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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
_ Editor-in-Chief
Don King ^
Associate Editor
Thomas Pearse .
jj [jgid Alumni Editor
Luther N. Byrf'IZZZ Faculty Advisor
REPORTORIAL STAFF
, Paula Hudson
Douglass Apple
James Baker
Myra Boone Christian Kurr e
Janie Carr
Marvin Chewning Sonny Long
William Clark •'°''=*“'an Lucas
Ronnie Cohen
llene Costner Cheryl Morrow
Richard DeLowry O Ferrell
Bobby Denny G=°^8e Old
Alton Edmundson Edward Osborne
Bobby Ferrell Elaine Phelps
David Gentry Mike Ray
John Greeson
Alan Groh Thomas Rodney
Richard Gurganious Dorothy Smith
Oliver Halle Carl Sparks
Skip Hinshaw
Charles Honeycutt Dolly Walker
James HoweU Don Weed
Roger Wood
Famed ^Choo Choo’ Comes To Elon
THOUGHTS CONCERNING AN OLD SOUTHERN EXPRESSION
Perhaps no custom and on expression is more widely associated with the
South and southern people than is the of-quoted *‘You-all,” and the following
bit of rather classic verse has been going the rounds recently as an apt explan
ation of the southern “You-all,” which is so often misunderstood by others
All you folks from other parts, both city folks and rural,
Come listen while we tell you this: The word “You-all” is plural.
When we say, “You-all must come back, or we-all shall be lonely,”
We mean at least a couple of folks—not just one person only.
If we should say to Billy Smith, for instance: “You-all’s lazy,”
Or “Will you-all get out of here,” he’d think that we were crazy.
Now if you’d spend more time down South and with us often mingle,
You’d find that in our dialect, “You-all” is never single.
We don’t mean to criticize or act as if we knew all,
But when we speak of one alone, we-all say “YOU” like you-all.
iiUL
Charlie Justice, who was the “Mr.
Single Wing Football” at the Univer
sity of North Carolina for four years
in the late ’Forties, will work as an
“associate coach” with Coach Red
Wilson and his staff in installing the
single wing style of grid play for the
Elon College Christians during winter
practice and during the coming 1967
grid campaign.
This was revealed in an announce
ment made by Elon’s Athletic Direct
or, D. D. Atkinson, recently following
a luncheon conference of Justice, Wil
son and Atkinson. Justice had previ
ously been talking with Dr. J. E. Dan-
ieley and other Elon officials concern
ing the part-time assignment.
At the press luncheon on January
4th, at which Elon presented Coach'
Wilson and his staff of assistants, in- j
eluding Coaches Alan White, Mickey
Brown and Jerry Tolley, the sports
writers and announcers were told that
there would be a well known “sur
prise coach” added to the Elon staff
soon. Justice is that much-talked
about “surprise” or “mystery” addi
tion.
The former Carolina All-American,
who now lives in Greensboro, will
continue to operate his insurance bus
iness in the Gate City and will be at
Elon only on a part-time basis for the
coming winter drills and during the
next fall’s season. Justice himself has
stated that he will come to Elon at
noon during the winter practices and
will be on hand for all of the home
and road games of the Christians
next fall.
Justice himself, commenting on his
new assignment, made it clear that
the coaching post will only be part-
time and that his first obligation will
be to his insurance business, but he
also expressed his great pleasure at
the opportunity to resume his gridiron
interests at Elon.
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CHARLIE JUaTlCE
“Football has been my life, and I
can’t think of any better way to keep
close to the game and to the boys who
play the game,” he said in an inter
view concerning the assignment with
the Christian gridders. He further de
clared, however, that he is not in-
terested in coaching on a fuU-timt
basis.
Coach Wilson stated that Justice
will work primarily with the Elon
backfield and with the kickers. Tht
Carolina All-American still ranks as
one of the greatest punters of all time,
for he posted a career kicking average
of 42.6 yards and one season led the
nation with a 44.3 average.
Justice, who is now 42 years old,
played his high school football at
Asheville and later played service
football in the Navy during World
War II before going to Carolina to
play from 1946 through 1949, a peri
od during which he led Carolina to
three bowl games. He later played pro
ball with the Washington Redskins,
but his only coaching experience was
in one season with the Carolina fresh
men and through work in youth foot
ball activities.
ON STUDENT PLACEMENT
Well Known
Alumna Dies
January 14th
Mrs. Bessie Staley Cheatham, 86,
one of Elon College’s oldest alumni
and a daughter of the second presi
dent of the college, died on Saturday,
January 14th, in Washington, D. C.,
following a heart attack suffered at
her home in the Capital City.
Mrs. Cheatham, a native of Suffolk,
Va., and a daughter of Dr. W. W.
Staley, who served as the second pres
ident of Elon College, graduated from
Elon with the Class of 1898 and had
become a well known figure at Elon
commencements and other campus
gatherings.
