Tliey Will
Appear
On
Founders
Dii
DR. W. M. STEVENS
Has Invocatinn
GOV. TERRY SANFORD
Brings N. C. Greetings
CLIFFORD B. HARDV
Welcomes Visitors
ly
Program
(See Story Below)
SENATOR B. E. JORDAN
Introduces Speaker
TIIAD KV
Pr**sont,> Degrf^f* Cund tiafe
Here’s Hearty Welcome
To Elon For
Vice-President Johnson
DR. J. E. DANIELEY
Confers Honorary Decree
MAROON AND
OLD
And Harm Greetings
For All
Founder's Day Visitors
VOLUME 42
ELON COLLEGE, C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1962
NU.MBEK 8
Johnson Is Speaker For Annual Founder’s Day Observance
May Day W ill Feature
Enlarged Court Group
VEEI’ WILL \ ISIT ELON CAMPUS \KXT WEfK
Something new has been added
for May Day as freshman and
.sophomore class members join the
royal court for the annual May Day
festival, which: is set as an Elon
campus feature for the first week
end in May. In past years only
the junior and senior classes have
had members in the court, but
all four classes will have attend
ants for the May Day rulers this
spring.
Work has already started on the
dances for the annual May Day
pageant which will be ruled this
year by Queen Jane Morgan, sen
ior girl from Greensboro, and King
Dean Yates, senior boy from Mayo-
dan. Chief attendants for the royal
pair will be Harriett Hammond,
of Balfour, maid-6f-honor, and
Fred Shull, of Burlington, her es
cort.
The king and queen and their
chief attendants were chosen by
vote of the entire student body
In a recent special May Day elec
tion, but members of the four
classes voted as class groups for
a girl as attendant and a boy
as her escort to represent the va
rious classes.
The senior girls named in the
balloting were Pat Jones, of Suf
folk, Va,, and Helen Wright, of
Greenville, S. 0., with Allen Fost
er, of Newport News, Va., and
Billy LaCoste, of BishopviUe, S.
C., as their escorts for tlie festive
weekend.
The two junior girls chosen were
Diane Clary, of Lawrenceville, Va.,
and June Evans, of Princess Anne,
Va., with Tom Brady of Raleigh
and Jim Buie, of Darlington. S. C.,
named to serve as junior escorts.
Representatives of the sophomore
class will be Gail Bond, of Gales
(Continued on Page Four)
State Prexy
Of NSSGA
Coining Soon
Lee Kanipe, who is president of
the North State Student Govern
ment Association, will b? on the
Elon campus on March 14th to
offer assistance or advicte with re
spect to problems in Student Gov
ernment. The leader of the state
wide student group has been vis
iting all the campuses in the con
ference tor his purpose.
The association, of which Elon's
Clifford Hardy is vice-president,
is attempting to strengthen its pow
er and to increase its services to
more adequately serve the needs
of student officials in the small
colleges of North Carolina.
The Associaion holds two confer
ences each year on the campus of
one of the members, with work
shops set for discussion of various
problems of Student Government.
It is hoped that, through the many
ideas presented in these workshops
student government at the col
leges in the association may de
velop more mature organizations.
The central office for the NSS
GA is maintained at present at Cat
awba College, where up-to-date in
formation about Student Govern
ment problems in the state is kept.
The advantage of such a file is
that officials at one college may
write to the office and receive
in one concise report information
about a particular problem and
methods of solving it. The central
office sends out a news-letter
twice each year to each member
school in the NSSGA.
Elon Players Will Offer
One-Act Plays In April
The full-length comedy, “Char
ley’s Aunt,” which the Elon Play
ers had scheduled for presenta
tion in April has been cancelled,
according to an announcement by
Prof. E. Ray Day, director of the
campus dramatic prognoB. Pt»«
sent plans call presentation at
Itiree one-act plays on April 13th
and 14th instead of the three-act
longer production.
Explaining the cancellation of
"Charley’s Aunt,” Professor Day
■Stated that the play had been cast
prior to the end of the first se
mester and that issuance of se
mester grades caused a number
of the students in the cast to with-
’i'aw from the play in order to
devote more time to academic du
ties.
In addition to these withdrawals,
one student actor in the cast with
drew from school, and another was
stricken with influenza, along with
the fact that Professor Day himself
also had an attack of flu.
The three-act plays to be given
in April were planned at a meet
ing of the Elon Players last week,
when it was stated that Dianna
Weid, Reese Fowler, Albert Baer,
John Autrey and Richard Hedge
peth would be student directors
of the one-act shows, working un
der supervision of Professor Day.
