Congratulations
To The
Football Leaders
MAROON AND GOLD
It's I.ots Of Fun
To Be
Toppinf The Race
VOLUME 44
ELO\ COLLEG*:, X. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1963
NUMBER Z
Plans Set For Gala Elan Homecoming Observance
Eloii Pla\ ers
Plan Show
In November
By CAROL TRAGESEK
The Elon Players will open their
1963-64 drama season in Novem
ber vvith the production of Arth
ur Miller's, "Death of a Sales
man". a twent'ieth-century tragedy
about the downfall of Willy Low-
man an American salesman.
Prof Sandy Moffett, head of the
college drama department and di
rector of the play, will supervise
try-outs for the cast of thirteen
characters next Monday, October
21st. at 2 o'clock, and 7 o'clcck
and next Tuesday, October 22nd
at 2 o’clock in Mooney Theater.
In announcing tryouts for tlii-
p'ay. Professor Moffett said lie
feels “Salesman” is a ''challenge’,
as it involves sei'ious drama and
difficult acting, and he express
ed a desire that interested stu
dents and faculty attend the try
outs, which are open to tlie public
With the scheduled performarce
as a beginning, the drama group
plans to participate in activities
which will foster participation anil
interest in the campus theater.
Tentatively planned for the year
are experimental workshops, pro
duction of aa musical in the spring
and presentation of a one-act play
at the Carolina Drama Festival,
which is held annually in Chapel
Hill.
Also, the Players hope to par
ticipate in a reciprocal drama pro
gram involving the exchange of
stage productions among colleges
in the North Carolina Conference
In this festival the players would
be in competition with similar
groups from other colleges.
In viewing the year, Professoi
Moffett said that he will work with
the Elon Players in producing
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EDDIE ALLE> IIESTKA TO FE,A 1 LKE HOMECOMIX; DANCE AlllUial Eveilt S(*lie(lllle(l
EDDIE ALLEN, DIRECTOR
As Big AuUiiiiii Fealui’e
Plans are movinj; ahead for one
of the most outstanding and most | I..,, i /’I. I
.‘niovable Itrtmernminff Hav nrn. ' ijUMI I K
njoyable Homecoming Day pro-
.^rams in the history of Klon Ci'!
k-ge. accordinjj to a statemcii;
from Lowry Sinclair, of Franklli'
Va., who is chairman of the Slu-
Icnt Government liomecomii;:
iinimittee this fall.
Altliough the plans are far from I church-related rolloKes, Elon
Eoiiiidatioii
Indicalive oJ llu* j^roniiig anil
uid(*spre»d intorpst of big bus
iness in (h«‘ privHtoly-rndowed
Elon Dckj:::;tes At Norfolk Meet
Prof. Rali)h Anderson, of the
Elon College Business Administra
tion faculty, and Larry Turnage,
junior business major from
Greensboro, represented Klon Col
lege at the fifteenth annual Vir
ginia World Trade Conference,
which began in \orfol';. Va., yes
terday and continues today.
The Elon delegates ioined fac
ulty and student delegates from
more than 90 other colleges, who
have been guests of the Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce dur
ing the two-day meeting. The pro
gram for the conference features
outstanding figures in internatiun-
-.1 commerce as speakers and also
includes a series of forum discus
sions by the delegates themselves.
Elon Eiirolliiieiit Conies From Varied
Geographic And Religious
Tlie Elon College student body,
approximately the same size as
tliat of last year, came to the Elon
campus from widespread geogra
phic origins and with varied relig
ious backgrounds, according to a
statistical report just released
from the office of Prof. Jennings
Berry, the college registrar.
The report shows that Elon has
a fall semester enrollment of 1,248
students slightly below the 1,262
total student body for the fall se
niester of last year. The report iilso
carries a breakdown of the en
rollment by classes and both home
origins and religious affiliations
The total enrollment of 1,248
students includes 827 men and 421
women. Comparative figures from
last fall showed 827 men and 435
women. Another breakdown lists
1.017 students in the daytime clas
ses, with 231 in the Evening School
The daytime figure is up two from
last fall, while the night registra
tion shows a slight drop.
As might be expected, the larg
est enrollment is found in the
freshman class, for 357 of the day
time students are in the first-year
Sroup. Other class memberships
in day classes include 272 sopho-
mores, 206 juniors and 156 sen
iors. These class membership fig
ures do not include the freshmen,
sophoniores, juniors and seniors
enrollment in the Evening School.
In each of the four classes, men
in the majority. The freshman
class includes 212 men and 145
^■omen, the sophomore class 17o
men and 99 women, the junior
class 137 men and 69 women, and
the senior class 109 men and 47
women. The Evening School stu
dent body includes 186 men and
45 women.
An interesting development in
Elon’s registration this fall, just
as it has been for the past tv/o
years, is that more than half of
the day-time students and almost
half of the total enrollment is list
ed as campus residents. This con
tinues the trend of increase in
campus students which has been
in progress for several years.
