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YOLUME 36
Eeiso Foimdalioii
Grant For Elon
F»rnial presenUHon of ■ c»sh
erant of S2.»®® ‘® ^oHese
L the Esso EdiioaUoa Fo«Bd.-
was made last Wednesday
.fternoon in the office of Dr
LeoB E. Smith, Eton’s president.
The presentation was made by
Alex E. Dippy, of Charlotte, the
North Carolina manaeer for the
Standard OU Company.
Xn nwldiw the presentatioa
Mr. Dippy cited the fact that
his company “believes that bus
iness shoiUd share with other
ciU*ens the responsibiUty of
supportine private United States
colleges, and uni»ersities, thus
assuring that they will continue
to siiare in meeting the increas
ing demands of society upon
higher education."
There was a similar grant of
$2,000 to Elon by the Esso
Foundation last y*ar, and in
each case the grants were made
witliout restriction eicept that
«he iund Is t® be used to help
meet expenses directly associat
ed with undergraduate educa
tion.
Army Speaker
Is Religious
Week Leader
Rev. Cloma A. Huffman, chap
lain of the United States Military
Academy at West Point, was the
guest speaker for tiie annual Reli
gious Emphasis Week observance,
which got underway on the Elon
College campus on Sunday. De
cember 2nd, for a six-day pro
gram that was concluded last Fri
day morning, Decenalber 7th.
The visiting miaister, who holds
the rank of major in the United
States Army, is widely known as
one of the outstaodlag Congrega
tional ChrisUa* ministers in
America, having served as cha{>-
laln to *he General Council of
Congregational Christian Church-
«3 in its meeting at Omaha, Neb.,
last June. At that Ume his voice
Itt the turmoil was a guiding light
in the discussions of the merger
with the Evangelical and Reform-
?d Churches which is t» be con
summated next siunmer.
Rev. Huffman made his first
appearance in Elon’s Religious
Emphasis observance when he de
livered the sermon at 11 o'clock
services Sunday, December 2nd,
ia Whitley Memorial Auditorium.
He also met with the Student
Christian Association at the Elon
College Parish House that Sunday
afternoon.
The chaplain spoke to the en
tire Elon student body in daily
chapel services in Whitley Audi
torium from 10 until 10:45 o’clock
each morning and conducted ser
vices each night at 8 o’clock. He
was also available for individual
conferences and interviews at fre
quent intervals during the week.
French Students
Planning Dinner
Le Cercle Francais, the club
which is composed of Elon stu
dents with a major interest in
the field of French, will hold its
annual Christmas dinner at the
home of its faculty advisor, Mrs.
Pearl McDonald at 7:30 o’clock
on Saturday night, December 15.
Plans for the event were announc-
?d thia week by Mrs. McDonald
and officers of the club.
The dinner, which is to be
served in buffet style, will climax
the club’s activltiei for the first
haU of the college year. Officers
>f tae' group ar'e'JenV Moize, of
Gibioaville, president; Jimmy
S|»irks, of CUffsMe, Vtte-president;
»nil Dale Herbert, of Norfolk, Va.,
■secretary and treasurer.
ELON COLLBGR. N. C.
WnMfB.WAT. DECEMBRlt 12, 19r>«
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A» the throe king* oC ancient time brought to our S«¥
iour their preciou* gift*, let cm bring to Christma* the
•Mpreme gift of love and good will toward ali» and iIhm
enprcM IB fuUeat uiemnre the true «pirii of the Day
Vacation Begins
Next Wednesday
The annual Chrlstma* vaoa-
Um period for the studeoto and
faculty ot Elon Collete wlU get
underway neat Wednesday, De
cember 19th. according to an
announcement from the office
of Prof. A. U Hook, dean ot
students, and the enUre carnpua
neems agog wit* Yuletide an
tic pa tloa.
The schedule which places UM>
beginning o Vule vacation in
the middle of the week varlea
from the achedulea of recent
years, which have usually pla(«l
the school closing date at noon
on a Friday. The switch was
made necessary this year by the
manner In which the weekend*
fell on the calendar.
The holidays will continue un-
Ul after the New Vear’s Day
observance, with the regular
daUy schedule of classes set to
resume at 8 o’clock on Wedne*-
day morning. January !!nd.
The axodus of atudents will
begin as soon as classes are over
next Wednesday, and many of
the faculty will get away from
the campus at the same Ume
for. visits with home folks or
frimds.
