Founder^s Day Observance Set For Next Thursday
Distler To Be Featured Speaker As College R!arks (liarter Date
dr. THEODORE DISTLER
Featured Speaker
Everybody On Hand
For The
Elon Founder’s Day
Dr. Theodore August Distler,
executive director of the Associa
tion of American Colleges, will be
the featured speaker, for the an
nual observance of the Elon Col
lege Founders’ Day, which will be
held on the campus on Thursday,
August 10th.
The plans are now complete for
the Founders Day event, accord
ing to Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon's
president, who pointed out that
he program will be staged in
commemoration of the issuance of
the charter of Elon College by the
North Carolina legislature, which
occurred on March 11, 1889.
Although it is not included in
I the purpose of the program, and
j it was stressed by President Dan-
Iiiauguration Anniversary For Danieley
ieley, the 1960 Founders’ Day pro
gram will also mark the second
anniversary of Dr. Danieley's
inauguration as the sixth presi
dent of the collcge. He was inaug
urated in formal exercises held on
March 11, 1958.
The principal convocation of the
1960 Founders’ Day program will
be held in Whitley Auditorium at
10:30 o’clock next Thursday morn
ing, March 10th, when Dr. Distler
will deliver the Founders’ Day
address. The gathering in Whit
ley Auditorium v.ill be followed
by a buffet luncheon ia the ban
quet room of the McEwen Memor
ial Dining Hall.
Among the guests for the Foun
ders’ Day convocation and the
luncheon whifch follows will be the
members of the Elon College board
of trustees, many of whom will
te on the campus for the board’s
a:;nual spring meeting on Wed-
'.esday, March 9th. A large num
ber of aUinini and friends of the
college from this area are also
'.xpocted to attend.
Another feature of the obser-
ington. His concert, although not
a definite part of the Founders’
D.->y program, will be presented
as one of the programs of the an
nual Elon Collage Lyceum scries.
Dr. Theodore August Distler, the
featured speaker for the Founders
T;iy observance, is a native of
Now York. Born in Brooklyn on
November 23, 1898. he attended
Stevens Preparatory School and
Brown University, interrupting his
education for a tour of duly in the
vaiice ■vill be a musical concert i United States Navy. He then at-
in Whitli-'y Auditorium on Wed-! tended New York University, where
nesday night, March 9th, by Wil-jhe graduated cum laude in 1922.
li.im Kirkpatrick, tenor, of Burl-iHe also received the master's and
doctor's degrees from that insti
tution and since 1942 has received
the honorary doctorate from twen
ty-two American colleges and uni
versities.
After graduation. Dr. Distler be
came a member of the faculty of
New York University and contin
ued 10 serve that university in a
number of capacities until 1934.
Am.mg the positions he held were
I hose of secretary of admissions,
n.'^siUjnt director of student wel
fare, director of admissions and
.-■tiident personnel and as instruc
tor in personnel administration.
He became dean of Lafayette
College in 1934 and succeeded to
the presidency of that college In
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MAROON AND GOLD
DR. J. E. DANIELEY
Anniversary Marked
And All Take Part
In Rrllcious
Emphasis Services
VOLUME 4«
ELON COLLEGE, N. a
Friday, March 4, 1960
Number 9
Aniiiiai Religious Emphasis Week Planned On March 13-18
STUDENT GROUP WHICH i'LAN.\ED iu(; DANCE j Helitiich To Be Speaker
for Campus Meetings
Players’ Musical Show
To Be March Feature
Siiig
The high spot of the campus theatre season may be reached
when the Klon Pla'- s present “Pajama Game," famed Broad
way musical show in Whitley Auditorium on Thursday, March 31st,
and Friday and Saturday, April 1st and 2nd.
The comedy, telling the story of
i love between the superintendent
of a pajama factory and a union-
minded factory girl, was first pre-
i y isented on Broadway on May 13,
Appears in i 1954, and proved to be one of the
1 I biggest hits in New York’s long
I theatrical history.
