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^ OLt'ME 36
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
WEDNESDAY, JAVUAKY 3«, 1957
NUMBER 1
STA(JECRAFT STUDENTS OFFER ARTISTIC SET DESIGNS FOR PLAYS
LV
Organization Is Almost Completed
For Elon Development Fund Drive
Contract For
Boys’ Dorm
Construction
First glance at the laynjut of pictures above might be deceiving, for the reader might think they
represented bonafide stage sets f >r one of the Elon Player dramati ' productions. Such is not the
case, for the snapshots really p rtray tiny models of stage sets w .ich were constructed by members
of Prof. IMel Wooten's class In st gecraft. Their realistic appeara ce is indicative of the fine woik
and artistic talent displayed by m ambers of the class. The pictur ■ upper left is a set for Blithe
Spirit ”, designed and built by L slie Johnston, of Holland, Va.; w lile that upper right is a miniature
«tage tor “Bus Stop", designed and built by Bill Davis, of Greshan, S. C. Centered below is a set
for “Arsenic and Old Lace”, designed by Emily Hay, of Burlingt >n. Head shots are inset in each
picture of the .students who designed them. All are majoring in dramatics.
15ri(*k Is GivtMi
For New Dorm
Tk« gift »f the brick for the
•unstructioii of the new boys’
dormitory on the Elon Colleg**
campus was announced yester
day by Dr. Leon E. Smth. Elon’s
president. The new dormitory,
for which the contract was let
a week ago. is to be built in the
immediate future and is expect
ed to be completed and ready
for use next September
The brick gift came from Mil
ton Cheshiret an Elon alumnus
from Sanford, who is owner and
president of the Sanford Brick
and Tile Company. The Sanford
man came to the Elon campus
on Monday of Ibis week and pre
sented a gift pledge for the brick
to President Smith and to Clyde
W. Gordon, of Burlington, who
Is general chairman of the Elon
College Development Fund cam
paign.
Moving ahead with the organiza-
Ition of the Klon College Oevelop-
merit Fund Campaign, which is]
Landscape M ork
de,?ned to raise $1.3M,000 for U liderwaV
the expansion of the college facll- J
The contract for the construc
tion of the new boys’ dormitory on
the Elon College campus was let
to the H. F. Mitchell Construction
Company, of Burlington, according
to an announcement by Dr. Leon
E. Smith’ president of the college,
who stated the contract was closed
at a meeting held in the president’s
office on Wednesday afteinoon,
January 23rd.
In announcing the contract. Dr.
Smith stated that twenty construc
tion firms submitted bids on the
project, with the Burlington firm
as low bidder at $239,920. The
bids ranged all the way to $276,000
for the new structure, with the
majority of them ranging close to
$250,000.
Construction is to start as soon
as materials become available,
and plans call for completion of
the three-story dormitory in time
for use next September at the
opening of Elon’s 1957-58 term. It
was brought out at the contract
meeting that steel and some other
contract materials are short at
this time.
The building is to be of similar
design to Carolina Hall, a boys’
dormitory which was opened for
use last September. It will be three
stories in height and will furnish
housing accommodations for 126
boys. It is to be erected adjacent
to Carolina Hall
The new dormitory will be the
fourth in the current building pro
gram at Elon College, two new dor
mitories and a new dining hall
having been completed last year
in time for occupancy this year.
Five Accepted
For Med And
Dental School
Indicative of the high calibre of
work being done in the natural
science departments here at Elon
College is the fact that no less
than five Elon students have al
ready been accepted this year for
advanced study at the medical and
dental schools of this area.
Announcement was made this
■week by members of the natural
science faculty that Jimmy Sparks,
of Cliffside, Dick Simpson, of Elon
College, have already been accept
ed for madical study at the Bow
man Gray School of Medicine of
Wake Forest College
Already accepted for dental stu
dies at the UniTersity of North
Carolina Dental School at Chapel
Hill are Larry EXirton, of Landis
Wallace Butler, of Burlington; and
Frank Pattishall, of Burlington
Dorton and Butler are graduates
who have been doing special work
•;o meet dental school require
ments, but Pattishall is only a
third-year stduent here at Elon
who has completed dental require
ments^in a shorter period.
