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Here’s Best Wishes For A Happy Spring Vacation VOLUME 42 AND GOLD And As Alwajrs. Hopi For A Safe Return To The Campus ELO\ COLLEGE, N. C. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1968 — —X90S Elon Players To Give Three One^t Plays^This^Weekend Fox Concert Is Received W ith Praise (Picture On Page Four) One of the largest crowds seen in Whitley Auditorium in many years packed and overflowed the building to hear Virgil Fox, world- famous organist of New York’s Riverside Church, as he played the dedication concert for Elon's new and enlarged pipe organ last Sunday afternoon. The word enthusiasm is inade quate in describing the reaction of the hug* audience as it listened to the world’s premier organist, for the hearers one and all were obviously awed by the mastery with which the great musician handled the instrument. The concert itself was introduc- |ed and rendered the more impres sive by the dedication service, dur ing which Dr. J, E. Danieley, jElon’s president, pointed out that ||^|new organ filled a long-felt need in Uiat it replaced an older instru- lent which had “fought a good light, but had finished its course. ’ President Danieley paid tribute ;o Ray Cooper EuUss, of Burling- lon, an Elon alumnus, who headed campaign that raised $16,000 f(ir the renovation and enlargment if the organ. It was pointed out |liat the renovation changed the jlfi four-manual organ, installed by Ernest M. Skinner in 1825, with [a new three manual organ that in cludes over 2,600 pipes in 41 (anks. ^ There was tribute, too, for Prof. yietcher Moore, now dean of the ^Ilege, who has served for many years as chairman of Elon’s de partment of fine arts. The entire program was dedicated to Profes- .. •or Moore, who was described as a "scholar, master musician, de voted teacher and friend . . .” |Participating with Dr. Danieley in the dedication ceremonies was ^ V ‘1 Eure, of Raleigh, chairman ■ Elon’s board of trustees, and ® ford Hardy, president of the 1^11 student government. The Rev. JMn Graves and Dr. Ferris Rey nolds had parts in the' the devo- and Prof. Charles Lynam led the Elon choir in singing Bee- thfiven’s “Hallelujah” -from ilount of Olive.” Professor Moore organ accompanist for the directors FOK PLAYEK PKODLCTIONsj Shows Are Directed By Students Cotamg as one of the highlights of the campus theatrical, season this year are the three studen' nighf Xhe°Ttude Chapel Theatre tonight and tomorrow n git. The students who have planned and directed preparation for for this program are pictured above. Left to right, they are Larry Biddle, of Dover, Del., who has an overall charge of the entire piogram, Diana Weid, of Alexandria. Va., who is director of “The Farewell Supper”; John Autrey of Buzzard Bay, Mass., who ij director of Hello Out There”; and Reese Fowler, of Norfolk Va « 10 dir.-ctor oi ^The Happy Journey To Camden and Trenton.” The entil e group has worked i - cooperation with Prof. Ray Day,faculty director of dramatics College Choir Will Give Fifteenth Annual ‘Seven Last Words’ Cantata Cx)nimittees I •’■og' nms A Y . 1 ' April 25 Aik! 25 Are Listed ! rL For May Day 'lie Fox concert itself featured fl ^aried program, including com- ^tions from Bach, Cesar Franck, iSr' le and Enrico Dossi, along “t. t*'3ditional and ever-lovely ^ ^iidonderry Air". 11^^*^ Sreat organist was liberal in IS response to demands for en- rl**? encore numbers in- ed his own transcription of s “Now Thank We AU Our Middelschult’s "Concert y For Pedals Alone,” and an _JContinued on Page Four) rnier Student ^keii By Death >«en Greenawalt, who was a nt at Elon during the spring period last fall, died in town of Schulklll Haven, 31st from compli- - ' ''Wch had followed major t I services were m his home town last week, fireenawalt, ■ who was of Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. i^nawalt, was forced to dnip "“1- InTlh' soon after go- Jlhome. Recent reports liad indicated that his «-owiition . 1 but messages last **k notified the office of Dean "“eher Moore of the death. r*nag The plans for the annual Elon College May Day observance, set for Saturday afternoon. May 5th, are moving ahead rapidly, with the various student committees busy with preparations for the presen tation of the pageant that always serves as entertainment for the May Queen and her royal court. Five student committees were named this week by Mrs. Jeanne Griffin, who has charge of all wo men’s physical education activities and who will again direct the May Day program. A committee on costumes for the pageant, which will follow a theme based on the Old West, includes Mandy Gauer and Judy Maness, co-chairmen, with Linda Cheyney, Barbara Harris, Pat Sandbank, Betsy Wright, Sally McDuffie, Pam Johnson, Billie Morgan, Myra Blake, Kathy Sandefur, Shelby Whitehouse, Helen Horton, Hazel Iskyan, Gerri McCauley, Judy Jones and Mary Moser. The committee on programs and reserve seats includes Nancy Clark chairman, with Sara Foley, Sylvia Ham, Ruth Chilton, Betty Julian, Ruby Hodgin and Polly Roach. The committee on