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VOLUME 30
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEBR 27, 1950
NUMBER 1
FOUR NEW MEMBERS ADDED TO ELON FACULTY
%:
DEAN ELIZABETH BOLTON
ill
PROF. GILBERT LATHAM
Four new members were
added to the Elon College fac
ulty this year. Miss Elizabeth
Bolton (upper left), the new
Dean of Women, comes from
Chapel Hill but is a native of
Charlotte. Educated at Agnes
Scott College and the Univer
sity of North Carolina, she re
ceived a Master’s Degree from
Teachers College of Columbia
University. Dr. Paul Cheek (up
per right), a native of Saxapa-
haw, had his undergraduate
work at Wake Forest and re
ceived the Ph. D. in Chemistry
from the University of North
Carolina this year. He was
with the Army Air Forces dur
ing World W'ar II and is now a
member of the faculty of tre
Elon ’ Chemistry Department.
Prof. Gilbert Latham (lower
left), most recent addition to
he Education faculty of Elon,
i^ a native of Tennessee, but
he received his B. S. Degree
from Ithica College in upper
New York, returning later to
the University of Tennessee
for a Master of Science Degree.
He has also had advanced work
in educational psychology at
Harvard. He was with the Air
Force Weather Service during
the War. Prof. Jason L. Sox,
Jr. (lower right), who joined
the Elon mathematics faculty
thSs year, is a native of Hick
ory, and, after serving with the
Army Air Forces in the Pacific
during World War II, he re
turned to N. C. State College
to get the B. S. Degree in Gen
eral Engineering and to work
on the Masters Degree in En-
ginteering.
I
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DR. PAUL H. CHEEK
PROF. JASON L. SOX
College Choir
Is Expectins;
Good Season
The Elon College Choir, which
has gained widespread recogni
tion in recent years for its excel
lent work in group appearances
and for its programs on radio
and television, is already well un
derway with its preparation for
the 1950-51 program.
Working under the direction of
Prof. John Westmoreland, with
Prof. Fletcher Moore as accom
panist, the Elon musical group
began formal practice on Septem
ber 7th, and a group of seventeen
choir members appeared in spec
ial sessions held during the annu-
[al college registration period.
There are now 61 students par
ticipating in the choir rehearsals,
and Prof. Westmoreland has an
nounced that additional members
are still being accepted. The or
ganization of the choir itself is
still to be perfected, since officers
for the group for this year have
not yet been elected.
The Elon Choir will resume
sometime in October its weekly
series of radio broadcasts, and
plans are underway for a resump
tion sometime during the year of
the television programs, which
were offered weekly over Station
WFMY in Greensboro during the
mid-winter months last year.
A special feature of the choir
work so far has been the early
rehearsals for Handel's “Messiah,”
which has been an annual Chistr-
mas feature on the Elon campus
for seventeen seasons.
Elon College Starts Successfully
On Its Sixty-Fir St Annual Term
SC4 Meets
At Quaker
Lake Camp
The Student Christian Associa
tion sponsored its first “Retreat ’
of the new school year last Fri
day and Saturday, getting away to
a sucessful start under the leader
ship of Rev. H. P. Bozarth, the
new pastor of the Elon College
Community Church.
The group left the campus at
1 o’clock last Friday afternoon
for Quaker Lake Camp, located
about 25 miles south near Cli
max, and proceeded at once upon
arrival to make things ship-shape
for the night and clear the decks
for a recreation period, which
featured sports and other amuse
ments.
The late afternoon on Friday
was devoted to a group assembly,
led by Miss Averett, a senior at
Woman’s College, Greensboro,
v/here she is president of the
‘■Y” and ranks as one of the
South’s outstanding student elad-
ers. Departmental groups fea
tured discussion of various relig
ious, personal and social problems
as' related to the proposed SCA
program for the coming winter
months.
The Friday evening sessions
featured devotions, another dis-
cussion meet and more recreation ^
and Saturday morning brought a
final assembly at which final ac
tion was taKen on me year s plans
which have been designed to
make SCA a more potent force on
the campus in 1950-51. Details
on the program will be announced
later.
