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fOLUME 43
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY. MARCH 29, 1963
number !•
Annual Campus Election Is Set For Next Friday
STLDENIS ENTERED IN ANNUAL PAGEANl TOMORROW NIGHT NcW AmeildlnieiltS Take
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JUNE EVANS
SUSAN FER(;USON
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K/REN FISCHER
DIANE HANCOCK
Dean More Fouv Eloii Girls To Be Contestants
In Annual ‘Miss Burlin^ton'^ Pageant
Effect 111 This F^lertioii I/.s Pi Gamnui
Mu Speahvr
On Pro«fnim
At Meeting
Prof. Fletcher Moore, dean oi
Elon College and chairman of the
college's department of music,
played a prominent part in last
Friday’s program at the annual
meeting of the Southeastern District
of the American Music Educators’
Association, which was held at
Charleston. West Virginia, from
Thursday through Saturday of last
week.
Professor Moore served as mod
erator for a panel of choral direct
ors, band directors and pianists,
which was held during the session
bst Friday morning, directing a
discussion of "Relationships Be
tween Piano Study and Band and
Choir .iVreas.” He then appeared
that afternoon as a lecturer and
presented a lecture and demonstra
tion on the subject of “Contempo
rary Piano Music."
■Accompanying Professor Moore to
Charleston for the three-day ses
sion were Prof. Fred Sahlmann,
who teaches piano and organ in the
Elon music department, and Prof,
Jack 0. White, who joined the mu
sic staff this year as director of
the hand and teacher of i.istru-
mental music,
In addition to the attendance at
the West Virginia conference, sev
eral of the Elon music faculty mem
bers have been busy recently as
judges in piano contests in various
parts of North Carolina. Professor
Moore judged recent contests at At
lantic Christian and at East Caro
lina College, while Professor Sahl
mann judged an event at Lumber-
ton.
'ioth Moore and Sahlmann and
Prof Charles Lynam all served in
a group as judges at the statewide
music scholarship finals, held at
Guilford College on Saturday, March
16th,
ON prix;ka ^'
■^our Elon College girls will be in
mpetition for the "Miss Burling
ton" title for 1963 when the annual
Burlington beauty pageant is held
t the Walter Williams High School
iKiitorium at 8 o’clock tomorrow
■Jht. The pageant will be preceded
'• a parade through the Burlington
uslness section at 3:30 o’clock to
morrow afternoon.
The four Elon College entries in-
' :J.' .June Evans, of Princess Ajine,
'd ; Susan Ferguson, of Durham;
'jr-^n Fischer, of Arlington. Va.;
md Diane Hancock, of Hampton,
' t. .Ml '.'/ill be competing in the
^.j'."-'.nt tomor.''ow night, which will
; based on the theme of “Wishing
■1 A Star," with the pre.sence of
; ,is ,Jacquel_vn Mayer, the reign-
13 Miss America as a special feat
ure.
the winner of the pageant, in
iddition to acquiring the title of
liss Burlington,” will receive ap-
ro.ximately 51,000 in scholarships,
. jrdrobe funds and gifts, along
.'itn a chanci to compete for the
lijs .N'orth Carolina title in Greens-
nro in July and a further chance
t the Miss America title in At-
■Mtic City in September,
June Evans, who is a senior EJng-
lish major at Elon, is a graduate
of Washington High School in Princ
ess Anne, Md. Here at Elon .she is
;)ctive in intramural sports, was a
junior class member of the May
Court last spring, a member of the
Dance Committee and the German
Cub, a contributor to the Colon
nades and a member of Tau Zeta
Phi sorority. She is a five-foot, sev-
en-inch brunette, weighs 125 pounds
and has 35-23-3,5 measurements. She
will perform a humorous mor
logue in the pageant.
