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ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1969
NUMBER 17
FoundersDay On Wednesday
Featherstone Wins
Praise In Program
There was high praise
for Prof. Gene Feather-
stone, pianist, when he
appeared in recital in
Whitley Auditorium last
Sunday afternoon. His
appearance was another
in the series of faculty
musical recitals offered
on the campus each year.
Giving pleasure to his
hearers was a program
which featured Sonata in
A Minor, by Mozart;
Piano Sonata, by Aaron
Copeland, brilliant
American composer; and
Sonata in B Minor, by
Chopin.
The sonata by Aaron
Copeland was presented
as a special feature of
American Music Month,
which has been observed
during February under a
proclamation from the
National Feceration of
Music Clubs.
Prof. Featherstone,
who is a graduate of Ober-
iin College Conservatory
of Music in Ohio, holds
the Master of Music de-
S^ee from Florida State
University and has done
further doctoral studies
at Northwestern Uni-
'^ersity, along with
special work at Eastman
School of Music on a
special grant from Elon
College and the Piedmont
University Center.
He is now in his fourth
year of service in the
Elon music department,
and prior to that time,
he had taught at Atlantic
Christian College and at
the Great Neck School of
Music and Art in New
York, along \nth private
teaching in Chicago.
IN RECITAL
Tar Heel Governor To Speak
At Gathering In Alumni Gym
gene featherstone
The eightieth anni
versary of the Elon Col
lege chapter will be ob
served when North Caro
lina’s Governor Robert
Scott speaks in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium at
11:30 o’clock next Wed
nesday, March 5th, as
guest speaker for the col
lege’s 1969 Founders Day
convocation.
Actually the convo
cation next Wednesday
will be held six days prior
to the actual anniversary
of the Elon charter, for
the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly originally
granted the Elon charter
on March 11, 1889, a date
which climaxed extensive
planning by the leaders of
the Christian Church for
a college that would have
education for the minis
ters and other leaders of
that religious group.
It is in honor of those
church leaders who many
decades ago had the vision
and the courage to found
Elon College that this
Founders Day observance
has been held annually for
many years, has been
the custom to hold tne
Founders Day event on or
near that charter anni
versary date of March 11th
each year.
Governor Scott is only
the latest of a long line
of outstanding speakers
who have appeared as
guests of Elon College for
the Founders Day convo
cation, one of tlje most
distinguished having been
President Lyndon B,
Johnson, who spoke in
Alumni Memorial Gym
nasium in March of 1962
some months prior to the
time when he succeeded
to the presidency upon the
death of the late John F.
Kennedy.
On the occasion of the
Founders Day obser
vance, it is fitting to
recall some of the found
ers who lead in the es
tablishment of Elon Col
lege four score years ago.
Among them were Dr.
William S. Long, the first
president, who had pre
viously founded Graham
Normal Institute, a fore
runner of Elon College.
In keeping with the Elon
charter provisions, there
were fifteen charter
members of the board of
trustees, including W. S.
Long, J. W. Wellons,
W. W. Staley, G. S. Wat
son, M. L. Hurley, E. T.
Pierce, W. J. Lee, P. J.
Kernodle, J. F. West,
E. E. Holland, E. A.
Moffitt, J. M. Smith,
J. H. Harden, F.O.Mor-
ing, and S. P. Read.
In addition to Dr.
William S. Long as first
president of Elon, others
who have served as presi
dent of the college since
his initial term have been
Dr. W. W. Staley, Dr. E.L.
Moffitt, Dr. W. A. Har
per, Dr. L. E. Smith, and
Dr. J. E. Danieley, who
began his term as presi
dent in 1957 and is now in
his twelfth year in the
position.
Immediately following
the convocation in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium
next Wednesday, the
college will be host at
a luncheon in the cafeteria
of the new Haroer Center
on the Elon North Cam pus.
That center, which in
cludes recreation facili
ties in addition to the
cafeteria, was named in
honor of the fourth presi
dent of Elon, the late Dr.
William A. Harper.