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Trade With Those Who Advertise In Tt*e Maroon and Gold The Maroon And Gold Give Your Collcife Paper Your Earnest and Ijoyal Support VOIj. nine ELON tX)IiLEGE. N. C., SATl’KI>AY, AIMUIi 25, 1936. M MHER TW ENT\'-T>\'0 »>i’BTJSHED EACH WEEK BY STUDENT BODY OF ELON C OLLEGE CLYDE RUDD ELECTED PRESIDENT STUDENT DODY mi u FORBrra 1jO(‘a18 Turn III Good Itecord For Games Already Pla.yed This Season Winning five of the nine games played so far this season, Elon's baseball club has turned in a good record as the Christians reach mid season in the spring schedule. So far this year the Christian diamond men have come through with victories over some of the major college nines in this sec tion of the country, while losing seme close decisons to strong out fits. One conference game has been held at the date of this writ ing, the locals winning a close de- Annual Banquet Held By Deltas The Delta Upsilon Kappa sor ority held its annual banquet in the Venetian Blind Room of the O’Henry Hotel in Greensboro on Saturday evening, April 11. The beautifully appointed table was arranged in the shape of a diamond, symbatic of the sorority emblem. Easter lilies and lighted green and white tapers formed a lovely centerpiece. The color scheme of green and white was further expressed in the menu, programs, and place cards. Music was furnished by the hotel orches tra. Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Smith, Dr. French Haynes, and Dr. Merton French were honor guests at the occasion. Among the alumnae present were Misses Jean Boyd, llazellte Martin, Margaret Kel- bough, Frances Chandler, Louise lieighton, Maxine Covington, Sara WIEUR PRIZE Elon Boy Takes First Plat^c Award In AiiiAteur Contest At Burlington cision over Guilford college’s Quak t'r nine, in an Baster Monday sj^ith, Margaret Mofitt, ChHstine clash at Greensboro. j yarborough and Mrs. J. B. New- Captain Mike Briggs, ace left- | man. hander, and Webb Newsome, star | Miss Elmina Rhodes presided righthander, veteran mainstays of | and the following program was the hurling staff, have been the carried out: big reason for most of the Elon victories this year. Coach Walker! has a comlbination that is rather | weak at bat, but strong in fielding. Welcome, Elmina Rhodes: Response, Leonard I>owdee; Toasts: ' I To the Honor Guest. Esther the club comes through most QQie; the games with few hits, but so | far the boys are hitting at the j right times. j Last week the locals turned in I one of the most successful weeks | of play since the opening of the Response, Mrs. L. E. Smith; To the Old Girls, Rebecca Smith; Response, Hazella Martin; To the Men, Emmaline Rawls: Response, W. W. Kimball, Jr., To the New Sisters, Marcella 1936 campaign. The week | Ackenhausen; opened with the conference vie tory over Guilford as Briggs hook ed up in a pitcher’s duel with feetzer Weston. Guilford south- 1 aw ace, and came out with the best end of the bargain as Ceek’s double in the ninth frame sent Eriggs home with the winning run. Georgetown university, ap- . 1 Response, Frances Boland; Song and Yell; Farewell, Elmina Rhodes. Formal Bridge Party ' Held By Sorority; I Dean Haynes Guest Alfred William "Taiilc’’ Nelson, a member of the senior class at Elon this year from Bristol, Va., won the grand prize award in the amateur talent contest held at the Masonic exposition in Burling ton last week. Nelson took top honors over the large field of entrants in the con test, sponsored by the Masonic clulb of Burlingtton as a feature of the exposition held in Burling ton last week. The contest was held throughout the week of the exposition with a group of ama teurs appearing each night, the winners of these contests going to the finals Saturday night. “Tank" v/on 'the prize for the Tuesday decision over the other five con testants in the Saturday night finals. Rendering a harmonica solo giving imitations of birds well 1 nown in the United States, ■Tank” gave a brilliant perform ance and deliglited the huge au dience that witne.iaed