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Merry Christmas
VOLUME 42
^Open House^ Is
Sel Y 07 Today
Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Danicley will
be hosts to both the Elon stu
dents and faculty at their annual
Christmas “Open House” this
afternoon and tonight, in an
event which has become an out
standing one on the Yule season
calendar on the Elon campus.
The members of the student
body are invited to visit the pres
ident’s home between the hours
of 3 and 5 o’clock this afternoon.
The members of the faculty will
then be guests between the hours
of 7 und 9 o’clock tonight.
MAROON AND GOLD
And To Everyone
A Happy And
Prosperous New Tear
Large ('rowd
Seems A>ved
Bv ^Messiah’
Even as George Frederick Han
del himself was awed by the great'
ness of his Iheme while composing
his famous Yule season oratorio.
‘The Messiah,” so did a near ca
pacity audience seem awed as it
listened to the Elon Choir in its
twenty-rtinth annual presentation
of the Hadel masterpiece in Whit
ley Auditorium on Sunday after
noon, December 3rd.
There seemed no disturbing
sounds in the auditorium from the
beginning to the end, and every
one listened with rapt attention to |
the recitatives, the arias and chor-
u.=es which has made ”The Mes-
hiah” ihe best loved and most fre
quently performed of all the Christ
mas musical classics. The Handel
composition has been loved alike
by audiences in both Europe and
America.
This 1961 presentation by the
Elon College singers featured four
fine soloists as guest irtists, all
of them from neighboring Greens
boro. The women soloists were Peg
gy Sue Russell, ^ soprano, who is
a regular soloist at the Presbyter
ian Church of the Covenant in the
Gate City; and Jeannete David
son, contralto, choral director at
Greensboro Jackson Junior High
and soloist at the First Presbyter
ian ChurcS of that city.
The male soloists were Paul Ber'
ry, tenor, a product of the famed
Westminster Choir School who is
a soloist at the West Market Street
Methodist Church in Greensboro:
and Walter Vassar, formerly head
of the music department at Greens
boro College, who now teaches
from his own studio and sings a*^
Starmount Presbyterian Church.
The annual Elon “Messiah” pro
gram, directed again this year by
Prof. Charles Lynam, featured
Prof Prof. Fletcher Moore as ae-
ompanist at Elon’s newly
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1961
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NUMBER 5
Vacittiou Hep^iiis
Satiirddy IS(nni
The 1961 Christmas vacalion
for the students and faculty of
hiun Collefre will jet underway
at noon on Saturday, according
to an announcement from the of
fice of the dean of the colleice,
and the entire campus is aglow
this week with the Yuletide
spirit and holiday anticipation.
The Yule season holidays will
continue for more than two
weeks, with classes to resume on
regular schedule at 8 o’clock on
Tuesday morning, January 2nd.
and a bit of counting on the cal
endar reveals that the vacation
period will thus include sixteen
days.
“TIfhJOiij. ^hhidJmjoA Jo CUl”
Elon Accredited Rating Is Assured
Self-Study Is Approved paid honor Newspaper Pays
High Honor To Daiiieley
By Southern Association
Continued accreditation of Elon
College was asured when the
Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools, at its annual meeting
last week, in Miami, Fla., approved
the Elon College institutional self-
study, which was completed earlier
this year.
The announcement of the ap
proval of the two-year Elon self-
study and the reaffirmation of the
college’s accreditatiOB was made
reno-|by Dr. Henry King Stanford, presi-
ated and enlarged organ. It also,dent of Birmingham-Southern Col-
featured Prof. Fred Sahlmann in lege, who is also chairman of the
■a harpsichord accompaniment of! Commission on Colleges and Uni-
|Certain portions of the oratorio. [versities.
Pi Gamma Mu Chooses
Netv Student Members
Four outstanding Elon students
the field of social science and
history have been elected to mem-
Ifcprship in the North Carolina Al
pha Chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, na
tional social science honorary fra-
lernity.
