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Maroon and Gold
Published By and For Sludanis of Eloa College
VOLUME xvin
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9.
NUMBER TWO
Sororities Celebrate First Bid-Night Of The Year Tonight
Smith Elected To Executive
Committee Ot Church Related
Councils Of North Carolina
Franks Elected President
Of Freshman Class
The class of '47 met Thursday. Oc
tober 7, In Whitley Auditorium to
■elect class officers. “Buster” Butler,
president of the Student Body, called
the TT.cstinp ar.d acted as
officer until a president was elected
3oe Franlcs of Elon College was
cTiosen to fill the president's chair
and took over the meeting.
Under Frank’s leadership the re
maining officers were chosen. They
were Wr'”*'e Tavlor of Efland. N. C..
vice-pre.sident; Mary Elizabeth Wright
of Hampton. Virginia, secretary;
Margaret Ann Clayton of Roxboro.
■N. C,, treasurer; George Satterfield
of Burlington, N. C.. Senate repre
sentative; and Athaleen Buckner of
"Mebane. N. C.. Council representa
tive.
The Freshmen class contains ap
proximately 215 members in com
parison with 118 upperclassmen. A
large percentage of these fresmen are
une year commercial students, others
iare working for A. B. degrees. Be
cause of their majority the upper
classmen are expecting them to ac
complish big things.
CAMPUS CALENDAR
Oct. 9; 8:30 to 11:45: Dance given
by Aviation Students.
Oct. 9; 11:00 p. ra. to 2:00 a. m.: Bid-
night.
Oct. 10; 11:00 a. m. Special church
services for sororities.
Oct. 11: 12:00 a m.: Chapel pro
gram by Music Department.
Oct. 13; 12:00 a. m.: Chapel service
by Dr. French.
Oct. 14; 5:00 p. ra.: Student music
Lt. Leroy Hughes
Visits Campus
Dr. L. E. Smith, president of Elon
College, was elected chairman of the
executive committee at the first an
nual session of the Council of Church
Related Colleges of North Carolina,
Thursday, October 7, at Greensboro
College. Dr. Smith, retiring pres
ident of the Council, presided until
the nrw president was elected.
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president of |
Guilford College, was eleted pres-
dent of the organization at the aft
ernoon session. President Carlisle
Campbell of Meredith College was
named first vice-president, and Dean
C. K. Brown, of Davidson College
second vice-presidet. Dr. N, M Har
ris, of High Point College, was re
elected secretary-treasurer. Twenty-
one of the 27 colleges that are mem
bers of the council were representd
at Thursday’s ssions.
Gov. J. Melville Broughton in his
address to the council paid tribute to
the church-related colleges for the
share of North Carolina’s burden they
have boume. He showed that the
latest available statistics pointed to
the fact that 10,050 puipls of North
Carolina were enrolled in state edu
cational institutions and 16,000 were
enrolled at the same time in church-
related colleges. He called attention
to the additional burden that would
be placed upon every branch of the
state supoprted Institutions if the
church-suported colleges stopped
functioning.
Dr. Theodore Greene, professor of
philosophy and chairman of the hu
manistic program at Princeton Uni
versity was an important speaker for
the meeting. He laid emphasis upon
the indspensable role of the small
privately endowed and church-related
liberal arts colleges In maintaining
American democracy.
All the near-by church colleges
were represented at the meeting. A
“I like the Army fine and I love
to fly, but It’s nice to be back. Even
with all these uniforms, it's still the
same old Elon.” These are the words
of Lieutenant Leroy Hughes, former
member of the Elon student body and
eX'properietor of the Elon Soda Shop.
Lieut. Hughes entered the Army
Air Forces on March 16, 1942. and
began his training as an Aviation Ca
det at the Pre-Flight School, Max
well Field, Alabama. From there he
was transferred to Douglas, Georgia,
for primary training. He received his
basic training at Gunter Field. Ala
bama, and was awarded his silver
wings on October 1, 1943. after com
pleting his advanced training at
Blytheville, Arkansas. After a visit
here, his home, Lieut. Hughes will
be stationed at the Army Air Base,
Greenville, South Carolina.
Of course, his training began long
before he ever entered the army, for
in the summer of 1940, Lieut. Hughes
studied areonautics In the C. P.T.
taught by Professor Hook.
Lieutenant Hughes attended Elon
in 1937. '38. and ’39. He says noth
ing dangerous or very exciting has
happened to him during his army life
as yet. But the Maron and Gold
predicts that Hitler and Goering.and
their ragamuffins will find our Air
Corps a bit exciting when the Lieu
tenant and his buddies reach the
front.
