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.
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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..