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Death
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Landniark
(Story Below)
The passing of one of the his
toric old buildings on the rion
College campus is pictured here
as the waits of North Dormitory,
which also housed the old gym
nasium, are being torn down.
Shown left is an action shot as
part of the brick wall of the
old structure comes tumbling
down. Shown right is a view of a
portion of the walLs still stand
ing to the third story level. The
removal of Old North may be
completed by Christmas.
(Another Picture Page Four)
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Here’s Good Luck
On All
Those Examinations
MAROON AND GOLD
And To Everyone The
Best Of
Thanksglvinj Holidays
[VOLUME 3S
F.LON COLLEC.E, N. C.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958
NUMBER 4
Historic Dorm And Gym
Is Now Being Removed
pin
rma Mu
ids United
und Drive
The Sigma Mu Sigma, Mason
ft affiliated service fraternity, has
had an active fall term and is
[planning additional projects for
llie betterment of the Elon Col-
The old North Dorm, which
also housed the Elon College gym
nasium for many years, is now
in process of removal, and there
is a general spirit of rejoicing
that the old structure will soon
be gone, leaving a clear view ot|
the Duke Science Building from i
the north and lending a new and j
symmetrical appearance to the
northern portion of the Elon cam
pus.
The rejoicing, however, is min
gled with a bit of sadness in the
^ege campus, according to a state- | hearts of veteran members of the,
netn from officials of the group' faculty and of many alumni whOj
liis week. remember when Old North wasj
The major project for Sigma ^in the hey-day of its glory, those!
^ilu Sigma this tall has been work-jwho remember when it was one,
ng with Marvin Bryan In the of the most modern structures ofi
ounty division of the Alamance jits type in the South and when
:;ounty United Fund Campaign, it was the scene of many moments j
e liciting funds from businesses, of glory for Elon basketball teams
«nd individuals in the Elon Col
lege area.
Proof of the effective service of
R'gma Mu Sigma in this worthy
cause is the fact that more than
^300 was realized from the group
Effort. The United Fund supports
^.enty-six organizations in th«
county, including welfare organi-
(;;tions and youth groups.
The next project, which is to
begin in the near future, will be
^I’.e sale of spangles on the Elon
campus for the Alamance County
TB Association. This organization
provides students here at Elon
with a free chest X-ray each year
flirough its portable X-ray unit.
The tall activities of Sigma Mu
Sigma will be concluded with the
bnnual Christmas banquet for the
^'aternity, and plans are in the
naking for that event at tliis time.
J
of by-gone days. |
Very few of the present genera-1
tion, who looked at the weathered ^
and cracked walls of Old North ^
and viewed it as an eye-sore and
even as a hazard, could realize
that less than half a century ago
it was the pride and joy of all
connected with Elon CoUege. ' j Square,’’ in Mooney
The Nortl, Dormitory---omc.al Wasm^
name of which was ^he Alumnr
Building—was biult m 1912 of , mco cq
hand-pressed brick which were
made at a kiln located on the reason,
present site of the Veterans’ Apart-
“fihaibsi '^od J'hom (x}hDm 0.U SisLUlnx^ J>Jbw
99
Players’ Next Show Is ‘The Heiress’
Thanksgiving Will Bring
Close Of Fall Quarter
The Elon Players will present
‘The Heiress,” Broadway drama
[adapted from Henry James’ novel,
of their igss-.sg campus
The play, which tells the story
!of a New York girl who is fast
meats, and construction was car-, splnsterhood status
ned out under the direction of,
J. C. McAdams, a local contiac- ^
, . 'young man whom she loves and
The building was a four-story interested In
her. At that point her domineering
father intervenes and precipitates
lllmaii Concert
Set 111 Whitley
Theodore Ullman, pianist, will
be presented In aoncert in Whit
ley Auditorium at 8:15 o’clock
next Monday ni^ht, November
18th, in the third of the series
of Elon College Lyceum pro
grams. Students will be admit
ted upon presentation of the ac
tivity tickets.
The guest artist, who is an
•lumnus of the University of
Wyoming, has also studied at
^’ew York University, Columbia
University, Newark University
hi New Jersey, Shrivenham Uni-
'■crsity in Lngland and also at
*he Sorboiine and the Conser-
vatoire of Paris.
