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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY,
1969
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-
lion 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
er, Jerry Woodlief, George Watts, Frank Webster.
Elon Emanons To Make Tour
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band will be in the New
port News-Norfolk area
of Tidewater Virginia and
will present a musical
program for an Elon Col
lege alumni group on that
Friday night.
Plans are in the mak
ing, also, through the help
of H. Reid, well known
Elon alumnus, for the
Emanons to wind up the
tour on Saturday morn
ing, February 22nd,with
a program for a Norfolk
TV station. The band will
then return home that af
ternoon.
The Emanons will fea
ture on its tour programs
the great jazz arrange
ments by “Shorty” Ro
gers, Nat Pierce and a
new arranger by the name
of Neil Slater, of New
York. The student mem
bers of the touring group,
listed by instruments, in
cludes the following:
SAXOPHONES — Ce
cil Johnson, Burlington;
Allen Gibbs, Greensboro;
Bob Johnson, Charlottes
ville, Va.; Bob Snyder,
Durham; and Steve Grif
fin, Burlington.
TRUMPETS — John
Park, Larchmont, N.Y.;
Jon White, Elon College;
Ronnie Crouch, Martins
ville, Va.; and Ruffin
Qualls, Burlington.
TROMBONES ~ El-
wood Porshia, Falls
Mills, Va.; Buck Bayliff,
Elon College; and George
Cannon, Newport News,
Va.;
RHYTHM - Dannie
Chilton, piano, Burling
ton; Jim White, bass,
Wytheville, Va.; Don
Stubblefield, drums,Dur
ham; and David Aberna
thy, drums, Lenoir.
E-4 DRIVE IS MAKING PROGRESS Eton’s Plays And Playmaking
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Elon College president,
reporting to the dinner
group on the progress of
the campaign, stated that
fund-raising efforts since
ELON LYCEUM
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and David Schwartz dur
ing her graduate studies.
Barbara Rowan, who is
piano accompanist for
Miss Woodward, studied
under Egon Petri and
Alexander Liberman in
piano and Darius Milhaud
and Leon Kirchner in
composition. She holds a
graduate degree from
Mills College and has
been a Fulbright Scholar
in Paris. She, too, has
played frequently over
WUNC-TV,
1966 had brought $1,400,
000 in gifts to the col
lege, and he stated that
the campaign to raise the
first $3,000,000 of the
overall goal is “on sche
dule.”
Within recent weeks
leaders of the E-4 Cam
paign have laid plans for
launching the Corpora
tions Division of the
drive, and it was announ
ced that S. Carlyle Isley,
vice-president of the
Kayser - Roth Hosiery
Company, had accepted
the chairmanship for the
new phase of the cam
paign.
Four captains for the
Corporations Division,
working under Mr. Isley,
will be W. B. Croxton, of
Glen Raven Mills; Char
les T. Gardner, of Bur
lington Industries; Staley
Gordon, of Tower Hos
iery; and EdHicklin, Bur
lington insurance execu
tive.
ELON PLAYER STARS OF PAST
I'wo of the better Elon Player actors of all time are
shown in tlie above picture, which shows Billie Faye
Barrett, of Windsor, Va., and Eddie Robbins, of
Greensboro, in their roles as Kate Keller and George
Deever in the Elon Player production of Arthur
Miller’s “All My Sons” in the fall of 1957. Both
Liillie Faye Barrett and Eddie Robbins vvon "Eppie”
awards during their campus stage careers.
The beginning of the
Modern Period of Elon
Player history and the
development of dramatics
on the Elon campus came
as the 1950’s got under
way, and the year 1950-
51 brought three excellent
plays and another student
written musical play.
Tops of the three plays
that year were “The Man
Who Came To Dinner,”
with Ed Engles, who was
editor of the Maroon and
Gold that year, winning
high plaudits for its per
formance in the leading
role. He won the top “Os
car” award that year for
this performance.
