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Here's Wishing All A Verj Merry Christmas AND GOLD And To Everyone A Happy And Prosperous New Year \01.1>IE 34 Fall Quarter Honor Group Li-ts Eighty Eightv Elon College students ji ve been placed on the college's roll for the Fall Quarter, 'vhich closed at T hanksgiving. The honor group includes eight vho made "A’' on all subjects -nd seventy-two others who had no grade below a “B" on any sub ject. The list, which was announced I) Dean J. Earl Danieley, was umpiled under a new ruling which limit.' the dean’s list to those who have no grade lower than a “D'' ('uring the preceeding quarter. In recent years the list had in cluded those who averaged a "B" on their courses. The student-i who made “A" grade.' mi i'll .'■ubjects include •Timmy liell. Burl.r.iton: Terry nierson. I^ewes Beach. Del., . Hardy, Reid.'^ville: Alice .en. Elon College: Leslie Mc- ;.'„en. .Manche.ster. N. H.: Robert Phelps. Fort Smith. Ark.; Joe Steelman. Burlington: and Marie Tomlinson. Swepsonville. Those who made the 'B” honor group include Carolyn Abernathy, Graham: Don Allen. Burlington: William .^.rmfield, Leaksville: Rob ert Baxter, Burlington: William Eland. Carrboro; Margaret Bo land. Elon College; Grace Bozarth. Vankton. S. D.: Albert Cale. Wind sor: Harold Cato, Draper; Pat Chandler, Fayetteville; Jean Coghill, Henderson; Mary Sie Colclough. Elon College; IiUther Conger. Statesvile; Noel Oiix. Burlington: Gwen Coyner, Eurlington: James Daniel, Oxford, J, C. Disher, Winston-Salem; Clyde Fields, Franklin, Va.; John Gamble. Graham; John Garner, I Graham: Nat Garrison. Barling- tor: Carl Gibbs, Greensboro; Mir-! iam Guy, Burlington; •! Sherrill Hall, King; Winfred. Hoover, Leaksville; Margaret j Hughes, Greensboro: William In gram. Greensboro; Billie Fay John son. Dunn: Dorothy Johnston, Bur lington, Clyde Johnston, Siler City; Vernon Joyner, Walters, Va.; Sara Lamm. Burlington; Diane IVladdox, Cincinnati, Ohio; Iris Bliatkins. Elon College; Robert Mc Queen. Graham; Horst Mevius, l.ubeck, Germany; ' Gail Michael, Greensboro; Peg gy Miller, Fayetteville; Dorothy Motley, Reidsville; Ed Mur^y, Elon College; Retha Morris, Bur lington. Sue Moore, Hurdle Mills; Jerry Moize, Gibsonville; Mary Ann Paris, Graham: Margaret Patillo. Burlington; Polly Payne, Swepsonville; Joyce Perry, Siler City: Theodore Phillips, Burling ton: Anne Puckett, Burlington Salph Rakes. Fieldale, Va.; Jay Roberts, Reidsville; Delaine Routh, Greensboro; William Saunders, Spray; Nan- Ihalyn Shepherd, Altamahaw; ^ohn Simpson, Burlington: Rich ard Simpson, Elon College; Jimmy tmith. Glen Raven: Ann Stod- tlard. Braintree, Mass.: Earl Stone Ventworth: John Stone. Burling ton: Rebecca Stuckey. Graham: P-illy Ray Sut-ton. Burlington: Pal sy Tate. Efland: Leon Taylor, Thomasville, Ga.; Nick Theos Charleston, S. C.; Wayne Vestal Asheboro; Ann Walker, Elon Col- lEge; Martha Walker, Burlington; Marie Weldon, Louisburg; Wright ''illiamson, Norfolk, Va.; and Jane Williamson, Burlington. i;i.oy (■ )7.' " -■ 1.). I'i M MBF.K 6 i I I I i Students To Plav Santa For Orphanage (Children \ (icdtion To Briilu Friday The 1951 ('hristmas holidays for Elon College students uill tet underway on Friday of this week. aerordinK to an announce ment from the office of Dean J. E. Danieley. and the entire rampus is agog with Yuletide '-pirit. The Yule season holidays will continue for two full weeks, with classes to resume on the legular schedule at 8 o'clock on Monday. January 3rd. the extra ^\eekend stretching the vacation to sixteen full days. The exodus of students will begin as s(H>n as each student has finished with classes on Fri day, and many of the faculty will get away at the same time for visits witii home folks or friends. V - Lefiishitiire Seeks More Attendance May your Yuletide glow brightly with that good old fashioned Christmas cheer that makes every heart lighter, every friendship warmer, every hour richer in happiness and contentment. Members of the Student Legis lature this week voiced an urgent call for intreased interest and par ticipation ir; the student govern ment activities on the Elon cam pus. stressing in particular the need for a rebirth of interest in the work of the Student Legis lature itself. The spokesmen tor the legisla tive group, which enacts rules lor I the regulation ■of student activi The students of Elon College • 111 swing into the Christmas sea- on in earnest tonight and will partake of the real spirit of Christ mas when members of the student body join once more* in playing Santa Claus to the children who ,ae now living at»the Christian Orphanage. The occasion will be the annual Christmas party, whica IS to be held in the Student Union at 7:30 o’clock. This thristmas party for the orphanage children is not a new idea on the Elon campus, for the 1954 event marks the eiglilh year that the college students have en tertained the children of the or phanage family, and past year^ have proven that the college stud ents have just as much fun and seem to look forward just at much to the event as do the children The first Yule season party was staged in 1947 under the sponsor- ,«hip of the Alpha Pi Delta fra ternity, with individual credit for the idea going to Ralph Edward,!, V ho was at that time a member of Alpha Pi Delta and al.