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MAROON AND GOLD
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Don King
Thomas Pearse ...
Robert Model ...
H. Reid
Luther N. Byrd
. Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Alumni Editor
Faculty Advisor
REPORTORIAL STAFF
Roy Baker
Wayne Barker
Sonny Long
Jonathan Lucas
Bruce McCotter
Myra Boone ^ ,,
t C yde O Ferrell
William Clark ’
. „ . „ George Old
Ronnie Cohen .
Alex Oliver
William Onufrak
.. Eddie Osborne
Sam Rankin
Kent Crim
Bobby Denny
David Gentry
John Greeson
Oliver Halle
Skip Hinshaw S^aw
Don Honeycutt Rosalind Shoffner
James Howell ^arl Sparks
Martha Johnson Sam Troy
Lawrence Kleeberg Charlie VanLear
Gary Knapp Dolly Walker
Chris Kurlle Reid Watlington
Greg Lee Thomas Ward
Joe Lee
Don Weed
John Little Wood
THOUGHTS ON DUTY AND OBLIGATION
There was a time when college stu
dents wanted their college to be vic
torious in all phases of athletics and
when it was considered an honor to
represent the college in any athletic
sport, just as it was once considered
an honor and a privilege to serve
one’s country in time of war, but ap
parently both conditions have passed
into the limbo of “once upon a time.”
Never was the change in student
attitude more clearly reflected than
in the case of the Elon track team
this spring, and Coach Jerry Tolley
was the victim of the change of at
titude. His Elon cinder squad chalked
up three impressive victories in the
early season ,and then some of the
more promising performers decided
that there was something more in
teresting and more deserving of their
attention.
On a weekend when the Fighting
Christian track team had a meet on
Band To Get
New Dressy
Garb For ’67
The Elon College band will come
forth in September in new and dressy
uniforms, according to information
just made public by Prof. Jack O.
White, who directs the Elon band
in both its marching and concert ap
pearances.
The new uniform, which is illus
trated in the photographs at the right
on this page, which show Howard
Eaton, of Cary, who is a trumpet
player with the Elon band, modelling
the new uniform in both its march
ing and concert forms.
The uniform, which will be worn
for the first time at the Elon-Guil-
ford football game in September, will
be of maroon with gold trim. When
the band is marching and playing at
games or in parades, it will wear
the uniform with the brilliantly dec
orated “lay over” on the front and
with the shako hats of busby gold.
The lettered and decorated “lay
overs” can be removed, with the uni
form worn in more plain and sedate
style for use in concert appearances.
The pictures shown here portray the
marching uniform worn by Howard
Eaton at the left and the concert
elon band to have new look
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a foreign field, there were some social
events also scheduled on the campus
and more than one of Coach Tolleys
probable point winners decided that
they would rather attend those social
events than to carry the Maroon and
Gold colors in cinder warfare. All
thoughts of obligation to Elon Col
lege and obligation to the team were
forgotten.
The next week some members of
the track team simply came up with
the excuse that they had something
else to do, and the result was that
Coach Tolley's Christian cindermen
lost meets to Washington and Lee and
later to Atlantic Christian and St.
Andrews which could most surely
have been chalked on the “win side”
for Elon.
The late President John F. Kennedy
once said that one should not think
what the country could do for oneself
(Continued on page 4)
at the right.
Reynolds Is Guest Speaker
For Honor Group Induction
Dr. Ferris E. Reynolds, chairman
of the Department of Religion and
Philosophy here at Elon, was the
featured speaker as ten Elon junior
and senior honor students were in
ducted into the Order of the Oak,
which is the campus honor society
with membership based on scholar
ship attainments.
The induction was held at a din
ner meeting in McEwen Memorial
Dining Hall, with Dr. J. E. Danieley,
Elon's president, presiding over the
dinner meeting and also conducting
the induction of the honor society
group.
The new members of the group
include Wanda Margaret Edwards, of
Raleigh; Marilyn Patricia Farley, of
Hollins, Va.; Kenneth Ray Hollings
worth, of Randleman; James Carroll
Howell, of Franklin, Va.; Clara Sue
James, of Burlington; Alice Black
mon Miller, of Graham; Frieda Sue
Noah, of Snow Camp; Phyllis Ann
Register, of Burlington; Margaret Wis-
hon Willett, of Pittsboro; and Sandra
Faye Wrenn, of Staley.
Other students who have been in
ducted in previous years and have
been active members of the Order of
the Oak this year include Robert
Charles Beisinger, of Burlington; Lin
da Eileen Durham, of Burlington;
Linda Ann Hardie, of Elon College;
Larry Edward Mixon, of Jacksonville,
Clyburn Wins
High Praise
For Program
James Clyburn, an Elon graduate,
who is now a member of the music
faculty at Meredith College in Ral
eigh, won high praise from his hear
ers when he returned to the Elon
campus and appeared in a piano re
cital in Whitley Auditorium on the
night of May 9th.