The actual figures on campus
! and commuting students shows
that there are now 589 students
residing on the campus, among
them 279 men and 149 women.
As would be expected from the na
ture of the program, all of the
students in the Evening School
classes are commuters.
Also of interest is the wide
spread geographic distribution of
the Elon student body, for the reg
istration this fall discloses repre
sentatives from 26 states and the
District of Colmbia, along with
two students from two different
foreign countries.
Quite naturally the largest stu
dent group comes from North
Carolina, for the home state lists
649 students for well over half of
the total group. Other states
a.mong the leaders in the number
of students are Virginia with 168,
Connecticut with 28, Maryland
with 24. New Jersey with 22, Del
aware with 19, New York and
South Carolina with 14 each and
SHERYL LEA, VOCALIST
The Eddie Allen Orchestra, which features Sheryl Lea as vocalist,
will provide the music for the annual Homecoming Dance in Alum
ni Memorial Gymnasium on Sat ii'day night, November 2nd, ac
cording to plans announced by Lowry Sinclair, chairman of the
Student Homecoming Commitiee, and A1 Baer, chairman of the
Student Dance Committee. The da nee will furnish the climactic event
for the college’s 1963 Homecom ing weekend, which is also to fea
ture a pep rally and talent show on Friday night, followed by tne
annual parade and the Homecom ■’’S grid battle with Western Car
olina on Saturday.
('oIles:e last week was the recip-
irnt of a check for $300 from the
Jdhii Deere I'oundutiun, which
is sponsored by the I’ohn l>eeie
Company of Mnllne. 111., maii-
facturers of trartor and farm
machiner.v.
The presentation of the rlieek
was made on the Elon campus
by C. Boyd, division sales
manager for the John Dee'e
Company in its Atlanta branch
office. In pri^sentlnfc the Rift,
■Mr. Boyd stated tliut his com
pany and the John Deere Foun
dation had Ions aided private
colleKes in the Middle West and
is now expandinK Its phiKnlhro-
py into other sections of the
nation.
at the Burlington Stadium at 1:45
and the annual grid battle betwe.-n
the Elon Christians and the West-
]i Carolina Catamounts at 2:15
o'clock.
.\n Alumni Coffee Hour for the
reluming old grads is to be held
on the campus at 4:30 o’clock that
completed at this time, Sinclair'
has announced a tentative pro-|
.;ram which call.'; for the re?ti\. |
\cckend to get underway with a,
huge bon fire and pep rally u
Friday night. November 1st, fol
lowed at 8 o’clock that niglit by ■
talent show.
I’his Homecoming talent sh
is predicted to be outstanding:
every way, and many who saw tii
talent show staged during tht
Freshman Orientation Week earl
ier this fall are already lookin;:
forward to the up.m.iinu . xtrava-
ganza.
The actual Homecoming Day o^i
servance is set for Saturday, No
vember 2nd. and a full day of ai-
tivities is planned. All campus or-
Kanizalions are being urged to
Ijrepare campus displ;r.s and !u
I'ntcr floa;s in the annual Honi"-
coming Parade
In order to encourage varioous
groups to prepare both displayt
and floats, a series of cash prizes
have been offered. The awards for
the best floats will be $25 firs'
prize, $15 second prize and $10 aHfrnoon. and the crowning event
third prize. Similar awards in the ‘'''•‘‘e day is the annual
Name cash amounts are offered *foomecoming dance to be held in
for the best campus displays. Vlumni Memorial Gymnasium at
The schedule for the Homecom- ^ o'clock on Saturday night, with
ing Day itself calls for the parade ’>>' •‘■ddie Allen and His
to get underway at 12:30 o’clock. Orchestra, which features Sheryl
followed by pre-game ceremonie- Lea as vocalist.
Backgroiiiuls
Pennsylvania with 13 students.
These states furnished 93 per
cent of the entire Elon enrollment,
with the other seven per cent com
ing from 15 other states and the
Di-'trict of Colmbia. The two for
eign countries represented on the
Elon campus this year are Israel
and Mexico. Only one foreign na
tion was represented last fall,
wliile five had students here two
years ago.
Among the North Carolina dele
gation, one finds 52 of tiie state’s
conties represented, exactly thei
same number which had students
ihere last fall. Alamance County
I furnished 330 students, with other
county leaders including Guilford
j with 43, Rockingham with 36, Ran
I dolph with 33, Orange with 27,
j Durham with 25 and Forsyth with
119 students.
I
The varied religious member
ships and preferences show repre
sentatives of 22 different religious
denominations. As has usually been
the case, the Baptists and Metho
dists have the largest groups. The
Baptists list 235, while the Meth
odists show 219 this fall, reversing
the two leaders from last fall, when
tile Methodists had the largest
In third spot behind the Baptists
and Methodists is the United
Church of Chri.st with 194 students.
