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PAGE 2 MAROON AND GOLD THURSDAY. MAY 22. 1969 Students Receive Awards new elon bvilding rising near north (Continued from page 1) government during the year. Also presented by Noel Allen in behalf of the Stu dent Governm ent Asso ciation was a trophy to Prof. Jack O. White, di rector of the Elon Col lege marching and con cert bands, as the out standing member of the Elon College faculty for the 1968-69 college year. The Schackley Awards, given each year in mem ory of the late Dr. George Shackley, of St. Peters burg, Fla., were present ed by Prof. Gene Feather- stone to James Fogle of Charleston, S.C., for work in piano, and by Prof. Richard Apperson to Gwendolyn Wood, of Longhurst, for work in organ. The Jerry Dalton Stra der Awards, given in memory of the late Jerry D. Strader, for many years a leader in reli gious, educational and ci vic affairs in Burlington, were presented by Dr. Ferris Reynolds to Joan Anderson for work in Christian education, and by Prof. Sandy Moffett to Jay Wilkinson, ofMas- sapequa, N. Y., for work RETIRING Miss Arabella Gore, catalogue librarian at the Elon College library since 1947, is retiring this year. She was honor ed by fellow members of the library staff at a party held on Thursday night of last week, when resolu tions were read in her honor. A native of Wil mington, Miss Gore is a graduate of Meredith Col lege and holds the li brary science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. in campus dramatics. The Dudley Ray Watson Memorial Award, given by the Society for Ad vancement of Manage ment to the outstanding senior in business ad ministration, was pre sented by Prof. James Toney to Stafford Pee bles, of Winston-Salem. Also honoring the late Dudley Watson was a scholarship, presented by Mrs. Jeanne Williams to Elizabeth Lentz, of Bur lington. The Pi Gamma Mu scholarship award for outstanding work in the field of social science was presented by Prof. Ralph Anderson to John Burgess, of Gibsonville, for work in the study of economics. Two new awards given this year were the Mar cella Rawls Saecker A- ward, in memory of the late Mrs. Marcella R. Saecker, and the Cindy Robertson memorial scholarship, given by Beta Omicron Beta, The Saecker award was presented by Prof. Jennings Berry and by Mrs. George Bullard,sis- ter of the honoree, to Kay Savage, of Whaleyville, Va., and the Robertson scholarship was given by Jane Crocker to Diane Gucker, of Edinburg, Va. Chairmen of various college departments list ed several graduating seniors, who have been a- warded grants, fellow ships, scholarships of assistantships for ad vanced study. These a- wards included those to Toula Panagiotopoulou, of Athens, Greece, for math study at Wake Forest; to Gerry Oxford, of Elon College, for chemistry study at Emory Uni versity; to James Light- boume, of Burlington for math study at N. C. State University; and to Ronald Wicker, of Sanford, for physical education study at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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 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. a--* With the steel framework already rising into the sky, work is moving ahead rapidly on the new Elon College classroom and office building, which is being erected near the north gate of Elon’s walled campus and adjacent to the Duke Science Building. The new three-story structure, which is to house college of fices and classrooms, is expected to be ready for occupancy by January 1st of next year. It is being built at an estimated cost of $650,000. It will feature a large basement where all IBM equipment will be placed and will furnish a record cen ter where all student records will be kept. A number of administrative offices will be located on the first floor, with eight faculty offices and six classrooms on the second floor and six faculty offices and six classrooms on the third floor. The building is of traditional architectural design, thus merging into the tradi tional style of the walled campus. After Twenty Years IT’S ^THIRTY’ “While it’s true, Miss Borst, we don’t spell out proper fac ulty attire ... we do have rules!” By LUTHER N. BYRD After twenty years, it’s “Thirty!” In journalistic lang uage, that word “Thirty” means the end, the end of a story, the end of a year or the end of an era. In this particular case, it means the end of an era for me, all of which gives me an excuse to write in the first person for the second time in a journa listic career that has ex tended for forty-five years. The last twenty years of that time has been right here at Elon Col lege, where it has been my privilege to serve as director of publicity for all phases of the college activities and to serve as faculty advisor for the Maroon and Gold for two decades of tremendous progress for the college itself and great change in the life on the oak-shaded campus. All of that comes to an end this week as I make a complete change of duties for the coming year, relinquishing all journalistic and newspa per activities and switch ing to full time duties as a teacher of history. It is for that reason that I write “Thirty” at the beginning of this state ment, signifying the end of an era for me. When I came to Elon in 1949, the student body listed only 739 students, which means that the en rollment has more than doubled to reach a total of 1,729 for this 1968- 69 term, with the number of dormitory students numbering more than the total studentbody of twen ty years ago. In my work as faculty advisor for the Maroon and Gold, it has been my privilege to work with many very fine young men and young women who served on the editorial staff of the campus news paper, and a quick glance backward over the pages of the Maroon and Gold recalls the period of Elon’s greatest growth. That very first year back in 1949-50 the Ma roon and Gold told of the opening of Alumni Me morial Gymnasium, and that was only the first of many new buildings which were featured in Maroon and Gold stories and pictures, for the pa per has since told of open ing eight new dormitor ies, a new student cen ter and a new library and two new dining halls. During these twenty years the Maroon and Gold has told of many glories won by Fighting Christian sports teams, for it has been my plea sure to recount the doings of no less than twenty championship teams, in cluding fifteen which won Conference titles and five others which won NAIA District 26 titles, two in football, five in basket ball, five in baseball, two in track, four in golf and one in tennis. Along with the stories of Christian team accom plishments, it has also been my privilege to tell of the exploits of no less than ten All-American athletes who wore Maroon and Gold colors into the athletic wars, among them eight in football, and one each in basket ball and baseball. There have been stories, too, of high honors won in music, dramatics and other student activities. Among the brighter memories of twenty years working with the Maroon and Gold is the fact that the Maroon and Gold it self was twice honored as the best college news paper in North C arolina in the weekly and bi-weekly class, and there was one year when student writ ers on the Maroon and Gold won three of six in dividual statewide hon ors, leaving three for all other colleges and uni versities in North Caro lina. Throughout the years the Maroon and Gold has been operated as a cam pus newspaper, dedicated to the best interests of Elon College as a whole, and with equal attention to the activities of students, faculty and administra tion. I believe that al ways a college newspaper should be thus dedicated and I am more than ever convinced that no college newspaper should ever publish open forum let ters. Such letters are al most universally to voice gripes, and they almost always given an unfavor able picture of the college itself. I shall always remem ber the twenty years when I was privileged to work with the Maroon and Gold in telling the story of Elon College, its stu dents, faculty and admin istration, but now the era Is ended. And that’s “TH(RTY.” m “The persons most difficult to convince they’re at retire ment age are children at bed time.”
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