Here’s To The
Best Of
May Day Weekends
MAROON AND GOLD
And AUo Looking
Ahead To
The End Of School
VOLUME 42
ELON ( JI.LEGE, C.
FHIDAV, MAY 4. 19Ca
Piurv:JPaL F:G , , F d MAY DAY PA(;EA[VT
PAT JONES
Senior Attendant
BILLY LACOSTE
Senior Escort
JUNE EVANS
Junior Attendant
HARRIETT HAMMOND
Maid-of-Hv»nor
; oiK*erl, Dance
- iiveilvS
The Tokens, popular voca!
group, opens the May Day week- I
end with a concert in Whitley |
Auditorium at 8 o’clock tonight, |
and the annual May Day formal
i^ajice in Alumni Memorial Gym
from 8 until 12 o’clock tomor
row nigrht will conclude the fes
tive weekend prog:ram.
The Tokens, who appear in
concert tonis:ht, have g:ained
great popularity recently with
songs in the style of The High
waymen and the Kingston Trio.
Admission will be by student
card at the concert.
The dance to-uorrow night will
feature the music of The CoUeg-
ans, popular dance band from
Fnst Carolina, and the dance
committee has planied gay dec
orations to add life to the dance.
DEAN YATES
The King
NrMBER 12
FRED SIIITLL
Royal
Escort
'areiits
lii\ ited
o Visil
(^ol
HELEN WRHillT
Senior Attendant
JANE MORGAN
(^ueen of May
MRS. JEANNE GRIFFIN
The Director
The pariMits of many * i ‘
d(‘nts will Ik* gu'sts of .• •.»{-
tomorrow for the
“Parents Day” eveut. uiid .
day of entertainment has
planned.
The parents are invlfed t- a ■
tend classes witli Oieir
daughters, and the adniinistrai
offices will be open for vis
Tampus tours will also be oft
ed to the parents throuTlwiul '
day.
The annual May Day pa«‘ »’
nnd the May Day ‘‘or'tial
will offer special entertainment,
with all parents urged to atte-vd
and the college will bt> host ' >
parents at a Western Style Suik
per in McEwen Dining Hall in
the late afternoon.
May Day Event Is Planned Tomorrow
Pageant Of American West Will Entertain Royal Court
L>lU)i.KY PL'RbY
Junior Escort
The cowboys and cowgirls will
ide again and the Indians wUl b«
on the warpath once more when
Elon College stages its annual
May Day pageant in Alumni ->iem-
orial Gymnasium at 3 o'tiocK to
morrow afternoon as tribute to
Elon’s May Day rulers of 1962.
The pageant itself, which will
be entitled "The Colorful West,”
will recall the adventurous and ro
mantic days when the American
vVest was still young and wild, and
it will furnish entertaiumjni fo;
joth the May Queen and ner couit
a,id for tiie large crowd vvinch ii
expected to attend. |
The pageant, to be presented
under the dirction of Mrs, Jeanne,
Griffin, director of Women’s phy-^
vical education for the college, will
be only the main event of the fest-;
ive May Day weekend, for tomor
row night will also bring the an-
I nual May Day formal dance on the
■ huge floor of the Alumni Me.nor-
ia' Gymnasium, and a con-e.. is
set tonight.
Ruling as May Queen over botn
'the May Day pageant i;i :ii, a/.-
ernoon and the sprin,' daau. .'i,
night will be Jane Morgan, of
Greensboro, and paired with her
as May King will be Dean Yates,
of Mayodan. Chief attendants for
the royal pair will be Harriett
Hammond, of Balfour, as maid-of-
honor, and Fred Shull, of Burling
ton, as her royal escort. They were
all chosen by vote of the students
in a special campus election held
earlier this year.
The senior attendants for the
May Queen and her royal consort
will be Pat Jones, of Suffolk, Va.,
and Helen Wright, of Greenville,
i. C., escorted by Allen Foster, of
\pwport News, Va., and Billy La-
Coste, of Bishopville, S. C.
The attendants from the junior
class will be Diane Clary, of Law-
■vnccviile, Va , and June Evans,
of Princess Anne. Va., escorted by
Dudley Purdy, of Edgewater, Md.,
and Jim Buie, of Darlington, S. C.
Wiih the sophomore and fresh
man classes taking part in the May
Court for the first time this year,
tlie sophomore attendants will be
jail B".nd, of Gales Ferry, Conn.,
yirl Judy Hucl'ion, of Fort Bragg,
escorted by Roger Grimson, of
' u •• a - .1 : "nines'ar, of
South Boston, Va.
