THE BENNETT BANNER
“Believing that an informed campus is a Key to Democracy*
VOL. XXV NO. 9
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
MAY 1958
Poole, Pressley, Mackel, Class Presidents
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Clubs, Organizations
Elect New Officers
Heading the slate of senior class
officers for next year will be Miss
Nannie Poole, a biology major, of
Baltimore, Moryland. Miss Helen
McEachern of Rowland, N. C., will
Creative Love, Topic
At Vesper Service
“The Gentle Demands of Creative
Love” was the topic of the address
delivered by Dr. James S. Thomas
of Nashville, Tennessee, at the an
nual Mother’s Day Christening Ser
vice at Bennett College.
“We seem to accept the gentle
demands, but reject the hard de
mands and disciplines of love which
require that it endure and believe
all things as well as to hope all
things. Unless the gentle and hard
demands of love are balanced in
some creative aspect, love disap
pears,” said the associate secretary
of the Board of Education of the
Methodist Church.
Dr. Thomas suggested three
guiding principles for closer home
ties; namely, that man learn to
love himself properly, that he re
alize a relationship with others so
^ ^^ _ that he loves at least one other per-
■ , , rr. ^ i son deeply, and that he keeps him-
Sonia Louden, senior ele- ament lesson. The Old Testament j relation-
lesson and prayer were offered by j gj^jp others.
Sonia Louden Speaks
At Senior Vespers
Miss Frances Thurston of Miami,
Florida.
Miss Eleanor Bell of Wilmington,
and Miss Carole
Greensville, South
organist.
Anderson of
Carolina, was
SALUTE FOR A QUEEN—^While members of honor guard from the Air Force ROTC at neigh
boring A & T College give formal salute, Miss Addie Watson, Bennett College May Queen,
walks regally to her throne.
Commencement Exercises
Class day exercises on Friday,
May 30, at 3 p.m., will begin the
week-end activities of the 85th com-
at Bp.nnetit College.
Class day will be followed at 8 p.
m. by the production of “Medea,”
by the combined theatre guilds. A
modern version of the Euripedes
Greek classic, adapted by Robinson
Jeffers, will be used.
On Saturday, at 10 a.m., the an
nual meeting of the Graduate Asso
ciation will be held at which time
members of the present senior class
will be inducted during a candle
light ceremony. The All-Bennett
luncheon honoring members of the
reunion classes of 1933, 1938, 1948,
1953, and 1957 will be held at 1 p,
m., in the dining center of the Dav
id D. Jones Student Union.
At 8 p.m., there will be the an
nual choir concert, to be followed
at 9;30 p.m., by the traditional
campus illumination.
Sunday, at 9:30, the NaUonal
Council of Bennett Parents will
hold its annual meeting; and at 10
a.m., the annua! meeting of Alpha
Kappa Mu honor society will be
Miss
mentary education major of Cincin
nati, Ohio, spoke on “The Incalcul
able Debts” at the annual senior
vespers at Bennett College.
She made an appeal to the “fami
ly” and friends of Bennett to work
diligently to help the college reach
its highest ideals.
Advancing a philosophy that the
emphasis in education should be
upon the development of the to^al
personality and that the ideal col
lege should be constantly re-evalu
ating itself in the light of social
change. Miss Louden said:
“Students in such an institution
must consciously work toward aca
demic excellence and academic in
tegrity. They must must work to
ward their highest social and emo
tional potential and must learn to
respect self-discipline with supreme
honor.”
The program, conducted entirely
by members of the senior class,
was presided over by Miss Jimmie
Children Christened
The three children christened by
the Rev. John L. Bryan, director
North Carolina, directed the choir, of religious activities were: Hora-
cio, son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace C.
Chavis, of Greensboro; Calvin, son
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be vice-president. Assisting them
are: Misses Essie Smith, recording
secretary; and Mildred Hamlet,
treasurer.
Miss Toni Presley of Cincinnati,
Ohio, polled a majority of the votes
to become president of the junior
class. Associated with her are Mis
ses Nancy Kirby, vice-president,
Edna Thompson, secretary; and
Agatha Ricks, treasurer.
Elected as sophomore class presi
dent was Miss Gwendolyn Mackel
of Chicago, Illinois. Her assistants
are Misses Yvonne Redcross, vice-
president; Charletta Pickering,
secretary; and Iris Jeffries, treas
urer.