Wooten Trustee
For New Group
t*rof. Melvin E. Wooten, who di
rects the student dramatic pro
gram on the Elon College campus,
U one of seven trustees for the
new Arts Association of Alamance
County, which has been formed re
cently and which will sponsor the
first annual Alamance Arts Fes
tival in the National Guard Arm
ory early in May.
Final organization of the group
and the dates for the festival were
completed at a meeting of more
than 100 charter members, which
was held at the Burlington YMCA
last Friday night. Mrs. D. R. Fo°'
ville, of Burlington, Is president
ol the group.
^Bid Night’
Is Set For
February 9
Evening Classes
Sliow Increase
The Elon CoUege Evening
School enrolled 150 new students
at the openin.5 of the second
semester, according to figures
released this week from the of
fice of Miss Hazel Walker, col
lege registrar. However, there
were 82 of the fall semester
Evening School students who fal-
ed to ret»m for one reason or
another after the mid-year ex
aminations, and the nM gam
in enroUment was 64 stodente.
A aoick rundown of the Ev
ening School enwUment shows
that there were 432 students en-
rolled during the fall term,
while the Winter
in night classes included 496
stndente last weekend.
was at that Ume a
that late registraUons might
posh the total over the 50« mark.
Elon Dramatic Majors
Get Thorough Training
The fine dramatic productions I the set that shows arrangements
which are staged by the Elon Play- ot walls and placement of doors,
ers several times each year, furn- windows and furnituer.
ishing pleasure to drama lovers] This rough sketch is then fol-
among the Elon students and fac- lowed by a scaled floor plan and
ulty and the people of the com- a scaled perspective drawing,
munity, do not just spring full-'which in turn is followed by a
blown on the boards of Whitley'water-color sketch to indicate col-
Auditorium or Mc^ney Chapel. |oring design. All of this is follow-
Instead, there are many hours ed by construction from card-
of thought and real work on the!board of other desired materials
part of the actors and the direc- a miniature of the set, also to
tor, but few people realize justlscale, and complete with furni-
how much work must be done be-,ture, drapes and other decorations,
hind the scenes before even the In discussing this course. Prof.
actors themselves can step on the Wooten stated that it follows
stage and begin wowing the au-.the same process that Is used by
dience with their lines and »lever professional stage designers. In-
jgtionj eluded is instructioa and prac-
The realistic stage sets, which tice in the building of full-size
sometimes may portray an inter-1 furniture, doors, windows, stairs
ior of a frontier cabin or a luxur-.and other stage paraphernalia,
ious and modern living room and Indicative of the fine work that
at other times may portray a'is done by the students in this
scene on a tropic isle, do not. just course are the photos of three
,grow out there behind the foot-'such miniature stage sets, which
lights. There are many hours of are printed along with this ^rti-
planning and other hours of build-
ng that precede the lifting of the
curtain.
It is in the interest of this
planning and building that Pro
fessor Mel Wooten conducts his
twin courses in stagecraft, light
ing Jind make-up. Dramatics 27A
is a 2-hour course entitled "Light
ing and Make-Up,” while Drama
tics 27B is a 3-hour course entitled
■'Stagecraft.” Both courses are re
quired for all students majoring
in dramatics.
The course in lighting and make
up is less involved than the one
in stagecraft, for it involves more
study and lectures and can be »»n-
ducted largely in demonstrations
during the regular class period
Of course, there is some construc
tion to be done sometimes in ar
ranging lighting to give desired ef
fects.
The stagecraft course is anoth
er story, for each student must
design and build a miniature stage
set for a certain play, the planning
starting wHh a rough sk»tch of
In keeping with the annual cus
tom, the eight Greek letter fra
ternities and sororities on the Elon
campus will stage their winter
•‘Bid Night” on the second Sat-
arday night in February, which
tails on February 9th on the 1957
calendar.
