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MAROON AND GOLD Non-Profit Organization U. S. POSTAGE PAID Elon College, N. C. PERMIT No. 1 Return Requested VOLUME 49 ELON COLLEGE, N. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1969 NUMBER 11 MOVE INTO NEW ELON COLLEGE LIBRARY WAS TOP CAMPUS STORY FOR 1968 m The beautiful new Elon College library building, which is pictured above, was occupied with a special “Move-In Day” during the mid-summer vacation period, and that was the Top Story on the Lion College campus during the twelve months period that made up the year 1968. As has been the case for many years, the Maroon and Gold lists the major news stories of each year as that year passes into history, and the library occupation topped the "Big Ten Stories of 1968” by a wide margin of interest and importance to the college and to the work of the faculty and students. Best Stories Of 1968 Listed There were many im portant stories concern ing Elon College and the Elon College campus which appeared in the col umns of the Maroon and Gold during the twelve months that made up 1968, and it has long been the annual custom of the American newspapers to review such stories and to take an inventory of the things which have happen ed. just as the business world takes an inventory of the progress made during any particular year. Among the big news stories which appeared in the Maroon and Gold columns during 1968 were some which broke with one big news splash in a single issue, and there were others which were reported in the columns of the campus newspaper in a series of stories that were spread through out the year and which still might be related as one major story for the period. A review of the big campus stories which the ^Ipha Chi Inducts Elon Honor Group Twenty-eight Elon Col lege honor students, in cluding seventeen mem bers of the senior class and eleven members of fhe junior class, were inducted as members of Elon Chapter of Alpha |"hi, national academic nonor society, in cere monies held just prior to he Christmas holidays. The induction ceremonies ere held during a dinner meeting in McEwen Din ing Hall. The academic honor 8 oup, which was former- " a local organization “nder the name of Or der of the Oak, became a chapter of the Alpha Chi a nationwide society last spring. Membership requirements call for a 3.3 cumulative grade av erage and at least junior class level. The seniors who have lust been inducted include Rebecca Beale, hickory; John Burgess, ^ibson- ville; Muriel Cole, Cen terville, Mass.; Penny Gilliam’, BurUnSton; James Green, Smyrna, Del.; Peggy sonville; Neill Key, Haw River; James Light- (Continued on page 2) broke through the Maroon and Gold columns during 1968, have been compiled in this listing of the “Top Ten Stories of 1968” and presented in this one story. With this intro duction, the Maroon and Gold presents its “Top Ten” news events of the year just ended: (1) LIBRARY MOVE-IN For the second straight year the beautiful new Elon College library oc cupies the top spot among the “Big Ten” stories of the year. Last year it was the letting of the con tract for the library and the beginning of the con struction, which took place early in 1967.This year, the top story of 1968 was the “Move In Day ’ staged in mid-July,when the faculty, students and friends of the college all cooperated in one big pro ject that moved the books from old Carlton Library to the shelves of the new structure near Elon s West Gate. The new li brary, which offers the most modern facilities for study and research, is air - conditioned throughout and provides open shelf access to the thousands of books that are available to Elonstu- ^2) OTHER NEW BUILD- INGS -- It was a diffi cult choice to make be tween the occupation of the new Elon library and the occupation of the mag nificent new living-din- ing complex on the col lege’s new North Campus, which was completed and occupied in September as a feature of the opening of the 1968-69 term. It is definite, however,that the occupation of the new Staley Hall for women, the Moffett Hall for men and the Harper Center that includes a dining hall and recreation cen ter represented one of the major news stories of 1968 on the Elon Col lege campus. The new three-building complex, which fronts on a beauti ful campus lake, repre sents a completely mod ern project which was constructed at a cost of approximately $1,250,000. (3) NEW 4-1-4 SCHE DULE — Also among the top news developments for the year 1968 was the a- doption by the college of the new 4-1-4 schedule of academic work, which provides for a fall term of four months duration, ending with final exami nations prior to the Christmas holidays; fol lowed by a one-month mini-term during Jan uary, during which the students take only one course; and finally with a four-months spring (Continued on page 2) New Building Construction Is Started When the Elon College students returned to the campus following the lengthy Christmas holiday period, they were greet ed by the sight of a huge mountain of red dirt just inside the North Gate of Elon’s walled campus, a yawning red hole in the ground just east of the north driveway and a barefaced portico for the north end of the Duke Sci ence building. All of these sights were just bits of evidence that construction was underr way on the new office and classroom building, which has been on the planning boards for the past year, a building which is to be erected within the next twelve months adjacent to the Duke Sci ence building and which will provide needed of fices and classrooms for Elon’s expanded pro gram. Announcement was made just prior to the Christmas holidays that the contract had been let for the new structure, which will be three stor ies in height and which will be of the traditional type or architecture, de signed to fit with other and older buildings that already stand within the bounds of Elon’s walled campus. The contract for the new building, which is ex pected to cost approxi mately $750,000 when completed and furnished, (Continued on page 4)
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