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Alumni Day Commencement May 12 iVlclFi/illi CtiiU VJLFivI May 27 Published Each Week by Student Body of Elon College VOLUME IX ELON COLLEGE, N. C., MAY 6, 1936 NUMBER 24 ALUMNI DAY PROGRAM TO BE MAY 12 My Responsibility By a Member of the Christian Church and An Alumnus of Elon College (Reprinted from the Christian Sun) Nearly fifty years ago the membership of my church united its efforts, amassed its contributions and erected Elon College. Jly church has felt the responsibility for the college through the years. It has given its endorsement and support to the college. Young men and young women of the homes of my church have found at Elon College advantages of higher education and consistent training for the respon sibilities of life. Sunday school teachers, young people’s workers, lay men, and ministers of my church have received inspiration and guid ance on Elon College’s campus, ily church has not been as faithful to the college as it should. The college is the child of my church. It can not grow successfully separate and apart from my church. The college has gone through days of need and nights of disappointment. The future looks a little brighter now. The light of hope is beginning to shine more brightly. I learned from the Christian Sun, my church paper, and from many of my friends that another great effort has already begun in be half of my college, the institution of my church. Somebody is begin ning this effort but whoever is beginning it cannot do it alone, nor can it be done with a few of the friends and alumni of the college. If this campaign now under way is to succeed I know that it will take the best efforts on the part of everyone connected with the college in any way, and that includes me. Yes, I personally have a responsibility in the heroic effort that my church is making in the interest of my college. And as I sit down and think about the program as announced and the goal that is set I know that these plans and this goal will make definite demands upon me. It will require my best thoughts. It will be neces sary for me to think seriously about the whole undertaking. My church is undertaking this task not to fail but to succeed. I must go along with it. And before I go I must think the thing through, think about what will be the effect should the campaign fail, what will be the effect should it succeed. The failure to do my part may mean failure for the whole plan. :My faithfulness in doing my part completely may mean success. Well, it looks like it is going to take some of my time. I am busy. I have my own responsibilities. Nobody will look after my affairs if I do not, but I cannot afford to let this effort of my church be made by others and I give my time to what I call my own business. This would be selfish and I do not like to be put in that light. I heard a man say today, who is not a member of my church, nor an alumnus of my college, “I am so tremendously interested in the success of this campaign that if necessary I had rather close my business for sixty days than to see this campaign for Elon College fail.” If an outsider feels so deeply for the success of the Development Campaign for Elon College, surely I can afford to give a bit of my time. Then I know that if the goal of $250,000 is reached, and it must be reached, every individual member of my church and every alumnus of the college will have to give to the extent of his ability, not beyond what he is able to give but every cent that he should, and that includes me. I must make my contribution, and as I face this matter of giving DR. SMITH URGES CLASS REUNIONS AT COMMENCEMENT Rooms Provided for Gatherings of Former Students at Eventful Exercises. PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED Classes of ’96, ’06, ’16 and ’26 Are Par ticularly Urged to Come Back to Campus. i?;/ TKESIDEXT L. E. SMITH AVhen we entered college we foiind others ontering at the same time. We discovered that we were entering for the same piupose and that in the main we were interested in the same things. We also found tliat there were other groups on the hill constituting definite units, known as sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The.y told us that we were freshmen but that if we were studious during the jear we would he sopho mores the ne.\t year and so on until we ourselves would be seniors. P'our years at college gave us an understanding of each other and formed n certain bond of Interest and affection. Our college classes became for us an interesting group that holds a large place in our hearts. On graduation day we sepa rated. going in different directions and to different tasks. It Is'fTTTJyous thought that we may come back to the old collega and live over in our minds the more hiteresting things of our college days. Things are hapiiouing at Elon that we have always wanted to hapi)en but felt that they never would. The aiiproaching com mencement will be one of surprises and (Tontinued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) W. F. WAHKEN W.F. WARREN,’10, IS NOTED EDUCATOR Superintendent of Durham City Schools Has Distinguished Teaching Record. TALKS AND MUSIC TO BE BROADCAST FROM 4 STATIONS President Smith, Dr. Harrell, Atkinson and Professor Rainey to Speak. MEETINGS ARE PLANNED Elon Development Pro^n’am Message to Be Told—Former Students Urged to Tune in. HARD WORKER FOR ELON Alumni Are Organizing For Development Program DH. II. SIlEI/rOX SMITH DR. H. SHELTON SMITH DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS Sri’T. W. FRANK WARKEN Supt. \V. F. Warren, of the Durham city schools, is one if the outstanding Elon graduates in the field of education. Since finishing Elon in 1010. he has held responsible positions in the leading high .schools of North Carolina and South Carolina. SuiX'rintendent Warren has always had a keen interest in Elon and has never missed an opportunity to as. sist in any way possible. You will be interested in the following facts con cerning him. Horn at I’rospei t IJill, N. C., Caswell county ; married Ann Rrown, of (ireen- ville, S. C.; two children, Nancy Douglas and W. Frank. .Ir.; residence, !tOn N. ftregson street, Durham N. C. A.H., Elon College, lllKI; il.A., Uni versity of North Carolina, 1!)11; sum mer courses taken at Columbia I'niver- sity and Duke University. I’rinciiial high school, Reidsville, X. C.. 1911-191,'t; principal. Senior high school, Green.sboro, N. C., UH3-1!)1(!; principal, McMaster school, Columbia, S. C., l!ni-l!)20; principal, Greenville high school, Greenville, S. C., l!)20-l!)2i; principal, Durham high school, 1!)2(!