Let's Everybody See
“The Double Door”
February 12 and 13
MAROON AND GOLD
VOLUME
thirty-two
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1953
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NITMBER EIGHT
Eloii Alumni Group Is
Very Active This Year
The General Alumni Associa
tion of Elon College is in the
of an active year, accord
ing to Alumni Secretary Carl
Woods, who pointed to a series
of meetings already held in var
ious localities since September
and at the same time announced
other alumni gatherings to be held
in the near future.
Latest alumni gathering was the
annual mid-year meeting of the
General Association, which was
held in iVhitley Auditorium here
at 2:30 o’clock an Saturday after
noon, January 17th, a meeting
which was attended by most of
the officers and members of the
executive committee.
That gathering was featured by
reports from the alumni officers
and college administrative offic-i
ers, and it also brought nomina
tions for the next year’s officers
of the alumni organization. The
meeting was presided over by
Dr. Darden W. Jones, of Suffolk,
Va., ali'TTini president of the pres-
e: ‘ ye.ir.
X()min"-;or.s for the next year’s
cificers included • \V. B. Terrell,
’25, of Warrenton, and W. G.
Stoner. ’23, of Greensboro, for
president: Eugene Gordon, ’41,
of Burlington, Howard R. Rich
ardson, ’27. of Charlottesville, Va.,
for first vice-president; and Mrs.
Clarke Cullers, ’18, of Front Royal,
Va., and Harold W. Johnson, ’21,
of Fuquay Springs, for second
vice-president.
Several alumni chapters have
held successful meetings this year,
the first being a banquet session
of the Forsyth CoXinty Chapter
held in Winston-Salem on Novem
ber 18th.
The Guilford County Chapter
held its annual banquet session
on November 20th in Greensboro,
and the huge Norfold-Portsmouth
Chapter got together at the Nor
folk Yacht and Country Club on
December 4th. President Leon
E. Smith and Alumni Secretary
Carl Woods att'ended each of
these meetings, and Dean D. J.
Bowden represented the college
at Win|,on-Salem and Norffolk.
Elon students appeared in musi
cal and dramatic numbers at sev
eral of the meetings.
Three other chapter meetings
are planned in the near future, ac
cording to Secretary Woods. The
Alamance County Chapter wiJl
meet here at the college on Feb
ruary 18th for a dinner session,
after which its members will at
tend the Elon-Lenoir Rhyne bas
ketball game. Meetings are also
planed at Sanford and Reidsville
within the next month.
Plans are in the making for
eleven Elon classes to gather for
reunions at the forthcoming 1953
commencement in May. Classes
planning reunions include those
which graduated in 1893, 1898,
1903, 1908, 1913, 1918, 1923, 1928,
1933, 1938 and 1943.
ALUMNI SECRETARY !
New Faccs To Be Seen ...
Student Dramatists Offer
Successful Broadway Show
CARL WOODS
Carl Woods, a graduate of Elon
with the Class of 1950, is now
serving his second year as secre
tary of Elon’s General Alumni As
sociation, an organization which
has been quite active during the
present school year.
Aid PianiiecI
For College
111 Pliiliipines
Students here at Elon will be
given an opportunity in the near
future to offer much-needed aid
to fellow-students at Silliman
University in the Phillipine Is
lands, according to Rev. H. P.
Bozarfh, who called attention to
the great need for used textbooks
and used clothing at the Philli
pine school.
The tropic university, which is
operated under the sponsorship
operated under the sponsorship
of the United Churches of Christ
in the Phillipines, which includes
all major denominations, offers
courses only in their Knglish lang
uage. Hence, textbooks written in
English are what is needed. Since
th climate is warm there, only
summer clothing is needed.
There are about 3,000 studen^
at Silliman nowr, and regulations
forbid sending money out of the
Phillipines for the needed sup
plies. The enrollment is declining
bcause of the dire need for books
and clothing, and the appeal will
be explained fully at a chapel pro
gram on February 13th, with the
request that donations be made
here on Monday, February 16th.
