A HAND TO
JOE GOLOMBEK—
A MAN'S MAN!
Maroon and Gold ^
Published By And For Elon Stud^ it
HICKORY BEARS
IN GYM
TONIGHT!
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VOLUME KM
ELON COLLEGE, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1947
NUMBER NINE
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NIGHT MUST FALL" SLATED FEBRUARY 19
Alumni Meeting Shares
Campus Spotlight Today
MANIACAL KILLER?
HYPOCHONDRIAC?
Mid-year meeting the Elon Col
lege General Alumni Association at
two o’clock this afternoon will share
today’s campus spotlight with the
Elon-Lenoir Rhyne basketball game
and bid night. The alumni meeting
■will be held in Society Hall in the
Alamance Building, with J. L. Crump
ton of Durham, vice-presiden^of the
association, as chairman.
Progress of the Million-Dollar
Camr/iign for the college and reports
on the fund for the new gymnasium
-will be the first items on the agenda.
W. C. Elder of Burlington, general
chairman of the gymnasium commit
tee, will announce the present status
of the project and plans for the com
pletion of the building fund.
Executive secretary' James F. Dar
den and President Leon Edgar Smith,
as well as W. C. Stoner of Greens
boro, in charge of the gymnasium
campaign in North Carolina, will pre
sent additional reports.
It is expected that Coach L. J.
'Hap’ Perry will discuss architectural
plans for the new gymnasium. These
call for accommodations for 2,500
spectators and include a swimming
pool and modern equipment. Plans
also include complete new ^thletic
fields with horseshoe stadium and
golf links.
Change of date of the Lenoir Rhyne
basketball game, which was origin
ally scheduled for last night, Febru
ary 7, was made in order to permit
alumni to be present for both the aft
ernoon meeting and the game, which
will begin at 8 o’clock.
Social Clubs
To Give Out
Bids Tonight
REPRESENTATIVE DURHAM
TO BE HERE MARCH 17
Representative Carl Durham
will address the members of the
International Relations Club on
Monday evening, March 17 th
in Society Hall in the Alamance
building:. The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Eton’s I.R.C. group, first to
be founded in the state, has been
followed by the organization of
similar clubs at other institu
tions. But our members take
pride in again being first—first
to secure a Congressman as the
spe^fcer for a regular assembly.
Confirmation of the date of
Representative Durham’s appear
ance may have to be announced
at a later time because of the
possibility of emergency busi
ness in Washington.
Be present at the weekly Mon
day evening meetings of the
I.R.C. and make sure of knowing
about future programs. If you
are in doubt, see Alton Wright,
president of the club, or the sec
retaries, Miss Amy Campbell and
Vernon Phelps,
Tonight is bid night. For the sec
ond time since the war Eton’s four so
cial fraternities and four sister so
rorities will join in issuing bids to
prospective members, thereby cli
maxing the winter rush season.
In the traditional manner, the fra
ternities, Alpha Pt Delta, Iota Tau
Kappa, Kappa Psi Nu, and Sigma
Phi Beta, and the sororities. Beta
Omicron Beta, Delta Upsilon Kappa,
Pi Kappa Tau. and Tau Zeta Phi. will
meet with their pledges at the stroke
of twelve. Then, the fraternities wilt
pay their respects to the girls' dor
mitories, and old members and
pledges both of fraternities and sor-
rorities will be introduced.
Tomorrow morning, Sunday, the
clubs will breakfast together and will
attend church in their own groups,
each member wearing his organiza
tion’s colors. After that, for one
week, pledges will go through various
stages of initiation, before becoming
full-fledged members of their respec
tive fraternity or sorority.
This will be the final bid night of
the current school year. Social clubs
will not receive new members again
until October.
Beryl Force To Appear
In Top Supporting Role
DR. ALBERT W. PALMER,
OF LOS ANGELES, TO
SPEAK HERE SUNDAY
This if Miller Basnight, New
production to be given here on Smith, above, director of dramat
Wednesday, February 19. Miller, ics at Elon, takes part of Mrs.
an Elan graduate, is nou- at Bramson, the old lady with the
Chapel Hill studying for Master ^ imagined ills, in Elon Play-
Dr. Albert W. Palmer of Los An
geles, who was made moderator of
the general council of Congregation
al Christian Churches in the United
State.s last June, will speak at 11
a. m. tomorrow at the Elon College
Community Christian Church, ac
cording to Dr. Jesse H. Dollar, pastor.
The subject of the sermon will be.
