Everybady Out
For The
Appa'jo’tian Game
MAROON AND GOLD
Ijft’s Give The
Mountaineers
A Hot Reccptioii
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LLON COLLEGE, N. C.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1953
NUMBER 1
Elon Opens For Sixty-Fourth Year
oliiVEiIN'G THE RUINS left by tile fiva which destroyed their
I'ome near the ea3t gate of the campus early last Saturday morn-
i-vi. Frof. and Mrs. A. L. Hcok are sho'7n above a^ they S3arched
t;:rouih the ashes and embers 'for mnm-.-atoes and small personal
poiesions that may have escaped destniction in the blaze.
Hook Home Destroyed
By Spectacular Blaze
The home of Prof. and Mrs.A. L.
Hook, which for many years has
beckoned hospitably to students
from just beyond the East Gate
of the campus, was destroyed early
last Saturday morning by a spec
tacular blaze of unknown origin.
The fire. which tossed fiery
tongues of flame to the tops of the
tail trees that surround the house,
v.'as discovered shortly after 2
o'clock by Mrs. T. B. Dawson, Mrs.
Hook's mother, who makes her
home with her daughter.
The blaze started on the rear
porch of the house and spread
rapidly, with smoke sifting through
to the second floor. It was the
smoke which aroused Mrs. Daw
son. who found the rear stairway
blocked, and made her way by
another stairway to the first floor
where she aroused Prof. and Mrs.
Hook. All three escaped in their
night-clothes.
Prof. Hook was unable to reach
the local fire department by tele
phone, so he went to the home
cf one of the firemen to sound the
alarm. Within the time he was
gone the fire spread rapidly, and
lie returned to find flames en
veloping that portion ef the house
in which the family had been
•sleeping.
Meanwhile, the fire alarm
shrilled an insistent message into
the night for more than fifteen
ir.inutes, and a large crowd of
rtudents and towns-people began
arriving on the scene. However,
Ti'any sound sleepers failed to
^-ear the alarm and did not learn
the. fire until the following
worning?
Early arrivals joined Prof. Hook
'r, effort to save some of the con
tents of the Jiouse, but very little
could be saved. They managed to
remove the television, which was
presented to Prof. Hook by Elon
alumni last spring, but practically
c*er>thing else was destroyed,
addition to the large heme,
■'*hich the Hooks had occupied
■ioce 1930, the loss included many
Personal items and mementoes of
|Iieir own family life and college
-fe. Such items are irreplaceable,
8nd their loss cannot be figured in
'inancial terms.
. ,Since the loss of their home,
Prof. and Mrs. Hook have moved
with their son-in-law and daugh-
'■er, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Harrell,
who reside across the railroad on
the south side of the campus.
CAMPUS RELIGIOUS
OBSERVANCE SET
The annua! Religious Emphasis
Week on the Elon campas will
be observed for four days, be^in-
nins Sunday, October 18th, and
continuing throush Vvedi esday,
October 21st, according to an an
nouncement by Rev. Howard P.
Bozarth, pastor of the Commun
ity Church.
ProT. William R. Sengel, of
the Department of Religion at
Radford State Teachers Col
lege, Radford, Va., who is also
pastsr of the Presbyterian
Church there will lead the ob-
?ervar?e, assisted by other re
source leaders, who will appear
in chapel exercises and in eve
ning meetings in various dormi
tories.
New Class
Is eleomed
By President
In welcoming the freshmen of
the Cla'S of 1957 to the Elon Col
lege campus. President Leon E.
Smith urged them to take full ad
vantage of the opportunity that
is offered them here at Elon and
!o remain in college until they
ve completed their training.
In a speech which proved one
of the highlights of the annual or
ientation program this fall. Dr.
>mith declared that a college edu
cation has become a “must” for
'he ambitious young men and
young women of today. He ex-
p.e-Eed regret that so many drop
out of college before completing
requirements for graduation, and
then added that as a rule they live
to regret such a step.
Pointing to the opportunity that
exists here at Elon for the incom
ing freshmen. Dr. Smith cited the
excellent faculty and the splendid
library facilities, pointing out the
treasures of learning that are to
be found in books.
He told the new freshmen that
ia matriculating at Elon they were
becoming a part of a great body
of students and alumni, each and
everyone of whom has found some
thing of value here. At the same
time he urged them to enjoy the
associations and fellowships that
may mean so much in years to
come.
Pointing out that thoughts can
be creative, ideas dynamite and
dreams wealth. Dr. Smith cited the
tremendous results that have ac
crued from ideas bom in minds of
men like Morse, Fulton, Bell and
Edison, and he declared that the
inventive genius of men is yet un
bounded and that the frontiers of
discovery continue to offer a chal
lenging frontier to youth of today.
He closed with the urge that each
of the new students make the best
use of every minute to assure suc
cess in college.
