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rOLUME 43
ELON COLLEGE. N. C.
FRIDAY, JANXARY 18, 1963
Elon Girl To Rule As Queen Over Conference Cage Meet
Susan Ferguson Named yuEKN oi>K\sl)K)i{’To jJJZ'
By Elon Student Vote I 1 Mi7/#-r vli,z,>
NUMBER 6
Latham Geta
Ap])ointment
NEW JL'I)(;e
To Judgeship
Prof James F. Latham, who has
been a member of the Elon Cal-
lege faculty since the fall of 1958,
will exchange his professorial ti
tle for a judicial one on February
1st when he assumes new duties
as a Superior Court judge in the
North Carolina court system.
Judge Latham, to give him his
new title, was appointed as a
special Superior Court judge by
Governor Terry Sanford early this
month, and the new judge will
finish his duties with the Elon
faculty at the close of the fall
semester.
Since coming to the Elon fac
ulty four and a half years ago.
Judge Latham has taught business
law and other courses in the De
partment of Business Adminie-
tration. It was learned last weelc
that his teaching post was prb-
ably be filled by John K. Pat
terson, who is a graduate of Elon
and who is now practicing law in
Burlington.
The appointment to the Super-
Court bench, while it re
moves a well-liked person from
the Elon faculty, comes as a fine
recognition for Judge Latham
himself. In announcing the appoint
ment, Governor Sanford said,
‘ His record as a lawyer, as a
United States attorney with office
in military government in Germ
any, as senior magistrate, as dis
trict judge, as teacher of law, and
his entire legal training and prac
tice well qualify him to assume
his important post.”
Susan Ferguson. ElOn CollegejJanuary 9th, winning the throne!
soohomore from Durham will reign when she topped a field of seven-
as “Tournament Queen” when the!'®®" “O'"'
^ fhrt rtrAt/irtiic Hoi/
Carolinas ^onfenence basketball
squads converge on Lexington on
inated the previous day.
The election itself was called
and held hurriedly after tourna-
February 20th for the four nights mont officials in Lexington had
'telephoned late on Monday after
1962 Confer-
of battling for the
ence cage title.
The petite and pretty Elon las
sie was named for the royal hon
ors by vote of her fellow Elon
students in a special campus vote
which was held on Wednesday,
JUDGE JA.MES F. LATHAM
Judge Latham, a native of
Greenville, S. C„ earned both
his undergraduate and law de
grees at Duke University and then
entered the U. S. Army in 1942.
After service in Panama as a cap
tain and acting assistant chief of
staff, he was later assigned to mil
itary government in Germany and
served as a U. S. attorney for
American courts there for some
years after World War II. He lat
er opened a law practice in Bur
lington, where he has been very
active in both community and po
litical affairs.
Speaking personally of the new
appointment. Judge Latham ex
pressed pleasure at the opportun-
it.v it affords, but he also express
ed regret at severing his Elon Col
lege connections and declared that
he has enjoyed his campus assoc
iations with both faculty and stu
dents.
Band Gets High Praise
After Whitley Concert
Elon Faculty
Represented
At Meetings
Several Elon faculty members
attended meetings of educational
groups during or just prior to
tho Christmas holidays. Those at
holiday gatherings were Dr. W. W.
Sloan, who was at meetings of chance for a run-off between the
the Society for Biblical Literature leaders in the first day's voting.
National Association of Biblical. The election itself was followed
Instructors and American Schools by a busy day for Queen Susan
' " ' Thursday, January 10th
noon, January 7th, and announced
that Elon College had been chosen
to name the "Tournament Queen”
for 1962. The royal post is rotated
to various schools in the Confer
ence each year.
Members of the college adminis
tration, as soon as they had re
ceived the call from Lexington,
contacted Student President Jim
Buie, along with Bob Saunders ,
who is chairman of the campus!
election board. They, in turn, not-1
ified the students and laid plans
for the special balloting.
