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Here’s A Happy And Safe Holiday To All MAROON AND GOLD And Lot’s To Eat For That Turkey Day Dinner OLUME 40 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 24, 1959 Yearbook Group At N. Y. Meeting The Phi Psi CU, Elon College yearbook, was represented by three persons at the yearbook section of the national meeting of the Associated Collegiate Press, which was held on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, No vember 12th, 13th and 14th. The three-day sessions were held at the Hotel New Yorker, with del egates from colleges through out the country. The Student Senate, at its eeting held on November 9th, voted an appropriation of $125 partially defray the expenses -f the group to the national onference, which featured dis- ussions of trends and methods Those who made the trip to 'ew York were Prof. Clyde Mc- ants, faculty advisor for the 1959-60 edition of the Phi Psi “li, alonig with Hannah Wise riffin and Marion Glasgow, co- ditors of the Elon College an- ual for the current year. NUMBER 5 r. W. T. Scott Resigns s Convention Leader Dr. William T. Scott, a familiar ure on the Elon campus during urteen years he has served as perlntendent of the Southern oavention of Congregational ristlan Churches, with head quarters here on the college cam- last week resigned from the j^st to accept the pastorate of Oakland Congregational Chrls- Jsn Church at Chuckatuck, Va, [His resignation was submitted at the fall meeting of the Conven- Dr, J. E. Danieley, Elon's pres ident, Dr. H. H. Cunningham, dean of the colleges, and Dr. Clarence f^n’s executive board, held at H*n-iB- Carson, member of the college’s Elon Faculty Delegates At Three Meets It’s Thanksgiving once again a time to gather together witb friends and loved ones to go with our families to church, there to Join our neighbors In giving thanks . , . gratefully, prayer fully ... for all our many blessings. May the great joys of Thanksgiving be yours, one and all . . . and may each and everyone have a safe as well as a pleasant vacation. Paper Is Early Due To Holiday Thr Maroon and Gold is mak> inf its appearance four days earlier than usual with this Thanksflving issue, It beins slated for delivery on Tuesday mornliif of the holiday week ra ther than on Its usual Friday morning schedule. The speed-up in publication for this fifth is sue of the fall term was made necessary by the fact that miiny of the Elon students and facul ty will be away from the cam> pus the latter part of this week It Is also announced at this time that there will be only one issue of the Maroon and Gold appe^Lrinfr durlnjr the period be tween *ThanksfrivlnR: and Christ mas holidays, since there will be only three weeks of classwork between the (wo vacation per iods. Such beinfT the case, there would not be time for publica tion of two papers, and the Christmas issue will be pub lished during the final week be fore the Yule vacatton. ^rson on Tuesday, November itth. He will continue his active ^ties as superintendent and will joiitlnue to reside here at Elon until March 1st, after which he |(ill remove to Virginia and will ■Wf as advisory head of the Con ation until the church group holds its biennial meeting in Burl- S!ton late next April. Dr. Scott, in addition to being ecutlve officer of the Conven tion, was also executive secretary of the Convention’s Mission Board, swved as national chairman of the Congregational Christian Town JBd Country Church Committee, member of the directorate of the denomination’s Office of Pro- ^sional Records and Is a trustee of both Elon College and of the ®r,i»regationaI Children. Christian Home native of Ramseur, he is a luate of Elon College and of tte Yale University Divinity School, with further graduate Work at Columbia University. He I holds the honorary Doctor of Di- from Piedmont College and th“ honorary Doctor of Laws from Elon CoUege. ^ince completing his training he Ims held pastorates in Ohio, North *^oUna and Virginia, and prior Mbecoming superintendent of the Hpthern Convention in 1946, he executive posts with the ^prch in Florida and New York. and Mrs; Scott have three ^Idren, including Rev. William y- Scott, Jr., of Durahm. Mrs. A. Luke, of Richmond, V*., James A. "Jimmy” Scott, of College. hLstory factuly, were in attendance at a recent series of meetings in three different states as represen tatives of the college. Dr. Danieley attended the na tional meeting of the Board of Directors of the National Laymen's Fellowships, which was held at the Hotel Statler in St. Louis, Mo. on Friday and Saturday, Novem ber 13th and 14th. The gathering was a joint meet ing of the Laymen’s Fellowship group with the Board of Directors of the Churchmen’s Brotherhood of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, with representatives of the two denominational groups serving as a provisional board for organization of the Churchmen’s Fellowship, which is to be the lay men’s group of the new United Church of Christ. Dr. Danieley is chairman of the committee on the constitution and by-laws for the new organization. Dr. Cunningham represented the college at a conference held on the Duke University campus on Tuesday, November. 