North Carolina Newspapers

PACK TWO . Maroon And Gold Edited and printed by student* of Elon CoUege.. PubUibed bl-weekly duiioc the eoUege ye»r« under the awplceB of the Board of Publication. Entered ai lecond claaa matter at the Poit Office at non College, N. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879. DeUvered by ■tail. $1.50 the coUege year, SOc the faarter. EDITORIAL »OA»D Doris Faircloth Editor-In-Chief Don Terrell Assistant Bdltor Ann Vickers — Assistant Editor John DalCin SporU Editor David Marshbura Intramural Sperts Judy Burke Girls Sports II. Reid Alumni Editor James Waggoner Alumni Editor Luther N. Byrd Faculty Adviser TECHNICAL STAFF Carl E. Owen Linotype Operator Louis Jones Linotype Operator Grant Hall Press Operator REPORTERS f Jn«Wi Butler Howard Little Bob Collin* William Long William Corde* Tony Markosky Wayne Gardner Jerry Nance Ralph Gilbert - Robert Payne Thomas Harris Kenneth Smith Jackie Holmes John Simpson S. J. Irvin Gary Teague John Koenig Esther Walker WUliam Libby Dean Yates WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1960 STOP AMID THANKSGIVING HUSTLE; THINK OF GOD’S BLESSINGS Are you among the countless millions who see nothing in Thanksgiving but a holiday; a time to visit relatives; a time when the first quarter closes; or a time when a delicious turkey dinner is served? If so, is H not true that the real signifi cance of the occasion is hid from view. This season of the year is always marked by confusion, noise, bustle, and frenzy. Have you ever thought Just what the real meaning of Thanksgiving is? In George Washington's First Thanksgiving Procla mation we read that "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God. to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” Both Houses of Congress had, by their joint committees, requested Washington to •‘recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, ttspecially by af fording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.” . And thus he recommended and assign ed Thursday, tTie 26th Day of November, "to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who Is the beneficent auth or of all the good that was, that is, and that will be . . . And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations . . . and generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best”. In this time when so many are celebrat ing a holiday, may we, in a true Christian spirit, acknowledge the providence of Al mighty God, obey His will, be grateful for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor.—SELECTED. MAROON AND GOLD Wednesday, November 23, I960 ALIBIS It is an all too human trait to make ex cuses on any occasion when things do not go juat right, and students are no excep tion. Consider the article which some writer has written and called "A Student's ALIBI-ography.” The selection follows; How often do you use the excuse . . . When you are given a one-word answer lest: "It tioesn't let you express yourself.” When you are given an essay test: "It’s iSo vague. You don't kmow what is ex pected.” When you are given a lot of small tests: "Why not have a few big onJs? This keeps you on edge all the time.” When you have a few big tests: "Too much depends on each one.” When you are given no tests: "It’s not fair. How «an he possibly grade us?” When the entire subject Is covered ia class: "Oh, he just foUows the book.” When you are asked to study part of the subject by yourself; "Why, we never dis cussed it.” When the course consists of an Informal discussion: "He just sits there. Who wants to hear the students? They don't know any thing" When the course is in lecture form: "We jever get to say anything.” When detailed niaterial is presented; the chatter box Wooten’s Run Wa^ One Of Ten Magic Moments On Elon Gridirons By DORIS FAIRCLOTH Vacation time i* fioaUy here; some of us have been packing and preparing for this event for the past couple of weeks. A long-needed and much-appreciated rest from the old grind is in store for most of us. Perhaps when we return from home we'll be completely rejuvenated and emit ting some of that old sparkle that has been fading day by day since September as a result of too many tests, numerous wor ries, too much bridge, and, of course, too little sleep. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year when we enact it as it was orig inally meant: The first requirement is to look around us and realize the many points in our lives for which we can be thankful, the second requirement is to learn how, If we don't already know how, to show our appreciation. Most of us are thankful though we do a fairly thorough job of hid ing it — for our school, for those who have enabled us to attend, for our friends — surely better ones don’t exist than those that can be found at Eton, for the numer ous times that we needed a helping hand and found one for the asking. All these aspects of a worthwhile life can be found here or anywhere if you’ll only give your self a chance to see them. I • • « « « A word for our fbotball team in the way of thanks: Boys, we appreciate the won derful showing you made for our school— the hard battling in all the games, win or lose. You certainly did your part in making the season a thrilling and success ful one for Elon. * • * * Basketball season is slowly but surely creeping up on us. Rumor has it that old Elon is going to have a hustling team this year. So let's all be out there come game time, yelling for our boys and showing them that they have many hustling sup porters behind them all the