Nominations were made on
Tuesday, January 8th, and the bal
loting was held the following day
The Lexington officials had re
quested that tile choice be made
by this
and pictures submitted
past Monday, so there
was
on Thursday, January 10th, for
on that day Jack Lambeth, col
lege photographer, kept her step
ping lively for several hours as
he snapped pictures in various cos
tumes and in various campus
spots.
No less than eleven large 8x10
Seldom has a musical group
been received with greater praise
than was the Elon College Concert
Band when it presented its first
annual winter concert In Whitley
Auditorium on Thursday night
January 10th, a program which
included classical, semi-classical
and cntemporary music.
The concert was presented un
der the direction of Prof. Jack O.
White, who joined the Elon music
faculty last summer and who rec-
organized the Elon College Band
last fall. The thirty-eight music-
the same group which received
cert last week included largely
such high praise for their per-
lans who participated in the con-
tormance as a marching band at
Elon football games last fall.
The outstanding performance
as a concert group only served
to prove the versatility of the Elon
band, for smaller groups of the
musicians have also rendered fine
service as a pep band at the bas
ketball games this winter, and an
other small group has pla.ved as a
ance band at campus dances dur"
the year.
Among the feature classical
and semi-classical numbers for
the concert were such compositions
as the Talmage arrangement of
rahms “The Hymn of Freedom”
and Gossac's “Military Symphony
in F '.
Contemporary arrangement.^ in
cluded ‘ Highlights From Exodus”
• Gold; and “Carnival of Melo-
arranged by Hawkins to
i>ring to mind such well known
sohgs as 'Blue Moon” and “Love
Is A Many-Splendored Thing.”
The membership of the concert
niusical group numbers the fol-
lowiing students in the various
ihstruniental sections,
FLUTES: Gwen Hancock, Fair-
fax, Va.; Hannah Hobbs, Blacks
burg, Va.; and Jewel Bass, South
Boston, Va.;
CLARINETS; Mike Griffin,
Burlington: Nancy Daniel, Hend
erson; Gail Tarleton, Annandale,
Va.; Billie Joe Harvey, Lexing
ton: Evelyn Bell Kent, Granite
Falls; and Don Padgett, Metuch-
in, N. J.
BASS CLARINET: Jack Lam
beth, Burlington.
OBOE' Linda Johnson, Fairfax
Va.
ALTO SAX: Graeme Shull,
Charlotte; Mike Bryant, Winston-
Salem; and Mary Coolidge, Am
ston, Conn.
TENOR SAX: David Hosmer,
Worcester, Mass.
CORNET: Bob Simonds, Hins
dale, N. Y.; Garth Hudson, Elon
College; Ronald Kidd, Warrenton,
Va.; and Harry Hoi way, Center
ville, Mass.
FRENCH HORN: Anna Frances
Gates, Roseboro: and Tom Mc
Lean, Burlington.
TROMBONE: Dave Dean, Elk
ton, Va: John Autrey, Buzzard
Bay, Mass.; and Bert Morrison,
Portsmouth, Va.
BARITONE: Joe Cote, Fall Hiv
er, Mass.; and Mike Klesmer,
Newport News, Va.
TUBA: Laura Barnes, Elon Col
lege; and Bill Whittenton, Reids-
ville.
STRING BASS: Judy Seamon,
Henderson.
PERCUSSION: Bill Ruth, Met-
uchin, N. J.; Katherine Coble, De-
land, Fla.; Bill AlcClellan, Mar
ion, Va.; Wayne Bean, Greens-
boto: Renick Milelr, Arlington,
Va.; and Don Lind, Cranston, R.
I.
BELLS: Paulette Laufer, Mia
mi, Fla.
TLMPANI: Turley Higgins,
Summitt, N. J.; and John Fisher,
Yonkers, N. Y.
of Oriental Research, all of them
in New York; and Prof. Tully
Reed, who attended the Modern
Language Association convention
in Washington.
