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VOLUME 48
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1968
NUMBER 14
Elon Players Plan New Show
football players are given awards at annual grid banquet
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Arts Forum's
Symposium
Dates Named
The Liberal Arts For
um, which operates under
the sponsorship of the
Student Government As
sociation, has just an
nounced that its third an
nual week-long sympos
ium of lectures will be
staged on the Elon cam
pus from April 29th
through May 3rd this
spring.
Just as was true with
the two previous sympos
iums, the week-long pro
gram will feature “Stu
dies in the Humanities”
and will present a group
of distinguished visiting
scholars and concert art
ists , several of whom
have won national recog
nition and even world rec
ognition in their fields.
Football players in dress-up garb present a very different picture from gridders
in game attire, a fact attested by the fine-feathered group shown above in a picture
taken at the annual Elon College football awards banquet, which was held in McEwen
Memorial Dining Hall on Wednesday night, January 31st. The players who won
special awards are shown in the picture, along with Elon’s Coach Red Wilson (left)
and N. C. State’s Coach Earle Edwards (second from left), who delivered the fea
tured address at the banquet. The players shown along with the coaches, left to
right, are Lloyd Kanipe, best defender; Richard McGeorge, most valuable; Burgin
Beale, outstanding senior; Wes Gilliam, best blocker; Lee Johnson, coaches a-
ward; and Dempsey Herring, “Scrub Bucket*’ award.
N. C. State Gridiron Mentor
Is Speaker At Elon Banquet
The preliminary an
nouncement of the sym
posium was made by
James Milward, student
leader of the Liberal Arts
Forum, who expressed
the hope that the series
of programs will receive
fullest cooperation of both
faculty and students.
Coach Earle Edwards,
who guided the N.C.State
New Lyceum Event
Set February 27th
Ray Devoll, a tenor who
has gained worldwide ac
claim for the lyric qual
ities of his voice, will
appear in concert in E-
lon s Whitley Auditor
ium at 8 o’clock on Tues
day night, February 27th,
in the next of this year’s
series of Elon Lyceum
programs.
The DeVoll concert,
™ich is set for 8 o’
clock that night, was ori
ginally scheduled for next
juesday night, February
i.ith, but close timingbe-
™een this and a concert
ap^arance at New York
University prompted the
guest singer to request a
change of dates until Feb-
ruary 27th.
The tenor’s visit to E-
lon
fine
IS one of four very
entertainment fea
tures which still remain
on the Elon Lyceum a-
genda for the remainder
of this 1967-68 college
year. Following the De-
Voll visit, the Bencini and
Lee piano duo comes to
Elon on March 12th; fol
lowed by Peter Hurford,
English organist, on
March 31st; andlgorKip-
nis, harpsichordist, on
April 30th. All of the pro
grams are free to every
one.
A native of Rochester,
N . Y., Ray DeVoll has
thrilled audiences in the
far corners of the world
with his marvelous voice,
for his concerts have car
ried him from the nor
thernmost cities of Can
ada to the southernmost
towns of Argentina and
from the polar cities of
Scandinavia and Russia
to the concert halls ot all
of Europe and the Near
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Football squad to the fin
est season in State his
tory and to a win over
Georgia in the Liberty
Bowl post-season battle
at Memphis, was the fea
tured speaker at the an
nual Elon College foot
ball banquet, which was
held in McEwen Dining
Hall’s banquet room on
Wednesday night, Jan
uary 3l3t.
Coming as it did right
after the mid-winter
break between semesters,
the grid banquet proved
the top social as well as
the sports affair of the
beginning spring term,
and it brought special
recognition to a number
of outstanding individual
football players and for
the cheerleaders for fine
work during the past grid
campaign.
Dr. J. E. Danieley, E-
lon’s president, presided
over the festive dinner,
with the guest list includ
ing all members of the
Elon coaching staff,
members of the faculty
athletic committee, other
faculty guests, members
of the cheerleader squad
and members of the foot
ball squad that finished
with a 5-3-1 record for
the year.
Richard McGeorge,
brilliant sophomore end
from Roanoke, Va„ was
presented the “MostVal-
uable Player” trophy by
Coach Red Wilson. The
big Roanoke boy was one
of six individual players
honored.
The “Most Outstanding
Senior” award, which was
presented by Coach Don
Kelly, went to Burgin
Beale, the rifle-armed
senior quarterback from
Danville, Va., who almost
rewrote the Elon passing
records during his ca
reer.
Awards for the “Best
Blocker” and for the
“Best Defender” went to
Wes Gilliam, of Elon Col
lege, and to Lloyd Kanipe,
of Charlotte, with the a-
wards being presented to
Gilliam by Coach Mickey
Brown and to Kanipe by
Coach Jerry Tolley.
A special “Coaches A-
ward” for fine teamwork
went to Lee Johnson, of
Asheboro, and was pre
sented by Coach Russell
Cooper. Another spejcial
“Scrub Bucket Award”
for fine play by a mem
ber of the reserves was
presented to Dempsey
Herring by Dr. Howard
Richardson.
There was also recog
nition for the fine efforts
of the cheerleaders and
announcement of mono
gram awards to 36 mem
bers of the squad. Win
ners of the letters and
stars had previously been
published in the Maroon
and Gold.
Offering Five
Performances
Feb. 20 To 24
The Elon Players,af
ter an abrupt change of
plans that was made ne
cessary when academic
difficulties beset several
members of the organi
zation’s youthful stage
performers, the Players
will present Samuel
Beckett’s “Waiting For
Godot” on the stage of
Mooney Chapel Theatre
for five nights in late
February.
The Beckett drama,
which is a full-length per
formance in spite of its
two-act form, will be pre
sented by the student dra
matic group on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday
nights, beginning on Feb
ruary 20th and closing on
February 24th.
This play, which will
feature a veteran group
of performers, will take
the place of a previously
scheduled showing of
“Cindy,” the delightful
musical comedy and fan
tasy, which enjoyed a suc
cessful off-Broadway run
several years ago and
which was presented as
a TV special last year.
The scheduled presen
tation of “Cindy” was
cancelled when several
members of the cast were
lost due to academic cir
cumstances, and Prof Ed
ward Pilkington at once
substituted the offering
of “Waiting For Godot,”
which uses a much small
er cast.
In announcing the
change of plays. Prof.
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NEW FACULTY
MRS. LUCILLE STONE
Mrs. Lucille Stone,
principal of the Grove
Park Elementary School
in Burlington, will join
the Elon College faculty
as an associate professor
of education next Septem
ber. Her appointment has
just been announced by
Dr. J. E. Danieley as the
first of the new faculty
personnel for the 1568-
69 term for Elon College.