The guest artist, who graduated
from Elon in 1953 after winning ex
tensive honors as a pianist, later
earned the master of science degree
in music at the Julliard School of
Music in New York, where he was
a student of Alton Jones. At Elon he
was a student of Dean Fletcher
Moore.
After service in the United States
army, Clyburn joined the Meredith
College faculty in 1958, and he has
since that time been active in church
and music circles in Raleigh, where
he is director of Friends of the Col
lege, Inc., a Raleigh group which
brings world-renowned artists to the
city for concerts.
His program on the Elon campus
at the time of his recital consisted
of sonatas of Hayden, Beethoven
Schumann and Prokofieff.
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NOT WHAT IT SEEMS
By DON KING
Just because a signature on a pic
ture reads Rembrandt, this does not
mean that the picture is truly by
Rembrandt. Just as a picture can be
a fake or a fraud, so can a person.
Anyone who pretends to be more
intelligent and to know more than
he actually does is a fraud or pseudo-
intellect. There seems to be a trend
among today’s college students to
play this part, that is to be something
or to seem to know something other
than what he really is or knows.
You must be aware of the presence
of these people and realize that they
will seek to influence you and your
opinions. These people talk a lot, but
they very seldom do anything other
than criticize.
To quote a highly respected pro
fessor on our Elon campus, "the
more a person talks, the less bil
knows.” This, in essence, is the moS]
noticeable trait of the pseudo-inlel'
lect. He talks a lot, but he seldoi,
acts. He is a critic on all things, bil|
he is really an authority on nomi
No matter what, he will always n |
to sway you toward his opinions
Once in a while, a pseudo-intellK
will have a good idea or a just com I
plaint, but this is only because t»!
common sense has overshadowed It
desire to be and to appear somethin!
other than himself.
It then becomes our jobs, as m®
bers of the masses, to differential!
between the ideas of the pseudo-iJ
tellect and those of our own fflit*
Only when we do this can we
assured that we are not being inH“
enced by people who actually ki®’'
even less than we do ourselves.
ADVOCATUS DIABOLI
By TOM PEARSE
Well, once again exams are upon
us. There will be that mad scramble
to get last minute work out of the
way, that term paper which was as
signed the first of the semester, and
! that book review for Sir James.
DR. FERRIS E. REYNOLDS
Fla.; Lila Walker Patterson, of Elon
College; James Farrell Saunders, of
Greensboro; and Harold Dean Wheel
er, of Graham.
The honor group is sponsored by
a faculty committee which includes
Mrs. Dorothy Mason, Prof. Lewis
Drum, Prof. Gene Featherstone; Mrs.
Betty Gerow, Dr. James Howell and
Prof. Gilbert Latham, with Dean
Fletcher Moore serving as faculty
advisor of the organization.
Butler Attends
National Meet
W. E. Butler, Jr., business mana
ger and treasurer for Elon College,
represented Elon at the forty-sixth an
nual national meeting of purchasing
officers from colleges and universities
in all parts of the United States.
The meeting was a four-day af
fair held at the Hotel Fontainbleau in
Miami Beach, Fla., beginning on May
3rd and continuing through May 6th,
with a program that featured many
outstanding leaders in college business
circles and others from the fields of
American business and government
It also featured demonstrations of
many new types of equipment for
educational institutions.
For some of it means the end of
a four year career at Elon. In some
respects it has been an enjoyable time.
We have met many fine and wonder
ful people and made many friends.
To the people who have made these
years a memorable time I would like
to extend my heart felt thanks.
To those who have not, take heed
from the last few articles. Perhaps
they were a little harsh. They were
not personal vendettas but some criti
cisms that the editor felt were neces
sary.
Possibly the people toward whom
they were directed did not realize the
situation was as stated. Somehow
though, a person would have to be
extremely naive to think they did not
exist. Therefore, the criticism was not
unwarranted.
Nothing may come of what has
been said; this is the rule rather tltf
the exception. People in authority I®
some reason want to maintain it*!
status quo. Even so this shouW
be a license to gather incompetf*,
people around them and say.
at my faculty, I have a full compi';
ment.”
If a man wants to be a martyr, stt
timentalist. Democrat, Republican, 
be it, provided he does not interW
with the student’s and the facul?
rights.
There should be no need then
pipe line” from the studen'
Tl»
have a
to the faculty or administration,
is a superflous move. The entire pr®
lem could be eliminated if a W®
tolerant attitude were taken towat
the students and faculty.
Somehow though, this is impossi '
In which case, I can offer ^
suggestion. Write the Board of
tees, and plead your case
with then
Maybe if they receive enough letW
something will be done.
Most men need two women in
the
lives: A secretary to take things do*
and a wife to pick things up.