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It’s On To Lexington For The Basketball Tourney AND GOLD I.rtS ;rt Behind The ('hrisdiin.s For The Championship fOLUJfE 43 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. FRIDAY, FEBRrARY 15, 1HG3 NUMBER 7 Fire Of Undetermined Origin Hits Student Apartments Smithy Drake To Be May Day Rulers (Pictures On Page Four) It will be Queen Eleanor and King Jerry for the annual Eloni College May Day festival, which is scheduled as a campus feature for the first weekend in May, for the Elon College students in the annual election last weelt chose Eleanor Smith, of Winston-Salem, and Jerry Drake, of Greensboro, to rule over the weekend festiv ities. The chief attendants for the King and Queen at the annual spring festival will be Barbara Burnett, oi Danville, Va., wlio was elected a,' Maid-of-Hoiior, and Dewey An drew, of Snow Camp, who will serve as royal escort for Maid-of- Honor. Miss Burnett and her es cort were runners-up to the royal pair in the annual balloting last week. The choice of Eleanor Smith as May Queen for 1963 comes as a climax to a brilliant campus ca reer, She has served as secretary- treasurer of the Student Grovem- ment, as a varsity cheerleader and as editor of the coUege annual. Siie has also been Queen of Home coming and has twice been named to Who’s Who in American Col leges and Universities. The election as King for the fes tival also tops a long list of hon ors for Jerry Drake, for the Greensboro boy has been an out standing pitcher for the Christ- iar! diamond squad since his fresh man year and has held numerous campus positions. Like the Queen Drake was also named to the list of Collegiate Who’s Who this year. The annual May Day pageant is staged each spring as a pro ject of the women's physical edu- SICMT:-) SEEiS AS FliiE LMTS VVMVl BLAZE VETS .-iPAIi /J'S 111 — Perkins Wfitiiijj Lc.-ifeon ^lalei iai Prof. Theodore Perkins. Elon College librarian, who has long been active in affairs of the Friends Church in North Carolina, has just accepted an invitation to write a series of lesson helps for the 1963 Sunday School quarterly of the Friends denomination. Professor Perkins, who is also a recorded minister of the Friends Church, will write the material on application of the Sunday School lesson to life for the four Sundays in Just a bit of the furious activity seen as iireiignimg groups from Elon College, Burlington, Gibson- ville and Altamahaw Ossipee fought a blaze in the Veterans Apartments on Monday. February 4th, is shown in the two pictures above The scene at the left shows the flames breaking through the gable and the roof of the apartment occupied by Mr. and Mrs. R;>ndy Keziah. of Hamlet, while the picture at the right shows firefighgters combatting the blaze from a window and from a ladder leading to the roof of the second apartment which was occupied hy Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Gibbs. Four other apartments further away from the camera toward tiie other end of the building es caped with smoke and heat damage. Outstanding Students Have Served As Heads Of Student Goi^ernnient 'Pictures On Pase Twr pliases of student life. He held the during his student days. office during the 1949-50 term. The Elon College Student Gov-; Robert Wright, of Springfield, \ugust this year, with ernment Organization, in more or ^eld the presidential post the mateUjl appearing in the adult I‘t® present form, is now in juring the 1950-51 term. Wright, quarterly that is published by the board of publications of the world wide Five Year Meeting of Friends. He has held a number of offices North Carolina Yearly cation department, and each year the program proves to be one of , , , , Meetmg and has previously contri- The most colorful of the entire t buted material for inclusion m the college year, one which draws a large crowd of students, alumni! and friends of the coUege. The 1963 May Day pageant will be carried out under the direction 5ntinued on Page i?'oui Sunday School publications of the group. He is not at present hold ing an active pastorate, but he is serving as superintendent of the Sunday School tor the First Friends Meeting in Greensboro. (;ETS OFFICE Elon Junior Is Elected To Post In ISS Group Bill Whittenton, an Elon junior ^ from Reidsville, was elected vice-1 president of the North State Stu-| dent Government Association at a conclave held at Catawba College on January 26th and 27th, filling) a vacancy that occurred when the former vice-president resigned. Whittenton. an already active student government participant here at Elon, was a major leader in Elon’s highly successful Home coming Day observance this fall. He is currently active on tlie “Campus Crier” staff, the Honor System Revision Committee, the NSSGA and other pha-ses of Stu dent Government activity. The function of the NSSGA is to conduct studies of problems of common interest and suggest orig inal methods of solving them. Through