' MAROON AND GOLD
Wednesday, January 15, 1053
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Dollege. PublUhed bi-weekly during the
Cdllege year under the auspices of the
Board of Publication.
editorial board
Chuck Oakley Editor-in-Chiex
John Biggerstaff AssisUnt Editor
IS’alter Edmonds Assistant Editor
James Humphrey - Staff Photographer
JO Jones - - Staff Typist
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
PIISIVESS BOARD
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Phillip Sexton Printing Advisor
John Avila Circulation Mgr.
Worden L'pdyke Press Operator
SPORTS STAFF
Bill Walker Sports Editor
REPORTERS
under
the oaks
With
ClIl'CK OAKLEY
Higher In Science Building . ..
I Exploration Reveals New
January First was not only the start of
a New Year, for it was the beginning ol
a ne'vv period for aH of us. We relumed
to the oampui with refreshed enthusiasm,
F.limulated interest and determination to
correct thtf errois of yesteryear. Perhaps
in making your resolutions you observed classrooms and laboratories for
jourself carefully and arrived at conclu- .general biology, physiology, geue-
fions that will provide a successful and llics. embryology, comparative an-
.tomy, anthropology, and all that
I stuff. What’s more there were
Try To Forget
By JO McQUADE 1
■'Who? Me? Write an article
about the second floor of the
Science Euildinj? But . . But . . . '
And once more I was on my waj
to the Artelia Roney Duke Mem
orial Science Building.
1 climbed the stairs to the sec
ond floor where I had been told
rd find the Biology Depan ment
I found it. The hall was lined with
EXPLORING AGAIN
Still seeking to “Know Elon.”
the Maroon and Gold dispatch-
llappy NEW Year.
Doc Alston
Kob Bell
Mai Bennett
Ladson Cabbage
Frank DeRita
Barbara EUis
Lloyd Farthing
Charles Foster
Kuth Geary
Kichard Guite
Uobert Hall
Paul Heath
Ann Joyce
Richard Lashley
Marianne McEvoy
Jo McQuade
Ann Minter
Elizabeth Morris
Robert Orr
Robert Rickover
Jane Robinson
Jack Sutton
Henry Walters
Jackie Williamson
The time you opened your mouth once
too often and a filterable virus with an
Asian accent moved in, and the next thing
jou knew you were muffled in blankets,
tees turned up. gazing mournfully at the
ceiling and wishing you were dead . . .
The cold nights you spent in North Dorm
because of inadequate heat . . . The fact
that our football team was deprived of
the Conference championship . . . The
credits you had taken away from you be
cause you enjoyed a few extra hours of
sleep . . ‘. The disappointing nights you
were turned down in the parlor of West.
1 say forget and make the best of a New
Year.
Chit Chat
Yvonne Winstead
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1958
NEEDED RESOLUTIONS
It would be quite Interesting to know
dll the resolutions made by Elon College
students as the New Year arrived on the
campus, but it is to be hoped that at least
one group of students made and will keep
a much-needed resolution.
T^e group of students referred to is
composed of those all-loo-frequent absen
tees from the meetings of the Student Leg
islature, those who were elected by their
fellow students last spring to represent
various groups in the legislative meetings
and who have been absent on many oc-
ca&ioDS.
A check on the activities of the Student
Legislature for the Fall Quarter and the
early part of the Winter Quarter revealed
a real problem with absenteeism. In fact,
at least one, and possibly more than one,
meeting was called off because of failure
to have a quorum in attendance.
With their fellow students depending up
on them for representation, it is to be
hoped that those absentees resolved at
the New Year to be more regular in atten
dance and thus fulfill their duties.
In connection with this problem, it might
help the absentees to keep their attendance
resolution if the secretary or clerk of the
Student Legislature would compile a list
of those missing each meeting and submit
same to the Maroon and Gold for publi
cation. At least such action would show
the students how to vote in the up-c'oming
«priag elections.—CONTRIBUTED.
PERSONALITY
Your personality is your outward man-
Ifestuuon of your true inner self and na
ture. and it is perhaps of infinitely more
value to you than any of your other hu
man traits, for your personality is defin
itely aiding or hindering you.
