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ELON COLLEGE, C.
WEDXESDAY, JANL'ARV 15. 1938
Nl'MBER 7
^ew Boys^ Dormitory Opened To Students This Week
Xry-Outs Set
For Playei-s’
Newest Siiow
HALL IS N.UIEI) TO HOiNOR FOiniER PRESIDENT
The Elon College Players will
,recent Arthur Miller’s “The Cru
cible" as their next full-ienstli
theatre production at the college,
Prot. Melvin E. Wooten, lac-
„lly director of dramatics, has an-
Munced try-outs for parts in the
npw play to be held in Moonoy
Chapel Theatre at 8 o'clock Thurs
day night of this week.
Ill announcing “The Crucible
as the next Player show, Prof
Wooten pointed out that the cast
offers twenty outstanding roles,
and he is particularly anxious to
interest new actors to try for parts.
He also pointed out that the try
outs for this play are open to peo
ple of both Burlington and Elon
College as well as students of
(he college. He cited the fact that
there are several roles for older
persons.
The Arthur Miller production
has its setting in historic Old Sal
em iu Massachusetts and tells a
dramatic story of the witchcraft
purge in that community. It is a
combination of historical play andj
a timely parable about certain,
pavallel iisues in America’s con-j
temporary society. ‘ j
The story tells how small lies, ■
children's lies, build and build un
til a whole town is aroused and
nineteen men and women go to the
gallows for being possessed of the
Devil. They are good men and
women, upright, hard-working,
cnmpassionable and God-fearing,
1 with the story itself centering upon ^
a young farmer and his wife and
a young servant girl who malici
ously causes the wife’s arrest for
witchcraft.
The farmer brings the girl to
court to admit the lie, and there
in the trial scene is the big mom
ent of the play. It is a thrilling,
blood-curdling and terrifying scene
s it depicts the course of bigotry
and deceit. The farmer, instead of
saving his wife, finds himself also
accused, imprisoned and condemi.-
I! ^
In setting the try-outs for parts
for Thursday night of this week
I Prof. Wooten stated that rehear
sals will get underway next Mon
day, January 20th. He has not yet
set the date of presentation but
it will be given late in February
or early in March.
■w
(Completion Of New Dorm
Forward Step For Elon
Marking completion of another step in Elon College expansion
‘ and improvement, more than one hundred of Eton’s men students
moved on .Monday of this week into beautiful new Smith Hall, mod
ern men's dormitory which has just been completed.
The new dormitory, fourth of the modern campus structures to
be completed at Elon williin the past eighteen months, was named
Smith Hall as a tribute to Dr. Leon E. Smith, who retired last July
after serving more than twenty-five years as Elon's president.
The three earlier buildings under the Elon modernization pro
gram were the McEwen Memorial Dining Hall, which also includes
spacious banquet and social facilities; Virginia Hall, a girls’ dor
mitory. and Carolina Hall, a men's doimitoiV- All of those were
occupied September I, 1956.
The new Smith Hall is an exact ■ ‘ ' ’
duplicate of Carolina Hall and
btaiids parallel to Carolina near
P'Vlired above is the new
Smith Hall, boys’ dormitorj-,
which was opened for student
occupation on Monday of this
"cek. The dormitory, which is
an exact duplicate of the Caro
lina Hall, anctlicr boys dorm
that was pul ia use a year asu
in September, was named Smith
Hall in tril^ute to Dr. Leon E.
Orientation
(Masses For
iSiglit School
Always expanding its student room3_ designed for two boys, is
Smith (pictured left), who sei-ved services, Elon College will provide! decorated in puslsel shades and
as Elon president for more than a special orientation course for J'i includes a double closet with sUd-
twentv-five vears from the fall 'Chinning freshmen in the second doors. Each room is furnished
the northeast corner of Elon's wall-|
ed campus. All of the buildings i
are of traditional achiteciure to
blend with tne architectural pai-
lern of the older buildings on the |
I Lion campus. |
The new dormitory, plans for
juhich were dra.va by vuiiiain llen-
ly Dietrick, Raleigh architect, was
built by the li. t\ lUi.chell Con
struction Company, of Burlington.
Completely equipped, tiie new dor
mitory cost well over a quarter
million dollars.
The dormitory is a three-story
structure, furnishing accomnioda-
itions lor 124 boys and a faculty
I dormitory counsellor. Each of tne
Hoi, ored Ity
History Fnit
GradiiaU* IVvSl?*
S‘! \cxl W tM'k
Graduate record examinations
for thoKC seniors who plan to
X:raduat4* in May will be g^ivea
on Friday and Saturday. Jan-
nary 24th and 25th. according to
au announcement issued recently
from the office of l>r. H. li.
Cunnlnfrham» dean of the col
lege.
The area ^nd aptitude testg
will be administered on Friday,
followed by the advanced tests
on Saturday of next week. All
seniors are required to take the
area and advanced tests, but ap
titude tests wili he siveii only
upon request. The aptitude tests,
however, are advised lur stu
dents who plan to do graduate
work.
