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PAGE TWO Mdf'ooti And Gold I Entered as second class matter at the 'Post Office at S^on College, N. C. ondei the Act of March 8. 1879. Dellver»d by mall. $1.50 the college year. 50c the quarter. Edited and printed by students of Elon College. Published bi-weekly during the college year under the auspices of the Board of Publication. editorial board Chuck Oakley - Editor-in-Chieir John Biggerstaff Assistant Editor Walter Edmonds Assistant Editor James Humphrey - Staff Photographer JO Jones - - Staff Typist Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor PUSINESS BOARD James Biggerstaff Business Mgr. Phillip Sexton Printing Advisor John Avila Circulation Mgr. Worden Updyke Press Operator SPORTS STAFF Bill Walker Sports Editor RFJORTERS Dec Alston Joyce Rob Bell Richard Lashlcy Mai Bennett Marianne McEvoy Ladson Cubbage Jo McQuade Frank DeRita Ann Minter Barbara Ellis Elizabeth Morris Lloyd Farthing Robert Orr Charles Foster Rol>ert Rickover Kuth Geary Jane Robinson Richard Guite Jack Sutton Robert Hall Henry Walters Paul Heath Jackie Williamson Yvonne Winstead WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1957 MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, DecenAer n 195! 12^^ CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Once more the Yuletide season is up»n us. Even if we did not know it by the signs in the store windows and by the brightly lighted street decorations of our neighboring towns and cities, we would know it by the spirit of joy and anticipa tion which glows in the hearts and faces of our friends here at Elon. It is barely one more week until the students and faculty of the college will be turning their faces in many directions, heading home for the mid-winter vacation that always seems the most joyous of all the year. If only this Yule spirit could emanate from this Christmas season through all the year, with its spirit of grnerous giving, would it not make of this world a won derful place in which to live. In keeping with the seakon spirit, let us wish for each of you that your Yuletide may glow brightly with good cheer, that every heart may be lighter, every friend ship may be warmer and every hour may be richer in happmess and contentment. under the oaks With CHUCK OAKLEY CONGRATULATIONS to the footbaU team, the North State Conference cham pions of the 1957 season! No matter what was decided at the Conference meeting, students of old Elo’ were convinced in their own minds that night when Elon •walKed and Lenoir Khyne crawled off that Held up at Hickoiy. CUNGRArUUATlONS, too, to Bob Stauf- fenberg, tne mosi outstanding player of the season, and to Toiiy Carcaterra, who made the All-State teum along with Bob. The wiioie team deserves whole-hearted praise, a» does Coach Sid Varney, the CoiiLn 01 the Year.” Basketball take* over, and here at Elon The quintet is showing good talent despite the fact that it got away to a losing start in the opening game. Students believe that tvitii sucn newcomers as Rob Bell, Eddie Burke, and C. G. Hall in there with last year’s Frank DeRita, Gil Watts, Larry Bul la and Buddy Way, something is bound to be achieved. School spirit was not exactly what it should have been at the first basketball game last week. It takes many hours of stiff practice for the players, and those guys even game up their holidays to get ready for the early games. The least we can do is to show appreciation of their efforts and achievements. The Elon Players’ second major produc tion of the year is scheduled for this week . . . "All My Sons,” a dramatic master piece by Arthur Miller (Marilyn Monroe's liu.^band) will be presented for Wednes day, Thursday and Friday nights at 8; 30 o'clock, and it doesn't cost a cent lor stu dents. All they need is their student acti vity cards, since a certain portion of the student activity fees are allocated to dra matics. So, students have really paid for their admission and should take advantage of it. Elon and the Maroon and Gold is repre sented in the North State Conference news paper contest, with the first meeting of the Conference newsmen held at Catawba last Saturday. An award will be given the best paper at the new meeting. No award was offered last year, but Elen received high honors. The Elon College Choir is making prep arations for its touring season, and there is talk that one trip this year may be a southern