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VOLUME 15 — NUMBER 5
DURHAM, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1957
PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS
Soph. Collects $500 From Hobby
Reading, her hobby for a
number of years, paid off for 19
year old sophomore Gertie Lee
Chasten, who won $500 last
week in the Readers Oigest
Contest.
For choosing eight of the ar
ticles most likely to be read in a
current issue of the magazine,
Gertie was awarded the $500
prize. A similar amount was al
so given the NCC Scholarship
Fund by the Readers Digest.
The young co-ed from Chin
quapin said this is the first con
test she has ever entered and
that she tried her luck this tune
on the advice of Dean Louise M.
Latham. “I am very excited-
and thrilled,” she said, when she
learned that she had won.
Gertie is one of a family of
eight children of Mr. and Mrs.
John Chasten, a farm couple.
Two of her sisters finished A&T
College in Greensboro.
Proudly displaying her check
from the Readers Digest, Gertie
said she will use the money to
pay her tuition and fees for the
second semester; thus, she will
be able to relieve her older sis
ter, Esther, who has been help
ing her with her bills.
In the Charity High School of
Rose Hill, Gertie Lee was a
member of the^ New Home-
Co-Ed Week-end
Pkns Complete
Plans for the eighth annual
Coed Weekend to be observed
here on February 23-24 have
been announced by Miss Vale
ria Powe of Cleveland (NC),
president of the sponsoring Wo
men’s Assembly.
Features of the two day ac
tivities include morning and
afternoon symposia, a charm
clinic, and a mammoth Coed
supper in the Men’s Gymna
sium Sunday night (Feb. 24).
“Civic Responsibility: The
Price of Civil Rights” will be
the theme of the observance.
Speakers who have been in
vited to speak during the pro
gram are Mrs. Dale Phillips,
Milwaukee (Wis.) coimcilw o-
man; Dr. Jean Noble, assistant
dean of students. College of the
City of New York; Mrs. Patricia
Roberts Harris, executive di
rector of Delta Sigma Theta So
rority; and Miss Viola Nenn-
kins, president of the Washing
ton D.C. branch of the Ka-
tional Association of Cosme
tologists.
Miss Lois Stevens, Howard
University music major, will be
featured as guest artist.
An additional feature of this
year’s program will be the re
turn of several recent presidents
of the Women’s Assembly. For
mer coeds expected are Mrs.
Carolyn Smith Green, Mrs.
Jean Morgan Roye, Mrs. Evelyn
Holland Mathum, Mrs. Yvonne
Scruggs Perry, and Miss Kitty
Sneed.
Some 600 coeds are expected
to participate in the overall
planning.
Miss Powe, the WA head, is a
chemistry major, who, in addi
tion to serving as chief WA offi
cer is also president of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority and a
senior counselor. She is also
secretary of the Panhellenic
Council.
makers of America, treasurer of
the sophomore and junior class
es, secretary of the senior class,
a member of the Student Coun
cil, and later assistant secretary
of the Coimcil. At NCC she has
been active with the Women’s
Athletic Association and in the
dormitory government prograrn.
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Echo Slates 2nd Publication Confab
N.C., Ya., S.C. High Schools Invited
Many To Attend Science Institute
DR. HELEN EDMONDS
Prof. Will Tour
For State Dept.
Once again Dr. Helen G. Ed
monds, professor of graduate-
history, bids adieu to North
Carolina College. She is leaving
in early February for Denmark,
Sweden, West Germany, and
Austria as a representative of
the United States in its cultural
program in these countries.
Arrangements for her trip
were made by the State Depart
ment, which is sponsoring her
as one of America’s “Ambassa
dors of Goodwill.”
Having visited* Germany as a
lecturer in 1954-55, Dr. Ed
monds, who speaks German flu
ently, is particularly well quali
fied for this important State De
partment assignment. During
her previous stay in Germany,
she became immensly popular
as a result of the extensive lec
tures that she gave on the sub
ject of the Negro and American
life: these lectures were de
livered in German.
Dr. Edmonds is l!he author of
The Negro and Fusion Politics
in North Carolina, published by
the University of North Caro
lina Press in 1951 and listed in
the October, 1956, release from
that press among the “One
Hundred Outstanding Books
about North Carolina.” At pre
sent, aside from the memoirs on
her stay in Germany, she is
working on The Life and Times
of Dr. James E. Shepard for
which the Carnegie Foundation
has given her a special Grant
in-Aid.
Last summer Dr. Edmonds
delivered one of the seconding
addresses for Mr. Eisenhower’s
nomination at the Republican
National Convention in San
Francisco and lectured exten
sively during the past campaign
in support of the Republican
ticket. At the invitation of the
President and the First Lady,
Dr. Ednr.onds was a guest at the
White House during the Inau
gural celremonies on January 20.
