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MASOON AND GOLB
Friday, March 4,
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EDITORIAL BOABD
Bobby Lawson — Editor-In-Chief
Jimmy Elder Assistant Editor
Doris Faircloth Assistant Editor
John DalCin Sports Editor
H. Reid — Alumni Editor
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
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BEPORTEES
Thomas Ayers Jimmy Jones
Dale Barnwell Pete Jones
Dean Coleman Bill Libby
James DiPerna Steve Mauldin
Tommy Elmore Kirk Moser
OUver Gilliam Rex Moser
Marion Glasgow Leroy Myers
Harrison Harding — Joseph Pulliam
William Hasstll James Short
George Howey John Sunpson
Malcolm Jackson Zac Walker
Cedi Wright
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By
bobby LAWSON
In The Thunderous Thirties
Elon Cage Squads Posted Fine Records
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EDITOR’S NOTE
By JAMES WAGGONER
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1960
A WONDERFUL CAUSE
The students and faculty of Elon Col
lege are watching with interest the progress
of the fund-raising campaign, which is now
in progress to provide expansion and im
provement of the facilities at the Congre
gational Christian Home for Children, and
institution whose grounds adjoin the col
lege campus.
There are many appeals voiced for money
in this great country of ours, but truly this
appeal in behalf of the children at Elon's
neighboring Institution is a wonderful cause
for giving, a cause which deserves the
Ahole-hearted support o( everyone in this
area.
The Congregational Christian Home for
Children, which was for mahy years known
ts the Christian Orphanage, was opened
jnd admitted its first child on January 28,
1907, and the intervening half century and
more have seen hundreds and perhaps
thousands of boys and girls pass through
its portals, and it has rendered a service
to humanity which Is immeasurable.
Although the Home for Children is oper
ated under the sponsorship of the Congre
gational Christian Church, the same de
nominational group which founded and has
sponsored Elon College, the Home, like the
college itself, has never operated along
denominational lines. It receives children
0/ all religious taiths, and referrals may
be children other than orphans. That last
fact is the reason that the \vord “Orphan
age" was dropped from the Home's name
In 1950.
The newly-launched campaign is oper
ating under the short and appropriate name
of CHIP, a four letter word which is made
from the initial letters of "Children’s Home
Improvement Program," but the CHIP
name is Rven more appropriate In that the
single word conveys a suggestion that “ev
eryone CHIP in with both time and money
to make the drive a success."
Certainly no one can deny the worthi
ness of the appeal, foi. with no known ex-
ception.c, all of the Homev graduates have
gone forth to fill a fine poU in the life of
their chosen conimuintles. Tney have fol
lowed Iheir trades and professions and
have contributed their abihties to the in
dustrial. business and spiritual growth of
those chosen communities.
The records of the graduates prove in
every case a living and thankful testimon
ial of appreciation and thanksgiving for
tlie opportunities which the Home has pro
vided through the fifty-three years that
have elapsed since its founding.
Some of the Home's graduates have
moved over after high school graduation
to the Elon College eampus, where they
were able to pursue a higher educaUon,
and those boys and girls in turn have be
come valued alumni of the college itself.
Certainly the Home Is a valued neighbor
of the coUege, and this -drive deserves the
complete support of the campus people.
Proof that the college students, as well
»s the faculty, are interested In the Home
and its children is found In the series of
Christmas parUes which the Elon students
have staged for the children at each Yule
season for more than a decade, and It U
a sure thing that the students will be puU-
Ing with all their hearts and with all their
prayers for the CHIP campaign to attaki
Its goal of $200,000 to furnish the needed
buildings and Improvements.
The Student Government Association has
been the “talk of the campus for the past
few weeks. It has been shown by the
student body that there is much mterest
m the acUvities of the student government.
II this interest continues we will have a
better student government association. 1
have always heard that you get out of
everything, just what you put mto it. 1
hope our Student Government Association
will never be described by a famous Shake
spearean quotation, “much ado about
nothing.”
Basketball Team
Congratulations to the basketball team
and its coach. They have well represented
our college this season and finished up
with a very good record, and I predict
that its record next year will be even bet
ter; maybe conference champions.
