DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN
Maroon and Gold
THIS NEWS WAS NEWS?
Published By and For Elon Students
VOLUME 12
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 1948
NUMBER 7
Dr. Haff Addrt^sses
Pi Ganima mu
■On December 11, Dr. Haff of the
Elon Science department spoke be-
• I'v .f the- Pi Gamma Mu club con
cerning the subject, “Scientific Man
and His Relationship To The Inter
national Affairs Of Today”. In this
most enlightening and interesting
; man a=;
vT'l able to wage or
ganized warfare”. Thus, even in his
most destructive way, man proves
I i i , s any other type of
animal. In warfare only had man
. i his highest de
gree. “Just tiiink,” Dr. Haff pointed
out, “what could be done with
rpeace would man only enter into it
so wholeheartedly as he does organ
ized war.” Then he went ahead to
poiYit out what has been done in the
•way of controlling diseases when
even a few great men put forth their
greatest efforts. Yet, the great
; friil to un'!';r-
■:tand or to enter into such a fight
against an enemy that kills far more
than the wars of gun and shell.
Dr. Haff spoke before the regular
monthly meeting of the Pi Gama Mu.
This Elon chapter of the national
Social Science Honor Society has
recently taken in several new mem
bers and reorganized under the very
a'"'e leadership of Professor C. W.
Paskins of the history and sociology
r’ppartments. Vivian Walker, as-pres-
iHpnt: Paige Gaskins, Secretary; and
Wayne Smith, as vice-president, are
"the student leaders of this highly
esteemed .club.
lents Attend
Charter Day
At Guiltord
I Wayne Taylor, Efland, President of
i the Student Body, Baxter Twiddy,
Norfolk, Ya., President of the Mini-
1 sterial Asociation, and Alton Wright,
' Jonesboro, President of the I. R. C.,
; v.-ere invited over to the Charter Day
‘ program of Guilford College on
Tuesday January 13. Upon taking |
advantage of the gracious invitation,
they found the program both enter
taining and informing,
j T'l? p^’r>'-rarn was presented jointly
by the college and Young Friends
. ■ i- centered around
discussions of “Friends and a Pro
gram of World Service.” Guest
speaker during the convocation pro
gram in the morning was Dr. James
Read, secretary of the foreign service
section of the American Friends
Service Committee,
i Later in the day the visiting
groups attended discussions led by
Colin W. Bell, director of English
and American Service Committee
I work in the Far East; Edward
: Wright, director of Service Com
mittee work camps, and Dr. Read.
I Topics of the discussion period were
“The Far East,” “Foreign Summer
I Work Camps,” and “Need and Op
j portunities for Service.”
Tea was later enjoyed by all. The
three who attended from Elon return
ed home with nothing but praise for
the program and especially the very
nice “Friends” met at the neighbor
ing Quaker college.
King And Queen Of M i y
K*av/ Offers
Civilian Jobs
The David Taylor Model Basin
■'"^"hington 7, D. C. is in need of
the services of male and female
Physical Science Aides, SP-4 o SP-6.
opportunities exist in the fields
of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics.
To qualify for positions paying
^^2128.28 per annum, applicants must
“have completed at least two years
of college mathematics. Those who
have received college credit for
additional mathematics courses may
r-"I’fy for positions paying up to
;$?'544.80 per anum. These positions
■vill be filled under Civil Service
Hegulations, but it will not be neces
sary at present time, for applicants to
>qualify in a written examination.
Persons employed in this capacity
Avill (perform the mathematical work
incident to that of reducing to co
efficient form, force, moment, and
pressure data obtained from wind-
tunnel tests of various types of
model airplanes. The work includes
also the plotting and fairing of the
data to obtain the characteristic cur
ves of aerodynamic investigations.
Paul C. Plybon, Direcor of Ad-
misions, is expecting representatives
from the Navy Department to visit
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C A. A. Offers
Alaskan Jobs
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.— The
Civil Aeronautics Administration hai
openings for a number of qualified
single men as aircraft communi
cators in Alaska, at starting salaries
of $3,306 a year.
Successful applicants will be as
signed to the 45 airways communica
tions stations operated by the C. A. A.
along Alaskan airways.
The men selected will be in line for
evenual promotion to higher grade
jobs paying up to $5,656 a year.
Additional earnings are possible in all
grades through authorized overtime
beyond the 40-hour week, and
through a ten per cent differental.
