Here’s Hoping All
Elon Students
Will Vote Taesdij /^J~"
AND GOLD
And Best Of Luck
To tUch
Of The Candidalcfi
VOLUME 41
ELON COLLEGE, \. C.
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1961
Nl'MBER 12
Elon Players To Offer ‘The Rainmaker’ On Mooney Stag(
May Day Is
To Be Gala
Elon Event
One oi the sajcst May Dayi
•weekends in Elon College history |
looms jusf ahead for the students I
and faculty of the college, with
plans nearing completion for a
weekend program which calls for
a musical concert and dance,
along with the traditional May
Day pageantry.
The annual May Day pageant,
which is set for 3 o’clock on Sat
urday afternoon, May 6th, will be
on the theme of “Happy in Ha
waii," presenting the mtnic and
dances of the faraway island par
adise for the entertainment of the
reigning May Queen and her
court.
The May Day program itself
will be sandwiched between a
concert on Friday night by Woody
Herman and his 16-piece concert
group, with the “Old Wood-Chop-
per” himself making a personal
appearance, and the annual May
Dance in Alumni Memorial Gym
nasium on Saturday night, when
the Woody Herman All-Stars will
furnish the music.
The concert, the dance and the
Saturday afternoon May Day page
ant will all form a tribute to Queen
Judy Samuels and King Charlie
Rayburn, who will have as their
chief attendants Deanna Braxton
as maid-of-honor, and her escort,
Bill Hassell.
Other members of the >*ay
Court will include Linda Butler
and Glenda Isley as senior at
tendants, escorted by Douglas
Scott and Eddie Burke; and Sand
ra Neighbors and Helen Wright as
junior attendants, escorted by Jim
Short and Mike York. little Betsy
Long will be flower girl, with
Larry Neese as crown bearer.
Special Hawaiian dances which
will be featured in the pageant
will include the Hula Hoop Bal
let, the Hawaiian Cowboys, the
Beachcombers, the Waikiki Girls,
the Hawaiian Gourd Dance and
the traditional winding of the May
Pole.
A number of special student
committees have been named by
Mrs. Jeanne Griffin to handle the
various phases of the May Day
program, all of them from the
class in Physical Education 46.
The committees are as follows,
with the chairmen named first:
decoration AND PROPS:
Marvin Crowder, Jack Moore,
Judy Burke, David DeWar, Jim
Leviner, George Sharpe and Pat
Cobb.
GROUNDS: Ed May, Leroy My-
«rs. Gene Stokes and Jerry Os
borne.
Reception and programs:
Prances Clark, Dick More, Eddie
Clark and Billy LaCoste.
MXrsiC AND P.A. SYSTEM: C.
G. Hall, Tom King and Lester
McCaskill.
may POLE: Charlie Rayburn,
Mary Lou Chandler, Dean Yates
find BUI Graves.
IIEHEARSALE SCENE FOR NEW PLAYEK SHOW
II
Comedy W^ill Be Given
In Three-NigJit Stand
One of the outstanding stage attractions of the campus theat
rical season is upcoming when the Elon Players present N. Richard
Nash’s “The Rainmaker” in Mooney Chapel Theatre In a three-
night stand next week, with showing scheduled for Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday nights at 8 o’clock.
It is an experienced cast which is working under the direction
of Prof. E. Ray Day for the new p.oduction, for every member of
the group has already proven ab iity jn earlier appearances on the
Elon College stage, and theatre lovers of the Elon community can
II afford to miss seeing the show.
Tony Markosky, of Mahanoy City, Pa., who gained his first stane
laurels in the recent showing of "The Doctor In Spite Of llimselt, '
will join with Carol Tragesor, of Arnold. Md., who also starred
in the Moliere show, in taking the leading roler in “The Rain
maker.” Markosky appears
KGAN WINNER
The Currie brothers, whose efforts to get their sister married furnish the comedy theme of the Elon
Player production of N. Richard Nash’s "The Rainmaker,” are pictured above in a rehearsal shot
of the show that is set for next Thursday, Friday and Saturday niights in Mooney Chapel Theatre.
Bill Troutman, who appears as mischievous Jim Currie, is shown at the left; while John Williams,
who enacts the role of Noah Currie, is pictured right, with the telephone.
With Many Offices At Stake ...
Campus Election Is Set Next Tuesday
The Elon students will go to
the polls next Tuesday, April 25th,
to choose the campus officers for
the coming 1961-62 college year.
Balolting at that time will be for
all general campus officers ana
class leaders, with the voting for
members of the Student Senate
set for Tuesday, ivlay 2nd.
Cliff Hardy, who is the lone can
didate for president of the Student
Government, is the only major
candidate assured of election.
Hardy has served this year as
vice-president of the campus gov
ernment organization.
Other candidates for general
offices include Don Terrell and
Alien Tyndall, for vice-president;
and Don Rankin and Eleanor Smith,
for student body secretary and
treasurer.
