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PERMIT No. 1
VOLUME 49
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 6. 1968
NUMBER 9
‘Messiah’ Is Planned Sunday
ELOy SENIOR WINS ANNUAL WESTERN ELECTRIC FUND SCHOLARSHIP
Forum Group
Offers Rhyne
As Lecturer
Dr. J. B. Rhyne, long
time member of the Duke
University psychology fa
culty, recognized as A-
merica's greatest au
thority of parapsychology
and extra-sensory per
ception appeared as lec
turer in the banquet room
of McEwen Memorial
Dining Hall on the Elon
College campus Wednes-
night as the guest of
student - sponsored
Liberal Arts Forum.
Dr. Rhyne, who is now
retired trom active
teaching and living in
Durham, has performed
research and experimen
tation in extra-sensory
perception in many parts
of the world, and his writ
ings on the subject have
been widely published.
A native of Pennsyl-
''ania, Dr. Rhyne receiv
ed the B. S. degree from
me University of Chicago
and later earned both the
■ S. and Ph. D. degrees
tom the same institu-
lon. He served as direct-
of the Parapsychology
^ooratory at Duke Uni-
1965”^ from 1935 until
published
Spn “Extra-
“NeT^F Perception,”
'^''ontiers ' ’
James Lightbourne, an Elon College senior from Burlington, is pictured above
as he received the annual Western Electric Scholarship, which is provided by the
Western Electric Fund each year to an outstanding student at Elon College,
S,wf righ Resenting the scholarship is Dr. S. C. Donnelly, who heads up the
derations in North Carolina for the Western Electric organization.
Looking o^ and smiling approval of the presentation s Dr. J. E Danieley
oresidPnt of Elon College. Lightbourne, who is the son of Dr. and Mrs. James
H Uahtbourne Jr., of Burlington, is a mathematics major and is carrying on
T’ famSy tradi’tion in attending Elon College for his undergraduate training.
Elon Players Offer Simonas
‘Odd Couple’ In Great Show
(Pictures on Page 4)
One of the most hilar
ious Elon Player shows
of recent years is Neil
Simon’s “Odd Couple,
Broadway stage success,
which opened a three-
night stand in Mooney
Chapel Theatre last night.
The show will be repeated
tonight and Saturday night
with 8 o’clock curtain
time.
The
Mirentiers of the
and “Extra-Sen-
“"tinued on Page 2)
i play, which fea
tures several of the Elon
Players’ brightest stars
of recent years, opens
with a group of boys as
sembled for cards in the
- . apartment of a divorced
i^®titu- fellow, and the audience
views the messed up con
dition of his apartment
and feels that his wife
was justified in leaving
him.
An added fellow joins
the group, and the fellows
learn that his wife has
also left him. Knowing
him as a meticulous and
tense person, they fear
that he might commit sui
cide and begin to take pre
cautions to prevent such
a rash act.
All windows are locked,
and the new arrival is
scarcely allowed to do
anything alone. The al
ready divorced fellow and
the newly separated hus
band, the slob bachelor-
type and the meticulous
one, decide to bunk to
gether with hilarious re
sults.
The New York review
ers called “Odd Couple”
the most hilarious com
edy Neil Simon has writ
ten, terming the show as
“wildly, irresistably, in
credibly and continuously
funny.” It is all of that.
Members of the cast in
clude Dale Kaufman, of
Charlotte, N. C.; Neil
Henning, of Richmond,
Va.; Jim Gillespie, of
Taftville, Conn.; Jeff
Taylor, of Bloom ingdale,
N.J.; Noel Allen, of Bur
lington; John Swain, of
Fairfax, Va.; Marty Lee,
of Baltimore, Md.; and
Janet Sylvester, of Vir
ginia Beach, Va.
The new Player pro
duction is presented un
der the direction of Prof.
Ed Pilkington, with Prof.
Sandy Moffett having
technical supervision for
the show. Student tech
nical assistants will be
Virginia Daniel, of Dan
ville, Va., and Sam Ro
berson, of Burlington.
This presentation of
“Odd Couple” completes
a highly successful fall
season for the Elon Play
er group, which opened
with “Antigone” in Octo
ber and later presented a
one-act play bill.
ALSO GIVEN IN WHITLEY
TONIGHT AT 8:00.
(Pictures on Page 2)
One of the outstanding
entertainment features of
the year on the Elon Col
lege campus is set for this
weekend, when the Elon
College Choir will pre
sent its thirty-sixth an
nual rendition of Handel’s
immortal oratorio, “The
Messiah.”
As always in the past
the student singers will
present the Yule program
in Whitley Auditorium at
4 o’clock Sunday after
noon, but this year there
will be two programs,
with the initial perform
ance set for Whitley at
8 o’clock tonight for those
unable to attend on Sun
day.
On the podium this year
and directing “The Mes
siah” for the first time
will be Prof. Richard Ap-
person, who joined the
Elon music faculty this
year, returning to scenes
of his own student musi
cal activities. Dean Flet
cher Moore will again be
organ accompanist for the
program.
As always, the student
choir will have four guest
soloists for the Sunday
afternoon presentation,
but Professor Apperson
has announced that stu
dent soloists will be used
for the campus presenta
tion in Whitley Auditor
ium tonight. The names
of the student soloists
had not been announced
at this writing.
The guest soloists for
the Sunday afternoon pro
gram will feature Mrs.
Terrell Cofield, of the
Elon music faculty, so
prano; Mrs. David Pin-
nix, of Greensboro, con
tralto; Charles Lynam,of
Greensboro, bass; and
Carroll Lupton, of Greens
boro, tenor.
In presenting this thir
ty-sixth annual “Mes
siah” program, the Elon
Choir will feature more
than 70 student singers.
The singers expected to
appear in the program,
listed by voice groups and
in alphabetical order, are
as follows;
SOPRANOS: Joan An
derson, Winchester, Va.;
Ellen Barnes, Courtland,
Va.; Linda Chalmers,
Martinsville, Va,; Dawn
Chrisman, Portsmouth,
Va.; Olivia Christian,
Hampton, Va.; Linda
Dickenman, Unionville,
Conn.; Sara Draper,Mar
tinsville, Va.; Pamela
Edwards, Spring Hope;
Carol Emmett, Clay-
mont, Del.; Elizabeth
Etheridge, Virginia
Beach, Va.; Emily Hall,
Cleveland, N. C.; Jenny
Huffman, Burlington;
Debby Isaacs, Charlotte;
Anne Jones, Greensboro;
Kim King, Chesapeake,
Va.; Jennifer Knott.Clay-
ton; Cathy Mangum, Dur
ham;
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