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Happy Homecoming! Welcome To Elon Alumni! MAROON AND GOLD VOLUME 30 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1950 Down With Catawba! Let’s Have An Indian Scalp! NUMBER TWO Plans Complete For Great Homecoming Event ISew Opera Class Opens On Elon Campus Today Grand opera comes to the Elon campus today to stay, for the Elon College Department of Mu sic initiates this afternoon its new workshop course in opera, which is to become a permanent feature of the music curriculum. The ccurse, which is the only one of its type in the South, adds dis tinction to the Department of Music here, which has for years ranked with the best. The new course in opera and operatic methods, which is de signed for the prospective sing ing actor, teachers of singing and for concert singers who wish to acquire poise before an audience, ivill be offered under the direc tion of Robert C. Bird, of Raleigh, ■with the cooperation of members of the Elon music faculty. Mr. Bird brings to his new duties here a nationwide reputa tion for his work in the field of operatic music. He is a graduate of Ohio University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa honorary scholastic group, and of Phi Mu Alpha, honorary music fraternity. He has studied voice in New York with Oscar Seagle and opera dramatics with Enrico Clay Dillon. He came to North Carolina in the fall of 1949 upon the invita tion of A. J. Fletcher, Raleigh businessman and music lover, and Greek Letter Groups For Members The “rush” is on and almost over for another quarter as far as the eight Greek letter social organizations on the Elon campus are concerned, for the first of two semi-annual “Bid Nights” is scheduled for Saturday night of this week to bring to a close the spirited competition for the favor of eligible and prospective mem bers. The past ten days have elevated the students sought by the frater nities and sororities to the status of kings or queens for a fortnight, with the four fraternities and four sororities feting and dining the rushees one night after an other. For some of the more pop ular prospects it has meant a party tonight, a dinner tomorrow night and sometimes both in the same night. However, Saturday night marks the close of all the semi-annual partying, and Gant’s Cabin, C.T.I. and Brightwood can return to their normal schedule as the first “Bid Night” of the 1950-51 term 1950 .. HOMECOMING ROYALTY .. 1950 Map Two-Day Program To Honor Eton’s A lumni QUEEN Christine Toumaras Martha Ellen Johnson Maid of Honor The greatest “Home Coming” celebration in Elon’s history is planned for the weekend of Oc tober 21st, with the annual Elon- Catawba football classic slated as the climactic event of a program designed to occupy much of two days. Complete plans for the occasion were formulated by the Student Entertainment Committee, the plans being approved by the col lege administration and by Alum ni Secretary James F. Darden, who is cooperating in the effort to get the old students back. Homecoming Queen Christine Toumaras, of Burling ton, will rule over- the festivities as “Homecoming Queen,” having been elected to the royal honor by a vote of the students last She will be attended by for the past year he has directed brings the hour of decision. the operatic program for the North Carolina Grass Roots Op era group. Members of the Elon faculty who will work with Mr. Bird in a new opera workshop program here include Prof. John West moreland, director of choral mu sic; Miss Virginia Groomes, as sistant professor of voice; and Liorne Grant, of Greensboro, non resident instructor of voice. Students who participate in the new course of training will spend most of their time learning and actually performing opera scenes and complete operas, with addi tional instruction and practice in operatic costuming and scenic design and construction. Students who qualify will be given an op portunity to sing roles with the North Carolina Grass Roots Op era company. Meetings of the vvor’Kshop will be held on alternate Wednesday afternoons, beginning today. The hours will be from 1:30 until 4:30 o’clock, and those desiring it will be granted one quarter hour cred it for each quarter of the school year. Fees will be $3.50 per class, session, with a special rate of $2 per session for auditors. Popular Comedy To Be Presented As First Player Show Of Season The decision of the rushees, both boys and girls, will be signi fied Saturday night by their ac ceptance or rejection of the invi tation to the final rush party of any fraternity or sorority. Ac ceptance of an invitation to one of those Saturday parties will au tomatically signify acceptance of membership of the group giv ing the party. That night will also bring, once the parties are over, one of the most colorful ceremonies of the entire college year on Elon’s campus, when the fraternity men go forth in groups to sing mid night serenades to their sister groups on the upper balconies of West Dorm and Ladies’ Hall. WORK IS UNDERWAY ON ELON'S ANNUAL William “Moon” Tolley, edi tor-in-chief of the Phi Psi Cli for 1950-51 reports everything underway in fine style on the Elon College annual. All pic tures have been taken, with the photographer paying his final visit early this week, and the proofs for the photos that were taken on the first visit of the photographers have been turned over to the students. Editor Tolley announced that Worth Womble will serve as sports editor for the