the con^st. In the harmonica solo “Tank” played the selection “My Blue tieaven”, “What is Heaven With out the birds singing,” he then ^ exclaimed, and proceeded to give imitations with his hands and mouth of the birds ithat are heard from the break of day until into the night. He opened with the i meadow-lark as the bird-call that is first heard in he morning and then closed with the familiar call i,t the screetch owl. “Tank” gave the exhibition be fore the student body at the chapel exercises held in the audi- | lorium Mondr.y morning, and | Ben Holden Will Finish M. A. De gree This Spring The many friondLs of Ben Holden, HI, uill be glad to know that he Ls finishing his Master’s Decree at Duke uni versity this spring. T*.ie Ma roon and Gold received the following notice from Duke News Bureau: “Benjamin Tliomas Hold en, Loulsburg, N. C., Is one of more tlian 100 Duke Uni versity graduate students sub mitting tliesis and disser tations toward advanced de grees at tlie local institution this yeai*. He is writing on “Tfie Republi'an Party In North Carolina before 1867*’, for his M. A. Thesis in the dc^pjirtnient of Mstor>'. Hol den re*eived his A. B. de gree from Elon College. CLOSE m IN HML SPRING ELEOM lEBE Newman, Askenluiusen Student Govenuncnt Ix^aders; IJlien Editor of MaiH>ou and Gold pearing on Comer field here Fri- ; - ' Dr. Fr»^nch Haynes was honor- guest at a formal bridge party j.iven by the Delta Upsilon Kappa sorority in the Y. AV. C. A, build ing on Wednesday evening. April Cut flowers and ivy-covered trellises were effectively used in decorating. The high score prize t ''as awarded to Miss Floyd Childs. The Home Economics Club cel- _ , , • TT.„ ♦ ' The guest of honor was presented ebniited Easter by having an East- , . 1 with a lovely gift by the sorority, er egg hunt and a party combin- ! ® _ A -1 -.A I After an enjoyable evening of ed on Friday night, April 10. *’ . , ' I bridge, delightful refreshments ' were served. The guests playing were (Continued On IJist Page.) Home Ec. Club i Gives Egg Hunt Ciriumbu reituff Stf Cl>'de Wesley Rudd, of Elon College, was elected to the presi dency of the student body in the annual spring elections held at Elon and will lead the student body in the .major office next year. Rudd is a memlber of the Senior class at Elon next year and he will succeed W. W. Kimball as the leader of the student body. In addition to the president, other major office-holders elected for next year included Leon Newman, A irgilina, Va., president of the student seniiite, men’s student gov ernment organization; Marcella Ackenhausen. president of the student council, student g'overn- ment organization for women; Liouise Brendler. Irvington, N, J., vice i)resident of the council; Be atrice Wilkins, Hiiw Rver, secre tary of the council; Ina Futrell, l^ich Square. treasurer of the council; Ben Lllien, Irvington, N. .1., editor-in-chief of the Maroon and Gold, weekly college newspa per; Dan Watts, Peachland. edi tor of the Phipsicli, college an nual; John Cameron, Jonesboro, president of the student Christian r.ssociation; and Sue Gallowiay. Hamlet, head cheer leader. IT'S FINE TO HAVE FUN BUT NO PUN TO BE FINED stated recently that he is hoping to get the chance of appearing on the nationaly known “Major TJowes Amateur Hour” over the radio. As A Knave Sees It The guests were assembled in the Home Economics class-room the party began with the egg ^ J-.unt. The many colored eggs were hid in ithe Society Hall and Sewing L.abratory. Crayton Stev ens and Parnell Rudd found the most eggs. This was found by games. One was making the most words out of Happy Easter. Dean Haynes and Bill Jones received chocolate raWbits as prizes for making the most words. Another game was having certain groups make the word that matches are made for, out of fifteen matches. The thing that matches are made of is Love. also won this contest. Af ter other games w'ere played, the hostesses: Miss Howard, Luey Mae Wright and Virginia Kerns lead the guests into the dining room where delightful refresh ments were