Dr. J)anieiev
Back From
Flori(2a Trij)
Dr. H. 11. Cunningham, dean cl j
I he college and chairman of the I
history department here at Elon,
:ias just been appointed vice-chan
cellor for the Atlantic Kegion of
Pi Gamma Mu, national social | itinerary which incUid-
science honorary society. national educational meet-
Ho succeeds to the po.>t [oimei- schedule of Elo;i
ly held by Dr. Dwiiel L. Spencer,jgaUiorings, Dr. J.
of American University, and wi’.l, .-eturned today aftet
l.ead up the Pi Gamma Mu acti-j^ ten-day trip to Florida,
vities for more than twe.ity cha-p-’
ters of the society in Maryland, j
I Virginia, North Carolina, South]
lie representi-u Elon jt the an
’!nual national meeting of the Con-
DR. LEON E. SMITH
of 1931 until his retirement last
wliich
provides accommodations for
124 boys and a faculty counsel
lor was bejun last January. It
is the fourth new building to be
opened on the Elon campus with
in the past eighteen months.
5inester of the Elon Evening; vvuii me most modern in dorir.i-
School. which will get underway'
ry furniture.
July. The new dormitors-, wluch ; Monday night, January 20. | buildings in-
The orientation courses, planned ^ group bath and laundry
' 0 e«able students to adjust facilities for use of the boys. There
readily to college life and its ^ lounge or reception room ai
problems, have been a reguiai i northern entrance of the
I part of the program for students floor, and adjacent to thi.-!
in the day-time classes for a num- joy^gg jj ^ room set aside for the
! her of years, but the new spring counsellor, who will re-
Carolina and the District of Col
umbia. '
In succeeding to the regional
office, Ur. Cunningham steps up
. igregational Christian College Couu
cil, which was held at the Sea-
comber Hotel in Miami Beach or
Monday and Tuesday, .January 6th
ai;d 7'.h.
from the position of governor of ‘ ga.ncring which fca-
:he North Carolina Province of
?i Gamma Mu, a position he hasi«'“h Presidents of Evangelical and
held since the summer of 1955. ! Reformed colleges of the nation.
Dr. Cunningham attended the' After the Church Council gath-
:il meeting of the trustees and faring Monday and Tue>day, iie
regional and provincial officers of i
the AssociaUon of American C«i-
Worth Thinking About
In view of the oft-apparent la.k of interest in campus govern
ment. the followmg article is beins reprinted by special reuies .
The article on the college student and
sinaliy written special for the Maroon and G61d m 19.-.2 >>y
V. S. Senator Clyde K. Hoey, Ion-time prominent figure in North
Carolina public life.
term will mark the first such in- building. |‘’i Gamma Mu In Atlanta during underway Tue.s-
Completion of the new dormi- ^he recent Christmas holiday per- (j^y afternoon at the De Lido Ho-
tory enabled the college to move iod, having served as chairman of tel in Miami Beach. This meeting
all occupants out of the Club the committee on arrangements [continued through l;ist Thursday,
January 9th.
ruction for the evening students.
! These courses will include in
struction in the history, purposes
I and philosophy of Elon College,
■ an introduction to the student hon-
|or system and student government,
instruction in better r*:etnods ol
study, per.wnality improvement,
social adjustment, vocational plan
ning and the formation of an ade-
Dr. Avizonis
At History
(convention
Dr Konstantinas Avizonis, Elon
|[ professor, attended tlie
I seventy-second annual meeting of
'he American Historical Associa
tion. which was held at the Hotel
Statler in New York City tor three
from December 28th until
December 30th. •
to be
overworked. I am in favor of lib-|quate philosophy of life.
-ralism which expresses itself inj The orientation course
tolerance for the views and opin-| taught by n.-. Robert Benson,
ions of others as well as their head of the freshman counselUng
The college student occupies an
increasingly important position m
our whole economy. One reason
lor this is that there is a very
greatly increased number of col
lege students and know the truth and is willing fir.st five weeks of the spring se-
and the United States. necessary invesUga- niester and will carry one semes-
ceason is that college students are ^ to_ m^ake Jhe ^
House and Carlton Houes, wooden I gathering of social
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action and condnct. I also believe
in a liberalism which seeks to find
program, will meet for three hours
each Thursday evening for the
Chrisnion And Kopko Are Selected
To Rule Over May Day Pageantry
better informed today j deal with the sit-
The Evening School students are
seener insight into our processes commendable-liberalism,
oi government than obtained here-^ However, there is another form
which is rampant in
eral questions and have | prejudice or bias, taking final exams for the Fall
Semester this week and will be
gin regular ciasswork next Mon
day night. Students in attendance
this fall were pre-registered. and
freshmen for the night classes
have been taking placement lests
and signing up for courses this
week.