She was in government service in
Washington for many years and had
been a close follower of activities in
the nited States Senate, where her son
was a sergeant-at-arms for many
years. At one time she was voted
Sweetheart of the Senate,” and again
she was named as ‘The 101st Senator”
by vote of the upper house of Con
gress.
Mrs. Cheatham received nationwide
publicity in 1962 when she flew down
from Washington to Elon as the guest
of Lyndon B. Johnson, who was vice-
president at that time, and when she
gave Johnson such strong support in
his speech at Elon that one New York
reporter dubbed her as the vice-presi-
dent’s “personal cheerleader.”
BY DON KING
It seems that a constant topic of
discussion on the Elon College cam
pus is the Student Placement Service,
which is directed by Prof. Alfred S.
Hassell, whose office is located on the
first floor of the Alamance Building.
One of the functions performed by
the director and the service itself is to
help and advise students in the selec
tion of available job opportunities.
The principal arguments against the
Placement Service are found in the
claim that it lacks organization and
the ability to offer to students a vari
ety of job inquiries and interviews.
However, the fault does not lie entire
ly with the Placement Service nor with
the college itself. Some, and perhaps
most, of the blame lies with the stu
dents.
The lack of variety of employment
opportunities offered by the Service
is due to the lack of variety in the stu
dent participation. A great percentage
of the interviewing groups are from
public schools and other educational
organizations. This is due to the fact
that the majority of the students who
seek employment service and advice
are in the field of education. There
fore, the Placement Service has an
obligation to the large number of ed
ucation students who request help.
The rest of the students who take
advantage of the Placement Service
although they come from various ma
jor fields of study, comprise a small
percentage of the total students who
seek help. This limits the possibilities
of contacts received by the service
officials.
Since there is a small group of stu
dents participating, the placement di
rector is unable to assure prospective
employers the quality and quantity
they may desire among the students
who will be interested in a personal
interview with company representa
tives.
Since the employers cannot be as
sured of any extensive or even rea
sonable interest in their company od
the part of the students, many of tht
companies cannot afford to send in
terviewers and other personnel offici
als to the Elon College campus.
Instead of the students complainiif
about this situation, they should take
a more active interest and show great
er participation in the work of the
Placement Service. This would in
crease the volume of work and serv
ices which the placement officials
could give. The Placement Service
would then be able to show greatei
need of financial support and organi
zation help to the college administra
tion and the board of trustees.
Therefore, the students themselves
could help materially in eliminating >
problem about which so many com
plain. Students should remember that
they get out of almost any activity
only as much as they put into it.
ADVOCATUS DIABOLI
Sue Bradshaw, Elon freshman from Portsmouth, Va., propping on the
pile of books, is truly an appropriate symbol of what has been the keynote
of student thought on the Elon campus for the past several days, a period
when all the students have been lugging books, reading books and even prop
ping on them as they prepared for the mid-year examinations that got under
way on Wednesday of this week and will continue through the middle of
next week.
GETS SCHOLARSHIP
Bobby Byrd, Elon College fresh
man, who was reared at the Elon
Home for Children, was recently a-
warded a $250 scholarship from the
Vitus Reid Holt Scholarship Fund,
which was established and is operated
primarily to aid students living or
reared at the Elon Home for Children
BY TOM PEARSE
Brown Bagging, the enigma of the
Tar Heel state, has led to much spec
ulation in recent months as to what
should be done. What the outcome
will be no one is sure. Much has been
said about the return to the prohibi
tion era; yet as much or more has
been said about liquor by the drink.
And then there are those of the status
quo who want to just legalize brown
bagging. Whatever the outcome some
faction is going to be extremely slight
ed. Let’s hope for the best.
The immediate effects of the new
ruling have been viewed with mixed
emotions. Probably the most amusing
effect comes from the Chub Seawell
camp. These people feel that the great
est thing since Christianity is the new
liquor law. Now North Carolina can
have her claim to fame. A truely pro
gressive, Victorian society.
If this sort of law is really enforced
it will put a great many restaurants
out of business. Not to mention the
people who have had to forego a good
party because they could not BYOL
and drink it at a friends home. This
is because the only time liquor can
be transported is from the store W
the home.
If liquor by the drink is legalizel
it will be a magnanimous innovation
for many people. For the self-righte
ous it will be one more reason to wave
the banner. For the businessman who
likes to tipple it will be heaven sent-
The pro’s and con’s of the argume®
have been vividly discussed in every
little tavern and parish across
the
state. The con’s feel that it will
the morals of the younger generation
The pro’s feel that it would be
to have “a couple” before going home
to face the five monsters and the old
battle axe.
But there is a much more subtle
argument. Each drink sold could be
taxed. The tax could help raise the
teachers pay from 42 to 41 in the na
tion, or provide highway impro''*’
ments or state parks. The possibiliti®
are infintesimal. This seems above a
to be a very economical and realist
way to deal with the question
brown bagging.
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