one, maybe te Miami. Chit-Chat On Physics Department Tour ,. One Wonders What Is To Be Found PARKING ON CAMPUS The question of automobile parking on the campus continues to be a problem and a sore spot in the life of Elon College stu dents, faculty and staff personnel, and that fact is true to a great extent because a few persons continue to ignore the regu lations which have been set up to control the parking problem. At the beginning of the year a complete set of parking regulations were set up. and parking spaces were set aside for the u.se of various groups. In most cases the areas were marked into single car spaces, the , better to guide the driver in their obser vance. Also, the college provided stickers of various types and set up machinery to provide each car owner or operator with a suitable sticker. The great majority of the people in volved have attempted to observe the rules, but there are two groups which have con tinued to be “mud in the eye” for the en tire situation. Those two groups are the drivers who have violated the parking rules repeatedly by placing their cars in forbidden areas time and again and the ones who have failed to place a sticker upon their cars as prescribed by rule. These groups have seemingly taken the attitude that members of the parking com mittee and even the rules themselves are persecuting the car owners. This is not true, for one member of the parking committee commented this week that the entire pro gram is operated with a view to makir\g Elon a better place in which to work and study. Human experience through the centuries has proven that some sort of rules or laws arc necessary if people are to live together without friction and trouble, and these campus parking rules are just as neces sary to smooth and amicable campus life. Af such, they deserve the full cooperation of all persons and all groups.—CONTRI BUTED. L-.dti'stand Ed Juratic is coming Christ mas. Wonder what the interest is? . . . Patti Michaud and Dixie Edwards painted the Capital City over the holidays. Won der why Patti journeyed home alone on Saturday night? Bob Rickover looks a bit happier. Maybe he likes scouting for "Doc” . . . What girl from Elon has taken an interest in Appalachian? Ask June C . . . Woodrow Brown now looks complete. His side-kick, Maxie Garrett, is back. Wel come! ... By the way, Woodrow, did that Band-Aid across your nose help you get a date? . . . Did Glenn Varney get lost during Thanksgiving? Seen in Townsville and not in Durham . . . Jane Davis and Marjorie Putman really hit New York. Is there anything left? ... Has everyone seen Louann’s new watch? Mighty nice • . Maybe she would wear a magnifying glass over her rock. One young nan is having a hard time seeing it . . . "Rocks, rocks, rocks!” says Linda Simpson in Geo logy Lab, but she likes the one on her linger much better . . , Peggy Zimmer man spent the holidays in Charlotte. Must be .serious . . . What happened to June Jackson’s secret love? I’m sure he'll be back ... The trio, John S., Lacy S. and Zac W., seem to be doing O. K. at W. C. . This boy John is really snowed Fraternity pins seem to come and go at Elon. Maybe the girls ju.>*t can't make up their minds . . . Arthur Pitts, Jack Ken nedy and Hank Carmines did CAROLINA HALL A FAVOR recenUy . , They moved »ut . . . Leigh Wills and Frank Robert son are running a race to see who wiU be the Yul Brynner of Elon College Bookstore situation is improved, but it could still be better . . , Billie Faye Bar rett never sits in a car at a Drive-In movie. Ask her where she siU . . , The "mouse” is back on the campus ... Bill Branch and Jimmie Fentress are on a diet. It consists of orange juice and . , . Gordon Yancey will play the Utle role in 20tb Century Fox’s re-release of “Moby Dick.” . . . Who's the new day !tudent bomb-hell? Can anyone of the twenty guy* at tne Qon- Belmont Abbey game tell me? . .