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VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1967
NUMBER 7
Elon Gets $112,452 Grant For Renovations
T hree Campus B uildings
In Remodelling Project
PLANS INCLUDE IMPROVEMENTS FOR ALAMANCE
The Alamance Building, located in the heart of Elen’s walled campus, is one of three campus buildings which
will be thoroughly modernized under plans made possible by announcement last week that a federal grant for
$112,452 had been approved on a matching basis for an Elon College renovation project. The college will furnish
two-thirds of the costs of the project, which is estimated to cost more than $335,000. In addition to Alamance
Building, other planned improvements include completion of the renovation of the Duke Science Building and
major changes in the Mooney Building.
Elon Singers To Offer Strauss Opera
Lyceum Sets
Next Event
February 7th
The Charlotte Camerata, well
known musical group, which has been
acclaimed in programs at several
North Carolina colleges in recent
years, will appear in concert in Whit
ley Auditorium on the Elon campus
at 8 o’clock next Tuesday, February
7th, as the next in the series of Elon
Lyceum programs. The group will
feature music in the baroque style.
Members of the Camerata group
include Dr. Dale Higbee, flute, who
has performed with the Charlotte Or
atorio Orchestra, the Charlotte Sym-
phonette and the Winston-Salem Sing
ers’ Guild; and William Tritt, violin,
also of the Charlotte Oratorio Orch
estra and Symphonette and the Wins
ton-Salem Symphony.
Others are Robert Ermis, violin,
Samuel Citron, viola, and Kurt Glau-
bitz, cello, all of them members of
the Charlotte Oratorio Orchestra and
the Charlotte Symphonette. Citron
was also a charter member and prin
cipal viola for the Charlotte Sympho
ny, and Glaubitz is an instructor of
strings in the Charlotte schools.
Also included are Sally Wyly, so
prano, who is soloist at Charlotte’s
Myers Park Presbyterian Church; and
Anita Bultman, harpsichord, choir
master and organist at Charlotte’s
The Elon Singers will make their
venture in the field of operatic show
manship when they present the Metro
politan Opera version of Johann
Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” on the
Whitley Auditorium stage at 8 o’clock
on the nights of February 24th and
25th. The student singers have pre
sented Broadway musical shows in
recent years, but the Strauss master
piece will be the first opera for
them.
The Elon Singer presentation of
“Die Fledermaus” will be in English.
It is an operetta or comic opera in
three acts, with the English lyrics and
text by Howard Dietz and Garson
Kanin, two well known writers from
the Broadway musical comedy stage.
“Die Fledermaus” is regarded as
perhaps the crowning masterpiece for
Johann Strauss the Younger, who is
known to music lovers all over the
world for such beloved waltzes as
“The Beautiful Blue Danube” and
“Tales from the Vienna Wood.”
Members of the cast for the pro
duction will include Jack Gotten, of
Fuquay-Varina; Linda Durham, of
Burlington; Agnes French, of Clayton;
Donna Thomas, of Mebane; Carson
Kuhnert, of Martinsville, Va.; Ken
Christ Episcopal Church. Both have
appeared as soloists with music groups
in several Carolina cities.
Other Lyceum programs for the
spring term include appearances by
Soulima Stravinsky on February 28th;
Gerald Goodman on March 14th; and
Georgio Ciompi and Loren Withers
on April 18th.
Hollingsworth, of Randleman; Gordon
Payne, of Wayne, N. J.; and Bob
Gwaltney, of Elon College. All are
students except Gwaltney, who is a re
cent graduate, now a member of the
Elon staff.
Prof. Wendell Bartholf and Prof.
Gene Featherstone will be music di
rectors, with Prof. Edward Pilkington
serving as stage director. Sharon Hep
burn, of Southwick, Mass., will be
stage manager.
The renovation and improvement of
three of the existing buildings on the
Elon College campus was assured last
week with the announcement from
Washington that a federal grant from
the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare for $112,452 had been
approved for the purpose.
The approval of the grant was re
vealed in a message from Congress
man Horace Kornegay, and Dr. J. E.
Danieley, Elon College president, stat
ed that the grant would make possible
the renovation and improvement of
the Mooney Building and the Ala
mance Building.
