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Patronize Maroon and Gold Advertisers Maroon and Gold Complete Community and Campus Coverage VOLUME XV Z 530 £LQN COLLEGE. W. C. ^»ATut] ‘AV. MA V loai NUMBER FIFTEEN May Day Celebrattois Will Begin At 4:15 This Afternoon PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY IS IN SESSION IN ELON SOCIETY HALL The North Ca^ljlina phical Society will Eighth Annual Convention in Elon's Society Hall, Saturday, May 3. The meeting will be di vided into two sessions; one :n the rrwrning from 11 to ^12:15, the other' in the afternoon from 1:45 to 3:45. The afternoon ses sion will end before the May Day Program begins in order that some of the delegates may view the activities. The society’s membership con- .sists of representatives from practically all senior colleges in North Carolina. Their annual meeting is held in an endeavor- ment to build up the field of philosophy in this state. This will be the first time they have met here at Blon. Elonites To Attend Dr. Bowden is Elon's represen tative in the society and it is definite that he will attend. Dean Messick, Dean Oxford and Dr. French have attended meetings in the past and they have been extended invitations to this con ference. Many important philosophical papers wall be read during the sessions, including one by Dr. Kenneth Foreman of Davidson College, who is president of the .society for this year. Dinner will be served to the delegates in the Home Economics Department through the courtesy of Miss Muse and the Home Eco nomics Club. how^°Tts Catawba Players To Bring Two Productions To Elon Little Chapel Next Wednesday night, May 7, the exchange plays from Catawba i College will be presented in the j Little Chapel Theater at eight-1 thirty o’clock. j The Catawba group will start: off with a curtain-raiser by the name of "One Word Alone" writ ten by Paul McCoy. This play will be followed by a one-act- comedy by the name of “The Camberley Triangle.” The au- i thor of this play is A. A. Milne This exchange production is! being brought about by the Caro lina College Theaters, a branch of the Carolina Dramatic Asso-1 ?! ciation. The Elon College Play- ^ makers, under the direction of i Dr. Fletcher Collins, carried an exchange play to Catawba Col lege on April 14. This play will be the return attraction for that play. Tickets have been printed for this program with an admission charge of fifteen cents. The price at the door that night will be twenty-five cents. These tickets will be sold by members of the Dramatics Class, under the direc tion of Dr. Collins. This plan is 'oeing tried in hopes of having a large audience for this produc tion. Dot Edwards To Reign As Queen And John Henry Pearce As King Dorothy Edwards will reign as queen and John Henry Pearce ] as kftjf over the annual Elon College May Day to be held this afler- ; noon (XI the Iront campus- A band concert led by Howard Brown i will oj?*n the program at four-fifteen. The procession will begin with NEW ISSUE OF COLONNADES TO APPEAR MAY 10 Seniors Meet and Plan To Give Sign to Elon The Senior Class of Elon Col lege in a special business meet-, ing on last Tuesday morning, de cided to give the college as a token of its appreciation for the school’s efforts during the past four years, a large metal sign to be placed at the intersection on the Burlington-Greensboro high way pending two conditions. ^ The first of these conditions being contacting the State High way Commission officials as to whether such a sign could be leg ally erected at this point and the correct procedure to follow in its construction. The other limit ing factor was the approval of the school authorities on the project. The sign, if erected, will be a permanent metal affair to guide visitors to our campus. Physi cally the sign would be a large sheet of some rust-proof metal suspended between two steel posts and bearing on both sides some sketch relating to the col lege along with directions for Adair Attends Meeting Southern Federation of College Students Representing Elon College, Louis Adair, newly elected presi dent of the Senate, attended the annual convention of the Southern Federation of College Students and Publication representatives. The meeting was held at The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel in Atlan ta, Georgia the 24, 25 and 26 of last month. Thirty colleges were present representing every cross section of the state of North Carolina. The principal matter taken up concerned a review of the past year and introductions of new plans for the coming year. Of-1 Pictured above are the atterdirts to tit K ay C[ uten. Left to right: Front ro« :Lucille Somers, Lib Armfiekl^ and Maty Walker. Back row: Betty Hoyt, Mary Claytor and Evelyn Holmes. Literary Society Announces Annual Oratorical Contest The date of the annual Ora- Shortage of Coal Is SrJotoS Cause of Temporary _ has been moved to Thursday ! Layoff of Some Trains evening. May 8. It will be held | .