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VOLUME XIII
Z 530
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1939
NUMBER FIFTEEN
Harrell, Daniels Are Commencement Speakers
Alumni Meeting
Monday, May 29
“MILL VILLAGE” WILL BE
GIVEN FOR FOURTH TIME
Schedule Composed of Famous
Speakers, Dramatic, and Musi
cal Offerings
The Commencement program
for 1939 promises to be one of the
best in the history of the school.
The outstanding address will be
delivered Tuesday morning, May
30, by Mr. Jonathan Daniels, edi
tor of the “News and Observer",
Raleigh, N. C. and author of the
book '“A Southerner Discovers the
South".
Other events, in order, will be
as follows:
The play, “Mill Village”, pre
sented by the Elon Players on
Saturday night. May 27. The
play, written by Isaiah Sears, won
the State Contest. The production
will be under the direction of Dr.
J’letcher Collings, head of the
English department.
Sunday morning. May 28, at
eleven. Dr. Stanley C. Harrell will
preach the Baccalaureate Ser
mon. Dr. Harrell is secretary of
the Board of Trustees.
Sunday night the Elon Singers,
under the direction of Professor
Stewart Pratt, will present “The
Vision of Sir Launfal” by Leo
Sowerby.
At the Alunrmi meeting Monday
morning, May 29, Mrs. E. R.
Bryant, Jr., of Franklin, Va. will
speak. Monday night at the
Alumni Banquet the Hon. John J.
Ingle, attorney, will deliver the
address.
N. C. C. P. A. Completes
Annual Convention
Today in Greensboro
Elon Students Among The
Many Colleges and University
Publication's Representatives.
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The Elon Singers under the direction of Professor Stuart Pratt will sing in Greensboro, to
morrow, at the First Christian Church, and the following Sunday at Sanford, spending the day at
Pinehurst, and giving a concert that evening at Aberdeen.
Student Officers
For Next Year
Installed Yesterday
Bean, Vore, and Jones Take
Oath of Office At Chapel
The North Carolina Collegiate
Press Association has been held
in Greensboro for the last three
days of this week.
The groups that are attending
this convention are Annual Edi-1
tors. Magazine Editors, Newspaper
Editors, and Business Managers
for all colleges and universities in
North Carolina. I
Students from Elon who are at-,
tending the convention were rep
resentatives of the Maroon and
Gold and the PhiPsiCli. I
Charles Driscoll, author of O.,
O. McIntyre’s former column,
“New York Day By Day”, ad
dressed the Student journalists
during the Friday night banquet.
THE PROGRAM
Thursday
2:00 to 5:00 — Registration. Lob
by, O. Henry Hotel
S:00 — Meeting of officers.
Friday
10:00 — General meeting and
welcome
1:00 — Luncheon
3:00 — Group meetings
Annual editors
Magazine editors
Newspaper editors
Business managers
8:00 — Banquet, O. Henry hotel
10:00 to 12:00 — Dance, O. Henry
Hotel
Saturday
S:00 — Business session
Adjournment.
The main officers of the Elon
Student Body took their oath of
office yesterday in the Whitley
Auditorium during chapel. The
retiring officers, Walter Fonville,
Floyd West and Gwen Tillmanns,
were in charge of the opening ex
ercises.
With the traditional robe cere
mony, Walter Fonville, this year’s
president of the Student Body,
turned the meeting over to Duane
Vore, incoming president. Prof.
A. L. Hook administered the oath
of office. In succession, Floyd
West turned over the duties of
President of the Student Senate
to Curtis Jones, and Gwen Till
manns was succeeded by Frances
Bean, incoming President of the
Student Council. The oath of of
fice was administered to these two
by Duane Vore.
The remainder of the student
officers for next year will be
sworn in at one of the early stu
dent chapel meetings next fall.
The Maroon and Gold wishes to
express its congratulations to the
new officers, and to extend to
them best wishes for success in
the coming year.
Preparations Being
Made For Junior-Senior
The final preparations are be
ing made for the farewell banquet
to be held for the senior class
of 1939. This affair is expected
to be the greatest event of its
kind of the present year. Secrecy
holds all the students in suspense
because it is to be something dif
ferent in the line of banquets.
Various committees that have
to suffer the responsibilities are
as follows: Program and Decora
tion committee are listed to June
Leath, Flo Ray, Frances Bean,
Curtis Jones and James Parker.
Collection of fees will be made
by Edna Fitch and L. W. McFar
land.
The date of this great affair
will be May 12, 1939 in the Col
lege Dining Hall and is scheduled
to start at 7:00 o’clock.
All Seniors are requested and
urged to attend this affair and
don’t forget to get yourself a
date for that evening because im
mediately following the banquet
there will be a party in the Y.
W. C. A. The banquet is formal.
Physics Department
To Hold Onen House
Next Tuesday Night.
