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Graduation application deadline Oct. 20 Colonnades meet today at 4 p.m. (all attend) 201 Large Lounge Volume V Number 6 Elon College, North Carolina October 5,1978 1 Weekend to feature talent Dr. George Troxler, associate professor of history, will explore democracy in U.S. history in the second lecture of the Liberal Arts Forum to be held Oct. 10 at 7:30 in the large lounge, Long Student Center. The topic for the forum year is democracy. Parents Weekend, set for Oct. 13-15, will open with a talent show in Whitley Audi torium on Friday evening. Selection of the winners will be based on talent, ori ginality, entertainment value and presentation, according to David DeClark, chairman. The prizes are cash — $100 for first place, $50 for second and $25 for third. The dead line for application to per form is Oct. 10. Represen tatives from the various groups performing will meet Tuesday 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Listening Room, Student Center. Application forms are available from Bill Sharpe’s office, 211 Long Student Cen ter, Ext. 201; from Frank Mianzo, 203 Student Center, Ext. 277; and from David DeClark, 317 Carolina, Ext. 329. The alumni office of Elon College has announced the series of events for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 14 and 15 as follows: England course to begin Walker to shoW film All students and friends of Elon College who are bound for England in January will gather in Room 301 Ala mance on Monday at 7 p.m. to talk about overall prepa rations. More than sixty persons have paid their deposits and half of the cost of the study-tour and air fare. There are a few places left, ac cording to Dr. David Crowe, director, and students who think they might possibly go should come along to the meeting on Monday. A mini-course on “Britain, Yesterday and Today” will be offered on Tuesday evenings bv Dr. Crowe beginning on Oct. 17. The course will offer one hour of credit and is open to people not joining the tour as well. Flans are underway for theater tickets, tours to sev eral cities and historic spots outside London, and a full schedule of activities for the month of January. Students are required to attend the orientation meet ings, and roll checks will be made at each session during this fall. There will be four or five meetings of the group as well as smaller get-togethers to be announced. All meet ings will be packed with information necessary for a successful tour, according to Dr. Crowe, Dr. M.E. Priest ley, Prof. Betty Gerow, Dr. Bill Rich and Prof. Terre Cofield, the leaders of the group. Edited by Karen Winfrey Ms. Vicki Walker, recent missionary to Hong Kong, will present a film program for students and faculty to night from 7 to 9 p.m. up stairs in the Long Student Center. Ms. Walker served in the journeyman foreign mission ary program (young college graduates) of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1973 to 1975 and is now secretary of the Mount Zion Baptist Association in Graham, N.C. This program is being spon sored by the Elon College Baptist Student Union. Inside Sports ...6 Album review... 4 Greek news Editorials Horoscopes ....5 Crossword Saturday, Oct. 14 9:00 ajm.—'Parents registra tion and reception Long Student Center. 10:00 a.m.— Parents meet ing —Whitley Auditorium 10:45 a.m.—Meet the facul ty— McBwen Library 12:00 a.m.—Picnic by the lake 1:00-3:00 p.m.—Individual faculty/parent conferences- faculty offices 3:30-5:00 p.m.—President’s reception-President’s home 7:30 p.m.—Football-Pres- byterian—Home 9:30p.m.—5th Quarter Soc ial —Ramada Inn Sunday, Oct. 15 1:00 a.m.—Church Service — Elon College community church (Elon College choir and students participating in the service) 1:30 p.m. — Concert band and Emmanons — Whitley Auditorium O’Kelly lives through monument by C.S. Crawford Memorials seldom carry in the few brief words carved in stone much beyond a lip-serv ing tribute to the heroic nature of the person or event commemorated. Such would seem to be the case concerning the simple cross of copper encased in a framework of stone erected on the Elon College campus to the Rev. James O’Kelly. “O’Kelly,” the words read beneath the cross, continuing, “He gave his life that reli gious freedom might be vin dicated for the individual Christian.” And beneath that, im pressed in stone, are the words; “Erected by the Southern Christian Confer ence, 1928.” Pass by the memorial and then look back and there is yet more information, perti nent to the man commemo rated. “Rev. James O’Kelly. Apostle of religious liberty. Founder of the Christian Church. 1794,” are the words inscribed for all to read. Ask about the campus, and teachers and instructors will provide more information. Some have only the basic data at their fingertips; others have more, much more informa tion for the life of the rev erend. Mr. O’Kelly might just be what study and determina tion are all about. Call him a “frontier aris tocrat,” or maybe “the southern champion of Chris tian liberty.” Mrs. Becky Boone of Dur ham called him both, for she wrote a play about Mr. O’Kelly. The play was pro duced and shown at Elon College just a few years back. Students and teachers here still remember the words and action of that drama. O’Kelly might have been the mold for the fighting Irish priest or minister heralded later on in books, plays, movies and more recently, television. An American Methodist Episcopal minister, O’Kelly was born in Ireland about 1757. He died in North Caro lina in 1826. O’Kelly was 21 years old when he emigrted to the United States to become a Methodist preacher, traveling from place to place. A few years later, in 1784, when the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States was organized, O’Kelly was one of the elders ordained. cont. to p. 5 I The O’Kelly monument in the Quad will be the site of a press conference of the Public Interest Research group [PIRG] today at 1:30 p.m. Photo by John Hurd
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