Susan Ferguson, a sophomore
math and French major at Elon,
is a graduate of Northern Durham
High. As an Elon Student .she is a
member of the Community Rela
tions Committee and the Dance
'^ommittee, and is active in many
phases of campus life and is a
member of Tau Zeta Phi sorority.
She represented Elon as "Tourna
ment Queen" at the Carolinas Con
ference basketball tournament in
Lexington. She is a five-foot seven-
inch brownette, weighs 120 pounds
and has 37-23-35 measurements.
W'ith widely varied hobbies, she
will use singing as a talent in the
conte.st.
Karen Fischer, a sophomore his
tory major at Elon, is a graduate
of Wakefield High School in Arling
ton, Va. Active in various student
government posts, she is a member
of the Liberal Arts Forum, the
Community Relations Committee
and the lonion Society and belongs
to Tau Zeta Phi sorority. She is
five feet four inches in height and
iias ha.'.el eyes and brown hair,
weighs 114 pounds and has 34-24-35
measurements. She will present a
humorous monologue in the pag
eant.
Diane Hancock, a freshman busi
ness education major here at Elon,
had her high school work in Hamp
ton, Va. Although still in her first
year, she has been a member of
th.T Homecoming Court, is secre-
tary-treasurer of the freshman
class, is a member of the Stuvlent
Senate and a member of Delta Up-
silon Kappa sorority. Standing five
feet five and one-half inches tall.
.■h; v.eighs 120 pounHs ajid has 34-
'24-36 measurements. Having had
special training in tap and ballet
dancing, she will do a dance rou
tine in the pageant.
The annual campus election, dur
ing which Elon students will ballot
for their campus leaders during the
coming 1963-64 college term, is ,«et
.'or next Friday. April 5th, The date
for the 1963 balloting was moved
up recently to avoid conflict with
the college's annual spring vaca
tion.
In announcing the annual election
at a meeting of the students in
Whitley Auditorium on Mond.-jy
morning of this week. Student Pres
ident Jim Buie announced that a
recent constitutional amendment
would go into effect at the upcom
ing election and would allow one
more major office within the Stu
dent Government Association.
The amendment, which '.'learlj
passed in a special student body
vote held last Thursday, March 21sl.
provides for the division of the pres
ent office of secretary-treasurer and
calls for the election of two sepa
rate officers as to holds the ixjst
of secretary and the post of ti'eas-
urer. The purpose of the amend
ment is to provide more efficient
work within the two areas of camp
us government.
The same special election which
pa.ssed this amendment last week
also saw the passage by an over
whelming majority of anothe.'
amendment, which will provide the
definite name of the student gov
ernment group. The newly ado|ited
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PLAN DANCES
written into the student constitu
tion in the future.
With the amendment passed to
split the offices of secretary and
treasurer of Student Government,
the offices to be filled in next I'ri
day's balloting include those of ,)re.s
id'jnt. vice-president, secretary and
trea.surer of the student body, along
with a president, vice-president anil
secretary and treasurer of each of
name of the Student Government '’ising classes.
■\ssociation of Elon College will be (Continued On Page Four)
Founders Day Speaker*
lJr>es More Exeelleiiee
PROF. FLETCHER MOORE
By JOYCE BADGETT
Presented by the Elon Players
1 Mooney Chapel Theatre on Fri-
'ny and Saturday nights of last
■eek. Maxwell Anderson’s “Bad
eed" is a play very close to our
resent society and one to be con-
mplated thoughtfully by everyone,
nderson wrote this play in hopes
'lat certain truths which are pres-
!it in our society could be brought
'fore the public and in this man-
'r be recognized as a problem to
! faced rather than ignored.
