State Teachers College News Letter
Volume 12
Elizabeth City, N. C„ April, 1952
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Student Editors Hear
President Truman
Addressing the 28th Annual Colum
bia Scholastic Press Association Con
vention in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
in New York City, President Truman
urged the 3,500 student editors and
delegates to support his foreign and
domestic program. He promised them
that if it succeeded they would “live
in the most peaceful time the world
has ever seen.”
In his speech Mr. Truman told the
young editors that the only reason
he made the long airplane trip from
Florida and back again was “because
the future of this great republic de
pends upon young people like you.”
He urged them to return to their
schools in 30 states and a few foreign
countries and tell the people that in
the last 20 years the United States
Government has made great progress
in protecting the average man. “We
have not been ashamed to work for
human welfare at home and abroad.”
Mr. Truman spoke at the final
luncheon for the convention. Mr.
Joseph M. Murphy, director of the
association, presented some of the in
dividual awards for poems and articles
appearing in some of the school news-
pepers. On behalf of the association,
he presented Mr, Truman with aspec-
ial certificate of membership and
ciation.
At the luncheon, it was announced
that the next convention would be
held March 12 - 14, 1953 at the
Columbia University in New York
City. The delegates from the Elizabeth
City State Teachers College NEWS
letter were Joshua Crumm, re
tiring member of the Teachers Col
lege Division e.xecutive board; Roland
V. Bowser, newly elected member of
‘he board, and Mrs. E. C. Mitchell,
adviser.
Announcement of Scholarships
Available at Oslo University
Additional scholarship awards are
announced by the Oslo committee
for study at the University of Oslo
from June 21 to August 2, 1952.
Various industrial firms in Norway
‘ire offering a limited number of
RALPH BUNCHE AWARDS in hon
or of Dr. Ralph Bunche, the recipient
of the 1950 Nobel Prize. These a-
wards will range from $115 to $225
*nd are open to those interested in
Norway’s export industries.
the NORWEGIAN FEDERAT
ION OF LABOR UNIONS is offering
two scholarships, worth $225 each, to
candidates interested in the Norweg
ian labor movement and social pro
blems in Norway.
Designation of scholarships will be
made on the basis of financial need,
provided the applicant meets all re-
Puirenients for admission.
For catalogue of courses, preliinin-
^■'y application material, or any other
information, write:
Oslo Summer School Admissions
Office
Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota
Dr. ROBERT P. DANIEL
Students Challenged by
Dr. Daniel
“ Founder’s Day is one of the gret-
est periods in the history of a school”,
said Dr. Robert P. Daniel, pres-
dent of Virginia State College in the
annual Founder’s Day program honor
ing Dr. Peter W. Moore. He urged
students to accept the challenge of the
atomic age because changes in the
future will bring them to new con
quests. “Negro students cannot take
it easy because as Negroes we have
one strike already against us when we
come to bat with only two remaining.
Courage, intelligence, and everlast
ing drive are necessary in order to
face the issues of our time.”
Concluding, Dr. Daniel said,“There
is glory in the past because it contri
butes to the present.”
Greetings were given by Mr. George
Clarke for the student body and Mrs.
M. T. Jordan for the alumni. The
Life of Dr. Moore was reviewed by
Mrs. Idonia Rodgerson. Miss Sarah E.
Mackey was the alumni soloist, and
special music was given by the college
choir.
After the program a large number
of students, faculty, alumni and
friends made a pilgrimage to the
grave of the founder.
High School Students In
Second Annual Green
Pastures Contest
The second annual “Green Pastures”
Contest, sponsored by the Bankers
Association or North Carolina, was
held at the Elizabeth City State
Teachers College on March 19 with
a large number of high school students
participating.
Preliminary contests in three groups
were held at ten o’clock, after which
the winner of each division contested
in the finals at an Assembly held in
Moore Auditorium. First place winner
was the C. S. Brown High School,
Winton; second, Perquimans Training,
Winfall; third, Beaufort High, Pan-
tego.
The winner of first place will re
present the Bankers Association at a
nation-wide contest to be held in
Greensboro, North Carolina, at which
time a $300 scholarship prize will be
awarded.
