NINA NOVAK, PRIMA BALLERINA
ONE OF THE BALLET GROUPS
ELEANOR D’ANTUONO—KENNETH GILLISPIE
Better Att«Dd The
BaUet Rnsse
On Monday Nixht
MAROON AND GOLD
Back The ChrUtlans
To Victory
Over The Catiunounla
VOLUME 4«
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER S*. 1959
NUMBER t
iStudent Government Sponsor For Ballet Russ Program
Homecoming Program
Is Called Elon’s Finest
STARS OF ELON PLAYER PRODUCTION
Not even the Weather Man nor
a resounding defeat at the hands
if Presbyterian in football could
ipoil the gala spirit which per-
Vaded what many persons—alum-
students and faculty—called
he best Homecoming celebration
in Elon College history on Satur-
'day, October 17th.
There was rain in the morning,
but the weather cleared in time
for the parade and the football
ame in the afternoon and for the
ighly successful Homecoming
all, held that night. The BaU,
Id that night in Alumni Memor-
1 Gymnasium was in the theme
f “An Evening in Paris,” with
lusic by Sam Jionahue and his
I'chestra.
The intermission of the dance
featured the coronation of Elon’s
•Homecoming Quen, with Student
president Linwood Hurd placing
^e crown upon Queen Faye Gor-
,don, who was escorted by Jimmy
/Humphrey. Her chief attendant
tid Maid-of-Honor was Carol
ciams, who was escorted by Tom
Gilliam.
f Sponsors of various campus
roups and their escorts, who form-
d the royal court, included Win
nie Ann Watson, with Sam White,
for the Elon Players; Carole Motz
ivith Duncan McKenzie, for the
'reshman Class; Kay Hughes with
eorge Howey, for the Senior
lass; Marion Glasgow with Gary
tnson. for the Women’s Athletic
sociation; Doris Faircloth with
obby Lawson, for the Maroon and
old;
Sally Wright with Jack New-
an, for the Day Students; Judy
Burke with Eddie Clark, for Iota
Tau Kappa; Frances Kittrell with
Max Clayton, for Beta Omicron
Peta; Jane Morgan with Frank
Lawrence, for Women’s Dorms;
^atie Langley with Jimmy Jones,
for Phi Psi Cli; Mary Ann Hart-
J^ell with Tommy Elmore, for Al-
^tha Psi Omega; Nancy Rountree
Carson Smithwick, for the
Vpinisterial Association; .
^ Artie Cleves with Steve Schiff-
*ian, for Smith Hall; Judy Sam
uels with Steve Mauldin, for Tau
Jet a Phi; Janice Isley with J. C.
BUlIiam, for Delta Upsilon Kap-
Pa; Sylvia Little with Howard Lit
tle. for the Chemistry Club; Jo
^nne Keith with Tommy Sears,
the Sophomore Class; Millie
ftetcher with Dan Hulseapple, for
Jttc Student Christian Association;
English Group
Attends Meet
Dr. James Howell, chairman
of the Elon Department of Eng
lish and Dramatic Arts, accom
panied by Prof. Clyde McCants
and Prof. Jennings Beiry, also
of the English faculty, attended
the North Carolina-Virglnia reg
ional meeting of the College
English Association at Duke Uni
versity last Saturday.
The meeting, which was at
tended by a large group of col
lege and university teachers,
featured three panel discussions
on “Advanced Standing and Ad
vanced Placement,” “Special
Programs for Superior Fresh
men and Sophomores,” and “Re
cruiting For College Teaching.”
Dr. Howell was one of the com
mentators on the panel for spe
cial programs for advanced
freshmen and sophomores.
Dr. RanOall Stewart, of Van
derbilt University, was speaker
for the luncheon session, speak
ing on “The Importance of Lit
erature at the Present Thne.”
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In the scene above from the Elon Player production of "Angel Street,” presented in Mooney
Chapel Theatre three nights last weekend, is shown the three outstanding characters. Left to
right, they are Prof. Roy Epperson as Mr. Manningham, Tommy Elmore as the police Inspector and
Etta Britt as Mrs. Manningham. All three are veterans of numerous player shows, and all were
received with high acclaim for their work in Patrick Hamilton’s great Broadway show.
World-Famous Group
To Appear November 2
Freshman Class
Names Senators
The Freshman Class compleU
ed its slate of class officers with
the election on Monday, Octo
ber 19th, of five freshman sen
ators, who will represent the
class in the Student Senate,
which is the legislative branch
of the Student Government Or-
K^anization. Each of the four
classes hus five members In the
Senate.
Those chosen included Rofcer
Bednarik, of Bayside. Va.; Bruce
Emerson, of Arlinj^ton, Va.; Jer
ry Iloilandsworth, of Danville,
Va.; Frank Lawrence, of Ports
mouth, Va.; and Allen Tyndall,
of Fayetteville.
The new Class of 1963 had
previously elected other class
leaders, including: Clyde Gordon,
of Burlington, president; Don
Terrell, of Richmond, vice-pres
ident; Mary Lou Chandler, of
V$rgllina, Va., 8ecreiarytoeas-
urer; and Jerry Byrd, of Suffolk,
Va., Honor Council representa
tive.
Aware Of Grotving Need For Foreign Languay^es
Elon Acts To Improve Language Work Through New Laboratory
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There’s an old adage that “ev
erybody talks about the weather”,
and much the same thing can be
said about the need for foreign
languages in present-day Amer
ica, where the tense international
situation has spurred interest in
the teaching of foreign languages
and has caused widespread talk.
