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VOLl’ME 37
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 23, 1357
NrMBER THREE
Annual Homecoming Observance Is Set For November 2nd
Campus Parking Rules
Are To Be Enforced
1957... 1 IOMECO:\IING KO i ALT V... 1957
Greek Letter
Groups Pledge
New Members
The Greek letter fraternities and
sororities pledged 34 new mem
bers at the annual autumn “Bid
Nighl” ceremonies, which were
heFd last Saturday night, October
19th after the Elon-Presbyterian
fwtball game.
Alpha Pi Delta led the boys
groups with 8 pledges, while Pi
Kappa Tau led the girls group
with 5 new members. The list of
pledges by groups follows:
alpha pi delta — John Ball,
Burlington: Mike Dobson, South
Norfolk, Va.; Ed Green, Middle
town, Del.; Charles Holt, Burling
ton; Bill Mullins, Hickory, Va.;
Grant Oakley, Burlington; Stuart
Semple, Waterbury, Conn.; and
Vernon Sykes, Norfolk, Va.
IOTA TAU KAPPA — Bucky
Fleming, South Norfolk, Va.; Gil
bert Gates, Covington, Va.; Ron
nie Kinsley, Towanda, Pa.; and
Gene Rhodes, Danville, Va.
KAPPA PSI NU — Mallory
Everton, Norfolk, Va.; Dan Porter,
Benson: and Lacy Slayton, Milton.
SIGMA PHI BETA — Paul
Brutch, Shenandoah, Pa.; Lester
Dodge, Portsmouth, Va.; Jim Di-
Perna, Brackendridge, Pa.; Don
Lichok, Bracnenridge, Pa.; Bob
Orr, Burlington; and Harold Aus
tin, of Pelzer, S. C.
BETA OMICRON BETA — Pam
Dotflemyer, Elkton, Va.
DELTA UPSILON KAPPA —
Reoecca Matthews, Broadnax, Va.;
Barbara McCauley, Mebane; and
Barbara Thomas, Burlington.
PI KAPPA TAU — Ruth Geary,
New Bedford, Mass.; Dorothy Jes
sup, Liberty; Clarice Moore. Bur
lington; Ikey Tarleton, Durham;
and Joan Wrenn, Burlington.
TAU ZETA PHI — Janet Burge,
Sanford; June Campbell, Elon
College; and June Jackson, Row
land.
Student and faculty parking on
the Elon campus, which has be
come an urgent problem in re
cent years after the great increase
in student enrollment, may be set
in order if all students and facul
ty members observe the regula
tions set up by the faculty com
mittee on campus parking.
First step of the parking com
mittee this year was to issue new
parking stickers, which all stu
dents and faculty members are
required to show on their cars.
Members of the parking commit
tee pointed out this week that
many of the students in particular
have failed to attach their car
stickers.
In this connection, it was pointed
out that failure to secure and at
tach the parking stickers will not
in any way avoid the student fines
that have been prescribed. Each
car still carries the state license
numbers, and ownership can be
traced through the license tags.
In any case, the $1 fine for illegal
parking will be assessed and col
lected.
In connection with the collec
tion of the parking fines, it is
pointed out that the college pro
fits in no way by these tines. All
funds thus derived are deposited
in the Student Government Fund
for the use of the students them
selves. Such fines must be paid
before the end of each quarter,
and any student who owes such
parking fines will not be allowed
to take his or her exams until
all such fines are paid. The fines
may be paid at the office of the
college cashier during the day for
day students and at the office of
the college registrar at night tor
Evening School students.
The Parking Committee chair
man, commenting on the situation
this week, pointed out that several
students apparently do not believe
the regulations will be enforced.
In keeping with this observance,
he pointed out that a number of
students who reside in the dormi
tories have persisted in parking
their cars in restricted areas in
absolute disregard of tickets plac
ed on their windshields. He listed
the following examples:
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OM Grads W ill Return
For Weekend Program
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Cleve Gavle
Pal (’.hristnon
Mak! Of
Honor
Elon Players Present Outstanding
Performance In Opening ISew Year
Short Play Set
Thursday Night
In another of their Thursday
night presentations, the Elon
Players will offer “The Mon
key’s Paw,” delightful one-act
prodoctions in the Mooney Cha
pel Theatre at 8:30 o’clock to
morrow (Thursday) night. There
will be no admission charge, and
all students and faculty mem
bers are invited and urged to
attend.
