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Lettermen To Appear At Elon For 1962 May Day
Homecoming Program Is
Termed Elon’s Best Ever
H()MR€OMIN(; yiJEEN CKOW.NEI) A'l';HII) (;AME
i\Iaiiy Bills
(Considered
Bv Senate
With more visitors in the gallery
than senators on the floor, the Elon
College Senate met for its third
regular meeting on Wednesday
night, October 24th, and saw much
action. Three old bills were
brought out of committee and vot
ed on before four new bills were
V introduced on the floor.
A bill appropriating $1,700 to the
Dance Committee for the May Day
concert, sponsored by Wally Saw
yer, passed without opposition on
the recommendation of the Fin
ance Committee. Another bill,
which came out of the Judicial
Committee, called for the chang
ing of the rule which required the
Freshman Class to meet three
times a month. This bill was also
passed without opposition.
A third bill, dealing with the
levying of a fine on students who
did not pay their Student Govern-
fmeat fees on time, brought about
much action and discussion among
the Senators.
The bill, as written by President
Jim Buie, called for the levying of
a one dollar fine. The Judicial
Committee, to which the bill had
been referred, offered an alternate
measure in that the original bill
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Hailed as one of the most suc
cessful Homecoming events in Elon
College history, the 1962 festivi
ties offered many phases of ac
tivity for Elon students and alum
ni during the third weekend
.n October, beginning with a huge
pep rally on Friday night, Octob
er 19th, and concluding with the
Homecoming Ball on Saturday
night, October 20th.
The pep meeting on Friday night
offered an unusual feature in a
cliariot race between teams rep-
re.senting Alpha Pi Delta, Sigma
Mu Sigma and Kappa Psi Nu, with
the Alpha Pi driver and his two-
legged horses grabbing off top hon
ors in a contest which furnished
plenty of amusement for the spect
ators that gathered on the new
athletic field near Alumni Me
morial Gymnasium.
The day-long program on Satur
day opened with the judging of
many original and attractive cre
ations which decorated the cam
pus and added spirit to the Home
coming event. The Alpha Pi Delta
boys, adding to the honors won in
the chariot race, also copped first
honors tor the best campus dec
oration, with a creation that fea
tured a rocket all set and ready to
launch. Runers-up for decorative
honors went to the Women’s Ath
letic Association and the Chemis
try Club.
The annual parade, which mov
ed through Burlington's main bus
iness section on Saturday at noon,
was hailed by the host ef watchers
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h|^Miigiiiyhitntiiih I III-
Famous Musical Group
Offers (^anij)us (.'oneert
One of the high points ot the l%i Homecominc; ol)i
field, Va., a.s the qiieeii of the weekend lesti.itie.s, Th
of the El-r:. SUidonl Go.ernment, as he placed (h
the annual Elon-Catawba football game. Other pictur
top of tlie page. Shown left in the Homecomint; shot.s
Ball in .Alumni Memorial Gymnasium, while three ce
side by two of the beautiful floats which helped lo m
extreme right Is a shot of one of the fraternity team-,
pep rally held on Friday night.
ervanci.; vvus the coronation of Dauiie Pcwell, of Smlth-
pic.i'ro dlroctly i.‘)ove shows Jim Buie, president
f.TuWii uoon tlio if,ie;n's head during the half-time of
s.i uf llij Horn'Coming celebration are shown at the
at t'lo top of the .lage is a view of the Homecoming
iitered shots show the Elon Band, flanked on either
ake th„' Homecoming parade a huge success. At the
which participated In the amusing chariot race at the
In First Sliow Of Season
SaliJniann Is
Praised On
Florida Trip
Prof. Fred Sahlmann, pianist,
who Is a veteran member of the
Elon College music faculty, re
ceived high praise when he ap
peared in concert in Jacksonville,
Fla., on Friday night, October 19.
Professor Sahlmann played the
■sncert as a guest artist for the
Friday Muslcale group in Jack
sonville in the first of the clubs
annual music concert series. The
opening program, only one each
year which Is open to the general
public, was preceded by a reception
for new members and guests.
His concert was described as
"demandhig for the artist and
clectrlfymg for the audience” in a
review in the Jacksonville press.
His program, which opened with
dementi's Sonata in F sharp
minor. Opus 26, No. 2, also In
cluded selections from Mendel
ssohn, Chopin. Dohnanyl and Rav
el.
The Friday night concert was
Sahlmann's second appearance as
guest artist for the Jacksonville
music club, for he aLso played a
concert In the Florida city two
years ago.
By MKIA'IN SHREVE8
■Although Elon's 1963 May Day
observance Is yet far in the future
nterest is already high In the
. 'nt following the announcement
*hat The Lettermen. nationally
famous musical group, will ap
pear in concert on the campus as
a top feature of the weekend ac
tivities.
Wally Sawyer, chairman ot the
campus Dance Committee, an
nounced some days ago that he
had signed a contract with the
William Morris Agency, Inc., which
provides for the appearance of
The Lettermen in the May Day
Concert, to be held on the Elon
campus next May 3rd.
The Lettermen's unique comb
ination of silky-smooth melody and
rhythmic Invention has resulted
m their hit, "The Way You Look
Tonight”. The flip side of their
first Capitol disk. "That's .My De
sire," also came Into Its fair share
of the spotlight.
The group first drew attenUoa
In 1960 with its Warner Bros,
waxing, '‘Their Hearts Were Full
of Spring”. Robert Engemann was
a missionary for two years and
now Is an elder in the Mormon
Church, though he is Just 26 yean
ot age. Tony Butalo, a veteraa
night club and studio singer has
been the leader of his own group.
