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She Stoops To Conquei WBBB—5:30— Sunday, April 7 Maroon and Gold Published By And For Elon StudenU Elon vs. Ohio U. Athletic Field 4 P. M. Mondoy VOLUME XX ELON COLLEGE, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 194J- NUMBER TWELVE FINALS SET FOR THURSDAY Lt. James Darden Appointed Alumni Secretary ) Lt. James F. Darden, S,?folk, Va.,, has been appointed Alumni Sec retary of Eloii College, it was an- , nounced today by Dr. L. E. Smith, ^ president of the college. | Released to inactive duty by the Navy of Febiaiary 5, Lt. Darden, of the class of 1943, will assume his | duties immediately. He entered the 1 service after graduation, was assign- : ed to the Amphibious Forces upon' tompleuug midshipman’s training and | became an executive officer on L. S. ' T.’s. In the Mediterranean area he took part in landings at Anzio and ' in Southern France. He also served j in the Pacific, taking part in the oc cupation of Japan. Lt. Dr.rden was married while in Ihs service to Miss Virginia Jeffreys, ■daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Jef freys 01 Burlington. Mrs. Darden was graduated from Elon with the class of 44. ai;d tiiey will take up residence at Elon College when quarters for veteians, now under construction, ha\e been completed. Lt. Darden will give full time to the re-organization of The Elon Col lege Alumni Associations, and par ticularly to those in North and South Carolina, and in his home state of Virginia. He is a member of the Chris tian Church of Suffolk, Va., and will co-operate with the authorities of the college and with the Convention of the Christian Church. Offices oir the Alumni Association and of Mr. Darden have been estab lished in the Carlton Library at Elon College. Complete records concei'n- ing the college alumni will be filed as they are assembled. First units to be organized under the new plaq will be in Alamance and Guilford counties, especially those in Greensboro and Burlington. Units in Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh, and Eastern North Carolina will also be called to meet in March and April. Banciuet assemblies will be announced when scheduled. The Elon College Alumni Associa tion of Easter'i Virginia, of which Mr. Darden is a momber, has beevi p.cmir.ent in the promotional activi- Hi' cii the calloge for many years. lVu:abers of all local associations con tacted to date have aci.ve lielp in the Million Dollar Campaign now in progress. r njRS. 0:,IA JOHNSON i;eti:rns to elon Mrs. Oma U. Johnson, who far many years was librarian here, has returned to Elon to serve as librarian. Mrs. Wade Marlette, who has so cap ably managed the library in Mrs, Johnson’s absence, is moving to Rock Hill. S, C., where her husband is in business. Mrs. Johnson graduated from Elon and holds the degree^ Bachelor of Li brary Science, from Columbia Univer sity She left Elon for a rest in the fall of 1944. % Register And Ciistura In Race FiOT Top Position STUDENT GOVERNMENT OFFICERS, who ivi election Thursday. Pictured above from left to ri tvrv over their offices to the ii'itmers of the Wayne Taylor And Pattie Cochrane Sophomore Regents Wayne Taylor of Efland and Pattie Cochrane of Ether were named king and quc*jn if. the Soph/jmore class at the annual Freshman-Sophomore reception held last Saturday night in the college gymnasium. Lois Mintz and Ed Foushee were selected to be the cutest Sophomore couple and Bill Williams and Mary Jo Watts were chosen as the cutest Freshman two some. The Sophomore regents were selected by the members of the Fresh- ! man class and their selection was j based on popularity and attractive- j , „ . „ , . . . , ness. They were crowned by Orville , , , , J . 0-1 ,Sanford, vice president Robinson, vice president of tie Fresh-‘ of tne student body and acting president; Joyce S tilth. Whiteville, president of the Student Council; man class, and Miss Cochrane was I^ill Cil{iyto} f Hillsboro, president of the Studeent Se^tute^ j presented with a huge bouquet of red j roses. j The gym was attractively*decorated | to carry out the theme—“an Old Southern Garden.” Pine boughs lined the sides of the building anB green and white crepe paper covered the ^ lights. At the oposite end of the . gym from the throne of the king j and queen was a white picket fence j connecting two arches from which' the grand march proceded. Ann Ash ley and Bill Williams, accompanied by Violet Blackmon, sang solos as a part of the program and ice cream and punch was served later during the evening. The reception line for the formal affair "consisted of the following: Orville Robinson, Freshman vice The finals of the annual spring elec tions are set for Thursday from 9 a.m. until 4 p. m. In Dean Bowden’s office with Fred Register and Steve Castura on the ballot for president of the student body for next year. The pri mary was held on Thursday, March 21, and many candidates whose names were on the ballot were elim inated in the voting. The names of the two primary candidates who re ceived the highest number of votes will be on the ballot for the finals Thursday. Winners in