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fiKAROON AND GOLD
CHIT-CHAT ON THIS & THAT
By BETTY HILL
MEET THE EDITOR. Here’s John
I (Johnny-on-the-Spot) Watson, new
editor of the MAROON AND GOLD.
John, whose home is at Engelhard, N.
C., made phenomenal rise from press
boy to the editorship, and retiring
staff members wish him best of luck
as the brains behind this and fourteen
subsequent issues of school paper.
Good luck, John!
Junioir-Seinior
Bajnquet Held
AL BURLINGAME, of Cambriage,
N. Y., the retiring editor of the Ma
roon and Gold, takes time out for a
smoke. During the current school
year, poor A1 has hardly had time
for even that, what with all his extra-
curricular-activities. In addition to
the editorship of Maroon and Gold;
he is an active fraternity man, a par
ticipant in intramural softball, basket
ball, and chess; one of the organizers
and staunch supporters of the Vet
eran’s Club, and what amazes the ma
jority of the student body, he did
all these things without falling below
an “A” average.
The annual Junior-Senior banquet
was held Friday evening, April 26
at 6;30 p. m. in the South Dining
Hall. Wayne Taylor, president of
the junior class gave the welcome to
which Ray Day responded. Ralph
Edwards toasted the senior clase, and
Nancy Jordan, treasurer of the class,
responded. Dr. Reddish responded
to Miss Bett^ Benton’s toast to him
as the senior class sponsor. Miss
Paige Eaves gave a toast to the fac
ulty, to which Miss Hardy responded.
Miss Dorothy Shepherd sang “My
Hero” accompanied by Miss Violet
Blackman at the piano.
Committees were as follows:
Menu: Irma Graham and Maxine
Cole.
Programs: Janice Frazier, Marion
Chase, and Paige Eaves.
Decoration: Yank Dickson, Amy
Campbell, Jo Earp, W. D. Little, and
Kermit Inman.
Place cards: Kathy Young and War
ren Ellington.
Advertisement: Ella Mae Morgan
and Betty Benton.
SENORITA ATALITA CHEGWIN
TO RETURN TO SOUTH AMERICA
DR. EDWIN MORRIS BETTS
AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP
Dr. Edwin Morris Betts, class of
1919, and a former Elon faculty
member, has been awarded a fellow
ship by the Guggenheim Foundation
for the preparation of an edition of
Thomas Jefferson’s FARM BOOK.
Associate Professor of biology at
the University of Virginia, Dr. Betts
is the author of “Thomas Jefferson’s
Flower Garden at Monticello,” and
editor of “Thomas Jefferson’s Gar
den Book.”
A music major at Elon, and for a
time director of the Music Depart
ment here. In 1923 he changed
fields, entering the University of Vir
ginia as a student in biology. His
advanced degrees were completed at
Virginia.
Mrs. Betts was Mary Hill Stryker
(Elon 1924), and they have two chil
dren, a son and a daughter. Dr. Betts
is the uncle of Chubby Kirkland,
(Elon 19251 who is head coach at Ca
tawba, and he is also uncle to Mrs.
M. Z. Rhodes (Elon 1923).
The present award is one of 122
totaling $310,000. We have not re
ceived information as to the amount
allotted for the production of the
JEFFERSON FARM BOOK.
Senorita Atalita Chegwin, vivacious
South American instructor in Span
ish at Elon for the past two years, has
announced her plan to return to her
home in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Miss Chegwin will leave on May 27,
and will travel by plane from Miami.
Happy as a songbird over the thought
of “going home,” she says, never
theless, “Be sure and quote me that
I have had a wonderful time at Elon
and when I look at the Carolina
landscape in spring, I am almost sad
to think of leaving. I like your
country. It is my country now, also,
though I may never have the oppor
tunity to return.”
A brother and a sister of Miss
Chegwin’s came to E|on for study
while she was a member of the fac
ulty. Miss Atalita has made brief
tours of the United States during va
cations. Her brother, Senor H. E.
Chegwin, of New York City,, is the
North American representative of her
father’s company, general buyers of
export goods.
Asked about the political and eco
nomic outlook in Colombia, Miss
Chegwin said, “I know little about it
now, but I have word that Colombia,
too, has trouble with strikes and in
flation.
Questioned about Argrentina’s quasi
dictatorship, she said. “I do not know.
But I feel that it is not dangerous.
At any rate, Colombia would like
to be friends with Argentina and all
other lands.”
