It's Down With Tlie
Lenoir Rhyne
Bears Here Tonight
MAROON AND GOLD
And Let’s Everybody
See The Play
That Starts Tuesday
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25. 195G
NUMBER 8
players To Offer New Show In Mooney Next Week
SCENE FROM NEW STUDENT SHOW
Dramatic Group Opens
5-Night Stand Tuesday
One of the truly dramatice incidents near the end of the forth
coming Elon Player production o 1' Lillian Heilman s "The Little
Foxes" is pictured above, a scene in which Alexandra Giddens,
enacted by Carolyn Duncan, of Woodsdale, casts aside her role as
a wistful and submissive daught ;r. and defies her mother, the
everbearing Regina, who is port ayed by Margaret Sharpe, of Bear
Creeli. The incident is one for w iilch the audience has been hop
ing from the rise of the first curtain.
In a highly dramatic portrayal
of greed and selfishness, the Elon
Players will present Lilliari Heil
man's "The Little Foxes" in Mon-
,'.ey Chapel for five nights next
■veek, beginning on Tuedsay, Jan-
I uary 31st and continuing through
Saturday, February 4th.
This play, which critics have
called one of America’s truly great
(■ramatic productions, tells of the
unscrupulous greed of the Hub
bard family, members of which do
not even hesitate to rob one of
their own number to satisfy their
desires.
It will be with mixed emotions
'Jiat the audiences view the new
Player show. There will be disgust
.nd anger for the warped and
cruel Hubbard brothers and their
sister, who outwits her brothers
in their bid for wealth, but there
will also be deepest sympathy for
downtrodden members of the Hub
bard clan.
There'll be no sympathy tor
Oscar and Ben Hubbard, roles to
e enacted by Prof. William D
Goodrum, of the Elon faculty, and
Bill Watson, of Sanford. Nor will
there be any sympathy for Regina
Iheir unprincipled sister, to be
played by Margaret Sharpe, of
Bear Creek. She finds that her
brothers are robbing her own bus
band, and then she uses that
knowledge to blackmail the bro
thers into giving her a lion’s share
of the new industrial plan which
they are building in the old home
town.
Dr. Paul Cheek
Named To Post
Dr. Paul Cheek, member of
Ihe Elon College chemistry fac
ulty, has just been installed as
chairman-elect for the Central
Carolina Section of the Ameri
can Chemical Society. He will
become leader of the group next
year.
Membership in this organiza
tion is composed of technical and
^research chemists in both edu
cational institutions and indus
trial plants in five counties in
this section of North Carolina,
with regular meetings held to
discuss problems and new dis
coveries in the field of chemis
try.
Graduate Record Exan
Requirement Explained
Alumni Hear
Of Progress
On Campus
An informative series of reports
featured the annual mid-winter
meeting of the Elon College Alum
ni Association, which was held in
Alamance Building on the Elon
cantpus at 3 o’clock Saturday af
ternoon, January 14th.
In the absence of the alumni
president, James F. Darden, of
Suffolk, Va., the meeting was pre
sided over by Dr. W. G. Lewis,
GibsonviUe, vice-president o£
the association
*1^ After the invocation by Dr. John
G. Truitt, of Elon College, the
executive secretary’s report was
presented by Mrs. Ruth G. Boyd.
She reported a slight increase in
membership in the alumni organ-
Kation and a general spirit of
cooperation among Elon’s former
students and graduates.
Dr. Leon E. Smith, Elon's pres-
Went. also reported to t^e assem
bled alumni on the progress being
Wade on the campus building pro-
gram and on the fund-raising
campaign. He told of recent grants
to the college by the Ford Foun-
(Continued on Page Fouri
Announcement was made re
cently that members- of the 1956
graduating class at Elon College
would be required to take the nat
ional Graduate Record Examina
tion, and the announcement oc
casioned widespread student com
ment both on and off the campus.
Since much of the student com
ment was apparently arising from
a misunderstanding of the pur
poses behind the move, the Ma
roon and Gold requested Dr. J.
E. Danieley, dean of students, to
issue a statement concerning the
step. His statement, which is pub
lished in its entirety below, makes
it clear that the results of the Gra
duate Record Examination wUl
not in any way affect the impend
ing graduation of students who
take it.
In his statement. Dean Danieley
makes it clear that the giving of
the examination is aimed more at
an evaluation of the Elon teach
ing program than at the measure
ment of the students themselves
He also makes it clear that its
administration here can quite well
result in a convenience and a sav
ing to those who may at any time
go on into graduate schools for
advanced work. Dean Danieley’s
statement follows—
"In the fall the Faculty of Elon
College voted to require the Gra
duate Record Examination of all
who expect to graduate. Notice
of such requirement had previous
ly been published in the 1955-56
catalogue, which was released in
March, 1955. The requirement is
being put into effect for the first
time for the graduating Class of
1956.
“It should be pointed out that
this examination does not deter
mine whether a student graduates
from college. It is, rather, a meas
ure of the effectiveness of the
teaching program of the institu
tion and of the inteUectual ma
turity of the student. National
norms have been established for
the examination, and when the
'ludent receives his or her score,
it may be compared with other
seniors in similar colleges all
across the country.
