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^ V A -m ‘ ' NUMBKR 9
I AutiGr In JMootisy ChcipGl
LI L ABNKR sliowiNc I Opcuer Lust Niglit; Other
Shows Set For Weekend
Army Gi(mij)
Rogpatch was the center of ac
tivity last nisht as the Klon Play-
crs prcsontfd the popular masioal,
u l Abner" to an enthusiastic
audience. The prodiKlion. in re-
■: a! s;;l for the past month, filled
lie sta:;e with well-executed song
■nJ excitin ; action that led the
iilibiliiej through the near loss
'' their beloved towii to a Dog-
i iich triumph over the scheming
■.Merai Riillmoose in Washington.'
i^.'.'in; !he spirittxi group off''!/ '
•0 ;p;li-hers were Jo Warner as ' i anc
.'>aisy Mne. Dale Ward as Abner March 23rd and 24th,
Kailev and Ben Bavol as. ‘•'‘‘‘'•'’"“it John Weiss
y and Pappy Yokum, and
W arner as Marryin’ Sam Also , Sergeant I’at-
•— - ' • - ,1 ru'k Worral-, both from the U. S.
Visiiiiio K|o„
A ext \V ceii
A t'lec ti'>n for Army of-
|T Ciui.li btes will visit the Klon
p campus on Wednesday and
Commuter Freshman Is
Killed In Auto Accident
Grantham Is
Elon Speaker
In McEwen
Weldon Wilson (Bill) Grander,
ID-year-old Elon freshman from
Rei'Jsville, was fatally injured in
an automobile accident near
Stokcjdale at 11:30 o’clock Satur
day ni ht, March 5th, and died a
]few hourj later ia a Greensboro
|hosn'‘al
! Officer Paul M. Smith, of the
State Highway Patrol, stated that
Dr. Dewey W. Grantham pro- Grander was headed west on High-
(essor of history at Vanderbilt Uni- collided
''ersity, who is widely known as a driven by Robert Lynn
witer on the subject of Southern Moseley, 19, of Stokesdale, jumped
l«story and politics spoke twice ® railroad track and plunged down
® the Elon College campus on embankment. Moseley and a
Wednesday of this week as one of Passenger in his car were injured
the series of Visiting Scholars pro- reported in good condition at
erams under auspices of the Pied- ® Greensboro hospital the next day.
mont University Center ' ^ native of Rockingham County,
The Vanderbilt professor talked Grander was a 1965 graduate of
jfo™ally to a smff Finn Zl'
Pfrors of West Dormitory at Elon
4 o'clock in the afternoon, and freshman class this year^ He
spoke on the second floor of ® member of the Pmey
•M imniy and Pappy Yokum, and
Warner as Marryin’ Sam. Also
seen in successful performances' . i.
ve. e Duly Winkler as Hullmoo.se,! , “ecruitin^ Main Station,
A! Hassell as Senator Phogbound I I'^'ei^h, will interview and test
"Richard Bennett as Mayor Dawg-' " seniors and grad-
lu-it, and Tom Jeffery as Earth- **“’ ■‘’''ack Shop for the
quake McGoon. officer candidate school enlistment
.Ui Warner, a junior from An-option.
. ;0, ..:iio:i of the BT;;;;^;;^7^cal show, ‘Z\ S'cai kad ^t £!"th,mgVih1 *
audience are shown in the two Dicfiireq"left last night before an enthusiastic is well remembered for her por-^ ® graduates enlist in the
for the hilariously funny VroduS pfcfufe^ f "h "'"'''e taken during rehearsals trayal of Stella in last Fall’s “A,''™!' a"** are guaranteed attend-
and Daisy Mae, featuring Dale Ward of Kensineto ' I in tb^rnlp^nT’nfu/ * Streetcar Named Desire.” Jo’s.a^ee at one of the five Army of-
Annapolis Md., in the role of Daisy’Mae. The g ouD%hot seen immediately ateVmrtray^MTmmy Mae was one of extreme ficer candidate schools of their
charTtersTook°on her spouse, Pappy Yokum, while a large group of Dogpatch !one^^ enriched by very pleasant choice after completing basic train-
tv, Di . Patsy Bailey, a student at Southern Alamance High School a guest actress with H i ,ir j i_ ins
the Players in this production, is seen as Mammy Yokum, a role that she played with high praise n ■ sophomore, of Ken-, • •
a production of the same show in her school last year. Front center with Mammy Sm in the ’ candidate training is 23
above picture is Ben Bayol, of Alexandria, Va., in the role of Pappy Yokum. Lieutenant Cable in last Spring’s|weeks. Schools are located at Forts
~ “South Pacific,” makes his role Bennlng and Gordon, Georgia-Fort
as Abner the second musical lead'sill, Oklahoma; Fort Knox,’Ken-
at Elon. As Abner, Ward comes * n i • tr- • .
across quite well as the Dogpatch i „ Belvoir, Virginia,
ideal of young manhood. Graduates of OCS are commis-
' Patsy Bailey, a student at South-1 sioned second lieutenants in one
ern High School, and Ben Bayol, of 14 branches of the Army. They
an Elon junior from Alexandria, must serve two years active duty
as commissioned officers.
