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PERMIT No. 1
VOLUME 47
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ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1967
NUMBER 14
Elon Commencement Plans Are Completed
Camerata Is WEAVER NAMED SPRING QUEEN
Final Group
For Lyceum
The Charlotte Camerata, well known
musical group which has been ac
claimed in programs at several North
Carolina Colleges in recent years, won
equal acclaim when it appeared in
concert in Whitley Auditorium on
Tuesday night of this week, appearing
in the last of the series of Elon Ly
ceum programs for the 1966-67 year.
The Camerata group, which fea
tured music in the baroque style, in
cluded Dr. Dale Higbee, flute, who
has performed with the Charlotte
Oratoria Orchestra, the Charlotte
Symphonette and the Winston-Salem
Sbgers Guild; and William Tritt, vi
olin, also of the Oratorio Orchestra
and Symphonette and the Winston-
Salem Symphony.
Others in the group included Rob
ert Ennis, violin, Samuel Citron, vi
ola, and Kurt Glaubitz, cello, all
of them members of the Charlotte
Oratorio Orchestra and the Charlotte
Symphonette. Citron was also a char
ter member and principal viola for the
Charlotte Symphony, and Glaubitz is
an instructor in strings in the Char
lotte schools.
Also included in the program here
were Sally Wyly, soprano, who is
soloist at Charlotte’s Myers Park Pres
byterian Church; and Anita Bultman,
harpsichord, who is choirmaster and
organist at Charlotte’s Christ Epis
copal Church. Both have appeared as
soloists with music groups in sev
eral Carolina cities.
■The program by the Charlotte mu
sic group marked the conclusion of
an unusually fine series of Lyceum
attractions on the Elon campus this
year. The programs have been staged
under the direction of Prof. Walter
Westafer, member of the Elon Col
lege music faculty. The programs
have been varied in nature from folk
music to classical artists and chamber
music groups, and all have been well
received by Elon audiences.
SNEA Lists
!^ew Leaders
For 1967-68
The Student National Education As
sociation, while it is one of the lesser
known groups on the Elon campus,
has been a very active one this spring,
"'ith a total of 68 members taking
part in various programs and attend
ing several educational meetings.
The NCEA is a pre-professional
organization for all students interest-
in the teaching profession, in
cluding those who wish to learn
n'oi'e for their own satisfaction as
"'cll as those who plan to enter the
teaching profession.
Among the year’s activities for the
on chapter have been several pro-
gr^s with guest speakers and the
the January issue of
s Newsletter," which is the state-
"’‘de paper, along with attendance at
^^''eral major conferences.
Monty Busick, this year's Elon
EA president, led a student dele-
Sation to the state Education Asso-
'^‘ation conference in Asheville, the
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Margaret Weaver, an Elon College junior elementary education major
from Danville, Va., reigned as "Spring Queen" over the gala festivities of
the Elon College Spring Weekend, which was observed on the campus during
the first weekend in May. The festivities began with a number of special
events on Friday, May 5th, topped that night by the talent show and the
choice of the “Spring Queen.” It continued with a picnic at noon on Satur
day, followed by a baseball game in Greensboro on Saturday afternoon, a
dance in Alumni Memorial Gymnasium on Saturday night and finally
climaxed by a concert in the gym on Sunday afternoon, May 7th. The
“Spring Queen" won her crown in competition with a field that included
ten girls.
Donnelly A nd Matthews
To Speak In Exercises
Reading Day
To Precede
Final Exams
The day of reckoning dawns just
one week from today, for the spring
semester examinations will gel un
derway next Friday morning. May 26,
according to an announcement from
the office of Dean Fletcher Moore.
Dean Moore also announced that
the spring examinations will be pre
ceded by a special “Reading Day"
for all day-time students next Thurs
day, May 25th. This day for intensive
preparation for the exams was set
at the request of the Student Senate
and with the approval of the chair
men of various academic departments.
There will be seven full days of
examinations, beginning with the
MWF 9 o’clock classes next Friday
morning. May 26tb, and followed that
afternoon by the block of all History
112 and 212 courses. The exams for
Saturday, May 27th, include all M-
WF 10:40 o’clock classes in the
morning and all block English 111
and 112 classes that afternoon.
The exams for Monday, May 29th,
include all TTS 9 o’clock classes in
the morning, followed by all Religion
112 and all Accounting 211 and 212
courses. The schedule for Tuesday,
May 30th, lists all MWF 8 o’clock
classes in the morning, followed by
all Math 111 and 112 classes in the
afternoon.
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Elon Choir Will Present Its Annual
Spring Concert On Tuesday Night
Elon College Choir will pre- Vecchi; To Music, by Franz '^c^u- ^
annual spring concert in Whit- bert; “In Silent Night,’’ by Johanne
ley Auditorium on the Elon College Brahms; Regina Coeli, by Magni +
campus at 8 o'clock next Tuesday
night, featuring a fine variety of mus
ical selections from the sacred to
the popular in nature. The public is
cordially invited to attend the concert.
The student singers, about forty
in number, will perform under the
direction of Prof. Wendell Bartholf,
who has previously led the choir in
outstanding Christmas and Easter sea
son programs this year.
A special feature of the Tuesday
night concert will be several numbers
by the Elon College Quartet, which
includes Randy Smart, of Norfolk,
Va., Allen Bush, of Eclipse, Va., Ken
Hollingsworth, of Randleman, and
Carson Kuhnert, of Martinsville, Va.,
with Danny Chilton, of Burlington,
as piano accompanist.
