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KLON COIXKIIK, N. C.
TUESDAY. MAV W. I!IS»
NIT1HBRR IS
Elon To Hold Sixty-Ninth Annual Commencement
Amendment To Student
(Constitution Is Passed
:KEV SI’EAKERS IN ELON ( OMMENCEJIENT l*KO;i{
The Student Legislature was
transformed into the Student Sen
ate as a result of the student bal
loting on the constitutional amend
ment on Monday, May 10th, which
changed the method of represen
tation in the legislative body of
the Student Government Associa
tion.
Under the old system, the Stu
dent Legislature was composed of
representatives of the four classes,
the various dormitories and the
day student group, but the new
plan will change the method of
representation in the Student Sen
ate.
The new Senate will be com-
p(ised of the three officers of each
of the four classes, plus five sen
ators from each of the classes,
giving a total legislative group of
32 members.
The class officers for the three
upper classes for the 1959-60 term
were chosen in the recent elec
tions. Officers of tbe freshman
class will be named next fall. Up
per-class officers follow:
SENIOR CLASS — Max Clayton
president: Lacy Slayton, vice-
president; and K.ay Hughes, sec
ret ary-txeasurer.
JUNIOR CLASS — Edward
Boette, president; Edward Burke,
vice-president; and Judy Samuels,
secretary-treasurer.
SOPHOMORE CLASS — Tom
my Sears, president; Carol Adams,
vice-president; and Harriett Ham
nioiid, secretary-treasurer.
Following passage of the new
amendments, twenty-three persons
fiied tor the fifteen senatorial
pests, and the following were elect
ed in in active campaign:
SENIOR CLASS — Lafayette
Wilkins, William Welch, Jimmy
Humphrey, Carlton Grove and
Carol Earle.
JUNIOR CLASS — Susanne
Fisk, Glenda Bumgardner, David
Plaster, Robert King and Bobby
Bennett.
(Continued on Page Four)
Mrs, Johnson
W ill Retire
As Librarian
Budget Set
For Student
Government
A Student Government operating
budget of $10,000 for the coming
1959-60 college year was approved
by the Student Senate at a meet
ing on May 13th, according to a
statement from President Llnwood
Hurd. The budget Is based upon
an estimated income from the $5
per semester Student Government
fees for next year.
Largest item in the budget is
the $5,000 allotted to the dance
committee. Next largest figure is
the $1,925 set for the entertain
ment committee, broken down in
to $1,200 for weekend entertain
ment, $600 for films, $50 for pro
tectionist salary, $50 for records
and $25 tor miscellaneous expens
es oC entertainment.
The Liberal Arts Forum was al
lotted $1,200 for the coming year's
program, other items being $300
for improvement of the Student
Government offices, $600 for the
motion picture improvement fund,
$300 for expenses of two dele
gates to the U. S. National Stu
dent Government Congress, $100
for office secretary’s salary for
the Student Government office,
$100 for office expenses and pos
tage, $200 for May Day program,
$15 for flower fund, $20 for ex
penses of elections board and $25
for telephone and telegraph ex
penses. There is an unappropri
ated surplus of $205.
At the same time the budget was
released, there was presented a
report on the expenses for the
1958-59 year just ending, based
upon a total of $5,946.72 tor the
year. Major expenses this year
were $2,551.89 for ^the dance com-
mitttee, $918.77 tor entertainment,
and $1,0.53,51 for contingencies.
Recent appropriations, including
$200 for the Tommy Dorsey Band
for next fall’s Homecoming, leave
a balance of $654.55 in the trea
sury as the year ends.
College To Conclude Year
With Three-Day Projrram
DR. BERNAiRD BOVO
thi:
REV. LILLIAN GREGORY
U!' , -it)-:'
DR. H. S. HARDCASTLE
Dr. Bernard Boyd.
religion
r^orth, ''jmlrvi, v’lo 'S tt) (le!iv«^
lian Gregory, of Chi:.j«o (center), enecutive iry :)f tha N.itio -jI - nr H S
Tipd:iy, May •ll'ft; ana ur
th; Alumuv U.inqust 3ii Satur-
fixty-ninth annuil Elon College commencement are -yerslty of
of Chdi>?l Hill (left), tioUler of the James A Gray pi ji.;s-or hip in reUgion at the _ .
