Make Plans Now
To Attend
The Spring Dance
MAROON AND GOLD
No Student Should
FaH To
Vote Next Tuesday
OLUME 31
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1952
INUAIUKK 13
Campus In Midst Of Annual Political Furor
lioir Scores
iiie Triumph
With Cantata
The Elon Choir scored anoUier
triumph in its sixth annual pre-
ijentation of “The Seven Last
AVoi'ds of Christ,” famous Eastci
cantata by Theodore Duhnis. The
cantata was presented to an en
thusiastic audience in Whitley
Auditorium on Sunday evening.
April 6th.
The Easter program, which has
Jecome one of the annual high
lights of the Lenten season in
5lhis area, was also presented at
the Davis Street Methodist Chui'ch
in Burlington on Wednesday eve
ning, April 9th, and once more it
^•»as received by an appreciative
audience.
The program at the Davis Street
church was the second appearance
of the Elon singers in Burlington
within two weeks, for the Choir
had previously ai>peared at the
First Congregational Christian
Cluuch in Burlington on Sunday
afternoon, March 30th, presenting
at that time the same concert
program that was offered in elev
en appearances on tlie annual
northern tour early in March.
‘The presentation of “The Seven
ist Words of Christ," which was
der the direction of Prof. John
iVestmoreland, featured Prof.
Fletcher Mooi'e at the organ. The
chorus for the program included
forty members of the Choir, with
seven student singers appearing in
.'ijsolo roles.
'ji. Soloists featured in the perfor-^
Xiance included Annie Laura A1-,
bright, of Mebane, and Judith
Ingram, of Greensboro, sopranos;
Charles Crews, of South Boston.
Va., and Jerry Smyre, of Greens-
#)oro, tenors; and Charles Lynam,
«f Wake Forest, Ben Stephenson,
«! Fuquay Springs, and Jimmie
Ehodes, of Burlington, baritones.
For Albright, Stephenson and
Lynam, all of them seniors, it
Tvas the last student appearance
ii' the Easter program.
The Dubois masterpiece, based
upon the scriptural story of
Christ on the cross, featured a
highly dramatic climax, with the
final “word” followed by an organ
interlude and the formation of a
lighted cross by the choir mem-
in a darkened auditorium.
i llESE FOUR H \\ E STARRL\G ROI.ES PLAYER SHOW
m
r.OB WALKrPv
WILKINS
ANN
Three veteran members of the
Elon Players and one newcomer
to the Elon stage will enact the
four major roles in “Papa Is
.'Ml,” tht thret-act Broadway
comedy that is to be presented
in Whitley Auditorium on
Wednesday and Thursday eve
nings of this week. Bob Walker
(upper left), who hails from Ker-
nersville, will play the part of
Papa Aukamp, tyrannical father
of a Pennsylvania Mennonite
family. Lois Walker (upper
right), who claims Akron, Ohio,
as her home address, will play
the feminine lead as Mama Au
kamp, in which she joins with
her children in rebellion against
the overbearing rule of the hus
band and father. The two
H'alkers, while bearing the same
rame. are not the least kin, and
11 is pure coincidence that they
will appear in this performance
as husband and wife. Ann Wil
kins (lower left), a freshman
from Suffolk, Va., who won dra
matic honors in her high school
days, will appear in the forth
coming play as tli»e Aukamp
daughter. The other of the four
major roles in the show will be
enacted by Joe Brankley (lower
right), who is from Skipwith,
^'a„ who has the part of the
Aukamp son. The plot of the
play revolves around the attempt
on the part of these two young
sters to convert their deeply re
ligious father to their more
modern ways of thinking and
doing things.
Students Cast Ballots Next Tuesday
To Name Leaders For Coming Year
ij
LOIS WALKER
JOE BRANKLEY
Elon Dramatic Group W ill Present
Broadway Comedy Here This Week
Laughter promises to be tiie
STL'DEISTS APPROV E ikeynote of audience reaction when
jthe Elon Players present their
MUSIC IN CHAPEL
student expressions of ap
proval have been heard in all
parts of the campus in regard
to the musical programs, which
the college choir 'presented in
chapel on Wednesday and Fri
day of last week. Many students
have expressed a desire for
more such programs in the fu
ture. Lack of attention in chap
el, which has been a 'major
problem for both faculty and
student officials, was no prob
lem at all during the musical
programs.
Spring Dance Is Planned
As Weekend Social Event
newest show in Whitley Auditor
ium at 8:15 o’clock on Wednes-
aay and Thursday nights of this
week, for the campus dramatic
group has chosen one of the most
successful of recent Broadway
comedies for their third show of
the year.
The new stage vehicle for the
Elon Players is a comedy of life
among the Pennsylvania Dutch,
entitled “Papa Is All,” written by
Patter j n Greene. Originally
produced by the Guild Theatre
of New York, the play drew high
praise from Broadway critics, and
it is expected to be one of tlie
most enjoyable shows seen on an
Elon stage in years.