Regardless of who you are, you need to
pause and ponder the tremendous impor
tance of developing and maintaining a
pleasing personality. It’s development
should receive your constant consideration
and care, for it is not a gift; it's an at
tainment. Properly developed, it can be
your most priceless a's.>-et. It can aid you
in b'coming just about anything jour
Ja-art desine.:.
Personality does not mean appearance
nor looks. Neither is it what others think
of you. It is your true character mani
festing itself.
Some years ago a large university care
fully selected one hundred male students
from its graduates on the basis of their
extremely high grades, while another one
hundred men were selected for their out
standing personality traits.
As far as possible, systematic records
were kept on the earniags of all the indi
viduals in each group for a period of ten
years. At the end of that time it was found
that the one hundred men selected sok-ly
on the basis of their outstanding grades
were earning an average income of $8,000
per jear, while those selected on the basis.
Our Registrar, Miss Hazel Walker, is
itill enjoying the excitement that came
during the holidays, when she received
that glittering gift from ex-Elon business
professor, Tom Fox. Sorry that you can't
be with us next year, but best of luck to
both of you . . , Leigh Wills got everything
for Christmas but hair ... I understand
that starting February we’re getting hot
water machines—twenty-five cents a bath
. . . Bobby Orr was seen at two o'clock in
the morning, tying do-nuts in a sheet . . .
Harold Harris asked a girl for a date,
and she transferred immediately. PLEASE
don’t ask any more girls for a date . . .
Note for the guys who hang around West
E>orm: Squirrel season goes out on the
twenty-fourth of this month . . . Santa
Claus came to Jimmy Fentress and Bill
Branch. They got “nighties" to match.
(How charming) ... 1 understand that
Wayne Taylor got some too. If you get
tired of wearing them, I can always use
an e.\tra bedspread . . . Buddy Way, was
it one of those snapping that
you get your hand caught in? . . . Earl
Murray got about forty dollars in cash
for Christmas and then gave it to a cop,
who wished him a Happy New Year . . .
Will Charlie Fi'ye be the Lover Boy of
1958? . . . Wayne Rudisill is writing a
short story. I hope he's not comparing Eloa
to Peyion Place . . . Will Bob Hendricks
go all the way for another “A” in Educa
tion this quarter? ... 1 thought Bob Wil-
let had a lot of mouth until Mike Erlich
moved in. With a mouth like that you
ought to figure out some way to make
money with it . . . John Shepard will be
Joining the Elon Players a.s chief make-up
artist. He heard they were doing ‘ Man
With a Thousand Faces,” and he’s now
wearing a sample of his skill . . . Have
you heard of the Davis and Heywood heat
ing company? It operates through a call
system . . . If I could spill the bull like
DelGais, 1 would try my luck in a Spanish
Arena . . . There are ten pencil sharpeners
in Alamance. Five of them are broken,
and the other live cannot be found .
Ji»ie Campbell would like to get snow
bound in the Appalachian hills. She's al
ready snowed . . . June gave a Christmas
party at her home for Kappa Psi and Tau
Zeta . . . Wonder why Janet Burge likes
old Navy uniforms? . . . Betty Earp's most
appreciated Yule gift was a diamond . . .
Martha Langley really enjoyed helping
with the Christmas party for the orphans
. . Alpha Pi really deserves a lot of cre
dit for that Orphans' Party . . . Upon
reading Rip Van Winkle, Louann Lambeth
was not at all moveJ at the way Rip’s wife
nagged him. Replied Louann in English
class, "If My husband slept for twonty
years, I’d do some nagging, too."
And In Closing
I'll be back in two week. In the mean
time. be patient. That's the ability to idle
your motor when you feel like stripping
your gears.
I rooms set aside for the gentle
jarts of geology and geography
But everything was dark ?nd
1 dismal . . . deserted . . . dead.
I My footsteps schoed from the walls
?nd cold chills traced my spine.
I was whistling courageously as
I turned the corner that brought
me face to face with "it"—an
eerie-looking, half-rotted hand. My
whistler choked, and I froze.
Sometime later, my eyes coaxed
my confidence back. After all, it
was just an ordinary hand, cur
off and put in a jar of embalming
fluid. Aad beside if were more of
the same.
