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A Happy Vacation To Each And All Elon Students MAROON AND GOLD And We’ll See You At Elon When September Comes VOLUME 31 COl.S.tGi', N. U. iNUivlliblC 15 Elon Plans Annual Commencement May 24-26 College Choir Sings ‘Elijah’ Siuulay Night An outstanding feature ot Eton's sixty-second annual com mencement will be the second an- ^■i3l presentation ot Mendels sohn’s "Elijah,” which will be of fered in Whitley Auditorium il 8:30 o'clock next Sunday night. The great aratorio w’as received enthusiastically last year and is repeated this year by request. The Choir will also stage a full- dress presentation of the great musical on Wednesday night of this week, to which the Elon Col lege students and music lovers of Ihe community are invited. A J. Fletcher, prominent Ral eigh business man and a moving force behind the North Carolina Grass Koots Ooera Company, will appear here as a guest soloist in ■I'.ie baritone role of Elijah. Davie V.itherspoon, Raleigh tenor, wili rlso be here as a guest soloist. Mijs Virginia Groomes, sopra- 0, a member of the Elon music acuity, will have an important o!o part, with other soloists liosen from the Elon student I'ody. Student singers with solo arts are Jerry Smyre, tenor, of reensboro; Annie Laura Al right, soprano, of Mebane; and atsy Melton, contralto, of Bur in gton. The Elon Choir will also render pecial music for the bacalaureate sermon on Sunday morning, and for the graduation exrcises next ".onday morning. It will al.so of fer its annual vesper program at 4 o'clock Sjnday afternoon. OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS FEA IURE THREE-DAY PROGRAM “V M "LZ A*. 7^9. A College Is Nearing Close Of Sixty-Second Session Student Groups Choose Officers For Coming Year The Ministerial Association and] the Women's Athletic Association are two students groups which '.ave just announced the election f new officers, who will direct the activities of the groups for tae coming' year. Officers of the Ministerial As sociation include Sammy Nelson, cf LaGrange, Ga., president; Bill 'immons, of Albemarle, vice-pres ident: Hazel Sherman, of Oxford, secretary; and Thomas Madren, f Eikton, Va., treasurer. President of the Women’s Ath letic Association will be Aleane Gentry, of Timberlake. Other of ficers will be Virginia Jernegan, of Godwin, vice-president; La- verne Brady, of Robbins, secre tary; Ernestine Bridges, of Lawn dale, treasurer; and Sue Moore, of Lawndale, point secretary. SYMPHONY REMEW PRAISES SAHLMANN Fred Sahlmann, Elon CoilfSL- music s^.iident from C’iiarieslon. S. C„ v.as leceived with gr?at acclaim by music levers cf this area for his work as soloist of the evening with the No;th Car>)Un', Symphony Orchestra in its annual concert at Walter VVii;;ams High School in Bur lington on Monday eveiiir.g. May 12th. Sahlmann, who has gained honors in both piano and organ since becoming a stuient at Elon, was described by critics as playing with the l>riliiaiu;e of a professional, making Rach maninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Pagahini alive vi.th imagina'ion and hmnor and flawless technique. The Elon student has played with the North Carolina Symphony numerous times in the past. Portrayed against the backg-ound of the Elon College campus in springtime are two of the speakers who wil feature the sixty- second annual commencement program for Elon College, along with Dr. Leon E. Smith icenter), who will guide the college | through its 1952 commencement. The speakers shown are No.