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MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, December 13, 1963
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EfHTORIAL BOARD
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Sy Hall -- . Assistant Eaitor
Wili.am Whitlenton Aisistant Editor
Thomas Corbitt Sports Editor
Deetr. Welch . Girls Sportb
H. Reid • • Alumni Editor
I.utlii I N Bvrd Fcuity Advisor
JaiW Lambelh Staff Photographer
technical .staff
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RF.POKTORIAL STAFF
Ho .atd .\ndirw Don Milie*'
Jii. H. rdciih John .\llnn.^
Mae iluwman John Nich.ils
Ctirion C‘ix Hugh O’Hara
Ji iip s Uaili y Wayne Pruitt
IJ.xiion Jerry Rowe
Hunti r Dula Herbert Siner
Sliiiliy Foskett Lamar Smith
Milton Grose Jerry Tillman
Cecil Gwaltnt. Carol Trageser
Charles Harris .. Lee Vaughn
Malty Hogenson Terry Vinlng
Patricia .McAbee - Bobby West
George Wooten
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1963
SOI L-SHAKING .MO.MKNTS
Few events have so shaken tliis campus
of Elon (.'oliege and its student and fac
ulty inhabltanlii a^ the did the shots from
ambuah that snuffed out the life of Pres
ident John K. Kennedy on lhat black Fri-
diiy in November.
It was with an almo.st bewildered un
belief that many of the students and fac
ulty gathered quickly about radios and
TV's on the campus that afternoon, and
small groups just stood and talked in
whispers. Others s.mply stood and looked
silently at the flag out on the South Cam
pus, which was (|uickly lowered to half-
mast when the news of the President’s
death was heard.
The members of the student Ministerial
Association arranged periods of prayer in
the Elon College Community Church, and
si»me students went quietly into Burling
ton to churches which they normally at
tend.
Campus activities came to a virtual stand-
sliil The Elon players postpoiH'ii a presen-
talKin of the play they had scheduled for
that Friday niijht, and the college autiiori-
ties quickly bt'^an plans for a memorial
servicr for President Kennedy, to be held
in Whitley Auditorium the next morning.
Amplified chimes from the huge organ
In Whitley Auditorium were heard lhat
Saturday morning to call the campus peo
ple to tile memorial gathering, which was
conducted under the direction of Prof. John
S. Cir;n*“, tltc campus niiiii.'ie;.
SnOF.VT RESOI.ITION
W hilt* President Danieley and other mem
bers of the Elon official family expressed
the grief of the college community after
the death of President John F. Kennedy,
it was quite fitting and proper that the
Student Senate should give official voice
to the student body feelings in the time
of national tragedy.
This expression came in a resolution
passed by the Student Senate in its meet
ing on Tuesday. .November 25th. l„e res
olution Is presented below:
WHEREAS, the members f the Student
Body of Elon College feel a grievous loss
in the untimely death of our beloved Pres
ident of the United States, John Fitzgerald
Kennedy; and
WHEREAS, he was a highly capable lea
der, a devoted Christian, a loving husband
and father, and was an Aniericui dedi
cated to the Ideals set forth by our fore-
father* In the CoiutitBtkui; and through
hif efforts brought to the nation a new
WHEREAS, he will long be rememt>ered
•» a president who found challenge and
exhilaration in his position as head of the
greatest nation in the world, believing in
progress for TUi country and equal rights
for all his fellow citizens to the vxtem of
great personal taA-lflce:
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED;
That we give thanks for his dedication
and leadership offered so freely to his
country and to the world, and;
T^iat the undersigned meml>en of the
student Senate repj-esentlng the Student
Body send an expression of their heart
Ht sympathy to his loving wife, Mrs. John
Fitzgerald Kennedy and to his son and
daughter.
a view
from
the oak
By
MELVIN SIIRFAES
Across The Nation
Three weeks ago today, the naUon al
most came to a i^iandstill a. it.'^ citizens
,c.0d before raUi .s and televisions to hear
.,f the tragic death of the President.
Schools wfre let out early, and office.-
u.-ie ■shut down for the week-end as the
!, .,icrs and fuliowei.. of our great nation
mourned President Kennedy.
Almost immediately people from all over
the nation headed for Washington, where
the body was to lie in repose to pay iht.
li.Ht respects to the young man who had
stood up for the old, the young, the dis
criminated minority ... the young man who
■lood up lor me entire nation and the world
only to be ^hot down.
On Our Campus
When the news reached Elon, ’.he flag
w !s lowered to half staff mast, and prep-
.Iirations were made for a memorial ser
vice on Saiurday. ,.’it the iop of Alamance
Building, from which the sound of the
siren u.sually is heard, the new 400-pound
l)cll lang out its mourning tones for the
late President. It uas the first time thai
ilie bell had been sounded.