‘.o president of Elon student body for that year. The Alpha Pi Delta boys have coi'linued to sponsor the Christ mas parly each year since that time, although other Greek letter ('rganizations on the campus join in heartily each year, and many nieml:ers of the student body fall in with the idea every year and "adopt ' one of the children, for whom gifts are provided. Curtis Young, of Durham, is chairman of arrangement for Alpha Pi Delta There are now 81 children liv ing at the Christian Oiphanage, according to an announcement last week, the number being about equally divided between the boyiJ and girls and with the ages rang ing from four to seventeen years. Foil,!’ \^ill Graduate School Four Elon College students and one of Elon s 1951 graduates have recently been notified of their acceptance for graduate work in dental and medical schools of North Carolina and Virginia, according to a state ment from faculty members of the Elon science department. Don Allen and Nat Garrison, of Burlington, and John Wom ack, of Olivia, have been ac cepted by tae dental school of the University of North Caro lina. Paul Yost, of Portsmouth, Va., has been admitted to the dental school of Medical Col lege of Virginia; and Robert Mc Queen, of Graham, has been ac cepted for medical school in the Medical College of Virginia. Large Audience Hears Choir Render ^Messiah’ A large and appreciative audi- high for the work of Harold Haugh, ence heard the Elon College Choir [who was making his fifth succes- in its twenty-second annual pre- sive appearance with the Elon sentation of George ' Frederick singers. His powerful, and yet Moori^ Is JSnJtwd To Siunmer Post Prof. Fletcher Moore, chairman of the Elon College music depart ment. will teach in the summer session at Columbia University next summer, according to an an nouncement made this week. His summer work will be to teach piano at the graduate level. A graduate of Elon, where he received the A. B degree. Prof Moore took his Masters Degree at Columbia. He has been head of the music department here since 1947, but he was on leave of ai> ;ence for the past two years while completing all residence work for his Ph. D. degree at Columbia. He has also done graduate study at Julliard and at the University Of Southern California. Handel’s ‘■Messiah^’ which was presented in Whitley Auditorium cn Sunday night. December 5tn. ^0 furnish a stirring opening for .he Christmas entertainment sea- on in this area. Hundreds of music lovers from Elon College, Burlington and other points in this area braved a chill ing downpour of rain to fill the auditorium to near capacity, and they were well-repaid by the thrill ng manner in which the Elon festival Chorus and its guest art- 1 ISIS sang the old and yet ever-new i.iandel masterpiece. The crowd heard with spell bound attention the sweeping re citatives, the arias and the chorus es that have thrilled atiuiences in ooth Europe and America tor tnt past two centuries.. The solo parts were sung in bril liant style by a quartet of guest artists, which included Miss Cath erine Aspinall, soprano, of New York, noted throughout the East Cor her work on the concert stage and on radio and television; Miss Beatrice Donley, contralto, of Ra leigh, a member of the Meredith College music faculty; Harold Haugh.. tenor, member of the Uni versity of Michigan music facuRy; and Chester Watson, bass, soloist of the Marble Collegiate Church in New Ifork City. All of the visiting ^soloists were heard with rapt attention, and af ter-program comments were high ly complimentary to each of the artists; but praise was particularly sensitive, tenor voice seemed made-to-Order for thrilling arias in ] “The Messiah.” Supporting the soloists and sing ing. the swelling choruses of the great Yule season oratorio was the Elon Choir, composed of sixty- uve student singers. As always, the mighty "Hallelujah Chorus was a favorite with the listeners. Diiecting the choir for ihe fir.st .ime in “The Messiah " was Prof. Laurence Hedgpeth. who ex hibited perfect control and ijiast- ery from the podium. Adding much to the program was the organ ac companiment. which was played: ,iy Prof. Fletcher Moore. wh(^ re-! West lias New Published Prof. .John F. West, of the Elon English department, has a new poem published in the new 1955 winter issue of Lyric Magaziue, a publication which is published ifi Chrlstiansburg, Va., with the avowed purpose of emphasizing the traditional style of poetry. The Elon author’s new poem is entitled “To My Mortician" and is written in the lyric style. With its acceptance for publication in the magazine, the poem be comes eligible for the competi tion for a number of valuable prizes