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Here’s A Heartj’ Welcome T» Alumni And Pareats maroon and gold ra BI^ COLLBGS, N. 0. FRtDAY, OCTOBER », IKS plans Set For Gala Elon Homecoming Observance! Oiitwriglit Is Forum Giiest >e.\t Tuesday •' By MIKE WYNGARDEN The Liberals Arts Forum will present the second of its programs ; for the 1965-66 school year in the \H'ost Dorm Parlor at 8 o'clock next Tuesday night, when Dr. Wil liam H. Cartwright, chairman of the Department of Education at Duke University, will appear as the second speaker of the series This distinguished American scholar is known best for his work on the Conant Report, which is a study of American education. One of the most honored scholars ever to appear on the Elon campus, Dr. Cartwright will lecture on “The American Teacher.” In this paper, he will discuss i all aspects of teaching from thej grade school level to the college professor, and certainly it will touch upon the various rights and freedoms of the teacher, along with the obligations and duties of the same. An ardent advocate of academic freedom. Dr. Cartwright will certainly be open to any and all opinions on that matter; and, since the student at Elon is in fact in the very middle of Amer ican education, the opportunity to listen to and speak with Dr. Cart- wrigiit is one which should not be missed. As is always the case with all Forum meetings, there will bj an open and informal discussio.: following the talk, at which time those in attendance may convers* with Dr. Cartwright. This oppor tunity is a distinct advantage of these meetings, making them as important an occasion as attend ing class. After having recently made contact with Dr. Cartwright, he said that he was looking for ward with great anticipation to bis Elon visit. At the first meeting of the Lib eral Arts Forum, ai which the guest speaker was Dr. Francis Butler Simkins, the attendance MYRA BOONE WHO WILL BE HOMECOMING 9LEEN? One of the five girls pictured here will reign over the Elon Homecoming observance this weelieiid. In fact, the royal win ner has ailready been selected in a special campus election, but her name will not be revealed until tonight, when the iniroauc- lion of the Elon Homecoming Queen of 1965 will be an Oij;- standing feature on the pro gram for the annual coming Talent Shcn. l!ia sb.>-» in Whitley will ccrae as an op«u- ing feature far .he ga!j coming weekend. JBANNE FIORTTO Parents’ Day Is Planned Along With Homecoming (Continued On Page Four) ,-afc PAM HITCHINGS DEANNIE LONGEST JO WARNER The annual Elon College Home- coming Day observance here to- ■norrow will be held in conjunc tion with the college's annual ‘Parents’ Day" program, with iarents of all Elon students urged ,0 join with Elon alumni in the veekend of Homecoming festivi ties. The Homecoming observance .vill get underway with a student pep rally and a talent show to- light, with the talent show in Whitley Auditorium to feature tal ent offerings by individuals and jtudent groups representing vari- jus campus organizations in com- petition for prizes. The two events tonight will be preliminary to an all-day pro gram tomorrow with the Home- coming alumni and parents invit ’d to visit the campus tomorrow ^ I morning and view a colorful ^ roup of campus decorations and ‘ iisplays that morning. At the .:me time the parents will have ; an opportunity to visit classes with I sons and daughters. A highlight of the all-day Satur day program will be the annual :!omecoming parade, which will ■)rm at Burlington's Eva Barker Playground and proceed through ■le Burlington business district at 2:30 o’clock, moving directly to •li area of the Burlington Memo rial Stadium, where the Elon Jhjsstians and the Western Caro lina Catamounts will meet in a Carolinas Conference football game at 2:15 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The Elon Homecoming Queen, fhosen by ballot of Elon students from a group of five