MAROON AND GOLD
Non-Profit Orgonizofion
U. S. POSTAGE
PAID
Elon College, N. C.
PERMIT No. 1
Return Requested
VOLUME 49
ELON COLLEGE, N. C.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1968
Number 3
SGA Week Ends Tomorrow
Play Is Final Event
For Cultural Series
Students And
Faculty At
Fall Retreat
By KAYE SAVAGE
The third annual stu-
dent-administration Fall
Retreat, with em phasis on
discussion of various
campus problems, was
held on October 5th at
the Blowing Rock Assem
bly Grounds of the
United Church of Christ
in Blowing Rock.
During the three-day
weekend both the students
and the administration
presented and discussed
problems and plans for
the current year and also
plans for the future. A-
mong other activities
during the weekend, the
group attended the Elon-
Appalachian football
game in Boone.
Attending this weekend
conference from the ad
ministration and faculty
were Dr. J. E. Danieley,
president of the college;
Dean Fletcher Moore,
dean of the college; Dr.
Theo Strum, associate
dean; Prof. Jennings Ber
ry, dean of students;
Prof. A. S. Hassell,as
sistant to the president;
Dr. Ben M. Williams,
academic counsellor;
Prof. Lewis Wilkins,
academic counsellor; W.
E. Butler, Jr., business
manager; Larry McCau
ley, assistant business
manager; Robert C. Bax
ter, director of develop
ment; Mrs. June M. Loo
ney, associate dean of
students; Bob Gwaltney,
registrar; Tyrone Row
ell, alumni secretary; Dr.
Alfred Hurst, campus
minister; and Dr. William
J. Elzey, campus chap
lain.
(Continued on page 2)
Three Alumni
Speakers For
Chapel Events
Three of Elon College’s
outstanding alumni, two of
them from Burlington,
appeared in Elon chapel
programs in Whitley Au
ditorium last week, deliv
ering a series of three
Alumni Lectures to Elon
students and faculty
members on the general
subject of “Outlook For
Tomorrow.”
Dr. Robert W. Truitt,
of Raleigh, head of the
Pepartment of Engineer
ing and Aero-Space at
N. C. State University,
Spoke Tuesday, October
on the “Outlook For
Tomorrow” in the field
of science. A graduate of
Elon with the Class of
1941, he holds the mas-
s and doctor’s degree
from Virginia Polytech-
''ic Institute, and he has
published more than sixty
papers in scientific
(Continued on Page 4)
DIRECTORS OF ELON PLAYER SHOW
The Elon Players, who open their first dramatic
production of the 1968-69 season with the rendition of
Antigone” in Mooney Theatre at 8:15 o’clock to
night, will be operating for the first time under two
faculty directors. Prof. Sandy Moffett (left), back on
campus this fall after two years on a leave of absence
for advanced study, will direct the stage performance
of the great Greek tragedy; and Prof. Ed Pilkington
(right), who has headed the stage work at Elon for the
past two years, will serve as technical director for the
initial show of the new season.
Curtain Rises For
First Player Show
(other Pictures Page 4)
The curtain rises to
night on the first Elon
Player show of the 1968-
69 stage season, with the
student dramatists pre
senting Jean Anouilh’s
modernized version of the
ancient Greek tragedy of
“Antigone,” with the ini
tial performance set at
8:15 o’clock tonight in
Mooney Threatre.
The second presenta
tion of the show will be at
8:15 o’clock tomorrow
night, and the final show
ing is set for the same
hour in Mooney next
Tuesday night, October
22nd. All showings will
be under the combined di
rection of Prof. Sandy
Moffett and Prof. Ed Pil
kington, with Moffett
handling the stage work
and Pilkington the tech
nical phases.
Although the Elon Play
er presentation is a
strictly modernized ver
sion, it still follows the
ancient story told many
centuries ago of the
doomed and princely fam
ily in Greece, with to
night’s play telling only
the final stages of the
tragic account.
It is the story of Anti
gone, who rebells at the
decree that the corpse of
her brother shall not be
buried but shall instead
be left to be mangled by
vultures and dogs. In de
fying this decree, she
herself risks a horrible
fate and is caught an^d
dies a martyr s death.
This modern version of
the tragedy was written
by Jean Anouilh, a French
dkmatist. His version of
the Greek story was first
written and produced in
Paris in 1943, having
that time to receive the
approval of a German oc
cupation censor to be per
formed.
Playing the title role of
Antigone is Glenda Con
don, of McLean, Va.,with
Elon Player veteran Jim
Gillespie, of Taftville,
Conn., as the chorus
which narrates the story.
(Continued on Page 2)
The Elon College Stu
dent Government Asso
ciation, working with the
cooperation of other cam
pus groups, has staged its
first “SGA Week this
week, featuring a full
week of cultural pro
grams that started on
Monday night and will
close with the presenta
tion of the first Elon
Player show of the year
tonight and Saturday
night.
The week of programs,
which has featured a wide
variety of attractions,was
arranged under the di
rection of Don Tarkenton,
of Cheapeake, Va., who
has served as chairman of
the SGA committee for
the weeklong event.
The initial event on the
schedule was the second
of the series of Fine
Films, presented in Whit
ley Auditorium on Monday
night under the sponsor
ship of the Liberal Arts
Forum. This was follow
ed on Tuesday night at 8
o’clock, also in Whitley,
by the appearance of Ro
bert Guthrie, classical
guitarist, as a special
number of the Elon Ly-
CHAIRMAIS
DON TARKENTON
Directs SGA Week
ceum series.
Speakers originally
planned for Wednesday
night were unable to
come, but the Liberal Arts
Forum presented Dr.
Richard Fogle, of the
UNC-CH faculty in an
address last night,and the
Elon Player showing of
Antigone tonight and to
morrow night winds up the
week of fine cultural pro
grams.
Young Guitarist Is Heard In
Elon Lyceum Program
Robert Guthrie, one of
America’s outstanding
GUITARIST IN CAMPOS CONCERT
at
ROBERT GUTHRIE, GUITARIST
in SGA Week Program
guitarists, appeared in a
recital in Whitley Audi
torium on Tuesday night,
October 15th, appearing
as a special feature of
the Elon Lyceum series
and also as one of the
college’s “SGA Week”
programs.
Guthrie, who is a 24-
year old Texas, played a
program which included
the compositions of Louis
Milan, Robert DeVisse,
J.S. Bach and S. L. Weiss
in the classical portion
of his recital. After in
termission he played a
number of modern com
positions by Torroba,
Tansman and Lauro.
The young guitarist was
originally a self-taught
musician, but he began
the formal study of the
■ guitar at the age of twel
ve, studying while in high
school with James Hin-
tikka in Houston and Ed
ward Freeman in Dallas.
Guthrie moved from his
home town to Dallas in
1964 and both taught and
performed there. In Dall
as he played an audition
for Andres Segovia.with
whom he later studied in
master classes. He has
also studied with Alirio
Diaz, Oscar Rhiglia.Cal-
edonia Romero and Jesus
Silva.
He has played exten
sive concert tours in the
United States and Latin
America .