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Volume XX — Number II
Durham, North Carolina, Friday, Oct. 28, 1960
Price: Twenty Cents
Golden Slated As Symposium Speaker
College Awarded
$10,000 Grant
North Carolina College at
Durham is among 20 state col
leges in the United States re
cently awarded $10,000 each by
the Danforth Foundation of St.
Louis for scholarship grants toi
faculty members for summer
study.
According to Dean G. T. Kyle,
chairman of the committee ap
pointed to process applications,
the first award at NCC will be>
made for the summer of 1961.
Any regular mepriber of the
North Carolina College faculty
will be eligible to apply for
grants to cover pre or post-doc
toral work. Appointments and
amounts of each grant will be
determined by the NCC com
mittee.
Requirements are that th^
grants be used for summer studyi
in the field of the humanitiesl
and the liberal arts, particularly
in those subject matter fields
which are outside of the gran
tee’s own specialization in pro
fessional education and in me->
thodology. These requirements!
the I>ariforth ijoun-'
.^^*n’s purpose in making the
grants, which is to help broaden
college teachers in the humani
ties and liberal arts.
Members of the NCC review
committee, of which Dean Kyle
is chairman, include Dr. W. H.
Robinson, Professor Pauline
Newton, Dean W. H. Brown, and
Dr. J. H. Taylor.
Beginning this month, Deans
Kyle said recently, applications
for the summer grants will be
accepted.
Dr. Edmonds
Appointed To
GOP Position
Dr. Helen Edmonds, professor
of History here, has been ap
pointed to the national advisory
committee of women for Nixon-
Lodge, along with 39 other
members.
The committee serves to acti
vate national women leaders in
the fields of civic affairs, pro
fessions, and business at the na
tional level. Members of the
committee will act as advisors to
the three Republican co-chair-
men on policy matters which cut
across party lines to seek sup
port of Democrats and Indepen
dents as well as Republicans.
Dr. Edmonds, who is a noted
historian, seconded President
Eisenhower’s nomination for a
second term at the Republican
National Convention in Sa^
Francisco in 1956. She made nu
merous campaign appearances in
behalf of the Eisenhower-Nixon
ticket that year.
She has represented the U. S.
Department abroad on three oc
casions—twice in Germany and
once in Liberia.
Renowned as a platform lec-v
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Harry Golden
SSPA To Convene Here In April
The Southeastern Scholastic
Publications Association, which
has been out of operation for
two years due to the absence of
one of its officials, will again
convene here in April, 1961. An
organization for journalists, the
Association has its headquarters
here at North Carolina College
at Durham.
Dr. Horace G. Dawson, head
To Get Ahead —
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of the News Bureau, who was
absent on leave to work on the
doctorate degree in Mass Com
munications, is executive secre
tary of the organization, and
Mrs. Ruth J. Tillman, adviser toi
the “Panther” of Person County
High School in Roxboro, isj
president.
The Association has member-
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'Hustle/' Says Dr. Benjamin Mays
By Guytanna Horton
“Hustle, students”, empha
sized Dr. Benjamin E. Mays,
president of Morehouse College,
addressing a huge audience at
B. N. Duke auditorium on Sun
day, October 2.
Using the old parable of the
men and the talents, Dr. Mays
used as his subject “To Hinn
That Hath It Shall Be Given.”
He raised j;he questions: “Why
wasn’t the talent divided be
tween the man with two talents
and the man with five talents”
His explanation was illustrated
in the observation that a man o:^
wealth, like Rockefeller, would
be offered readily free board
and lodging, whereas the com
mon man finds it very difficult
to receive such services..
The same thought was ap
plied in terms of students’ atti
tudes toward scholastic stand
ings. He proclaimed: “The stu^-
dent who is above average is the
student who hustles, and tha
student that is behind remains
behind because he fails to hus
tle.” “However,” he warned, “if
one has the above-average abili
ty and fails to use it, he will lose
that ability.”