On Saturday as classes were siioriene.i
and dismissed ahead of the regular tunc,
students, faculty, administration, itaff and
friends moved slowly toward Whitley. lu-
side an uipr^ual silence filled the audiloi-
ium as the people filed in . . . slowly an i
quietly.
As everyone rose to sing the National
Anthem, it was symbolic of what was
going on all over the nation. Not a single
person was off key, not a single note was
sour . . . there was a unity that this cam
pus had never before witnessed. It was
a unity that was spreading throughout the
nation ... a unity that will keep America
strong.
Even as he lay dead, John F. Kennedy
had brought the nation and most of the
world together.
At Guilford
Just days before the President’s tragic
death, six members of the Student Body
regi.stered at Guilford Colleige for the
fall conference of the North State Student
Government Association. In attendance
were Don King, Gail Campbell. Marty
Simpson, Ronn Hodkinson, Carol Trageser,
n member oi iin .'i-sSGA Executive Board,
and myself. Outside of the delegation, Bill
'vV'hittenion, president of the organization,
was also present.
As a part of the conference, the Elon
deiegatioii. headed by Uonn liodkiii.son,
presented a workshop on "Cliques in Stu
dent Government.” Hodkin.son and Miss
Trrf^eser pre.sented the topic and explained
ihat SGA's main problem at Elon was
that too few people held down too many
.i»:js, wen on too many committees, and,
as a result, could not possibly do as good
a job as could be done !f concentration
could be directed to just one job or com
mittee.
Tlie problem was discussed quite thor
oughly by the seven other colleges pres
ent. They offered possible solutions that
rright be helpful in remedying the prob
lem. the best i>ne probably being the es
tablishment of a point system. This idea
was brought up last year by President
Buie, but the Senate took no action on ..
The delegation picked up quite a few
points from tne omer worksnops lOo.
oir Rhyne presented one on orientation,
Catawba one on the College Bowl, St. An
drews on Publicity, and Western Carolina
on Inter-Campos Communications. A lot of
useful information came from these work
shops, but most of the more useful infor
mation came from just talking with the
delegates from other schools.
With the Spring conference just a few
months away, Elon's SGA will be get
ting ready lor home stretch now. We
won the Most Outstanding Student Gov
ernment avMard last year and got one
of our own into the office of president
of the organizaUon. Let’s hope that we
will have the material for as good a
report to the NSSGA this year as we did
last year.
Death of a Salesman
People who saw the Elon Players’ pro
duction of "Death of a Salesman" can
hardly wait for their second production
of the year. For the first time in quite a
whUe. and possibly fhe first time in their
histoo', th» Players had to hold their pro
duction over for two more days. This was
PJutly because of the Presidents death,
but mostly it was becau-se of the fine per
formances that the player* tjave and Jie
crowds they had to tura away.
And the crowds that were Uinied awa.y
demanded that the play be held over so
that they could enjoy it as others hove.
Presidential Visitor On Elon Campus
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rebuilt F923.26;
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President Lyndon B. Johnson, centered above, is lite 'nlly .sholtei j 'j tli; n • -’'oC historical mark"r
in the above picture, which was taken when the new U iited ■ ' 'f .n'cu: v ■' ,1 .he oak-shadedj^lo.i
campus in March of 1962. Marching just ahead of Pre-'dtnt John.-.i i' '- orth !' ■ = Governor T’.'rry
Sanford.
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The truly human side of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may now be called Elon’s most distinguished
honorary alumnus, is portrayed in the above picture, which shows Elon student Demiis Thompson, pouring
.1 brimming glass of cold buttermilk for the nation’s chief executive. The picture was one of those taken
when Johnson as vice-president was at Elon a year ago last March.
Syde Lines
By SY HALL
What is courage?
Webster defines courage as the
mental or moral strength enabling
one to venture, persevere and with-
standdanger, fear or difficulty.
“Courage." said Eddie Rickcn-
bscker, who shot down twenty-six
German planes in World War 1. ”ls
doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless
you’re afraid.”
We all hope and pray that our
courage will never again have to
t)e measured by wartime stand
ards. Perhaps the facing of re
ality demands nrare courage than
most Americans are endowed with
Countries and nations througbout
the world look toward the Urited
States for inspiration and ler 'er-
sh'o. America has a debt for hu
manity, as enslaved people
throughout the world are oar re-
sf>onsibility.
I It has been said that America’s
I courage is locked in its walle'.s
I The United States cannot win or
keep alliances with huge gifts and
loans. The foreign aid that has
flowed out of America has often
been received with animosity in
stead of gratitude, for the people
of the world do not wa««t our mon
key. They want, instead, good lead
ership.
The eyes of the world are now
trained on Lyndon B. Johnson, and
the way in which President John
son handles himself during his
first few months in office will be
, iastrumental in determinihg the
.image he will project at home as
well as abroad. His streng..., p?r
severence and political knuwli-clijo
will be t -tc-i ;c the hilt by friend
and foe alike.
