S* eilts Shot On Mooney Stage As Players lielieai For Showing Of Three One-Act Plays
Congrats To Elon’s
Cagers For
A Job Well Djne
MAROON AND GOLD
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And Welcomr To All
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Act Plays Next Week
Orchestral Group Gives ’ wins i-kaise in cami-us conckk.-
Second Winter Concert
Sinit-1 Dorm
Now
New Loiiii.4e
The residents of Smith Dormitory
are participating in what Dean of
Men W. Jennings Berry, Jr., has
termed as an experiment in lounge
facilities.
Up until a month ag#, the only
place residents of Smith could
watch television at any time was
in the Student Union. Now they
have a set for their own use on the
first floor.
The lounge area h* also been
supplied with furniture, and it is
hoped by the proctors and the Dean
that drapes and other furnishings
can he added in the near future.
This action came about after Dean
Berry received requests for such
a lounge. He consulted with the
dorm proctors and found that the
attitude of the residents on such a
matter was very favorable, so ac
tion was taken.
“If this thing works out, we hope
that similar facilities can be made
axailable to the residents of the
other men’s dorms. The girls’ dorms
have had it for some time. If the
boys want a nice lounge bad enough,
then I think it can be arranged,”
he concludel.
The Elon College - Community
Orchestra, which combines some oi
the finest musical talent in the Bur
lington area and on the Elon camp
us, W.1S h'ard with high praise
.vhen it presented its second annual
mid-winter concert in Elon’s Whit-
'ey Auditorium on Monday night of
his w>ek.
The orchestra was organized in
the aututnn of 1963 after joint plan
ning by Prof. Fletcher Moore, dean
of Elon College and head of the
Elon music department, and by Dr.
Malvin Artley, at that time with
the Burlington schools but now of
the Greensboro schools music staff.
The group, which rehearses on the
Ellon campus each Monday night,
appeared in two concerts last year,
one in February and thj other in
;'ne late spring. Each program wa
heard with pleasure, and the secon 1
annual mid-winter concert this past
Monday night also received much
praise.
The program this week opened
with Suppe-Lamater’s “Poet and
Peasant Overture,” followed by
Bergman's Paul Bunyan Suite that
included “The Dance of the Blue
Ox,” “Country Dance” and “Night,”
and by Ingdlls’ “Song ot Peace.”
After an iatermission, the program
continued with Kirk s Vignettes,
Moussorgsky - Isaac’s ‘ Hopak,
Padilla’s “El Relicario,” and Brock-
ton-Lake’s “The Talisman Over
ture.”
The concert was under the direc
tion of Dr. Artley, with Harold
Turbyfill as guest conductor for Ing
alls’ “Song of Peace.” The mem
bers of the orchestra for the Monday
night program, listed according to
New Projirain Featured
P\»r Three-Ni;^liJ Sland
, . *• rtf 'F'lnn oiTini'’’I(jfcbc>'ir3, which W3s hcord with hi^h priis6
Shown above is a portion «^‘he Jlon Co lege Commun.t> _ Auditorium on Monday
when It presented its second annu. o 'A the orchestra, was token during one of
session.
Proi5iii2eii!i Ghurcli ^eader Will Speak
For Elon Founders Day On March 11
The Elon College Players wiU of-
;cr i;n outstanding evening of en
tertainment wiien they present a bill
,1 ili.et- ono-act plays, all Dy out
standing authors, in the Mooney
_liapel Theatre on Thursday, Friday
;nd Saturday nights, March 4th,
)th and 6th, with curtain time each
light at 8 o’clock.
Prof. Sandy Moffett, who directs
the entire campus dramatic pro
gram at Elon, will direct “Riders
!i) The Sea.” by John Millington
oynge, a tragic story of an old Irish
woman, who has lost five sons and
a husband to the sea, and .ihc bs^-
ucr sixth son to the sea during thi'
jilay, which i. rich in the dialocl
of the islands off the western coast
of Ireland.
Laura Rice, of Burlington, veteran
1 m:i:iy line Player roles, has a
fine part in this play in a «ast that
,lso includes Dawn Leland, of South-
rn Pines: .lo Warner, of Annap-
■lis, Md.; John Swain, of Fairfax,
Va.; Bill Sanford, of Durham; and
)ick Schmidt, of Rowayton, Conn.
Mrs. Peggy Roach Parker, ol
:iurlington, who gained high acclaim
or her stage work while a .student
it Elon, comes back to the campus
to direct Anton Chekhov's “'Ini
Proposal,” one of the best comic
A-orlis of the great Russian drama-
ist, a story which deals with a des-
)erate father, a desperate daughtei
ind a proposal of marriage. The
ca^t of .hree persons will include
Tyrone I’.owell, of Henderson; Tom
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'New Drama Worwksliop
To Get Undertvay Soon
Launched as a new project in
the Elon dramatics program, the
Elon Players Theatre Workshop will
hold its first meeting in Mooney
Chapel Theatre at 7:30 o’clock on
Thursday, March 11th, and weekly
meetings are planned when no active
work is being done on stage pro
ductions.
The first meeting on March 11th,
according to Prof. Sandy Moffett,
will feature a reading-pecformance
of” Edward Albee's short play, “The
Sandbox,” along with discussion of
the play itseU and ol other theatre,
movements. The projected Thursday
night workshop meetings are open
to persons in the Burlington area
outside the student body.
Professor Moffett stated that the
workshop plan has developed from
the desire by many in the Elon
Players and in Burlington to have
theatre activity, even when no stage
production is underway. This plan
for a continuous workshop is ex
pected to develop a closer tie be
tween the college dramatics depart
ment and the community.