The play will feature a cast
that includes Prof. Clyde Mc-
Cants as Mrs. White, Ikey Tarle
ton as Mrs. White, Chuck Oak
ley as Herbert White, Sam White
as Major Morris, and Linwood
Hurd as Sampson, with Wayne
Rudisill as the director.
Elon Students Are From
Many Different Sources
There are 23 states and six
foreign countries represented
among the 1,469 students at Elon
College for this tall quarter of
the 1957-58 term, and there are
24 different religious denomina
tions with student representatives
M the campus.
This interesting picture of Elon
student distribution was revealed
in a report compiled by Miss Ha
zel Walker, college registrar. The
same report showed students from
43 of North Carolina's 100 coun
ties.
North Carolina quite naturaly
leads the state grouping with
1.220 students tor 83 per cent of
^e Elon enrollment, followed by
'irjinia with 141, Pennsylvania
*>th 41, New York with 13 and
Connecticut witii 11 students.
Other states represented by one
or more include Delaware, Flori
da, Georga, Indiana, Kentucky,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi-
San, Mississippi, Missouri, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio,
Shod* Island, South Carolina,
-ennessee, Vermont, West Vlrgin-
and The District of Columbia,
-ae six foreign countries are Iran,
Pakistan, Korea. Brazil, Japan
and Sarawak.
The Baptists lead among the
religious denominations with 420
students, followed by the Metho
dists with 372, the Congregational
Christians with 204, the Presby
terians with 144, the Catholics
with 65, the Evangelical and Re
formed with 38, the Lutherans
with 35, the Holiness with 30, the
Episctopalians with 24 and the
Quakers with 12. Fourteen other
religious groups have five or less.
Alamance County, as would be
expected, leads the county group
ing with 828 Elon students, with
other leading countries in order
Guilford with 98, Rockingham with
70, Randolph with 37, Orange with
27, Durhatn with 26, Chatham with
22, Person with 13 and Caswell,
Lee, Moore and Vance with 9 each.
Other North Carolina counties
represented at Bion are Forsyth,
Scotland, Wake, Buncombe, Ca
barrus, Caldwell, Camden, Cataw
ba, Chowan, Cleveland, Columbus,
Craven, Cumberland, Davidson,
Davie, Gaston, Granville, Halifax,
Harnett, Henderson, J ohnston,
Martin, Mecklenburg, Nash, On
slow, Rrehmond, Robe.son, Rowan,
Stokes, Surry and Wayne.
Cunningham
To Preside
At Meeting
By JOE RAFF ,
(Guest Critic)
Being a member of the audience I
iliat viewed “The Happiest Days
of Your Lite,” which was present-
pd in Mooney Chapel Theatre for
three nights on October 10th, 11th
and 12th, was testimony enough
that television can never supplant
ihe legitimate theatre.
The play by John Dighton and
presented brilliantly by the Elon
Players was deligthfully alive and
interpretive of a highly successful
brand of British humor.
Acting and directing were su
perb, and if there were a weak
link in the chain of the produc
tion is certainly was not in dan
ger of rupture last night.
The play is built on a strong
theatrical comic foundation — the
oldest form of humor, in fact. Al
most every comic line of situation,
and there were many, had its ori
gin in a false premise or mistaken
identity. The production by the
happily polished troupe provided
conclusive proof that the oldest
comedy form is valid today.
Timing, the essence of good co.-n-
edy, was shaved down to split-
second precision and came across
the footlights easily to thrill an
appreciative first-night audience.
Dr. H. H. Cunningham, dean of An entire cast carried the com-
the college and head of the his- edy thread, but the single perfor-
tory department at Elon College, j mer who put it through the needle
has accepted an invitation from was the bumbling Headmaster of
the Southern Historical Associa- Hilary Hall School for Boys, Eddie
tion to serve as chairman of a | Robbins, was gave a near profes-1
session on medical history when sional performance of Godfrey |
the southwide organization ohlds Pond,
its annual convention in Houston,
Texas, on November 7-9.
The invitation to the Elon his
torian to preside over the session
on medical history comes as a
recognition of Dr. Cunningham s
long research in the medical rec
ords of the South. He is to have
his new volume on the history of
medicine in the Confederate
States published in the near fu
ture by the Louisiana State Uni
versity Press.