Other groups are 133 Presbyter
ians, 58 Episcopalians, 47 Catholics
and 29 Lutherans. These groups
make up 93 per cent of the Elon
students( with the other seven
per cent divided among 15 de
nominations.
lotiidu Grouj)
Is Plaiudn^
Active Years
The Ionian Society, which is
composed of Klon College students
who are interested in and major
ing in nistory or social science, hela
its first meeting of the 1963-64
term on Wednesday, October 2nd.
Lowell Thomas of Asheboro, is
president of the group this year.
Other officers include Ron Hod-
kinson. of Taftville, Conn., vice-
president; and Pamela Johnson, of
Manasssas, Va., as secretary-treas-
urer. Dr. 11. H. Cunningham is
the faculty advisor.
A series of interesting programs
for the year is being planned by
a program committee, which in
cludes Nick Ciotola as chairman,
along with Ken Ilovere, Walter
Grom, Dave Sidenspinner, Paul
Schoonmaker and Pat Lee.
First event planned by the group
is set for Tuesday, October 23th,
when the Ionian Society will be
host at a luncheon for Dr. Balk-
rishna Gokhale, who comes to
Elon under the Visiting Scholars
Program and who will deliver a
lecture on the Elon campus that
day.
Charter members of the Ionian
Society who are still active tins
year include Carole Boyle, Nick
Ciotola, Joe Cote, Richard Gunkel,
Mike Herbert, Ron Hodkinson,
Larry Jenkins, Pamela Johnson,
Robert Marvin, Russ Phipps, PoUy
Roach, Ken Rovere, Kathy Sande-
fur, Dave Sidenspinner, Dwight
Shoffner, Lowry Sinclair, Lowell
Thomas and Bill Wilder.
New student members added this
fall are Tom Allred, Charles Avila,
Rodney Barfield, I.arry Brooks,
Ljmwood Brown, Tom CoLins,
Tom Corbitt, Terry Cox, Ted
Crutchfield, Jim Dailey, Roy Er-
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Keiigioiis Drama Ex|»eris Appearing
As First Of EKni Lyeeuni I’rograins
Appearing as the first attraction
of the annual Elon College Ly
ceum series for the year. Dr. and
Mrs. £. Martin Browne, special
ists in religious drama, have been
on the campus since Wednesday
afternoon and are presenting a
series of seminar discussions and
lectures In the Mooney Chapel
Theatre.
The Brownes, whose visit to Elon
is in the capacity of Danforth Lec
turers. arrived here Wednesday
afternoon and began their series ot
piTOgrams yesterday afternoon,
when they conducted a semina.
on the staging of religious drama.
I Their seco:id appearance in tlie
: Mooney Theatre last night was a
lecture ^and concert feature on
"The Three Beckets," with a re
ception held following the pro
gram. Another seminar is set for
the 11:40 class period this morn-
j ing, with the final lecture concert
; event to be given at 8 o’clock to-
i night on the topic of “Medieval
Mystery Plays.”
This visit by the Brownes is on’y
the first of six f]lon Lyceum pro
grams. The second attraction and
the only other one before Christ
mas will bring the Richmond Wood
wind Quintet in Whitley Auditor
ium on Tuesday, November 12th
featuring five members of the
on the flute, oboe, clarinet, bass(x>n
and French Horn.
Saally Wyley, one of the finest
soprano soloists In the Southeast
will sing at Elon on February 13th.
A graduate of Erskine College in
South Carolina, she later studied
at the Cincinnati Opera Associa
tion. She has sung many concerts
in North Carolina in t*"" past.
Forrest Covington, iop"iar Bui ■
lington folk singer, wllr appear on
the Lyceum series n March 25t>'
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DANFOIM II LKCn (JKS AT I:L()N
THE E, MARTIN BROWNES
Truslees In Full Meet
Tlie formal opening of the new
Elon College presidential Jionie
and the unveiling of a memorial
plaque in the foyer of the Whitley
Auditorium were special featur"^
on Wednesday of this week of tbj
annual fall meeting of the Elon
College board of trustees.
I The wives of the trustees were
invited to the campus in a group
for this 1963 fall meeting of the
' board, the first time such an in
vitation had been extended by the
college, .md both the trustees and
their wives were guests of Presi
dent and Mrs. J. E. Danieley at
an open house and coffee hour in
the new presidential home at 10
o'clock on Wednesday morning.
The trustees and their wives
were then guests, along with prac
tically all members of the Elon
College faculty at a luncheon meet
ing, which was held in the ban
quet room of .McEwen .Memorial
Dming llaii at 12:45 o'clock on
Wednesday. At the luncheon. Dr.
Danieley spoke briefly on enroll
ment trends and problems and also
outlined the financial progress and
needs of the college.
Immediately following the lunch
eon session members of the trus
tee and faculty groups adjourned
to the entrance foyer of Whitley
Auditorium, where a brief unveil
ing ceremony was held for a plaque
which honors the late Mrs. Virg-
inia Beale Kernodle, member ot
Elon's Class of 1913 and a niece
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