Here's Victory To The
Christians
In The Tournament
MAROON
GOLD
And Success To Each
And All
Students For Exams
VOLUME 35
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRl'ARY 22. 1956
NUMBER 10
jjfay Kwlers Named
In Balloting This Week
NERVE-TINGLI^G SCENE FROM NEW PLAYER SHOVk
Draft Tests
t or Students
Are Scheduled
The next opportunity for stud
ents of Elon College to take the
Selective Service College Qualifi
cation Test will be offered on the
local campus later this spring, ac
cording to a statement just re
leased by Dr. J. E. Danieley, dean
of students.
Students interested in taking the
tests have until midnight on IVlon-
day. March 5th, to submit their
application. The tests themselves
will then be given on April 19th
at a total of 875 test centers lo
cated in widely-scattered points in
the United States, Alaska, Canal
Zone, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
The purpose of these tests,
which were first started several
years ago, is to provide evidence
for local Selective Boards through
out the nation whether individ
ual students have the aptitude for
college and are eligible for stud
ent deferment from military serv
ice.
To be eligible to take the tests
themselves, the students applying
for them must intend to request
deferment for college study, must
be satisfactorily pursuing a full
time course in college at this time
and must not have taken the test
at a previous date.
The test was developed by the
Science Research Associates of
Chicago, one of the nation’s lead
ing publishers of educational test
ing, reading-improvement and
guidance materials.
All local students interested in
taking the test in April are urged
to have their completed applica
tion postmarked not later than
midnight on March 5th. Applica
tions mailed after that time will
not be accepted.
Additional information may be
obtained from the office of the
dean or from any Selective Serv
ice Board.
Dr. Kernodle
Is Speaker
On Campus
Dr. John Robert Kernodle, prom
inent Burlington obstetrician and
gynecologist, spoke of recent ad
vances in cancer research In an ad
dress before the Elon College
Chemistry Club at its February
meeting last week. The student-
taculty group held its session in
the fhird-floor lecture hall of the
Duke Science Building.
Dr. Kernodle, who is president
®f the North Carolina division of
the American Cancer Society and
® past president of Alamance ;>
Chapter of the organization, is a
consultant in cytology for the
North Carolina Cancer Control.
Once associated with the National
Cancer Institute as a trainee, he
has had several artcles on cancer
published in medical journals,
is an alumnus and a member
the board of trustees of ElonjC
College, from which he received
the A.B. degree. He had his medical
training and received his M,D, de-
^®e at Duke University, During
orld War II he was a captain In
e Army Medical Corps, but he
returned to Burlington some years
®8o for practice of medicine and
surgery.
Officers of the Elon Chemistry
ub, which sponsors his appear-
ance on the campus tonight, are
ifflmy Bell, of Burlington, presi-
Jack Cale, of Burlington,
vice-president; and Emma Wag-
°''er, of Elon College, secretary.
The students of Elon College
went to the polls yesterday and
Monday for two days of balloting
in the choice of the rulers and
members of the royal court for
the annual May Day festival, which
will be staged on the campus the
first weekend in May,
It will be Queen Carolyn and
King Furman in the annual pag
eant, which serves as the high
light on campus social life each
spring, for the \Vinners of the
special campus election that came
to an end yesterday were Caro
lyn Abernathy, of Graham, and
Furman Moseley, of Columbia,
S.C, Both are members of the 1956
senior class.
The chief attendants for the
King and Queen for the May Day
festivities will be Shirley Cox
of Elon College, and Warren Al
len, of Hurt, Va,, who were run
ners-up to the royal pair in the
number of votes received in the
final election. Like the king and
quen, the Maid-of-HonOr and her
cscort are also memberb of the
1956 senior class.
The students also balloted this
week for two senior girls and two
junior girls, along with an equal
number of senior and junior boys
3,“: escorts. These four senior and
junior couples will serve as court
attendants for the May Day royalty.
