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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWS LETTER
April, 1957
GRENDEL A. HOWARD
PFC Grendel A. Howard (WAC),
daughter of Mrs. Rhoda C. Howard
of 526 C. C. Road, Ahoskie, North
Carolina, was assigned as assistant to
the Chief of Public Information Divi
sion at the Brooklyn Army Terminal,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Her new duties in
clude: answering inquiries from the
press and public concerning troops
and dependents coming from overseas,
meeting transjport ships and interview
ing military personnel aboard, pre
paring news releases for home town
newspapers and escorting members
of tlie press on tours of the Terminal
and aboard ships.
Pfc Howard’s last assignment was
with Military Personnel Branch of the
Adjutant Division, where she doubled
as a clerk typist and receptionist. She
has been assigned to the Brooklyn
Army Terminal, and stationed at Fort
Hamilton since June 1956.
After graduating from Robert L.
\'ann High School, Pfc Howard at
tended Elizabeth City State Teachers
College in Elizabeth City, N. C. She
enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps
in March 1956 in Philadelphia, Pa.,
and received her basic training at Fort
McClellan, Alabama, before being sent
to her present station. She was pro
moted to the grade of private first
class in February 1957.
As a civilian. Pfc Howard was em
ployed by the Hertford County Herald
as a reporter.
DAVIS
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the past centuries believed.
The past fom periods were labeled
as the following: seventeenth, the
century of enlightenment; the eight
eenth, the century of reasoning; the
nineteenth, the century of progress,
and the twentieth, the century of
anxiety. The speaker stated that the
increase in membership in churches
of the U.S. from 1950 to 1955 was
from eighty-five to ninety-seven mill
ion. On the basis of statistics, it is
beheved that by 1970 every adult in
America will be a member of some
church or synagogue.
Dr. Davis gave statistical findings
relating to the most popular men in
America. In 1950 the politicians were
in first place; business men second;
and rehgious leaders, third. In 1955
statistics showed a slight change in
the ranks of popular leaders. The re
ligious leaders were first; the business
men second; and politicians, third.
In a scholarly manner, yet humor-
LARKIN
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hold his own. In the Nortlr, the gains
are more impressive. It is impossible
to tell how badly the colored worker
was hit by the 1949 recession and how
far he has been able to bounce back-
if at all.’
He said, “The speed with which
the Negro progresses economically
from now on will depend partly on
how fast social attitudes change. A
more important factor — and a less
impersonal one — will be how close
the economy continues to run full
employment and how much tightness
prevails in the white labor market.”
He continued by saying that the
day of equal opportunity for the Negro
is fardier off in the South than it is
in the North, because the South has
a pool of underemployed white people
to draw from before it has to turn
to the Negro. There is one exception,
the appearance of the so-called Citi
zens Council in the Deep South, which
aims at pushing the Negro.
“In 1956, between 10 and 14 mill
ion individuals or families had cash
incomes off less than $2,000,” Mr.
Larkins said. There are over 7 miUion
under $1,000 per year. Putting it
another way, between 21% and 29%
of the individual or family spending
units had an annual cash income of
less than $2,000.
These individuals or families did
not have enough income to purchase
the basic necessities of life. Negroes
constitute a large percentage of this
low income bracket group.
He emphasized the fact that be
tween 1939 and 1955, the medium
wage and salary of Negroes increased
more than four times from $364 to
$1,570, while that of white people
rose 3 times from $956 to $3,039.
In closing, Mr. Larkins said, an
old order is dying, and a new one is
being born for Negroes in the social
and economic structure of this coun
try and, the world. There can be not
births without pain. We stand on the
threshold of a new day and era.
JUNIOR CLASS SPONSORS
PRAYER SERVICE
The Junior Class was the sponsor
of prayer services recently. The wor
ship service was conducted by the
class president, Robert Moody. Rev.
Edmond Whitley, a freshman, was
guest speaker.
The lecture given by Rev. Edmond
Whitley was centered around Proverbs
3:6 In All Thy Ways Acknowledge
Him, and He Shall Direct Thy Patlis”.
Rev. Whitley discussed this verse in
both a biblical and practical manner,
and all gained food for thought.
ous at intervals, the speaker progress
ed in his lecture. He declared that the
people are hungry for love, justice,
and righteousness and recommended
religion to end these anxieties. The
religious leaders should be pure
enough to allow themselves to serve
as agencies for developing justice and
peace for mankind, the speaker con
cluded.
After the assembly Dr. Davis went
to the College library to converse with
students interested in religion as a
career. [
CORONATION BALL
In the evening, concluding the activ
ities for College Day, the Coronation
Ball was held in the Gymnasium.
Doretha Hall, escorted by Wdlie
Gist, relinquished her crown to Shirley
Wiggins, Miss S.T.C. for 1957-58, who
was escorted by Robert Moody.
