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)