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MAROON AND GOLD Non-Profit Organization U. S. POSTAGE PAID Elon College, N. C. PERMIT No. 1 Return Requested • VOLUME 49 ELON COLLEGE. N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11,1968 NUMBER 2 Elon’s E-4 Drive Progresses NAMES LEADERS FOR MAJOR GIFTS DIVISION 300 000 Totul Is Already Pledged With the Elon College E-4 Campaign moving ahead in satisfactory manner, with approximately $1,300,000 already given or pledged, Dr. .1. E. Danieley (pictured left above) has just announced that William L. Fayle (center) and R. Cruse Lewis (right), both of whom are executives in the Burlington Industries organization, have accepted appointment as the two top leaders in the Major Gifts Division of the E-4 Campaign. Overall goal of the E-4 Campaign is to raise $3,000,000 for the future development of EJon College. Elder Listed As Chancellor For Regional Pi Gamma Mu Prof. James P. Elder, member of the Elon Col lege history faculty, has just been named chancel lor of the Atlantic Region of Pi Gam-na Mu, nation al honorary social sci ence society. The appointment was announced by Dr. Joseph B. James, of Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga.,na tional president of the honorary group. Profes sor Elder succeeds Dr. Henry W. Spiegel, pro fessor of economics at Catholic University in Washington. For the past two years Professor Elder has ser ved as governor of the N. C. Province of Pi Gamma Mu, being the youngest governor of the organi zation in the United GROUP LEADER PROF. JAMES P. ELDER States, and he now be comes youngest regional chancellor. The region in cludes both Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and the Dis trict of Columbia. The Pi Gamma Mu or ganization has over 80, 000 members, with the Elon Alpha chapter being one of the earlier local groups. Membership in the society is based upon scholarship in the social sciences. While he was an under graduate at Elon, Elder was president of the local chapter and was the re cipient of the Pi Gamma Mu scholarship award as the outstanding student in social sciences. The chapter at that time was directed by Dr. H. H. Cunningham, now a pro fessor of history at the University of Georgia. Fogle To Appear On Speaker For Arts Dr. Richard H. Fogle, professor of Englis h at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will inaugurate the 1968- 9 series of Liberal Arts '■orum lectures on the E- cam-Dus when he ap pears in West Dormitory « 7 o’clock next Thurs- aay night, October 17th. ine lecture by Dr. Fo- Se, who is widely known ro ^^thority on Nine- , Century English "i, American literature, WUI be the first of six lectures sche- thp^c the Forum on the campus during college year. ‘he Liberal Arts For- 0,,/® ^ group which op- of ^n*^er sponsorship 6 Student Government Association at Elon, and in addition to its series of monthly lectures the group will once more of fer next spring its an nual symoosium of stu dies in the humanities. Dr. Fogle, who is a graduate of Hamilton College, received the master’s degree from Columbia and the Ph. u. degree from the Univer sity of Michigan, He taught at the University of Rochester, University of Michigan and Tulane University before coming to the University of North Carolina. The Liberal Arts Forum is a group which operates under sponsor ship of the Student Gov ernment Association at Campus Forum Elon, and in addition to its series of monthly lec tures during the year, the Forum will offer again next spring its annual week-long symposium of Studies in the Humanities, which has attracted many widely known lecturers in recent years. Prof. James P. Elder is the faculty sponsor for the Liberal Arts For um, and student chairman for 1968-69is James Mil- ward, of Bloomfield, Conn., who also was stu dent leader of the group last year. Other student members of the Forum this year include James Green, Smyrna, Del.; Martha Kellam, Spencer, Mass.; (Continued on Page 4) A bright future seems assured for Elon College if one may judge from latest reports of the pro gress in the college’s E-4 campaign, for Dr. J. E. Danieley, president of the college, has reported a total of near $1,300,000 already received in either cash or pledges in the huge fund-raising drive. The announcement came as Dr. Danieley an nounced that William L. Fayle and R. Cruse Lew is, two transportation ex ecutives with the Burling ton Industries, had agreed to serve as leaders in the Major Gifts Division of the E-4 Campaign. The overall goal for the campaign was set last year at $3,000,000. The Major Gifts Divi sion of the campaign is slated to get started on October 30th, with plans calling for approximate ly 100 to be made with prospective donors, with donations to be possible over periods of three to five years. In announcing that Fayle and Lewis had a- greed to serve as chair man and associate chair man for the Major Gifts solicitation. Dr. Danieley said, “We are delighted that these two men have accepted our invitation to lead this all-important Major Gifts Division.” He pointed out that they are joining a growing list “of outstanding lead ers, friends of the col lege alumni, who are giv ing their efforts to this vital need of Elon Col lege, and we of the col lege are grateful.” He further declared, in announcing the total al ready pledged of nearly $1,3()0,000, that “through the efforts of the cam paign leaders and their fellow workers we will have a stronger Elon Col lege to prove an expanded and enriched service to our students in future years.” Dr. Danieley also ex pressed his hopes that the enriched service to Elon students will at the same time furnish an enriched service to Alamance County and to the state of North Carolina and the nation. Senate Hears Bills Of Special Interest Several bills of inter est have been introduced in the Student Senate in early meetings this year, with the session held on Wednesday, September 25th, hearing minutes from earlier meetings. The session was presided over by Paul Bleiberg, vice-president of the SGA. Legislative measures introduced thus far may be grouped into cate gories of communication and public service. Three bills in regard to com munication include a bill to set up a giant calen dar in each cafeteria to let students know what is going on in advance, a bill to establish a Stu- dent-Athlete award and a bill to provide a bulletin board for SGA material in the new library. Under the classifica tion of public service the bills include one to in sure housing information for the students, one to improve the honor system by having a clerk or mar shall of the court to as sist the chief justice, one to maintain the class dues in the SG in separate ac counts and another to pur chase ballot boxes to in sure fair election prac tices. Continued on page 4) Weisz Speaks In Whitley On October 2nd Dr. Paul B. Weisz, pro fessor of biology at Brown University spoke in Whitley Auditorium on the Elon College campus on Wednesday night, Oc tober 2nd, appearing as the first of the Visiting Scholars Lecturers for the 1968-69 term. The public was invited to hear him. Speaking on the sub ject of “College Science Today - A Social Assess ment,” his lecture opened the sixth annual series of the Visiting Scholars Program, which was in augurated by the Pied mont University Center, which is a cooperative group including twenty colleges and universities in the Piedmont section of North Carolina. Dr. Weisz, who has been at Brown Univer sity in Providence, R.I., since 1947, had previous ly taught at McGill Un iversity and Sir George Williams College in Can ada. He is widely recog nized in the world of biol ogy for his work in em- (Continued on page 4)
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