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Smith, who
has produced many “hit” shows
since assuming direction of the
jElon Players, has assembled an
outstanding student cast for this
production
Army Officer
Will Be Here
Next Tuesday
Dean D. J. Bowden announces
that Major Ralph J. Ferree, US.\F
Cl North Carolina Military Dis
trict, Raleigh, will Ije on the Elon
campus next Tuesday and Wed
nesday. April 22nd and 23rd, to
interview applicants for pilot
training, and for the aircraft ob
server course of the new pro.gram
for training young men to become
commissioned officers skilled ii.
navlgat/ion, bombardment, radar
uperation, and aircraft perfo.in-
ance engineering.
Basic training lasts 27 weeks,
and is taken by all students. The
advanced phase of training varies
including four actors,ir- length depending on the speci-
Large Crond
At St ate aide
louth Redly
A record number of 621 younj
people from Congregational Chris-
ian churches tliroughout Nortl:
Carolina was in attendance at the
;econd annual statewide youth
ally, wliich was held on the Elon
■ampus on Sunday afternoon.
Vlarch 30th.
The church delegation began
irriving by noon for the rally,
>vhich got underway at 2:30 o'clock
n the afternoon and continued
iintil early that night. The dele-
sates represented churches in all
hree of the Congregational Chris-
uan divisions in the stale, in
cluding the Western North Caro
lina, Eastern North Carelina and
^:nth Carolina-Virginia Confer
ences.
Rev. Joe Dabuet, a native of the
Fhilippine Islands, now attendmg
the Theological Seminary of
Princeton University under the
ponsorship of the Youth Fellow
ship organization of the Southern
Convention, was the principal
speaker for the rally, which fea
ured a picnic .supper on the
.•ampus and a special program by
ihe Elon Collego Choir in Whitley
Audijorhim that evening. in.
Leon E. Smith, president of Elon,
was the narrator for the choir’s
program of sacred music.
The young people also elected
new officers for the coming two-
year terra, naming Phillip Mann,
an Elon College sophomore from
Cypress Shapel, Va., as president.
Other officers elected at the same
time were Betty Burt Height, of
Louisburg, vice-president; and
Louise McLfeod, an Elon fresh
man from Albemarle, as secre
tary.
The Elon campus is just now in the midst of that annual furor,
which arises when the members of the student body go to the polls
to choose their student government officers for the coming year,
and the political pot will continue to boil until next Tuesday,
April 22nd, when the students will cast their ballots in the final
election.
The candidates for tlie various student offices were nominated
in a session of Student Chapel, which was held on Monday morn
ing, April 7th, and in most cases it was necessary for the candi
dates to be voted upon in a primary election before the final slate
of office-seekers was chosen. In cases where no more than the
necessary number of candidates were nominated, no primary was
necessary. In such in.stances, the nominees move automatically
; into the final race.
This was the case in the cam
paign for the president of the stu
dent body, a race which features
Lynn Cashion, of Sanford, and
Bill Blackstone, of Jacksonville,
Fla.- They were the only two
nominated for the highest student
post, and no choice was necessary
the student primary, which
ELON SINGER WILL
HA\ E OPERA ROLE
Miss Virginia Groomes, mem
ber of Elon's music faculty, will
sing the part of Leonora in Mo
zart's “School ForLovers," fam
ous opera which is to be pre- I in
sented in Mebane on Thursday ‘ was held on Tuesday of this week,
night of this week by North I
Carolina's Grass Roots Opera I
Company. !
Miss Groomes has appeared j
in this role before with the
Grass Roots company and has
also sung other operatic parts
with the same group. In ap
pearing with this groiip in Me
bane, Miss Groomes will be sing
ing with two other members of
the cast who studied with her
last summer at the Seagle Col
ony, Scliroon Lake, N. Y.
Four candidates were nominat
ed for the vice-presidency of the
sludeni. body, including Woody
Stoffel, of Stnatford, N. J., Phillip
Mann, of Cypress Chapel, Va.,
Charles Phillips, of Elon College,
and Ronnie Black, of Burlington.
Choice of the final two candidates
hinged on this week’s primary,
results of which were not known
in time for publication.
I Only one of the general student
! offices was uncontested, that be-
I ing the post of secretary-treasurer
of the student government. Lone
nominee for this position was Wal
ter O Berry, of Harrellsville, who
gained the post automatically in
the face of no opposition.
Dr. William M. Brown, popular r
. r ,u I., ■ ■ ■ I There were no less than fifteen
member of the Lion social science I .... ,
, u u I, . .candidates for the five posts on
faculty, who has been on leave i, ^ .
, , . ,1. , , the Student Council, and pnmar-
iiorr. te’c'-..;s ; ut.es for work . , , . .
... T, ... ;ie3 were necessary to select final-
with the Elon College Foundation,’. .... , ,
. . J . .u r>- J . “1 the race for the two men s
has been confined to the Piedmont
Faculty Member
III In Hospital
Hospital in Greensboro for the
past ten days, undergoing treat
ment for an illijess with which he
was stricken Tuesday, AprilSth.
