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J'LON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1961
NUMBER 9
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Festive spirit will reign supicint for the annual Mid-Winter Week
end, which is scheduled for the Elou College campus next Frida>
and Saturday, March 3rd and 4th, the peak event of the winter sca-
ion on campus have been postponed to those dates from this final
weekend in February.
The plans for the Mid-Winters observance, which has been ar
rpnged by the Student Government officials and committees, were ' n will be Queen Judy and King
announced this week by Ed uocl tc, president of the Elon student Charles for the annual Elon Col-
body, who listed an outstanding movie for Friday night, followed *®8e May Day festival, which Is
by a jazz concert and the Mid-W inter Dance on Saturday afternoon scheduled as a campus feature foi «!—
and night weekend in May, for the
' Elon College students in the an
nual election held this week choic
Judy Samuels, of Burlington, and
Charles Rayburn, of Norfolk. Va.,
Judy Samuels To IJe Q iieeii
Of Eloirs May l)a\ lu*stival
MAY
The weekend entertainment ge ts underway on Friday night with
ihe showing of "The Proud Ones,”
one of the outstanding movies of
A huge heart -and capering cuplds lent an attractive Valentine Day note to the serving table
■when the Faculty Women’s Club gathered in West Dormitory parlor on "Juesday. February 14th,
for its regular February meeting. The table decorations are pictured above, with Mrs. A. L. Hook,
club president, pictured at the left as she prepared to pour col fee tor the guests. Among those
who assisted in dispensing hospitality were those pictured with Mrs. Hook. Those standing behind
the table, left to right, are Mrs. W. D. Florance, Mrs. R. D. Ful!s. Mrs. Arnold Stiauch, Mrs.
James Howell, Mrs. TuUy Reed and Mrs. Jennings Berry.
Eighty-Nine
Placed On
Dean’s List
Eighty-nine Elon College stu
dents have been placed on the
dean’s list after achieving honor
grades on their campus courses
during the recent fall Semester,
according to an announcement
from the office of Dr. H. H. Cun
ningham, dean of the college.
Three of the group made no
grade less than “A” on any sub
ject, including Dean Coleman, of
Burlington; Helen Misenheimer,
of Conway, Va.; and Carol Tra-
gesor, 51 Arnold, Md.
Seventy-seven others in regular
academic courses had an average
of “B” on all their courses, among
them Nabil Abu-Aitah, Beit Rahar,
klordan; Feberee Allen, Hender
son; Gerald Allen, Winston-Salem;
Richard Apperson, Newport News,
Va.; Carolyn Apple, Gibsonville;
Va.; Carolyn Apple, Graha Joan
Blythe, Burlington;
Helen Baker, Elkridge, Md.;
Deanna Braxton, Eiloo College;
Glenda Bumgarner, Burlington;
Raymond BeU, Burlington; Bar
bara Blackwelder, Southern Pines;
Ruby Betty, Burlington; Thomas
Brady, Elon College; Carolyn
Brown, Troy; James Buie, Dar
lington, B.C.; Ellen Burke, Gra
ham; Peggy Burke, Burlington
Edward Campbell, Elon College.
Mjelrrjtt Cheek., Mebane; Bar-
baros Celikkol, Adana, Turkey;
Stephen Cobb, Gibsonville; Bar
bara Day, South Boston, Va.; An
nie Edwards, Gibsonville; Earl
Fogleman, Liberty; Sara Lou
Foley, Stoneville; Carolyn French,
Henderson; Daniel Gee, Burling
ton; C. G. Hall. Stoneville; Herb
ert Hawks, Louisville, Ky.;
Mary Ann Hepner, Philadelphia
Pa.; Winston Hoelscher, Chapel
Hill; Judith Hudson, Fort Bragg;
Paul Hyde, Chicago III.; Janette
Inge, Elon College; Larry Jordan,
Burlington; Cary Keogh, East
■Grange, N.J.; Amy Litten, Burling-
Sylvia BayUff, Burlington;
’ verly, Salisbury; Charles
Broadway;
•’rson, Burlington;
S.C.;
Valentine Day Featured
At Faculty Club Meet
The Faculty
Women s Club of Mrs. Fred Gilliam and Mrs. Wil-
'Ion College, which held its reg-
jlar February meeting in the par
lor of West Dormitory from 4 un
til 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon,
February 14th, enjoyed a fest've
Valentine tea which fitted nicely
into the annual Valentine Day ob
servance.
