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ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
FaiDAT, JAMUART 22. I960
NUMBER 7
itudent Voters Show Preference For Nixon And Kennedy
Jean Loy^ Bob McLean
' anted May Day Rulers
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THEY WILL RULE OVER ELON MAY DAY FESTIVAL Mock Presidential Vote
Is Staged On Campus
alent Show
roves Very
iitertaiiiing
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By DON TERRELL
1 The Elon Players added auother
Ji their list of successful and de
lightful theatre evenings Thurs-
cMid Friday nights. The oc
casion was the annual Variety
ph'iw, and, as usual, th’ Players
iiiid uncovered several surprise
|).ickages of talent from the cam-
jiis and surrounding areas.
Large audiences for both per-
tlrmances found much to aopluud
^iid much to amuse them In fact,
there was a general,aura of pro-
fe.'isionalism . pervading the entire
performance, and at no point was
audience allowed to forget
^ it this was an “evening off,”
a real opportunity to forget the
^■eryday problems of c'assroom
iiid office and enter into the de-
itful atmosphere of sieer fun.
IJAs always, there were high mo-
nts amid general excellence,
'e haps the most professional act
of the entire evening was provid
ed by Bobby Boswell in hi.> pol-
_^lied and witty comedy skeiclj of
a personable backwoods cuarac-
4er.
|Of course no one was surprised
fcj Jane Morgan’s brilliant per-
Jformance in a medley of familiar
and Pat Kelly proved again
liat a fine musician with a ter-
fic sense of rythem and imagi
nation can do with a set of trap
urns. Winnie Ann Watson, with
shapely assistance of Margie
rshman, brought the house
'•vn in an Elon version of the
..assic strip-tease.
fAfter-the-show interviews bear
niple witness to the fact that
fwf. Clyde McCants was particu
larly impressed with Penny Good
man, a fourteen-year old find, who
(onored him with a special dedi
cation, as she had John Williams
ijbi night before. Big Daddy!
^But this was only the begin-
In a series of delightful per-
^rmances. Jim Marshman demon-
Arated anew that the fine art of
^mic pantomime has lost none
'ts audience appeal. Both Max
.lyton and Frankie Rich sang
llads with heart-breaking inten-
it; In fact, Frankie Rich also
imposed his own &ongs.
rs. Mary Smith and Bill Uane
(C«atlBu*d on Page Four)
>ean Addresses
k^entucky Group
r. H. H. Cunningham, dean and
airman of the history depart-
■Jeat addressed the Kentucky Civ
il War Round Table in Lexington,
last Monday night, speaking
^ Uie subject of “Medicine in the
Bonfederacy.”
pr. Cunningham himself is a
native of Kentucky, and his ap-
l^arance before the statewide
I'll Ware Round Table group was
raething of a “homecoming” for
I. furnishing an opportunity to
!H''w acquaintance with friends
the Lexington area,
iThe Elon dean, who is the au-
®or of a widely acclaimed book
Civil War medicine entitled
^^ftoctors in Gray," followed other
jgnlzed Civil War authorities
speaking to the Kentucky or-
^^(nization. Other recent speakers
. for the gorup had'included such
Nationally known authors as Allen
Kevins and Bruce Caton.
It will be Queen Jean and King
Robert for 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 held last week chose Jean
Loy, of Elon College, and Robert
McLean, of Rockingham, to rule
Over the weekend festivities.
The chief attendants for the
King and Queen at the spring fes
tival will be Katie Langley, of
Staley, who was elected as Maid-
of-Honor, and Robert King, of
Shallotte, as the royal escort for
the Maid-of-Honor, Both the King
and the two royal attendants are
members of the senior class and
have long taken an active part
in campus affairs.
The students also ballotted in
the special election for two senior
girls and two junior girls, along
with an equal number of senior
and junior boys as their escorts.
These four couples will serve as
court attendants for the pageant
and other May Day events.
The senior girls named in the
balloting are Winnie Ann Watson,
of Sanford, and Kay Hughes, of
Elon College. Their escorts for
the weekend are to be a pair of
senior boys, Zac Walker, of South
Boston, Va., and Marty Collins,
of Queens. N. Y.