The senior girls elected are
Barbara Carden and Ann Puckett,
each of whom hail from Burling
ton, Their escorts, two senior boys
who were elected yesterday, will
be Hugh Citty, of Reidsville, and
Bobby Green, of Brown Summit,
The two junior girls selected as
lunior attendants for the queen
are Evelyn Fritts, of Lexington,
and Margaret Patillo. of Burling
ton, They will be escorted by Ed
die Bridges, of Morganton, and
Jimmy Crump, of Aberdeen.
The annual May Day program
is staged each year on the first
Saturday in May, weather permit
ting, as a project of the girls’
physical education department,
working in cooperation with the
college music department.
The program for 1956 will be
staged for the first time this year
under the direction of Mrs. Jeanne
P. Griffin, who assumed last fall
the duties as director of women’s
physical education.
Although no definite theme has
been announced for the 1956 pag
eant, Mrs, Griffin stated that there
is a possibility that the pageant
may portray the development of
the dance.
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Elon Choir Is Planning
Ten-Day Concert Tour
Drama hits a high pitch in the scene pictured above, taken from the Elon Player production of
Frederick Knott’s “Dial M For Murder," which will be presented in Money Auditorium for five
nights from March 6th through March 10th. In the scene Tony Wendice, money-mad to the point
of murder, joins his wife, Margot, in viewing the body of Captain Lesgate, small-time crook, who
meets the fate intended for the wife. Those in the picture are C iirLis ^ ouiig, of Durham, as Cap
tain Lesgate; Ann Stoddard, of Braintree. Mass., a?: Margot Wend ce; and Roger Rush, of Burling
ton. as Tony Wendice. .
Stag^e Successs In 5 Nations .
‘Dial M For Murder’ To Be Given
As Third Student Show Of Season
Exams To Begin
Next Wednesday
Final examinations for the
Winter Quarter get underway
net Wednesday, February 29th,
and will continue for three days.
A new system in vogue this year
will have the Spring Term open
ing the following Monday,
March 5th( with spring holidays
deferrel until Easter.
AH hygiene classes will be
held next Wednesday morning,
followed by all 11:30 classes on
Wednesday afternoon. Sched
uled for the next day will be
exams for all 8 o’clock classes
on Thursday morning and all
9 o’clock classes Thursday after
noon. The 10:30 classes are set
for Friday morning. Morning
eams start at 9 o’clock, while
afternoon tests start at 2 o’clock.
Music Prof Well Received
In Faculty Piano Program
GIVES RECITAL
' -
PROF. JONATHAN SWEAT
Prof, Jonathan Sweat, member
of the Elon music faculty for the
past four years, received high ac
claim for his excellent perform^
ance in a faculty piano recital
given in Whitley Auditorium on
Monday night of this week.
By PROF. CLYDE McCANTS
(Guest Critic
In the first of a series of facul
ty music recitals in Elon’s Whitley
Auditorium Monday night, Prof,
.Tonathan Sweat, pianist, appar
ently answered once and for all
the age-old question which ap
pears at any recital, whether one
comes to a recital to hear the
music or the musician.
The Elon pianist showed himself
to be a completely conscientious
musician, so thoroughly steeped in
his music that the artist and the
music seemed to become one. His
choice of music was well-balanced
and exciting, and the performance
was that of a pianist who had stud-
led the works carefully, preparing
them in the light of his own vast
abilities.
As is true with all truly fine
recitals, it is virtually impossible
to point to one portion of the pro
gram as more satisfying than an
other. In some ways, the most
musically rewarding number on
the program was the Haydn Ari
etta con Variasiona." The delicacy
of tone produced in the finely
wrought passages of this delight-
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With successful professional
'runs in both London and New
York and transl-.tod into no less
than five languages for presenta
tions, Frederick Knott’s “Dial M
for Murder " will be presented by
the Elon College Players as their
third full-length feature of the
] 1955-56 season. It is scheduled
March 6th to 10th,
The highly dramatic presenta
tion. which has its setting in Lon
don of the present day, will offer
an excellent opportunity for Elon's
student actors, who will be work-
once more under the clever
direction of Prof, Melvin E, Woot
en. The director joined the Elon
faculty last fall and has already
produced two outstanding student
stage shows.
