Keep That School Spirit Briebt And Burning MAROON AND GOLD Lrt'i Hrlp Those Cicen Defeat Catawba VOLUME 38 KI.ON COLLEGE, N. C. THUKSDAY.JANIIARY S9, 195* NUMBER 7 Players Offer “Inherit The Wind” InMcEwen This Week SAFETY COUNCIL HONOUS ELOiTS DRIVER OF MONTH V ; Greek Letter Rush Season Is Underway Highly Dramatic ''Monkey TriaV Is Reproduced In Arena Style Slum The Elon Players, in prrseiit- inf! the great Broadway stage sut- I cess of “Inherit the Wind” in The mid-winter rushing season I ^^e ball room of is underway on the Elon campus. Memorial Dining Hall oi. and there is suspense and excite- Thursday, Kriday and Saturday ment in the air and social events galore on the calendar as the col- recreating the scene of perhaps lege's eight Greek letter groups, THE nniEcroK four fraternities and four soror- matie ojurt trial of America''' A monthly feature on the Elo i campus is the choice by the Student Safety Council of the stu dent “Safe Driver of the Month," the choice being* made in cooperation with the Burlington Jay- cees and the Burlington Police Department, with fhe monthly award presented during a Saturday program over Radio Station VVBBB in Burlington. In the above picture. Ernest Linehan, left, ot Bay- side, Va., who is chairman of the Student Safety Council, is shown making the January presen tation to Thomas Sears, right, of McLeansville. who was named "Safe Driver” for this month. Sears, who is vice-president of the Fresliman Class, is a former high schtol bus driver, who had previously received special aw'ards for his excellent record in operation of his school bus. The Elon College "Safe Driver" selection is part of the Jaycees' weekly program, which also honors one dri ver each months from Burlington’s Williams High School and two drivers each month from adult civi lians of the area. Linda Simpson And Richard Lashley Will Rule Over Elon’s 1959 May Day College Gets Grant From Oil Company ities. vie for the ravor of eligible cenlury. and prospective pledges. j ^ dramatic reproduclion i The fraternities and sororities have already started that gala ser- ies of parties, weiner roasts and iupperi which go to make th« of the world-famous ‘monkey ot John T, Scopes, ynung Tennessee school teacher, whi:-h ■ was held in Dayton, Tenn., in the ;emi-annual rushing seasons times summer of 1923, a trial of thrill and enjoyment for mem- ^^j^^ brought to the fore the age- bers and rushees alike, periods conflict between F.mdamen that offer something of the gla-|i3u^,„ Liberalism, mor of fictional collitch da>j. | There are many st*ll living who, Topping this and other rushing I i-^i^^mber and there ate many I seasons is the traditional l^id.others who have heard of the trial. Elon College was among six hun dred American colleges and uni versities in the United States to participate this year in the Gulf Oil Corporation’s Aid to Educatioa Program, according to an an- nourcement from President J. E. Danieley. The Elon share in the fund thisj.jjg It will be Queen Linda and King Richard in the annual Elon Col lege May Day festival, which is scheduled as a campus feature on the first weekend in May, for the Elon students in the annual elec tion last week chose Linda Simpson, ot Elon College, and Richard Lashley, of Leaksville, to rule over the weekend festivities. The chief attendants for the King and Queen for the spring fes tival will be Louann Lambeth, of Brown Summit, who was elected as the Maid-ot-Honor, and Ronald Bergman, of Uncasville. Conn., as her escort. Both the King and Queen and both of the chief at tendants are members of the sen ior class and have long taken an active part in campus affairs. The students also balloted in the special election for tw'O senior girls and two junior girls, along with an equal number of senior and Cunningham Member Of Committee Dr. H. H. Cunningham, dean of^ college and chairman of the!junior boys as their escorts. These year was $113.08, which the GulfLjj^g^y (jepartment at Elon Col-jfour couples will serve as court officials stated was in keeplBglj^gg ^^3 recently named as a j attendants for the pageant and with the corporation’s plan of mak- j„efnber ot a special committee other May Day events, ing small grants to many educa- determine the exact location The senior girls named in the tional institutions rather than to historic Caldwell Log Col-^ balloting are Sylvia Sims, of Win- make large grants to oriy a chosen j^ge near Greensboro, which wasjston-Salem, and Becky Matthews, one of the pioneer educational in- of Broadnax, Night ceremonies, one of the most colorful occasions seen under Elon’s oaks each year. The winter Bid Night of 1959 has been set for Saturday, February 7th, and already the various fraternity and iorority groups have planned a Jay old time tor that occasion. The winter Bid Night each year Iways assumes added importance, ranking well above the autumn ceremonies that fall in October each year, for it is on the winter date when many of the freshman class become eligible for the first time to membership in the frater nity or sorority of their choice. This is true due to the ruling that a student must complete at !east one full term of college work with an average grade of "C” or better before joining one of the ocial groups. This being true, members of the freshman class were ineligible for bids last Oc tober, except for a very few who had attended summer school. During the coming ten days of rush season some ot the more pop ular rushees can look forward to a very full social life, with pros pects of a