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VOLUME 48
ELON COLLEGE, N. C,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1967
NUMBER 1
Plans For Elon Growth Told
Library Walls R ise
Near Western Gate
RECENT VIEW OF NEW ELON COLLEGE LIBRARY
The new Elon College library, which has risen rapidly during the summer months,
is shown above with its walls completed and roofedfor protection against the weather.
Having risen to this stage from a mere hole in the ground last spring, the con
struction is expected to move ahead rapidly, and officials of the college expect
the library to be com dieted and ready for occupancy before the close of the 1967-68
term next spring. The library is being constructed at a cost of more than $800,000.
At Exercises Held August 20
Sixty Seniors Are Graduated
Onufrak, Durham; Mi
chael Ashby Ray, Bur
lington; Larry ClydeU
Rayfield, Elon College;
Speaking on the subject
of “The Graduate’s Char
ter To Life,” the Rev.
Thomas R. Hamilton,pas
tor of the Elon College
Community Church, urged
members of the Elon Col
lege summer graduating
class to forget any
thoughts of their own im-
pijrtance at the time of
graduation and to press
on toward the goals which
lie ahead.
He spoke at the Elon
College summer com
mencement program,
which was held in the Elon
College Community
Church on Sunday, August
20th, at which time diplo
mas and degrees were
conferred on 60 summer
graduates, who join with
the 126 who received Elon
degrees early in June to
form the complete Elon
Class of 1967.
The members of the
Elon summer graduating
class included John Doug
lass Amick, Burlington;
Charles Leslie Askew,
Elon College; Albert Got-
*ieb Baer, East Hartford,
Conn.; Carol Talbert
Blanks, Roxboro; Gene
Clate Brewer, Mount
Olive.
Fred DeGrotte Busick,
Heidsville; Jimmy Lewis
Burlington; Lonnie
™ack Carden, Durham;
JJavid Andrew Chapman,
Durham; Peter Morley
Coghill, Wilmington, DeL;
l^eorge Watts Colclough,
p on College; Carolyn Sue
Cook, Reidsville; William
°rdes II, Burlington.
Brodie Charles Coving
ton, Silver Spring, Md.;
James Benton Dailey,Suf-
folk, Va.; Joseph C. Daw
son, Sanford; John Joseph
Dean, Winston-Salem;
Bob Snyder Denny, Win
ston-Salem; Drexel Gray
Durham, Graham; Doug
lass Joseph Dwyer, Wil
ton, Conn.; Hilda Cornelia
Eason, Graham; Robert
David Ferrell, Morris-
>^ille;
Oscar Bright Fowler,
Elon College; Richard
Lee Franks, Burlington;
Thomas C. Gifford, Nor
folk, Va.; Don Henry Har
ris, Burlington; Judith
Quinlin Harris, Stony
Creek, Va.; Gerald Les
ter Henderson, Graham;
Charles Donald Honey
cutt, Granite Falls; Ai-
leen Parker Hopkins,
Burlington; William Ros-
coe Jarvis, Burlington;
Scar Kinney, Winston -Sa
lem; Lawrence Peter
Kleeberg, Burlington;
Margaret Ann Leister,
Towson, Md.; George
Sp:>ttswood Lowry,
Greensboro; Nadine Long
est Lucas, Elon College;
William Howard Mann,
Elon College; Julian Ran
dolph Marshall, Durham;
David Wycliffe Marsh-
burn, Clinton; Carl Vitus
May, Jr.,Burlington;Sara
Miller Mitchell, Elon
College; John Vernon
Moon, Graham; Cheryl
Darlene Morrow, Con
cord; William Jam2S
Larry Alan Ring, Al-
tamahaw; James Silas
Ritter, Hamlet; Henry
Leslie Robinson, Lum-
berton; Robert Asa Roper,
Chase City, Va.; Paul
Gentilini Schoonmaker,
Altoona , Pa.; Emery Ro
binson Sellers, Falls
Church, Va.; Lloyd Felix
Shaw, Greensboro;
Graeme Hunter Shull,
Charlotte; Valliam Win
fred Swofford, Cowpens,
S.C.; Curtis Lynn Tetley,
Falls Church, Va.; Donald
Lee Weed, Elon College;
Peggy Jean Wilson, Ashe-
boro; and Philip Ray Wil
son, McColl, S.C.
SPEAKER
Plans for the continued
academic and physical
growth of Elon College
were outlined by Dr. J.E.
Danieley, Elon College
president, as he address
ed members of the Elon
College faculty at the first
faculty meeting of the
1967-68 term, held in
McEwen Memorial Dining
Hall on Friday morning,
September 8th.
Dr. Danieley called
promotion of learning the
principal task of Elon Col
lege or any institution of
learning, but he devoted
much attention to im
provements of the col
lege’s physical plant
which are now in pro
gress or in the planning
stages as he spoke to both
new and returning mem
bers of the Elon faculty.
He noted the fine pro
gress made this summer
on the construction of
Elon’s new library build
ing, which has risen since
last spring adjacent to the
college dining hall and
near the west gate of
Elon’s walled campus.
The new library, which
is costing more than $800,
000 is expected to be
ready for occupancy be
fore the closeof the term.
Other improvements
during the summer were
the almost complete ren
ovation of the Alamance
Building which houses the
administrative offices
and many class rooms,
along with work on the
Duke Science Building and
the Mooney Building,both
of which are devoted to
classroom use.
Dr. Danieley also cited
the fact that the stage in
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REGISTRAR
PROF. LARRY BARNES
Barnes Is
New Elon
Registrar
Prof. Larry E. Barnes,
who has served as ad
missions counsellor for
Elon College for the past
three years, is the new
registrar for the college
and assumed his new du
ties with the opening of
the 1967-68 term. He suc
ceeds Prof. Andrew V.
Beale in the registrar’s
post, Beale having resign
ed the position to pursue
doctoral studies at the
University of Virginia.
Barnes, who is a na
tive of Portsmouth, Va.,
graduated from Woodrow
Wilson High in that city
and later received the Ba
chelor of Arts degree
from ElonCollege in 1957.
He has done additional
graduate work at the Uni
versity of North Carolina
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Orchestra Working
For Fifth Season
REV. THOMAS HAMILTON
Speaks To Graduates
The ElonCollege Com
munity Orchestra is al
ready hard at work in
preparation for its fifth
season, having begun its
regular rehearsal ses
sions for the 1967-68 col
lege year on Monday night,
September 18th, on the
third floor of the Ala
mance Building.
The weekly rehearsals
are under the direction
of Dr. Malvin N. Artley,
who is professor of
stringed music on the
Elon music faculty. He
joined with Prof. Fletcher
Moore, dean of the col
lege and chairman of the
music department in the
organization of the or
chestra in the fall of 1963.
The College-Commun-
ity Orchestra is a joint
campus and community
musical group, including
members of the Elon fa
culty and student body
and also musicians from
the Burlington area. Its
m embership includes mu
sicians of all ages, the
only requirement being an
interest in the orchestra
and its work.
In announcing the ini
tial rehearsal last week.
Dr. Artley urged all in
terested persons to at
tend the practices,stress
ing the necessity for an
early start. The orches
tra will present its ini
tial concert of the new
season in a few weeks.