Support NCC Student Scholarship Fund Drive (^cinoic«M eit Echo Patronise Our Advertisers Durham, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 31, 1967 President-Elect Calls For Student Involvement Dr. Albert Whitin? ’’resident-elect of Narth Carolina College, is shown here (cente' leu.) exchanging ideas with Samuel Tnomas, left, President of the Student Government Association; William Jones, (center right), the college’s Business Manager; and Floyd Hayes (right), Vice-President of the Student Government Associa tion. Whiting visited North Carolina College on the 11th day of January and addressed the Student Body. Whiting will take his post on July 1. Jones Appointed Vice-President William Jones, North Carolina College business manager, has been appointed vice president for financial affairs by the board of trustees. A native of Wilmington, N. C., Jones received his elementary and secondary education in the Wilmington public schools; In 1936 he received the B.S. de gree with a major in business administration from Hampton Institute. In 1940 he was awarded the M.A. degree in the same field by Atlanta Universi ty. Jones brings to the position 26 years of service as a business manager in North Carolina state- supported college—eight at Fay etteville State College, from 1940 to 1948, and currently en tering his 18th year at North Carolina College, having joined Athletic Director Earns Doctorate James W. Younge, athletic director and assistant professor of physical education at North Carolina College, recently com pleted all requirements for the Ed.D. degree at Temple Uni versity. The degree will be con ferred on February 11, 1967. Pursuing a major in educa tional administration and a mi nor in physical educatijon Younge presented a dissertation entitled, “High School Prepara tion and Freshman Failures at North Carolina College.” A member of the NCC faculty since 1949 and athletic director since 1961, Younge is a native of Salisbury, N. C. Holder of the B.S. degree from Virginia State College and the M.S.P.E. degree from Indiana University, he has also studied at the University of Florence, Italy. He is the author of a book, “Games for Children,” pub lished in 1959. Yoimge joined the physical education department at NCC after producing championship teams in football and basketball at Morristown College, Morris town, Tenn. Now tennis coach at NCC, he formerly served as line coach in football and as head baseball coach. His Eagle tennis teams won the CIAA championship in 1957, 1958, 1959, and 1963. For the past three years they have earned second place honors. the faculty in 1948. He is considered by State authorities as an expert in State budget procedures. Jones is a member of the American Association of College Business Officers, which he has served as treasurer, vice presi dent, and president. He also holds membershiip in the Na tional Association of Business Officers and the Eastern Asso ciation of Business Officers. He He was for three years a mem ber of the board of directors of the National Association of Busi ness Officers. In addition to his work as NCC business manager, Jones has been chairman of the interim committee administering the college since February, 1966. A member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, he is the father of two sons—William Jr., 21, a sen ior at Virginia State College, and Anthony Ward, 19, a sopho more at Hampton Institute. 23 NCC Students Make ‘Who’s Who’ Twenty North Carolina Col lege students have been nomi nated for inclusion in the 1966- 67 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.” Their nominations were based on scholastic records, campus citizenship, and other criteria established by the college. Eigh teen are North Carolinians, with six representing Durham. The students are Edna Clegg, Va.; Ray Currence, Gastonia; Judy M. Dugger, Robersonville; Carolyn J. Edge, Rocky Mount; Elizabeth A. Galbreath, Red Springs; Betty M. Harmon, Windsor; Floyd Hayes, Los Angeles, California. Carolyn J. Mumford, Kinston; Mary McNeil, Charlotte; Robert Sanders, Clayton; Ella E. Tyson, Greenville; Kathryn L. Wallace, Mount Olive; Georgia M. Wil liams, Fayetteville; John T. Wil liams, Rocky Mount. Durham nominees are Leon ard King, Warren D. Leggett, Natalie E. Marshall, Gloria J. Snipes, Sandra R. Wray, and Nettie Young. In a January 11 address to the college community. Dr. Albert N. Whiting, president-elect of North Carolina College, urged students to become “involved” in a variety of desirable under takings. “My plea to you — my plea to all students across this nation” he said, “is to get in volved — to seek true ‘intellec tual involvement.’ ” In Durham to attend the mid winter meeting of the college’s board of trustees, Whiting, now dean of the college at Morgan State College, Baltimore, Md., briefly greeted the NCC faculty at its monthly meeting Tuesday evening and spoke to the stu dent body at Wednesday’s Fo rum assembly. He will become the college’s fourth president on July 1, 1967. Speaking on the subject, “The College Culture and the College Community,” he discussed the “college culture,” defining it as “The way of life in the campus community — what must be done, ought to be done, may be done, and must not be done.” Recruiters Busy On NCC Campus Forty-one corporations, fed eral agencies, and educational institutions and systems will send recruiting representatives to the North Carolina College campus in February, William P. Malone, the college’s placement director revealed last week. Malone, who indicated that more than 300 representatives from various firms and agencies will visit the campus this year, said