“Struggle, Discipline and Faith
Dr. Palmer, who has recently re
tired after 16 years as president of
the Chicago Theological Seminary
where he helped to organize the Fed
erated Theological faculty of the Uni
versity of Chicago, is a graduate of
the University of California at Berk
ley and took his theological training
of Arts degree. He is well known
at Elon a? former member of Elon
Players.
ers’ winter
Must Fall,’’
production, “Night
Don’t fail to see it.
“Rigoletto,” “Carmen”
To Be Presented Here
“Night Mu^ Fall” is the mystery-
drama production to be offered by
the College Players in Whitley Au
ditorium on February 19, and in Bur
lington Civic Auditorium on Febru
ary 28. i
Miss Beryl Force, freshman fron*.
Irvington, N. C., Miller Basnight,
Elon graduate student at th? Univer
sity of North Carolina, and Miss;
Jeanne Parks of Hallison will haive
the principal supporting roles.
Leading character interpretation,
will be the part of Mrs Bramsmi,
played by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith,
director of the department of dra
matics.
Miss Kathleen Young of Vernon,
Ala., Miss Irene Rummage of EUerbe,
Delmar Brown of Suffolk, Va., and
Bob Furr of Charlotte make up ant
all-star cast.
“Night Must Fall ” is a mystery
drama, a psycho-pathological study
at Yale. He has traveled widely and
has held pastorates at Redlands and in murder in which Mrs. Smith, di-
HONOREO
BOONE AND BRVAN OPEN
i SPORTING GOODS STORE
Jack Boone and Curry Bryan open
ed the Burlington Sporting Goods
Company in Burlington, North Caro
lina in December. Jack and Curry,
both outstanding athletes while at
Elon College, were''members of the
class of '42. The paths of both have
run parallel since leaving Elon. They
were both in the Navy, each is mar
ried to an alumna of Elon; recently
Jack became the father of a son, and
Curry Jhe father of a daughter. Mrs.',
Boone is the former Joyce Black of
Burlington, and Mrs. Brj'an is the
former Irma Wrightenbury of Bur
lington. We wish every success to
Jack and Ci*ry in their new busi
ness adventure.
The Burlington Sporting Goods
Company is the third sporting goods
store in North Carolina to be owned
and operated by Elon Alumni.
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New Vork Civic Opera Company,
sponsored by the Junior Chamber of
Commerce of Burlington, will be pre
sented in Whitley Auditorium on the
afternoon and evening of Wednesday,
February 12.
“Rigoletto” will be heard at the
matinee and “Carn).en” in the night
presentation. Eighty members of the
including the sym-
Oakland, California, Honolulu, Ha
waii, and Oak Park, Illinois
Dr. Palmer will arrive today and
spend Sunday at the college, after
which he will leave for Virginia
where he will speak to other groups.
ELON STUDENTS CONDUCT
SERVICES AT CHURCHES
IN EASTERN VIRGINIA
In “Bringing the College to the
Churches” program, a select group
of Elon students traveled to Eastern
Virgmia January 19th to conduct the
Sunday morning service at the Suf
folk Christian Church, afternoon ser
vice at the Liberty Spring Christian
Church, and ,the evening service at
the South Norfolk Christian Church.
Rev. Fred Register, senior minis
terial student, conducted the ser
vices. Special music was rendered
opera company
phonic orchestra and the corps bal- by a mixed quartet from the Elon
lector of the department of drama,
formerly appeared professionally As
Mrs. Bramson, a querulouis old lady
who lives in Essex, she comes to a
tragic end in the drama
Miller Basnight, who will be re
membered for many excellent per
formances in his undergraduate day,'*,
is the smooth, cocky beUhop who
skillfully deceives Mrs. Bramson,
Tho^setting is in a lonely old house
in the Essex countryside of England.
The action is concerned with a dou
ble murder. B«t the excellent acting,
the use of the Essex dialect, and tlie
comic relief in a sequence of gro
tesque situations give opportunity for
v.'hat promises to be one of the finest
productions of the year.
RAY DAY SELECTED
TO EDIT “COLONNADES’’
let ensemble will offer an evening of
classical entertainment.
Brought to the Elon campus by the
same group that gave us the Navy
band last November—that is, joint
ly sponsored by the college and the
Junior Chamber of Commerce—this
is a rare opportunity for our com*
munit5^
The price of admission in tae aft-
ernoon will be fifty cents for stu
dents.'one dollar for others. Tickets
for -‘Carmen ’ in the evening will be i
two dollars for all.