way. * • * • A word of praise after many words of scolding is due the Senate, which at its last Wednesday night meeting had an at tendance close to perfect. Let's hope that this was a sign of future activity in making our student government a working body instead of the farce it could be without whole-hearted participation from all stu dents. Every student body needs a student government that the students can respect 'and admire and that is represented by students who will make our student body ,a whole instead of a collection of unorgan ized and fun^tionless parts. • • • • Are we being less observant these days, or is there a marked improvement in stu dent conduct in the dining hall lines? The latter seems to be true, except for a pig headed minority who persist in showing what big men they are. We haven’t noticed any "mob action" in front of the dining hall lately, and let's hope that this show of maturity will continue. * • » • Do you have that sad, droopy feeling, like "man, life's just not the best”? The quickest and surest remedy I know is to take a trip down to First Virginia and set yourself down before a giggling, happy- igo-lucky redhead who apparenUy feels that aaughter is the only cure-all. You're sure to catch the happy disease whether you want It or not. Or, if you don’t happen to catch her at home, move on down the hall a couple of doors and place your burdens in the hands of a very coordinated Virgin ian. who will make you wonder so much as to what makes people like this tick — and boy, does she ever tick — that you'll forget you ever had a sad day in your life. The time to cry is when one or both of these individuals are in the same state you are. Then all is lost. • • • • .. ^ .I*"* November 14th another "first” wa« enacted at Elon College. Just ask the girls in one of the suites on First Virginia who created a completely new ^aspect to the assembly-line effect. * * • » Well, Smiley, go home and get some sleep, and keep your nose clean. Happy holidays to everyone! By JAMES WAGGONEH Tc*i n^gic moiments in Ulty years. During the past fifty years there have been many outstanding grid iron contests at Elon College, all of which have found their way into the pigskin history of the Fighting Christians under the title of “The Ten Magic Moments of Football Play.” These selections of Eton’s great est plays and greatest days were made after some seven years of research, and it must be stated that it was not an easy task to single out Elon's top ten feats of football magic. I (1) ELON vs. TRINITY, 1921 ! By far the outstanding event of the 1921 season was the game with Trinity College (now Duke), and it truly represents a "magic mo ment" for the Maroon and Gold footballers. The Fighting Christ ians had journed to Durham with sheer determination to give Trin ity a real battle, although sports writers all over the state had an ticipated a 60 to 0 victory for Trinity. When the game was over, how ever, one newspaper told its story, saying “Elon upset all dope here this afternoon and drew Trinity out to a scoreless tie. L. J. Perry, >in the Elon backfield, was Elon's right-hand man. He ran the team and did most of the passing. Sup porting him in the backfield was Captain Johnson, and John Smith won honors at right tackle.” (2) ELON vs WAKE FOREST, 1927 The Elon-Wake Forest game of 1927 deserves particular mention for Elon held the Deacons to a scoreless tie, and ‘‘the proverbial dope bucket was upset.'' Elon’s maroon-jerseyed Christians invad ed the campus of the Deacons and scrapped Coach Baldwin's eleven, a squad which just a week before had defeated the University of North Carolina, to a scoreless tie. The Fighting Christians were on the Wake Forest 4-yard line with a first down when tne game end ed, and came close to a victory. (3) Pistol Pete WUUams It was October 4, 1930. Elon had taken a jaunt to Wilson to play Atlantic Christian College. Star of that 1930 grid squad was Hen ry T. ‘‘Pete" Williams, who was to set an Elon scoring record that night which has never been brok en. Williams actually ran wild in that contest, scoring five times and adding three extra points for a total of 33 points, the most ever scored in a single contest by a Fighting Christian. His placing career at Eton lasted from 1928 through 1931, and he scored 33 touchdowns and 27 extra points for an all-time high of 225 points. He was named to the All-State squad twice and to the North State All-Conference of 1931 which had just l>egun that year. Records are still not complete, but Williams was responsible for at least 47 Elon touchdowns, was the only Fighting Christian to lead in scoring each year for four years, along with being a leader in most touchdowns scored in a career, most points in a single season, most points in a single game, most extra points in a single game aud most touchdowns re sponsible for in two single sea sons. (4) Upset Over Miami, 1928 One of the rare moments in Elon's football history was that Miami University upset in 1928 without the aid of a first down. The remarkable fact was that Elon had lost six straight games, while Miami was undefeated, hav ing toppled every foe by heavy scores. The Hurricanes just could not live up to the wind forecast and found the scoreboard at the end of the game reading Elon 21, 'Miami 18. Leading 18 to 7 going into the 1*^ qt^BTter, Miami apparently thought the game was sewed-up, but an alert Maroon & Gold team wouldn't give up. Ziegler snatched a Miami pass and hit pay dirt to close the scoring gap to 18-14 as the period opened. Then