Fat, slimey snakes coiled in con-
Iriners in dim-lit rows; bats, eels,
sharks, rats, bugs, and more bugs
were sliced, preserved and set
there for poor, unsusoecting eyes.
On a lower shelf were jars of
purplish human embryos, som?
wrinkled and deteriorating, others
images of horror comic characters
Beside these were the embalmed I completed.)
Curiosities
U. s. Bureau of Censorship. Af-
•ter that followed two years pro
fessorship at Morris Harvey Col-
tege_‘ In West Virginia?” “In
„ West Virginia.”—and since 1947
rd its inquiring and exploring |
reporter to the secend floor of H Pitv who
the Duk« Science BuUding this Watt, also of They
«eek. and within its dim recess- teaches matii
es she found many wondrous have one son, Richard who
things in the fields of biology. Igy^^jat^ from
“"'“''In/^retkrg trXut ;ology from Wester. Reserve Uni^
h; men who guide the study in versity and is now mam d and
those fields of learning. working for Dupont
As for his philosophy. Dr. Han
says it lies in the reason he quit
business to teach: "In basiness
you’re dealing with dead statis
tics. In teaching, you deal with
live people. Of course a teacher s
’ngy and Pararitology at State
College. He taught photography
in summer school at the Univer
sity of N. C. in ’41, then taught .But didn’t you say
physics at State College m 42;S«-‘i>y dpDart-
Ld ’43. During 1944 and 194.^,
he was an associate of the cul-
tural department of the Carolina
Biological Supply Company. Since
then, he’s been teaching at dear
ole Elon.
A friendly person of many and
varied interests, he believes that
"A man can learn to do anything
He offered his services as gUide
and we were off.
Some Rare Specimens
The first room we entered was
a laboratory for vertebrate zoo
logy. Cases of rocks tor geology
observation lined the center, one
he wants, if he wants to badly jend was a geography classroom,
enough. And the more he learns and the other was packed with
about a variety of things, the more
interesting those things become,
with an ultimate reward of a full
er, richer life. "
Some of Prof. Reddish’s hobbic5
work tables. On one of these was
a turtle’s skeleton, a jar of jellied
salamanders, and a cardboard box
from which Dr. Haff lifted a smel
ly, stiff cat, wrapped in trans-
are gardening, fi.shing, photogra-j parent plastic
phy. research, and electronics. His. The ne.xt room W'as the bac-
latest project in the latter was I'eriology lab. My guide gave a
the building of a Hi-Fi set. (Pro-' detailed description of bacteria
[culture, pointing out bottle after
entrails of some animal, the kid-1 ^ ^ad dozens more questions to bottle of chemicak; test tubes of
neys of another, and somebody's'^sk, but a boy was waiting to be,gelatin; flasks, droppers. pe«ri
brain.
Diehard? Not me. I inched side
ways for the door.
I Rescue Was At Hand
I .\ cheerful tune caught my ear
and I saw a man come down the
hall. He entered a door on which
I saw the words, "Paul H. Red
dish. Professor of Biology.'
"Saved!" says 1. Then, pencil and
notebook in hand, I followed him
"Yes, he was Prof. Reddish.’
and "Yes. he taught biology.’’ The
interview was underway.
Prof. Reddish graduated from
Duke University, I learned. His
wife is the former Jenny Sum
mers, of Raleigh. She attended
Peace College and was working
for an insurance firm when they
met.
He also revealed that he taught
over seven years at Cary High
School in Cary, working summers
as research assistant in Entomo-
given a comprehensive test; so I dishes and more of the same,
resumed my tour. I "This device is a colony counter.
And More Monsters bacteria.’’
, „ , he explained. "You see, when. .
\s I stepped into the hall, I waS; , , , » • • .,1 t * 1,
_ • .11. 1 J V. ...j„ ^ 3 jungle of tech
nical terms. My rescuer was a
physiology student, who came car
rying a necklace of jangling bones,
and interrupted to ask if a cer
tain part of a certain one was a
I prezagorpothysis ... Or some
thing like that.
