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VOLUME XV Z 530 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. NOVEMBER 16, 1940 NUMBER FOUR
Elon College Players
Op en Big Season
Dramatic Class Gives
Bill of Three Plays
The winter play season has ar
rived with a flurry of new plays.
The first productions were a
group of three, tw'o of which were
original plays written by the
Dramatic Literature class, and
the third was first written and
produced by the Carolina Play-
makers. The first performance
was given on last Wednesday
evening in the Little Chapel,
starting at 8:30. The cooperative
effort of the entire class has
ma'de the dialogue, scenes, lay
outs, and properties as successful
as they were. The curtain open
er was “Sophisticated Freshman’
followed by “The Infernal Tri
angle” and the group was ended
with “Funeral Flowers For The
Bride.”
The play “Sophisticated Fresh
man” had a quite novel and in
teresting birth. It began from
an anecdote told in class by Nell
'Tingen. Upon hearing this story
■the class completed a plot and
chose the actors. Lines were
added where necessary to explain
the action and thus a play was
iiorn. From this small seed of
humor sprang the full flower of
•comedy. The dialogue was re
touched to give it greater length
and humor, so, as it was present
ed, it composed three merry, mad
cap scenes. The result was a
thirty-minute comedy from a
two minute joke about the tale
of a love sick Freshman girl and
the humorous situations she be
came involved in through her at-
ti)Mpts to win the love of the
school’s football hero.
The cast of “Sophisticated
Freshman” included: Luvene
Holmes as Mary Ann Snyder, a
love sick Freshman girl who had
been to many Joan Crawford
movies. Joe Blanks as Jim
Hardman, the football hero and
a smoothie who is courting a nice
girl for a change. Margaret Nash
as Phyliss, a beauty parlor opera
tor and all round nice girl who
Shown above is the receiving line of the Sophomore-Freshman Reception, which was held last
Saturday night in the Y. W. C. A. Those in the rsceiving line are, left to right: Dean Oxford. Pro
fessor Stewart, Sally Avery, Kenny Herbert, Virginia Deese. Dan Barker, Peg Galloway, Jim Ferris,
Ilene Phillips, and Seymour Goldblum.
Dr. Johnson Has Hot
Dog Banquet in Woods
The “Hot-doi? Banquet”, spon
sored by the Dr. Johnson Lit-
srary Society, was a ceremonial
affair, as W. T. Walker and Louis
Adair played ‘chefs’. The mem
bers of the society with their
dates breathed campfire simoke,
sang songs, and digested char
coal hot-dogs, hot coffee, and
‘•’-e rest of a spicy menu, N'
vember 6 ,at the Girl Scout
Lodge. Dr. Sprapue with his
wife, were part of the gan? as
they munched hotditrs. whilo
chaperoning the occasion.
Honor Roll Anounced For Mid-
Semester^ Freshmen Class Leads
Debaters Planning
Intercollegiate Action
Throughout the State
Eighty Placed on Mid
Semester Honor Roll
“Should the states of this
Western Hemisphere form a per
manent union?” That is the vi-
loved Jim without the knowledge, tal issue which the students who
of Mary Ann. Helen Schwob as are trying out for the Elon Colle-
Jane, a kitten in danger of be-1 giate Debating Team are studious-
coming a cat. Alex Mebane as ly pondering over. The College
Fred, Jim’s roommate and shadov/ hopes to enter four teams in the
■ for the hero, and Roscoe Gilmer collegiate debates throughout the
as Elmer, the little boy who liv- state this season. Preliminary
ed around the corner from Mary try-outs are scheduled to come off
Ann. i the third week of this month.
The second play of the group Doctor Merton French, faculty
“The Infernal Triangle” was the sponsor, is enthusiastically back-
other original play by the Dra-, ing the program,
matic Literature class. The set- j Additional students are expect-
ting was the mountains in the ^ ed to compete, however, as the
western part of the state. The program gets under way. e
story concerned a farmer whose subject this year is of great
bossy and nagging wife made life public interest, as it relates to
miserable for him. He often Uncle Sam’s future policies with
wished the Devil would take her nations in this hemisphere, dur-
away, which finally came true, ing the present international dis-
Life became a dream for him organization. The proposal for
then, however, his fun was short Although Doctor Johnson s Lit-
lived for the Devil found life un- erary Society and the Ministerial
“bearable with this woman and Association are at present
finally took her back. Elizabeth actively participating, all students
Newton and Roger Inman held of Elon are eligible,
the roles as the Farmers wife and debate suggests a union, s milar
the Devil. The supporting cast in mechanics to our own repre
included Boyd Clapp as the sentative government, for all
Farmer and Henderson Britt as countries in the Western Hemis-
the Farmer’s son. phere.