the excitement began. With just a few minutes left in the ball game, Miami was deep in her own backyard and decided to punt. Efird broke through to block the kick and fall on it in the end zone. Walker kicked the extra point and Elon won 21-18. Miami's 15-pound weight advantage per man wasn’t enough to discourage the Elon team, and to this day there are some who can’t under stand how the courageous Fighting Christians, a decided underdog, went on to defeat powerful and highly regarded Miami University, (b) Flying Keydets Gromided Sept. 18, 1937—“Elon College's Christians upset the highly favor ed Virginia Military Institute’s Flying Keydets by a 12 to 6 score this afternoon on the V.M.I. field as James (Jack Rabbitt) Abbitt led his team to a victory in the season't opener.” The victory was considered as the first big upset of the 1937 season in the nation, and it was all made possible by one of the greatest backs to wear the Maroon and Gold colors. Ab bitt scored both touchdowns. He also had two punts that day for 62 and 78 yards. (6) James (Jack Rabbitt) Abbitt It would be nearly impossible to pick out the magic moment in the football career of James Ab bitt. However, the Elon-Lenoir Rhyne game of 1936 deserves mention. Abbitt scored four touch downs on runs of 1, 17, 25 and 96 yards, along with an extra point to give him 25 points for the day. He averaged 50-yards in punting. His point total at the end of the year was 75 points on 12 touch downs and three extra points, and Wallace Wade, the head coach at Duke University, after seeing Ab bitt play in a scrimmage game with the Blue Devils, said that he was good enough to make any backfield in the Big Five. Abbitt was considered one of the best punters in the nation, and his ability as a runner, passer and punter, netted him berths on All- Confercnce, All-State and honor able mention for All-American squads. His honorable mention as lan All-American was highly un usual in the thirties. His scoring totals included 26 touchdowns and five extra points. His punts aver aged over 50 yards for most of his career, some of them being 55, 65, 62, 78, 75, 60, 70, 75 and 85 yards to cite a few. (7) Punching The Pirates The Elon Christian football squad practically rewrote the Ma roon and Gold offensive record book in its 34 to 20 victory over (Continued on Page Four’ From The Watchtower By ANN VICKERS "What’s the use? You forget it all after the exam anyway.” When general principles are presented; "What did we learn? We knew all that be fore we took the course.” Do any of these sound familiar? GLOOM CHASERS With narrow-souled people, as with nar- row-necked bottles, the lea;s they btave In them the more noise they make in pouring it out. Do you believe that the idea of observing Thanksgiving Day was originated by our American forefathers, the Plymouth colon ists? We think it is interesting to note the actual evolution of Thanksgiving Day. We must admit that we were surprised recently to leam that for thousands of years people in many lands have held harvest festivals, or days for thanking God for plentiful crops. These harvest festivals were actually the first Thanksgiving days. It seems likely that our Thanksgiving Day is a part of our Christian faith coming to us through the Jewish people. The end of the harvest season each year finds both the Jewish peo ple and Christians offering thanksgiving to (3od for the abundance of the harvest, Christians on Thanksgiving Day and Jews at Sukkos, autumn festival. Sukkos is the joyous festival that the Jews of old observed in the Palestinian autumn. In these ancient days when the Jewish peasimts had finished gathering all their crops from the fields and orchards, especially the -grapes from the vineyards, they observed a great festival and were joyous before God. We leam from the old biblicel tiooks that this autumn festival was celebrated by the Canaanites, the older inhabitants of Pales tine. Therefore, it would seem that our Thanksgiving custom may actually cojne to us through our Judeo-Christian faith. Still to day both the Christians and Jews display pumpkins and tra ditional Thanksgiving foods in recognition of God's abundant gifts. The first actual American Thanksgiving Day was celebrat ed during the second winter the Plymouth colonists spent in the New World. Nearly half of the members of the colony had been killed during the first winter in Massachusetts. In the summer of 1621 new hope was brought by the com harvest. (3ov. William Bradford decreed that Dec. 13, 1621, be set aside as a day of feasting and prayer to show the gratitude of the colonists. The colonists spent three days feast ing, praying and singing at this first Ametican Thanksgiving celebration. It was at this cele bration that the precedent of serving turkey and pumpkin pie were set. Soon the custom of observing Thanks^ving Day spread from Plymouth to other New England colonies. During the Revolution ary War eight special days of thanksgiving were observed f*r victories and for safety from dangers. Pres. George Washing ton issued general proclamations for a day of thanks on Nov. 26, 1789. For many years tfaere was no national Thanksgiving Day in the United SUtes. Otir neighbor ing state, Virginia, was the first southern state to adopt the cus tom (1855). In 1939 President Roosevelt proclaimed that the third Thurs day of November would be Thanksgiving Day. Congress ruled that after 1941 the fourth Thursday of November would be observed as Thanksgiving and would be a legal holiday. So we leam that, although Thanksgiving