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VOLUME IV.
ELON COLLEGE, N. C, FEBRUARY 2, 1923
NUMBER 20
MAROON AND GOLD STAFF IS
ELECTED FOR COMING YEAR;
JUNIOR CLASS CHOOSES WELL
lOLLEFSEN TRIO WILL
SOON mm ST elon
Sion M. Lynam to Head Machine
—W. B. Terrell Chosen
Managing Editor.
all officers ELECTED
New Staff Will Take Over Paper
April ist—Much Interest
In Election.
ARCHITECT CHOSEN BY
BUILDING COMMITTEE
Herbert B. Hunter Selected for Work
—Reconstruction Program
Formulated.
The rising junior class In a called
business session Thursday afternoon
elected a full staff of officers for Maroon
flnd Gold next year. The junior class
is wholly responsible for the college paper
which is supported by the students.
Although the newly elected staff of
officers will not take charge of the paper
UQtil the first of April, they were elected
at this early date that they might have
the opportunity of becoming familiar
with their duties.
The election, at an early date, of these
officers was considered a wise plan by
the class. It is felt that with the
advantage of training, which they will
receive from the present staff of officers,
they will be ready to swing right into
the work and will be better prepared
to assume the responsibilities of the
paper.
Maroon and Gold has been growing
rapidly during the last few years and it
is now considered as ranking among the
best college papers.
S. M. Lynam, managing editor, was
elected editor to succeed Lloyd J. Bray
who graduates this year. Mr. Bray,
editor, has done much for Maroon and
Gold this year, and much of the success
of the paper is due to his work. Mr.
Lynam. the efficient managing editor, and
Mr. Bray’s successor, has also contribut
ed much toward making Maroon and
Gold what it is today. The students
are enthusiastic over his election
editor, and feel that the success of the
paper is assured by his election. The
other officers who will be on the staff
are: \V. B, Terrell, managing editor;
W. C. Elder, business manager; R. W.
Utley, assistant business manager; W.
J. Hooks, circulation manager; G. L.
Williams, assistant circulation manager;
Kate Strader, assistant circulation man
ager ; Curtis Price, advertising manager;
J. O. Atkinson, Jr., assistant advertising
toanager; C. W. Hook, editor for the
alumni: R. D. Clements, publicity edi
tor.
DR. WICKER IS AWARDED
HIGH PLACE er MASONS
£lon Professor Chosen Educational
Field Secretary — Will
Not Resign.
Dr. W. C. Wicker has accepted the
work of field secretary of education for
the Masonic Order in North Carolina.
I)r. Wicker has headed the educational
department of the college for a number
of years, and this new field of endeavor
opens to him as a result of his faithful
and well performed work here.
The acceptance of this work will not
mean Dr. Wicker’s resignation from the
faculty. As he has put it, “I hope I
will never be lost from Elon College.
This work will but broaden my class
room work.” He will remain as head
of the department, but will probably
be granted a leave of absence by the
college.
The election of Dr. Wicker to fill this
high position in the Masonic Order re
fleets h-onor upon the college. He
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Fourth Number of Lecture and Con
cert Course Billed for
February 17.
At a meeting of the building com'
niittee in Burlington last Wednesday
afternoon, Herbert B. Hunter of Bur
lington was selected as architect for
the new building to be erected here.
Tliis selection was set for Monday, but
due to the illness of Col. R. L. Holt,
the meeting was delayed.
Mr. Hunter has already begun on
his work. He spent Thursday making
a careful survey of the grounds, locat
ing corners, and in other preliminary
work. The architect will not only plan
for the building, but will lay out the
entire campus for the future growth of
the college. He is to indicate on his
map places for trees, shrubbery, walks,
and drives, as well as for the coming
buildings of the future. It is intended
that the new program include a thor
ough-going plan of improvementj and
steps are being taken leading to an all-
around program of reconstruction.
Sixteen architects were considered
before the committee made its selec
tion. Mr. Hunter is thoroughly capable
of the work, and his work in the past
assures his reputation.
As yet the contract for reconstruc
tion has not been let, though several
offers have been made the college. Mr.
W. T. Sears, of Norfolk, was here on
Thursday in the interest of his com
pany. Mr. Sears is a former Elon stu
dent ,having taken three years of work
here. Had he been graduated, he would
have been a member of the class of
'97. He has a personal interest in the
college, and his offers were indicative
of this in their liberality.
The cleaning of the brick from the
burned building has been begun by the
boy scouts of Elon. Those bricks not
damaged by the fire will be used for
interior work. The others will be
crushed and used in general improve
ment of the campus.
