Thursday, December 11, 1969
Maroon and Gold
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Richard McGeorge accepts trophy for the Fighting
Christians. The Christians won the CIvitan Thanks
giving Turkey Classic which was held at the Elon
Alumni Gymnasium during Thanksgiving holidays.
Football Honors
By GAR/ DEAN
The Elon Fighting
Christians closed out
their most successful
campaign since 1964 with
a conference mark of 5-0
and an overall mark of
7-3.
The new Carolinas
Conference champions
played exciting football
throughout the season.
The three Christian loss
es came by a combined
total of 11 points. The
Christians played only
one bad game (a 45-21
loss to Catawba), but a
later forfeit gave the
game to the Christians.
The season’s results,
are as follows;
Elon 42 Concord 0
Elon 17 Guilford 7
Elon 20 Appalachian 26
Elon 26 Pres
byterian 10
By AL ZINK
The campus minister and chaplain, through morning
chapel services, individual counseling, and their offer
of fellowship, have tried this year to unify the campus
and emphasize to the student the need to involve re
ligion in his life. The following interviews with these
ministers reveal their programs and an analysis of
the successfulness of their work.
recent death in the fami
ly, and counsel those stu
dents with all types of
problems. Really a large
part of my job is just
getting to know students.
1 try to get out of my
office as much as possi
ble because the students
don’t come to me, 1 have
to go to them. I enjoy
meeting students and sev
eral times a week I go
In an interview with
Reverend Alfred Hurst,
the Campus Minister, 1
asked him to outline his
duties as Campus Mini
ster. “Broadly speak
ing, he said, “1 try to
establish a pastoral re
lationship with the stu
dents.
“In particular, I visit
the sick, try to com
fort those who have had a
Elon Cagers Win Tournament
By Richard C. Youmans
Elon defeated Western
Carolina University in the
first game of the sea
son in the Burlington Ci-
vitan Classic, 100-86.
The Christians, unable
to break the game open
for the first 30 minutes
or so, trailed the Cata
mounts 65-62, with only
13 minutes remaining.
Late in the game, Elon
guard. Noble Marshall
was fouled while shooting.
Marshall made both
shots, and then hit anoth
er, when a technical was
called on the Catamounts
coach, Jim Hartbarger.
Elon had the ball out of
bounds, and Marshall
went in for a layup. Foul
ed on the play, and also
shaken up, Marshall left
the game. Tom McGee
Elon 20 Carson
Newman 21
Elon 21 Catawba 45
(forfeit)
Elon 13 Western Ca
rolina 17
Elon 56 Newberry 21
Elon 29 Lenoir
Rhyne 0
Elon 63 Gardner -
Webb 7
Through the year the
Christians, both as a team
and as individuals, set
several national, con
ference, and school re
cords. They are as fol
lows:
shot the ball in lieu of
Marshall, thereby run
ning up six points before
Western Carolina knew
what happened.
Tom Cole looked ex
tremely well, pouring in
22 points, along with
Hicklin’s 13 points,
Trautwein’s 11, Mar
shall’s 13, and Elon’s All
- American, Richard Mc
George with 11.
Elon’s coach. Bill Mill
er, stated: “1 was very
surprised by Hicklin’s
and Berry’s play. It’s real
comforting to know you
can look down the bench
and see something be
sides splinters. When
those two boys realize
they can play good bas
ketball, they’re going to
be tough.”
Elon also defeated the
Guilford Quakers in the
finals of the Burlington
Civitan Turkey Classic,
77-71.
The Fighting Christ
ians, ledby their top three
guards, Tom Cole, Nobel
Marshal], and Tom Mc
Gee, defeated Guilford,
leading the entire game
except for a brief mo
ment near the onset and
ahead 77-71. at the end.
Elon did not appear to be
too dejected as it turn
ed back the team voted
most likely to succeed in
the Carolinas Conference
this season.
“We wanted to stop
their running,” said
Coach Miller, “and 1
feel we did a pretty good
job of that. They pulled
the fast break on us on
ly once.”
“As long as we control
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NATIONAL
Most pass receptions in
a career (217) by Richard
McGeorge.
CONFERENCE
Team — Most passes
intercepted in a game (7).
Individual — Most
touchdown receptions in a
game (4) by Richard Mc
George.
Most total offense in a
game (427 yards) by Jim
Arrington.
Most touchdown passes
in a game (6) by Jim Ar
rington.
