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VOLUlVfE 43
MAROON AND GOLD
And Let'* Help The
ChriHtiaos
Turn Back The Pirates
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
FRIDAY. OCTOBER S, 19G2
— NUMBER 1
Mon Off To Fine Start As 1962-63 Term Opens
Newly-Formed Eloii Band i si>okts fieij) in i se as veak i{e;l\s
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Is Receiving High Praise
Iniprovenients Are Seen
In Program Foi- (^)llege
director
PROF. JACK O. WHITE
Leads New Band
Eloii Groii[>
At Seminar
On Textiles
Two Elon College students and
a faculty representative from the
college’s department of business
administration joined groups from
eleven other colleges and universi
ties in the two Carolinas in attend
ing the first annual Walter F. Fan- hand in that city and within one
One of the outstanding events on
the Elon College campus as the
new session got underway was the
organization of a new Elon College
Band, which has been formed and
is performing under the direction
of Prof. Jack O. White, a new
comer on the Elon campus.
Professor White, who had a high
ly successful career as a high
school band director in both Vir
ginia and North Carolina, arrived
on the campus in mid-summer and
began at once with plans to re
organize the Elon musical group.
Launching forth with enthusiasm.
White had his band members
practicing almost as quickly as the
registration had started, and the
group made its first appearance at
j the opening chapel program on
Friday, September 14th.
The band has since played at
both the Guilford and Appalach
ian games, and there was high
praise for the unit in its marching
performance at halftime of the
Mountaineer contest at Boone. It
will offer its first marching per
formance for the home folks at the
Elon-East Carolina game tomor
row night.
A native of North Fork, West,
Va., Professor White is a graduate
of Concordia College in that state
and holds the master’s degree from
the University of North Carolina.
He has held teaching and band
positions at Lebanon and Wythe-
ville in Virginia and was at Cary
in North Carolina for three years
before coming to Elon.
In his first band post at Leban,
Va., he organized the first school
The major addition to the physical facilities of Elon College as the 1962-63 term got underws^'
was the beautiful new sports field, which was completed during the past year and which was placed
into use for the first time this fall. The new field, lying northwest of .■\lumni Memorial Gymnasium,
was made possible by contributions from friends of the college, with most of the construction work
being done by Elon students under the leadership and direction of Coach George Tucker, head foot-
Continuing the progress which
has been evident at Elon College
in recent years, there were a num
ber of improvements in evidence
as Elon opened its 1962-63 term
with the arrival of the first group
of freshmen on Friday. Septem
ber 7th,
The Elon faculty held its first
convocation of the term on Thurs
day, September 6th, when Dr. J.
E. Danieley welcomed eleven new
members of the faculty along the
veterans from previous years. At
this meeting plans were outlined
for the orientation and registra
tion of students during the ensu
ing week.
The major physical addition to
the Elon College plant for the new
term is the beautiful, green-carp-
eted athletic field northwest of
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium
This field, completed during the
summer, went into use for the first
time with the opening of pre-sea-
I son football practice.
In discussing the plans for the
I year. President DatHeley listed
among the forward steps the re-
NKW ADVISOR
DR. KDWARI) S. JONES
Guidance Leader
Elon grid squad and also will provide a standard quarter-mile track with a two-twenty straightway.
The track has been laid out and graded, but it still lacks its coatin; of cinders
ball mentor. The new field, with its beautiful carpet of grass, furnishes a practice facility for tht j juvenation of the Elon College
Of (jiiidaiiee
Is I iiderway
Oeative Wrili iig (iets Impetus
Writing Course
Wellman Offering
court Memorial Seminar on prob- year had the band ranking with
lems of the textile industry, which the best in Virginia. His Lebanon
was being held in Greensboro yes- j band won fixst-place ratings in j soring a cash-prize contest for the
terday and today. the state four of five years. At Leb- > best short story by an Elon stu-
A new impetus to creative writ-1
ing among Elon College students ’
appears in the making this fall asi
Prof. Manly Wade Wellman, one
of the North Carolina’s foremost!
writers, teaches a writing course
on the campus this fall and the
Burlington Writers’ Club is spon-
The Elon College students at- ■ anon he also directed an A Capel
tending the seminar were Shields I la choir which sang in featured
Harvey, of Durham, and Samuel J productions at the famous Barter
Johnson, of Fayetteville, both of Theatre in Abingdon, Va.
whom are seniors with majors in White moved from Lebanon to
business administration. They I
were accompanied by Prof. Dudley
R. \Vatson, who teaches courses in
business management at the col
lege.
The seminar was sponsored by
the W. F. Fancourt Company, tex
tile chemists in the Gate City, with
the program designed to give stu
dents of southern colleges, who
may be interested in a career in
textiles, an insight into the prob
lems and progress in the industry.
The two-day program featured
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dent this year.
