Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

Page 15 text:

■rf ' ' ' 1 L.

Page 14 text:

lon OJoUege elon college North Carolina of Jilt Prceiatiil TO THE CLASS OF 1958 You ha e completed four years of college work. I congratulate you upon this attainment. The liberal arts training which you have received here on the campus of this Christian college will help you immeasurably as you take your place as a responsible citizen in society and as a useful member of your chosen profession. We hope that, as a result of your training here, that several changes have taken place. First, we hope that you have learned to think. The world desperately needs people who can think objectively and creatively about the problems which face m.ankind, particularly those in the realm of human affairs. Many of you are qualified to help in meeting this need. Seconci, we hope that your faith in the Christian way of living has been strengthened. As you leave this campus may you be nnore concerned about your fellow man, your relation to each other and to God. May you leave with a spirit of dedication to the Christian way of life and with a determination to give yourself wholeheartedly in helping to bring a spirit of love, cooperation, and peace to all the world. It is our hope that Elon College has given you adequate and thorough preparation and our prayer that God will give you guidance, wisdom, courage and strength for the living of these days. Sincerely yours. J. E. Danieley President

Page 16 text:

Dedicated To Mr. D. R. Fonville, Sr. DeRoy Ransom Fonville, Sr., a graduate of Elon College in the class of 1904, teacher in the public schools in the states of Georgia and North Carolina, received the M. A. degree from Elon College in 1907; a grad- uate of the University of Virginia Law School in 1909 with Phi Beta Kappa honors, admitted to the practice of law in North Carolina in 1910; served on the Board of Aldermen and the School Board of the City of Burlington, charter member and former president of the Kiwanis Club of Burling- ton, N. C. ; served as Y. M. C. A. secretary in service in France with the American Expeditionary Forces attached to the Second Di vision in 1918-1919, awarded the Croix de Guerre in May, 1919; a deacon and trustee of the First Christian Church (Congregational Christian) of Burlington, elected to the Board of Trustees of Elon in 1914 and has served as secretary of the Board since 1948. To Mr. Fonville, a leading citizen, a dedicated churchman, a loyal supporter of Christian higher education, we the members of the senior class dedicate the 1958 Phi Psi Cli.