February 18. 1975
The Pendulum
Page Three
Garrison’s Soda Shop
Delivers to Dorms
By Diane Costa
Garrison’s Soda Shop, under the direction of Mike Slade and Doug
Thomas, two former Eion students, is revamping services to students
The most prominent change is an on-campus free-delivery service
Next comes the All-American college food: PIZZA. Using premium
ingredients. Garrison s puts out the premium pizza.
Thanks to Randy Etheridge and his super-stereo, mellow tunes fill
the air at Garrison's. Right now. all energies of the employees are
directed toward giving students and professors a place to eat some
good food, talk to some friends and just plain relax.
Over the past years, many rumors have been heard about selling
beer in the town of Elon College. Garrison's is now taking action.
Back in 1938. the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina
passed an ordinance to make it illegal to sell beer on tap within a mile
and a half radium of the center of Alamance building. However
antiquated this law may seem, it is still on the statute books.
Doug Thomas will be lobbying the state legislature at the February
sessions in hopes of repealing this statute. Student petitions to repeal
the law will be circulating in the dorms, student union and at
Garrison's.
If all his efforts succeed. Garrison's will be one of the first
distributors of Coors beer on the East Coast. Brewed in Golden.
Colorado. Coors is unpasteurized, naturally fermented and carbonated
Rocky Mountain spring water: liquid gold.
66 Participate in 1975
Travel-Study Program
By Dave Shuford
Sixty-six students participated in the travel study programs offered
during winter term. Outside of their three-week planned itinerary,
students had one week of free time during which they took their own
excursions around Europe. The students went to Holland. Germany,
France, and Switzerland.
Drew Parr. Al Womble, and Bob Grandy visited places in
Switzerland, Germany, and France, They traveled to a small town in
Switzerland which Bob Grandy fell was one of the greatest
experiences of his trip. They visited a small city in Germany where one
of them had some friends, and also visited Paris. Most all of the
students went to Edinburgh, Dublin, while some visited Dr. Mary
Ellen Priestley at her home in Sussex.
Most all of the students enjoyed the trip. "I liked the way they
worked the program," said Bob Grandy. There was enough planned to
keep the trip interesting, but not too much, was his feeling. One of the
events the group enjoyed, according to Dan Stone, was the visit to
Stonehenge. He felt it was something everyone had heart about and
was an exceptional experience to see in person.
Garrison's Soda Shop is frequented and eiyoyed by many Elon
students. (Photo by Dave Shuford)
Group Studies Rural
To Urban Transition
Europe trip adds variety to student wardrobe. (Photo by Dave
Shuford)
North Carolina Public Interest
Research Group to Meet
There will be a meeting tonight of those interested in establishing the
North Carolina Public Interest Research Group on the Elon campus.
PIRG, founded by consumer advocate Riilph Nader, is an
independent corporation which seeks to serve public mterest y
investigating and researching problems and using public e uca i
administrative procedures, and legislative lobbying to see so utions.
Faculty members as well as students are urged to meet in room 205
of the Student Union at 7:(K) to discuss plans and objectives of this
organiziition.
By Lance Latane
The future of Alamance
County was the topic of
discussion at a series of day-long
public conferences on
"Rural-Urban Alamance —
Transitions in Town and
Country" on Jan. 28 and 29 at
Elon College.
Recently five municipalities in
this county have been listed as
urban areas by the U.S. Dept, of
Housing and Urban
Development.
To aid in the country's
transition from rural to urban
status and to develop greater
understanding of problems of
growth, the college, with
matching funds, secured a grant
from the N.C. Humanities
Committee. This committee
annually provides funds for
communities to use in citizen
education in the humanities. A
steering committee from
interested faculty and
community developed the format
.of semi-formal talks and citizen
interest workshops headed by
notable speakers and community
leaders. Mrs. Marjorie L. Long
of Elon College was project
leader.
Elon College
Loses Dedicated
Alumnus in
Death
By Gib Buie
George D. Colclough, an Elon
College alumnus and member of
the Board of Trustees, died Jan,
30 at Duke Medical Center after
10 days' illness.
An active churchman and civic
leader, he was a member of both
the Gibsonville and Burlington
Rotary clubs and served as
president of both. He was active
in the Burlington Merchants
Association, as well as the Credit
Bureau, and in 1%9 was voted
Alamance County Citizen of the
Year. He graduated from Elon
College in 1926.
The funeral was held Feb. I at
the Elon College Community
Church with the Rev. Thomas
Hamilton and Dr. Millard
Stevens officiating. Burial
followed in the Magnolia
Cemetery of Elon College. He is
survived by his widow. Mrs. Sue
Watts Colclough; a son. Dr.
