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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