The program tor the Southern
Historical Association’s medical
history session will feature the
reading of papers by Dr. Wey
mouth T. Jordon, of Florida State
University; Dr. J. Harvey Young,
of Emory University; and Dr. Ra-
bor Green. Jr., of Georgia State
College. Presentation to the pa
pers will be followed by a discus
sion of the papers themselves by
W. D. Postell, representing the
Louisiana State Univer»ity Press.
H. S. Seniors Are
AsIvcmI I'o (iaine
Seniors from more than 225
high schools in 31 counties of
North Carolina and Virginia are
being invited to attend the Elon-
Western Carolina football game,
which will be the climactic fea
ture of the annual Elon College
Homecoming observance on Sat
urday, October 2nd. This'was an
nounced by Alumni Secretary
William B. Terrell, through
whose office the Invitations have
been extended to the high
schools.
The invitations have gone out
to all high school .senior classes
in 27 North Carolina counties,
including Aiaraance, Caswell,
Chatham, Durham, Forsytik
Franklin, Guilford, Lee, Orange,
Person, Randolph, Rockingham,
Richmond, Vance, Warren,
Wake, Anson, Catawba, Halifax,
Iredell, Mecklenburg, Moore,
Stanly, Stokes, Snrry, Rowan and
Union Counties. Also invited are
seniors from Carrol, Pittsylvan
ia, Henry and Halifax counties
in Virginia.
The biggest and best Elon Col
lege Homecoming in many years
is set for the weekend of Novem
ber 2nd, when the campus will
come alive with hundreds of re
turning old grads for festivities
that get underway on Friday night
.ind continue uninterruptedly un
til Saturday night.
The Homecoming observance will
get underway when the Elon Play
ers sponsor a student "Variety
Show” in the Mooney Chapel The-
atw on Friday night and will fea
ture all-day merriment on Satur
day, when the annual parade, the
football game and the Homecom
ing Ball will set a high tempo of
fun and frolic.
High point of the weekend pro
gram will be the annual football
game between Elon and Western
Carolina, which will be played at
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. This
playing of the game in the after
noon is an innovation this year,
giving alumni from distant points
a better chance to attend and re
turn to their homes before night.
Ruling over all the festivities
as Homecoming Queen will be
charming Cleve Gayle, of Virginia
Beach. Va., with equally charm
ing Pat Chrismon, of Reidsville,
as her Maid-of-HoUi).. Tiie t'..,;
were chosen by vote of the Elon
students in special campus elec
tion held last Friday, and they
will be attended by a royal court
which la to include sponsors from
various campus organizations and
dormitories.
Queen Cleve will first be pre
sented in tile parade, set for 12:30
o'clock on Saturday, November
JVliisic l^overs
Deiiglitecl By
BrahiiLs Niglit
Music jovers of the Burlington
and Elon College area were given
a rare treat last Thursday night
when the Elon College music de
partment presented ‘‘An Evening
of Music By Brahms‘’ in Whitley
Auditorium.
It was the first of the annual
series of faculty music presenta
tions, with Mrs. Joan EUis Alley,
contralto, of Suffolk, Va., featured
as a guest soloist.
Mrs. Alley, who has been heard
with great acclaim in numerous
concerts in the Middle West and
in Eastern Virginia, furnished an
auspicious opening for the pro
gram and set the tempo of enjoy
ment at a high point with her ren
dition of a group of Brahms songs.
In the first of four parts of the
concert, Mrs. Alley showed her
self well versed in the Brahms
style and completely at home in
the use of the German idiom by
her rendition of “Auf Dem See”
(On The Lake), ‘‘Die Mainacht”
(The May Night) and "Wiegen-
lied” (Cradle Song). She was ac
companied by Prot. Jonathan
Sweat, of the Elon music faculty.