The theme of this play is unusual
' that the murderess is an 8-year-
d child. Contradictory to contem-
■'orary opinion, the child, Rhoda
?enmark, has inherited a psychotic
>rsonality from her grandmother,
' lich causes her to commit mur-
• without remorse. Gay Yule
e an excellent performance as
hoda Penmark. Miss Yule, in por-
,:-.jvir'.g an 8-year-old child, did a
re than adequate job of reduc-
!i?r status from that of a col-
■ge student to that of a child mur-
•: r^ss.
hristine Penmark, the mother of
"hoda, was portrayed by June Bid-
who gave a most convincing
’■^ormance in playing a woman
' jn.sformed from a state of de-
;Dndency to one capable of making
.1 final judgment of her own child’s
; >tiny. As a result, she acted ac-
c,; Jingly by attempting murder of
daughter prior to her own sui
cide.
Ken Rovere, as Leroy, the handy
man, added a touch of humor and
insight to the entire play, with sev
eral of his scenes truly outstanding.
Mrs. Daigle, the mother of one of
Rhoda’s victims, was in a constant
state of “drunken grief" and con
stantly reminded the audience of
Rhoda’s foul deed, and Carol Trag-
eser, an accomplished veteran of
the Elon stage, was outstanding in
her presentation of Mrs. Daigle.
Giving pleasing performances in
supporting roles were Paul Robin
son as Col. Kenneth Penmark, Oliv
ia Corder as Monica Breedlov'e,
Frank Rich as Emory Wages, Peg«\ ;
Dodson as Miss Fern, Ken Scarboi-
ough as Reginald Tasker, Paul
Schoonmaker as Mr. Daigle, and
Melvin Shreve as Richard Bravo.
The set was very pleasing to the
eye, and the color tone of the simple
living room did not distract from
the performance itself. The light
ing. though warm for this type of
play, was most effective, and the
fire scene was an excellent example
of almost professional sound ef
fects, which made a large contribu
tion to the realism of the entire
play.
Prof. Ray Day, a former Elon
Player in his student days, now
director of dramatics at the col
lege, did another fine job in cast
ing, directing and presenting the
entire production of Maxwell Ander
son’s great Broadway melodrama.
LEA MITCHELL
Lea .Mitchell, a member of the
Lliin sophomore class, »ho resides
in Burlington, will serve as cliief
choreographer for the annual Elon
College May Day pageant and will
plan the dance routines for the
event that is set for the first Sat
urday afternoon in May. In an
nouncing that .Miss .Mitchell will
plan the dances, Mrs. Jeanne Grif
fin staled that the .May Day theme
this year will !je correlated with the
.North Carolina Tercentenary ob-
senance. Miss Mitchell has served
as sponsor for the reactivated Sivth
North Carolina Regiment in the
state’s Canfederate Ceatennial.
Speaking at the annual Hon Col
lege Founders Day convocation on
Thursday morning, March 21st, Dr.
Ben M, Herbster, of New York City,
national president of the United
."hurch of Christ, us=d “Th'> Churi'h
Looks At The College" as a topic
IS he cited the historic and contin
uing interest of his denomination
in the cau.se of Chri.stian higher ed
ucation.
While tracing the great contribu
tions made to American education
by the United Church of Christ,
which was formed as a merger of
the Congregational Christian and the
Evangelical and Reformed denom
inations, Dr. Herbster also declared
that the great need today is for ex-‘
cellence on the part of both insti
tutions an dindividuals.
Dr. Herbster, who was introduced
to the Founders Day audience by
Dr. J E. Danieley, president of
Elon College, paid tribute to the
Christian Church leaders who found
ed Elon in 1889 and recalled that
Elon is only one of many American
church-related colleges which the
United Church and its component
'.’roups have founded and supported
during the past three centuries.
He pointed to such institutions as
■Harvard, Yale, Amherst, DartnrHHith
and others which were founded by
; the early Congregational churche,i
•ind then cited Franklin and Mar
shall, Lancaster. Heidelberg, Ca
tawba and Lakeland colleges among
tho.se founded by the Evangelical
and Reformed Church,
Recalling the millions of dollars
which have been contributed and
which are still being contributed to
;hese and other church-related col
leges, Dr. Herbster called this sup
port an indication of the church's
belief in and desire for an educa
tional forum in which truth shall be
fully and fairly taught.