Attending the queen were:
Willette Booker and Ephriam Green
Marva Thomas and Ivie Mitchell
Alelia Koonce and Richard Branch
Vivian Manley and Berneice Burton
Carolyn Cooper and Bobby Carr
Mary Green and Freddie Johnson
Mary Spruill and Sannie Chamblee
Christine Gardner and Sylvalius
Walson
Essie Mutts and James Goouch
Dropping Carnations were:
Jeanette Collins and Deborah Jones
Included in the program for the
evening was music, both vocal and
instrumental, by the College Choir,
Glee Club, College Band and an in
strumental solo by Mr. W. H. Bell.
Performances were given by tJie
Children’s Dance Group (William and
Curtis Muldrow, Gail Smith and Mi
chelle Vaughn) directed by Willette
Booker, a skit by the Dramatic Club
and the College Dance Group.
Music for the dance which followed
the Coronation Ball was led by A1
Wright and liis band.
DELTAS ENTERTAIN AND
ARE ENTERTAINED
Delta Chi and Epsilon Beta Chapt
ers of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc., held an informal reception for
Vivian Scott after her piano recital
in the College Auditorium on March
22. The Lounge of Hugh Gale Hall
was the scene of the affair.
Guests were received by Mrs. S. D.
Williams, Mrs. J. M. Hoffler, Miss
Edna Davis and Misses Marva Thomas
and Shirley Wright.
After meeting the artist, guests were
led to a table made attractive with
jonquils and breath of spring. Here
they were served punch, cookies, nuts
and mints.
At the close of the reception Vivian
Scott inspired her sisters, the Deltas,
as she told them of her many and
varied experiences. (Now an instructor
at Howard she knows the needs of
prospective teachers, particularly those
in elementary education.) She stressed
the need of music education, especial
ly piano playing for those who intend
to teach in the grades.
ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON
After dinner on Sunday the major
ity of the students like to stroll
around our beautiful campus or down
to the water front, while a few prefer
sitting on the campus laughing and
carrying on conversations among
themselves. Others go to the canteen
to listen to soft music.
Young gentlemen join the ladies in
reception halls or on the campus. Later,
a number go to vespers or to some
other entertainment of the evening.
Whereever they are, whether strolhng
or engaging in lively conversation on
the campus, they are anticipating a
happy future. They are looking on the
optimistic side of life and striving for
the highest goal in life.
SHADOWS TO THE BLIND
From the plantations in Mississippi,
the coal mines in Alabama, the peach
orchards in Georgia, and the pab
groves in Florida to the engulfed
shores of Tripoli extends the seem
ingly inevitable struggle for civil lib-
erties and independence. There has
emerged in the transition of our mod
ern times the weaponless battle for
equal citizenship, a revolution is taking
place in the world today with its goal
—civil freedom!
The limitation of human imagin
ation, the inability of human beings
to transcend their own selfish interests
sufficiently to envisage tlie interests
of their own fellowmen has caused
conflict since the dawn of history,
between those who would he free and
those who would glorify enslavement.
A minority people’s blood and sweat
have gone into the framework of this
nation. Yet sixty thousand immigrants
utilize more freedom than naturalized
citizens. As outgoing teachers, we are
faced with teaching “Color-bar Citi
zenship.”
The fight for freedom on the part
of minority groups and downtrodden
people not only and merely must be
to gain better jobs, own and enjoy
the available facilities as the major
ity, but to gain these advantages and
share them with the interest and
brotherhood of man (within the
boundaries of the law.)
In the mdist of this struggle, there
are those who would sell their birth
right for a loaf of bread. There are
those who would turn back the clock
of progress and hold fast to the “status
quo”; and there are those who would
sacrifice freedom from an oppressor
and remain in economic and civil
bondage as second-class citizens for
fear of loss of a job, superficial in
fluence or security. The physical es
sentials are recognizably necessary;
however the Chinese believed “The
overt defense is no stronger than the
inner character of people”,
this animated movement for freedom.
Everyone of us has a stake in
this animated movement for freedom.
We must not stand idly by and cling
to the Charles Priece’s “tychistic
theory” (that occurrences of favorable
events will take place by chance and
that the world process is a gradual
shaking down of disorderly and hap
hazard chaos into a crystalled order
ly system).
As prospective teachers, we must
pay the price. We must join organi
zations that promote progress, and
urge others, too. We must collective
ly lift our voices, writing letters to
newspapers and magazines editors. We
must petition our government repre
sentatives. We must vote in local and
national elections. We must be diplo
matically courteous and carry no chip
against the robbers of our civil libert
ies, And finally, we must concentrate
on establishing industrial enterprizes.
Each student nmst pledge his talent
and labor toward gaining first class
citizenship).
—Willie R. Gist
REDELL LACY COMES
TO COLLEGE CANTEEN
Mr. Redell Lacy, a native of Bel-
haven. North Carohna, is clerking in
the College Canteen in the absence
of Mr. William B. Lawrence.