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Elon College N. C.
PERMIT No. 1
VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1966
NUMBER 1
New Dorms Opened As Year Begins
Science Gift
By Western
Electric Firm
Elon College was the recipient
recently of a fine gift of 108 pieces of
equipment for the college’s physics
laboratory from the Western Electric
organization, the gift being provided
and presented through the Western
Electric College Gift Program, which
renders valuable aid to higher educa
tion throughout the nation.
The gift of equipment was presented
personally to Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon
College president by S. C. Donelly,
director of the Greensboro and Bur
lington shops of Western Electric, who
was accompanied by a number of the
company’s administrative personnel.
Other Western Electric officials
present for the presentation were J. L.
Joyce, of Burlington, department chief
for industrial relations; Fred Nim
mcke, formerly with the company in
Burlington, now representing the Tele
phone Pioneers; G. T. Sperry, of
Winston-Salem, coordinator for the
College Gift Program; and E. W. Me
Clellan, of Winston-Salem, assistant
manager for industrial relations there.
The equipment was presented as
replacement for a portion of the
laboratory equipment which Elon Col
lege lost when fire destroyed the
historic East Dormitory on the college
campus on the night of July 4. The
blaze destroyed the greater portion of
the equipment from the Elon College
science building, the equipment having
been stored in the dormitory while the
science building was being renovated
this summer.
Immediately following the blaze, the
college appealed to Mr. Donnelly for
help. The college faculty members
in the department of physics worked
out a list of needed equipment, and
the list was forwarded to the Western
Electric College Gift Program and
distributed to various company loca
tions all over the country. The equip
ment was then assembled in Winston-
Salem and was brought to the Elon
campus for presentation some weeks
ago.
In speaking of the Western Electric
gift. President Danieley expressed the
great appreciation of the college and
stated that the gift has aided greatly
the efforts of the college to restore the
science laboratories to operation after
the loss by fire.
ELON HAS THREE NEW DORMS UNDER ONE ROOF
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The three new dormitories at the southeastern comer of Elon’s walled campus, each separate and yet all connected
beneath one roof, are pictured above. The new residence halls, left to right in the picture, are Hook Dormitory,
Brannock Dormitory and Barney Dormitory, named in tribute to three of the most outstanding faculty members
in Elon history.
Seventy-One Seniors Graduate In August
“Freedom is something we must
earn by work and discipline,” declared
Dr. Grimsley T. Hobbs, president of
Guilford College, as he addressed the
71 members of the Elon College sum
mer graduating class here on August
21st in exercises which marked the
conclusion of the annual Elon summer
session.
Those from Burlington who re
ceived diplomas and degrees included
Marta June Barnhart, James Neal
Biggerstaff, Paul Edgar Cobb, Henri
Kyle Descheemaeker, Donald Rags
dale Fonville, Raymond Thorton Har
ris, Nell Marie Harviel, James Holt
Lasley, Pamela Elizabeth McLaugh
lin, Richard Arlen Murray, Thomas
Jack Oakes, Earl Moses Sartin, Wil
liam Benjamin Shields, George Sam
uel Weber and James Kenneth Wood
ruff.
Others from the Burlington area
included Joanne Braxton, Numa Ran
dle Franks, Alma S. Russell and Nellie
Job Corps Director Speaks
At Opening Chapel Program
Reavis Stockard, of Graham; Mary
Shaw Covington, Rebecca Ann Neese
and George Lonzey Walters, of Me-
bane; Simeon Lee Allen and Paul
Herman Huey, of Elon College; and
Amanda Guyton, of Glen Raven.
Graduates from other points in al
phabetical order were Thomas Garland
Anderson, Chatham, Va.; Willard
Grant Blevins, Roanoke, Va; Leroy
Albert Brandt, Towson, Md.; Maxine
Bowers Bringle, Reidsville; Judson
Dwight Bryant, Virginia Beach, Va.;
John Edward Burtsche, Greenville,
R. I.; Richard Gordon Butler, Ports
mouth, Va.; Eileen Fenton Cobb, Am-
hearst, Va.; Alex Lewis Cook, Greens
boro; Scott Albert Crabtree, Durham;
Jeanne Carol Fiorito; Ralph Bowling
Gilbert, Spray; John K. Gozjack,
Richmond, Va.; James Thomas Gra
ham, Hamlet; Alice Mitchell Harding,
Kensington, Md.; Victoria Georgette
Hardister, Aberdeen; Thomas Stanley
Harrell, Suffolk, Va.; Betty Frank
Houston, Troutman; Richard Alexan
der Hutchins, Durham; Milburn Jer
ome Jackson, Henderson; Lillie Mae
Jeffries, Leaksville; Walter Carter
Jennette, Elizabeth City; Carolyn Jean
Keeton, Petersburg, Va.; Jessie Ann
Kernodle, Brown Summit; Arthur
Emanuel Klaff, Baltimore, Md.; Ber
wyn Lance Lawrence, Timmonsville,
S, C.; William Burton Macey, Chester,
Vt.; William Smith Massey, Plainview,
Va.; Royce Tyrone McDuffie, Lum-
berton; Ralph Carroll Mizelle, Suffolk,
Va.; Philip Carl Pagliarulo, Natrona
Heights, Pa.; Judith Ray Peele,
Raleigh; James Patrick Pepe, North
Massapequa, N. Y.; Hal Kempton
Pittard, Oxford; David Bruce Potter,
Easton, Conn.; William Donald Rich
ardson, West Hillsborough; Carl Fred
erick Rost, Southampton, Pa.; Comar
Lynn Shields, Blairs, Va.; Melvin
Lankford Shreves, Chatham, Va.; Fred
Brice Stewart, Charlotte; Wilson Rich
ard Teal, Aberdeen; Peggy Elaine
Thomas, Franklinville; Hattie Mae
Thompson, Blanche; Carolyn Louise
Tillotson, Winston-Salem; Aubrey
Eaton Utz, Richmond, Va.; and Bren
da Sue Williams, Pittsboro.