17th, on Duke’s Cooperative Program in Tcacher Education, a program which fs suported by a Ford Foun dation grant to prepare for teach ing persons who failed to earn a teacher’s certificate as undergrad uates. Dr. Carson was an Elon dele gate Oo the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association, which was held at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Ga., on- Thursday, Friday and Satur day, November 12th, 13th and 140l ' - Elon Choir Will Give Twenty-Seventh Annual ‘Messiah’ Program In Whitley The Elon Choir will present ita twenty-seventh annual rendition of Handel’s immortal "Messiah” in Whitley Auditorium at 4 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, December 6th, according to plans announced by the college music department this week. The Handel masterpiece, which has thrilled Yule season audiences in both Europe and America for more than 200 years, was first presented by the Elon College student singers in 1933, and it has been presented each Decem ber since that time and has be come a highlight of the winter musical calendar in this area The oratorio will be directed again tills year by Prof. Patrick Johnson, with Professor Fletcher Moore appearing once more as or ganist. They are already making plans for the 1959 rendition, which promises to be another in the long series of triumphal appearances for the choir. Ann Banks, of Greensboro, will return this year as soprano soloist, a role which she had in the “Mes siah” program here last Christ mas. She attended SuUins College at Bristol, Va., where she was a soloist with the Bristol Oratorio Society, singing parts In Brahms’ “Requiem” and "Elijah.” She la ter attended Salem College and appeared in many musical pro grams at Winston-Salem, among them Bach’s “St John’s Passion” and Schutz’s “The Christmas Story.” Since coming to Greens boro, she has sung with the Greensboro Opera Association and the Grensboro Oratorio Society. Beatrice Donley, who is head of the voice department at Meredith College in Raleigh, also returns to the Elon camptu as contralto soloist this year. She is a gradu ate of West Virginia University and was formerly associated with the Gescheidt Studios in New York and was a member of the Duke summer school faculty prior to joining the Meredith faculty. In addition to her work at Meredith Zacli Mitchell Wreck Victim Willie Zachariah Mitchell HI, 19, Elon CoHege freshman from Oxford, died in Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro about 2 o’clock last Fri day morning from Injuries sustained In a one-car accident which occurred about midnight on Highway 76A near the Rock Creek bridge. Another Elon College student, Dur- wood P. Robinson, Jr., a sophomore »nd also from Oxford, was badly hurt in the wreck. He wag reported on Friday to be in critical condltlQn in Cone Memorial Hospital, where he was a patient. The two youths had been to Greensboro for a bridge game with friends and were returning to the Elon campus when their car, owned and presumably driven by Mitchell, went out of control and overturned on a curve. Highway patrol officials reported that the car was moving at high speed at the time of the accident. Young Mitchell, who transferred to Elon College this fall after attend ing the University of North Carolina last year, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Z. Mitchell, Jr., who survive him, along with one sister, Mrs. Robert Bradsher, of Hillsboro; and a grandmother, Mrs. T. G. Cur- rin, of Oxford. Funeral rites were held in Oxford. Robinson, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Durwood P. Robinson, of Oxford, is In his second year as an Elon student. He and Mitchell had left the campus shortly after din ner for the bridge engagement ta Greensboro. she is also director of Raleigh’s Hayes Barton Methodist Church choir. Paul V. Berry, of Greensboro, will again appear as tenor solo ist. He attended Mars Hill College and later received a Bachelor of Music degree from the Westmin ster Choir College at Princeton, N. J., majoring in voice and min- oring In conducting. He was solo ist with famed Westminster Choir and later studied on scholarship at the Berkshire Music Center in