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VOLUME 38
KLOV COLLEGE, N. C.
THraSDAV. MARCH 28, li»S»
NUMBKR 11
Plans Are In Making For Elon’s Annual May Day Event
Junior Musicians Take
Honors In Elon Event
SOLOISTS ELON EASIER CANTATA
Spring Holidays
Open On Friday
The annual spring vacation for
Elon College students and fac
ulty members will get under>vay
Friday, with full nine days of
rest ahead before the regular
class schedules are resumed on
Mouday, April 6th.
The Elon students attending
day-time classes will begin their
vacation at noon on Friday, while
the night students will attend
(heir regularly scheduled class
es on Friday night and will be
gin their spring holiday period
at 10 o’clock that night.
This spring holiday period,
which is extended due to the
fact tl;it it includes two week
ends, was formerly taken be
tween the winter and spring
quarters, Wut the dates were
changed last year to include the
Easter weekend. Class schodnles
for day students will resume at
8 o'cloik on Mouday morning,
April 6 th. while night students
will resume their regular sche
dules on the night of April 6th
Original Drama
To Be Offered
An original one-act play. “The
Breaking of Bread,” which was
written by Bill Watson, of San
ford, a former Elon Player star,
will be presented in the Caro
lina’s Dramatic Association dis
trict contest in Greensboro on Sat
urday, April 11th. If the play is
a winner in the district contest
at Greensboro at that time it will
b» presented in the state drama
tic festival at Chapel Hill later
this spring. *
The one-act play, which has only
two characters and is concerued
with the tragic meeting of a Un
ion and Confederate soldier dur
iag the Civil War, was first pre
sented on the Elon campus last
fall, when it was hailed for its
dramatic qualities. Bill Watson,
i.uthor of the play, was graduated
from Elon in 1957 with a major
in dramatics, and he is now teach
ing dramatics ir Hampton, Va.
Winners of scholarships and
other awards at the btatewide
Junicr Musx Festival at Elon ‘
College on Saturday, came from {
widely scattered points in North!
Carolina, according to Prof. Flet
cher Moore, who directed the
event.
The festival, which was held in
Whitley AuJitorium, climaxed a
series Of district conteijts held
earlier at ten cities in the state.
It was an all-day program under
the auspices of the North Carolina
Federation of Music Clubs.
Among the winners were Betty
Bullock, of Hamlet, who received;
the Federatimi Scholarship for ad
vanced piano solos; Graham Far-'
rell, of Aberdeen, the Crosby!
Adams Scholarship tor piano eon-!
certo; and Anna Rose Marino, of
Elon College, the Josephine Yea
ger Scholarship for junior piano
concerto.
Other scholarship winners were
Becky Chambers, of Greensboro,
the Samuel Goodman Scholarship
for voice: and William Hender
son. violinist, of Chapel Hill, the
Transylvania Half-Scholarship for
orchestral instruments.
Winning trophies and awards
were Elizabeth Sutton, of Warsaw,
for hymn playing; Betty Caudill,
of North Wilkesboro, and Judy
Setzer, of Hickory, for musician
ship; Alfred Stultz, of Winston-
Salem, for boys’ unchanged voice;
Sandy Carson, of Gastonia, for
American Folk Songs; and Joey
Perkinson. of Charlotte, for for
eign folk songs. Camellia Seagle.
of Hickory won honorable men
tion for musicianship. i
These winners and other con
testants in the statewide festival
came to Elon after winning recog
nition in area festivals, which
were held earlier in March in
Chapel HUl, Charlotte. Elon Col-;
lege, Forest City, Greenville, Gas
tonia, Hickory, Red Springs, Wil
son and Winston-Salem. The en
tries represented no less than
twenty towns and cities in all parts
of the state.
Those judging the instrumental
comp,-‘titio - included Henry In
gram, of Greensboro College; and
Prof. Fred Sahlmano, Prof. Pa
trick Johnson and Mrs. Jeannette
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Committees Are Named
For Annual Festhnties
Pl.in.s are ncartns completion
for U>e 1359 May Day festivities
on the Elon campus, according to
Mrs. Jeanne Griffin, director of
women's phy.sical education, who
will be in charge of the program
for the pageant that will head
line the progr.im for the annual
event.