Phi Psi Cli this year, with James Cates handling the business manag er’s duties. Cates is already working on the advertising, and final plans will be ready for discussion with the printers at an early date. SUSTAINING FUND DRIVE SEEKS CHURCH SUPPORT Education Group Selects Officers The Education Club, composed of Elon students preparing to teach, has completed its organiz ation for the new year, naming Luther Clapp, of Gibsonville, as president at the first meeting of the year. Other officers are Tessie Tay lor, of Reidsville, vice-president; Joan Summers, of Gibsonville, secretary; and Flo Gilbert, of Dunn, treasurer. Prof. J. C. Col ley is faculty advisor for the Edu- jcation club. Tie club at its most recent meeting voted 4o accept an invita tion from the Rockingham Coun ty Schools to pay a group visit to the neighboring county and in spect the school plants there. FLASHW Tex Beneke and his famous Glenn Miller band will furnish miisic for a dance to be held in the new gym Tuesday night, October 17, the dance being sponsored by the Burlington Ju nior Chamber of Commerce. The program will start at 8 o’clock. Before the dance there will be a one-hour concert, fol lowed by a short intermission. Admission to the concert and dance will be $1.80, with tickets being sold at the door that night. It is expected that women stu dents will be given late privileg es for the occasion. The dance will be one of the biggest events on the Elon cal endar this year, and a huge crowd is anticipated. The J. C. has announced that any profit realized from the sale of tick ets will be used for civic im provement. The churches of the Southern Convention of the Congregational Christian Church are being asked to contribute $1 annually for each member to EMon College in a gigantic Elon Sustaining Fusd drive, which is being launched this fall all over the convention area. This was revealed by President L. E. Smith, and the Sustaining Fund Drive is moving ahead un der the direction of Dr. W. W. Brown and the trustees of the Elon College Foundation. The plan of the campaign calls for speakers to go out and infor mation to be broadcast through leaflets and other literature to each and every church in the Con vention to educate the church members all over the South in regard to the activities and con tributions made by the college. An outstanding feature of the drive this fall is the offer of a $100 scholarship to every church in the Convention which reaches its goal of $1 per member before the close of the 1950-51 Confer ence Year. The scholarships wiU be based upon the enrolled mem bership of each church as of Au gust 1, 1950. The Elon Players, beginning — their seventh year under the cap able direction of Mrs. Elizabeth R. Smith, Elon dramatic teacher, will present as their first produc tion of the year. “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” an extremely popular comedy that played on Broadway for over two years and was finally made into one of the most uproarious movies ever pro duced. The play will be given in Whitley Auditorium on November 1st and 2nd. Taking leading roles in the play are veteran players Emma Jean Clayton, Ed Engles and Bob Walker, with strong support be ing given them by Virginia Davis, Bob Wright, Jerry Allen, Dink Underhill, Ken Jacobs, and Bill Kivett, also veterans of the Elon stage, and newcomers Happie Wil son, Mrs. Delos Elder, Lois Wal ker, Richard Newman, Betty Jean McLeod, Patricia Gates, Laurence Rockel, Joe Brankely and Virginia Trigg. Engles, who is best remember ed for his role of Chorus in ‘An tigone,” will do the part of Sher idan Whiteside, the man who came to dinner and stayed to al most wreck the home of his host. Whiteside is a brilliant and fam ous radio personality, lecturer, critic and slob, who contains so little of the milk of human kind ness that a single drop of it shows up like a brilliant opal whenever he allows any of it to ooze through the pores of his thick skin. The part of Maggie Cutler Whiteside’s long-suffering secre tary and confidante, is played by Emma Jean Clayton. Although the wise and efficient Miss Cutler understands that her irascible goss is mostly bark and very little bite, even she revolts against him when she discovers that he has plotted to break up her love affair with newspaperman Bert Johnson sim ply because , he doesn’t want to lose a secretary. The Jefferson I ole is played by Jerry Allen. Mr. Ernest Stanley, whose hos pitality Whiteside has outrage ously violated, and who reacts to it as a normal family man would, is portrayed by Bob Walker. His battle for the possession of his own house is pitiful in its nonful fillment, as Whiteside checks his every move. (Continued On Page Foot) HOPPE IS CHOSEN VICE-PRESIDENT Henry Hoppe, of Newport News. Va., is the new vice- president of the Elon College stmdent government, following a special election held on Thurs day and Friday of last week. The special election was ren dered necessary to choose a suc cessor to Alvin Pate, who was elected to the post last spring but withdrew from college this summer in favor of marriage. Schoclfield, where he worked with both the high school band and glee club. The band made an excellent showing and added to the student spirit at the opening football game with A.C.C. and was even better at the E.C.T.C. game last Saturday night, when the student aggregation was swelled by the addition of a uumber of Elon alunmi from this section. Students who have been work ing daily with the band