GREETINGS
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HEAR SATCH
FEBRUARY 8
VOLUME 13 — NUMBER 4
DURHAM, N. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1954
PRICE 15 CENTS
Riddick Maintains Title Claim
Citizens' Groups Fete Grid Champs
Satchmo Concert
Will Aid Drive
The appearance here of Louis
“Satchmo” Armstrong on Feb.
8 will give the scholarship pro
gram at NCC a much-needed
“shot in the arm” according to
Mr. Roger D. Russel, chairman
of the Scholarship Committee.
Louis’ appearance at ^ NCC
has been guaranteed by Scho
larship Committee members. “It
was the feeling of fhe commit
tee that the riced among our
students is so great that we
must do all within our power to
help them,’’ he said.
The committee has set the
price of admission to the Arm
strong concert at $1.00 and
$1.50 for reserve seats. “We have
set these low prices so that all
may hear one of the top jazz
musicians in the nation,” Rus
sell said.
Some 5000 tickets are slated
to go on sale early in the new
year.
Proceeds from the presenta
tion will go to the NCC Scholar
ship Fimd wliich helps needy
students already enrolled at
NCC.
“You are among the few to
whom superior excellence is
granted.”
This tribute by Mr. J. H.
Wheeler was one of the many
paid the 1954 NCC Eagle cham
pionship football team at a ban
quet given in theii^ honor last
Wednesday in the Hillside High
School cafeteria.
Mr. Wheeler, president of the
Mechanics and Farmers Bank,
was main speaker at the ban
quet, which was sponsored by
the Durham Business and Pro
fessional Chain and the House
wives’ League. Some 135 per
sons attended.
The main speaker was intro
duced by Mr. W. J. Kennedy, Jr.,
president of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Others on the program included
Rev. W. H. Fuller, N. B. White,
T. R. Speight, Mrs. Callie B.
Daye, Dr. C. A. Ray, I. R.
Holmes, J. J. Henderson, G. W.
Cox, and Dr. Alfonso Elder.
The Chain presented the
Eagles a championship trophy
and the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company gave
each member of the squad a gold
finger-nail file and clip.
I. R. Holmes, an old teammate
of Coach Herman Riddick at
NCC, awarded the Eagle men
tor a gold watch on behalf of the
Durham Business and Profes
sional Chain and the House
wives’ League.
Recognition was given sev
eral NCC players for honors re
ceived this year. Amos Thorn
ton and Otto Harvey have been
named to the All-CIAA team by
the Afro American newspaper.
It was Thornton’s third straight
selection. Thornton and Boone
were also named “All-Ameri
can” by the Pittsburgh Courier.
John Nicks, Chapel Hill fresh
man back on the “B” team, was
named the “Freshman who has
contributed most to the develop
ment of the squad.” Otto Har
vey was named most valuable
varsity player.
T Pledge Helps Make UF Quota
Sophs Hit Deck
In First Snow
The surprise December 13
snow which left the NCC cam
pus white had a different ef
fect on the assorted limbs of
certain members of the Sopho
more Class.
The “beautiful snow,” as
some freshmen termed it in en
thusiastic letters home, w;as
also slippery as members of the
Sophomore Class later demon
strated.
Among victims of the first
snow admitted to the college in
firmary were Emma Lash,
Winston-Salem; Bernice Mit
chell, Durham; Lula Glenn,
Kannapolis; and Jean White,
Aulander, all sophomore co-eds
All of the sophs, however, did
not hit the ground with the
same impact. Miss Lash was
slightly injured, spent the night
in the infirmary, and was re
leased. Miss Glenn, Miss Mit
chell, and Miss White were
treated for minor injuries and
released immediately.
Sophomores generally agreed
that the “pretty” snow was pret
ty hard on some of their num
bers.
An eleventh hour pledge by
the YWCA Service Committee
kept NCC from falling short of
its $4,000 quota in the Durham
United Fund drive which end
ed here on December 1.
I The Service Committee, un
der the leadership of Mrs. Rae
E. Williams, directress of fresh
men recreation and YWCA ad
visor, promised to raise $70.00
during the year “ ... so that
NCC will continue to fulfill its
obligation to the Durham com
munity.”
According to Dr. C. A. Ray,
who directed the drive on cam
pus, the $70.00 pledge places
NCC on the UF ‘honor roll’ for
the second consecutive year,
zations had already made their
contributions. Among these were
the Alpha Kappa Alpha and
Several other campus organi-
Delta Sigma Theta sororities.
Home Economics Club, Women’s
Assembly, Student Government
Association, Omega Psi Phi fra
ternity, Freshman Class, re
sidents of the Home Economics
Practice Cottage, and the Cam
pus ECHO. Henry Fair, president
of the Sophomore Class, direct
ed the UF drive among students.