Day in the United States is rooted in native tradi tion, the idea of a day set apart to celebrate the successful har vest and to pay homage to the Spirit who caused the crops to grow is ancient and universal. Despits its religious associa tion, Thanksgiving Day is often given a distinctly secular flavor. Raffles of fowls and shooting matches are not uncommon on Thanksgiving Day. Merchants often make commercial use of the holiday by launching the Christmas shopping season witb noisy parades on Thanksgiving Day. However, as Elon College students and as Americans, Thanksgivmg Day to us should not merely be a vacation or a commercialized holiday. We might take into considera tion that we are Americans and what this means, we have the opportunity to attend college, we may gripe and complain when ever we please, we can choose our vocations. We do not have space to continue the list. One of our freedoms is religious free dom. No one forces us or even urges us to observe Thanksgiv ing Day by offering thanksgiv ing. Here is hoping that, how ever you cbooce to spend jemr Thanksgiving Day, 1960, it will be a meaningful day for you. a voice from the corner By DON TERRELL Well, right after classes today, many o£ US will be “cutting out” for big turkey dinnt“.r* Tllis will be the first trip home for some extended weekend for others, b^ all-in-aU, its a much waited-for-event. To ®*ke it better still, only seventeen days or sJ' Sttet day, we will be starting home for* kWg'- est and most looked-forward-to vac..'^®^ the year, Christmas. Then, just after time comes exams and the semester's em.*' • * * • I'm sure that those of us who took time out to hear Natalie Bodanya sing were quite pleased with her performance. Miss Bodanya, a little bundle of personality, sang selecttons from both the classical classics and the popular classics. She stay ed after the performance to chat with sev eral students, who found her to be vitally concerned with youth and their education, especially in the humanities. She urged that students interested in the programs, such as the one she presented, write to Norwood Baker, co Arts Program. 200 West 57th Street, New York City, giy. ing their opinion and suggestions to the committee which sponsors the programs. She explained that the programs are sup ported by a group of individuals who are interested enough in young people to spend quite a consideraMe amount of money to bring culture to many small colleges. I hope that many of the Elon students will be among those who write encouragement to the Arts Program. ***** It is very interesting and impressive to see the interest of the Freshmen in matters pertaining to the Honor Council and stu dent affairs in general, but continuance of this interest can only be maintained through the impression they now receive from upperclassmen. Due to recent and current actions, the students are now faced with the soboring possibility of not having a student government. The new class seem ingly has taken a leading interest in this. Its good to see somebody on the ball. Con grats to the frosh for just “being in there”! • • • • Currently before the Senate is a bill •which, if passed, will appropriate money for the purchase of a few new record al bums to be used in the dining hall during meals. The bill calls for a system which would provide new albums regularly. At present, the bill is in committee, but your class representatives may be able to let you know more about this after the next meeting of the legislature. * * * « • The dance committee, probably the hard est worked and least credited of student committees, has been quite active this year. So far, there have been three chairmen. George Platt being the latest. The com mittee has announced tentative plans for ■the coming year. Our annual Christmas Dance will be held on Saturday, December 3rd. Attire will be semi-formal. I certainly hope the turnout will be as good or better than last year's crowd. The Mid-vrinter's Dance will be on Saturday, February 25th. This one will be a little different from most recent social events, being a masquerade. This should be a winner. We certainly do need a few changfes. The Spring Dance will take place of the May Dance and will be the most gala of the year's activities. A big and popular band is tentatively scheduled for this event, which will be formal. I am very glad to hear that the last dance will be formal. It really isn't fair to most of the girls to make them go through an entire year of college without at least one formal occasion. I realize that the biggest gripe among the fellows is the expense involved, but if you start planning for it now, it can really be a big thing. Here's hoping! • • • • • TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I have been told that Judy has acquired a new, and I must say appropriate, nick name. Tell us about it Judy! . . . Careful girls, John Munick might be trouble with his recently renovated smootcher ... I Relieve Dan Hulseaple is developing into a campus lover. What about it Dan? . . • What's with this star-struck, m«on-glow look Jane Morgan wears? Maybe there’s something more than gold in Fort Knox! Belated news! The campaign to Charlottes ville for the Wake game was successfully led by Charlie Hawks . . . Judy Watson certainly has been getting into mischief lately . . . Orchids to Judi Klipfel for just being Judi Klipfel ... I have a friend who •tarts his day with a gin breakfast. Could this mean he’s in love or just different. Well, Happy Thanksgiving, don’t eat too nnjch, and be careful.