
The prize-winning article by Dr.
Cunningham was entiUei\ “Ra
leigh and Its Confederate Hospi
tals" and gave a detailed and
carefully documented study of the
work done at Raleigh in oaring
for Confederate wounded during
the Civil War.
The article was written as a
result of intensive research by Dr
( snninghaTi. re.^uarrh ' hich tul
minatcd with the publication early
last year of a widely-acclaimed
book, “Doctors in Gray." which
was the first comprehensive study
of the Confederate array s medi
cal service.
Dr. Cunningham, who Joined
the Elon College faculty in 19.'il
us chairman of the Department
of History, was appointed dean
of the college in the summer of
1957 and has served in that capa
city since that time.