finalists, will be announced and presented ai the talent show on Friday night will be featured in the parade and will then be crowned at half-time ceremonies at the Elon-Westem Carolina grid battle tomorrow aft ernoon. The Queen and her cour will also be presented at the an nual Homecoming Dance in Alum ni Memorial Gymnasium on ta morrow night. The identity of the Homecomina Queen will not be known unti t!:e anrouncement at the talen show tonight, but the five finali.st from which she will be name' include Myra Boone, of Durham, Jeanne Firorita, of Green'bon ?a:n Hitchings, of Green Valley V. J.; Deannie Longest, of Elon College; and Jo Warner, of An napolis, Md. Sponsors from van ous campus organizations will at tend the Queen and her royal court at various functions durin” the weekend. The principal gathering for E!:>n alumni will be a coffee hour to be held at the ha-ne o' Presiden* ind Mrs. J. E. D.i.'.i il.jy imrnedi ately following the grid game. A‘ he same time the college will ■ntertain the visiting parents of (Continued On Page Four) (iriM'k ('• ojips Add N iiielreii New Pled With two of the four campus social fraternities unable to par ticipate in the fall “Bid Night” program, a total of nineteen lu'w member.s were pledged last Sat urday to the four sororities and the other two fraternity groups. The pledges bv ?rou,w follow: BETA OMICRO'' ^ V -ios- alind Shof'ner, Rurlinston: and Barbara Parker, Rou'.^enonl. DELTA UPSILON KAPPA - Cathy ColUas, Burlington; Pat Demeter, Fords, N. J.; Naomi Moore, Charlotte; Elaine Phdljis, Hillsborough; Mary Robenwi, Portsmouth, Va.; and Gladys Wil son, Robbins. PI KAPPA TAU — Peggy Hcale, Wind.sor, Va.; Carol I.upinacci, St imford, Cann ; and Gail Sum mers, Gib.sonville. TAU ZET\ PHI — Deaiiie U !g- Oit, Elon College; Margaret Weatherly, Durham; and Paul ette Westphal, Hampton, Va. ALPHA PI DELTA - Bill D;ilk?, Woodstock, Va. KAPPA PST NU — Roy B iker, Charleston, S. C.; Thomas C'lnip- ia;\ Arl;nJton, Va.; Greg Knott, '■'i‘ .ai Va ; and l.arry Small, Burlington. Elon Players Offer ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’As Opening Show A squalid and heat-oppressed apartment in the colorful French Quarter of New Orleans furnishes the setting for Tennessee WiU liams’ “A Streetcar Named De sire,” which will be presented by the Elon Players in Mooney Chap el Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of next week as the first show of a ne«v campus stage season. The great Williams play will be Frost Biographer Guest Speaker On Elon Campus Dr. Lawrence Roger Thompson, an eminent English professor at Princeton University, who wa« chosen as the official bioaraoher of Robert Frost, was a guest lec turer on the Elon campus on Wed nesday night of this week, ap pearing under the Visiting Schol ars program of the Piedmont Uni versity Center. Acknowledged as one of the out standing authorities in the world on the life and poetic works of KI.ON SPEAKER Robert Frost, Dr. Thompson spoke at Elon on the topic, “Some Ad ventures of a Robert Frost Biog rapher,” bringing in many of his personal experiences while doing intensive research on Frost, the American poet who spent his early years in California and then became a transplanted New Eng lander. Dr. Thompson, who began hi? educational career as an instruc tor at Wesleyan University in 1934, later spent a five-year peri od as a curator of rare books at the Princeton University Library and then joined the English fac ulty at Princeton in 1947 as an ' associate professor of English, ad- ' vancing to full professorial rank : in 1951. i He has won numerous fellow ships and honors, having been a Columbia University Research Fellow ifl 1936-37 and later held a* later intervals a Guggenheim Fe! lowship in 1946-47, a Ford Founda tion Fellowship in 1953-54 and a McCosh Fellowship at Princeton during the current year. Among his other honors ha^ been the reception of the Legion I of Merit Medal in 1946 and the : Wesleyan University citation as a distinguished teacher, scholar and author in 1958. He was a guest lecturer at universities in Jugoslavia and Norwa\ presented with a brilliant campus cast, featuring a fine nucleus of veteran Elon Player actors in key •oles of the show, which revolves iround the two sisters Dubois, ast members of an impoverished Southern plantation family tha has fallen from once-lofty rank to impoverished squalor. Laura Rice, Elon senior from on, who has played nu- .