The closing play was the rton- The orthodox procedure of de
original one, “Funeral Flowers bate will be used for the^ most
For The Bride”, having been for- part; an attempt at the d'rect-
merly written and produced by clash debate” technique, which is
the Carolina Playmakers. It is growing in popularity among de-
one of their better plays and has baters, will also be tried. In the
for its setting the mountains of direct-clash debate, a definne
North Carolina. The play has an number of issues, perhaps I've by
unusual mixture of love, drama, the affirmative and three by the
and comedy blended together, negative, are decided on before
These issues are then de
The Registrar’s office announ
ces the honor roll for the mid-
fall semester grades. Eighty stu
dents made an average of B, and
not having a grade below a C.
The Freshman class leads the
race w'th a total of twenty-'even,
while the Senior." come close be
hind with twenty-four. The Jun
iors and Sophomores take the
rear with fifteen and fourteen
respectively.
Senior honors are given to
Carrie Biggerstaff, Joseph Y.
Blanks, Howard G. Brown, Sil
vio Caruso, Mary Claytor, Albert
V. Coble, James S. Cox, Robert
E. Cox, Christine Eaves, Fred
rick W. Foushee, Dwight Gentry,
Jes.sie Irene Hook, Oscar D.
Moore, M a r g a r.e t B. Na.sh,
Charles W. Parker, Margaret T.
Sophomore-Freshmen
Reception Is Given
The Sophomore Class entertain
ed their former initiates, the
Freshmen, with a reception held
in the Y. W. C. A., last Saturday
night The guests were met at
the door by a receiving line, con
sisting of Dean Oxford, Professor
Stewart, and the Sophomore Class
officers and their dates.
The room was decorated with
orange and black streamers and
paper turkey’s were given to the
guests as favors. Music for the
evening was furnished by the
Collegiates, under the direction of
Howard Brown.
This reception was held after
having been postponed from two
weeks ago, in order that Sadie
Hawkins Day party might be held.
It is reported to have been one
of the most successful Sophomore-
Freshmen’s ever held at Elon.
ANNUAL PRESS CONVEN1ION
ATTENDED BY ELON STUDENTS
Ten F.lon Students Are
"^n Who’s Who Volumn
Ten Elon Students have been
selected to appear in the 1940-
1941 volumn of “Who’s Who In
American Colleges and Universi
ties.” Those selected were Mary
Clayton of Hillsboro, Dorothy
EkJwards of Portsmouth, Virginia,
Mary Walker of Brown Summitt,
Christine Eaves of Henderson,
Helen Boone of Burlington, Irene
Hook of Elon College, Edward
Potter of Beaufort, Donald Born
of Everett, Penn., Dwight Gentry
of Roxboro, and Wallace Kemodle
of Ossipee.
These young men and women
were chosen on the basis of
scholarship, student contact and
recognition, dependability, general
attitude, persistency in effort and
general all aroundness. A write
up of each student will be placed
in the “Who’s Who” compilation
of college and university students
throughout America.
DR. L. E. SMITH
Four Students Attend
N. C. Press Convention
The three-day Fall convention
of the North Carolina Collegiate
Prea.s As.sociation was opened
on Thursday afternoon of last
week at the Washington Duke
Hotel in Durham.
About a hundred student jour
nal ii^ts from some twenty col
leges and Universities were re
gistered. Representing Elon Col
lege were. Dot Edwards and June
Murphey, Editor and As.-iociate-
Editor of the PhiPsiCli, and
Marjorie Hunter and Bill Hil
liard, Co-Editor and Business
Manager of the Maroon and
Gold.
The first general session of
the convention got under way
at 9:30 on Friday morning with
the appointing of committ'ees for
the convention and Progress Re
ports from each publication were
given. For the afternoon ses-iion
the Editors and Bu'^iness Mana-
g-ers of the Annuals, Magazines,
ind Newspapers were divided
into group discussions led by
C. A. Upchurch Jr., John A.
Park, and J. H. Hardison all of
Raleigh and Ciordon Ijcwis of
Durham
The convention asBeTnbled on
the Duke University Campus for
luncheon Friday. Adjoornment
followed the general business
.“ession on Saturday morning. A
theatre party was given for the
delegates on the Duke Campus
Thursday night, and a dance
followed the banquet Friday
night.
Th« surpri.'C of the convention
was tickets to either the Duke-
Davidson or the Slate-Wake
Forest football game. The sur
prise was sprung at the close of
the general business session on
Saturday.
Granger Delivers
‘^tirriT>T Messages
To S. C. A. Groups
Pennington, Shirley Powell, Wil- Club Is To
Uam J. Reid, Paul Secre.st, Earl „ r,Jir«4nn Rvan
Taylor, Mae Thornton, Mary , near UT. L^arSOn Ityan
Monnio V Walker, i
Dr, Carson Ryan, will speak to
Lewis Walker, Nannie V. Walker, j
and Gladys R. Wright.
