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Volume VI Number 6
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, October 4, 1979
Cyclists raise funds
by John Ferguson
“In spite of the weather it
was still a success,” said Dr.
Robert Blake, chairman of
the St. Jude Bike-a-thon
held at Elon College last
Saturday. Dr. Blake said he
was pleased with the number
of people who participated
in riding against childhood
cancer and who helped in
topping the ^oal of $1,000.
Several youngsters rode
more than 100 miles, break
ing the national record, ac
cording to Dr. Blake. Jona
than Blake rode 129 miles;
Andre Wilkins, 127; Keith
Fogleman, 125; and Fred
Perkins, 100.
The participants included
all types of people— Elon
College students and pro
fessors, Kappa Sigma, Pi
Kappa Phi, and Tau Kappa
Epsilon fraternities, and
community residents from
seven to 50 years of age.
Forty people peddled ap
proximately 1,272 miles on a
course that started at Jordon
Gym, wound around Staley-
Moffitt dorms and cut back
around to the gym. Once
the rain started, there were
single bike accidents and
even collisions, but no one
was hurt.
Mrs. Crowe, president of the
Elon College Women’s
Club, did a thorough job of
providing ample amounts of
ham biscuits, sandwiches,
apples, doughnuts, and soft
drinks.
St. Jude Children's Hos
pital was founded by Danny
Thomas, and is the largest
childhood cancer research
center in the world. It is the
first and only institution
estabhshed for the sole pur
pose of conducting basic and
clinical research into catas
trophic diseases in children.
Scott Crook, 7, looks on as he b marked down for his 50th mile by Mrs. Carol Blake,
co-chairperson of the bike-a-thon > last Saturday. Scott rode more than 60 miles.
Several citizens file for places
in town government election
Sociologist to discuss suicide
Interest in work for the
town of Elon College has
picked up as two men have
filed for mayor and one
woman and three men have
filed for alderman. Three
places must be filled on the
board in the Nov. 6 election,
Timothy Parker, attorney
and four-and-one-half-year
resident of Elon College, has
announced his intentions of
running for mayor. So has
M.E. “Marty” Campbell,
who retired 14 years ago
from Western Electric and
who served three four-year
terms as alderman. He
worked primarily on town
zoning in his last term w^rich
ended in 1977.
The present mayor, T.L.
Smith, has said he will not
run for reelection.
Sidney Norton, president
of Norton-Russ Automotive
Co., Burlington, and candi
date for alderman in 1977,
has filed for alderman. He
has lived in Elon College for
11 years.
Eh-. Mary E. Priestley, pro
fessor of English and jour
nalism as well as a business
woman, filed Friday for
cont. on p. 3
Dr. Robert Davis, socio
logy, will speak to Prof.
Regina Bowden’s social pro
blems class on Oct. 9 at 2
p.m. in Mooney Theater.
Dr. Davis’s area of research
is suicide. He has done
extensive work at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin at Mad
ison and Washington State.
He is on the sociology
faculty at A&T State Univer
sity, Greensboro.
Farmer Fryar heads NC-PIRG
by Joy Hamilton
Jordan Fryar is not a
student who sits and waits
for news to break— he
makes it break.
Fryar, newly elected chair
man of the state board of
the North Carolina Public
Interest Research Group,
feels that “if one works with
PIRG, they deal with real-
world issues.” Some of
these “real world issues”
include “A Guide to Off-
Campus Housing in the Elon
College Area,” written by
Fryar, and a survey compar
ing the services and fees of
area lawyers.
“I’m a pariner on the
farm with my father,” says
Fryar, a Gibsonville native.
Of the 240 acres of land,
100 of which are used for
farming. Fryar and his
father operate a truck-
garden where customers may
come and select their own
produce.
A business accounting ma
jor and junior marshall,
Jordan plans to enter law
school upon graduation
Elon. He says, “I feel
farming will help me in the
long run because I get a
sense of the real world.”
Steve Schewel, state PIRG
representative, says of
Fryar: “We recognized
Fryar’s abilities and exper
ience, and he was the unani
mous choice by representa
tives from the schools. It is
definitely a well deserved
honor.”
In his free time, which is
relatively rare, Jordan likes
to “read the classics, lift
weights and run.” Of
running he says, “I like the
time alone— there’s nobody
out there but me, and it
gives me a chance to clear
my mind.”
Fryar’s immediate plans
with PIRG are to attend the
national convention this
month in Washington. He
also collaborates with other
PIRG schools in the state
and shoulders much respon
sibility as chairman of the
state board of PIRG.
Jordan Fryar, an accounting mi^or and Junior at Elon, has
been elected chairman of NCPIRG. He also helps his father
operate a 100 acre truck-garden. Photo by Craig York.