DRAMATIC GROUP
PLANS FOR YEAR
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, teach
er of dramatics and director of
the Elon Players, announced
last week that the manuscript
for the first play of the year is on
order, and rehearsals will begin
shortly after its arrival. The
Players have selected as their
initial offering “The Man Who
Came To Dinner,” an extremely
popular comedy that played to
rojllicking audiences both on
Broadway and on the screen.
“The Man Who Came To
Dinner” will be the first of a
series of four plays in varying
moods, all of them the best
available, which will be pre
sented during the year. Season
tickets for the four Players per
formances will go on sale Octo
ber 1st, with members of the
dramatic group enacting the
role of salesmen and sales girls
for the tickets.
BACK ON CAMPUS
NEW 'FIGHT SONG'
FOR ELON TEAMS
Vigor and vim and plenty of
bounce characterizes the new
Elon “fight song,” which was
written and composed jointly
by Miss Dorothy Pennington, of
the Elon Music facility, and
Prof. William H. Struhs, of the
English department. The new
song, entitled “Fighting Christi
ans,” is dedicated to the Elon
athletic teams.
The traditional “Here’s To
Dear Old Elon” is not to be for -
gotten, holding as it does a
firm place in the hearts of
Elon men and women, but the
new song furnishes for Elon
cheering sections that certain
swSng that is destined to carry
thie old school to many ath
letic victories in battlefields of
the future.
Successful is the word for the opening of the sixty-first annual
session of Elon College, which got underway with the appearance *of
the faculty members for their opening sessions on Friday, Septem
ber 1st, followed by the advent of the freshmen on Tuesday, Sep
tember 5th, and that of the upper classmen the day following.
The annual faculty sessions occupied two days, opening on Fri
day morning, September 1st, and continuing until Saturday noon.
At that time President Leon E. Smith welcomed both old and new
faculty members to the campus, and extensive plans were laid
for the new term. There was especial emphasis upon improved
standards, greater service by Elon to the people of the community
and county and the improvementof student morale. Plans were
discussed for a number of special occasions during the fall term, one
of them being the second annual High School Day on the campus.
The first
PROF. G. A. JOHNSON
Prof. G. A. Johnson, head of
the Department of Business Ad-
Sal Gero and Flo Gilbert were ministration, who was on leave of
■winners of the Monroe Awards at
the 1950 commencement. These
absence during the 1949-50 ses
sion, returned to the campus dur-
Elon Couples
Hear Nuptial
Bells Rinf^in^
Dan Cupid spent a busy sum
mer, if one may judge from the
many vacation marriages report
ed for present and former Elon
students. The reports even in
cluded the marriage of one mem
ber of last year’s faculty, that of
Prof. William H. Osborne to Miss
Ruth Corcoran, in Medina, N. Y.,
on August 26th. Other weddings
were: . . i
Sara Foster to Sam Dodson,
Greensboro, August 26th.
Mary Lou Muckenfuss to Bill
Barger, Burlington, June 3rd.
Joan Craft to Bill Stafford,
Pittsboro, Sept. 10th.
Margaret Hannah to Joe Erick
son, Greensboro, August 26th.
Jane Transou to Art Fowler,
Winston-Salem, August 25th.
Margie Qualls to Joe Kent,
Sept. 2nd.
Delores Willis to A1 Pate, Dur
ham, August 26th.
Sue Edwards to Buford An
drews, Durljam, July 18th.
Dot Vernon to Paul Shepherd,
Roxboro, early June.
Betsy Melson to Joe Deaton,
Kitty Hawk, early June.
Dolly Ree Foster to William
Shaw, Burlington, July 1st.
Margaret C. Crumpler to Coy
Eaves, Durham, May 14th.
Jean Fogleman to Jack Walker,
Burlington, June 3rd.
Jackie Royals to Claude Manzi,
Smithfield, Va., August 19th.
Edith Buff to John Clayton,
Burlington, Sept. 9th.
Nina Wilson to George Patter-
so, Burlington, August 10th.
Charlote Ann Gibson to Joseph
McVey, Graham, June 3rd.
