Here’s Founders Day
Greetings
To All Elon Guests
MAROON AND GOLD
AnJ Lrthdiv Wisht-s For
Thi* College
After Seventy-Five Years
VOLUIrt 44
ELO\ COLLtG*:, N. C.
- FRIDAY. MARCH 6. 1964 NUMBER »
Elon Will Hold Annual Founders Day Event On Wednesday
Players Will Open New Show Tonight
JUNE BIDDLE
AL BAER
D '.ViD \>JDES
Tliev Have
Roles
111 Player
Sliow
In Mooiiev
This
Weekend
BEVERLY POWELL
VALERIE SPANGLER
m
FRANK RICH
LAURA RICE
BETSY PAYNE
Campus Election Dates Set
Opera Stars
Elon Singers
The opera “Carmen,” which was
presented at Aycock Auditorium at
fte University of North CaroUna at
Greensboro on February 21st and
presented a distinct Elon Col-
“ge flavor. Two of the leading
roles were sung by Elon College
^umni, aad nine members of the
rnen’s chorus were from the present
student body.
Jerry Smyre, a graduate of Elon
Allege who is now professor of
^usic at Guilford College, sang the
role of Don Jose, corporal of
dragoons, in the first of two
wws; and Charles Lynam, also an
graduate and a former mem-
of the Elon music faculty, sang
“6 role of Escamillo, the toreodor,
Iwth performances.
TTie Elon students who sang in the
' ''n s chorus for both performances
®clude Harold Bodenhamer, Win-
^on-Salem: Allen Bush, Eclipse,
(Continued on Pag6 four) I
;.i ? statement released jointly
by Wally Sawyer, president of the
1'. Government Association,
)iid Davis Williams, chairman of
• Biard of Elections, the date for
be general election this spring will
be April 24.
The schedule for filing, speeches,
and elections was listed as follows:
Filing for Student Body and ch.=>-
'; will begin on April 6th and
; ' (in April 17th. A student body
assembly will be held in Whitle'’
Auditorium on April 20th for the
purpose of the presentation of the
candidates for the four Student
Body positions. Speeches by the
candidates will be presented at that
time.
rYoviding more than two candi-
l .tes tile for any one position,
there will be a primary election
held on April 21st to narrow the
"-Id for each position to not more
than two candidates.
The general election will be held
:r? April 23rd and filing will open
for the twenty-five Senate positions
the three rising classes and close
on April 29th. The Senate elections
will be hold on Apnl 30th.
^olleiie Bowl
Events Held
This Week
After the first contest was de
dared a “practice round,” the Col
lege Bowl team tpsted wits in a
ot of contest' agf.ns* Guilford Col-
!"ge this week both at home and at
Guilford.
■^'rie fi. . -le wst was
held on ti.c Elon camous Tuesday
night in McEwen Hau. The team
then traveled to Guilford last night,
and at press time the final results
were not known.
The winner of the Elon-Guilford
contest will meet the winner of the
Lenoir Rhyne-Westem Carolina con
test on March 12 and March 19.
The winner of this semi-final round
will meet Catawba, Atlantic Christ
ian, High Point, or St, Andrews,
whichever team makes the semi
finals. in the final round at the
NSSGA Spring Conference at High
Point in April. i
ISew Actors
Ha ve Parts
111 Program
By CAROL TRAGESER
Tonight will bring the season’s
second big opening for the Elon
Players, who have two exciting and
iifferent dramatic presentations
or the campus community. The
orogram is entitled “New Direc-
ions For Drama, 1964" and in-
ludes two plays.
The two plays are “The Bald So-
■ >no,” by Eugene lone.sco, and
Christ In The Concrete City,” by
’ \V. Turner. Two performances
11 be held, the first tonight at 8
lock in the Mooney Theatre and
' '"onnd on Saturday night at the
•'me hour.
' 1st Friday at an upperclassmen
- 'lention. Director Sandy Mof-
hend of the Elon Drama De-
nrtment, along with the casts of
two plays, offered a preview of
■'lat will take place tonight when
he curtain rises on two sensational-
v unconventional presentations.
