Friday, November 4, 1966
PAGE TWO
MAROON AND GOLD
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HAPPINESS MAY BE FOUND ON THIS SIDE OF THE RAINBOW
An eminent national columnist recently used as the subject of his column
the many people who seem always to be searching for some illusive some
thing beyond the rainbow, always dissatisfied with their own lot in life and
missing many of the joys that might be theirs as they travel Life’s highway.
He opened his discussion with the question, “Who are the people you feel
sorriest for?” In answering it, he agreed to leave out persons who are physi
cally ill or handicapped, dealing only with persons more or less normal in
body and mind. With that agreement he came up with the following answer
to the question:
I think I feel sorriest for the men and women who cannot accept, or be
satisfied with, reality. The sweetheart they have is never as good as the one
they are going to meet next month; the success they achieve sours as soon as
they taste it; the weather is always better on the other side of the rainbow.
But there is no other side of the rainbow, and next month’s sweetheart will
also look frumpy in the morning, and next year’s success will seem as empty
as today’s. This they are incapable of learning or believing.
Imagination, hope, ambition—these are all fine traits to have and to hold
on to. But they must be rooted in reality: the mind must have contact with
the earth or else nothing on earth will still and soothe the restless questing
in the mind.
I am not making the prosaic statement that people should be contented
with their lot—contentment is often just another word for apathy. But I am
saying that the ultimate dream must correspond to human possibilities, and
must make concessions to human frailty.
The people I feel sorriest for are not those who fail (for failure can have
its own glory and its own bittersweet satisfaction), but those who succeed—
and, succeeding, find that it is really the rainbow beyond the rainbow that
they want for happiness.
But happiness always eludes them, must always elude them, for they are
actually deniers of reality. They repudiate the world, with all its imperfec
tions; and, in revenge, the world refuses to yield up to them the slightest
measure of repose.
Moore At Meet
In New Orleans
Dean Fletcher Moore, who also
serves as chairman of the Elon music
department, represented Elon as a del
egate at the three-day national meeting
of the American Council on Educa
tion, which was held recently at the
Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans.
Elon Choir
Busy Group
The Elon Choir, working under the
direction of Prof. Wendell Bartholf,
is one of the busiest groups on the
campus as it prepares for its annual
series of chorale music programs, with
sights set just now on the annual ren
dition of Handel’s “The Messiah"
early in December.
Sopranos on the Choir roster this
year include Delna Faye Lineberry,
Alamance; Jane Blalock, Burlington;
Donna Thomas, Mebane; Joan Wilson,
Wilmington, Del.; Ann Gordon, Bur
lington; Linda Durham, Burlington;
Mattie Pritchard, Greensboro; Diana
Lewis, Falls Church, Va.; Anna Rose
Marino, Elon College; Diane Crouse,
Burlington; Agnes French, Clayton;
Elaine Sawyer, Washington, N. C.;
Kay Clendennin, Milford, Va.; Olivia
Christian, Hampton, Va.; Betsy Patter
son, Burlington; Patricia Patton, Hahn
AFB, Germany; and Nancy Gilbert,
Roanoke, Va.
Altos listed are Mary Fauset, Salis
bury; Betsy Dearborn, Salisbury; Carol
Lupinacci, Stamford, Conn.; Ann Pat
terson, Burlington; Linda Smith, Elon
College; Suzanne Smith, Asheboro;
Carolina Freeman, Durham; Linda
Hudson, Grifton; Joan Riggan, Ma
con; and Susan Ellis, Miami, Fla.
Tenors on the roster are Melvin
Cotten, Fuquay-Varina; Don Harris,
Burlington; Ken Hollingsworth, Ran-
dleman; and Carson Kuhnert, Martins
ville, Va.
Basses listed include Dwight Davis,
Virginia Beach, Va.; John Hughes,
Wilmington, Del.; Henry Gertcher,
Clearwater, Fla.; Archie Taylor, Dur
ham; Jay Ogden, Jacksonville, Fla.;
Daniel Chilton, Burlington; Gerry
Schumm, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Ter
ry Sink, Winston-Salem; James Mar
shall, Philadelphia, Pa.; Allen Bush,
Eclipse, Va.; Stephen Long, Warsaw,
Va.; Ronald Warren, Burlington; and
Chuck Miller, Orange, Va.
Still Other New Members Of Elon Faculty
Elon Students Attend
Fancourt Textile Meet
Two Elon College students, both
majors in business administration rep
resented Elon at the fifth annual
Walter F. Fancourt Memorial Semi
nar, which was held in Greensboro
Thursday and Friday, October 27th
and 28th, when they heard outstanding
leaders in the textile industry tell of
opportunities for careers in the textile
field.
The Elon students attending the
seminar were John S. Little, of Wil
mington, Del., and James L. Totty, of
Durham. They were accompanied by
Prof. Joseph W. Robinson and were
joined by students and faculty mem
bers from fourteen colleges and uni
versities in North and South Carolina
at the two-day gathering.
Among the textile leaders who
spoke at this 1966 seminar were S.
Carlysle Isley, Merwin J. Joseph and
Arnold M. Raphael, of Kayser-Rotli
Hosiery Company, Inc.; Robert J,
Froeber, of J. P. Stevens and Com.
pany; Clarence N. Cone and John W.