this mutual study of me- thads and procedures, the members of each student association learn '*ays to improve student-faculty ^lations. This also helps each student government group realize its own potential in creating a bet ter intellectual community on its own campus. As vice-president of the associa tion, one of Whitteaton’s major chores wfU be to plan and coordin ate the grot^p's Spring Conference which will be held at Klon on Ap- during the lMl-62 school year. its fourteenth year on the cam pus, and its has operated since the fall of 1949 under the leader ship of a fine group of student leaders who held the office of presidenr^during one-year terms It is true that there had been Student Body presidents prior to 1949, but the form of the student revised and given greater control of campus life in the spring of 1949, but the form of student gov ernment was revised and given greater control of campus life in the spring of 1949. The constitution written at that time has been amended and revised at times since then, but it is safe to say that modern student government dates from that 1949 document. The first Student Government president after the modern con stitution was written was Arthur Fowler, who hailed from Erwin. Fowler, who is now in business in Winston-Salem, was a varsity base- wlio is now in public relations Jerry Lowder, a native of tlie Burlington area, led the Student government as president during the 19.54-55 term. He was a music major and was an outstanding work with the Sun Oil Company i member of the Elon Choir during in Dallas, Texas, was also outstan ding in dramatics and was editor of the Maroon and Gold. his student days. Lowder is now minister of music for a church in I Birmingham, Ala. EnroJnuMii lirop For fS'cw rcrm The student ennillment at Elon Oollcgi' for Ihe sprin>> semester, 1' is always the case each year, is somewhat smaller than was the enrollment for the fall term. Fig ures from the registrar's office show a total of 1.136 students ia attendance for the second term, compared with 1.262 for the fall semester. The registrar's report lists 746 men and 390 now enrolled, com pared with 827 men and 435 wo- '.len in the fall, showing drops of men and 145 women. This is not an exact figure on the number of I Units Burn; Others Are Sniaked The Veterans Apartments, which have hou-sed many Elon College niarritHi students in the years since World War II, were hit by a major fire for tiie first time in their si.\- (een-year history on Monday mor ning. February 4th, when a blaze of undetermined origin burned out apartments and datuaged four others. There had been minor blazes involving stoves in single apart ments, but the alarm which sound ed about 9 o’clock tliat morning signalled the first fire in a full mil of the collection of frame structures since tlie converted army barracks buildings were moved to the campus following World War II. The fire apparently started in an 'nd apartment, which was occu- I'd by Mr. and Mrs. Kandy Ke- ili. neither of whom were at home at tlie time. Firemen fight- nj the flames stated that the point of origin was apparently in the area where the oil heater was located and that the blaze was probably due t(t a malfunction of the stove. The Keziah apartment was burn ed out, as was an adjoining apart ment, which was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Gibbs, of Reids ville, but efficient work by the firemen prevented the fire from spreading into the other four apartments in the unit. The six were joined by a single roof and attic, and smoke and heat were carried through the attic into the other apartments, with the smoke drop-outs, for t'liere are now en-: some damage to the oth- ro!!ed new students who enj. |''' “P^"'tments. T(d Ei'". ••.is Spring. ' The third apartment was vacant, A major portion of the loss from fall to spring terms was in the Ev ening School, where the present enrollment includes 155 men and 30 women for a total of 185, com pared with 210 men and 37 women for a total of 247 students last fall. There was very little decline in dormitory rtudents, for the drop was onh- from 595 in the fall to Roger Gibbs, a native of Greens-: Furman Moseley, a native of boro and who is now in business Charleston, S. C., Iield the presi- in Greensboro, was student presi-| dential post during the 1955-56 dent during 1951-52 in addition j term. He was a varsity football to his campus political work,' player. He now lives in Santiago, Gibbs was outstanding in music Chile, where he is with a lumber and a member of the Elon choir.: company. Ho later served as field secretary, Larry Barnes, of Portsmouth, for the college. Va., who is now in the insurance Lynn Cashion, who hailed from | business in his native city, was stu- in the dormitories. Sanford and who still lives there dent president in 1956-57. Like since graduation, was outstanding' Wright and Cashion before him, he in dramatics and also served as | also held