Dr. John D. Sanford, accomp
anied by Coaches Gary Mattocks
and Johnny Wike, attended the
North Carolina Association for glossy pictures of the queen were
Health, Physical Education and delivered to the Carolinas Tourna-
Recreation at Raleigh on Decem-'mcnt sponsors in Lexington this
I ber 7th and 8th; and Professor' past Monday, and they plan to
I Wesley Alexander and Arthur i use the pictures for both televis-
Hartung attended a mathematics ion and newspaper publicity for
gathering at Guilford College on the big cage meet
December 13th.
While at the Raleighg gather- j ome
ing of the physical education
group. Dr. Sanford was named honors by the
as one of five North Carolina del- ’ Lexiingtan. Tourney leaders as-
egates to attend the southern dis- sure that Lexington will truly roll
trict meeting of the AAHPER. to out the red carpet for her and
be held in Knoxville. Tenn., in that no effort will be spared to
February. make her reign a pleasant one.
At SiiHotk
The door to glamor opened for Susan Ferguson, Elon sophomore
from Durham, when she wa.^ lamed in a campus election last
week as "Tournament Queeii''lo rule over the annual Carolines
Conference cage tournament in Lexington late in February. The
honor rotates from school to school and Queen Susan will represent
Elon in royal style at the 1962 meet.
tournament time itself,
Queen Susan will be accorded full
Boone Speaks At Aiiiiiial
Banquet For Gridders
Coach Bill Miller and four mem
bers of the Elon basketball squad
had a narrow escape from death
or injury when they jumped from
their stalled car just before it
was struck by a freight train in
an accident that occurred just
prior to the Chrhitians' battle
with the Frederick Lions in Suf-
:folk, Va,. on Saturday night, De
cember 15th.
The car, driven by Coach Miller,
was enroute to the gymnasium for
the game when the accident oc
curred about 7 o"clock, an hour
before scheduled game time. The
car was trailing a bus w'hich car
ried the Frederick team at the
time the crash took place.
The Frederick team bus and
Coach Miller's car had movi-d on-
0 a multiple-track railroad cross-
iiig, and both bus and car were
locked on the tracks when the
crossing gates lowered in front
and behind them. The bus was on
unused tracks and out of the
path of the train, but Coach Mil
ler’s car stalled when he attempt
ed to maneuver to safety.
The Elon party included Coach
Miller and Bill Morningstar, along
Miller and guards Dave Winfrey,
Roland Miller, Bill Morningstar,
along with team scorer Ed May,
jumped from the stalled car mo
ments before It was struck and
demolished by an empty west
bound freight train.
Uniforms and other equipment,
which were in the trunk of the
car, were scattered by the im
pact, but the players were able
to gather their belongings and
proceed on to the game in another
car. Other members of the Elon
squad were in other cars that
were trailing Coach Miller at the
(Picture On Page Four) , A new awards, given for the
Appearing as the featured spea-j first time this year, went to Bill time of the wreck,
pepole ofi'*®>' at the annual Elon College Mahaffey, of Great Falls, S. C. The father of Arthur Davis,
j football ^oanquet in McEwen Me- 'Known as the “Sparc” award, the one of the Elon forwards, was at
CONCEK I MEANT \IUCII VVOKK
morial Dining Hall on Tuesday,
night, January 8th, Coach Jack
Boone, formerly head grid coach
at East Carolina College, cited the
great benefits which boys may re
ceive from playing the game of
football.
Declaring that participation in
j football “sharpens and strength-
;ens both minds and heart for fu-
j ture life,” Coach Boone pointed
I out that every player must al-
j ways give to the utmost to re-
[ ceive the greatest benefits.
