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p.3— New librarians
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p.5— Pliotos
p.6— Summers’ Grill
p.7— ‘Colonnades’ review
Volume VI Number 27
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, May 1, 1980
32 tapped on Awards Day
by Joy Hamilton
Tuesday, April 29, was
Annual Awards Day at Elon
College. The program was
sponsored by the Elon Col
lege Circle of Omicron Delta
Kappa.
Receiving the Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Awards were
Robin S. Marley, Raymond
A. Jackson, and Dr. James
H. Lightboume, Jr. Donna
S. Wyrick received member
ship in the American Associa
tion of University Women.
The Basnight Award to the
outstanding Bible student
went to J. Dennis Bailey. Sam
W. Loy was presented with
the Burlington-South Boston
Ministerium Award and the
American Bible Society
Award for his study of
Greek. The English Scholar
Award went to rising senior
Wendy G. Ford. Deborah
L. Wdlwork and Russell C.
Lee, III, captured the P.E.
majors awards.
Prof. Rachel Y. Holt re
ceived the Pi Gamma Mu
Award as the outstanding
person in the Social Services
Division. Michael J. Robin
son and Lydia Ellen Tickle
were presented with the E.L.
Monroe Christian Education
and Personality Awards.
Jane Macrae Cooper re
ceived the Marcella Rawls
Saecker Award for best exem
plifying the goals and philo
sophy of Elon College. Al-
fr^ Thomas was awarded the
Shackley award for showing
the most improvement in
piano during the year, and
Joseph E. Goad received the
Shackley award for improve
ment in organ.
Nancy Tripp won the Ella
Brunck Smith Award for
her contributions to the mor-
Cont. on p. 6
College to honor five alumni
The Elon College Alumni
Association will present its
highest honors to four alumni
and a special friend of the
college during the annual
alumni banquet Saturday
evening (May 3).
Receiving awards will be
Dr. Jesse Hedgepeth Mere
dith, professor of surgery at
Bowman Gray School of
Medicine, Distinguished
Alumni of the Year; Dr.
Martin Ritt (student in 1932;
honorary doctorate, ’68) di
rector of the Academy Award
winner “Norma Rae,” Dis
tinguished Alumni of the
Year; Dr. Sally Ann O’Neill,
Department heads named
Six Elon College faculty
members have been ap
pointed department chairmen
for two-year terms. Dr. Wil
liam G. Rich succeeds Dr.
James H. Pace as chairman
of the Department of Reli
gion.
Five other faculty members
received re-appointments.
They are Dr. Frederick T.
Watts Jr., social science; Dr.
John G. Sullivan, philoso
phy; Dr. Alan J. White,
physical education, health
and recreation; Dr. Gerald L.
Frances, mathematics and
computer science; and Dr. J.
Michael Marr, business ad
ministration.
attorney in the office of the
chief counsel. National Aero
nautics and Space Admini
stration, Young Alumni of
the Year; R. Wayne Weston,
’71, director of the Orange
County Recreation and Parks
Department, Young Alumni
of the Year; and Thomas
Edward Powell III, chairman
of the board of Carolina
Biological Supply Company
and chairman of the executive
committee of Biomedical Re
ference Laboratories, Inc.,
Citizens Service Award.
The awards will be pre
sented by former Raleigh
Mayor Isabella Cannon, ’24,
recipient of an honorary
doctorate. The diner in Mc-
Ewen will be the highlight of
Alumni Weekend on the
campus.
Kea Whitley and John Sadler exchange a friendly handshake.
Both are candidates in the presidential run-off today and
tomorrow. Photo by Whitmore.
Sadler vs. WhUley
by Keith Nelson
A SGA presidential run-off
between SGA Senator Ken
Whitley and John Sadler will
be held today and tomorrow.
The candidates said that the
run-off “is fair and gives
students a clean-cut choice
for their leader.”
Experience in campus ac
tivities has brought the two
into contact, and both feel
that they can serve the inter
est of the students in the
SGA. Ken Whitley, who has
been in the Senate for three
years, was selected Most Val
uable Senator of the SGA in
1979. He has served on every
standing committee on the
SGA. He has represented
Elon at two United States
Student Association national
conventions. At the one con
vention, Whitlev was the
spokesman for the Students’
Rights Committee.
For two years he has served
on the Student Life Com
mittee and has been chairman
of the Senate Campus Affairs
Committee. Whitley has also
served as class president for
two years and as a resident
and peer counselor.
John Sadler, assistant area
coordinator for Smith dorm,
has also served as a resident
counselor for two years. He is
a member of the Student
Union Board, Liberal Arts
Forum, Interfraternal Coun
cil, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and
the Student Life Committee.
Sadler has also served as
editor of the Phi Psi Qi.
Whitley is campaigning on
what he calls the “six points
for better' representation.”
cont. on p. 7
Dirt Band greets Spring
“Th« Wrt Band,” fonneriy kBOWB ai “The Nitty Gritty Wrt Band,” la performiiig tomorrow
night at 8 for Spring Weekend. “Le Roux” is playing before “The Dirt Band.” The concert is
sponsored by SUB and SGA.
After a year’s absence.
Spring Weekend once again
returns to the Elon campus.
This year’s festivities will be
kicked off with a concert,
Friday night in Alumni Gym
at 8 featuring the only North
Carolina appearance of the
Dirt Band, with their special
guests, Lousiana’s Le Roux.
The Dirt Band, formally
the “Nitty Gritty” Dirt Band,
has been touring together for
13 years, which includes an
over-seas tour of Japan and
Europe, as well as being the
first rock band from the U.S.
to ever tour Russia. Tickets
for the concert can be pur
chased in the campus shop
for $4.50 or at the door for
$5.50.
Saturday’s events include a
double-header baseball game
with the Fightin’ Christians
playing host to Wesleyan at
1:30, followed by a picnic by
the lake, thanks to Mr.
Southerland. The action con-
cont. on p. 6