It must have been fate that placed us,
the number eight team in the North State
Conference, with Lenoir Khyne, the num
ber one team, in the first game of the
tournament. Yes. it happened again, "they
beat us like a drum.” Nevertheless the
team is to be congratulated for a fine
season.
Students Never Change
It is trite to say that cooperation is one
of the most necessary things in life, yet
tew things can be done without it-
Most of us are rather good at promis
ing to do things by a certain time, but
those students who fulfill their promises
promptly and pleasanUy certainly are too
few. "Gosh. I forgot all about it!" is the
too usual reply when a neglectful person
is confronted with a reminder that he
has failed to do his task.
That person may have forgotten his as
sumed duty or he may have had no real
intention of performing it in the first place.
There are some students who apparently
want to be in the limelight so they can
be regularly publicized when work is be
ing planned, but it takes a real person
ality to fulfill duties.
On this campus every week, every day,
there are opportunities for students to
be of service to clubs and responsible
persons. There is student government work
to be handled, pubilcations to go to press,
plays to be produced, dances to get decor
ated for, class organizations, and dozens
of little but important jobs to be done.
It is not just the responsibilty of offi
cers in charge to do the job. It is every
student's task to see that the activities
of Elon are done and done as best they
can be done. It is unfortunate that even
though the entire student body could work
together all the work on campus continues
to be done by the same small group of
energetic individuals. Also after the job
has been completed the rest complain.
Are you a slacker? Are you one of those
students who never have time to do this
or that because you have to loaf or go
to a movie or do something else equally
unimportant? It is said, “If you want a
job well done, ask a busy person to do it,
for the ones who are not busy never have
time.”
If you are one of these persons who is
guilty of not doing anything helpful on
the campus, start today to atone for your
past. Cooperate to the fullest extent with
all that will go to make our alma mater
an institution of which we will be proud.
Pajama Game
The coming attraction at the Elon Col
lege Little Theater is “Pajama Game."
I am sure that you will enjoy the Players
first musical of the year. They are really
working on it very hard. It has some very
excellent music, also they will be accom
panied by an orchestra '
Concratulations Cheerleaders
This year as usual, the cheerleaders
have received the same criticism they have
received in the past; “There should be
more yells. Good yells." If you have not
been satisfied with the yells the cheer
leaders have used this year, or if you feel
that they need more, this is an invitation
to you to write more and submit them to
the cheerleaders. I am sure that they will
be glad to receive them. However. I think
the cheerleaders have done an excellent
jol this year. They certainly have sup-
• Hirtifl oui teams, football and basketball,
anil •■in college to the best of their ability.
\caiti I -..?v '’'ineratulatlons on a job well
done.
Ueaa’s List
The Deui'it list can be desirable or un-
de.sirahle II aU depends on whtah list your
nanxi appears. And as usual the undeslr-
aMe list Is much longer that the desirable
•n«, alftoBgh It should be easier to make
the Beaa's list since yoa tan be on it even
with a C; that is If yo« have an A to pull
it up to a B avarage. Mayb« we will have
better luck ntxt time.
Coach Douglass Clyde "Pea-
head” Walker appeared on the
Elon campus in the fall of 1927
to begin a successful ten-year
era as Christian cage mentor, and
ne immediately launched tht ca-
gers into a 1928 season which car
ried the Christian cagers into i
season that took them far afield,
including a 7-game trip into Vir
ginia, West Virginia and Ohio. The
season netted nine wins in 21
games for a team led by Captain
Earl "Squire” Sims, all-stater Dan
Long Newman and Clarence “To-
ue” Crutchfield.
After that season E. S. "John
nie” Johnson, one of Elon’s great
athletes, was asked to select all
time Elon teams in all major sports
He modestly left himself off the
list, which included two teams,
one team of graduates and an
other of combined graduates and
non-graduates. Players appearing
on one or both groups, with year
of graduation, were C. C. “Jack"
Johnson. ’14; J. U. “Dummy”
Newman. ’14; R. T. “Shine” Brad
ford, ’16; Hollis Atkinson, ’17; W.