Professor Wellman, now a res
ident of Chapel Hill, has been a
full-time professional writer since
1934 and has written more than
the George Wythe High School in 1500 short stories and forty books
Wytheville, Va., where his bandlof fiction and non-fiction. In 1946
placed first among 150 marching
bands at the National Jaycee Con
vention in 1956, marched for the
Presidential Inaugural Parade in
1957, won top honors in the Na
tional Dogwood Festival for three
years and ranked among the lead-
he won the Ellery Queen Mystery
Award, and that same year won
the Edgar Allan Poe Award for
the best non-fiction study of
crime.
In the field of history and hist
orical fiction, his "Rebel Boast”
ers among bands at the National won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for
MANLY WADE WELLMAN
Lions Club Convention in 1959.
He came to Cary High School
in North Carolina three years ago,
and his success at Cary has par-
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Student Senate Adopts
Budget For Activities
history, and last year his “The
County of Warren” won the Peace
Award for the best volume of
North Carolina local history dur
ing the previous two years.
on Tuesday, September 18th. when
I he praised the "literary climate”
of North Carolina and called the
state a "good place in which to
live and write "
I The Burlington Writers' Club.
I which has gained statewide rec
ognition for its activities in the
^ creative writing field, gave added
interest to student writing on the
' Elon campus when it announced
this week a .short story contest with
■ $75 in cash prizes for the best stu
dent stories this year.
The awards offered include S50
first prize, $25 second prize and
a certificate of honorable mentiaa
for third prize for the competing
students. The contest was announ
ced this week by Mrs. E. Harold
Eaton, president of the club, who
stated that "the object of the Club
in offering these awards is to cre
ate a deeper interest and growth
in creative writing among Elon
Band, a new and intensive program
of student guidance and a new
chapel schedule which has met
with approval by both students
and faculty.
The registration program, com
pleted in time for the initial class
es to begin on Friday, September
14th, proved to be much smoother
than in previous years, with few
er snafu points along the way as
the students signed up for their
courses.
Latest registration figures for
the 1962-63 term, as revealed from
the registrar's office show a to
tal of 1,262 students enrolled at
Elon this year, of whom 390 are
newcomers, the great majority of
the newcomers being freshmen.
The reports show 595 of the stu
dents living in the dormitories,
with others commuting to classes
either in the day classes or Even
ing School.
The registration, broken down
into class group, shows 390 fresh
men, 276 sophomores. 150 jun
iors. 140 seniors and 49 special
students in day-time classes.
In addition to teaching the cre
ative writing course, Wellman also
lectured to an appreciative aud
ience in Mooney Chapel Theatre
The enrollments show 827 men and
College students”. Complete rules 1435 v^omen
for the writing contest will appear I —
in the next issue of the Maroon and |
Gold.
An expanded program of guid
ance for the Elon College students
Is a feature on the Elon campus
this fall as the Congregatiimal
Christian college swings intq its
new 1962-63 session.
Dr. Edward S. Jones, who has
had wide experience in dealing
with student problems at a num
ber of American universities and
colleges, became a member of the
Elon faculty this fall as a special
counsellor, who will consult and
advise with students on techniques
of studying and individual and
group problems involved in their
college life.
Dri Jones, now a resident of
Chapel Hill, was born in India of
American parentage. He graduat
ed from Oberlin College and re
ceived his doctorate from the Uni
versity of Chicago in the combined
fields of psychology and education.
After serving as an officer and
psychological specialist in the
United States Army during World
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I
A new Student Government Bud
get was introduced in the Student
[Senate on September 19th by
resident Jim Buie, with the bud-
[get showing an expected income
nd expenditure of $4,500 more
an last year’s budget for the
ampus organization.
President Buie explained to the
enate that the budget is based
I, an expected income of $13,500
ompared with the $9,000 income
of last year. This increase is due
the increase in Student Gov-
irnment dues, which was voted on
the student body last spring.
The largest items on the budget,
submitted to the Senate, are
^ 4000 for the dance committee,
$2,200 for the entertainment com-
ittee and $2,000 for bus rentals.
appropriations to the dance
'■ entertainment eommittees
J^ri'ped $1,000 each, while the ap
propriation for bus rentals increas
ed from $750 last year to $2,000
this year.
The detailed budget, as approv
ed by the Senate without opposi
tion, includes the following items;
Dance __ $5,000.00
Entertainment 2,00.00
Liberal Arts Forum 800.00
Films 700.00
Bus Rentals 2,000.00
Student Government
Office Improvement 300.00
May Day 300.00
Office Expense and Postage 300.00
Secretarial Expense 167.00
Projectionist Salary 90.00
Board of Elections 100.00
Telephone and Telegraph .... 30.00
Flower Fund 25.00
Homecoming Prizes 50.00
Homecoming Float 50.00
Cheerleaders - 50.00
Publicity Committee 200.00
Conference Expenses — 300.00
Unappropriated - 838.00
TOTAL
$13,500.00
New Members Join Eloii’s Faculty
Student Body Leaders^
Class Officers Named
(Pictures On Page Two)
Eleven new faculty members be
gan their duties at Elon College
with the beginning of the new
1962-63 term, according to an an
nouncement from Dr. J. E. Dan
ieley, president of the Congrega
ticnal Christian institution.