Most touchdown passes
in a season (21) by Jim
Arrington.
Most punts in a sea
son (63) by Jackie Greene.
Most touchdown re
ceptions in a career (31)
by Richard McGeorge.
Most receptions in a
career (217) by Richard
McGeorge.
Most yards on pass re
ceptions in a career (3,-
486) by Richard Mc
George.
SCHOOL
Team — Most points in
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to the dining hall and sit
down with a group of stu
dents.”
His biggest problem in
trying to fulfill his dut
ies as Campus Minister
is getting the students to
respond to anything con
nected with religion and
ministers. “Students shy
away from things which
smack of religion. This is
partially because they are
occupied with so much
classroom work,” he
said. He said that both
he and Mrs. Hurst had
tried to get the students
to join together in group
discussions, but that the
discussions were poorly
attended.
Counseling Services Available
(Continued from page 2)
also developing a file con
cerning information in
volving technical and
graduate schools.
Mr. Wilkins is also ad
vocating the development
of courses dealing with
pietting along with people.
‘The root from which
most of the problems of
mental anguish stem is
essentially a conflict in
the inter - relations of
people.” Since the pur
pose of a liberal arts
college is to prepare in
dividuals for life, Mr.
Wilkins feels such cours
es are essential and
should have “equal em-
piiasis with purely scho
larly courses.” He sug
gests the initiation of such
courses as the Psycholo
gy of Communication,
which would involve the
ways one communicates
his ideas to another, with
emphasis on the non-ver
bal methods.
In the field of Sociolo
gy, Mr. Wilkins suggests,
a need forsuch a course as
Culture and Personality
emphasizing the cultural
forces which socialize a
child and how traits are
developed. Since college
students are potential
parents and teachers, the
need for such a course
is quite apparent. Mr.
Wilkins also believes that
such courses as the In
troduction to Psychology,
the Psychology of Com
munication, and Culture
and Personality should all
be required of every stu
dent in an attempt to pre
pare the individual to bet
ter understand himself
and others, and to live in
an increasingly crowd
ed environment.
Dr. Williams, who is a
state - certified psycho
logist, mainly counsels
those students who feel
themselves to be at a per
sonal crisis. If he feels
that a student’s condition
is serious enough to war
rant treatment, he first
attempts to convince the
student and his parents of
the need for treatment.
At the conclusion of
the interview, 1 ask
ed Reverend Hurst one of
those classic final exam
“discussion questions”.
If he could accomplish
just one goal on this cam
pus, what would it be? "If I
could develop a real sense
of community on the
campus, so that everyone
would not be so narrowly
focused on their own in
terests, but instead think
of a common purpose, 1
would be happy. Every
one is doing their own
thing rather than doing
everyone’s thing.”
Chaplain
The Campus Chaplain
is also an integral part
of the religious life on the
Elon campus. Dr. William
Elzey, in addition to be
ing Campus Chaplain, al
so is an associate profes
sor of philosophy and re
ligion. His main duty as
Campus Chaplain, also is
an associate professor of
philosophy and religion.
His main duty as Campus
Chaplain is to make pro
vision for morning chapel
services, and to super
vise all religious activi
ties on campus.
Concerning the effect
iveness of the new morn
ing chapel services. Dr,
Elzey explained that
“the services are not well
attended for three rea
sons: 1. they are not
mandatory this year, as
they were in the past,and
students are relieved that
they don’t have to attend,
2. students have many
classroom obligations
and they find little time
to become involved in any
optional activities, 3.
lastly, some students
have class conflicts which
make it impossible for
them to attend morning
chapel programs.”
When asked if he
thought the chapel pro
grams should be continu
ed inspite of the low at
tendance, Dr. Elzey re
plied: “No, the chapel
program in order to be
effective must be attend
ed by more students. Ap
plicants to Elon College
realize that the chapel
program is required of all
students (before the 1969
-70 program was begun)
and that they should be
willing to accept the re
quirements of the college,
but instead they came
here and changed the pro
gram through the many
complaints.”
Dr. Elzey saidhismain
objective as Chaplain
would be “to liberate the
student of the fear of
religion as something
which restricts or nar
rows life to a dull and
monotonus routine, and
help them to see it as
something which en
larges, enriches, and en-
obles life by introducing
new challenge and broad
ening one’s interest from
self-concern to concern
for humanity as a whole.”