-,t ,idr--s Mmday, June 1st; the Rev.
Fellowship of Congregational
ChrisUaa Women, who will deliver the b;iccil ju:'^ i'? m >’-i jii
Hardca.stle, of Chukatuck, Va. (right), who Will ')e the i|>:aker to
day night. May 'JOth.
Player Showing Of "Our Town’ Praised
(Pii'.turi! on Page Two)
There’s a lot of living, i lot
of loving and i lot of dying—a lot
of life itself—in Thornton Wil-
der’-i "r'^at Broadway play, “Our
Town,” which the Elon Playars 1 looicurs live.-i
pre.sent.ed in masterful :ilyle on
May 14th, i:ith and 16th in ttin
newly rmtiodelled Mooney Chapel
ThentrH.
It was ,ini>ther sUge triuinpU
for thft Players, RIon College stu
dent Iramatii; group, as they por
trayed with haunting beauty the
everyday life in an American
small town just after the turn of
the century, holding a near-cat>-
jeity audience in rapt attention
throughout the performance.
The Wilder masterpiece, which
won a Pulitzer prize when It was
Introduced on Broadway in 1938,
came as a trail-blazer in the an
nals of American .stagecraft, for
it is presented upon an almost
bare stage, with only the narration
by the Stage Manager and grip
ping dialogue by the cast to pic
ture for the audience the lives and
loves and deaths of the people
of tiny Grover’s Corners, New
Hampshire.
However, the Elon Players
proved again la.st night that ela-
1 borate stage setting is not neces-
to the grave
■„uy to- th.,,tre, tot iim.ly W.hh, with whom the au-
uni on,; ot th.; Player productions dience lives from high sch,«l days
ot re.;ent yea. i lia.s h-ld its 3u-;tho)ugh marriage
il'enoe *ith inor; rapt attenti-m ai'd back again.
The -)M-I ihe w)S paired with Dan for-
-) .ii>ijr»li.-T, who appeared as George
‘ti taini-'.:il>h'i, i» the romantic leads ot
.ilav, and the I wo of them were
!onvinclng all the way in the por-
than '}'(! ‘
hn;u;’i '.he
with the \Ve!?h j 1 iJrir
Ue.s ?)'iif .1 f". Gr)ver’s
Toe SUOMS. oC ' )ii, Vow..” ;t.-,i' iyal of awakemng youthful love
Jorn.^r,.
Elon Students
Are Honored
With Awards
Ten outstanding Elon College
students were recognized at the
college’s annual “Awards Day"
program tor achievements during
tthe 1958-59 term In fields of per
sonal Improvement, religious edu
cation. Bible study, dramatics, mu
sic. scholarship and athletics.
The annual Monroe Awards of
$■>0 in cash, given by W. L. Mon
roe. of Atlanta, Ga., tor personal
Improvement during the year, with
emphasis upon the development
of the whole person, were present
ed to Rebecca Matthews, of Broad
nax, Va.. and James Humphrey,
ot Southern Pine s
Two other awards of $50 each,
given In memory of the late Jer
ry Dalton Strader, former rati
gious, education and civic leader
in Burlington, were given to Faye
Gordon, of Suffolk Va , for work
in Christian education, and to Da
vid Horn, of Philadelphia. Pa., in |
dramatics.
The Basnight trophies, given by
Stein H Basnight, of Chapel Hill
were pre.sent.ed to Doris Fitzgerald,
ot Burlington, tor outstanding
work In Bible studies, and to Gil-
marriage. Mias
pertd-i grca..i\ Ji-i-' ' ,> - - .
a„ce ot th,.. st.ige ^ ,nt hit the peak, however, in her
teiw the V).V, iud Pro. Clyde I'ong'hy and difficult scene which
' icCancs, of ''lo..’ ’.jllei'): I'ln:;
U.-ih fioulty, sur;d :;ompli\.e ^from the grave.
success for iij sli.iw with a truly;
ho ■ jor supportuig roles were by Da
vid I lorn as Dr Gibbs, Mary Ana
H.'rtwell as Mrs. Gihbs, Prof Roy
' followed her return in spirit form
rom the grave.