dinner one night, a par ty the next night, and maybe both dinner and a party on some nights. It will end with the hour of de cision, a decision made on Bid Night when the individual rushees indicate their acceptance of mem bership in the group of their choice. (Continued on Four' IN WHO’S WHO of Scopes, the youthful science teacher, who dared to teach Evo lution to his high school classes in defiance of a Tennessee law that made such Instruction a crime; and modern American history re counts no greater battle of ora tory than that staged between Wil liam Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in that little Tennessee town. The names are changed in the WAYNE RL'DISILL Wayne Rudisill, senior dra matics major from the little town of Catawba, is the direc tor of the Elon Player showing of “Inherit The Wind.” which is a three-nlg*it campus fea ture this week. Mis work with the play is part of his major work in the field of dramatics. • * * ; razor-edced sword of ridicule and {slashes mercilessly at Bryai\ and .the prosecution, pounding the ag ing Bryan sa relentlessly thiit the old man goes t« pieces and col lapses at the end of the play. Opposing him in the role of Wil liam Jennings Bryan (or Matthew Harrison Brady in the play) is Johnny Meadows, a veteran of many Elon dramatic roles, who sincerely believes that he is de fending the Biblical story of cre- ntion and who is the hero of the Fundamentalist people of the Ten nessee hill country. His is tlie tra gic role, for, despite the fact that he got a conviction, Bryan col lapsed and died within five days after the trial was over. .\nother fine role is that enact ed by Prof, Roy Eppersoii, who under the name of E. K. Ilorn- beck, portrays the great Henry L, ' Mencken, world-renowned Baltl- ' more newspaper writer. In thut role of the booby-baiting Baltimore I author. Prof. Epperson uses a fanged tongue and cynical elo- , quence as he brings to the Uon stage some of the satirical Menck- ' enisms that are classics of Amer ican journalism. Others appearing in the play ,nre Bobby Bennett, as Meeker; Dale Shepherd, an Elon Player chrLs Fayle, as Mrs. Krebs. Roual teran. appears in the featured' Craig, as Mrs. Goodfellow; Mary role of Scopes; and Peggy Roach Ann Hartwell, as Mrs. Bannister; play. Dayton is called Hillsboro, 1 . = ,1. . , . and John T. Scopes is called Ber-1 ” ” Goodfellow; Mary tram Cates in the stage version. William Jennings Bryan, the re nowned “Silver Tongued Orator” and three-time presidential candi date, is called Matthew Harrison Crady; and Clarence Darrow, the cynical and caustic Chicago law yer, is played as Henry Drtun- mond. The change of names, how ever. fails to hide the real char acters and the real story. appears as Rachel Brown. Scopcs’ Millie Fletcher, as Melinda; Clegg sweetheart. As the daughter of Maye, as Howard; Jeanne Pink- Rev. Jeremiah Brown, a Funda-jston, as Mrs. McLain; Dianne Har- mentalist minister, enacted by ris. as Mrs. Blnir; Pat Fayie, as Prof. John Graves, she finds her .Mrs. Loomis; Bill Bane, as KUjah; allegience sorily tried between James Jones, as the mayor; Ikey her father’s beliefs and those of Tarieton, as Mrs. Brady; Vic Hoff- her sweetheart. man. as Tom Davenport; John Wil- Jne Medlock gets a choice role liams, as the judge; Tommy Cald- in porti(aylng Durrow, the de- well, as the Hbt Dog Man: and fen.se attorney, who unsheaths the Chuck Oakley, as the Radio Man. North Carolina Symphony Will Play Three Concerts On Elon’s Campus few. All Gulf grants are made on a year-to-year basis, and all gifts are based on a formula which fig ures the annual current expendi tures by the institutions per stu dent and also on the percentage of contributing alumni each school shows during the year. The Gulf officials state that ■‘through this program, Gulf en deavors in several ways to contri bute toward improving the econo mic well-being of privately oper ated colleges and universities in the United States, hoping in this stitutions in North Carolina. The appointment and the request to serve with the committee came from Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, of South ern Pines, sister ot former presi dential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Mrs. Ives is president of the North Carolina Society for the Preserva tion of Antiquities, which has for its purpose the restoration and preservation of historic sites throughout the state. In writing to Dr. Cunningham regard to the problem at hand Log CoUege to the Society for de- u;uaUy includes a large number of velopment as a point of historic‘ way to promote their sound growth | Mrs. Ives stated that the Edward and effectiveness." .Benjamin family of Greensboro They also say that “the Gulf;and New Orleans has offered to corporation, through these grants, donate the site of the Caldwell sincerely seeks to give concrete evidence ot its interest in the free enterprise concept of dynamic and jntgrgst. adequate educational opportunities members of the research at the college level for the young in nr Cim- People of o^r naUon. With the | committee, in addition to Dr. Cun grant go the best wishes of th5;ningham, are Robert Frazier, an Corporation for the ' continuing! attorney and former mayor of growth and effectiveness of the | Q^eensboro; Fielding Lewis Fry. work your ihstitnUon is doing.” | in*urance broker and also a Inactaowledgingthe GuU^At Greensboro mayor; Jame3 ^r. Dameley expressed m behalf j 1' Elon College his appreciation | MacClamroch, Greensboro attor- ^r the growing interest of Indus-'ney; and John Harden, well known ry and business in the privately' Greensboro pubUc relations man Va. Their escorts for the weekend are to be a pair of senior boys. Larry Gregg, of south Norfolk, Va., and William | Oliver, of Burlington. 