Everybody Out
For Every
Basketball Game
MAROON AND GOLD
Let’s Push The
Christiana
To A Championsliip
VOLUME THIRTY-TWO
EI.ON COLLEGE, N. C.,
Eloti Players
Will Present
^Double Door^
The next stage production to tie
offered by the Elon Players will
he Elizabetli McB’adden's three-
act Broadway success, “The Dou
ble Door,” which will be present
ed on the stage of Whitley Me
morial Auditonuni on Thursday
and Friday, February 5th and Gth.
This was announced by Mrs.
Elizabeth R. Smith, who stated
that the McFadden play would
call for a cast of twelve characters.
Try-outs for parts in the new
pi-oduction are already underway,
and the actors for the tetrruaiy
show will be anncunceu in the
near future.
The Players had planned to
present Maxwell Anderson's
“Xnae Of A Thousand Days," the
[dramatic and historically trut
islory of the life of Anne Boleyn,
but difficulties in casting that play
forced a change of plans.
The choice of “The Double
Duui " itself is a highly dramatic
i;;dy, centering about tlie cruel
and malevolent efforts of Victoria
Van Bret to ruie all the meiucers
[Of her family with an iron hand
I.n the play she is particularly vic
ious in her dealings witn her half- i
brother. Kip Van Bret, who is |
marrying a young lady beneath
the Van Bret social station.
,\s a preliminary step in prep
aration of the new play, Mrs.
Smith last week designated a
number of committees to handle
properties, publicity, sets and
make-up.
The committees for the new
show include Bertie Lewis, Rich
ard Rivers. Roy Cashion and
Ann Stoddard, properties; Dianne
Maddox. Patsy Deaton and Jimmy
Luke, school publicity; Lynn Cash-
ion, David Crowle and J. B. Pick
ard, radio and newspaper pub-
Lcity; .Anne Wilkins, Ann Keams
and Jean Tew, general publicity;
«>immy Luke, Johnny Meadows,
Joe Brankley and Richard Rivers,
stage set; and Joe Bi-ankley, Bertie
Lewis and Patsy Deaton, make-
WEDNKSDAV, JANUARV It, 1953
NUMBER SEVEN
WILL BE ‘MISS ELON'.^
SHIRLEY COX
Freshman
l ule Party
For Orphans
h Successful
^ The sixth annual Christmas
r-arty for the boys and girls of the
Christian Orphanage, which was
held in tile Student Union on
'eclnesday night, December 17th,
"as pronounced an unqualified
suceas by both the college stu
dents and the youthful “guests of
oonor.” who gathered to meet
oanta Claus on an early visit.
This early visit of Santa Claus
''as made possible for the Orph
anage children by the united ef-
orts of members of the college
s-udent body. The program was
Ponsored jointly by the four fra-
Wflities and the four sororities.
Alpha Pi Delta taking the
eading role.
Each child at the Orphanage
BETTY THOMPSON
Junior
Which of the four Elon Col
lege classes will be able to claim
the winner of the “Miss Elon"
title for 1953?
Such is the question on the
campus since the student body
selected the girls to represent
each class in the competition for
the honored position in the
forthcoming 1953 college annu
al. The girls pictured here were .
chosen from a group of eight by
vote cast at the pre-holiday
dance held in Society Hall on
Thursday evening, December
18th.
The winning candidate from
eacli class, a!! shown on this
page, were Shirley Cox (upper
left), of Elon College, from the
freshman class; Natalie Toms, of
Burlington (upper right), repre
senting tlie sophomore class;
Betty Thompson of Burlington
(lower left), of the junior class;
and Betty Van Sharpe, of Bur
lington /(lower right), repre
senting the senior class. Each
of the four girls are day stu
dents.
Photographs of each of the
four finalists in the contest will
be sent to Kay Kyser, nationally
famous band leader, who now re
sides in Ciiapel Hill, lie will
choose the winner from the pho
tographs, and the winning “Miss
Elon" will be announced through
the publication of her picture
In the Phi Psi Cli.