The Army team visiting Elon
College is one of ten touring se
lected colleges throughout the na
tion. The recent action of in
creasing the size of the Armed
Forces has caused a need for a
corresponding increase in the
Army’s officer corps.
Greek Letter Groups Sign Uj) Sixty
New Members At ‘Bid r'!kht’Event
ai 4 o'clock in the‘^ternoo“n, "and freshman class
was also a membei „ —
Forest Methodist Chapel in Dan
ville, Va.
Funeral services were held from
the Citty Funeral Chapel in Reids-
ville at 2 o’clock Monday after
noon, March 7th, with burial fol
lowing in the Sialome Methodist
.McEwen Memorial Dining
“f"" 'Wednesday night, speak-
at that time on “The South
u: r, Reconstruction of Amer-
Politics.”
■» this appearance in McEwen
"'''ing Hall nr lowing in tne siaiome meu.uu.ot
''"irated 0 ’ tfe trSdfof^iftks!
“ the South sinre IQW ^ i,K ’ Grander is survived by his par-
which is of H • f ents, Mr. and Mrs. Weldon W. Or-
men is of tremendou.s inter- Reidsville: and his
which is of tremendous inter
and impact in the South today,
speaker has written ex-
on modern political
iir-t’u j'' South and knows
> hand of the developments of
past three decades.
A native of Georgia, Dr. Grant-
r‘p graduated at the University
^rgia and then earned both
St ih doctors degrees
“ , ® ^versity of North Caro-
k.if .f™'' to jjining the Vander-
University acuity, Grantham
a North Texas State and
■)n»li"-'ersity of North Caro-
at Greensboro.
best known published work
a ^olume on “Hoke Smith and
ial South,”
■/f'; written other
jjj'j’ published numerous
^ ^ in historical magazines. He
f^ntly writing a history of
nrti. *^®®''essive Movement in the
1900.1920.”
grandfather, W. V
Stoneville, Route 1.
Grander, of
CRASH VICTIM
With one of the four campus
social fraternities barred from par
icipation in the annual spring
emester “Bid Night” ceremonies,
he four Greek letter sororities
and the other three Greek letter
raternities pledged a total of sixty
lew members at the event which
vas held on Saturday night, March
th. The seven active groups al
ready had a total of 139 active
members prior to pledging the new
additions.
Sigma Phi Beta, which listed 12
new pledges, led all the Greek
'etter organizations in number of
additions, but Alpha Pi Delta fra
ternity and Pi Kappa Tau sorority
followed close behind with 10 new
pledges listed.
The active members and also
the new pledges for the various
sororities and fraternities at the
time of the spring “Bid Night”
are listed below, with the soror
ities listed first and fraternities
next, in each case by alphabetical
order of group name;
BETA OMICRON BETA - Ac
tive members include
Brown, Sandra Bueschel, Nanc;
Jo Daniel, Harriet Davis, Agnes
French, Kay Gerrin^'er, Billye
George, Vickie Hodge, Peggy Leis
ter, Barbara Parker, Judy Sea
men, Rosalind Shoffner and Mar
tha Tedder. Six new pledges are
Pam Chandler, Jackie Evans, Ed
na Hall, Martha Johnson, Kathy
Mangum and Judy Stevens.
DELTA UPSILON KAPPA — Ac-
ive members included Mary And-
Mary Benson, Eileen Cobb,
Cathey Collins, Pat Demeter, Gail
Edwards, Jeanne Fiorito, Gwen
H.incock, Jane Holler, Paula Hud
son, Barbara Ippolito, Ann Lamb
eth, Helen McCottle, Rachel Mc
Intyre, Linda May, Naomi Moore,
Va.
„ I.known for his numerous ap-
-ampbell, Mary Coolidge, Ilene pearances on the Elon stage dur-
wstner, Betsy Dearborn, Mary jpg the past several years, are in
"^eiinifer Gamble, Nancy the roles of Mammy and Pappy
illnrn. Flora Hovis, Susan Jager, Yokum, a highly comic duo.
