Let’s Hare Some
BeTtr Steak
From Lenoir Rhyne
MAROON AND GOLD
And Close Out With
A Wildcat
Skin From Davidson
VOLUME 34
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1954
NVMBER 4
Elon Players Present First Show Of New Season
Elon Booster
Club Active
This Season
Now in its second year and mak
ing a fine contribution to the
progress of Elon teams in football
and°other sports is the Elon Boos
ters' Club, an organization com
posed of alumni and friends of
the college who are definitely in
terested in athletes and atheltic
progress.
The group was organized a year
ago at a gathering of Elon alumni,
which was held at the Alamance
Country Club. The club operated
in successful manner last year,
but interest has been even keener
this fall, and two club meetings
have already been held.
The first meeting of the present
college year was held at the Ala-'
mance Country Club early in the '
fall, and a second session con
vened at the Burlington Elks Club
about two weeks ago. A large
group was present at each of the
meetings.
Leader and president of the
Boosters’ Club this fall is Dr. John
Robert Kernodle, of Burlington.
Serving his second year as secre
tary and treasurer of the group
is Frank Roberts, of Saxapahaw.
Both the club officers are Elon
alumni.
The active membership list, in
addition to the two officers, in
cludes Ben Lilien, of Burlington;
Dr. W. G. Lewis, of Gibsonville;
J. Hinton Rountree, of Greens
boro; Clyde Rudd, of Greensboro;
Carl Woods, of Durham; Joe Mc
Intyre, of Burlington; A. G.
Thompson, of Burlitigton; Dr. Fred
Caddell, of Elon College; George
D. Colclough, of Elon College; J.
E. Rawls, of Suffolk, Va.; R. S.
Cromlish, of Belmont; W. G. Sto
ner. of Greensboro; Curry Bryan,
of Burlington;
Bill Anderson, of McLeansville;
Dick Brandt, of Burlington; Ken
Hughes, of Elon College; W. W.
Sellars, of Burlington; Dr. Sam Co
zart. of Greensboro; L. . Fesmire,
of Greensboro; Charles Ellis, of
Burlingcn; Deward Hooker, of
Burlington; Lacy Gane, of Greens
boro; Kenneth Fawcett, of Burl
ington; James Holt, Jr., of Burl
ington; Dwight Kernodle, of Burl
ington; Dr. Charles Kernodle, of
Burlington; W. S. Taylor, of Aber-
TENSE SCENE FROM ELON PLAYERS' NEW SHOW
: Will Stage ‘Blithe Spirit’ Quarter
On Thursday And Friday Examinntiom
Pictured above is one of the scenes from Noel Cowards brilliant Broadway success, Blithe Spir
it,” which is to be the first production of the Elon Players tor the 1954-55 campus stage season.
The play, which offers a sophisticated picture of English manners, is to be presented twice this
week in Whitley Auditorium, th s first time tomorrow night an 1 the second time on Friday night.^
Curtain time each evening is 8:15 o'clock. Seen left to right i i the scene above are Jane Davis,
of Raleigh, as Mrs. Bradham; Je .ry Smyre. of Greensboro, as Dr Brauhem: Margaret Sharpe, of
Bear Creek, as Madame Arcati; Wright Williamson, of Norfolk, Va., as Charles Condomine; and
Diane Maddox, of Cincinnati, Ohio, as Ruth Coiidomine. The scene portrays Madame Arcati just
arousing from a trance, which figures prominently in ahe tale of a ghost in high society.
Selective Service Officials State
Plans For Student Draft Testing
Of particular interest too many ^
men students of Elon College i.5'
the announcement received re
cently by Dean J. E. Danieley
from the United States Selective
Service officials that once more
this year two dates have been sel
ected for administration of stu
dent draft tests.
Listed officials as the Selective
Service College Qualification
Tests, they were announced by
Major General Lewis B, Hershey,
national director of the draft pro
gram. He stated that the tests will
be administered at approximately
1,000 examination centers in var
ious parts of the United States.
Tht tests, which are now in the
fifth annual series, have been sche
duled for Thursday. December 9th,
WILL GIVE TESTS
and Thursday, April 2lst. One of
deen; Herman Truitt, of Glen Ra-Mjie campus centers at which tht
ven: D. R. Fonville, Jr., of Burling
ton; and Bob Messer, of Burling
ton.
