Ol«i Alul New
The old and Ih^ new on ihc
Eloii campui arc piciuned here,
with the vanished Ladies* Hall,
which was ♦orn down dnnrg ihe
rmmf *. • n n. ihe 1-^ft ir. a
ir: 'u^t ''‘Tiie ii ' as
At the rifHt Is c laic
«t* *''•? ne’v '» ''>n'.en*s do’-n-
ito'-y. w),>s rhl”''. :'n the sUe
of the old L 'tVie**' Ha!V The now
dormitory, which will house SO
ffirls wh?n ^•onip!»‘te. i*. oxpect J
to have it«i firr.t *lr>or rfadv for
occupanry v.i^.bln a few week5.
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For
Saturday’s Game
MAROON AND GOLD
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The App Mountalnerni
VOLUME 41
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1960
NUMBERR I
Improvements Seen As Elon Opens New College Session
Elon Student Officers
For 1960-61 Are Listed
-e '•romc'ri in !he E’.ot C lle2e Student Body this year will
be interested in a complete r of ‘he officers of the Student
r vcrnment organization, which is headed this year by Ed Boelte,
of Vernon Hill, Va., named as St idt : Body president in the annua'. ^
campus election held last April. ^
Serving with President Boelte on t'.i? staff of general officers of
the Student Government this year pre Cliff Hardy, of Franltlin
Park, N.J., vice-president: Bill Hassell, of James, secretary-trea.'-
urer; and Cary Keogh, of East Orange. N.J., assistant secretary.
The members of the Honor Council, which hears all violations o’
the campus Honor Code, such as chea ing, lying or stealing, in
clude W. H. West, of Henderson, and Beverly Wiard, of Docltville.
Coiin., from the senior class: l ennie Riddle, of South Boston. Va..
and Phyllis Hoplcins, of Reidsville, for the junior class: and Jerry
Drake, of Greensboro, for the sopho-.ure class. Phylis Hopkins is
chairman of the group.
The members of the Student CouncU
Leaksville, and Carl Overby, of R..'i'isv
sentatives; Pat Jones, of Suffolk, Va.
end Dewey Andrew, of Snow Camp, a-
one vacancy for a women’s repre-e:^fat:ve due to failure of the
electcl member to return to col
ic??. and a special election will
Ije n^ce.ssary.
Officers of the senior class in
clude David Plaster, of Bassett,
Va., president; Steve McCauley,
of Tuquay Springs, vice-president;
and Jane Keck, of Burlington,
secret 1 ry-treasurer.
r. u 1 Officers of the junior class in-
It will be i) new play, a new ai- ,, , . „
, » r elude M.ke York, of Ramseur,
rector and i host of new ac ors f
president: Helen Wnght, of Green
when the Elon Players oien their .
1960-61 campus stage season with
the presentation of John Patrick’s
“The Curious Savage" in the
Mooney Chapel Theatre for a . i>- u „ j ■ j- j jj-
^ j ,u include Don Terrell, of Richmond, 61 term, including four new addi-
three-night stand the first week . . , , u .... . ,7 • .i.
president; John Currin, of tions to the staff of the Depart-
Rowlanrt. vice-president; and Judylment of English, four in the De-
NEW CHAIRMEN FOR AC VDEiMU: DEPARTMENTS
include C. G. Hall, of
;ile, serving as men’s repre-
as women's representative:
mwnber-at-large. There is
DR. ROBERT BENSON
MRS. JOHN WILLIAMS
Elon Players
Workinsi For
t...
First Show
ville, S C., vice-president; and Mc-
ilver Henderson, of Columbia
S.C., secretary-treasurer.
PROF. LLOYD SMITH
Three of the Elon CoHege acad .niic departments have new facu ciiairmen for the 1960-61 term.