-Hi I Carolina’s Governor W. Kerr Sco't (upper left), who ccmes back to his native county of Alamance to deliver the bacalaureate ad dress at the graduation exercises on Monday, May 2i3oh; and Rjv. Martin L. Goslin (upper -ight), pastor of the First Congregational Church of Evanston, 111., who will preach the baccr: ureate .sermon on Sunday morning. May 25th. Students Receive ’52 Ammal Tlie 1952 edition of Cli,” the Elon College was distributed to the students last week, offering an interesting story in words and pictures of life Phi Psi Page Painter. edilor-in-cliief, annuaK i Reita Durham, business manager, i'ud J'ce Spivey, sports editor. The l>cok, bound in attractive leather c.over that bears the col on the Elon campus during the lege seal year just ending. The new annual, with its pic tures of faculty members, stu dents, campus groups and ath letic teams, is a testimony to the fine work done by a staff led by in silver on the front, is dedicated to Dr. Isaac Walter Johnson, of Suffolk, Va., member cf Elon’s Class of 1898 and a veteran cf fifty-one years of ac tive ministerial work in Congre- cational Cliristian churches. SUMMER TER’Vl SET TO START JUNE 9 The 1952 summer school will set underway at 8 o’clock on Monday morning, June 9th, ac- coiding ti» an announcement from the office of Dean I>. J. Bowden, giving a full two weeks of rest and vacation, afi.er com mencement for students and fac ulty members who plan to re turn to the campus tor the sum mer session. The summer school will as usual offer two six-weeks terms. The first term will continue un til Friday, July 18th. There will be intermission be tween terms, with the second six- weeks session to start on Mon day, July 21st, and close on Fri day, August 29th. The regular 1952-53 college year starts on September 2nd. Senior Dance Is Scheduled Friday Ni^ht The Senior Clas^ of 1952 will !e honored guests and >vill be for mally welcomed into the fellow- hip of the alumni on Friday eve- ing of this week when Dr. and VIrs. Leon E. Smith are to be hosts t the annual Senior Dance, which ' ill be held at 8:30 o'ljock in lie Alumni Memorial Gymnasium. The dance, which is planned to lonor the Elon College alumni as veil as the members of the senior lass, will be co-sponsorcd by rep- escntatives fi'om the board of rutsees, the college faculty, the ilumni reunion classes and other : lumni. Carl Woods, alumni secretary, A ill introduce the senior guests 0 the co-sponsors in the rcceiv- mg line, which wil be headed by Dr. and Mrs. Darden Jones, of Franklin, Va. Dr. Jones is the president of the General Alumni Association of Elon College. Also ill the receiving line will be Pres ident and Mrs. Smith, several members of the Elon faculty and number of distinguished Elon alumni from widely scattered points. Music for the dance will be fur nished by Paul Zimmerman a his-Orchestra, and a unique orien tal decorative scheme is planned to lend an air of enchantment to the huge gymnasium. The Senior Clas Figure after the first intermission will be un der the direction of June Faulco- ner, of Burlington. In keeping with the oriental decorative scheme and as a tribute to the honor guests, a floor sliow of ori- ntal dances will be presented through the courtesy of Jo May, also of Burlington. The dance will mark the formal opening of the 1952 commence ment program and will serve as 1 prelude to the Alumni Day exer cises that get underway Saturday morning. Many alumni are ex- oected to return for the dinco. LARGE GROUP TO GRADUATE WITH CLASS OF 1952 Two Elon Actors Get Summer Jobs Two other members of the Elon Players, student dramatic group, have acepted summer work in dramatics, with Lynn Cashion Signed to a contract to appear in "Cnto These Hills,” historical drama that is offered at Cherokee, and with Ed Engles, contracted for work with Actors Touring Company, for work in touring plays. Bob Walker had already signed for work in “Lost Colony.” Cashion signed a contract last Saturday to play the role of An drew Jackson in the drama of the Cherokee migration to the West. Fugles will play an important role in the touring production of “Born Yesterday,” appearing as Harry