■nero'_5 iwrring ra'.es d’lrinj thrp previous years with the Elon Play ers, will have the leading role as Blanche Dubois, who comes to her sister’s French Quarter apart- nsn^, iupposedly on leave from her teaching job but really afte being run from her schoil job a. an unsavory character. Jo Warner, a junior from An napolis, Md., likewise a veteran^ 3n the campus stage, aipa^’-s a: the other Dubois sister, Stel'j who has married Stanley Kowal ;ki, a rou’h a.id at orui V. laborer, with whom she h?" happiness in an intense ' ; ’ ■ ipite the slum tenerr?nt iri v''i:h they live Still r'2membsr!'i far his tre- Among those friends are Bill characters stripped in psycholog- '/ 01. of Buzzard’s Bay, Ma.ss, 'cal vivisection as Pablo (ionzales; Duly Winkler, ; lUnnibal, Mo., as Steve Hub ’ j.tl Tam Wirner, of Cin ’innati, Ohio, as Howard Mitchell .v;;h the latter being a good-hum- ared and somewhat more civil- ■"-;d personage than his card game ■ne’idou'i iuitial performance as mates. Lieutenant Joseph Cable in the Some of the suspenseful mo- Players’ musical production of ments of the “Streetcar” plot “South Pacific” last spring. Dale center in the efforts of Blanche Ward, a sophomore from Ken- Dubois to attract the attention sington, Md., will play the highly of Howard Michell and entice him In addition to the above char- icters, other Player veterans hav ng parts include Ben Bayol, of Alcxa-rfria, Va.; Holly Riad, of Chicago, III., and Doug Dwyer, o' Greenwich, Conn. Newcomers tc the Elon stage include Kathi Mart in, of Alexandria, Va.; »nd Nancj' Boone, of Orfield, Pa. The play, which is to be pre sented arena style, has been ir rehearsal for several weeks un der the direction of Prof. Sand -'-^mati': role of Stanley Kowal- into matrimony but this same Moffett, who heads up the campu l:i, who constantly makes the sitaation also develops some of dramatic program, who is as- ipa-'.ment the scene of poker the most tragic moments of the an.')s v(';'h •?. Tojp of swearing '.haw, which at times assume^ 1' i sweating friends. slsted by Tom Jeffery, of Be- thesda, Md., a student dramatics major with experience as balli an actor and director. Professor Moffett, In sp-.vil;ing this week of the Tennessee Wil liams show, pointed to the fact that it Ls one of the mo.?t co.-itno- politan casts in the history of tha Sion Player organizatio'i, with actors in the group from no less than nine different state.!. 1116 states represented include North Carolina, Maryland, Massachur setts, Mis.souri, Ohio, Virgijiia, Connecticut, Illinoij and Pennsyl vania. brutally naturalistic tones among SEEN AS PLAYEUS WOKK FOR NEW STA(;E SHOW Pictured below and right are two rehearsal scenes snapped during practices for the Elon Player oresentation of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which is to be presented as an arena tvoe production in the Mooney Chapel Theatre on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights of nex' week The intent card players below, left to right, are Bill Tyson as Pablo Gonsales, Dale Ward as Stanley Kowalski, Duly Winkler as Steve Hubbell and Tom Warner as Howard Mitchell. Pictured right are Laura Rice, in the leading role of Blanche Dubois, and Tom Warner, as Howard Mitchell. Austria, Dp I 4T..« ’in 1954 and was a guest lecturer LAWRENCE R. THOMPSON nXew Univlrsity in Jeru- S « . Speaks On Robert Frost salem in 1961 and 1962. m V I ,' Jf ^ ’
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