Johnny Graves Day set for May 1
Johnny Graves Day will be
celebrated on May 1, spon
sored by the Student Union
Board with help from a com
mittee of students, staff, facul
ty and community people. Bill
Sharpe, coordinator of student
activities, is chairman of the
committee.
The Rev. John Graves,
retired professor of religion at
Elon College, is ill, and the
function is planned to provide
funds to help defray expenses
of his medical care. Known to
the entire area as a person who
helped others gladly and gen
erously, the Rev. Mr. Graves
would, his friends think, enjoy
the carnival atmosphere of the
proposed celebrations if he
could see them. “A carnival
atmosphere is appropriate,”
Mr. Sharpe says, “because it
best signifies the celebration
that Johnny Graves held for
life, friends, and Elon College
through his years of selfless
service.”
The campus will be deco
rated in the carnival motif with
game booths and music pro
vided by Sugar Grove. Oppor
tunities will be offered individ
uals and groups to perform on
stage. A flea market and
auction of items donated by
students and faculty will be
conducted by Prof. Jack
V/hite. The Elon College
Women’s Club will sponsor a
bake sale.
Highlights of the day will be
the crowning of the May King
and Queen of Campus Spirit.
Entrants will be judged on
their contribution to overall
campus spirit. All campus or
ganizations are urged to sub
mit names and pictures of con
testants by April 19 to Gwen
Crawford or Bunky Womble.
Voting will be the week before
the crowning. A steak dinner
and other prizes await the king
and queen.
Items for the auction and
flea market may be left in Bill
Sharpe’s office, 211 Student
Center.
John Graves, retired professor of reflgion at Elon College.
Community performs in play!
More than 100 Elon College
students, community residents,
professional singers and chil
dren will be featured tonight
and tomorrow evening in
‘Noye’s Fludde.” The 8 p.m.
performances will be in Whit
ley Auditorium.
Under the direction of Dr.
Walter Westafer, chairman of
the Department of Fine Arts,
the play is a project of the
school’s history of musical
styles and structures class. It
traces the Biblical scripture of
the Great Flood and Noah’s
preservation of the species.
Included in the cast are 66
children from the Burlington
Boys Choir; the Burlington
Boys Training Choir, a young
er group training to enter the
Boys Choir; and members of
the Youth Choir of the
Church of the Holy Comfort
er. The children, under the
direction of Miss Eva Wise
man, will play the parts of the
animals.
“Noye’s Fludde” is a medie
val Chester Miracle Play set to
music by the 20th century
English composer Benjamin
Britten. The community-wide
appeal is just as it was during
the 14th and 15th centuries
when places like Chester, Eng
land, expressed their religious
faith through cycles of plays
depicting archetypal Biblical
themes. The entire one-scene
play runs about 50 minutes.
Leading soloists are Arvid
Knutsen and Phyllis Tektoni-
dis, both professional singers
on the UNC-G faculty who
play the roles of Noah and his
wife. Performing as their three
sons and their wives are Karen
Baulding, Brenda Brantley,
Richard Steele, James Man
chester, Freida Matkins and
David Vaughan.
Serving as “gossips” are
Meri Ford, Catherine McLau-
hn, Sarah Peach, and Mar
garet Gray. Joseph Rickman is
the voice of God, and two
children who dance, Helen
Sullivan and Douglas Rich,
play parts of the dove and
raven.
A siring quartet composed
of Steve and Mikki Harper,
Nancy Jones, Chauncey Pat
terson and Charles Jones pro
vide the core of the musical
arrangements. Other instru
mentalists come from Turren-
tine and Broadview junior high
schools. Dr. James V Cobb,
director of choirs at Elon, is
associate director for music
and will be conducting the
orchestra.
Assisting Dr. Westafer will
be Jerry Johnson, assistant to
the director; Mark Payne,
technical director; and Mrs.
Dorothy Westafer, associate
director for drama and choreo
graphy. Randy Johnson and
Mark Payne designed the
intricate set.
Kevin Holland is principal
percussionist, Anthony Coyne
is solo recorder player, and
Robert B. King is director of
the handbell choir.
“As you can see, there are
many, many people involved in
this production. We are really
proud of the cooperation we
have received and the amount
of dedicated work our students
and members of the communi
ty have invested. We think we
have an excellent production to
offer the citizens of Alamance
County,” Dr. Wesafer said.