As the winner of one of the
■' 'lal awards of the Music
'■dation Artists Burean, he
played concerts in each of
forty-eight states and has
ared In many foreign coun-
He has taue:ht at Julliard
1 of Music and at Biarritz
feet wide, being designed for use
both as a men’s dormitory and a
gymnasium. The ground floor or
basement at tliat Ijtae housed
what was then ultra-modern chem
istry and physics laboratories,
which continued in use until the
tiie tragic situation of the play.
Rosanna Gant will .ippear in the
title role of Catherine Sloper, the
heiress, with B«n Rushin in the
role of her father, Dr. Austin
Sloper. Etta Britt plays the part
of her aunt, Lavinia Penniman,
the romantic widow who encour
ages Catherine’s hopes and plans
for marriage.
In the roles of Catherine’s aunt
and cousin, Mrs. Elizabeth Almond
and Marion Almand, will be Pat-
tie Fayle and Peggy Roach; with
Joe Medwick playing the part of
Marion’s fiancee, Arthur Town
send.
He is also the cou.sin of Morris
Townsend, played by Chuck Oak
ley, who is the suave gentleman
caller, who almost brings happi
ness to Catherine Sloper. Ikey
Twieton appears as Morris Town
send’s older sister, and Pat White
is the Slopers’ faithful maid.
Chuck Oakley and Ikey Tarle-
ton are veteran Player actors, who
have had numerous good parts in
previous "seasons, and some of the
east have played fine roles in ear
ly productions this year, but it is
seldom that one Elon Player show
has introduced so many fine new
actors to the Elon stage.
Elon Music Grads Teach In Colleges
He received
the M. A. from Teachers College
of Columbia University and stu-
in Vienna on a
I Fulbright Fellowship. He has
No less than six Elon College ;uate of 1951, is in his third year
J ^ ftrvm a member of the Elon Col-
present Duke Science Building was music graduates from classes.a? a
built in the 1920’s. Also on that since 1950 are now members of lege music facu y.
floor were shower rooms and college music facultie.^ m institu-
locker rooms for ues of the phy- tions of higher learning scattered
sical education students and ‘he from Mis.sisiippi in the Deep South,died ^
i.i_i Mau/ Ynrk Citv The li^t com- Fulbrigai reii
varsity athletes. to Fletcher Moorejmade ruimerous solo appearances
The second floor of the build- piled by Prot. rieicuci ,[ ^ r. 1
kig, which was the main floor of head of the Elon music
the gymnasium, offered a floor ment, indludes the following:
space 100 feet long by 60 feet Wayne Moore, native of Bur-
wide which was regarded at that iington, who graduated from Lion
time' as ample in size for a bas-|With the Class of 19o0 is m his
ketball court. The floor itself was second year as .
of Michigan hard maple, and the and church music at Mississ ppi
gymnasium was equipped with ev- state College for -
ery appliance known to gymnastic bia. Miss. After ®
arl cLics who viewed it P-he received the M. A. degree from^
nounced it the be.st gymnasium .Columbia g
in the state and one of the best one year with Hugo
in the South.
An interesting
depart-1 with the North Carolina Symphony
' and made his New York concert
debut last spring.
Charles Lynam, native of Wake
Forest, who graduated at Elon
College in 1952, is now in his
first year as a member of the
Elon College music faculty. He
Charleston, S. C., an Elon grad
uate of 1953, is now a member of
the Meredith College music fac
ulty at Raleigh. He studied in
Europe during his period of army
service and had three years at
Julliard School of Music in New
York City, where he reeelved the
M. A. degree.
Mrs. Frederick Bohrer, Jr.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., who is the former
Judith Ingram, of Greensboro, an
Elon graduate of 1954, is now an
instructor in voice with the Man
hattan School of Music In New
York City, where .she is active in
The Thanksgiving holidays, nov
less than two weeks in the future,
mark a change of term for mon
than 900 Elon College day-time
tudents as well as brief vacation
for the faculty and for students in
joth the day and Evening School
classes.
The first holiday season of
Eton’s 1958-1959 term opens offi-
ially for day students at noon on
Wednesday, November 2Gth. and
for night students at 10 o'clock
hat night. This means a four-day
break before the regular class
schedules get underway again ^n
Monday. December 1st.