the primary for the various offices are as follows; Student body: President—Fred Register and Steve Castura; vice presi dent—Kermit Inman and Wayne Tay- secretary—Don Kemodle and lar; Three-Act Mystery To Be Given April 10-11 Danieley To Assist Field Secretary The Elon Players will present the Broadway hit “Mr. and Mrs. North,” a three-act comedy-mystery by Owen Davis, Jr., in Whitley auditorium on the evenings of Wednesday, April 10, and Thursday, April 11. Exact cur tain time will be announced on the bulletin board. Under the direction of Mrs. Eliza beth R. Smith, head of the depX tment of dramatics, the play is the Play ers’ second major production of the school year. The first, “Moor Born.” was presented during the . winter quarter. Cast in the four chief roles of Mr. and Mrs. North” are A1 Burlingame, of Cambridge, N\ Y., as Mr. North; Miss Jean West, of Hampton, Va., as Mrs. North: Bill Clapp, (A Burlington, as the police lieutenant; and Floyd Boyce, of Jackson, as the detective. Supporting playei's include Steve Cas tura, Bill Williams, Miss Anne Strad er, Miss Nancy Jordan, Edward ‘ Menke, Wally McCulloch, Miss Betty ’ Benton, Kermit Inman, David Mc Kinney, Jack Burch, Tommy Burton, Orville Robinson, Merritt Burns, and Miller Basnight. Miss Marjorie Moore and Miss Helen Gunter are prompt ers. I The play concerns the mysterious goings-on in the Greenwich Village apartment of a pleasant young cpu- •ple, Pam and Jerry North, who-_^~d an uninvited guest—a corpse-ioc- cupying the premises. How it got there and “who dunnit,” provides the prob lem for Police Lieutena'nt Weigand and Detective Mullins, while the Norths voluntarily contribute their own amateur sleuthing in the search for the murderer. ! I In the orijtipTil Broadway production ' the author—Mr. Davis—and Miss Peggy Conklin played the leading parts. They also enjoyed success on the screen and as a radio dramatiza tion. I Following the presentation of “Zen- j gara” and “Mr. and Mrs. North,” the j Elon Players will start rehearsals for | the religious drama “The Passing of j the Third Floor Back.” At present,! the Players are giving weekly radio shows, at 5:30 p. m. on Sunday, over Station WBBB, Burlington. Tickets for "Mr. and Mrs. North” are on sale now, at 50 cents apiece, tax inchuU'd. They may be obtained from members of the Players or of the cast. Earl Danieley, Burlington, who completed the requirements for grad uation at the end of the winter quart er, has accepted a position as assist ant field secretary. He will visit high schools in North Carolina and Vir ginia this \‘\ng a5d talk to students who are interested in attending col lege. Mr. Danieley worked with the I field secretary. Paul C. Plybon, last ! summer and is capable of carrying out his new duties well. While a student here he was active in many campus organizations, hold ing offices in the French Club, the Elon Players, and the Delta Psi Ome ga fraternity, and was a laboratory in structor in chemistry and physics. This year he was secretary of the Senior class and was selected to be listed in the 1945-46 edition of WHO’S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. ^ive Faculty Members Have Returned From Service LT. JAMES STEWART REJOINS COMMERCE STAFF Fifth of the faculty to come back from army and navy war service is Lt. James H. Stewart, who returns to the Department of Business Adminis tration after four years with the Bu reau of Ordinance at Washington, D. C. Lt. Stewart was assigned to the i President, with Ellen Spivey; Jean Navy Ordinance R(|',earch Laboratory at Silver Spring, Md., and also work ed in the Financial Administration, Bureau of Costs and research on Con tracts of the Navy. At Elon in 1936-1942, Professor Stewart calls the college his home. He received his A. B. from Transyl vania College in Kentucky, his M. A. from the University of Kentucky, and completed other graduate studies there before he enlisted in the ser vice. Additional faculty members who have returned to duty are Lt. Fletch- er Moore, of the . Department of Mu-j sic; Captain Howard Gravitt, Head ANNOUNCING A CALL FOR of the Department of Biology; Lt. J. | L. Pierce, of tlie Department of , BAND PLAYERS; WILL MEET TO West. Freshman secretary, with John Williams; Thomas Burton, Freshman trc/isurf:, with Helen Hudgins; Betty Benton, S'^.)homore president, with Jack Burch; Jane McCauley. Sopho more vice president, w'ith Kermit In man; Faye Rickard, Sophomore sec retary. with Jack Moody; Ermine Da vis, Sophomore treasurer, with Ger ald Hook; Mrs. Leon Edgar Smith; Dean Ida M. Greenield; Dean and Mrs. D, J. Bowden: Dr. and Mrs. Mier- ton B. Fi’ench, Freshman class spon- sois: and Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Adcox, Sophomore class |)onsors. Health and Ph^^ical Education; and! Professor Albert Coble, of the Depart- i ment of Mathematics, who served as j instructor here in the Air Corps Train- | ing program. i Ensign Harold S. Shultz is ex-: pected to return to the Department' of History next September. I ORGANIZE APRIL 3 "Zengoro" To Be Staged V/ednesday EARL DANIELEY ALAMANCE ALUMNI TO REORGANIZE “PRIDE OF THE MARINES” SHOWING