Three of the group, announced
in stories concerning special fields
of work, include Dr. Edward S.
Jones, who is directing a special
program of guidance: Prof. Man-
l.v Wade Wellman, who is teach
ing a course in creative writing;
and Prof. Jack O. White, newly
appointed director of the Eton
College band.
Eight other newcomers, all of
whom are pictured on Page 2, are
assigned to duties in the depart
ments of English, Spanish, Ger
man, biology, mathematics, home
economics and in the college li
brary.
Dr. Howard R. Richardson, pro
fessor of English and coordinator
of the Evening School program, is
a native of Virginia and aa Elon
at Elon. he went to earn the mast- uated at Lenoir Rhyne College and
er’s degree from William and received the master’s degree from
Mary and the doctorate from Geo.
Washington University. He taught
for many years in Virginia public
schools, directed extension work
for the University of Virginia for
several years, and had served as
assistant superintendent for per-
pfcrsomnel in IVirginia's Fairfax
County Schools prior to accepting
the new post at Elon.
Dr. Eleanor W. Moffett, assist
ant professor of English and di
rector of the lab for reading and
vocabulary improvement, is a na
tive of Alabama, but she has re
sided in Burlington for several
years, during which she was a
teacher in the Burlington and Gra
ham public schools. A graduate
of Converse College, she did her
graduate work at the University of
North Carolina, from which she
received the master's and doctor's
degrees in psychology, guidance
and English.
Col-
Appalachian State Teachers
lege in Statesville.
Prof. Charles R. Reynolds, as
sistant professor of Spanish, is a
native of Raleigh. He graduated
from the University of North Car
olina and later received the mast
er’s degree in Spanish from the
same institution. He has also had
advanced work in Spanish in Mex
ico. He joined the Elon faculty
after teaching in the North Caro
lina public schools for several
years.
Prof. Arthur B. Hartung, assist
ant professor of mathematics and
counsellor for dormitory men on)
the Elon campus, is a native of
Kansas. A graduate of Catawba vice-president, and Barbara
College, he received the master’s [Burnett, Danville, Va., as secre-
degree from Duke University and Uary-treasarer, Senior senators are
taught in North Carolina pubUc, garbaros Celikkol, Adanas, Tur-
key, Jerry Drake, Greensboro,
Since many students, both up- Robert Young. Oyster Bay, N. Y.
perelassmen and freshmen, are notl^^ vice-president, and Valerie
“/-Spangler, Silver Spring, Md.. sec-
retary-treasurer. Junior senators
Student Government and class of
ficers, it is deemed a campus ser
vice to publish a list of those
students who direct affairs this
year.
Jim "Buie, Darlington, S. C., is
president of the Student Govern
ment, this year, with Lynn Ryals,
Durham, serving as vice-president
and with Eleanor Smith, Winston-
Salem as secretary-treasurer.
Jerry Hollandsworth. Danville,
Va.. is president of the senior Class
with Jim Shirley. Portsmouth. Va.,
schools and was an instructor at
Duk prior to coming to Elon.
Miss Edith Brannock, assistant
professor of home economics, is a
Prof. George K. Boyles, assist- native of Alamance County and a
ant professor of biology, a native Elon College.
CoUege alumnus. After graduating of Lincoln County, N. C., who grad-j (Continued Op Page Four)
Amy Littcn, Burlington, Ken
Lumpkin, Danville, Va., and Bob
Saunders, Indianapolis, Ind.
Larry Biddle, Dover, Del., is
president of the junior class, with
are Ken Broda, t'alrlawn, N. J.,
Jack DeVito, Stamford, Conn.,
Judy Hudson, Fort Bragg, William
Luby, Wethersfield, Conn., and
Wally Sawyer, Portsmouth, Va.
Fred Stephenson, Greenville, R.
I.. Is president of the sophomore
class, with John Paul Jones.
Greensboro, as vice-president, and
Linda Keck. Burlington, as secre-
tary-treasiirer. Sophomore senat
ors are Karen Fischer, Arlington,
Va., Ken Harper, Henderson, Sal
ly McDuffie, Portsmouth, Va., and
Melvin Shreves, Bloxom, Va.
The roster of student body and
class officers will be completed
when the members of the fresh
man class go to the polls In the
forthcoming class elections and
choose the officers who will lead
the group this year.