PLANS FOR ANNUAL H(»IECOM!N(; DAY IN MAMN(;
The annual "Home Coming Day” observance at Elon College has been set for Saturday, October
31st, and plans are in the making for an entire weekend of fe.^tivities, which will begin with the
"Home Coming Ball” on i'riday night and will end with the Elon-Western Carolina football game on
Saturday night. Members of the -itudent committee on arrangements for the annual return of the
old grads are shown above in consultation with Mrs. Scott Boyd, newly chosen alumni secretary. The
committee members, seated left to right, in the picture are W oody Stoffel, Stratford, N. T.,
student body president; Mrs. Boyd, the new alumni leader; Gary Sears, Portsmouth, Va., and Phil
lip Mann, Cypress Chapel, Va., co-chairmen of the home coming group. Those standing, left to
right, are Nannette Matchan, Charleston, S. C..; Judith Ingram, Greensboro; Curtis \oung, Durham;
Dianne Maddox, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Alice Cole, Burlington.
PLAYERS PLANNING
FOR INITIAL SHOW
The Elon Players, student
dramatic group, has chosen
“Glass Menagerie” for its first
stage production of tli* new
year. Written by Tennessee
Wiliams and a great success on
Broadway, it will be presented
in November.
Prof. Charles W. Cox, new
director of dramatics, states that
tryouts for parts will be held
in Mooney Chapel tomorrow
afternoon and Friday night.
Copies of the play are on re
serve in the library.
New Secretary Appointed
For General Alumni Group
ALUMNI LEADER
MRS. SCOTT BOYD
Mrs. Scott Boyd, shown above,
is the new secretary of Elon s Gen
eral Alumni Association, who as
sumed her new duties with the
beginning of the new college
year. She succeeded to the post
held for the past two years by Carl
Woods, who resigned last spring
to enter business in Durham.
Stepping in this fall as secre
tary of the General Alumni As
sociation of Elon College was Mrs.
Scott Boyd, whose husband at the
iame time became head of the
Physical Education Department of
the college.
Mrs. Boyd, who is the former
Vliss Ruth Gamble, is a native of
David.wn, N. C., and received her
iigh school education at Cornel
ius. She attended Elon College for
wo years from 1931 until 1933
md later studied at Kings Busi
ness College in Charlotte.
After holding a number of sec
retarial po.^itions, she became reg
istrar at Louisburg College in 1947,
and she was for two years secre
tary of the North Carolina A.s-
sociation of College Registrars.
She also served one year as direc-
',or of public relations at Louis
burg, and in this capacity she was
active as alumni secretary and
field worker.
While at Indiana University
with her husband, she was secre
tary to Indiana’s President Her
man Wells, and she came from that
position here, where her first pro
ject of alumni interest will be the
annual Home Coming Day on Oc
tober 31st.
Camp ISeiv Hope Scene
Of First SC A Retreat
Large Group
h Graduated
August 21st
Twenty - eight seniors received
diplomas and degrees from Elon
College at the annual summer
commencement held on Friday
evening, August 21st. This group
added to the class graduated in
May swelled the roll of Elon's
Class of 1952 past the one hun
dred mark.
Dr. Charles F. Carroll, superin
tendent of North Carolina public
schools, delivered the addre.ss to
the graduates, and diplomas and
degrees were presented by Pres
ident Leon E. Smith, while Bibles
were presented the class by Rev.
Tucker Humphries, of Reidsville.
The invocation was by Dr. W. T.
Scott, of Elon College.
The summer graduates included
Darwin Bailey, Snow Camp; Mar
vin Bryan, Burlington; Richard
Carli, Vineland, N. J.; Clifford
Cherry, Draper; .loseph Deaton,
Greensboro; Charles Garrett, Rox-
boro; Fred Grant, Manche.ster,
Conn.; Ralph Harris, Burlington;
William Hawkins, Spray; Bryce
Hurd, Mayodan; Jack James, Fay-
tteville; Annie Kate Kernodle,
Burlington; Glendon Lackey
reensboro;
Clara Loy, Burlington; Margar
et McBryde, Reidsville; Donald
Merrimon, Fieldale. Va.; Agnes
Miller, Reid.sville; Parks Morgan,
Suffolk, Va.; Ned Morrison, Gra
ham; William Renn, Hampton, Va.;
On Friday afternoon, September
18th, the members of the .Student
Christian Association left the
campus to begin the first of two
planning sessions, which that or
ganization plans to hold this year.
The outing was held at Camp New
Hope, a Presbyterian camp lo
cated seven miles northwest of
Chapel Hill.
Laverne Brady, SCA preside:«t
this year, opened the first ses
sion with a message of welcome.
The president also introduced
the other officers for the year, in
cluding Bob Phelps, vice-presi
dent; Margaret Johnston, secre
tary; and Pat Chandler, treasurer.