The three short plays to be of
fered include Thornton Wilder’s
“The Happy Journey To Camden
and TY^nton,” WiiliamSaroyan’s
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Large Crmvd Ex [tec ted
For Thursday Program
Draft Test
A[)|)li(‘atioiis
Now Ready
Applications are now available’
for .students who plan to take the
Selective Service System's Col
lege Qualification Test this spring,
and boys interested may secure
sn^h applications fr»m local draft
board offices for taking the test
on April 17th,
It 13 pointed out by the Selec
tive Service officials that eligible
student.s who plan to take the test
on April I7th should contact tlie
nearest draft office as quickly as
possible for a copy of the applica-
lion and the bulletin of instruc
tions
Following instructions in the bul
letin the student should then fill
out the application and mail it at
■once to Selective Service Examin
ing Section. Educational Testing
Service, Princeton, N. J. All ap
plications for the April 17th test
must be postmarked not later than
midnight on March 27th.
Directors of the Educational
Testing Service, which administ
ers the test for the Selective Ser
vice authorities, will report the re
sults of the test to the home draft
board of the individual student,
and those results will go far tow
ard determining the draft status
of the student.
One of the largi-st iiMrfd.'- ever
en on the Klon ('ollege campus
is e\i)i‘fii'(l for tile annual Kound-
Dav pr.’ ■am next Thursday
Alu n Vif.' I’rcsident L>ncion U.
•fc.iinson. North ('arolina'.- Gover
nor Terry Sanford and United
States Senator U. Everett Jordan
v/ill headline a gathering of not
ables for the occasion.
Vice-President Johnson will be
the featured speaker as faculty,
students, alumni and friends of
Elon College gather to commem
orate the seventy-third annivers
ary of the granting of the Elon
College charter by the North Car
olina General Assembly, an event
which occurred on March II, 1889.
The address by the vice-presi
dent will be delivered at a convo
cation to be held in Elon's huge
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium at
II o'clock next Thursday morning,
, March 8th, and seating accommo-
, dations have been arranged for a
possible attendance of approxi-
I mately 6,000 persons,
j ■ The announcement some weeks
jago that Vice-President Johnson
[had accepted the invitation to de
liver the Founder's Day address
I was received with widespread in-
j terest and enthusiasm among Elon
I people everywhere, and many Elon
I alumni are expected to return to
hear the most notable speaker ever
to speak within the confines of
the Congregational Christian Col
lege campus.
Although the Founders Day ob
servance was not planned for that
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ses
Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson
Some Connnent On Campus Problems
A GUEST EDITORIAL BY CLIFF HARDY, STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
In the last issue of the Maroor.
and Gold one of the editors made
a comment to the effect that it
seemed as if Day Students were
being discouraged from participat
ing in campus activities. A refer
ence was made to the abolition
of tlie Day Student Association
last year, and the statement was
made that there had been no sat
isfactory explanation for the ac
tion. Maybe, someone should ask
those Day Students who voted for
the abolition of the organiza
tion the reason why they voted as
they did.
The reason for its abolition was
that it was felt that a separate
organization of this kind would
make a Day Student feel as if he
had to be dealt with separately
and thus would create a feeling
of not belonging to the college com
munity.
The Day Student has been giv
en every opportunity possible to
participate in the activities or
campus. The question in my mind
is this: Does he really want to par
ticipate? A quick survey of the
campijs activities reveals that the
Day Students are represented by
four times the number of persons
this year over those participating
in Student Government last year.
I would also like to remind the
Day Students that they did elect
two representatives to consult with
the President of the Student Body
about any problems peculiar to
them. It should also be pointed
out that one of these representa
tives has been asked to attend the
last three Executive Advisory
Committee meetings and has fail
ed to do so.
Student Government has been
looking for two people to debate
for the discontinuation of the Hon
or System So far there has been
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Political Interest Ri
As Election Time Nears
The campus political pot is al
ready simmering, and campus
leaders are hoping that interest
will reach the boiling point before
active campaigning for various
Student Government offices gets
underway the first week in April,
The plans for the 1962 campus
political campaign and various
elections has just been announced
by Cliff Hardy, president of the
Student Government Organization
for the current term, who states
that first official activities will get
underway on Monday, April 2nd.
On that date the candidates for
the president, vice-president and
secretary-treasurer of the Stu
dent Government will begin their
campaigns. Also tsarting their drive
for office on that day will be
the three main officers of each
class and the would-be-members
of the Honor Council and Student
Council.
TTie candidates for the three
principal Student Body offices
will make their appeals to the stu
dents in speeches to be delivered
in chapel pn Monday morning,
April 9th, and these will be fol
lowed by the primary elections on
Thursday, April 12th.
With the primary balloting nar
rowing the field of candidates for
the various offices, the final elec
tion will be held on Monday, April
16(h. At that time the principal
officers of both the Student Gov
ernment and the various classes
'I’il! be determined, leaving the
field ready for the campaigns for
members of the Student Senate.
The Senate campaign will get
underway on Thursday April 26th,
followed by tlie primary ballotting
for senators on Tuesday, May 1st,
and the final election of senators
on Thursday, May 3rd. All stu
dent Government officers and
class officers will be installed in
ceremonies in chapel on Monday.
May 7th.