panoramic View Of Damage Done By Fire In Eloii Player Storage R(M)m Saturday AfteriiM>ii
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Elon’s Baskeleers
Need Support
From Every Student
MAROON AND GOLD
Let’s Get Everybody
Out For
That llich l*uint Game
VOLUME 3S
ELO\ COLLEGE, N. C.
WEnNESD.VY.JANl'ARV 14, 1959
NUMBER 6
Fake Bomb Call And Fire Provide Excitement On Campus
Girls Dorm Evacuated ' Fifteen New ' sc/cvt
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On Warning Of ‘Bonih^ Members Foi
Two women’s dormitories on , , . rri
the Elon College campus were ^ FRAT SWEETHEART
I evacuated about 10 o’clock last j I
Thursday nigiit when an unknown
person telephoned that a bomb
had been placed in the buildings.
II was another of the series of
‘fake bomb” calls which have
plagued schools and other insti
tutions in Alamance County with-
]n recent weeks.
The call, which came just be
fore 10 o’clock, was received by
a student worker in the office of
Ihe West Dormitory, who noti
fied the college authorities at
once. The caller, who spoke in a
muffled voice, hung up quickly.
Mrs, Marjorie Hereford, dean of |
women, and Mrs. W. D, Florence,
her assistant, immediately set in
motion evacuation plans -which had
been pre-arranged early in De
cember when other suoh calls were
being received in this area. All
the girls in both West Dormitory
and Virginia Hall were transfer
red quickly to Alamance Hall,
central classr' im building on the
campus, while a search was be
ing made.
Search teams were formed
SANDRA NEIGHBORS
Sandra Neighbors, freshman girl
from Forest City, has been elected
“Sweetheart of Sigma Mu Sigma”
for the 1958-59 college year. A
major in music and specializing
in piano, she is a member ef the
Elon College Choir. She is a grad
uate of Cool Springs High, where
quickly, and working with assis
tance from a number of the girls active in the band, a
in the dormitories, both buildings ■ student council
were completely searched. No evi-'^^^^ journalism.
Hpnpa rtF nTtxr Kr\TTsK woe frmn/1 —
College Is Host
To Elon Firemen
dence of any bomb was found, ^
and the occupants of the two
buildings returned to their quar-,
ters.
Assistance in the search was!
given by Chief Henry Hilliard ofj Collese administra-
the Elon poUce department. Chief j members of the
William Clark and others fromj Colleee fire department
the Elon fire department, by Chief members of the town’s
Jesse James and four members j commissioners at a
of the Building police department,!
and by three deputies from the i
Alamance County sheriffs depart-!
ment. Large numbers of students i
also participated in the quest.
President J. E. Dauieley, com-|
menting the next morning os the,
incident, said, “We regret the in-| ^ests and spoke
convenience and trouble caused, . . «
Masonic Frat
The Lambda Chapter of Sigma
,\Tu Sigma Fraternity, Masonic af-
t'Hiated social and service group
on the Elon College campus, has
just added fifteen new student
members and has extended hon
orary membership to two mem
bers of the college faculty and
staff. ^ 1
The new student members in-,
I elude Jack Newman, David Mat-j
: '.hews, Bobby Boswell and Curtis,
Bare, of Burlington; Ken Rogers,i
of Sanford; Thomas Sears, of Mc-|
Leansville; Leonard Riddle, of'
South Boston, Va.; Joseph Boyette,
of Carthage; Lewis Boyer, of Win
chester, Va,; Dick More, of Bruns
wick, Me,; Donald Rankin, of Mi
ami Beach, Fla.; Earle MUler, of
Glenoldert, Pa.; David Horn, of
Philadelphia, Pa.; Bob King, of
Supply; and Pete Curtis, of Dur
ham.
The two faculty and staff mem
bers inducted as honorary mem
bers are Dr, James M, Hess, mem
ber of the English faculty, who
has held Masonic membership for
37 years and who has held nu
merous Masonic offices; and Wil
liam B, Terrell, alumni secretary,
who has been a 32nd degree Ma
son since 1938 and a member of
the Sudan Temple of the Shrine.
Officers of the Lambda Chap
ter are Guy Lambert, president;
Bobby Wilkins, first vice-president;
Gordon Yancey, second vice-pres
ident; Grady Radford, treasurer;
Wynn Riley, secretary; Edward
Wilson, guide; Walter Bass, guard;
Charles Howell, athletic manager,
and Prof, John Graves, faculty
advisor.