Many Interesting Exhibits of
Light and Electricity Planned
Asheboro High School
Seniors Visit Campus
To Give It Once-Over
Under the direction of a com
mittee, Harris Hendrix, chairman,
Dewey Hooper and Paul Secrest,
the Physics Department will hold
its annual Open House, next Tues
day, May 9, from 7:30 tmtil 11.
Many interesting exhibits, es
pecially in the fields of light and
electricity, will be conducted by
members of the department, A-
irong the new ones will be the
polarization of light and lucite,
a new transparent plastic.
The Household Engineering
class will have special exhibits of
modern kitchen and household ap
pliances
The Press Room, on the same
floor, will also be open for in
spection. This is where the Ma
roon and Gold is composed and
printed.
The Open House idea has prov
ed very interesting and educa
tional in the past.
Maroon And Gold
Sends Questionnaires
To County Newspapers
Desire Answers On Conditions
Of Local Newspapers And
Chances Of Job For College
Journalists.
The Maroon and Gold Staff,
wishing to get a more complete
idea of county newspapers, has
composed a questionaire to be
mailed out to these papers to be
answered and returned.
From these questions the staff
is attempting to get the editors’
ideas of the condition of the county
weekly, their chance for future
existence, and whom they may
interest and serve. Questions are
also asked concerning the weekly’s
staff and whether the editor had
rather train his own men or hire
college journalists.
The questionaire is composed so
as to give the staff a complete idea
of the county newspapers in Vir
ginia and the Carolinas, a nd to
find out the chances of journalism
students getting a job in this field.
Walker, Craven;
King and Queen
FORMER ROYALTY WILL
LEAD PROCESSIONAL
Elaborate Campus Setting
Prepared; 125 Taking Part in
Annual Affair.
Postponed a week because of
unfavorable weather conditions,
the gala Elon May Day celebra
tion will get under way this after
noon at 3:45. The program this
year is well planned and promises
to be one of extreme beauty and
enoyment. One feature, that has
been added this year, has brought
about an unusual interest in the
celebration. That is the appear
ance of the May Kings and Queens
of the past two years, llie pro
gram is as follows.
Organ Recital — Professor Mor
gan.
Chorus — “To A Wild Rose’’
Spring Dance
Court Soldiers
May Day Procession—King and
Queen, 1937, Leon Newman and
Blanche Wagoner; King and
Queen, 1938, LeGrand Moody and
Nell Ley; Attendants, 1939, Ruth
Page Clark, Helen Daily, Juanita
Waugh, Mary Frances Walker,
Walter Fonville, Jack Neese, Hen
ry Satterfield, Floyd West, Jester.
Evalee Parker; Flower girl, Joann
Newman; King and Queen, 1939,
Galloway Walker and Mildred
Craven; Chorus — Mozart’s “Min
uet”; A courtly dance.
Court Entertainment — Chorus
—“French Dolls”, Dance — The
French Dolls; Chorus — “Wind
mill Song”, Dance — Dutch
Couples; German Tumblers; Cho
rus — “Gypsy Ann’, Dance —
Gypsy Girls; Chorus — “In Far
Japan”, Dance — Geisha Girls;
Chorus — “Sailing”, Dance —
Sailor Girls of the U. S. A.
Recessional — The court in or
der.
There are approximately one
hundred and twenty-five girls
taking part in this celebration.
Mrs. Hendrickson has been gen
eral director of the celebration.
She has been assisted by Profes
sor Edwards, who has directed the
choruses, Mrs. Johnson, who has
been responsible for the scenery,
and Margaret Felton, pianist.
Dr. Wicker Speaks To
Education Club
The Education Club met again
last Tuesday in Dean Messick’s
classroom. As is the procedure it
is customary to have a prominent
speaker as its guest. The main
speaker was Dr. H. C. Wicker and
his topic was “Character and
Citizenship.”
Approximately 70
Commercial Students
Visit Many Offices
On Inspection Tour
Study Office Routine In Busi
ness Offices in Greensboro.
' Because of the inconvenience of
■ large groups visiting busy offices,
the commercial students were
divided into groups when they
made their office inspection tour
this year. Among th^fe Greensboro
offices visited, were the Reming-
ton-Rand, Inc., where all kinds of
files and filing equipment were
demonstrated, and the Burroughs
machine office, where the latest
in business machine equipment
vvas seen.
If your class was disturbed on
the morning of April 26 by visits
ors peeping in the doors, and your
seat was taken on the first shift
that same day, you may blame it
on approximately seventy seniors
from the Asheboro High School,
Asheboro, N. C.
Each year these students visit
the outstanding college campuses
of the state. It so happened this
year that Elon found a prominent]
place on the schedule.
The Students arrived here a-1
round 11:30 o’clock and after anj
hour of sightseeing they had^
lunch in the dining hall. i
Many nice comments were madej
about the Maroon and Gold of
fice, Science building, and most
of all the lunch and the pleasant
ness of the student body.
Asheboro High School Seniors who visited the camp s last week to
chose the school for their higher education. Ther were over 70
give it the once-over before they
students in the group.