WELCOME!
FRESHMEN AND
NEW STUDENTS
THE BENNETT BANNER
ARChW
Bennett College
Greensboro, N, Ci
Student Publication of Bennett Oollege
VOLUME XV
GHEiiNSlJORO, N. C., OrrOBEH, 1945
NUMHKIl 1
Student Prexy Stresses Responsibility
In First Formal Chapel Meeting
By Marian Able
In the first formal chapel service
of this year, Miss Deri's Lowery,
president of the student senate, ex
tended words of greetings to new
students and faculty members and
welcomed them into the “Bennett
family.” Emphasizing the importance
of being capable of accepting respon-
sil)ility, Miss Lowery invited the new
members to share in the responsibi
lities of the family. In his words of
welcome, President Jones pointed
out the opportunities offered by the
college to grow up physically, emo
tionally and socially and urged each
individual to avail herself of this
privilege.
During the second formal chapel.
President Jones led the discussion
on those ideals, habits, and traits
which were profitable to the student
body as a whole. Several suggestions
made by the student body were elim
ination of gossip, greater school and
class spirit, and a sense of the true
meaning of responsibility.
The school year opened with a
capacity enrollment of 39 6, includ
ing 126 freshmen and nine new up
perclassmen. Students came from
practically every state in the union,
the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico
and the Bermuda Islands.
Among the many changes await
ing the returning students were an
increase in faculty members and the
opportunity for study in audio-visual
aids. The former plan of faculty ad
visors and student advisees has been
continued.
Now that we have dismissed the
horrors of war and turned our minds
toward the construction of a peace
ful world, let us not forget that the
college campus has a responsibility
here also. We are looking forward to
a successful and happy year to result
from a composite of all our energies.
“SOC IAL KESrOXSlBILlTV:” TO
BE “Y” EMPHASIS THIS YEAR
Mi.ss Kuth Haines, “Y” Sceretju-y,
(’aininis (iuest
In conjunction with other “Y or-
ganizations throughout the country.
Miss Janet White, president of the
campus “Y,” stated that the cabinet
would stress “social responsibility’’
as its project for till's year.
October 12th and 13th, Miss Ruth
Haines, National Secretary of the
“Y,” visited on the campus and held
several meetings with the cabinet. A
native of Colorado. Miss Haines is
the successor to Miss Rosalee Oakes.
During her brief stay. Miss Haines
conferred with President Jones and
other faculty members.
Many interesting facts were learn
ed in regard to the various youth or
ganizations which make up the vari
ous phases of the “Y.” The group es
pecially enjoyed hearing about the
project of youth in industry, whi'ch
includes interracial groups located in
various places throughout the United
States.
Tkeater Gviild To^Present
“Tlie Little Foxes”
The unforgettable story of th.e
Hubbard family and their insatiable
desire for wealth, opens the dramatic
season at Bennett College.
The story of this southern family
and their unusual exploits is all dra
matically told in this three-act play,
“The Little Foxes,” by Lillian Heil
man.
The action of the play centers
around the “vicious circle,” Ben, Os
car, and Regina, who are determined
to erect a cotton mill at any cost, or
at anyone’s expense.
The theme of the story is summar.
i'zed in the words of Ben and Addie.
“There are hundreds of Hubbards
sitting in rooms like this through,
out the country. All their names
aren’t Hubbards, but they are all
Hubbards and they will own this
country some day. We’ll get
along.”
“Well, there are people who eat
the earth and eat all the people
on it, like in the Bible with the
locusts. Then, there are people
who stand around and watch them
eat it.”
In the starring roles will be Miss,
es Constance Collier and Gwen Alex-
. ider Regina Giddens; Misses
Queen Esther Barber and Elaine
Mitchell as Birdie Hubbard; Misses
MaChere Tresville and Edna Gamble
as Alexandra Giddens, and Misses
Inez Cannon and Lucille Brown as
Addie.
In the male leading roles will be
Romas Karnegay as Horace, and
Frank Culbertson as Oscar.
The play, which will have a two.
night run, will be presented by the
Senior Guild in the Little Theatre on
November 16 and 17. Under the di.
rection of Miss Constance Johnson,
it promi'ses to be a four.star produc
tion.
AuLrey Pankey
Opens Current
Lyceum Season
Aubrey'T%'nkey, noted Negro bari.
tone, will be presented in a recital
in the Annie Merner Pheiffer chapel
here on Friday, October 26. Mr.
Pankey will be the first artist in a
series of lyceum programs.
