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Spring Weekend Is
To Be Gala Event
MARnniu Ai\in RfiLD
FRIDAY, APRIL 26,1968
they HAVE GUIDED SENIOR ACTIVITIES THIS YEAR
Dempsey Herring, of Whiteville, a letterman in both football and baseball, is
the president of the Elon College senior class for this 1967-68 college year.
Other officers for the Elon seniors this year, who will direct the class through
its 1968 graduating exercises, are Mary Faust, secretary-treasurer, of Salis
bury; and Marcia Lunsford, vice-president of Winston-Salem. They are pictured
above, reading left to right with Miss Faust at the left. Herring at the center and
Mrs. Lunsford at the right.
Pi Gamma Mu Inducts New
Members In Ceremony Apr. 5
Pherson, of Haw River; Greensboro; and James
Jamss Saunders, of Payne, of Burlington.
AUSTIN TOP HITTER
AFTER 16 CONTESTS
Young
Thoughts
Two earnest young men
marched into my wall-to-
wall carpeted newspaper
office to present me with
a plush outlook on the
“now” generation.
The analysis, authored
by contemporary Elon
philosopher David John
son, sticks us elders with
the promise that we are
out of touch with the stu
dents—that there is a
“generation gap” fogging
up matters around
campus. For my part, I
try not to ignore youth,
but, I trow, it gets aw
fully difficult to swap
words and ideas when my
juniors insist on working
full time at being cha
racters — at fussing at
a world they say they
don’t like and a penchant
for creating their own.
I wasn’t exactly pleased
with the earth 1 inherited,
one crimped by a finan
cial despression and a
little old World War, both
of which had some bear
ing on my going to Elon.
But I toughed it out.
Yet, I’m not talking
down to Mr. Johnson.
Perhaps I should talk up.
For one thing, he’s tall
er than L For another,
he cares about what’s go
ing one. That, itself, rates
a huzzah.
He’s worried about the
honor system. I’d be, too,
if it fails to function.
The one I worked under
at William and Mary did.
We operated under rather
feudal rules when I was
at Elon. Johnson’s hint
that instructors get with
it brings no rebuttal from
Old H. for Johnson is
correct, you know.
Our philosopher frets
over drinking, feeling it
is a holdover of conser
vatism. Look, son, it
takes more courage to be
a conservative than a lib
eral these days. Doggone
it all, if you can tell me
how Elon can be improv
ed with guzzling, 1 11 try
my utmost to listen. The
church is paying the bills,
and if the church says
no brew, then you all
count on that as one of
the rules you must ac
cept that is if you ac
cept Elon and Elon ac
cepts you. I see Duke
now allows girls to drink
in their dorms. But,then,
a number of strange
things are going on at
Duke these days.
And we always man
age to bang into, chapel
programs, young and an
cient, alike. Johnson
questions the value of
compulsory chapel. If it
is any consolation, so did
H. back in 1944. I’d not
The fourth annual
Spring Weekend, which
was instituted three years
ago to replace the tradi
tional May Day festivities,
will get underway next
Friday night. May 3rd,
and continue through Sun
day, May 5th.
This annual obser
vance, coming right on
the heels of a busy cul
tural program under Lib
eral Arts sponsorship
next week, will bring a
gala series of events for
the entertainment of Elon
College students.
Barbara Hudson, of El
kin, is serving as general
chairman for the 1968
Spring Weekend program;
with Neil Henning, of
Richmond, Va., working
with her as chairman of
the entertainment com
mittee.
The Spring Weekend
will get underway with the
annual talent show and
beauty pageant, to beheld
in Whitley Auditorium at
7 o’clock next Friday
night.
This program will fea
ture many and varied
student talent acts,and a-
long with its variety en
tertainment will be the
pageant in which Elon’s
girls will compete for the
right to rule as “Queen
of Spring Weekend.”
Following the Whitley
show, there will be a
dance in McEwen from 9
until 11 Friday night, fea
turing “The Electric Ren
aissance” and the psy-
chodelic light show.
Another dance on Sat
urday night will feature
“The Jesters,” and a
concert Sunday afternoon
is to feature Billy Stew
art and Carla Thomas,
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rection of Larry Sage as
production stage manager;
Peggy Ferguson, as stage
manager; Sam Roberson,
as technical director;
Paula Schmidt, as cos
tume mistress; and Jim
Gillespie, as master of
properties.
like to quote someone
without consulting first,
but I have an inclination
a man named Danieley
felt the same way as I
did about ’em: The pro
grams are great for
catching up on naps and
homework.