The two junior girls named as
attendants are Faye Gordon, of
Suffolk, Va., and Judy Samuels,
of Burlington, and they will have
as their escorts in the May Court
Eddie Burke, of Burlington, and
Bill Faries, of Hamlet.
The annual May Day pageant
is staged each spring as a pro
ject of the women’s physical edu
cation department, and each year
the program proves one of the
most colorful of the entire college
year, one which draws a large
crowd of students and alumni and
friends of the college.
The 1960 May Day pageant will
be carried out under the direction
of Mrs. Jeanne Griffin, who is
director of women’s physical edu
cation work on the campus. She
has not yet announced the com
plete plans for the event, but de
tails will be worked out in con
nection with the work of the spring
term class in rhythms.
JEAN LOT
The May Qaeen
The royal nder* over the an
nual Elon College May Day fes
tival for 1960 are pictured here,
along with their regal attendants.
Jean Loy, of EIod College, top
left, will reign as Qaeen of May;
with Robert McLean, of Rock
ingham, pictured top right, as
the May King. Shown with them
are Katie Langley, of Staley, bot
tom left, who will be Maid-of-
Honor and chief attendant for
the queen; and Robert King, of
Shallotte, bottom right, who will
be escort for the Maid-of-Honor
and also chief attendant for the
!;ing. All four are members of
1-13 senior class and were chosen
by student vote In a special cam
pus election held last week.
BOB McLEAN
TbeM ly King
KATIE LANGLEY
Maid-of-Honor
ROBERT KING
Royal Escort
HONOR COUNCIL SEEKS COOPERATION
A request for the full coop
eration by both students and
faculty has just been voiced by
John Clayton, chairman of the
Honor Council. The request was
voiced in an open letter, which
is reproduced below:
To Faculty and Students:
I am sure that we are ail aware
of the fact that this year’s edi
tion of the Honor Council has
been criticized by both the Ma
roon and Gold and individuals
here on the campus. However,
the Honor Connell feels that,
although we were on occasion
unjustly criticized, this criticism
was meant to be constructive
rather than detrimental.
With the semester exams only
a few days away, the Honor
Council would like to request
the supreme effort on the part
nf both faculty and students in
maintaining the Honor System
here at Elon. We wish to remind
each of you that without the co
operation of ALL concerned the
Honor System is a farce and
cannot function properly.
We feel that each faculty mem
ber and student Is mature
enough to realize that one reaps
what one sows. Therefore, the
TTonnr Council wishes to extend
to each of you our best wishes
during exams, and we hope that
each of you will contribute your
part toward the furthering of
the Honor System at Elon.
John A. Clayton Jr.
Chairman, Honor Council
Vice-president Richard Nixon
and Senator John Kennedy proved
the presidential favorites among
E!on College students who cast
oallots last week in a presidential
preferential election, which was
held under the sponsorship of Dr.
H. H. Cunningham’s class In Amer-
can government.
The names of six possible pres
idential candidates in the coming
1360 national election were placed
on the ballot. Vice-president Nix
on was the only Republican can
didate, but there were five pos
sible Democratic candidates list
’d, Including Kennedy. Lyndon
Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Ad-
lai Stevenson and Stuart Syming
ton.
Nbcon, as the lone Republican,
profited by the fact that he had
no split in the votes of those pre
ferring that party, and he topped
he balloting with a total of 203
votes, including 91 from the fresh-
nen and 112 from the upperclass
men. However, he failed to top
ihe combined total of the five
Democrat candidates, who polled
total of 250 votes, including 111
freshmen and 139 upperclassmen.
Senator Kennedy led his com
bined Democratic rivals, polling
132 votes out of the Democratic
total of 250 cast for his party His
votes were evenly divided f.-om
.'reshmen and upperclassmen, with
>6 from each group of student v >-
ers. Other Democratic vote totals
were Lyndon Johnson 52, A'II;.i
Stevenson 40
Violiii-Piaiio
Duo Opens
Elon Lyceum
Dr. Edgar Alden, violinist, and
Dr. William Newman, pianist, op
ened the 1960 Elon College Ly
ceum Series by presenting a reci
tal of violin and piano music of
the music of Handel, Dvorak, and
Vaughan Williams in Whitley Au
ditorium on Monday night, Jan
uary 11th.
