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MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, November 15, 1968
MAROON AND gold
Dedicated to the best Interests of Elon College and
its students and faculty, the Maroon and Gold Is pub
lished weekly during the college year with the excep
tion of holiday and examination periods at Elon College,
N.C. (Zip Code 27244), publication being in coopera
tion with the Journalism department.
REPORTORIAL STAFF
John Andrews, Landy Blackwell, Don Bowers, Edna
Brantley, Richard Bray, Rebecca Burgess, Chester
Burgess, Bruce Cohen, Dean Coleman, Dillard Dye,
Joe Fowler, Don Goldberg, Joe Goldberg, Tom Hardee,
Wally Hardwick, William Hartley, Joe Jessup, Sondra
Jones, Bobby King, Bob Klingel, John McNeill, Sam
Massey, Jerry Midkiff, Denny Moore, Robert Nash,
Ned Poole, Elizabeth Sanders, Kay Savage, Jerry
Schumm, Ronnie Sink, Mike Spillane, Mike Straka,
Archie Taylor, Joe Teague, Bill Walker, Ronnie Wick-
Jerry Woodlief, George Watts, Frank Webster.
Elon Students From
Varied Backgrounds
The Elon College enroll
ment for this fall semes
ter of the 1968-69 term
tops the enrollment for
the fall term of last year
by exactly 343 students,
according to the report
released recently from
the office of Prof. Robert
Gwaltney, the college re
gistrar.
His report shows that
Elon has an enrollment
of 1,817 students this fall,
representing an increase
of 342 from last year’s
1,454 students for the fall
semester. The report
from the registrar also
shows a breakdown of the
enrollment by classes and
by home origins and re
ligious affiliations.
The total enrollment of
1,817 students includes
1,191 men and 626 wo
men, compared with 998
men and 456 women last
fall. Another student
grouping lists 1,729 stu
dents in daytime classes
and 88 in the Evening
School. The day regis
tration represents an in
crease of 374 in the day
time registration and
shows a slight drop in the
night registration.
As might be expected,
the largest enrollment is
found in the f:^shman
class, with 610 of the
daytime students and 20
of the night students in
the first-year group.
Other class memberships
in the day classes Include
454 sophomores, 363 jun
iors, 282 seniors and 20
special students. The
night classes list 15 sop
homores, 16 juniors, 16
seniors and 21 special
students.
In each of the four
classes men are in the
majority. The freshman
class includes 371 men
and 239 women, the sop-
phomore class lists 320
men and 134 women, the
junior class lists 224 men
and 139 women, and the
senior class lists 193 men
and 89 women. The Even
ing School lists 77 men
and 11 women.
As was the case in re
cent years, more than half
of the day-time students
reside on the campus,and
this year for the second
successive year the dor
mitory group represents
over half the entire regis
tration. There was a time
when the commuter stu
dents were in the major
ity, but the trend has
switched in recent years.
The actual figures show
that there are now 1,064
students living on the
campus, among them 662
men and 402 women,com
pared with a dormitory
enrollment of 737 last
fall. There are 665 day
time students who com
mute to classes, as do
almost all of the 88 night
students.
Also of much interest
is the widespread geogra
phic distribution of Elon
students, with this 1968
registration showing stu
dents from 24 states and
the District of Columbia
and four foreign coun
tries.
As always, the largest
student group com ss from
North Carolina with a to
tal of 1,079 students, rep
resenting 59.6 per cent.
Other students among the
leaders are Virginia with
431, New Jersey with 68,
Maryland with 41, Dela
ware with 32, New York
with 30, Connecticut! with
27, Pennsylvania with 20,
Florida with 16 and South
Carolina with 13 students.
These ten students, in
cluding North Carolina
and other leaders, fur
nished 96.7 per cent of
the entire Elon enroll
ment, with 14 other states
and the District of Colum
bia having at least one
student each. Eight for
eign countries were rep
resented, among them
Ghana, Greece,Hondur
as, Israel, Japan, Jor
dan, Thailand and the Vir
gin Islands.
Among the North Caro
lina students there are
69 of the state’s 100 coun
ties represented, five
more than were listed last
falL Alamance County
furnished 479 students,
slightly less than last
year. Other county lead
ers are Guilford 107,
Durham 49, Forsythe 41,
Rockingham 39, Wake 34,
Randolph 30, Caswell 24,
Mecklenburg 23, Orange
22, Davidson 21, Chatham
19, Person 19, Lee 17
and Cumberland 13.
The varied religious
memberships and prefer
ences show more than 20
denominations, with the
Methodists and Baptists
topping the lists with 441
and 439 students listed,
with other groups holding
the same relative posi
tion as last year.