F. Stevens, ’17; Bob Brown. '25;
and Dan LongVewman. ’28.
The 1929 campaign was a bit
I more successful as Elon won eight
and lost six, being nosed out by
High Point for the “Little Six”
title; but the 1930 team opened
a new decade that might well be
called the “Thundering Thirties”
of Elon’s athletic glory, with Coach
Walker and Captain George Kelly
leading the Christians to twelve
wins and eight losses, including
five wins in a 7-game northern
trip.
Conference Formed
The 1931 team, led by Captain
Roy “Country" Rollins, won only
nine of 21 games, but the victory
column Included a win over
George Washington. The Chris
tians placed fourth with a 4-5
mark in the new North State Con
ference, which had evolved from
the old “Little Six” circuit. Rol
lins and Moses "Dick” Caddell
won berths on the first and sec
ond All-Conference teams respec
tively, and Rollins led the cagers
in scoring with 145 points.
The Elon basketballers of 1932,
again led by Roy Rollins and Dick
Caddell, won the North State Con
ference crown with a 7-1 mark.
This is the second chapter of
the history of basketball on the
Elon campus, picking up the
story with the advent of Coach
“Feahead” Walker and contin
uing through what may be term
ed the Middle Period of Chris
tian cage activities, the period
just prior to World War II.
the lone defeat a 29-24 loss to
Guilford. Other records reveal
that Elon tied for the Conference
title in 1934, and won crowns in
1935, 1937 and 1938, and the Chris
tians won the regular season crown
in 1941 with a 13-2 record but
lost out in the newly-started Con
ference tournament which began
that year.
That 1932 campaign included a
northern trip for games with
Lynchburg, Bridgewater, St.
Johns, American University and
Randolph-Macon. With two scores
of the northern trip unrecorded,
the records show Elon winning 14
of 16 games in the state, includ
ing a 32-30 win over Davidson.
Rollins made the All-State team,
and he and CaddeU placed third
and fourth in the North State Con
ference scoring with 153 and 123
points. No All-Conference team
was listed.
Hughes Captain Twice
Kenneth K. Hughes, still an
Elon resident, captained the Chris
tian cagers in both 1933 and 1934,
and records show that Elon placed
third in the Conference in 1933
with a 4-3 mark and broke even
with a 9-9 record for the entire
season. Hughes and Obie Johnson
were on the first and second All-
Conference teams respectively.
The 1934 season was a better
one, with a 13-9 overall and an
8-2 mark in the Conference which
gave Elon a split with Guilford
for the Conference title. Captain
Hughes, along with Howard Smith,
Lawrence Tuck and Ryland John
son, led the basketeers to that
tie for the title, Hughes and Smith
made the first All-North State
team with Tuck and Johnson get
ting second-team berths.
In 1935 the Christians won 13
and lost 6, posting an 11-1 mark
in the North State Conference to
gain another Conference tiUe. That
team also entered and won the
Tri-State tournament at Charlotte
defeating Lynchburg 51-27 in the
finals. Hal Bradley,,Paul Cheek
and Paul Roye made the All-Tour
ney team. Roye and Cheek also
made the All-Conference first five
while Bradley and Howard Smith
won second-team honors.
It was Paul Roye who led the
Christians to a 1936 mark of 12
wins and 7 losses, including an
8-4 mark in the Conference for
third in the loop standings. Roye
who led the scoring with 236
points, was again All-Conference
Other scoring leaders were Hal
Bradley with 156 and Howard
Smith with 147 points. Ernest As
kew was team captain that sea
son. In a Conference tourney that
year Elon defeated Appalachian
56-31 in the first round but drop
ped a semi-final tilt to High Point
36-34. Bradley won first team and
Smith and Roye second team hon
ors on the All-Tourney selections
The 1937 season ended a 10-year
regime for Coach “Peahead” Wal
ker, and the boys made it a gooci
one for him, winning 15 and los
ing 5 and taking the undisputed
Conference crown for the thir&
time since the loop was formed
Id 1931. Most outstanding player
in the Conference was Elon’s Paul
Roye, who made both the All-Con
ference and All-State teams. It
was his third All-Conference sea
son, and Hal Bradley and Lloyd
Whitley made the second loop
squad.