Edna Beeson to Parks Noi^nan,
Jr., Kernersville, June 10th.
Dramatic Group
Has New Members
The Elon chapter of Alpha Psi
Omega, national dramatic frater
nity, held its first meeting of the
new year last week and announced
the pending initiation of seven
new members. The new members
qualified through their work in
the Elon Player productions.
The new members to be induct
ed include Jerry Allen, Emma
Jean Clayton, Virginia Davis, Ed
ward Engles, Bill Kivett, Dick Le
vine and Ray McKenzie. Those
who already hold membership are
'‘Bid Ni^ht'
Planned For
October 14th
The “big rush” is on, all of
which means that four Elon fra
ternities and an equal number of
sororities have already started the
competition for new pledges, and
the next two weeks will be mark
ed by busy days and nights for
both the rushers and the rushees.
The rushing will come to a,close
with “Bid Night” on Saturday, Oc
tober 14th, when invitations to
membership in the various Greek
letter groups will be extended.
Each of the social groups will ex
tend invitations to prospective
pledges, and acceptance of an in
vitation to the various parties
that night will serve as a declara
tion of willingness to become £
member.
Students interested in accepting
fraternity or sorority membership
must meet the scholastic require
ments, which call for completion
of one term of work with an aver
age grade of “C” or better.
There are four fraternities for
fen, including Alpha Pi Delta,
Iota Tau Kappa, Kappa Psi Nu
First Year
Tests Show
High Marks
Top honors in the recent fresh
man placement tests in mathe
matics and English went to Jan A.
Schepers and Durant York Bran-
nock, a pair of first-year boys
from opposite sides of the Atlan
tic Ocean. Young Schepers, a
native of far-away Holland, but
now making his home in Burling
ton, topped the math scores; while
Brannock, who hails from Rocky
Mount and is a grandson of Eion’s
own Dr. Ned Brannock, led all his
classmates in the English tests.
Thirteen of the freshmen post
ed percentile ratings of better
than 90, with Schepers rating al
most 100 per cent in his 99.4
score. There were five first-year
students who scored better than
200 points, not figured on a per
centage basis, on the English
placements, with Brannock lead
ing the way with his 215 score.
Others in addition to Schepers
in the top bracket on the math
examination were Betty Sue
Peeler 98.4, Amick H. Patterson
Rosamond Bromlfcy, Billy Hop- and Sigma Phi Beta. The four
kins, Ken Jacob, Nash barker,sororities are Beta Omicron Bet^,
John Vance, Robert Walker and Delta Upsilon Kappa, Tau Zeta
Robert Wright. Phi and Pi Kappa Tau.
freshmen began ar
riving on Sunday, September 3rd,
with the annual freshman orien
tation program getting underway
on Tuesday afternoon, September
5th, when the placement tests in
English and mathematics were
administered. This program con
tinued throughout the registra
tion period, with several assem-
blie to acquaint the new students
with the customs and traditions
of Elon.
The registration of freshmen
began on Wednesday morning,
and most of the new class was
properly assigned to courses that
day. Upper classmen began ar
riving Tuesday and Wednesday,
and by Thursday their registra
tion was complete, all ready for
regular classes to start on Friday
morning, September 8th.
The annual faculty reception
for the entire student body was
held in the parlors of the West
Dormitory on Friday evening,
September 8th, followed by a so
cial hour and dance in Society
Hall on the third floor of Ala
mance.
Most recent figures on the reg
istration indicate that the enroll
ment for this quarter is about 75
or 80 below that for the faE
quartJer a year ago, a decrease
which can be attributed to a re-
of G. I.
students. Actual figures show
that there are over 50 more non
veteran students than were reg
istered for the fall quarter last
year.
98.4, Leon H. Long 97.6, Duratlt duction in the number
York Brannock 97.6, Ralph O.
Foster 96.4, Richard F. Carli 95.0,
Sarah Frances Miles 95.0, Nat M.
Burwell 92.6, Dwight L. Dillon
92.6, Phillip R. Mann 92.6, Anne
Carol Abercrombie 91.4, and
John R. Arwood 91.4 percent.