Thirty-two members were pres
ent for the tea gathering, includ
ing three new members who ^oined
the club at that time. The new
members were Mrs. Roy Apple,
Music Recital
Carolyn French, pianist, a sen
ior girl from Henderson, will be
presented by the Elon Music De
partment in a student recital in
Whitley Auditorium at 4 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, February 26th.
All faculty, students and the gen
eral public are invited to attend
the recital, which will feature
works of Scarlatti, Anges, Para-
dies, Beethoven, Brahms, Goosens,
Debussy and Dohnanyi.
liam Ginn.
The tea table was covered with
an imported lace cloth, with a
center piece of red and white car
nations and chrysanthemums,
flanked on either side by silver
candelabras holding red candles
A huge red heart and two cupids
cut from red poster paper, were
pinned to the front of the table
to lend a Valentine atmosphere
The parlor was also decorated
with vases of red and whitt flow
ers.
The club president, Mr.'. A. L.
HTook, poured coffee, which was
served with dainty tea cookies,
mints and nuts. Hostesses assist
ing in the serving included Mrs
Jennings Berry, Mrs. J. C. Ccl-
ley, Mrs. Herman Davis, Mrs. W.
D. Florance, Mrs. James Howell,
Mrs. Fred Keisling, Mrs. T. E.
Perkins, Mrs. Tully Reed, Mrs
Arnold Strauch and Miss Pauline
LHjwmsn.
The coffee hour was followed
by a brief busines3 meeting, with
Mrs. Hook presiding.
■he college’s entertainment prog
ram, to be shown in Whitley Audi-
orium next Friday night. M^rch
3rd.
This movie, in cinemascope and
olor, stars Robert Ryan, Virginia
Mayo and Jeffrey Hunter in a
story of the strenuous life of the
narshal of Flat Rock, Kansas, por-
raying the honky-tonk atmosphere
if a booming frontier town, with
ilenty of gun play and a dash of
rib-tickling comedy.
The Saturday entertainment
;ets underway with a jazz concert
by the Charles Lindsay Jazz Sex-
pt in Whitley Auditorium from
2. until 4 o’clock that afternoon.
This is the same jazz group which
was received with acclaim by the
students when it presented a
great program of modern jazz dur-
ng Homecoming weekend in Oc
tober.
Climax to the entire weekend
will be the Midwinter Dance in
McEwen Ball Room from 8 o’clock
until midnight next Saturday night,
featuring the lilting tunes of Russ
Carlton and his Orchestra, which
features nine pieces and a starred
vocalist. The dance will be semi-
formal.
Hardy Named Vice-President
Of NS Student Organization
CUff Hardy, vice-president of tlw for the next meeting of the As-
Elon Student Body, was elected sociation, which will be held at
vice-president of the North State Appalachian State CoUege this
Student Gk)vernment Association Spring. Colleges attending the con-
at a conference held at Lenoir jference this Spring will be the
Rhyne College on February 18th j nine-member institutions of the
and 19th The purpose of the meet- North State Conference, plus pos
ing was the re-organization of the sibly Wake Forest and Flora Mac-
Fornier Elon i
Teacher Dies
In Minnesota
Jesse C. Sowell. 40, who was a
member of the Elon College math
ematics faculty for two years prior
to last spring, died in a hospital
in Minneapolis, Minn., on Monday
night, February 13th, from compu
tations following heart surgery,
which he had undergone in mid-
January.
Professor Sowell and his wife,
the former Miss Kitty Oliver, of
ReidsvUle, were both members of
the Elon faculty during the past
two terms, but they left early
last smmer for Hattiesburg, Miss.,
where she was teaching this year
while he had been engaged in
graduate study.
In addition to his wife, he Is
survived by a small son, David,
who was bom during their resi
dence at Elon College. Other rela
tives reside in Chesterfield, S.C.,
where funeral services were held
on Frid)ay afternoon, February
to rule over the weekend festi^vi-
ties.
