The Campus Echo
Number 12
Saturday April 27, 1985
A ttorney/orator
to address
commencement
NCCU News Bureau
The “Hottest Speaker on
the Lecture Circut”—that’s
how many have described
Patricia Russell, this year’s
speaker for the Diamond An
niversary Commencement Ex
ercises of 750 graduate and
professional students.
Ms. Russell, of San An
tonio, Texas, an attorney and
professional orator, is a
former official of the Federal
Communications Commis
sion.
She is a graduate of Ken
tucky University and Howard
University School of Law and
has been admitted to the bars
of three jurisdictions, those of
the United States Supreme
Court, the District of Colum
bia, and Indiana.
She is currently president of
Patricia A. Russell Con
sultants.
Four students
honored for
achievements
NCCU News Bureau
Four NCCU students have
been recognized for outstan
ding achievement.
Ronnie Hopkins, a junior
English major, is one of six
North Carolina students nam
ed to receive the Mary Morrow
Scholarships given by the
North Carrolina Association
of Educators.
Cecil Banks, president of
the NCAE, said the scholar
ship was given in recognition
of Hopkin’s promise as a
teacher “and as a part of tht
Association’s commitment tc
encourage the best and thf
brightest to enter the profes
sion.’’ The scholarship is
valued at $1,000.
Hopkins, of Rte. 1,
Pinetown, is also the recipient
of the Leroy Latten Scholar
ship awarded by the NCCU
department of English. He is a
member of the NCCU choir,
has served this year as a
member of the editorial staff
of The Campus Echo, and is a
chancellor’s aide.
Patrick F. Hamer of Stan-
tonburg, a junior mathematics
major, will participate in
research at Argonne National
Laboratory, Argonne, II., this
summer. He is one of a select
See HONORS, p.3
Profs study cites
writers of the South
NCCU News Bureau
Dr. Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., associate professor at
North Carolina Central University’s Center for Academic
Enrichment, is the author of a major study of a phenomenon
in modern Southern literature.
Brinkmeyer’s Three Catholic Writers of the Modem South
will be publsihed in May at the University of Mississippi.
The 208-page critical study focuses on three representatives
of the suprisingly large number of writers from the
evangelical South who are Roman Catholic.
Examined by Brinkmeyer are the experiences and writings
of Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Walker Percy. The three
authors are all connverts to Roman Catholicism.
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., wrote a pre-publication appreciation
of Brinkmeyer’s work:
To be able to examine the religious dimensions of works of
literatme, as Robert Brinkmeyer does in this book, without
the analysis becoming theology masquarading as literary
criticism, is a rare gift. A splendid job of analysis.
Brinkmeyer received his bachelor of arts degree magna cum
laude from Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa and Phi Eta Sigma. He holds the masters of arts and
Ph.D. degrees in English from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been employed at NCCU
since 1975.
He was co-editor of a 1981 special edition and compiled
sections of a forthcoming magazine and edited and compiled
sections of a forthcoming anthology, he has written araticles
and criticism for a number of journals.
Honored alumni
invited to march
in ’85 graduation
NCCU News Bureau
Previous recipients of honorary degrees from N.C. Central
University will lead the formal academic processional for
NCCLPs Diamond Anniversary Commencement Exercises,
scheduled at 9 a.m., Sunday, May 12, at NCCU’s O’Kelly
Stadium.
As many as 15 of NCCU’s “special alumni,’’ who hold
(honoris causa) the Doctor of Laws or the Doctor of Humane
Letters degree from NCCU, may attend the event which marks
the end of the university’s 75th academic year.
They will join a line of march which includes graduates of five
NCCU schools—the Undergraduate and Graduate Schools of
Arts and Science, the School of Business, the School of Law,
and School of Library and Information Science.
Chancellor LeRoy T. Walker has created the title of Honors
Court to mark the special prominence given to the honorary
degree recipients.
Among the honorary degree recipients to whom invitations
were sent by Dr. Walker last December are Asa T. Spaulding of
Durham, former president of North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company; Frank R. Strong, long time professor of law
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Howard N.
Lee, former N.C. Secretary of Natural Resosurces and Com
munity Development and former mayor of Chapel Hill.
Also on the list were former Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm; former President Gerald Ford; and Los Angeles
Mayor Tom Bradley, but like other nationally prominent figures
on the list, these three will not be able to attend. Their degrees
were awarded on the occasion of addresses delivered at NCCU.
Other former honorary degree recipients invited to attend in
clude Mrs. Mary T. Semans of Durham; C.E. Boulware, former'
NCCU professor; Dr. Ernst Manasse, former NCCU professor;
former Governor James B. Hunt, Jr; N.C. Representative H.
M. Michaux, Jr., of Durham; and William A. Clement, former
chairman of the NCCU Board of Trustees.
N.C. Senator Kenneth Royall, Ebony Magazine publisher
John H. Johnson, Duke professor and author John Hope
Franklin will be unable to attend.
Others invited include Watts Hill, Jr., of Chapel Hill; William
Jones, former NCCU vice-president and vice-chancellor; Julius
L. Chambers, executive director of the Leagal Defense Fund;
Clarence Lightner, former Raleigh mayor and state senator;
Maynard Jackson, former Atlanta mayor; John B. McLendon,
a former NCCU coach who will later coached professonal
basketball; Francis Komegay, an NCCU alumnus who was the
long-time head of the Urban League in Detriot; Albert N.
Whiting, former NCCU president and chancellor; and Arnold
King, a long -time official of the University of North Carolina.
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