“In the spring a young man’s fan
cy - - - For ages poets and
peasants alike have felt and sung the
magic of spring. This age is no dif
ferent. Spring is here and appar
ently everybody feels its glow. These
eyes have seen many a romance come
and go but nothing like the romances
of Elon. There’s something about a
loving couple in any season, but
there is something special about lov
ers in spring.
♦ * * +
Every year, the American movie
public witnesses the release of scores
of Hollywood musical films, produced,
supposedly, to delight the eye and
the ear. They do neither. The
lavish color schemes are just plain
gaudy, and pie music usually comes
from the throat of some well-public
ized crooner, who is supposed to cre
ate ecstasy in the hearts of all fe
males from sixteen to sixty. Holly
wood’s idea of a gay nineties musjcal,
for example, is to dress Miss Grable
in vivid ruffles up to here, give her a
song to sing, a flimsy plot, and Dick
Haymes, let’s say. In Hollywood
they proudly beam. “Here, Movie
Fans, is the most fabulous, colossal,
glittery, film ever to be made.” We
rush to the theatre to see this extra
vaganza, and after the first half hour
wish to high heaven that Mr. Haymes
would not be quite so soulfully drip
py, and knowing full well that Miss
G. would love to stuff an overripe
tomato in his mouth, right in the mid
st of “This is it, Mabel” or what-have-
you. Please understand, we are not
censoring stars so much as the writ
ers, producers, etc., who send forth
two hours of tripe, incorrectly called
musical comedy and expect us to swal
low all the gaudiness and unauthen
ticity of it all and call for more of
the same.
♦ + ♦ *
me, I will never tell it, but'today, I
watched Dr. J., perspiring, but not
perplexed, clad in slack trousers and
sv.'eat shirt, build a rabbit hutch.
And that ain’t all—Mrs. J., was dig
ging fish worms, and handling them
competently by the head or tail—you
tell, I can’t. Anyway, Diary, it’s a
wonderful life.
BETTY.
FA3IED PIANISTS
HERE ON MAY 8
Day Student
Sketch'Eook
“BEST FOOT FORWARD”
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE
rangement and it was suggested that
some notable be contacted and have
hijn throw out the first actor as they
do in baseball. It was decided, how
ever that this wouldn’t be wise be
cause it might give the audience
ideas.
The gullibility of human beings has
never ceased to amaze us. Tell a
student that a member of the Ascaris
(flat worm) family is capable of lay
ing 200,000 eggs a day and he accepts
it without proof postive. Tell the
students that “Best Foot Forward”
is the greatest mirth provoker since
Grandpa Whistleberry got his beard
caught in the washing machine
“Song of the South” was worth
seeing only becaues of Walt Disney’s
very excellent cartoons. The Uncle
Remus stories are always enchanting
despite much re-telling, but we pre
fer our Walt Disney straight, without
the complications always brought
about by the human element.
* ♦ ♦
Mr. Paskins, it seems, has heard a
new definition for a college. Says
Mr. P., “A college is a place where
the ivy creeps around on the outside,
and the professors creep around on
the inside.”
♦ * * ♦
I wonder how many of the popu
lation have noticed: . . . the petite
charm of Frances Branson of “Best 1
Foot Forward” . . . the mystery of |
street lamps in the rain alter dark'
. .. the laughter of friendly Elonites
v/ho never seem to have a worry in
the world . . . the old world courtl-
ness of Dr. Hirsch . . .
* ♦ ♦ ♦
Dear Diary:
Because nobody will ever believe
Guy and Lois Maier. famous duo-
pianists, will be presented by the
Elon College department of music
in a recital here Thursday evening.
May 8. The program is to begin at
8:15 in Whitley auditorium.
Mr. Maier was a member of the
Maier-Pattison two-piano team, the
first such team to gain world-wide
acclaim from both critics and audi
ences. For the past twelve years,
he has spent most of his time teach
ing and writing. During that period
he has been on the summer faculty
of the Juilliard school and has serv
ed as editor of the Pianists’ Round
Table in the Etude music magazine.
In addition to his other activities, he
now conducts master classes at U.
C. L. A. and is music consultant for
Stevens College in Colu»nbia, Mis
souri.
Mrs. Maier, an artist in her own
right, has also been on the Juilliard
faculty, and joins her husband in oc
casional tours away from their Cal
ifornia home in Santa Monica to pre
sent concerts of music for two pianos.
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Hi! Everyone. Who isn’t busy
these days and who doesn’t expect to
be even more busy before exams are
over? If anyone would like to have
a job, just see me. Your pay will be
the same as mine—just more work!
(First: If there is anything about
this that you do not like, blame Bill.
