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volume 48 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 10. 1968 NUMBER 26
Alpha Pi Delta Goes National
Mathatians Enjoyed
Busy Spring Season
The Mathatians, student
group on the Elon campus
composed of students who
plan to enter into a fuU-
time career of Christian
work, have undertaken
several special projects
this semester under the
leadership of Joan Ander
son, of Winchester, Va.,
who has served as pres
ident of the organization
this year.
Members of the Matha-
i.ians have conducted
morning worship ser
vices in several churches
of the area, including
Beverly Hills Church, E-
lon College Community
Church and Berea Chris
tian Church, all of them
units of the United Church
of Christ.
The Mathatians have
also conducted evening
worship services on two
occasions at the Archer’s
Grove United Church of
Christ, with the theme
for all of these services
having been “God’s Great
Society.” The prayers,
responses and various
sermonettes used were
originally written by the
students who took part
in the various services.
Several members of the
Mathatians participated in
a youth program for com
bined junior and senior
high groups at the First
Baptist Church in Me-
hane, with the program
consisting of games, hu
morous plays and closing
PRESIDENT
JOAN ANDERSON
worship services.
Other special activi
ties this spring have in
cluded tabulation of the
surveys on the Church
and Ministry which have
been conducted by Dr.
Sylvanus Duvall through
the student body.
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Elon Booster
Club Formed
On April 29th
An Elon College boost
er group to be known as
the I.S.E.A. Club, with
the initials meaning “I
Support Elon Athletics,”
was formed at a meeting
held on April 29th at Hu
ey’s Barbecue restaurant
at Glen Raven.
About 50 persons were
present for the meeting,
during which Woody Hill
was elected president.
Other officers chosen
were Paul Huey, vice-
president; Dr. Edward
Sutton, secretary; Dr.
Jack Newman, treasurer;
and Jim Ware, press sec
retary.
Also chosen was a
board of directors, in
cluding Willis Bowlin, Dr.
C. E. Kernodle, Paul An
dres, Ed Patillo, Dr. Ron
Pruitt, Wallace Gee, Ben
Lilien, Ralph Huey, Rev.
Hoyle Whitesides and Cur
ry Bryan.
The club plans a pro
gram of aid for Elon Col
lege athletics, operating
within the rules of the
Cprnlinas Conference. A-
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Local Frat Is Now
Chapter Of T. K. E.
The first national
social fraternity on the
Elon College campus
made its appearance on
the final weekend in April
when the Alpha Pi Delta
Fraternity, which had
been one of four local
Greek letter social
groups for men was in
stalled as the Lambda Mu
Chapter of the national
Tau Kappa Ep=ilon Fra
ternity.
The installation of this
first chapter of a national
fraternity marks a mile
stone in the history of
Greek letter groups on the
Elon campus, a history
which began in the early
1920’s when the trustees
first provided for the or
ganization of four local
social fraternities for
men and four local soror
ities for women. The first
listing and recognition for
the groups in the Elon
catalogue came in 1923.
The Alpha Pi Delta lo
cal fraternity was found
ed in 1926 and was first
listed in Phi Psi Cli,the
Elon College annual in
LEADS GROUP
AN AERIAL VIEW OF ELON COLLEGE OF NEAR FUTURE
The architect’s f the E^on^ LTur^for U^se^ntsThe
l^urTor^he^ETn-campus as it n^
additions as the new livmg and di 8 immediately beyond the Alumni
picture, the new physical ‘“rofflS bulMhg Immediately
Memorial Gymnasium, and the center of the picture. Also shown is the
beyond the Duke Science j^^^ere the Veterans’ Apartments formerly
Sor^rSfrtls isThe picture o( Elon of the future, and of the not too distant
future at that.
GEORGE HUGHES
1927. The group has con
tinued active since that
time, and its member
ship has included many of
Elon’s outstanding stu
dents and alumni in the
intervening four decades.
In becoming the Lamb
da Mu Chapter of Tau
Kappa Epsilon, the Elon
group becomes one of
more than250 chapters of
the fraternity located in
colleges in all parts of
the United States. The
fraternity was founded
at Illinois Wesleyan Uni
versity at Bloomington,
111, in 1899 and now ranks
among the ten national
Greek letter groups with
largest chapter rolls.
Tau Kappa Epsilon has
five other chapters in
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