■. Red is getting to be a popular color around the cumpus (especially hair) . . . Now, back to my cubby-hole for (wo weeks. By JO MrQUAPE Each fortnight the M & G as- ftignments come out. Mine reads Write a feature on all the things of interest you find on the ground floor of the Artelia Roney Duke Memorial Science Building. The . . . ? Oh, the science build ing. Several seconds later, I have entered the door that is the "South Entrance ’ and, notebook and pen cil in hand, I start down the hall. Big cables, little needles, motors, pulleys, barometers, hooks, plus countless other me’tal monisliers glare at me from either side. And all is quiet . . . creepy quiet. I pass two empty class rooms, then one door that says "Genera tors” and another, the "Electri city” room. Then, Eureka! Life. The plaque on the door says “pro fessor,” but he looks pretty hu man so I venture in. Do you know anything about this building?” That was my query Well, not much.” he replied with a grin. However, he DID design the first floor of it and has been professor of physics here since 1922. He is Professor Alonzo Lohr Hook, and a subsequent glance in to the college catalogue shows he joined the faculty in 1914, he is also Chairman of the Department of Mathmatics, Director of the Placement Bureau, and for thirty- four years was Academic Dean; also that he got his A. B. and M. A. Degrees from Elon, his M. S. at Cornell University, and then did graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chi cago and Duke University. And The War Started He's married—"Very much so”, he says—to the former Jessie Irene Dawson of Elon. They were wed in 1914, the year of the First World War. “That’s when it start ed,” he said. "No joke. During our honey moon, we were getting off the train at Union Station in Wash ington, and a paper boy met us with "War is declared!” Professor Hook is the father of four—all girls, each of whom is an Elon graduate—and grandfa ther of twelve—two girls and ten boys. Here is the roundup; The eldest, Sara Virginia, grad- K>OW THY ELON It was one of the great phil osophers who said, “Know Thy self,” and it is quite appropri ate to paraphrase him and say, “Know Thy Elon.” It is also true that there are many stu dents who never find all the wonders that exist within the walls of various Elon depart ments. With a view to correcting that condition and informing F.Ion- ites of some things that many never see, the Maroon and Gold is sending one of its operatives on tour of various Elon depart ments. First of all is this tour of the physics department, with in which many wonders are to be found. uated with a B. A. in English and Darmatics, and is now Mrs. H. W. Burton of Atlanta, Georgia. Her husband is a Doctor of Internal Medicine and they have two boys and two girls. Next was "supposed to be Alon zo Hook Jr.” but fate would have it Jessie Irene (Jr.). She got her 5. A. in English with a minor in Phys. Ed. and is now married to Dr. M. C. Covington of Sanford They have four iKjys. Mary Jeanne, third of the Hook girls, graduated with a B. A. in English and Music (Voice). She and her husband. Dr. D. B. Har rell Jr., are the parents of three boys and live in Concord. Last is Doris Patricia, who broke the pattern by majoring in Bus iness Administration and was Sec-| retary to the Secretary of State for four years. She and her hus band, E. J. Neal Jr., live in Ra leigh and have one boy. "So much for that,” Professor Hook concludes, and, rising, of fers me a free tour of the depart- .Tient he designed. The Tour Begins We start in the hall. T« one side iits something that looks like an oversized outboard motor. But it isn’t. Under the detachable metal top, it’s a non-magnetic, direction al compass found on ships. If it tilts one way, you're going that way and if it tilts the other way, you're going that way. And if it tilts both ways, you’re seasick. Nearby is a stack of gadgets ! and instruments that Prof. Hook tells me is surplus equipment. On top there’s what resembles a four dimensional sun-dial with Al, Nl, A2, and N2 on respective pointers. Actually it's a transmitter used in aviation, I learn, and if I've ever seen an air map, I should know about the A’s and N s. I haven’t. Under a table some feet away, I see a black, grimey-looking thi»g which is nothing but "a motor to operate a generator.” Next item is a mounted motor —complete with crank—of a Mo del T. It worns, too. And on the other side there’s an iron-lung type of whatcha-ma-callit that turns out to be a super-charger for a B-29. "This”, explains Prof. aook, "is what enables jets to fly higher than regular planes. You know, of course, that the air gets hinner as you go higher. So this super-charger takes the air into here and then it . . “Oh, I see.” (I do?) A little further on, I bump into long wooden box-uv-a-thing resting on top of a sturdy metal tand. My guide says this is the remains of a reflecting telescope A-hich his classes built some