Although the complete program
for the May Day event is incom
plete at this time, Mrs. Griffin
has stated that the annual pa-
»eant will be built on a “South
of the Border" theme, which will
include a bull fight and the ro-
m.inticism thit is usually asso
ciated with the land.s below the
border.
Already settled by a student
•lection is the fact that Linda
Simpson will reign over the an
nual May Day weekend as May
.■Jueen, with Dick Lashley shari;ig
h'.nors and regal powers as the
Student and faculty soloists who were featured in the Elon Choirs thirteenth annual presentation King. The same student elec-
of Dubois’s famous Easter cantat.*), "The Seven Last Words of Christ, in Whitley Auditorium last held earlier this year, has
S’jnday afternoon are pictured above. Shown left to right in the picture, the soloists are as follows. determined members of
FRONT ROW —• Walter Bass. b.iH one. of South Boston, Va.; Janice Stanley, soprano, of Greens- royal court,
boro;-Jane Morgan, contralto, of Greensboro; .'nd Tommie Boland Sparks, .soprano, of Klon Col- Mrs. Griffin announced this week
lege. BACK ROW — Jay Strickland, tenor, of Reidsville; Prof. Charles Lynaia. baritone, of Elon Zachary will be her
College; Douglass Scott, tenor, of Durham; Ray Thomas, tenor, of Burlington; and .Mbert VanDoen- student assistant in plan
hr>ff, baritone, of Hampton, Va. . 1 ning the program and that Tom
my Elmore will be choreographer
for the pageant, planning the
dances that always feature the
program.
Abo announced this week were
members of the various commit
tees, who will have charge of the
various phases of the program
All of the committees will have
the ciwperation of the Physical
Education 46 class. The various
committees named by Mrs. Grif
fin are as follows:
Committee on Decorations and
Props: Tunner Brosky, chairman,
Marion Glasgow, Grady Church,
College Choir Presents Thirteenth
Annual '"Seven Last Words^ Cantata
Lecturer h
Feature Of
Elon Lyceum
Honor Group
The Klon College Choir hit one
of the high points o£ the 1958-59^
college year last ucckend when-
the group offered its thiHoenthj
.^nual presentation of Theodoio, |l
DuBois’s world-famous cantata.j * t/f fr VUVw't
■ The Seven Last Words of Christ,” I
in Whitley Auditorium at 4 o'clock ' 'T'T
Sunday afternoon. i
The Choir formerly presented
Miss Evelyn Eaton, author »n4 this great Easter classic on Easter!
Sloan Invited To Write
Sunday School Lessons
Dr. W. W. Sloan, member of
the faculty of the Elon College I
Department of Religion, has just
been invited by the Abingdon
Press, of Nashville, Tenn., to write
a portion of the International Les
son .Annual for 1962. The annual 1
deals with the international series
of Sunday school lessons.
The section to be written by:
Dr. Sloan will be entitled
plaining the Bible Text.” relating
to the late Hebrew history and
prophets, with material based upon
the findings of scholars concern
ing this section of the Bible.
The invitation to contribute to
the Sunday school textbook comes
as additional recognition for Dr.
Sloan, who has received acclaim
lor his l>ook, “A Survey of the !'
Old Testament.” which is now be
ing used as a textbook in more!
than fifty American colleges. HL?
has also been widely u-sed
by ministers.
The Elon professor recently |day,’' which are appearing in s^
■- •ote a series of articles on 0!d:eral hundr^ ^n"^Time'-News
T:.lament subjects, which are to pers. The Burlingto
“PPear in the 1*)60 edition of the ] publishes Dr. Sloan
V' -Id Book Snpyclopedia. He hasjiti editorial page anoears
also been asked to wri'-e another out the commentary that anpears
scrl.s of “Bible Words For To-jin many papers.
DK. W. W. SLOAN
lecturer, spoke on ‘ The Adventure
of Writing in the Soutnik Age”
in W'hitley Auditorium on the Elon
College campus on Tuesday night,
March 17th. appearing as one of
the Elon Lyceum programs.
Miss Eaton, who was born in
Switzerland of Canadian parents
and who was educated in England
and France, came to America in
1937 and has since published a
number of successful novels and
has gained wide reputation as a
lecturer.
