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MAROON AND GOLD
Dedicated to the best interests of Elon College and its students and faculty,
the Maroon and Gold is published semi-monthly during the college year with
the exception of holiday and examination periods at Elon College, N. C.
(Zip Code 27244), publication being in cooperation with the journalism
department.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Don King Editor-in^ief
Thomas Pearse Associate Editor
Alumm Editor
Luther N/'Byrd'irZ”ZIZ Faculty Advisor
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Douglass Apple Hudson
James Baker Knapp
Myra Boone Christian Kurrle
Janie Carr ■'°>'n Little
Marvin Chewning Sonny Long
William Clark Jonathan Lucas
Ronnie Cohen Robert Model
Ilene Costner Cheryl Morrow
Richard DeLowry Clyde O Ferrell
Bobby Denny George Old
Alton Edmundson Edward Osborne
Bobby Ferrell Elaine Phelps
David Gentry Mike Ray
John Greeson James Ritter
Alan Groh Thomas Rodney
Richard Gurganious Dorothy Smith
Oliver Halle Carl Sparks
Skip Hinshaw Sam Troy
Charles Honeycutt Dolly Walker
James Howell Don Weed
Roger Wood
BEING A REAL FRIEND REQUIRES SKILL
True friendship is beyond doubt one of the greatest gifts which one person
can bestow upon another, and there have been many fine articles written upon
the meaning of the word friendship from the days of the immortal Emerson
down to the present, but one of the finest of recent efforts in that area came
from a national newspaper columnist. His thoughts on friendship and its
values follow;
Isn’t it a comfort to have a friend who—
Will let you blow off steam when you are hurt or angered by someone
close to you and then have the good sense never to bring up the subject again?
Shares your enthusiasm when you have big plans in the making—and is
never, never a wet blanket?
Seems to be able to sense when your spirit is dragging at the heels and has
a second-hand compliment saved up to give you a lift?
Never misinterprets what you say to end up with hurt feelings?
Encourages you to believe that you can do something that you are a bit
hesitant to tackle?
Often builds you up to others who do not know you nearly so well?
Would never sit silent while someone else made unkind remarks about you?
Is so gracious when doing a favor that you don’t mind admitting when you
could use a little help?
Has other good friends and doesn’t resent the fact that you do, too?
Knows without being warned what things you say in confidence you would
not want repeated to anyone?
Usually gives you a lift and leaves you feeling a bit pleased with yourself
and life in general?
Are you that kind of friend to anyone? If so, you probably have a few
such friends yourself.
TWO GRADUATES RETURN HOME
ROBERT GWALTNEY
WORDEN UPDYKE
A pair of Elon graduates came back home this summer to the oak-shaded
campus to assume newly created administrative positions with the college.
They are Robert Gwaltney (pictured left), who assumed duties on July 1st as
Financial Aid Officer to direct a program that embraces scholarships, loan
funds and self-help jobs on the campus for the students; and Worden Updyke
(pictured right), who also began work on July 1st as director of Technical
Services, a post in which he has supervision of the college’s newly installed
data processing system and other electronic equipment that will be installed
on the campus. Gwaltney had been engaged in public school work in Virginia
Beach and Asheville prior to coming back to Elon, while Updyke had been
serving as pastor of a church in Seneca Falls, N. Y.
With Seven Bands Performing
Elon Band Event Proves Big Success
Perhaps no one special event on
the Elon College campus has added
more enjoyment to those who viewed
it than did the first annual “Band
Day” program staged on Saturday,
November 5th, in conjunction with
the annual Parents’ Day program.
Seven marching bands combined as
one musical unit for both the ground
breaking ceremonies of the new Elon
College Library and for the half-time
presentation at the annual Elon-New-
berry football game in Burlington
Stadium that afternoon.
The performance at each place was
of high calibre and served as a tribute
to the organizational ability of Prof.
