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MAROON AND GOLD Non-Profit Organization U. S. POSTAGE PAID Elon College, N. C. PERMIT No. 1 VOLUME 47 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1966 NUMBER 2 Elon Homecoming Set This Weekend STUDENTS INJURED IN WRECK JANE HARTMAN JOAN McKEOWN Elon Student Is Killed; One Injured In Wreck Old Grads Will Return For Big Campus Event Jane Hartman, 18-year-old Elon I College freshman from Winston- Salem died in a Winston-Salem Hos pital on Friday night, October 14th, from injuries sustained in an automo bile accident, which occurred one mile south of the campus at the intersec tion of Highway 70 and the St. Marks Church Road on Sunday night, Oc tober 9th. Another Elon freshman girl, Joan McKeown, 19, also of Winston-Salem, suffered serious injuries in the same accident; which also claimed the life of Harry Wilson Goswick, 20, of Winston-Salem, who was dead on arrival at a Burlington hospital. The car in which the two young people were killed arid others in jured was driven by Linda McKeown, 19, also of Winston-Salem, who was bringing her sister and Miss Hartman back from a weekend visit to their homes in the Twin City. The driver of the car escaped with minor hurts when the car ran a stop sign on the St. Marks Church road and was struck by a station wagon proceeding along the main Highway 70. The accident was investigated by Highway Patrolman J. C. Pierce, who stated that the McKeown car ran the stop sign on the side road toward St. Marks Church and moved directly in to the path of a station wagon, driven by George M. Sexton, of Gibsonville. Mr. Sexton suffered serious hurts and was carried to Alamance Memorial Hospital for treatment. The two Elon students were carried back to hospitals in Winston-Salem, where Miss Hartman remained in a coma until her death. Joan McKeown, the other Elon student, was reported improving last weekend. Jane Hartman, born October 6, 1948, was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hartman, of Winston- Salem. After graduating at North Forsyth High School, she had entered Elon College as a freshman this fall. Funeral services were held in Winston-Salem last Sunday afternoon, and special memorial services were conducted by the Rev. John S. Graves, campus minister, in Whitley audi torium on Tuesday morning of this week. Dr. Reynolds Writes New Collejo^e Text Dr. Ferris E. Reynolds, chairman of the department of religion and philos ophy at Elon College, is the author of a new book on religious thought, which is designed as both a college textbook and as an aid to lay leaders in the church life of current times. The new book, entitled “Thinking About Religion,” was published by The American Press in New York, re flects the long experience of Dr. Rey nolds as a college teacher of religion and philosophy and furnishes excellent guidelines for discussion of religious development at all levels of society. Citing religious data ranging from primitive animism and ancestor wor ship to contemporary Neo-Funda mentalist thought and including both Eastern and Western faiths. Dr. Rey nolds motivates his readers to ask what religion is and what distinguishes it from other social and investigative phenomina. He shows in graphic style how relig ion is almost alone in preoccupying itself with two perennial and difficult problems, the meaning of evil and the question of whether or not the human (continued on page 4) Plans for Elon’s annual Homecom ing observance this weekend are al most complete, and already the clubs, classes, fraternities and soroities are making final preparations for the event that gets underway tonight and will continue through a fullday on Saturday and on into Sunday after noon. The student committee for the Homecoming Day arrangements, headed by Ike Steele, of Windsor, Va., as chairman, has been busy for weeks with plans for the event, which gets underway with a pep rally and a big talent show tonight. The talent show, which features both individual and group acts, will be held in Whitley Auditorium at 8 o’clock tonight. The Saturday program, to be ruled over by the Homecoming Queen cho sen by special vote of the Elon stu dents, will be a full day of entertain ment for both the Elon students and the old grads who return to the cam pus to walk once more the paths they walked in student days and to renew acquaintances which they remember from those days. The returning alumni will register in the Alumni Office at the western end of Alamance Hall between the hours of 8;30 and 11 o’clock on Saturday morning, and the alumni guests will be offered guided tours of the campus to Two Governors Will Visit Elon Two governors will occupy featured spots on the program for the annual Parent’s Day Convocation at Elon College on Saturday, November 5th, an all-day program which will feature dedication ceremonies for three new dormitories and a new student center. Governor Mills E. Godwin, of Vir ginia, will deliver the address at the convocation in Elon’s Alumni Mem orial Gymnasium at 10:30 o’clock that morning, and he will be introduced by Governor Dan K. Moore, of North Carolina, who will also brmg greetings to the college from the people of the Old North State. view the new buildings which have been erected since their student days. They will also be able to view the Homecoming exhibits prepared by the various campus organizations in com petition for the prizes which have been offered again this year. The Homecoming parade through the Burlington business section is set for 12:30 o’clock tomorrow, with a number of marching bands, floats