The candidates tor the Honor
Council include Charlie Rayburn
and Lennie Riddle, senior men;
'cndra Neighbors, senior woman;
Bill Bil'Jerback and Harold Gray,
junior men; Susan Sandefur, jun
ior woman; and Joe Albertson,
Bill Luby and Shelby Whitehouse.
jophomore candidates.
Those seeking posts on the Stu
dent Council include Dan Hulse-
apple, Lee Mullis and Jim Rosser,
running for the two men’s posi
tions; Nancy Clark, Gail Hettel
and Denyse Theodore, seeking
the two women’s posts; and Jack
Albertson and Kenneth Inge, seek
ing the at-large position.
Running for senior class offic
ers are Dick More, Frank Purdy
and Fred Shull, for president;
Walter Bass and Helen Wright,
for vice-president; and Mclver
Henderson and Jane Morgan, for
secretary^reasurer.
Seeking junior class offices are
Tom Brady and Jim Buie, for
president; Jerry Hollandsworth,
Dick’ Purdy and Bob Saunders,
tor vice-president; and Judy Ma-
ncss and Nancy Rountree, for sec-
retary-treasurer.
Candidates for sophomore class
positions are Lynn Ryals and
Wally Sawyer, tor president; Ger
ald Allen and Laura Barnes, for
vice-president; and Ellen Burke
and Carol Tragesor, for secretary-
trcasurer.
Dr. Robert Benson Named
As Head Of New College
Elon To Share
111 Fund Grant
Elon College is one of twenty
^i'’e church-related colleges in
North Carolina to share in a re
cent $3,000 grant from the New
^ork Life Insurance Company, ac-
t:ording to an announcement re
ceived by Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon
president.
The grant, which is unrestricted
39 to use, was made to the North
Carolina Foundation of Church-
®«lated Colleges. It was announc
'd by Paul H. Kolk, executive di
rector of the group, who pointed
®ut that such unrestricted grants
especially valuable in meeting
current needs of the institutions.
Dr. Hobert Benson, dean of stu
dents at Elon College, has accepted
the presidency of the new College
of Albemarle, one of North Caro
lina’s new community junior col
leges, which is to open its doors
in Elizabeth City this year, and
he concludes four years of faculty
service at Elon this spring.
It was already known that Dr.
Benson was leaving Elon, for he
had been named as dean of the
new St. Andrews Presbyterian
College at Lourinburg prior to ac
cepting the Elizabeth City college
presidency. He relinquished the
St. Andrews post when the presi
dential offer was made.
Commenting upon Dr. Benson s
appointment to the College of Al-
bemarie presidency. Dr. J. E.
Danieley, president of Elon, said,
“On behalf of the trustees and
faculty of Elon College, I congrat
ulate Dr. Benson. During the four
years he has been a member of
our faculty, we have come to ap
preciate his deep interest in the
studente and his determination to
give of himself to the educational
profession. We value highly our
association with him and assure
him that he has our sincere best
wishes in his new undertaking.”
David Kivok
Lectures On
Chinese Art
as
tarbuck, while Carol Tragesor
A'ill enact the role of Lizzir
Carter Nute, of Wayne, Pa., will
ppear in the show as II. C. Cur
ie; while Bill Troutman, of Lewis-
urg. Pa., has the part of Jim
Currie, the mischievous younger
son of the family. John Williams,
of Virginia Beach, Va., plays the
):irt of Noah Currie, the older son.
George Platt, of High Point, will
be seen as Sheriff Thomas; and
Sam White, of Pittsboro, rounds
out the cast as he plays the part
f File, the deputy sheriff
The play itself is a romantic
oomedy that has its setting at the
time of a paralyzing drought in
the West. Heroine of the show is
a girl whose father and two broth
ers are worried about as much
about her becoming an old maid
IS they are about their dying cat-
le. The truth is that Lizzie Currie
IS a plain girl, and the brothers
'ry every possible scheme to mar
ry her off withoirt success.
Nor is there any sign of relief
from the dry heat, and then sud
denly there appears out of no-
•svhere a picturesque character
with nimble tongue and the most
grandiose rtotions a man could
imagine. He is a rainmaker, and
he promises to bring rain. It’s
a wacky idea, but the whole fam
ily falls in with the persuasive
visitor, who then turns his atten
tion to the girl and persuades her
that she is a real beauty.
Elon I)(‘lt‘iiilioii
(iot'S J'o
Al Appalachian
The spring meeting of the North
State Student Government Asso
ciation will be held next Sunday,
April 30th, and Monday, May 1st.
al Appalachian State Teachers
College in Boone, with delegations
from each of the member colleges
to conduct workshops on assigned
topics. The Elon group is to report
on Student-Faculty Relations.