President Brady also introduced
the faculty members present, in
eluding Miss Elizabeth Nelms, Dr.
Paul Cheek, and Rev. H. P. Bo-
zarth, pastor of the college church
and SCA advisor.
Also presented were the chair
men of the variou.9 SCA commit
tees. They included Grace Mat
thews, of theReligious Life Com
mission; Phil Mann, of the Cam
pus Affairs Commission; and
Roger Phelps, of the Would Order
Commission.
The SCA Retreat featured meet
ings on Friday afternoon and eve
ning. There were early devo-
lionals before breakfast on Sat-
rday morning, after which a busi
ness session was held and the pro
gram for the year was explained.
WORK IS STARTED
ON 1954 YEARBOOK
Work is moving ahead on pre
paration of the 19.'>4 Plii Psi Cli,
the yearbook which will portray
life and activities on the Elon
campus during the year. The
photographers have already
taken most of the pictures and
will return with proofs in abojt
two week.s.
Roger Phelps, of Fort Smith,
Ark., is editor-in-chief of the Phi
Psi Cli this year with Vork
Brannock, of Buvlngton, as bus-
ine.ss manager
( college Term
Is Underway
Siieeessfidly
Successful is the word for the
opening of the sixty-fourth annual
pession here at Elon College,
which got underway with the ap
pearance cf the faculty members
lor their opening sessions on Sat
urday, September 5th, and Mon
day, September 7th, meetings at
V. hich plans were outlined for the
year’s work.
These faculty gatherings were
Collowed by the advent of the new
freshman class on Tuesday, Sep
tember 8th, and by the beginning
of the freshman orientation pro
gram that afternoon, at which time
placement tests in English and
mathematics were given.
The freshmen registered for
their courses on Wednesday, Sep
tember 9th, and that day they took
the freshman psychological tests.
There were assemblies for the
freshmen on both Tuesday and
Wedne.sday evenings, at which
time they were introduced to ad
ministrative leaders of the faculty
and to the student body officers
and leaders of student activities.
Upper classmen began arriving
Tuesday and Wednesday of orien
tation week, and they were regis
tered for courses on Thursday,
September 10th. The registration
period closed with the annual fac
ulty reception for all students,
which was held in the parlors of
West Dorm on Thursday evening.
Regular class work began on Fri
day morning, September lltb.
No official figures on the en
rollment for the fall term hav' ■
been made public at this time, but
there were more than 200 mem
bers of the new freshman class,
and the increased interest and
enrollment in the evening pro
gram for veterans did much to
maintain the 1953-54 registration
at or near the level of last year.
Danieley Is Named Dean
„* ^ -
For Elon’s 1953-54 Term
Burlington Host
' To Elon Students
Burlington was booming with
activity on Monday, September
21st, when the students of Elon
College? were turned loose to take
the town apart on the annual
“Burlington-Elon Day,” sponsored
by the Burlington Merchants As
sociation.
Either a smile or a big hand
shake awaited the students as they
poured into Burlington, and they
w'ere allowed to register at a
number of bu.sines establishments
in a contest for a series of prizes.
A list of winners of these major
\orma Roberts, Jamesville; Paul prizes is unavailable, but there
Shepherd, Cooleemee; Garnett
Shropshire, Draper; Jesse Taylor,
Burlington; Richard Thompson,
Graham; and Virgil Truitt, Jr.,
Seidsville.
were numerous free gifts such as
pencils, ash trays and drinks of
fered at most of the stores as
tokens of welcome.
Prof, J, Earl Danieley, a mem
her of the Elon College faculty
since 1946, is serving as acting
dean of the college for the 1953-54
term. He was appointed to the
post late in the summer to suc
ceed Dr. D. J. Bowden, who re
signed the deanship to accept a
po.st as head of the School of Re
ligion at the University of Indi
ana.
After graduating from Elon
with the A. B. Degree in 1946,
Dean Danieley joined the Elon
faculty that fall as an instructor
in chemistry, and he gained full
faculty status in 1949 after be
ing awarded the Master’s Degree
in chemistry at the University of
North Carolina.
He held the Ledoux Fellowship
in Chemi.stry at the University of
North Carolina during the 1951-52
college year, and he is now a can
didate for the Ph. D. degree from
that institution where he was a
visiting professor during the re
cent summer term.
Already well known in scien
tific circles of this area, Danieley
has had articles published in the
Journal of Chemical Education
the N C. High School Journal
the North Carolina Education
magazine and in The Mathematics
Teacher.
He is a member of Phi Delta
NEW ACTING DEAN
DEAN J. E. DANIELEY
K^opa, national honcl^ary edu
cation fraternity; of Sigma XI,
honorary scientific society; of the
N. C. Academy of Science, the
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society,
the American Chemical Society
and of the National Association of
ParUiamentarians. He 'has. also
been acting minister at Congre
gational Christian Churches in
Chapel Hill and Haw River.