Annual ^ParentsDay^Set Tomorrow
HON. MILLS E. GODWIN
Governor Of Virginia
Two Governors Have Featured Spots
In Dedication Of Four New Buildings
Two governors will occupy fea-|
tured spots on the program, and hun-1
dreds of parents of Elon College
students will visit the campus tomor
row for the annual Parents Day
program, which features an all-day
series of events that lasts from the
early morning until late at night.
Governor Mills E. Godwin, of Vir
ginia, will deliver the address at the
convocation in Elon’s Alumni Memo
rial Gymnasium at 10:30 o’clock
tomorrow morning, and he will be
introduced by Governor Dan K.
Moore, of North Carolina, who will
also bring greetings from the people
of the Old North State.
But the convocation in the gymna
sium will be only one of a number of
events that will keep campus visitors
busy from 8.30 in the morning until
that night, for Elon will dedicate
three new dormitories and a new
student center and will break ground
for a new library building. In addition
there will be a luncheon for the visit
ing parents, a football game, a recep
tion for the parents and an Elon
Player show in Mooney and a variety
show in Whitley.
Both of the visiting governors who
will attend the Parents Day event hold
honorary degrees from Elon College
and are thus honorary alumni of the
college. Governor Godwin has also
served as a member of the Elon board
of trustees since 1950. In addition to
the governors, another honored guest
for the Parents Day will be Dr. Robert
F. R. Peters, assistant to the president
of the United Church of Christ.
The visiting parents of Elon students
will register in the William S. Long
Student Center and will at that time
be presented complimentary tickets to
the Elon-Newberry football game to
be played in Burlington Memorial
Stadium at 2:30 o’clock that afternoon.
They will also be guests then at a
coffee hour and will be carried on
tours of the campus.
The convocation at 10:30 o’clock in
the gymnasium will be followed at
11:30 o’clock by the dedication cere
monies for the Alonzo L. Hook Dor
mitory, the Ned F. Brannock Dormi-
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HON. DAN K. MOORE
Governor Of North Carolina
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Elon College, N. C.
PERMIT No. 1
VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1966
NUMBER 3
Elon Players Offer ‘J. B.’ To Open Season
Homecoming Observance
Proves Happy Occasion
IN RECITAL
PROF. GENE FEATHERSTONE
Featherstone
Gives Recital
Prof. Gene Featherstone, pianist
and member of the Elon music facul
ty, was heard by an appreciative audi
ence when he appeared in recital in
Whitley Auditorium on Tuesday night
of this week in one of a series of pro
grams to be given by Elon faculty
musicians this year.
Dean Fletcher Moore, chairman of
the music department, appeared with
Professor Featherstone in a dual piano
rendition of a Mozart concerto. Other
numbers by Featherstone in a solo
role included a Beethoven sonata, a
group of Chopin pieces and several
selections from Brahms.
Professor Featherstone, who is a
graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, holds the master’s degree from
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Happiness was the theme, and hap
piness reigned supreme over the 1966
Homecoming Weekend on the Elon
campus, an event which attracted a
large group of old grads back to the
walled and oak-shaded environs and
which proved an autmn highlight for
both students and old grads.
Barbara Ippolito, an Elon College
junior from Burlington, reigned as
Homecoming Queen over the weekend
festivities, which got underway with
the talent show on Friday night, Oc
tober 21st, and concluded with the
concert by “The Platters” in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium on Sunday af
ternoon, October 23rd.
In between those two events there
was an all-day Saturday program,
which got underway with the registra
tion of the returning alumni on Satur
day morning, the annual Homecoming
Day parade in Burlington, an Elon
football victory over the Catawba
Indians and a coffee hour and recep
tion for the alumni in the afternoon
and the annual Homecoming Dance,
held to the music of the "Day Dream
ers” in Alumni Memorial Gymnasium
on Saturday night.
Prize winners for the campus dis
plays were Sigma Mu Sigma, first;
Baptist Student Union, second; and a
tie for third between P. E. Majors and
the Women’s Athletic Association.
Winners in the talent show, in order of
rank, were Alpha Psi, Elon Quartet
and Hook Dormitory; and the three
top winners in the parade floats were
Sigma Mu Sigma, Alpha Pi Delta and
the combined unit of Iota Tau Kappa
and Beta Omicron Beta. The overall
group prize went to Sigma Mu Sigma.
Appearing as chief attendants for
Queen Barbara Ippolito, who was
chosen in a special campus election,
were the other four finalists in the
balloting. They were Myra Boone, of
Durham; Anne Stegall, of Henderson;
Jane Hollar, of Winston-Salem; and
Gail Campbell, of Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J.