The speaker, one of the lead
ing American educators and
churchmen, has served as vice
president of the National Coun
cil of Churches. Among other
things he is an author. He isi
also a member of the YMCA and
the NAACP. Because of his busy
schedule, Dr. Mays was unablel
to speak at the Upper Class
men’s Assembly.
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An already impressive list o£
Fiftieth Anniversary speakers!
will include one of America’s
outstanding writers and wits,
Harry Golden.
Editor of the Carolina Israe
lite and author of For Two Cents
Plain, Golden will be the first
symposium speaker of a four-
day commemorative program
whiich will feature state and lo-i
cal government officials, college
and high school administrators,,
distinguished alumni of North
Carolina College, and prominent
citizens from throughout the|
state and nation.
Golden was catapulted toi
fame after the publication of hi§
book Only In America, in which
he made three satirical pro'j
posals to end integration prob
lems. One such proposal, en
titled the “Vertical Negro Plan,”
contended that since Southern-
Code Formed
For TG Game
Officials and students from
two schcoi/i involved in o'ne oi£
the oldest and most heated
rivalries in Negro College sportd
yesterday approved a voluntary
“Code of Ethics” governing fu->
ture athletic contests between
the two colleges.
Representatives from North
Carolina College at Durham and
A&T College passed the compre
hensive program dealing with
behavior of coaches, players,
students, alumni and spectators.
Dean A. L. Turner of the NCQ
Law School acted as chairman
for the meeting, with Dr. G. F.
Rankin, A&T Dean of Students,
as host. The plan, drawn up
since last year’s A&T-NCQ
game in Greensboro, was given
implementation procedures.
The new Code becomes effec
tive when the two arch rivals
meet in Durham in their tradi
tional Thanksgiving football
classic Thanksgiving Day. Thei
game will be played at Durham
County Memorial Stadium.
The group meeting yesterday
went on record in favor of a per-*
manent committee devoted to
easing tension surrounding ath
letic contests. Spokesmen em-
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ers objected to sitting with Ne
groes, public school and lunch
counter integration could be
successfully effected on a stand-
up basis. Another Golden pro
posal, the “Borrow a Child
Plan,” held that Negro. maids
might be permitted to sit in the
white section of theaters, pro
vided they were escorted by a
white child. Still another pro
posal, dubbed the “Out-of-OrdeiJ
Plan,” stated that whites might
use Negro drinking fountains if
the white ones were out olj
order.
Although Golden will head
the speakers list on the Nov. 10
symposium, Dr. Ralph W. Tyler^
director of the Center of Ad
vanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences in Stanford, California,
and the Honorable Arthur S,
Flemming, secretary of the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare, are slated as the
principal speakers.
Dr. Tyler will deliver the key
note address on Wednesday
morning November 9, and,'
Flemming will speak the follow-,
ing morning, November 10, in
a general assembly.
North Carolina Governor
Luther Hodges will participate'
in yCoitw-~
cation, Friday morning, Novem
ber 11.
Centered around the College’s
annual observance of Founder’s
Day, this year’s special program,
will pay tribute to contributions
of North Carolina College and
its founder and first president,
the late Dr. James E. Shepard.
The Golden Anniversary
theme is “Appropriate Direc
tions for the Modern College in
the Challenging New Educa
tional Era.”
According to Dr. Helen Ed-"
monds, professor of history and
chairman of the Fiftieth Anni
versary Committee, the four-day
November 9-12 celebration wiU
feature experts in various fields
discussing aspects of the Anni
versary theme in a series ofi
panels and symposia.
Speakers on the Thursday,..
November 10 symposium ont
“The College and Accentuated)
Social Action” include; Harry
Golden, editor of “The Carolina
IsraeKte”; Dr. Douglas B. Maggs,
professor of law at Duke Uni
versity; Dr. Stephen Wright,,
president of Fisk University;.
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Dr. Benjamin Mays pausfa after vesper service to clarify a point for Alice Poston, senior of!
Shelby, and Robert Brown, senior of Winston-Salem.