Tournaineui Time
Is Near
In The Confercuce
MAROON AND GOLD
And Fxaminations
Catinot Be
f ar In The Future
VOLI’ME 33
i:lon college, n. c.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRCARY 10, 1954
Nl’MBER 9
Greek Letter
‘Bid’ Event
Set Saturday
One of the most colorful events
of the Elon College year is set
for Saturday night as the eight
C^ieek letter fraternities and sor
orities conclude their semi-annual
rushing -i;ason with the winter
-Bid N'ieht” ceremone:;.
It is on tlie occasion of the
semi-annual "Bid Night” that the
men of the four fraternities, re
joicing over the addition of rtew
members for their respective
groups, sally forth from beneath
the \V'est Colonnades to sing mid
night serenades to their sister
Eororitic^. members of which await
the serenade on the upper bal
conies of West Dorm and Ladies’
Hall.
Leading up to the winter, “Bid
night,” the fraternities and sorori
ties this week are concluding a
gala series of parties and suppers,
whch have furnished entertain
ment at frequent intervals during
the past ten days to the boys and
firls being sought as “brothers”
snd “sisters” in one group or
t;iother.
The first "Bid Night" this year,
is the case each year, was held
in the early fall, but the winter
event is always the more import-
int and impressive in that the
members of the freshman class
become eligible to join the Greek-
letter organization of their choice,
provided of course they have
maintained a “C” average on^ll
courses for the fall quarter. ^
Valentine Dance
Is Well Attended
The annual winter dance, staged
in Alumni Memorial Gymnasium
last Saturday night, February 6th,
was acclaimed as one of the most
successful in recent years on the
Elon campus. Staged against a
Valentine background, the dance
"as attended by one of the larg
est crowds seen at a Elon dance
in recent years.
■\dding much to the success of
tile dance and the enjoyment of
the dancers was the music of Russ
Carlton and his' Orchestra, which
offered a varied repertoire of
oance numbers both hot and
sweet. Included in Carlton’s pro
gram were several novetly num
bers that drew enthusiastic re
sponse. '
S CENES SNAPPED AS HUNDREDS OF HK;H SCHOOL SENIORS TOLRED EI.ON CAMPUS
Pictured above are only two of the scenes snapped by the Maroon and Gold's roving photographer as hundreds of high school seniors toured the Elon campu.s
during the fifth annual “High School Day.” At the left is shown delegations from several scliool.s as they rambled through the college library. In the foreground
are the boys and girls from Summerfield High School, guided by Lois Scott, who may be spotted in the front ranks. The picture at the right was snapped as the
senior group from Sumner visited the print shop and inspected the facilities with which the Maroon and Gold itself is printed. Guilding thp group was Charlie
Swicegood. who may be spotted at the left in his white monogram sweater. These were only two of the many exhibits prepared by the various Klon College depart
ments for the attraction of the high school visitors. Each and every department offered highly interesting display.s. and the guides often had to hurry their guest
ei'oups along t(j prevent dallying at some especially interesting exhibit.
High School Event Is Complete
ISeiv Attendance Records Are Set
All records for attendance were
smashed as more than sixteen hun
dred high school seniors from 74
high schools and one prep school
were guests of Elon College on
Wednesday. February 3rd, for the
college's fifth annual “High School
Day” event. The figures surpassed
the old marks for both attendance
and total number of schools re
presented.
Braving cloudy skies and a
drizzling rain that fell through
much of the day, the senior groups
began arriving by 10 o'clock that
morning, and they poured in by
bus and car until mid-afternoon,
with some of the late arrivals com
ing just in time to see the Elon-
Appalachian basketball game that
night.
The inclement weather failed to
dampen the enthusiasm, and there
were many who had attended each
of the annual events and who
termed it the most successful of
its kind yet held by the college.
The 75 schools represented topped
the old mark set last year, when
69 schools sent delegations.
There were 21 North Carolina
counties represented by school
delegations. The Randolph County
Elon Players Postpone
New Shotv Until March
As 75 High Schools Send Seniors
representation led with 12 schools, —
/(IS- I
followed by Alamance and Guil
ford with ten schools sending sen-1
iors. Other counties and the nurn-i
ber of schools from each includ
Chatham 6, Rockingham 5, Cal
well and Stokes 4, Durham 3,
Vance, Surry, Orange, Lee and
Person with 2 each, and Moore
Harnett, Granville, Forsyth, David
son, Montgomery, Polk and Colum
bus with 1 school each. There
was one high school and one prep
school from Virginia.
After registration in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium, the senior
5 YEAR (;R0W1H
The growth of Interest in
Elon's annual “High School
Day” is clearly shown by the
hicreasin? number of high
schools represented each year.