The choir concert will open with a
series that includes “O Lord, In
crease My Faith,” by Orlando Gibbons;
“Let All Ye Sons and Daughters
Sing,” by Volckmar Leisring; “Ave
Maria,” by Jacob Arcadelt; “The
Heavens Are Telling,” by Franz Jo
seph Haydn; and “A Rose Touched
By The Sun’s Warm Rays,” by Jean
Berger.
Two of the creations of Tschaikow-
sky entitled “A Legend” and “Cher
ubim Song,” will be followed by
“Come Let Us Be Joyful.” by Orazzio
The concluding series will featur
“The Turtle Dove,” by Vaughan Wil
liams; “Hold On! Hold On!” b;
Fred Fox; “Willow Wind.” by Byron
Walls; and “In That Great Getting
Up Morning,” by Noble Cain.
Members of the quartet, alreadj
listed, will also sing with the choir.
In addition to those singers, others
appearing in the concert will include
Dwight Davis, Virginia Beach, Va.;
John Hughes, Wilmington, Del.; Ran
dall Sweeney, Webster, Mass.; Archie
Taylor, Durham.
Jay Ogden, Jacksonville, Fla.; Ger
ry Schumm, West Palm Beach, Fla.;
Stephen Long, Warsaw, Va.; Ronald
Warren, Burlington; Chuck Miller,
Orange, Va.; Melvin Gotten, Fuquay-
Varina.
Candy Hopewell, Portsmouth, Va.;
Jane Blalock, Burlington; Donna
Thomas, Mebane; Joan Wilson. Wil
mington, Del.; Kathleen Howell, Arn
old, Md.; Linda Durham, Burlington;
Amy Ingle, Burlington; Mattie Prit
chard, Greensboro; Diana Lewis,
Falls Church, Va.; Anna Rose Ma
rina, Elon College.
Freida Crouse, Burlington; Cath
erine Mangum, Durham; Kay Clen-
dennin, Milford, Va.; Olivia ChrU-
tian, Hampton, Va,; Joan Anderson,
Winchester, Va.; Nina Martin, Jack-
PROF. WTNDELL BARTHOLF
sonville, Fla.; Nancy Gilbert, Roan
oke, Va.; Mary Fauset, Salisbury;
Betsy Dearborn, Salisbury.
Jane Frost, Burlington; Ann Pat
terson, Burlington; Linda Sonovick,
Elon College; Emily Smith, Asheboro;
Anita Rich, Burlington; Carolyn Free
man, Durham; Mary Hudson, Grif-
ton; Joan Riggan, Macon; Susan El
lis, Miami, Fla.; and Susan Waymack,
Richmond, Va.
Advance plans have been completed
and announced for the annual com
mencement weekend at Elon College,
an event which is now slightly more
than two weeks in the future, with
the commencement program slated to
get underway with the annual Alumni
Day events on Saturday, June 3rd,
and close with the graduation exer
cises for the Class of 1967 on Mon
day morning, June 5th.
The Saturday program will get un
derway with the registration of the
returning alumni in the William S.
Long Student Center at 10 o’clock,
followed by the annual picnic lun
cheon at noon at McEwen Dining
Hall, the annual alumni business
meeting at 2:30 o’clock, the open
house in West Dormitory parlor in
the afternoon and the alumni ban
quet in McEwen Dining Hall on
Saturday night.
The Sunday program will feature
the baccalaureate sermon in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium at II o’clock
on Sunday morning, June 4th, fol
lowed by a program of music in
Whitley Auditorium that night at 8
o’clock. The graduation exercises will
also be held in Alumni Memorial
Gymnasium at I0;30 o’clock Monday
morning to conclude the commence
ment observance.
Donnelly Delivers Address
The annual commencement address
to the graduating seniors will be de
livered by S. C. Donnelly, director
of the Greensboro and Burlington
Shops of the Western Electric Com
pany’s North Carolina Works, one
of the outstanding industrial execu
tives in the state and the entire South
and one who has long been an out
standing friend and supporter of Elon
College.
The guest speaker, who was bom
in Toluca, 111., began his Western
Electric career in September, 1923,
as a production student in the Haw
thorne Works near Chicago, advanc
ing rapidly to a department chief’s
ranking in 1929. In 1932 he became a
section chief in charge of specialty
products and later a department chief
in 1937, in which post he directed
building of the first submarine and
capital ship radars.
With radar playing a big role in
World War II, he served as a di
vision chief of Navy airborne radar
from 1943 until the end of the war,
and when the war ended he was
placed in charge of general apparatus,
rubber, lamps, ceramic, fiber, com
mercial, screw and die casting manu
facture for the company.
He was transferred to the North
Carolina Works of Western Electric
in 1946 as superientendent of the
Burlington Shops, and in 1956 he
advanced to his present post as di
rector of the shops in both Burlington
and Greensboro. He joined the De
fense Activities Division as manager
of the Nike Zeus Project in 1959, but
later resumed his combined Burling-
ton-Greensboro duties.
The speaker has been active in
community affairs for many years.
He is chairman emeritus of the Amer
ican Ordnance Association and pres
ident of the Carolinas chapter of
that group. He has held several im
portant posts with the National Se-
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