Other presidents of clubs for the
1958-59 school year as determined
by the elections are:
j Science Seminar—Inez Jones; To-
mu-Janie Graves; Music, Marion
Simmons; YWCA, Anita Duckett;
Library, Jacqueline Ball; Commer
cial education, Sylvania Black;
Modem Language, Helen Houston;
Sudent NEA, Hazeline Taylor;
Non-resident students, Lola Camp
bell; Photography, Margaret
Townes; Senior Theater Guild, Aga
tha Ricks; Dance Group, Marion
Benton; International Relations,
Betty Crockett; and Auxiliary Mar
shal Board, Rosalind Goodson.
The graduating class of 1958
chose as permanent officers the fol
lowing: Miss Janet Daily, presi
dent; Miss Frances Thurston, secre
tary; and Miss Evelyn Webb, treas
urer.
The officers were officially in
stalled at the Sunday Vespers on
May 25.
Alvin C. Eurich, George D. Kelsey
To Deliver Graduation Addresses
held. The President’s reception will I English of Camden, South Carolina,
be held in the president’s home, be- Miss Geneva Baldwm of Pittsboro,
ginning at 8 p.m. | North Carolina read the New Test-
Bennett Girls Finalists
In Penmanship Contest
Dr. Alvin C. Eurich, vice presi- torate at the University of Minne-
dent of the Fund for the Advance
ment of Education, New York, will
deliver the 85th commencement ad
dress at Bennettt College on Mon
day, June 2, 10:30 a.m., in the An
nie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel.
Baccalaureate speaker on Sunday,
June 1, at 4 p.m., will be Dr. George
D. Kelsey, professor Christian Eth
ics at Drew University, Madison,
New Jersey.
Dr. Eurich, who earned his doc-
Certificates of merit were award
ed to six Bennett girls—Delores
Estwick, Marilyn Frazier, Lucy Mar
tin, Gwendolyn Pyatt, Edna Thomp
son, and Rowena Young—for meri
torious papers submitted in the
1958 National Gregg Shorthand
penmanship Contest.
Fourteen girls, members of Com
mercial Education Class 106, sub
mitted papers which were judged
Valedictorian
Class of 1958
Fredrica Washington
on the basis of accuracy and pro
portion. They competed with high
school and college students.
In addition to the winners, the
entries were; Marion Benton, Lila
Blanding, Emma Burns, Artenia i
Howell, Barbara Ingram, Dorothy
McMillan, Yvonne McBride, and
Florita Robinson.
Mrs. Gertrude Pryor, commercial
education instructor, assisted the
girls in the preparation of the pap
ers.
The certificates were presented
to the five sophomores and one jun
ior at the annual honors day.
Dr. Alvin C. Eurich
Vice President
Fund for the Advancement
of Education
sota, began his career there as an
instructor, moving from the teach
ing ranks to become dean of the
College of Education and later
assisant to the president.
He was at one time acting presi
dent of Stanford University and
was the first president of the new
State University of New York. He
has taught at Northwestern Uni
versity, the University of Michigan,
and West Virginia University.
Dr. Eurich at one time was chief
of the research and analysis group
in the War Department, served al
so with the Navy Department and
was director of the Consumer Divi
sion of the Office of Price Admini
stration. A specialist in educational
psychology, he has been called to
serve as consultant to numerous
guidance and evaluation surveys.
He is the recipient of numerous
honorary degrees and awards and
the author of many books and stud
ies dealing with curriculum test
ing, and guidance. He has held his
present post since 1951.
Baccalaureate Speaker
Dr. Kelsey, an honor graduate of
Morehouse College, received his
Bachelor of Divinity degree from
Andover Newton Theological School
with highest honors. He served as
professor of religion and philoso
phy at Morehouse College from
1938 to 1954, during which time he
received his Ph. D. degree from
Yale University. In 1946, he was ap
pointed director of Morehouse
School of Religion; and in 1938, he
joined the staff of the Federal
Council of Churches and later ap
pointed associate director in field
administration of the National
Council of Churches.
He is a member of numerous
boards and commissions in the field
of education and religion and has
contributed chapters to symposia
and articles to various religious
and academic journals.
Dr. George D. Kelsey
Drew University