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On With The Dance! Let’s Make It The Best One Ever. MAROON AND GOLD Yea, Christians! Let’s Have Bear Steak Next. VOLUME 29 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVE?.ICER 9, 1949 NUMBER^ • i Gymnasium Campaign Opens Successfully Elon High School Day A ttracts Many Guests More than 1,000 high school guests thronged the Elon College campus last Friday afternoon, the occasion being the biggest “High School Lay” program in the col lege history. The visitors, includ ing seniors and their faculty spon sors, came from forty-three North Carolina and Virginia high schools. The youthful visitors began arriving before noon, and . all through the afternoon they were registering in the rotunda of Ala mance, from which point mem bers of the Elon College student body guided them on tours of the campus, which showed them a varied pictureo f student life. All departments of the college had arranged special exhibits, all of which were highly attractive to the high school visitors. The tour carried them through the li brary and out over a campus, which was rendered unusually colorful by the “Home-Coming Day” decorations, which adorned the dormitories and other build ings. The visitors viewed interesting points on the West Campus and then moved past the beautiful new gymnasium, progressing then into the Science Building, where physics, chemistry, biology and journalism exhibits were on dis play. The visitors showed great interest in all of the displays. A visit to the Student Union gave the guests a chance to buy refreshments at the Book Store and view recreational facilities. After seeing-the home of the Elon Players in Mooney, they returned to Alamance Hall, where they passed to the upper floors and saw excellent exhibits by the De partments of Home Economics, art. Mechanical Drawing, English and French. At 4 o’clock the entire group asembled in Whitley Auditorium where President L. E. Smith wel comed them to th« campus. The program in Whitley included ei>- tertaining muiscal numbers by the Elon Singers. In the late afternoon the college was host to the high school groups and the Elon College students and faculty at a barbecue supper on the South Lawn. That night the high school students were guests of the college at the Home-Com ing football game between the Elon Christians and the Purple Panthers of High Point with coro nation ceremonies for th« “Home- Coming Queen” and a tumbling show as extra entertainment. (Continued On Page Four) LEGISLATURE PASSES RULES The Student Legislature, at its meeting last week, acted to combat two of the outstanding evils that have prevailed on the campus this year. The two were tlie practice of “breaking” chow lines and the crowded parking conditions in the area on the north side of Alamance Hall. In each case the student leg islators took up and discussed the problem and set penalties. A fine of SI is to be levied against anyone guilty of “break ing” the dining hall lines, and a similar fine will be collected for parking violation,s once a parking system can be worked outu The parking plan calls for all parking spaces south of Alamance to bee learly marked. No parking w ill be allowed around the islands in the mid dle of the area. Hopkins Hurt In 'Tag' Game HOME-COMING QUEEN CR0WN2D IN COLORFUL CEREMONY Bill Hopkins, star end and high scorer for the South Dormitory tag-footbalL game, sustained a fractured cheek bone in the final championship battle between South and the hitherto undefeated outfit from East Dorm on Monday of last week. The lanky junior was rushed to the Alamance General Hospital in Burlington and was a patient there for two days. However, he was back on campus by Wednes day night, and his injury is heal ing nicely. His fellow-players in the Intramural League planned a special all-star battle under the lights as a “Hopkins Benefit.” Nearly $4^000 Raised In Door-To-Door Drive NAME NEW PLAY FOR DECEMBER “Kind Lady,” a drama, has been announced as the next of fering of the Elon Players by Mrs. Elizabeth E. Smith, direc tor of the college thespians. “Kind Lady” was written by Edward Chodorov from a story by Hugh Walpole, and it has had enviable runs in London and in New York. This play provided Grace George, one of the the atre’s great actresses, with one of her most outstanding roles. Although casting for “Kind Lady” has not yet been complet ed, it has been announced that Jeanne Parks, Elon’s first lady of the stage, will play the Grace George role. December 8th and 9th are the dates on which the Elon Players will present “Kind Lady.” Picture 'Mags' Wish Elon Luck The editors of both LIFE and LOOK, national picture maga zines, extended to Elon College their best wishes for the success of the student campaign, which inaugurated the drive for the gymnasium fund last week. The good wishes came along with re grets that they were unable to cover the big day. When contacted by Elon public ity authorities in regard to cover ing the all-out student effort of last Wednesday, the editors of the big magazines replied that their schedules were made advance as to make impossible. The reply from LIFE came in a tlegram, while that het two