Ten Big Campus Stories Of 1952
Selected In Revieiv Of Past Year
NATALIE TOMS
Sophoni ore
NINE GRADUATED
[X FALL (^iUARTER
There were nine Elon Col
lege students who completed
the requirements for graduation
at the end of the 1953 Fall
Quarter, according to an an
nouncement made last week
from the office of Prof. A. L.
Il(^3k, the college registrar.
The new Elon graduates in
clude Edgar Claw.son, of Fair
mont, West Va.; Rachel Garri
son, of Burlington, Sal Gero, of
Hatboro, Pa., W'ayburn James,
of Greensboro: Ben Kirby,
of Roxboro; Bob Lewis, of
Wilmington; Charles Russell, of
Graham; Joseph Stanley, of
Graham; and Ted Webb, of
Rockingham.
BETTY VAN SHARPE
Senior
Elon Offer Eight Scholarships
At Fourth ‘High School Day’ Event
Elon College will award eight
free scholarships, with a total
$4,400 as a special fea-
WEDDINGS FEATURE TitnniiiiK
value o5 $4,400 as a special fea-| i 1^1 • X
ture of the fourth annual "High CHRISTMAS SEASON
School Day," which wil be observ
ed on the Elon campus on Wed
aeiday, February 11th. The
scholars’;;:^:' v.ill be divided equal
ly between boys and girls, who
will compete that day for the titles
of “King" and “Queen” of the
day's festivities.
Announcements of the annual
■‘High School Day" program went
out last week to more than 200
high schools in North Carolina
and Vi-ginia, with invitations to
each high school to send all mem
bers of its senior class as Elon’s
guests for the day and to enter
ore boy and one girl in the contest
for the eight scholarship awards.
Along with the invitations to
the high schools went details of
the scholarDhip contest, which
Vviill feature competition in the
fields of scholarship, personality,
poise and appearance. Top awards
for both boys and girls will be
$1,000 scholarships to apply on a
four-year course at Elon College.
Smaller scholarships in the
«eived a gift from the sLdenu! I amounts ^-*00 and $200
angements having been made will go to boys and girls who place
^ ^^at a student or group of stu-
would draw the name of
of the eighty or more boys
girls and make arrangements
purchase the gifts for the per-
chosen.
^^0 new bicycles were present-
the boy and girl chosen as
the outstanding records at
* ^ ^^hanage during the year
•'St ended. The lucky recipients,
by the Orphanage authori-
ss on the basis of scholarship,
^operation and similar character-
tics, were Angelee Haith, age 10,
Jimmy Burgess, age 16.
second, third and fourth in their
respective divisions.
The scholarship contest is a new
feature of “High School Day” at
Elon, an event which has attracted
wide attention in previous years.
Senior classes from more than 60
high schools were present on the
campus for the third annual event
last year. An attractive program
of entertainment is being planned
for the high school visitors to be
climaxed when the seniors are
guests that evening at the Elon-1 jj,e M. A. and Ph. D. de-
High Point varsity basketball I grees. He has been teaching at
game. =■ t jEJon since 1949.
The Christmas season brought
the usual group of weddings for
Elon students and recent alum
ni, with two of the ceremonies
performed on the campus in
Whitley Auditorium.
Student weddings were tho.se
of Carolyn Abell to Raleigh El
lis in Reidsville on December
27th and Helen Nott to Andy 1
Meredith here at Elon Decem
ber 26th. Recent alumni wed
dings were those of Virginia
Pla to Edward Van Slckler, here
at Elon on December 20th, and
Rosamond Bromley to Richard
Petrie in Huntington, West Va.
Avizonis Attends
W ashing^ton Meet
Dr. Kon.stantinas Avizonis, pro
fessor of German and History at
.s:ion, attended the annual meeting
of the American Historical Asso
ciation, which was held in Wash
ington, D. C., December 28th-
30th.
The Elon professor attended the
■essions and participated in many
){ the discussions, representing
the college at the Washington
meeting, which included leading
historians from all parts of the
country. There were approxi
mately 1,300 in attendance.
