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Elon College, N. C
PERMIT No. I
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1967
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NUMBER 9
Foimders Day iSveiat Set On Marcli 13t!i
FROM THIS HOLE LIBRARY WILL RISE
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Danieley To Summarize
Progress; Outline Plans
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Wu^commg of br.ght spring days, the contractorsj^expected to rush the construction rapidly
Great Pianist Appears In Elon Concert
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SOULIMA STR.VVINSKY
Souiima Stravinsky, known world
wide as a concert pianist, appeared
in concert at Elon's Whitley Audi
torium this past Tuesday night, per
forming as another in the series of
Elon Lyceum programs for the year.
Stravinsky presented a program
which included four sonatas by Scar
latti, a rondo by Mozart, selection
from Beethoven and Ravel and closed
his performance with three move
ments from Igor Stravinsky’s "Pe
trushka.” The elder Stravinsky was the
father of the widely hailed pianist.
The pianist is a native of Lausanne,
Switzerland, who made his debut on
the concert stage at the age of twenty,
and since that time he has played
concerts in most of the European
Arts Forum Presents
' Wife Of Poet At Ehn
Mrs. Randall Jarrell, of Greens-1 the University of Texas, Sara Lau-
ro, presented selections from the rence College, Princeton University,
, poetry o hei" late husband, hailed as'the University of Illinois and the Salz-
one o t e finest recent poets, when burg Seminary in Austria,
she appeared in the West Dormitoiy
; Parlor on the Elon College campus
on Wednesday night of this week.
Mrs. Jarrell was the guest of the
student-sponsored Liberal Arts For
um. with joint sponsorship by the
college’s English department. She was
^so a guest at a dinner in McHwen
inmg Hall prior to the program in
West Dormitory.
There has been wide interest in
'n ‘he poetry of the late Dr.
Randall Jarrell, who served as a
member of the English faculty at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro prior to his death. He also
laught at a number of other institu-
I'ons, among them Kenyon College,
Jarrell, who was a native of Nash
ville, Tenn., was educated at Van
derbilt University and received the
honorary Doctor of Humane Letters
from Bard College. In addition to
his teaching career, he was a veteran
of Air Force service and was for
a time poetry consultant to the Li
brary of Congress.
His literary works included “Blood
For A Stranger,” “Little Friend, Little
Friend,” “The Seven League Crutch
es,” "The Woman At The Washington
Zoo,” and numerous other selections.
He also edited several books and
translated at least one work entitled
“Three Sisters.”
nations and in South America, along
with numerous appearances with major
orchestras and in individual programs
in both the United States and Can
ada since making his American debut
in 1948.
He studied piano and composition
in Paris at the Ecole Normale de
Musique and under such eminent
teachers as Alfred Cortot, Isadore
Philipp and Nadia Boulanger. This
French background has given him an
authoritative knowledge of the French
masters and music, and he is widely
known as an interpreter of Mozart
and Scarlatti.
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Talent Contest
Set March 9tli
A student talent contest for Elon
College will be staged on the Elon
campus next Thursday. March 9th,
under the sponsorship of WGHP
Channel 8 television station of High
Point, with the winner from the Elon
contest to compcte later with student
winners from various other colleges
in the Channel 8 viewing area.
The final competition, which is to
be televised over Channel 8, will be
held on May 13th, and the winner
in the finals will be awarded a $500
scholarship. This was announced by
Phil Shaw, who stated that all Elon
students are eligible and those inter
ested may contact him at P. O. Box
3248 or by telephone at Extension
302.
He stated that Elon students who
have already entered include Paul
Bleiberg, Darryl Jannus, Pete Flem
ing, Bob Shaw, Clinton Horton, Ran
dy Smart, Tandy Brown, Allen Bush,
Jim Ferebee, Wayne Seymour, Carol
Leffers and Dave and Shannon Jen
nings.
The annual Elon College Founders
Day convocation, to be held in Alum
ni Memorial Gymnasium at 10 o’clock
on Monday morning, March 13, will
have Dr. J. E. Danieley, Elon’s presi
dent, in the featured spot, since he
will deliver the address for the oc
casion this year.
The observance of Founders Day
is held annually on the campus dur
ing the early part of March, the date
being usually set to fall on or near
the anniversary date of the founding
of Elon College, which was chartered
by act of the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly on March II, 1889.
In recent years there has been a
number of outstanding guest speakers
for the Founders Day program, one
of them having been Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson in the spring of
1962 before he succeeded to the
presidency after the death of Kennedy.
In announcing his decision to bring
the Founders Day message for this
1967 observance. President Danieley
slated that he will use the opportunity
to take a look backward at Elon
progress and to take a glance into
the future at the college’s prospects
for the future.
He states that he will summarize
the progress of the college during the
past ten years since he assumed the
pre,sidency of the institution in 1957
and that he will outline for stiidenis,
faculty and friends of the college the
program of development which is
planned for the college in the next
decade between 1967 and 1977.
The complete program for the con
vocation has not been announced, but
it will include special music by the
Elon Singers. It has been stated that
there will be no other student chapel
services that week, and that all stu
dents will attend the Founders Day
convocation in the gymnasium.
A quick glance backward at the
first Founders Day back in 1889 re
veals that on March 11th that year
the legislature granted the charter to
WILL SPEAK
DR. J. E. DANIELEY
Founders’ Day Speaker
the Christian Church to establish the
college and that the issuance of the
charter was followed almost immed
iately by beginning of construction.
Ground was broken for the first
building on May 7th that spring, and
the first bricks were laid on May
20th, with the cornciiitonc ccrcinonic?>
for the initial building held CQ July
18th. That initial building wa* the
first administration building, which
also contained classrooms for the
young college. This building stood
about where the present Alamance
Building is located and was destroyed
by fire in 1923, bringing about the
building of the central five-building
unit of Elon’s present modern plant.
The Elon College doors were open
ed to the first 76 students on Septem
ber 2, 1890, that group being the
forerunners of the thousands of young
men and women who have attended
Elon during the more than three-
I quarters of a century since that time.
Slavic Authority Speaks
At Elon On Wednesday
Dr. William B. Edgerton, widely j of Learned Societies, he has also been
known member of the University of
Indiana faculty in the department
of Slavic languages and literature, will
appear as a guest lecturer on the
Elon College campus next Wednesday
night, March 8th, speaking as an
other in the series of Visiting Scholars
and tmder sponsorship of the Pied
mont University Center.
Dr. Edgerton, who will speak in the
large meeting room of the new Will
iam S. Long Student Center on the
Elon campus, will speak at 8 o’clock
Wednesday night, using as his topic
“Tolstoy’s Influence as Artist and
Prophet,” The public is invited to
hear his address.
The guest speaker, in addition to
Icngtliy scrvice as a teacher at the
University of Indiana, has also taught
at the Lycee de Belfort in France and
at Guilford College, Pennsylvania
State University and Columbia Uni
versity in the United States.
A fellow of the American Council
a Guggenheim Fellow and has served
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DR. AMLLIAM EDGERTON