and convertibles bearing the sponsors for various campus groups. The parade will break up near the football sta dium, where the Elon Christians and the Catawba Indians will battle at 2:15 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the annual Homecoming grid contest. The Homecoming Queen and her court, composed of sponsors from many groups, will be presented at the football game, which looms as a con test just as exciting as those which have featured other Homecoming Days in recent years, for no two grid rivals have played more exciting battles than those featured in the Elon Catawba rivalry. Following the ball game, the alum ni will be entertained at a coffee hour to be held on the campus at 4:45 o’clock Saturday afternoon, and that night they will be invited to attend the annual Homecoming Dance, to be held under SGA sponsorship and featuring the music of the “Day Dreamers” out CHAIRMAN IKE STEELE Homecoming Leader of Greensboro. This dance will be held in Alumni Memorial Gymnasium on Saturday night, as will a concert by the “Platters” at 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon. The Homecoming Day observance is always one of the highlights of the fall season on the Elon campus, and this 1966 event promises to be just as festive an occasion as have others in previous years, with the students of this year extending a welcoming hand to all those who have gone before them and who are now in the Elon alumni ranks. Elon’s Student Body Is From Varied Geographic And Religious Backgrounds The Elon College student body, which shows an increase of 114 stu dents over the enrollment at the same period last fall, comes from wide spread geographic origins and from varied religious backgrounds, accord ing to a report just released by Prof. Andrew V. Beale, the college registrar. The report shows that Elon has a fall semester enrollment of 1,458 students, representing an increase over the 1,344 total enrollment for the fall semester of last year. The registrar’s report also carries a breakdown of the enrollment by classes and by home origins and religious affiliations. The total enrollment of 1,458 stu dents includes 943 men and 515 wo men, compared with 871 men and 473 women last fall. Another breakdown lists 1,348 students in day-time classes and 110 in the Evening School. The day-time registration is up by 137 over last fall, while the night registration shows a slight drop. As might be expected, the largest enrollment is found in the freshman class, 460 of the day-time students are in the first-year group. Other class memberships in the day classes include 295 sophomores, 318 junio" and 215 seniors. These class groups do not in clude the students attending Evening School classes. In each of the four classes men are in the majority. The freshman class includes 296 men and 164 woir en, the sophomore class includes 172 men and 123 women, the junior class ircludes 213 men and 105 women .i me senior class includes 146 men an ! women. The Evening School lists 91 men and 19 women. As was the case for the past two years, more than half the day-time students and almost half the total en rollment is listed as residing on the campus. In many past years the com muter students were in the majority, but the recent trend has been for an increase in campus residents. The actual figures on campus and commuting students show that there are now 699 students residing on the campus, among them 453 men and 246 women, compared with 649 day time commuters. Almost all of the 110 night students commute to their classes. Also of much interest is the wide spread geographic distribution of Elon students, for this 1966 registration shows representatives from 22 states, the District of Columbia and four foreign countries. As would be expected, the largest student group comes from North Car olina, which lists 994 students, repre senting 68 per cent. Other states among the leaders in number of stu dents are Virginia with 238, New Jersey 41, New York 26, Maryland 24, Delaware 23, Connecticut 22, Florida 16, Pennsylvania 15 and South Carolina 12. These ten states furnished 98 per cent of the entire Elon enrollment, although 12 other states are represent- I ed, along with the District of Colum- I bia, by one or more students. Foreign I countries represented include Greece, I (continued on page 4) Apperson Is Given Praise For Concert Richard Apperson, an Elon College graduate who is now directing choral music at the Broad Street Junior High School in Burlington, won high praise in an organ recital in Whitley Auditor ium on the Elon College campus at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Oct. 9th. Apperson graduated at Elon College in 1963 after a brilliant student career in music. An organ student of Dean Fletcher Moore, he was organ soloist for the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra in his senior year. From 1959 until 1964 he was organist and choirmaster at Davis Street Methodist Church. He has for the past two years been in New York City, where he studied with Searle Wright and in May 1966 received the Master’s Degree from the School of Sacred Music of the Union Theological Seminary. During his two years in New York, he served as assistant organist-choir- master of the Boys’ Choir of St. James Episcopal Church at Madison Avenue and 71st Street, the home church of New York’s Mayor John Lindsay, and won praise for recitals which he gave at a number of New York institutions, among them St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University.
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