Next: if there is S^mefhing about it
that you do like, give me the credit, j
O. K.?) i
The weather has been playing j
pranks lately, but it doesn’t change |
any more often than the love life of j
“Peep-Eye.” There is a different
story to tell for each issue of the
paper. (Or should 1 say that the
temperature changes with each is
sue?) But he says, and I quote:
“It doesn’t seem like I am the only
one who is easily played for a suck
er. Some women just don’t think
much of the word ‘Love’.” To get
the rest of that little sermon, consult
him personally. He is dating a swell
person again though; we like you,
Jimmy, but “Peep” might get jeal
ous if you go out with “Aggie” too
often. I
It was nice to see Hilda Neese i
around again. We’ve been missing j
her shining personality. j
From all reports, Kathy Young j
had a very exciting time in Washing- ^
ton. She saw Ed Daniels, who is an j
alumnus of Elon and is, at present, |
in Art School in Washington. Miss i
Newman also had a big time visiting j
in Virginia. She went to an art ex-1
hibit at the University. (Incidentally, j
when we have our art exhibit in May,;
try to make' it a point to see what
we are doing here at Elon.) j
We noticed that Wallace Owens was i
taking in the beauty of Duke Gar
dens Sunday. Who were your wo
men, Wally? And who was your wo
man, Max?
if you see an unusually big smile
on Pat Hook’s face, it’s because she
has just finished her practice teach
ing. That’s enough to smile about al
though it is fun—to some extent. If
you haven’t learned before, it is a
good way to learn how to study.
And have you heard the one about
curious Robert Moore and his broth
er, Rich&rd? Robert: “Why in the
world did that saleslady slap your
face?” Richard: “That’s what I can’t
figure out. All I did was ask her
how much she would take off for
cash.”
“Well, I do say!” said the sweet
old lady upon tasting beer for the
first time. “It taste exactly like
the medicine my husband has been
taking for the last thirty years.”
One day Gene, Jimmy Cobb( and
“Jake” Thompson went hunting.
Gene came panting up to the party.
“Just met a big bear in the woods,”
SATURDAY, APPRIL 27, 1947
he said breathlessly. “Good!” said
Jake. “Did you give it both barrels?"
Gene wiped his perspiring bow.
“Both barrells!” he exclaimed, “I
gave him the whole gun.”
Jack Walker said, “Ah! Those must
have been the days—when you could
kiss a girl and taste nothing but the
girl!”
•Well, so much for the gab. If you
know anything about what is going
on among the day students, please
get me word about it soon, because
there will be only one more issue of
the MAROON AND GOLD for this
school year.
DALE.
I’ll see ya’
Student Boidy
Spring Party
Is Tonight
Under the supervision of Miss
Christina Hardy and Miss Frances:
Muldrow, faculty members, the Stu
dent Government Association is spon
soring a spring formal for all students
this evening, from 8:30 until 11:30
o'clock in the North Dorm Gym.
The decorations, designed and con
structed under the direction of John
Taylor and Allene Stallings, carry
out the spring theme and feature
artificial spring flowers, a water foun-
[tain, and a rock garden. The color
! scheme is the pastel colors of spring
I and the lighting effects helg carry
' out this theme by vari-colored spot-
I lights placed at intervals along the
' gym balcony.
Louise Clayton, president of the
; Council, Jack Freeman, pres-
I ident of the Senate, and Fred Reg-
I ister, president of the Student Body,
j headed the various committees.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM EDGERTON
TO ADDRESS I. R. C.
International Relations Club of
Elon College will be addressed by
Professor William Edgerton of Guil
ford College on Monday evening,
April 28, at 7:30 in Society Hall, it
was announced today by Alton.
Wright, president gf the club.
Well-known for his work with the
UNNRA in Europe, Professor Edger
ton has recently returned to Guil
ford; he will discuss the conditions
he found in war-torn areas, and the
means we ought to use in restoring
both the peoples and the land.
Dr. Edgerton will answer questions
from the audience and comment upoa
our foreign policy in view of his own
experiences.
Compliments Of
ELON
SODA
SHOP
MISS ATALITA CHEGWIN, to leave
Elon for her home in Colombia, S. A.
wringer and they say, “Show us.”
That’s exactly what the Players are
going to do. Without benefit of equa
tions, test tubes or any scientific
paraphenalia they are going to prove
that people are, indeed, funny.
Don't throw your money away on
trivialties. The best is yet to come.
“Best Foot Forward” is the best col
lege comedy to be produced by the
Players. The date is May 15, 8:30
p. m., in Whitley auCfltorlum.
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IF WE DON’T
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