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Prof. Has Varied interests
By JOAN BOLWELL
Mrs. George A. Johnson, dimin
utive assistant professor in the
department of business adminis
tration here, is a mammoth bun
dle of versatility.
Though she is now in her third
year of teaching business adminis
tration subjects at Elon, calculat
ing machines and business trends
have no monopoly on Mrs. John
son's interests. A crack teacher of
business, she can, and will, spend
hours talking literature. Her M.
A. thesis was done on the poet-
philosopher, Robinson Jeffers.
She is sponsor of the Commercial
Club and at the same time thor
oughly saturated in the interests
of the college literary magazine,
“Colonnades.” It would seem
perfectly natural to see Mrs.
Johnson presiding over an English
class.
Perhaps the’ key to her contra
dictory personality is hung some
where on her family tree. She
suggests the possibility herself.
Her dreaming, sne thinks, may be
inherited from the ministers and
lawyers in the family who, she
confesses with a smile, wrote more
poetry than sermons and briefs.
And maybe she inherited a good
counterbalance of practicability
fi’Om her father who is a business
man of 50 years experience.
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Mrs. Johnson is anything but a
club woman, but she does belong
I to the American Association of
! Accountants and the American
I
' Association of University Profes
sors. And literary minded though
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she be, her reading includes works
on management, industrial man
agement and labor and personnel
problems. That’s stuff for broad
shoulders, but Elon's tiny house-
wife-prOfessor doesn't seem to no
tice.
She is serious-minded, but
personable, witty, and even gay
when it fits the occasion. For
instance, as the mother of Ellen,
5, and Pudgy, 6, and the wife of
Dr. Johnson, head of the business
administration department, she is
a far cry from an iron-jawed eco
nomist. She and the children have
great fun playing at recognizing
Dr. Johnson as lord and master
of the household.
From all reports Mrs. Johnson
is an A-1 cook—and she apparent
ly carries her sense of humor into
the kitchen. One faculty mem
ber tells of going into the John
son kitchen and seeing a sign pin
ned over the stove which read,
“To insure good cooking, don’t
speak to the cook while the stove
is in motion, and don’t speak to
the stove while the cook is in mo
tion.”
In addition to her background
in economics and literature, Mrs.
Johnson has acquired some ex
perience in journalism. She
has worked as a copy writer for
Ad Counselors in Detroit and as
a reporter on the Detroit News.
King, Queen pQf QfjJ Ed In Sttong RoIbs
Of May Named
The results of the balloting for
May Court, 1948, were announced
this week by Dean D. J. Bowden.
In a closely contested race the fol
lowing students were elected: Mil
dred Johnson,a Senior from Wil
mington was named Queen. The
King of the May Court will be
Steve Walker. The Maid of Hon
or will be Jeanne Meredith from
Virgilina, Va., a Senior who is
prominent in campus activities.
The King’s escort will be Fred
Claytor, a Senior from Hillsboro,
N. C. The Senior Escorts wlil be
Calvin Milam and Bill Stafford.
The Senior Attendants will be
Carolyn Thompson and Elizabeth
Jernigan. The Junior Attendants
will be Jeanne Parks and Shirley
Joyner. The Junior Escorts will
be Lou Savini from Wayne, Pa.,
and Jeff Davis from Norfolk, Va.
She mentions, as people she in
terviewed, such celebrities as
Louis Bromfield, Katherine Cor
nell, Lily Pons, Philip Merrivale,
Lunt and Fontaine and many oth
ers.
Mrs. Johnson’s home-town is
; Hopkinsville, Ky. She attended
Bethel Woman’s College there,
and received her A. B. and M. A.
degrees from the University of
Kentucky. She has done work on
her doctorate in economics at
Kentucky and Duke Universities.
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Elon Debaters
Go To Tournament
Four debate teams, coached by
Prof. Earl Danieley, are represent
ing Elon at the Ninth Annual Ap
palachian Mountain Forensic
Tournament today and tomorrow
at Appalachian State Teachers
College in Boone.
The teams are: affirmiatve, 1)
Kenneth Jacob and William Wil
kins; 2) Gerald Chandler and
Rusell Lucas; negative, 1) Jim
Widenhouse and James Cook; 2)
Coy Eaves and Wade Euliss.
This is Elon’s second partici
pation in the tournament since
the war. Elon students last year
took first place in several of the
contests.
Students Give Bhod
Three members of the SCA last
Tuesday traveled to Greensboro
to give blood to J. H. Farmer, 80-
year-old resident of Elon College,
who has been ill for more than
six months. The students are:
Gray Hackney, Muril Hughes, Ray
Strader and Todd Ferneyhough.
Mr. Farmer is the father of Miss
Josephine Farmer, a teacher at
Elon high school. He is now in
St. Leo’s Hospital, Greensboro.
Dr. Jesse H. Dollar informed
Todd Ferneyhough, SCA presi
dent, of Mr. Farmer’s condition
last Tuesday morning. Within
half an hour, Ferneyhough says,
he had the volunteers, and they
left for Greensboro with Dr. Dol
lar at 2 o’clock that afternoon.
Playing strong supporting roles
in the Pl.ayers’ forthcoming psy
chological .mystery will be Edwin
Nash, a Senior and veteran Play
er, and Patricia Sanford, a Frosh'
man, who will appear for the first
time with the campus dramatists.
Mr. Nash is popular with Elon
audiences, having scored success
es in many previous productions.
; He is probably best remembered
I for his work in “Claudia.” His
latest performance was in “What
A Life.”
There is an interesting pro
gram note on the character of
Rough in “Gas Light” that shows
his appeal to audiences. At one
point in the play Rough is forced
to hide from the sinister Mr.
Manningham, and he momentar
ily forgets his hat which is lying
on a table. In all professional
productions of the play, audienc
es have never failed to cry out a
reminder to him.
Tidbits
“If you were my husband, I’d
give you poison.”
“If you were my wife I’d take
it.”
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starts. “Fair Lady.’ ”
Brother: “Romantic, my eye!
He used to be a streetcar conduc
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Miss Sanford comes to the Elon
Players with a fine background of
experience in Little Theatre and
radio work. She appeared at the
Dock Street Theatre of Charles
ton playing ingenue roles in “Sna
fu,” “Stage Door,” and “Front
Page.” She has been heard as a
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In 1947 Miss Sanford was voted
the Charleston Radio Queen.
'V otes in this contest v.ere based
on personality, talent, and at
tractiveness. A trip to Miami and
Havana was the prize for the win
ner of this contest. Miss Sanford
was also a member of the Charles
ton Choral Society.
In the Players’ production of
“Gas Light,” Miss Sanford will
be seen as Nancy, the pretty,
cheeky maid in the Manning-
ham's service.
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they gained 554 yards in the air.
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field star of the Chicago Bears,
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