Mr. Pankey has made more than
two hundred successful appearances
in recital, radio, and with symphony
orchestras in sixty cities of twenty,
four European countries. He has the
distinction of being the first Ameri
can to make a concert tour to Pales,
tine. In 1942, he made an eight
months good-will tour of the West
Indies, Central America, and South
America. This tour was approved by
the office of the Co-ordinator of In
ter-American Affairs.
After briefly singing as a boy
soprano iTi Pittsburgh, he went to
Hampton Institute, where he studied
engineering. There his baritone voice
was discovered, and through the en
couragement of Roland Hayes and
the late R. Nathaniel Dett, he con
centrated on a vocal career. His mu.
sical education was continued at
Oberlin Conservatory, the Hubbard
Studios, Boston University College
of Music, Neve Wiener Konservator-
lum, and with Theodor Luchammen
in Vienna and in Paris with Oscar
Daniel and Charles Panzera. Lately,
he has been studying with John Alan
Houghton in New York.
The Unpredictable Future
Of the New Atomic Energy
VESPER SPEAKERS
October 21 Dr. E. Franklin Frazier,
Washington, D. C., Head of
the Department of Sociol
ogy at Howard University
November 4 Dr. Max Yergen, New
York City, Executive Direc
tor of Council on African
Affairs
November 11 Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
Atlanta, Ga., President . of
Morehouse College
November 18 Mr. Howard Kester,
principal, Penn Normal and
Industrial School
St. Helena Island, S. C.
New Faculty Members
Mrs. Lenora B. Bellinger, short
hand and typing: Miss Wilma D.
Brown, 'biology; Miss Winona Dagler,
chemistry; R. H. Edwards, religion;
Mrs. R. H. Edwards, counseling;
Miss Ruth O’Neil Fleming, assistant
bookkeeper; David W. Holland, head
of the Department of Music; Miss
Selma Ingersoll. romance languages;
Robert L. Jack, history; Miss Con
stance Johnson, speech and dramat
ics; Miss Ileene B. Jordan, physical
education; Miss Carrie W. Kellogg,
instructor in voice; Charles E. King,
sociology; Miss Annabelle Knight,
recorder; Miss Madge E. Moore, as
sistant director of residences; Mrs.
Estelle Miller, director of Kent hall;
Mrs. Anita M. Rivers, mathematics;
Miss Fannie Lea, assistant in the
business office; Thaddeus Malinow
ski, social science; Miss Icie D.
Parks, health school; Mrs. Frederica
Potts „pel'(jlj„, assistant in the business
office; Miss Gloria Robinson, physi
cal education; Miss Ruth Simmons,
history; ,Mrs. Dorothy Smith, Eng
lish; Mrs. Minnie Smith, English and
history; Miss Edna Gray Taylor, edu
cation; Miss Mary L. Turner, assist
ant librarian; Miss Helen Wade, di
rector of Jones hall; Clifford L.
Ward, chemist, and Miss Jean Walk
er
Community Project
Of H ealtli Education
Pxpancls Program
Project Hi}>lillf>iit,s Suninier Session
The Community Program of Health
Blducation was continued through
the summer by public school teach
ers, enrolled in the Bennett college
summer school, who used the Mount
Taboi and Collins Grove communi
ties for laboratory work in health.
1 he summer school activities were
Highlighted by the anti-typhoid and
auti-aiphlheria clinics, which were
held in the Collins Grove church by
Che local Health Department. There
were fifty persons who took the ty-
pnoia immunizations and twenty-
lour who took the diphtheria toxoid,
included in this number were eleven
white persons of the community.
All 01 the Collins Grove children
between the ages of five and 15 spent
a day on the Bennett college campus
in July as guests of the Health School
children. They participated in the
following activities with the Health
;=chool pupils: story hour, visit to
me pool at the Windsor Community
Center, a tour of Holgate Library
and the campus, and a visit to the
Little Theatre, where they were
shown the film, “Husky and Skinny
'ihese boys and girls were more than
delighted by their first visit to the
coiiegt cami)us.
The tentative plans this year for
the Community Program of Health
Eaucatron are more extensive and
inclusive. Such phases of health as
sanitation, housing, nutrition and
leci eation will be continued, while
uie program will be enriched by oth
er resources of the colleges. As a
special feature, a program of “Com-
uiunity Art” will be directed by Miss
isancy McDowell, instructor of art
at Bennett, with students of art par-
Licipating.
The religious phase of the program
is being greatly stimulated in the
Collins Grove community by Mr.
CrocKett, director of religious activi
ties, pastor ot the Collins Grove
cnurch.
The students of the college made a
line contribution in the Mount Tabor
and Collins Grove Community of
Health Education last year. The pro
gram this year will make possible
more student participation.
fFords of Greeting
Greetings to the members of the
Bennett staff and to the subscribers!