Betsy Jones, Susie Kimball, Janet Tom Warner, a junior from Cin-
l.amm, Carol Lupinacci, Sallv cinnati, Ohio, remembered for
Maurer, Bonnie Moore, Liz Powell, | many line portrayals at Elon, not
Gina Prescott, Phillis Register. | the least of which are Capt. Brack-
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Elon Board Of Trustees In Annual
Spring Meet On Canipus March 9
«>r « >
Judy Peele, Elaine Phelps, Carole 13veteran of Mebane, as a member of the
Popowski, Mary Roberson, Bar-'-H o# vear= college’s trustee group, succeed-
bara Lee’ Robinson, Dolly Walker Colle J ho.rS J P^^t held by Dr. 1\^-
and Gladys Wilson. Seven new f of trustees this year, pherson since 1938. The honor tol
ranged last fall, and work on the
two structures is already under
and Gladys Wilson. Seven new honnrpH'^ fnr Th Pherson since 1938. The honor toj The trustees approved an oper-
pledges are Judy Caines, Barbara ,u pi„ ° long service Dr. McPherson and the election ating budget of $1,235,000 for Elon
Keppler, Unda Sessoms, Junie „ "‘^cted him of Dr. Bullard were features of College for the coming 1966-67
Sparks, Donna Sutton, Mary Alice yesterday as an honorary trustee the annual spring meeting of the term and transacted routine ad-
Taylor and Kay Thomas. for lif? at the board’s spring ^^on trustees on the campus yes- ministrative business, including
PI KAPPA TAU — Active mem-meeting on March 9th terday. the re-election of Thad Eure, of
bers included Mary Ann Barnes, At the same time the Elon
Kaaren Pe-'gy Beale, Patsy Bulla, Gail board named Dr Georpe R„ii=.rH ees included the approval of a
- ' '-'eorge tsuiiara, revised loan agreement with the
j federal government, which raised: „ ...
to $835,000 the government loan Bullard as a new trustee, eight
for the construction of the new other trustees were re-elected to
I men’s dormitory and the new stu- new terms, among them being
dent center on the campus. The ^^oland, of Augusta, Ga.;
earlier figure of $633,000 was ar
State Department Official S peaks
On Viet Nam A t Founders Day Event
Raleigh, as board chairman, and
Clyde W. Gordon, of Burlington,
as secretary.
Along with the election of Dr.
iCoiitini'fil (>n Pa ‘
(Picture On Page Four) | Burke prefaced his discussion of
-ru . „ i^ooo thot IT c nnlicv ^he Current Viet Nam situation by
The two ideas that U- S- ^Pohcy sketching briefly some of his own
experiences while in Saigon, re
calling the mob violence that char
acterized the overthrow of the gov-
in Viet Nam has been vaccilating
and inconsistent and that the strug
gle in Viet Nam is a civil war
BILL GRANDER
gic i.„„Iacterized the overthrow of t
hPrt T Burke a State De-|®rnment of President Deim in No
by Robert T, Burke, vember of 1963 and recalling his
S? Center'for Special Wariljeelings when he was present in
Kenneay lu ^ „n„kp the embassy building on the oc-
fare at Fort ®ra^. p^jjcasion when the structure was
at the annual Elon g . .bombed by the Viet Cong some
ers Day convocation m Whitley ^
Auditorium this mo , ' He went back to the beginning of
The guest speaker, w . the Viet Nam struggle for inde-
_ career man in the . • , ipgndence from France which be-
Department since 1 iqco'gan in 1946 and declared that at
spent three years fro ,, J . «’that time the Communists approp-
until September 0 c : riated the legitimate Viet Namese
of the American Emb y freedom and converted to
3on, addressed an au /-v,iip„e the Communist interest, and he
posed largely of b S 'continued to trace the develop-
students and faculty as the group jsjam, including the
observed the seventy-seventh an- signing of the SEATO or Southeast
niversary of the granting of the Asia Treaty Organization in 1954.
Elon College charter by the N. C. He stressed the fact that the
General Assembly. United States commitments at that
time have not varied and also
stressed the fact that the late.
President Kennedy recognized the
fact that the attacks on the people
of Suth Viet Nam were definitely
guided from outside the hountry.
He further cited the repeated state
ments by President Johnson that
America is .'eekinj’ nothing for
itself in the Viet Nnm struggle.
The guest speaker was intro
duced by Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon
College president, who recognized
in pronouncing the invocation the
obligations which the present gen
eration of Elon people owe to the
group which founded the college
more than three quarters of a
century ago and the obligations to
the college’s trustees and faculty
who have served since that time.
Following the Founders Day
convocation, the college was host
to the guest speaker and members
of the Elon College facultf at a
luncheon served in McEwen Me
morial Dining Hall.
(:iian(;es in thusti:k ckoijp
DR. C. W. McPHERSON
Given Honor
DR. GEORGE BULLARD
New Trustee