Just behind Brannock in th?
top group on the English place
ment w'ere Betty Sue Peeler 209,
Mary Haney Harrington 207, Ju
dith Opal Ingram 204 and Anne
Carol Abercrombie 203.
DOUGLASS HAD SUMMER JOB
AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
casli awards are presented each; ing the summer and has resumed
, . , , his duties on the faculty this year,
year to the boy an gir w o while on leave of absence last
the greatest improvement in their New York Univer-
college work du^ii^ the. scholas- working toward the Ph. D
tic year.
Degree in Economics.
DOUGLASS
DR. E. P
Dr. E. P. Douglass, member of
the faculty of Elon College for
the past year, climaxed a busy
year of teaching at Elon by in
structing graduate courses in
history at the University of Chi
cago this summer.
Since the death of Marcus W.
Jernegan, nationally known au
thority on Colonial History, the
University of Chicago has had no
one to teach summer courses in
History. Dr. Douglass, a gradu
ate of Yale, Where his specialty
was Colonial History, was recom
mended to the University when
they sent a plea to Yale for a
teacher.
From June 26 to August 30 Dr.
Douglass taught two courses,
which were “The Origins of
American Democracy” and “Con
structive Conservativism, a Re- —
evaluation of Federalism.” The a state of equality between stu-
latter is a study of conservative
Science Club
Active Again
The Elon Science Club, com
posed of students majoring in and
interested in science, gained the
spotlight last spring when it in-
I troduced a new series of three
^ annual awards for excellence in
!the scientific field, and the group
^ started the new 1950-51 term i|ti
I the same progressive spirit by
introducing for the first time a
new plan of counselling for pre-
med and pre-dental students.
The Science club gave its first
series of three awards for spec-
grades, all students have code
numbers. This eliminates the
possibility of favoritism on the
part of the teacher, and also the
chance that a student vrtio puts. ajyanced work in the var
ious fields of science to three of
the 1950 graduates, all of whom
have moved on to other fields of
The Vincent Kazlon Memorial
Trophy for sportsmanship in in
tramural athletics was awarded
last spring to George Etheridge,
of Norfolk, Va.
federalist political philosophy.
He pointed out the interesting
fact that all the classes at the
University are seminars, with the
teacher and the students all sit
ting around circular tables. This
dent and teacher. And all courses
consist not of lectures, but of dis
cussions.
The two things by which he
was most impresed while in Chi
cago were the close personal con
tacts between the students and
the faculty and the fact that, al-
up a good bluff in a discussion
but really does not know- his stuff
will not unduly impress a teacher.
Dr. Douglass wrote his disserta
tion in 1939 on “Democracy of
the American Revolution.” In it
he showed how many of the polit
ically unprivileged colonists want
ed social improvement as well as
a break from Great Britain.
He has recently received a
grant from the Institute of Early
American History, at Williams
burg, to put his dissertation in
shape for publication,
reason he will not be at Elon this
winter. The dissertation, he ven
tures to predict, will probably be
published either by the Institute
or by the Yale Press.
In 1943 he made his first trip
tc Chicago, as Naval Public Rela
tions Officer, when he did public-
is part of Chicago’s plan to bring [though exams determine final
endeavor. The awards were to
Joe Westmoreland 'in Biology, to
Joe Robinson in Chemistry and to
Raymond Hayes in Physics.
Two others of the Science Club
leaders of a year ago came back
to the campus this fall to take a
leading part in the club’s new
guidance program for pre-med
and pre-dental students. They
I were joined in the guidance plan
by Yono Mork, Ned Jones and
others of the present year’s mem
bers.
The students worked with the
advice and cooperation of Prof.
A. L. Hook, Dr. Richard Haff,
Dr. Ned Brannock, Prof. Paul
Reddish and Dr. Paul Cheek in
ity for the Navy Exposition at counseUing students this fall in
Navy Pier. Shortly before enter- proper choice of their courses as
ing the Navy, Dr. Douglass was a basis for further study in the
a reporter on, the Hartford Times, fields of medicin,e and dentistry.