STATE HAS SUFFERED I
FROM THE ELON FIRE I
By DR. E. C. BROOKS
State Superintendent Public Instruction
Clios Will Present
Popular War Drama
Annual Entertainment to be Staged at
Burlington on Account of tlie
Recent Fire.
The fourth number of the concert
and lecture course being brought to
the college by the Music Lovers’ Club
will take place February 17, at 8:00
o’clock. The concert will be given by
the Tollefsen Trio, with Carl Tollefsen,
violinist; Paul Keefer, ’cellist, and Au
gusta Schnabel-Tollefeen, pianist.
No chamber music organization in
America can boast so long and so hon
orable a career as the Tollefsen Trio.
All three have won acclaim as indi
vidual artists, but it is really because
of their skill in ensemble playing that
their reputation has grown.
The course of the Tollefsen’s history
has been that of steady growth. From
a modest beginning of concerts given
in their home city, Brooklyn, .where
both Mr. and Mrs. Tollefsen were well
known teachers of music, they have
gradually widened the scope of their
activities and from year to year en
larged the field of their concert giving.
It is an acknowledged fact that no or
ganization has enjoyed the number of
re-engagements that has marked the
course of Tollefsen history.
Carl H. Tollefsen, the head of the
organization, is an American, though
he was born in England. His teachers
were Leopold Lichtenberg and Frank
Kneisel. He has traveled extensively
in America and Canada as a virtuouso,
besides being concertmaster of the New
York Scandinavian Symphony Orches
tra.
Augusta Schnabcl-Tollefsen, the pi
anist, is from Idaho, but was taken at
the age of five to Europe for musical
study. There as a wonder child she
made many concert tours and repeated
ly played under the auspices of nobility
of various lands.
She made her debut in America on
November 25, 1906, playing the Saint-
Saens concerts in D minor with the
New York Symphony Orchestra, Wal
ter Damrosch, conducting. She has fre
quently played with the Kneisel quar
tet.
Paul Keefer is a recognized master of
the ’cello, and his long years of study
with the greatest teachers are reflected
in his splendid artistry.
Their repertory includes classical and
modern compositions of the most varied
kind.
This concert will be given in the gym
nasium of the Alumni Building, on ac
count of the auditorium having been
burned in the recent fire.
The admission fee will be $1.00 for
those not holding season tickets.
Elon College has recently lost its
main building by fire, which is a
financial loss of over $100,000. The
gTeatest loss, however, is not in the
amount of property consumed by
the fire, but in its handicap to con-
tmue the same service for the state
that it has rendered for more than
a generation.
This institution in its hour of
distress has a right to call on the
public for assistance. It is one of
our standard colleges supported by
private donations, but it is as much
a public institution as any support
ed by funds derived from state rev
enues, because its purpose is to
serve the public, and every student
it educates relieves the pressure on
state funds just that amount. North
Carolina will suffer just to the same
degree that such institutions as
Elon are made to suffer. It can
not ask the state government for
help, but it has the right to call on
the public for assistance in its hour
of distress. During the number of
years it has served the state it has
given honest work and rendered
fine service. The regard in which
It is held by friends who know it
well is best illustrated by the fine
example set by the town of Bur
lington, which undertakes to raise
$100,000 to help replace the build
ing destroyed. Patriotic citizens
throughout the state will be given
an opportunity to come to the as
sistance of this fine institution in
its hour of distress and it should
not call upon them in vain.
IS
BEGUN IN MASS MEETING
W. E. Sharpe to Head Financial Drive
in Alamance County—Doctor
Harper Speaks.
Miss Grace Orndorff
To Be Resident Nurse
Mrs. Janet Kirkland Becomes Dietitian
—^Miss Orndorff Comes March 1.
Miss Grace Orndorff will succeed Miss
Maynor as resident nurse of the college.
She can not begin her duties until March
1st, amd until then, a nurse has been
found to fill the position. Mrs. Janet
Kirkland will succeed Miss Maynor as
dietician, and will have charge of the
boarding department of the college.
Miss Orndorff is a former student of
the college, having taken work through
the sophomore year here. She holds a
certificate from the business department
awarded in 1915. She took her training
in the hospital at Harrisonburg, Va.,
and did practical hospital work for three
years in New York City. She served as
a nurse on this side during the war,
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“Clio Players” has become a synony
mous term for quality in dramatic pro
ductions at Elon. This year, despite the
fact that the college auditorium is gone,
the Clio players are going to put on one
of the heaviest productions ever given
at Elon. More than fifty people will
appear in the play.