Three years after her arrival
in America she published a wide
ly-read historical novel, ‘‘Quietly
My Captain Waits,” ani has later
published “Restless Aie The
Sails,■■ ‘‘The Sea Is So Wide,” ‘‘In
What Tom Ship," “Pray To The
Earth,” ‘‘Give Me Your Golden
Hand” and “Flight”.
She has also produced two vol
umes of poetry and two collec
tions of biographical sketches,
along with more than twenty short
stories pubUshed in The New York
er, and has reviewed books for
the New York Times and the Sat
urday Review of Literature many
times.
A former president of Pen and
Brush, a former vic^president of
the Canadian Authors Association,
member of the American Authors
Association, th« Poetry Society of
Sunday itself, but in recent years.
it has bee" given on the Sunday
One hundred fourteen Elon stu
dents were placed on the Dean's
TJst as a result of honor grades:
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(]anipu8 Offict‘8
Ai'oum* lnlere«l
Of prime i»t‘rrst to F.lon Cul-
legr .Uudriils are Uir annual
campu.H rlrctionx for student
body officers, which will hr held
immr,lia(ely after the npring
holid. yd. The eleotlon.* will in
clude boUi student body a»d
class officers for tli” 1951K60 col
lege year.
The filing of eandidary for
offices in the .Student Govern
ment .XsHociatlon got underway
on Tuesday of thiH week, with
all eligible students interested
in running for offices urged to
file for the office they desire.
Candidiites were urged to file
on any morning this week In the
Student GovemmenI Office.
Those who fall to file Uiis week
may still file on Monday, April
6th.
The campu-s board of elecUons,
la announcing the filing uates.
pointed out that the filing pro
cedure will follow the rules out
lined in the Student Handbook.
Students may file for the offices
of president, vice-president and
secretary-treasurer of the stu
dent body and for pi dtions on
the hnnnr council, the student
council and various class offi
cers.
SLOAN AT MliETING
Dr. W. W. Sloan attended meet-
ingj of the Southern Sections of
Ul? N.itional Association of Bi
blical Instructors and the Society
of Hiolical Literature and Exe
gesis at W.ike Forest College in
Winston-Salom last week. He has
long been an active member of
both groups.
followed again this year, since
the Elon students will be away
from the campus for their annual
spring holidays during the coming
Easter weekend.
The DuBois masterpiece, as per
haps no other musical connosition
can, tells the story of the first
Easter and the sufferings of Christ
on the Cross, and the singing of
this cantata has long been an out
standing feature of the Lenten
season at Elon College and in the
Burlington area.
The cantata is of a scriptural
background, telling as it does of
the seven great speeches of Christ
during the hours which he spent
on the cross. Each of the sj'. -chei
is dramatic, but most impressive
of all is the final one, '
ion hear the program year after
year, ii:id all of them always look
forward to the highly dramatic
climax, in which the singing of
"the seventh word” is followed
by an organ interlude, and last
Sunday’s program was received
with the usual enthusiasm.
The 1959 program was presented
under the direction of Prof. Pa-
irick Johnson, with Prof. Fletcher
.Moore as organ accompanist, and
with Prof. Charles Lynam appear
ing as one of the caritone solo-
,,|made on their Winter Quarter
courses in day-time classes, ac
cording to a list just released from
the office of Dr. H. H. Cunning-
h,im, dean of tlie college. Seven
teen of the group had no grade
less than ‘‘A” on any course, v/hile
ninety-seven others had no grade
below “B” on any course.
Cunningham Is Selected
For Research Project
Dr. H. H. Cunningham, dean of-
the college and chairman of the £'
Elon history department, has just
been named by the United States,
The “A” honor group includes; Department of the Interior for
Carol Earle, Doris Fitzgerald \i.orii this summer on a research
F iye Gordon, Phyllis Hopkins, ■ pmject regarding care of the Un-I
David Korn, Hedrick Isley, Do-ijop Confederate wounded atj
lores James, Lane Kidd, Richard'ihg First and Second Battles of
Kopko, Chloe Dean McPherson. | Manassas during the Civil War.
Nancy Michael, Joyce Myers, | ■joe research work, which is ex-
„iia ly tfrson, Dervood Robinson, j to require eight to ten
Sylvia Sims, Nancy Lee Smith and;^j,eei^g niay provide the basis for
Helen Wright. ^ general account of the care of
elude Tommie Boland Spari-s, so-
Amrr^ca and the Poetry Sociey of.^^s.