We asked him where he was bom
and he answered,“I n the country,
near Elon,” That’s recommendation
enough for anyone. And to speak
seriously, it is certainly heartening to
see these bronzed, stalwart, han'd-
some sons of our Uncle Sammie re
turn, if only for a brief visit, to
Elon's campus.
Local War Bond
Sale Excellent
Business at the Elon College Post
Office is probably greater today than
ever before. War has taken over, and
to the usual college students and fac
ulty members, the community and ad
joining rural communities, there is
the addition of the trainees for the
army air corps and their officers.
This keeps the officials of the Elon
College Post Office busy from the
time the window opens in the morn
ing until it closes in the evening.
Greek Letter Clubs Begin
Festivities At 11 P. M.
Elon Professor Ends
Term As Head Of
State Physics Group
No member of the Elon College
faculty has a greater number of
^ ffiepf^« rec»*'vp,« mor#» resnoct fi'om
The effecient and kind postmaster, | than does Protes-
H. E. Whitsell, keeps abreast with the
times and is alert to the many calls
that are required for post office ac
curacy.
In a recent War Bond Drive, the
people responded to the call readily
and $2525.00 of them were bought.
Since Eoln IColege is a small town
and there are no manufacturing in
dustries here, the College affords the
sor Alonzo L. Hook. He has done
outstanding work for the government
in preparing men for the Aviation
Corps. A number of the Elon boys,
who took the Civlian Pilot Training
Course here, have gone on to be
come qualified as army officers, and
all of them generously credit Profes
sor Hook with giving them the best
possible start.
only direct pay roll in the communi- j Qn the Elon campus most of us are
ty. Many of our residents have their familiar with the results he has se-
work elsewhere; therefore, when cured in his laboratories. However,
Bond purchases are made, they are I Maroon and Gold has dug up a
made by these people where they | few more interesting facts about
work. For this reason, the local j professor Hook which he has. to
post offices does not make as large date, successfully concealed. In ad-
a showing as it might otherwise do. dition to his regular duties here as
On the whole, however, the results Registrar of the College and head of
have been excellent and our com- • the Physics Department, and besides
rrunity has contributed generously to finding time to do a little privae fly-
the war effort. qj ^is own, he has recently been
Because of stamp sales, defense chairman of the Physics Department
savings, and the volume of incoming of the North Carolina Academy of
and outgoing mail, and general com* Science. He was elected in May,
community patronage, the post office 1941, and his term of two years ex-
ctaff is kept extremely busy. With pired in 1943 at the meeting held at
business better today than ever be- Dake Unj,versity.
fore, the v/ork requires, in addition | During this last meeting with our
to the postmaster, himself, the Joint frleod presiding, many outstanding
efofrt of the assistant postmaster, the papers were presented by promin-
clerk and rural carriers.
ent physicists of the state. Dr. Otto
Stuthman, Jr., University of N. C.
TTr-li ✓-I 1 rry^ • T'fr* C. W. Edwards. Duke Univ^rgUy* Br.
Will vjermany Break Ihis Uhiversity, »nd
• VA. . University of N, C,,
represented their institutions before
the Academy and presented inter-
sting discourses concerning new dis-
Or Will Hitler Hold Out?
Members of the four Greek letter
sororities, Beta Omricon Beta, Delta
Upsilon Kappa. Tau Beta Phi, and
Phi Kappa Tau win observe their first
bid-night of the year tonight from
11:00 p m. til 2:00 a. m. At this time
bids will be issued by the various
groups.
General plans for the event have
been worked out by the Pan-Helleni
council which is composd of a repre
sentative from each group with Dean
Edna Kraft as adviser. The members
are Virginia Jeffreys, Goldie Morris.
Grace Towery and Frances Gunter.
The bid weekend festivities will be
carried on as much in the traditional
manner as possible. The celebra
tion brings forth an exchange of songs
and names pledges as well as old
members returning for the occasion.
In former years the fraternities ser
enaded each sorority, but this year
the fraternities have been disbanded
bcause of the present conditions and
small number of male students. As
in previous years the sororities will
go to breakfast in a group, and then
attend church in a body, where there
will be a special service for them
The scene of the festivities will be
West Dormitory and Ladies Hall. The
B. O. B.'s and Tau Zetas will meet on
second floor west, the Phi Kappas on
third fl?or west, and the Delta U’s
on second floor Ladies Hall. A num-*
ber of former students have returned
for the weekend to b« with their r»-
spectiv? sororities. . ^
6RGAS recital
WELL HECBIVED
I With the entire world ouzzline over, inelv The
I rnv^ri#»^ Thov al«/
Prof. Irving D Bartley, head of
..vn W.J- Department, gave an organ
iU. I..., I Sunday afternoon at Whitley