The Duke Science Building project
was started last summer and is near
ing completion. Many of the class
rooms and laboratories in the three-
story structure have been remodelled,
and new seating, new lighting and new
floor coverings have been installed
throughout.
In addition to these improvements,
other changes include acoustical ceil
ings in the larger classroom areas, re
pair of window frames and of the
roof, along with both interior and ex
terior painting and installation of im
proved fire escape facilities.
A similar complete renovation is
planned for the Mooney Building, with
an almost complete rearrangement of
the first floor of the three-story build
ing. The changes in the first floor have
become possible with the moving of
the Student Union, the campus snack
shop and the college book store to the
new William S. Long Student Center
that was opened this fall.
The plans for the new ground floor
setup in Mooney Building calls for the
fraternity and sorority rooms at the
north and south entrances of the
structure to remain in the same loca
tion, but the remainder of the ground
floor will be rebuilt to provide one
extra classroom, along with a large
lecture hall and audio-visual labora
tory and a new curriculum laboratory
for the teacher training program.
The large lecture hall will fill the
space formerly occupied by the cam-
Former Elon Stage Star
Wins Stewardess Wings
Jo Warner, who was one of the
brightest stars in the Elon Players’
dramatic firmament only last year,
will soon be flying amidst the stars
of another and bigger firmament, for
the lass from Annapolis, Md., has
just qualified as a stewardess with
American Airlines and will soon be
travelling the skyways with her new
ly-won silver wings.
The former Elon stage star has
just completed seven weeks of train
ing at American Airlines Stewardess
College at Fort Worth, Texas, and
received her silver wings with the
twenty-fourth graduating class of the
past twelve months at the school.
During her training she had more
than 100 different courses, including
make-up and grooming, inflight food
service and theory of flight. She has
been assigned to fly the American
routes out of Washington, D. C.
(continued on page 4)
Summer School
Plans Announced
Plans have been completed for the
Elon College summer schedule, ac
cording to an announcement from the
office of Dean Fletcher Moore, who
states that the first summer term
will begin on Thursday, June 8th,
and continue through Tuesday, July
11th; with the second term beginning
on Wednesday, July 12th, and con
tinuing until Friday, August 18th.
The plans call for regular classes
each Saturday during both terms,
with the Graduate Record Examina
tion to be administered to senior
candidates on Friday and Saturday,
July 14th and 15th. The summer
graduation exercises will be held on
Sunday, August 20th.
JO WARNER
pus snack bar and will be equipped
with projectors and stereo facilities
for the fine arts classes. The audio
visual laboratory itself will adjoin this
lecture room. The teacher-training cur
riculum laboratory will occupy the
space formerly filled by the campus
book store.
The renovation of the Alamance
Building, which includes the college
administrative offices and many class
rooms, will be less extensive than will
the changes in Duke Science Building
and the Mooney Building, but like the
other two the Alamance plans call for
new seating, new lighting, new floor
coverings, roof and window repairs.
All three of the buildings included
in this program were erected in the
1920’s after the disastrous fire of 1923
that destroyed the historic old Elon
administration building. After forty
years, the renovations are badly need
ed. The Elon College funds, which
match the federal grant, come from
the proceeds of the college’s Diamond
Anniversary Fund.
Group Plans
Mardi Gras
Art Catlett, of Burlington, is the
new president of Le Grenier Francais,
the student-sponsored French Club,
succeeding to the post held earlier
this year by Jane Aaron, also of Bur
lington, who resigned the presidency
due to personal reasons.
Catlett was elected at a meeting
of the French group held on January
6th, when the members of the club
also decided to hold its next meeting
as a Mardi Gras gathering on Feb
ruary 17th, when the theme will be
“Mardi Gras A-Go-Go.”
That meeting will be a costume
affair in the Mardi Gras tradition,
with the public invited to attend and
with plans for a faculty panel to
select the three best costumes for
the occasion.
At the close of the January 6th
meeting, club members observed the
French Feast of the Ephiphanie,
with Sally O’Neal selected as Queen,
and she in turn chose Larry Mabe
as her king. The ceremony was fol
lowed by the playing of various par
lor games in French.