Heartiest Good Mishrs
To All
Vou Senior Graduatek
MAROON AND GOLD
And Best Of Summer
Varatkms
To All Klon Students
VOLUME 43
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
TLESDAY. MAY 21, 1963
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Elon Plans Annual Commencement This Week
Eij^hteeii Receive Honors | ^r pk()(,h \>r
At Annual Awards Event i
Eighteen Elon College students
were honored at the college's annual
“Awards Day" program held yester
day, with some of the group re
ceiving more than one award in
recognition of achievements during
the year in scholarship, music, stu
dent government, relii;ious educa
tion. Bible Study, dramatics, ere
ative writing and athletics.
The band award, given for out
standing work with the Elon Col
lege band, was presMited by Prof.
Jack 0. White, band director, to
Michael Griffin, of Burlin'>ton.
The John W. Barney Memorial
Scholarship, established in memory
of the late Prof. J. W. Barney, was
presented by Dean Fletcher Moore
to Eleanor Smith, of Winston-Salem,
senior girl who has been active in
many phases of campus life and at
the same time maintained an out
standing academic average. Miss
Smith is a grand-daughter of Pro
fessor Barney, who .served 33 years
as a member of the Elon faculty.
The Basnight Awards, given each
year by Stein H. Basnight, of Chapel
Hill, a member of the Elon board
of trustees, were presented by Prof,
Robert Baxter to Doris Anne Mor
ris, of Stanardsville, Va., for out
standing work in Bible study, and
to Dewey Andrew, of Snow Camp,
as Elon s outstanding athlete for the
1962-fi3 college year.
The Ned F. Brannock Scholarship,
established in memory of the late
Prof. N. F. Brannock, long-time
member of the Elon chemistry fac
ulty, was presented by Dr Paul
Cheek to Robert Lovell, of Burling
ton.
The William Moseley Brown
Ten Chosen
For Honor
Or iianizatiou ,
Ten Elon College students with i
outstanding academic records have;
loeen named this spring as new mem-1
i,*rs of the Order of the Oak, camn-!
us honor society which was organ-'
'zed la.st fall with fifteen chartcr
members.
The organization was formed to
recognize superior scholarship, to
■ncourage intellectual achievement
and to foster the liberal and critical
mind, according to the purpose e.\-
ires.sed in its constitution. To be
ligible for membership, a student
must be of at least junior standing
ind must have a cumulative ave
rage of 3.3 or better on all cours-
Good character is also a req
uisite for membership.
The constitution provides that
members shall be elected to the
honor society by faculty vote, with
members to be chosen during both
the fall and spring seme.sters, with
the dean of the college submitting
3 li.st of eligible students compil
from records in the registrar’s of
fice.
Once a student is elected to mem-
’lership in the Order, he or she may
forfeit such membership if for two
■successive semesters he or she fails
to maintain the 3.3 average or in
"ase of conviction for an honor code
(lollege To (^oiiclude Year
With Thi •ee- Dav Pi •oirrani
.\.s,sociate Justice Susie Sharp, of
Reids\ille and Raleigh, only woman
e\er to hold a seat on the North
Carolina Supreme Court, will de-
li\er the commencement address on
Munday morning. May 27th, when
Elon College clo.ses its seventy-thirfl
annual session with the presenta
tion of diplomas and degrees to the
Class of 1963
The graduation exercises, set for
10:30 o'clock on Monday morning in
Whitley .Auditorium, will climax the
weekend commencement program,
which will start with the annual
EJon Seniors
Are An arded
Scliolnrships
In connection with the annual!
\wards Day program at Elon Col-
l'‘,ge. announcement was made that
i\ members of the college’s Clas>;
.if 1963 have received graduate
JUDGE SUSIK SHARP
REV. ROBERT E. MARSTON
■ iolation or is suspended from col-
Award, given by Sigma Mu Sigma'lege.
Fraternity in tribute to Dr. William Those elected to membership in
M. Brown, now retired from the the Order of the Oak this spring
Elon faculty, was presented to Amy include Simeon Lee Allen, Burling-
Litten, of Burhngton, for outstand-' ton: Thomas G. Brady, of Raleigh:
ing rank in scholarship, character Jack Philip Brammer, of Leaksville;
and extra-curricular activities.
Jl DGE WIIJ.IA.M H. MANESS
The featured speakers, who will appear in the s ' enty-third annual Elon College commencement pro-
. lim are Judge Susie Sharp, of Reidsville and Ralei h loft', .Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
■ orth Carolina, who will deliver the address at the gra i.ution exercises next Monday morning, May 27th;
the Rev. Robert E. Marston, of Silver Spring, Md., (c ..j. .j.i^tor of Christ Congregational Church in that
■ y, who will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on S i i.iv nmr.iin:;. May 26th; and Judge William H.