Professor Moffett told the student
■' lienee that "the plays are very
■'f-rent,” In describing “Soprano,”
’» stated that, although on the sur-
-f-e it appears to be a conventional
ilay with scenery, costumes and
'ther forms of stagecraft, once the
lav begins to evolve it becomes
■rimediately obvious that it is not
inventional. "It burlesques the
'n-entional form,” the director ex-
Eminent Church Leader To Speak
As College Observes Anniversary
Full seventy-five years of service
in the cause of Christian higher
education will be marked for Elon
College next Wednesday, March
Uth, when Dr. Franklin H. Littel,
professor of church history at the
Chicago Theological Seminary, will
be the featured speaker for the
annual Elon College Founders Day
program for 1964,
The Founders Day program is set
for the exact seventy-fifth anni
versary of the granting of the
charter of Elon College by the
North Carolina General A,ssembly,
Ths legislators chartered the Con
gregational Christian college on
March 11, 1889, and the observance
this spring marks a high point in
the college’s “Diamond Anniver
sary” year.
The principal convocation for th
Founders Day program will be hoH
in Whitley Auditorium at 11 o’clock
on the morning of March 11, but
Dr. Littel, the guest speaker, will
make a number of other appear
ances on the Elon campus during
his visit.
On the previous night Dr. Littel
will meet with the college’s min-
^terial .students and Christian edu
cation majors, and then c'> the
afternoon of Founders Dav h. wil
conduct a seminar or workshop for
a group of invited ministers from
the Southern Convention of Congre
gational Christian Churches.
Dr. Littel has been a leader in
the fight against Communism for
nearly 25 years. In the 1930’s, while
an officer of the National Council
of Methodist Youth, he was chair
I'KINCIPAI, KHailiHS IN KVKM'
The principal figures in the “Diamond .\nni.'ers.:ry'' Found t,s Day
piogram for Lion College, which will be h(-Id on th* c.unpus next
Wednesday, March 11th, arc pictured above. Shown loft is Dr, J, E.
Danieley, sixth president of Elon College, who will preside over the
observance of the college's seventy-fifth anni\ersary: and at the right
is Dr. Iranklin II. Littel, professor of church history at Chicago
Theological Seminary, who will be the leatured speaker at the convo
cation to be held in Whitley Auditorium at 11 o'clock on Wednesday
morning. The Founders Day, in addition to serving as a seventy-fifth
birthday observance for the college, also marks the sixth anni\ersary of
Dr. Danieley s inauguration as president of Elon, an event which oc
curred on Founders Day in 1958.
l^ined, and he added that it is „an of the anti-Communist bloc
’iMitled an "anti-play.” ■ .u . ■
in the American Youth Congress
The dramatics professor described
■ second play as a “very pre-
'itntional one.” He said that
'■'hrist In The Concrete City” is
type of religious play and is
quite “theatrical” with its choral
resentations and ma.sks. The di-
“ctor stated that the two con-
mporary plays are of particular
''rost becau.se they are diamet-
■ically Opposed to each other.
As part of the chapel program,
’i" two casts performed several
""nes from the plays. Hunter Dula
Laura Rice, two veteran mem-
■•'rs of the Elon Players, enacted a
■cene from “The Bald Soprano” in
vhich Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who
not able to recall knowing one
mother, discuss the “co-incidences”
■f their possible previous encount
ers,
Ken Scarborough and ,M Baer,
■'lo have also appeared in past
'iver productions, delivered two
igorous “stories” as told by the
ireman and Mr. Smith in “So-
’•ano.” A short poem about fire
the Maid was recited by Betsy
’ayne, a sophomore, who will make
"r first dramatic appearance. June
Middle, well known for her leading
"oles in previous Elon shows, will
Iso appeear in “Soprano” as Mrs,
Smith.
The entire cast of “Christ In The
Concrete City,” in pre.senting the
''ffective opening scene of the play,
''oretold of their performance to
night as an “enactment of the
loodiest murder we’ve ever com-
nitted. ’This unusual and bold
Irama is an attempt to relate the
^assion of Christ to modern people
ind times.
Included in the cast are new
comers Bev Powell, Valerie Spang
ler and Curtis Tetley. Familiar
faces to Elon play-goers will be
Frank Rich, “Eppie” award win
ner, David Andes and Hunter Dula,
all portraying roles in “Christ.”
