Here’s Wishing Everyone
A Happy And Safe
Itanksgliing Holidays
MAROON AND GOLD
Non-Profit OrgonlzoHon
U. S. POSTAG€
PAID
Elon Collegt, N. C
PERMIT No. I
VOLOIE 4«
Vacatiori Begins
On November 25tli
The anual Thanksgiving holi-
Havs wll get underway at noon
jeit Wednesday, November 24th,
anil will continue through the
next Sunday, November 28th,
according to an announcement
from Itie office of Prof. Fletcher
Moore, dean of the college. Reg
ular class schedules will re
sume on Monday, November
28th. for both day and night
classes.
This issue of the Maroon and
Gold, which appears as a
Thanksgiving issue, was de-
I"ved in to the fact
that Prof. Luther Byrd, faculty
adnsor, suffered a broken ankle
in a recent fall, and also to
make it possible to publish the
issue as a prelude to the
Thanksgiving holiday period.
The next issue will be the Christ
mas issue, which will appear in
mid-December.
Player Show
Is Desnilml
With
By DR. ROY EPPERSON
(Guest Reviewer)
S.R.O. When that sign is up the
cast, the director, and the stage
crew are always happy and light
of heart for S.R.O. is an indica
tion that the evening’s show holds
the promise of a theatre exper
ience. Such an experience awaited
the theatre goers who took “A
Streetcar Named Desire,” trans
ferred to the Cemeteries and got
off at the Elysian Fields. There
could be found the souls of the
guiltless and those who might
drink of the river Lethe and
achieve oblivion of their former
lives. The Elon Players conducted
tours of these Fields and vales on
the evenings of November 4th, 5th,
6th and 7th.
The Elysian Fields took the
form of a New Orleans tenement
inhabited for a little piece of
eternity by three souls, Stella and
Stanley Kowalski and Blanche
Dubois. Jo Warner as Stella pre
sented a vignette of the eternal
woman, tender, loving, angry, hat
ing, forgiving, and an effective
foil for the loutishness of Dale
Ward as Stanley and the wraith
like Laura Rice as Blanche Du
bois. Dale Ward’s ‘verismo’ Stan
ley lacked subtlety and showed
little role delineation. Yet he
spoke with conviction and one
could easily visualize Stan’s finite
arena of existence. His insidious
cynicism presaged the final fad
ing of the camellia.
From the Beautiful Shore came
Blanche, the white woods;
Blanche, the Flamingo rose;
Blanche, Magnolia 6-9857 The
laurel wreath was earned by
Laura Rice as the schizoid
ELO.\ COLLEGE, N. C. FR1D.\Y, NOVEMBER 19, 1965
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NUMBER 4
Hoiiiecoiiiiiig IVograiii Is
Highly Siic*c*essfiJ Event
The 1964 Homecoming observ
ance, which was held during the
weekend of October 30th, proved
to be one of the most successful
and most enjoyable of all the long
series of such autumn celebra
tions, with the weather man con
tributing perfect weather for the
event.
Jeanne Fiorito, of Greensboro
ruled as Homecoming Queen over
the weekend festivities, having
been chosen in a special campus
election held some weeks earlier.
Her choice was announced at the
talent show in Whitley Auditorium
on Friday night, October 29th
with the show itself and a huge
Thanks^iviu^^ 1965
W’nerever Elon's faculty and students may spen 1 tiieir
Thanksgiving Day and v. herever t-'iey pariake of Ihei. Thanks
giving turkey and trimmings, there will always be in the
background the thuughis of that first Thanksgiving so many
years ago and of the meaning Vv'hich the day has or should
have.
Elon Choir Now Making Preparaiion
For Giving ‘Messiali’ On Deceniher 5
Blanche, balanced precariously on
the very brink of reality. Laura
was so imbued with the spirit of
Blanche that the transitions from
reality to fantasy and not quite
back again were so tenuous as
to defy a clear distinction be
tween them.
Her last grasp at reality came
in the form of Harold Mitchell,
(Continued On Page Four)
Wells Speaks As Guest
For Elon Arts Forum
The Elon College Choir will pre
sent its thirty-third annual ren
dition of Handel’s “The Messiah”
in Whitley Auditorium at 4 o’clock
on Sunday afternoon, December
5th, and will then present the great
Yule season oratorio twice the
following Sunday, December 12th,
be- at churches in Tryon and Conover.
The annual campus presentation
of “The Messiah” on Sunday
December 5th, will be presented
under the direction of Prof. Wen
dell Bartholf, with Prof. Fletcher
Moore as organ accompanist. Pro
fessor Bartholf will also have the
role of tenor soloist tor the Handel
iresentation.