The show ran for over twenty-
|nine months to capacity crowds,
piling up a total of 1,061 perform-
[ances, which represents the eighth
I longest run in American stage an-
Earl Spicer, balladeer, was pre- nals. It’s most popular song. "Hey
sented in recital in Whitley Audi- There,” sold over 2,500,000 copies
torium on Thursday night, Febru- of sheet music and held Number
ary 25th, as one of the series of One on the Hit Parade for many
Elon College lyceum programs, months.
programming examples of both The show is based upon a book.
Ballad :5mffer
>ears In
Elon Recital •
By PROF. CLYDE McCANTS
(Gnest Critic)
English and American folk bal
lads, along with Gilbert and Sulli
van numbers and two settings of
Shakespeare songs, and the small
but enthusiastic audience appear
ed well pleased with the result
There was an aura of informal
ity which immediately put the au
dience at ease, and no one could
deny the singer's distinct gifts as
a public entertainer. He is re
laxed, witty and clever, but this
reviewer found the artist guilty
of some serious short-comings as
a singer of folk songs.
To begin with, the program
ranged through a vast repertoire
of materials from many areas and
many ages; but Spicer performed
everything in severely modernized
and purified versions that left lit
tle of the atmosphere of original
sources. “Lord Randal,” for ex
ample, loses much of its folk fla
vor when the language is modern
ized, and the total poetic effect
of “The Three Kavens” is com
pletely lost.
The folk ballad is a peculiar
anomaly in literature and music,
for our indeterminate ancestors
Were capable of expressing in lan
guage and melody of sincerity and
almost angular simplicity many
subtle, complex and almost so-
Phistocated overtones. It is the
nature of the folk ballad, however,
to communicate most significantly
^hen the inherent simplicity and
sincerity are intact.
Mr. Spicer, on the other band,
seemed determined to clothe our
heritage of folk literature in neat
vocal settings with elaborate pi-
ano accompaniments, bath of which
doubtless more appropriate
for Nineteenth Century parlor ser
enades. In such fancified versions,
these simple masterpieces inevit-
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which was written by Richard Bis-
sell, who was quietly directing his
family’s century-old pajama fac
tory in Dubuque, Iowa, when he
wrote the story about a strike in
the plant that exploded a romance
between the plant superintendent
and one of the factory workers.
His novel, published under the
name of “Seven and One-Half
Cents," was a Book-of-the-Month
Club selection and was grabbed
up by Broadway producers as the
basis for the musical show, "Pa
jama Game.” Bissell, author of
the novel, was called to New York
and collaborated with George Ab
bott. noted Broadway showman,
in transforming the book into the
musical show form.
Music and lyrics for the show
are by Richard Adler and Jerry
Ross, long one of the most success
ful songwriting teams on Broad
way. Most song-writing teams
show one member writing the mu
sic and the other the lyrics, but
Adler and Ross both composed
music and lyrics, and their suc
cess is attested by the fact that
they collaborated on the music for
such fine shows as "Guys and
Dolls,” "Where’s Charley?” and
"The Most Happy Fella."
With such a show as a start,
Prof. Melvin E. Wooton, director
of dramatics here at Elon for the
past five years, has lined up one
of the finest casts In the history
of the campus theatre, with Prof.
Charles Lynam, Jane Morgan and
Pat Kelly slated for the starring
roles. Other leading roles will fea
ture Don Terrell, Tom ReUy, Pat
Day and Chris Fayle.