years back. (Maybe they could recon struct it and use it to sight the .satellite America will go ahead and launch after John Public is scared out of more taxes.) Close to the telescope is a table, decked with wires and cables and meters, etc. These make up a test ing board for motor-generator sets. There’s Even A Still Now here’s something we don’t tell EVERYBODY about,” Prof. Hook calls. "But since you’re from West Virginia and I’m from West Virginia—” “You’re from West Virginia?” “Yes. Hampshire Coun ty. One of a family of eight. I remember—nah, now as I was say ing, something we don't tell just everybody is that we have a ‘still' here.” So that’s how West Virginia’s reputation is perpetuated, I think as the professor drags out a black cylindrical-shaped object—which isn’t a good old mountain "still” after all but only a distilling unit for modern day Ancient Mariners. on the campus JOHN BIGGERSTAFF (Continued on Page Four) Around With Square By WALTER EDMONDS IT SEEMS TO ME; There is p great difference between the words “fighting” and "benevo lent”. Webster defines them in real definition as follows; Fight ing is a violent struggle for victory: attempting to subdue, or defeat an enemy in a contest. One the other hand, Mr. Web ster defines benevolent as di»- posed to do good, to promote happiness and prosperity am«ng others. A little over a week ago a proud group of boys and coach ing staff stepped back humbly to watch another only step up and be crowned the North State Conference Champions for the third year in succession. The irony of the whole coro nation is that only a few weeks ago the once-proud group smash ed the newly-crowned cham pions in a football game, in which they had everything to lose and nothing to gain it seems. What laurels do we have now? Can it be that one is greater in defeat than in victory. SQUARE CUTS: Would it be appropriate to write an obituary column for this quarter’s first issue or not? There are so many familiar faces gone. I guess not go we won’t . . . Mike E. is giv ing it another try this quarter. Sure hope he succeeds this time . . . Woody Brown has got a new expression, “Winston - Salem girls look good like a female should,” he just seems to mel low with age . . . Have you ever heard of anyone painting a floor with cold water paint, and then getting perturbed when it came up from a scrubbing. Buddy Smith did. Brilliant!!! Arthur (I’ve-got-a-secret) Pitts has re signed his presidency of Caro lina Hall . . . The grapevine has it that Carolina Hall Room 205 is in for another “Heartbreak Hotel” season . . . Note to the faculty: Sarah Barringer has been holding hands. Naughty girl!!! Maybe she's trying for another cheeseburger or two . Margie Putman has finally made .some secret plans up North . . . Gregg has moved once again, to East Dorm this time . . . VIGNETTE: Bob Stauffenberg, Elon’s All American candidate has received numerous plaudits from surrounding sports scribes and coaches. He takes a second place to none and that means not even to the heralded "Rock- ing Rocket.” He is Desire and Stamina with capital letters. He will go down in armals of Elon’s gridiron history as one of the greatest. He truly deserves a tip of the "old chapeau” . MEMORANDUM; . . . Elon College would have had a ban ner year for the 1957 year if it had not been for the decision made at High Point. The bas- ketballers of Coach Doc Mathis won the Carolina small college championship. The baseballers of Coach Sanford won the North State Conference Championship and Elon’s Fighting Christians football squad staked a solid claim to the football supremacy. WHIMSY SIDE: Woody Wood- house did not go home one week end . . . Bobby Orr plans a visit to Tidewater in the near future . . . Many Virginians were glad to see the Cavaliers fleece the cotton from the ears of the Tarheels. Just goes to (how you miracles never seem to cease . . . Bucky Fleming, the sunsllme of the dancing world, has accomplished the three r’s, which are reading, rit- ing, and the road to Carolina since he has been at Elon. TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN : It would be sucit a plea sant gesture if a little^heat could be administered into^ Alamance Classrooms. Elon College’s "kit ty” is not hurting that bad. Peo ple are only asking for their money's worth, and it is only natural . . . "The Dugout” for merly Pedro’s is being operated by Jack McKeon and cohort. Friendly