■Maness, of Jacksonville, Fla,, (right) a member of Elon’s graduating Class of 1938, long a prominent mem
ber of the Florida Bar, who will deliver the address at the annual .Alumni Banquet on Saturday night. May 25.
Four Student Actors Are Honored
For Performances On Elon Sta^e
(Continued On Page Four)
The Elon Players, student dra
matic organization, paid tribute to
the outstanding actors and actress
es of the 1962-63 campus stage sea
son at the annual “Awards Night'
program, which was held in Mooney
Chapel Theatre on Thursday night.
May 16th. The program was held
under the direction of Prof. E. Ray
Day, head of the student dramatic
activities.
June Biddle, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
and Frank Rich, of Burlington, were
Mary Louise Carpenter, of Greens- named the top performers in lead-
The Achievement Award in fo- boro; Leroy Glenn Ford, of Smith-
reign language, given by the col- field; Herman Hecht, of Hillsboro;
lege's modern language department, Edgar Powell, of Yanceyville; Dora
was presented by Dr. Frances Mul- Kathryn Thomas, of Franklinville;
drow to Linda Johnston, of Fairfax, | Sarah Aileen Webster, of New Hill;
Va., for outstanding work in Span
ish.
The Pi Gamma Mu Scholarship
(Continued On Page Four) •
ind Shirley Owen Williams, of Bur-
linf^.on.
presented with beautiful “Eppie”
trophies, which have become as tra
Tl- .'wnrd -t) .)nne BiJdle •,-ns
awarded for her very first role in
an Elon Player production, thm
Mrs. Penmark, the mother, in the
Player production of Maxwell Ander
son's “Bad Seed. ' which drew ca
■)acity crowds when it was given in
•nid-Mnrch Her performance at that
time displayed poise acquired
through previous experience in high
school and theatre guild plays.
The “Eppie” presented to Frank
Rich was also won in an initial ap
pearance with the sti¥ient stage
troupe, for it went to him for his
very fine portrayal of Monsieur Ar-
din, 'he confirmed hypochondriac
Moliere'f great play, “The Imagir^
ary Invalid." Rich later gave a very
-cholarships or fellowships which-.i ■ ,
^ill take them into advanced s'udy ■
Three seniors in the Elon College
department of natural sciences are
among those receiving grants for
advanced study, according to Dr.
Paul Cheek, with the grants com
ing in the three different fields of
zoology, chemistry and physics.
Amy Littcn, of Burlington, has
a $2,400 assistantship in zoology at' ’
Virginia Polytechnic I n s t i t u t
May 25th, with a full day of events
planned for that day for the return
ing old grads.
The Saturday program will o|)en
with the registration of the return
ing alumni in Carlton Library at 10
o’clock, when there will be a “Cof
fee Hour" for the old grsds. There
will be a luncheon for the alumni
in McEwen Dining Hall at 12:30
Bi;cksburg,“va';I‘RoWt‘‘l^v^ regular
of Burlington, has a $2,000 assist-1
intship in chemistry at the Uni-
■ ersity of North Carolina: and Bar-
baros Celikkol, of Ankara, Turkey,
has a $2,700 fellowship for advanced
Auditorium at 2 o’clock.
Judge William H. Maness, of
Jacksonville, Fla., a member of
the Class of 193S, will be the feat-
work in physics at North Carolina!";^.'*
I which IS to be held m McEwon
Also announced by Dr. Ferris g IHaU at 6:30 o’clock. At that
Reynolds, chairman of the Elon
pay tribute to Dr. A. L. Hook, of
College department of religion, was
the award of an entrance scholar-
..hip of $400 to Robert Saunders, of
Indianapolis, Ind., for study at the
lo.-ting actor and actress went to
Ken Scarborough, of Wilmington,
Del., and Carol Trageser, of Arnold,
Md., in each instance for out.stand-
ng performances in the recent pre
sentation of “Bad Seed ,
J 1 I- u- 1 r Mass. The scholarship is renewable
ugh was rewarded for his role of I , ,
^eginald Trasker, while Miss Tra-1 JL , , , ,
, , . ,1 Dr. .John D. Sanford, chairman of
.geser was named for her realistic , he physical education department,
performance as Mrs. Daigle in the! stated that Jerry Drake, of Greens
Ander.son play, a role in which she boro, had received a $1,000 fellow
the Class of 1913, who has been
chosen as “.Mumnus of the Year.’’
Fifteen F.lon eraduating classes
have been invited to return to the
I.opeared as the grief-stricken moth-
r of a murdered son.