which are given each year by the publishers. The winners for the 1954-55 issues will be an nounced one year hence. jlllC ICgUlOi-H-HI MVblTl ---O (ties and which is responsible forjA list of their names. wi ages ! appropriation of all student body and sex. has been on display in the 'funds, pointed to the fact that at-j College Book Store for more than I tendance at the bi-weekly legis-ja week, and the college student-j lative sessions has been lax all have been adopting indivi ua Mhis year. , children by .signing their names , ... , u- u in blanks by the names of the In a guest editorial, which ap-i* ■' pears elsewhere in this issue, one: . . ■ The gifts for each child will be member of the group cites the . , ^ j n ihom uiiii . . . ‘var ed types, and all of them win fact that it has been difficult to . . I be h ghiy acceptable and^ enjoy- get a quorum at the autumn meet- ' s j' i joined the Elon faculty this year' jfter a leave of absence for grad uate study. lieece Attends Bankin*^ Session able. In many cases more than one college student joins in pro viding the gitt for a single child. The Pan-Hellenic Council, which includes representatives of the four fraternities and four sorori ties, has already made plans to provide once more two new bi cycles, one for a boy and one for a girl, with recipients of these shiny gifts to be designated by the Orphanage authorities. Members of the Pan-Hellenic Council, which is thus cooperating with Alpha Pi Delta, include Gra ham Heath, of Alpha Pi Delta; Clark Dofflemyer, of Iota Tau Kappa; Stacy Johnson, of Kappa Psi Nu; Gary Thompson, of Sigma Phi Beta; Betsy Johnson, of Beta Omicron Beta; Louise McLeod, ot Delta Upsilon Kappa; Joan Dar ling, ot Pi Kappa Tau; and Ann Rawls, of Tau Zeta Phi, Faculty (yi-oup Is Listed In Voluiiic • ^ Five members of the Elon College faculty are listed in the new 1954 edition of “Who’s Who In .American Education," whicli has recently come from tthe press. The book includes edu cators from both college and secondary school fields. The Elon faculty members listed in the new volume in clude Dr. Leon E. Smith, presi dent ot the college, along with Dr. William M. Brown, Dr, J, Earl Danieley, Dr. Konstantinas .\vizonis and Prof. Luther N. Byrd. Prof. William T. Reece, ot Elon’s] busii'3ss administration faculty, v‘. as in attendance last week at the second annual Central Bank- ! Ing Seminar, which was held at 11 he Federal Reserve Bank in Rich- I mond, V'a. ! The Elon professor was one of ;even faculty members present from North Carolina colleges. Other North Carolinians were from Queen's College, High Point College, Catawba College, Appa lachian State College. Duke Uni versity and the Woman’s College of the University of North Caro lina. I ings and pointed to the fact that there were only eight members in attendance last Wednesday night from a constitutional mem bership of about twenty-five. It is reported that the group had to enact a new rule earlier this fall lowering the number required for a quorum. It is also pointed out that the attendance failure has been more noticeable among the dormitory group than among the day stud ents. and the fact is cited that more than one group has failed to even elect or send a legislative member at all. A check-up re vealed that in at least one case, one of iTne dormitories had elected a representative who was already named to represent one of the classes. The attendance records for the group show that more than one elected member has failed to [attend a single meeting. i •• I ! While pointing out that meet-! pilS i\.e( lift mgs are scheduled every two weeks j , C ■ # on Wednesday night and that the| t e(tf H I'eS ^IVedt next meeting is not scheduled un-| ^^5^55 til after Christmas the legislative T|ie North Carolina group was included among twenty-seven edu-1 cators, who were given a close-up j and inside view'of what the Fed-[ eral Reserve System does and howj it does it, 1 secretary listed the following known members and urged their attendance: DAY STUDENTS—Sylvia Jones, Ann Puckett. Norman Riddle, Mark Garrison, Bob Smith, Jim Smith, Barbara Carden and Bill Mercier WEST DORM—Helen Craven. I Sis Beckwith. EAST DORM — Dalton Parker and Curtis Voting. SOUTH DORM—Clark Doffle myer. with one additional to be named. CLUB HOUSE — Wright Wil liamson. (Continued on Page Four) series of faculty music recitals on Tuesday night with the pre sentation of Prof. Jonathon Sweat, pianist, in Whitley Auditorium. This recital and other faculty pro grams to follow are an annual fea ture ot the campus entertainment program. I Prof. Sweat, a native of Missis- isippi, is now in his third year as a member of the Elon music facul ty. After undergratuate training at Vanderbilt University, Ward- Belmont and the Memphis College of Music, he studied on scholar ship at Julliard School of Music, I where he received the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts de- grees in music.
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