In his ten seasons as Maroon
and Gold cage mentor. Coach Wal
ker won 115 and lost 79 (not
counting two games in 1932 for
which score were unavailable),
with the record in the Conference
showing an impressive 52-18 mark
Walker’s teams won three Confer
ence titles and tied for one in
seven years.
New Coach Arrives
Horace “Horse” Hendrickson
former Duke star, succeeded Coach
Walker as Elon mentor and con
tinued as Christian cage coach
during five remaining pre-war
seasons between 1938 and 1942.
Hendrickson stepped up from an
assistant’s post when Walker de
parted for a job at Wake Forest
and "the Horse” immediately
'twixt
and
between
By
JIMMY ELDER
(Continued on Page Four)
The Chatter Box
By DORIS FAIRCLOTH
Bid time is drawing near once
again, and the sorority and fra
ternity rush parties are in full
swing. It’s a pity that so many
students have been made in
eligible because of low grades.
The probation problem seems
to have increased considerably
since last year, yet the students
are supposed to have been more
carefully selected this year.
Where does the cause of this
problem lie? In the students, in
the faculty, in the "improve
ment” of a semester system, or
in the school as a whole?
I would iike to apologize to
the Studenf^ouncil for a state
ment which was made in the
last Chatter Box that apparent
ly was misleading. The state
ment read, and I quote, "The
Student Council ... is respon
sible for the control of line-
breaking and for the enforce
ment of the rules concerning
It.” I have learned since that
the Student Council is respon
sible only for taking action when
the name of a student who has
broken line has been turned in
to the council. It is the respon
sibility of each student to turn
in to the Council those students
whom he sees cutting line. We
are lucky that the Student Body
isn’t dependant upon the funds
collected from students turned
In for line-breaking.
It has been suggested to me
that my column would have
much more appeal to Elonites
if I were to change it to a cut
ting column, emphasizing the
peculiarities of the better-known
Elon students. This undoubted
ly would arouse interest; how
ever, I feel that if I am unable
to arouse a little interest from
the Maroon and Gold readers
without tearing down and mak
ing fun of their fellow students,
then I will have to confine my
self to being the most avid and
perhaps the only Chatter Box
reader.
Some may feel that mine is
merely a gripe-column, and with
this I am somewhat inclined to
agree; but the criticism which
is printed within these lines al
ways has a purpose, usually in
hopes that improvements may
be made on the criticized sub
ject. I can see no purpose other
than providing food for the
blood-thirsty in a column con
sisting of nothing but personal
criticism of students, whether
the cutting is meant seriously or
is just a device for luring po
tential readers. So I’U just have
to apologize for the dryness and
continue writing the same old
stuff with the hopes that some
poor person may run out of in-
teresUng reading material.
The Saturday night dance
held after the last home basket
ball game in the Student Union
seems to have been quite suc
cessful. The jukebox was kept
lively by a representative of
the Weekend Entertainment
Committee who had appropriat
ed funds from the Student Gov
ernment for this purpose. It
seems that the Student Union
is the only place on campus in
which the students are welcomed
to hold their weekend dances,
since they have been discour
aged from hiring the second
floor of McEwen, where the
dances have previously been
staged. But as long as the future
Student Union dances are as
successful as the past one, with
the Weekend Dance Committee
feeding the jukebox, the stu
dents will get along. The cause
of the situation which necessi
tated the use of the Student
Union, as a spot for the Satur
day night dance, along with other
similar incidents, makes me
wonder if a Student Govern
ment Association is not being
discouraged on the Elon cam
pus.
It’s been said that if you know
the right people, you can get
away vrith anything. Let’s hope
that this isn’t a situation en
couraged by either faculty or
students at Elon.