Other plays of the year
were “You Can’t Take It
With You” and “Outward
Bound,” with Virginia
Trigg Hawkins, Lois
Walker and Lynn Cashion
winning the annual awards
along with Engles. Lynn
Cashion became the Ma
roon and Gold editor the
next year. The student
musical was “Hallelu
jah,” and it proved very
popular,
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith,
faculty director, took the
leading role in “Medea,”
final show of the 1951-
52 season. Other shows
during the year were “See
How They Run,” “Giacon-
da Smile,” and “Papa Is
All,” Robert Walker and
Joahn Wickham won top
trophies that year for
leading roles, with the
supporting trophies going
to Joe Brankley and Lois
Walker. Wlckman won in
“Giaconda Smile,” the
others coming from “Pa
pa Is All,”
The next season of
1952-53 closed the ten-
year regime of Mrs, Eliz
abeth Smith as director of
the Elon stage activities,
and the Elon Player pro
gram that year included
‘January Thaw,” “The
Double Door” and “Hasty
Heart,” Leading role a-
wards for the year went
to Diane Maddox from
“The Double Door” and to
David Crowle from
“Hasty Heart,” The sup
porting awards went to
Ann Wilkins from “Jan
uary Thaw” and to Jerry
Loy from “Hasty Heart,”
Prof, Charles W, Cox
assumed the reins as di
rector of dramatics in the
fall of 1953, and the 1953-
54 college year brought
forth three long plays and
two short ones. The long
plays were “The Glass
Menagerie,” “Pygmal-
ian,” and “As you Like
It.” The short plays were
“The Sisters Macintosh”
and “Abraham And
Isaac.”
Diane Maddox won the
top “Oscar” for a lead
ing role for a second
consecutive year, re
warded for the role in
“Pygmalian.” The other
leading role honor went
to Jerry Loy for “The
Glass Menagerie,” and
supporting honors went to
Ann Stoddard from “The
Sisters Macintosh” and to
Adolph Melburg from
“Pygmalian,”
The 1954-55 stage sea
son, which marked the end
of the two-year regime of
Prof. Charles W. Cox,
brought three full-length
shows. They were “Bly
the Spirit,” “An Enemy
Of The People” and “The
Imaginary Invalid.”
Leading role honors went
to Sue Moore and Wright
Williams from the cast of
“Blythe Spirit,” and sup
porting honors went to Jan
Williamson and Nick
Theos for roles in “Ima
ginary Invalid,”
Prof, Melvin E. Wooton
arrived on the Elon cam
pus in the fall of 1955
and immediately began a
series of uniformly suc
cessful stage shows which
marked the entire five
years of his service in
the campus dramatic
work.
In that first year of
1955-56 he produced “Out
Of The Fraying Pan,”
“Little Foxes,” ‘Dial M
For Murder” and “The
Tempest,” and leading
role honors went to Mar
garet Sharpe and William
Watson for roles in “Lit
tle Foxes,” with honors
for supporting roles won
by Horace Giddings and
Helen Gilbert from the
same play.
Special awards for
minor supporting roles
went to Roger Rush from
“Little Foxes” and to
Dorothy Apple for “Dial
M For Murder,” The fact
that “Little Foxes” won
five individual awards
makes it one of the great
est plays in Player his
tory.
Three major shows, in
cluding one Shakespear
ean production, featured
the 1956-57 season, the
plays being “Harvey,”
‘The Rainmaker” and
“Julius Caesar,” The
Players also cooperated
in production of a sun
rise service on the cam
pus at Easter.
Honor awards that year
for leading roles went to
Margaret Sharpe in “The
Rainmaker” and William
Watson from “Julius
Caesar.” Top supporting
honors went to Tommie
Boland from “Julius Cae
sar” and to Eddie Rob
bins from “The Rain
maker.” Minor support
ing honors went to Jean
Cannady and Dale Shep
herd, both from “The
Rainmaker.” Wayne
Rudisill was honored as
“Most Useful” Elon
Player.
The 1957-58 season al
so brought three fine
shows, including “The
Happiest Days Of Your
Life.” “All My Sons”
and “The Crucible.” The
old “Oscar” awards had
become the “Eppie” a-
wards by this time, and
they went to Billie Faye
Barrett and Chuck Oak
ley for best lead roles ir
“All My Sons,”
Major supporting ac
tors honored were Ikey
Tarleton and Reynolds
Van Cleve from “The
Crucible, with minor
role honors going to
Tommie Boland and
Wayne Rudisill from
“The Crucible and “The
Happiest Days,”
Six full-length plays,
including the Elon Play
ers’ first Broadway mus
ical came In the 1958-59
season. The plays were
“Ladies In Retirement,”
“The Heiress,” “Inherit
The Wind,” “Glass Me
nagerie” and “Our
Town,” with the musical
being “Annie Get Your
Gun.^’
Rosanna Gant, with
brilliant performances in
both “The Heiress” and
“Our Tonfn,” won top
actress honors and estab
lished herself as one of
the greatest of all Elon
player performers. Top
male lead went to Joe
Medlock from “Inherit
The Wind.” Others
honored that year were
Chris Fayle, Jim Gross,
Lois Kidd, William Bayne
and Ikey Tarleton.
(Continued Next Week)
CHAPTER 3
This is the third in
stallment in the story of
Elon plays and Elon play-
making through past
years. It tells of the great
plays of the 1950’s, and a
final installment next
week will bring the Elon
Player story up to date.