In making the $70.00 pledge,
Mrs. Williams, speaking for the
YW Service Committee, said the
Committee itself will not con
tribute this whole amount but
will sponsor projects and make
collections among organizations
which have not already pledged.
This means, Mrs. Williams con
tinued, that any campus organi
zation may make a contribution
between now and May 1.
Although alone in their abil
ity to down the national cham
pion Tennessee State Tigers —
which they did by a 19-6 count
in Greensboro on Dec. 4—the
Eagles of NCC nevertheless
found themselves in the com
pany of one, possibly three oth
ers, in claiming the mythical
National Negro Football Cham-
Adult Ed. Groups
To Meet Tonight
“Is Desegregation Consistent
With The American Way of
Life?” is the topic to be discuss
ed by members of the Adult Edu
cation Groups which will meet
tonight at 8 o’clock in the James
E. Shepard Memorial Library.
Tonight’s meeting marks the
close of 1954 sessions, all of
which have been concerned with
different aspects of the public
school segregation issue. In pre
vious meetings, the groups have
discussed emigration as a solu
tion to the desegregation prob
lem, the May 17 Supreme Court
decisior^ and the thinking of
America, and the origir.al intent
of the XIV Amendment to the
Constitution.
Dr. J. C. Finney, education
professor, and Mr. H. G. Daw
son, a member of the Depart
ment of English, are discussion
leaders. Dr. Finney’s group
meets in Room No. 110, and Mr.
[Dawson’s in room 201, both in
the James E. Shepard Library.
The Adult Education Project
is operating under a $5^000 grant
from the Ford Foundation.
Dr. B. F. Smith, NCC librar
ian, is director of the project,
which also features a labor dis
cussion group led by Mr. Stan
ley P. Hebert of the Law School.
The labor group has already held
its last meeting of the year.
pionship.
Playing in the first National
Classic ever staged in Greens
boro, N. C., the Eagles bounced
back heroically from an earlier
defeat by the Tigers and knocked
them from the ranks of the na-
HEROES ALL: Ed Hudson cocks his right arm in the gesture
which proved fatal to A. and T. College on Thanksgiving Day. The
flashy frosh QB hurled three passes, the last one a pay-off strike
to Henry Lewis, center. Deryl “the Toe” Webster booted the
game winning point after TD. NCC won 7-6 in the last few sec
onds of the game, thereby winning the CIAA championship.
NCC Prexy In
New Council
Dr. Alfonso Elder has been
recently appointed a member of
the Governor’s Traffic Safety
.^ouncil by Luther H. Hodges,
governor of North Carolina.
The Governor’s Traffic Safety
Council, a new organization,
lad its first annual conference
on December 3 in the auditori
um of the Highway Building in
ialeigh. At that time, Dr. Elder
aelped outline a program that
would promote highway safety.
The purpose of the newly
organized council is to aid offi-
:;ial agencies throughout the
state in the prevention of
leaths, injuries, and losses due
to traffic accidents.
Governor Hodges, in appoint-
ng members to the council, se
eded persons from diversified
fields including state-wide and
regional civic, farm, industry,
labor, business, professional, re-
igious, educational, media of
public information, service and
other organizations, together
A’ith individuals and local or
ganizations having an outstand
ing interest in traffic safety.
COACH RIDDICK
tion’s undefeated. Actually, the
Henry A. Kean—coached eleven
were sporting a string of 27 vic
tories over a three year period'
'When they were derailed 'oyTSiT
NCC grid machine.
Their unsoiled record year
after year against the top com
petition in Negro football gave
the Tennesseans undisputed
claim to the mythical crown. In
addition, they were among the
top ten teams in the nation in
the offensive department, and
boasted some of the best all a-
round talent in football.
It was on the basis of over
turning this formidable apple
cart — together with their pre
eminence as champions of the
toughest conference in Negro
football (CIAA) — that the NCC
eleven claimed the national
laurel.
On the same day, however,
powerful Florida A. and M. Uni
versity also claimed the cham
pionship, having scored a re
sounding 67-19 victory over
Mainland State in the Orange
Blossom Classic in Miami. Mary
land was also previously unbeat
en, but their 7-7 tie with NCC
was the best showing they had
made all year against top com
petition.
FAMU ended the season with
one defeat — and that at the
hands of the Southern Univer
sity Jaguars! The Riddick rec
ord showed 7-1-1 against more
formidable opposition, climaxed
by dethronement of the Ten
nessee Tigers.
Ric Roberts, sports writer for'
the Pittsburgh Courier, suggest
ed in a Courier article last week
that “Negro football has come
up with quadruple national,
champions.”
In addition to NCC and Flor
ida, he lists Prairie View and
Southern as “teams with claims
as strong as those of the cham
pions.” Southern routed Florida
59-23, but was in turn humbled
by Prairie View, which was up
set by Florida. This gave each
grid giant, as Roberts puts it„
“single black eyes.”
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