The West Dormitory girls
must have been taking the
smooth-running heat, water, and
electrical system too much for
granted. A new and very differ
ent problem has now confronted
them. The noises in the walls
and ceilings caused us to be
quite suspicious, and the omi
nous odor in the dorm of some
thing deceased has confirmed
our suspicions and has brought
about the use of the old expres
sion, “I smell a rat.”
In order to assuage the rumors tiiaMa-
evitably circulated around the campus dm.
ing and after the George Shearing coj.
cert affair last week, it is perhaps expe
dient for all concerned to relate the events
concerning the plans for the Mid-Winter
Weekend from beginning to end.
Before Christmas, even while the plans
were in the making for the Christmas for
mal, the Dance Committee was preparing
for a Mid-Winter event that would iaclude
both a dance and concert. It was decided
after the Christmas holidays that the
George Shearing Quintet should play for
the Friday night concert and that Ralph
Marterie was preferred over Tommy Dor.
sey for the Saturday night dance. The de
cision was aU fine and well except for
two things;
First, the contracts were returned to
the agency too late, as were the deposits
for the two musical outfits. Fortunately,
T. D. Kemp, Jr., the local agent in Cliar-
lotte, wa^ able to obtain on January 21st
a firm committment from the Marterie
Agency out of New York (the Musical Cor
poration of America) for $1,600, and Mir-
terie then was set.
Second, while there has generally been
no consultation with the administration con
cerning dances, the sponsorship of a puli-
lic concert raises problems which are not
evident in private dances for the student
body- The Dance Committee signed tht
contract for Shearing’s concert without per
mission from the administration, but since
the Dance Committee had already eoramit-
ted itself and feared legal action if the
contract were cancelled, the administr>
tion approved the concert.
Plans for the weekend, particularly the
concert, did not get underway until about
two weeks before Shearing was to appear.
There was a reason for this. Having wait
ed for some time for a confirmation of
the Shearing contract, John Williams,
dance chairman, contacted Kemp in Char
lotte, who in turn contacted Shearing's
agent-
The Dance Committee needed both pub
licity materials and contract confirmation.
Kemp called back and reported that the
publicity was on the way and suggested
that the Dance Committee proceed with
its planned advertisement, which it did. The
publicity materials never arrived, and the
publicity committee, headed by Cliff Har
dy, continued advertising on the basis of
Kemp’s verbal acknowledgement of an
agreement and on the good faith of ah
concerned. The total costs for advertising
came to about $350 and represented a lot
of time and hard work.
Members of the Dance Committee be
gan anticipating trouble with the concert
The publicity materials, newspaper cuts
and contracts had not come, and it was
reported that George Shearing, on a tele
vision appearance, stated that he would
not perform in the South because there
were no first-rate, integrated overnight fa
cilities for his Quintet, of which two are
Negroes.
The fear that Shearing might not come
was confirmed just four and one-half days
before the concert was scheduled. This
posed a real dilemma for the Dance
mittee, for several reasons: (1) Many peo
ple had already purchased tickets, and
literally thousands knew about the concert
via three daily newspapers and two radio
stations; and the tickets and money would
have to be returned with some imposition
on the ticket agents in Chapel Hill, Greens
boro and Burlington and also upon the
ticket holders. (2) The Student Government
stood to lose a minimum of $1,500, of which
about $400 was for advertising, ticiiets
and miscellaneous expenses; the rest con
sisting of the many expenses for the Sat
urday night dance, such as orchestra fee*-
ciiairs, decorations and refreshments, all
of which the Shearing concert was to liw®
more than compensated for. (3) It woul'*
definitely damage the chances of sponsor
ing another concert soon, not only because
of finances, but because of the bad situ*"
tion created by having to withdraw the
sale of tickets and sponsorship for
Shearing concert.
When word that Shearing refused to coiw
to North Carolina was received, it ***
followed by two days of harrowing
tiations, involving the administratioflf
eral members of the Dance Committee
and Student Government, T. D. Kemp,
(Elon’s Charlotte agent) and Shearing*
own personal agent. Virtually every
was exhausted in attempting to obtain®®^
flrmation fnwtn Shearing. It was orfS®
Kemp notified the Dance Comnjfttse on
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