A Hearty Welcome
To Spring
And Sunshiny Days
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VOLUME 42
ELON COLLEGE, .V. C.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 1)62
May Thry Continue
Unbroken
For Kprins Holidays
NUMBER 10
Famous Orgaiiist To Play Elon Concert On Sunday, April 8
Old West Is new YORK ORGANISr AND NEWLY TTED OIUiAN FEA1 LIKES
To Be Theme
Of May Day
The romantic days of the Amer-:
lean West will furnish the theme;
for the Elon College May Day
pageant, which is to be staged
on the campus as one of the cli-j
imactic features of the college’s
annual May Day observance, set'
for the first weekend in May.
The choice of the American West
theme has just been announced by
Mrs. Jeanne Griffin, director of
women’s physical education, who
will again direct the May Day
pageant and supervise the coro
nation of Elon's Queen of May.
The pageant itself will be pre
sented as entertainment for Queen
Jane Morgan and King Dean Yat
es, who were named recently to
rule over the annual May Day pag
eant. Sharing royal honors with the
queen and king will be Harriett
Hammond, as maid-of-honor, with
Fred Shull, as royal escort. Rep
resentatives of the various class
es will also be members of the
royal court and will share in the
entertainment provided by the pag
eant.
As might be expected, the Am
erican West theme will feature
both Indians and cowboys, and
there will naturally be the full
quota of cowgirls and brave pio
neer women. The dances for the
pageant will once more be planned
by William Hughes as choreo
grapher, and they will be dances
in keeping with the western theme.
The pageant will open by pres
entation of the West’s earliest In
dian settlers, and the first dance
will be to “Indian*Love Call”, with
an Indian princess wooing an In
dian brave. Also featured will be
an Indian solo dance to “Let There
Be Drums” and an “Indian Snake
Dance.”
The story will progress with the
advance of the pioneers, who take
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Moo/e Speaker
For Elon Aliiiiiiii
Prof. Fletcher Moore, dean of
the college, was the featured
speaker when the Alamance
County Chapter of Elon College
Alumni held its annual dinner
meeting in the banquet room of
McEwen Memorial Dining Hall
on Wednesday night. President
J. E. Danieley also appeared on
the program, along with the col
lege quartet which featured the
entertainment program.
I Virgil Fox, one of the world’s most renowned musicians, who is organist at New York’s famous
Riverside Church, is pictured left above. The famed organist will br presented in concert in Whit
ley Memorial Auditorium at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 8th, when the college dedicates Us
' newly renovated and enlarged pipe organ. No organist in America has received greater acclaim than
tlie Elon’s distinguished guest artist, who has played in many of the world's principal cities. Pict-
I ured at the right above is the beautiful three-manuel console of Elon’s new organ, a .product of the
Reuter Organ Company, of Lawrcnce,. Kansas. Above and behind the console is‘the enlarged organ
mechanism, which features more than 2.600 pipes in 41 ranks. Another view of the organ, showing
I many of the pipes, is presented onpage 4 of this paper.
Larson To Be Pi Gamma Mu Speaker
Richner Apiiears In Joini
Piano And Organ Recital
Norman C. Larson, who has di
rected the North Carolina obser
vance of the Civil War Centen-
niall, will deliver the anual Pi
1 Gamma Mu lecture in Mooney
Chapel Theatre at 8 o’clock next
Thursday night, April 5th.
I This lecture next week will be
the third in the series of annual
i programs, sponsored by the na-
I tipnal honorary social science or-
jganization. The series was inaug
urated with the appearance here
two years ago of Dr. Fletcher
Green, of the University of North
Carolina, and it was continued last
spring by Dr. Wallace McClure,
of Duke University.
The annual sponsorship of these
annual lectures is an integral part
of the Pi Gamma Mu program,
which is designed to promote in
terest in the study of the social
sciences. The group is composed
of outstanding students and facul
ty members in the social science
field.
Norman Larson, who comes to
the campus next week. Is a grad-
, uate of Wake Forest College and
a veteran of service in the Naval
I Air Corps. He has been associat-
I ed with the North Carolina De-
I partment of Archives and History
for the past sFx years.
