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MAROON AN\^ GQ\.D
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY -28.1968
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
Paul Amundsen, Randy Bishop, Donnie Bowers,
Rebecca Burgess, Chester Burgess, Steve Caddell,
Bruce Cohen, Dean Coleman, Don Goldberg, Joe
Goldberg, Tom Hardee, Cheryl Hart, Dale Harrison,
William Hartley, Jim Hodges, Betty Isleley, Bobby
King, George Kopik, Bick Long, Noble Marshall,
Danny Moore, Rick O’Neill, Ned Poole, Kenneth
Shaw, Jerry Schumm, Mike Splllane, Ben Stever-
son, Max Sullivan, Archie Taylor, Vernon Taylor,
Jim Waller, Bill Walker, Jay Waugh, Frank Web
ster, Johnny Weeks, Jerry Woodlief.
Electoral Reform Is
Topic For Speaker
The strong demands for
“Electoral College Re
form” and its possible
effect upon American pol
itics and life in general
was the topic for dis
cussion last Friday night
when U. S. Senator Will
iam Proxmire, Democrat
from Wisconsin, spoke in
Whitley Auditorium.
Senator Proxmire ap
peared as the guest of
the Contemporary Affairs
Symposium, an organiza
tion which operates under
sponsorship of the Elon
College Student Govern
ment Association and
with Dr. Carolyn Zinn as
the faculty sponsor.
The Wisconsin senator,
who was elected to the
Senate in 1957 to fill the
unexpired term of Sena
tor Joseph McCarthy, was
re-elected in 1958 and
again in 1964. He has been
active in many Senate
groups since joining the
upper house of Congress.
Among the posts he has
held is that of chairman
of the Joint Economic
Committee of Congress,
chairman of the Financial
Institutions Committee
and chairman of the Joint
Committee on Defense
Production.
He also serves as a
member of the Senate Ap-
priations Committee, of
the Banking and Currency
Committee and of the
Democratic Steering
Committee in the Senate.
Senator Proxmire is
a graduate of Yale and of
the Harvard Graduate
School of Business Ad
ministration, He has
taught at Harvard in ad
dition to his activities in
business and politics.
SPEAKER
HISTORIC OLD NORTH DORM AND ELON’S FIRST GYM
Five Students
Had 'A' Grade
In Fall Term
There were five Elon
College students who
made all “A” grades on
their courses during the
past fall semester, ac
cording to a statement
just received from the of
fice of Dean Fletcher
Moore.
Through an error in
IBM compilation, the
names of these students
were not included when
the longer list of stud
ents with “B" averages
was published in a recent
error.
The five all “A” honor
students were David
Abernathy, of Lenoir;
Edna Gail Brantley, of
Lattimore; John Bur
gess, of Gibsonville;
Diane Gucker, of Edin
burg, Va.; and Patricia
Morris, of Efland.
Next Lyceum
Program Set
March 10
The next program on
the series of Elon Col
lege Lyceum programs
will feature Vladimir
Ussachevsky, one of the
foremost experts in the
area of electronic music,
appearing in Whitley
Auditorium on March
10th.
Mr. Ussachevsky is
internationally recog
nized as one of the fore
most authorities in the
field of electronic music.
He will present a con
cert of electronic music
and will give a lecture-
demonstration on this
newest of musical media.
Three other programs
are scheduled for this
1968-69 series of Elon
Lyceum programs, in
cluding the National
Opera Company, organist
Simon Preston and the
Eastman Brass Quintet.
The ■ historic old North Dorm and the original Elon College gymnasium, which at
one time stood where the new Elon office and classroom building is now being con
structed, is pictured above. The old building, which was begun in 1912 and
completed in time for Elon to win the state basketball championship in 1914, was
regarded in its day as the finest gymnasium in North Carolina and one of the
finest in the South.
First Elon Gym Once Stood
Where New Structure Rises
Just now when the
foundations for the new
classroom and office
building have been com
pleted and the walls are
beginning to rise on the
northern edge of the Elon
walled campus, it is quite
appropriate that the 1969
generation of Elon stud
ents should be reminded
and told of the building
that once stood on the site
of the new structure.
The Elon College cam
pus is a constantly chang
ing scene, and the pres
ent construction of the
new office and classroom
building is just another of
the changes, with the new
structure rising on the
spot where at one time
one of the finest gym
nasiums in the entire
South stood.
It was back in 1910 and
1911, at a time when Elon
College was not wild or
raving over sports and
when the college was con
cerned over physical de
velopment as part of the
overall student growth,
when the Elon leaders be
gan dreaming of building
the old Elon gymnasium
and old North Dorm, the
structure which once
stood in the area north
of the Duke Science Build
ing where the new build
ing is now rising.
In June of 1912, the
president of Elon College
reported to the board of
trustees that the most
pressing needs of the in
stitution was for facilities
in which the young men
and young women might be
given systematic physical
exercise, and he pointed
out that every college in
North Carolina of com
parable size to Elon al
ready had a gymnasium.
It was then proposed
by Dr. W. W. Staley, a
long-time president of
Elon College, that a new
gymnasium be con
structed, and the result
was the almost immediate
start of construction of a
building which for many
years housed both a gym
nasium and a dormitory
for men.
The building, which for
many years was better
known as North Dorm,
although it also housed
the Elon College gymna-
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INTERIOR VIEW OF OLD ELON GYMNASIUM
Sl.NA rOR PROXMIRE
“An overweight condition
is caused when you lead a
hand to mouth existence—at
the refrigerator.”
The above scene, taken during a girls’ intramural volley ball battle, shows the
limited confines of the old Elon College gymnasium, which was regarded as the
finest in the state when it was completed in 1913 or 1914. The volley ball shot
was taken in the early 1950’s during the last years in which the old gym in North
Dorm was used for physical education purposes. This shot shows that there was no
room for spectators at the edges of the basketball court, and spectators watched
action from a balcony which encircled the floor at the second-story level.