decorations and properties, including the ar rangement of the May Pole and the grounds, includes Rex Hardy, chairman, with Willard Gordon, Lou Grabenstetter, Linda Lester, Billie Collins, Cathy Davis, Glenda Pridgen, Jo Braxton and Betsy Parsley. Serving on the committee on the reception and flowers is Kathryn Thomas, chairman, with Dixie Knautz, Linda Durham, Dwanda Glover, Debbie Morin, Jane Harp er and Ann Cummings. Working with William Hughes, the choregrapher, a committee on dances, is Lea Mitchell, Becky Stephenson and Wally Sawyer. Those in charge of the public ad dress system will be Demus Thompson and John Leacb. Two fine musical programs are set for the Elon campus im mediately following the return from the annual Easter holidays, with the A Capella Choir of the Adrew Lewis High School of Salem, Va., slated to sing in Whitley Auditorium on Thursday night, April 26th. On the following night, Friday, April 2Tth, the college will pre sent a program of chamber mus ic featuring Dr. Malvin Artley, •Melvin Butler and David Me Adams, of Burlington: along with Prof. Fletcher .'VIoore. Prof. Fred §ahlmann 3>id Prof. Patrick .Johnson, of the Elon faculty, and a guest cellist from Greensboro. PLANS DANCES WILLIAM HUGHES William Hughes, a member of the Elon senior class from Meb- ane. is serving as choreographer for the annual Elon College May Day pageant for the second straight year. As choreographer, he has planned the dances for the event that will be held the first Saturday afternoon in May. Al though Hughes resides in Meb- ane. he attended high school in Haw River and was a junior col lege student at Campbell before entering Elon. The Elon College Choir will pre sent Theodore DuBois’ famous Easter cantata, “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” in the Elon Col !e?e Community Church at 4 o’ clock Sunday afternoon. It will be the fifteenth time that ‘he Elon Choir has sung the Du Bois cantata as a feature of Easter season oir the campus, for the student angers presented it for I fifteen consecutive ylgars before switching to another Lenten can tata for last spring. For many years the Elon Choir presented “The Seven Last Words of Christ” on the afternoon of Eas ter Sunday, but the annual date for the cantata was moved to the Sunday before Easter some years ngo when the college’s spring hol idays were changed to include the Easter weekend. The DuBois cantata, as perhaps no other does, tells the story of the first Easter and the suffer ings of Christ on the Cross. The cantata is of scriptural back ground, telling of the seven great peeches of Christ on the day of crucifixion. Many music lovers in this sec tion have heard the Elon Choir pre sentation year after year, and they always look forward to the dra matic climax that comes with the singing of the “Seventh Word” and iis ensuing organ interlude. The program this year will be sung under the direction of Prof. unarles Lynam, who has announc- jed the names of six soloists for the production, two Elon alumni and four students. Prof. Jerry Smyre, an Elon grad uate who now teaches at Guilford College, will be a tenor soloist; and William Ginn, also an Elon graduate, now an admissions coun sellor at Elon, will do baritone solos. Student soloists for the produc tion include Patricia Jones, so prano. of Suffolk, Va.; Constance Blake, soprano of West Boxford, .’Wass.; Thomas Brady, tenor, of Raleigh; and Robert Gwaltney, baritone, of Durham, The Elon Players climax their campus dramatic series for this year with the presentation of three itudent-directed one-act plays in -Mooney Chapel Theatre at 8 o’clock tonight and tomorrow night, and the three short plays promise a varied evening of entertainment for lovers of the theatre. The three plays on the program are William Soroyan’s "Hello Out There, directed by John Autry, »f,Buzzard Bay, Mass.; Thornton Wilder’s ‘The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton,” directei by Reese Fowler, of Norfolk, Va.; and Arthur Schmitzler’s "A Fare well Supper,” directed by Diana | VVeid. of Alexandria,'Va. j The Saroyan play, “Hello Out Tl.ere,” reveals the adventure of an itinerant gambler, who is jail-| >>d in a small Texas town and i charged with a crime he did not I commit. It is the story of his call • for justice, with young girl who I cooks at the jail as the only per son who believes in his innocense. John Autrey, who directs the play, has the role of the young jambler. Others in the cast are Carol Trageser, of Arnold, Md., as the giri; A1 Baer, of West Springfield, Mass., as the husband ')f the woman making the charges; Roger Brooks, of Vienna, Va., as another man; and Valerie Spang ler, of Silver Spring, Md„ as the wife. The Wilder production, “The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton, is a simple story of American family life, telling of Ma and Pa and their two children who journey from Newark to Cam den in the family car on a visit to a married daughter. It offers a dramatic picture of the mother and of her role in family life. Reese Fowler, who directs the play, appears as the stage man