Next device was a centrifuge.
iProf. Haff explained it all and
I caught enough to know that if
A few questions later and Vd \y„^ ^ jest tube there and one
there and then spin the thing
around and around, the some kind
of force separates the something
on the
campus
JOHN BIGGERSTAFF
A hearty welcome to each of you as the
first edition of 1958 rolls off the press.
May the New Year bring much luck and
success to the Seniors as they looU down
the home stretch; to the Juniors who'll
fill the shoes left vacant and to the Soph
omores and Freshmen who are just get
ting to know what college is like.
Over the holiday it seem^ tha: the cam
pus got a face lifting. Trees have been
topped, ground leveled, and shrubbery and
holly planted around the Science building
and dorms. Now looking forward, let's do
our part in beautifying the campus by iiot
cutting across the lawn, throwing paper
and bottles on the campus or doing those
things that deface our school and detract
from its best appearance.
Resolutions have been made for the New
Y'ear and already resolutions have been
broken. Here is the firsst week of 1958,
but I have found a plan for the next 360
some days sthat anyone can follow and
find it quite helpful.
Take time for work ... It is the price
of success.
Take time to pray ... It is the source
of power.
Take time to read ... It is the founda
tion of wisdom.
Take time to be friendly ... It is the
road to happiness.
Take lime to dream ... It is hitching
your wagon to a star.
Take time to love ... It is the privilege
of the gods.
Take time to look around ... It is too
short a day to be selfish.
Take time to laugh ... It is the music
of the soul.
—Author Anonymous.
almost trampled by a parade of
people carrying large trays of
black, hairy monsters. Just phy-^
f iology students with dead cats, |
as I saw on second glance, so I^
went in the opposite direction.
1 stoTjped at a door that read.
"Dr. Richard M. Haff, Professor
of Biology'’. Ahal Another inter- ,
view victim.
learned that Dr. Haff is a native
of New York City, where he re
ceived his A. B. from NYC Col
lege. He went on to Columbia
University for his biology Mas
ters, then to Cornell for a Ph.D.
Next he taught biology at NYC,
then at Cornell.
From ’42 until '45, he served
in Miami as a translator for the
from the other. Ye-eah-
An Ordinary Refrigerator
Out in the hall again, we pass
ed a dark room—a Photographic
darJv room, declared the sign—
, (Continuea on Page Four)
Around With Square
By WALTER EDMONDS
of their ouUtanding personalities were
earning an average of $13,000 per y«ar.
It isn't intended to infer that high marks
In school are not important, because they
definitely are. but the student who excels
in helpful personality and who actively
participate in various school activities has
a distinct advantage over the student who
concentrates on high marks alone.
—ANONYMOUS.
Now that all the parapherna
lia, panorama and partying is in
oblivion for another three hun
dred and some days, our life in
Elon College - must commence
once more. It is the time to shar
pen the pencil and brush off
the old Thesaurus and excel, but
before I do 1 would like to wish
everyone a Very Happy New
Year, and also may all your
resolutions come true.
I imagine my old colleague.
Chuck Oakley, has deduced all
the secrets and who did what
to whom on carapus, but mayl>e
I can utter a few meaningless
nothings he has overlooked. Mar
gie Putman, Pat CoghiU, and
Mary Ruth Whitten were the
recipiants of "sparklers" during
the holidays . . . The Elon Col
lege chow hall has received the
recognition of Duncan Hines . . .
Now all this institution has to
do is receive water rights from
Alamance Hotel, and everything
will be "honky dory” ... It
.seems I just can't smile on the
water situation of late . . . Sa
rah Barringer took Woody BroWn
forty miles off his course recent
ly during a trip to Tidewater.
It so happened the road was a
dead end, it must have been she
got her bearings crossed . . .
Arthur P-P-P-Pitts also graced
Tidewater with his presence dur
ing the Yule Tide . . . Ditto for
the likes of Bobby Orr, Carol
Earle and Becky Hatch . . . The
faithful and malignant North
Dorm is being abandoned. With
in her portals many nostalgic
memories will long linger . . .
Lale Santapplaascs
The new and modem Smith
Hall is now occupied. Land-
scaping is now underway through
the entire campus . . . "Woody’’
Woodhouse has his television set
in the process of being repaired.