Other soloists who will sing with
the student singing group include
Mary Anne Johnston, of Elon Col-
By RODNEY BARFIELD
Adhering to the policy of “Schol
arly diversity,” the Liberal Arts
Forum supported the area of med-
jcine in the third of its anual ser
ies of programs on Tuesday night
“t this week when Dr. Warner
'^slls, professor of surgery at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, presented a unique,
scholarly and most interesting talk
3S the Forum’s guest speaker.
1 am somewhat at a loss as to
where I should begin a description
Dr. Wells and his talk, which
'•'as on the subject of “Our Tech
nological Dilemma, Or Man As
A Sj^cies Bent On Self-Destruc-
“on." Certainly, he is well quali
fied to discuss the subject, for
M has studied and written about
Diedical history from the Indians
*nd pioneers hospitals of North
Carolina to the Atomic Bomb;Washington.
Commission at Hiroshima.
Even from the two extremes, the
physician-scholar has deduced the
same conclusion; that mankmd
possesses an inherent nature o
self-destruction. With the ^ event
of Hiroshima, Dr. Wells con
clusion acquired even greater
validity. Determined to obtain
first-hand evidence of that event
he lived in Hiroshima for three
vears while working with the
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commis-
^ He translated and
of a Hiroshima physician that has
now been translated into twenty-
three languages and serves as one
of the historical documents inher
ing in the nuclear era. Dr. Wells
outstanding achievements in t^
field of medicine have associat^
him with the development of the
National Library of Medicine m
Music* Professor
Speaks Al Meet
Prof. Walter Westafer, of the
Elon College music faculty, was
guest speaker at the annual
state convention of the North
Carolina Music Teachers As-'
sociation, which was held on the
campus of the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro on
Saturday, October 30th.
He spoke and gave a demon
stration on the subject of “TTie
Aesthetic of the Prepared Pi
ano ” The idea of the “prepared
piano” is a fairly recent devel-
o.ment in contemporary music,
so his talk and the music he
used for demonstration proved
of great interest to his hearers.
lege, soprano; Mary Lou Moran,
of Asheboro, contralto; and Char
les Lynam, of Greensboro, bass,
ill of these soloists have prev
iously appeared as guests with the
Elon Choir in the annual oratorio
presentation.
The two presentations in West
ern North Carolina will carry the
choir to Tryon for an appearance
at the United Church of Christ at
11 o’clock on Sunday morning,
December 12th, and that after
noon to the United Church of
Christ at Conover for a program
at 5 o’clock. The visits to Tryon
and Conover continue a practice
of visiting churches with oratorio
program each year, such visits
having been received with en
Ihusiasm.
SOPRANOS on the Choir roster
are Jane Aldridge, Katherine
Copeland, Susan Curtis, ’.inda
Durham, Marilyn Farley, Agnes
French, Ann Gordon, Diana Lewis^
Catherine Mangum, Anna Rose
Marino, Elizabeth Patterson,
Elaine Sawyer, Nancy Thomas and
Mary Anne Underwood.
ALTOS listed include Betsy
Dearborn, Mary Faust, Becky
Harward, Susan Jager Carol Lupi-
nacci, Gina Prescott, Gail Wach-
ter and Sandy Williams.
TENORS on the roster are Al
len Bush, Melvin Cotten, Kenneth
Hollingsworth, Don Harris, Wayne
Kanoy, and George Wyman.
BASSES listed include Dwight
Davis, Howard Eaton, Billy Hicks.
Jay Ogden, Pond Wayland, Phil
lip Shaw, Terry Sink, Randolph
Smart, Ray Smith and Ronald
Warren.
Graham City
Council Meet
Held At EAon
Talent Shoa
Feature Of
Ilonieeoniiif L
pep rally that night initiating the
Homecoming program in great
ityle.
The Homecoming Queen had
for her chief attendants the four
other finalists in the special elec
tion, including Myra Boone, of
Durham, Pam Hitchings, of Green
Valley, N.J.; Deannie Longest, of
Elon College: and Jo Warner, of
Annapolis, Md. "
A special feature of the Home
coming Weekend for 1965 was the
staging of the annual Parents’
Day for the parents of Elon Col
lege studenis in conjunction with
■ he re'urn of the oUI erad,-;, and
large numbirj of student parents
joined with the Elon aUim li and
.;tudents in enjoyment of the week
end festiviti*""
After the football game on Sat
urday afternoon, the collofe was
host to the visiting parents at a
social hour in the reading roo:ns
of Carlton Library and at dinner
in McEwen Memorial Dinin;; Hj!l.
j While the parents were gueuls in
By TOM PEARSE I the library, the Ilomecotnin^
The scintillating Homecoming- i alumni were guc=ts a' a coffee
Parents Weekend festivities open- ^ held I’resi-
ed on Friday night, October 29lh, and Mrs. J. E. Danieley. The
with a display of creative abili- dance in Alumni Ciym
ties heretofore latent and unrec-'^,^*.^, ^ ® co,icert in
ognized in the Elon student body, Whitley Auditorium on Sunday af-
and the annual Homecoming Tal- tcrnoon concluded the weekend
ent Show under the skilled direc- icstivilics.
