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VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967
NUMBER 8
Student Center Is Scene Of Varied Activities
New Structure Honors
NEW STUDENT ACTIVITY BUILDING ON CAMPUS
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The new William S. Long Student Center, which has become a teeming center of Elon College campus life, is
pictured above. Located south of Alamance Building in the center of what was once the old traffic oval, the building
houses the campus snack shop, the book store, recreation facilities, meeting rooms and offices for varied student
activities. At left, slightly hidden by the small tree is the O’Kelly marker, honoring the founder of the Christian
church. Other pictures of the new building will be found on Page 2.
Elon Student Volunteers Take Part
In Alamance Mental Health Project
Twenty-eight Elon College stu
dents are participating as volunteers
in a special project known as the Big
Brother-Big Sister Project, which is
under the sponsorship of the Ala
mance County Mental Health Asso
ciation.
The Elon students are working with
the Mental Health group in an effort
to provide a selected group of emo
tionally troubled children with an ef
fective relationship with young adults
on a one-to-one basis. Such relation
ships are in most cases a new rela
tionship with another person for the
children, permitting them fuller ex
pression of their feelings without
threat of rejection and humiliation
which past experiences have brought
them.
Players Enter One-Act
Plays In Drama Event
The Elon Players will enter two
one-act players in the annual District
Drama Festival to be held at Ca
tawba College on Friday and Satiu'-
day of next week, and the same two
plays will then be presented in
Mooney Chapel Theater on the Elon
campus on March 15th and 16th and
will be entered in the State Festival
at Chapel Hill on March 17th and
18th.
The two plays, both directed by
Prof. Edward Pilkinton, are “Miss
Julie,” a short tragedy laid in Sweden
in the 1880’s, which was written by
August Strindberg; and “The Man
Who Would Not Go To Heaven,” a
comedy which is set at the Pearly
Gates of Heaven.
The cast for “Miss Julie,” which in
cludes only three persons, will fea
ture Mayne Seymour, of Sanford, an
Elon Player veteran, in the role of
Jean; Kathy Copeland, of Norfolk,
Va., as Miss Julie; and Pat McCaus-
land, of Wantaugh, N. Y., as Chris
tine.
The second play offers a cast of
eleven players, among them Grain
ger Barrett, of New York City, as
Thaiel; Lynda Hudson, of Grifton,
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Hardison Is
Forum Guest
For Program
Dr. O. B. Hardison, one of the
outstanding young professors on the
English facuhy at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was
the guest of the student sponsored
Liberal Arts Forum for a lecture on
‘Three Types of Catharsis in Shake
speare.”
The guest speaker, who received
both the A.B. and M.A. degrees from
the Chapel Hill institution, went on to
the University of Wisconsin for his
doctoral studies and later taught at
Princeton before returning to Caro
lina as the youngest full professor on
the U. N. C. faculty.
Dr. Hardison has published num
erous works of renaissance and medi
eval criticism and a full volume of
poetry. He was honored by Time
Magazine last spring as one of Amer
ica’s ten outstanding university teach
ers. He is currently editor of “Studies
in Philology,” magazine of literary
scholarship.
The Elon student volunteers seek
to foster a favorable attitude in their
young friends by offering the young
sters an experience in friendship, thus
reinforcing feelings of adequacy and
accomplishment in the children. By
achieving a favorable attitude toward
their adult friends, the children as
sume better attitudes toward them
selves.
The college students visit with the
little brothers or little sisters at least
once weekly when college is in ses
sion, engaging in activities such as
hiking, shopping, reading, playing
games, hobbies and visits to the Elon
campus.
The Elon College athletic authori
ties are cooperating by admitting the
children to Elon sports events free
of charge, and three Burlington and
Graham theaters offer free admis
sion to selected movies. The Mental
Health Association is providing free
membership for each child in the
YMCA, and plans are to obtain them
library cards at May Memorial Li
brary.
Prof. Andrew Beale, Elon College
registrar, who is working with the
project, stated that the number of
student volunteers was greater than
anticipated, and some of the students
are waiting for the assignment of a
youngster as the Mental Health Clinic
screens additional participants. Plans
are to extend the project into future
years.