That talk has been even more
widespread following the visit of
Nikita Khrushchev to the United
States and the corresponding vis
its of American officials abroad,
and now Elon College Is doing
more than talk about the Improve
ment of foreign language instruc
tion, for the 70-year-old Congre
gational Christian college has al
ready swung into action with the
installation of the latest electronic
teaching equipment in a modem
foreign language laboratory.
The Elon language laboratory,
which was InstaUed this summer
and fall was formally opened with
a weekend woriishop for visiting
college and high school language
teachers. This workshop, held un
der the direction of Dr. Frances
Muldrow, newly appointed chair
man of Elon's modern language
department, attracted more than
50 delegates from thirteen col
leges, one county schools system
and sixteen high schools.
All delegates at the weekend
workshop, particularly those from
other North Carolina and Virginia
colleges, were highly complimen
tary of the new Elon language
facility, which includes 28 indivi
dual student booths or positions.
each with equipment for both lis
tening and recording.
The Elon laboratory is one of
the very few in colleges of the
Southeast with both Ustenlng and
recording equipment in all booths,
although there are many institu
tions which have listening posi
tions for students, with only a
limited number of recording de
vices which the students may use.
Result Of Long Planning,
This new and modem language
facility is not a project which
emerged full-bloom this fall, for
it has been in the planning stage
at Elon College for the past ten
years under the direction of Mrs.
Leland S. McDonald, who was act
ing chairman of Elon’s foreign
language department during that
period.
In cooperation with other mem
bers of the foreign language fac
ulty, Mrs. McDonald started lan
guage laboratory work at Elon six
years ago with the use of a num-
'ber of tape recorders, record play-
Lahorntory Workshop Is Groat Success
More than fifty modem lan
guage teachers from colleges and
high schools throughout the
state attended the three-day
workshop, which was held on the
Elon campus on Friday, Satur
day and Sunday, October 16th,
17th and 18th, marking formal
opening of Elon's new foreign
language laboratory.
Colleges represented Included
the University of North Caro
lina, Duke University, Woman’s
College, East Carolina, Guilford,
Meredith, Pfeiffer, High Point,
Louisburg, Mitchell, Elon and
the Guilford Evening College,
all from North Carolina, and
Bridgewater College from Vir
ginia.
The Wake County Schools
System sent delegates, and In-
divldDal Ugh schools represent
ed included Green-sboro Senior,
Greensboro Page. Myers Park,
Southwest Forsyth, Benvenue of
Rocky Mount, Williams of Burl
ington, Fuquay Springs, Garner,
High Point Senior, Altamahaw-
Osslpee, Chape! Hill, Cary, Haw
River, Guilford, Summerfleld
and Pleasant Garden, A number
of the hlj:h schols were repre
sented by several teachers.
ers and temporary listening posi
tions for students, established
through the use of portable Jack-
boxes and head phones.
The new &nd modem laboratory
equipment, which has Just been
Installed, only expands the pro
gram which was begtui in 1953,
fumishing a broader opportunity
for electronic Instruction in
French, Spanish and German, the
three modern languages that are
included In the Elon curriculum.
Plans outlined by Dr. Muldrow
call for Introduction of electronic
instruction In all Elon language
courses at all levels of the Elon
student body. The lab will be used
for classroom instruction and for
voluntary listening and practice
by foreign language students
The students in each booth will
be taught comprehension of the
spoken language by listening to
tapes or records played from the
master console, which can also
broadcast full lessons, readings,
music and faculty Instructions re-
The one and only Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo. America’s fav
orite ballet company, will appear
in the huge Williams High School
Auditorium in Burhngton next
Monday night at 8:15 o’clock, ap
pearing under the sponsorship of
the Elon College student govern
ment organization. Elon students
will be admitted under a special
price of $1 per person.
It is largely through the efforts
of the Ballet Russe de Monte Car.
lo that ballet has become so pop
ular in the United States, for the
group has been toulrng the United
States annually since 1938, play
ing annually in more than one
hundred towns and cities, with an
annual attendance that approach
es one million persons.
The prlma ballerina of the com
pany this year is Nina Novak, who
has proven herself both a dancer
«i| extraordinary talent and &
choreographer of great ability. A
native of Warsaw, Poland, she was
attending the Warsaw Ballet Opera
School when World War II broke
out, and she came on to the Unit
ed States while stUI a chdid to
make her American debut at the
New York World’s Fair.
Appearing with her in next Mon
day’s program will be such out
standing ballet stars at Nathalie
Krassovska, Irina Borowska,
George Zoritch. Alan Howard. Ta
tiana Grantzeva, Edmund Novak,
Eleanor D’Antuono, Kenneth Gil-
llspie, Irena Kovalsky, Paula Ten
nyson, Eugene Collins and Mere
dith Baylls.
The Ballet Russe de Monte Car
lo was born In Monte Carlo and
came to the United States twenty-
oie years ago. The word “Russe”
in the company name would in
dicate a Russian origin, but it
only indicates that the dancers are
trained in the traditions of the
Russian Imperial Ballet, for it war
In Russia that ballet reached higl
est perfection.
Although the dance as an ex
pression of human emotion goes
back to pre-historic times, classic
ballet dates back only 300 years,
for it was introduced In Western'
Europe and presented to the Rus
sian people by Peter the Great.
Some years later Landet, a
Frenchman, organized the famous
ballet school at St. Petersburg and
oegan developing baUet as It Is
known today.
Interested In the best entertain
ment, the Ballet Busse repertoire
this year Is based upon such class
ical ballets as “Swan Lake,” “Gls-
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