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MAROON AND GOLD
FRIDAY, MAY 16.1969
New Circle K Club
Is Formed At Elon
Eleven Elon College
students have just be
come charter members of
the new Circle K Club
on the Elon campus.the
club being a service group
which was organized un
der the sponsorship of
the Burlington Kiwanis
Club.
The charter members
of the group include no
seniors, so all of them
will be back in college
next fall, and already
they are laying plans for
service projects in keep
ing with the "We Build”
motto of the parent Ki-
wanis Club.
The officers of the new
club include Ernest Wil
kinson, of Kenly, presi
dent; Buck Cobb, of Vir
ginia Beach, Va., vice-
president; and Joe Sigler,
of Miami, Fla., secretary
and treasurer. Ronnie O’
Brien, of Fayetteville, is
a director of the club.
Other members include
Scott Bailey, of Silver
Spring, Md.; A1 Blom, of
Staten Island, N. Y.; John
Goins, of Winston-Salem;
Lee Loy, of Burlington;
Keith Osborne, of Ker-
nersville; Terry Rice, of
Arlington, Va.; and Eddie
Williamson, of Thomas-
ville.
THEY ARE OFFICERS OF JSEW ELON CIRCLE K CLUB
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Watts Will Receive
Elon Alumni Award
The officers of the new Circle K Club on the Elon campus are pictured above.
Left to right they are Buck Cobb, of Virginia Beach, Va., vice-president; Ernie
Wilkinson, of Kenly, president; and Joe Sigler, of Miami, Fla^ secretary and
treasurer.
Elon Faculty Members Study
On Summer Sabbatical Leave
Dr. Daniel T. Watts,
dean of the School of
Graduate Studies at the
Medical College of Vir
ginia in Richmond, has
been named the outstand-
ing “Alumnus of the
GETS AWARD
DR. D.T. WATTS
Goedeck Signs
Pro Contract
Henry Goedeck, who set
new Elon records for
most field goal attempts
and most field goals made
during his four years of
Elon basketball, has sign
ed to play with the Caro
lina Cougars in the Amer
ican Basketball Associa
tion, according to infor
mation gained just as this
issue of the Maroon and
Gold was about to go to
press. He was signed as
a free agent rather than
drafted.
Year” at Elon College.
Dr. Watts will be hon
ored with the distinguish
ed alumni award at the an
nual alumni banquet, to
be held in the ball room
of the McEwen Memor
ial Dining Hall on Satur
day night. May 24th. The
banquet will climax the
Alumni Day program,
which itself forms the
first day’s events of
Elon’s 1969 commence
ment weekend.
Dr. Watts, who grad
uated from Elon College
with the Class of 1937,
will be a guest speaker
for the Alumni Banquet
and will speak on the
subject of “Habituation
And Addiction To Drugs.”
The Elon alumnus went
on to Duke University to
earn the doctorate and has
served as professor and
chairman of the Depart-
msnt of Pharmacology at
West Virginia University
Medical Center from 1953
until 1966, when he be
came dean of graduate
studies and professor of
pharmacology at Medical
College of Virginia.
His contributions to
physiology and pharma
cology include develop
ment of breathing equip
ment for aviators, re
search in treatment of
hemorrhagic shock, and
studies of the affect of
nicotine and smoking on
the secretion of epine
phrine, a hormone which
affects blood pressure
and cardiac output.
Five members of the
Elon College faculty have
been awarded summer
sabbatical leaves for the
coming summer to work
toward an advanced de
gree or to do refresher
study in their fields.
The sabbatical study is
made possible jointly by
the Piedmont University
Center and Elon College,
due to a grant from the
Fund For Advancement
of Education. Normally
the grants are for a full
summer’s work to a max
imum of $1,000 per reci
pient. The grants award
ed include the following;
bring back all classes
whose dates end in ei
ther four or nine, with
special honor for the
Golden Anniversary
Class of 1919 and the
Silver Anniversary Class
of 1944. Other reunion
classes include those
which graduated in 1924,
1929. 1934, 1939, 1949,
1954, 1959 and 1964.
The alumni will regis
ter in William S. Long
Student Center at 10 O'
clock on Saturday morn
ing, attend the Alumni
Luncheon at noon and the
business meeting at 2 o’
clock that afternoon. A
program of music at 5
o’clock will be followed
by an “Open House” in
the library building and
the Alumni Banquet in
McEwen Dining Hall on
Saturday night.
The Sunday program
gets underway with the
baccalaureate sermon in
Alumni Memorial Gym
nasium at 11 o’clock on
Sunday, May 25th, fol
lowed by a luncheon for
seniors and parents in
Harper Center and a
luncheon for faculty and
guests in McEwen im
mediately after the ser
mon, which will be de
livered by the Rev. Ro
bert B. Marr, of Suffolk,
Dr. Kostas V. Cepas,
associate professor of
German and Latin, a na
tive of Lithuania, plans
to do refresher work in
German, with research
In the problem of teach
ing German language to
non-Germans.
Mrs. Terrell Cofield,
assistant professor of
music, will study with
Luigi Ricci in Rome, It
aly, for eight weeks. Ric
ci is a recognized author
ity in the area of bel
canto.
Prof. Roger Grim son,
of the math department,
will do research for his
dissertation, seeking to
Va.
President and Mrs.
J. E. Danieley will be
hosts to the seniors and
guests at a reception in
the Ballentine Lounge of
the Harper Center at 1:15
o’clock Sunday afternoon,
followed by the gradua
tion exercises in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium at
3:30 o’clock Sunday after
noon, with Congressmen
Richardson Preyer as the
featured speaker. The
graduation program has
been held on Monday
morning in the past years.
Alpha Chi
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ville; Sally O’Neill, Sy
camore, 111.; Gerry Ox
ford, Elon College; Di-
mitia Panagiotopoulou,
Athens, Greece;
Anita Rich, Haw River;
Vada Rogers, Durham;
James Ross, Graham;
Cleo Perdue, Roanoke,
Va.; Russell Schetroma,
Natalie, Pa.; Archie Tay
lor, Durham; Linda
Thompson, Burlington;
Julia Treece, Concord;
Linda Wesley, Roxboro;
Harold Wheeler, Graham;
Margaret Willett, Pitts-
boro; Janet Winstead,
Elon College; and Jerry
Woodlief, Rougemont.
complete lequirements
for his Ph. D. at Duke
University. He will pre
pare his dissertation for
publication.
Prof. William C. Ram
sey, of the English de
partment will do re
search and writing on his
doctoral dissertation at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill,
working in a study of the
Faulkner novels.
Coach Gary Mattocks,
of the physical education
department, will do addi
tional graduate work in the
field of physical education
at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
CHAIRMAN
DR. DURWOOD STOKES
Dr. Durward T. Stokes,
a native of Graham 3^*^^
member of the Elon Col
lege faculty for the past
several years, has been
named chairman of tne
department of history and
social science at Elon
College, succeeding to the
post held by the late Ur-
Konstantinas Avizonio.
The appointment of
Stokes to the depart
mental post wasapprovea
at a recent meeting ot
the executive committee
of the Elon College board
of trustees, which actea
upon the recommenda
tion submitted by Dr.
E. Danieley, Elon’s pres
ident.
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Paul Amundsen, Randy Bishop, Donnie Bowers,
Rebecca Burgess, Chester Burgess, Steve Caddell,
Bruce Cohen, Dean Coleman, Don Goldberg, Joe
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Commencement Set
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