Here’s To The Best
Mid-Winter
Weekend In History
MAROON AND GOLD
Here’s Best Of Luck
In The
CoBferenoe Tourney
VOLUME 4f,
BLOH COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY. FEBRVART 19, 1960
NUMBER 8
Shearing And Marterie Top Roles For Elon Mid-Winters
Founders Day
program Set
For March 10
plans are nearing completion for
the annual Elon College Founder’s
Day program, which will be ob
served on the college campus on
Thursday, March 10, with Dr. The
odore August Distler, executive
director of the Association of
American Colleges, to be featured
speaker. i
The plans for the Founder’s Day'
event were announced by Presi
dent J. E. Danieley, who stated
the event commemorates the grant
ing of the charter for Elon Col
lege by the North Carolina legis
lature, which occurred on March
11, 1889. Although it is not an an
nounced purpose for the occasion,
the observance also marks the sec
ond anniversary of Dr. Danieley’s
inauguration as Elon’s sixth pres
ident.
The Founders’ Day convocation
will be held in Whitley Auditor
ium in the morning, followed by a
■luncheon in the banquet room of i
Jthe McEwen Memorial Lining Hall
|at noon. Among the guests for the
occasion will be members of the
college’s board of trustees, many
of whom will remain on the cam
pus following the board’s annual
spring meeting to be held on
March 9.
A concert by William Kirkpat-
' rick, tenor, a native of Burlington,
to be held in Whitley Auditorium
on the night of March 9, will co-
rdinate with the trustee meeting
nd the Founders’ Day event in a
usy two-day program. The Kirk-
atrick concert is one of the an-
ual Elon College lyceum series.
THEY PLAY FOR ANNUAL MiD-wiNTER DANCE iFcstivB Weekend Offers Big IS tune
Musicians For Concert And Dance
no
Ralph Marterie and his Orchestra, whom New York’s own Max Shulman has described as “the
coolest and swingin’est band in the land.” will furnish the music for Elon’s annual Midwinter
Dance, which is set for Alumni Memorial Gymnasium on Saturday night, February 27th, and cam
pus dance lovers are already, shining up their dancing shoes an \ brushing up on their best dance
steps for what may be the biggest and best dance ever staged on the Elon campus. Nothing has
been missed in the plans for the dance, which will come as a fitting climax to a truly festive Mid
winter Weekend, and It’s only a week remaining until Elon's guys and gals will be “Crazy, Man,
Crazy’’ when their “Blue Mirage ’ becomes a leality and they feel the “Compulsion’’ to dance to
such “Tricky” tunes as “Shlsh- ibnb”
Dr. Distler, the Founders’ Day
speaker, is a native of Brooklyn
and was educated at Brown Uni
versity, from which he received
the A.B., M.A. and L.H.D. de
grees. He also holds honorary de
grees from 22 American colleges
Second Printing Slated
Of Book Bv Elon Dean
Elon Student
Honored For
Music Work
An original musical composition
Mrs. Helen M. Eaton, a Bur-
ington resident and Elon College
tudent, was featured in a pro
ram of music by North Carolina
omposers, which was presented
Raleigh Monday, February 8.
The composition by Mrs. Eaton
nd those of nine other North Car-
lina composers was given as a
t ature of the Parade of American
lusic of the National Federation
f Music Clubs and as part of the
tate observance of the annual
usic Month.
Mrs. Eaton’s composition, “A
lother’s Lullaby,” was a winner
the 1958 arts contest in Bur-
ngton and claimed a first prize
is year in the state in the ama-
eur division of the North Caro-
na Composers’ Contest, marking
e second successive year in
hich the Burlington woman has
ained a first place in the state
Her winning composition of “A
other’s Lullaby” was presented
the Raleigh program by a sex-
tte of singers from St. Mary's
chool of Raleigh, performing un-
Pr the direction of Miss Gerald-
Cates.
Mrs. Eaton is a graduate in pub-
' school music supervising of
New Jersey State Teacher's
liege, and in addition to her
udies at Elon College she has
so studied at the Eastman
chool of Music. She is also in
torary pursuits, writing poetry,
fiction and non-fiction. .
New Admissions Officer
Assumes Duties March 1
Dr. H. H. Cunningham, dean of
Elon College and chairman of the
Elon history department, has just
been notified by the Louisiana
State University Press that a sec
ond printing of his book, “Doctors
In Gray,” will come from the
presses in the near future.
The second printing attests the
popularity and demand for Dr.
Cunningham’s book, which was
first published two years ago of-i |E|
fering a definitive study of the
Confederate army medical serv
ices during the Civil War.
The book continues to attract
favorable comment in recent re
views appearing in newspapers
and national magazines. The Sat
urday Review calls it “an absorb
ing book which has long been
needed in the Civil War field,”
and Civil War History describe?
it as “a comprehensive study of
the entire picture of the Confed
erate medical services” in recom
mending it to both lay readers and
hi.storians.
Wiliam R. Ginn, an Elon grad
uate who has just completed a
two-year tour of duty in the United
States Navy, has been appointed
admissions counsellor for Elon
College and will assume his new
duties on March 1.