Bagwill, of Cone Mills Corporation;
and Robert B. Lincks, of Burlington
Industries.
COLLEGE FRATERNITIES
By DON KING
The American college fraternity has
played a unique part in American edu
cation. So long as its aims are definite,
its leadership able, and its process
authoritative, it provides a campus
experience and a preparation for life
which cannot be easily duplicated by
the colleges and universities in any
other form of living arrangement.
But in recent years, the fraternity
system has been under continuous at
tack from the educator down to the
pseudo intellect. They argue that the
fraternity is an unwholesome organi
zation which thrives on social events
such as parties and dances.
They fail to realize that the frater
nity is more than an organization, it is
young men who work together, not
against each other.
It is true that fraternities have
social events, but this is only one of
the ways for them to communicate
with one another. There are also ser
vice projects, meetings, and other in
formal gatherings which offer the
fraternity a chance at brotherhood.
One might say that fraternities af
fect the scholastic standing of its mem
bers. But if you approach this with an
open mind, you can see that fraterni
ties do not interfere with grades as
much as some other activities on
campus. It is not the purpose of the
fraternity to stress scholarship, that
belongs to the college. The fraternity
stresses the spirit of scholarship, but
its goal is to prepare men for the
world outside of college life.
This is the key to the whole matter
The objective of the fraternity, as we
have known it. It is designed to be a
process of preparation, not a process
of information. Fraternity life must
enable the student to comprehend and
make proper use of the modem world
and all its opportunities. The objective
of the fraternity is not learning, but
discipline and preparation. Not schol
arship, but the spirit of scholarship is
all we can ask in our fraternities.
If you realize these things about
fraternities, then I am sure that you
can see that fraternities have a definite
place on the Elon College campus.
Then you will understand how I feel
toward fraternities. They are an asset
to our campus and a worthwhile ex
perience for those who belong to
them.
There is a poem by W. E. Frob-
stein which reads as follows:
I sometimes wonder what I’d do
If I again were twenty-two
Would I repeat those foolish flings,
Mad escapades and silly things?
And as I stop and ponder now.
An inner voice replies, “And How!"
ADVOCATUS DIABOLI
7”li
DR. WILLIAM W. HORNER
Chemistry
MRS. DOROTHY MASON
Geography
PROF. PAUL G. SEBO
History
Still other new members of the Elon College faculty this year are pictured above. Left to right, they are Dr
William W. Horner, who joined the Elon chemistry department this fall after having been engaged in chemical lab
oratory work; Mrs. Dorothy Mason, who returned to the staff of the Elon social science department after a leave
of absence to complete requirements for her doctor’s degree in geography; and Prof. Paul G. Sebo, who came to
Elon as an assistant professor of history and social science.
By THOMAS PEARSE
It was a dark foreboding day. From
the oaken throne Ubiquitous issued
the bull of the day, words of wisdom,
marked by duplicity. ‘Today I shall
create a one-sided society, and its
foundation shall be built on provinci
al quicksand.”
The “Hollow-Men” of his court
forsee a city, the epitome of splendor
and progress, conceived for the bene
fit of the inhabitants and more impor
tant, for the prestige of Ubiquitous.
The “Hollow-Men” pursue the idea
and call for a purely quantitative city.
It is to be built on a twenty-five acre
plot of intellectual mud; architectural
design of colonial neglect.
The officials are made from the
court of “Hollow-Men.” They will be
the nucleus of the utopian society.
These “Hollow-Men” alone can
achieve such official caste, for they
have “head pieces filled with straw”
and conform to the intellectual apathy
of Ubiquitous. The official will be pa
tient and helpful to the populace, be
friending them to drink the waters of
Lethe.
The official pathetically waits for
progress; waits for “no time ago” and
“no time ago” is longer than yesterday
waiting for tomorrow. Progress march
es slowly enough to be observed in
retrograde motion. After five hundred
and eighty-seven years of building, the
“Waste Land” is complete.
, Ubiquitous stands before the muhi-
tude of “Hollow-Men” and women
and issues his decree. He speaks in
terms of discouragement and dispair.
Give credit where credit—where
credit is due; be sure that we as rulers
receive the credit due. Change systems
rarely, except when it benefits us. Tra
dition will begin tomorrow, and today
is tomorrow, 'there is too much insis
tence upon now—’. Now is the present
the future is past.
But out of the strange utopian so
ciety the Dilettante arises. A break in
the microbe world has appeared. Ubi
quitous and the “Hollow-Men,” neuro
tic, hasten down the road of paranoia.
Free speech offends them. Hide it in a
room, lock the door, hide the key. The
intellectual revolution and the reign of
academics have awakened the masses.
Commands are issued from Ubiquit
ous and the “Hollow-Men”. Contain
ment is the watch word, no more than
three Dilettante may gather at a time.
The harm has been inflicted. The
“Waste Land” is opposing a sea which
exists outside the wall.
Intellectualism has now forced the
“Hollow-Men” and Ubiquitous to stif-
fle progress. They must though, above
all, maintain the perverse hollow ap
pearance. Reliance upon a mystical
diety substitutes for reality. To this
cause everything is subservient. Th«
Dilettante suffers the wrath of Ubi
quitous. They die, much like the acorn-
But also like the acom, a new and
stronger life evolves.