Other Signs
Of Progress
On Campus
The opening of three new and mod
ern dormitories, the Hook, Brannock,
and Barney Dormitories, to furnish
accommodations for 150 men students
was the highlight of progress as Elon
College opened its 1966-67 college
year, but there were other giant strides
of advancement evident in the near
completion of the new William S.
Long Student Center and the still un
completed renovation of the Duke
Science Building.
It was only last October that the
ground was broken for the three new
dormitories and the new student
center, and the feature of the annual
Founders’ Day last spring was the
naming of the new dorms in honor of
three of Elon’s greatest faculty mem
bers and of the student center in
honor of Elon’s first president.
Each of the three new dorms em
bodies the latest ideas in college
residence halls, with suites of rooms
grouped on each floor and the elimi
nation of the long halls which have
been the source of so much noise and
disturbance in other dormitories.
Workmen had kept the campus a
busy scene throughout the summer as
construction was rushed on the new
buildings, and there were those who
doubted that the dormitories would be
ready for occupancy. Such doubts
proved groundless, although there
were certain inconveniences which the
student occupants had to endure for a
few days.
The student center is expected to
be ready for use in the near future,,
and the displaced science classes will
also be able to move back into a
newly renovated and improved Duke
Science building, which has new
wiring, new lighting, new equipment,
new furniture and floor covering.
Other improvements for the Elon
campus during the summer months
included renovation of several other
classroom areas, the new design for
the college wall, a towering new flag
pole on the northern side of Alamance
and the installation of a new data
processing center. Plans are also mov
ing ahead, and funds have already
been raised to assure a new library
building in the not distant future.
The federal Job Corps called “a
University for dropouts” by Dr.
Franklyn A. Johnson, director of the
Job Corps program under the govern
ment’s Office of Economic Opportun
ity, as he addressed the students and
faculty of Elon College in the college’s
first chapel convocation of the new
1966-67 term.
Dr. Johnson was introduced by
Dean Fletcher Moore, and he began
his discussion of the Job Corps by
quoting Sargent Shriver’s statement
that “the United States can abolish
poverty by the time it celebrates its
200th anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence in 1976.”
Dr. Johnson pointed out that
Shriver, director of the War on Pov
erty, made that statement to a senate
committee this past summer, and he
then outlined in interesting fashion the
accomplishments already recorded by
the Job Corps in the fight against
poverty in the country. j
He declared that business men are
now looking with more friendly eyes
on the Office of Economic Opportun
ity and indicated that the accomplish
ments of the Job Corps in training
unskilled workers has helped to create
this more friendly attitude.
He termed the Job Corps a nation
wide alternative school program, de
signed to reach the host of young
people who have dropped out of the
conventional public school program.
Dr. Johnson listed concrete results
to show 68 per cent of the trainees in
jobs, 22 per cent in military service,
many of them having previously been
rejected due to inability to pass tests,
and 9 per cent moving back into
regular school training.
SPEAKER
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Folk Singers Win Applause
As Lyceum Series Starts
DR. GRIMSLEY T. HOBBS
President Of Guilford
Speaks To Seniors
The annual Elon Lyceum series
opened before an enthusiastic audience
on Tuesday night, September 27th,
when Obray Ramsey and Tom Hunter,
folk musicians from the high hills of
Madison County, played and sang
traditional folk songs in an almost
filled Whitley Auditorium.
Ramsey, rated by many critics of
folk music as among the foremost
banjoists of the day, presented tuneful
and seldom-heard songs that date back
to North Carolina’s earliest days.
Among these were “Cold Rain and
Snow,” “I Wish I Was A Little
Sparrow,” and “Pretty Saro.”
He also sang the murder ballad
“Ellen Smith” and, as one of several
request numbers, “Wreck of the Old
Ninety-Seven.” Hunter, son and grand
son of traditional country fiddlers, was
especially impressive with “Orange
Blossom Special” and a group of old
country dance tunes.
This program was only the first of
several fine offerings for the year, for
the Lyceum series will feature other
fine concert artists and performers.
Scheduled to appear M. and Mme.
Durufle, organists; Tabards of Shake
speare, in scenes from Shakespeare’s
works; the U. N. C. String Quartet;
the Charlotte Camerata, instrumental
ensemble; Soulima Stravinsky, violin
ist; Gerald Goodman, harpist; and
Georgio Ciompi and Loren Withers,
violinist and pianist.