chief attendants were court were chosen and sponsored ^ House; Dolores Evans, with Worth from LOOK was in the form of a chosen by the student body in a by various campus organizations, Womble, for North Dorm; and letter. Both messages expressed special election held on Tuesday, and residence halls. They and Ruth Coleman, with Henry Hoppe interest in the success of the Becky Garrison, junior from Bur lington, was crowned as “Home- Qu^n Becky was crowned by with George Stanley, for Sigma Art Fowler, student body presi-1 Phi Beta; Nina Wilson, with coming Queen” for Elon College presented her and her! George Patte rson, for Kappa Psi in colorful ceremonies held be- , tween halves of the Elon-High ^o the football crowd. Miss >u; Frankie Cassell, with Freddie Point football game last Friday Garrison was escorted for the cor- j iiliamson, for Alpha Pi Delta; night. She is shown (center cnation ceremony by Jimmy Martha Johnson, with Deward 3boy«) p,'Mh her two maids-of Burns, while Miss Sharpe was with Hooker, for Iota Tau Kappa; Betty honor, Mildred Sharpe (left), and Gale Anderson and Miss Aber- Joyner, with Ernie Kluttz, for Maxine Abercrombie (right), both crombie with H. W. Lindley. ] South Dorm; Martha Berry, with Burlington girls. The queen and, Other members of the royal George Etheridge, for Club November 1st. their escorts were Virginia Latta,' for Carlton House. drive. First Dance Of Year Be Held Friday Night ANOTHER SUCCESS Panvio Society Elects Officers The Panvio Literary Society met recently and perfected its or ganization for the new year. Char lotte Rothgeb, elected last year as president, presided as a number of new officers were selected for other official positions. The new officers chosen in clude Mary Elizabeth King, vice- president; Louise Spence, secre tary; Jo Ann Livingston, treasur er; Jean Thompson, parliamentar-L^tend a meeting of the Interim Nine To Go To Raleifrh From Elon The Elon College student body will be entitled to send seven del egates and two alternates to the annual meeting of tbe North Car olina Student Legislature, which will convene in the legislative halls of the State Capitol in Ral eigh on December 1st and contin ue in session through December 3rd. This was revealed this week by Art Mizell, vice-president of the Elon Student Government, who is a member of the Interim Coun cil of the statewide intercollegi ate legislative body. Mizell will ian; and Jane Boone, publicity di rector. An invitation was extend ed for new members. The Panvio society is for young womso on the campus and pro vides an opportunity for training and guidance ia thinking, speak ing and parliamentary procedure. Regular meetings are held twice monthly on the campus, with varied programs that include studies of important persons in the literary world. Council at W.C.U.N.C. in Greens boro this next Sunday to help map the final plans for the Raleigh gathering The Elon delegation will be di vided to include four members of the statewide House and three for the Senate, with an alternate for each body. The choice of dele gates and alternates has not been announced but there have been eleven students who expressed a desire to go. Elon students will trip the light fantastic at the annual fall dance, which will be held on Friday night of this week in the new Student Union on the first floor of Moon ey. Music both sweet and hot will be furnished by Jimmy Per kins and his Orchestra, with danc ing frm 8 o’clock until mid night. Student attendance at the dance will be greatly increased by a change of policy announced last week, which will permit the boys to attend in their “Sunday best” suits. The dance was first an- i I nounced as strictly formal, but the rule was modified in view of the fact that so many students do not own and could not obtain tux edoes. The dance committee, after con sulting with administrative au thorities, have requested that all boys who have tuxedoes available wear them and that others wear dark suits. No sports clothing of any type will be permitted. Jeanne Pittman, who is in charge of decorations for the dance, has completed plans for the decorative scheme, which will feature red, white and blue for the Armistice Day occasion. All bids for off-campus dates must be submitted to the Dean of Women for clearance. It has also been announced that dormitory girls will be given 12:30 permis sion for the evening. Elon President Starts Nineteenth Year In Post Dr. Lecn E. Smith began on, Tuesday of last week his nine teenth year as president of Elon College, and plans call for a cpn- tinuation of great program of ex pansion and progress, which has characterized the eighteen years since he assumed the direction of the college. He came to Elon on November 1, 1931, having resigned the pas torate of the Christian Temple in Norfolk, Va., to assume the pres- Dehate Plans For Season Made Public Plans are taking shape rapidly for the Elon College debating pro gram for the 1949-1950 term, ac cording to Prof. William H. Struhs, Jr., who will serve as fac- idency of a debt-ridden and virtu- j ulty coach for the Christian ora- ally bankrupt institution. It was tors this year. He will be assisted in a sense a home-coming for