Duke is commencement speaker
Elon College studenU and members of Burlington Boys Choir
rehearse a scene from “Noye’s Fludde.”
Paul Duke, senior corres
pondent for public television in
Washington, D.C., will be
commencement speaker when
more than 300 Elon College
graduates receive their degrees
on Sunday, May 21.
Duke is moderator of the
popular PBS series “Washing
ton Week in Review,” recent
winner of the Dupont Award
as television’s outstanding
public affairs program. He has
served as anchorman for PBS
coverage of Senate hearings on
the Panama Canal Treaty, the
Korean affair, the Bert Lance
scandal and other special pro
grams.
In 1974 he was co-anchor
man and analyst for PBS’s im
peachment coverage, widely
heralded by critics as the best
of all television coverage of the
Congressional proceedings
that foreshadowed President
Nixon’s departure from office.
Duke and Martin Agronsky
conducted a series of inter
views in 1975 with President
Gerald Ford and Vice Presi
dent Nelson Rockefeller for
PBS. The interview with the
President, conducted on the
first anniversary of his taking
office, was regarded by many
professional journalists as the
best Mr. Ford has ever given.
A seasoned political report
er, Duke first came to the
capital in 1957 as a reporter
with the Associated Press. He
joined the staff of the Wall
Street Journal in 1959, and in
1963 went to NBC News as
congressional correspondent.
He was president of the
Radio-TV Correspondents As
sociation in 1977. He received
a B.A. degree in English in
1948 from the University of
Richmond, where he was also
presented with an honorary
Doctor of Letters degree in
1973. He is listed in “Who’s
Who in America.”
The 10:30 a.m. commence
ment ceremonies in Alumni
Memorial Gymnasium will
mark the 88th annual official
commencement program on
the campus. Candidates will be sociate in Science, and one-
awarded degrees of Bachelor
of Science, Bachelor of Arts,
Bachelor of Applied Science,
Bachelor of Applied Arts, As-
year secretarial science cer
tificates. Students will also be
recognized with several awards
and honors.
Four compete in mock U.N,
Four Elon students have
been awarded academic dis
tinction by the North Carolina
Political Science Association
for their competition in the
United Nations Security Coun
cil simulation. They are Bill
Britten, a senior from Virginia
Beach, Va.; Tom Columbrito,
a junior, from Palm Beach,
Fla.; Kemp Liles, a senior,
from BurHngton, N.C.; and
Lynne Walker, a junior, from
Virginia Beach, Va.
The delegation from Elon
was awarded first runner-up
for best delegation in their
representation of the country
of Romania, and Kemp Liles
was elected president of the
security council and was also
awarded honorable mention
for best delegate.
The simulation in which 15
universities and colleges from
across North Carolina par
ticipated was held at UNC-G
on April 6, 7, 8 and was
sponsored by the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte
and the North Carolina Politi
cal Science Association. Dur
ing the three-day session, the
students representing the dele
gations of the 15 security
council member nations de
bated and proposed resolu
tions concerning the issues of
the Middle East and South
Africa.
The students were judged
on their knowledge of the
issues, how well they assumed
the role of their country, and
their resolutions on the issues.
CROP sponsors fast
The Civinettes along with
the religious Hfe committee of
Elon College are joining to
gether with CROP, a national
organization concerned with
alleviating world hunger, in
sponsoring a fast to be held
Wednesday and Thursday,
April 19 and 20. The purpose
of this event is not only to raise
money to help relieve the
effects of world hunger, but
also an attempt to educate and
make clear to this college com
munity the realities of wide
spread world hunger.
The fast will begin at 1:30
p.m. Wednesday, April 19,
with a kick-off meeting in the
large lounge in Long Student
Center. This meeting will
feature a presentation by Dr.
and Mrs. Sloan and the
viewing of the short film, “The
Glass House.” Between 5 and
6 p.m. on Wednesday, there
will be a hymn sing in Wfttley
Auditorium.
There will be a lemonade
break at 9:30-10:00 a.m. on
Thursday morning. Fasters,
sponsors, and all interested
persons are invited to this
break for fellowship. The
break will be held in the senate
room, 204 Long Student Cen
ter.
The fast, which will last 28
hours, will end Thursday after-
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