United States problems abroad
are pressing in on President John
son from all parts of the globe.
The U. S. News and World Report
speaking of Johnson’s proolems,
had the following to say: “South
Viet Nam Communists are step
ping uo a shooting war. Berlin re-
mainc a 'uM' spot. Sharp dif-
jfe’’ t tern allies ap
pear heading for a showdpwn, with
.the entire future of the North At-
lant'o at «take. Turmoil threatens
the Congo. U. S. difficulties mount
jin Latin .America, and there is the
1 -j of what to do
about Cuba.”
;■ has many political debts
t' ’■ ' c in*»re£t.r^ to
Contirued on Page Fonr)
what
about
this?
By
bill whittenton
I mourn.
Tonight 1 sit in wake with millions of
Americans, watch others file past the bier
of our late President, and with them, I
mourn.
Tonight, all night, I sit and watch an
all-night telecast of a quarter of a million
Americans who stand in below-freezing
cold to lire past the bier of their late Pres
ident, so that in a few seconds the image
of his flag-drsped casket may burn iisilt
indelibly into their minds, as it lias in..)
my own, and 1 mourn.
Tonight 1 sit and watch my fellow mourn
er-, and I think of the vital man, whom we
respected, admired, followed and then lost,
and 1 mourn.
Tonight, 1 think of a man who seemed
\c personify all the traits of our country
aj'd its citizens, a man who represented
to the world and was welcomed for us,
a man who, with his wife and children,
*jund a home in our Wiiite House, lound
j ciiapter in our nation's history and found
-ove in the hearts of its citizens. Toniglit
■ 'nink of this, and wiih liands over my
.i L, 10 blot out what I see, I mourn.
Tonight 1 mourn tor many ihlngs. 1
mourn tor John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 1
muui'n for his family and L'agedy v>'nich
lor them to bear. I mourn for Ameri
cans, for part of them has died. And I
mourn lor cmr country, lor ii.ioa^h a
.1. utal violation of its principles, pan of it
uas died. And 1 mourn.
Tonight is in the seventh decade of the
Twentieth Century, and I am in the most
democratic country on earth, and that is
why 1 mourn.
Tonight 1 think of our country, its devel
opment, its sense of morality, and its lead
ership. I have always felt that a nation's
citizens are reflected in the leaders they
choose. In Eighteenth Century America,
ie leadership of this country was in the
i-,ands of scholars, pieaciitrs soldiers,
.vhalever their limitations, they had a
-i.'ict moral sense of individual and social
TLsponsibility. These men led austere lives,
.«.i standards for behavior and establislied
;n3 ethics a.,d morality of American life,
■'.mcrica saw the rise of a plutocracy in
the .Nineteenth Centary, With a trausicr of
;;adership to an oligarchy of wealth. These
men held certain vales to be categorical
.iUths, but they were rather shaky on the
L-.ploitaiion of their fellow men, and the
degeneration of morality and ethics be-
.;an at once. Yet this trend was reversed.
Ti/e Twentieth Century saw a regenera-
-- of morality and ethics in our society.
1 :e moral regeneration of morality and
‘lies in our society. The moral regenar-
tion of a society cannot begin at the bot
tom, except through a process of extreme
1 evolution. It has to begin among the priv
ileged, who voluntarily relinquish Ij.-.uiv
for sake of setting a standard. So once
'gain our nation's citizens chose as leaders
those men who they felt would best carry
out their wishes.
They chose as leaders men who would
be beyond the reach of envy. Their ex
treme sense of duty and responsibility pre
vented this for people do not envy a per
son’s duties or responsibilities. These men,
vur leaders, have stood for equality in the
lings in wkich all men are really equal,
not mental, physical cr spiritural capaci-
ues but in the desire for a free, happy and
fullfilled life.
The seventh decade of this century finds
our nation having called upon such a man
as Its most powerful and respected lead
er, Its president. We have even asked a
man to give his energies for our benefit.
to f asked this man
s an up for our principles when we
ere a raid to stand behind him. But John
■t^geraid Kennedy met our challenges,
s man who stood and fought for us, this
n w o stood and died for us, has shown
^ We would not ask him for
e than we ccu/d afford to Tose. For
I mourn.
^ think of the man now dead.
no« that he died because of and
each of us, for you and me I hope
‘hat we are worthy of this, and 1
he
"o ' lhat which he instilled in all'
I mourn. ;
manv ^ wake, all night, and I see
™ages that all „,erge into that of
"“reaped casket, and I „oum.
Pie ft ^ K night, but still the peo-
i- th'* mourn. For this
Cen?u;~
on oa-n, ^ democratic country
■ President has been clain,
and I moim.