Basic qualifications for the jobs
are the ability to transmit and receive
International Morse Code at mini
mum speed of 30 words a minute; to
touch typewrite at 35 words a minute;
and in 18 months of aeronautical com
munications experience or an accept
able equivalent in education and
experience. Slight code speed defi
ciencies may be allowed at discretion
of appointing officer if.it appears that
they can be compensated during
orientation training.
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Noted Tenor
Gives Concert
New Dining
Hall Begun
By Helen Kingr
In spite of a record “low” in the
mercurv reading Wednesday, Jan
uary 14, a large audience
James Montgomery, tenor, at
Construction of the new cafe
teria is expected to begin this week
according to Paul C. Plybon. Dir-
heard; ector of Admissions. The Jones Con-
Whit--struction Company of Charlotte ex-
ley ^Memorial Auditorium. This was | pects to have the work completed
the third concert of the I vceum ’ and the cafeteria ready for use by
Series being presented this season the beginning of the spring quarter
by the Elon College Music Depart- or shortly thereafter. ,
ment. Mr. Montgomery’s varied ^ The cafeteria, which is to be a one
program included numbers by Han- story frame structure, will be built
del, von Fielitz, Strauss, Rimsky- in the firm if a “T”, the longer part
Korsakov, Foudrain Cilea. Lehman, extending 150 feet and the shorter
and American Folk Songs. j 75 fget. It is to be erected on
A more personal concert than one
King and Queen of the annual May
Day celebration to be held on May
3 will be Miss Flo Chandler of Haw
River, and Ralph Edwards of Hender
son, N. C. Program of the day will
be under the direction of Miss Vanda
Whicker, women’s director of Phys
ical Education.
The 1948 May Court includes as
Maid of Honor, Miss Elizabeth Rus
sell, of Sufolk, Va.; Miss Betty
/. R. C. Sponors
Much Activity
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Alton Wright, president of the
International Relations Club has an
nounced that a ipoll is to be taken
among students to determine their
attitude on Universal Military train
ing. A questionnaire will be handed
out in chapel next week, and every-
on is urged to give thoughtful con
sideration to this important national
problem. Other plans for the coming
quarter include those of sponsoring
a progressive radio program.
Bradford Snipes, of Guilford Col
lege, who recently returned from
Europe after spending seven months
helping in the work camps of the
several somewhat needy countries,
lectured on his experience before
a large group of I. R. C. members and
visitors in I. R. C. club room located
m the library building. It was his
observafton that we in the United
States are ignoring pressing inter-
tional developments because we are
Benton of Norfolk and Miss Dorothy
Shackleford of Phoebus, Va. as senior
attendants; Miss Doris Cannon, of
Canton, N. C. and Miss Mildred
Johnson, of Wilmington, N. C. as
junior attendants. The escorts in
clude D. B. “Ace” Harrel of Mt.
Olive, N. C., Jack Russell of Aloona,
Pa., Lawrence Paige, of Elon College,
Fred CClaytor, of Hillsboro, N. C. and
Mike Kazakewich of Englewood, N. J.
Nine Year Man
Will Graduate
Or Die Trying
of Mr. Montgomery’s is seldom
heard. His words of explanation of
his songs created an atmosphere of
friendliness and ease between the
singer and his audience. Mr. Mont
gomery sings elastically, freely and
vith a clear regard for interpretating
he mood of the song. Folk songs,
even though arranged, ought to
sound as though the singer were
recalling them or remembering them
for the first time; this, Mr. Mont
gomery did in his interpretation of
“Fair Una”, an old Gaelic folk song
arranged by Hardebeck.
His unusual ability in making each
of his songs an exipressive art was
exemplified in his singing of Handel's
“Where’er You Walk”, from “Pto-
mely”. He defined the melodic lines
of the number in following sustained
ones that swelled, diminished and
melted away almost inaudibly into
thin air. A more pleasing tone
quality has seldom been heard in
executing this number.
Sharing in the enthusiasm of the
audience was Mr. Fletcher Moore.
The visiting artist paid high tribute
to Mr. Moore’s accompaniment, say
ing that he had never found a finer
accompanist in Philadelphia, - New
York, Chicago, nor anywhere. He
said that when he came to Elon
College for a concert he had no dif
ficulty regarding an accompanist, for
Mr. Moore was the best to be had.
Mr. Montgomery was very gen
erous with his encores, and expressed
appreciation for the response and
enthusiasm of the audience.
the side of the campus adjacent to
the present temporary kitchen.
