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PERMIT No. I
VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N, C.
terURN REQtlESTfb
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1967
NUMBER 11
Students Vote In SGA Election Monday
MUSICAL DUO APPEARING HERE TUESDAY NIGHT
GIORGIO CIOMPI AND LOREN WITHERS, LYCEUM GUEST ARTISTS
Violin-Piano Pair In Elon Concert
The well known North Carolina
Ciompi-Withers Duo, which has won
high praise for combined violin and
piano concerts in many cities of
America, will appear in concert in
Eton College’s Whitley Auditorium
at 8 o’clock next Tuesday night in
another of the annual Elon Lyceum
programs. The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
The guest artists, both of whom
We members of the musical staff at
Duke University, are veterans of
tjolh the music education and con
cert fields. Giorgio Ciompi, who is
a native of Florence, Italy, joined
the Duke faculty in 1964 as a visit-
artist violinist; while Loren With
ers, a native of Missouri, has been at
as head of piano instruction
since 1949.
Ciompi
Ciompi received the Prix du Con
servatoire in Paris while studying un-
der Boucherit and later did advanced
*®rk under George Enesco and
Diran Alexanian. He later taught at
•he Conservatorio Benedetto Mar
cello in Venice and concertized ex
tensively in Europe before coming
*0 America in 1948 to join the NBC
Orchestra.
He has made his home in the
sited States since 1948, having
een a member of the Saidenburg
'ttle Orchestra in New York and
° the Alberini Trio which toured
®th America and Europe. He was
ten years head of the violin de-
P^ent at Cleveland Institute of
Music, and in addition to teaching
duties he now heads the Ciompi
Quartet at Duke University.
Loren Withers took a degree in
music at the University of Kansas and
later studied at New York University
and the Julliard School of Music.
His advanced piano training under
Ernest Hutcheson, Fred Klesterman,
Carl Friedberg and James Fiskin cul
minated in a Carnegia Hall Concert.
He has a distinguished reputation
as a performer and teacher and has
conducted workshops for piano
teachers from coast to coast, and
he holds a patent on a piano teach
ing aid which is to be introduced
nationally this year.
Candidates Slow Filing
For Elon Campus Jobs
Elon Singers To Present
Strauss Show In Whitley
The Elon College Singers will pre
sent the Metropolitan Opera version
of Johann Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus
on the Whitley Auditorium stage on
the Elon campus on Friday and Sat
urday nights, April 21st and 22nd,
marking the first venture of the Elon
student singing group in operatic
showmanship.
The Elon singers have presented
Broadway musical shows in recent
years, but the Strauss masterpiece
will be the first opera for them. The
presentation of “Die Fledermaus” will
be in English, with the English lyrics
and text by Howard Dietz and Gar-
son Kanin, two well known writers
from the Broadway musical comedy
stages.
“Die Fledermaus,” which is an
operetta or comic opera, 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 Cast
Members of the cast for the com
ing production will include Jack Cot-
ten, of Fuquay-Varina; Linda Dur
ham, of Burlington; Donna Thomas,
of Mebane; Carson Kuhnert, of Mar
tinsville, Va.; Ken Hollingsworth, of
Randleman; Gordon Payne, Wayne,
N. Bob Gwaltney, of Elon Col
lege; and Mrs. Edward Pilkington, of
Elon College. All are students ex
cept Gwaltney, a recent graduate now
a member of the Elon staff, and Mrs.
Pilkington, wife of a faculty mem
ber.
Prof. Wendell Bartholf and Prof.
Gene Featherstone will be musical
directors, with Prof. Edward Pilking
ton as stage director. Sharon Hep
burn, of Southwick, Mass., will be
stage manager.
With the Elon students scheduled
to go to polls on Monday to cast
their ballots in the annual campus-
wide general election, there had been
an astonishing lack of interest and
enthusiasm as the deadline for filing
candidates drew near this past week
end.