—__— in Society Hall as originally scheduled. Any student is eligible and will be welcomed into competi tion. The oration may be on any subject as long as it is original, and it must not exceed ten min utes in length. Lots will be drawn Thursday evening to de termine the order of the speeches. Judges for the contest will be Dr. J. D. Messick, Dr. Fletcher Collins, and Dr. A. L. Hook. Con trary to practice of last year only one award will be presented in this contest. This will be the Smith Award, given away an nually by Dr. L. E. Smith, presi dent of the college. Harold Max well, present senior on the cam pus, was the winner of this award last year. Entrants who have definitely ficers were elected and Prepara-j ^^e competition tions for future conventions were'^j.^ ^o^jg Ray Day, Mille) Basnight, Tom Smythe, Bob Sel lers, Elliot Schmidt and Harry Stolte. The student body is invited tc attend these orations next Thurs day evening in the Society Hall. made. Over 200 students were divid ed into 3 groups; (1) those inter ested in student body^ govern ment and offices, (2) orientation of Freshmen, (3) Student publica- ^tions campaigns. Many ideas that had worked on other campuses Teaching the college and the date were discussed, and will be giv- of its foundation. Such a sign would prove use ful to visitors and the college ■while serving also as a perman ent memorial to the graduating class of 1941. Martha Lee Whitten Student Of Gardiner Wins Voice Contest en a chance on the others. The delegates were very well entertained at three dinners, one banquet, and a ball in Pampier room, the finest in South. The president of the University of Alabama and the president of Georgia Tech. were the supervi sors. Martha Lee, who lives at the Orphanage, is a Senior at the Elon High School, where she is At the Durham District Con- honor student. She has been test of music students held at studying voice at the College foi“^ Woman’s College, Duke Univer- the past two years, and is current- sity, recently, Martha Lee Whit- ly a student of Professor Gardi- ten won first rating in voice, ner. She was one of the soloists The selection that she sang in The Policeman’s Serenade A Number of Recitals Are Now In Progress Helen Boone of Burlington, and a senior in the music depart ment of Elon, gave an organ reci tal Thursday evening, April 24, in Whitley auditorium. Helen showed much skill in her playing. Margaret Felton of Irvington, New Jersey, and a ji^nior in the music department gave a piano recital last evening in Whitley auditorium. Both recitals that ha,ve thus far been given have shown a great amount of talert and ex cellent training. These two recitals are the be- According to the Southern Railway System, in a direct no tice to the public issued April 26, and to go into effect April 29 they announced that “due to diminishing coal stocks on hand caused by the interruption at mines, it has become necessary in the interest of national defense and of the public and of the greatest number of our patrons to discontinue temporarily operation of certain trains; therefore, trains 15 and 16 operating be tween Greensboro and Raleigh, will be discontinued with the las departure of trains leaving Greensboro and Raleigh, Mondaj April 28. a Trains 21 and 22, operating be tween Greensboro and Goldsboro will be discontinued with the last train leaving Greensboiu Monday, April 28, and the Iasi train leaving Goldsboro Tuesday. April 29. This means that there will be only two trains stopping at Elon daily. These are no’s 14 at 6:58 a. m. eastbound and no. 13 at 8:15 p. m. westbound. According to Mr. Whitesell for the convenience of the public and for the post office authorities mail should be deposited at least lIhir^y minutes before departure of these two trains. The combined work of four mail trains is reduced to the two trains making it much more diffi cult to handle. For the convenience of the public the post office will open at 7:45 p. m. each evening until further notice. Roberta Marlin, Editor of the 1941 issue of the Colonnades, aimounced this week that publi cation date had been definitely set for next Saturday, May 10. Plans for this issue call for a thirty-two pager, the largest ever in the history of this annual magazine. 1'his will be the fifth iippearance of this publication, I having been started by Dr. Fletch- j I er Collins, his first year at Elon. I The issue will be featured by traditional stories by Sidney Krukin, Mary Walker and Harold Powell. These stories are im portant because of their basis in .