In NCC’s 1957 Summer School Session
Registration Today, Classes Begin Tomorrow
Director To Greet Faculty This Morning At 8:30
Summer
Echo
VOL. IV — NO. 1
JUNE 10, 1957
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ATA Will Meet At NCC July 28-30
After an aosence of ten years,
the American Teachers Associa
tion will return to Durham and
North Carolina College for its
54th annual convention July
28-30.
The return to NCC is of special
significance this year as the or
ganization’s new president, elect
ed in Atlanta last summer, is Dr.
Theodore R. Speigner, NCC pro
fessor of geography and director
of the division -of Resource-Use
Education. Dr. Joseph H. Taylor
is on the board of directors.
Dr. Speigner, who is also act
ing as program chairman, says
“Conserving all Our Human Re
sources for Adequate, Equitable,
and Effective Education” has
been chosen as the convention
theme.
Some 700 delegates are expect
ed to attend the three day meet
ing at NCC, and arrangements,
now in the planning stage, call
for them to be hosted by the col
lege as well as several local busi
ness and professional organi
zations.
According to Dr. Speigner,
several of the country’s leading
educators will appear as speak
ers and consultants during the
Durham meeting.
ATA has had three presidents
from North Carolina prior to Dr.
Speigner’s election. They include
Dr. H. L. McCrorey, then presi
dent of Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity, 1922; William R. Robin
son, Durham, 1927; and Dr
Alphonso Heningburg, North
Carolina College, 1938.
The organization has 25,000
members in 31 states and the dis
trict of Columbia. There are ap
proximately 2,500 members in
North Carolina, thirty five of
whom are Life Members. Dr.
Joseph H. Taylor holds a life
membership.
In addition to its work in the
field of education and teacher
security, ATA has conducted sev
eral other prograhis of social
signficahce, including its recent
ly initiated “Operation Invest
ment” project. The organization
invested $25,000 this year in four
Negro banks and two Negro sav
ings and loan associations in the
South. This action was under
taken to help Negroes financially
in certain critical areas.
AV Director On National Committee
Audio-Visual Center Director
James E. Parker was recently
appointed to membership on the
Radio and Recordings Commit
tee ot the department of Audio-
The North Carolina College Summer Session, which be
gins today, will offer a total of 123 courses (64 graduate and
59 undergraduate), four workshops, two institutes and a
seminar. Course offerings cover 20 subject matter areas,
including work toward the masters degree in elementary
education.
Registration will begin at 8 o’clock in the Women’s
Gymnasium.
In preparation for the summer’s work Dr. Joseph H. Tay
lor, Summer School Director, is calling the Summer School
faculty together for its initial meeting this morning at 8:30
in the room 215 of the Education Building. The faculty will
— be composed of 51 regular NCC
instructors and 19 visiting in
structors. Registration begins
this morning at 8 in the Women’s
Gymnasium and ends at 4:00 tliis
afternoon.
Top Law Students
Win Recognition
Three Law School graduates
received awards during the an
nual Banquet at the end of the
recent term.
George L. Bumpass of Durham
won a one year’s subscription to
the United States Law Week and
two bound encylopedic volumes
on taxation and bankruptcy
respectively.
Other graduates receiving hon
ors were Leroy Johnson of At
lanta, Ga., and Franklin Moore
of Kinston.
Johnson won $100 and a certi
ficate of merit for posting the
highest average in courses in
Credit toward undergraduate,
graduate and professional de
grees may be earned in art, bio-
1 o g y, chemistry, commerce,
dramatic art, education, English,
French, geography, history, home
economics, library science,
mathematics, music, physical
education, phychology, public
One of the major projects of
DAV-NAEB National Commit
tee on Radio and Recordings is
the National Tape Recordings
respository at Kent State Uni
versity. This project publicizes
and makes available the best; property, titles, and future in
tape recorded radio programs in terests. He also received en-
educational agencies throughout, cyclopedia volumes on agency,
the nation. j bailment, evidence, insurance
A catalogue of these pro- I labor law, pleading, trusts, wills,
grams is published periodically. | mortgages and constitutional
Schools can secure any of the law.
J. E. PARKER
Visual Instruction of the Na
tional Education Association
and the National Association of
Educational Broadcasters.
