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Elon College, N. C.
PERMIT No. 1
VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1966
NUMBER 5
Choir And Orchestra Offer ^Messiah ’
With Season Greetings To Everyone
I
Large Audience Present
For 34th Annual Program
For the thirty-fourth time in Elon’s
Whitley Auditorium, an audience of
music lovers was held enthralled as
the Elon College Choir presented
its annual rendition of Handel’s “The
Messiah,” continuing a series of pre-
Christmas programs that has attracted
capacity audiences to the Elon campus
each Yule season since 1933.
Again this year the Elon Choir was
joined by the Elon College-Commun
ity Orchestra, repeating a joint per
formance that was started for the first
time last December, and once more
the choir and orchestra shared in high
praise for a presentation that proved
rich and full and masterfull.
Once more the Elon Choir, featured
more than forty student voices, ap
peared under the direction of Prof.
Wendell Bartholf, and once more Prof.
Fletcher Moore, dean of the college
and chairman of the Elon Music de
partment, lent richness to the presenta
tion with his organ accompaniment.
The Elon College-Community Or
chestra, which had previously won
praise for its fall concert in Whitley
Mime Artist
In Program
On Campus
David Miles, internationally known
pantomine artist, presented a “Concert
in Mime and Monologue” in Elon Col
lege’s Whitley Auditorium on Monday
night, November 28th„ as an added
program in the Elon Lyceum series.
Miles is recognized as one of the
great masters of pantomine, the art of
telling a story by actions without
words, and he chose from a vast rep
ertoire of nearly one hundred charac
terizations in situations familiar to all
his audience.
His enactments of these situations
offered humor, pathos and varied in-
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Six Named To ^Who^s Who^
Six Elon College students, all of
them outstanding in campus life at
the college and all of them outstand
ing in academic accomplishments,
have just been named for a place in
the new 1966-67 edition of “Who’s
Who In American Colleges and Uni
versities,” according to an announce
ment from the office of Prof. Fletcher
Moore, dean of the college.
The six students thus honored in
clude five girls and a single boy,
among them, five seniors and one jun
ior. Gail Campbell, a senior from
Ho-Ho-Kus, N. J., is a repeater, hav
ing been selected for the honor group
as a junior last year.
Other seniors chosen for the first
time are Sue Kimball Boone, of Bur
lington; Mary Ann Barnes, Kimball,
of Holland, Va.; Sandra Bueschell, of
Graham; and Donald King, of Burl
ington. The lone junior honored this
year is Carol Lupinacci, of Stamford,
Conn. Pictures and individual sketches
will appear in the next issue of the
Maroon and Gold.
Elon Choir Will
Go To Virginia
The Elon College Choir will travel
!o eastern Virginia this weekend for
two presentations of Handel’s “The
Messiah” in Tidewater area churches
3n Sunday, appearing at the Suffolk
Christian Church at 11 o’clock Sun-
lay morning and at the First United
Church of Christ in Hampton at 4
j’clock Sunday afternoon.
Four student singers and one alum
ni singer will appear in solo roles with
the choir, including Linda Durham,
of Burlington; Donna Thomas, of Me-
bane; Ken Hollingsworth, of Randle'
man; Jack Gotten, of Fuquay-Varina;
and Robert Gwaltney, the alumnus,
who is now student loan and self-help
director for the college.
stage, was under the direction of Dr.
Malvin N. Artley, who coordinated
the performance of his group with the
singing of the student choir and the
four guest soloists.
Prof. Bartholf, in addition to direct
ing the choir in the mighty Handel
choruses, also appeared as a tenor
soloist. He was joined in the solo
roles by Mrs. Kay Phillips, soprano,
of High Point; Miss Janette Ogg, alto,
of High Point; and Charles Lynam,
bass, of Greensboro.
Mrs. Phillips, a graduate of Furman
University and of the master’s degree
from UNC-G, is now doing additional
graduate work at the Greensboro insti
tution; Miss Ogg, a graduate of As-
bury College and with advanced study
in Europe, has won numerous musical
honors and is now teaching voice at
UNC-G; and Charles Lynam, an Elon
graduate and former member of the
Elon College music faculty, is now
teaching at High Point.
The student singers, who sang the
majestic choruses of the Handel com
position, grouped by the parts they
sang were as follows:
SOPRANOS: Delna Faye Lineber-
ry, Jane Blalock, Donna Thomas,
Joan Wilson, Nancy Thomas, Ann
Gordon, Linda Durham, Mattie Pritc
hard, Diana Lewis, Anna Rose Mari
no, Diana Crouse, Agnes French,
Elaine Sawyer, Kay Clendennin, Oliv
ia Christian, Patricia Patton, and
Nancy Gilbert.
ALTOS: Mary Faust, Betsy Dear
born, Carl Lupinacci, Linda Smith,
Suzanne Smith, Carolyn Freeman,
Linda Hudson, Joan Riggan and Su
san Ellis.
TENORS: Melvin Cotten, Don Har
ris, Ken Hollingsworth and Carson
Kuhnert.
BASSES: Dwight Davis, John Hug
hes, Henry Gertcher, Archie Taylor,
Jay Ogden, Daniel Chilton, Gerry
Schumm, Terry Sink, James Marshall,
Allen Bush, Stephen Long, Ronald
Warren and Chuck Miller.
LEADERS IN ANNUAL ‘MESSIAH’ PRESENTATION
Yule Holidays Get Underway
On Saturday, December 17
The annual Christmas vacation for
the students and faculty of Elon Col
lege will get underway at 12 o’clock
next Saturday, December 17th accord
ing to an announcement from the of
fice of Prof. Fletcher Moore, dean of
the college, and already the oak-dotted
campus is agog with the spirit of anti
cipation.
The Elon student and faculty will
have two full weeks, three weekends
and one extra day for their Yule sea
son vacation this year, since the vaca
tion opens on a weekend, and the col
lege administration has decreed that
the holidays will include the Monday
following New Year’s Day for travel.
The regular class schedules will be
resumed for the day-time classes on
Tuesday, January 3rd, with the day
classes to be resumed on 8 o’clock that
morning. The Evening School classes
will also include the classes of Mon
day, January 2nd, and will resume
following that date.
DEAN FLETCHER MOORE
DR. MALVIN N. ARTLEY
PROF. WENDELL BARTHOLF
Playing leading roles in the thirty-fourth annual presentation of Handel’s “The Messiah” in Elon’s Whitley
Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, December 4th, were the three members of the college music faculty who are
pictured above. Prof. Wendell Bartholf once more directed the Elon Choir for the great Yule season oratorio and
also had the tenor solo role along with three guest soloists; Dean Fletcher Moore was again the organ accompanist
for the program; and Dr. Malvin N. Artley conducted the Elon College-Community Orchestra, which joined with the
Elon Choir in presenting the Handel masterpiece.