He has served as curator of the
state's historical museum and as
a specialist on historical sites, hav
ing been active in the development
of the Alamance Battleground as
one of the state's outstanding
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Dr. Thomas Richner, eminent
New York musician, a member of
the music faculties of Columbia
University and Rutgers Univers
ity, appeared in a joint piano and
organ concert in Elon’s Whitley
Auditorium at 8 o’clock last night,
appearing as another in the series
of Elon College Lyceum pro
grams.
The guest artist, who is recog
nized as One of the world’s out
standing authorities on Mozart and
the Mozart works, is equally at
home at the keys of either piano
or organ, and his performance last
night was received with enthus
iasm by the Lyceum audience.
Dr. Richner is a native of
Pennsylvania, where he began
studying piano at an early age.
After receiving his bachelor’s de
gree at the University of West
Virginia, he continued his studies
in New York and received the
master’s and doctor’s degrees af'
Columbia University.
He has received numerous dis
tinguished awards, including the
Naumberg, the McDowell and the
New York State Federation
Awards, and he has concertlzed ex
tensively in both the United States
and in Europe. *
His tours abroad have included
ansual appearances in England,
France, Austria, Holland and the
Scandinavian countries. Is all of
those countries he was received
with high praise by critics. There
was special praise for him for
his Mozart recital in Vienna.
GUEST ARTIST Mors Comment On Campus Problems
A GUEST EDITORIAL BY CLIFF HARDY, STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT
DR. THOMAS RICHNER
ogrrition as a concert musician.
Dr. Richner is also recogsized as
ose of the foremost music educat
ors today, and he has gained ac
claim as a writer in the music
field for his book entitled “Orien
tation for Interpreting Mozart's
Piano Concertos.”
Plans for Dr. Richner’s visit to
Elon also include a clinic session,
to be held in Whitley Auditorium
at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon.
Music teachers and other interest
ed persons, including Elon music
students, are invited to attend this
In addition to his worldwide rec-'clinnic gathering.
One of the basic problems of
Student Government is finding
enough capable and responsible
people to fill the various positions
I within its organization. Many times
the people who do run for offices
;have no real interest in their pos
itions as one can readily see by
' the attendance record of the Sen-
i ate this year. Others volunteer
I for committees and then never
; attend any of the meetings.
Many of these people list a par
agraph of activities in the' year
book and on their employment
forms. Just a mere listing of ac
tivities of an individual never
paints an accurate picture of his
interests and character, but too
many people base their opinions
about a person only on the num
ber of activities listed.
I hope that a filing system will
be established whereby the stu
dent’s attendance record and de
gree of dependability would be
kept along with his academic rec
ord. This would be of great value
to future employers, and it also
might help keep a lot of dead-
wood out of Student Government.
Looking back over the year, I
can see many areas which need
improvement on campus. The in
tellectual an|d cultural area is
severely lacking in program. This
would be solved for next year if
someone who was sincerely inter
ested in this area would step forth
this Spring. Next year's program
should be planned now, instead of
waiting until next February or
March when it would be virtually
impossible to present anything of
value.
The newspaper needs people who
will evaluate and study various
phases of the college community
and then report their ideas and
findings to the students. We need
people On the staff who realize
their responsibility to the entire
Student Body and not to just a
group that composes 20 per cent
of it.
There are many areas in Stu
dent Government needing good
leadership. A good number of
these areas depend upon the peo
ple attending the polls this spring.
The basic consideration of each
and everyone of us should not be
popularity but quality and capa
bility.
A few weeks ago I received a
letter from Esquire magazine seek
ing my opinion on why formal dan
ces seemed to be on the way out
of college campuses. A part of
my explanation was that "rock ’n
roll” and the decreasing popular
ity of the big dance bands had cre
ated an atmosphere of informali
ty. The “Twist” and the other new
dances are just not conducive to
formal wear.
After witnessing the conduct of
many of the students in chapel,
it appears to be not only an era
of informality, but also one of
profound disrespect. It seems to
me that even though the individ
ual does not cherish the idea of
going to chapel twice a week, he
would have the decency to be re-
speetful to the speaker at the pod
ium. Some students excuse this
because of the lack of religious at
mosphere. I didn’t know a relig
ious atmosphere was one prerequi
site for respect. *
Lynn Ryals has been doing a fine
Job in the area of bettering com
munity relations in the town of
Elon. He intends to begin work
ing On Burlington within the n^xt
ccuple of weeks. The situation re
cently seems to becoming increas
ingly worse and it appears that the
only time Burlington becomes in
terested in Elon is when the mer
chants ■ are anxious to attract the
new freshmen to their stores.
