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MAROON AND GOLD
Friday, October 25,1968
MAROON and gold
Dedicated to the best Interests of Elon College and
its students and faculty, the Maroon and Gold is pub
lished weekly during the college year with the excep
tion of holiday and examination periods at Elon College,
N.C. (Zip Code 27244), publication being in coopera
tion with the Journalism department.
REPORTORIAL STAFF
John Andrews, Landy Blackwell, Don Bowers, Edna
Brantley, Richard Bray, Rebecca Burgess, Chester
Burgess, Bruce Cohen, Dean Coleman, Dillard Dye,
Joe Fowler, Don Goldberg, Joe Goldberg, Tom Hardee,
Wally Hardwick, William Hartley, Joe Jessup, Sondra
Jones, Bobby King, Bob Klingel, John McNeill, Sam
Massey, Jerry Midkiff, Denny Moore, Robert Nash,
Ned Poole, Elizabeth Sanders, Kay Savage, Jerry
Schumm, Ronnie Sink, Mike Spillane, Mike Scraka,
Archie Taylor, Joe Teague, Bill Walker, Ronnie Wick
er, Jerry Woodlief, George Watts, Frank Webster.
Elon.Band Given Praise
(Continued from page 1)
ingstar, Buffalo Junction,
Va.; Gary Noubarian,Le-
wiston, N. Y.; Keith Os
borne, Kernersville; John
Park, Larchmont, N.Y.;
Susan Patton, Speed
well, Va.; Steve Peeler,
Burlington; Susan Pell,
Sanford; Gene Pointer,
Newport News, Va.; El
liott Reynolds, Durham;
Ruffin Qualls, Burling
ton; Nelda Shaw, Durham;
Barry Simons, Chase
City. Va.; Don Smith,
Plainville, N.J.; Greg
Smith, Pittsboro;
Bob Snyder, Durham;
Priscilla Spoon, Graham;
Judy Stevens, West Le
banon, N.H.; Terry Stone,
Chesapeake, Va.; Mickey
Stuart, Speedwell, Va.;
Don Stubblefield, Dur
ham; David Surrett,
Greensboro; Danny Su-
ther. Concord; Mary
Swarthout, Newton, N. J.;
FAMOUS HARPIST PLAYS IN WHITLEY NEXT FRIDAY
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for the Christian band
will be Richard Watkins,
of Burlington; andElwood
Porshia, of Falls Mills,
Va., will both play in the
band and serves as a stu
dent director and assister
for Professor White.
Chief majorette is Kay
Savage , of Whaleyville,
Va.; with Sandy Doffle-
myer, of Elkton, Va., as
a twirling specialist.
Regular majorettes are
Karen Flynn, of Elon Col
lege; Adrienne Moen, of
Belmar-Wall, N. J.; Cleo
Perdue, of Roanoke, Va.;
and Janet Thornhill, of
Chesapeake, Va. Miss
Thornhill transferred
from Frederick College,
where she was chief ma
jorette last year.
Archie Taylor, Dur
ham; Edd Thomas, Mil
ton; Bob Truitt, Raleigh;
David Towe, Miami,Fla.;
Jim White, Wytheville,
Va.; John White, Elon
College; Joan Wilson,
Wilmington, Del.; and
Dannie Underwood,
Greensboro.
Serving as drum major
NEWCOMERS TO ELON CAMPUS
Newcomers to the Elon College Campus for this
1968-69 college year include a new campus chaplain
and a new campus minister. Dr. William Joseph
Elzey (pictured left), who comes to Elon as asso
ciate professor of philosophy and religion and as
campus chaplain, is a native of Tennessee. He is a
graduate of Maryville College and earned his di
vinity degree at Emory University and the Ph. D. in
systematic theology at Boston University. He has held
pastorates in Tennessee and Virginia and has also
served on the faculty at Emory and Henry College.
