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Friday, January 22
REIDtiJ!V
Back in '44 when I first tangled
witli Elon, tiiere was but one tele
phone for us students. It was
lociied up at night in West Dorm
along with the girls.
One night. I was locked up in
West Dorm along with the phone
and the coeds, too, but that's an
other column.
Doubtless, since my time there
have been changes in the com
munications situation. I fully ex
pect that the phone quota h^s
gone from singular to plural, but
I have found one thing remark
ably unaltered.
That’s informality.
The other day, I got to thinking
about writing this piece for the
Maroon and Gold so old Luther
Byrd wouldn’t holler at me for
leaving him with a hole to fill.
So, I called him. The conver
sation went something like this:
Newport News operator; "This
is Newport News calling Luther
at Elon.”
Operator In Carolina: “Oh, yes.
We'll try to find Luther on his
home phone."
Maybe I’m not stressing the
point, enough.
I specifically told our operator
I wanted to talk to Luther. Not
Luther Byrd. Not Mr. Byrd. Noth
ing formal like that. Just Luther.
Thai'i what I always admired
about Elon.
Everybody knew everybody else's
first name and used first names
when talking to folks. I just want
ed to see if that buddy-buddy
habit still existed. It does. The
operator knew who Luther was.
Now, for 12 paragraphs. I've
been trying to figure out a good
way to end tills bit on Just-ask-
for-Luthcr-and he'll-answer. Devil
■f it Is, he answer. Wasn't
home.
Undefeated
Cluhs Lead
Cage Loop )
The Carolina One and Smith
One cage squads, both with unde
feated records in early-season cam
pus cage competition, are setting
the pace in the two inti'amural
basketball leagues. Carolina One
leads the American League with
a 5-0 mark, while Smith One tops
the National League with a 4-0
record.
Pushing close for the top posi
tions are Iota Tau Kappa -in the
American League and Kappa Psi
One in the National League, both
the runner-up teams showing 4-1
marks in the won-lost columns.
Bill Graham, of Carolina One,
tops the individual scorers in av
erage points with 18 points per
game; pushed close by Bill Trout
man, of Carolina One, with 17.4
and Eddie Clark, of Iota Tau Kap
pa, with 17.2 points per game.
Others averaging better than 10
points per game are George Ko-
morowski. Smith One, 16.1: Wayne
Mahanes, Smith Two, 15.0; Ed
die Stone, Smith One, 14.3; Char
lie Maidon, Iota Tau Kappa, 14.2;
Bill McIntosh, Carolina Three, 13.1;
John Gozjack, Sigma Phi Beta,
13.0; Roger Knapp, Carolina Two,
13.0; Gary Henson, Carolina Two,
12.3; Bill Campbell, Carolina One,
12.2; George Wooten, Smith One,
12.0; Sam Tyler, Carolina One,
11.3; Charlie Wade, Smith One,
11.2; Wayne Allen, Veterans, 11.0;
Leroy Myers, South One, 10.3; and
Max Clayton, Kappa Psi, 10.0.
MUSIC PROF DEMONSTRATES RARE INSTRUMENT
Elon Music Professor
Possesses Harpsichord
East Carolina
Winner Over
Elon
Cagi
ers
It was nip-and-tuck through the
first half, but the East Carolina
Pirates pulled away after the
break to post a decisive victory
over the Elon Christians here Sat
urday night, January 9th, in a
North State Conference cage
game.
Both teams started slowly, and
there were only three field goals
in the first five minutes, all of
them by East Carolina’s Cotton
Clayton. Ken Smith hit Elon's
first floor bucket at the five min
ute mark, when the invading Pir
ates held a slim 8-6 lead.
Midway through that first half,
the count was 20-19 in favor of
E,^st Carolina. The Pirates con
tinued to hold the front, but never
by more than five points, and
Conatzer and Bkldie Burke cut the
half-time margin to 32-31 with
two baskets in the closing seconds
before intermission.
Ken Smith, the only Christian
able to hit consistently all night,
topped both teams for the game
with 28 points on eleven field
goals and six charity tosses. Only
other Elon player in double fig
ures was Conatzer with 12 coun
ters. Four of the Pirates hit dou
ble digits, with Riddick and Clay
ton as top men with 23 and 22
(^points.
