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Durham, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 29. 1966
Floyd Hayes, III, a native of Los Angeles, California, is being
sworn in as vice-president of the North Carolina College Student
Government Association by W. P. Malone, chairman of the col
lege’s Student Welfare Committee, in ceremonies November .11.
Hayes, who won the office in campuswide elections, last spring,
is a senior French major and political science minor. An honor
roll and Dean’s List student at NCC, he plans attending graduate
school in international relations and African studies.
Dr. Albert Whiting To Pilot NCC
Dr. Albert N. Whiting, Dean
of Faculty at Morgan State Col
lege at Baltimore, Maryland,
was elected president of North
Carolina College recently.
He will assume the $18,000
per-year position next July 1.
Whiting will fill the vacancy
created early this year when
Dr. Samuel P. Massie resigned.
The Campus Echo contacted
the Interim Committee on the
appointment. They said, “The
Interim Committee is very hap
py that the Board of Trustees
has selected a president for
North Carolina College. In the
selection of Dr. Albert Whiting
as president, to become effective
July 1, 1967, the Interim Com
mittee feels that the Board of
Food Committee
Acts As Liaison
A recent addition to the NCC
family of organizations is the
Food Service Advisory Com
mittee. The committee meets on
alternate Mondays in the cafe
teria to discuss problems con
cerning food service. In its ad
visory capacity it acts as a liai
son between the Food Service
Director Robert P. Smith and
his staff and the students.
The idea, while new at NCC,
is not a novelty on college cam
puses. Smith is responsible for
inaugurating the idea at NCC,
having worked successfully
with such a committee at his
last post, Grambling College,
Grambling, Louisiana. The local
Committee is chaired by Collins
Baber.
In addition to Baber, other
members of the committee in
clude James Knight; Mrs. Doro
thy Harrison, hostess; Aaron
Graham, Miss Betty Harmon,
Miss Janice Blair, Miss Evelyn
Lucas, Raymond Perry, and
Miss Helen L. White.
The Food Service Committee,
representing a cross section of
student groups, invites com
ments on every phase of Food
Service in an attempt to provide
a better rapport between Food
Service and students.
Trustees has selected a national
ly recognized educator who is
not only familiar with the
pressing problems of higher
education, but one whose broad
interests may be reflected in
the accelerated advancement of
students, staff, faculty and ad
ministration.”
Dr. Whiting, 49, becomes the
fourth president of North Caro
lina College.
A native of Jersey City, N. J.,
he holds the A. B. degree in po
litical science from Amherst
College, the M.A. in sociology
from Fisk University, and the
Ph.D. in sociology and public
welfare from the American Uni
versity. He studied also at Co
lumbia University and the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh.
From 1939 to 1941 he was in
structor of sociology and direc
tor of the rural communities
study at Bennett College,
Greensboro. He served as assist
ant professor of sociology at At
lanta University from 1948 to
1953. From 1953 to 1957 he was
dean of the college and profes
sor of sociology at Morris
Brown College, Atlanta.
Joining the Morgan State
College faculty in 1957, he
served as assistant dean of the
college from 1957 to 1959 and
was elevated to the deanship in
1959.
Thomas, Hayes
Take SGA Oath
McDougald Gymnasium was
the setting for the Inauguration
of Samuel V. Thomas, the
twentieth president of the Stu
dent Government, and Floyd
Hayes III, the nineteenth vice-
president of North Caroina Col
lege, on Friday, November
eleventh.
The oath of office as presi
dent and vice-president was ad
ministered by William P. Ma
lone, chairman of the Student
Welfare Committee. After the
oath, Thomas made a brief ac
ceptance speech.
John Chappell, director of the
college’s United Christian Min
istry, introduced the speaker for
the occasion, Milton Mayer.
Mayer who is an author, lec
turer and world traveler, spoke
on the topic Viet Nam and The
College Student.
His main points focused upon
the survival of a college as it is
dependent on the college’s hav
ing a clear purpose and purpose
ful laws and rights. Mayer
stressed that war is the result
of an absence of a common pur
pose and that communistic and
capitalistic states must live to
gether.
Financial Aid
Open In Medicine
Ten four-year medical
scholarships to qualified Negro
men are available beginning in
the fall of 1967, as announced
by National Medical Fellow
ships, Inc. and the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation.
To qualify for a National
Medical — Sloan Foundation
Scholarship, a student must
have demonstrated outstanding
achievement in college, been ac
cepted for admission by a medi
cal school, and be a U. S. citi
zen.
