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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1957 THE CAMPUS ECHO PAGE FIVE About The Alumni Nat’l. Alumni Prexy At Norfolk installation By LINDSEY MERRITT MERRITT outlined for 1957 OFFERS YOU A CHALLENGE The new year of 1957 offers a challenge to all NCC gradu ates to become affiliated with an organization that’s growing into one of the most outstanding of its kind in the country. A program de signed to aid the institution ^|n its scholar ship program, ; athletic activi- i ties and physi-|!i cal facilities as ;: well as increase!! the social sta - '>r4; .mina of all gra duates has been your apprasial. JOIN THE NCC NATIONAL ALJLTMNI ASSOCI ATION TODAY—don’t be left out in the cold-d-d. Address in quiries to this writer for com plete details. —OO— NOEFOLK CHAPTER INSTALLED Members of the NMD Com mittee traveled to Norfolk, Va., last December 15 and installed 40 members into the new Nor folk Chapter of the alumni asso ciation. Walter Van Hook, ‘49, who is now employed as an accountant- disbursing agent with the Naval Accounts Disbursing Office at Norfolk, served as coordinator in contacting NCC graduates in; the Norfolk-Suffolk-Portsmouth area and for making the splen did arrangements for the instal lation services. Picture slides depicting cer tain phases of the college’s pro gram of expansion and a film of a grid contest between NCC and another CIAA member college were shown to the group. Many of the alumni present at the meeting had not returned to the institution in fifteen years and uttered their surprise at the wonderful improvements as the slides were flashed on the screen. President T. E. Malone, Gene ral Secretary Walter M. Brown, National Recording Secretary Juanetta Lyon, NMD Co-chair man, L. A. Merritt and NCC’s championship football coach H. H. Riddick were the national representatives at the installa tion meeting. A “Meet Your Fellow Alumni” hour was held immediately fol lowing the installation meeting held at Norfolk’s Phyllis Wheat ley branch YWCA. A “10x14” gold embossed charter was presented to the Norfolk chapter members by the national president. —OO— SUBMITS PROTEST TO LIFE MAGAZINE Blaine E. Smith, graduate with the class of ‘55, and who is now employed as Director of Wynn Center, Police Athletic League, New York, submitted a protest to the edtfor of LIFE magazine for the failure of the publication to include NCC Olympic Hurdling Champion, Lee Calhoun, in it’s recent pic torial coverage of “The Olympic Games-In Color.” Smith’s protest read in. part- “Being an alumnus of North Carolina College, Durham, N. C., I wish to protest to you for the failure to include in your article, “The Olympic Games-In Color” a picture of our college’s Olympic Champion, Mr. Lee Calhoun. Mr. Calhoun is one of the many students who proudly wears the ‘maroon and gray’ and is one of the greatest athletes of our day.” While enrolled here at NCC, Smith was very active in cam pus activities and was a mem ber of Alpha Phi Alpha Frater nity. —OO— DURHAMITE S NOW , TEACHING Seven Durhamites, all recent graduates of NCC, are now em ployed as teachers in several schools throughout the state of N. C. and neighboring commu nities. The graduates and their pla ces of employment now are: Edna E. Cooper, Music, J. H. Hayswood High School, Lum- berton; Zelma J. Holloway, Physical Education, Merrick- Moore School, Diurham County; Jacquelyn R. Justice, Librarian, Sussex Coimty Training School, Waverly, Va.; Bobby Lawrence, Social Science, William Penn High, High Point; Carl McLen don, eighth grade instructor, Jones High, Washington; Elliott B. Palmer, Social Science, Little River, Durham County; and Frank Sowell, Athletic Coach, Anne Chesnutt High, Fayette ville All of these graduates had their job application creden tials processed by the NCC Placement Bureau director. Dr. Walter M. Brown. —OO— OVERSEAS APPOINTMENT —OKINAWA— Congratulations are extended to Miss Dorothy Coston, a mem ber of the class of ‘56 for her ap pointment as Post Librarian in Okinawa. The NCC Placement Bureau received notice of Miss Coston’s resignation as librarian at Vir ginia Theological Seminary and College, Lynchburg, Va., to ac cept the overseas position which becomes effective January 28. Plans now call for an eighteen month stay in the Orient for Miss Coston. —OO— MANY EXCHANGE VOWS DURING YULE SEASON A large number of our gradu ates exchanged martial vows during the 1956 Christmas sea son. Through this columft, all members of the NCC Alumni Association wish to extend con gratulations Ito those of you who accepted the bonds of ma trimony and to wish you every happiness throughout the com ing years. Carolyn Marie Smith, ‘51, granddaughter of the late Dr. James E. Shepard, the founder of our institution, became the bride of Dr. J. Preston Green at her home in New Bern in mid December. . Yvonne Scruggs, ‘55, and W. Sherman Perry, ‘56, exchanged vows in a very impressive ceremony in the Lincoln Me morial Church of Buffalo, N. Y. on December 28, 1956. Ertie Marie Fenner, ‘52, be- canie the bride of Wannamaker Barnes on Satjjrday, December 22. Since graduating from NCC, Ertie has been employed as Commercial Education instruc tor at the Conetoe High School, Conetoe, N. C. She is a mem ber of Alpha Kappa Alpha So rority. Miss NCC Homecoming of 1955, Octavia Tedder, ‘56, of Durham became the bride of Herman W. Thombs recently in a ceremony held at the White Rock Baptist Church. Mrs. Thombs is now employ ed as a senior typist‘at Mary land State College, Princess Anne, Maryland while Mr. Thombs is employed as a physi cist at the Naval Proving Grounds, Virginia. —OO— EX-EAGLE GRIDDER, MUSIC MAJOR ENGAGED NEXT MONTH An announcement was re ceived recently of the engage ment of Constance V. Glenn, ‘54, to Jesse Lee Allen, ‘53. Constance enrolled in NCC in 1953 after a two year study period at FAMU and immedia tely became active in campus activities. She was a member of the NCC Music Club and the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She completed graduate studies in Music Theory at Indiana Uni versity in June 1956 apd is cur rently employed as a music con sultant in the Charlotte (N.C.) Elementary School system. Allen was an outstanding member of the class of ‘53. He (Please turn to page 8) ALIVAY^ THi^ IV«£« yfOVK LVCKieS? 0 WHAT IS STALE PENICILLIN? a Old Mold LEONARD RICHARDS, JR., PENN STATE WHAT IS A TIRED CRUSTACEAN? 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