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ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1968
NUMBER 27
New Elon Library Completed
New Structure Only Lacking
Book Shelves To Be Occupied
ELON'S spring QVEEfi CBOWNED
V.
Horner Rules
Over Spring
Celebration
Janice Horner, a sec
ond-generation Llonite,
reigned as Spring Week
end Queen over the festi
vities on the hion campus
from Friday, May 3rd
through Sunday, May 5th,
having won the honor in the
beauty pageant held in
Whitley Auditorium on
Friday night. May 3rd,
a program which was the
opening feature of the
weekend of merriuiiiiit ua
the campus.
The Spring Queen is
pictured just above as she
was crowned by Noel Al
len, of Burlington, newly
elected president of the
tlon College Student Gov
ernment Association. The
coronation cams as the
final feature of the stu
dent talent show and beau
ty pageant held in Whitley
Auditorium on Friday
night, May 3rd.
Queen Janice, who
nails from Los Angeles,
'“Siif., is the daughter
(Continued on Page 4)
The new Elon College
library building, which is
to take the place of the
historic Carlton Library
in the life of the Elon fa
culty and student body, is
now virtually complete
and ready for occupancy
by the coming summer
term.
The new library, lo
cated in the southwest
corner of Elon’s walled
campus, adjacent to the
McEwen Memorial Dining
Hall, was started about
February 1st oflastyear,
and construction has
moved ahead rapidly
since that time.
The building itself,
which has cost more than
$750,000, has been vir
tually complete for the
pc'.st two months, and al
ready much of the furni
ture has been moved into
the structure. The plans
had been to move the books
from CarltOT Library in
to the new building before
the end of the 1967-68
spring term.
However, a delay in ar
rival of the steel book
stacks forced the post
ponement of the occupan
cy until the coming sum-
Order Of Oak Now
Alpha Chi Chapter
The Elon academic
honor society of the Or
der of the Oak is now to
become the Elon chapter
of the Alpha Chi, nation
al honor scholarship so
ciety. The transformation
into the national society
has just been announced
by Dr. J. E. Danieley,
Elon president, with the
approval of the Elon fa
culty.
The Alpha Chi organi
zation was founded in 1922
and has experienced a
large measure of success
since that time. It is dedi
cated to the stimulation of
sound scholarship and de
votion to truth. The pur
pose of Alpha Chi is the
promotion and recogni
tion of scholarship and of
those elements of cha
racter which make schol
arship effective for good
(Continued on page 4',
mer. Plans had called for
a “Moving Day,” with
cooperation from the Elon
students and faculty this
spring, but that event has
by necessity been post
poned.
The new library is of
traditional architectural
design, to merge with
other buildings on the E-
lon campus. It is three
stories in height and pro
vides all the facilities
which a modern college
library should have.
The new library will
provide sp5.ce for 110,000
volumes and study spaces
for 611 students at one
time, compared with the
present space in Carlton
for 60,000 volumes and
95 study seats.
The main floor will pro
vide office space and work
space for the library
staff, with a circulation
desk, a card catalogue,
reference materials,
space for current period
icals, catalogued pho
discs and listening tables
and study spaces.
The basement floor will
provide stack space, indi
vidual study spaces, study
tables and storage space
for periodicals to be sent
to the binders. The sec-
(Contlnued on Page 4)
exterior VIEff OF NEW ELON LIBRARY BUILDING
ThP new Elon Library, which is now complete and ready for the installation
Memo^rial Dining H^lh It
?frm ^ w tt all^ acuiitie^r library work "set L be underway within its walls for
[he^oming 1968-69 term. (Other interior pictures on Page 2)