The freshman attendants will be
Judy Carolyn Jones, of Franklin,
Va., and Mary Moser, of Graham,
escorted by Jerry Bolick, of Lin
den, and Rex Harrison, of Norfolk,
Va.
The youngest members of the
May Court in the roles of flower
girl and crown bearer will be lit
tle Ann Register, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Register, of Greens
boro, and Paige C. Holder II, small
son of Mr. and Mrs. Paige C. Hold
er of Warrenton, Va. Both are r-i
atives of Queen Jane Morgan.
The pageant, presented before
the Queen and her court, will fea
ture Charlie Strigo, gigantic foot
ball star from Graham, and Anna
Fulda, of Rio de Jaaiero, Brazil,
in the roles of Indian jesters, with
a colorful series of dances which
were planned by William Hughes,
of Mebane, who for the second
straight year has served as chore-
agrapher for the May Day event.
Demus Thompson, of Burlington,
will serve as master of ceremon
ies for the pageant, and Becky
Stephenson, of Suffolk, Va., will
assist Mrs. Griffin in direction of
the program. The college band,
•GAIL BOND
Sophomore Attendaot
BILL MORNINGSTAR
Sophomore Escort
MARY MOSER
Freshman Attendant
Royal
(loiirt
For
Eloii’s
May Day
Pageant
directed by Prof Patrick Johnson,
will furnish music for the occasion,
with the band music slated to be
gin at 2:45 o'clock.
The Indian Snake Dance will
filature a choru.^ which includes
Don .Miller, Wayne Alien, Joe Ber-
dosch, Ken Cook, Jerry Drake,
Mike (iraffeo, ,Jimmy Holmes, Jim
'oor;:. Tjm Piccininni, Bart Wick
er, Charlie Somers, Steve Wall
and George Wooten,
,\ppcartng in the Western
Snuar: Da" 1! ;.e Pa.iy i3rown
Qi.'cky Cliiti;.;, LTl' Diucr. Nan
cy McDowell, Chdlotii.- Mill.,,
Marti Reid. Ellen Stanley, Betty
Strader, R"7..i-n.' Sunmers, Sally
V;,ughn, Don C‘ii!‘on. .'•M Fi'zger-
a!d, John Gozjiek Bobby Moore,
I Jerry Nance, Jerry Pike, Ken
'P P' ^ rrv T ■' Robert Utz
;and Robert Willis.
' The chorus for the Western Can
^Can will be Ann Aaron, Martha
Barnes, Diane Binkley, Norma
Boswell. Carole Boyle, Roberta
Grady, Sue Hibbard, Marguerite
Laughon, Marcia Loypjklt, B'lnnie
Longest, Jane Loy, Carol Pupow-
ski, Peggy Saunders, Becky Shep
ard, Brenda Williams, Diane Wonl-|
ard, Mary .\nn Wright and Ga> ■
Yule. I
The Frankie and Johnnie Dane I
will feature Pat.sy Paitersoii a-
Frankie, and Joe Lee as
Johnnie, along with a chorus tha'
lists Sue Ferguson, Marty Hogen-
son. Amy Litten, Joan McDowell.
Jean Morris, Beverly Powell, Jean
Shaffer, Rita Sharpe and Anni •
W'ebb
Specialty numbers will featu v
Karen Fischer and Steve Ballard
in ‘ Indian Love Call." Wally
Sawyer in "Let There Be Drums ',
and Nancy Brower and Sue Rudd
in the Novelty Horse number. The
class attendants in the royal court
will al.'io participate in "The Waltz
>r the Court."
The traditional .May Pole wind-
", will co:ne iji an Indian May
Pole Dance, featuring Faye Ever
ett. Sara Barnes, Jane Barnwell,
Loretta Burton, Carol Copeland.
Hobbin Field.s, Betty Fletcher, An
na Fulda, Marsha Jehle, Ann
Johnson, Dianne Joyce, Pat Lloyd,
[Virginia Payne. Pat Pierce. Bar-,
jbara Pric^*. Judy Ward and Diana
:Weid.
ALLEN FOSTER
■Senior Escort
DIANE CLAKY
Junior Attendant
JIM buif:
Junior Escort
1
JUDY CAROLYN JONES
Freshman Attendant
R0T;ER CRIMSON
Sophomore Escort
JUDY HUDSON
Sophomore Attendant