This video is part of a series of videos that document J. Earl Danieley lecturing during the class he teaches each winter term at Elon University called Elon: Past, Present, and Future. Included in all the videos in the collection, he discusses a number of topics that relate to the history of Elon University. Specifically, in this video he discusses major topics that include: Leon Edgar Smith"s Administration and a J. Earl Danieley tour around Elon"s campus. J. Earl Danieley begins his lecture with discussing how Thomas E. Powell Jr., and Leo B. Martin (as faculty members) left Elon College to begin the Carolina Biological Supply Company in Burlington, North Carolina; various Powell family members on the Elon Board of Trustees; the Powell Building was given by Ed and James (Jim) Powell in honor of their Aunt Caroline because she raised the boys; there are Powell Professorships; Powell Scholarships; James (Jim) Powell gives $5,000.00 every three months to Elon"s cultural programs; Ed Powell"s family gave money for the Betty Yeager (Ed Powell"s mother-in-law) Recital Hall in the Center for the Arts; Betty Yeager was the only child of Francis and Buzz Yeager; Buzz Yeager worked for the Balfour Jewelery company in Massachusetts which currently produces high school, college, military, and championship rings; in 1937 the college obtained a 35mm projector for the Elon College community to view movies in Whitney Auditorium on Friday and Saturday evenings; the printing press was installed to print the (The Maroon and Gold) student college newspaper located in the southwest corner of the Duke building with a Journalism faculty advisor and was available on campus for seven years; in 1936 Smith goes back to the Southern Convention with the request of a new $250,000.00 campaign to settle the Elon debt rather than pay the debt in full; this campaign would allow the Elon faculty to be paid 25 percent of what Elon owed in their salaries, pay the secured bank notes with 25 percent of what Elon owed them, and go to others who held unsecured notes and pay them 10 percent in the end of the campaign; later in the same year of 1936, Smith hired the George William Company from Boston, Massachusetts to fundraise in which they raised $66,000.00 in pledges and $13,000.00 in cash leaving the campaign unsuccessful; Pleasant (PJ) Carlton left in his will $30,000.00 allowing the college to reduce the debt to $160,000.00 by this bequest; the original Elon debt was $700,000.00 before Smith began negotiating with campaigns; three years later, the debt was reduced to $120,000.00; in 1939 Elon College was celebrating its 50th year anniversary in which Smith announced a Golden Anniversary Club; in donating $50.00 an individual would become a member of the Golden Anniversary Club concluding with a big Golden Anniversary Club celebration on September 30, 1939; The Golden Anniversary Club raised $15,000.00 resulting in the Elon College"s debt down to $105,000.00; Clyde R. Hoey (1877-1954) became the North Carolina Governor in 1939 and was at Elon for the huge Magnolia tree (which stands in 2014) planting on the side of the Mooney building; John U. Newman, Sr., an Elon College faculty member, said the prayer before planting of the Magnolia tree and he turned the first shovel of dirt; Smith announced a new campaign entitled "The All or Nothing Campaign" which meant if Elon College raised enough money to pay the $105,000.00 debt, the college would pay off the debt in full; if the college did not raise the $105,000.00, the college would return the money to each individual; "The All or Nothing Campaign" was a success; Verona Daniels-Danieley was Smith"s secretary and Danieley could ask Verona (his wife of 52 years in 2001) if the campaign was true or not, but Danieley would not do this; and on January 23, 1946 Smith drove to Richmond, Virginia and made the final payment to Virginia Trust Bank and Elon College was debt free. Some notable names: J. Earl Danieley, Ed Powell, James (Jim) Powell, Carolina Powell, Thomas E. Powell, John Sullivan, Betty Yeager, Buzz Yeager, Francis Yeager, Leo B. Martin, Clyde R. Hoey, Pleasant (PJ) Carlton, John U. Newman, Sr., and Verona Daniels-Danieley.