Turkey And Dressing
To You All
On This Thanksgiv'ing
MAROON AND GOLD
And A Great Biff Win
Over Guilford
For T5ie Elon Gridmen
■VOLUME 31
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.,
TUESDAY, NOVEBSBEK 20, 1951
NUMBER 5
Student Body
]\ames Rulers
For May Day
Reita Durham, of Burlington,
and George Etheridge, of Norfolk,
Va . will rule over Elon’s 1952 May
Day festivities as tlie queen and
king. They were chosen for the
royal honors by vote of the stu
dents at a special election held
last Friday, November 16tli.
The chief attendants for the
May Day royalty will be Jane Pet
erson, of Norfolk, Va., and Dave
Mondy, also of Norfolk, Va. They
^ere selected by the students at
the same time that the queen and
iing were chosen.
Th student body also cast bal
lots for two senior girls and two
junior girls, who will serve as es
corts. These four couples w'ill be
court attendants at the annual
May Day ceremonies next spring.
The senior girls chosen are Eve
lyn Booth, of Roanoke, Va., and
Charlotte Rothgeb, of Luray, Va.,
Their escorts for the May Day will
be Larry Gaither, of Granite Quar
ry, and Charles Lynam, o£ Wake
Forest.
The two junior girls named are
Carolyn Abell, of Reidsville, and
Mary Elizabeth King, of Ramseur,
and they will be escorted by Bill
Backstone, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
and John Truitt, Jr., of Elon Col
lege.
It is significant that three of
the girls and two of the boys
named for places in the annual
May Day observance are members
of the group listed for Elon in
collegiate “Who’s Who” this year.
The girls picked from the national
honor group in the May Court are
Reita Durham, Evelyn Bootii and
Charlotte Rothgeb, while the boys
are George Etheridge and Bill
Blackstone.
Plans for May Day have not yet
been made public, but it will be
staged by the girls’ physical educa
tion department, with the coopera
tion of the Elon music department
It will be in cahrge of Miss Ruby
Adams, girls’ physical education
director.
Thanksgiving Holidays
Mark Close Of Quarter
Come, ye thankful people, come,
Raise the song of harvest home:
All is safely gathered in
Ere the winter storms begin;
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied;
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.
All the blessings of the field.
All the stores the gardens yield;
All the fruits in full supply,
Ripened ’neath the summer sky;
All that spring with bounteous hand
Scatters o’er the smiling land;
All that liberal autumn pours
From her rich o’er-flowing stores.
These to thee, our God we owe,
Source whence all our blessings flow;
And for these our souls shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise.
Come, then, thankful people, come.
Raise the song of liarvest home;
Come to God's own temple, come,
Rai=e the song of harvest home.
FT A Latest
Organization
On Campus
Tlie Future Teachers of Amer
ica is the newest organization on
the Elon campus, evolved from
the old Education Club that has
existed for several years,
new unit is part of a national or
ganization, which was formed in
1937 under tlie auspices of the
National Education Association.
Elon students, who are prepar
ing for a teaching career, are eli
gible for membership, which en
titles them to participate in meet
ings of the state and national ed
ucation groups and enables them
to begin associations they will con
tinue after graduation.
It is pointed out that tlie seven
tenets of the FTA portray its pur
poses. Tile seven tenets are piiys-
ical vitality, mental vigor, moral
discrimination, wholesome per
sonality, ixelpfuUness, knowledge
and leadersiiip. All members re
ceive tiie national Education mag
azine.
Plans formulated for tliis year
are to sponsor the annual “High
School Day” on the campus, to
obtain educational leaders as
speakers at monthly meetings, to
visit schools on survey tours and
to send delegates to the American
Childhood Education meet.
Officers of the FTA include Jane
Boone, president; Marjorie Stuck
ey, vice-president; Jean Hamil
ton, secretary; Mary Elizabeth
King, treasurer; and W. R. Sin
clair, publicity chairman.
Tlie Thanksgiving liolidays the
last of this week mark a change
of term for Elon College, and they
mean, too, that nearly six hundred
students and the members of the
faculty will take a break from the
normal routine of scholastic life
on the campus.
This first holiday season of the
1951-52 school year opens offici
ally at high noon on Wednesday,
and everybody will have a break
of four and one-half days before
regular class schedules get under-
The again at 8 o’clock next Mon
day morning.
The fall quarter exams were
started on Monday morning, and
some students were finished with
their tests in time to leave on
Tuesday and thus get an extra day
of vacation. All students with
11:30 classes, however, look for
ward to finishing up Wednesday
morning.
Most of the students and many
of the faculty will get away from
the campus for the holiday period,
many going to their homes for the
traditional Thanksgiving dinner,
wliile others will go to football
games or other places of amuse
ment.
The annual Elon-Guilford foot
ball game, which has been a
Thanksgiving Day feature for
many years, has been moved up
this year to the night before
Thanksgiving, when the old rivals
meet in Greensboro, all of which
changes tlie usual Turkey Day
plan.s for many Elon alumni in
tills area.
It is now one quarter down and
two to go on the present school
year, and the stagfe is all set for
the beginning of the winter term
v/ith its new courses for both stu
dents and faculty. Most of the
students have ah-eady registered,
but a few late registrants are still
signing up, and others will wait
until next week and pay the penal
ty for late registration.
Elon Choir Sings Handel’s ‘Messiah’
In Whitley Auditorium December 2nd
Singers Give
Performances
At Meetings
The Elon Choir, which has for
years been in demand for per
formances at church gatherings
and conventions, lived up to its
high reputation in a guest appear
ance at the North Carolina College
Conference and has two visits to
Norfolk area scheduled within the
mext few weeks.