The complete east, as announced
by PiX>f. Wooton, includes Pat
KeUy, as Hines; Don Terrell, at
Prer; John Williams, as Joe; Tom
(Contfawed on Pi«e Fouri
The annual Religious Emphasis Week observance for upperclass-
; men will be held on the Elon campus during a six-day period, be-
Rinning oHr^Sunday, March 13th, and ending on Friday, March 18th,
of the Department of Campus
Elon Seniors
Rated Iligli
On GR Tests
The Student D-ince Committ^'o,which planned the successful jN'idwinier Weekend dance in Alum-
jlcmorial Gymnasium last Sa ■ • ni?ht. is pictured above. Left to right in the picture, the
committee members are as follows: FRONT ROW — Betty Raper, Buddy Frost, Steve Mauldin,
Pat Jones, Don Terrell, Barbara Day, George Platt, Mrs. Virginia Hester (Dean of Women), Bill
Reid, Jane Morgan. Jane Chlls y and Cliff Hardy. BACK ROW — Foy Crouse, John Williams, Nil-
lie Fletcher and Ed Boelte.
with the Rev. Hartland Helmich
Ministry of the United Church of
Christ, as the featured speaker.
The general theme tor the
week’s observance will be "God’s
Heconciliation of Our World in
Travail,” with related subjects to
be discussed in the series of reii-
gious chapel services, which will i
I be held each morning from Tues- i
day through Friday. Various or-'
ganizations will also meet with the There were a number of Elon
speaker for luncheon and dinner i College seniors who scored high
gatherings, with individual con-;pn the recent Graduate Record
ferences on special schedule with; Examinations, which are given in
informal sessions for both men and institutions through the country
women in West Dormitory from and which furnish a basis for com-
9:30 until 10:30 o’clock each ev- paring Elon students with those
enlng. There will also be service [of other colleges and universities
throughout the United States.
Four of the Elon seniors stood
out In the area tests in the Social
id winter Dance Proves Gala Event
The Elon College students
and their dates donned semv
formal attire last Saturday ev
ening, February 27th, for the
annual Mid-Winter Dance, which
was termed a complete success
by all who attended. The en
forced cancellation of the
Georre Shearing Concert cut
short the scheduled weekend
program, but it failed to mar the
fe.stive atmosphere at the dance.
Ralph Marterie .-uid his Or
chestra furnished music for the
gala occasion, and many stu
dents were so well pleased with
the Marterie group that they
crowded around the bandstand,
hoping te hear special request
nnmbers played by the group.
Marterie's lively quintet and two
oulstanding vocalists added mach
to the evening’s entertainment.
The AlnmnI Memorial Gym
nasium was simply but effective
ly decorated to create an atmos
phere of winter loveliness for
the dance. The white walls sur
rounding the large dance floor
were decorated with occasional
strips of b4dnight blue crepe
paper, centered with a band of
silver foil. Silver foil “snow-
halLs” hung from the center'of
the ceiling, creating the Illusion
a huge crystal chandelier.
The students and their guests
sat around white linen-covered
tables between dances and at
lntemiis.sion time, and plneap-
ple-ictnger ale punch and party
rookies added a gay note to the
festive evening, wltich attract
ed more than two hundred fifty
persons, including both students
and faculty members, all of
whom quite obviously enjoyed
the dance with its lively music
by the famous Marterie gronp.
The evening was climaxed for
many tired but happy students
when the orchestra played
“Goodnijcht. Sweethearts,” with
the well-konwn Marlboro theme
as a postlude. Clutching souve
nirs taken from the decorations,
many couples reloctantly left
the gymnasium and were forced
to remember once again that
there is a curfew at tht girls*
dormitory.
for Evening School student each
evening at 8 o’clock.
The entire program is to be
staged under the direction of a' Science Division, including Wil-
Helmich Is Active Leader In Youth Work
The Rev. Hartland H. Helmich,
who is to be the featured speaker
for the annual Religious Empha
sis Week for upperclassmen on
the Elon College campus, is one
•f the outxtandlBg figures in new
United Church of Christ, which
was formed by the union of the
Congregational Christian and Ev-
angelica land Reformed church
groups.
A graduate of Central College,
Fayette, Mo., he had his theolo
gical training at the Eden Theolo
gical Seminary, Webster Groves.
Mo., and he has also had gradu
ate work at the University of Chi
cago. He is an ordained mlnistei
Church.