This is one of two "Bid Night"
events held by the Elon social fra
ternities each year, and by most
jf the Greek letter members it is
regarded as more important than
the fall ceremonies which usually
are held on the second Saturday
night in October
Leading up to this winter "Bid
Night,’’ the fraternities and sor
orities will stage a series of par-i
ties and suppers as ^ feature of
the rushing season, seeking to
prove to prospective brothers and
sisters that one group or the other
,s the right one to join.
The fr;^lernities participating in
the competition for members at
this "Bid Night” program are Al-
iha Pi Delta, lota Tau Kappa,
Kappa Psi Nu and Sigma Phi Beta.
The sororities taking part in the
rushing and pledging of new mem-
r>ers are Beta Omicron Beta, Delta
Upsilon Kappa, Pi Kappa Tau and
Tau Zeta Phi.
ities, the directors ot the huge
drive have just named a number
ot outstanding business loaders to
direct important phases ot the
campaign.
The first announcement came
from B. Everett Jordan, ot Saxa-
pahaw, and Keid A. Maynard, of
Burlington, co-chairmen of the ad
vance gifts division of the drive,
which is to solicit gifts from the
larger business and industrial do
nors. They listed four vice-chair
men. who will in turn enlist work
ers for their own groups.
The vice-chairmen named in
clud» Burlington business leaders.
They are Paul Wofford, Jr., of
Cherokee Flooring Company: E H
Foley, of Security National Bank;
Claude Long, of Wachovia Bank
and Trust Company; and John A
Boland, Jr., of Burlington Indus
tries.
Dr. John Robert Kernodle, of
Burlington, who is chairman ot
the campaign's special gifts divi
sion, has named three vice-chair-
-m?n, all of them from Burlington
They include W. Cliff Elder, hos
iery mill executive: Eugene A
Gordon, attorney; and D. Earl Par-
due, Insurance and real estate man
Each of them has already selected
four assistants, and the assistants
will in turn enlist additional work-
Work is «I-eady underway on
the landscaping program for the
northeastern area of the Elon
campus, contract for which wus
let recently to the Van Lindley
Nurseries, of Greensboro.
The plans call for a complete
new landscape program tor the
campu-s section surrounding the
naiw McEwen Memorial Dining
Hall, the new V'irglnia Hall for
girls. West Dormitory, Ladies
Hall. Carlton Library and Whit
ley Auditorium.
Walks are being laid off and
parking spaces for automobiles
will be relocated and surfaced
in weather resistant style. The
entire area will be sowed in
grass, and an attractive shrub
bery arrangement is t« be plant
ed. The work Is to be completed
in the early spring.
The general gifts division, with
id Hicklin, Burlington insurance
man as chairman, has also an
nounced its leadership personnel,
including one co-chairman and five
fice-chairmen.
Named as co-chairman with
Hicklin is W. S. Leloudis, of West
crn Electric; while the vice-chair
men include Paul Craig, Burling
ton’s mayor, Ralph Payne, oil
compalny executive, Marvin E
Yount, Jr., hospital administrator.
Glenn Pickard, attorney, and Otis
Lackey, dairy company official
Yount is from Graham, while all
the others are from Burlington.
A jyim’oer of committee meet
ings, most of them to be dinner
meets, have been set within the
next two week,s after wliich di
rectors of the drive hope to have
the stage set for solicitation of
gifts.
Players Work
On Show On
Whitley Stage
Rehearsal work is in full sway
in the Elon Player headquarters
over in Mooney Chapel as Prof.
Melvin E. Wooten and his stu
dent thespians prepare tor their
venture into the realm of Shake-
:>pcarean drama with the presen
tation of "Julius Caesar”
The great tragedy by the Bard
of Avon has b«en scheduled for
Whitley Auditorium on Wednes-
lay night. February 20th, and all
efforts will be bent toward a fine
production. The quality of the pro
duction is of special importance in
view ot the fact that the high
school English classes ot this en
tire area will be extended a spe
cial invitation to attend tills show.
