Here’s To Tlie
Best
May Day Ever
VOLl'ME r.
lAROON AND GOLD
And AUo Lookinf
Ahead To
The Knd Of SrhfM>l
IXOX r c.
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1961
N^mbKR 13
Festive Elon May Day Observance Set For This Weekend
ELON’S MAY QUEEN AND CHIEF ATTENDANTS
Queen Judy And Kiiig Charlie To Rule Annual
Pageant, Which Will Feature Hawaiian Theme
WtKKiy Hei-mun And His Bund Will Play
Both (.oiicert And Annual May Dance
King Ot May
CIIAKLIE RAYBL'RN
QUEEN JUDY SAMUELS
Rules Over Festivities
DEANNA BRAXTON
Maid-Of-Honor
Those who attend the annual
Elon College May Day pageant,
which is to be staged on the South
Campus at 3 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon, will find a royal wel
come—a welcome to Hawaii—with
all the color and romance that
goes with a visit to that beautiful
island paradise in the far Pacific.
The pageant itself, which is en
titled "Happy In Hawaii” and
which is presented under the di
rection of Mrs. Jeanne Griffin,
director women’s physical educa
tion at Elon, will be only one fea
ture ot one of the gayest May
Day weekends in recent Elon his
tory, a weekend that will get un
derway with a jazz concert tonight
and end with the annual spring
dance tomorrow night.
Ruling as May Queen will be
Judy Samuels, of Burlington, and
paired with her as May King, will
•jc Charlie Rayburn, of Norfolk,
Va. Chief attendants for the royal
pair will be Deanna Braxton, of
t:ion College, as maid-of-honor.
A'ith William Hassell, of James-
own, as her royal escort. They,
along with the king and queen,
were chosen by student vote in
j campus election held earlier this
year.
The senior attendants for the
nueen will be Linda Butler, of
rleidsville, and Glenda Isley, of
Gibsonville, escorted by Douglas
jcott, of Durham, and Eddie
Burke, of Burlington. Junior class
attendants will be Sandra Neigh
bors, of Forest City, and Helen
Wright, of Greenville, S. C., es-
I corted by James Short, of Granite
Falls, and Mike York, of Ramseur.
Youngest members of the royal
In one of the entertainment and
musical highlights of Elon’s 1960-
61 term, Woody Herman and His
Band, hailed as one of the great
est in America today, comes to
the Elon campus this weekend to
play for a jazz concert and dance
that is to feature the college’s
annual May Day festival.
Hailed by Parade aand Time as
the band that brought back danc
ing in American Ife and fresh
from record-breaking engagements
on the Pacific Coast, the Woody
Herman musical combination will
play a concert on the campus at
8 o’clock tonight and will then
play for the May Day ball in Alum"
ni Memorial Gymnasium from 8
o'clock till midnight tomorrow.
The Old Woodchopper himself
will appear in person with his eon-
ccrt group tonight, a combo which
includes seventeen instrumentalists
and a lovely girl vocalist, and then
the Woody Herman All-Stars, fea
turing a fourteen-piece combina
tion, will play the dance that cli
maxes the May Day fun.
Woody Herman, who has been
liAND LEADED
WOODY HERMAN
for more than thirty yoais, is of
ten called the “youngcs" old-timer
in the music business.” He was a
vaudeville star when only nine,
a .'tar with a big-name band when
in his'^ens, and he made his first
phonograph record when he wa.s
only twenty years old
In i:ion directly from successful
engagements at the Blue Note in
Chicago, the Palladium Ballroom
in Hollywood and Basin Street in
New York. He also comc.s Imme-
■diately after inking a contract with
Capital records for a new series
of platters that promise to be ex
tremely popular with jazz lovers
everywhere.
As early as 1948 Woody Herman
and the famous Herman Herd won
the Downbeat poll, but he broke
up that combination and reorgan
ized for an even more successful
carepr during recent years, which
have seen him hailed with high
praise during a one-month tour of
lOurope in 19.'i4, followed by sim
ilar plaudits duri^ig a 21-week
tour of South American countries
that was made as a good-will group
for the U. S. State Department.
The jazz concert tonight will
be open to the general public, with
Elon student tickets going for $1.50
and with tickets to outsiders go
ing at a $2 level. Admission to the
dance tomorrow night will be on
playing the clarinet professionally' He and his orchestra will come student government cards.
