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VOLUME XV
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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.