“As part of the self-evaluation
of Elon College by the faculty,
these scores which our students
make on the Graduate Record Ex
amination will be extremely help
ful. It will mean that we will be
able to see how our students rank
with similar students from other
of the same size and
By contrast, however, the hear!
strings of the audiences will b;
touched at the pUght of the ailing
broth>er-In-law. Horace Giddens.
portrayed by Eugene Harrell, of
Suffolk, Va., who find.s even his
own wife involved in the plot to
secure his funds.
Other touching characters, al'
of whom enlist the sympathy of
the viewers, are Birdie, the lonely
wife of Oscar Hubbard, to be play
ed by Helen Gilbert, of Burlin,?
ton; Alexandra, the wistful daugh
ter of Horace and Regina Giddens,
whose part is played by Carolyn
Duncan, of Woodsdale; and Lee,
the browbeaten son of Oscar Hub
bard, enacted,by Roger Rush.
Other roles of interest are those
of Mr. Marshall. Chicago business
man, taken by Tommy Lewis, of
Chadbourne; Cal, the man of all
work, by William Davis, of Gres-
tiam, S. C.; and Addie, the servant
girl, played by Betsy Watson, of
Burlington.
This play will be marked by dif
ferent from "Out of the Frying
I’an,” which drew record crowds
in a five-night stand in Mooney,
Chapel early in November; for
the Players are turning in this
second show from their masterful
presentation of c>medy to a more
ambitious undertaking in produc
ing Lillian Heilman's story of in
dustrial growth in the Deep South.
The sets and costumes for the
new play, all designed in mode
of half a century ago, are report
ed to be masterful creations. Not
ill many years have the Elon
Players featured such setting
and costuming, and advance re
ports indicate that the show next
week will add much to the repu
tation of the student dramatists
and their director.
President Smith Requested
To Remain For Added Year
ELOIN I‘KESH)EN l KECEIVES (;I1E( K
Dr. Leon E. Smith, center above, was caught in a jovial mood
when the photographer snapped the pictyre above, and it is no puz-
zlee to figure the smile when it is revealed that the paper he holds
in his hand is a $5,000 check. The check was a gift presented to
Elon College on January 12th from the Wachovia Bank and Trust
CompanK, presented by Claude V Long, right, vice-president in
charge of the Burlington office ol the Wachovia organization.
Flanking Dr. Smith at the left is B. E. Jordan, of Sax.npahaw, a
member of the board of trustees for the Alamance County Hos
pital, which also received a gift of $5,000 from the bank. The hos
pital leader is also a member o f the board of trustees for F.lon
College, so he had double reason to smile at the announcement
of the gifts.
Busy Meet
By Campus
Lawmakers
I
Two New Grants Made
To Elon During Month
colleges of the same size
with the same general type of
program.
Graduate schools have for
some time been requiring their
entering students to take this ex
amination. Seniors who expect to
do graduate work and who take
the examination during its admin
istration at Elon will have the
necessary scores available for
graduate school and will do so at
a considerably reduced rate. We
appreciate the fact that we are
ible to furnish the exam to the
tudents at this saving,
“It is true that some of our aca
demic departments are allowing
their major students to take the
Graduate Record Examination in
lieu of the regular comprehensive
examination. This is provided they
make a satisfactory grade, and
this is a matter which has been
left to departmental discretion. It
is not standard in all departments
of the college.
“The first day for administra
tion of the examination is Febru
ary 10th. This is normaUy a class
day, but the seniors will not have
classes on that day and will spend
the morning taking the Graduate
1 Record Examination.
Plans for a Valentine Dance and
for a series of smaller dances af
ter Saturday night ba.sketbali
games during the winter quar
ter payed a big part in the mid-
January meeting of the Student
Legislature.
The campus lawmakers approv
ed the plans for and appropriated
the money for the Valentine
Dance, tentatively -set for the third
weekend In February. Advance re
ports indicate that Russ Carlton
and Tiis Band will furnish the
music for this dance.
The legislators also approved
plans for the Saturday night hops
after the Catawba game and for
other dances after Saturday cage
games on the first three Saturday
nights in February,
The legislature also heard a re
port on the possibility of a chap
ter of Phi Beta Kappa at Elon
College, being told that the Elon
application could not be processed
in time for the national honorary
committee to consider it this year.
There was also discussion of a
used book service for students, of
plans for a campus clean-up day
this year and of the question of
increased legislative representa
tion for the Day Student Organi
zation and for the two new dormi
tories that are being built on the
campus.
The gift to Elon College of
$125,700 by the Ford Foundation,
which was announced a month ago
and reported in detail in the last
issue of the Maroon and Gold, was
followed in mid-January by the
announcement of two additional
grants or gifts, one from the Wa
chovia Bank and Trust Company
and the other from the Esso Foun
dation.
The Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company, with headquarters in
Winston-Salem but with branch
banks in a number of the larger
cities of North Carolina, announc
ed on Thursday, January 12th,
that it was making a gift of $5,000
to Elon College as part of Us ex
tensive program of philanthropy.
