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March 8, 2001
lorrections
- In last week’s edition,
we reported that 1236 people
voted in the SGA election. This
was the total number of ballots
collected.
Of those, only 1208 voted
for president.
We reported Bolton
needed 604 votes to win. He
instead needed 605.
- On page five, the head
line should read, “Fraternity
council honored.”
- In our February 22 is
sue, we reported that the roller
hockey team was the only club
sport with a coach.
The club swim team also
has a coach; Kyle Torke.
We also reported that the
starting goalie for the team was
female. He is, in fact, male.
The Pendulum is commit'
ted to improving the quality
our reporting and relaying facts
to our readers. We apologize
for error.
Fifth annual Garret essay contest
Mandie Danielski
Pendulum Reporter
Philip Garret was bom in
1896 and graduated from Harvard
in 1917. He flew a Sop with Gamel
plane in World War 1, then re
turned to Massachusetts to start
one of the nation’s first mutual
funds, the Pioneer Fund, in 1928.
He started Garret & Go. Invest
ment Gounsel in 1963 and wit
nessed 20 solar eclipses in his life
time from all over the globe.
Before his death in 1998 at
101, this remarkable man and leg
endary investor visited Elon Gollege
to address the Love School of Busi
ness and left so impressed, he do
nated $40,000 in IBM stock to insti-
tuteacampus-wideThomasJefferson
essay contest.
Garret (pronounced kuh-
RAY) accepted an invitation from
Mark Albertson, registrar and assis
tant to provost, to travel to Elon in
fall 1996. Albertsonreadabout Garret
in a Wall Street Journal article that
year and was immediately impressed.
Goincidentally, Garret was class
mates at Harvard with the late
Burlington Industries founder J.
Spencer Love, for whom the Love
School Business at Elon is named.
Albertson says, “I was just
about wiped off my feet,” Albertson
said when Garret’s letter arrived,
some months after Garret’s talk with
students, including compliments to
the winner and the substantial certifi
cate to continue the contest. “I was
overwhelmed by his response,” he
said. “I will see that this contest stays
alive because of my loyalty to Mr.
Garret. I owe him one!”
The essay contest panel now
celebrates the fifth annual competi
tion and invites all Elon students to
submit an essay of approximately
1,500 words by April 13, Thomas
Jefferson’s birthday. The topic:
Looking back almost two hundred
years, evaluate Thomas Jefferson’s
presidency from the perspective of a
United States citizen at the beginning
of the 19th century.
The first-place winner not only
receives $1,000 but also enjoys an
ovemight stay at the Intemational
Genter for Jefferson Studies, along
with an honorary dirmer and private
tour of the University of Virginia and
Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s
home atGharlottesville, Va. The sec
ond- and third-place winners receive
$600 and $400, respectively.
Elon student Joe Mattem won
the honors two years in a
row, followed by Daniel
Gallaway and Stephanie
Newboid. President Dr. Leo
Lambert and his family ac
companied Newboid on her
trip to Monticello last sum
mer. At the dinner held in
Newboid’s honor Ronald
Reagan’s White House
deputy chief of staff ad
dressed guests.
Newboid, a political
science and public adminis
tration major from Elizabeth
Gity, N.G., is now a senior. “The
program was very well orchestrated,”
she says. “I didn’t expect the red-
carpet treatment. They did a fabu
lous job of making us feel welcome.”
Newboid enjoyed her stay in
the cottage at Monticello where
Franklin D. Roosevelt fi-equented
during summers. “The most appeal
ing aspect of Monticello,” she said,
“is to see the tme diversification of
Thomas Jefferson, his many inter
ests from science to math to architec
ture. .. and his extensive library col
lection.” Newboid says she was
humbled to see the desk where
Jefferson is credited for writing some
of his 19,000 letters.
photo courtesy of Garret & Go.
Paula Newcomb, director of
development and public affairs at the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foun
dation, says everyone at the founda
tion is enthusiastic about participat
ing. “We’re thrilled. We share a
wonderful partnership with Elon,”
she said. “Our mission is education
and preservation. The interest [Elon]
students are taking in history would
certainly have pleased Thomas
Jefferson himself.”
The quality and creativity of
responses determine winning essays.
The faculty panel will announce the
three winners at the Thomas Jefferson
dinner on Thursday, April 26.
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Local Band rocks McKinnon Stage
Kevin Hajek, Jordan Kurn,
Chris Juengel, David Shoaf,
Steven Harper, and Lisa
Manning of the band Big
Throated Chimney^ three
of whom are pictured left,
entertained Elon students
on Sunday night during
their first big show. This
local band recorded their
first CD attheWSOE
studios. They attend
Williams and Eastern
Alamance high schools.
Photo by: Adam Waterson / Photography Editor