served consisting of Dr. French Haynes. Miss Floyd Childs, Miss Helen ChUmblee, Miss Thelma Aubrey. Miss Lila Newman, Miss Effle Carmen, Mrs. C:. Y. Johnson, Mrs. J. B. New man . fruit punch, small pies, sandwich es, and cookies in shape of rab bits and chickens. The guests at the social were Dean Haynes. Miss Howard, Misses Margaret Earp. Rachel Earp, Par nell Rudd, Anneta Smith. Qthel- ine Reynolds, Edith Brannock, Melvin James, Hazel Farmer, Nancy Butner, and Messrs. Bill Jones, Crayton Stevens, Eugene Gordan, Bernice Hester, Leon Newman, James White, Nathaniel Noell, Lawrence Cameron and Mike Briggs. The discordant manner in which the 1:00 p’clock train thunders hrough each night, indifferent to Elon’s sleeping po])ulace, is de- j pres.sing. It refuses to recognize j in any way this small hamlet i which constitutes so many's entire world. It makes an observer wish , »-he train’s next stop was unknown | to him. The dingy station with a) sleepy-eyed porter, the empty, ! .imly-Iighted streets of the town, | and the echoing steps of a police- | man on his beat. Now and then | a rough laugh from an all-night i I cafe and then finally a departing * I greeting from the laughter and | ' again footsteps on the grey-shad- owed streets accompanied by loud to Greensboro with his young Texan wife. He said as a small hoy she was the only woman he had ever seen wear a short ski’ll r.nd shoot a gun. Her aim W')s rt^markable which reminds me. rerd “Throvc'h the Shadows with O’Henry.” It is written by a man v-^ho was in the Ohio prison with Porter and knew him most inti mately. ^Continued On Last Page.) whistling, an attempt ait cheerful ness. The similarity and irony of it. V/ _ I The 1:25 train has just come in i and stopped. I want to know who got off and where they have been, f hope they had a good time. If it wasn’t for Dean Haynes being directly below me. I fear I would lean out \the window and ask the details. A cousin of O’Henry was telling me of O’Henry’s first visit bax^k Ramblings: “Strawberry” has the noisiest pipe on the campus— Hatcher Story went back to Court- land with such a.n appetite for sweet potaitoes that Pa Story had to open up the other potatoe hill —“Governor” insists that the tor nado In Greensboro chased him a block and took off the rubber heel of his shoe as he ducked into an alley — “Chalk-throwing” Bowden has a unique way of dismissing class—Prof. Prior’s only explana tion for wearing the unusual shirt on Thursday of this week was that It was his last attempt at keeping Hillgreen and “Murphy” awake during class. The eccentri cities of History profes^rs— I long to be in the condition of re pose called sleep, so here’s night mares to you all. Noted Baritone In Recital Here Wilson Angel, noted ba.ss bari tone of Winston-Salem, delighted a large audience with a recital in Whitley Memorial auditorium here Thursday evening in the closing number of the lyceum course. Angel rendered a program of highly outstanding numbers in his recital here Thursday evening and the large audience present for the final number on this year’s ly ceum course was well pleased and delighted wtih the appearance of the noted baritone on the local campus. Living up to all advance praises, W''ilson Angel’s program proved one of the finesrt that haa been presented on the lyceum course this year and was one of the most successful. Angel’s career has been one of outstanding triumphs. He began his musical career at an early age, winning the junior contest held un der the auspices of the National Federation of music clubs while etill in high school in Winston- Salem in 19 30. He has also won the Atwater Kent national $5000 award In the Dixie division audi tion and the state radio audition in Raleigh in 1932. In hia program here he rend ered several selections from great masters which Included Krelsler, Wagner, Rubenstein Perl, Lohr, and others. He was accompanied by Prof. Dwight Steere, head of the Elon music department and director of the lyceum course, at the piano.
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