Massachusetts, where he perform ed a world premier of Lois Mani- nl’s opera, “The Rope.” Later he studied at the Academy of Music in Vienna, where he performed with the Bach Society of Vienna and with the Vienna Philharmonic. Rounding out the corps of solo ists for the 1959 “Messiah” will ibe Prof. Charles Lynam, mem ber of the Elon music faculty, who twill again appear as bass soloist. Lynam attended and was gradu ated from Elon College in 1952 after singing for four years as a soloist with the college choir. He studied for two years at New York University, where he receiv ed the master’s degree, and had one year of work at Heidelberg University in Germany. He joined the Elon faculty in the fall of 1958. These four artists will have the featured roles, with student mem bers of the choir singing the chor uses of the oratorio, which tells the story of the prophecies and anticipations of the coming of Christ, of his sufferings and death and, at last, his triumphal resur rection. Handel wrote the work within twenty-three days between August 22nd and September 14th, 1741, and it has been presented many times both In Europe and America since that time. Elon Players To Offer O^Neill Play In Mooney Autumii Term Examination Schedule Set Six full days will be devoted to the examination schedule for the Fall Semester, according to an nouncement made this week from the office of Dr. H. H. Cunning ham, dean of the college. The exams will be given during the week which begins Monday, Jan uary 25th, continuing through Sat urday, January 30th. In announcing the schedule for the various examinations, it was pointed out that the times of the various exams may not be changed from its scheduled date MONDAY, JANUARY 25 — All 10:30 o’clock (MWF) classes will be given from 9 until 12 o’clock that morning, followed by all ac tivity physical education class from 2 until 3 o’clock that afternoon. TUESDAY. JANUARY 26 — AU 11:30 o'clock (MWF) classes will I be given from 9 until 12 o’clock that morning, followed by all 11:30 o’clock (TTS) classes from 2 un til 5 o’clock that afternoon. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27 All 9 o’clock (MWF) classes will be given from 9 until 12 o’clock that morning, with no exams sche duled for the afternoon. THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 — All 9 o’clock (TTS) classes will be given from 9 until 12 o’clock that morning, with no exams sche duled for the afternoon. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 — All 8 o’clock (MWF) classes will be giv en from 9 until 12 o’clock that morning, followed by all 8 o'clock (TTS) classe^from 2 until 5 o'clock that afternoon. SATURDAY. JANUARY 30 — AU 10:30 o’clock (TTS) classes will be given from 9 until 12 o'clock that morning, with no exams scheduled for the after noon. Many new faces will appear on the stage of Mooney Chapel The atre when the Elon Players pre sent Eugene O’NelU’s great play, “Ah, Wilderness," on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights, De cember 9th, 10th and 11th, for the cast of the Players’ second feature show of the year includes many who have not previously par ticipated in student dramatics on the Elon campus. The play, which has been termed a comedy of recollection, has its letting in the small-town life of a Connecticut town in 1906, with Its plot centered about the humors and vexalons of an ordinary Amer ica family of that first decade of the Twentieth Century. •• What concerns them most in the play is the youthful fervor of Richard Miller, who is a senior in high school and a rebel against the customs of his time. He reads j Swinburne, Shaw and Wilde, and ihis mother worries. He is an Incl- [pient anarchist, and his father looks disturbed. He Is also passionately in love with a neighbor girl, and he means to marry her, and the scraps of Swinburne’s verse that he sends to her disturbs her father, who forces her to break with Richard In true dramatic style. Being young and arrogant, Richard runs amok to spite her and gets tight in the presence of a strange lady. His father and mother are then sure that the world has come to an end, but the damsel proves her devotion at a moonlit rendez vous on the beach, and Richard is himself again. After everything has been settled naturally, the father and mother begin to re- jnember that they too were once iyoung. Those who appear In the play Include Don TerreU, Mary Ann HartweU, Jerry Byrd. BUI Trout man. Margie Marshman, Robert Benson Jr., Bell Welch, Judy Elli ott, Roger Bednarik, Sharon Glew, Max Clayton, Peggy Parker, Pat Machen, Tom Kelly and John Koe nig. The play is directed by Prof. Clyde McCants.
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