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Volume XIX — Number V
Durham, North Carolina, Thursday, January 28, 1960
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New Women’s Dorm To Open Friday
Annals of SG, Congress Viewed
By Willie Hall
The often-criticized 1959-60
Student Government of North
Carolina College promises to
enjoy one of the best adminis
trative years that this College
has seen. This year’s SG, led by
Robert Kornegay, has evidenced
its administrative talents by"
making many accomplishments
and by formulating some worth
while plans for the future.
One accomplishment was the
well-planned 1959 Homecoming.
The Homecoming was high
lighted by an august coronation
of Miss North Carolina College,
a dawn dance, and a parade. Al
though the SG was operating on
a low budget, it managed to pull
off a colorful ball which re
ceived the acclaim of many.
Another sign of progress was the!
reinstatement of the Student Su
preme Court, which, as SG Vice
Pres'ident Leonard DeShields
puts it, should eliminate thei
“Down with the Student Wel
fare Committee” cries often
heard on the campus. Two nota
ble SG accomplishments, which
probably did not get the atten
tion of the student body, oc
curred before Christmas. One
was the SG’s playing of Handel’s
Messiah ■ in stereophonic hi-fi-
delity sound in the dining hall;
the other, the opening of the li
brary on Sundays.
In a report to the student
body in upperclassmen’s assem-
March IS To Be
Commerce Day
Plans are underway for the
ninth annual Commerce Day .
program to be held on Friday,
March 18, 1960. Proposed activi
ties were discussed by the C. T.
Willis Commerce Club on Thurs
day night, January 14 in the
auditorium of the Commerce
Building. Last year’s major
speaker was Dr. Helen Ed
monds, NCC professor of his
tory. The speaker for this year
is to be announced later.
This gala affair usually at
tracts some 1,000 or more high
school students from through
out the state of North Carolina.
Some of the features are
forum speakers, business ma
chine demonstrations, campus
tours, a limcheon in the college
cafeteria, the state typing con
test for high school students, and
a tour of various businesses in
Durham, including the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
Among the activities of the
Commerce Day Program will be
a dance for the student body and
their guests in the Women’s
Gymnasium,
The Commerce Club and the
department will institute career
clinics for high school students.
Emphasis for this observance
will be “Collegiate Training for
Business Careers.” Mr. E. M.
Strayhorne is chairman of the
Commerce Day Program.
bly, Monday, January 11, De-
Shields gave the student body
an idea of what to expect from
the SG in 1960. He said that the
financial returns of the 1959
movie series were disappointing,
but the large turn-out for
“Picnic” proved that a student-
supported movie series could be
successful. He also stated that
the SG would make efforts to
interest students in attending
the movies by showing jiumer-
ous free movies and by improv
ing the caliber of the selections
shown.
Several future plans of the
SG are not definite but, never
theless, look very promising.
The SG is presently engaged in
communicating with jazz artists
Chico Hamilton, Lionel Hamil
ton and Ahmad Jamal, and it
expects to book these artists for
spring dates. The SG is also
communicating with several in
surance companies about ob
taining a student insurance
plan for students 'here. If this
goal is realized, it will give NCC
students an economical insur
ance plan similar to those used
in most high schools. The long-
awaited book rental system,
which the SG promised, has not
been forgotten and the Ways|
and Means Committee is con
sidering the effecting of this
system. One plan of the SG,
which should add another tro
phy to NCC’s “prestige cabinet,”
will be the Student Government
President’s Conference, in which
Student Government presidents
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Au a f
The Westminster Choir
Westminster Ciioir Here Feb. IS
The world-famous Westmin-
stei; Choir will be presented in
concert at B. N. Duke Audi
torium on Thursday, February
18, at 8:15 p.m. The group, con
sisting of 40 voices, is the tour
ing concert unit of Westminster
Choir College in Princeton, N. J.
The Choir was organized in
1921 by Dr. John Finley
Williamson, who was its con
ductor for 37 years. Harold
Hedgpeth, the successor to Dr.
WillianLsori and the present ccin-
ductor, is a graduate of West
minster Choir College and was a
member of Westminster Choir
for four years. Mr. Hedgpeth
has been associated with the col
lege since 1934 as a member of
the voice and conducting faculty.
Since 1950 he has been the con
ductor of the Chapel Choir of
the college.
The Westminster Choir has
appeared throughout the world.
from one end of the United
States to the other, in Canada,
Cuba, many of the countries of
Europe, and the Near and Far
East. It has gained an additional
audience through its radio and
television appearances and its
recordings. The Choir has re
ceived excellent reviews on its
recent tours.
In the concert liere, one can
expect the wide range of music
the Choir is noted for. The pro
gram will range froA the choral
classics of Palestrina, Victoria,
and Schubert to Negro spiritu
als, modern light classics and
music of contemporary com
posers.
Among the Negro spirituals,
the Choir will sing a version of
“Roll Jordan, Roll” arranged by
Miss Ruth Gilliam, a faculty
member of the North Carolina
College music department.
