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PAGE 4 MAROON AND GOLD GOLOMBEK (Continued from page 2) ed. He was a lonely young man. Elon remedied that. Joe had come to this coun try from Copenhagen, lived in Philadelphia with his mother for a time and then moved to Ports mouth. Elon became the first place he enjoyed calling “home,” All the while, Joe work ed at boxing. He made regional Golden Gloves finals at Charlotte his first year at Elon and to the nationals the next where he was edged by a fellow on the rise to the national heavyweight title, Archie Moore. On Sundays, Golombek delighting in contact sport, would change char acter and go over to the Elon orphanage to work without pay in helping the children with their farm chores. Completed, he’d sit a wee fellow on his knee and tell some of doggonedest beddy-bye stories. Or maybe he d carry his fiddle over there and play Mother Goose tunes. He wanted to make the homeless en joy what home they did have. It was a driving thing with Joe. In the midst of his stu dies at Elon, World War II broke out. The peace able man never avoided a fight and Joe Golom bek hurried up his ser vice call — and headed for Elon as soon as hos tilities terminated. By now, he was slow ed and heavier, but quick enough to be first string on Ed Mulford’s Elon tra veling softballers. On a swing through the Atlantic Seaboard, Joe told Ed to pick up a teenage hitch hiker. “I’m running away from home,” the rider told Joe. “Boy, you ought to be running toward home in stead of away from it,” Joe said. “I never had a real good home until just now.” Then Joe, in one of his typical inverted philosophical portents, asked, ‘Boy, can you play softball?” “Man, I love it,” the boy said. “I was on the Burlington High team.” “Well, I tell you what we’re gonna do. We’re on a two-week softball trip. You just made the team. I’ll pay for your lodging and meals and when we get through, you can keep on running away from home or you can ride back with us. We’ll go right by your house.” “The kid got in a few of our games,” Mulford recalled. “He was pret ty good, too.” And Joe got him back home. In the ’45-’46 basket ball season, Joe moveda- round well enough to play guard. “He was a team man,” Mulford “Said. “He liked getting rebounds and passing to me as much as he did sinking set shots from the outside, at which he was deadly.” Team man was correct. He was team man for everybody around him. FRIDAY, APRIL 18. 1969 MEMBERS OF LIBERAL ARTS FORUM ARE SPONSORS FOR SYMPOSIUM The Liberal Arts Forum operating under the sponsorship of the Student Government Association, is the moving power behind the series of lectures and concerts to be presented on the Elon campus next week. Members of the Liberal Arts Forum for 1968-69, pictured left to right in the above picture, are as follows: FRONT ROW - Joe Goldberg, Wilmington, Del.; Phil Larrabee, Virginia Beach, Va.; Renny Johnson, Annapolis, Md.; David Marion, Eteland, Fla.; and Don Kirwin, Wilmington, Del. SECOND ROW - Rodney Miller, Lexington; Sherri McGirt, Charlotte; Sally O’Neill, Sycamore, 111.’ Frank Lyon, Rye, N. Y.; Mark Riggsbee, Durham; and Martha Kellam, Spencer, Mass. BACK ROW - Jim Green, Smyrna, Del.; Randy Spencer, Manchester, Conn.; Jan Davis, Raleigh; Robert Lane, Virginia Beach, Va.; James Milward, Bloomfield, Conn.; Prof James P. Elder, faculty sponsor; George Scott, Suffolk, Va.; and Be linda Black, Lexington. One time, an ex-Elon fellow was on campus, needing a place to spend the night. “You use that bed,” Joe said. “Nowhere else, you understand? That one.” The guest wasn’t sure If he should salute and re ply, “yes, sir.” Thatbed, it was. And that bed was Joe’s. He stayed up all night to assure the visitor of a good night’s sleep. After graduation, Joe went back into the ser vice. Prior to assignment to Arabia, the Joe Golom bek story, inexpicably,as was most everything in his life, turn a strange turn. Just before Christmas in 1953, the commanding officer of Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee Falls, Mass., read an un