Elon is .sending a full delega
tion of three regular delegates and
one alternate, including Don Ter
rell, president of the sophomore
class; Carol Tragesor, freshman
senator; Lynn Ryals, president of
the freshman class; and Gerald
Allen, freshman senator. Also at
tending will be Cliff Hardy, who
is vice-president of the North
State group, having been clected
to the post at the last meeting
at Atlantic Christian College in
February.
Four workshops are scheduled
for next Monday morning and
four on Monday afternoon, with
each of the member colleges to
prepare a display and a report on
its student government organiza
tion. These reports will be judged,
i..d an award will be given to the
college adjudged the best.
#
KU'llAKl) Al'PKRSON
:nrd Apperson, Elon College
' o-iinre from Newport News,
, won first place honors in «r-
•an al a southwide niu.sic festival,
which was held at Jacksonville,
Fla., last weekend under the aus
pices of the National Federation
of Music Clubs.
The Elon organist, who won the
right to represent North Carolina
in the Jacksonville festival in an
earlier contest held at Salisbury,
ia accompanist for the Elon Col
lege choir. Apperson is also en
tered In a national contest judged
on basis of recorded selections,
but no decision has been received
on this event.
Movi(* roiii^lit
The movie scheduled for campus
showing in Whitley at 7:30 o’clock
tonight is "The Giant,” a monu
mental picture of American life
as shown in the story of a Texas
family during a 30-year span.
Taken from a novel by Edna
Ferber, the picture stars Eliza
beth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James
Dean, Carroll Baker and Sal Min-
eo. The show will run for 201 min
utes.
Elon Student New ‘Miss
DR. ROBERT BENSON
Dr Benson, who is also chair
man of the English department
at Elon College In addition to
his administrative duties as dean
of students, is a graduate of Ca
tawba College and received the
doctoral degree from the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
Prior to his joining the Elon Col
lege faculty four years ago, he
was in public school work in
North Carolina, having held ad
ministrative positions in the Gra
ham and Winston-Salem schools
systems.
David Kwok, outstanding Chi
nese artist, was on the Elon Col
lege campus on Wednesday and
Thursday of last week for lectures
jnd demonstrations and an exhibit
of his paintings'. His lecture in
Whitley Auditorium on Thursday
night was another in the series
of Elon Lyceum programs.
Hailed as one of the finest of
modern Cl\inese artists, Kwok be
gan his visit at Elon with a lecture
nd demonstration of artistic tech
niques in the ballroom of McEwen
Memorial Dining Hall on Wednes
day afternoon. This was followed
by an exhibit of his works on
Thursday afternoon and his final
lecture in Whitley on Thursday
night.
A student of Ch’i Pai-shih, the,
great master in the school of tra-j
ditional Chinese paintings, Kwok'
is himself rated as a master m'
the technique of oriental art; and
he discussed the technique of
brush work in the demonstration
lecture on Wednesday afternoon.
David Kwok’s work represenU;
new discipline in the classical
style of Chinese painting, but his
works have been compared with
those of Pa Ta ban Jen, a famous
painter of the Seventeenth Cent
ury.
Like great Chinese painters of
all ages, Kwok uses simple and
vigorous strokes and simply
writes” his picture. In this ex-
pressionistic art form, he greatly ^
suggests and slightly delineates os
that, with a minimum number of
brush strokes, he achieves a max
imum effect. He offers a variety
t
(Continued on P»8e Four)
The coronation of Sandra Neighbors, Elon College junior, as the
new “Miss Burlington” is plctur-'d above. The Elon junior from
Forest City, who is pictured center in the picture, won the honor
In a contest held in Burlington last Saturday nighty She is being
crowned by PoUyanna White, th e retiring
“Miss Burlington.”
Burlington’
The new “Miss Burlington" is
Sandra Neighbors, an F^Ion Col-
legt junior, who is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Nelgh>
bors, of Forest City, for the Klon
girl emerged as winner in the an
nual contest viewed by a large
audience at Williams High School
laFt Saturday night.
The new reigning beauty queen
is five feet five inches tall, has
measurements of 36-24-36 and
weighs 117 pounds. She played
the piano as her winning talent
in the competition, which was
sponsored by the Burlington Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce.
The runner-up honors went to
Pauletta Craig, of Burlington, but
second runner-up choice was won
by Jane Morgan, another Elon
College junior, who was received
with a fine ovation by the crowd
for her presentation of blues num
bers in the talent program.
The new “Miss Burlington,” who
sraduated from Cool Spring High
School In Forest City, has been
Miss Merry Christmas In her na
tive county, and she was Sigma
Mu Sigma Sweetheart here at
Elon in her freshman year. She
was junior Homecoming sponsor
this year and will be a junior at
tendant in the forthcoming Elon
May Day pageant.
For winning the “Miss Burling
ton” title, Miss Neighbors won i
$2.')0 scholarship, which she plans
to use in furthering her musicti
education here at Elon College.
In answering one of the questions
on the contest, she stated that her
ambition is to teach public school
music for several years and then
teach private piano lessons.