MAROON AND GOLD
Published By and For Elon Sttideitts
VOLUME 12
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
Alumni Dinner
Will Honor
Professor Hook
Elizabeth Russell
To Give Recital
This Sunday
Friday, April 30, 1948
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NUMBER 14
PROF. A. L. HOOK
Prof. A. L. Hook will be he guest
of honor at the annual dinner of the
Burlington Chapter of the Alumni
Association, to be held in the Ala
mance Hotel this evenint?.
The program committee chose Pro
fessor Hook, not only for his thirty-
four years of teaching at Elon, but
also for the many activities he has
participated in beyond his duty as f
teacher, particularly in the field of
aeronautics.
Speakers for the ocasion will in
clude Prof. Robert W. Truitt, Head
of the Aeronautics Department o
North Carolina State College, an Elon
alumnus and former student under
Professor Hook; Dr. L. E. Smith; Dr
Jesse Dollar; Prof. J. W. Barney; and
Clyde W. Gordon, member of the
Executive Comittee of the Board of
Trustees.
George D. Colclough, Secretary of
the Burlington Chamber of Com
merce, will officiate as toastmaster.
ELIZABETH RUSSELL
Elon College Department of Music
■ill present Elizabeth Johnson Rus-
;ell. Mezzo-soprano in her Senior
Graduation Recital on Sunday After-
loon. May 2 at 4 o'clock. She is a
voice student with Miss Hodgens and
,'ill be accompanied at the piano by
Vayne Moore.
Elizabeth Russell has been very
ictive in Music Organizations on the
3ampus and has been a member of
the Elon Singers for four years. She
s a member of the Beta Omicron
Beta social sorority and has been a
Tiember of the May Court for two
years.
Works by Brahms, Wagner, Handel,
Saint-Saens, Manning, Faure and
Curran will appear on the program.
Hornets Nose
Out Elon, 8"7
The Fighting Christians literally
toyed around long enough for the
Graham Hornets to overcome a seven
run lead and then go on to defeat
Elon 8-7 with four runs in the sixth
inning, Monday.
Coach Malory’s crew scored theii
seven runs in the third inning or.
five hits including Ed Ellis’ long
homer over the rigth field fence,
Roberts and Matze drew walks, and
both scored as Ellis shot a towering
fly out of the park. Gene Cavines'
! followed with another walk; Stevf.
j WJalker and Lou Savini hit con-
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secutive singles before Thurso Mc-
; Swain wallopped a long double to
center field, clearing the sacks. Hank
'DeSimone reached on an infield
, error and McSwain scored the final
I rUn for the Fighting Christians on
j the play.
Ross held the collegians in check
j for the remainder of the contest, giv-
j ing up but three hits in the final six
I innings of play.
Frank Roberts gave up but two hits
, to the Hornets in the first three in
nings but aippeared to tire rapidly
from here on as the Graham club
reached the chubby righthander for
*'vo runs in each of the fourth anr*
fifth and then sewed up the contes'
in' the sixth on two bases on balls,
three hits and an infield error. Six
walks by Roberts, all in the three
scoring innings, kept him in constant
rouble. The defeat was Roberts’ se
cond of the caimpaign against four
wins.
Ed Ellis with a homer and single
was the batting star for Elon. Lou
Savini pitched in with two singles
Johnson had two
Dances for May
Day Will Be
Given Saturday
By Evelyn McNeil
Florine Chandler and Ralph Ed
wards will be the reigning sovereigns
at the annual May Day exercises to
be held in front of the Alamance
Building tomorrow afternoon at 4:30.
Folk dances will be climaxed with the
traditional English may pole dance.
The king and queen will be attend
ed by Elizabeth Russell, Maid of
Honor; Bryant Harrell, escort for
Maid of Honor; Betty Benton and
Dorothy Shakleford, Senior Attend
ants; Jack Russell and Lawrence
Paige, escorts; Doris Cannon and
Mildred Johnson, Junior Attendants;
Fred Claytor and Mike Kozakewich,
escorts.
Miss Vanda Whicker of the physical
education faculty is in charge of the
program.
Folk dances will include the minuet,
which first appeared in seventeenth
century France, and was carried to
the American colonies, where it was
danced by the wealthier classes. The
waltze, a long, gliding step, came into
vogue during the eighteenth century.
The polka appeared in the early nine
teenth century and was eagerly in
corporated into the dances of Euro
pean countries.
cher Ross had three singles to aid
his own winning cause for the Hor
nets.
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Roberts, Siler (8) and DeSimone,
doubles, and Pit-1 Greggs; Ross and Payne, Cross.
Dele;a e$ Attend Hou:(hcl
Art! f ecting
EHzatieth Raines and Helen Spive;
attended the State Association c
Household Arts Chibs and meetings
Cliarlottee, last Friday and Satiirda\
Queen’s College of Charlotte was host
to the association.
The program consisted primarily of
a workshop, in which ways and means
were developed of carrying on house^
hold arts.
The Men Behind the Plate
Carl
Danieley to Speak
At Math Meeting
GUILFORD LINKS CREW
DOWNS CHRISTIANS
The Guilford College golf team de
feated the Elon College golf team at
the Starrrvount Country Club course
21 to 5.
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J. Earl Danieley of the science
faculty wil speak to the Mathematics
Section of the North Carolina Aca
demy of Science during the 45th an
nual meting to be held at Davidson
College next Friday and Saturday,
r. Danieley will discuss the results
of a study made last fall with a
group of students in mathematics 11.
This study concerned individual in
struction in college algebra.
A report of the study was pub
lished in the February issue of
“North Carolina Education” (the
journal of the North Carolina Ed
ucation Asociation.) A similar re-1
port has been acepted for publication
by “The Mathematics Teacher,” offi- j Shown above are the three varsity catchers for the Elon College baseball
cial journal of the National Council of team. Left to right. Chub Brown ofBurlington, Hank DeSimone of Wayne
Teachers of Mathematics. Pa., and Billy Greggs of Norfolk, Va.