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VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1967
NUMBER 6
Bids Are Received For New Elon Library
Construction
Is To Begin
About Feb. 1
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MRS. VIVIAN P. FLORENCE
Mrs. Florence
Passes After
Brief Illness
Mrs. Vivian P. Florence, 64, who
had served for several years as a house
mother in Elon College dormitories
and who had become the first hostess
for the new William S. Long Student
Center when it opened some weeks
before Christmas, died in a Burlington
hospital on Sunday morning, January
1st, after a brief illness.
Mrs. Florence, who was a native of
Wake County, the daughter of the late
James and Alma Jesse Rarely Penney,
was the widow of the late William
Dewey Florence and was a member
of the First Baptist Church of Burling
ton.
She first came to the Elon College
campus in September of 1958 to be
come a house mother in one of the
women’s dormitories, and she later
held the same position in one of the
boys’ dormitories before leaving Elon
in 1962 to take a similar post at Louis-
burg College. She had returned to
Elon this past fall, only a short time
before her fatal illness struck during
Christmas vacation.
A special campus memorial service
was held in Whitley Auditorium on
Friday, January 6th, whh the Rev.
John Graves conducting the memorial
rites as a part of the college chapel
convocation.
The picture above is an architect’s drawing of the new Elon College library building, which is to be erected on the
southwest corner of Elon’s walled campus adjacent to the McEwen Memorial Dining Hall. The ground for the
structure was broken during the Parents’ Day observance last fall, and bids were received during Christmas holidays
for the basic construction that is to get underway about February 1st.
Elon Band Appears In Winter Concert
The Elon College Concert Band pre
sented its fifth annual winter concert
in Whitley Auditorium last night un
der the direction of Prof. Jack O.
White, and it was heard with high
praise by a large audience of both
Elon students and townspeople.
The Elon band has gained wide ac
claim for its performances as a march
ing unit during the Elon football sea
son each fall, performing at halftime
ceremonies of the games and in area
parades, and it has gained equal praise
each winter when the group trans
forms itself into a concert combination
to present a varied program on the
Whitley stage.
With Professor White also serving
as a director of the Williams High
School Band in Burlington this year,
he invited a selected group of his Bur
lington youngsters to participate as
guest artists with the college band in
the winter program.
As the curtain opened on Thursday
night the musicians blasted forth with
Turlet’s “French National Defile Mar
ch,” and this was followed by such
well known and varied numbers as
“Pastoral For Winds,” “Chanson and
Bourree,” “Continum For Winds” and
“The Basses.”
After an intermission, the program
also featured Barnard’s “Spirit Of Ca
naveral,” “April in Paris,” “Blow, Ga
briel, Blow” and a special arrangement
called “Carnival Of Melody” that in
cluded a number of popular and melo
dic favorites.
The musicians who appeared with
the concert band in the Thursday night
program, listed by instrumental
groups, were as follows:
FLUTE: Candy Hopewell, Ports
mouth, Va.; Laura Norville, Burling
ton; Barbara Crotts, Burlington; Car-
Engstrom Presents Initial
Lecture In Campus Series
Dr. Alfred G. Engstrom, a veteran
of more than thirty years of teaching
in the field of romance languages at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, spoke in the student
lounge of the William S. Long Student
Center on the Elon College campus
this past Tuesday night.
His lecture on the subject of “Thy
me, That Chef of Seasoners: Time and
Its Images in Literature,” was present
ed under the auspices of the Liberal
Arts Forum. It is the first of a series
of six lectures to be presented by
Dr. Engstrom during the coming two
years under the sponsorship of the
student arts group at Elon, and the
entire series of lectures will then be
published by the Liberal Arts Forum.
The Forum is a committee of the
Elon College Student Government As
sociation, formed for the purpose of
presenting scholarly lectures in the hu
manities field in programs offered on
a monthly basis on the campus. The
student group annually presents a
week-long symposium devoted to the
humanistic studies and invites distin
guished scholars from throughout the
United States.
Dr. Engstrom is the author of num
erous articles on Nineteenth Century
French literature, literary criticism,
comparitive literature and symbolism.
In addition he has served on the edi
torial boards of the University of
North Carolina Studies in the Ro
mance Languages and to serve on the
advisory board of the new Southern
Humanities Review.
The members of the Liberal Arts
Forum at Elon this year include Carl
King, Charlotte; Linda May, Rich
mond, Va.; Denny McGuire, Mont-
vale, N. J.; Pat McCausland, Wantagh,
N. Robert Model, Greenwich
Conn.; James Milward, Bloomfield,
Conn.; Darryl Jennus, Dover, N. J
Alex Oliver, Suffolk, Va.; and Fred
Bright, Burlington. Prof. James P. El
der is i acuity advisor for the group
men Black, Burlington; Denise Clark,
Burlington.
