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And Let’s Get Hot
In The
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TIIVUSDAY, APEIL l'>, I"??
NUMBER 13
Church Leaders Of Nine States Gather At Elon
Junior Music
Festival Oii
Elon Campus
The Elon College u.usic de
partment presented a busy "scene
last Saturday when youthful mus
tons from all parts of North Car
olina appeared on the campus for
•the state Junior Music Festival,
held under the sponsorship of the
North Carolina Federation of Mu
sic Clubs.
The statewide gathering was
staged under the direction o£ Prof.
Fletcher Moore, head of the Elon
music department, who has served
this year as stale chairman foi
the Music Federation's junior pro-
gr;,iii. All musicians compeiing
here Saturday had scored ' Super
ior' ratings in one of the thirteen
district festivals that were held
failier tins spring
The festival, which got under
way at 9 o'clock Saturday morn
ing and continued throughout the
daj, featured the presentation of
seven junior scholarships and five
trophies, along with a special
award for fol'K-dancc' groups.
The scholarships awarded went
to competitors from throughout
the state. The scholarship winners
ve»e Leon Boggs, of Greensboro,
the Samuel Goodman Scholarship
in Voice; Max Yount, of Conover,
and Judy Staley, of Winston-Sal
em, the two Crosby Adams Schol
arships for Piano Concerto; J. C.
Dunn, Jr., of Pinetops, the Music
Federation Scholarship in pjano;
Anita White, of Elon College, the
Josephine Yeager Scholarship for
Junior Piano Concerto; and Mar
lene Stewart, of Charlotte, and I
Walter Mays, of Asheville, tw’ol
Transylvania Music Camp Scholar-1
ships for Band and Orchestra in
struments.
The trophies awarded included i
Jerry Kiser, of Rural Hall, the
Boys' Undeveloped Voice Cup;
Judy Setzer, of Newton, the Amer
ican Folk-Song Cup; and Camellia
Seagle, of Hickory, the Foreign
Tolk-Song Cup and the State Mus
icianship Trophy.
The Elon College Folk Dancers,
composed of eight junior dancers,
won the Frances Eggleston Folk>
Dancing Award. Members of the
winning dance group were pupils
of the Elon public schools.
The festival last week brought
to Elon a large number of out-
■standing musical teachers from all
parts of the state and also more
than forty of the outstanding
young musicians,
CAMERA ilECOKDS AS SOUT.i iHMiM BlilNKl) HOl.lDA'V?
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Cliurcli Groups To Study
Plans For Union In 1957
Lay leaders of the Congrega
tional Christian and Evangelical
and Reformed Churches wil gath
er from nine Southeastern stales
1 for an inter-denominational con-
j ference to be held at Elon College
: on Saturday and Sunday of this
week. The gathering is planned
i to discuss the union of the two
1 denominations, which ha.' been set
for June of 1957 under the new
ti;le of the United Church of
Christ.
j The representatives of the two
] church groups will come to Elon
College from points in North Car-
'ollna. South Carolina. Virginia,
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Miss-
isb-ippi. Tennessee and Kentucky,
with the two-day "get-acquainted"
I sessions to be held at Camp Moon-
I olon. the youth and recreation
'center of the Southern Conven-
Walker At
National ■Meotiiijj;
Miss Hazel Walker, IClon Col
lege registrar, left Monday af
ternoon for Detroit, Mich,
where she is attending the an-
nu.ii national convention of the
American .Association of Col
legiate Registrars and Admis
sions Officers. The meeting op
ened Tuesday and will continue
through Friay.
Miss Walker, who is an Elon
Colle.ge graduate and a native of
the Burlington area, was con
nected with the college business
office for a number of years.
She assumed the duties of reg
istrar two years ago.