Shown left to right above, they are Dr. Hebert Benson, dean of st .denis, who also became acting
chairman of the English Department, succeeding Dr. James Howell, ’ ;io has retired from the chair-
ma^5hip to devote full time to teaching duties: Mrs. John H. Wil '•’ns. who becomes acting chair-
min of the Department of Business Administration and Business l^ducation, succeeding Prof. Wil-
Ii;m T. Reece, who resigned his Elon faculty post this year; and Prof. Lloyd Smith, who becomes
ctin? chairman of the Department of Mathematics, succeeding D A. L. Hook, who retired from
the afiministrative post to devote full time to teaching mathetics a id physics.
Fifteen New Members Are Added
To Elon Faculty For ’60-’61 Term
(Picture* on Pa*e 2)
Fifteen new members joined the
Offic^.'s of the sophomore class Elon College faculty for the 1960-
in November.
Prof. E. Ray ay, who joined the ^ , a j • ■ .
Maness, of Kamseur, secretary- partment of Business Administra-
Elon faculty this year as director I- j n ■ i-j . .
treasurer. |tion and Business Education, two
These class officers also repre- in the Department of Mathematics,
j of the student dramatic program,
IS a^ady ^ent their class as members of the three in the Department of Physi.
earaa s or e ,i State Senate, which is the campus cal Education and one each in thej
.age, which had a successful ^ ’ _
Neiv Rules
For Chapel
No longer will Elon students
lose houni of academic credit for
failure to attend chapel, but stud
ents who over-cut the dally chapel
„ J . legislative body. The new fresh- Departments of Modem Foreign j«*erc***» themselTes liv-
Broadway run man class is to name its officers Languages and Mathematics. The|‘« attendln* coUe.e elsewhere
at a class election in the near fu- new members of the faculty in al-
[ from the pen of
tauthor of a number of America’s
I finest modem shows.
The show, setting for which is
j In a rest home for the mentally
J 111, is dedicated to the idea show-
I ing just how insane the sane world
• really can be at times, and the
I three acts are packed with laughs]
'^'from curtain to curtain.
tThe cast for the show includes
only three who have previously
^ appeared on the boards (rf the
Mooney Theatre, with Sam White,
'■'a veteran of many Elon Players
from Plttsboro, as the most exper-
r ienced. White is to appear as Tit-
•■'-‘us. Roger Bednarik. of Bayside.
/Va., who plays the role of Hanni-
"i bal, and Mandy Gauer, of Carmel,
N.Y., who appears as Lily Belle,
are sophomores who worked with
the Players last year.
'The remainder of the cast, all
-o7 VliOM are making their Elon
Jtage debut, include Sandra Kus-
lell, of Durham, as Florence; Rita
ileeder, of Newport News, Va., as
f airy"M'ay; George Diaz, of Doug-
JUw«on. N.Y., as Jeffrey; Rosalee
,^»4«llffe, of Carversville, Pa., as
*^rs, Paddy; Arlene Side, of
Triioklin Square, N.L., ^
Ethel; Inna Barker, of Elon Col
lege, as Miss Wilbelmina; and
'Carter Nat*, ot Wayne, Pa., as Dr.
BmmetL
iture. phabetical order follow:
! East class also has five addltion-l Mrs. Janie E. Council,
under new rules which have none
into effect this year In recant to
a resi-attendance.
al members in the Student Sen- dent of Graham but a native ofl *“* chapel uttendance
ate. those for the senior class be- Greenville, became assistant pro-1 »“"ounce^ this wee y r.
ing Glenda Baumgamer, of Bur- fessor of businftss education andl”- CunninRham. dean of t e
lington; Hobert Bialiousz, of Mon-[accounting. She is a graduate of were first propose at a
essen. Pa.: Edward Green, of Mid- East Carolina College, where shej**'“**^ »«ss1ob last year an were
dietown, Del.; Tony Markosky, of received both the batchelor's and j
Mahanoy City, Pa.; and Douglas master’s degrees. She joins thej
Scott, of Durham. Elon faculty after five years of
Junior members of the Student teaching at Burlington
College. 1
Prof. Herman C. Davis, a native :
(Contlntied on Page Four
Eion Will Have
Debaling Team
Intercollegiate debating will be
restored as iin organized program
on the Elon College campus this
year, with Prof. E. Ray Day as
faculty sponsor and coach for the
debating squad. He joined the Elon
iaculty this fall as professor of
speech and c'ramatics.