PATTERSON TO LEAD
DISCUSSION MONDAY
College music department, accompan
ied by Prof. Fletcher Moore, head of
the department. Those in the quar
tet were: Miss Dorothy Shepherd,
Miss Dorothy Jones, Wilbur Wassar,
and Jack McFadgen.
ANNOUNCEMENT
LOUIS AGRESTA
Lou Agresta
Gets Trophy
For Football
Fred “Pat” Patterson, Danville,
Va.. will lead a discussion on “Re
ciprocal Trade Agreements” at the
International Relations Club meeting
on Monday night, February 10, Pat
terson is well informed on the nation
al and foreign affairs, as evidenced by
his column, “Newspatter,” found on
page three of MAROON AND GOLD.
At the I.R.C. meeting last Monday,
Dan Barker of Oxford led the dis
cussion concerning Germany. Many
interesting comments and observa
tions were made by the members, es
pecially by men who had seen ser-
Letters and sweaters bo the
1946 basebaU and tennis team«,
through some unexplainable ov-
ersight, have not been delivered
to the men who earned them.
The Faculty Athletic Committee
wishes to apologize for this error,
and will see that the letters are
ordered at once. They will b«
presented as soon as they are re
ceived.
Edward Ray Day, Norfolk, Va,,
has been selected by the Publica
tions Board to edit the spring is
sue of the" “Colonnades,” Elon
College student literary maga
zine. Miss Clegg Miller, Win
chester, Va„ has been named as
associate editor.
In order to jiroduce some good
material for the publication, a
writer’s workshop has been form
ed. Already about a dozen per
sons have shown interest in the
workshop, which meets with Day,
Miss Miller and Miss Keen and
Mrs. Johnson of the faculty on
Wednesday nights at 8 o’clock
in the Accounting laboratory,
third floor of Alamance Building,
for an hour or two of discussion
and writing. Any student inter
ested in writing of any sort is ia-
vited to participate.
Lou Agresta, of Hazleton, Pa., co
captain elect of the Elon College
football team for 1947, was presented | vice in that country.
the squad’s most valuable player i
award at a theater party given Thurs- HURDLE RECOVERING
Alston, ■
WHAT MAKES MARY SMILE? Why, it just comes natur’lly to
Miss Mary Coxe, Wagram’s ambassador of good will to Elon. Editor
of the PHIPSICLI, the college annual, Miss Coxe is one of the most
industrious students on campus, yet finds time to give away her
^pretty smile even while at work. Anyone wishing to succeed her at
desk, as next yearns yearbook editor, should submit written application
to Publications Board of Elon at earliest possible moment. Board is
also looking for next editor of MAROON AND GOLD.
day at Burlington by A. A
donor of the trophy. Jack Russell,
co-captain and quarterback from Al
toona, Pa., joined with the players
and coaches in congratulating Lou
for the hard-hitting game he played
this past season as blocking back.
Agresta, whose parents are both de
ceased, was born a cripple with de
formed feet. An operation correct
ed the trouble, and in high school at
Hazleton he developed as an athlete
in football, wrestling, and track. His
specialties in track were In contestng
as a weight man, in putting the shot,
and in throwing the javelin.
Service In Instruction of air cadets
preceded his assignment to A^ica
fho u;np We edited the G. I.
FROM EYE INJURY
Allen Hurdle, senior pre-minister-
ial student, is recovering from an eye
injury received on January 22, while
he was removing trash from an oil
heater valve.
Mr. Hurdle was confined to Duke
hospital in Durham for a week.
Pending his recovery, Allen will re
turn to Duke hospital for treatment of
a cataract which developed as a re
sult of the accident.
ly four years in the army, two and
one-half of which were overseas.
A member of the Junior class and
- business administration major at
during the war. He edited
paper “Bon Jour” and w^ i ^pgcts to return to journalism at
made an African correspondent of the
“Stars and Stripes.”
later Elon, Lou has a variety of j.nter^sts^
f the I He expects t ' ‘
He spent pear- an early date.
NOT IN THE SCRIPT is this pose by Miss Jeanne Parks, Elon stu-
dent from Hallison, N. C., who will play a supporting role in Elon
Player^ production of “Night Must Fall,” psychological thriller which
will be given in Whitley auditorium on the night of Wednesday,
February 19, and at Burlington on Friday, February 28. However,
theatre-goers will see plenty of Miss Parks’ go^ looks avA acting
ability during her performance as Dora, the maid. (Staff photo)