him, by Prof. J. Earl Danieley, who di- since he had graduated from Elon rected the program last year. Nearly four hundred Elon Col lege students invaded Burlington and other Alamance County cen ters last Wednesday, November 1 for a gigantic bellringing and door-knocking campaign, which inaugurated a drive for $100,000 to complete the new Alumni Me morial Gynxnasium. The big one-day drive by the students got the campaign off to an excellent start, unofficial fig ures for the day .showing nearly $3,000 in cash and pledges raised. Many people were not at home, and others requested the students to return later in the week. Vol unteers then continued the cam paign through Saturday, and in dications were that the student ef fort would net better than $4,000 in all. This figure fell far short of the $100,000 needed, but directors of the campaign had not expected the students to raise the entire amount. The greater part of the big goal was expected to fall on the shoulders of special groups, which have been conducting their own drives. Various civic clubs and commercial and professional groups have named their own chairmen, and they will report later. The main drive will con tinue throughout the month of No vember. The student campaign last Wed nesday got underway early in the morning when five members of the varsity football squad kicked a football from the city limits at Glen Raven Methodist Church into the heart of Burlington’s bus iness district. The kickers who inaugurated the drive in this manner were Claude Gentry, so far inipj-ajjij xingley, Pete Marshburn, coverages j jjgj Brigman and Bill Johnson. A great crowd of students and citizens were gathered on Bur lington’s Main Street when they booted the ball into position for the formal kick-off. The final kick was by Student Body Presi dent Art Fowler into th-e hands of Secretary of State Thad S. Eure, who appeared as personal representativiB of Governor W. Kerr Scott. The kick-off symbol ized the fact that the students were kicking to citizens of Ala mance County the job of finishing the new gymnasium. Following the kick-off, mem bers of the Burlington Junior Chamber of Commerce presented a check for $500 to E. Z. “Easy” Jones, general chairman for the drive, thus setting an example for other groups and citizens of the county. The students then dispersed to their assigned districts under the leadership of faculty captains, and the all-out effort was underway. There were many and varied re ports from the students, one of (Continued On Page Four) MRS. ELIZABETH R. SMITH Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, one of the busiest members of th« facul- with the Class of 1910. The student body of Elon num bered only 130 when he began his presidency, and there were only ty in her capacity as director of g0 register on the opening day the Elon Players, campus draniat- next fall, although the regis- ic organization, has just scored another of her long series of stage successes in the presentation last week of “Room Service,” three- act Broadway comedy. DR. DOLLAR RESIGNS Dr. Jesse Dollar, pastor of the Elon College Commimity Church announced his resignation last Sunday to become effective within ninety days. The move was quite unexpected to most of the community. He came to the local church four years ago from Newport News, Va. tration for the whole year of 1932- 1933 finally reached 230 students. The enrollment bas more than tripled since that time, and there are now 739 regular students and 93 others pursuing special stud ies for a grand total of 832 at pres ent. The faculty too, has grown from the twenty-one members in 1931 to forty-two this year. The Elon College debt in 1931 totalled $768,000, but under Dr. Smith’s leadership that debt was paid in full by January 26, 1943. There has also been an increase of $146,000 in th« Elon College (Continued On Page Four) The topic chosen for debate by college teams all over the United States this year is “Resolved, That the United States Government should nationalize the basic non- agricultural industries.” Eight students have already an nounced their candidacy for the Elon debating team this year some of them being veterans from previous platform campaigns. They include R. L. Hayes, Earl Todd, Alvin E. Pate, Emmett Nes bitt, Coy Eaves, James Pickard, Ken Jacob and Marion Adams. Professor Struhs stated this week that Elon will enter in the tenth annual Appalachian Mountain Forensic Tournament at Boone. Several other debates will be added to the schedule, but negotiations have not been con cluded for dates. Players To Give Burlington Show The Elon Players, campus dra matic group, will present their latest play, “Room Service,” in the auditorium of the Broad Street High School in Burlington on Tuesday night, November 15th, with all proceeds from the per formance to go to the Elon Gym nasium Fund. The play will be staged under the sponsorship of the Burlington Lions Club, which has set a goal of one thousand tickets to be sold for the performance. J. B. Long, Burlington busine-ss man and res ident of Elon College, originated the idea and sold the Lions Club on the plan.
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