Jenliulum
Volume VI, Number 12
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, November 15, 1979
Six enter Hall of Fame
The 1979 Homecoming Qaeen Mary Carol was crowned daring
Saturday’s game against Lenoir HAyne. Siie represented tlie
Black Cultural Society. TKE’s representative,Cass Bonderant,
was first runner-up, with Sharon Gould of Sigma Pi being
second runner-up, and Susan Connors of Pi Kappa Phi took
third runner-up. Photo by Craig Stanfield.
Frat starts plans for house
by Nancy Cmtchfleld
A highlight of the Elon
College homecoming last Sat
urday was the induction of
five former Fighting Chris
tian athletic stars and a coach
into the school’s Hall of
Fame.
Five of the inductees were
present to participate in the
ceremonies, while a sixth was
inducted posthimiously.
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Dr. Fr^ Young, president
of Elon, opened the program
with a brief tribute to the role
of the athletic prdgrSn in
Elon’s history.
“It is an important part of
Elon,” he said, “and Elon’s
athletic history has some
great traditions.”
Russell T. Bradford was
the man inducted post
humously. He was an
outstanding basketball player
and a graduate of the class of
1916.
by J. King White
Major steps towju’d build
ing the first chapter-owned
fraternity house on the Elon
College campus have been
taken by the members of
Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
Thirty-nine of the chapter’s
alumni returned for Home
coming Weekend to discuss
plans toward this goal. The
turnout included 13 founding
members of the chapter,
which was chartered on the
Elon College campus on Sept.
21, 1973.
The fraternity hopes to be
able to build their chapter
house within the next three
years. The Lambda-Lambda
House Corporation was in
corporated in the spring of
1977 and is recogniz^ by the
state of North Carolina and
the federal government. The
treasury of this corporation
will fund construction of the
new fraternity house.
According to House Cor
poration treasurer Lester E.
Waldrup, Jr., prospects for
building in the near future,
look promising. “Our assets
are growing at a substantial
rate each year. We have
hopes of beginning the first
phase of construction in less
than three years. The house
plans have already been
drawn up, and’ a chapter
alumnus who is a contractor
has offered to build the
structure at just over his
actual cost. In addition, two
Virginia-based Kappa Sigmas
in the construction field who
were initiated at other colleges
have indicated their desire to
help us. They heard that we
were organizing to build our
own fraternity house and
generously offered their
assistance.”
Waldrup notes that it will
take much more than what
the alumni can raise to
finance a project of this size.
“I have been in contact with
our fraternity’s national
headquarters about securing
loans,” he says, “and have
been assured that sufficient
financial assistance will be
available when the time to
build arrives.”
To date, the college has no
definite plans to set aside land
near the Elon College campus
where fraternity and sorority
houses may be located.
“This is the main problem we
are faced with,” says Wald
rup. “The alumni recognize
the problems that exist when
a fraternity is housed in town,
and we soon will be prepared
to do something about it.
However, we are being held
back because we haven’t been
able to ascertain what incli
nations, if any, the wUege
has toward establishing a
fraternity/sorority row.”
Alumni support for Elon’s
chapter of Kappa Sigma is
growing. Besides active
support of the House Cor
poration through monetary
donations, the alumni are
establishing an alumni asso
ciation which will involve
Kappa Sigmas throughout
Piedmont North Carolina,
regardless of where these men
attended college.
The induction was made by
Moultrie Guerry, Bradford’s
son-in-law. Mrs. Russ
Guerry, Bradford’s daughter,
accepteid the plaque.
Bradford was Elon’s first
all-state basketball player as a
member of the 1916 team.
He was also on Walter
Camp’s All-American team.
Bradford played every game
while he was in school and led
Elon to two championships.
He was also an outstanding
student at Elon and later at
the University of Virginia
Law School. He was a trial
lawyer in Norfolk, Va., an
assistant U.S. District Attor
ney and later, a referee in
bankruptcy. He served on
the Elon Board of Trustees
from 1956 until his death in
1968.
The induction of Paul
“Lefty” Cheek was made, by
a teammate, Paul Roy.
Cheek was a baseball and
basketball player who grad
uated in 1936.
Roy pointed to Cheek’s
career as an outstanding
athlete at Bessemer Hieh
School in Greensboro, at
Elon, and later as a player
and athletic director at Me
Crary Mills in Asheboro.
Cheek presented a first
baseman’s mitt from the 1930
era as a memento to the Hall
of Fzmie.
Dr. Roy C. Rollins pre
sented and inducted Walter
C. “Firpo” Latham, class of
1934. Latham participated in
football, baseball and basket
ball and earned 10 letters at
Elon.
Under football coach D.C.
“Peahead” Walker, Latham
played 60 minutes of every
game during his freshman
year. As a member of the
baseball team he pitched a
no-hitter against Wofford.
He played on seven cham
pionship teams at Elon.
Latham went on to become a
coach and a principal. In
these roles, he spent 30 years
at Bethel High School.
He presented the Hall of
Fame a pair of football pants
he wore while playing at
Elon.
Graham L. “Doc” Mathis
was inducted by Prof. Luther
Byrd, a retired member of the
Elon faculty. Mathis was
head basketball and basebsdl
coach at Elon from 1949 to
1959.
In accepting his plaque,
Mathis paid tribute to his
high school coach. Prof. J.C.
Collie who later became a
member of the Elon faculty.
He also thanked Dr. J. Earl
Danieley, who was president
of the college during his
tenure, and to Dr. A.L.
Hook, a member of the
athletic committee.
He presented a trophy won
by one of his teams to the
Hall of Fame.
cont. on p. 6
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Conmnnist Workers Party. Photo hy Cm% Stanfield.