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PERMIT No. 1
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VOLUME 47
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
Friday, April 21, 1967
NUMBER 12
Strauss Opera Opens In Whitley Tonight
New Award
Will Honor
Mrs. Smith
Dr. Leon E. Smith, president emer
itus of Elon College, has just an
nounced establishment of the Ella
Brunk Smith Memorial Fund, which
will provide an annual award at com
mencement exercises to be given to
Ihe young woman student who has
made the greatest contribution to the
moral and religious life of the Elon
campus.
Dr. Smith, who announced the
award as a memorial to his wife, serv
ed as president of Elon College from
1931 until 1957, and is at this time
the president emeritus of the college.
His wife, the late Mrs. Ella Brunk
Smith, who died on March 16, 1965,
played an important part in the life
of the Elon College campus during
the long period when her husband
was president of the college. The
award in her memory is entirely fit
ting and proper.
PICNIC PLANNED
Le Grenier Francais, organization
of French students at Elon College,
is planning its annual spring picnic
on Sunday, with an all-day affair last-
mg from 9 o'clock in the morning
until 8:30 o’clock that night, and all
dub members and their dates are
invited to enjoy hot dogs, chicken and
1 lot of fun.
STARRING IN OPERA TONIGHT
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JACK GOTTEN AND PAT PILKINGTON
Arts Forum Sponsors Second Annual
Lectures Series In Humanities Field
Five days of cultural opportuni-
jies open to students and faculty of
Elon College next week as the stu-
uent-sponsored Liberal Arts Forum
its second annual week-long
^fies of lectures devoted to studies
he humanities.
^is symposium of cultural pro-
Pams will feature a group of six
“Blstanding scholars and lecturers
I programs, which will get under-
Monday afternoon and night
j *'iil continue with both after-
it t”* n'Bht programs through
^ ursday, concluding with an after-
Vj’n leaure and reception next
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t.-ti
The first annual symposium was
held last year and was heard with
much interest on the campus, and
both the members of the Liberal
Arts Forum and their advisors have
been working throughout this year
in lining up the speakers for this sec
ond annual event.
Eaton Opens Week’s Series
Dr. Clement Eaton, chairman of
the Department of History at the Un
iversity of Kentucky since 1946, a
graduate of the University of North
Carolina and holding the Ph.D. from
Harvard, will open the week s series
of lectures when he speaks in West
Dormitory Parlor at 3 o’clock Mon
day afternoon on the subject of “The
Passing of the Southern Aristocracy
after Appomatox.”
Dr. Eaton, who has taught at a
number of colleges in the United
States, and who is a former president
of the Southern Historical Associa
tion, has also been a Fulbright Lect
urer at the University of Manchester
in England. He is the author of sev
eral works on Southern history.
Dr. Mason B. Hammond, now
Pope Professor of Latin Language
and Literature at Harvard University,
will speak in McEwen Dining Hall
at 8 o’clock Monday night on the sub-
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Elon Singers To Offer
Show For Two Nights
One of the finest student stage
shows of recent years on the Elon
College campus is set for tonight and
Saturday night as the Elon Singers
present Johann Strauss’s great "Die
Fledermaus,” on the stage of Whit
ley Auditorium at 8 o’clock on each
of the two nights.
The Elon Singers will be making
their first venture in the field of
operatic showmanship when they
present this Metropolitan Opera ver
sion of “Die Fledermaus,” with the
show to be in English and with the
English lyric’s and text by Howard
Dietz and Carson Kanin, two well-
known writers from the Broadway
musical comedy stage.
The campus musical group, in co
operation with the Elon Players, has
presented modern Broadway musical
shows several times in the past and
with eminent success, but the great
comic opera, composed by the young
er Strauss in the early 1870’s, will
be the first true opera by Elon stu
dents.
“Die Fledermaus” was first pre
sented in Paris in 1872 as a play un
der the title of “Le Reveillon,” with
the play a straight comedy of man
ners, ridiculing the self-indulgent
French upper classes in the period
following the downfall of the French
Republic in 1870.
The opera revolves about an
anecdote concerning a notary, who
gets drunk at a costume ball, is
abducted by a prankster friend and
finally abandoned in an open field,
where he is found the next day, still
costumed as a bat and swearing ven
geance on his abductor. Complica
tions include arrival of an old suitor
of the prankster’s wife.
It should be mentioned here that
the bat costume then represented the
beggar, the petitioner and underdog
in society. Such a costume had prob
ably been worn for the first time
at a great costume ball in Berlin
in 1799 to honored Queen Louise.
Strauss wrote the opera as a com
edy of situations of mistaken identity,
with the great costume ball as the
core of the play, thus giving a chance
to weave in the beautiful waltz mu-
Second Election
For SGA Post
A second election for officers of
the Elon College Student Government
Association and for officers of the
various classes was held this past
Monday, with Ihe repeat balloting be
coming necessary due to technical
irregularities in the voting process for
the regular campus election held the
previous Monday, April 10th.
There were no charges of crook
edness or unfair tactics lodged in re
gard to the regular election, but the
manner in which the ballots were
cast and voters recorded was in vio
lation of the SGA constitution, and
there were protests from losing can
didates. In view of this fact, SGA
officials decreed a second balloting.
Results of the balloting in the re
peat election were not available when
the M. and G. went to press, so
winners will be named in a story fol
lowing the installation of SGA offi
cers the first Monday in May. The
senatorial voting was to be held on
Wednesday of this week as original
ly planned.
sic for which the composer has been
famous.
The action features Gabriel von
Eisenstein, youthful prince, played
by Jack Cotten; Rosalinda, his wife,
by Linda Durham; and Adele, a
maid, who is charming in spite of
her vulgarity, enacted by Pat Pilk-
inton; along with Dr. Falke, a noted
ball master, played by Bob Gwalt-
ney.
Other characters include Dr.
Blind, Eisenstein’s lawyer, played by
Ken Hollingsworth; Alfred, a wild
oat and handsome suitor of Madame
Eisenstein; Frank, the warden of the
jail, also played by Ken Hollings
worth; Prince Orlofsky, enacted by
Donna Thomas; and Frosch, the jail
er, played by Gordon Payne.
Prof. Wendell Bartholf and Prof.
Gene Featherstone have been mu
sic directors for the production, with
Prof. Edward Pilkington serving as
stage director. Sharon Hepburn, vet
eran Elon Player member, is the
stage manager.