Applications for the Summer
Institute for High School Teach
ers of Mathematics are continu
ing to pour in to the office of
Dr. W. H. Robinson, it was an-;
nounced here last night by Dr.
Robinson of the Summer School.
The Institute is being support
ed by a $57,500 grant to the col
lege’s Summer School by the
National Science Foundation.
Dr. Joseph H. Taylor is Summer
School Director.
The grant will finance the tu
ition and expenses of some 50
high school teachers; however,
Dr. Robinson said “considerably
more than that” will enroll in
the Institute which runs from
June 10 until July 20. All in
terested teachers of science and
mathematics may enroll, he
said. And as yet, no scholar
ships have been granted.
Each person on scholarship
will receive a $75 weekly sti
pend plus §15 for each depen
dent up to four. Tuition and
fees, as well as a generous travel
allowance, will be paid.
A visiting staff of four out
standing authorities in each,
field will supplement the work
work of these NCC professors:
Dr. Tomas E. Malone, biology;
Dr. Ezra Totten, chemistry; and
Dr. Marjorie L. Browne, mathe
matics.
World Record
Hurdler Lee Calhoun set a
world indoor record of 8.2
seconds for the 70 yard high’s
in the Evening Star Track
and field meet last Saturday
night.
He was co-holder, with,
Harrison Dillard, of the old
8.3 record. Calhoun was fol
lowed closely by another
CIAA star, Elias Gilbert of
Winston-Salem TC.
At the same meet, NCC’s
mile relay with a 3:33 clock
ing. Runners were Jim Lane,
Vance Robinson, George
Presley, and Bob Dobbs ran
in that order.
Announcements went out last
week to high schools in this
state, Virginia and South Caro
lina of the Second Annual
Campus Echo Publication Con
ference which will be held here
on April 5. All high school pub-
lists are invited.
Last year’s meeting was atten
ded by some 250 high school
students and newspaper and
yearbook advisers.
Echo :^ditor Robert Perry
said preparations are being
made for “concentrated short
courses in yearbook and news
paper production with experts^
in each field providing instruc
tions.” Perry also said “a wealth
of free materials” which deal
with publications techniques
will be distributed to all dele
gates.
“The Echo also plans to set up
a statewide organization of pub-
lists,” Perry continued. The new
organization would provide ma
chinery for distribution of use
ful information to member
schools and would offe^ critical
service and advice to schools in
connection with setting up or
improving their newspapers and
yearbooks.
Ex-Editors Say 'I Do’ In Buffalo Rites
By ROTIDE
Two former editors of the
Campus Echo found their re
spective editorial positions so
similar that they decided to join
them for life.
Yvonne “Bonnie” Scruggs and
W. Sherman Perry were mar
ried on Friday, December 28, in
the Lincoln Memorial Church of
Buffalo, New York, home of the
bride. Perry is a native of Tre-
vose. Pa.
H. Horner, was followed by a
reception in the Church Annex.
The bride wore a floor length
gown of white delustered satin
which featured a full length
panel of pearl-embroidered
Chantilly lace in front. She
carried six eighteen inch
American Beauty roses. Her
princess style gown was accent
ed with lace sleeves and a satin
hip-sash which created a bustle
behind. Her head piece was an
The ceremony, which was Indian style tiara of pearls with
performed by the Rev. William a shoulder length veil.
W. Sherman Ferry, ’56, and Yvonne Scruggs, ’55, former
editors of the CAMPUS ECHO exchanged marital vows in an
impressive wedding ceremony in late December.
The groom, the father of the
bride, and the best man, wore
charcbal grey coats, striped!
trousers, and white vest. An
NCC student, William T. Penn,
Rocky Mount, was best man.
The couple honeymooned brief
ly in North Carolina.
“Bonnie” edited the Echo in
1953-54. She crowned a brilli
ant undergraduate career by be
coming the first NCC student to
receive- a Fulbright Award,
which she used during a year of
study at the Free University of
Berlin in Germany. As an xm-
dergraduate here, she held vir
tually every major office avail
able to women.
Perry, who edited the Echo
in 1954-55, went on to become
President of the NCC Student
Government Association in 1955
and ‘56, the year of his gradu
ation. “Bonnie” finished in 1955
and is now a student in Inter
national Relations at Johns
Hopkins University.
Slate May MA CT
Princeton, N.J., January 11:
Candidates for admission to
medical school in the fall of
1958 are advised to take the
Medical College Admission Test
in May, it was announced today
by Educational Testing Service,
which prepares and administers
the test for the Association of
American Medical Colleges.
These tests, required of appli
cants by almost every medical
college throughout the country,
will be given twice during thei
current calendar year. Candi
dates taking the May test, how
ever, will be able to furnish
scores to institutions in early
fall, when many medical col-*
leges begin the selection of theli*
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