Orchestra Is
Praised After
First Concert
The Elon College-Community Or
chestra, which features fifty-one mu
sicians from the college and commun
ities in the Burlington area, was given
praise by music lovers after appearing
in the group’s first concert of the new
season in Whitley Auditorium on
Monday night, November 7th.
This initial concert of the 1966-67
season marks the beginning of the
fourth year for the group, which per
forms under the direction of Dr.
Malvin N. Artley, of the Elon College
music faculty. He, along with Dean
Fletcher Moore, was responsible for
the organization of the orchestra in
the fall of 1963, and it has presented
two concerts each season since that
time.
The program for this concert fea
tured Mozart’s “La Finta Giardinera”
as the overture; followed by Teleman’s
“Sinfonia,” Handel’s “Suite No. 11”
from the Water Music, and Grofe’s
“Mississippi Suite.”
Also featured was Husted’s “Alle
gheny Holiday,” Weinstein’s “Bolero,”
Tschaikowsky’s Scene de Ballet from
“Swan Lake Ballet,” Antonini’s “Salta-
rello,” and Wagner’s “Processional
March of the Meistersingers.”
Members of the orchestra for this
opening concert, listed by instruments,
were as follows:
Flute I: Margaret Merritt; Flute II:
Frances Morgan; Oboe I: Laura Oaks;
Oboe II: Cathy Hobbs; Clarinet I;
Elizabeth Woolsey; Clarinet II: Steve
Peeler; Alto Clarinet: Gary Johnson.
Trumpet I: Garth Hutson; Trumpet
II: Sherwood Thompson; Trumpet III:
Robert Truitt; Trombone I: Elwood
Porshia; Trombone II: Clyde Bailey;
Tuba: Terry Sink; Tympany: Agnes
French; Horns: Terry DeLong, Linda
Duhl, Nancy Morgan, Judy Stevens.
Violin I: Alfred Hauser, Bill Pen
nington, Mrs. Jody Perdue, James Mc-
Gaughey, Nelson Young, Susan Tru
itt, Linda McLendon, Eleanor Rey
nolds, Helen King, Steve Harper,
Clyde Simmons.
Violin II: Jennings Berry, R. P.
Ellington, Ronald Hill, Dean Hall,
Jane Deese, Jeff Powell, Donna Festa,
Becky Williams, Elwood Stone, Karen
Hobbs, Lynette Petree.
Viola: Elizabeth Williams, Philip
Allen; Cello: Susan McAdams, Mic
key Ray; Percussion: Barnie Tysor,
David Abernathy, Ann Gordon, Ken
Hollingsworth.
Dr. Artley points out that the mem
bership in the orchestra is open to all
interested persons in the area, includ
ing both faculty and students of Elon
College and musicians from neighbor-
ing communities. The next appearance
of the group will be with the Elon
Choir in a joint presentation of Han
del’s “The Messiah” on the first Sun
day afternoon in December.
Jack O. White, who directs the Elon
College band and who coordinated the
performance of the group of seven
bands.
A special tribute is due to the 74-
piece band from little Rural Retreat
High School in southwestern Virgin
ia, which came down by special invita
tion and performed the pre-game
show at the football game under the
direction of Robert P. Walters. This
band also joined with the Elon Col
lege band and five other high school
groups from this area in the presen
tation of the two group shows.
The local high school bands which
appeared at the Elon grid game show
included Williams High School Band,
directed by Prof. White himself; the
Graham High School Band, directed
by Johnny Albea; the Southern High
School Band, directed by E, F.
Rhodes; the Eastern High School
Band, directed by Joe Beach; and the
Broad Street Junior High Band, di
rected by Dean Hall.
The Burlington area bands were all
well known to people of the Alamance
County section, but band lovers had
a special treat in the appearance of
the Rural Retreat High School unit,
for this band comes from a small
school with only 252 pupils, and yet it
has won top honors in both state and
sectional competition.