The approach of this holiday
reason also means the approach
"if final examinations for the stu-
icnts in the day-time classes. In
[art there is barely one week be
fore the final day-class examina
tions get underway next Thursday
morning. The exams for the night
.’lasses are not given until late
n January.
The examination schedule for
the day classes, as announced from
the office of Dr. H. H. Cunning
ham, dean of the college, allows
five days for the exams. The
exams are set at 9 o’clock each
morning as follows:
THURSDAY, NOV. 20 -- After
noon cla»es and all activity class
es. FRIDAY, NOV. 21 — All 8
o’clock classes. MONDAY, NOV.
24 — All 9 o’clock classes. TUES
DAY, NOV. 25 — All 10:30 o'clock
lassos. WEDNESDAY, NOV 26 —
\ll 11:30 o’clock classes.
The students in day classes will
be free for the holidays when they
have completed their last exami-
aation. but the dean’s office calls
ittention to the fact that the
Evening School students will have
classes as usual on Wednesday
night, November 26th.
Most of the students and many
of the faculty will get away from
'he campus for the holiday per
iod, with many of them going to
their homes for the traditional ob
servance of the Thanksgiving sea-
of
Stdte V,S,F.
Group Meets
At Moon elon
The United Student Fellowship,
college level organization of the
Congregational Christian and
Evangelical and Reformed young
people in North Carolina colleges,
leld its statewide fall retreat at
Vloonelon on November 1st and
-nd. Chairman of the group is Rex
Thomas, Elon student, who was in
. harge of the weekend gathering.
The organization Is represented
with campus groups at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Duke,
N. C. State, Woman’s College. Ca
tawba College, Elon College, A.
and T. College, Bennett College
and Winston-Salem Teachers Col
lege, and interest expressed at
the Moonelon retreat Indicated a
bright potential for the group in
the future.
The theme of the U. S. F. re
treat was “The Life and Mission
of the Church,” intUoduced In
provocative manner by Rev. W.
T. Scott, Jr., minister of the Dur
ham Conijregational Christian
Church. This was followed by a
number of Bible study sessions
in which the life and mission of
the church was re-evaluated in the
light of contemporary society.
Itoutine work of the Fellowship
was attended to by task groups,
which reported to the general as
sembly recommendations for the
1958-59 college year. Special cqm-
mittees were named to work dur
ing the interval between state
retreats. A special group was
named to consider a merger with
the Disciples of Christ Fellow
ship. with another group to pub
lish a news letter.
feature of the
gymnasium was the fact tliat it
provided a balcony at the third
floor level, which furnished spec-
(Contlnuea on Page Four)
Zelzer at
Vienna. Austria. He recently play
ed for the state meeti.ig of the
American Guild of Organists at
the University of Mississippi.
Sahlmann, native of
S C., an Elon grad-
leceived the M. A. degree from]that school’s opera workshop, one
New York University and also |of the best kaown-in America. She
studied with private teachers and received the M. A. degree from
served as church soloist in New I the Manhattan School of Music
Fred
Charleston
York City. He later had two years
of study in Germany and had one
season of touring with the Grass
Roots Opera Company in the Far
West and Rocky Mountain slates.
James Clyburn, native of
after her Elon graduation.
Jerry Smyre, a native of Greens
boro, Elon graduate of 1956, Is
The coming of the holidays will
mean that it is one quarter down
and two to go on the present
school year, and the sta^e is all
set for the beginning of the new
Winter Term with the new courses
for both faculty and students. ^lost
of the students have already pre
registered for their winter cours-
now on the Music faculty at Guil-jeg but there is always a few late
ford College as teacher of voice, j registrants who delay and pay
(Continued on Pa.'je Fourt the penalty for late registration.
Dean II(‘r(^for(l
Ii*av‘s lIoHpilal
Mrs. Marjorie Hereford. F.lon’s
dean of women, who suffered
serious injuries in an automobile
accident which occurred near
the college on October 23rd,
was released from Alamance
County Hospital on Wednesday
of la't week and since that time
has been at home in faculty
apartment in West I>ormitory.
Mrs. Hereford still kept her
nurse with her in her apart
ment and for some days had
•niy a limited number of vis
itors. She Is reported thi.s week
as “still improving and feeling
fine,” but it will be some weelu
before she is able to resume her
duties as dean.