Rev. Bozarth points out that this
is an exceedingly wortiiy cause,
and he urges complete cooper
ation.
When any door is opened, one
never knows what may be seen
beyond it, but lovers of the
drama at Elon C^ollege can rest
assured that many new face.i
will be seen when “The Double
Door” upens on the Wliitley
Auditorium stage on Thursday
and Friday nights, February
12th and 13th.
This fact became definite
when Mrs. Elizabeth K. Sm>th,
director of dramatics on the
Elon cami>is, anm^nc‘iJ last
week the names of the cast for
the Elon Players’ forthcoming
presentation of Elizabeth Mc-
Fadden’s thrce-act play, “Tlije
Double Door,” which was ac
claimed as a brilliant success
whcu it was produced by pro
fessional actors on Broadway.
No less than eight new stu
dent actors w'l 1 malje their
campus stage debut when the
curtain rises on the highly dra
matic show, which will feature
Dianne Maddox, of Cincinnati,
Oliia, in the leading role of
Victoria Van Bret, who attempts
to rule tlie members of the Van
Bret family and household with
a rod of iron.
The Cincinnati girl, who is
herself a comparative newcomer
to the Elon stage, transferred
to Elon this year from Miami
University and imnuediately
earned a leading role in the
Player production of “January
Thaw” last fall. She has an op
portunity to gain new laurels as
the central character in a family
struggle for power, whicli reach
es a maniacal inten.sity aud cul
minates on the verge af murder.
Sharing the starrin,? lionors
with Dianne Maddox will be
Johnny Bolt, a fre.shman from
Burlington, who makes his first
apearance with the Elon Play
ers in “The Double Door”; but
the Burlington boy, who will
enact the role of Rip Van Bret,
half-brother of the domineering
Victoria, is no stranger to dra
matic work. Ife was in high
school dramatics, and lie also
has his own radio show over
Station WBBB, where he ap
pears as a di.«c .iockey each week
for a one-hour period.
In his role as Rip Van Bret,
youjig Bolt introduces compli
cations in the plat of “The
“Double Door’ when he plans to
marry a young girl, who is con
sidered by Victoria to be be
neath the social standing of the
aristocratc old Van Bret famly.
Appearing in the role of Aune,
the girl whom Rip plans to mar
ry, will be Bertie Lewis, of Wil
mington, another first-year stu
dent wiio is making her Elon
stage debut. In tiiis role she is
the object of Victoria Van Bret's
hatred and is the one who re
ceives the ful force of the domiV
neeriag elder sister’s most
venomous actions.
Another leading role in the
■sho\v goes to Ann Stodard, of
Braintree, Mass., still another
newcomer on the Elon stage.
She appears as Caroline, young
est of the Van Bret sisters, who
is completely under the domi
nation of her older sister.
Laverne Brady, of Robbins,
who has played an outstanding
part in many student activities
at El-jn, has her first Player as-
sigitjnent when she appears in
this play as Avery, tlie middle-
aged housekeeper, who is an in
tegral pajt of the Van Bret
household.
Other servants in the luxur
ious old Fifth Avenue mansion
of the Van Brets, are Page
Painter, of Luray, Va., who is
to enact the role of Telson,
the butler; Betty Crowder, of
A nnualHigliSchoolDay
Observance February 11
FACULTY MljSICL\N
Madi.son, who appears as Louise,
tlie maid; and Roy Casluon, of
Sanford, who is to have the pait
of William, another servant.
E. B. Moore, of Reidsville, is
the eighth new actor to be intro
duced in this show. lie appears
as Dr. Jolui Sully, one of those
men who carry their passports
in their faces, so much honesty,
character and power does one
iP aH, there. He is by tum.->
boyishly bluff, serious, master
ful and always aiert and kind,
ard he shows clearly by his
manner that he loves Anne, fi
ancee of Rip Van Bret.