The damages to Elon Player
stage scenery and equipment in
last Saturday’s fire on the sec
ond floor of the Mooney Build
ing is pictured in graphic style
in the panoramic picture at the
top of this page. The picture,
made by revolving the head of
the Maroon and Gold camera
to various sides of the storage
rH)m, indicates the extent of the
blaze.
hloii Professors
Altend Meets
Several members of the Elon
College faculty attended meetings
of learned societies during the re
cent Christmas vacation, with two
of them taking in meetings in
Washington and two others at
tending gatherings in New York
Dr, and Mrs, Konstantinas Avi-
zonis went to Washington for the
annual meeting of the American
Historical Association in Washing
ton from December 28 through De
cember 30, and Dr, Richard M,
Haff attended session.s of the
American Association for the Ad-
vancementj of Science and the
Americal Anthropological Asso
ciation on December 27.
Dr, and Mrs, W. W. Sloan were
delegates to four meetings in N»w
York. Dr. Sloan attended the ses-
.sions of the National Association
of Biblical Instructors; the Society
for BiWical Literature and Exe
gesis and the American Schools
of Oriental Research, held from
December 29 through December
31. Mrs. Sloan attended the meet
ing of the American Association
of Teachers of Spanish and Por
tuguese, htld December 29 and
30.
Night School I
Government
is Changed
[ The Evening School Is no long-
icr part of nor under the control
- of Student Government, accord
ing to an announcement made by
Dr. H. H. Cunningham, dean of
the college, at a meeting held in
his office on Tnesday, January
13th. A similar announcement had
'oeer. made to the faculty earlier.
The suspension of student gov
ernment in the night tlasses was
due to lack of interest and sup
port on the part of the evening
students, most of whom have full
time jobs and thus have little time
■ for participation in campus ac-
I tivities.
Mooney Building h Hit
By Fire Last Saturday
RESUMES DL'TIES
dinner in McEwen Memorial
Dming Hall on Tuesday even- ’
ing of this week as a token of j ]^C i^rOUp
appreciation f*r fine co»peration j
given to the coUege by the i
groups. I
President J. E. Danieley wel- ;
, ■ “““ -‘V’—I briefly of the college’s apprecia-
Dy this criminal act. and we hope efficient services
that the guilty party will be ap-; ^^^jgred by tlie firemen on the
Prehended and punisked.” ! ^^sion of two fires which have
“We are grateful.” he contin-! Mooney Building within
ued, ‘•for the dedicated public ser-j month. Dr. H. H. Cun- ,
vants who came out in freezing | ^am expressed appreciation j
* I. _ 1 ^ ~ ^ I* • •I -M AittA
for tke cooperative spirit of the j
town board.
weathe* ■ help search the build
ings. The policemen and firemen
rendered a fine service, and we j '"p^g' chief William Clark re-
rippreciate their assistance. We; gponded for the Elon firemen
J'.so appreciate the calm, sensible; a«d accepted a gift which the
nd cooperative attitude on the college authorities had made to
art of the students. Without their
ssistance the incident could not
>ave been handled in such an or-
Isrly manner.”
the department, and Mayor John
D. Schmidt responded for the
commissioners and expres.sed ap
preciation for the dinner.
In Regular Meet
Plans for a constitution for the i
Home Economics Club were dis
cussed at the regular January
meeting of the group, which was
held in the departmental lounge
ion Tuesday night, January 13th.
! Eleven members and one visitor
were present with the club advisor.
It was agreed that a constitu-l
tion is needed, and a committee j
was named to consider such a'
document, the committee consist
ing of Margaret Smith, Elizabeth
Shoffner, and Jerrie Nall.
A number of club projects were
also discussed, after which Hele?
Forrest presented an interesting
program.
Fire inspection
Held On Campus
All buildings on the Elou Col
lege «ampus were given a thor
ough inspection for fire hazards
on December 16th and 18th, with
the inspection directed by Cap-
tnin James Moore, r>fficial of
the Burlington Fire U-partment,
who was accompauied by Dr.
J. E. Danieley and representa
tives of the college staff and
student body.
The campus inspection, start
ed Jbst one day after a fire had
struck the Mooney Building,
was promoted by the student
safety committee, compo.sed af
Ernest Linehan, chairman. Bill
OUrtr. CaH Fuller, Jo McAdams
and Lester McCaskill. Hazards
diMovered at the time ar© la
1 process of correction.