Campus food? Oiir dif
ferent generations are
quite cozy on this, too.
We had meals in our time
that we didn’t even recog
nize. Mr. Johnson in
timates the college cuts
costs in the dining hall.
1 do hope this is stretch
ing guesswork. If not. I’d
ask penny-pinching be di
verted, instead, to re
duction or elimination of
those pesky chapel hours.
At this juncture, my
two visitors were smil
ing. One of the gentle
men was obliged to phone
his lady friend. She wasn’t
home.
I submit this was the
largest breach of com
munication of their entire
visit with this older head.
The Elon College Al
pha Chapter of Pi Gamma
Mu, honorary fraternity
in the field of social sci
ence and history, induct
ed sixteen new members
in ceremonies held on Ap
ril 5th, with the new group
including fourteen stu
dents and two members of
the Elon faculty.
The new student mem
bers included Jean Denny
McGuire, of Montvale, N.
J.; Anthony Carter Hurt,
of McLean, Va.; Marilyn
Patricia Farley, of Hol
lins, Va.; Carol Ann Mc
Kinney, of Bakersville;
Barton Carr Shaw, of An
napolis, Md.; Walter Ly-
erly Gose, of Arlington,
Va.;
Fred Franklin Cum
mings, of Gibsonville;
Ronald Earl Tugwell, of
Arlington, Va.; James
Walker Lunsford, of Win-
ston-Salem; Wanda Mar
garet Edwards, of Ral
eigh; Charles M. Dabis,
of Greensboro; Dennis
George Kopik, of Menlo
Park, N. J.; Charles E.
Sizemore, of Portsmouth,
Va.; and Linda Bowland
Thompson , of Burlington.
The two new faculty
members who were in
ducted were Prof. Ralph
Anderson and Dr. Caro
lyn Zinn. Other faculty
members who had pre
viously been inducted in
cluded Prof. Durward
Stokes, Prof, James El
der, Dr. Konstaninas A-
vizonis. Prof. Gilbert La
tham, Prof. Robert Bax
ter, Mrs. Jeanne Will
iams, Prof. John Patter
son and Prof. Paul Sebo,
Students who had been
inducted in previous years
were Marcia Lunsford,
of Winston-Salem; Dale
Morrison of Lynchburg,
Va.; William Green, of
Elon College; Rickey Mc-
With the Elon College
baseball season more
than half gone, the major
problem for Coach Jerry
Drake’s diamond squad
has been failure to hit in
crucial moments, for the
Christian squad as a whole
was hitting only .197 after
the first sixteen games
of the 28-game season,
John Austin, big fresh
man pitcher and outfield
er, was topping the indi
vidual hitters with a
,343 average when the hit
ting was figured after the
game with Pfeiffer on the
local field on April 17th.
Jimmy Freisinger,
sophomore second base
man, was in second spot
with a mark of .311 up
to that time, but Austin
and Friesinger were the
only players on the Chris
tian roster hitting above
the .300 mark at the mid
way point in the season.
Austin, with a mark of
two wins on the mound,
was also leading the Elon
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The remainder of the
program presented a
more contemporary
grouping of organ works,
beginning with Eugene
Gigout’s “Scherzo.’’Gig-
out may have been a pu
pil of Saint-Saens.buttiiis
piece has a decidedly
Mendelssohriian lightness
and grace making it com
pletely delightful.
pitchers, for no other pit
cher had gained more than
one victory, Don Brady,
sophomore catcher, was
topping the in RBI’s with
a total of 13 runs batted
home, Austin was right
behind with 10 RBI’s to
his credit.
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by an address by Dr. Hen
ry Aiken, who will speak
on “The Concept of an
Idea.” His address inMc-
Ewen Dining Hall will be
followed by a reception
and concert under the oaks
on the West Lawn.
Closing the Thursday
program will be an ad
dress by Dr. William L.
Langer, who is Coolidge
Professor of History at
Harvard, who will speak
in McEwen Dining Hall
at 8 o’clock Thursday
night on the topic of
“Problems Of Civil Dis
order, 1815-1850.” The
Thursday night program
will be followed by a re
ception in West Dorm
Parlors.
Com:ng as the finale of
the Arts Forum series
will be an address by Dr.
Boyd C. Shafer, who is
James Wallace Profes
sor of History at Macal-
ester College. He will
speak on the topic of “Na
tionalism — Living ana
Dying in the Twentieth
Century” at 12:30o’clock
Friday after a buffet
luncheon at which all stu
dents and faculty will be
guests.