The number of senior groups by
years follows:
1949-50
ffroups were conducted by college (formal tea during the afternoon.
Student guides on a lour of the supper the guests .were
campus, during which they viewedinvited to W hitley Auditorium
and a skit by the dramatics group
Climaxing the day's program
was a varsity basketball game be
tween the Elon Christians and the
Appalachian Mountaineers, which
Klon w'on 84 to 73 after a thrill
ing last-half rally. A special fea
ture of the basketball game was
Ihe half-time ceremonies, in which
President Smith presented eight
college scholarships, totalling
S4,400 in value, to eight high
. chool seniors, winers in a compe
tition held on the campus two
days earlier.
The top awards of four-year
scholarships of $1,000 went to
David Robert Bryant, of Be.ssemer
High School, and to Ann Stallings
Wilso«, of Bragtown High School.
They were crowned by Dr. Smith
as king and queen of the “High
festivities.
Two $600 scholarships went to
■iram, which was staged agamst | Mj^^ael .lames Fagis, of Reids-
. background that included an Adelaide
electrified fountain. The program of Aberdeen High School
featured group singing by the sen-1
1950-51
1951-.'52
1952-53
195J-54
43 Schools
61 Schools
62 Schools
69 Schools
75 Schools
for a program by students of the
college's music and dramatics de
partments. President Leon E.
Smith extended a formal '^'^Icome |
to the seniors during this pro
displays in each of the college
Jepartments. Each of these dis
plays were designed to portray
some phase of student life and ac
tivity.
Upon completion of the guided
tours, the seniors, class sponsors
•'nd high school administrators
were guests of the college at sup- _ _ __
per in the college dining hall. Thei*'^'’ guests themselves, along with Rgayjj Graham High School,' "
cla'ss sponsors and school officials |'’Ol^otions from Oklahoma and Bonny .\rrington, of Nathaniel!
were also entertained at an in-1'‘South Pacific” by the Elon Choir. Green High School: and $2001
Success
'scholarships were piesented to
Fred Keith Macon,' of Summer
field High School, and Rebecca
.\nn Bradley, of Burlington's Wal
ler iM. Williams High School.
High schools which sent senior
groups included Aberdeen, Ala
mance. Alexander Wilson, Alta-
mahaw-Ossipee, .\nderson, Ashc-
boro, Ayecock, Bartlett Yancey,
Benhaven, Bennett, Bessemer,
Bethany. Bonlee, Booonesbro iVa.),
Bragtown, Cobb Memorial, Coler
idge, Dabney, Deep Hiver, Dur
ham, Eli Whitney, Elon, E. M.
Holt, Fair luff. Farmer. Flat Rock,
Francisco, Franklin, Franklinville,
Gibsonville. Goldston. Graham,,
Gray's Chapel. Greensboro. Green-j
wood.
Haw River, High Plains, Hills
boro, Hope Valley, King, Liberty,
-Mayodan, McLeansville, Mebane,
Moncure, Monticello, Nathaniel
Green, Oak Hill. Pine Hall, Pitts-
boro. Pleasant Grove, Prospect
Hill, Ramseur, Randleman, Rankin,
Reidsyille, R. ,1. Reynolds. Rox-
boro. Ruffin. Sanford, Seagrove,
Siler City, Silk Hope, Staley, Sum-
m?>-lield, Sumner, Sylvan, Thomas-
ville, Troy, Tryon. Walnut Cove,
Wentworth, Williams of Burling
ton and Zeb Vance. Hargrave Mil
itary Academy was the one prep
school represented.
(^oniiecticiit
Minister Is
Elon Speaker
Dr. Elden H. Mills, pastor of
Ihe Congregational Christian
Church in West Hartford. Conn.,
begin on Monday of thi.'- v. cek a
five-day serie.s of religiuus serv
ices on the Elon campus, and he
is speaking twice each day in
Whitley Auditorium.
Pa.stor of one of the outstanding
Congregational Christian churches
in America and ranked as one
of the nation's most able think
ers and mini.sters, he is on the
Klon campus as a representative
of the Divi^>ion of Christian Higher
Education and the Conunission on
Kvangelsim of t^e national churcli
oiganizalion.
Dr. Mills has long J)een hailed
for his work with college - ago
youth and his appearance at
Elon is only another in a long
series of similar appearances he
has made on various college cam
puses. His work has not been con
fined to colleges of the Congre
gational Christian organization,
for he was a guest of Guilford
College on a similar mission last
year.