Among the honors won by this
visiting band have been Division 1
rating in the Southeastern Band Fes
tival in Bristol, Va., where Majorettt
Peggy Maxey also won first place
along with her band; a first place win
at the Myrtle Beach Sun Fun Festival;
first place honors at the Dogwood
Festival in Roanoke, Va.; and superi
or and excellent ratings in the Virginia
Grade V music in concert competition.
Shakespeare
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players and the tabards.
Music for the production was pro
vided by a lutenist, who sang appro
priate madrigals and ballads. The
narrative for each scene, written by
Philip Lawrence himself, accentuate
the emotional climate of each scene,
with the entire production proving
highly enjoyable to an appreciative
audience.
A LONG STEP FORWARD
By DON KING
The “red carpet” was rolled out and
the bands played on. This was the
scene at the new Student Center on
“Parents Day,” November 5th. Elon
College unveiled a new era in its quest
for an up-to-date college with modern
facilities.
Even though its exterior appearance
still clings to the colonial design, the
new Student Center offers the Elon
students and faculty conveniences
found nowhere else within our
“walls."
Located on the first floor are the
college book store and the snack shop.
With the additional space these two
facilities occupy, students will have
the opportunity of better service in the
purchasing of books and college sup
plies and the buying of between-class
snacks.
The second floor of the Student
Center offers the students a card
room, the Senate’s chambers, Student
Government offices, a lounge, con
ference and listening rooms, and a
color T.V.
Students will now have a comfort
able place to lounge and relax between
classes. The center offers the students
a large college atmosphere in a small
college community.
I feel that the students of Elon
should express their gratitude to the
Board of Trustees and the adminis
tration not only verbally, but through
using all available facilities correctly
and properly. This building enhances
not only our campus, but also our
chances of obtaining more like it.
Students who say that the Center
and the new dorms are late in com
ing, since they are graduating or no
longer will be at Elon for other rea
sons, must realize that even though
Elon College is only taking one step
at a time, it is moving progressively
forward.
ADVOCATUS DIABOLI
By TOM PEARSE
Old Ubiquitous is dead now. The
“Hollow-Men” have returned to the
holes from whence they evolved.
Ubiquitous committed suicide, which
most people think of as a confession
of failure. But, if he failed, he was
an heroic failure. He aimed high—at
no less a target than mighty-mouse.
And he came close.
His life should be described as a
near miss. If a Dilettante had asked
him to describe another man’s life, he
would have sneered and said, “A miss
is as good as a mile.” But most Dile
ttantes would not agree with him, not
even on the weather.
From the first moment he ap
proached the people of “Waste Land”,
he would needle and probe for a neg
ative transference. (“What have you
been thinking and feeling about me?
Come now, You. You’re trying to
usurp.”) There never was a better
technique for creating what one is
looking for. The Dilettantes knew he
was poking around inside them, de
liberately trespassing, and finally they
came to loathe him for it.
This was the way he operated on the
■;osmic level—blindly, and worse than
blindly. He always said the healer was
the sublimated murderer. In him it
was un-sublimated. Hence his fascina
tion with death. He was a murderer—
and his only escape was in the role of
a savior. Almost he made it. Just an
other step and he would have been a
cosmic genius, a maker of his own
history.
He worked to have his name placed
in wrought-iron over the gates. “I am
great. Know thy enemy”.
Ubiquitous was an ethereal thera
pist, although he hated the term as
much as Dilettante. Certainly he was
in the right field; he could change a
system to fit the cosmic order in a
matter of moments. He was in his ele
ment, what ever that was. The Dile
ttante always felt at those times that it
was not the base element of the con
fining material world, but the warmer
better element of the cosmic environ
ment. A mystical experience perhaps.
He thought so too. He saw his life
in a series of acts in a cosmic soap
opera. He was the murderer and the
innocent expiator. In the end this
vision did him in. He died on a cross
of his own making, for all his sins.