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The Pendulum
Thursday, November 8,1984
Volume XI, Number 10
Photo by Jamie Cobb
Friendly rivals
On Election Day, Elon Professors Earl Danieley and
Martha Smith were on hand at the Elon Middle School
to promote their favorite candidates one last time. See
page 8 for further coverage of the day’s political acti
vities.
Many long distance voyagers
Parents share day with students
By Maureen Sweeney
Features Editor
The consensus is that this year’s Parents
Weekend was one of the most successful ever.
This view has been expressed not only by pa
rents, but by students and faculty.
The Talent Show began the weekend-long
program and was praised by many who
attended. Some parents consider this to be the
highlight of the weekend. Senior Michelle
Palumbo’s parents, who have traveled from
Naragansett, R.I., each year for the past three,
said, “The Talent Show is our favorite part of
the weekend. Students are relaxed, and travel
around the auditorium socializing with every
one. We’re amazed by the caliber of talent. The
entries get better every year.”
The Palumbos are among the families that
travel the farthest to visit their children and
enjoy the weekend at Elon. The trip, they said,
“takes us 13 hours non-stop. But, it’s well worth
it, not only to see our daughter but to meet her
friends and just have a good time.”
Freshman Jay Cirko’s parents and sister were
visiting Elon for the first time and were im
pressed with the friendliness of the students
and the appearance of the school. They said,
“We visited other colleges with Jay, mostly in
the Pennsylvania area (the Cirkos are from Phi
ladelphia.) No where else have we met students
and faculty who are so genuinely interested in
each other.There is a true sense of caring here.”
Saturday is by far the busiest day of Parents
Weekend. At 10:45 a.m. faculty members were
assembled in the library to meet and talk to
parents about each of their programs. The lib
rary crowd was quite large this year and all
seemed to enjoy the discussions.
Following “Meet the Faculty,” ARA spon
sored a fried chicken box lunch. Many families
skipped this and visited the Campus Shop or
spent some time at the many Parents Weekend
teas sponsored by various fraternities and
sororities.
The Fightin’ Christians captured another vic
tory Saturday afternoon by defeating Newberry
9 to 7. In keeping with tradition, the halftime
show featured the Showband of the Carolinas.
If all these activities weren’t for the families,
there was the “5th-quarter” social held this
year at the Alamance Country Club. More than
600 people attended this event. King White,
director of alumni and parent programs, said
he was pleased with the turnout as well as with
the entire weekend. The band for the evening
was Haven, who played a variety of tunes from
beach to swing to light rock and roll. There was
standing room only at the event.
Senior Lee Dufiefs parents were here from
Potomac, Md. They said, “We always have a
good time at Parents Weekend and especially
enjoyed the “5th-quarter social.” They added,
“We can’t wait to come back for graduation.”
Major promoted to colonel
By John Holland
Special to the Pendulum
In a ceremony held last
Wednesday in Scott Plaza, T.N.
McCarther, chairman of the
military science department,
was promoted to lieutenant
colonel.
McCarther joined the Elon
faculty in July 1982 after com
pleting the Command and
General Staff College in Fort
Leavenworth, Kans. McCar-
ther’s promotion concides with
the direction in which he has
guided the department since
his arrival. When he arrived,
an officer and a sergeant work
ed at Elon aided by the North
Carolina A&T faculty to teach
Elon cadets. This was despite a
drastic increase from the ori
ginal seven students when
ROTC was first introduced to
Elon in 1975. Today the ROTC
program has five full-time
faculty members and more
than 100 cadets who are active
in practically every aspect of
campus life.
McCarther, a native of Mount
Airy, N.C., earned a degree in
business administration from
North Carolina Central Uni
versity in 1966 and later a mas
ter’s degree in management
from Webster University, St.
Louis.
McCarther began his milit
ary career as an enlisted man
in April 1967 during the Veit-
nam War. He completed Offic
er Candidate School in 1968
and worked as a tactical officer
in the school for six months. He
was sent on a one-year assign
ment to Vietnam where he
served as an advisor to the
Vietnamese Army. The next
two years he worked as a re
cruiting officer in New York
city. In 1972 he was assigned to
the 82nd Airborne Division,
Fort Bragg, N.C., where he was
an aviation battalion logistics
officer, a platoon leader and a
company executive officer.
In August 1975 LTC McCar
ther was transfered to the 101st
See McCarther, page 4
ROTC HEAD PROMOTED: T.N. McCarther is congratu
lated by Lieutenant Colonel Wille Skinner after his
promotion to LTC. The ceremony was held last Wednes
day in Scott Plaza. Pictured in the background is McCar-
ther’s father Eugene McCarther.
Talent Show
reviewed
p. 5
Playoff hopes alive
p. 6
Elon tops Newberry