The students so honored for their
'^P'cellence in social science sub-
3ects are Clifford Hardy, of Frank-
^ Park, N.J.; William Hovater,
^1 Yanceyville; Patrick Kelly, of
Pleasant Ridge, Va.; Robert Saund"
|trs, of Birmingham, Ala.; Robert
Stanco, of Elon College; and Lind
sey Tapp, of Efland.
Along with the announcement of
j' the choice of new members, it was
I Idlso announced that Donald Rank
in, of Miami Beach, Fla., has been
I^med president of the Elon chap
ter of PI Gamma Mu this year.
Other officers include Clifford
Hardy, vice-president; Mary Ann
Hepner, of Philadelphia, Pa., sec
retary; and Dr. H. H. Cunningham,
chairman of the history depart-'Anderson, of Judson College; and
ment, treasurer. Dean Ralph Lyon, of Livingstone
All member colleges and uni-
vesities in the Southern Associa
tion are required to conduct these
periodic self-study programs, even
tually on a ten-year basis, and Elon
College asked for permission to
begin its program in 1958. The
seU-study was begun in the fall of
1958 and was completed early in
1961, folowed by a visit by an eval
uation team representing the As
sociation.
The facu"y steering committee
for the Elon study included Dr. H.
H. Cunninsrham, chairman, Mrs
Frances Longest, secretary. Prof.
Fletcher Moore, Dr. Rot>ert Ben
son, Dr. Arnold Strauch and Mrs.
John Williams. Under the direc
tion of that committee, the faculty,
trustees, students, alumni church
constituency and other groups par
ticipated in the study.
The visiting evaluation team,
which visited the campus and
evaluated the study itself, was com
posed of Dr. Gus Metz, assistant to
the president of Clemson College;
President Wright Spears, of Col
umbia College; President G. A.
In addition to Dr. Cunningham,
other members of the Elon faculty
who are members of Pi Gamma
Mu are Dr. Konstantinas Ovizonis,
Prof. Robert Baxter, Prof. E. Ray
Day and Prof. Gilbert Latham.
As part of its program to foster
interest in the study of social
science, the Pi Gamma Mu chap
ter in recent years has brought an
outstanding lecturer in the field to
the Elon campus each year, and
plans are already u#iderway to
stage the Yhird annual Pi Gamma
Mu lecture here In March.
State College.
Simtlar self-study programs were
held at two other North Carolina
institutions, and the Association
announced this week the continued
accreditation of both Queens Col
lege at Charlotte and Meredith
College at Raleigh.
Commenting on the favorable ac
tion by the Association, Dr. J. E.
Dar.ieley, Elon president, express
ed gratitude to all who participated
In the study. He emphasized that
“the self-study process is a contin-
Contlnucd on P»ge Four)
DR. J. E. DANIELEY
“Tar Heel Of The Week”
Cheek To Teach
Defense Classes
Dr. Paul Cheek, member of the
Eton Coljlege chemlistry faculty,
who recently attended a series of
classes in New York on the sub
ject of nuclear radiation, has an-
iiounced since his return to the
^;ampus that he will teach a series
of classes in the techniques of radi
ological measurement in February.
He states that the first series of
classes will probably included se
lected persons from village and
rural fire departments In Ala
mance County, with a second series
of classes to be held soon after
wards for other persons. About ten
bours of instructional time will be
included in each series of classes.
Dr. J. Earl Danieley, president
of Elon College, was paid a fine
tribute when he was named in last
Sunday’s Raleigh News and Ob
served as ”Tar Heel of the Week, '
! with the Raleigh paper stressing
the Elon president’s educational
ideas and leadership.
P'Tticular stress was laid oh Dr.
Danieley’s recently expressed ideas
that Elon and other colleges of
the state and nation could and
should make more efficient use
of their classroom space before
seeking funds to erect additional
classroom buildings.
The article, one of a weekly ser
ies in which the Raleigh paper
lionors outstanding citizens of North
Carolina, sketched Dr. Danieley’s
career from his birth on an Ala
mance County farm to his present
position as one of America’s young
est college presidents.
Not only did the article cite the
educational accomplishments of
the Elon president, it also brought
out his hobbies, such as liking to
take a turn at cooking in the fam
ily kitchen and his interest in par
liamentary procedure, a subject in
which he teaches a course each
year to Elon students.