Prof. Day reported that eight
students attended a meeting in
Mooney ChapsI Theatre thia week
to discuss plans for the debating
activities during the year, and
plans now ca t for the Elon foren
sic group to participate in the nsv-
ice debate t/iumament at Wake
Forest on October 27tli and 30tb.
a committee fer study
The committee bronrht the matter
back to a special faculty rather-
Business summer, at which the new
regulations were adopted.
In makinc the new chapel rules
of Conway, joins the Elon staff as!P»>»lic. Cunnta.ham «ated
assistant profes^r of business ed- *«»•
ucation and as faculty manager »>■ □PPercla.smen, will be lU-
of the college book store. He is|'*»*«« * '•'.pel absene-
. graduate of East CaroUna Col-'« «««»' «n.e.ter, and abwnces
lege, from which he received both *“ «*=«“ •"••"her win
the bachelor’s and master’s de-/«"»" >»*
grees. He served as graduate in-j"'*^* hours.
structor at East Carolina, taught I Howerer. he pointed mt that
in high school at Bath and
taught at the Wilmington Business
Prof. David A. Fee, a nitive of
Wilkesburg, Pa., came lo Hlon as
lassistant professor of Bible. He Is
a graduate of Muskingum College
.md hold the Bachelor of Divinity
degree from Princeton Theological
Seminary and the master’s degree
from Yale University.
Mrs. Betty K. Gerow, a native of
Raleigh but a resident of Burling
ton for the past several years,
joined the Elon faculty as asslst-
■int professor of English. A grad
uate of 'MeredKth OoUegle, she
holds the Master’s degree from
'•he University of North Carolina.
She joins the Elon faculty after
teaching for the past eight years
at Walter M. Williams High School
in Burlington.
Miss Ursula E. Koenig, a native
of Wesjel in Germany, joined the
Elon faculty as an instructor ia
foreign linguages. She was edu
cated at the University of Heidel
berg, the Unitersity of Prague and
is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley. She has
^Iso done graduate study at the
University of Michigan and the
University of North Carolina.
Miss Bertha P. Lowman, a na
tive of Newton, accepted a posi
tion as assistant professor of math
ematics. She is a graduate of
Lenoir Rhyne College and holda
New Dorm For Women
ISow Rising On Campus
When the Elon College faculty and students returned to the cam
pus for the 1960-61 term, there were a number of changes In evi
dence in the college’s physical plant, chief among them being the
rising walls of a new women’s dormitory on the spot formerly oc
cupied by Ladles’ Hall.
The decision to- tear down historic Ladles" Hall on the north
west corner of the campus was reached early in the summer when
dt became evident that there v.ould be a sharp Increase In the
number of girls who would be residing in the Elon dormitories this
year.
Workmen began late In June tearing down the Ladles' Hall,
which had been built in 1913 and was used as a dormitory until a
few year sago. It had not been used as a residence hall in recent
years and had been occupied by the offices of the Southern Con
vention of Congregational Chris'Ian Churches and as offices for
the Elon faculty members.
The removal of Ladies' Hall moved quickly, and work was start
ed on the new women’s dormitory early in July, with the original
plans being to have the first floor of the new structure ready for
occupancy by 24 girls when the new college year opened. How
ever, It was learned quickly that work could not move that fast,
and contractors have promised
and are continuing to promise that
the first floor rooms will be ready
by October I5th. Any setback in
the work, could postpone the date
beyond that time.