Virguiia. she has been a lecture: I S.jdent soloists who were fea-
at Columbia University and is tured in the Sunday program in
now a visiting lecturer in crea
tive writing at Sweet Briai Col
lege and at Mary Washington Col
lege of the University of Virginia.
In addiUon to her lyceum lec-
Thoee who made no grade below
"B” were Douglas Albert, Thomas
Amico, Carolyn Apple, John At
kinson, Joanne Ballard, Marshall
Barnes, Helen Jo Bell, Mary Lou
Booth, Marydcll Bright, Martha
Brittle, Maurice Brosky, Ronald
Bryant, Robert Burgess, James Ca-
nupp. Alfred Capuano, Angie
Chambless, Watt Cobb, Barbara
Day, Ann Deibler,
Joe DelGais, Nick DiSibio, Hen
ry Douglass, Annie Edwa-ds, Gail
Elder, Earl Fogieman, Lois Foot,
Vivian Franlts, Carolyn French,
Gilbert Gatos, Louis Gentry, Oli-
■ver Gilliam, Bobby Goodman,
Hugh Gravirt, Hannah Griffin.
James Gross, WiUle Mae Haizlip,
C. G. Hall. Rebecca Hatch, Paul
Hinshaw, Victor Hoffman,
Jimryiv Holmes, David Hovatter,
the wounded during the entire
Civil War, but emphasis thii sum
mer will be on the First Battle
of .Manassas or Bull Run, which
was fought on July 21, 1861, and
the Second Battle, which was
fought on the same field on Au
«ust 29-30, 1862.
Dr. Cunningham will be search
ing in a familiar field, for he i.
the author of a widely acclaimed
■'iook. ‘‘Doctors in Gr:-y,” wh»cl'
told the story of the Confederate
\rmy Mcdical Service, and he
has also written a n'lmber of pa
pers and has spoken numerous
times on tiie medical annals of
‘.he Sou'hern armies.
This I'ew research project, part
of the expanding National Park-
lure. Miss Eaton also appeared in
a workshop session on writing in
Society Hall on the Elon campus
at 2 30. o'-'lock the foUowinr al-
tern^n, when she spoke on the
rewards of writing is » profes
sion today and gave pointers on
■.ersatiUty in writing.
pi'ano, 01 H3on C ?li'7e; Janice Howe, Betsy Huffines, Kay
Stanley, soprano, of Oreen-sboro; Hushes, Linwood Hurd, Donald
Jane Morgan, contralto, of Greens-;inglc, Bobby John ion, Ronald
boro; Ray Thomas, tenor, of Jo.es, Larry Jor-
. .. .fdan, Louann Lambeth, Katie
1-ng, Jay n , no*, o .Martha Langley, Phillip
Reidsville; Douglass Scott, tenor,David Mattliews, VHUUm
ot Durham; Walter Bass, bantone
of South Boston. V».; and Albert
Von Doenhoff. baritone, of Hamp
ton, Va.
Maye, !UeU>a M 'letiou, Earle Mil
ler, Helen MUenheiraer, Elizabeth
Morris, Ja-k Newman, Jane Owen,
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DK. H. H. CUNNINGHAM
'.he personnel and facilities utl-
i/?d in the removal of the wound-
d frum the field and the medi
cines !*nd treatments ^'n*)loycd
in caring for the wound«d.
Sinoe the two battles at .Mana.s-
saas were fought a full year apa t
in the early stages of the Civil
War, the project may disclose ies-
program. will seek to show thu -tons which the rival medical corps
organiiation and operation of bo.h ^learned in the early part of the
the Union and Confederate Mcdi- war, and Dr. Cunningham points
cal Departments at the time of
the two significant battles at M.a
nassaas.
All official reports, papers and
other data will be reviewed in an
«{fort to show the nature and
functioti of tile two medical sar-
vices, ircluding the location o
'.he main field hospitals of bol'
the Union and Confederate forces
out that combat surgeons tod.iy
realize that there is much to Ix?
learned from the metliods used
4n the IMO'g.
Several weeks work in research
will be necessary at Manassas and
Washington, but Ur. Cunningham
‘xpects to be able to do .some ot
he work of organi/ing the data
here at Cion College.