Dr. Avizonis, a native of Lithu
ania, came to the United States
■ hortly after the end of World
War 11. He was educated in lead
ing European universities, includ
ing the University of Friedriich-
Wlhelm in Berlin, from which he
In Meetinffs
On Campus
Dr. Wofford C. Timmons, rep-
resentativie of the Division of
Christian Education of the Gen-
• ral Council cf the Congregational
Christian Churches, beg.m lojay
a week-long series of religiou.i ser
vices on the Elon campus.
An outstanding figure in Ihe
life and work of tbe Congregation
al Christian denomination. Dr.
Timmons program calls for him
fo address the ' college students
in chapel services each morning,
along with a series of services for
laymen of the community. He
will be here through next Tues
day, January 20th.
. He is to speak to the community
people in the Parish House at
7;30 o'clock on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday evenings of this
week, and then he will preach
ill V/hitley Auditorium at both
..he morning and evening services
on Sunday.
The Monday evening program
will find Dr. Timmons meeting at
7:30 o'clock with a gathering of
?hurch officers, Sunday School
eachers and mission.iry circle
'eaders and officers for a round
table discussion on missions. This
meeting will be held at the Parish
Hou.se.
His final appearance will be in
the role of featured speaker at a
upper meeting for the men of
h church, which will be held in
he Parish House at 8;30 o’clock
lext Tuesday evening.
STUDENT DRAFT IIULES
DISCLOSE FEW CHANGES
The Selective Service regulations pertaining to college students
have been changed but very little within the past year, according
to information obtained from the local Selective Service office in
an interview obtained by a Mar.oon and Gold staff member.
The present regulations follow in general the rules laid dowTi
n the Selective Service Act of 1951, which provided for students
to be deferred instead of having their induction postponed. This
act stated that any student pursuing a full-time course, would,
upon receiving induction notices, b£. deferred in class 1-S until the
end of the academic year, with one such deferment to each student.
The (jules .still provide that any student entitled to I-S defer
ment must be ordered tor induction before he can be deferred by
the local board. The law says that he shall be deferred “upon
presenting the facts" that he is satisfactorily pursuing a full-time
course, which means that no student should be disturbed by
an induction notice. Instead, he should request his Dean or Regis
trar to give notice to the local board of his student status and
that such work was actually commenced prior to the date the in
duction notice was mailed.
The law requires each regist rant to keep his local board ad
vised of his current status, so Ge neral Hershey urged each student
to have his college send notice to
ihe board as soon as he is reg
istered in a college. This notice
is made on SS Form 109, whicli
is in the hands of the dean.
The draft law which provides
for 1-S deferment, also authorized
the President to prescribe such
other regulations as deemed nec
essary, and the Pre.sident later
prescribed a Class ^II-S student de
ferment plan, which resulted in
(he rule for deferment of students
in upper brackets of their classes
and those scoring 70 or better on
the draft tests. Hershey points
out, however, that this is only
general policy and final decision
lests with the local board.
Students who meet either re
quirement in class rank or draft
lest score have a right to appeal
if their local board does not defer
them, and Hershey reminds stu
dents that they may appeal to the
State Appeals Board through the
local board within ten days from
the Sate the local board mails him
notice that he is in Class I-A.
In case the State Appeal Board
uphold,i the local board by a split
decision, Hershey pointed out
that the student then may appeal
to the National Selective Service
Appeal Board, such apepal being
taken" in the same manner as the
appeal to the State Board,
The Selective Service director
explained the differenc betwen
the I-S and the II-S deferments.
The II-S deferment on class stand
ing or qualification test is discre
tionary on the part of Uie local
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Plans for the future of Elon College, a glimpse at past accom
plishments and pride in the glories and activities of the present
were the controlling factors in t'le choice of the outstanding news
stories that broke on the Elon c impus during the twelve months
that were 1952, stories that were played up through the columns
of the Maroon and Gold and whiche attracted interest both on and
on tiie campus.