place for hot baseball debate. Pizza is of the best qual ity, too. Pay ’em a visit real soon . . , Leigh Wills has been appointed president of Carolina Hall . . What’s Turner Win ston banging around the South ern Grill for . . . Pittsburg Pi rate organization was bolstered recently upon the signing of Bud dy Moretgomery, formeir Elon outfielder . FINIS: I’ve got to close hur riedly tonight. Wyatt Earp is on T. V. . . . Bye For Now! It’s welcome back to the campus af what I hope was a happy and safe Ihaifc giving season, and almost before we g^t that said we find ourselves wishing ahead to a bright and merry Christmas vaej. tion. One can hardly get settled and start ed on this new Winter Quarter bclore that other holiday looms just ahead. Oft To A Good Start U is great to sleep late and make it u class just in time to finish that snoo« while the professor calls the roll, but nn- tritionists say that you wouldn't think i| driving a car without fuel and neither caa the body run without a good breakfast, In a report just released it slates that ten years of research have shown that ii. rilibility, headaches and tiredness all in. dicate that the sugar level has dropped because of not eating for sevcrai houit In the cases studied, whether the sub ject was 12 or 83 years old, tests proved that he or she showed decidedly more phy. sical and mental alertness, speed and en durance after a good breakfast than whai he or she had none at all. Poor breakfast habits indicate Ciat this causes many accidents. So, you see it doesn't matter whether you're on the ath letic field, on the stage or sitting at a desk, a good breakfast is a good start lor a good day. So eat hearty tomorrow morn ing. Man And Messages Man has had two gifts that have wrought much good. The first was that humans alone of all creatures, could reach their triends through the paths of .speech. Also human hands, instead of paw or claw, had fingers which could be trained to drai pictures of things seen, and from that de rived our alphabet. Speech and writing, one must allow, makes the way of life that we all know now. Moment by moment, night or day, words and messages speed away by wire or rail or by plane and over radio, T. V. and tele phone, news, fiction, sermons, guesses and gossip, science and fact. In a sad, glad, triumphant way they crowd the cables and leap through space. May the truth over the false transcend, bring us peace and wis dom in the end. Vngnarded Moments Doris, how is your old Grandad these days? Or is he already out of commission! Price of eggs in China? Well, they're going sky high—ne way or the other! If you spot a tell, lanky, pleasant look ing chap wandering through the halls i looking rather lonesome show your bes. smile and introduce yourself. He’s Floyd Parker from Oxford, and a transfer (too Carolina. Get busy. Girls! If you’ve passed a cute red head walking J around the campus and don't know bet name . . . Well, here's a hint: Sylvia Sims, transfer from Wake Forest, lives in ston-Salem but is currently residing in Room 304, Virginia Hall. For more detail! contact her roommate, Sarah Barringer. Residents of Garrison's Grill have In come fond of dedicating records like "Apr'l Love” to the smallest member in Virgini* HaU. Rumor has it that a rather large per centage of Elon “men” have been spendlnt a lot of time in Greensboro with certain students from G. C. To the interested party . ■ there is” any infomation to be found in Richmo , so this writer would strongly advise tha you waste not your time, energy, or inoneJ- Since when are two roommates nisf ried to two football players. Any two piff' ers will do, since they get in games cheap er that way. I hear that Ea.stern Airlines has been re-routed through Asheboro. Any comment. Gaddis? A certain Freshman Girl has stars i» her eyes over a eertain .sophomore boy- Know what I mean S. M.? He'd be to look into the matter! Boots Kidd is running the "Cheesebur ger” Kid a close second. With two hacol lettuce and tomato sandwiches, a ham burger, and two cups of coffee. Her row- mate wouldn’t let her have anything w®re to eat. Wasn’t that naughty of D? Prom The Files If T.V. straiBfi the eyes, my guess is The blame is on the V-neck dre.'Se*- Christmas cheer ean bring disaster- Best beware of the morning after. Thought For Today The band of seeiety consists of reasos and speech—CICERO. .
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