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volume 37
F.I.OX COLLFGE. N. C.
WEDNESDAY.0CTO8E.', 9, i;>67
Is Planned
October 19 th
The four social frateinilies and
[our sororiiles on the Elon Col-
■eoe campus will sta^e l«eir first
sem-annual "aid Nigiif of the
1957-58 term on' Saturday night,
October 19th, at which time pros
pective new members will have an
opportunity to accept bids and be
pledged to the various Greek-li4-
Itr M'ganizations.
The rushing of prospective
members by the eight social groups
was to get underway this week,
with each of the fraternities and
sororities playing host to their
rushees at a series of rush parties.
The rushing season will continue
through the aext ten days and will
coir.e to an official close with the
"Bid Night” parties after the Elon-
Presbyterian football game.
The Elon custom is that accep
tance of an invitation to the "Bid
Night” party of any group auto
matically signifies acceptance of
a bid to become a member of
that group. Students interested in
joining any of the groups must
have completed one quarter of
work with an average grade of
•C' or better.
The four fraternities include
Alpha Pi Delta, Iota Tau Kappa,
Kappa Psi Nu and Sigma Phi
Beta, while the four sororities in
clude Beta Omicron Beta, Dolta
Upsilon Kappa, Pi Kappa Tau and
Tau Zeta Phi. Each of the eight
organizations were formed on the
Elon campus during the 1920’s.
'M'
ON ELON
sta(;e
SCENES
The scenes from the Elon Col
lege stage up in the Moone,.'
Chapel iheatie. as porirajcd o.i
this wore cau?ht l-v tl'•
roving campus photographer
during rehearsals for John Digh-
ton's screaBiiiigly funny comedy,
“The Happiest Days of Your
Lite,” which will be presented
by the Elon Players in tJic Moo
ney Theatre for three nights this
weekend, with the first yresca-
tati>n scheduled for 8:30 o'clock
tonight. Portrayed at the left are
Ann Minter, of Martinsville, V»..
and Chuck Oakley, ot Koxboro.
who appear in the romantic roles
of the Dighton production. Both
h.ive appeared in previous J i n
Player productions and have
born praised highly for their
eailier roles. If They portray
tch romai'-tic roles, then p^*r-
haps the picture at the right
might be said to portray the re
luctant romanticist in the per
son of Sam White, of Pittshoro.
and Ikey Tarleton. of Durham,
w'ao pursues White much against
his will. Each of these student
performers appear in the roles
cf faruity members for either
Hilary Hall School tor Boys or
St. Swithin’s School for Girls.
Freshtnan Chiss ISames Officers
Jack Collins, of BratUeboro, Vt.,
is the president of the Elon Col
lege freshman class for this 1957-
5R college year and will lead the
activities for the Class of 1961 in
various campus affairs.
The new freshman class leader
was chosen at an election held on
Monday morning of this week, with
the balloting conducted under the
5uper\’ision of Student President
Elon Players Offer First Show Of Season
Student Dramatic (iroiip To Enact
Comedy Of Life In Boarding School
AU-Bmhins
Preaeutation
October 17 th
An ‘‘All-Brahms" program of
music will be presented by the
;ion Colii;.e mu^i- department in
Wliitley .\udi!mium next Thursday
■ night, October 17th, HCCDrdir.g to
an announcement made this week.
The program la set for 8:15 o'clock
and the public is invited.
The program will feature Mrs.
loarme KUis .\lley, currently a
resident of Suffolk, Va., who is
recognized throughout the Middle
West as an outstanding oratorio
soloist and artist. She w ill be ^uest
artist tor the Elon music deport
ment at that time, when she will
be accompanied by I’rot. Jonathan
Sweat in presenting a group of
■Brahms Songs For Contralto.”
.Mrs. Alley, who has made fre
quent oratorio appearances in the
■Middle West is a graduate ot
Northwestern University and has
done additional graduate viork in
Chicago.