The gift of $5,000 to Elon Col
lege and the gift of a similar sum
to the Alamance County Hospital
was made through the Burlington
office of the Wachovia organiza
tion. Delivery of the pledge was
made by Claude V. Long, vice-
president in charge of the Burling
ton operations of the banking or
ganisation.
In making the gift to Elon Col
lege and to the hospital. Long de
clared that the Wachovia officials
are "happy to have a part in the
support of two institutions which
bear such a vital part in the fu
lure of Burlington and Alamance
County.”
In accepting the gift to the col
lege, President Smith said, “This
gift by Wachovia highlights the
widespread support and genero
sity that has been displayed by in
dividuals and businesses. This ac
tion by the Wachovia Bank, which
is certainly commendable, serves
as additional reminder of the spir
it of the community In meeting
the financial needs of worthy pro
jects and programs.”
The other January gift to Elon
College was a $2,000 grant from
the Esso Foundation, the philan
thropic organization that repre
sents the gigantic Standard Oil
Company. Elon was one ot six
North Carolina colleges to receive
grants from the oil company’s
Education Foundation, sharing in
the national distribution of $1,-
067,900 to educational institutions
throughout the United States.
President Smith was advised ot
the Elon grant in a telegram which
he received on January 11th upon
his return from a national meet
ing of college educators in St.
Louis. The gift was in the amount
of $2,000, ar:d it came unsolicited
and unrestricted.
The Esso iPoundation’s distribd-
tion included 226 different grants,
with 193 privately supported in
stitutions receiving a total of t356,-
000 of the entire fund. Only con
dition attached to the gifts was
that they be expended for the ex
penses of undergraduate educa
tion, a fact which made it possible
for college administrators to ap
ply the grants where the money
was most badly needed
In addition to Elon, other North
Carolina colleges which received
the Esso Foundation grants were
Duke University, Guilford Col
lege, Davidson College, Queens
College and Wake Forest College.
Wake Forest was one of eleven
institutions in the nation to re
ceive capital grant?
The Eton College Board of Trus
tees at its mid-winter meeting,
held some days after the grants
were made, paid special tribute to
each of the three business organ
izations which thus showed in no
unmistaken form their interest ii)
the continued progress and suc
cess ot Elon College.
The board of triisteos of Elon
College, at its annual mid-winter
meeting on the campus on Tues
day, January 17th, requested Dr.
Leon E. Smith, now in his twenty-
fifth year as Elon's president, to
continue in service as president
until July 1, 1957.
The request was made by the
board upon recommendation of a ^
special trustee committee named
l ist summer to select a suitable
successor upon Dr, Smith’s retire-
inent from the presidential post.
Dr. Smith had requested earlier
last summer that he be retired
in 1956. or later at the pleasure of
the trustees. His request for re
tirement was in keeping with a
board ruling that set a definite
retirement age, after which ac
tive service for Elon faculty mem
bers would be terminated.
The trustee committee, report
ing in regard to a presidential suc-
;cssor, stated that several letters
ind-^uggestions had been received
from interested persons. Hnwever,
tile group stated that selection of
a suitable candidate would require
additional time and that, should
such a candidate be selected, he
would probably not be available
to assume presidential duties be
fore mid-summer of 1957.
The committee which reported
on this matter included Mills E.
Godwin, Jr., of Suffolk, Va.; Mrs.
J. H. McEwen, of Burlington;
Clyde W. Gordon, of Burlington;
Reid A. Maynard, of Burlington;
•md S, T. Holland, of Windsor. Va.
At the .same meeting the Elon
trustees heard a report on the
progress being made upon the new
dining hall and two new dormi
tories now rising on the campus.
They also acted to speed the fund
raising campaign begun by the
college last fall, expressed plea
sure at the recent grants to Elon
by foundations and business
groups, and acted to clarify an
earlier stand by the board on en
rollment limitations at Elon.
(Continuea on Page Four)
Vets Must
Si^n Forms
On Schedule
All G. I. students, whether in
day or evening classes, are re
quested by Dean J. E. Danieley to
sign their Monthly Certification
of Training forms (VA Form 7-
199 6A) not later than the thW
day of each mpnth. J
In making this request. Deart
Danieley stated that it Is neces
sary for the business office to
check the forms, for the dean’s
office to check attendance records
and then for the dean himself to
sign all the forms in time to mail
them to the VA by the seventh
of the month. Students who fail
to sign their forms before the
fourth day of each month will be
unable to turn them in until the
following month, which would
cause a month’s delay in receiv
ing checks. Only exception to the
mailing deadline, according to the
dean, is for students who are ill
or otherwise justifiably prevented
from being present to sign at the
normal time.
Dean Danieley pointed out that
his office is happy to provide the
mailing service for the veterans,
but he urged complete coopera
tion to prevent undue rush in pre
paring the forms. There are now
about 300 veterans in attendance
«t Elon, which causes a real cler
ical task for these working in the
dean's office. ^