Officers and members of the
group point out that the list of
members is not closed, and addi
tional members are sought at com
ing meetings. The only require
ment for membership is an abid
ing interest in the progress and
success of Fight Christian teams
Pan-Hellenic
Group Listed
Each of the tour Greek letter
fraternities and four sororities is
represented by one member on the
Pan-Hellenic Council, which gov
erns the activities in the realm
of the social organizations on the
^■lon campus.
The fraternity representatives
this year include Graham Heath,
■of Elon College, for Alpha Pi Del-
Clark Dofflemyer, of Elkton,
for Iota Tau Kappa; Stacy
Johnson, of Dunn, ot Kappa Psi
Nu; and Gary Thompson, of Nor-
fok, Va., for Sigma Phi Beta.
The sorority representatives in
clude Betsy Johnson, of Fuquay
Springs, for Beta Omicron Beta;
Louise McLeod, of Albemarle, for
Celta Upsilon Kappa; Joan Darl-
■ng, of Burlington, for Pi Kappa
Tau; and Ann Rawls, of Suffolk,
for Tau Zeta Phi.
examinations will be given is here
on the Elon campus. The tests
will be administered by Dean J.
2. Danieley, through whose offices
most of the Selective Service pro
blems of the students are handled.
To be eligible to apply for the
Selective Service tests a student
must (1) intend to request defer
ment as a student; (2) be satisfac
torily pursuing a full-time course
of instruction; and (3) must not
previously ha^^e taken the qualifi
cation test.
Students whose academic year
will end in January 1955 are urged
to take the December test so they
wHl have a test score on file at
their local boards before the end
of their academic year, at which
time their boards wiU reopen and
consider their cases to determine
whether they should again be de
ferred as students.
DANIELEY
eligible to be considered for a stu-
ient deferment. If a local board
efuses to defer a student meeting
the criteria, he of course has the
right to appeal his case, Hershey
pointed out.
It is pointed out locally, how
iver. that in practically all cases
local board have granted defer-
.Tient to all young men who qual
ified for a student rating, either
A sophisticated comedy of man
ners—such is Noel Coward's
Blithe Spirit," the play which will
be presented in Whitley Auditor
ium tomorrow night and Friday
night as the first show of the cam
pus stage season.
With student passes being good
for admission for the first time,
attendance at the two shows is
expected to reach a hew high. Cur
tain time each night will be 8:15
o'clock.
The play, which has its settinf
in the English home of Charles
and Ruth Condomine, revolve-
about the return in spirit form
of Charles' first wife, who makes
appearance just when the Con-
lomines are entertaining guests.
Flitting here and there, the
“blithe spirit" is unseen by some
of those present, furnishing an op
portunity for an uncounted num
ber of comic situations. However,
the comedy is all-in the suave and
polished manner of Englisli so
ciety. with none of the slap-stick
commonly associated with a ghost
'cene.
Diane Maddoz, ot Cincinnati,
Ohio, and Wright Williamson, of
Norfolk, Va., as Ruth and Charles
Condomine; and Margaret Sharpe,
ot Bear Creek, in the role of Ma
dame Arcati; are veterans of for
mer Elon Player shows.
Others in the last include Jerry
Smyre, ot Greeensboro, as Dr.
Bradham; Jane Davis, of Raleigh,
as Mrs. Bradham; Sue Moore, of
Timberlake, as Elvira; and Betsy
Johnson, of Fuquay Springs, as
Edith.