Other features of the same pro
gram irtclude ‘Four Son,»s fur
Women's Ghc(.us,” acconipianied
hv Iwo French horns and piano;
r'd ‘Tile ilralims Khapsody for
■Mto ard Male ( horus," directed
by Prof. .lohn Westmoreland and
accompanied by Prof. Fletcher
Moore.
There will also be a group of
Brahms piano works by Prof. Fred
Sahlmann and a group of Brahms
' songs by Prof. Blake Godfrey, who
I A-lll be accompanied by his wife.
Jerry Loy and under the auspices;
of the Student Government. i
The first-year students at the j
Same time chose David Thomas,
Joyuor Nciv Prcsidctil i)f Choir
Vernon Joyupr, of \^ alters, ■
a senior music major, is the new
president of the Elon College
Choir, bein? chosen at the choir's
same time chose uavm .noma*., Lau-hter promises to come loud headmaster, and one of (he most ;n- ifter arriv.M of a letter which,meeting in Oc_
of Norfolk, Va.. as vice-president; | frequently when the Elon Perplexing problerns ts how ^ to changers ^,e^ w^ o , l^rchoTsree hLs year.
,rir^n‘’shr of ya„d stm keep the:as Godfrey Pond and Nancy Hoyd | „„.eers chosen_at the same
retary-treasurer; Faye Gordon, o:
Suffolk, Va.. as freshman member
of the Honor Council: and Duke
Daly, of Norfolk, Va„ as class rep
resentative to the Student Legis
lature. .
Violinist Will Be First
Of Civic Music Artists
Moumst, wno just laSl yeai mau „P„DramS uoon th-ro ,re .->11
D.,.v.„, Tl.. p»bu».
Va., play the chief romantic roles.
Others in the cast are Sam
White, of Pittshoro; Ikey Tarle-
on. of Durham; Wayne Iludi'ill
'of Catawba; Linwood Hurd, of
,, any simpler when the headmaster
The scene of the three-act com-' collides with Miss Whitchurch the
edy, which proved a crowd-pleas-'domineering old maid who is head
er on the professional stage is ' ° "■ Z* '
laid at Hilary Hall School for School. In the general conhnlon.
Boys and it might just a.s appro- the boys and theiV school rnasters
oriately have been called Hilarious find themselves getting quite def-
Hall, for it proves just exactly! initely the worst end of the bar-
that’when the girls from St. Swi-j ;ain.
thin's School for Girls move into The situation assumes a critical
the boys’ dormitory. iturn when the parents learn of
in the unexpected and unwant-1 the mix-up and are about to re-
school move their children from the
his debut in Carnegie Hall and
who has received much praise
for his playing in New York, Lon
don and other European cities.
will appear in Whitley Auditorium -lerts set for tois y. . .
next Monday night in the firs Ferrante and Te-.cher, du^p amsts.
concert of the annual Alamance'to
Civic Music Association series. .nationwide acclaim
The concert, which will ge m have re —,
department. Elon stuaems a.,a invasiu.. u. .... j , they learn the
free to the programs upon (akp, plac?. •h'''-'? are .-H ■=■>'ts r> l^o^iools. H .ve c . y
presentation of a student activity '.oblemsjor Godfrey Pond, the j^u^h, and there is a happy t.id-
next in the series of c.n-! ANOTHER MIRTHFUL SCK%E FROM NEW SHOW
leaders in staging a tea-dance and
supper for the choir at Erieden’s
Church Hut on Saturdiiy eveninu,
October 5th. Abont 65 were pres
ent for the occasion, which fea-
ured candle-llRht effects and
brunswick stew, deliciously con-
cocted by Prof. John Westmore-
meetlng were James Compton, After the period of dancing
Cedar Grove, vice-president; “"«* | ihe choir mem-
Kay Thomas, of Burlington, secre-1 and
aI’v-treasurer. Compton is i sen*
lor, while Thomas is a sophomore, ent attended the EIon-Appalachian
The new choir officers were football game. » ^
About Russian Satellite
Physics Prof Conunents '
Commenting on the Russian sa- grow and be developed as we find
teiute, which has attracted wide- today a necessity. He pointed out
that everyone realives that devel-
New Britain, Conn.; Joan Marek,
.f Forest Plains. N. J.; Mary Ann
Hartwell, of Barnstable. Mass.;
Guy Lambert, of Providence. R.