APPOINTED
WILLIAM
GINN
The journal of Southern History
declares that "the book rests on
much research; it is well written,
well edited, well illustrated and
handsomely bound. It has valuable
appendixes and a most valuable
and extensive critical bibliogra
phy.”
The Richmond News Leader was
particularly high in its praise, de
claring that “this is a book un
likely to be superseded and one
that vrill Join a small and select
group of volumes as absolutely
necessary to any collection at
tempting to cover fully Confeder
ate history.” Attesting its value in
the field of science, the Bulletlin
of the History of Medicine calls
a valuable contribution to the his-
it “a most authoritive work and
tory of medicine.”
Elon President
Victim Of Flu
The new admissions counsellor,
.vhose appointment was announced
hy Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon’s pres
ident, is a resident of Mount
Pleasant, S. C., who graduated
Jrom Elon with the Class of 1956,
In announcing Ginn’s appoint-
.lent, Dr. Danieley declared that
■"Ion College Is fortunate to have
the services of Mr. Ginn as ad
missions counsellor. As a gradu
ate of the college, he is familiar
ivith the program offered and the
opportunities available at Elon.”
He further stated that the new
appointee "will serve as advisor
to prospective students, will visit
high school and church groups to
talk to young people about prepar
ation for college in general and
Elon in particular and will confer
with parents and other interested
persons about oportunitles for
scholarships, work jobs and loan
funds which are available to pro
spective students.”
Dr. Danieley stated that under
he present program of selective
admissions, Ginn will help select
those students who are best pre
pared to enter Elon College, those
ho will benefit mo.st from the
type of educational program which
Elon offers.
I As admissions counsellor, Ginn's
work will be closely coordinated
I with the duties of Prof. Robert
I Baxter, director of development,
and Prof. Alfred S. Hassell, di-
The musical Weather Man has
promised that “there ’ll be a hot
time in the old town” during the
1960 version of Elon’s annual Mid
winter Weekend, which is all set
for February’s final weekend, dur
ing which two of America’s big
gest name musical groups will fill
.star roles in a Friday night con
cert and a Saturday night dance.
George Shearing and his Quin
tet, hailed by lovers of jazz as
truly fabulous figures in the world
of American music, will start it
all off with a concert on Friday
night, February 26th, followed by
the appearance of Ralph Marterie
and his Orchestra to set the feet
flying at the annual Midwinter
Dance on Saturday night, March
27th.
Both events are set for the
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium,
only building on Elon’s campuF
which is big enough to acyommo-
date the crowds which are ex
pected to gather in response to
the magnetic drawing power of the
Shearing and Marterie music. The
Shearing concert is set for 8:30
o’clock on Friday night, while the
.Marterie dance will be from 8
until 12 o’clock on Saturday night
The Midwinter Dance, an
nounced as of the semi-formal va
riety, is to be a student affair, but
the George Shearing Concert on
Friday night will be open to the
general public at prices to be an
nounced later along with informa
tion as to where the jazz-lovers
of the area can secure theii
tickets.
There’ll be tickets for the Elon
students too, for Student Body
officials in charge of arrange
ments point out that the cost of
bringing such "big time” figures
to the Elon campus make it im
possible without additional admis
•sinn fees to supplement the fund
available from the Student Gov
emment treasury.
The costs to Elon students for
the entire weekend, with privilege
of attending both the concert on
Friday night and the dance on Sat
urday night, will be $5 per couple.
Those who elect to go stag are
offered tickets at $1.50 each for
the concert and the same for the
dance.
The plans for the entire week
end have been formulated under
the joint auspices of the Dance
Committee, of which John Wil
liams is chairman, and the Stud
ent Entertainment Committee, of
which George Platt is chairman.
Cliff Hardy is publicity chair
man for the gala event, and MlUle
Fletcher is chairman in charge of
ticket sales. A large group of ad
ditional students, members of the
respective committees, have been
and are still working to make the
1960 Midwinter Weekend the big
gest and best that Elon has ever
seen.
George Shearing Story Had
Its Start Beyond The Sea
The **oh’s’* and *‘ah*s” that have
been heard so frequently around
the Elon campus in recent days
have come from the jazz addicts
who are living in anticipation of
hearing and seeing George Shear
ing in person when the Shearing
Quintet makes a concert appear
ance in Eion*s Alumni Memorial
Gymnasium at 8:30 o'clock on Fri
day night of next week.
The uninitiated—those on the
campus who knew not Shearing-
received pitying glances when they
timidly inquired for information
concerning the life and personal
background of the jazz maestro
with the unseeing eyes and the
nimble fingers with their uncanny
feel for musical beats.
Even the campus ja£E addicts
could give few facts about whore
Shearing came from and the in
side story on his fabulous suc
cess In the World of Jazz, but all
of them could reel off the names
of his well-loved albums such
as “The Shearing Spell," “The
Velvet Carpet” and “Black Satin.”