Studentrio Play Santa To Orphanage Children At Party
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Choir Sings
^Messiah’ On
Annual Tour
Making its annual pre-Chiistmaa
tour of eastern North Carolina and
Virginia last weekend, the Elon
CoUege Choir sang Handel s "Mes
siah” twice and presented one ipe-
cial concert of selected sacred
music for the Chri»tma.s seasou. '
The Elon student singers pre
sented “The Messiah” at Hender-
ioa last Friday night and sang the
Handel masterpiece Saturday
night at Liberty Spring Church
near Suffolk, Va. ■
Groups selected from the choir
^e|^e guest singers at a numiJef
of CoDgregational Christian
ohurches in ea.stem Virginia on
Sunday momlng, and Sunday
night the choir presented a [»'«>-
gram of sacred music at the Chris
tian Temple in Morfolk, Vli.
The Choir, which presented its
tour programs under the direction
of Prof. John Westmoreland feat
ured student singers in the solo
roles of "The Messiah” and also
in the special program at Norfolk.
The soloists were selected from
a group that included Mary Anne
Thomas and Margaret Patillo, of
Burlington, and Tommie Bolaud,
of Elon College, sopranos; Jackie
Love, of Burlington. Laura Sea-
mon, of Henderson, Jeannette
Hassell, of Durham, Betty Bos
well, of McLeansviiie, and Mary
Ruth Whitten, of Winchester,
Va., contraltos; Donald McDaniel,
of Fayetteville, and Eddie Rob
bins, of Greensboro, teivors; and
James Compton, of Cedar Grove,
and Stuart Casa and William Tur
ner. of Greensboro, baritones,.
The students of Elon College |
will swing into the real spirit of
Christmas in earnest this week
when they join once more in the
annual campus custom of playing
Santa Claus to the children who
are now Uving at the Elon Chris
tian Orphanage. The occasion will
be the Christmas party for the
children, which is be held m
the Student Union at 7:30 o’clock
next Tuesday night.
This campus Christmas p»rty
tor the orphanage children is not
a one by any means, for
the 1956 event marks the tenth
year that the college students have
entertained the children, and past
years have proven that the col
lege students have just as much
fun at the party as do the chil
dren themselves.
The first Christmas party was
staged in 1947 under the sponsor-
.ship of the Alpha PI DeRa Fra
ternity, with individual credit for
tlie- idea going to Ralph Edwards,
who was a member of the frater
nity at that Ume and also ‘the
president of the Elon student gov
ernment for that year.
The Alpha Pi Delta boys have
continued to sponsor the Chriit-
imas party each year since that
time, although other Greek letter
organizations on the campus have
joined heartily in the plan each
year, and many individual mem
bers ot the student body partici
pate by choosing or “adopting”
one of the orphanage children,
for whom gifts are provided. Jer
ry Loy, of Graham, representing
Alpha PI Delta, is the chairman
in charge of arrangements this
year.
There are now 74 children Uv
ing at the orphanage, according
to a itatement made this week,
the number being Mout equally
divided among the boys and girls
and with a^es ranging from about
five years to about seventeen or
eighteen years of age.
It is pointed out that gifts for
each child may fie of varied types,
but all of them always prove high
ly acceptable and enjoyable to
the youthful guests. It is under
stood that a special effort is be
ing made this year to provide a
special group of useful gifts.
The Paiy-Hellenic Council, which
includes represenfeitives of the
four fraternities - and tour soror
ities, is to cooperate once more in
presentation of two aevr bicycles
one for a boy and one for a girl.
Recipients of the bicycles are us
ually designated by the Orphan
age authorities
The mem'bers of the Pan-Helle
nic Council this year include Bob
Blanchard, of Alpha Pi Delta;
Clark Dotflemyer, of Iota Tau
Kappa; Wayne Taylor, of Kappa
Psi Nu; Charles Foster, of Sigma
Phi Beta; Joyce Myers, of Beta
Omicron Beta; Faye Bfeaver, of
Delta Upisilon Kappa; Marjorie
Englebriglit, of PI Kappa Tau
and Shirley Womack, of Tau Zeta
Phi,
(Jarified Chapel
Rules Announced
Clarifying chapel attendance
rules, the following regulations
have been listed, with no excep
tions allowed:
1. Any person handing ia two
cards will be counted absent.
2. Persons not i» their proper
seats will be absent. Different
color cards will be used up.stairs
and downstairs.
3. Persons arriving after 10
o'clock will be late, after 10:05
will not receive a card.
4. Persons standing on steps
and those not actually in chapel
wUl be absent.
5. No cards can be turned in to
tile Dean’s offloe, and each card
must show a readable name and
date.