Ta..e.i r.i,:n in 'he height of the
excilcmeiit. the picture at the left
[.or ; , - a; I'-i 'higl:e;t point the
1 ;e V. i.cli '-itioyed tnc South
i-.rly on Thursday
mor;;.ag. .\pril ,'/t!i. ‘^.nui;*’ boiled
from the upper windows as fire
men from Elon College. Burling
ton and Gibsonville poured water
into the huil.iing. Juit above is
Chang Gitl Kim. Korean student,
a; he placed salvaged clothing in
his car. He was one of two Elon
students in the djrm when the
file broke out.
lion of Congregational Christian' grggational Christian Churches;
Churches. | Dr. Perry L. Smith, of Philadel-
This meeting, which Is one of phia, of the Department of Unit-
seven such regional gatherings to pj l^romotion of the Evan^jelical
be held in various parts of the j and Reformed Church; rmd Dr. Al-
United States, will attract key per-1 yin E. Keppel. of Salisbury, pres-
>onnel in each of the church or- ident Catawba College.
tranizaLions .including stale super-j Rev. Kenneth J. Kohler, of St.
intendents, national committee j Louis, executive secretary of the
members, state laymen's presi-|churchmen's Brotherhood of the
dents, state women's fellowship; Evangelical and Reformed Church;
presidents and active laymen from | and Mrs. Guy Benchoff, of Wood-
a large number of local congrega- ?(ock. Va.. na'ional president of
Faculty ]>Iem!)er
(Jet8 Scliolarsliip
Prof. John Foster West, mem
ber of the Enslish department
faculty at Elon College, has just
been aw'arded a study grant of
$300 for advanced study dur
ing the coming summer. He will
attend the 1956 summer session
at the University of North Car
olina.
The grant to the Elon profes
sor was made from the South-
Early Morning Fire Destroys South
Dorm; Students Away For Holidays
Flames which were thought to
have started in a basement fur
nace room guttecf South Dormi-
' lory about 3 o'clock on Thursday
morning, April 5th. The blaze oc-
jcurred during the annual spring
I holidays, which accounted for the
fact that only two students were
in the structure. The remainder of
FLVSHBACIvS
Church Men
Plan Meeting
Dr. James Moudy, dean of in
struction at Atlantic Christian Col
lege, will be the chief speaker
l^'riday night at the quarterly din
ner meeting of the Laymen’s Fel
lowship of the Elon College Com
munity Church. The meeting will
be held at the Parish House of
Ihe church at 6;30 o'clock.
The speaker, who has been a
Jnember of the Atlantic Christian
College faculty since 1953, had
undergraduate educations at
Texas Christian University, where
was graduated with high hon
ors. He later did graduate work
Duke University and sandwich-
•ed » a period of service with the
S. Treasury Department in
Washington with overseas infan
try and medical corps duties in
World War II.
Dr. H. H. Ctuningham, chair-
•oan of the History Department
Elon College, is president of
the local Laymen's Fellowship this
year. He states that the Friday
■"ght gathering will be the final
1955-56 college year.
Fellowships Fund, which has the usual occupants were at home
its headquarters at Chapel Hill.
It offers an opportunity for
work toward the Ph.D. degree.
Prof. West, who received his
undergraduate training at Mars
Hill and the University of North
Carolina, received the Masters’
Degree from the later institu
tion in 1949 and joined the Elon
faculty that faille is now com
pleting his seventh year at Elon.
He has had one volume of poe
try and numerous short stories
and articles puldished i«i re
cent years.
Danieley Makes
Trip To Florida
for the holidays
All of the twenty-four rooms in
the two-story brick building, which
was located across the railroad at
the southwest corner of the cam
pus, were damaged by fire, water
or smoke. The blaze, which prov
ed quite stubborn, was first
brought under control about day
break. but it broke out again
about 7 •o'clock that morning and
required the firemens attention
:or another hour.
The interior of the dormitory
was completely wrecked by the
blaze, and the brick exterior walls
were cracked in several places.
Dr. Leon E. Smith, who was un
able to estimate the damages at
the time of the blaze, has not yet
announced whether any effort will
be made to rebuild the structure.