The Elon students who already
have little brothers or sisters assign
ed include Ricky Bray, Robbins; Bar
bara Bugg, Annandale, Va.; Gail Ed
wards, Richmond, Va.; Ellen Ham-
mersley, Alexandria, Va.; David Har
rison, Norfolk, Va.; Candy Hope-
well, Portsmouth, Va.; John Little,
Wilmington, Del.; Pat McCausland,
Wantaugh, N. Y.; Linda May, Rich
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Elon’s First President
There’s a new hub about which
the campus life of Elon College re
volves, and that hub is the new Wil
liam S. Long Student Center, which
stands near the south gate of Elon’s
beautiful walled campus and which
has become the scene of many and
varied student and faculty activities.
The two-story brick structure,
which was named in honor of Dr.
William S. Long, the founder and
first president of Elon College, is of
traditional architectural design that
is in harmony with the architecture
of all the other buildings on the Elon
campus.
The building, in perfect balance
and symmetry with two slightly jut
ting wings at either end and with a
dignified portico at the center, faces
north toward the southern facade of
Alamance Building and is con
nected with Alamance by a broad
walkway on which is centered the
O’Kelly Monument, which stands as
a marker for the founder of the
church group that founded Elon Col
lege in 1889.
Dream Come True
The Student Center, which was
completed and occupied during the
past fall semester at Elon, repre
sents a dream come true for those
who guide the destinies of the Con
gregational Christian college, and it
is indeed fitting that it should bear
the name of Dr. Long, whose own
dream brought the foundation of the
college more than three-quarters of
a century ago.
The building, which was erected
and furnished at a cost of $355,000,
was made possible through a loan
obtained from the federal Housing
and Home Finance Agency. Ground
was broken for the start of construc-
Music Material
To Elon Library
The Elon College Library has just
received a valuable gift of music ma
terial, including a collection of more
than 500 volumes in the music field,
which came from the personal li
brary of Dr. Lilia Belle Pitts, a noted
music educator, who is now living in
Texas.
Dr. Pitts, who received a honor
ary degree from Elon College in
1949, was for many years on the
faculty of Columbia University and
is now Professor Emeritus of Music
Education at the New York institu
tions. She is a former president of
the Music Educator’s Bationai Con
ference and is the author of numer
ous articles and books on music
education.
tion in October, 1965, and actual
construction was begun two months
later.
Originally planned to be completed
in time for use at the beginning of
the 1966-67 college year, the stu
dent center was not quite completed
at that time, and it was opened at
the time of the annual Parents’ Day
observance early in the past Novem
ber, when both Governor Mills E.
Godwin, of Virginia, and Governor
Dan K. Moore, of North Carolina,
participated in dedication ceremonies.
Houses Varied Activities
The new building houses many
and varied activities, in a completely
modern setting. As one enters the
building at the main door, there is
a spacious foyer, its central decora
tive feature being a large replica of
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Student Singers Delay
Opera Until Late April
The Elon presentation of Johann
Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus,” which had
been set for Whitley Auditorium next
Friday and Saturday, February 24th
and 25th, has been postponed and is
now planned for the Whitley stage
on Friday and Saturday, April 21st
and 22nd.
The postponement was forced due
to the illness of one of the members
of the original cast, which had been
announced three weeks ago by Prof.
Wendell Bartholf, who directs the
Elon choral music program and who
will direct the production of the fam
ous metropolitan Opera version of the
Strauss production.
The great Strauss show will rep
resent the first venture of the Elon
Singers into the field of opera, al
though they have participated along
with the Elon Players in a number
of Broadway musical productions in
recent years.
Announcement has just been made
this week that Mrs. Edward Pilkin
ton, whose husband is director of
Elon’s campus dramatic programs,
will join the cast for the Strauss
show. Others who will have major
roles include Jack Cotten, of Fuquay-
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Music Camp
Set At Elon
This Summer
The Eastern Music Camp, held un
der auspices of the Guilford Musical
Arts Center, will be held on the Elon
campus from July 7th through Aug
ust 12th this summer, being moved
here for its fifth annual session due
to the Friends International Meeting
to be held on the Guilford College
campus this year.
The Music Camp, which will
bring about 200 students to Elon
campus, will feature twelve concerts,
nine of them orchestral programs.
The Eastern Philharmonic, a fully
professional group, will appear in
three of the concerts. Others will be
by the camp’s student musicians.
Enrollment in the camp is by au
dition, and auditions for students
from this area will be held on March
12th, with those interested in trying
out asked to contact Dr. Malvin N.
Artley, of the Elon College music
faculty, who directs the Elon College-
Community Orchestra.