The Clio players, this year, are giving
“Over Here,” by Walter Ben Hare. It
is a story of war days, and of a lad,
who, though beat and kicked and hunted
like a rat under the docks, comes at
last to realize his love for the land that
gave him birth. He at last listens to
the call of the stars and stripes and
knows that this is his own, his native
land.
It is very fortunate that the Clio
Players have been able to secure Prof.
Greenwood as a coach. Prof, Greenwood
has been a professional actor, and his
work with the Players will need no com
mendation.
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Chri^-tian^ Maintciin 'Rep 'Bjr
Dotnfntng Lenoir "Ba^Hsteer^
Corboy Quint Defeats Lutherans
by Score of 34-18—Fix and
Perry Lead in Scoring.
JONES SHOWS UP WELL
McAdams, “Alph” Brown, and
Barker Out Account “Flu”—
First Game at Home.
“Elon defeats LeBoir by score of 34
to 18", read the headlines that appeared
in the daily papers on the morning after
the night of January 20th, and sums
up in a nutshell the whole proceedings
of the Elon-Lenoir encounter.
“Day by day in every way” the Elon
basketball tossers are coming to the
forefront in North Carolina athletic
circles.
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MISS MAGEE PLEASES
LARGE ELON AUDIENCE
Speaker Pleads for More Trained Work
ers in the Field of Religious
Education.
The students and others present at
the Sunday evening meeting in the
girls’ gym were especially delighted in
having Miss Daisy Magee, of Ealeigh,
superintendent of the Children’s Divis
ion of the State Sunday School Asso
ciation, to speak to them. Miss Magee
came under the auspices of the Relig
ious Activities Organization and was
introduced by Miss Mary Swanson, vice
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With a spirit of intense interest and
enthusiasm before uuequaled in Alamance
county, the campaign to raise $100,000
for Elon was started last Sunday after
noon at 3 o’clock when one of the largest
gatherings ever assembled in Burlington
in the interest of an educational institu
tion almost completely filled the audi
torium of the municipal building.
A large number of Elon students and
faculty members were present at this
big mass meeting of the citizens from
all over the county.
The meeting had been planned by a
special committee of leading citizens and
business men of Burlington, headed by
Col. 1{. L. Holt. The program was
started with a hymn led by Professor
Greenwood and Rev. Thos. F. Opie, rec
tor of the Holy Comforter church in
Burlington followed with the invocation.
F. L. Williamson presided over the meet
ing and introduced J. M. Cook of Burl
ington, who was the first speaker. Mr.
Cook stated the object of the meeting.
Dr. W. A. Harper delivered the first
address. Dr. Harper first spoke of the
spirit of the hardy pioneers of Alamance
in their rebellion against the tyranical
rule of Governor Tryon. He said that
this same spirit exists today, but it is
not expressed with rifles and warfare,
but with sympathy and aid for a stricken
institution of learning. He discussed
the Christian ideals for which the col
lege stands and asserted that a college
is more than the buildings and the
grounds on which it stands; it is a
spiritual institution which moulds char
acter. He said, “I had rather have the
spirit manifested by the students on the
morning of January 18 than to have the
Administration building.” Dr. Harper
closed his address by a brief summary of
the events of the college since the fire,
and expressed the sincere appreciation
and gratitude of every member of the
faculty and student body for the sym
pathy and loyalty shown by the people
of Alamance county since that time.
The next speaker was E. M. Parker,
of Graham, present representative from
Alamance to the general assembly. Mr.
Parker began his address by paying a
high tribute to the denominational col
lege. He said that the small denomina
tional college of today was saving the
country from a tendency toward Liberal
ism which leads to Atheism. He declar
ed that Alamance county was favored
by having Elon located within its limits.
He then became reminiscent of the time
when he was a student at Graham col
lege which was the mother of Elon. He
spoke of the early history of Elon and
its rapid development during the more
than a quarter of a century of its ex
istence. As an evidence of the real worth
of Elon, Mr. Parker referred to the many
political, social, and religious leaders
that have gone out from the institution
into the nation. Making a final great
appeal to the large audience to help re
build the college, the speaker declared
that it was not merely a duty, or an op
portunity, but a glorious privilege that
the people of Alamance have in aiding
the stricken institution in its time of
extreme need.
The last speaker on the program was
W. E. Sharpe, chairman and supervisor
of the campaign for funds in Alamance
county. INIr. Sharpe explained in de
tail the plans for the campaign, and an
nounced that his co-workers would be
organized during the coming week and
the solicitation for funds would begin
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