Brown Claims Second Cage Crown
ARNEE DUPREE
S. C. Coed Wins Miss NCC Election
Arnee Dupree, Sumter, S. C.,
senior, was elected Miss North
Carolina College in an election
held Monday, Monday, Feb 11.
She polled 143 votes while the
Bowie To Attend
Chicago Confab
Dr. Carol C. Bowie, head of
the NCC Psychological Clinic,
will attend the 22nd Annual
Convention of the American
Orthopsychiatry Association in
Chicago. The convention will be
held at the Sherman Hotel Feb.
28 to March 2.
NCC has never sent a dele
gate to the convention before.
However, Dr. Bowie had atten
ded several of the confabs prior
to coming to NCC.
All of the discussions at the
three-day meet will revolve
around the diagnosis and treat
ment of emotional maladjust
ments and research.
The Orthopsychiatry Associ
ation is a national organization
whose memberships includes
persons in all fields which have
bearing on psychiatric training.
other candidates-Audrey Fla
mer, Philadelphia senior and
Yvonne Scruggs, Buffalo, N Y.,
senior, polled 128 and 93 v >tes
respectively.
Misses Flamer and Scruggs
will serve as attendants to I kiss
NCC.
The new Miss NCC is a home
economics major. She is a mem
ber of the Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority and the College Sun
day School. She is also Sweet
heart 0£ the O.iiega Psi Pin 'Fra
ternity.
Plans for the coronation will
be completed when Arnee re
turns from Henderson, N. C.,
where she is doing her student
teaching.
This is the second year that
the college has had two queens.
This “two queen system” was
inaugurated last year when
certain student government
officers decided that the grow
th of the student body warrant
ed a queen other than Miss
Homecoming who reigns for
Homecoming only. Miss North
Carolina College serves as the
official hostess for the student
body.
Dr. Elder Asks For Q Million More
Campus
Echo
VOLUME 13—NUMBER 6 THURSDAY, FEB. 24, 1955
PRICE 15 CENTS
NCC Top Seeded In Tourney Today; Visitation
Championship Awaits Official CiAA Decision
Co-Eds Take Up Integration Theme
In Annual Week-End Celebration
The Importnce of Building
Good Human Relations was the
theme of the Sixth Annual Co-ed
Week-End held here on February
19 and 20. Five guest con
sultants, nine co-ordinators, and
over 700 co-eds participated in
the two day program.
The consultants. Dr. Margaret
Just Butcher, Board of Educa
tion, Washington, D. C.; Mrs.
Ercelle H. Moore, Democratic
Cofnmittee Woman, Buffalo,
New York; Miss Irene Osborne,
Specialist in Intergroup Rela
tions, Washington, D. C.; Miss
Dorothy Quarkers, Administra
tive Assistant to Congressman
Diggs, Washington, D. C.; and
.Mrs. Nellie Roulhac, President,
lack and Jill of America, Mem
phis, Tennessee, spoke to the co-
ts_at a symposium on
iPlPfg^ad III uisC“^
on Saturday afternoon.
“Integrating the public schools
can be painful to Negroes and
whites, but a sound study pro
gram among community groups
and forthright action by school
authorities can make it work.”
This was the opinion voiced by
Dr. Margaret J. Butcher as she
elaborated on her phase of the
discussion. Human Relations in
Racial Integration. Miss Dorothy
Quarkers said in her group.
Human Relations in Securing
and Maintaining Jobs,” Integra
tion means that many Negro wo
men must no longer look to ex
cusing their ineffiency through
the race problem but must form
new concepts that will stimulate
us to get maximum preparation
for maximum accomplishments.”
The problem of implementing
integration struck the keynote
in each of the discussion groups.
The, climactic event of two
^activity was the
Gymnasium on Sunday. Makmg
history, both in location and in
attendance, the supper was held
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Students at NCC are already
paying more for their education
than students at any other Ne
gro college in the state.
This was one of the reasons
President Alfonso Elder gave
the Joint Appropriations Com
mittee for his opposition to any
further rises in fees. Appearing
before the Appropriations
Group in Raleigh earlier this
month. Dr. Elder asked that
NCC be granted nearly two
million dollars in additional
funds in order to improve the
educational program over the
next two years.
In the audience as Dr. Elder
appealed from the recommen
dations of the Advisory Budget
Commission were a number of
NCC faculty and staff members
as well of an NCC class in State
and Local Government.
Students included Gwendo
lyn McCallum, Mocksville so
phomore; Constance Frye,
’ Harrisburg, Pa. junior; Peggy
Harris, Roanoke, Va., junior;
and Thomas Johnson, Reidsville
sophomore.