The new structure, which is de
signed to accomodate 80 girls
when it is fully completed, is of
the same architectural design as^ Community relationships fum-
Vlrginia Hall, the other new girls' lahed the theme as Dr. J. E. Dan-
dorm which was opened for use leley, Elon College president, ad-
four years ago. , dressed Elon’s new freshman class
While awiaitjng completion of at the first freshman chapel con-
the first floor of the new dorm. It vocation held in Whitley Auditor-
Ihas been necessary to double up.dum on Tuesday morning, Sep-
women students in the large rooms tember 20th.
of West ormltary. The game doub-{ Pointing out that the Elon fresh-
ling up has been necessary in Car- men have just become members
ollna Hail, where it has been nsc- of a new community after leaving
essary to crowd a number of boys their homes and entering upon
for a short period while waiting itheir college careers, Dr. Danieley
^e completion of renovation work described their new environment
on East Dormitory. ;as a community of students, a
The East Dormitory for boys, I community of faith and a commun-
one of Elon's original stnicturaa ity with a desire for excellence.
Frosh Hear
Cha|>el Talk
By Danieley
.and oldest building now standing
on the campus, had not been used
•s a dormitory in recent years,
but Increased campus enrollment
of boys forced its renovation and
reapening this year. The renova
tion of the building includes new
bath facilities, which are now com
plete. Painting began this week.
and it Is expected that the crowded
conditions in Carolina Hall will be
ended by early next week.
Another change made during the
summer months was the prepar-
(CootloMd oa Page Po«r)
),2,!aB7 st»ieiit who acenmalates more the master's degree from the Uni-
College.
Prof. E. Ray Day, native of Nor
folk, Va., and a graduate of Elon
College with the Class of 1947,
returned to his Alma Mater as as-
than 1( chapel absences win be
called before the faculty sab-eoin-
mittee on absences and will be
aaked ta show reasoa why he or
she shooM be allowed to remain
In colleire at EUm. Re pointed oat
sUtant professor of dramaUcs. Hei““‘ re.«.n.bte and leiittmate ex-
holds the master s degree from Probably be aoceptMf,
Cornell University and has done
advanced work at the Uiirersity
o{ Miaaoori aad Arkaoaaa State
Collate,
bnt stadeats who ean show no real
reasoa fer exceasiT^ eliapel e«ta
ml(M be asked ta withdraw fntaa
tba ooOeca.
versity of Alabama. She has also
done advanced study at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. She has
had previous faculty service at
Campbell College. Anderson Col
lege, Hardin-Simmons Uoiverslty
and East Carolina College.
Prof. Tully Reed, native af Sa
vannah, da., came to Eloa as aa-
sociate professor of Engiiali. He at
tended George Washingtaa Unl-
(CootlcuAd
t
oa Pafla rawt
Elon Delegates
Attend Meeting
Four members of the Elon Col
lege faculty attended the seventh
hnnual Southern States FacuKy
Conference, which was held at
L,ake Junaluska the tlrst week in
September for faculty members
from universities and colleges all
over the South.
The Elon delegation which at
tended tlve week-long conference
included W. E. Butler, Elon’a bus
iness manager; Dr. Paul Cheek,
chairman of the Elon chemistrr
department; Prof. Jennings Berry,
«asiatant registrar; and William
Gina, director at ad*laaloea for
the callege.
In thus describing the student
community at Elon, he pointed out
that a true student never ceases
/to learn ana expressed the hope
that the faculty will t>e such sin
cere students as to inspire the all
in their classes to continue
throughout life to study and ad
vance their education. He also
told the freshmen that, if and
when they have attained their de
grees and diplomas, they will haTe
only laid the foundation of a true
education.
Calling the Elon College cam
pus a community of faith. Presi
dent Danieley pointed out that
many different denominations and
religious faiths are represented
within the Elon faculty and stud
ent body, and he challenged the
members of the freshmen class ta
discuss issues of faith and religion
among themselves and with tha
faculty and thus strengthen their
own faith and enrich their rellg-
loiu experience.
Stressing the desire for excel
lence on the Elon campus. Dr.
Danieley pointed out that mem
bers' of the freshman class are a
select group, citing the fact that
more than 20 per cent of tboaa
(applying for admission to Eloa tbia
y*ar were rejected, aod ha wged
the freshoMB ta eater upon their
college life with a sincere desire
ta attsia tnsa eceeileaoa