Clifford Hardy Is Named President
Of Student Body For Coming Year
Butler Attends
Soiitliern Meet
Serving: as an Elon delegate
at the southwide meeting, Bus
iness Manager W. E. Butler at
tended the thirty-third annual
meeting of the Southern Asso-
Clifford Hardy, a rising senior -sophomore class m a ''ote
from Franklin Park, N. J.. will was Lynn Ryals, of Durham, who
be president of the Elon College has also served as freshman pres-
Student Government during the Idcnt this year and thus gams a
1961-62 term, having won the pos-'second term as is c ass •
ition unopposed in the annual cam-1 Other sophomore officers are Ge^
pus election held Tuesday, April'aid Allen. W-^;--Salem_,^vice-
25th.
Other general officers chosen at
that tiil'ie were Don Terrell, of
Richmond. Va.. vice president; and
elation of College and University Eleanor Smith, of Winston-Salem,
Business Officers, which was sccretary-treasurer. They were the
held at the Dinkler-Tutwller Ho
tel in Birmingham. Ala., on Sun
day, Monday and Tuesday, April
23rd, 24th and 25th. Featured
address of the gathering was by
Dr. Sharvy G. Umbeck, president
of Knox College, Galesburg, lU.,
who spoke on “The Challenge
of the Decade Ahead.”
Helen Baker, Wanda Bennett, Judy
Berwind, Peggy Dodson, Judy
Grissom, Becky Harnsberger, De-
ni.se Martin and Barbara Slaugh
ter.
The chorus for The Beachcomb
crs includes Carolyn Brown, Et-
court will be little Betsy Long, ^.^^ Parole
(laughter i Hill, Berta Johnson, Bonnie LeRoy,
Ruth Lemmons, Aileen Webster
A. Long, of Burlington, as the
flower girl, and Larry Neese, small
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Neese,
Fr.. of Burlington, as the crown
bearer.
The pageant, done for the amuse
ment of the court, will feature
Frederica Chinchello, of Elon Col
lege, as court jester, and will in
clude a series of Hawaiian dances,
which were planned by William
Hughes, of Mebane, who has served
as choreog|iaphcr for the 1961
event. Music for the program will
be by the Elon Band, directed by
’rof. Patrick Johnson.
The Hulu Hoop Ballet will fea
Two Offices
Are Vacated
By Ruling
Two of the student offices, which
*«e filled in the annual campus
flection held some days ago, have
*>een declared vacant by the Student
5oard of Elections, due to the fact
‘ttiSi the elected candidates have
found to be inelegible to hold
offices to which they were
elected.
The vacancies declared are those
of sophomore member of the Honor
Council and the representative-at-
•arge on the Student Council, each
which requires under the Student
®ody constitution that a student
®iust have been enrolled at Elon for
one full academic year. Neither of
^ candidates chosen to those posts
•“ave been at Eton a full year.
president: and Ellen Burke, of
Graham, secretary-treasurer
Each of these class officers will
repre ent his or her class group
in the Student Senate next year ^ ^^at includes Maxine
additional senators
winners in the annual balloting, was not made at the time of the Hobart, Judy Hudson, Judy
hich attracted much interest
Those winning seats on the Hon
or Council included Charles Ray
burn, of Norfolk, Va., and Sandra
Neighbors, of Forest City, for the
senior class; William Bilderback.
of Annapolis, Md., and Susan San-
derfur, of Danville. Va., for the
junior class; and Joe Albertson,
of Durham, for the sophomore
class The freshman member will
be elected next fall by the incom-.
ing first-year students. i
New members of the Student^
Council, winners in the annual;
balloting, include Lee Mullis, of i
Myrtle Beach, S. C., and James j
Rosser, of Sanford, representmgj
the men students; Gail Hettel, of
Hampton, Va., and Denyse Theo
dore, of North Belmor, N. Y., rep
resenting the women students; and
Jack Albertson, of Durham, rep-
re s ent ati V e-a t-1 a rge.
Fred Shull, of Burlington, will
he president of the senior class.
Other senior officers elected are
Walter Bass, of South Boston, Va.,
vice president; and Mclvcr Hen
derson, ot Columbia, S. C., secre-
tary-treasui’er.
Tom Brady, of Elon College, is
the new junior class president,
with Jerry Hollandsworth, of Dan
ville, Va., as vfce-president; and
Judy Maness, of Ramseur. as sec-
retary-treasurer.
gcneri’l election. Instead, filing
for senatorial posts was not closed
until last Friday, and final ballot
ing for the senators was held on
Tuesday of this week.
Jones, Pat Kopp, Gayle Presnell,
Pat Spangler, Donna Welborn rnjl
ar.'lyn Wright.
Those appearing as Haviaiian
" boys will be Rachel Adkins,
and Judy Wright.
Appearing as The Waikiki Girls
ill be Barbara Blackweldcr, Peg-
sy Hardesty, Gail Hettel, Jeanne
Lankford, Dava Newsome, Sandra
Russell, Lynda Swinney, Glenda
Wright and Joyce Howell.
