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VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1967
NUMBER 10
Elon’s Progress And Plans Are Sketched
ELON DELEGATES ATTEND STATE STUDENT LEGISLATURE
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Players Will
Enter State
Drama Event
The Elon Players will compete in
the annual statewide dramatic festival
in Chapel Hill tomorrow, entering
August Strindberg’s "Miss Julie,” a
one-act production, in the competition
with other student stage groups from
throughout the state.
This play was presented along with
“The Man Who Would Not Go To
Heaven” in a program of two one-act
productions in Mooney Chapel The
atre here on the Elon campus for two
nights this week.
The same two plays were also pre
sented by the Elon Players in a dis
trict festival at Catawba College in
Salisbury on Saturday, February 24th,
and at that time “Miss Julie" was
given a “Distinguished” rating by the
judges and thus became eligible to be
presented at the state festival. “The
Man Who Would Not Go To Heaven”
won an “Excellent” rating at the fes
tival in Salisbury.
The Strindberg play, “Miss Julie,
is a short tragedy with its setting laid
in Sweden in the 1880’s. It features a
cast of only three persons, including
Wayne Seymour, of Sanford, who is a
veteran of numerous Elon Player roles
in past seasons, appearing in the role
of Jean; Kathy Copeland, of Norfolk,
Va., as Miss Julie; and Pat McCaus-
land, of Wantaugh, N.Y., as Christine.
The second play, “The Man Who
Would Not Go To Heaven,” featured
the cast in showing here this week as
appeared when it was presented in
Catawba College festival with eleven
members of the Players taking part.
Members of the Elon College delegation to the recent State Student Legislature in Raleigh, which gained fine
recognition for its legislative proposals, are shown above. Those shown left to right in the picture are as follows:
FRONT ROW—Carol Lupinacci, Francine Gifford, Sandra Bueschel and Nina Martin. BACK ROW—Don Tarken
ton, Fred Moon, Noel Allen, George Scott, Stuart Adams. Dale Morrison and C. V. May. Not present for the
picture was Grainger Barrett.
Student Legislature Group Is Honored
The Elon College delegation to the
annual State Student Legislature in
Raleigh from March 1st through
March 4th was honored when its bill
to provide for modification of North
Carolina divorce laws was judged the
best bill presented by any of the small-
college delegations to the meeting.
The Student Legislature, which
draws groups of students from prac
tically all institutions of higher ed
ucation in the state, is a mock-legis-
lative body that is modelled after the
North Carolina General Assembly. It
is organized with a Senate and House
of Representatives and considers leg
islative proposals in the same manner
as the official body, thus giving the
students valuable experience in law
making procedures.
The Elon College bill, which was
proposed to the student assembly early
in the session, was entitled “An act
to make mutual consent a ground for
divorce and to provide for an inter
locutory decree.” The bill was quick
ly approved by both the Senate and
House.
Because their bill was chosen as the
best from the small-college groups.
Elon Singers To Present
Easter Program Sunday
The Elon College Singers will pre
sent their twentieth annual Easter sea
son performance of Theodore Dubois
famous cantata, “The Seven Last
Words” on the afternoon of Easter
Sunday, but the annual program was
switched to Palm Sunday afternoon
when the college began scheduling its
spring vacation for Easter weekend.
The Dubois cantata, as perhaps no
other does, tells the story of the first
Easter and of the suffering of Christ
on the Cross. The cantata is scrip
tural in background, telling of the
seven great speeches of Christ dur
ing bis sufferings on the cross.
The program this year will again
be presented under the direction of
Prof. Wendell Bartholf, with Prof.
Fletcher Moore again playing the
organ accompaniment. The Elon Sing
ers will feature a chorus of forty or
more voices, with three guest soloists.
