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MAROON AND GOLD
NOVEMBER 22, 1961
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 Straka,
Archie Taylor, Joe Teague, Bill Walker, Ronnie Wick
er, Jerry Woodlief, George Watts, Frank Webster.
Thanksgiving
Holidays To Begin
Wednesday
Priestly Speaks On World
Affairs At Alumni Seminar
The annual Thanksgiv
ing Holidays for the Elon
College students and fa
culty will get underway
after the close of classes
next Wednesday, Novem
ber 27th, and will contin
ue through the following
Sunday, December 1st,
according to an announce
ment from the office of
Prof. Fletcher Moore,
dean of the college.
With the brief holiday
period ending on Sunday,
the regular class sche
dules will be resumed
for day classes at 8 o’
clock on Monday morning,
December 2nd. Since
there are no night class
es scheduled on Wednes
day nights, the Evening
School will begin vaca
tion after the Tuesday
night classes, with regu
lar Evening School class
es to be resumed on Mon
day night, December 2nd.
‘MESSIAH’
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for the past two years,
but the orchestra will not
be included in the program
this year. For the first
time the Yule program
will be presented under
the direction of Prof.
Richard Apperson, and
once again, as has been
the case for many years,
Prof. Fletcher Moore will
be the organ accompanist.
The story in this Handel
oratorio is that of the pro
phecies and anticipations
of the coming of Christ,
his sufferings and at last
his resurrection. This
work by Handel was writ
ten in just twenty-three
days between August 22nd
and September 14th in
1741, but the Handel mas
terpiece has come to be
among the most widely
recognized in the world of
music appreciation.
Dr. S. E, Gerard
Priestley, British histor
ian, lecturer and world
traveller, who is cur
rently serving as a vi
siting professor of poli
tical science on the Elon
College faculty, will con
duct an alumni seminar
on the Elon College cam
pus at 10:30 o’clock to
morrow morning, speak
ing on the topic of “Cur
rent World Affairs.”
Widely known as an au-
thortiy on the less de
veloped areas of the world
as a leader in the field of
international relations.
Dr. Priestley has achiev
ed distinction worldwide
as one of the most dy
namic speakers who ap
pears on the internation
al lecture platforms to
day.
He came to Elon Col
lege some years ago to
conduct a short seminar
series on international
relations during one of
Elon’s summer terms,
and he won such a warm
reception that he was in
vited to return for another
of the summer lecture
series.
Since the early 1930’s
the Elon College Choir
has presented “The Mes
siah” as a pre-Christmas
program on the campus,
and each year capacity
crowds have crowded
Whitley Auditorium to
hear the presentation.
This year, as has been
the case in other years,
the choir will have guest
soloists to assist in the
presentation, which fea
tures sweeping recita
tives, arias and stirring
choruses.
LECTURER
SEEN AT ONE OF THE ELON ORCHESTRA REHEARSALS
DR. GERARD PRIESTLEY
Then both he and his
wife were invited and ac
cepted an invitation to
become visiting members
of the Elon College fa
culty during this 1968-
69 college year, with Dr.
Priestley teaching in the
field of fKjlitical science
and with Mrs. Priestley
teaching in the field of
English.
His seminar lecture
this weekend will be pre
sented as a feature of the
college’s program in con
tinuing education, with
special invitations having
been extended to Elon a-
lumni and other interest
ed person to return to the
campus for the program,
which is set for 10:30
o’clock tomorrow morn
ing.
Since the close of World
War II Dr. Priestley has
visited more than seventy
countries in Europe,
North Africa, the Near
East, Southeast Asia and
Latin America in addition
to his many visits to the
United States. He knows
the Near East intimately
along with the many na
tions of Latin America.
From 1948 until 1953
Dr. Priestley served as
vice-chairman of the
Speakers Research Com
mittee for the United Na
tions, and he has also act
ed as moderator for the
pdio program entitled
“United Nations Forum of
the Air,” which originat
ed in New York.
Born in Windsor, Eng
land, Dr. Priestley spent
his first 25 years in the
United Kingdom. After at
tending a traditional Eng
lish boarding school, he
served as a junior clerk
in a London accountant’s
office, but he found his
primary interest to lie
in social and economic
problems and entered the
University of London for
undergraduate studies.
A scholarship brought
him to the United States,
where he received the
Bachelor of Divinity de
gree from Hartford Sem
inary, and after a year
of research and travel
in South America, he re
ceived the Master of
Theology from Hartford.
He later earned the
Master of Arts and Doc
tor of Philosophy degrees
from New York Univer
sity in the fields of his
tory and international ec
onomics and spent a year
of research at the Uni-
versidad Nacional de
Mexico. He also holds
the Master of Social Sci
ence from the Graduate
Faculty of Political So
cial Science, New School
for Social Research,New
York.
Dr. Priestley has
taught at several insti
tutions in the United
States prior to coming
to Elon, and he has lec
tured at more than 700
colleges and universities
in the United States and
abroad. He and Mrs.
Priestley maintain their
home in Crowborough,
Sussex, England, and re
turn there when they are
not teaching or lecturing
in other parts of the
world.
Practice Teachers
Pictured above is a busy group from the Elon College- Community Orchestra
the scene being snapped during one of the Monday night rehearsals for the musical
group that includes musicians from both the college and the community. Dr. Malvin
' directs the rehearsal, and in the central back
ground IS Dean W. Jennings Berry with his violin.
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Those assigned to East
ern Alamance High School
are Janet Seymour, of
China Grove, in French;
Eleanore Pagura, of Bur
lington, in Spanish; and
Richard Lee, of Elon Col
lege, in physical educa
tion.
Teaching at Western
Alamance High School are
Muriel Cole, of Center
ville, Mass., in French;
Eugene Perry, of Bur
lington, in social studies;
and Charles Spears, of
Burlington, in physical
education.
Two who are doing their
practice work in other
cities are Eleanor Zezzo,
of Hartford, Conn., in
Spanish, at Andrews High
in High Point; and Paul
Bleiberg, of Wilmington,
Del., in Spanish, at More-
head High School at Eden.
Among the elementary
education majors, with
home towns shown, are
Gayle Wood, of Eden,
Margaret Weaver, of
Danville, Va., Frederick
Hoy, of Swansea, Mass.,
and Becki Burchette, of
Raleigh, all working at
Eastlawn School in Bur
lington.
Others in the elemen
tary field are Ann Muse,
of Mebane, and Jackie
Webster, of Burlington,
both at E.M. Holt School;
and Janice Whitlatch, o
Burlington, at South Gra
ham School.