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VOLUME 48
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, APRIL19.1968
NUMBER23
Players Win Top Stage Spot
Elon Show Is Given
hed^Rank
Choice '68
Ballot Set
For Tuesday
The Elon College stu
dents will go to the polls
here next Tuesday, April
24th, to indicate their pre
ferences among the pos
sible candidates for pres
ident of the United States
in the 1968 national elec
tion.
The student balloting
here will be part of a na
tionwide program known
as Choice '68, which is
being staged under the
sponsorship of TIME
magazine and which will
have the participation of
thousands of American
college students in col
leges and universities all
across the United States.
Dale Morrison, now
nearing the close of his
term as president of the
Elon Student Goverment
Association, is the camp
us coordinator for the bal
loting on Tuesday, and he
has put forth much effort
to arouse interest among
the Elon students.
The ballots will be a
printed IBM card on which
students will vote by
punching a hole with a
stylus at the end of a
pencil. The ballots will not
be counted here, but sent
back to TIME for com-
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Pi Gamma Mu
Guest Speaks
On April 2nd
Dr. Earle Wallace, as
sociate chairman of the
Department of Social Sci
ence at the University
of North Carolina at Chap
el Hill, delivered the 9th
annual Pi Gamma Mu lec
ture in McEwen Dining
Hall on Tuesday night,
April 2nd.
Continuing the series
of lectures that was begun
in 1960 under sponsor
ship of the honorary so
cial science group. Dr.
Wallace spoke on the sub
ject of “The Revolution
of the Sixties: Can Democ
racy Meet the Chal-
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lecturer
DIRECTS ELON’S WINNING PLAY
Prof. Edward Pilkington, pictured above, directed
the Elon Player production of Waiting For Godot,
which won the top rating of “Distinguished i" *e
annual Carolina Dramatics Festival, which was held at
Chapel Hill on Friday and Saturday, April 5th and
6th The play had previously won top honors in the
district meet at Salisbury and had won high praise
when presented here.
‘^Distinguis
The Elon Players, stu
dent dramatic group on
the Elon College campus,
won one of five “Distin
guished” ratings at the
annual statewide festival
of the Carolina Dramatics
Association, which was
held at the historic Car
olina Playmaker Theatre
at Chapel Hill during the
first weekend in April.
The Players gained
their “Distinguished"
rating for their presen
tation of Samuel Becket’s
“Waiting For Godot,” a
production which ran to
full length showing in
spite of the fact that it
includes only two acts.
In addition to the high
rank won by the Elon
player show, another
honor came to Elon when
Sam Roberson, an Elon
student from Burlington,
brought back a red rib
bon for second rating in
the stage technical field,
winning with his model
set for “Cindy,” a mus
ical shoWo
Also bringing credit
to the Elon Players was
the fact that Tommy El
more, a Burlington native
and a former Elon Play
er star of some years
ago, now teaching dra
matics at Charlotte’s My
ers Park High School, had
three of his student pro
ductions among the six
teen players presented in
the Chapel Hill festival,
and one of his plays gain
ed a “Distinguished” rat
ing.
The Elon Player pre
sentation of “Waiting For
Godot” was carried to
Chapel Hill after winning
top ranking in the recent
district festival, held at
Catawba College in March
and after winning high
praise in a five-night
stand in Mooney Chapel
Theatre on the Elon
campus in February.
The play was present
ed by an all-male cast
which included Bill Brad
shaw, of Windsor, Va.;
Jim Gillespie, of Taft-
ville, Conn.; Paul Blei-
berg, of Wilmington,
Del.; Gordon Payne, of
Wayne, N. J.; and Sam
Roberson, of Burlington.
Each of the five have
gained high praise in pre
vious Elon Player roles,
and each turned in very
fine performances in pre
senting the Becket play,
which could be said to
have its scenes laid “any
where, any time,” for the
action takes place on a
road near a tree.
The play is a tragi
comedy in the style of the
modern stage, a play
which poses serious
questions about man’s
reason for existing. The
serious questions are
presented in such a man
ner as to offer outstand
ing entertainment for the
lovers of theatre.
New Elon Student Leaders Experienced
X T f/V Doiii Treasurer Russ
Earle Wallace
The Elon College Stu
dent Government Asso
ciation will be under the
leadership of a group
which has had extensive
experience in various
campus activities, with
the new SGA president
boasting one of the most
extensive and active ca
reers in camous affairs.
Noel Allen, of Burling
ton, a rising senior, i^s
the new president of me
SGA for the coming 1968
69 term, and he has held
administrative positions
in either his class or
campus organization
since his freshman year.
Other SGA officers for
the upcoming term are
Paul Bleiberg, of Wil
mington, Del, as vice-
president; and Russell
Schetroma, of Natalie,
Pa., as treasurer. Both
have been outstanding in
campus life at Elon.
President Allen, moved
up to the SGA leadership
post after having served
this year as vice-presi-
dent of the SGA. and hav-
ing in that position pre
sided over the m eetings ot
the Student Senate.
He has previous to tnis
year served as vice-
president of his freshman
class and as president of
his sophomore class.
Other campus services
have included member
ship on the Board of
Governors, membership
on the Orientation Com
mittee and membership of
the debating team. He al
so belongs to Tau Kappa
Epsilon Fraternity
Vice-President Paul
Bleiberg has served this
year as vice-president of
the junior class and has
also been a member of the
editorial staff of the Ma
roon and Gold and active
in the dramatics pro
gram, in which he was a
member of the cast of the
play that has just won
statewide honors.
Treasurer Russell
Schetroma also climaxes
a very active campus ca
reer in taking over that
post with SGA next year.
He has been especially
active in music and has
served this year as a
member of the editorial
staff of the Maroon and
Gold.
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they WILL LEAD SGA ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT YEAR
leaders for the Elon College Student Government Associa-
The newly electea program through the 1968-69 college year, are pic-
tion, who will direct Burlington, president
tured above, ^how ^^in^ington, DeL, vice-president; and Russell Sche-
of SGA; Paul Bl the campus organization,
troma, or Nataiie, ra..