The guest soloists this weekend will
include Mrs. Edward Pilkenton, of
Elon College, soprano; Charles Ly-
nam, of Greensboro baritone; and
William Kirkpatrick, of Burlington,
tenor. Lynam and Kirkpatrick have
been guest soloists for the past two
years, but Mrs. Pilkenton makes her
first appearance with the Elon choir.
the Elon delegation received a trophy
to bring back to the campus. Another
honor for the Elon group came when
Noel Allen, of Burlington, was ap
pointed to the chairmanship of the
Legislature’s Agenda Committee for
the coming year.
The student delegates began ar
riving in Raleigh on Wednesday
March 1st, and that night they were
guests at a reception in the home of
Chancellor Caldwell, of North Caro
lina Assembly and state government
officials.
The Student Legislature began its
lawmaking sessions on Thursday,
March 2nd, and that evening its
members were guests at a party that
night at the Embers Club, when en
tertainment included a program by
a combo featuring the Embers. There
was a full-day of legislative action
for the students on Friday, March
3rd, with the four-day gathering clos
ing on Saturday, March 4th, with
presentation of awards.
Students making up the Elon dele
gation included Fred Moon, Burling
ton, chairman; Noel Allen, Burling
ton, co-chairman; Stuart Adams, Gar
den City, N. Y.; Grainger Barrett,
New York, N. Y.; Sandra Bueschel,
Graham; Francine Gifford, Norfolk,
Va.; Carol Lupinacci, Stamford,
Conn.; Nina Martin, Jacksonville
Fla.; C. V. May, Jr., Burlington; Dale
Morrison, Lynchburg, Va; George
Scott, Suffolk, Va.; and Don Tarken-
ton, Chesapeake, Va.
Founders Day
Speech Given
By Danieley
The great growth of Elon College
during the past ten years and plans
for future expansion of the college
were outlined by Dr. J. E. Danieley,
Elon’s president, as he addressed stu
dents, faculty and friends of the col
lege at the annual Founders Day con
vocation held in Elon’s Alumni Mem
orial Gymnasium on Monday morn
ing, March 13th.
In sketching the decade of growth.
Dr. Danieley cited increase of day-
class enrollment from 924 to 1,348
since he assumed his presidential du
ties in 1957. At the same time he cited
annual income increase from $659,000
to $1,700,000; increase of endowment
from $525,000 to $1,300,000; and in
crease of the college’s total assets
from $3,600,000 to $6,800,000 today.
He also cited the great growth of
Elon’s physical plant, citing the fact
that since 1957 the college had com
pleted Smith Dormitory, which was
already started at the beginning of the
decade, that New Dormitory for wo
men and the Barney, Brannock and
Hook Dormitories for men and the
William S. Long Student Center have
been built, and that construction is
now in progress on a new library.
Other physical improvements since
1957 have included expenditure of
more than $1,000,000 for renovations,
repairs and improvements, included
have been pavement of streets on two
sides of the campus, curb and gutter
ing for three sides of the campus, new
paved parking lots, new tennis courts,
a new campus heating system, a new
gymnasium floor and removal of out
moded buildings such as North Dorm,
Ladies Hall, Carlton House and Club
House.
Speaking of projected future im
provements, Dr. Danieley told of the
planned completion of the renovation
of the Duke Science Building and ma
jor remodelling scheduled for the
Mooney and Alamance Buildings and
the Whitley Auditorium. He also stat
ed that, after completion of the new
library, the present Carlton Library
will be renovated for use in fine arts
instruction.
He also told of future projects that
include erection of a new gymnasium
with full physical ed facilities and a
heated swimming pool, new housing
for married students and a new class
room and office building. Each of the
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Vacation Starts
Next Wednesday
The annual Easter holidays for Elon
College students and faculty will get
underway at noon next Wednesday,
March 22nd, and the majority of the
students and many of the faculty will
get away from the campus that day
for a week on long-anticipated relief
from the grind of daily class work.
The holiday period will come to an
end on the following Wednesday,
March 29th, with regular class sched
ules due to get underway at 8 o’clock
that morning. The resumption of class
schedules will signal the final drive
down the stretch toward commence
ment and graduation for the seniors.