The Coward play had a long and
successful run on the professional
stage, and indications are that it
DIRECTS SHO\^
Draw ISear
PROF. CHARLES W. COX
Prof. Charles W. Cox. who
joined the Elon Collese faculty
last year as director of student
dramatic activities, is beginnins
his second campus stare sea
son this week with the presen
tation on Thursday and Friday
nights of Noel Coward’s fine
Broadway s;jage play, “Bltthe
Spirit.” The play marks the
fourth full-Ieneth show for
Prof. Cox, who directed the Elon
Players in the presentation o(
Tennessee Williams' “Glass
Menagrerie," George Bernard
Shaw’s “Pygmalion," and Shake
speare’s “As You Like It” last
year. The Elon dramatics head
is a native of Wilmington and
has completed requirements for
the Ph.D. degree in the field of
theatre at Northwestern Univer
sity. He has previouosly direct
ed student stage work a Cor-
nell« Northwestern, Richmond
may represent another dramatic! Professional Institute and Mary
through scholastic averages or ^ . i „• u- . ^
passing of the Selective Service triumph tor Elon s student actors. VVashmgton College.
tests. The college authorities join
with Col. Thomas H. Upton, North
Carolina State Director of Selec
tive Service, in urging eligible
The Fall Quarter is drawing ra
pidly to a close, bringing to both
students and faculty the thrilling
anticipation of Thanksgiving Holi
days, but the thrill is marred for
many of the students by the threat
of approaching final examinations.
Making the examination threat
more real to those who are un-
! prepared at this late stage in the
season is the announcement ot the
examination schedule, which was
released some days ago from the
office of Dean J. E. Danieley. The
exam schedule follows.
MONDAY. NOVEMBER 22
8;00 A. M.—All Orientation
Classes.
9:30 A. M.—All English 10, Eng
lish 11 and English 22a
Classes. (Location ot Ex
amination to be set by
professor).
2:00 P. M.—All 8 o'clock classes,
with the exception of Eng
lish 10„ English 11 and
English 22a.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBEn 23
9:00 A. M—All 9 o'clock classes,
with the exception of Eng
lish 10, English II and
English 22a. '
2:00 P. M.—AU 10:30 classes,
with the exception of
English 10, English II and
English 22a.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24
9:00 A. M.—All 11:30 classes,
with the exception of Eng
lish II.
12:00 Noon—Thanksgiving Holi
days begin.
students to plan to take the tests |
at one of the above listed dates.,
Students desiring further informa-.
tion may contact Dean Danieley.
Twelve Student Leaders Selected
For Collegiate ho’s Who’ Honor
DEAN J. E.
Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon's dean
students, who handles most of
the Selective Service problems for
individual students through his .of
fice has been designated to ad
minister the first of the two draft
tests that will be given this year.
The first ot the two tests is sla
ted tor Thursday, December 9th
The students ot Business Ad
ministration 31, the class in mar
keting, have recently heard two
Burlington business men speak on| This is the second largest group
problems that confront persons in
active business life.
An application for the test,
mailing envelope, and a Bulletin
of Information may be obtained
from any Selective Service Local
Board. Applications tor the Decem
ber 9 test must be postmarked no
later than midnight Tuesday, No
vember 23, 1954. Applications post
marked after raitinight of that date
win not be accepted for that test.
The present criteria for defer
ment as an undergraduate student
are either a score ot 70 on the
jualitication test or specified rank
among the male members of the
class (upper half of freshman
class, upper two-thirds of sopho
more class, or upper three-fourths
ot junior class). In addition to
meeting one ot these two require
ments, the student must^ at the
end of each academic year, pro
gress to the next higher class.
Students accepted for admission
to or in attendance at a graduate
school'after July 1, 1951. satisfy
the criteria if they ranked among
the upper one-half ot the male
members of their senior class or
made a score of 75 or better on the
test. Graduate students admitted
after January I. 1955, must have
ranked among the upper one-
fourth ot the male members of
iheir senior class or made a score
of 80 or better on the qualification
test. ^ , ,
General Hershey has emphasized
many times that local boards are
not required to defer students
meeting the criteria. Meeting the
criteria merely makes a student
The Burlington men who visit-'vear period. A brief check on he
ed the class and spoke to the stu-l'ist^ since 1949 reveals that en
dents -were Elwood Atkins, an of-! Elon students were named to the
I'icial ot Sellars Department Store,!list in 194^50 fourteen were cho-
and Allen B. Cammack, Sr., pro- 1950-51, ten were listed in
prietor of the Cammack Office 1951-52. eleven were selected in
Lpply company. ^952-53, and eight were listed last
Atkins spoke of his experiences
in the selling field, stressing in
particular his experiences gained
Marketing Class
Hears Speakers;
Makes Surveys
Twelve outstanding student
leaders on the Elon College cam
pus have just been selected for
a place in the 1954-55 edition of
"Who's Who in American Uni
versities And Colleges. " The list
has been released for publication
from the national headquarters of
ithe collegiate honor group in Tus-
icaloosa, Ala.
of Elon students to be honored in
a single year during the past six-
year.