Prof. Fred Sahlmann, long hail
ed in this area tor his complete
mastery of the piano, was never
better than in his playing of Var-
2nd, a parade which will move ‘atlons in Fugue On The Theme
through Burlington's Main Street'of Handel. With the Elon pianist
to the stadium, where coronation displaying hU usual artistry, this
ceremonies will be staged as theiWu'' de force was obviously in
feature of elaborate half-time cer- strong and capable hands from
emonies. The quern and her court n-**® note.
will again be presented at thei In a third portion of the pro-
Homecoming Ball, which is set for I gram. Prof. Blake Godfrey sang
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium on group of Brahms songs, includ-
Saturday night. ling ‘‘An Die Nachtingall” (To The
The plans for the 1957 Home-'Nightingale), “Die Mainacht” (The
The plot moves in slowly but^
quickens steadily as it progresses j
toward its ultimate hilarious I ^ Variety Show
Variety Show
Will InitUite
Homecoming
Initiating the Elon Homecoming
comii^ are moving ahead under
the sponsorship of Alumni Secre
tary William B. Terrell and through
the efforts of a number of stu
dent committee.3. Leading the stu
dent preparations is Student Body
President Jerry Loy, who has the
able assistance of the members
of Sigma Mu Sigma Fraternity.
Carl Burke, of Burlington, presi
dent of Sigma Mu Sigma and drum
major of the band, leads the fra
ternity group in its preparations.
The Sigma Mu Sgma organiza
tion has complete charge of pa
rade arrangemetns and the half-
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May Night) and “O Liebllche Wan-
gen” (Your Cheeks Are So Rosy).
Prot. Godfrey appeared to be in
unusually fine voice and displayed
skill in his handling of the Ger
man language. His final song was
sunny in spirit and gave a gay
lilt to the evening. His accompan
ist was his wife, Mrs. Bettie Comp
ton Godfrey.
Mrs. Alley, as the featured
guest, climaxed the evening pro
gram when she returned as .solo
ist in “Alto Rhapsody," in which
she appeared with a male chorus
from the Elon College Choir. Prof,
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Hilary Hall is a public (in this
country — a private) school in
Hampshire, England.
Through a school shortage, an
other school is to be added to
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FLASHU
The Christian football squad will
meet the Davidson Wildcats at
Davidson on Saturday afternoon.
This game was scheduled today
following notification from Ca
tawba that the Elon-Catawba
battle Saturday was cancelled due
to an epidemic of flu which struck
the Catawba squad this week. At
the same time Presbyterian can
celled on DavidKon, paving the
way for the Elon-Davidson contest.
by the Elon Players, which will
' be presented in Mooney Chapel
j liieatre on Friday night, Novem
ber 1st, under the direction of
! Prof. Clyde McCants.
Among those to appear on the
evening program are Carols Mum-
power, dancer; Jo McQuade, danc
er; Nancy Greeae, singer; Dixie
Edwards, singer; Dorothy Apple,
monologuist; Walter Scott, singer,
and the Mad Hatters Quartet.
Other performers, including a cho
rus line are in rehearsal, a.id both
students and ahimni attending are
assured of a full evening of fun.
Working with Prof. McCants in
production of the variety produc
tion is a student committee that
includes Wanye Rudisill
and Fred Badaksh.
Daiiieley Inauguration
To Be Held Next March
Inauguration ceremonies for Dr.
J. E. Danieley as president of Elon
College will be held In a three-
day series of programs on the Elon
College campus next March 9th,
10th and 11th, according to plans
mapped at a meeting of a special
commiflee of trustees which was
held here last Thursday.
The formal inauguration itself
will be held on March 11th in
Elon’s huge Alumni Memorial
Gymnasium, which will accom
modate a much larger crowd than
would be possible in the college
auditorium.
Dr, Danieley, an Elon graduate
who was formerly Dean of the
College, wa.s named to the pres
idency last March and assumed
hi.s duties on July 1st. His Initial
Lois Kidd I year as pre.9ident has been mark
ed thus far by a record enrollment
and exceptional success in the col
lege activities.
The trustee group planned a
number of special committees to
complete arrangements for the
inaugural programs, and announce
ment was made that invitations
will go to delegates from various
colleges, universities and educa
tional as.sociations, and also to all
trustees, faculty, students, alumni
and friends of Elon College.
Trustees composing the special
committee meeting here last week
included Reid A. Maynard, of Bur
lington, who was named chairman
of the group; Secretary of State
Thad E. Eure, of Raleigh, who is
chairman of the Board of Trus
tees; George D. Colclough, of Bur
lington; Mrs. J. M. McEwen, of
Burlington; Mrs. Frances Wilkins,
of Virgilina, Va.; and Dr. George
Alley, of Suffolk, Va.