Dr. Alfred Wesley Hurt (pictured right), who will be
Elen’s new campus minister, is a native of Kentucky
and a veteran of long ministerial service. He was for
three years from 1929 through 1932 a member of the
Elon religion faculty and is returning to familiar
scenes. He has also served pastorates in Tennessee,
New Jersey , the District of Columbia and Hawaii
and was for two years president of Palmer College
in Missouri.
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NOVE/yVBER BIRTHDAYS!
November 1, 1776 — The
Continental Congress author
ized a lottery to raise mili
tary funds.
November 3,1903—Panama
declared itself independent of
Columbia.
November 6, 1893 — Peter
llich Tschaikovsky, Russian
composer, died.
Famous Harpist Plays
Gerald Goodman, recognized worldwide as one of the masters of the harp,
will appear in concert in Elon’s Whitley Auditorium at 8 o’clock next Friday night,
November 1st, one of two Elon Lyceum programs which have been set for the
Whitley stage during the coming week.
Renowned Harpist Will Offer
Lyceum Concert Next Friday
A man and a harp
make strange bed-fellows
it might seem, but Gerald
Goodman will shatter
such a concept when he
appears in Whitley Audi
torium in an Elon Lyceum
program at 8 o’clock on
Friday night of next week.
His appearance will be
the second Lyceum at
traction of the week, for
the Pacific Repertoire
Company is also slated
to appear in Whitley next
Tuesday night.
Goodman smites his
ebony harp with a mascu
line vitality that recalls
its ancient origin as an
instrument of the Gods
and not an instrument of
the angels. The romance
of the wandering trouba
dours affects Goodman’s
life as well as his mu
sic, for he is the only
man who sings and ac
companies himself on the
harp, and he is always
in quest of ancient le
gends and ballads which
he adopts to his own mus
ical settings, all the while
preserving the strange
and virile spirit of the
Middle Ages.
In his desire to bring
the harp before many au
diences, he has traveled
widely in the U. S, and
Canada, both as a solo
ist with various instru
mental groups and in pre
senting his own harp
programs. The song en
titled “The Wind Was My
Mother,” for which he
wrote both words and mu
sic, expresses the feel
ings that have motivated
him during those years as
a touring musician.
Born in Cleveland,
Ohio, he began the study
of the piano at an early
age and soon displayed
an amazing technial and
interpretative talent for
the keyboard. His mother,
who was an amateur har
pist, died shortly after he
was born, but the constant
image of the harp in the
living room captivated his
imagination, and he began
harp training at the age
of fifteen with his mo
ther’s former teacher,
Alice Chalifoux.
During his summers as
a teenager, he studied
with Carlos Salzedoatthe
famed Summer Harp Col
ony in Camden, Maine. He
then moved to New York
City to continue his work
with Salzedo, whose revo
lutionary technique chan
ged the image of the harp
from that of a gilded salon
ornament to a modern in
strument of force and
precision, and under Sal-
zedo’s guidance he de
veloped the harp as one
of sharp percussion ef
fects.
Goodman got his first
job as a harpist when he
upstaged the cherubim at
Frank Campbell’s Fune
ral Parlor, where he
played a dozen services
each day. An indifference
to flowers led him to live
lier surroundings, and he
later played extended en
gagements at the Pent
house Club and at such
leading hotels as the Stan
hope, Gotham, Pierre and
Plaza.
He wrote the music and
appeared in several
Broadway dramatic hits,
and in each case the crit
ics called his harp play
ing the richest part of the
entertainment. Ye^ars
later he was featured as
both an actor and singer
in the New York Shake
speare Festival produc
tion of “As You Like It.
Goodman made his New
York solo debut in Tow
Hall in 1959, and since
that time he has won rec
ognition as one of tne
leading harpists oi
modern time. He hasp
formed in all major co
certos for the harp, a
always he manages toe
cite his listeners m nib
role as a modern
strel in quest of mus -
cal truth and beauty.