TWc other parts in this play
feature actors already known
to Player audiences. Joe Brank-
ley, of SkipwitEi, Va., the real
veteran of the entire cast, who
has carried more than one star
ring role on the Whitley stage,
will have the part of N«ff,
urbane and assured man of
sixty; and David Crowle, of
Glenolden, Pa., who wJl enact
the part of Chase, kindly and
grey-haired old gentlemen, who
waits oil Tiffany’s oldest and
best customers.
All of t'je.se will appear against
a stage back-ground of the late
Victorian period, the spacious
and richly furnished second-
story living room in the house
where old Jacob Van Bret es
tablished his home and family
in the fine old days when a man
was master in his own house.
The set promises to be one
of the most outstanding in Elon
history, for the Van Bret Living
room is done In the over-stuffed
.•»nd over-deeorated fashion of
1880. This room, both a shrine
and a prison, has stood the
wear and tear of fifty years,
and it promises to endure for
another half-century if Vic
toria Van Bret lives that long.
PROF. JONATHAN SWEAT
l^rof. Jonatlian Sweat, wlio Jie-
^.ime a member of the Elon Col
lege music faculty this year, will
)C pre-enled in the first faculty
ecital of tlie winter sea.son on
Thursday evening, February 5th,
The recital will be presented in
Whitley Auditorium at 8:15 o’clock.
THEY APPEAR IN NEW PLAYER SHOW
F oreignLanguageCluhs
Planning Valentine Ball
The members of the French
Club and the Spanish Club will
loin forces in sponsoring their
first annual “Sweetheart Ball” in
Society Hall on Saturday evening,
Psbriiary I4th, according to an
anouncement made last week
end by leaders of the two modern
^nguage^ groups.
In announcing the “Sweetheart
the language students ex
tended an invitation to the entire
student body and all members of
^**6 faculty to attend the dance,
^hich will last from 8 until 11
•^clock cn that evening of Valen-
firm Day. The ball will be semi-
formal with no flowers.
The French-Spanish studentss
planning this affair, pointed out
that weekend entertainment on
the campus has sagged back into
the same old rut, and they offer
this “Sweetheart Ball” to enliven
Dan Cupid’s own holiday. .
The host clubs pointed out that
the success of the ball will be;
possible only with the full cooper
ation of the entire student body,
and they have secured a special
dispensation from Dan Cupid
himself for the girls to use regu
lar “Leap Year” privileges if the
boys prove slow in issuing invi
tations to the dance, all of winch
means that the girls themselves
can simply latch on to a man
and make haste to Society Hall
for some lively foot-shaking a
the “Sweetheart Ball.”
ANNE STODDARD
BERTIE LEWIS
Elon Facmlty
Member Will
Give Recital
The Elon College Music Depa.t-
ment will present Prof. Jonathan
Sweat, wlio joined the music
faculty last fall in a piano recital
in Whitley Auditioriuni at 8:15
■I’clock on Thursday evening,
February 5th. It is one of tiie
regular series of faculty recitals.
The program for the occasion,
which will be in two parts with
ui hitermission between, is as
follows:
Toccata in C Minor. (Bach).
Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118,
No. 2 (Brahms).
Rhapsody in E-Flat Major, Op.
119, No. 4 (Brahms).
Sonata in C Major, Op. 53
“Waldsteln” (Beethoven).
_ (Intermission)
Interludiuni in Q (Hindemith).
Reflets dans I'eau (Debussy).
Mouvement (Debussy).
Funerailles (Liszt).
Consolation No. 3 in I)-Flat
(Liszt).
Scherzo in 15-Flat Minor
(Chopin)
Plans are nearing completion
or the fourth annual 'High School
Day” on the Elon campus, an
event which is to be held on Wed
nesday, February 11th, and al
ready a goodly number of high
schools have made known their
Intention of .sending their senior,
classes to Elon for the occasion.