Interested Negro college stu
dents, who plan to enter medi
cal school in the fall of 1967,
may obtain registration cards
and other information from the
pre-medical advisor, or from
the offices of National Medical
(See Financial Aid, Page 3)
Sajnuel Thomas, left, is shown being administered the oath of of
fice as president of the North Carolina College Student Govern
ment Association by W. P. Malone, chairman of the college’s Stu
dent Welfare ComnWttee, in ceremonies November 11.
Thomas, who won the office in campuswide elections last spring,
is a senior history major and political science minor. A native of
Brooklyn, N. Y., he participated last summer in the Harvard-Yale-
Columbia Intensive Summer Studies program designed to prepare
students from predominantly Negro colleges for law school or
graduate work in Ivy League schools.
McLean Receives Miss NCC Crown
November the eleventh was
sparked by the coronation cere
monies of Miss Queen McLean,
Miss North Carolina College
held in the McDougald Gym
nasium following the inauguar-
tion ceremonies of the Student
Government.
The beginning of the program
was marked by the invocation
by John Chappell, director of
the United Campus Ministry,
and a musical ensemble pre
senting “Ava Maria.”
Answering the first^ call-fan-
fare came the fraternity queens.
Dorothy Grier represented the
house of Alpha; Fannie Griffin,
the house of Kappa, and Helena
Huntley, the house of Omega.
The second fanfare by the
trumpeteers called for class at
tendants. The freshmen were
represented by Phyllis John
son; the sophomores, Bessie
Beckwith; the juniors. Fern
Mathewson; the seniors, Lonina
Vance; the off-campus studentsi,
Omegas Observe
Founders’ Day
On Thursday, November 17,
1966, members and pledgees of
the Tau Psi Chapter of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity ob
served the fifty-fifth year of
their fraternity’s founding.
The speaker for the brief
ceremony, which was held
around the Omega Sun Dial in
the Freshman Bowl, was Dr.
Theodore Speigner, chairman of
the Geography Department here
and a member of the organiza
tion. Dr. Speigner praised the
foresight and accomplishments
of the four founders, Edgar A.
Love, Oscar J. Cooper, Frank
(See Omegas Observe, Page 3)
Williams Jones, chairman of North Carolina College’s interim
committee, crowns Miss Queen E. McLean as “Miss North Caro
lina College” in ceremonies at the college November 11. A native
of Red Spring, N. C., MiSs McLean is a senior sociology major with
a minor in English.
Also shown are the queen’s maids of honor—Miss Evelyn J. Middle
ton, left, a senior English major from Tabb, Va., and Betty Har
mon, a senior French major from Windsor, _N. C. In front are the
queen’s crown and scepter bearers—Lisa Fisher, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Thornton of Durham.
Verlia J. Amos.
Two children formed the pro
cession when the third fanfare
was played, Theodore D. Thorn
ton as crown bearer and Lisa
Fisher as scepter bearer.
The audience then awaited the
coronation march. Her majesty-
“Miss NCC, Queen Elizabeth
McLean answered their desires
as she proceded down the mid
dle of the gymnasium floor
with all the queenly para
phernalia. The maids of honor,
Betty Harmon, and Evelyn J.
Middleton held the queen’s ela
borate cape as she proceeded to
the decorated stage and chair
which awaited her. The queen
was crowned by William Jones,
Chairman of the Interim Com
mittee.
The musical emsemble sang
from “My Fair Lady” to enter
tain the queen. Immediately fol
lowing this was another enter
tainment feature which present
ed La Rue Marks, Doris Jones,
Catherine Sims, Sandra Wad
dell, and Marilyn Williams in a
creative dance to “La Strada.”
Samuel Thomas, president of
(See McLean Receives, Page 6)
Yearbook Asks
For Cooperation
The yearbook staff is now
making plans to take pictures of
organizations. The staff must
know whether or not organiza
tions want to be represented.
Only those organizations regis
tered with the Dean of Students
will be eligible to apply.
Each organization will be
limited to one page. There will
no charge for half of this page
and the other half may be pur
chased for $50. Extra space
must be paid for before pictures
are taken. No organization in
debted to the yearbook will be
eligible for representation in
the 1967 yearbook until this as
sessment is paid.
Persons are asked to forward
all responses to the yearbook
office mail box in the Faculty
Pool.