Much could be said about the
fine technique of the artists, the
sj)lendld tone, ensemble, and many
other mechanics of performance,
but it may be more Important to
le* the significance of the Sonata
in a-minor by Vaughan William.f
serve as the key note for this cri
tique.
It was written in 1954 when Wil
liams was very old, and this was
most likely the premier perform
ance In this part of the country,
perhaps in all America, And that
brings us to the crux of the mat
ter, Consider this fact , . . the true
relations between composer and
Ihe public lie with the performer
acting as intermediary.
This is not so difficult when
well known works are performed,
uch ;> the Sonata No, 2 In G-
Hubert Hump^^reyl n'nor b> Handel, But v hen a first
18 and Stuart Symington 8,
The mock presidential election
was one of a number of commit
tee projects conducted this te.-m
by the political science class, the
balloting being conducted by a
student committee which included
Grant Burns, chairman, Shirley
Walker, Harolyn Sawyers, Mary
Ann Hartwell, Kati Langley and
Kenneth Rogers,
This committee started its oper
ations by conducting a poll, in
terviewing many students In re
gard to their presidential prefer
ences, but the withdrawal of Gov
ernor Nelson Rockefeller from the
Republican race complicated the
polling results, and the commit
tee then decided to stage the mock
election.
Fall Term Exams To Be Given
In 6-Day Period Next Week
Anxious and busy students are
seen scurrying around the campus
as they push last-minute prepara
tion for the Fall Semester exams,
which get under way next Mon
day morning.
The . examination schedule for
the entire six-day period from
Monday through Saturday follows:
Curious Student
Caught In Trap
Curiosity can involve people in
peculiar situations, and there’s at
least one freshman on the Elon
campus who will attest the truth
of the above statement after find
ing himself trapped In the old
elevator on the third floor of the
Mooney Building.
Unused for many years, the ele
vator doors at aU floor levels are
usually kept locked, but this fresh
man found the door on the third
floor unlocked and stepped inside
to see what he could find. Some
roguish person shut the door be
hind him, and he had to summon
help to unlock the door before he
could get out. Someone said, "Well
there are all sorts of reasons for
cutting class."
New Literary
Magazine Will
Appear Soon
The editor and staff of the new
Elon College literary magazine,
working In cooperation with the
Writers’ Club, is laying plans for
the publication of the 1959-60 edi
tion of the magazine In the near
future, hoping that the first Issue
may make its appearance in
March.
Included in the magazine will
be essays, research papers, short
stories, sermons, poetry, critiques
and reviews, and the staff has re-
r,uested that both the faculty and
students submit manuscripts to be
considered for publication.
The magazine will also Include
art work done by students, with
sketches in black and white pre
ferred. Faculty members have been
requested to recommend to the
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 — All 8.staff any meritorious work done
o’clock (MWF) classes will be giv-lby their students duimg the cur-
en from 9 until 12 o’clock that rent year,
morning, followed by all 8 o’clock
(TTS) classes from 2 until 5 o’clock
that afternoon.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 —
All 10:30 o’clock (’ITS) classes
will be given from 9 until 12
o’clock that morning, with no
exams scheduled for the afternoon.
MONDAY, JANUARY 25 — All
10:30 o’clock (MWF) classes will
be given from 9 until 12 o'clock
that morning, followed by all ac
tivity physical education classes
from 2 until 3 o’clock that after
noon.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26 — AU
11:30 o’clock (MWF) classes will
be given from 9 until 12 o’clock
that morning, followed by all 11:30
o’clock (’TTS) classes from 2 un
til 5 o’clock that afternoon.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27 —
All 9 o’clock (MWF) classes will
be given from 9 until 12 o’clock
that morning, with no exams sche
duled for the afternoon.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 —
All 9 o’clock (TTS) classes will
be given from 9 until 12 o’clock
that morning, with no exams sche
duled for the afternoon.