TONIGHT Alumni Association. ; : ly'appoint- 01 the Flon The Warner Brothers hit, “Pride of the Marinos” is showing tonight in Whitley,Auditorium, Playing the lead ings roles are John Garfield, Dane Clark, and Eleanor Parker. The formal reorganization of the Alamance County Chapter of the Elon College Alumni Association will take place at a dinner meeting to be held at the Alamance Hotel on April 12 at 7 p, m., James F. Darden, executive secretary of the Alumni Association announced today. Officers of the chapter will be elected for the year at this time. It will be the first meet ing of the county Alumni ^ince prior to the war. At a recent Burlington meeting of some of the Alamance Alumni repre senting various groups, the following officers were elected until the formal reorganiz.ition took place: Eugene Gordan, president; J. V. Simpson, vice president: and Miss Myrtle Moser, sec- retary-treasurer. In addition to Alamance county the reorganized chapter will take in all of dibsonville and Mebane. “Zengara.” an original one-act play written by J. W, Clapp and Elizabeth ' R, Smith, will be presented by the ! Elon Players in a novel double show-! ing in Mooney auditorium at 7:30 on i Wednesday night, April 3. Second | show will begin at 9 o’clock, for the j convenience of students whose sched ules may make it impossible for them to attend the earlier performance. A -•mall a/.nis,\.)n fee will l|.> charged. Students should watch the bulletin board for further announcements. | j At the Elon presentation, it is ; I hoped that a half hour of musical en- ' tertainment can be added to the pro- i gram through the courtesy of the de- | partment of music. The play will be j ~ carried to the State Drama Festival ■ DOT SALMONS TO at the University of North Carolina ! at Chapel Hill on the evening of April : HEAD PANMO 6. ' , ; Miss Helen Newsome plays the title role. Merritt Burns, as the iji'kice, has the mi,»?'lead. Members of the supporting cast include Miss Kath leen Young, Jack Sunburn, Danieley fas the ghost) Spivey, Ivan Ollis, and Richard Stat en. “Zengara,” is a romantic comedy v.’ith a Fifteenth century setting in an ancient castle in Normandy. All students who can play band instruments or wish to learn to play report to Whitley auditorium on Wednesday, April 3, at 7:30 p. m. Tommy W'oodson, of Bur lington, will be in charge of the initial meeting. We need to get a pep-producing group ready for coming athletic contests and for other campus events. There will be a lot of fun, a chance to travel with the foot ball team next fall, and to learn something worthwhile. Beginners will be given instruction and some instruments can be furnished for those who do not have them at present. Your loyalty and good will in supporting this effort will be ap preciated. The first meeting will be short so that you will have time to go lo the play. Jean West; treasurer—Bill Copeland and D. B. Harrell. Student Senate: President—Bob Graham and Joe Golombek; vice pres ident—Leon Hinton and Dave McClen- ney; secretary—Marion Chase, Floyd Boyce, and Larry McCauley; treasur er—James Parker (elected). Student Council; President—Louise Clayton and Betsy Smith; vice presi dent Marian Griffin and Janice Fra zier; secretary—Lois Mfhtz and Jane Warren; treasurer—Betty Benton and Ella Mae Morgan. Rising Senior class: President— Steve Castura and Lois Dean; vice president—Virginia Ezell and Marian Griffin: secretary—Dale Hensley and Verdalee Norris; treasurer—Nancy Jordan and Ann Rader. Senate representatives: Joe Dunn, James Roberts, and James Westmc"e- land; Council representatives—Ver dalee Norris and Hazel Cole (elected). Rising Junior class: President— Wayne Taylor and Bill Copeland; vice president—Lois Mintz and D. B. Har rell: secretary—Ann Griffin and Betty Benton: treasurer—Kathy Young and Janice Frazier and Vivian Walker (tied); Senate representatives —John Williams and Vincent Long; Council representatives—Pattie Coch rane and Vivian W^alker. Rising Sophomore class: President —Floyd Boyce and Harold Walton: vice president—Edna House and Jo Watts; secretary—Ann Byrd and Lib Jernigan; treasurer—Bill Williams and Paul Price: Senate . representa tive—Fred Jackson and E. V. Wood; Council . representative — Mildred Johnson and Dot Shackelford. D&y Students Organization; Presi dent—Patricia Hook and Dale Hens ley; vice president—Helen Cobb and Catherine Cooper; secretary—Max Neese and Elaine Pace; treasurer— Walter McCulloch (elected); Senate representative—Leon Hinton and Max Neese and Bill Jobe (tied). At the meeting of the Panvio Lit erary Society on Wednesday, March 20, the following new officers were Earl' elected: President, Dot Salmons; vice- Herbert 1 president, Helen Gunter; secretary. Dot Shepherd; and treasurer, Erna Nell Carter. The program opened with a piano solo by Helen Gunter. A selection of various poems were read, following. JEAN WEST,-; Hampton, Va,, who !'as over 900 speeches as Pam in “Mr. :md Mrs. Nortli,” three-act comedy- 'nystery v/hich is to be presented by the Elon Players in Whitley Auditor- iuin bn April 10 and 11.
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