Dr. Brown was denied visitors
during the early days of his treal-
nient at the Greensboro hospital,
but members of both the Elon
faculty and student body were
representatives and for the single
representative-at-large, but no pri
mary was needed in the three-cor
nered race for the two women’s
Student Council seats.
Nominees for the two men’s
representatives included Oscar
Holland, of Clinton, Gary Sears,
of Portsmouth, Va., Joe Parker, of
much interested in his illness, andl^“‘^**®”’' Ludwig, of Baltimore,
i\Ie., Bobby Stewart, of Sanford,
John Truitt, of Elon College, and
John Hunter, of Westfield. Nom
inees for repa-esentative-at-large
there were many expressions of
pleasure by them and by towns
people when his condition v.as
reported last week to be much
improved.
(Continued On Page Four)
The annual “Spring Formal” i a much larger attendance than has j already well known to Elon the-
ance will be held in Alumni Me-'been the case for a number of j.-tre-goers and a couple of new-
’morial Gymnasium on Saturday j student dances in the past. .'corners who promise to develop
i»ight of this week from 8 o’clock In announcing the plans for the ,nto top-flight performers before
fintil midnight, according to plans 11952 “Spring Formal,” the student their Elon caieers are ended.
'Made public by members of the
student entertainment and dance
committees, which have worked
together in planning for the oc-
■ casion.
Music for the event, which will
be strictly formal for everyone,
vill be furnished by Jimmie Per-
fcns and his Orchestra, well-
;^nown Burlington musical group.
band has played for many
.'^Jtlon dances and is well liked by
members of the student body.
A special feature for the “For-
J|par' this year is the new ruling
^^nartcd by the Student Legisla-
pave. which decreed that there be
io flowers for the girls. This rule
5fas adopted by an overwhelming
‘>ote in the legislature, and its sup-
committees are urging that all
students plan to attend, pointing fjjgjjy fi^g rol«s behind him, ap-
Bob Walker, a veteran with
out that the expenses
of the
pears as Papa Aukamp, the tyr-
dance are taken from the student j Pennsylvania Dutch father,
treasury, which in turn is deprived holds unbendingly to his
from the payment of student body
fees, and they hope that all stu
dents will take advantage of the
chance to get the worth of their
money.
Emma Jean Clayton, chairman
of the student entertainment com
mittee, has been a leading figure
in the arrangements for the dance,
but the final plans for the event
are in the hands of the dance
committee, which includes Woody
Stoffel, chairman, David Crowle,
Nancy Vaughan, Phillip Mann,
Lynn Cashion, Jo Dillard and La-
porters believe that it will mean;verne Brady.
Mennonite religious beliefs. It
.is this fanatical adherence to his
religious creed that creates the
conflict in the play, conflict which
takes the form of a family rebel
lion against paternal authority.
Lois Walker, anotiier Elon
Player veteran and no kin to Bob,
appears as his wife in the role of
Mama Aukamp. She is personal
ly resigned to Papa's authority,
but she connives with her son
and daughter to circumvent the
family tyrant and gain for her
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fic course pursued, but all suc
cessful candidates are commis
sioned at the same time after ap
proximately 52 weeks of training
As to qualifications, applicants
must be 20 to 26 1-2 years of age.
and must have completed 2 years
of college in an accredited insti
tution. They must be single, and
agree to remain so during the
aaining period. Their physical
standards are the same as for Av-
fation Cadet pilot training, except
Tor less stringent visual require
ments.
Major Ferree's primary* missior
will be to interview and give in
formation to all seniors who may
be interested in this course, (oth
ers will clear through the Dean if
desirous of an interview), and to
administer tlie preliminary tests,
and forward results with applica
tions to the nearest Air Force
AINNUAI MAYDAY PROGRAM
FEATURES FOSTER’S MUSIC
THE KING
The 1952 May Day Festival, which will be held on Saturday, May 3rd, and will bo one of the
highlights of the spring term on the Elon campus, will be built around the theme of “Beautiful
Dreamer,” according to an announcement tills week from Miss Ruby Adams, head of the women’s
physical education program, who will again direct the May Day observance.
Work is already well underway on the May Day program, which will be ruled over this year
by Reita Durham, of Burlington, who was elected May Queen in a special student election held last
November. George Etheridge, of Norfolk, Va., will be king of tne festival, sharing royal honors
Chief attendants for the royal
pair will be Jane Peterson, of
Norfolk, Va., the maid of honor,
and her escort, Dave Mondy, also
of Norfolk, Va. They were chosen
at the same time as was the royal
pair, along) with attending couples
from the senior and junior classes.
The senior representatives in
the royal court include Evelyn
Booth, of Roanoke, Va., and Char
lotte Rothgeb, of Luray, Va., es
corted by Larry Gaither, of Gran
ite Quarry, and Charles Lynam, oC
Wake Fore.st, Junior represent.*-
tives are Carolyn Abell, of Reids-
ville, and Mary Elizabeth Ki:ig,
of Ramseur, escorted by Billy
Blackstone, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
and John Truitt, Jr., of Elon
(Continued on Page Four) GEORGE ETHERIDGE
THE QUEEN
KEITA
DURHAM
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