Tense is the word which de
scribes the mood of "Dial M For
Murder,” a play which tells of
Tony Wendice and his plans for
the perfect murder, A former ten
nis champion with a mad desire
for money, Wendice has designs
upon the money of his wife, Mar
got Wendice, Roger Rush, of Bur
lington, and Ann Stoddard, of
Braintree, Mass,, have the lead
roles as Tony and Margot.
In the manner of the old adage,
which says that “the best laid
plans of mice and men often go
astray," the carefully laid plans of
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Learns Of Hats
Home Ee Group
The Home Economics Culb,
composed of majors in the home
economics field, learned about
hats and h»t-raaking at their
most recent meeting, when the
club had Mrs. D. M. Stuckey, of
Graham, as a guest speaker.
The speaker gave an interest
ing demonstration on methods
of making hats of professional
style to match materials in
dresses. She also demonstrated
how to make place mats, belts,
handbags and decorated jars
from twisted crepe paper.
The Home Economics Club
has been filing cofXee and
doukhnuts to girls in West Dorm
and Ladies Hall as part of a re
cent project, which has been a
pleasiire to those serving and
serred.
Fresidenl Smith
On Visit South
Dr. and Mrs. Leon E. Smith
left on Monday morning for a
two-week’s visit to South Caro
lina, Georgia and Florida, dur-
whlch Dr. Smith will contact
alumni and friends of the col
lege in cities and towns in all
three states.
While on the trip Dr. Smith
has appointments with individ
uals and groups in Ilardeeville,
S.C.; Bruswick, Ga; and Jackson
ville, St. Petersburg. Fort My
ers, Miami and Palm Beach, Fla.
A regular meeting of Elon alum
ni is planned for the Jackson
ville area, while smaller groups
will be contacted in other
paces.
The Elon Choir will take to the
open road as the Winter Quarter
ends and will trek eastward and
northward for a ten-day trip that
will feature a full schedule of
programs in high schools and
churches, with two days in New
Vork City as a special treat for the
student singers themselves.
The itinerary for the trip, which
is being planned under the direc
tion of Prof. John Westmoreland,
has not been completed, but he
stated this week that the Elon
I singers will probably offer a total
I of no less than nineteen programs
I in either churches or schools with-
I in the ten-day period.
The schedule of concerts will
get underway with an appearance
m Burlington on Friday, March
2nd, followed by an appearance
in South Boston, Va., on Saturday
night, March 3rd. There will be
two programs on Sunday, March
4th, one at Uichmond, Va,. on Sun
•lay morning and the other at
Newport News, Va., on Sunday
evening.
Once the weekend programs are
finished, the Elon group will
swing into a series of concerts at
high schools during the ensuing
days, making sometimes as many
as two or three appearances each
day in high schools of several
states.
The singers will move on from
X'irginia up the mid-Atlantic
coast, ending up in New York City
on Friday, March 9th, tor two
days of sight-seeing iii the Big
City," The weekend in New York
will call for at least one singing
appearance at Columbia Univers
ity, but most of the time in the
city will be devoted to enjoyment.
Leaving New York on Sunday
Greek Letter
Groups Add
New l^ledges
The four Greek letter fraterni
ties and four sororities on the Elon
campus concluded the winter rush
ing period on Saturday night, Feb
ruary 11th, with the annual mid
winter “Bid Night,” at which time
they pledged 38 new members.
The new pledges included twenty
girls and eighteen boys.
The Tau Zeta Phi Sorority top
ped all the Greek letter groups in
number of members added, pledg
ing .seven new girls. The Kappa
Psi Nil and Alpha Pi Delta fra
ternities and the Pi Kappa Tau
sorority each had five pledges,
while the Beta Omicron Bela and
Delta Upsilon Kappa sororities and
the lota Tau Kappa and Sigma
Phi Beta fraternities all added four
pledges.
The new pledges, listed in al
phabetical order of groups, with
ihe fraternities preceding the
sororities, included the following;
ALPHA PI DELTA — Bryant
Emery, Durham; Charles Kranii-
lin, Henderson; Bobby Grissom,
Holland, Va.: Paul Hinshaw, Ran-
dleman; and Lloyd Sparks, Hick
ory,
IOTA TAU KAPPA — George
Allen, Hyattsville, Md,; Frank De-
Rita, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Tommy Mc
Donald, Greensboro; and Gilbert
Watts, Laurinburg.