The Fourmost,, and also dabbles
In songwrlting. Jim Pike is the
one genuine ‘ lettermen'' in the
group—he excelled in football at
Idaho Falls High School.
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Organ Recital Here Sunday
David Craighead, organist at Si..
Paul’s Episcopal Church and head
of the organ department at the i
Sastman School of Music in Ro-1
Chester. N. Y., will appear in Elon’s
Whitley Auditorium at 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. His appearance
lis another in the series of Elon
IIERE SUNDAY
I
DAVID CRAIGHEAD
College Lyceum programs, and the
public is cordially invited to hear
him.
The great organist’s musical
training Included piano study with
the late Olga Steeb, organ study
with Clarence Mader and four
years at the Curtis Institute in
Philadelphia with Dr. Alexander
McCurdy. He has held positions
are Bryn Mawr Presbyterian
Church in Bryn Mawr, Pa., the
Westminster Choir College, the
Pasadena Presbyterian Church and
Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Widely known as a concert org
anist. Craighead has received high
praise from critics in many Amer
ican cities. One critic in New York
declared that ‘‘everything in his
playing reflects the consummate
artist, with an Innate musical sense
and a sure grasp ot style.” and an
other New York writer described
his program as ‘‘played with ma
ture sensitivity, care, brilliance
and musiclanly force.”
After a concert in Detroit, a crit
ic in that city declared that all
superlatives tell short in describ
ing Craighead's performance as he
called it “the ultimate in music
ianship and music-making, abso
lute refinement in organ playing.”
Elon Players W ill Present Moliere
Classic In Mooney Chapel Theatre
Guitarist Inlays On (Campus
{ One of the world's real dramatic
I classics Mollere’s ‘ The Imagin-
lary Invalid,” will furnish the op
ening attraction of the campus the
atrical season, with the Elon Play
ers presenting the great French
play for three nights in Mooney
Chapel Theatre on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday nights, Novem
ber 15th, 16th and 17th.
Prof. E. Ray Day, who directs
the student dramatic program on
the campus, has assembled an out
standing group of student actors
and actresses for the Moliere pro
duction. and reports from the re
hearsal Indicate that "The Imag
inary Invalid” could prove to be
one of the finest attractions in the
long history of the Players.
The Moliere master-plece cent
ers In the activities of the Ardin
family, with Monsieur Arden, head
of the family appearing as a thor
ough-going hypochondriac, who
constantly imagines himself as the
victim of some Illness or other.
This role will be played by Frank
Rich, of Burlington, who seeks a
marriage for his daughter with a
doctor, seeing in the marriage a
means of securing medical care
for his Imaginary illnesses.
■Monsieur Ardln’s shrewish wife,
a role which is is enacted by Peg-
y Dodson, of Liberty, has other
ambitions for her daughter, for she
prefers to enroll her daughter as
a nun to satisfy the mother's own
selfish hopes. Neither the father
mr mother consider that the
daughter is already in love with
another man.
Appearing as Angeline, the Ar-
d'n daughter, will be Marie deJong,
')earing as Cleante.
Others who will be « the cast for
this opening production include
George Diaz, of Great Neck, N.Y.,
as the young doctor, Thomas Duz
Defois; Tyrone Rowell, of Hender
son, as Monsieur Defois; Thomas
Dula, of Hillsboro, as Monsieur
Bonnefoi; Gay Yule, of Blutfton,
Ind.. Louis; John Autrey, of Buz
zard's Bay, Mass., as Beralde;
Frank Harris, of Ruffin, as Mon
sieur Fleurante; and Paul Robin
son, of Fairfield, Conn., as Mon
sieur Purjon.
This full length play is only the
first of an attractive series of
shows, which Professor Day har
planned for the Elon Players dur-
Allzio Diaz, native of Venezuela,
who is one of the greatest classical
guitarists in the world today, was
heard with pleasure in Whitley
I auditorium last Monday night In
' lilt second of the series of Elon
I College Lyceum programs.
Born In Carora, Venezuela, iii
1926,, Diaz received his musical
education under Prof. Raul Bor
ges at the Caracus Conservatory of
Music and later studied at Spain's
l\ (:()\CKI{T
of Roselle, N. J., who is a new- ing the year. He has also announc-
comer to the Elon stage. Also in a
featured role is Carol Tragesor,
or Arnold. Md., who is an old fav
orite with campus theatre-goers.
She will have the role of Toinette.
with A1 Baer, another veteran, ap
ed that the Players will present
Maxwell Anderson’s “Bad Seed”
as another full-length show in
March, and a number ot one-act
plays will also be presented at in
tervals during the year.
ALIRIO DIAZ
Royal Conservatory in Madrid,
where he was awarded First and
Extraordinary prizes and began ^
concert career In the principal
cities of Europe.
Diaz has been honored by an
award by the Venezuelan govern
ment and has received two grants
from the Creole Foundation for
his work with the guitar. He has
made extensive studies of the hist
ory of the instrument and has un
covered a vast amount of previous
ly unknown music tor guitarists in
the libraries ot various European
cities.
His brilliant interpretations of
the classical works ot Bach and
Scarlatti and other composers
have won him much renown both
In Europe and America, and he is
also known tor his performance of
folk music. He himself has done
numerous compositions for the
guitar, an Instrument which speak.s
best the expressive musical lan
guage of the Latin American peo
ple.
The guitar, as played by the
clever Diaz, offers a varied and
beautiful range of hues from the
melancholic candences of the In-
cas to the complicated rhythms of
Brazilian and Venezuelan danccs,
the haunting Argentine vidalas and
the spontaneous songs of Mexico.