Juniors: Mabel Abner. Howard Education
C Culbreth Hazel White Dobbs, Club, Thursday Night, November
L. ^ FrpHo 21, at 7:30 o’clock in the Societv
Margaret Edythe Felton, rrede- ’ „ „ • v j t .u
, , Hall. Dr. Ryan is head of the
rick G:1 ham, Angie Henry, Wil
liam H. Huffstetler, Marjorie
Hunter, Jewell E. Kerns, Mar
cella L. Rawles, Elliott Schmidt,
'’laude K. Utt, John B. Walker,
Charles H. Walters, Elmer C.
Williams.
Sophomores: Rena Black.
George M. Bullard, Helen Clod-
Dr. Ryan is head of
Education Department at the
University of North Carolina.
Dr. Ryan is a noted member
of the Educational World an.i
came to Chapel Hill last spring
from the Carnegie Foundation, of
which he was previously a mem
ber.
Elon was most fortunate in
FURTHER PLANS
MADE FOR FIELD
felter, Marjorie Copeland, Ja^s
on the campus
W. Elder, James V. Ferns, i years ago. He has traveled
:am E. Jesson^ Jame^ extensively and is recognized as
one of the best informed men in
ston. William P. Nash. Amerith
L. Nichols. Ada M. Shook, Ross current field of education
Lee Smith, Thomas Smythe, and
Florence K. Walker.
Freshmen: Helen Rose Aired,
This is a great opportunity for
faculty members, practice teach
ers, and all students interested in
Shown above is Dr. L. E. Smith. I Reverend Lanson Granger, one
President of Elon College, who of the youngest, but also one of
has played an active role in ob- the most sincere ministers of the
taining for Elon the new stadium. North Carolina-Virginia confer-
i ence, delivered two vital and
stirring messages to the student
body this week at the two regu
lar morning chapel periods. He
■ ' will also speak at our chapel next
Further plans for the con- ^eek.
struction of an illum:nated foot- Lanson Granger was a member
ball and baseball f:eld for Elon gf graduating class of Elon
were discussed at a meeting Mon- College in 1936 — and while here
day night but no definite action known and liked for his sin-
W3S taken a.s to a decision on cerity and seriousness. Aft'ir
the location of the field. graduating from Elon he went to
A committee headed by W. C. Yale Divinity school where he
Elder, of Burlington, and includ- graduated in 1939. Since 1939
!ng C. C. Fonville, of Burling- jig has been in Asheboro, N. C ,
f^on, and George D. Colclough, of where he is both founder and
Elon College, suggested that a pastor of the Congregational
•neeting of alumni be called fol- Christian church,
lowing the annual alumni foot-, S. C. A. to Hold Thanksgiving
ball banquet next Saturday night, j Chapel
Tt is expected that at this time ' In connection with the Thanks-
a final choice of the two fields giving season the Student Chris-
prnposed will be made. tian Association will have charge
Surveys and estimated costs of the chapel service Wednesday,
of improving Conwr field and November 27. The association
the field behind the Club House plans to present a program simi-
nave been submitted to the com- lar to the one formerly given in
mittee. The actual raising of which Kenneth Utt led.
sufficient funds and a choice of ; Moritz Here Last Week
'iocation are the main problems' Paul Moritz, a recent traveler
Koontz, l^Iary Louise Little, Bet- 3.30 in the little chapel he again
The leading roles were played by hand.
Jack Foushee and Marjorie Hun- bated Margaret Helen ^p^ke to the student body and
ter, with the supportmg cast m- time ^Colley S. Morgan. Dora afterwards to the Student Chris-
cluding Howard Brown and Ten- which side has the most points on I a . Association cabinet. Mr
Sally C. Avery, M Her Basnight, education. Dr. Ryan
Betty L. Bell, Dorothy L. Chap-
inspire his audience in, k f
man, Wiiam E. Coeman, Verona thoughts of educational pursuits confronting the Athletic associa- in China and a member of a re-
Daniels, Martha Duke, Salvatore today. His talk will be given ; lion at present. cent graduating class of ttw Ln'-
A. Festa, Irving Gertz, Keith Society Hall and will be — versity of Kansas, spent the day
Harris, James C. Henderson, n to all who desire to attend. 1 APPRECIATION on our campus, Wednesda-A
Elizabeth Hill, Virginia Jeffreys, ^^d students majoring in educa-j November 6. He was introduced
Robert E. Johnston, Ruth Adlth ji^n are urged to be there. I wish to take this opportunity to the student body and faculty
nala Abner. fvill^am^^ Rippy Harry
All who attended this Cora E. Worsley. William the sponsorship of the Student
to
express my sincere apprecia- at the regular chapel hour. At
tion to the faculty ind student that time he spoke on “China's
body for their kindness and ex- Christian Leaven”. Afterwards
pressions of sympathy during my he went to the little chapel where
A- Moritz was on the campus under 1 recent bereavement. 1 further discussion was held. Mr
.n. . eo^.n.jS.o.. I
them immensely. Into its own.