George Watts Colclough of
Wilmington; two daughters. Miss
Anne Colclough of Chapel Hill
and Mrs. Phillip Mann of
Burlington; and a brother. John
Robert Colclough of Durham.
The speakers and workshops
provided listeners and
participants with an increased
awareness of the citizen’s role in
county development and
planning. The workshops offered
the opportunity for residents to
air their views on the future of
the county. The aim was to
stimulate greater communication
and response between the county
planning commission and
community members.
According to steering
committee member Prof. Sam
Griffin, much concern was
voiced in the areas of social
values and quality urban
housing, health care, and
sewerage facilities. In the light of
high unemployment in the
county, the economy was a live
topic. Griffin said response to
the seminars was favorable.
Those who attended seemed
impressed with the program and
its possible benefits. Such public
service is “what we should be
doing for the community." said
Prof. Griffin. He added that he
hopes the college can obtain
further funds to continue such
programs.
The conference was concluded
on Feb. 11 with a luncheon and
community report. Featured
speakers were former Governor
Robert Scott and Dr. John
Sullivan, who summarized
findings of the seminar.
Much data used during the
conference was collected and
analyzed by Prof. Griffin's
winter term geography class
which studied social problems in
Alamance County.
Terry Fry
Murdered
Terry Lynn Fry. 21-year-old
1971-73 Elon coed, was
murdered December 24, 1974.
Miss Fry was stabbed to death by
Floyd Poss, Norfolk native and
motel desk clerk on duty the
night of the murder.
He was apprehended
immediately after the crime.
Newspaper reports stated that
Poss was awaiting a pre-sentence
statement for committing a crime
in which he raped and burned
with cigarettes a 16-year-o1d
Norfolk girl. He was to report for
psychiatric treatment once a
week while employed at the
Ramada Inn awaiting trial in
January.
Miss Fry was buried
December 24, 1974 in Suffolk,
Va.
Chaucer Meal
For Medieval
^ Gourmets
By Linda Sullivan
Anyone walking down West
College Avenue on a certain
winter evening, might have
found himself looking in
consternation at the John
Sullivan residence. Hanging in
their doorway was a great
wooden sign in the shape of a
tabard (a short work coat worn in
the Middle Ages) which read
"The Tabard Inn,"
It was at the Tabard that the
English 491-Chaucer class
celebrated their acquaintance
with Chaucer and the Middle
Ages by a feast that would have
pleased any Frankeleyn.
Mrs. Betty Gerow, professor
of the class and Elon’s resident
Chaucer expert, says, "I have
always wanted tc have a
Franklin’s Feast. But this is the
first class that was small enough
and enthusiastic enough to try
it."
Like any good Franklin’s
feast, the dinner included a wide
range of sumptuous foods,
prepaiied by Prof. Gerow and
Linda Sullivan, a student in the
class. One's palate is delighted
by simply glancing at the menu:
^ked flounder, roasted stuffed
hens with almond-milk sauce, leg
of lamb, cabbage aspic, cooked
cabbage, peas with bacon, baked
pears and apples, fruitcake,
wafers, English tea, imported
ale, and apple cider. This menu
was taken from actual Franklins’
menus found in various sources
on the Middle Ages.
Entertainment for the evening
was recorded music of the period
and a slide presentation of art
and architecture of the period.
Harry Bailly, alias John Sullivan,
the "goode Hooste," gave a
commentary on the slides
providing insight amidst the
festivities.
Greet chiere made oiire Hoost
IIS everichon.
And to the soper sette he us
anon.
He sen’ed iis with vitaiUe at
the heste...
And seyde thus: "Now.
lordynges. trewely.
Ye been to me right welcome,
hertely:
For by my trouthe. if that I
shal not lye.
/ saiigh nat this yeer so myrie a
compaignye
Atones in this herberwe as is
now...
General Prologue
The class extends appreciation
to Gayle Fishel who made the
Tabard Inn sign, to Betsy
Wheaton and the music
department for their advice on
record selections, to Dr. Sullivan
for being host, and to the guests
who dared enter Chaucer's world
fora night.)
Law Women To Meet
Women-in-Law at the
UNC-CH School of Law is
sponsoring a recruitment
weekend Feb. 28-March I for
any women interested in
attendii^ law school. Housing
will be provided if needed. For
details see the Placement Office
or write; Womcn-in-Law, UNC
l^w School. Chapel Hill, N.C.
27214.