Mon of Pam Hitchings proved an Prize winirs in the various
unprecedented success. The toast- phases of the Homecoming pro
master was the imiable Paul ram, listed with first, second and
Bleiberg. 'third win. rs i ' order in each ca^e
First place was won by Jo were as follows: BEST FLOAT—
Varner. Elon’s own Jennie Lind, Alpha Pi Delta, Sigma Phi Beta
»•
Members of the Graham City
Council gave members of Prof.
Durward T. Stokes’ political sci
ence classes a practical lesson in
local government when the coun
cil group staged a demonstration
council meeting in McEwen Mem
orial Dining Hall on Monday night,
November 8th.
The council members were
'^uests at dinner in the college
dining hall prior to the demonstra
tion session, during which the
council moved through a business
agenda that was similar in every
way to the regular council meet
ings that are held at the Graham
city Hall.
A total of 135 Elon College stud
ents, including those from two
sections of Professor Stokes' i
course in Modern Government and
one section of the course in Amer-,
ican Government, were in attend
ance and watch with interest the!
transaction of business as carried
out by the Council. '
Those from Graham s city gov
ernment who participated in the
council meeting included Mayor
Myron A. Rhyne, Mayor-Protem
Carson A. Hardie, Councilmen
Thomas Harden, J. B. Carlyle
Wooten and Durward T. Stokes,
City Manager Bruce Turney and
City Clerk Gene Worley.
Dr. Edmund A. Moore, who has
just arrived on the Elon campu
to assume his duties as the new
chairman of the college’s depart
ment of history and social science,
was a special guest for the oc
casion.
viio gave an unpara''el'''d re i
ilian of ‘'Fra:i'.;ie aid Jn'vinic.'
ihe was accompanied in her stell
ar perfor:nancc by Evaline “l.i'^ht-
: ' Garrison.
Thi tradition of the fo'l; ?n
in America was faithfully and loy
ally represented by John Shearer
and his wife, and hi; presenta-
t‘on was awarded seooni pla^’c
he i'llon quartet, fi''iti/ej fi-rni
ha Mormon Tab?r:iaole Clioir,
•:.'d with Carol I.eifers for third
spot.
The suive tra1it;o*i of Elon's
humor was revealed by the var
ious Greek organizations in their
presentation of delightful ditties,
such as “Tiptoe Through the
Tulips” and other soul-stirring
plays.
The cause of academic freedom
vas supported on the Elon cam
pus when Dale Ward, Wayne Sey
mour and Barnie Tysor dedicated
“I Want To Be Free To Speak
My Mind” to non-initiator of the
speaker ban.
The last place was the highly
■■epresensible malcontents, Clancy
riaron and his Boys, includin'T Tiny
McNaulton, Cecil Noland, Jeb
Fi^sbee and of course Clancy him
self.
liia Mu Si:;ma: BEST fAL-
1' .'.CTS — Women's Athletic
ociation. Business Club and a
fQ,‘ by Baptist Student
'1 and ri'o:,- Quartet. BI’ST
;,IPTTS DT:-I':.\YS - Baptist
udent Union, ”'o:n.'-n’s .Aiiiletle
Asi:oc’alio.'i r-r! ' i Omicron
Beta, \ai.id as the winner In
oial partijioa'io' in the Home
coming observnni '' was the Wom
en's Atliletic A-' ociation.
More than twenty-five campus
groups were represented by spon
sors during the observance. Those
organizations and their .sponsors
were Alpha Pi Delta, Janet
Lamm; Band, Gail Wachter; Bap
tist Student Union, Holly Hollings
worth; Beta Chi Epsilon, Carolyn
Robertson; Beta Omicron Beta,
Sandy Bueschel; Business Club,
Mary Neil Murchison;
Choir, Betsy Patterson; Della Up-
silon Kappa, Dolly Walker; Fresh
man Class, Mary Alice Taylor;
Iota Tau Kappa, Gwen Hancock;
.Junior Class, Rita Apple; Kappa
Psy Nu, Vicki Hardister; Minis
terial Association, Becky Har
ward; National Education A.ssoci-
ation Gail Campbell; New Dorm-
d On Page Fuiir)
IIOMECOMINC; CKOWriEI)
m
one of the highlights ot the 1961 Hamecoming celebration at Elon
Col'j.’e came when Jerry Csineroi, piesidcnt of th" Kkm Student
Government Association, placed me trowii o;i the hen'! ot Jeanne
Fiorito, the Homecoming Queen, ine coro.v;io) clim3.eJ half-time
ceremonies at the Elon-Western Carolina grid game.