If was the third consecutive year
hat Carol Trage.ser had won an
F^ppie." She was chosen best lead
ing lady two years ago, when she
was honored for her role as Lizzie
in ”'rhe Rainmaker,” and last spring
■''"dover-Newton Seminary, Andover, i , .u
otdiDor-1 ■' 'I campus for the Alumni Day pro-
Ki';im, with special honors planned
for the Golden Anniversary Class
of 1913 and (tie Silver Anniversary
Class of 1938 Other clas.ses invited
back are those of 1893, 1898, 19a3,
1908, 1918, 1923, 1928, 1933, 1943,
■ship at the University of North
Carolina and that Burl Clements. J
of Richmond, Va., has a $600 schol- .7*’® aU-day program on Sunday,
I May 26th, will get underway with
arship for graduate work at East)
Carolina College.
These graduate study grants to
members of the Elon Class of 1963
continues the fine record, which has
been made by other recent Elon
graduating groups and attests the
ditional for the Elon Players as are fine supporting performance in “Bad -^he was named best supporting ac'
the famous “Oscars” of the Amer-‘Seed” this spring. jress for her performance as the i excellence of the academic work
ican motion picture world. The "Eppies” for the best sup-1 girl in “Hello Out There.” |done by the college and its students
Speech Class
Has Program
Of Readinfi^s
LARGE GROUP WILL GRADUATE WITH CLASS OF 1963
Another large group of seniors
,vill receive diplomas and degrees
from Elon College with the Class of
1963 and will move into the ranks
if the Elon alumni after the sev-
nty-third annual graduation pro
gram, which will be held next Mon-
One of the most interesting student Jay morning. May 27th,
participation programs of the spring
season was “An Evening of Read
ing " which was presented in Mooney
Chapel Theatre on Thursday night.
May 9th, by members of Prof. E.
Ray Day’s oral interpretation class.
Designed to show that interpre
tative reading is concerned with
giving something more than infor
mation. the students in the class
presented selections from such well-
known authors as Mark Twain,
Henry W. Longfellow, Thomas
Paine, Edgar Allan Poe, William
Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Alfred
Lord Tennyson and others. ’The se
lections were both serious and comic
in nature and from writings in
prose, poetry and drama.
Students who participated in the
program included Dewey Andrew.
Cameron Little, Dixie Gladson, Rob
ert Barham, Jesse Paschal, Wayne
Pruitt, Frank Lawrence, Howard
Arner, Julius Blomberg, Tommy
Carlberg, Joe Lee, Beverly Powell,
Sally Gershengoren, Robert Felton,
Karen Fischer. Jerry HoUandsworth,
Dan Seale, Mac Bowman, Jane Barn
well, RusseU Stutz and BUI Whit-
tenton
Although the final list of Elon’s
1963 graduates is not yet available,
>ending the outcome of the exam-
nations on the spring semester aca-
iemic work, a list of the candidates
for degrees and diplomas has just
!>een released by Prof. Jennings
Berry, the college registrar. There
will be only a few changes in this
list, but it cannot yet be regarded
js final.
This group of candidates who are
expected to receive diplomas at the
annual spring graduation will be
swelled still larger by the seniors
.vho will complete their graduation
requirements during the summer
school and qualify for their diplo
mas at the August commencement.
The combined May and August
graduating groups will compose the
final membership of the college’s
Class of 1963.
The candidates for graduation
represent a varied field of interests,
as reflected in their major subjects,
for there are no less than fifteen
separate fields represented by single
majors. Hiere are also five dif-
f-;rent combinations two fields
represented by students with double
majors.
Most frequent major is business
administration chosen by 25 seniors.
Fourteen majored in elementary
education, twelve picked history,
eleven chose physican education as
their academic major. Other sub
ject fields represented by from one
to seven seniors include English,
mathematics, music, Spanish, home
economics, business education, biol
ogy, French, philosophy, .social .sci
ence and physics.
Double majors include four in
mathematics and physics, two in
mathematics and chemistrv and one
each in history and philosophy,
mathematics and music and Eng
lish and elementary education. There
are no seniors who have triple maj
ors this year.
There are twelve states and one
foreign country represented among
the candidates for graduation, with
North Carohna furnishing almost
three fourths of the group. All are
candidates for the A. B. degree ex
cept one, who is expected to re
ceive the B. S. degree. The candi
dates for 1963 graduation follow:
Richard Aaronson, Flushing, N. Y.
Rachel Adkins, Elon College.
Jasper Allen, Burlington.
Aubrey Agnew, Haw River.
Dewey Andrew, Snow CJamp.
Margaret Andrews, Burlington.
Richard Appcrson. N.-News, Va.
Howard Arner. Tamaqua, Pa.
Douglas Avent, Burlingtoo.
Harrell Baker, Burlington.
Helen Baker, Elkridge, Md.
JERRY HOLLANDSWORTH
Jerry Hollandsworth, of Dan
ville, Va., is president of the
senior Class of 196i, which will
receive diplomas and degrees at
the annual Elon College com
mencement, starting on Satur
day with the .Alumni Day events
and continuing through the gradu
ation e%erd*es next Monday
morning.