The Elon singers appeared on
the program of the North Carolina
College Conference meet in
Greensboro, when it appeared be
fore educators in the ballroom of
the O. Henry Hotel on Thursday
evening, November 8th.
The program, under the direc
tion of Prof. John Westmoreland,
featured Charles Lynam, Patsy
Melton, Jimmy Rhodes, Judy In
gram and Miss Virginia Groomes
as soloists. Prof. Fletcher Moore
was accompanist.
The Choir will go to Norfolk on
Friday. November 30th, to sing at
JKiwanis Club “Ladies’ Night” and
the group will return to Norfolk
the following weekend for five
performances of “The Messiah” in
churches of that ares.
GUEST SOLOIST
MISS BEATRICE DONLEY
Miss Beatrice Donley, head of
the voice department at Meredith
College, who is known all over the
South for her contralto roles in
concerts and oratorios, will be one
of the guest soloists with the Elon
Choir m its nineteenth rendition
of Handel’s ‘Messiah,” to be given
in Whitley Auditorium on the
first Sunday evening in December.
She is a graduate of the Univer
sity of West Virginia and has since
studied in New York under a Jul-
hard Music Foundation Scholar
ship. She has had a brilliant ca
reer in concert and radio.
The Elon Choir will offer its
nir^iteenth annual rendition of
Handel’s immortal oratorio, “The
Messiah,” in Whitley Auditorium
at 8:30 o’clock on Sunday evening,
December 2nd, w;ith music lovers
expected from throughout this
section of North Carolina.
Three outstanding concert art
ists will join with a member of
Elon’s own music faculty as guest
soloists in the annual presenta
tion, whicii in recent years iias
packed the auditorium to overflow
ing with the largest crowds of the
college year.
Miss Beatrice Donley, head of
the voice department at Mei'editli
College and one of North Caro
lina's outstanding singers, will
join withTMiss Virginia Groomes,
of Elon’s own music faculty, in
two of the solo roles. Miss Donley
will sing the contralto solo parts,
while Miss Groomes will sing the
soprano parts.
Also appearing as soloists with
the Choir will be Walter Vassar,
of Greensboro, known as one of
the finest bass artists in North
Carolina musical history, and
Harold Haugh, a tenor from the
University of Michigan, who
also sang the tenor role in last
year’s presentation of “The Mes
siah.”
Plans for the annual presenta
tion were announced last weekend
by Prof. John Westmoreland, who
will direct the singers, with Prof.
Fletcher Moore at the organ.
M. Af^D G. IS EARLY
FOR THAISKSGIVING
Following the policy set dur
ing the past two years, the Ma
roon and Gold is being issued
under a Tuesday dateline this
week, one day earlier than usual,
in order that members of the
student body may be sure to get
their paper before leaving for
the Thanksgiving holidays.
The earlier publication date
also means that members of the
Maroon and Gold staff would
have the rush of paper work
finished in tune to apply their
attentijns to exaimualioub.
Therefore, tlie editoriai staff
present the paper today with
the heartiest wishes to all for
a very pleasant Thanksgiving.
‘Merchant Of Venice’ To Be Given
♦
On Elon Campus By Barter Players
STAR IN BARTER THEATRE SHOW
Elon Groups
Go To Meets
The Elon student body was rep
resented by Roger Gibbs, student
government president, and Lynn
Cashion, IVIaroon and Gold editor,
at the meeting of the North State
Student Council Meet held ai
Boone last Saturday.
The same two v,fill join with five
other student leaders in repre
senting Elon at the annual session
if the North Carolina Student Leg
islature, which is to be held in
Raleigh on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of next week.
Other students who will attend
the Raleigh meeting include Matt
Currin, Ray Euliss, Rosamond
Bromley, Henry Hoppe and Ron
nie Black.
ll
Dinah Farr is one of the attractive young actresses, who will
appear with the Barter Players in their production of Shakes
peare’s “Merchant of Venice,” which is to be given here at Elon
on Wedne.sday evening, November 12th. Miss Farr will enact the
role of Nerissa in the show, whichis hailed as one of the most ex
travagantly staged productions in Barter Theatre history.
The famed Barter Players of
Virginia, who are well remember
ed here for their presentation of
Shakespeare's “Hamlet” and
“Comedy of Errors,” will bring
another Shakespearean produc
tion to the stage of Whitley Audi
torium on Wednesday evening,
December 12th, when they will
present “The Merchant of Ven
ice.”
Robert Porterfield, who founded
the Barter Theati-e in the bleak
depression days back in 1933, de
clares that “The Merchant of
Venice” is the most extravagantly
staged production in the history
of the organization, •'
sure to captivate their audience.
Patricia O’Connell, who plays
Shakespeare’s fascinating Portia,
and Dinah Farr, who has the role
of Nerissa, give the new show a
pair of fascinating stars,
Woodrow Romoff, who starred
in the recent stage production of
“Mr. Thing,” has the enviable role
of Shylock in Shakespeare’s great
play; while Hugh Mosher and
John Holland play the roles of
Antionio and Gratiano, and Clay
ton Corzatte appears as Bassanio.
Michael Lewis, son of brilliant
parents in the persons of Novelist
.Sinclair Lewis and Columnist Dor
othy Thompson, is another of the
new faces to be seen with the
Barter group in its 1951 visit to
Elon. With him and also appear
ing in the play is his bride, the
former Bernadette Nanse, whom
he met and married in France.