Brock, who gained wealth in scrap iron during the war. Another senior class will re ceive diplomas and degrees and join the ranks of Elon College alumni following the 1952 gradu ation exercises, to be held on fMonday, May 26th. A tentative list of 1952 graduates, released from the office of Prof. A. L Hook, college registrar, includes 95 names, but this list is subject to revision and cannot be regaid- ed as entirely final. This group is smaller than eith er of the two classes immediately preceding it, but it miist be re membered that Elon held a sum mer graduation last August fo^ the first time in many years, and degrees and diplomas were grant ed at that time to more than thir ty-five seniors, all of whom would have been graduated with this class of 1952 under the rules in effect for the past few years. Had such a pi’ocedure been followed, then there would have been more than 130 seniors receiving di plomas at -the forthcoming com- .nencement. The list of 95 graduating seniors vill all receive Bachelor- of Arts legrees, but they will graduate n a variety of fields of study. \ break-down of major subjects ihows 22 with a Business Ad ministration major, 18 in English. 14 in Physical Education, 5 in| Mathematics, 5 in Religion, 4 in; Social Studies, 4 in History, 4 in Horae Economics, 3 in Music, 3 in | Jhemistry, 2 in Biology, 2 in; jrcncii, and one each in Physic^ | Spanish, and Philosophy. Seven ’.lave double majors, including 2 in Spanish-English, and one each in Religion-Philosophy, French- English, liology-Chemistry, Mu- jic-English" and English-Religion. The senior roll, as listed by the registrar, includes the following names: Harold Ackerman, Burlington. James Akers. Alum Ridge, \'a. James Andrews, Graham. Oliver Bail ;s, Elon College. Billy Barger, Burlington. Har6ld Bacheldor, Barre, Vt. Glenn Bolick, Burlington. Evelyn Booth, Roanoke, Va. Rosamond Bromley, H'ton, W.Va. Vivian Callahan, Graham. Graham Carlton, Elon College. Eldred Cherry, Draper. Luther Clapp, Gibsonville. Ro.sser L. Clapp, Brown Summit. Hiram Coble, Snow Camp. James Cole, Schoolfield, Va. Carl Coley, Burlington. June M. Cooper, Graham. Elizabeth S. Cooper, Graham. Samuel Cooper, Graham. Della Crutchfield, Hickory, Va, Henry DeSimone, Devon, Pa. Reita Durham, Burlington. SENIOR PRESIDENT SENIOR PRESIDENT Larry Gaither, of Granite Quarry, is the president of the senior class of 1952. He lias been a varsity basketball player for tour years, has played a leading role in campus life dur- in? his college career. Gayneile Dyer, Leaksville. Riileig'i Ellis. Suffolk, Va. George iitheridge, Norfolk, Va. Harry Farmer, S. Norfolk, Va. Vi'alter Feltman, Hillsboro. Heriiian tlynt, Graham. Lacala W. Frazier, Liberty. Larry Gaither, Granite Quarry. Roger Gibbs, Greensboro. Chailes Gibson, Hampton, Va. Jack Gibson, Burlington. Billie Greene, Durham. Caroline Guthrie, Graham. Jean Hamilton, Burlington. Beverly Hargrove, Burlington. Elizabeth Hoffman, Burlington. Murry Holland, Clinton. William Hunter, Graham. Frank Ingram, Gretna, Va. William Ivey, Snow Camp. Helen Jackson, Winston-Salem. Calvin Jarrett, Graham. Edgar Jones, Wilmington. •Charles Joyner, Zuni, Va. Robert Kirby, Rorboro. Elbert Lake, Mebane. Charles Lynam, Wake Forest. Curtis Martin, Fieldale, Va. Thomas Matthews, Galax, Va. Warren Matthews, Greensboro Harold McRae. Asheboro. Alexander Mebane, Burlington. Lorena Mittelstadt, Reidsville. William Mobley, Reidsville. Archie Morgan, Suffolk, Va. Dai.ler Motley, Reidsville. Charles Myers, Fieldale, Va. Celia Oakley, Burlington. Bobby Payne, Gibsonville. Jane Peterson, Norfolk, Va. William Rakes, Fieldale, Va. Douglass Roane, Norfolk, Va. Charlotte Rothgeb, Luray, Va. Dueward Scott, Clifton Forge,Va Edward Shomaker, Elon College. Beverly Simpson, Haw River. William Sinclair, Elon College. Joseph Spivey, Suffolk, Va. Lester