In remarks addressed particularly
to the college students among his
hearers, the speaker cited the im
portance of excellence in a period
when modern society and modem
industry has often sacrificed qual
ity on the altar of quantity in pro
duction.
Applying the need for excellence
to the fields of education and Christ
ian faith. Dr. Ilerb.ster declared
that modern thought has in many
eases tended to honor mediocrity
(Continued On Page Four)
Dr. William P. Cumming, head
of the department of Engli.sh at
Davidson College, who has gained
wide recognition as an authority
on hi.storical cartography of North
•'merica during (he colonial period,
\v II deliver the annual Pi Gamma
Mu lecturc in Mooney Chapel The-
itrc at 8:15 o'clock on next Thurs
day night, April 4th.
This lecture next week will be
the fourth in the series of annual
programs, sponsored by the Elon
chapter of the national honorary .so
cial science organization. Previous
speakers appearing in the series
have included Dr. Fletcher Green,
of the University of North Carolina,
Dr. Wallace McClure, of Duke Uni
versity, and Norman Larsen, direc
tor of the North Carolina Confeder
ate Centennial observance.
The annual sponsorship of these
lectures is an integral part of the
Pi Gamma Mu program, which is
designed to promote interest in the
study of the social sciences. The
local group is compo.sed of outstand
ing student and faculty members in
the social science field.
Dr. William P. Cumming, who
■iiinc:; to th.’ ompus next week,
■VIS born in Nagoya, ,Iapan, the son
if missinn irv parents. He is a ijrad-
UMte of Davidson College and holds
Ih'' .M. A and Ph. D. degress from
Princeton University. He later .stud-
■il at Oxford University in Eng
land, and his teaching experience
includes work at Williams College
in Mas.sachu.setts prior to joining
the Davidson faculty.
During World War II he served
as attache in the U. S, State De
partment as head man of a team
investigating captured documents in
Germany, and documents which he
found were used in the German and
,Iapane,se war trials. He furnished
information leading to the U. S.
State Department’s first White Pa[>-
er on German-Russian secret treat
ies before the War.
(Continued On Page Four)
Richner Highly Praised
For Recital On Campus
Dr. Thomas Richner, internation
ally known pianist and member of
the music faculties of Columbia Uni
versity and of Douglass College of
Rutgers University, was enthusiast
ically received when he ap|x>ared
in recital in Elon’s Whitley Audit
orium last night, appearing as an
other in the series of Elon Lyceum
■jrograms.
Dr. Richner, who has appeared
at Elon College for a number of
recitals in the pa.st, devoted his re
cital last night entirely to the pi-
^no works of Mozart. He is recog
nized as one of the world's out
standing authorities on Mozart and
the Mozart works and has received
ni'm^rous awards for his musical
achievements, among them being
the Naumberg, the McDowell and
the New York State Federation
’irizes.
He has concertized extensively in
both the United States and Europe,
and he comes to Elon College this
week from Clearwater and Braden
ton, Fla , where he has given work
shops and racitals in organ for
the chapters of the .American Guild
of Organists in those cities. He re
cently gave a workshop in piano on
the Mozart work.s at the Oklahoma
convention of music teachers.
Dr, Richner's tours abroad have
included many appearances in Eng
land, France, Austria, Holland and
the Scandinavian countries, and he
is scheduled to leave later this
spring for a new European tour
that will take him to Spain, Yugo
slavia, Greece, Austria, Germany,
England and Scotland. During that
tour he will do musical research
and will make contacts for future
concerts.
He is a native of Pennsylvania,
where he began studying piano at
an early age. .\fter receiving his
bachelor’s degree at the University
of Vv'cst Virginia, he continued his
‘udies in New York and received
h" master's and doctor's degrees
at Columbia University.
(;i EST Air* 1ST
DR. THOM.AS RICHNER