Hooray for Wyatt Earp . . . Mike
Ehrich has a new '’short.” P.
S.: He gave yours truly his old
fender skirts . . . Bobby Willett
is not transferring to N. C. State
as planned. There seems to be
a much better attraction here
. . . The Upper Ten Boys are
planning another "tea" in the
future. Everyone is welcomed.
I wall state the date in the next
jam-packed issue . . . Who is
that red-head girl from Winston-
Salem that works the second
shift for Browns' Inc.. and con
stantly hums the ditty, “Love
By The Juke Box Light?” Just
curiouF . .
It Se«ms To Me
I just cannot find anything
worthwhile to comment about
"Boots ’ Kidd. I know she has a
hidden past somewhere. Either
she is very careful of what she
does and says or she lives a very
dull life . . . Leigh Wills is the
only boy on campus who combs
his hair with a wash cloth . , .
Tony DeMatteo is the only gov
ernment employee who has ever
worked at a government post of
fice for the shortest time on
record, A staggering length of
time, which amounted to a grand
total of two days . . . Memo to
the members of the English 33,
Shakespearean class: Did you
know there are 4,000 ways to
spell the name of William Shake
speare??
Slightly Puzzled
I recently received a letter
from some witty friend in Bur
lington. Quote: ‘‘Sir, my steno
grapher, being a lady, cannot
type what I think of you. I, be
ing a gentleman, cannot think
of it. You being neither, will un
derstand what I mean.” Un
quote. To tell the dam truth I
can't comprehend ii either, but
seriously I do appreciate the at
tention and the wasting of three
cents for the postage
WcU. some people just don’t
appreciate objets d’art .
Well all good things must end,
so chances are we will meet
again in the near future
Paragraphics
Want to hear a travel story that sounds
like "Winter Wonderland” itself? If so
just ask Marianne McEvoy to tell about
her trip to Connecticut over the holidays.
(Especially the “quaint” little places).
Seems that Kay Tyson has a new interest
in the Marine Corps. Wonder why?
Has anyone noticed Sarah Barringer's
astounding new ability to tell time? Could
it be due to a certain Christmas gift from
a Certain Catawba student?
Elon's Campus seems to literally sparkle
from all the new diamonds its femine pop
ulace is sporting. Congratulations girls!
Wonder if Faye Gordon found the answer
to her "problem" during the holidays?
FLASH!!!!! Patty Michaud, better known
as Red, has cut all that gorgeous crop of
tiair which was so much the envy of all
the girls. She still looks just as good
though.
Come to think of it, Jim Humphries
wanted an answer to a "problem' for
Christmas. AnV luck, Jim?
If Laura Little seems to have acquired
the habit of talking with her hands re
cently just attribute it to a special Yule-
tide gift she is rather proud of.
Has anyone ever been to an "intellectual
New Year’s gathering? If not take Bar
bara Ellis’s advice and consider yourself
fortunate. Know what she means?
Wests Dorm and Virginia Hall closelj'
resembled the Sahara Desert recently.
Cries of "water! water!" were heard
tliroughout the buildings as their disgrunt
led tenants struggled with unyielding wa
ter faucets with no results. Seems that
being a student of higher learning isiit
enough today you have to be a plu®"
ber also.
Rumor has it that Sack O’Connell has
a genuine talent for ‘‘sledding ’. Just watch
those bricks though Sack, they can be
rather dangerous.
There seems to be a renewed twosome
on campus. What say B. B. and B. S.?
Would somebody please wake Bonny
Bergman up? This is a request from a
certain interested party. They say that he
is especially oblivious at about 8:00 oclocit.
Check Margie Putnam’s third finger left
hand. Mighty nice Chri.stmas present. Con
gratulations gal.
I am sure that Dean Hereford will
that it is better to travel with a registered
nurse. Any comment?
And with all the other announcements'
Mary Jane Hawkins and Bill "Coga Clou(-
have set their big day ftir the late
August I5th to be exact.
Getting the Jumtr on the girl.=
inonds, Sar« Shelton added the wedii^nj
band when she and Kerry Richards tifd
the knot at Danville on December 21si-
They are living in Danville.
ClesiDg Thonght
Education is costly, so get it before ^
price goes up. . • -