This year’s Miss Burlington
Pageant just happens to be sche
duled on the same night of the
May Day Formal. There was some
criticism last year by certain Bur
lington residents when an Elon
girl won, I just wonder if this has
had some influence upon the sche
duling of the pageant. If they don't
want our girls to compete, why
don’t they just say so?
ELOiN I*|{();IU]\I! Vii fil Fox Is
' To I}> (fIIOSI
At Dedieatioii
I Virgil Fox, an American organ-
I is( from the Midwest, who has
thrilled audiences in most of the
I great cilic.'; of the world, will be
I guest artist when Elon College
dedicates its newly renovated
and enlarged organ in Whitley Me
morial Auidtorium at 4 o’clock on
Sunday afternoon, April 8th.
Playinu in concert halls where
only the master musicians of the
world appear, halls in New York,
; London. Paris. Berlin, Toronto,
! Chicago and Los Angelos, Virgil
I Fox has moved the world of mu«-
I if with his magic touch and music
; lovers of Elon College and the sur
rounding area have a rare treat
in store when he appears on the
campus,
! While serving for many years
oiganist at New York's great
Riverside Churcli, he flies thou
sands of miles each year while
playing over sixty concerts that
are crowded into his annual con-
ccrt tour. He is usually at his post
al Riverside Church on Sundays
and Elon is fortunate to be the site
of one of his infrequent Sunday
concerts on the road.
A descendant of an Illinois pio
neer family, he inherited his love
of music and his innate musical
ability from music-loving ancest
ors. He made his debut as a con
cept organist in Cincinnati at the
age of fourteen, and he was only
seventeen when he won district,
state and national contests before
entering Peabody Conservatory to
win high honors as a student.
Virgil Fox is regular organist
at one of the world’s great church
es, but he has appeared at even
more renowned churches and ca,-
thedrals, including Westminster,
Durham and Lincoln Cathedrah
in England, tlie American Church
and the Cathedral of Notre Dame
in Piris and at that great Cathe-
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1' raU‘nial (fI*oii|)
(trades R‘vt“aled
The top grade average for
Greek letter groups during the
fan semester belonged to Tau
7,eta Phi sorority, with a 2.72
quality point rating. Trailing
close was Beta Ontieon Beta
with a 2.61 rating. Sig
ma Phi Beta had 2.11 and Alpha
PI Delta had 2.10 ratings to lead
the boys’ social groups. Other
group averages ranged down to
1.91 ratinr.
Princeton Professor Will
Lecture Here On Monlay
Dr. Lawrence Thompson, widely
known professor of English at
Princeton University, long recog
nized as one of the leading author
ities in American literature, will
lecture in Whitley Memorial Aud
itorium on the Elon campus at 8
o’clock next Monday night, April
2nd. appearing as the next In the
series of Elon College Lyceum
programs.
Dr, Thomp.son, who has been
described by his colleagues as "a
native New Englander who has
made a life’s work of understand
ing and interpreting for others the
writings of New England's liter
ary giants,” is regarded In partic
ular as an authority on the life and
works of Robert Frost.
He has been engaged since 1939
in gathering material on a bio
graphy ol Frost, working with the
agreement that the biography will
not be published until after Frost's
death. In this work he hag be
come an intimate friend of Frost
and has several times made trips
abroad in company with the great
American poet, the latest being a
trip to Israel, Greece and England
last year.
Dr. Thompson, while working on
the full biography, has published
studies entitled "Fire and Ice:
The Art and Thought of Robert
Frost,” ‘‘Frost and Emerson: Crit
ics of Their Times," and an in
troductory pamphlet entitled "Rob
ert Frost,” which has appeared In
Spanish, Italian, Arable and Jap
anese versions along with the Eng
lish version.
SPEAKS HERE
DR. LAWRANCE THOMPSON
Regarded as a scholar who chal
lenges convention, he gained wide
attention with his work, entitled
“Melville’s (Quarrel with God” In
1952; and he has also gained at
tention with his “Young Longfel
low,” a realistic account of th«
early years of the early American
poet.
He was born and spent his early
years in New Hampshire and was
igraduated from Wesleyan Uni
versity, later receiving his doctor
ate from tColumbla. He has taught
at both Wesleyan and Columbia
before joining the faculty at Prince
ton since the close of the war.