It Is pointed out that research
papers should show original schol
arship on the part of the writer,
with the footnotes in such a paper
following the pattern laid down In
the “Elon College Style Sheet."
(Coatlnued oa Page Four)
Elon Professor To Conduct
Summer Tour Of Holy Land
hi IImg Is Involved such ai the
little-played Dvorak '^nata In
F, Op. 57, or the pr mler per
formance of the '^aughan Wil
liams, the listener has no point
of reference and possesses no basis
for comparison.
It Is at this point that the first
all-important impression, the first
contact of the new work with the
public, is completely dependent
upon the merit of the performer,
and the validity of a presentation
that eludes all controls.
Those In attendance at the con
cert had the privilege of hearing
a performance of the highest in
tegrity. The moral responsibllty of
the performers was realized by
the presentation of this new Sona
ta by Vaughan Williams. And, in
return, the listeners’ musical edu
cation and Instruction were suffl-
cletly extensive to enable them
to grasp the main features of this
new work as they emerged so that
a complimentary reception was
possible.
Dr. W. W, Sloan of Ihe Elon
religion faculty will conduct a
special tour to "Lands of the Bi-
ole” next summer In cooperation
with the Religious Travel Division
of American Express World Tra
vel Service.
This will be a special tour for
ministers, teachers and other in
terested persons and will feature
a visit to tfie Olxprammergau
Passion Play. The tour wlU leave
from New York City on June 13th
and return there July 9th.
Places to be visited Include
Munich and Oberammergau, (5er-
many; Rome, Italy; Athens,
Greece; Cairo, Egypt; Beirut,
Lebanon: Damascus, Syria; Am
man and Jersusalem, Jordan;
Jerusalem, Tiberias and Tel
Aviv, Israel.
An extension tour also will be
available, going from Tel Aviv
to Tehran, Iran; Baghdad, Iraq;
and Istanbul, Turkey. Those tak
ing the extension will return to
New York on July 12th.
Dr. Sloan Is a well known au
thor and an experienced tour di
rector. In thirteen extensive trips
abroad, he has visited every ma
jor nation of the world and has
lectured in 50 nations. He will be
accompanied on the trip by Mrs.
Sloan, who has accompanied him
on many of his travels abroad.
He is the author of "Survey of
the Old Testament” and a com
panion volume on the New Testa
ment, and these works are being
used by many colleges, ministers
and Sunday School teachers.
Faculty Families
Hit By Deaths
The families of no less than
four Elon faculty members have
suffered losses by death since mid-
December. It was learned during
the holidays that the father of
Prof. Fred Sahlmann had died
suddenly in Charleston, S. C., just
prior to the holidays, and the mo
ther of Prof. Albln Lindquist died
in Minneapolis, Minn., during the
holidays.
Since the coUege re-opened af
ter mid-year vacation, two other
deaths have occurred. They were
the mother of Prof. Luther N.
Byrd, which occurred in Mount
Airy, and the grandmother of Mrs.
Alfred Hassell, which occurred In
Dover, N. J.
Danieley On Trip
To New England
day night, Wednesday and Thurs
day with a general theme of “Will
the College of Arts and Sciences
Survive?" Fourth meeting he at
tended was a dinner meeting of
Elon alumni In the New England
area, which was held In Cam-
'bridge. Mass., on Wednesday
night.
Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon College
president, spent four days last
week in Boston, and vicinity, where
he attended a series of four meet
ing, Including a gathering of Elon
alumni in that section. He return
ed to the campus on Thursday
night, January 14th.
He was chairman of the nom
inating committee at the meeting
of the Congregational Christian
College Council meeting, whlc^
was held at the Statler-Hilton
tel on Monday and Tuesday,
he attended the Council of
testant College and Univers/tle*,
which was held Tuesday afternoon!
He also attended the annu/al ses
sion of the Association of Ameri
can Colleges, which was h^d Tue»-