The line-ups:
?o».—Elon (64) E. Carolina 83)
F—K. Smith 28 D. Smith 14
- F—Bell 2 Starrett 2
C—Burke 6 West 11
G—Conatzer 12 Riddick 23
G—5 Clavton 22
K«^-tlme; East Carolina 32,
Elon M.
Elon \subs — Neidlg 5, Wright
4. Wal4 2, Hawks, Palkovlcs.
Teague. \ East Carolina subs —
Barnes 9,\B*ker 2, Adcock, Fow
ler.
Prof. Feltcher Moore, head of the Elon College music depart H-nt, is pictured above, seated
at the keyboard of his harpsichord, an instrument which is simil r to but much smaller than a
piano. The Elon professor, who is widely known for his skill with both a piano and organ, reports
that he gets much pleasure from the instrument, which is quite rare in this area. He secured
the harpsichord from a friend, who in turn obtained it in Austria.
TeiTiers Top
Elon Quint
By 72 To 71
Witji barely one minute five
seconds on the clock, Joe Tinder
dropped a field goal to give the
Wofford Terriers a 72 to 71 de
cision over the Fighting Christian
cagers in a battle on the Elon
floor on Friday night, December
11th. The win gave Wofford a
sweep of the two-game series this
season.
Rob Bell had his best night of
the year as he racked 23 points
to lead the Elon attack, with Con-
aster chipping in 21 points as
Elon’s runner-up scorer
The line-ups:
Pos.—Elon (71) Wofford (72)
F—Smith 4 Hart 23
F—Bell 23 Barbee 23
C—Burke 6 Waldrop 6
G—Ck)natser 21 Berry 6
G—Hawks 9 Cluff 7
Half-time: Elon 38, Wofford 33.
Elon subs — Palkovics 2, Neidig
1, Hall 3, Wright 2. Wofford subs
— Tinder 2, Melton 5.
Varsity Quint
Defeated By
Norfolli Five
The Elon Christians ran head-
on into a red-hot and record-break
ing performance as Leo Anthony
bucketed 48 points to lead Wil
liam and Mary’s Norfolk Division
Braves to an 85 to 62 victory over
the Christian in a battle at Nor
folk on Monday, December 14th
Anthony, a peppery little guard,
who has set aU sorts of records
while playing for the Norfolk Di
vision team, broke his own pre
vious high point mark for a single
game as he hit brilliantly from
both the floor and the free-throw
line for his 48-point total.
Rob Bell hit 17 points to top
the scoring for the Christians, who
dropped to an even-split record
of three victories and three de
feats in early-season combat.
The line-ups:
Pos.—Elon (62) W. and M. (85)
F—BeU 17 Hoffman 8
F—Hawks 13 McCraw
C—Heidig 11 EUis 3
G—Conatser 3 Anthony 48
G—Teague i — Dougan 10
Half-time: W. and M. 45. Elon
34.
Elon subs — Andrew 22, Burke
2, Palkovics 2, HaU 8, Wall. W.
and M. subs — Carroll 2, Ains
worth 9, Ivey 4, Harrison 1, James
Bigger, Arnold, Palumlx).
Elon Group Attends Student
Mission Meet Held In Ohio
An Elon delegation of four students
attended an international student
conference in Athens, Ohio, from
December 27th through January 2nd,
a meeting which drew 3,609 stu
dents from virtually every culture
in the world to consider modern
issues in Christian perspective.
Those attending from Elon were
Jimmy Humphrey, Faye Gordon, Na-
bil Abu-Aitah and John Ling, with
the latter attending under Rotary
sponsorship.
The conference was sponsored by
the Commission on World Mission
of the National Student (^istian
Federations, being the eighteenth
ecumenical student conference on the
Christian World Mission. Issues con
sidered included technilogical up
heavals, new nationalisms, militant
non-Christian faiths and new pat
terns of obedience in missions.
There was Bible study and daily
exposition by Bishop Lesslie New-
blgin, general secretary of the In
ternational Missionary Council, help
ed provide a Christian perspective.
Major speakers included Prof. Ker-
mit Eby, of the University of (Chi
cago; 'Bola Ige, student leader from
Nigeria; Dr. Richard Shaull, of Bra
zil; Rev. Harry Daniel, India; and
Rev. Martin Luther King, of Mont
gomery, Ala.
STANDINGS
(To January 16th)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W
L
Ave.
