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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY.
APRIL 11, 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
tion with the Journalism departmsnt.
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 Spillane, Ben Stever-
son. Max Sullivan, Archie Taylor, Vernon Taylor,
Jim Waller, Bill Walker, Jay Waugh, Frank Web
ster, Johnny Weeks, Jerry Woodlief,
Gottehrer Is Guest
Speaker On Campus
THEY HAVE LED WOMEN’S INTER DORMITORY COUNCIL
Barry Gottehrer,
chairman of the urban
task force and assistant
to New York City’s Mayor
John Lindsey, spoke in
the social hall of Elon
College’s McEwen Dining
Hall on March 31st, ap
pearing as a guest of the
college’s Contemporary
Affairs Symposium.
Gottehrer, who is cre
dited by many persons as
the man most responsi
ble for keeping rioting
and urban disorder at a
minimum in New York
City during the troubled
summer of 1968, spoke
on the subject of ‘ The
Right of Dissent: Govern
ment And The People.”
As head of New York’s
urban task force, he has
an office in city hall, but
he has worked largely in
the streets, churches,club
houses and bars, dis
cussing the problems of
the day with the people
and putting down rumors
which might create a “hot
situation.
He is a native of New
York City, educated at
Brown University and the
Columbia University
School of Journalism, He
was a reporter and col
umnist for the New York
Herald-Tribune prior to
assuming his post at the
request of Mayor Lind
sey.
Gottehrer won national
reputation as the writer of
a series ofnewspaper ar
ticles entitled ‘ ‘ New York
City in Crisis,” a series
which was later published
in book form and which
won him the Gold Type
writer Award from the
Newspaper Reporters’
Association of New York
for investigative report
ing.
From 1960 through
1965, he wrote free-lance
articles for such national
magazines as the Saturday
Evening Post, Sport,Gold
and the American Legion
Magazine.
April 11, 1789 — The first
political newspaper in. the
United States, Gazette of the
Unitid States, was published
in Now York City.
SPEAKER
I
BARRY GOTTEHRER
Price Will
Speak On
April 16th
Dr. Alan Price, a visit
ing professor of English
at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro,
will be guest lecturer on
the Elon College campus
next Thursday, April
16th, appearing under the
auspices of the Elon Col
lege English department.
Dr. Price, who is to
speak in the social hall
of the McEwen Memorial
Dining Hall, at 7 o’clock
that night, will speak on
“Two Living British
Poets: C. Day Lewis and
Philip Larkin.”
The guest lecturer is a
native of Ireland and is
widely recognized as an
authority on Irish drama
and Twentieth Century
English literature. He has
published numerous
books and scholarly ar
ticles on that field of re
search.
Pictured above are the officers of the Women’s Inter-Dormitory Council for
this 1968-69 college term. Seated left to right are Anita Wickline Pace, vice-
president, of Palmyra, Va.; and Kay Savage, president, of Whaleyville, Va.
Standing left to right are Ruth Mayfield, treasurer, of Norlina; Cleo Perdue,
secretary, of Roanoke, Va.; and Marie Zjipoli, sergeant-at-arms, of Virginia
Beach, Va.
ACTORS ARE CHOSEN FOR ELON OPERA PRODUCTION
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Charlotte, as the Street
Singer; Dale Kaufmann,
of Charlotte, as Peachum;
Donn Thomas, ofMebane,
as Mrs. Peachum; Jack
Gotten, of Fuquay-Varina,
as MacHeath; Dawn
Chrisman, of Ports
mouth, Va., as Jenny;
Sara Jane Draper, of
Martinsville, Va., as
Polly; Dave Brewin, of
Hertford, as Reverend
Kimball; Jeff Taylor, of
Bloomingdale, N.J., as
Tiger Brown; Tim Ed
wards, of Washington,
D.C., as Smith; Dianne
Clendennin, of Milford,
Va., as Lucy; A1 Watson,
of Virginia Beach, Va.,
as Matt; Gordie Payne,
of Boonton, N.J., as Jake;
John Westafer. of Elon
College, as Bob; and
Chuck McLendon, of
Charlotte, as Walt.
Others chosen for the
play include Glenda Con
don, of McLean, Va.,
Jackie Lye, of Durham,
Paulette Spindle, of Hus
tle, Va., and Brenda Pri
chard, of Greensboro,
as the prostitutes; Jeff
Fields, of Silver Spring,
ELON PAIR LITERARY WINNERS
Organist In Concert Sunday
It looks as thouKh the tax
payer will be the first of Amer
ica’s natural resources to be
completely exhausted.—
(leorge H. Coburn, the West
Sprinsfield (Mass.) Record.
(Continued
critics for his concert
appearances in both the
United States and Canada.
In Toronto a critic said
“superlatives seem the
only logical commentary
on Preston’s perform
ance,” and a Washington
critic used the adjectives
“tremendous,” ‘ fantas
tic,” and “Thrilling” in
describing his perform-
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ance in that city.
In his appearance in
Elon’s Whitley Auditor
ium Preston will perform
compositions from Mes-
sikin, Franck, Reubke,
Reger, Mozart, Bach,
Liszt, Brahms and Han
del, playing many of the
pieces for which he has
gained acclaim in record
ings presented world
wide.
One member of the Elon faculty and one Elon stu
dent were listed among the winners in the literarj/
contests conducted for this year by “The Crucible,
literary and art journal published on the campus of
Atlantic Christian College. Prof. William C. Ramsey,
pictured left above, won second rating in the poetry
contest conducted by the college publication. A native
of Michigan, Ramsey joined the Elon English faculty
this year. Stephen E. Smith, an Elon College senior
from Annapolis, Md., won second place in the short
story competition conducted by “The Crucible.”
has studied creative writing with Prof. Manly Wade
Wellman and is now working on a novel.