of liberalism
tofore. This is made possible be
cause of the broadened curriculum country, which is synonymous
of our various colleges and radicalism and embraces ev-
versities and because of the means
jf communication available to col- jj proposed and this
'ege students such as radio and bolshevism, in that it
television added to newspapers and ^j^^jprtakes to di.scredit the es-
magazines which have been avail- order in every walk of
able over the years. l^aj a cynical approach
Politics is a subject of consum-,^^ customs and traditions which
ing interest. T'lis is true especially honored and revered
in a democracy and applies to the years. Thi.> extreme
,il people, but with special force rauicalisni is dan-
the college student by virtue the college student,
cf his superior opportunities and youth naturally looks for new
As the lone representative from privilege;. The college student gnd is attracted by fa'’taS‘
I he was one of 2 450 oersons'should be a leader an his com- propositions. To discount the
miinity when his college days forms and methods wnioh have
over, and therefore it is essential obtained is regarded by
that he acquaint himself with the'^^5 ^n evidence of superior
political philosophy of the various whereas in many instanc-
attendance at the three-day
which attracted professors
liistory and many di.stinguished
historians from all over the United
I States.
D‘. Aviionis found greatly in-
I leasing interest in the history of
'ia and other countries of
-rn Europe, subjects which are
''^cial interest t» him. He has
a number of works on his-
' that area and is currently
■ ' research in the history of
-;ia, Poland and Russia
parties and that he adopt that
philosophy v.hich in his judgment
would mean most for the develop
ment of our country and the guar
anteeing of the perpetuity of our
free institutions.
A great many college students
get the idea that to be an intellec
tual and be considered free and
independent that one must become
an extreme liberal. Sometimes in
colleges and universities tliis ques
tion of liberalism is completely
TOP TEN
STORIES
OF 1957
The change of administration
for Elon College, which fountf
space in the columns of the Ma
roon and Gold and state news
papers numerous times during the
year, was the biggest campus story
of 1957, including as it did the
appointment of Dr. J. E. Danieley
r . . . to the presidency, the retirement
great principles upon j^on E. Smith after twenty-
five years and the a.ssumption of
new duties by the new president.
. Always as a feature of the first
I have seen so ; January issue each year, the Ma
roon and Gold lists its b.ggtst
es sit amounts to disregard of the
wisdom and experience of those
v ho preceded us and established
ihe » . . ,
our republic was founded which
have been responsible for its
rowth and power
cf so-called liberalism and radical
ism that I feel that college stu
dents should weigh carefully the
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stories of the previous year, and
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It will be Queen Pat and Kiug
Bob for tlie annual Elon College
May Day festival, which is to be
leld on the campus on the first
Saturday in May, for the students
.n a special election held last week
chose Patricia Chrismon, of Read.-
v'ille, and Bob Kopko, of Mone.s-
sen. Pa., to rule over the event.
For both of these .May Day lui
ers, the choice climaxes a long
series of honors won during thei.
.student years. Miss Chrismon his
held a number of class officeo aucl
served last year as secretary-trea
surer of the Student Government
She, was a junior attendant in the
1957 May Day pageant and w,.
"Maid-of-Honor for the Elon Humc-
coming last fall. She was namtil
tor collegiate Who's Who this year
The election of Bob Kopko to
ule as king of the May Day ob-
sei'vance comes as a climax to :■
college career which has seen the
Dig boy from Pennsylvania plaj
lOur fine years of varsity football
in one of which he was named
Player With Most Desire.’’ A
consistent honor student, Kopko
■vas also named for a place in
collegiate ‘‘Who's Who” this pj;‘.
fall.
Chief attendants for the Elon
May Day rulers will be Miss Syl
via O'Connell, of Sanford, who
will serve as Maid-of-Honor, and
Bob Orr, of Burlington. The two
seniors were named by the vot;
of the students in the same eleC'
lion in'which the May Queen and
King were selected.
t
P.AT CnttlSMON
The Queen
BOB KOI’KO
■rhc Kins
The students al.so balloted ton Langley, of Staley, who will be
two senior girls and two junior
girU, along with an equal num
ber of senior and junior boys as
escorts. These four couples wili
.“■^rve as court attendants for the
May Day royalty.
ejC:>*-ttJ by Larry Grfgg, of South
Norfolk, ,Va., and Arthur PitLs.
of Dillwyn, Va.
The arrfiual May Day program
is staged each spring as a pro
ject of the girls’ phy.sical educa-
The senior girls chosen are Jane tion department, working in co-
Davis, of Raleigh, and Nancy Go-j operation with the college music
forth, of Hendersonville. Their'department. The program for 1958
senior escorts for the May Day'; will once more be staged under
observance will be Charles Faster, the direction of Mrs. Charles Grif-
of Burlington, and Bob Hendricks, u j .u i.
, „ ^ fin, who heads the womens phy-
of Danville, Pa. • ,
The two junior girls named asP“^*‘ education work. No theme
attendants are Louann Lambeth, i^een announced for the 1958
of Brown Summit, and Martha [pageant.