Rev. S. L. Gandy Speaks
at Vespers
The Thalia Sorosis Club sponsored
the Vesper program for March 23.
The speaker for the occasion was the
Reverend S. L. Gandy, Director of
Religious Services, Virginia State Col
lege, Petersburg; Virginia.
Using as a subject “On Being In
volved in Mankind”, the speaker de
livered a very challenging and impres
sive address. According to Reverend
Gandy, we spend too much time at
tending to our individual interests and
not enough time helping others. We
need to become more aware of these
conditions and become a part of
them.”
Music for the service was rendered
by the College Choir.
A reception honoring the speaker
was held in the Home Management
Lounge immsdiately following the
program.
CHOIR NEWS
Founder’s Grandson Honored
Garland Watt, North Carolina Col
lege senior and grandson of Dr. P.
W. Moore, was awarded a General
Education Board scholarship of $1,
125 to do further study at Harvard
University. The stipend will cover
tuition, travel, and certain fees.
These scholarships are available to
students in many major southern
schools. Mr. Watt is the first North
Carolina College student to win this
award since 1950. He is very active
on the campus at Durham, an honor
student and president of his class.
The program is intended to induce
the most able and promising students
of the south to further advance their
academic careers.
What Can Future Teachers of
America Contribute to
World Peace?
COLLEGE IS HOST TO
NATIONAL ALUMNI
The Seventh Annual meeting of the
National Alumni Association was held
at the Elizabeth City State Teachers
College April 18-19. The theme. An
Alumni Program in the Making, was
presented through general discussions
and four workshops. Outstanding
alumni from Negro Colleges through
out the United States participated m
the two-day session.
Mrs. M. L. Turner, state represen
tative for North Carolina N.A.A., was
one of the official hostesses. Executive
Secretary for the Association was Mrs.
Rachel Diggs Wilkinson and president
Mr. R. W. Hilhard.
The college choir is currently on a
brief tour cities in North Carolina, in
cluding Fayetteville, Winston-Salem,
Enfield and Scotland Neck.
While on tour the school’s two sis
ter institutions will be visited. These
are Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege and Winston-Salem State Teach
ers College.
A return visit will be made by the
choir of Winston-Salem on Sunday,
April 27.
The new repertoire for this year is
divided into four groups—choruses
from the oratorios, religious music,
contemporary style and choruses from
the hght operas.
The director of the choir, Miss Ev
elyn A. Johnson, has recently return
ed from two cities in North Carolina
where she was critic judge for a high
school music festival and an elemen
tary glee club festival. Both Miss
Johnson and Miss Lambert have work
ed very hard this year to make the
Elizabeth City State Teachers Choir
one of the best singing groups in the
country.
American youth must look forward
to a world in the throes of change,
for no matter how much we try to
keep our minds on our studies, the
news of the world keeps breaking in.
If we, as Future Teachers of America,
contribute to world-wide peace, we
must prepare ourselves from previous
experience in the home, school, and
church, for we will be responsible for
future decisions that will determine
world peace. It will be our duty to
mold and shape the younger genera
tions into future citizens who will
look with disgust upon war.
As prospective teachers we must
take a scientific attitude toward life.
We must teach children to do good
jobs, to develop social skills in a
democratic society, to respect others,
and to cooperate with them when
there is work to be done. Even as
college students, we must be concern
ed with the social adjustment of cit
izens that we may better teach our
youth.
There are some who will say there
is nothing they can do about the
world; that there are forces beyond
their control. If, however, they would
but look about them, evidence would
show that our present generation has
been formed in a periid of economic
chaos, in time of normal looseness and
world-wide social corruptness.
Future Teachers, in spite of the
condition in which our world now
stands, awake! Stand up for a worthy
cause and join those who are striving
to do everything possible for world
peace. You have youth, and you are
being well trained. Have faith, pract
ice being friendly, cheerful, coopera
tive, and unselfish in relationships
with people. Get understanding. Work
well with whatever you may have,
and in so doing. Future Teachers, you
will have contributed to the fashion
ing of a glorious future.
—Lucille J. Mitchell