Those In the role of Hawaiian
Men are George Sharpe, David
Dewar, Eddie Clark, Pat Cobb,
Marvin Crowder, Tom King, Billy
LaCoste, Jim Leviner, Jerry Os
borne, Gene Stokes and Dean
Yates.
A special solo Hawaiian Gourd
Dance will be by Gail Bond, and
thr traditional Winding of the May
Pole will be by a junior chorus
that includes Joan Cockman, Ann
Colclough, Margaret Cunningham,
Nita French, Connie Gerringer,
J'mma Jeffreys, Patricia Perry
Becky Simpson, Sherleen Smith
and Jan Spoon.
NEW LEADERS OF ELON STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Elon Seniors |
Recvive
Fellowships
Four Elon College seniors have
teen awarded graduate fellow-
sltips or teaching assignments to
e used iir advanced study next
' car, and one member of the Elon
chemistry faculty has received a
grant for a study this summer.
Prof. Roy Epjperson is the fac
ulty member cho.sen for advanced
■study in an institute for college
chemistry teachers, which will be
held at the University of North
Carolina under auspices of the
.''rational Science Foundation. The
students chosen for graduate study
follow:
Kenneth Price, senior chemis
try major from Danville, Va., is
the recipient of a graduate fel
lowship in the department of bio
chemistry at Western Reserve Uni
versity in Cleveland, Ohio.
William W. Parham, of Hender-
iOn, also a senior chemistry ma
jor, has accepted a post as grad
uate teaching assistant in the de-
partm"nt of Chemistry at Clem-
Slalf Is Needed
For l%2 Aiiiiiial
All persons Interested In work-
Inii: next year as a member of
(he stuff of Phi I>si CU, the Uon
C^llexe annual, are asked to
see Prof. Robert Baxter In his
office on the first floor of Ala
mance Building.
Already the plans for the
1961-62 annual are heinx for*
mulated, and Prof. Baxter stated
this week that an effort is being
made U> complete the annual
staff this spring, thus assuring
that work can be started early
on the uprnmInK publication.
son College, Clemson, S. C.
Hugh Gravitt, III, of Virgillna,
Va., another senior chemistry ma
jor, has been chosen to participate
in the Master of Arts in Teaching
program at Duke University, a
program sponsored by the Ford
Foundation.
Herbert Hawkes, senior physical
•education major from Louisville,
Ky., has been named as a grad
uate teaching assistant in the de
partment of physical education at
the University of North Carolina
for the coming year.
Speakers Are Announced
For Elon Commencement
CLIFFORD HABOy
ELEANOR SMITH
DON TERRELL
-p ‘hree officers who will lead the Student Government activities on the Elon campus during theby the annual Alumni
L-j_ all of them chosen in the recent campus election, are pictured above, Tho;:e pictured j ggnquet In McEwen Dining Hall,
. J,/3fg Clifford Hardy, of Franklin Park, N. J., who succeeds Ed Boelte as pre.sident of'
Body Eleanor Smith, of Winston-Salem, who will serve as secretary-treasurer: and Don
" of Richmond Va., who will serve as vice-president, a capacity in which he will preside
Winning th. presidency of the' Ive7the deliberations’of the Student Senate during the year.
er. The annual commencement
dance will follow the banquet
The baccalaureate sermon, to
be presented on Sunday, May 28th,
will be delivered by the Rev. Frank
R. Hamilton, paslor of the Chris
tian Temple in Norfolk, Va., one
of the outstanding churches of the
Southern Convention. The Sunday
program will also feature musical
presentations by Elon students.
A special feature of the Alumni
Day program will be the reunion
gathering of a number of Elon
classes, including those which gradu
ated in 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916,
1921, 1926, 1931, 1936, 1941, 1946, 1951
and 1956, Along with the reunions,
with the Rev. Robert M. Klmbatt. the college will al.so pay tribute to
of Burlington’s First Congrega- one outstanding alumni, who will be
tional Christian Church, as speak-1 named as “Alumnus of the Year."
Congressman Horace Kornegay,
of Greensboro and Washington,
will be the featured speaker at
F;ion's seventy-first annual grad
uation exercises, which arc set for
Monday morning. May 29th, ac
cording to an announcement made
!this week by Dr. J. E. Danieley,
Elon’s president, who stated that
the commencement weekend will
get underway with the annual
Alumni Day program on Saturday,
May 27th.
The Alumni Day program, to be
,held under the direction of Alumni
[secretary William B. Terrell, will
Ibe an all-day affair on Saturday,