ager, reminiscent of a similar role in “Our Town.” Others in the cast are Rosalie Radcliffe, of Carvers- ville. Pa., as Mrs. Kirby; Kenneth Rovere, of Wayne, N. J., as Arth ur Kirby; Sharon Martin, of Mar ion, os Caroline Kirby; Grayson .'Wattingly, of Washington, D. C., as Elmer Kirby; and Peggy Dod son, of Liberty, as Beulah. Schmitzler’s “A Farewell Sup per” serves to illustrate technical elements and values of drama and other values of Uterature through a play based upon the eternal problem of man‘s ’relation to wo man, a theme which has univer sal appeal. The cast for this play, directed by Diana Weid, includes A1 Baer, as Anatol; David Andes, of Elon College, as Max; and Anne John son. of Charlotte, as Mlmi. Heading up the entire program of three plays is Larry Biddle, of Dover, Del., who has directed the over-all preparations for the pro ductions. He and the student di rectors have worked under super vision of Prof. Ray Day, who teaches the dramatics courses at Elon. Jim Buie New President Of Student Government Jim Buie, rising Elon senior from Dariington, S. C., will serve as president of the Elon College Student Government during the coming 1962-63 term, having been elected to tliat post in the annual campus election that was held yesterday. The balloting yesterday was for general officers of the Student Government and for the officers of the next year’s sophomo: •. jun ior and senior classes. The >oting for members of the Honor • lun- cll and Senate will be held i iier. There was no contest for 0(1 . s of the junior class, but there as a spirited contest in recent wc is for most of the position^. The 1 ; that more than two candidal's were in the race for some pos!i made a run-off necessary in som ■ instances. The names of officers who were elected in yesterday’s balloting are as follows: STUDENT (M)VERNMENT President Jim Buie, Darlington, S. C. Vice-President Lynn Ryals, Durham Secretary-Treasurer Eleanor Smith, Winston-Salem SENIOR CLASS President (Run-off election needed) • Jerry Hollandsworth, Danville Ken Lumpkin, Danville, Va. Vice-President (Run-off election needed) Bob Saunders, Indianapolis, Ind. Jim Shirley. Portsmouth, Va. Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Burnett, Danville Judy Maness, Ramseur JIM BUIE JUNIOR CLASS President Larry Biddle, Dover, Del. Vice-President Robert Young, Oyster Bay, N. Y Secretary-Treasurer Valerie Spangler, S. Spring, Md. SOPHOMORE CLASS President Fred Stephenson, Greenville, Vice-President (Run-off election needed) Bert Morrison, Portsmouth, Va. John Paul Jones, Greensboro Secretary-Treasurer Linda Keck, Burlington Dodds Delit^ers Sermon At Elon Comnieneenient (>o!h*ve Receives Bequest In Will L. L. Vaughn, a retired State College professor and former trus tee of Elon College, who died in Raleigh on March 22, left an es tate valued at $95,106, according to a preliminary inventory filed In. Wake County Superior Court. Beneficiaries, in addition to rela tives, Included the State College Foundation, Inc., the United Church of Raleigh and Elon Col lege, Dr. Robert C. Dodds, who is general director of planning for the National Council of the Chur ches of Christ in the U.S.A., will deliver the baccalaureate sermon for the annual Elon College com mencement, Is set for the final weekend in May. The announcement of Dr. Dodds as the baccalareate minister was made this week by Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon College president, who stated that the 1962 com mencement will get underway with the Alumni Day observance on Saturday, .May 26th, and will con tinue through the weekend, with •le sermon set for Sunday and graduation exercises on Monday May 28th. Doctor Dodds, who is a minist er of the United Church of Christ and has long been active in that denomination. He served pastor ates at the Dennis Union Church and the West Yarmouth Congre gational Church on Cape Cod from 1946 to 1950 and was pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Waterbury, Conn., from 1954 until 1961. He was l>om in India and spent his boyhood years in that country, returning to America to complete his secondary education and later attended Wooster College In Ohio before receiving his A. B. degree from Columbia University and hi* ST. B. degree from Harvard Uni versity. He has also been both a school teacher and a social work er and is the author of a book on marriage and numerous pamph- jlets and magazine articles. j SPEAKS FIEKE DR. ROBERT C. DODDS Spring Vaeatioii Starts Thursday Along with the spirit of spring, there Is evident on the Elon cam pus this week a special air of expectancy among both faculty and student, all of whom are looking forward to the annual spring holiday sea.son that gets underway next Thursday, April 19th. Most of the students and many of the faculty members will get away from the campus for the holiday period, which Includes the Easter weekend and wOl con tinue until the following Wednes day. The regular class schedules will resume at 8 o’clock on the Wednesday morning, April 25th..
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