I The speaker, who was himself
I one of Elon’s all-time football
greats when he played two dec
five letters in its name stand for the game from Roanoke Rapids,
“sacrifice, pride, aggressiveness, be carried Coach Miller and
respect and courage," traits which party back to Elon College
following the game, which Elon
won by a close 78 to 74 margin.
f Continued on Page Four)
String Quartet Thrills
Elon Lyceum Audience
Band members spent long hours of preparation prior to the highly
successful concert presented on January 10th. The above picture
portrays Prof. Jack O. White as work, with Bob Simonds, one
of the student musicians who hails fron- Hinsdale. N. Y. The concert
featured varying types of music ;i-'‘ was pleasing to campus music
lovers.
Music lovers on the campus and quired from an English collector
throughout the area weic thrilled of violins and was brought to this
by the North Carolina String Quar- country by a Philadelphia firm.
n..c,i .1C tiiajcu iwo ucc- tet. which appcBrcd in Whitley The violin played by Jean Heard
ades ago, reminisced of his own! .Auditorium on Friday night, Jan- second violinist for the group, is
playing and coaching days, citing juary 4th. as one of the series of i even older. The oldest instrument
numerous examples to prove his Elon Lyceum programs. in the Quartet, it was made by
declaration that “players should The Quartet consisted of four|Nicolo Amati in Cremona in 1647.
give better than a 100 per cent j accomplished musicians, all of, Amati was the teacher of Stradi-
pffort-” Uhcm connected in various ways vari and Guareri. This violin was
Presiding over the banquet gath-|With the University of North Car-'purchased from the family ol .'ui
ering was William B. Terrell, I >lina at Chapel, and the praise i I'-"'lian noble by Jean Becker, who
Klon alumni secretary, who paid accorded the group here only con-i was himself the first violinist tor
o frt 4-U ~ (iniiAr] tliA -xi. i.'t .^i— .
tribute to members of the Elon tinued the great acclaim with
coaching staff, the college’s fac- which it ha.s been received in col-
ulty athletic committee, the Elon hee and community concerts from
varsity cheerleaders and other in- Virginia to Florida,
d.viduals who contributed toward In addition to its regular concert
making Eton's 1962 season the lour, the String Quartet also
best the Christians have had in makes numerous appearances on
several year.s trlevision, and it also played a
The Elon players were introduc
ed by Coaches George Tucker,
Gary Mattocks and Johnny Wike,
and a number of special awards
were presented to outstanding
.v.eater,' and several game foot-
ballt to the .senior players
Among the players receiving
special awards were Charlie
Strigo, of .Mebane, as the most im
proved player; Cameron Little,
of Roanoke Rapids, as the out
standing lineman; Burl Clements,
of Richmond, Va., as the out
standing back; and Dan Kelley,
of Darlington, S. C., for best
sportsmanship.
special program for the last North
Carolina Legislature and has been
invited to play another special
program at the Gov"rnor’s Man-
ion this year. special feature
of the program here was the fact
that each of the ;?roup played on
an instrument that ranks as a true
antique.
Edgar Alden, first violinist for
the Quartet, was playing an in
strument made in 1693 by Giov-
annia Grancmi. The violin, which
is in a remarkable state of pres
ervation for one so old, was ac-
tho famous Florentine Quartet.
Mary Gray Clarke, cellist tor
the North Carolina sjroup, was
jjlaying a cello made in Naples
prior to 1700 by tw’o young mem
bers of the famous Ga;,'l;;no fam
ily of violin makers. The first of
the Gaghano family to :ale uj)
violin making was an apprentic;;
of the great Antonio Stradivari.
Still another collector's item
u^ed by the Chapel Hill artists in
their ^lon concert was the viola
that was used by Dorothy Alden.
Th's instrument was made by
Tommas) Balestriari, of Mantua,
and it is a prize example of the
Balestrieri art. It came from the
famous Hawley Collection of rare
instruments in Hartford, Conn.,
and It was formerly in the fam
ous Hart Colelction in London as
early as 1877.