KAPPA PSI NU — Kenneth
Dudley, Hagerstown, Md.; Chuck
"'.u Oakley, Roxboro; Jimmy Sparks,
morning, March 11th, the Elon
Cliffside; James Taylor, Charlotte;
and Wayne Taylor, Newport News,
Va.
SIGMA PHI BETA—John Apes-
SOS, Monessen, Pa.; Robert Kopko,
Monessen, Pa.; Wayne Martin,
Morganton; and Arthur Pitts, Dill-
wyn, Va.
BETA OMICRON BETA —
Martha Langlti-, Staley; Nancy
Lemmons, Burlington; Joyce My
ers, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Mary
Frances Warren, Rocky Mount.
DELTA UPSILON KAPPA —
Mary Sue Hughes, Burlington;
Norie Luce, Riverhead, N.Y.; Faye
Weaver, Durham; and Charlotte
Williamson, Asheboro.
singers, will return to Danville,
'Va., for their last concert that
night. They will return to the cam
pus after the Danville program.
The church programs will be
devoted entirely to sacred music,
according to Prof. John Westmore
land, who stated that Prof. Fletch
er Moore will serve as accompanist
for the programs.
He plans a more diversified pro
gram for the Chroir’s appearance
in the schools, consisting of four
sacred numbers, some quartet se
lections, a medley from “Okla
homa,” the “Battle Hymn of the
Republic,” and “You'll Never
Walk Alone.”
Church Laymen Hold Meet
Here; Danieley Is Leader
The aproaching merger of the
Congregational Christian with the
Evangelical and Reformed Church
es came in for attention as Rev
Kenneth Kohler, of St. l,ouis. Mo.,
executive secretary of the Church
men’s Brotherhood of the Evan
gelical and Reformed groups, ad
dressed assembled Congregational
Christian laymen last Sunday af
ternoon on the Elon College cam
pus.
The occasion was the annual
rally meeting of the Laymen’s
Fellowship of the Southern Con
vention of Congregational Christ
ian Churches, and more than 400
lay leaders heard the St. Louis
mao as he outlined the require
ments for "Being A Good Church
man.”
Dr. L. E. Smith, Elon College
president, welcomed the laymen to
the campus and introduced a
'..o'li. *“orii the Elj 1 Sir,>ers, who
presented a musica. program
There was also group singing un
der the leadership of W. H.
Beker, of Newport News, Va. Tlie
afternoon devotional was by men
of the First Congregational Christ
ian Church of Burlington, with
Eugene Gordon, Robert Morton
and William Phillips participating.
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LEADS LAYMEN
(Continued on Page Four)
DR. J. E. DANIELEY
Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon’s dean
of students, has just been elevated
to the top post in the Laymen’s
Fellowship of the Southern Con
vention of Congregational Christ
ian Churches. He was elected to
the position at a meeting held
on the college campus Ia«t Sun
day afternoon.
Band Gives
Programs
At Schools
The Elon College Band appeared
in a concert program at the Elon
College High School last Thurs
day afternoon, February 16th,
making the first such appearance
under the expanded band program
that has been initiated this year
under the direction of Prof, Dewey
Ml, Showers, A second concert
was scheduled at McLeansville
High School this afternoon.
The appearance at Elon Higli
School was by invitation and in
cluded a demonstration of various
band instruments and an explana
tion of their functions in the band
itself. The program was presented
for pupils from grades three
through twelve.
After an entrance to the strains
of “Washington Post March,” the
band presented a program that
included “National Emblem
March,” by Sousa; “Big Boy,” by
Sears; "Stout-Hearted Men,” by
Youmans; “Star Dust," by Car
michael; ‘‘I Love A Parade,” by
Youmans;' “Mexican Hat Dance,"
popular number; “Pavanne,” by
Gould; and “Men of Ohio March,”
,by Bagley