PAGE 2 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 'R 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 (Continued from page 1) 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. 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 departmsnt. REPORTORIAL STAFF Paul Amundsen, Randy Bishop, Donnie Bowers, Rebecca Burgess, Chester Burgess, Steve Caddell, Bruce Cohen, Dean Coleman, Don Goldberg, Joe Goldberg, Tom Hardee, Cheryl Hart, Dale Harrison, William Hartley, Jim Hodges, Betty Isleley, Bobby Kinj», George Kopik, Blck Long, Noble Marshall, Danny Moore, Rick O'Neill, Ned Poole, Kenneth Shaw, Jerry Schumm, Mike Spillane, Ben Stever- son. Max Sullivan, Archie Taylor, Vernon Taylor, Jim Waller, Bill Walker, Jay Waugh, Frank Web- ster, Johnny Weeks, Jerry Woodlief. Commencement Set (Continued from page 1)

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