Upon completion of the present
project Elon will have completely
modern eating facilities. Among the
many innovations will be electric
conveyor belts to carry the food
from the serving line. Warming
cabinets will keep the food warm
while being served.
Definite information as to meth- '
ods of serving in the cafeteria will
be released shortly.
In addition to the new cafeteria
the college has recently acquired
several items of kitchen equipment.
Among these is a Sterling dish
washing machine capable of wash
ing dishes for 500 servings an hour.
A new electric oven will bake 72
loaves of bread at one time.
We are real proud of ourselves
■when we look at the picture of the
evnt made possible by us. We are
also proud of our little neighbors
who were good enough for the
.satisfaction of Santa Clause (Johnny
_Miller). The gifts shown in the
picture were given by the students
and faculty of the college. Everyone
had a swell time at the party, and
for this one time, at least it was
greater pleasure to give than to
receive.
only interestd in fnvtv, •
, , , , furthering our high
standard of living. Mr
e ivir. Snipes also
vv-as of the opinion that we are labor
ing under a mass hysteria and fear
of communism. It was his belief that
we should strive for peace first—not
to create an armed oamp. The job
of preserving ipeace needs a higher
motive than the one we
following.
Winding up his eleventh day of
complete fasting, that debonair gen
tleman from Liberty, N. C., Mr. Fred
Shoffnor, claims to feel no par
ticular change other than weakness
and the loss of weight. He feels that
the school will weaken ere long and
cede to him that which is demeaning.
For those of our readers who
haven’t been keeping up with the
news, we shall give a minute syn
opsis of the affair:
Some weeks ago the M. Shoffnor
(we have only one, unfortunately)
inquired as to the number of credits
on his transcript. He had anticipated
graduation in the spring as a result
of having taken four subjects each
quarter for the past year but was
confronted with the traditonal fact
that one is not allowed more than 18
credit hours per quarter. Having
been under an assumption to the
contrary for many months the news
that he lacked two hours having
enough to finish came as a blow.
The better sides of all admini-
tration heads were applied to with
the hope of finding some glimmer
a chance to get OUt of the SChOOl
in which he has been for nine years
one short interruption intervening.
There were no encouragements forth
coming, however, and such famous
last words were said. One department
head was desirous of knowing what
are now^ O. Kelly would think. Another felt
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No Movies
This Quarter
Local movie fans will have to go
elsewhere for their entertainment
this quarter as no movies will be
shown on the campus until the spring
quarter.
Professor A. L. Hook, who is in
charge of movie programs,- says that
the decision was prompted because
of conflicts with other activities,
particularly parties and basketball
games. Basketball games at the
local high school also attract many
town people, who would otherwise
attend the movies.
Attendance at the movies, which
were shown on Friday and Saturday
evenings last quarter was not large
enough to keep them on a self- sus
taining basis. Last year the movies
cost $50 more than admission brought
in.
Bowers Solos In
Record Time
If in the future, you hear Bob
Bower’s croon “Come, Josephine in
My Flying Machine”, to some sweet
bit of feminity, don’t be surprisedi!
On Monday Bob had a tplane all to
himself for ■ the first time and did
he take advantage of the oipportunity?
Well, listen to ths and then draw your
own conclusions.
Monday Bob was at the Burlington
Municipal Airport to get some more
flight time in (to date he had received
only two hours dual instruction). His
instructor had Bob get into the plane
prior to take-off, to hold the brakes
on while he, the instructor, spun the
prop. Bob also had instructions to
open the throttle a notch when the
engine caught so the motor wouldn’t
choke down. The instructor spun, the
motor caught. Bob pulled the throttle
out, and there it jammed! The
brakes refused to hold any longer on
the sleet-coverd ground and in a
few seconds the plane was in the air.
In this unique situation (to say the
least!) Bob reacted with admirable
courage and wisdom. The plane at
first had the upper hand but grad
ually Bob got it under control to an
extent. On the ground, the instructor
knowing Bob’s plight dispatched
another plane to try and show Bob
how to make an approach to the field
for a landing. After watching the
other tactics Bob made two approach
es both of which were too short. The
third was much better and sat her
down, somewhat rudely it is true, but
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CHEERLEADERS BOOST MORALE
The seven cheerleaders pictured year. From left to right they are ;
above have been a source of inspira-Ruth Bain, Alton Godwin, Jane
tion for both team and spectators i^xransou, Carl Coley, Hilda Robbins,
the many football and basketball en
counters which Elon has had this
John Taylor, and Doris Peedin,