The Elon College firelighters
jiere the first to arrive on the
scene about 3;20 o'clock, and the
Dr. J. E. Danieley, dean of stu
dents at Elon College, combined
business with vacation pleasures
when he visited three college
chemistry departments and a can-,Burlington
cer research laboratory during a an ensuing call at 4; 15 o clock,
-pring holiday trip to Florida. , The Gibsonville department ar-
ed on the scene shorely after-
The Elon chemistry professor,
accompanied by his wife and two
children, took advantage of spring
vacation at the college to make
the trip by auto, leaving here on
nv
ward.
The chief of the Klon College
fire department stated that the
blaze apparently started in the
Saturday, March 31st, and return- jj^jgnjent, where an oil furnace
" was located, since the flames broke
through the first floor near that
point. He stated that the blaze
sho up the stair well to second
floor but never broke out on top
of the building because of the
tin roof. The roof eventually col
lapsed when its supports burned
ing to the campus on Friday
night, April 6th.
The tour included visits to the
chemistry departments at the Uni
versity of Florida, Gainesville,
Fla.; Clemson College, Clemson,
S C., and Wofford College, Spar
tanburg, 5. C. Also included was
an inspection visit at the Cancer
Research Laboratory, Gainesville,
Fla.
away.
The fire which destroyed
South Dormitorj on Thursday
morning, April 5th, brought
for many Elon persons memor- |
ies of other days and other fires
which have struck severe blows |
at the F.lon College facilities.
Of course the most disastrous
b'Vazie of all was tsiat which
struck the iieart of the the .cam
pus back in January. 1923, de
stroying the old administration
buirding. It was as a result of
thait blaxe, however, that the
beautiful central unit of present
Elon College was erected. The
old administration building was
replaced by the five-unit group
that includes present Alamance,
.Mooney, Whitley, the Carlton Li
brary and the Duke Science
Building.
It was once more in January,
that time in 1942, that a blaze
struck one frigid Saturday morn
ing and destroyed the old din
ing hall that was boused in an
annex of the north side of West
Dormitory. The dining hall stood
where the new Virginia Hall is
being erected, and -only some
one's quick thought in closing
the heavy doors leading into
West Dorm Parlors saved that
dormitory from destruction.
The Atlunson Apartments
werte badly damaged in a fire
which occurred in March, 1949,
and then five years ago in Oc
tober, 1951. came the fire
which inflicted heavy damage
on the present Elon dining ball
and kitchen. No one of the fires
has permanently crippled the
college, which has risen Phoe-
nix-like out of the a.s:>es every
case.
tions.
The weekend meeting will get
underway at 1:30 o’clock Satur
day afternoon, when Dr. J. E. Dan
ieley. dean of students at Elon
College, will conduct the devo-
tionals. Others on the Saturday af
ternoon program include Walter
A. Graham, of Pembroke, Ky., na
tional director of the Congrega
tional Christian Laymen’s Fellow
ship: Rev. Howard E. Spragg. of
New York City, secretary of the
Board of Home Missions of Con-
the Women’s Guild of the Evan-
relioal and Reformed Church, will
join (he afternoon speakers in dis
cussions set for Saturday night.
The Sunday program, which is
to gel underway at 8;30 o’clock
Sunday morning will feature group
reports from each of the eight
states on the progress in each on
plans for the union of the two
denominations. The afternoon
gathering on Sunday will feature
an open forum discussion and
evaluation of the union movement.
The only students sleeping in
the dormitory at the lime were
Chang Gill Kim, one of several
Korean students now attending
Elon, and Samuel Brady, of Ben
nett. Kim was first to be aroused,
and he awakened Brady.
Kim, who found out what a
bomb sounds like during the Ko
rean War, said he was awakened
by an explosion, apparently from
the basement, and that he thought
t first that it was a bomb. How
ever, he soon realized where he
was, and he said, "I knew there
would not be a bomb in Amer
ica.”