Congratulations to you both upon
the responsibllltres and the privileges
which confront you in this new year!
To the editors and staff there comes
this opportunity to be the interpre
ters of the best on our college cam
pus as well as to inform us as to
what is best in college life during
these challenging days. As makers
of public opinion, as well as report
ers, you have a high privilege.
The BENNETT BANNER has an
increasingly fine tradition on this
campus. It has been well edited: It
has been vigorous in the expression
of opinion; it has been, in reality,
one of the builders of morale on the
college campus.
May this year see a stirring and
deepening of the influence of the
BANNER as we attempt to live life
at its best from day to day.
.Miriam >It‘T(‘‘r, '47
What will scientists do next? They
have succeeded in smashing atoms
which were at one time thought to
be indivisible. From this atomic en
ergy they have perfected the most
dangerous weapon mankind has ever
known. Its destructive power was
proved to us when the atomic bomb
was dropped on Hiroshima and Nag
asaki In Japan. The effects of these
bombs are still being felt in Japan.
This bomb, created from atomic
energy, has already caused some dis-
sensl'on among nations. It is some
thing that every nation wants, main
ly because they are afraid that the
owners of the secret might unexpect
edly “stab them in the back” with it.
At present, the United States is
sole owner of the “know-how” of this
bomb, and intends to remain so.
President Truman stated that the
United States has no intention of
veleashig the secret of the bomb to
any other nation.
Frankly, this is no time for se
crets. Since the war we have lieen
having conferences upon conferences
in the attempt to establish a lasting
world peace. What good will these
conferences do if we persist in con
tinually racing with each other?'
Secrets breed war. and war breeds
destruction.
At this moment atomic energy is
hot in our hands. We do not know
where to put it. We do not need it
crvr vrq.r. Wbtit shall we 'o with U?
We have seen how destructive the
atom bomi) is. But we do not have to
merely use atomic energy for de
structive purposes. It can be used
for something useful. Everything
has its good points. That statement
also applies to atomic energy. To cite
a few examples of the utility of this
energy—
It is said that a small ball of atomic
energy could heat a house for a num
ber of years. If this is true, just
think of the coal, oil and wood that
could be reserved for various other
(Continued On Page Four)
N1\E -\EVV UPPERCLASSMEN
EM{OLLEI> THIS YEAR
Nine new students entered the col
lege this year, transferring from oth
er institutions. They are as follows;
Seniors: Mrs. Louise Carter, of
Greensboro; Juniors, Misses Mamie
Alston, Greensboro, Lutheran col
lege; Virginia Belcher, Kimbell, W.
Va., Morristown college; Amanazelle
iioyd, Augusta, Ga,, Benedict col
lege; Mildred Ferguson, Sumter, S.
C., Clafliu college; Rosetta Hand,
Belmont, N. C., Barber-Scotla col
lege, and Ann Johnston, Wilson, N.
C., St. Augustine College; Soplio-
inores, Lillian Berry, Hawkins, Tex,,
Java college, and Carol Nelson, St.
Louis, Mo., Stowe Teachers college.
On worldwide Communion Sun
day, October 7, the students and fac
ulty joined with the St. Matthews
Methodist church for service. This
was a renewal of the traditional joint
services of St. Matthews and Bennett
college in a silent tribute to the place
where the college was founded and
DAVID D. JONES, President classes first held.
Crockett, Johnson and Jackson
Deliver First Vesper Addresses
Rev, R. D. Crockett, director of
religious activities at Bennett; Dr.
Mordecai Johnson, president, Howard
University, and widely di-stinguished
orator, and Dr. W. C. Jackson, chan
cellor of Woman’s College and chair
man of the Bennett College board of
trustees, opened the 19 45 vesper sea
son at the college.
REV. CI«)(;KETT
Stressing the virtue of right over
wrong. Rev. Crockett suggested the
tests of universality, receiving, pub
licity and self-respect as guiding me
diums. “These tests,” said the speak
er, “can be used in every human
problem to answer the (luestion of
morality in this bewildered age. In
every instance they are sure testers
to determine right from wrong.”
DR. .lOHNSON
Using Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, John
and Paul as examples of ‘primary
livers,’ because of their independ
ence of conviction and judgment. Dr.
Johnson extolled the deeds of hu
manity’s great men of the past.
Said the speaker. “It will only be
through an innermost r'Gvelance and
a spiritual, peaceful solitude that
we can ever learn to know the beau
ty of the eternal as these men did
and hope to make our lives courage,
ous and profoundly strengthful.
(Continued On Page Four)