Since It was necessary to know
something more than that about
Shearing’s jazz wizardry before his
appearance on the Elon scene, a
hurried telephone call was made
to one of those who jockey the
spinning discs for a Burlington
radio station, and even there one
heard the words, “Oh, hc*s simply
fabulous.**
Farther Inquiry of the disc
Jockey—and that without benefli
of payola — fhialy dug out the
Shearing story, which reveals that
George Shearing first hit the
musical spotlight in London. Eng
land. where he was one of the
original members of “The Hot
Club of France,** a jazz combo
which gained fame and acclaim
in the early 1940’s.
Sometime later Shearing formed
I his own group, the Shearmn Ouin-
tct. which hit the top making re-
|cnrdliigs for London Records. Inc.
i The famous five later came to
; America and signed with t!ie
'mom Record Comp my and then
about four years ago sirned with
('apllal Records, for which Shear
ing has since produtcj thirteen
long-play albums that have placed
him among the top jaz7. pianists
in the world, one who also fam
ous for his knowledge «if classical
music.
The Shearing combo has backed
up many famous singers, among
them Peggy Lee, who was with
Shearing at the much-publlci7i*d
1959 convention of American disc
jockeys In Florida, where Capital
Records made the album of
**Beauty and the Beast” that fea
tures Shearing and Miss Lea.
On the jacket of another of
Shearing’s recent albums. “In The
Night.” one finds the other mem
bers of the Quintet listed as In
cluding Emil Richard*, on the
vibes; Jean Thielmans, on the
guitar; Al McKibbon. on the bass;
and Armando Perazzo, on the
bongo drums; all of them working
under the piano magic of fieorge
Shearing himself.
Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon’s presi- admissions.'
dent, has been the Number One
victim of the influenza epidemic,
which has hit this area of North
Carolina hard in recent weeks, for
he has been bitten twice by the
mid-winter bug.
Dr. Danieley was ill for several
davs the first time he contracted
the virus, and then a Pennsylvania
bug bit him while he was attend
ing a national church meeting at
Buck Hill Falls, Pa., and the sec
ond attack has confined him to his
home much of the time for two
weeks.
The second assault by the in
fluenza virus robbed the Elon
president of a scheduled appear-
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The new admissions counsellor
ip a native of Anderson, S.C., but
he latflft" resic^fi in Charleston
before moving to Mount Pleasant
in 1950. He attended William
Moultrie High School in Mount
Pleasant and entered Elon Col
lege in 1952, graduating in 1956
with a major in history.
While in high school he partici
pated in the school band and was
a member of the glee club. While
at Elon he was a memt>er of the
Elon Choir, the Elon Band, the
Student Christian Association and
Kappa Psi Nu fraternity. In his
senior year he was elected to
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String Quartet
In Elon ( Joneert
The Alabama String Quartet,
one of the outstanding musical
groups in the South this season,
appeared in concert at Elon’s
Whitley Auditorium at 8:15 o’clock
last Monday night in another of
the college’s annual lyceum series.
The quartet, which plays under
the joint auspices of the arts pro
gram of the Association of Amer
ican Colleges and the Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge Foundation of
the Library of Congress, Is tour
ing with the University of Ala
bama as headquarters.
Those appearing with the quar
tet in Its Monday night program
at Elon were Emil Raab and Ro
land Johnson, violinists
Barrett, violist; and
Christy, cellist
Henry
Margaret
Famous Physicist Speaks
Al Elon February 22-23
Dr. L. Thomas Aldrich, of the
Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton, who is one of the world’s
outstanding figures in the field of
geo-physics, will appear as a visit
ing lecturer at Elon College next
Monday and Tuesday, February
22nd and 23rd.
His visit was arranged by Prof
A, L. Hook, chairman of the Elon
College physics department, who
states that Dr. Aldrich will ad
dress the student asembly in Whit
ley Auditorium at 10 o'clock on
Monday morning and will speak
in Whitley again that night at 8
©"clock for studemts in EJon's
Evening School. He will also meet
certain regularly scheduled class
es. An invitation is being issued
to high school science teacher
of the area to bring interesteci
.students to hear him.
Dr. Aldrleh ll to appear at Elon
under the iatplu» 61 the Amer-t
lean Institute of Phyilcs and the!
American Association of Physics
SPEAKER
Teachers as a part of a nation
wide program to stimulate interest
In physics. The program is now
In Us third year and is supported
by the National Science Founda
tion.
The American Association of
Physics Teachers is one of the
five member societies of the
American Institute of Physics,
other member groups being the
American Physical Society, ‘the
Optical Society of American, the
Acoustical Society of America and
the Society of Rheology.
Dr. Aldrich received the B.A,,
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics
from the University of Minnesota,
and from 1940 until 1944 he was
an assistant physicist with the
L. THOMAS AI-DRICIf
Ordnance Laboratory and
served as an associate physicis.* *n
1945. He returned to the Univers
ity of Minnesota as a faculty mem
ber from 1945 until 1948 and was
aslsstant professor of physics at
the University of MIsouri from
1948 until 1950.
He has been with the Carnegie
Institution since 1950 and has
served as chairman of the Earth’s
Crust Section of the Department
of Terrestrial Magnetism since
1957. He has been chairman of the
sub-committee on nuclear physics
of the National Research Council
and was a member of the execu
tive committee of the American
Geo-Physical Union. He is a fel-
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