The Campus Echo
Number 11
Monday April IS, 1985
Physics major earns top accolade
300 receive awards for
outstanding achievements
Spring Fest A Success
Pictured above are students enjoying the Spring Festival ac-
tivites sponsored by the Alfonso Elder Student Union Program
Board.
By Helen Eagleson
N. C. Central acknowledged
300 students and recent
graduates at its 36th annual
Awards Day ceremonies Fri
day, April 12, in the
McDougald Gymnasium.
An audience of 2,000 came
out for the Awards Day
presentations and to hear CBS
Newsman Charles Kuralt,
featured speaker for the
university’s major ocassion of
the Diamond Anniversary
celebration.
Among those honored were
Marian Jean Peters, reciepent
of the Chancellor’s Award for
the student with the highest
cumulative average for seven
consecutive semesters.
An all-A average student in
both Physics and
mathematics, Peters grade
point for seven consecutive
semesters is a 3.93 on a 4.0
scale.
Peters will receive degrees in
both physics and mathematics
at May’s commencement exer
cises.
She has previously been
Kuralt says: American spirit improves
By Helen Eagleson
“There is such thing as a
silent majority,’’ said CBS
newsman Charles Kuralt to an
audience of approximately
2,000 students, parents, in
structors, platform guests, and
friends of the university at the
36th annual Awards Day
ceremonies Friday in
McDougald Gymnasium.
Kuralt told the audience
that America had developed a
“national consciousness” and
that patriotism is much richer,
deeper, and more serious in
the American character than
when Kuralt was attending the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
“America is more humane
and more just,” said Kuralt,
who covered many of the civil
rights stories of the ’60s.
Kuralt explained that in the
turmoil of the ’60s he never
thought he would live to see
“genuine racial justice.”
However, now he believes that
dream may be possible.
“In such a complex and
technological society, one
man, or one woman, can make
all the difference,” said
Kuralt. He cited such persons
as Ralph Nader, Rachel Car-
son, Betty Friedan, and Mar
tin Luther King as individuals
who “pulled the trigger of
history” and made profound
contributions to our national
consciousness.
Kuralt said that today most
of us find it easier to solve
technical problems than to
solve the human problems of
the world.
Kuralt is a 1955 graduate of
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where
he served as editor of The
Dailey Tarheel. Following
graduation, Kuralt worked as
a reporter and columnist for
the Charlotte News.
Kuralt has worked for CBS
since 1957. He is especially
well known for his long-
running “On The Road ”
news feature series, for which
he has traveled over a million
miles of American highways
and backroads. Kuralt said he
has done stories on everything
from musical saws to singing
pigs, stories which have,
nevertheless, earned him a
reputation as a champion of
the common man.
At the conclusion of his
talk, Kuralt was awarded an
Honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters degree.
History, English departments sponsor symposia
NCCU News Bureau
The first of two symposia
on “Women Contributors to
North Carolina Central
University,” will be held
tonight at 7 p.m. in the Heatlh
Sciences auditorium.
Dr. Beverlji. Jones, who
chaired the program commit
tee for the conferences, said
the seven papers examining the
contributions of 12 women
mark the beginning of further
research on the role of women
in the life of NCCU.
Papers to be presented
tonight include the following:
Dr. Arthell Sanders, on the
wives of NCCU’s first two
presidents. Mrs. Annie D.
Shepard was the wife of the
founder. Dr. James E.
Shepard; Mrs. Lousie Elder is
the widow of Dr. Alfonso
Elder.
Dr. Percy Murray on Dr.
Helen G. Edmonds, who is
NCCU’s Distinguished Pro
fessor Emerita of History.
Dr. Patsy Perry on Mrs.
Frances Eagleson and Mrs.
Sudie Marrow, both long-time
administrators. Mrs. Eagleson
served as registrar; Mrs. Mar
row as bursar.
Papers to be presented on
April 22 include the following:
Dr. Beverly Nichols on Miss
Diana S. Dent and Dr. Jean
Cooper, both former chairper
sons of the NCCU Depart
ment of Home Economics.
Dr. Earlie E. Thorpe on
Mrs. Margaret Adams and
Miss Ruby Stewart. Mrs.
Adams and Miss Stewart
werew long-time members of
NCCU houseskeeping staff.
Dr. Jean Scales on Miss
Pauline Newton and Mrs.
Julia Wyatt Harris. Miss
Newton and Mrs. Harris were
the members of the English
faculty at NCCU for many
years.
Dr. Beverly Jones on Mrs.
Russell B. Sage. A check from
Mrs. Sage, a philanthropist
from New York City, is
credited with saving the in
stitution from closing in its
early year is.
recognized as an Outstandinj
Sophomore and an Outstan
ding Junior in Physics, has
twice been awarded the Ma-
jorie Lee Browne Scholarship
for Excellence in
Mathematics, and is a member
of Pi Mu Epsilon National
Honarary Mathematics
Fraternity and Alpha Kappa
Mu Honor Society.
Peters also received the
Outstanding Senior award in
the department of physics and
shared the W.G. Pearson
award for mathematics with
Bhagirath H. Thaker. Peters
plans to attend graduate at
Duke or Carolina.
Other receipents of special
awards were: Patrick F.
Hamer, for the Majorie Lee
Browne Scholarship for Ex
cellence in Mathematics; The
Duck wilder Memorial Award,
to an Outstanding Junior
Woman Student, Jayne C.M.
Bunn; The Duckwilder
Memorial Award to an
Outstanding Junior Athlete,
Paul A Nicholson; The Ruth
C. Edwards Scholarship
Award for Excellence in
Chemistry, Oteria Butler; The
Octavia Bowers Knight
Scholarship for Excellence in
Special Education, Martin A.
Lewis; The Francis Kornegay
Community Relations Award,
Ernest Silver; and The
Eugenia McManus Younge
Award for Excellence in
Reading in the Graduate
Elementary Education Pro
gram, David Lyons; Renee
Bell received The Dean’s
Award to the Senior with the
highest Cumulative average in
the School of Business; The
Ray Thompson Scholarship
for Excellence in Education
Patrica Stone.
A new award this year was
the I. Gregory Newton
Scholarship presented to
William J. Barber and
Kimberly Hardy
Awards for outstanding
deparatmental honors and
leadership were also
presented.