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WELCOME, ALUMNI AND FRIENDS CamP^^ Echo WELCOME, ALUMNI AND FRIENDS VOLUME 13—NUMBER 2 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1954 PRICE 15 CENTS Business Chain And Students Plan Festive Homecoming Day Jim Crow Rules Roost At UNC Does the University of North Carolina' still practice racial segregation despite the Su preme Court’s decision outlaw ing it? “Yes,” says The Daily Tar Heel. UNC’s only two resident Negro students occupy private rooms in Steele Dormitory while white students, elsewhere in the same dormitory, live three in a room. In addition, there are two other rooms, which are unoccupied, in th^ section where the Negroes live. The story quotes Housing Of-, ficer James E. Wadsworth a3 saying that white students have’ requested permission to move into the uncrowded dormitory area, but that he had directions “to reserve the rooms for Ne groes only.” The two Negro students^ Janifri Slade and Romaliuti Murphy, were quoted as saying that they weren’t worried by the Jim Crow set-up at UNC. Slade is a medical student, and Murphy is a law student. The Daily Tar Heel ran front page feature stories on segrega tion on October 6 and 7. The first story, written by Ruth Dal ton, traced the history of inte gration in higher education and concludes, “I suggest that the greatest positive consequence (of integration) may be that the South will be rid of a hated symbol of second class citizen ship.” The Oct. 7 article, which was based on UNC student opinion, concludes that “inte gration will work.” % JANIE SYKES Janie Sykes Is Landslide Winner In Delayed Contest; Reigns Today Beautiful sophomore Janie Sykes reigns today as “Missi North Carolina College Home coming,” having defeated her two opponents by an overwhel ming margin in the election held last Wednesday, October 13. Janie polled 501 votes in the election which saw her become a cause celebre. Some 845 students, believed to be the largest student vote in Founder's Day Speaker Named Dr. H. U. Richard, president of Gammon Theological Semi nary in Atlanta, Ga., will de liver the Founder’s Day address in Duke Auditorium at 11 A.M., Wednesday, November 4. The Founder’s Day service is held annually in honor of the late Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and first president of NCC. Dr. Shepard died Oct. 6, 1947. Dr. Alfonso Elder, President of NCC, will preside at the ceremonies. Among platform guests will be Dr. M. M. Fisher, pastor of the White Rock Bap tist Church, and Dr. C. E. Mc- Lester, president of the Durham Interdenominational Ministers Alliance. Alumni, students, and trustees will participate in the program. Dr. Fisher assisted by Dr. McLester will officiate at grave-side rites at Beechwood Cemetery following the service in Duke Auditorium. The NCC Choir, under the di rection of Mr. Samuel W. Hill, will furnish the music. Perry And Hughes At ACP Meet In DC W. Sherman Perry, editor of the Campus Echo, and Retha Hughes, business manager, at tended the 30th Annual Associ-* ated Collegiate Press Confer ence held in Washington, D. C.. Thursday and Friday. The sessions, held at the Stat- ler Hotel, attracted editors and business managers from various college and universities throughout the United States. The opening session was at 9 o’clock Thursday when forums aimed at improving the edi torial and advertising value of college newspapers were in augurated. The final item on tlie agenda was a dinner-dance in the Statler Hotel The NCC junior journalists lodged at the Statler whilo in Washington and left for Dur ham immediately following the dinner-dance. Homecoming Queen history, turned out to the polls to cul minate a chain of much publi cized pre-election events. Origi nally scheduled for Friday, Oct. 8, the election was postponed when confusion arose following Dean Louise M. Latham’s re fusal to “O.K.” Miss Sykes’ candidacy. Dean Latham’s reservations, were apparently based upon an incident which * occured last year in the Canteen when the co-ed was struck by a malej student. The student was discip lined and is no longer at NCC. The Dean’s refusal set off a campaign involving 450 sopho mores last Friday morning. The “campaign” was follow ed by an appeal by the sopho mores to the Student Welfare) Committee, which ruled that the Lettermen’s Club, the group which originally nominated' Miss Sykes, should have final jurisdiction. The Club then re nominated th^ comely co-ed un animously and urged her elec tion. Losing candidates Janice Jones a junior, and Elaine Gregory, a senior, received 200 votes and 144 votes respectively. Thus, Sykes received a better than 300 vote margin over her near est opponent. The 1954 Queen comes from Columbia, North Carolina. She is an honor student majoring in Spanish, and a member of the Pyramid Club of the Delta Sig ma Theta Sorority. She will be crowned in half-time ceremo nies at the Homecoming game today. Band Will Show Its Wares Today Eight lovely majorettes andi mascots will “strut their stuff” in leading NCC’s band before to day’s homecoming crowd. The entire band organization, bolstered by 40 freshmen new comers, has been going throughj practice drills daily in prepara tion for today’s performance. Veteran Bandmaster, Wesley Howard, told Echo reporters that band members have been show ing “unusual talent and en thusiasm” and give promise of “an outstanding exhibition” to day. Main events today are cen tered around the football game, which pits NCC against Mary land State, and the band’s pre game and half time perfor mances. A^jorettes and ciuJyd .3 Barbara McLinden, Washing ton; Valerie Wilson, Raleigh; Doris Williams, Kinston; Alice Henderson, Fayetteville; De- (Continued on Page Twelve) mascots in- A mammoth parade, headed by lovely Janie Sykes, Miss Homecoming of 1954, and a gridiron battle between the un defeated “Eagles” and Maryland State College “Hawks” are the features in today’s round of Homecoming events. Alumni started arriving last night for the festivities. An over flow crowd is expected to attend the game at O’Kelly Field which has seating accommodations for 8,000. Johnny Wooten, Green ville senior. Student Govern ment Publicity Officer, esti mates that some 30,000 specta tors may witness the parade. According to the Homecoming committee, forty of NCC’s stu dent orgatiizations are expected to participate in the day’s pro gram. Nathaniel B. White, presi dent of the Durham Business and Professional Chain, and the en tire executive board of the Chain have been working with the committee in the ov^^jU pro gram for almost a '* j The parade, whici jtaln floats entered (of D;ifha:-A ProMssional Chain /and North) Carolina College student organi zations, is slated to begin at Du»- ham Athletic Park at 12:00 noon. (Continued on Page Ten) NCC Is Host To College Confab The 29th North Carolina Ne gro College Conference will be held at NCC on November 17, according to Mrs. Frances Ea- gleson, chairman of the ar rangement committee. The theme of the one day ses sion will be “Problems of secur ing jobs for Negroes in the various areas of employment, especially in this region.” Mr. Mayes Behrman of the American Friends Service com mittee will be the principal speaker at the conclave which will attract approximately one hundred delegates from Negro Colleges throughout the state. Dr. Alvin Rose, a member of NCC’s Sociology Department will be chairman of a “Bulli Session” that will discuss Mr, Behrman’s address. Dr. James A. Boyer, Dean, St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, is president of the conference. Other officers are Dr. J. H, Douglass, Fayetteville State Teachers College, Fayetteville, vice-president; Dr. G. S. Davis, Elizabeth City State Teachers, secretary; Dr. Foster P. Payne, Dean, Shaw University, Ra leigh, treasurer; and Mrs. E. G. Harris, Livingstone College, Salisbury, assistant secretary. Leading the victory cheers for today are Cheerleaders, first row, left to right, Dorothy Butler, Audrey Flamer, Jean Bunche, Joyce McNeil; second row, Thelma Weaver, Mary Kershaw, Gwendolyn Williams; third row, Calvin Brown, Jerry Henderson, and Grady Bell.
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