Other tine performances in ma-
protei.'iiorr il .1 . ;r . . :
first u.'tti th.? I.j.-.
He han slu.'rtil in ijmerous
Player ^f'.ov/s, Uut lie wj.; never
better as lie 1 . ; " ed -.iaally
about the stige vlt.i his ever-
pre.sent pipe, te!Ii-ig the stDry and
manipulating fhe meager proper
ties in mann“f .-^ompar }bl ,> to the
late Frank Craven, who headed
the original "Our Toa-o" cast on
Brrtadway ind on :h:! screen.
Rosanni Gii:’, who wjs recent
ly honyr:l is the outstanding
Player lej i g laJy of the year
Dr. Bernard Boyd, who holds
the James A. Gray iirofessorshlp
in religion at the University of
North Carolina, will deliver the
commencement address next Mon
day morning, June 1st, when Elon
College closes Its sixty-ninth an
nual commencement with preien-
tatlon of diplomas and degree* to
the Class of 1959.
The graduation exercluei, set for
10:30 o’clock Monday morning In
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, cli
max the commencement weekend
that starts with the annual re
ception and dance tor the seniors
in the gymnasium at 8 o’clock
Friday evening. At that time Dr.
and Mrs. J. E. Danleley will Join
witJi alumni as host to the seniors.
The Alumln Day program on
Saturday will feature reunions for
the Elon graduating classes of
1894, 1899, 1904, 1909, 1914, 1919,
1924, 1929, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949
and 1954, with the Class of lOfiS
also urged to return to the campus.
The Saturday program opens
with reunion breakfasts for each
of these classes in McEwen Din
ing Hall at 9 o'clock, followed by
a picnic luncheon at noon on the
West Campus and the annual
alumni business session in Whit
ley Auditorium at 2 o’clock. Dr.
H S. Hardcastle. of Chuckatuck.
Va., will be chief pseaker at the
Alumni Banquet at 6:30 o'cUifk,
when the announcement will be
made of Elon's outstandliui alum
nus ot 1959.
The all-day program on .Sunday
hert Watts, of Laurinburg, as
Elon’s outstjindlng varsity athl»te I „pg„, the baccalaureate ser
mon at 11 o’clock by the Rev. Ijll-
Epperson as Mr. Webb and Ikey
T;irleton as Mrs. W^bb. who were
never out of ch.iracter as the
parents of the romantic leads.
Much credit is due, too, to other
members of an unusually large
cast, for several of those in minor
roles did outstanding work, among
them being Chris Fayle. as Mrs.
Soames, Prof. Pat Johnson, as Si
mon Stinson, the town drunk;
Wayne Gardner, as Joe Stoddard;
Richard Sisson, as Howie New-
for her work in “The Heiress
merited v'-tl another award forP”'"'''
her perfoi m ince last night as j (Continued on Page ( our)
of the 1958-59 term
The Shackley Music Awards,
each for $50 In cash and given by
Dr (Jeorge Shackley, of St. Pe
tersburg, Fla . were given to Don
ald Harris, of Elon College, as
the student showing most improve
ment in Plano, and to Stanley Ca
rey. of Burlington,for most im
provement in organ.
Still another $50 award, pre
sented in honor of Dr. Ned F
Brannock, retired from the Elon
College chemistry department, was
presented tor excellence in chem
istry to Kenneth Dudley, of Hag
erstown. Md. The Underwood
Award, a gold medallion given by
the Underwood Corporation for
outstanding work In business edu
cation, went to Phyllis Hopkins,
of Reidsville.
lian Gregory, ot Chicago. 111., exe
cutive secretary of the National
Fellowship of Congregational
Christian Women Also .set that
day Is the vesper i/iuslc recital at
4 o’clock and the singing of
Brahms’ "German Requiem" by
the Elon Choir at 8:30 o’clock
Mrs. Oma U. Johnson, one of
the real veterans of the Elon fac
ulty and one of the college’s most
loyal jupporters, will retire from
her post as college librarian at
the close of the 1958-59 term, but
she wl’J remain on the campus as
curator ot the growing church his
tory room.