Students Attend Ecumenical Meet
Dr. Jla Blue
English Professor
Receives Ph.D.
Miss Ila J. Blue, assistant pro
fessor of English here, was
av.?arded the Ph.D. in English by
the University of Michigan on
January 16, 1960. Her disserta
tion title was A Study of Litera
ry Criticism by Some Negro
Authors, 1900-55. She received
her A.B. and M.A. degrees in
English from NCC, and joined
the faculty here in 1945. Three
years later Miss Blue entered
graduate school at the Univer
sity of Michigan to begin her
work toward the doctorate.*
By Florence Wells
Trains, buses, cars, and
planes poured 3,609 students
from 78 nations into Athens,
Ohio, at dawn on December 27,
1959 to attend the eighteenth
Ecumenical S^dent Conference
on the Christian World Mission.
After days of sleepless travel
ing, students dressed in their
native costumes entered into
conference. Asia had the largest
foreign representation with 397
delegates and Canada the second
largest with 165. Russia had 80
representatives. Three North
Carolina College students were
among those who attended.
They were Oxynenia Hughley,
John Brown, and Florence
Wells.
Top religious leaders, men
and women who serve theic
churches abroad and in the
states, were presented. Men like
Martin Luther King, ‘Bola Ige,
Dr. Kermit Eby, Dr. M. Richard
ShauU, The Rev. Harry Daniel
and others provoked thQ
thoughts and comments of the,
delegates. Dr. Lesslie Newbigin,
General Secretary of the Inter
national Missionary Council,
was the leader of the conference
through the Biblical exposition
each morning.
Martin Luther King had to be
smuggled out of a racial tensions
forum for a nap, because his
audience did not want to let him,
go. He was the only speaker that
the group of 3,609 gave a stand
ing ovation; the applause lasted
six minutes.
‘Bola Ige, a Nigerian student
leader, and Overseas Secretary
for the eighteenth Ecumenical
Student Conference on the
Christian World Mission, gave
his major address on the mas
sive thrust of African National
ism that will sweep away the
last vestiges of colonialism. He
termed the Bible as a most ex
plosive document because of its
teachings about man and God,
and asserted that the Bible
helped substantially to undercut
the whole basis of imperialism.
Bola Ige said that the Africans
want to be and will become mas
ters of their own homes and that
they will get rid of economic im
perialism.
Kermit Eby, professor of
social science at the University
of Chicago and former director
of education and research for
the C.I.O., gave the major ad
dress for the group forums on
technological advances, capital
accxmiulation without the
“forced treat” methods of com
munism, and the creation of full
employment without war or the
preparation for war.”
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Houses Over 2011
Two-himdred junior and
senior women are scheduled to
move into the new dormitory
located on the corner of Lawson
and Lincoln Streets on January
29 and 30, 1960. The three-story,
structure with its six wings is
valued at a half million dollars.
Each of the 100 bedrooms has
double accommodations includ
ing built-in beds with inner- ,
spring mattresses; two closets
and storage shelves; two sets of
bookcases, lamps and desks; two
chests of drawers, and bulletin
boards. The color scheme for the
bedrooms varies from wine with
melon green, to, Caribbean blue
with rose, and blue spruce with
chalk pink.
There is a first-floor recrea
tion room and a second-floor
lounge. Tower areas connecting
each wing will be set up as
lounging sections with book
cases, television sets, and radios.
The color schemes of the areas
are Delft blue, Swedish red, and
bone white.
Among other provisions are
coat rooms and smoking facul
ties for men visitors. Accessories
still to arrive include rugs,
draperies, a piano and tables for
some portions of the building.
The dormitory has not yet
been named. Dedication cere
monies are set for March 5, 1960.
The structure, begun in the
latter part of June, 1959, will
have Mrs. Beatrice Brown as its
directress. She is currently in
her second year as the residence
directress of Senior Dormitory.
Mrs. Brown served in such
capacity at Bowie State Teachers
College (now Maryland State
Teachers College), Bowie,
Maryland; Bluefield State Col
lege, Bluefield, West Virginia,
where she later became Associ
ate Dean of Women; Howard
University, Washington, D. C.,
and Tuskegee Institute, Ala
bama. In addition to residence
hall direction, Mrs. Brown has
served on the faculty at Bowie
State Teachers College and a|
Tuskegee Institute.
Dr. Berrian To
Study in Guinea
Dr. Albert Berrian, head of
the Department of Romance
Languages, is leaving for
Guinea, West Africa on Febru
ary 1, I960 to record the major
dialects and to take pictures of
the daily life of the country.
This project is with reference to
establishing a Guinea Institute
at NCC, beginning in the sum
mer of 1960.
The program is under the
auspices of the Guinea govern
ment, American Society of Afri
can Culture, and North Carolina
College. Dr. Berrian is director
of the program and Mr. Herman
Hudson of the Department of
Romance Languages is serving'
as consultant.
The purpose of the Institute
will be to prepare English
teachers for giving professional
service to Guinea. Currently,
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