The NCC professor was ap
pointed by Dr. Robert deKitffer,
president of DAVI and director
of the Audio Visual Center at
the University of Colorado. The
appointment met the approval
of DAVI’s Executive Commit
tee.
programs by sending a tape to
the national respository, and for
a small ser'>Ioe charge can re
ceive copies from master tapes
of desired programs.
Professor Parker is a mem
ber of the National Education
Association. His appointment to
the national office was direct
ed through the Department of
Audio-Visual Instructon of that
organization.
Widely respected in his field,
Parker designed the NCC AV
studio which is a feature of the
new Education Building and is
the author of numerous articles
in audio-visual education which
have appejared in professiorial
journals. Ee is a graduate of
Fisk University, from which in
stitution he also holds a master
of arts degiee.
Moore’s prizes included three
volumes on negotiable instru
ments, sales, and corporations.
Bumpass’ first prize was spon
sored by the Bureau of National
Affairs, Inc., Washington, D. C.
It goes annually to the student
making the most satisfactory
progress during the year.
The joint publishers of Ameri
can Jurisprudence, Bancroft-
Whitney Company of San Fran
cisco, and the Lawyers Cooper
ative Publishing Company of
Rochester, N. Y., contributed the
volumes on bankruptcy and
taxation.
The Lawyers’ Title Insurance
Company of Richmond, Virginia,
sponsored Johnson’s cash prize
of $100. His American Juris
prudence encyclopedia volimies
were contributed by the joint
publishers of that work.
DR. TAYLOR
health, nursing, social science
and sociology. .
The Summer School program
will be divided into three ses
sions—a regular nine weeks ses
sion, which ends on August 3; a
six weeks workshop session,
which ends on July 17 and a
three weeks post session, which
begins on August 5 and ends on
August 21.
The Workshop in Audio-Visual
Education, the Health Education
Workshop, the Resource-Use
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FINALS SPEAKERS CITE PERILS
These tW addresses were
highlights o; NCC’s 46th an
nual commertement celebration,
which witnefeed the awarding of
365 undergraiuate, graduate and
professional)(jiegrees. President
Alfonso Elde introduced both
speakers.
Dr. Josepl H. Taylor was
grand marshal.
Solomon Siannon, professor
of education e Tougaloo College
in Mississippi received the doc
tor of philohphy degree, the
President Elder is shown above with the commencement second ever a arded by a Negro
speaker, Dr. Howard Thurman, Boston University, and Mr. college
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Fac0 Crises Realistically: Thurman
Fl^ Conformity Embrace: Alston
DangdB inherent in unreasoning conformity and crises of the self, the region and the
world were emphasized in baccalaureate and commencement addresses at NCC last week.
The b^calaureate speaker, the Reverend E. Deedom Alston, ’35, advised against
“conforminj for the sake of being included,” and commencement speaker, Dr. Howard Thur
man, dean;J)f Marsh Chapel, Boston University, urged a realistic facing of current crises.
NCC
Walter
plac^ent officer Dr.
Brow earned the col-
R. M. Gantt of Durham, chairman of NCC’s Board of Trus
tees. Mr. Gantt has recently recovered from a long illness
He was given an ovation during commencement exercises in lege’s first PlD. in 1955.
honor of his return to active duty on the college’s chief ad- The commacement exercises
ministrative board. climaxed fivfdays of activities
beginning with Senior Class
Night on Friday, dedication of
the Shepard Memorial statue on
Saturday, baccalaureate and Sen
ior Recital on Sunday, an^ the
Senior Play Monday night. Sev
eral alumni affairs, including
the installation of new members
of the association and officers,
were interspersed.
Attorney William A. Marsh,
Jr., of Durham was elected presi
dent of the general alumni asso
ciation. He succeeds NCC biology
professor Dr. Thomas Malone.
The baccalaureate speaker
cited Jesus’ two questions —
“Whom do men say that I am?”
and “Whom do ye say that I
am?” as questions which “in vari
ous forms will be asked of each
of you.”
“Your answer will make your
life,” he declared.
“I am not saying be odd just
for the sake of being odd — but
with clear convictions to the con
trary, never accept as truth that
which is being accepted just be
cause it is being accepted, never
compromise just for the sake of
being included.”
. Thurman described “The Crisis
of Our Time” as being three
fold — crises of the self, of the
region (Southern) and of the
world.
“To the self, growing matur
ity means developing techniques
for negotiating the expanding
time interval between wish and
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