Both juniors and seniors are eli
gible to be chosen for the "Who’s
during fifteen years spent as a Who" listing, and usually there
salesman "on the road ". He is | are juniors chosen, some of whom
now in the buying department at
Sellars.
Cammack, who is chairman of
the traffic committee of the Burl
ington Chamber of Commerce, dis
cussed with the class the traffic
.situation in Burlington as it re
lates to the merchandising field.
The Marketing class plans to
v^isit a number of local retail es
tablishments too study practices,
problems, displays and advertis
ing. Prof. J. H. Bass is also hav
ing student reports on business
firms and make surveys to deter
mine the possibilities of establish
ing new businesses.
are named a second time as sen
iors. The list this year is unusual
in the fact that there are no re
peaters named. This is due, per
haps. to the tact that no junior
was listed in the group of eight
who were honored last tall.
Again a check-back on the lists
for recent years reveals that only
six juniors have been named dur
ing the past seven years, and in
each case these listed in their jun
ior year repeated in their senioif
year. The scant list of those who
have made the “Who's Who” list
49 and 1949-50; Arthur Fowler,
chosen in both 1949-50 and 1950-51.
Matt Currin and Bill Blackstone,
selected in both 1951-52 and 1952-
53: and Laverne Brady, listed in
1952-53 and I953-.54.
The ratio between girls and boys
in the groups honored with places
in "Who's Who" has been over
whelmingly in favor ot the boys.
The annual listings reveal the
names ot no girls at all in 1949-50,
three girls in 1950-51, five girls
in 1951-52, three girls in 1952-
53; and two girls in 1953-54. There
are five girls listed in the honor
group this year.
Those who gained a place on
this year's honor group, listed al-
alphebetical order, include Grace
Bozarth, of Yankton, S. D.; Mary
Sue Colclough, of Elon College;
J. C. Disher, ot Winston-Salem;
Sherrill Hall, of King; Jerry Low-
der, ot Burlington; Diane Maddox,
ot Cincinnati, Ohio; Louise Mc
Leod. of Albemarle; Sue Moore,
ot Timberlake; Robert Phelps, of
Fort Smith, Ark.; Lois Scott, of
El-on College; Jerry Smyre, of
Greensboro; and James Waggoner
of Jacksonville, Fla.
It is of special interest to note
that eight ot the twelve chosen
this tall have home addresses in
North Carolina. Ot special inter
est. when one checks lists of re
cent years, is the fact that Roger
Phelps was honored last fall
while Robert Phelps is listed this
twice includes Jim Hailey and Bax-1 instance in which two from the
;er Twiddy, listed in both 1948-1 same family have been honored
year. This appears to be the only
from the Elon student body.
Each of the twelve students cho
sen this year has played an out
standing part in campus life at
Elon, and complete sketches of
each ot the group will be publish
ed, along with photographs, in a
later issue of the Maroon and
Gold.
Bozarth has been active in both
musical and religious activities;
Colclough has also been active
in musical activities and is a co-
editor ot the Phi Psi Cli this year;
Disher is captain ot the Chris
tian football squad this season;
Hall has been one of the outstand
ing Elon baseball pitchers of re
cent years;
Lowder is president ot the stu
dent government this year and has
been an outstanding performer in
student musical activities; Mad
dox has gained wide acclaim in
student dramatics; McLeod has
stood out in girls’ athletic pro
grams; Moore has also stood out
In girls' sports and has been ac
tive in library work;
Phelps is president of the SC A
this tall and has been a leader in
religious activities since his fresh
man year; Scott is known tor her
activities in music and religious
groups; Smyre has gained his chief
acclaim in dramatics; and Waggo
ner has stood out in both student
publication work and religious
leadership. Each of those honored
has been outstanding in scholar
ship since entering Elon.