Her retirement comes after thir
ty years of service in the library
post, and she was paid tribute by
the faculty and library staff at a
picnic held recently in the Mc
Ewen Banquet Hall, when she was
presented a gift of jewelry from
the library staff and was given a
typewrH|a" by the college, bar
favorite machine which she has
used in her office.
A graduate of Elon with the
Class of 1915, Mrs. Johnson first
came to Elon from Wake County
as a student in 1911, and she has
been here most of the time since.
Her husband, the late C. C. “Jack”
Johnson, was for several years
Elon’s athletic coach.
It was after" his death in Colo
rado that she returned to Elon as
librarian in 1928, first as an as
sistant and then as head librarian
In 1931. Since her first association
with the Elon library, Mrs. John
son has guided It through a per
iod of great growth, with acces
sion books today Showing more
than ten times as many volumes
as when she first knew It.
LARGE GROUP WILL GRADUATE WITH CLASS OF 1959
Another large group of I
wiU receive diplomas and degrees James Davis, Reidsv 1 e.
from Elon College with the ® p_H,viUe Pa
of 1959 and will move into the! Morris D^M^atteo, PottsviUe,
ranks of Elon alumni after the
sixty-ninth annual graduation pro
gram, which will be held next
Monday morning, June 1st.
A tentative list ot the 1959 gra
duates has been released from the
office of Prof. Alfred Hassell, col
lege registrar, but the list is sub
ject to change as a result of ex
aminations this week, and the list
cannot be regarded as final.
The group expected to receive
diplomas next Monday will be
swelled by the large group which
is expected to graduate at the
summer commencement In Au
gust. Seniors expected to graduate
are as follows:
Douglas Albert, Lahore, Pakistan.
Jesse Andrews, Graham.
John BaU, BurUngton.
Joanne Ballard, Hillsboro.
Alton Barnes, Greensboro.
Robert Bennett. Sophia.
Earl Bradley, Laurinburg.
Woodrow Brown, Sumter, S. C.
William Burgess, Shiloh.
Carl Burke, Burlington.
Fred Christley. Graham.
John Coble, Buriington.
James Dalton. Elon CoUege.
Nicholas DiSlbio, Inwood. N. Y
Kenneth Dudley, Hagerstown. Md |
Walter Edmonds, Portsmouth. Va
Harold Ellen, Fuquay Springs.
William Ellington, Slier City.
Gary Fanner, So. Norfolk, Va.
Harold Faust, Mahanoy City, Pa-
James Fogleman, BurUngton.
Katrine Frye, Liberty.
Gilbert Gates. Covington, Va.
Bobby Gaydon. Graham.
Richard Gulte, New Britain, Conn.
Douglass Hartsell, Burlington.
Mary Jane Hawkins, Hurdle Mills.
David Horn, Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles HoweU. TownsviUe.
Bobert Hultman, Elon College.
Robert Huskey, Buriington.
Hedrick Isley, Graham.
Wallace Jemlgan. Godwin.
Bobby Johnson, Burlington.
Ronald Joines, Reidsville.
Vera Jones, Graham.
Robert Jones, Greensboro.
Jackie Joyce, Mayodan.
William Joyner, Liberty.
Donald Kimrey, Burlington.
Marvin King, Roxboro.
Guy Lambert. Newport. R. I.
Louaon Lambeth, Brown Summit.
Martha Langley. Staley.
rRESlDENT
nick DISIBIO
Richard Lashley, I.eaksville.
William Llneberry, Burlington.
Fred Lloyd, Durham.
Robert Lowe, Greensboro.
Robert Loy. Burlington.
Leonora Luce, Riverhead, N, Y.
Rebecca Matthews, Brodnax. Va.