Along with the announcement of
the theatre workshop. Professor Mof
fett also stated that try-outs for the
Elon Players production of the
Broadway musical show, “South
Pacific,” will be held in Mooney The
atre at 3 and 7:30 o’clock on Mon
day, March 8th.
Another annual mile'tonc will b?
marked in E)on College’s long rec
ord of sersice in the cause of Christ
ian higher education when Dr. Ruben
H. Hueneman offers the featured
address at the annual Elon Founders
Day observance, which is to be held
on the Elon campus on Thursday,
March 11th.
The 1965 Founders Day program
falls on the exact seventy-sixth an
niversary of the granting of the
charter of Elon College by the North
Carolina General Assembly, for the
legislators of the Old North State
voted to charter the Congregational
Christian college on March 11, 1889,
initiating steps which opened the
college's doors to classes about a
year later. , u- i
The principal convocation of this j
1965 Founders day observance is set
for Whitley Auditorium on the morn-
ing of Thursday, March 11th, and.
the college authorities count them
selves fortunate to have such an
eminent educational and religious
figure as Dr. Heuneman to deliver
the key address.
Dr. Hueneman, wh» is the presi
dent of the United Theological 9em-|
inary in Minnesota, has served pas-;
oratts ii. Wisconsin, Cnlifornia and
',Ti:souri prio' to becoming presid 'nt
the new tneological seminary in
Minnesota’s twin cities of Minneap-
ohs and St. P;>ul, a po.st which h>
issumed in 1960 and where he has
Iready taken the lead in the erec-
■ion of a library, administration
luildin?, classroom and chapel ta-
Knsli
Week Oj)ens
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The Pan-Hellenic Council announc
ed last week that the annual Spring
ush Week for the Klon Greek-
latter fraternities and sororities wiR
be held from Monday, March 8th,
through Saturday, March 20th, with
he spring "Bid Night” set for the
l:itter date.
A1 McD:inald, chairman of the
.'’an-Hellonic Council, said in an-
-louncing the schedule that bids will
go out at 10 o'clock on Friday
morning, March 19th, and that rush-
ees will have until 5 o’clock that
afternoon to accept bids offered to
them.
Dean W. Jennings Berry, Jr.,
chairman of the Committee on Fra
ternities and Sororities, has remind
ed the presidents of the Greek-letter
jlroups that various lists are due in
his office at various times in regard
to rush and initiation and that fail
ure to have the lists submitted on
time could result in the placement
I of the defaulting group on proba
tion.
CIJTIANKS
(Pictures Top Of Page)
The rehearsal scenes from the
Klon Players’ three one-act plays,
shown at the top of the page, are
(left to right) from "The Pro
posal,” “Riders To The Sea” ami
“The Zoo Story.” Those from the
cast of “The Proposal,” shown
left, are (also reading left to right)
Holly Raad, Tom Warnw and Ty
rone Rowell. Pictured center are
members of the cast of “Riders
To The Sea.” including (seaUd)
Jo Warner, Dawn Inland and
Laura Rice and (standing) Bill
Sanford and Jon Swain. At the
right is shown Ben Bayol and
Wayne Seymour, the two mem
bers of the cast of “The Zoo
Story.”
cilities, along with twelve faculty
. . I tw::ntv student apart
ments.
The new seminary was formed by
1 ,Iie union of the Mi.ssion House Sem-
' lary in Plymouth, Wis , and the
Yankton School of Theology in Yank
ton, S. D. It is operated under the
nuspices of the United Church of
Christ, the group formed by union
of t!.e Congregational Christian
hurches and the Evangelical and
'teformed Church.
The guest speaker for Elon Found-
"ers Day is now a member of the
Theological Commission of the
United Church of Christ and has
previously served as moderator of
the General Synod of the Evangel
ical and Reformed Church and was
i president of the California synod of
that denomination.
He had his undergraduate train
ling at Luther College in Decorah,
I Iowa, and his divinity work at the
Mission house Seminary, followed
by graduate training at Pacific
School of Religion in California. He
holds honorary degrees from Frank
hn and Marshall College and Heidel
berg College.
Coronation Bi^ Feature
For Mid-Winters Dance
To the music of the Jack White i
Combo and in the elegance of the
Mid-Winters’ semi-formal dinner
dance on the night of Friday, Febru
ary 12th, beautiful Pat Dean, a
enior from Burlington, and football
,tar R«x Harrison, a senior from
.Norfolk, Va., were crowned the
Sweetheart Queen and King of the
Elon campus. The crowning was by
SGA Vice-President Mike Herbert.
The reigning pair, who ruled over
a revived Mid-Winters Weekend on
the Elon campus, had been chosen
by vote of the student body in a
speciil campus election held earlier
that week, and their coronation at
the dinner dance furnished a fine
beginning for the festive weekend.
The Friday night dinner dance,
which was held in the ballroom of
McEwen Memorial Dining Hall, was
attended by approximately 200
couples, who were served their din
ner at the dance through the cater
ing service of the Slater System and
were furni.shed dining and dancing
music by the Jack White Combo.
This dinner dance on Friday was
only the first of two dances for the
weekend, for after a victory over
the East Carolina basketball squad
on Saturday night, there was an
other dance in McEwen that feat
ured the dance music of the Sensa
tional Squires.
TTie bus, which had been sched
uled to take students to the circus
in Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday
afternoon of the Mid-Winters Week
end, had to be cancelled due to lack
of interest.