Technical work for the production
includes sets by Grayson Mattingly,
who also designed the set for
“Death Of A Salesman,” and the
lighting, which is being handled by
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and the World Youth Congress. In
1940 he was singled out by the Com
munist world as “the most danger
ous youth leader in America,” be
ing thus named when he was the
•subject lor an entire issue of the
Communist Youth Weekly.
After World War II he was Chi^;
lYotestant Advisor (or occupatioi;
forces in the United States occupa
tion of Germany. Later he directec
for five years one of the chief anti
Communist programs in Berlin and
Western Europe, f'or hLs work dur
ing those years he was awarded the
Knights Commander Cross by the
German Federal Republic at Bonn,
one of the highest honors ever given
to an American by that government.
Dr. Littel, who is the son of a
Aiethoiii.st minister, was licen.sed to
ijreach at the age of fifteen aiid re
ceived his education at Cornell Col
lege, Union Theological Seminary
and Yale University, Lmg a leader
in Methodist youth movements, he
has represented the denominatior
at international conferences in Am
sterdam, Copenhagen, Monterey, Ox
ford, Berlin and other cities of the
Western World. He is widely known
as a lecturer and writer on reli
gious and social conditions.
Senate Refuses May Day Support;
Committee Studies Alternate Plan
May Weekend
Suhjeet Of
H()t Debate
In one of the most heated de
bates of the year the Student Sen-
'te voted down a bill la.st Wed
nesday night to appropriate three
hundred dollars for May Day after
noon activities,
Oononents of the measure argued
strongly that the students were not
interested in the type of program
that had been offered in years past
and did not think that this year’s
program would prove any more in
teresting than tho,se of past years
Supporters of the bill pointed out
that it was too late in the year
to make any changes in the pro-
Dosed program, and since no one
had any definite suggestion for an
improved program, the bill should
be passed.
During the whole debate, no one
present questioned or offered the
opinion of the Student Affairs Com
mittee which has been discu,ssing
the problem since the early part of
January.
Even though the Senate voted
against supporting the afternoon ac
tivities financially. Dr. J. Earl Dan
ieley, President of the College, an
nounced that the college would bear
the financial burden of the activ
ities since it was too late in the
year to make other arrangements.
Einanons Inviu^d
To World's Fair
The Emunons of ^;lon, popular
Elon College orchestra, will see
the bright lights of the Big City
this spring under plans that are in
the malting now for the Ifi-memher
group to appear in a series of
weekend programs at the New
York World’s Fair this spring.
The Elon orchestra has been in
vited to appear at the World’s
Fair for a three-day visit on M.iy
1st, 2nd and .Ird, being one of a
group of college musical organiza
tions chosen to offer entertain
ment at the event. The Emanonf
would present a series of five pro
grams during the three-day pe
riod. all under the direction of
I'rofessor Jack White, who heads
up the instrumental musir at the
college.
Elon Gets Gift
From Gulf Oil
Elon College was one of 692 col
leges and universities in the United
States which received cash grants
recently from the Gulf Oil Corpora
tion. The grant, part of a total of
fjCO.OflO under Gulf's Aid-to-Educa-
tion Program, was unrestricted as
to u.se.
The Gulf Aid-to-EIducation Pro
gram is a comprehensive one. In
addition to capital grants, huch as
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College Will
Pay (^osts
Tliis Spring
The Senate Committee established
last week to look into an alternate
plan for May Day (See other story i,
will hold a public hearing on the
matter at 3 o’clock Monday after
noon in Room A-103.
'Melvin Shreves, chairman of the
committee, announced in a letter
written on Tuesday to members of
the Senate that the meeting would
be open to all persons interested in
the annual May Day problem. All
suggestions brought up in the meet
ing or offered in written form be
fore then would be considered in a
proposed format for next year’s pro
gram.
Said Shreves, “Dr. Danieley has
informed us that the plans for after
noon activities that have been in
the making for the past several
months will be carried out this
year at the expense of the College.
He told us that it was too late in
the year to work out a new pro
gram and carry it out properly by
May Day.
Dr. Danieley ahso said that the
College would welcome any sugges
tions for improvement for next
year’s program. The committee’s
job as directed by the Senate is
to offer some .sort of improved pro
gram, and that is exactly what we
plan to do. After that it’s up to
•hem.” j