include Lynn Cashion, Sophie White, Bobby Stewart, Charles Norfleet, David Kennedy, James Bozarth, Gene Cozart, Andy Meredith, Jack Castle, John Vance, Elbert Lake, Harry Hollie, Lois Walker, Norman Dodle, Bill Butler, Ro berto Winstead, Page Painter, Bill Kivett, Ray McKenzie, Jane Haney and James Heffinger. The Student Legislature has had a very light agenda at its early meetings this year, with very few matters coming up for action as the group perfected its organization for the 1950-51 term. Earl Todd, speaker pro- tem, has been presiding, pending the election of a successor to A1 Pate as vice-president of the Stu dent Body. Only two bills of major inter est have been passed by the leg islative group thus far, one of them being to grant approval and to grant appropriation for Home coming Day plans. The other legislative act was to postpone the date for the annual Fall Formal until December 9th instead of its usual November date. Members of the Student Leg islature, with the groups they represent, include Carl Woods, from the Senior Class; Rosamond Bromley, from the Junior Class; Ned Jones, from the Sophomore Class; John Arwood, from the Freshman Class; Jeter Wilkins an(J Charles Lynam, from North Dorm; Bob Oldham and Ray McKenzie, from East Dorm; Durwood Scott and Bill Hopkins, from South Dorm; Earl Todd, from the Club House; Jack Golden, from Vet’s Court; Emmett Nesbit, from Carlton House; Worth Womble, from Oak Lodge; Martra Ellen Johnson and Jeanne Pittman, from West Dorm; Zeda Grogan, from Ladies Hall; and James Burns and James Cates, from the Day Student Group. Elon Band Shoivs Much Improvement A revitalized Elon College band has been making giant strides this fall, working under the lead ership and direction of Professor John Westmoreland, of the De partment of Music, who has had able assistance from James Hef finger, who came to Elon this fall as a student from Schoolfield, Va. The student band leader took over his new task of working with Prof. Westmoreland in de veloping the Maroon and Gold j week, band after several years of ex-! Martha Ellen Johnson, of Gra- cellent experience in his native 'ham, who was the runner-up in the election. The Queen s court for the coronation ceremony, scheduled between halves of the Catawba grid game, will also in clude girls sponsored by each of the fraternities and other campus organizations and by the various dormitories and residence halls on the campus. The Homecoming program gets underway with a huge pep rally, scheduled for 6:30 o’clock on Fri day evening, and Chief Cheer leader Patsy Milam and her corps of cheerleaders have planned for the biggest and best pep meeting of them aU. The Homecoming Dance will bring the Friday night program to a close, with dancing scheduled in Alumni Memorial Gymnasium from 8 o’clock until 11:15 that night. Music for the dance will be by Jimmy Perkins and his Or chestra. The Women’s Athletic Associa tion will open the Saturday mer riment with an outdoor square dance, to be held at 2 o’clock Sat urday afternoon on the campus in front of West Dormitory; and im mediately afterwards a huge Elon parade is planned through the heart of Burlington at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon. ^ Elon-Catawba Game The annual Elon-Catawba foot* gall game will get underway at 8 o’clock Saturday night, with im pressive ceremonies planned for half-time, when Student President Bob Wright will crown Queen Christine Toumaras. W o r th Womble will be master of cere monies for the half-time events. Immediately after the Elon-Ca tawba game, the students will re turn to the campus for an after game dance in the Student Union. The campus is expected to take on a gala appearance for the Homecoming Weekend, with each of the dormitories decorated for the occasion. An alumni commit tee, named by James F. Darden, will choose the gest decorated dormitory, and a plaque will be awarded as a prize to that unit. ORGANIZE LEGISLATURE FOR ITS 1950-51 SESSION DiALLOWEEN PARTY PLANS ANNOUNCED Halloween will not go unnot iced on the Elon campus this year, for the Student Christian Association and the Women’s Athletic Association will join forces to sponsor a huge party and festival in the Alumni Gym nasium on Friday night, Octo ber 27th. Plans for the event are as yet incomplete, but grapevine re ports are that the affair will be of the blue-jeans and plaid- shirt variety, v- CHOIR-BAND PARTY Members of the choir, band, and Music Department faculty held a joint party at Friedens Club House in Gibsonville Friday night, October 29, to celebrate the sucessful formation of the new college band and to create closer relationships between the two main musical organizations of Elon. The fifty-odd members of both choir and band spent the evening playing bridge and dancing. Dur ing the evening coffee and doughnuts were served to aU by Miss Hazel Walker and Mr. and Mrs. James Hiffinger. The faculty members present were Miss Dorothy Pennington, Miss Virginia Groomes, Fletcher Moore and John Westmoreland. Roane Is Leader Of Science Club Douglas Roane, of Norfolk, Va., is the new president of the Science Club, long one of the most active organizations on the campus. Other officers named at the same time for 1950-51 include Yono Mork, of Baltimore, Md., vice-president; Bob Yates, of Chadbourn, secretary; Bill Ivey, of Snow Camp, treasurer; and Ned Jones, of FrankUn, Va., re porter. Prof. Paul S. Reddish is facutly sponsor.
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