There were also present four
members of the Trustee Board,
Dr. J. C. Hubbard, Sr., Mr. B.
I. Satterfield, Dr. J. W. Black,
and Mr. C. A. Danderlake, and
Dr. Charles A. Ray, Dean G. T.
Kyle, Dean R. K. Barksdale,
Dean Albert Turner, Mr. Willi
am Jones, and Mr. I. G. Newton,
all of the NCC faculty. After
Dr. Elder made his formal ap
peal, the NCC group talked
with two Durham officials in
the Legislature, Mr. E. K. Powe,
Representative from Durliam
County, and Senator Claude
Currie of Durham.
In his appeal before the Ap
propriations Committee, Dr.
Elder asked for $221,382 for
maintenance of the college and
$1,537,631 for a graduate and
senior women’s dormitory and
a student union building. Tak
ing cognizance of the State’s
critical financial condition. Dr.
Elder said requests for perma
nent improvements funds might
be set aside for the time being,
but asked that the Legislature
grant NCC $60,0Q0 each year to
off-set an increase in student
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On the strength of a 19-2 re
cord, North Carolina College
has claimed its second consecu
tive CIAA basketball cham
pionship.
Although final determina
tion awaits the decision of
Frank Dickinson, originator of
the rating system used in the
CIAA, the Floyd Brown coach
ed locals enter the tenth annual
tournament today in the top
seeded position.
According to some officials in
the CIAA, the championship is
a two way tie between NCC and
Virginia Union University of
Richmond. The record shows
NCC with 10 first division wins,
2 first division losses, 9 second
division wins and no losses in
the second division.
Union, on the other hand, has
a 5-1 record with first division
teams and has picked up 11
wins among second division
teams as compared with no loss-
es.
other teams finished the sea
son in the following o.rdp"
Winston-Salem, St. Augustine’s
College, Morgan State College,
West Virginia State, North
Carolina A and T, and Dela
ware; second division, Shaw
University, J. C. Smith Univer
sity, Hampton Institute, How
ard University, Lincoln Uni
versity, Virginia State College,
Fayetteville State, St. Paul’s
and Bluefield State College.
All first division teams
except Delaware State are par
ticipating in the tournament to
day, topiorrow and Saturday.
Should NCC’s claim to the
title be upheld, it will mark
Coach Brown’s second since
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Carl Bell, Harvey Heartley, Charles Badger, Charles
Barrick, and Rudy Dudley are five of the cagers who will
see action in the CIAA tournament which gets underway
here today. Not shown are Keels, Cato, and Fields, whose
superlative play has taken NCC to the top rung in confer
ence visitation standing.
NCC 'Critics' Meet Author Sunday
Dr. Francis Gray Patton will
discuss her book “Good'Morn-
ing. Miss Dove” on Sunday af
ternoon at 6:30 p.m. in the
Browsing Room of the James
E. Shepard Memorial Library.
Dr. Patton’s discussion is the
second in € series of book re
views sponsored by the Beta
Gamma Chapter of the Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity.
A native of North Carolina,
Dr. Patton resides in Durham
where her husband teaches
English at Duke University. Be
fore publisliing her first book,
“The Finer Things of Life,” she
had several short stories pub
lished in such magazines as the
New Yorker and the Ladies
Home Journal.
“Delightful—a story that has
charm and a wistful radiance
that only the most hard hearted
reader can resist” is the apprai
sal that the Saturday Review
gave “Good Morning, Miss
Dove.”
Dr. John H. Hollowell, pro
fessor of Political Science at
Duke'University, was the first
author presented in the Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity “Author
Meets Critic” series. He discuss
ed his book “The Moral Foun
dation of Democracy” early in
January.
The public is invited to at
tend this series of lectures.
Commercial Day
Set For March 18
“The Forward Look in Busi
ness Education” is the theme of
the NCC Commerce department’s
annual observance of Commer
cial Day for high school students,
Friday, March 18.
The one day program, which
is expected to attract over
twelve hundred stude*hts and
teachers from various North
Carolina schools, is dedicated to
the late Carroll T. Willis, who
was head of the NCC commerce
Department for 26 years.
According to Carl Hill, Com
mercial Club president, the pro
gram will includfe demonstra
tions of the latest in office ma
chines and equipment; counsel
ing and discussion of the pre
sent and future opportunities in
the field of business; finals of
the state typing contest; and a
workshop for visiting instruc
tors.
The entire program for the
day is as follows:
Nine a.m., registration in B.
N. Duke Auditorium; 9:30 a.m.,
machine demonstrations in the
Music Assembly Room of the
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