Among the ministerial positions
he has filled, he was at one time
a member of the staff for the Stu
dent Christian Movement in New
York State and of the same move
ment In the Middle Atlantic Re
gion. He Is also a former campus
pastor for the Evangelical and
Reformed Church at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania.
Since 1952 he has served as di
rector of the Department of Cam
pus Christian Life of the Evan
gelical and Reformed Church and
as co-exeeutlve secretary of the
United Studedt FeUowship, the
national student Christian move-
of the Evangelical and Reformed I ment of the combined Congrega
tional Christian Churches and the
Evangelical and Reformed Church.
From 1954 until 1956 he was chair
man of the executive committee
of the United Student Christian
Council, which is the America sec
tion of the World’s Student Chris
tian Federation.
He is at present serving as a
member of the provisional execu
tive committee of the United Cam
pus Christian Fellowship, which
is engaged in preparation for a
union in August of this year of
the student Christian movements
of the Disciples of Christ, the Ev
angelical United Brethren Church
the United Presbyteiran Church of
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special faculty-student committee.
Faculty members of the commit
tee include Dr, W. W. Sloan, Prof.
John Kittenger, Dr. Paul Cheek,
Dr. Richard iUfl «nd Prqf. John
S. Graves, student members of
the group are Jimmy Humphrey.
represenUng the Student Christian
Association; Bob Overton, for the
Pan Hellenic Council; Beverly
Ward, for the Ministerial Associa
tion; Marion Glasgow, for the
Women’s Athletic Association; and
Maurice Brosky. for the "E” Men's
Club.
Rev. Helmich will meet with
members of the faculty and their
wives and husbands at 4 o'clock
on Sunday afternoon. March 13th,
at which time orientation plans
for the week will be discussed.
Students of the planning commit
tee will meet with him at 7 o’clock
that Sunday night for last-minute
planning details.
The visiting speaker wUl make
his first appearance at the 11
o’clock services at the Elon Col
lege Community Church on Sun
day morning, March 13th. After
the faculty and student confer
ences later that day. he will have
only one meeting on Monday.
March 14th. that a gathering with
the Ministerial Association on
Monday night at 8 o’clock.
Various campus organizations
wUl serve as official hosU for the
Rev. Helmich for each day of the
week. Host groups Include the "E”
Men’s Club for Monday, the Stu
dent Christian Association for
Tuesday, the Pan-Hellenic CouncU
for Wednesday, the Ministerial
Association for Thursday and the
Women’s Athletic AssociatioD for
Friday.
In discussing plans for the Re-
Uam Welch, of Dorchester, Mass.,
In the upper 9 per cent in the na
tion; James Elder, of Burlington,
in the upper 18 per cent; Robert
Worthington, of Huntingdon Val
ley, Pa., in the upper 20 per cent;
and Thomas Shreve, of Liberty,
In the upper 25 per cent.
There were also four of the Elod
students in the upper brackets in
the area tests in the Humanities
Division. James Elder and Jack
Goins, both of Burlington, were in
the upper 13 per cent in this divi
sion; with Raymond Thomas, of
Burlington, in the upper 19 per
cent; and Joyce Harrell, of Saint
Brides, Va.. in the upper 23 per
cent nationally.
Richard Whittenton. of Greens-
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boro. Was tops for Elon in the Na
tural Science Division, scoring in
the upper 20 per cent nationally
in the science area tests.
There were also three of the
Elon seniors who scored high on
the advanced tests in various
areas. Mary Lou Booth, of Hamp
ton, Va., was in the upper 19 per
cent nationally on the advanced
biology test; Jack Goins, of Burl
ington, was in the upper 25 per
cent on the advanced test on econ
omics; and Joyce Harrell, of Saint
Brides. Va.. ranked in the upper
11 per cent in the advanced test
in the field of education.
The statistics were complied and
released from the office of Dr.
H. H. Cunningham, dean of the
college, under whose direction the
examinationr were administered
on the Elon College campus. Fol
lowing a policy adopted severalv
years ago, all members of the
ior class at Elon are required /
take the Graduate Record
inatlon each year.