- 1!»3.'!; superintendent, Durham city schools, since 1033; summer instructor, Winthrop College Extension courses and Duke university. In a spirit of ardent devotion to their Alma Mater in her hour of need, alumni of Elon in all parts of North Carolina and In many centers outside the state are throwing themselves into prepara tions for the Development Program with inspiring zeal, many of them sac rificing business and home time to serve a cause that is dear to them. In more than a score of cities alumni are forming organizations for the cam paign which will open -May 26. Where they are more scattered tbe former stu dents will be reached in other ways. The districts in which organizations are being formed and the chairmen or committees so far obtained were an nounced by J. O. Atkinson, Jr., alumni chairman, as follows: High Point district. Including Thom- a.sville; M. L. Patrick, chairman; Mi.ss Lucile Johnston and Mrs. J. C. White- sell, all of High Point. Siler City district, including also Ben nett, Pittsboro, Bonlee and Moucure; A. L. Combs, Bennett, chairman. Aslieboro district including also Sea- grove, B'armer, Ramseur and I.lberty; J. M. Green, Seagrove, chairman. Sanford district, including also Broadway, Lemon Springs, Jone.“boro and f)livia; M. A. McLeod, Broadway, chairman. Miss Margaret Mcl^eod, Broadway; Mrs. R. A. Watson, Jones boro ; Mrs. L. E. Brice, Lemon Springs; Miss Freda Dlmmlck, Sanford, and Miss Mary Addle White, Sanford. (Continued on Page Two) Outstanding Leader in Rellsrious Educa tion Field Was Graduated From Elon College in 1917. (Continued on Page Two) .\lunmi, mark May 12 with a red pen cil and keep it open ! That will be Alumui Day, one of the most important dates in the Elon Col lege Development Program. Broadcasts over four radio stations and as many dinners, meetings, parties or whatever other events the former students lix diflferent centers can ar range will compose the program for this night of nights in alumni annals. Everyone thinking about Elon at the same moment, everyone hearing some familiar voice telling about the great things being made possible for our Alma Mater through the Development Pro gram—that is the purpose of this Alunmi Day observance. There will be nuisic on the air as well as speeches, and every get-tog‘ther that can be worked up, even if it's just a group of Elon men and women around some body’s radio, will Iwlp build up the kind of spirit that Is needed to carry the movement along to success. Here is the program so far as it Is complete; 5:15 to 5:.'TO p. m., Station WPTF, Ra leigh : Dr. Stanley C. Harrell, general chairman for the Development Pro gram. speaking. 5 :-15 to 0 p. m., Station WBIG, Green»b(u-o: Music by Miss Helen Chamblee, of the Elon Music depart ment ; talk by Oscar Atkinson, Jr., alumui chairman. Norfolk station: President L. E. Smith si)eaklng; arrangements incom plete. 0 :45 to 10 p. m.. Station W15T, Char lotte : Music by Mrs. Bruce Cates Berry- hill, graduate of the Elon Music de- l»artment; talk by Prof. R. S. Rainey, principal of the Oakhurst High School, CImrlotte, and former president of the Alumni as.sociation. Everything passible is being done at the college and at the campaign head quarters to make the Alumni Day pro gram a success, but they can’t do more than put it on the air. IS NOW PROFESSOR AT DUKE Dr. H. Shelton Smith is considered one of the outstanding scholars In the field of religious education. lie was graduated from Elon College in 1917. Who's Who in American Education, has the following to say about Dr. Smith: “Smith. Ililrie Shelton, Professor of Religious Education Duke University, Duriiam, N. C.; born Greensboro, N. C., May 8, 1893; married Alma I>ee Bow den. of Norfolk, Va.; children : Richard Bowden; A. B. Elon College; Ph.D., Yale; D.D., Defiance College ; Member : I’i Gamma Mu, American History asso ciation : Ph D. dissertation; ‘Factors Conditioning Religious Education in Later Childhood'; First Lieutenant 142d B’ield Artillery, 39th Division. World War.” Colclough DiscoversV/hat Became of 7,200 Alumni Elon College, since its founding nearly 50 years ago, has helped to train some 7 200 men and women for a wide range of business and professional pur suits or for the important feminine profession of home-making, a survey just completed by George D. Colclough, field agent of the college, shows. Approximately 3,800 of the former students were men and 3,4fK5 women. About 1,200 of them 540 men aud 000 women were from Alamance county, N. C. Next to home-making, which claimed the talents of 2,200 Elon girls, teaching ranks as the profession to which the Elon graduate is most attracted. A total of 1,750 alumni have taken positions in schools and colleges, and the percentage of Elon graduates teaching in the high .schools of North Carolina is higher than that of any other college. More than 1,700 Elon alumni have Carolina 2g-N.C., entered business. The ministry claimed 107; meIiciue, 215; the law, 143; social work, 05: aud other professUms about 150. Nearly 4.50 have engaged in agri culture. Former Elon students are scattered throughout nearly every state in this country and In many foreign countries, ,he survey shows.
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