The coming of the New Year brings a period of inventory, a
period for taking stock of things accomplished during the year
just gone, and the larger newspapers of the country and such
news-gathering agencies as the Associated Press always take the
New Year season to review the twelve months just gone, and the
staff of the Maroon and Gold has I'dwed that joiurnalislic prac
tice in recent years by choosing the “Ten Big Stories of 1952" on
the Elon campus.
The choice of the ten biggest stories that graced the columns
of the Maroon and Gold during 1952 was made upon the basis of
campus importance and with attention to the lasting effects on the
college itself and the Elon students. News interest and space al-
loted to the various stories were factors too, tor several of the
stories were in and out of the cmpus newspaper throughout the
year. Based strictly upon the
‘BU Nifrhf
To Be Held
February 14
The annual winter quarter “Bid
Night” for Elon’s Greek letter fra
ternities and sororities will be
held on Saturday night, February
14th, according to an announce
ment this week from officials of
the Paa-Hellenic Council.
Looking forward to this second
‘ Bid Night” of the yea/, the four
fraternities and an equal number
of sororities are already looking
over the field of prospective
pledges, despite the fact that reg
ular rushing will not get underway
for another ten days.
The bidding this quarter will
follow the regular form, with a
series of rush parties to be staged
by the various groups. Accept
ance by a prospective pledge of
an invitation to the final “Bid
Night" party of any group consti
tutes an agreement to become a
member of that group.
Interest in the winter rushing
season is always heightened by
the fact that freshmen becom el
igible for bids at that time, pro
viding they made an average of
C” or better on their courses
for the fall quarter.
The four fraternities to partici
pate in the semi-annual rushing
sea.son include Alpha Pi Delta,
Iota Tau Kappa, Kappa Psi Nu
and Sigma Phi Beta. The four
sororities are Beta Omicron Beta,
Delta Upsilon Kajipa, I>i Kappa
Tau and Tau Zeta Phi.
judgment of the Maroon and Gold
staff, the “Ten Biggest Stories of
1952" are listed below in the or
der of their ranking.
1. GIGANTIC FUND CAM
PAIGN BEGINS. The entire fu
ture of Elen College, with its
plans for new buildings and the
expansion of the college program,
is wrapped up in the concluding
portion of a great $2,500,000 fund
raising campaign, which was acti
vated as a special feature of the
observance of “Founder’s Day" on
the campus on Tuesday, Septem
ber 16th, Plans for the campaign
were laid back in 1951, but the
actual drive for funds began this
past fall, with a formal organiz
ation completed to cany tho ap
peal to the people of North Caro
lina and Virginia and other states.
Nearly half the two and one-half
million dollar fund had been
raised in a previous effort, dating
back to 1946, but the intensive
drive to reach .the final goal is
now underway.
2. PRESIDENT SMITH’S AN-
M
NIVERSARY, important part
of the great fund-raising drive is
President Leon E. Smith himself,
;^’ho passed another milestone In
his long record of service to Elon
College when he completed on
November 1st his twenty-first full
year as the guiding administrator
of the college. His 1952 anniver
sary had more than the usual sig
nificance, for upon that occa.sion
his presidential administration be
came the longest in Elon’s history.
The longest previous presidential
term was that of Dr. William A.
Harper, who sei'ved twenty years
from 1911 until 1931.
3. BID FOR NATIONAL CAGE
HONORS. The Elon ba.sketball
squad of last season wrote a new
chapter in Christian sports
achievement when it became the
first Elon athletic team in all his
tory to win its way into a nation
al tournament. The 1952 cage
squad, which tied with Appalach
ian for the regular season cham
pionship of the North State Con
ference, went on to win the NAIB
title for North and South Carolina,
which carried with it the riglit to
play in the national NAIB cage
tournament in Kansas City. It is
true that the Christians lost to
powerful Milliken University in
the first round in Kansas City,
hut they carried the Elon name
to sport pages throughout the na
tion.
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