He stated that his
Students To Vote Tuesday
For New Campus Officials
The Elon College students will mnre Honor Council candidates.
vote next Tuesday, April 24th, in
the finals of the annual campus
elections, naming by ballot the
student officials who will direct
the student government and class
affairs during the final weeks of
the present college year and dur
ing the 1956-57 college term.
Jerry Moize, of Gibsonville, who
room was has served as vice-president of the
soon so filled with smoke that he|Student government this year, and
could not stand erect and that Larry Barnes, of Portsmouth, 'Va.,
he made his escap« and awaken- will be candidates in the Tuesday
ed Brady. The two students then
turned in the fire alarm and sal
vaged all they could of their be
longings.
balloting for president of the stu
dent body. Both candidates are
rising seniors, and smerged win
ners in the primary balloting this
The dormitory housed 47 stu- week.
dents at the time of the fire, in
cluding twelve members of the
Elon baseball squad, which was
at Western Carolina at the time.
The Old Bank Building, also used
as a dormitory, was not damaged,
although it is located quite near
South Dorm.
The blaze created quite a pro
blem for the administration which
had to find accommodations for
the 47 boys when they returned
to the campus. The South occu
pants have since been distributed
to various dormitories on the cam
pus, with a number of them hous
ed on the third floor of Mooney
Building In quarters usually oc
cupied by visiting sports groups.
The South Dormitory was ori
ginally built about forty years ago
and was used by the Southern
Convention of the Congregational
Christian Churches as a printing
house. It was taken over for use
as a dormitory al»out 18 or 19
years ago.
Doc Alston, of Reidsville.
with one to be chosen, are Doug
las Albert, of Lahore, Pakistan;
and Nick DISibio, of Inwood, L,
I., N. Y.
The Student Council candidates,
with two men and two women
members and one at-large mem
ber to be elected. Include five
men and five women. One from
each group is an at-large candi
date. The regular men's candi
dates are Ronald Bergman, of Un-
.casville, Conn.; Richard Bradham,
of Sumter, S. C.; Bobby Johnson,
of Burlington; and Charles Fos
ter, of Burlington. The regular
women's candidates are Evelyn
Fritts, of Lexington; Jo Ann Al
and kins, of Albemarle; Ann Wilson,
Frank Pattishall, of Burlington,
are the finals contestants for the
post of vice-president of the stu
dent body. Both are rising jun
iors, and they also were winners
in the primary. The winner will
oreside over the Student Legis
lature next year.
Jackie Love, of Burlington, and
Pat Chrismon, of Reidsville, are
the finals candidates for the posi
tion of secretary-treasurer of the
student government organization.
They were the only eligible can
didates and were not forced to
run in the primary.
Senior candidates for the Hon
or Council, with two to be chosen,
are Margaret Patillo, of Burling
ton: Don Johnson, of Dunn; Whit
ney Bradham, of Sumter, 3. C.;
and Shirley Womack, of Olivia.
The junior candidates, also with
two to be elected, are John Apes-
sos, of Monessen, Pa.: Jean Cog-
hill, of Henderson; Johnny Oakes,
of Greensboro; and Vernon Joy
ner, of Walters, Va. The sopho-
of Durham; and Joyce Myers, of
Philadelphia, Pa. The two at-large
candidates are Joyce Perry, of
Siler City; and Robert Orr, of
Burlington.
The rising sophomore, junior
and senior classes were to nomi
nate candidates for their various
class officers at group meetings
this morning. The constitution
calls for the various classes to
nominate their candidates on
Thursday morning following the
primary election each year, and
both the primary and final elec
tions were postponed a week this
year due to the spring holiday
period falling in April. Each class
was to nominate candidates for
president, vice-president, secre
tary, treasurer and legislature
members, but none of the names
were available at the time of put>-
lication of the MAROON AND
GOLD. All successful candidates
in next week’s general election
will be installed In office on Mon
day, April 30tfa.