He opened his week-lcng .series
of services with his initial ap
pearance in chapel in Whitley
Audtorum at 10 o’clock Monday
moinng, and he is scheduled t )
appear in the chapel servV.es
daily through Friday. lie is also
conducting evening scrvlt'cs in
Whitley from 7 until 8 o'clock
daily, beginning Monday and con
tinuing through Friday evening.
The campus meeting series will
come to a close with the Friday
evening ;t‘i'vice, but Dr. Mills
will remain at Elon through the
coming weekend, and he is sched
uled to be guest minister at the
11 o'clock worship service next
Sunday,
Laymen To Meet
Here On Sunday
Laymen from Congregational
Christian churches throughmit the
Southern Convention will gather
on the Elon campus on Sunday
afternoon, at which time they will
hear an address by Dr. Elden H.
Mills, who concludes a series of
campus services on Friday eve
ning. The laymen will also re
main on the campus for a supper
meeting Sunday evening, when
they will hear O, W. S. McCall,
nationally known church leader.
IPresidenJ Sniitli Offers
PLAYS LEAD ROLE
;\
Diane maddox
Maddox, of Cincinnati,
' ‘.'j started in “The Double
last year, v.ill have the
role of Eliza Doolittle in
■'^rthcoming Elon Player pro-
■'f> of George Bernard Shaw’s
comedy of “Pygmalian,”
The Elon Players announced this
week the postponement until March
25th and 26th the production of
“Pygmalian,” George Bernard!
Shaw’s delightful comedy of Eng-||^
Ush Ufe. The show had been plan
ned for next week.
The play, which has been ai
Javurite in both America and Eng-|
land for two score years, was writ-, ,
ten by Shaw after the turn of 1
the century and was first pro- "
duced in a German version in
Berlia in 1913.
It was introduced in America in
the German version in April. 1914,
and in that same month it was
produced in London in an English
version. It was produced as a
motion picture in 1938 and re
ceived the Academy Award that
year. \Vendy Barrie and Leslie ^
Howard were the stars of that!
screen version.
The Elon Players, directed by
Prof. Charles W. Cox, are doin^l
the play in modern dress, with
Diane Maddox in the leading role
of Eliza Doolittle, supported by
a cast that includes many actors
new to the Elon stage.
Others in the cast include Mar
garet ;l,'i,arpe. .Tanioc Williams.
fCont.'rued on Page FourJ
Congratulations To Scliolarsliij) Winiu^
rs
Elon Religion Professor
Author Of Neiv Volume
T>r. Leon E, Smith, Kfion’s
president, is shoHn in the ac
companying picture as he ex
tended rongratulations to Ann
Stallings Wilson, of Bragtown,
and David Robert Bryant, of
Et->semer, who were the win
ners of the first places in Elon's
second annual scholarship con
test held here last week. The
I HO v.inners, who topped a
srrnup. of fifty-two outstanding
hi:;:! school seniors from thirty-
th;ee North Carolina and Vir-
t inia high schools, »ere each
prf sented with four-year schol
arships of .Sl.OOO value. It is
in'i'rr'ting to note that the win
ning bov and the winning girl,
.m;i of whom have been out-
-iidui - in the life of their
■ : ,h school- thrc-ughout their
hool carec' scored within
Irto-third . '!• a point of each
other in the f.irls’ and
o ■■ ' h*^anual con-
Sso interesting to
■' !- *he second suc-
i '’'sI; a Bessemer
ji lioy had won
Dr. Ferris E. Reynolds, profes-'
1 sor of religion on the Elon Col-
I lege faculty, is the au'^hor of a
j new book entitled “An Adventure
iWith People,” which has just been
! released from the press and made
available to the public through
; local book stores.
The book, which bears a sub-
' title describing it as “The Read-
; ing. Writing and Arithmetic of
I Teaching Religion” fits that de-
i scription exactly, for it presents
; in clear and concise form the
methods that, may be used by the
teacher of Sunday School classes
in churches of all denominations.
Written in simple language that i
will be clearly understood by I
every layman. Dr. Reynolds’ new'
\H)lume is rich in illustrative ma-!
teria! and explains we!! hov. th
i experiences of every-day life may
i be used to aid. in Bible t.,-aching
I of every type.
WRH ES NEW BOOK
DR. FERRIS E. REYNOLDS
The 9(>-pagc book, published by
I ... _
, ^ ^ . "f religion in both college anJ
ahe Christian Education Press, of church. The Elon prorcsso,- ha*
I Philadelphia, bring,s to its reader:^ r,«- several years been writing
I the fruits of Dr. Reynolds' own a widely-used series of
I lengthy expedience as • a teacher Sunday school lessons
graded