even more recruitment visitation are requested during a school year. Confirmation are often impossible, he said, be cause of facilites at the college for interviewing, testing and other related activities. Already confirmed for Feb' ruary are the following, he said: Camp LeJeune Dependants Schools, N. Y. Central Railroad System, Federal Power Com mission, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Eastern Airline, Kinston Graded Schools, Radio Corpora tion of America, Atomic Energy Commission, University of Penn sylvania, Naval Research Lab oratory (Norfolk, Va.), Balti more Public Schools, United Airlines, Atlanta (Ga.) Public Schools. Other companies to send reprentatives are Cartenet Coun ty Public Schools, Beaufort, N. C., Scott Paper Co., The Sher- win Williams Co., U.S. Navy (Norfolk, Va.) The Glidden Co., Camp Minisink (N. Y.), the U.S. Soil Conservation Department, International Business Machine Corp., Omaha (Neb.) Public Schools, the Bnmswick Corp., the Job Corps (Univ. of Wis consin) Agriculture Research Service, Peppier Gas, Light and Coke Co. (Chicago, 111.) the Ten nessee Valley Authority. A d d i t ional representatives will come from Celanese Corp., General Foods Corp., Forsyth County Schools, Howard Uni versity Graduate School, Na tionwide Insurance Co., John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Philadelphia Teaching Pro ject, Prudential Insurance Co., N. C. State University, the Na tional YWCA, and the Corning Glass Works. Sociologist Whiting described the campus coKimunity as a much-stratified society, writh each of the many groups on cam- Governor’s Office Offers Internship Governor Moore urges col-' lege students interested in State government to apply for the 1967 Summer Internship Pro gram. In announcing the 1967 pro gram in December, Moore stated that 25 North Carolina college students will be selected to participate in the 11-week pro gram. Students will attend an orientation program and then work for 10 weeks in selected State departments while attend ing evening seminars on the campus of North Carolina State University. To be eligible, students (1) must have satisfactorily com pleted three years of college, (2) must be residents of North Carolina, and (2) must current ly be enrolled in a college or university either within or out side the state. The State Internship Program will begin June 6 and continue through August 18, 1967. Stu dents will be paid $75.00 a week while employed. Governor Moore stated that he had again asked the Institute of Government to be responsible for administering the internship program since it was established in 1967. Students will be se lected for the program by a com- mitee that includes the State Personnel Director and prom inent professors of political sci ence teaching in North Carolina colleges and imiversities. Students interested in apply ing for the Internship Program may secure application forms from college placement offices, department of business, govern ment, history or political science in North Carolina colleges and universities, local offices of the North Carolina Employment Security Commission ,and the North Carolina State Personnel Department. Applications must be mailed to the Institute of Government, Chapel Hill, before February 15, 1967. pus playing its own role and pursuing its own function in the life of the society. The “official” culture, Whit ing said, is created by the ad ministration and faculty in tha form of curricula, college ob jectives, rules and regulations, and the means through which the objectives are achieved. Students and student groups then develop their own patterns, which represent in a sense, Whiting said, “a re-defining of what must be done, ought to be done, may be done, and must be done.” He declared that a college fails “miserably” if students see their education only as a ticket to a job. “liiere are great and im portant questions which man has asked and continues to ask with greater accent as his hori zons have widened, and in each age powerful and sustaining in sights with reference to these questions have been obtained through the liberal arts,” he said. Describing as the goal of the liberal arts college “a climate involvement,” he said students characterized by intellectual should show a desire to learn, an awareness of ned, and an (See President-Elect, Page 3) Union Bridge Class Commences Feb. 7 Persons interested in learning to play bridge will have the have the opportunity at their finger tips in February. The lessons will be offered each Tuesday at 7:00 P.M. in the Student Union Building. Coach Robert Heard will serve as in structor for the course. Thef “learn to play bridge project” is sponsored by the Student Union Recreation Committee which is chaired by Benjamin Carrington. ' The Student Union is also planning a project involving some 3,000 paperback books, acquired by the college through the cooperation of a national foundation. Students will be able to check books out and utilize the new reading room in the Union. PLANNING STUDENT UNION PROJECT—Thurman Prescott Jr., director of North Carolina College’s student union, works with two student assistants on plans for a display by the college’s Cam pus Book Club, to be housed in the union. Some 3,000 paperback books, acquired by the college through the cooperation of a national foundation, will be available in the union for use by NCC students 'The ^udent assistants, who will work with the proiect are standing, Betsy Washington, a sociology major from Durham’ and Alice Sykes, a nursery school education major from LeGrang’e

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