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Gibson Is Given
WE Scholarship
Richard W. Gibson, an Elon College
junior from Graham, has just been
awarded the Western Electric Scholar
ship to attend Elon College for the
1966-67 term, according to an an
nouncement from Dr. J. E. Danieley,
Elon’s president.
The scholarship was presented to
Gibson by S. C. Donnelly, who is the
director of the Greensboro and Bur
lington Shops of the Western Electric
Company in North Carolina. The
award is part of the Western Electric
program of assistance to higher edu
cation.
Gibson, who is a graduate of the
Southern Alamance High School, is
slated to graduate from Elon with the
Class of 1968. He is married and is a
major in the field of mathematics.
Shows Set In Mooney
Tonight And Tomorrow
Greek Groups
Add Members
A total of 43 new members were
pledged by the four Greek letter sor
orities and the four fraternities at the
annual autmn “Bid Night” ceremonies,
more than twice the number pledged
last fall when two of the four frater
nities were unable to participate in the
fall rush period.
The four sororities added nineteen
new members, with Beta Omicron
Beta topping the list with nine addi
tions; and the four fraternities took in
twenty-four new boys, with Kappa Psi
Nu leading the way with nine. The
new pledges, listed by groups, follow:
Beta Omicron Beta—Sharon Coble,
Conn.; Jane Frost, Burlington; Penny
Gilliam, Graham; Sondra Hall, Leaks-
ville; Betty Sue Isley, Burlington; San
dra Isley, Burlington; Terry Lute,
Haw River; Rebecca Whitaker, Bur
lington; and Sherry Whitley, Burling
ton.
Delta Upsilon Kappa—Lind Tom
pson, Graham.
Pi Kappa Tau—Janice Carter, Ash-
eboro; Wanda Edwards, Raleigh; and
Diana Lewis, Falls Church, Va.
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After winning high praise for their
presentation of Archibald McLeish’s
“J. B.” in Mooney Theatre last night,
the Elon Players will offer repeat per
formances of the play on the Mooney
stage at 7:30 o’clock tonight and to
morrow night, marking the beginning
of a new campus theatre season. A
special preliminary showing for the
faculty was given on Wednesday night.
The play, which is offered under the
direction of Prof. Edward Pilkington,
marks a successful debut for him as
head of the Elon dramatic activities
and has stirred much interest on the
campus with its modern-day portrayal
of the Book of Job and its fundamen
tal question whether God is just.
Dale Ward, of Kensington, Md.,
veteran of a number of great Player
roles in past years, appears in the title
role of “J. B.” Paired with him as his
wife is Sherry Hepburn, of Southwick,
Mass., and their children feature such
youthful actors and actresses as David
Perkins, Annie Perry, Edward Hassell,
Jane Updyke and Teresa Tally.
Ben Bayol, of Alexandria, Va., an
other veteran Elon actor, appears as
Nickle; and Wayne Seymour, of San
ford, returns to the Mooney stage in
the role of Zeus. Both have given
sterling performances in the introduc
tory presentations of the play.
Prof. Lloyd Young, newcomer to
the Elon faculty, is making his campus
stage debut as one of the Roustabouts,
along with Ed Bartholomew, of Catas-
auqua. Pa. Linda Sipila, of Oakland,
N. J., after breaking in as an Elon
Player regular last year, appears as
The Girl.
Other roles in this first show of the
season include Dawn Leland, of
Southren Pines, Kathy Copeland, of
Norfolk, Va., Pat McCausland, of
Wantaugh, N. Y., Nancy Boone, of
Allentown, Pa., and Peggy Ferguson
of Durham, as The Women. Paul
Bleiberg, Doug Doland and Larry
Sage are the Comforters.
DIRECTOR
PROF. EDWARD PILKINGTON
Bardolf Will
Speak Here
Dr. Richard Bardolph, chairman of
the department of history and political
science at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, will speak in
West Dormitory Parlor on the Elon
campus next Thursday night, Novem
ber 10th, appearing as the third guest
lecturer of the year under sponsorship
of the student Liberal Arts Forum on
the campus.
Dr. Bardolph, who will speak on
the topic of “The Care And Feeding
of American Civilization,” has gained
wide reputation as a writer of Ameri
can history. Known as a specilaist on
the role of the Negro in America, he
is the author of “The Negro Van
guard.”
He is a graduate of the University
of Illinois and earned both the mas-
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