James McCauley. Burlington.
Silas McCullock. Burlington.
Thomas McDonald. Green.sboro.
John McKinney. Reidsville.
John McLauchlin. Burlington.
Wayland Medley. Greensboro.
Melba Meletiou. Burlington.
Jeffery Melvin. Durham.
Wade Montgomery. Burlington.
Robert Mooneyham. Burlington.
Aubrey Morgan, Suffolk, Va.
Gary Morris, Mebane.
Thomas Morris, BurUngton.
Joyce Myers, Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles Oakley, Graham.
Chuck Oakley, Roxboro.
John Patterson, Burlington.
Howard Pennington, Elon College.
Arthur Pitts, Dillwyn, Va.
,! Daniel Porter, Fayetteville.
i|Grady Radford, Draper.
Robert Rakes, Fieldale, Va.
Baxter Reitzel, Siler City.
Robert Rickover, New York City.
Bobby Riley, Hillsboro.
Raeford Roberts. ReidsvlUe.
Marlon Robertson, Reidsville.
Vernon Rogers, Mebane.
Wayne Rudisjll, Catawba.
Robert Ruggeri, Clark, N. J.
Donald Salne, CherryvlUe.
OUie SeaweU, Seagrove.
Max Sharpe, Burlington.
Ronald Sbarpe, Burlington.
Winstead Sharpe, Graham.
(V)l-
l»«..
with
Gilbert Shaver, Carthage.
Betty Jo Shepherd, Graham.
James Shepherd, Haw River.
Mary Sherard, BurUngton.
DarreU Shue, BurUngton.
Linda Simpson, Elon College.
Ronald Simonds, Burlington.
Harold Smith, Burlington.
Boyd Somers, Elon College.
David Sorrell, Nelson, Va.
Thomasene Sparks, Elon College.
(LesUe Starr, Greensboro.
Nancy Stephenson, Fuquay Sp’gs.
Ikey Tarleton. Durham.
Rex Thomas, Sanford.
Edmund Thompson, Graham.
WUliam Thompson, Greensboro.
Royce Thrower, High Point.
Judson Trent, Leak,sville.
Mary Ann Turner. YanceyvlUe.
Jjimes Umberger. Wythevllle. Va.
Richard Vestal. Graham.
Albert VonDoenhoff, Hampton, Va.
Carston Wagner. Burlington.
Robert WaU, Burlington.
Douglass Walton, Central Falls.
Gilbert Watts. Laurinburg.
Bessie Weaver. Durham.
Edward Welch. Burlington
Edward Wilke*. Asheboro.
Patrick Winston. Clarksville, Va.
Alwyn Wittschen, Charleston. S. C.
Joyce Yancey, Buffalo Junct., Va.
Carroll Yates, Burlington.
Kopko Gets
Award And
Fellowship
,Iohn Richard Kopko, Elon
lege senior from Monessen,
who graduates this spring
a major In history, whs presenled
the PI Gamma Mu Scholarship
Award as the outstanding student
In the division of the social scienc
es tor the 1958-59 college year.
This was announced by Dr H. H.
Cunningham, dean of the college,
who is faculty advisor for the
group.
The award was presented at the
first annual banquet of the North
Carolina Alpha Chapter of Pi Gam
ma Mu, national social science
honorary society, which was held
in the banquet hall of the Mc
Ewen Memorial Dining Hall. Fea
tured speaker at the banquet was
Mayor John D. Schmidt, of Blon
College, who spoke on “Problems
of Local Government."
Kopko has also been awarded
a graduate feUowshlp by Ohio
University, Athens, Ohio, where
he will go next year to pursue ad
vanced work In the field of history
and social science. He join* the
lengthening list of Elon graduate*
In the department of history and
social science who have received
graduate fellowships and assistant-
ships In recent years.
BarUer this year, Kopko was
honored with a place in “Who’s
Who In American Colleges and
Universities” His brother. Robert
Kopko, who graduated from Elon
last year, has been studying on a
(graduate fellowship at Penn State
this year in the field of business
administration.