The “High School ■ Day” pro
grams of the past three years have
’rown larger each year, and those
of the past two years have at
tracted more than 1,600 visitors
to the Elon campus each year,
witii more than sixty different
higli .schools from North Carolina
'jelng represented by senior dele
gations.
The 1953 event will introduce
a new feature in the form of a
"King” and “Queen” contest,
which will culminate in the
awarding by the college of eight
scholarships that total $4,400 in
value.' Tlie scholarship prizes in
clude four for boys and an equal
number for girls, the winners to
be chosen through a series of
scholastic te.sts and a contest in
the fields of poise, personality and
appearance.
Invitations were extended to
more than 200 high schools to en
ter their outstanding senior boys
and girls in this contest, with the
competing boys and girls to re
port on the Elon campus on Mon
day, February 9th, two days be
fore the regular “High School
Day,” at which time they will be
given "their scholastic tests and
judged for personality, poise and
appearance rating. Upon comple
tion of these tests, the contest
ants will return home and then
report again with their full senior
groups on Wednesday. The win
ners will be announced in a cere
mony to be held at the half of
the Elon-High Point basketball
game, which will be played as a
climax of the “High School Day”
observance.
The regular senior delegations^
will report on the campus sliortly
after noon on February lUh, and,
after being registered, will be
conducted on a guided tour of
the campus. Each department of
tjie college is planning displays
md exhibits for the occasion.
Death Claims Minister;
W ell Known On Campus
Dr. Robert Lee House, 40, emi- gregationa) church in Richmond,
DLA.NNE MADDOX
JOHNNFE BOLT
Amoiifi: lhase who will appear
in the new Player production of
“The Double Door.” scheduled
far February 12th and 13lh, are
Anile Stoddard (upper left), of
Braintree, Mass.; Dianne Mad
dox (center above), of Cincin
nati, Oliio; Bertie Lewis (upper
right) of Wilmington; Johun^e
Bolt (lower left), of Burlington;
and David Crowle (lower right),
of Glenolden, Pa. All are new
comers to the Player rolls this
year. Dianne Maddox and David
Crowle made their initial ap
pearance with the campus dra
matic group in the November
showing of “January Thaw,”
while each of the other three
will appear for the first time
in “The Dduble Door.”
OAvliJ
nertt Congregational Christian
minister, who has been a frequent
visitor and speaker on the Elon
campus in recent years, died sud
denly on Tuesday of last week at
Southern Pines, where he was pas
tor of the Church of the Wide
Fellowship.
A native of Franklinton, he re
ceived the A.B. and B.D. degrees
from Duke University and studied
at Union Theological Seminary in
5‘|New York City, after which he
entered the ministry of the Con
gregational Christian ChurclH in
which he rose rapidly to a position
of leadership. He received the
honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity ffrom Elon College in
1950.
Prior to accepting the pastorate
• at Southern Pines in 1949. Dr.
House had served for five years
as pastor of the First Congrega
tional church in Newport News,
Va., three years at the First Chris
;tian church in Portsmouth, Va.,
and ten years at the First Con-
Va.
He served as editor of tlie
“Chrjitian Siun,” official publi
cation of the Southern Conven
tion of the Congregational Chris
tian Church, for the past twelve
years, and in that capacity he was
much interested in the activities
and work here at Elon College.
Dr. House, who was usually a
visitor on the Elon campus several
times each year, was here for a
full week in the fall of the 1951-52
college year, when he was one of
five ministers who conducted the
annual “Religious Emphasis
Week” services.
Funeral services were held at
th Church of the Wide Fellowship
in Southern Pines last Thursday
afternoon, the rites being con
ducted by Dr. W. T. Scott. Dr.
Leon E. Smith and Dr. John G.
Tniitt, of Elon College. Other
rites were then held on Friday
afternoon in Newport News. Va.,
where the body was carried for
interment.