The chief attendants for the King
and Queen at the spring festival
will be Deanna Braxton, of Elun
College, who was elected as Maid-
of-Honor, and William Hasso^l, of
Jameston, as royal elcort for the
Maid-of-Honor. The king and
queen and the two royal attend
ants are members of the senior
class and have long taken an a.’-
tlve part in campus affairs.
The students also balloted in the
special election for two senio;
girls and two junior girls, aion^
with an equal number of oenio.^
and junior boys as their escorts
These four couples will serve as
JUDY SAMUELS
The annual May Day pageant Is
court attendants for the Pageant spnng as a proj^c o
and other May Day events. ‘"e women, physical education
The senior girls named in the depart"’*"*' each year tne pro-
baltoting as attendants from their
class are Linda Butler, of Roids- entire college year
J ,-.1 J I 1 « one which draws a large crowd of
ville, and Glenda Isley, of Elon, j ,
„ „ ,r.u . stdents and alumni and friends of
College. Their escorts for the
the college.
The 1961 May Day pageant will
be calTled out under the direction
of Mrs. Jeanne Griffin, who it di
rector of women's physical edu
cation work on the campus. She
has not yet announced tha cJnv
plete plans for the event, but de
tails will be worked out in con
nection with the work of the spring
term class In rhythms.
weekend will be a pair of senior
boys, Eddie Burke, of Brlington,
and Douglas Scott, of Durham.
The two junior girls nam^-d as
attendants are Sandra Nelg.ibors,
of Forest City, and Helen Wright,
of Greenville, S.C. Their escorts
in the May Court will be Jim
Short, of Granite Falls, and Mike
Vork, of Ramseur.
KitcWe
Suzanne
^ont
Alan V.
McBuitie,
Choe ■ ,riestoB
Hmson Mikell, ngge- Vir-
Sara Mitchell, Elon Co*-
ginia Moorefield, King;
More, Arlington, Va.;
Myers, Ivor, Va.; Lindsay 3
Burlington; WiUiam Parham, Hen
derson; Leroy Pittman, Siler i
Lin wood Puckett, BurUngton;
George Reed, Durham; John
Fairfax, Va.; Leonard Biddle,
South Boston, Va.;
Harold Rogers, Soo*
NSSGA and the election of a vice-
president. The president of the
group is Dave Mustian, AtlanUc
Christian College.
The next duty of the vice-presi
dent of the NSSGA will be to plan
Camp
Helen Rodgers, Burlington; Doug
las Scott, Durham; Eleanor Smith,
Winston-Salem; Jay Strickland,
Reids ville; Roger Stilling, Bronx-
vUle, N.Y.; Sara Summers, Glb-
eonvllle; Charles Tadlock, Balti
more, Md.; Kathryn Thomas,
FranklinviUe; William Troutman,
Lewisburg, Pa.; Robert Troy, Bur-
Jineton;
Della M'arie Vickers, Ion C^l-
leee- Ann Vickers, Ridgeway, Va.;
gfher walker. Burlington; Bev
erly Ward, RockvUle, Conn.; Linda
Waynick, Gibsonville; Sarah Wel^
sten New Wm William West,
Henderson; Ami Whitehouse. Fort
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donald.
The purpose of the periodic con
ferences is to discuss the problems
of student government and to sug
gest new ways to solve them. It
was the general feeling of the col
leges attending the most recent
meeting that the National Student
Government Association contribu
ted little value to the NSSGA and
its members, but it was felt, that
the NSSGA could be a valuable
asset to the student governments
of colleges in this state.
Carol Trageser, a freshman sen
ator from Arnold, Md., was the
other delegate representing the
Elon CoUege Student Government
at last week’s conference. She
holds the position of reporter for
Elon for the NSSGA newsletter
This newsletter is to be used as
a method of keeping the members
of the Association informed of the
activities of the student govern
ments In each member college.
New Drinking
Rule Passed
By Senate
The Student Senate, in regular
session on Wednesday, February
8th, enacted a new bill in regard
to drinking of alcoholic beverages
by students, which was passed in
the final balloting by a vote of
15 to 6 and which goes into effect
immediately. The new drinking
rule reads as follows:
“It is expected that all students
will refrain from the use of alco
holic beverages.
SECTION I. No student shall
be auilty of drinking alcohoUe
beverages on the campus.