signed letter: “Sir, I re gret to report that Sgt. Joe Golombek accidently fatally injured huting with me Nov. 13. Sgt. Golom bek died suddenly before I could get a doctor. I got very panicked and buried his body in the woods at Mastic acres. Long Island.” Joe had been absent without leave for a month. That was unlike him.Fur ther, non-smoking, non drinking Joe had never mentioned hunting before. Police found the bodyof a balding 230-pounder in hunting clothes, yet shoeless, in a hastily dug shallow grave in a wood ed area just south on Montauk Highway. An Elon class ring re vealed the initials J.G. on the inside. From this, au thorities were satisfied of Joe’s identity. For 37-year-old Joe Golombek, finding what he’d wanted most on earth — home— was tra gic upon tragic, and even then, he went to his eter nal home a loner. Joe never married. Police have yet to solve the case. As vexing a puzzle also begs for an answer: Who would have so little heart and so much strength to do this to Joe Golombek? mm Arts Forum Program ^ ffSAL NECK STHETCHBK'. &y WEAEIMG A SERIES OF l?lMiS5 AS A PEEMAWEwr NECI^LACE, WOMEM OF THE PAPAUMS TKI6E IW gUEMA LEW&THEM THEIR A5 MUCH A« 15 INCHES/ Keeping sharp. There are 107 Army Reserve Schools with 320 satellites in the United States, Europe, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. In 1967 over 29,000 Army Reservists attended these schools to improve their proficiency or learn new sl(ills. (Continued from page 1) 1st this year to accept the position of director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. His lecture on Wednesday night will be followed by a reception in the West Dormitory Par lor. Dr. Hubert C. Heffner, who is Distinguished Ser vice Professor of Dra matic Literature at the University of Indiana,will lecture on ‘ ‘Modern Man In Modern Drama” inMc- Ewen Dining Hall at 3 o’clock next Thursday af ternoon. A native of North Carolina he has taught at several universities, and is at present serving as visiting lecturer at New York University.His lecture will be followed by the last of the recep tions and musical pro grams under the oaks of MURDER MYSTERY (Continued from page 2) the initials J. G., and Elon authorities gave the information that led to i- dentification of the mur der victim as Golombek, a native of Portsmouth, Va., who had gone on to a career as a profession al boxer after playing sports at Elon. That was fourteen years ago, and the inter vening years have never produced an answer to the question of who killed big Joe Golombek. H. Reid knew Golombek well, and he brings to present-day Elon people an interest ing sketch of the big boy who may have found his only real home during his years as a Fighting Christian athlete. Elon’s West Campus. Dr. Anthony P. French, a native of Brighton,Eng- land, who is now a pro fessor of physics at Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology, will lecture in McEwen Dining Hall at 8 o’clock next Thurs day night on “The Im portance Of The Uncer tainty in Science.” His lecture will be followed by the final reception in the West Dormitory Par lor. Closing the week-long series of lectures will be the aDoearance of Dr. Al fred G. Engstrom, of the University of North Car olina at Chapel Hill, who is to deliver the last of a series of six Humanities Lectures, this time on the subject of “Racine s Phedre And The Triumph Of Light,” His lecture is set for 12:30 o’clock next Friday in McEwen Dining Hall, a special fea ture of a buffet luncheon. The Liberal Arts Forum group acknow ledges this year the kind ness of a number of Bur lington people who are serving as hosts andhost- esses to the symposium lecturers. Included are Dr. and Mrs. Hammon H. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. C. Clifton El" der, Mr. and Mrs. J* Harper Erwin, Mrs. Ro ger Gant, Sr., Mr. and Mrs, Roger Gant, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. A, Glenn Holt, Mr. and Mrs. v. Wilton Lane, Mr, ana Mrs. John S. May and Mr. and Mrs. James L. McCormick,
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