OBOE: Laura Oaks, Burlington.
CLARINETS: Gary Johnson, Sel
ma; Bob Gregory, Norfolk, Va.; Car
son Kuhnert, Martinsville, Va.; Steve
Peeler, Burlington; Lew Lucke, Bur
lington; Elizabeth Woolsey, Madison,
N. J.; Joan Wilson, Wilmington, Del.;
Melba Whitesell, Burlington; Janet
Rippy, Burlington; Danny Childress,
Burlington; Jo Anne Smith, Burling
ton; Tommy Burgess, Burlington;
Anne Gordon, Burlington; Eddie Har
ris, Cary; Bill Marshall, Burlington;
Paul Bleiberg, Wilmington, Del.
SAXOPHONES: Tom Lewis, Falls
Church, Va.; Steve Griffin, Burling
ton; Danny Underwood, Greensboro,
N. C.; and Bob Johnson, Charlottes
ville, Va.
CORNETS: Garth Hutson, Whit-
sett; Howard Eaton, Cary; A1 Garri
son, Burlington; Judy Lockhart, Gra
ham; Wally Hardwick, Burlington;
Eugene Perry, Burlington; Robert
Truitt, Raleigh; Lindsey Wyatt, Wil
son; John Papa, Cliffside, N. J.; and
Kim Luffberry, Washington, D. C.
FRENCH HORNS; Judy Stevens,
West Lebanon, N. H.; Nancy Morgan,
Elon College; Lindsey Duhl, Athens,
Ala.; and Terry DeLong, Charlottes
ville, Va.
TROMBONES: Elwood Porshia,
Falls Mills, Va.; Butch Bayliff, Elon
College; George Cannon, Newport
News, Va.; and Elaine Sawyer, Wash
ington, N. C.
BARITONES: Tom Short, Roan
oke, Va.; and Cleo Perdue, Roanoke,
Va.
TUBAS: Terry Sink, Winston-Sa
lem; Jim White, Wytheville, Va.; and
Dan Livingstone, Greensboro.
PERCUSSION: Barney Tysor, Bur
lington; Danny Fields, Burlington; Da
vid Abernathy, Lenoir; Agnes French,
Clayton; Richard Watkins, Burlington;
and Judy Hardy, Martinsville, Va.
USHERS (MAJORETTES): Anne
Stegall, Henderson; Evaline Garrison,
Burlington; Kay Savage, Whaleyville,
Va.; Candy Allenzo, Bernardsville,
N. J.; and Connie O’Brien, Franklin,
Virginia.
The Abrams Construction Com
pany, of Greensboro, submitted the
low bid of $478,340 for the basic
cnostruction work on the new Elon
College library building, which is to
be located at the southwest corner of
Elon’s walled campus.
This was announced on December
22nd by Dr. J. E. Danieley, President
of Elon College, after a special meet
ing of the Elon College board of trus
tees held on the campus the previous
day to canvas bids. The contract for
ihe basic construction is to be signed
at once, with construction to begin
about February 1.
The bid submitted by the Greens
boro firm does not include contracts
for movable and fixed equipment, and
these and other sub-contracts will be
let later, according to the statement
from Dr. Danieley.
The new library will provide space
for 110,000 volumes and study spaces
for 611 students at one time, compar
ed with the present space for 60,000
volumes and 95 study seats found in
the present Carlton Library on the
Elon campus.
The proposed new library building,
for which the ground was broken on
the first Saturday in November, calls
for a structure of traditional design to
merge with other structures on the
campus. It is to be three stories in
height and will provide all the facili
ties which a modern college library
should have.
The main floor will provide office
and work space for the library staff,
a circulation desk, a card catalogue,
reference materials, space for current
periodicals, catalogued phono discs
and listening tables and study tables
and chairs.
The basement floor will provide
stack space, individual study carrels,
study tables and chairs and storage
space for periodicals to be sent to
the bindery. The second floor will in
clude a library orientation classroom,
a room for historical documents and
rare books, stacks, individual study
carrels and exhibit space.
The entire new library building will
be air-conditioned, with acoustical
ceilings throughout, and the structure
will be modern and attractively fur
nished in every respect, offering out
standing study facilities.
Music Students
Present Recital
Four students of Prof. Walter Wes-
tafer, of the Elon College music facul
ty, were heard in recital in Whitley
Auditorium on the Elon campus last
Friday night. The four students, all of
the Burlington area, were Danny Chil
ton, Catherine Moore, Anita Rich and
Nancy Thomas.
Miss Moore was joined by Prof.
Gene Featherstone, of the Elon music
faculty, in a performance of the
Concerto for Two Pianos by Francis
Poulenc, twentieth century French
composer. Other compositions which
were featured during the recital in
cluded the works of Bach, DeBussy
and Gershwin.