Squires, Graham. Ben Stephenson, Fuquay Springs Lois L. Stockard, Graham. Joan Summers, Gibsonville. Robert Summers, Norfolk, Va. ■VVenonah Ta.vlor, Elon College. Frank Tingley, Thomasville. Oliver Thomas, Irvington, N. J. Jane Tuck, Virgilina, Va. Buddy Ussery, Weldon. Grafton Varner, Reidsville. Lois Walker, Akron, Ohio. Robert Walker, Kernersville. Frank Ward, Burlington. Jesse Warrick, Selma. James Weadon, Brown Summit. Sam Webster, Elon College. Sophia White, Sanford. Geneva C. Williford, Graham. John Williford, Graham. Roger B. Wilson, Providence,R.I. Mary Elizabeth Wood, Hurl. Betty L. Yarborough, Elon Col Richard York, Ramseur. The sixty-second annual session of Elon College will be formally closed with a three-day com mencement program, which gets underway with Alumni Day on Saturday, May 24th, and closes V/itli the graduation ceremonies on Monday morning. May 2Gth. The senior class and alumni will be honored on Friday evening, ■May 23rd, at a dance in Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, which will .■iet the stage for the regular Alum ni Day gatherings on Saturday, when ten Elon College classes an; scheduled to gather on the campus for reunions. Classes scheduled to return at that time are those which gradu ated in 1947, 1942, 1937, 1932, 1927, 1922, 1917, 1912, 1907 and 1902, along with a number of other alumni who graduated prior to 1900, These groups will gather for reunions at 10 o'clock on Sat urday* morning, followed by the alumni picnic at 12:30 o'clock and the business meeting of the Gen eral Alumni Association at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Other rlass get-togethers are planned for Saturday afternoon, with the annual alumni banquet to be held in the college dining hall at 6:30 o’clock, when Mrs. Russell T. Bradford, of Norfolk, Va., member of the Class of 1917, will deliver the alumni oration. The annual “outstanding alumni” award will also be announced at that time. Immediately after the banquet tlif Elon Players will pre sent the Greek tragedy of “l\le- dea' in Whitley Auditorium Rev. Martin L. Goslin, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Evanston, 111., will de liver the baccalaureate sermon in Whitley Auditorium at 11:30 o’clock on Sunday morning, May 25th. The Elon Choir will pre sent its annual vesper recital at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, and that evening at 8:30 o'clock the Elon Singers will offer a drama tization of Mendhelssohn’s great oratio, “Elijah.” The commencement program will close with the annual gradu ation exercises at 10:30 o'clock on Monday morning. May 26th, when the college will confer de grees upon 9.5 seniors. The ad dress upon this occasion will be by the Hon. W. Kerr Scott, gov ernor or North Carolina. Rev. W. Millard Stevens, of Norfolk, Va., will have the prayer at this ser vice; and Rev. Duane N. Vore, of Suffolk, Va., will present the Bibles to the seniors. President Leon E. Smith will confer the de grees. Currin Is Editor For Coming Year Matt Currin, rising senior from Burlington, has been named ed- itor-in-chief of the Maroon and Gold for the forthcoming 952-53 college year. Moving up from the post of associate editor, he suc ceeds Lynn Cashion, of Sanford, who was editor this year. Announcement is also made of the award of Maroon and Gold charms to four members of the Maroon and Gold staff for servic es this year. They are Lynn Cashion, editor-in-chief. Matt Cur rin, associate editor, J. B. Pickard, feature editor, and Roger B. Wil son, circulation manager. Special mention also goes to Joe Spivey, sports editor, and to Ed Engles, associate editor, both of whom have previously been aw'arded a Maroon and Gold key. Both have continued the same high caliber of work this year that won them the awards in a ?revious year.
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