SECTION II. No student shaU
be guilty of possessing alcoholic
beverages on the campus.
SECTION III. No student shaU
be guilty of being under the in
fluence of alcoholic beverages
SECTION IV. Every student
found guUty of violating Section
I shall be suspended from the col
lege for one academic semester
Every student found guilty of vio
lating Section II and Section III
shall be punished in accordance
with the seriousness of the offense,
with the minimimi penalty being
deprivation of certain privileges
and the maximum penalty being
suspension for one academic
semester.
The Senate at the same meeting
also discussed the question of more
prompt reports to students of aca-
dcmic grades, but the matter was
referred back to committee for
futher consideration. The group
also heard a report from dele
gates to the recent North State
Student Government Association
meeting and approved the appro
priation of funds to pay expenses
of the annual Mid-Winter Dance
on March 4th.
Young Pianist Is Heard i Father of Eion
^ Professor Dies
In Elon Lyceum Program In Pennsylvania
An enthusiastic audience heard
Normal Shetler, brilliant young
American pianist, who appeared
in concert on the stage of Eton’s
Whitley Auditorium on Thursday
night, the concert being another
in the series of Elon lyceum pro
grams for the year.
Shetler, who is a native of Phila
delphia, received his first music
instruction from his father at the
age of three, but he later studied
in New York and in Europe, where
he graduated from the iVenna
Academy of Music in 1958 after
studying with Rudolph Firkusny
and Wilhelm Kempff.
The youthful star made his first
public appearance at the age of
sixteen as a soloist in an orchestra
concert, having won the guest ap
pearance as a prize in competition
He made his European debut In
Vienna in 1958, and a year later
he made his debut in New York’s
Carnegie HaU, where he was
hailed with high praise. He has
also appeared in Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Brussels, Berlin, Mos
cow, London and Rome.
Following his concert in London.
English critics hailed young Shet
ler for his remarkable assurance
and sense of musical construction,
declaring that there was great
depth of thought and a watchful
care in musical interpretation
One of his European teachers
declared that Shetler, because of
his fine technique, is "called to
revive the works of our classics,”
and music lovers of this area who
heard the pianist on Thursday
night were ready to agree with
critics who had heard him both in
this country and abroad.
NORMAN SHETLER
Charles Strauch, 68. of Scranton,
Pa., father of Dr. Arnold Strauch,
who is a member of the Elon Col
lege education faculty, died in
Scranton on Tuesday night, Feb
ruary 14th, following a stroke,
1 which he had suffered the prev
ious week.
He was a retired public utilities
employee, having been connected
for many years with the Scranton \
Electric Company. In addition to
Dr. Strauch here, he is survived
by a daughter who resides in
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Strauch left Immediately
following recept of news of his
father’s death to attend the fun
eral services, which were held in
.Scranton on Friday, February
117th.
Thirteen New Members Are
Initiated In Sigma Mu Sigma
The Elon College chapter of ville, first yice-president; Fred
Sigma Mu Sigma, which is a Ma- Shull, of Burlington, second vice-
sonic affiliated service fraternity,! president; Dudley Purdy,of Edge-
hai just completed initiation of
thirteen new members following
the annual mid-winter pledge per
iod.
The Elon chapter of the fratern
ity, only nationally affiliated group
of Its type on the campus, is now
in its thirteenth year at Elon,
having first been Installed here
under the name of Sigma Alpha
Chi prior to Its reorganization into
present Sigma Mu Sigma.
Officers of the Sigma Mu Sigma
chapter this year include Lennle
Riddle, of South Boston, Va., pres
ident; Tommy Sears, of McLean*-
water, Md., secretary; and Don
Rankin, of Miami Beach, Fla.,
treasurer.
New members Include Edwin
Artmann, Suffolk, Va.; Bob Dit-
zel, Rozelle, N.J.; Thomas Gold.
South Boston, Va.; Roger Crim
son, Durham; Paul Hyde, Chicago,
lU.; WiUlam Luby, Wethersfield,
Conn.; Grayson Mattingly, Wash
ington, DC.; Sonny Murray, Bur
lington; C?iaxles Paska, Arling
ton, Va.; Wallace Sawyer, Ports
mouth, Va.; and Jerry Thompson.
Graham.