Carolina One
5
0
1.000
Iota Tau Kappa
5
1
.800
Sigma Phi Beta
. .. 3
2
.600
South One
2
2
.500
Carolina Three
.. 2
3
.400
'-^mlth Two
0
4
.000
Kappa Pal Two
... 0
4
.000
W
L
Ave.
Smith One
4
0
1.000
Kappa Psi One
... 4
1
.800
■iigma Mu Sigma
.. 3
2
.600
Carolina Two
2
2
.500
South Two
1
2
.333
■Jmith Three —
1
3
.250
Veterans
.... 0
5
.000
GAMES
SCORES
Carolina III 42,
Kappa
Psi
II 5.
I.T.K. 40, Smith
Two 31.
Carolina One 64,
South
One
45.
Kappa Psi I 46, Veterans 20.
Smith One 54, Sigma Mu 30.
Carolina Two 50, I.T.K. 32.
I.T.K. 43, Carolina Three 41.
Carolina Two 67, Veterans 47.
Carolina One 68, Sigma Phi 31.
Sigma Mu 33, South Two 29.
I.T.K. 50, South One 39.
Smith One 70, Smith Three 26.
Sigma Phi 44, Smith Two 42.
Kappa Psi One 45, Sigma Mu 26.
Of Playmaking
(Continued on Page Two)
Cage Scoring
«3ootlnue4 from Page Thr«*)
points for a 78.7 game average.
The Christian squad, with 673 re
bounds In fifteen games is well
ahead of the opposition in back
board control.
The individual scoring records
through last Saturday night's vic
tory over Catawba follow:
Player G FG FT TP
Smith 14t 94 71 259
Conatser 15 #8 M 140
BeU 15 49 27 123
Burke
14
35
54
121
Palkovlcs
13
31
7
69
Hall
15
10
48
68
Neidig
14
24
18
66
Hawks
. 14
21
18
60
Teague
.. 14
19
12
50
Wright
9
7
7
21
Andrew
R
7
7
21
Hodge
4
1
5
7
Wall
n
0
7
7
Johnson
1
1
0
2
ELON TOTALS.
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Your Life,” “All My Sons” and
“The Crucible." The "Eppie"
awards for leading roles were giv
en to Billie Faye Barrett and
Chuck Oakley, both for “All My
Sons.” Major supporting actors
honored were Ikey Tarleton and
Rfeynolds Van Cleve, both from
“The Crucible," with minor sup
porting awards going to Tommie
Boland from "The Crucible” and
Wayne Rudisill from “The Hap
piest Days of Your Life.” Wayne
RudisiU was again honored as
“most useful” Player.
No less than six full-length
plays, including the first Broad
way musical show in Elon Player
history, were presented during the
1958-59 season. The shows were
“Ladles in Retirement.” “Annie
Get Your Gun,” “The Heiress,”
"Inherit the Wind,” "Glass Men
agerie” and “Our Town.” Rosanna
Gant from “The Heiress" and Joe
Medlock from “Inherit the Wind
received the leading role awards,
with major supporting role honors
going to Chris Fayle from “Ladies
in R«Urement” and Jim Gross
from “Glass Menagerie.” Honored
for minor supporting roles were
Lois KidH from “Ladles in Re
tirement" and William Bayne from
"Inherit the Wind.” Ikey Tarle-
toH wai Bamed “most useful**
Player."
Girls^ Cage
Loop Opens
In February
Plans are virtually complete for
intramural basketball competition
for girls, with play to get under
way early in February after the
beginning of the Spring Semester,
according to an announcement
from Mrs. Jeanne Griffin, director
of women's physical education
The competing teams will be
rection of Sara Summers, of Gib-
sonviile, who has been elected
student basketball manager
The units which are expected
to enter teams in the girls’ league
bidding for the championship
which has been won by the Beta
Omicron Beta tossers for the past
two years
The units which are expected
to have basketball teams in the
loop are Virginia Hall Freshmen
West Dorm Freshmen, Delta Up
silon Kappa, Beta Omicron Beta
Tea Zeta Phi, Pi Kappa Tau and
the Independents.
Prof. Fletcher Moore, head of
the Elon music department, is the
proud owner of a harpsichord, a
musical instrument which is quite
rare in this area, and he enjoys
playing it as much as he does the
piano and organ.
The harpsichord, which might be
mistaken at first glance for a
miniature piano, has a quite dif
ferent tone, producing a sound sim
ilar to stringed instruments, such
as the Spanish guitar.