While citing the rapid growth of
Elon College itself in recent years,
the paper also pointed to other hon
ors which Dr. Danieley has re
ceived, tmong them the Disting
uished Service Award of the Bur
lington Jaycees, the Young Man of
the Year award from the North
Carolina statewide Jaycee group
and the Outstanding Alumnus
Aw ard for Elon College. It pointed
out, too, his active participation in
the afafirs of the Congregational
Christian Church at both local and
national levels.
Sliideiits Are
Party Hosts
For (^liildreii
Many Elon College students will
I”perience the true spirit of Christ
mas, the spirit of blessed giving,
when the members of the student
body join tonight in playing Santa
Cl.ius to the boys and girls of the
Congregationaf Home tor Children
at the annual children’s Christmas
party, which is to be held in the
McEwen Dining Hall.
This annual party for the child
ren, staged again this year under
the sponsorship of thu college’s fra
ternities and sororities, operating
through the Pan Hellenic Council,
is not a new idea on the Elon
campus, for this 1961 party is to be
the fifteenth annual event.
The first Yule party for the
children was staged in 1947 under
tlie sponsorship of the Alpha Pi
Delta fraternity, with individual
credit going to Ralph Edwards,
who was president of the Elon stu
dent body that year.
The eight Greek-letter groups,
which compose the Pan-Hellenic
Council, have been working this
year under the leadership of Frank
Purdy, of Burlington, who is a
member of Iota Tau Kappa, and
president of the Pan-Hellenic group
this year.
Other groups taking part In the
entertainment and provision of
gifts for the children, each listed
with its council represetnative, are
Alpha Pi Delta, Richmond Gage;
Kappa PsI Nu, Jimmy Holmes;
Sigma Phi Beta, Bill PiscatelU;
Beta Omicron Beta, Kathryn Thom
as; Delta Upsilon Kappa, June
NaU; PI Kappa Tau, Barbara
Smith; and Tau Zeta Phi, Eleanor
Smith.
^ Ipha Psi Honor Ttvo
For Dramatic Activity
Two outstanding figures In cam-
put dramatics at Elon were Initi
ated tills week into membership
in Elon’s Lamba Omicron Cast of
Alpha Psi Omega, national honor
ary dramatics fraternity.
The two Elon students thus hon
ored by Alpha Psi Omega are Car
olyn French, of Henderson, and
Cary Keogh, of East Oraage, N.J.,
each of whom has been active in
the Elon College dramatics pro
gram and has met the requirements
for membership.
The membership in Alpha Psi
Omega is based upon a system of
points awarded for work on stage
or back stage. A minimum of 50
points is necessary for member
ship and those selected by unani
mous consent of the active mem
bership are first pledged and un
dergo a period as neophytes, fol
lowed by written and oral exami
nations before being formally initi
ated into full membership.
Miss French, one of the new
members, Is a senior English
major, a member of Pi Kappa Tau
sorority, who served as house mao-
ager for the productions of “Annie
Get Your Gun," “The Heiress,”
Inherit The Wind,” “The lass
Menagerie,’’ "Our Town.” “Angel
Street," and "Ah, Wilderness.”
S^ also served as an usher for
Ladies In Retirement" and as a
rehearsal accompanist for "Annie
Get Your Gun” and “Pajama
Ctame.
Miss Keogh, president of the
Women’s Inter-Dormitory Council
and a member of Tau Zeta Phi
sorority, served as assistant di
rector for “Angel Street,” as usher
and head of wardrobe for “The
Doctor in Spite of Himself.” had
charge of ticket sales for “Ah,
Wilderness," and was seen on stage
fn "A Cool Yule.”
Other members of Alpha Psi
Omega this year include Richard
Milteer, president; Roger Bed-
narik. vice-president; Rosalie Had-
cllffe, secretary-treasurer, Jane
Morgan, Tom Kelly, Don TerreU
and Prof, R,^ Epperson. Prof e
Ray Day 1, faculty ,dvl*>r for the
fraternity