In third spot is the
Cofield h Presented
In Faculty Program Honor Group
IN RECITAL
J
MRS. TERRELL COFIELD
Elon Group
Will Study In
England
An elected group of Elon
College students in the
field of history will have
the privilege of studying
in England during the ab
breviated winter term,
which will be the middle
portion of Elon's 4-1-4
program for the 1968-69
college year.
This was revealed when
the plans for History 351
and Political Science 491
were made public from
the college administra
tive offices some days
ago. The registration for
these two courses will be
limited to 20 students,and
membership in the cour
ses will be limited to
those whom those direct
ing the program believe
would benefit most.
These two courses,
which offer Elon’s first
opportunities for study a-
broad, will be offered un
der the direction of Dr.
S. E. Gerard Priestley,
Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Political
Science and History, and
Prof. James P. Elder,
who has for some years
been a member of the
college’s faculty of his
tory and social science.
The two courses will
feature travel to England
for students who are ac
cepted for registration,
with the travel program to
include visists to such
famous landmarks as
Westminster Abbey, the
Tower of London, St.
Paul’s Cathedral, the
English Parliament, Eng
lish Law Courts and Old
Bailey.
The students will also
visit such famous insti
tutions in London as
Guildhall, Lloyds of Lon
don, the Bank of England
and some of the most
famous of the many Lon
don theatres. There will
be visits to Windsor, Can
terbury and a visit to the
home of Dr. and Mrs.
Priestley in a small Eng
lish town in Sussex.
Mrs. Terrell Cofield,
who joined the Elon Col
lege music faculty this
fall as an assistant pro
fessor of music and as a
teacher of voice, appear
ed on Wednesday night of
this week in Whitley Au
ditorium in one of the
series of faculty music
recitals which are plan
ned for this 1968-69 term.
Mrs. Cofield, who is a
native of Asheville, stu
died piano at Salem Col
lege and voice at St. Gen
evieve Junior College and
then graduated from
Rollins College in Florida
with a Bachelor of Music
degree and with a major
in voice.
She later had graduate
work at the University of
North Carolina at Greens
boro and was a member
of the faculty of the Uni
versity of North Carolina
at Greensboro in the voice
field.
Mrs. Cofield is a mem
ber of a number of pro
fessional organizations in
the music field, among
them Pi Kappa Lambda,
Mu Phi Epsilon and the
Euterpe Music Club.
Her faculty recital on
Wednesday night was the
second in the series of
faculty recitals held this
year, with the first hav
ing been an organ pro
gram presented in Sep
tember by Prof. Richard
Apperson, also a new ad
dition to the Elon music
staff.
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Chi, national honorary
academic society, and
served as a member of
the outstanding professor
committee for the Stu
dent Government Asso
ciation.
JULIA TREECE - A
senior mathematics ma
jor from Concord, Julia
Treece has served as a
member of the Women’s
Interdorm Council, She
is a member of Pi Kap
pa Tau Sorority.
MARY ANNE UNDER
WOOD — A senior ele
mentary education ma
jor from Suffolk, Va.,
Mary Anne Underwood is
secretary-treasurer of
the senior class, a mem
ber of the Student Sen
ate and a member of the
Women’s Interdorm
Council. She is a mem
ber of Pi Kappa Tau So
rority.
JERRY WEBB — A
senior history major
from Asheboro, Jerry
Webb is sports editor of
Phi Psi Cli and has ser
ved as chairman of the
Homecoming Committee.
He is a meber of the Tau
Kappa Epsilon Fraterni
ty.
LINDA WESLEY — A
senior English major
from Roxboro, Linda
Wesley has served as a
member of the staff of the
Phi Psi Cli and also as a
member of the Women's
Interdorm Council. She is
a member and president
of the Tau Zeta Phi So
rority.
NEW MEMBERS OF ELON FACULTY
Two new members joining the Elon College faculty
and staff for this 1968-69 term, one of them a native
of Burlington, and the other a former Burlington
teacher, are pictured above. Mrs. Rachel Y. Holt,
shown left, is teaching in the Elon history department
this fall; and Mrs. Mattie Lee (shown right) is a new
member for the staff of the Elon College Library.
Mrs. Holt graduated from Elon College and has since
had graduate training in history and guidance at ue
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has
taught in both the Burlington and Alamance
Schools. Mrs. Lee, who is a graduate of Flora Mac
Donald College, had her library training at the Uni
versity of North Carolina in both Chapel Hill a"
Greensboro and at East Carolina University.
a former librarian in the Burlington City Schools,
having been the organizer of the Turrentine Junio
High library from its beginning.
My finances are getting in
such a mess, you would think
I was getting advice from the
government.—Dale Holdridge,
Presbyterian Church with
221, the United Church of
Christ with 209 and the
Catholics with 113, fol
lowed by the Episcopal
ians with 88, the Luther
ans with 60 and the Jew
ish with 17. The remain
ing 12.6 per cent of the
students listed other de
nominations or no church
preference.
‘What hath we wrought?