Raymond Bell, Burlington.
Wilbur Boyte, Madison,
Richard Bishee, WilmingtoQ.
Thomas Brady, Raleigh.
Edward Buckner, Burlington.
James Buie, Darlington, S. C.
flainey Burch, Yanceyville.
Mary Carpenter, Greensboro.
Roger Cartright, Fairlawn, N. J.
3arbaros Celikkol, Ankara, Turkey.
Nancy Clark, Raleigh.
Diane Clary, Lawrenceville, Va.
Burl Clements, Saxe, Va.
Hetty Coley, Burlington.
Doris Comer, Leasburg.
Kenneth Crumpton, Graham.
John DalCin, Tamaqua. Pa.
Leroy Dod.son, Whitsett.
Jerry Drake, Greensboro.
June Evans, Princess Anne, Md.
Roy Forbes, Burlington.
John Fox, Burlington.
Charles Frye, Greensboro.
Larry Fuqua, Burlington.
Richard Gilliam, Elon College.
Harold Gray, Pleasant Garden.
Susan Hardy, Charleston, W. Va.
Susan Harman, Jacksonville.
Jane Harper, Beechhurst, N. Y.
Shields Harvey, Durham.
Herbert Hawkes, '/luisville, Ky.
Mclver Henderson, Columbia, S. C.
Winston Hoelscher, Huntsville, Ala.
Jackie Holmes, Burlington.
Leroy Horwath, Burlington.
Kimerly Irvin, Roanoke, Va.
Barbara Jensen, Lafayette Hill, Pa.
Janet Johnson, Franklinville.
Ted Lea, Burlington.
John Leach, EHon College.
.•\my Litten, Burlington.
Michael Little, Shenandoah, Pa.
Robert Lovell, Burlington.
Kenneth Lumpkin, Danville. Va.
Wayne Mahanes, Madi.son, Va
Charles Maidon, Cary.
Ernest Maness, Ram.seur.
Judith Mane.ss, Ram.seur.
Edgar May, Spring Hope.
Paul May, Burlington.
John McKeon, Burlington.
Bernard McPher.son, Graham.
Douglas Moss, Burlington.
Barry Opell. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Garland Pa.schal, Reidsville.
Duane Powell, Smithfield, Va.
Dudley Purdy, Mgewater, Md.
George Reiser, Wynnewood, Pa.
Leonard Riddle, Chapel Hill.
Helen Rogers, Burhn#on.
Robert Rogers, Burlington.
Vancy Rountree, Sunbury.
Robert Saunders, Indianapolis, Ind.
Victor Seaman, Burlington.
Carol Shaver, Carthage.
Leonard Simmons, Burlington.
Larry Smith, Burlington
Eleanor Smith. Winston-Salem.
■Martha Southern, Burlington.
Thomas Sparkman, N.-News, Va.
Frank Spoer. Hempstead, N. C.
Qiarles Stanfield, Reidsville.
Robert Stuart, Burlington.
Denyse 'rtieodore.
North Bellmore, N. Y.
Kathryn Thomas, Franklinville.
Allen Tyndall, Fayetteville.
Edward Walker. Burlington
Louise Watson. Raleigh.
Charles Wesley, Elon College.
Eldward White, Winston-Salem.
John Whited, Burlington.
Thomas Wiggin, Westfield, Hass.
William Wright, Asheboro.
the baccalaureate sermon, to be
delivered in Whitley Auditorium at
11 o’clock that morning by the Rev.
Robert E. Marston, pastor of the
United Congregational Church, of
Silver Springs, Md.
Also set for Sunday is the annual
vesper music recital at 4 o’clock in
the afternoon in Whitley Auditorium
and a voice recital by Prof. Charles
Lynam, baritone, a member of the
Elon College music faculty.
Rice Named
-4.S Business
Chd) Leader
The Elon Business Club, an or
ganization of students majoring in
business administration, elected
Thomas Rice, of Burlington, an pres
ident for the coming year. He suc
ceeds Sam Johnson, of Jonesville,
who had led the group through an
active and successful program dur
ing the 1962-63 term.
Special features of the program
this year have been two supper
gatherings at which guest speakers
were heard, a tour of the Burlington
Industries, formation of a new club
constitution and a growth in mem
bership from five last fall to twenty-
five at the present time.
TTie second of the supper gather
ings was heki recently at Huey’s
Barbecue, with Robert Dahl as guest
speaker. Also at this meeting, mem
bers of the club presented Sam
Johnson with a gavel in apprecia
tion of his presidential leadership.
Other officers this year have been
Hugh O’Hara, vice-president; Wanda
Bennett, recording secretary; Patsy
Cole, corresponding secretary; and
Carolyn Brown, treasurer. Prof.
Dudley Watson has been faculty ad
visor and has played an important
role in the successful program