the position of editor ot editor of the Maroon and Gold. He*the Maroon and Gold, was president in 1952-53. | Jerry Loy, of Graham, presided Woody Stoffel, a native of Strat-iover the Student Government ac- ford, M. J., who is now working tivities during the 1957-58 term, in his native state, was named to He had been active in dramatics the”esidential post for the 1953- 3"'^ a talented amateur box 54 term. Stoffel was active and the fourth was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Allen, both of whom are Elon College students and both of whom are teachers at Western Alamance High School. The fifth unit was also vacant, and the sixth was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sexton. He is a driver for Associated transport, and his wife is enrolled as a student at (Continued on Page Four) Suhliiuuin In Diio-Piamt Program In Burlinp'lon jier. He is now studying law at Wake : Oi FAC: LTY many phases of studem activity Forest. ball pitcher and active in many'and iield a number of other offices (Conttnueu on i'ase F(>u'* I Jones Seleeted Lovaltv Fund Leader Dr. Darden W. Jones, of Frank- Franklin. Vaa., for more than college’s most loyal alumni through lin, Va., a graduate of Elon Col- thirty years, has been one of the the years, having served one term lege with the college’s class of! ■ j as president of the Elon College 1927, has just been named chair-: r-i -y j ^ f F iDFIi Alumni Association man of Elon College Loyalty Fund ■ ^ j- ^ ^ After his undergraduate years program for the 1962-63 college year and will direct an appeal to Elon alumni for funds to meet the current needs of the college. The Loyalty Fund program is now in its fourth year at Elon, and college authorities report that the response since it was launched has been a pleasing one, with increa.s- ed gifts each year to the fund which is designated to provide in creased faculty salaries and addi tional scholarship aid for worthy students. . , „ , Prof. Robert Baxter, director ril 20-21. He, along with Students development for the coUege re- who are responsible for making ^ Elon’s participation in this organ- BILL WHITTENTON ization a valuable experience both for Elon College and the other colleges. The last Elon student to hold such an office in the NSSGA was first year to the second and that there has been a substantial in crease in the gifts each year. Dr. Jones, the new chairman ! at Elon, during which he played _ J varsity football. Dr. Jones went on to Emory University at Atlanta, I '''■ Ga , for his dental training. Since' beginning his dental parctice at Franklin in 1931, he has been both city council member and mayor and active in the community’s church and civic affairs. i In addition to his services to the college and to his home com- . munity. Dr. Jones has also been i active in the affairs of the entire Prof. Fred Sahlman, veteran member of the Elon College music faculty,, joined with Prof. Jack Moehlenkamp. of the Randolph Macon Music faculty in Lynch- (burg, Va., in a joint piano recital and lecture program, which wa« presented under the auspices of the Burlington Music Club on Thursday night, February 7th. The program, which was pre- ! sented at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. Harold Eaton in Burling ton, also featured vocal numbers, j including the compositions of loc- ^ al, state and national musical ; composers ' Professors Sahlmann and Moeh- I lenkamp, who had appeared in I duo-piano recitals together in a inumber of earlier programs, play- ' ed a contemporary program ar ranged for four hands, featuring Cliff Hardy, who was also an out- the Loyalty Fund campaign, who standing Student Body president has been practicing dentistry in DR. DARDEN E. JONES Layalt; Fuml Leader i the works of Vincent Persichetti PROF JOHN K, PATTERSON ; Samuel Barber. The two pi- ■ anists, both of whom are candi- Prof. John K. Patterson, o dates for degrees of Doctor of Tidewater section of Virginia. He ***** has been a member of the board of ° ,i,„ earlier joint recitals this year at the University of Virginia and at the Eastman School of Music in Kochester, N. Y. This program was only one of many in which Professor Sahlmann has appeared as a professional concert arti»t. A graduate of Elon CoUege, he has since studied at (Continued on Page Faun ed a part-time post on the Elon visitors of Old I>ominion College faj-uHy for the spring semester, in Norfolk, a trstee of the Tide- filling a vacancy which was cre- water Virginia Development Coun- ated when Prof. James Latham was ci' in Norfolk and an officer of’’®"'®'* ^ superior court judge by North Carolina’s Governor Ter- the Tidewater Virginia Develop- n.. _ ® ry Sanford. Professor Patterson, ment CouncU in Norfolk and an of-,^^^„ received his law degree at the ficer of the Tidewater Senior Citi-University of North Carolina, U zens Home in Sffolk, Va. teaching courses in business law.
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