In recent years the Barter Play
ers, famous professional theatre
group from Abingdon, Va., has
been presenting Shakespearan pro
ductions on the Elon stage, but
the faculty committee in charge
of this event elected this year to
let the Elon Players do the honors.
There were critics of the Barter
Players who declared the Abing
don group had been ’ hamming”
their Shakespeare, and several felt
that the Elon students might do a
better job in entertaining the high
school visitors.
Faculty Pianist Is Heard In Campus Concert
cle. These three are only a part of
those done in the course this quar
ter. Sets were also done for “Pe
trified Forest,” "Man Who Came
To Dinner,” “The Innocents" and
other plays.
Students enrolled in the stage
craft course this quarter include
Bill Watson, Margaret Sharpe, Bill
Davis, Leslie Johnston, Eddie Rob
bins, Dottie Apple, Wayne Rudi-
i!ill, Stuart Fyke and Emily Hay,
most of them having been seen
in one or more roles in Elcm Player
hows this year or last.
Each of these dramatics majors
in addition to designing the sets
required for this particular course,
is also required before graduation
to produce a full-length play, de
signing the set, selecting the cast,
directing the acting, and planning
and carrying out the promotional
and ticket-selling campaigns. Upon
completion of such a task, the stu
dent would be quite capable of
taking over the dramatics leader
ship in some school.
Playing with brilliance which on-j
iy an accomplished musician can
attain. Prof. Frederick Sahlmaon
A-as heard with pleasure in a piano
concert in Whitley Auditorium on
Monday night of this week.
The Sahlmann appearance was
one of the series of faculty con
certs, which have been presented
annually in recent years under the
auspices of the Elon College Music
Department. His program was the
first of the faculty serie,s this
year. His program was followed
by a reception held in the parlors
of West Dormitory.
The pianist played "Jesu, J»y of
Man’s Desiring” by Bach, “Sona
ta in D Major, K 576” by Mozart,
Je D’Eau (The Fountain)” by
Ravel and “Mephisto Waltz" by
Liszt in the opening potrion of
he program.
After intermission Sahlmann
hen played four preludes from
Eight Preludes for the Plano”
by Frank Martin, two preludes by
RjKihminoff, and “Variations and
Fugue on a Theme of Handel” b>
Brahms.
The Elon pianist had been re-
:eived with equal enthusiasm when
PROF. FRED SAHLMANN
an appearanve before the Sand
hills Music Association in Southern
Pimes. His concert in Southern
Pines was a return engagement,
iiqce he had previously played for
the group in 1953.
Prof. Sahlmann, who graduated
from Elon College in 1952, has
long been ranked as one ot Elon's
most accomplished musical grad
uates. A native of Charlestso, S.
le presented the same program
•he previous Thursday evening in|C., he gained recogtuUoa *s a
pianist while still in high school,
when he was chosen to play with
the Charleston Symphony.
He continued to win acclaim
during his student days at Elon,
being chosen by Dr. Benjamin
Swalin for five consecutive years
to play as a featured artist with
ihe North Carolina Symphony, ap
pearing in Burlington, Greensboro, .
Durham, Winston-Salem and other
cities. While a student he won
first place in the Student Musi-
ciass Artists contest in the state
and also took first place in Mia
South Atlantic ((strict.
After receiving both the A. B.
and B. M, degrees from Elo«, Sahl
mann went on to New York and
received the master’s degree in
music from Columbia University
in 1953.
He had a tour of duty in th>
Army and afterward won a Ful-
bright Fellowship, under which he
studied last year under Prof. Lud
wig Czaczkaes at the Acadenay of
•Music in Vienna. Returning from
Surope last fall, he joimed the
Elon music faculty at the begin
ning of the 1956-57 term. He has
been invited to make six appear'
ances with the North Carolina Sym
phony this season.