There are thirteen offices to be
filled in the balloting this coming
Monday, April 10th, but at the time
this was written there were still four
of the thirteen positions which had
no candidates in the running, and
only one candidate had filed last
weekend for the other nine offices.
According to a report from SGA
President C. V. May last Saturday,
April 1st, no candidates had entered
the races for either the secretary or
the treasurer of the Student Body,
and no one had filed for the secre-
tary-treasurer positions in either the
rising junior or sophomore classes.
Morrison Unopposed
Dale Morrison, of Lynchburg, Va.,
had filed at that time for the presi
dency of the SGA, but he was unop
posed for the position. Noel Allen,
of Burlington, had listed for the
vice-presidency of the SGA and was
likewise unopposed. As stated above,
no one was listed for the other two
SGA positions.
The president of the SGA must
be a member of the rising senior
class, and the vice-president must
be a member of the rising junior
class. Candidates for the posts of
secretary and for treasurer may be
members of either the rising junior
or senior classes.
The races for the class offices also
showed a lack of interest. Dempsey
Herring, of Whiteville, had announc
ed for the presidency of the senior
class; with David Johnson, of Or
lando, Fla., running for the vice
presidency, and Pat McCausland, of
Wantagh, N. Y., running for the sec-
retary-treasurer of the senior group.
Other Candidates
George Hughes, of Wilmington,
Del., was running for the junior class
presidency; with David McLelland,
of Burlington, listed for the vice
presidency. Don Tarkenton, of
Chesapeake, Va., and E. K. Wyllie,
of Mount Holly, N. J., were seeking
the presidency and vice-presidency
respectively in the rising sophomore
class. No one was listed for the sec-
retary-treasurer post in either class.
Filing for these positions was
slated to close this past Monday,
but later signers could not be includ
ed in this issue of the Maroon and
Gold. With the general election set
for next Monday, filing will start
on Tuesday of candidates for of
fices of senators from the various
classes. The deadline for senatorial
candidates comes next Friday, with
the election of senators coming on
Wednesday, April 19th.
In discussing the apathy in filing
for various SGA posts, campus lead
ers point out that candidates must
be taking a full load of classwork,
and pressure of office duties fre
quently interferes with academic
work. Candidates must have been
free of probation the previous
semester.
Boyd Appears
As Pi Gamma
Mu Lecturer
Dr. Bernard Boyd, professor of
Biblical Literature at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
will deliver the annual Pi Gamma
Mu Lecture in the field of history
and social science in the banquet
room of the McEwen Memorial Din
ing Hall at Elon College at 8 o’clock
next Wednesday night, April 12th.
Dr. Boyd will appear under the
sponsorship of the Elon College Al
pha Chapter of Pi Gamma Mu,
which is a national social science
honorary society, with the great Bi
blical scholar being the eighth in the
series of guest lecturers at Elon since
1960.
The visiting speaker is a native
of South Carolina and was educated
at Presbyterian College, Princeton
Theological Seminary, Princeton
University and the Union Theologi
cal Seminary.
He holds membership in the So
ciety of Biblical Literature, American
Schools of Oriental Research, Amer
ican Academy of Religion and the
Archeological Institute of America,
and he has spent the past five sum
mers in archeological explorations
and in study at the Hebrew Univer
sity in Jerusalem, spending much
time in the areas where the Dead
Sea Scrolls were discovered.
Along with his educational ex
perience, Dr. Boyd served as a
chaplain with the United States Naval
forces in the Pacific during World
War II and is a holder of the Pur
ple Heart from the famous Oki
nawa campaign. He has written many
articles and has done much work
in educational television.
Sponsorship of this and other lec
ture programs in the field of history
has been a special activity for Pi
Gamma Mu at Elon. Marshall Mont
gomery is student president of the
society, with Rebecca Vitou serving
as secretary. Prof. Durward Stokes
is faculty advisor for the group, and
Prof. James Elder is district gover
nor for the Pi Gamma Mu organiz
ation.
ELON GUEST
DR. BERNARD BOYD