!.; Dale Herbert, of Norfolk, Va.;
i.id Gordo:i Vtincey, ot Clarks
ville, Va.
The play, which is to be pr'i- jpreaj attention aU over the
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derway at 8:l.i o’clock ne.'^t Mon
day night, is the first of tlie an
nual series of programs which are
presented each year on the Elon
ca-.Tipus through the cooperative
sponsorship of the civic music or-
IN CONCERT
O^RIEL BANAT
(or concerts, have made seveiai;
recordings and appear regularly
on radio and TV network pro-
grams. , ,
Frank Guearrera, the Metropol
itan Opera’s leading American
baritone since 1948, a winner on
the Met .-Auditions of the Air, will
be the aryist fcir the February
10th concert, also to be given in
Whitley Auditorium. Guarrera.
renowned for radio and television
concerts, including the Firestone ,
Hour, has been engaged by Tos- ,
cinini for La Scale Milan perfor-
mances and is an audience fav^
orite in titel roles in ‘ Rigoletto,
Barber of Seville,” as Marcello :
in ‘‘La Boheme,” as Escamillo in '
■Carmen” and as Scarpio in “La
Tosca.”
Fpnal concert in the ieries. 5ei
for Monday night, March 17th,
will be a program by Mariquita
Moll, soprano, who has sung as
soloist with the New York Phil
harmonic Orchestra and the Bal
timore Symphony Orchestra. She
appeared with Symphony ot the
Air. sang with the Boston Sym
phony Orchestra and has given
several performances with the
New York City Opera.
.U frnm the new Elon Player Show, the shock proves almost too much for Ediie
In another ^ Godfrey Pond, headmaster of Hilary Hall School for Boys.
Robbins, of Greensboro v^ho s hen that a group of gi is from St. Swithin’s School for
The hit^ the h^dma him are Joan Ma ak, of Forest Plain. N. J.. one of
Girls ‘s billeted chuck Oakley, of Roxboro. and San White of Pittsboro, two of the
Instr^rtors'^at mary Hall. It is only one of many comedy-laden moments in the show, which opens
at 8:30 o’clock tonight in Mooney Chapel Theatre.
world. Prof. A. L. Hook, long
the head of the Elon College phy-
• ics department, told his Klon
class in advanced mechanics this
week that the satellite is just an
example of major developments
in applied phy.sics which have
been going on continually since
the days^ of Gallileo.
In discussing the mechanics of
lie satellite development. Prof.
Hook referred to the experiments
of Madame Curie. Roentgen, Mill-
,kan and Fermi and to the modcr;-
developments in the various tiema
i>f communication and tran.'.por-
‘ation. He pointed out that the
fields w>hich have grown to larger
proportions are lh« telephone, ra
dio, television, automotive device:,
and the airplane industry, all of
hich have overcome barriers of
space.
He cited the fact that each of
hese industries now employ thou
sands of individuals, and he de
clared that, in order to have em
ployment for the millioBs yet un
born, it will be necessary to cre
ate new avenues of industry and
new methods of application tor
he ide.is which are interesting to
mankind.
Declaring that the idea of space
travel will challenge the imagina
tion and reality of mankind, Proi,
Hook noted that within recent
years only a few people would be
lieve that such applications of
the principles of physics could
opment of space travel is expect
ed to be expen.sive and difficult.
He pointed out that the next
development must be a method to
control gravity, and he explained
that there is a gravitational field
around the earth similar to the
ma-cnetic field, which accompanies
a magnet. Man has discovered
how to control the magnetic field
and make it oiiey human biuding,
and Professor Hook says the next
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PHYSICS PROF