-imerican folk tales. Also included will be Dwight Gentry’s original play. The Will Of The Lord, which, as you re member, won an award in the Carolina Dramatic Association competition, held April 4, It will also include poems by Roberta Martin, the editor; Jim mie Elder and Ruth Martin, as well as two traditional ballads which have proven popular on the Elon campus this year. After publication, copies of this issue will be placed on .sale in the college book-store at ten cents each. Material for this copy was so abundant that it was decided to publish another issue next fall which would include the mater ial left over this spring and also any written in. the meantime. This will be another step for ward, as we have had only one issue yearly before, and it is Bop- ed that it will be possible to have two regular issues in the follow ing years. Dr. Clemens Sommer Of U. N. C. Lectures To The German Club Piberg, Potter Have Passed Exams to Enter U. S. Naval Air Corps Dr. Clemens Sommer, Profes sor of Art at the University of North Carolina, lectured to the German Club Friday, April 25 on the subject of Germanic medieval Art. In his lecture Dr. Sommer discussed the characteristics of several pieces of Germanic art which he showed to the club by the use of slides. Dr. Sommer is one of those rare personalities who combine in themselves the great scholar and scientist with the great teacher. He came with his family to this country three years ago,.finding here refuge from the barbaric persecutions of Nazigermany, and has made his home at Chapel Hill. He is a specialist on History of Fine Arts, having done scientific Mary Lois Huffines, who will scatter rose petals on the lawn before Mrs. Esther Cole Ker- nodle. Mrs. Kernodle was May Queen in nineteen thirty-six and slie will return to the campus for this occasion. She will be fol lowed by Elizabeth Armfield and Charlie Donato. Edna Fitch, queen of nineteen- forty, will be preceded by Janet Pratt scattering rose petals. Betty Hoyt and Jack Boone will follow Miss Fitch. Shirley Cox will lay an en trance for the present queen and king. AVhen they reach the Uirone, they will be officially made rulers by Dwight Gentry. Dwight will deliver his corona tion speech, then take the crown ftom a pillar carried by Shirley Gardiner, to crown them king and queen. The May Day attendants will be Evelyn Holmes, Roger Inman, Mary Walker, Fred Lowe, Lucille Somers, and Bob Truitt. The Queen and King and all their at tendants will then take their places and the pageant will be gin. The fairy story of Cinderella, with all its charm and merry life, will be brought to life by the members of the Girl’s Athletic Association. Music, composed by Mr. and Mrs. Julian Gardiner, and played by Betsy Russell, will pro vide a background of gaity, sa tire, and mystery. Giving color to the scene will be the costumes and general scenery. ~ As the story begins Cinderella, played by Jeanne Cannon, will be found sitting wistfully by the open fl.replace. Her two mean sisters, Margaret Pennington and Charlotte Husted, come in put ting on their makeup and busily arranging their hair. They are going to the Prince’s Ball with Eula Mae Monroe and Minnie Belle Frye, two escorts from the Prince’s court. The two couples dance merrily before Cinderella and then leave for the Grand Ball. Again Cinderella goes to the fire, telling herself how she wishes she could go to the ball. A fairy appears, and then goes away to return with the most beautiful clothes Cinderella has ever seen. The fairies dress the happy girl, then dance away just as the mice ride up with a pump kin coach to carry her to the ball. When Cinderella arrives, she has no escort. But the Prince Helen Margaret Messick, is so at tracted by her beauty that he immediately asks her to dance. All evening they dance; Cin derella is radiant with joy. But at twelve o’clock she runs off, losing her slipper in her fright. The Prince follows, to find only the lost shoe. Cinderella returns home to dream of the ball. Back at the palace the soldiers drill in military fashion, then and research work on and hav- 1 the ladies of the ball dance gayly. ing taught for many years this Cinderella returns quietly to the subject in such famous places and | scene. After the Prince has Universities as the University of, the lost shoe on everyone, he Freiburg-im-Breisgau, the Uni-j patiently approaches Cinderella. Millard Piberg and Ed Potter' versity of Griefswald, and the, “Yes, yes,” everyone s:ngs, ' — ..... They all dance entrance ex-! world famous “Library for the shoe fits.” the the - - .1* —* ! ginning of a series of recitals to | have both passed — , k li t thp rontp.?t was “The Brown Bird which was presented here at the given by students of the music aminations for entrance into the History of Fine Arts at Rome,” | minuet, and leave the ball to tne the contest was December 11 and 12., department. United States Naval Air Corps. Italy. The Herziana. | music of the wedding march.
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