! At a meeting which included
' President Ronnie Bergman and
Vice President Linwood Hurd, of
the Student Government organiza-!
tion, along with departmentar
heads and other faculty members,
j had met and discussed this sever
ance of the Evening School from
student control, and it was unan
imously agreed that It was the
best thing to do, according to the
announcement from the dean's of-
fice.
> It was pointed out that there
is no application of the honor sys-'
tem to evening classes and that
there appears no community feel
ing amoi.g n^ght students tor such
a system, such as is felt a'mong
the day-time students.
President J. E. Danieley spoke
to the night students on the sub
ject, pointing out that there is no
unfavorable reflection against
their group, but simply a recog
nition of the fact that such an
organization appears difficult in
view of existing conditions. It was
pointed out that night students
still hav» the power of petition.
There's an old adage that trou
bles never come singly, and mem-
! bers of the Elon Players would
vouch for the truth of the saying
after the Elon College dramatics
department on the second floor of
Mooney Building was hit Saturday
afternoon by its second fire within
afternoon, its second fire within
, lour weeks.
The blaze, which was discovered
about 4:40 o'clock Saturday after
noon. occurred in a small room on
Mooney's second floor in which
the student dramatic group had
stored stage properties, costumes
and supplies. The room was bare
ly three doors down the hall from
!the Mooney Chapel Theatre, which
was the scene of a similar fire
on Monday, December 15.
Through prompt action by the
fire departments of both Elon Col
lege and Burlington, the Saturday
MRS. M.\RJORIF, llI-JtEFORD ! afternoon blaze was confined to
, , . I the small storage room in which
Mrs. Marjone Hereford^ Lion s,
dean of women resumed her dut- theatrical
l,«. arfA ornpn ** ''
ies on tWe college faculty when
the facL , and students returned
to the tjmpus | damage to the other portions of
holidays. She had ^en at her
home in Loaisville. Ky.. for sev-i
properties stored there, although
there was some smoke and water
i
I This limitation of damage was
eral weeks recuperating from in-j
juries which she sustained in an
possible because of fire-proof con
struction of the three-story brick
building. Just as was the case in
the December blaze, the concrete
floors and the masonry interior
walls proved their value.
Circumstances surrounding the
Saturday fire were somewhat sim
ilar to those of the one in Decem
ber, for Prof. M. E. Waoton, fac
ulty director of dramatics, had
been working in the storage room
Plfjn Tests For
^i'^hl Students
Placement tes'.s tor new Even
ing School students, who plan to
enter Elon at the opening of the
second semester on January 26th.
have been set for Wednesday night,
January 21st, with the math tests
to begin at 7 o'clock and the Eng
lish tests to start at 8:30 o’clock.
Registration of the night students
will be helti at 6:.30 o’clock on
Thursday, January 22nd. Class tic
kets will be picked up at 6:30
a'clockon Monday, January 26th.
automobile accident near the cam
pus on Octobei 23rd. She was in
a local hospital several weeks af
ter the accident.
Klon SUnlenl Is
Hoid-Lp Victim
Sam White, Elon College stu
dent from Pittsboro. had an un
sought bit of excitement during learUer in the afternoon and had
the Christmas vacation when he "o evidence of fire when he
found himself looking a gun in | emerged and locked the door be-
the face as a trio of robbers l^md him.
Again tnete i»'as no clear indi
cation of the cause of the fire,
but Dr. J. E. Danieley. Elon Col
lege pre.sident. stated afterward
that “due to the fact that two
fires have occurred in the same
held up his father’s service sta
tion two miles east of Pittsboro
on January Sod.
The robbery occurred about
8:43 o'clock that night as White
was aloae at his father’s place
cf business. The robbers enter- —
ed the place, and one of them ] building and within the same de
asked for a package of cigar- 1 partment in such a short time, the
ettes and then drew a gun and 1
. . J , 1 College police authorities
ordered the Elon student to get '
inl« the back room of the stik- j*'®''® ^een requested to seek as-
t: n and stay there. ;»istanee from the state fire mar-
They made off with about $35 1 shall for an investigation of the
in ca-h. and when they had j cause of the blaze ”
jfwne WWte called the Chatham r c? * j «
1 . 1. MI A J ,vestigatlon of the Saturday fire,
County sheriffs office. A road- i
block was hurriedly arranged, fire authoriUes have al
and the three robbers were halt- i ready begun a close cheok into
ed and captured near Chapel ^ the circumsLances involved, but
Hill about half an hour arter the : no information was available at
hold-up took place. All three of I thi.s writing concerning evidenco
the rohherf were Neeroes. 'uncovered.