1 The two junior girls named as attendants are Jean Loy and Kay Hughes, both of whom are from Elon College, and they will have as their escorts in the May Court Charlie Maidon, ot Cary, and Jim-: my Humphrey, of Southern Pines. The annual May Day program. is sUged each spring as a project j of the women’s physical education ; department, and each year the program proves one of the most colorful of the entire college year and draws a large crowd, which Trio Appears On Campus February 9th The Bennington Trio, composed of Lionel Norwak, pianist. Orrea Pcrnel. violinist, and George Ginc- kel, cellist, will appear in Elon’s '•Vhitley Auditorium at 8:15 o’clock on Monday night, February 9th Their visit is made under the aus pices of the Arts Program of the Association of American Colleges and is to be the fourth number in tlie Elon College Lyceum Scr ies. Students will be admitted with activity cards. -ndowed educational program of “Ion and other simHar institutions. sjid official of Burlington Indus- MRS. PEi\RL S. MCDONALD returning alumni. The 1959 May Day pageant will be carried out under the direc ffn* I or music auu me i/i r*i tion of Mrs. Jeanne Griffin, who^^^on J degrees fr.,n the Cleveland In- one of America’s foremost com posers. In addition to compositions for the piano, his own instrument, his works also include chamber mufic, orchestral pieces, several large ballets and numerous songs. Norwak showed early evidence of unusual musical ability, appear- i ing in |»ublic at the age of six i and performing with the Cleveland Symphony when he was eleven He holds th^ Bachelor The North Carolina Little Symphony will appear in three concerts on the Elon College campus next week, with two performances scheduled in the huge Alumni Memorial Gymnasium next Wednes day morning and afternoon and a third in Whitley Auditorium at 8 o’clack next Thursday night. The morning and afternoon concerts next Wednesday, February 4th, will be for the school children of the Alamance County Schools, and the appearance in Whitley on Thursday night, February 5th, will be for adults, including the stu dents of the college, who will bo admitted free upon presentation of their student activity cards. The programs will all be made posslblv through the cooperative efforts of Elon College and the Alamance County Symphony Asso ciation. They are a part of the statewide symphony project, which has for its purpose the carrying of good music directly to all the peo ple of North Carolina. It is a pro ject which annually sends the sil ver and red busses of the North Carolina Symphony to all parts of the state. The Little Symphony, which ia to play the concerts here, is com posed ot 25 musicians, will ap- Arts Forum Committee Is Announced The full mcmliership of the Arts Forum Committee, which was or ganized recently on the Elon cam pus, has been announced this week. The group is working under the direction of Dr. Clarence Car- Lionel Norwak is recognized ss] history department. Mrs. Pearl S. McDonald, asso- ciate professor of French on thejy*-®” • j .u i 'of Music and the Ma-ter of Music physical a place in the new euUion of is director of women s education work on the campus, j qj ^jngrican Women". She has not yet announced thej^ r.itive of western North Caio- pomolete plans for the event, hut;Una, Mrs. McDonald had her un- L will be worked out in con-idergraduate work at Maxyville Col- details »il 'lege and then received the Mas- nection with the program of the, _ Other faculty members ot the group Include Dr. Richard M. llafl. Dr. James M. Hess, Dr. Wi-t- liam M. Brown and Prof. John Graves, giving committee mem bership to representatives of five different college departments. The five student mem'oers are James Elder, chairman. Etta Britt and Danny Gee, all from Burling ton: and Ernest Linehan. of Bay- side. Va., and Ted Fields, of Ashe- boro. pear under the personal direction of Benjamin Swalin, who has done much to expand the symphony movement in the state. The concerts will feature varied selections, designed to ploase ev ery musical taste . The children will hear the Symphony play such Spring Quarter class in rhythms., ^ North Carolina, part Istitute of Music and has studied In Berlin with Edward Fischer and Walter Gieseking, Orrea Pcrnel is well known both as a violin soloist and as a cham ber music player. Sne made her 'ler’s Degree from the Universitj I orchestral debut in this country The group U now workmg onin^^be^s as Bizet's Symphony No. selection ot an editor for the new . ^ Enfants, Icampus Uterary magazine, and an Mozart’s Minuet from the opera ^announcement ot the selection isj-Don Giovanna" and Fiddle Fad- I expected this week. of 1' !'■ 'iwith the Boston Symphony, and .'s always, the May Day pageant g„duate work having included extensiv^y In the will feature music and both indi vidual and group dances term as director of the French | House at the University. (Continued on 1-aize Four) Dr. William S. Long, who was the first president of Elon Col lege. had previously served as president of the Graham Normal i College. die by Leroy Anderson, to list only a portion of the program. Kenjl iCobayashi, talented Jap- ane.se violinist, will be a guest soloist with the group for the night concert in Whitley. The violinist (Continued on Page Four)