Prof. Moore secured the harp
sichord last summer from a friend,
who served with him on the sum
mer faculty at Columbia Univer
sity. The friend had it made on
special order in Salzburg, Austria
several years ago.
This instrument was invented
about 1400 by putting a keyboard
on a stringed instrument. The key
board was not new at that time,
for it had been used on organs
for many years.
The harpsichord enjoyed vride
popularity for several centuries
and was a common household item
at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s
reign around 1600. However, its
popularity began a sharp decline
with the invention of the piano in
the early 1700’s, and it had been
replaced almost entirely with th«
piano by 1750.
Prof. Moore points out that the
only remaining original harpsi
chords are found in museums to
day. And since this instrument is
Apps Defeat
Christians By
76-70 Count
The Elon Christians, after start-
ing as hot as the proverbial fire-
cracker, fell victim to a last half
raUy by the Appalachian Moun-
taineers at Boone on Monday
January 12th, with the Mountain!
eers racking 54 per cent of their
floor shots in the closing half
to edge a 76 to 70 victory in a
North State Conference battle.
Ken Smith, Gary Teague and
Richard Conatser were the
guns as the Christians hit five
straight floor shots and ran up
an 11-0 lead over the Apps during
the first five minutes of play, aid
the Maroon and Gold cagers moved
on to a 16-3 margin before the
home-standing Mountaineers be
gan hitting.
The line-up:
"'’s-—'“^'n (70) Appalachian (76)
F—Smith 21 King 24
F—Bell 7 Howe 21
C—Neidig 8 Swift 13
G —Teague 11 Proffitt
G—Conatser 12 Hiatt 10
Half-time: Elon 37, Appalachian
32.
Talent Show
(Continued From Page On»
added to the light-hearted per
formance their delightful and
highly-personalized comedy sketch
es; and Mrs. Smith created a mild
sensation when she sang a most
affecting love song to Rev. John
Graves, college chaplain.
A change of pace brought Judy
Townsend in a sensitive and tech
nically immaculate performance
of a Chopin waltz, and Virginia
Hazelwood sounded as good as she
looked in a series of blues num
bers. And no review would be
complete without a special word
for Peggy Parker, who without
singing, dancing, or speaking lines
justified her appearance.
The able M.C.’s were Tom El
more and Chris Fayle, and even
they stepped from announcing du
ties, Tom for a dance routine and
Chris for a comedy skit. In fact.
Tom Elmore not only M.C.’d and
performed himself, but he also
helped train the miniature chorus
line that served as a rousing cur
tain opener and directed the en
tire performance, shaping it into
a coherent and delightful revue.
New Magazine
(Continued Trtm P«ge One)
Such research manuscripts should
not exceed 3,000 words in length.
Jimmy Elder is editor of the lit-
era^ magazine, other members
of the staff Including Danny Gee,
Richard VonDoenhoff, Bill Welch
*nd Judy Townend, with Dr. Clar
ence Carson and Prof. Clyde Mc-
C«nt« .erving ,s faculty advisors
Manuscripts may be submitted to
,«iy member of the staff or to one
lot the faculty advisors.
Elon subs — Andrew 2, Buite
not in production anywhere in the 2, Wright 2, Hall 5, Palkovics,
world, the only way one can be Appalachian subs — Getting, Kin-
obtained is on special order. "^y 6.
The replacement of the harpsi
chord by the piano came about be
cause the piano is a much more
versatile instrument, as it has a
wider range.
The harpsichord has only two
sound levels, whereas the piano
has an unlimited range, depend
ing on the force with which the
keys are struck.
While the piano produces sound
when its strings are struck, the
harpsichord’s strings are plucked
and the same level is obtained
regardless of how hard the keys
are struck.. The change of sound
level is made possible with the
use of two hand-operated stops.
Another major difference is the
fact that the harpsichord has no
pedals.
Its single keyboard has about
half the number of keys found on
a regular piano.
Home Eg Meet
On January 12th
with a record attendance of IxA
old and new members, the Hon*
Economics Club held its first meet
ing of the new year on Januaiy
12th at the home of Mrs. Maiy
Butler, with an informal initiatim
of new members as a feature rf
the gathering.
The club is enjoying one of its
most successful years, with several
events set for the Spring Semesta’.
Plans were laid for formal fashion
showing of garments made by tlie
girls during the fall term. Adjourn
ment of the business meeting was
followed by serving of delicious re
freshments.
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