North Carolina
Central University
The Summer
Scholar
Number 2
A publication of the NCCU Summer School
Friday, July 26, 1985
Chautauqua series explores
NCCU's past, present, future
1st session considers links between
Central and business community
• Financial consultant R.D. Locklear suggested that N, C. Central University engage in strategic
planning to find its niches in the educational market.
• Banker Vivian Patterson urged that the university establish active partnerships with business,
with sharing of information exchange of personnel, and other mutual assistance projects.
• High-technology entrepreneur Joshua I. Smith advised the university to prepare its students
for entrepreneurial roles, with seminars conducted by outstanding creators of new businesses.
Moderating at the podium for the final session of the Dia
mond Anniversary Chautauqua, S. Dallas Simmons,
president-elect of Virginia Union University, said his three
panelists represented the vision and leadership historically
blad( colleges and universities will require for the next 75
years.
The panelists, seated from left, were Dr. Cordell Wynn,
president of Stillman College; Dr. Charles Simmons, presi
dent of Sojourner Douglass College; and Dr. Harold
Delaney, executive vice president of the American Associa
tion of State Colleges and Universities.
See story on page 3.
Institute prepares
teachers to develop
student teachers
NCCU made friends of 150 teachers from the Durham City
and Durham County schools July 15-19, as the university
hosted a five-day Institute for Training Cooperating Teachers
sponsored by the Triangle Alliance for Improvement in the
Preparation of Teachers and Other Certified Personnel.
With instructors from NCCU, the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and N.C. State
University, the 150 teachers—who will supervise student
teachers in 1985-86—prepared themselves for their role in
developing new teachers.
Program participants included lone Perry of the State
Department of Public Instruction and Dr. Gary Stuck of UNC-
CH.
Instructors included Dr. Richard Brice and Dr. Barry
Hounsell of UNC-CH, Dr. Karen Buchanan of NCCU, and Dr.
Mary Mayesky of Duke.
Each instructor had the assistance of two teachers ex
perienced in student teacher supervision and nominated by
the superintendents of the two systems. Those teachers in
cluded Mary Clayton, Carolyn Kirkland, Emma Gatling, Bar
bara Rogers, Donna Hunt, Sue Tripp, LaHarve Johnson, and
Chip Moore.
The on-site director of the program was Dr. Shirley DeLucia
of NCCU.
The three speakers were the panel for the
first session of NCCU’s Diamond Anniversary
Chautauqua. They spoke Monday, July 8, in
the university's Criminal Justice Building on
“NCCU and the Business Community: Coali
tions for Excellence.”
Smith—who is president, chairman of the
board, and chief executive officer of Maxima
Corporation—heads one of America’s fastest
growing privately held corporations, accord
ing to Inc. Magazine. Among black-operated
companies, Maxima is the fastest growing of
the top 100, jumping some 60 places in the
Black Enterprise list between 1984 and
1985.
Mrs. Patterson is vice president, corporate
secretary, and trust officer of Mechanics and
Farmers Bank, with headquarters in
Durham.
Locklear works with the Durham Business
and Professional Chain as a financial plan
ning consultant for minority businesses.
The panel was moderated by Asa T.
Spaulding, Jr., vice-president of Durham Life
Broadcasting Co. and a member of the
University of North Carolina Board of Gover
nors.
Arguing that the “information age” ended
before most black students had heard of it.
Smith urged NCCU to help its students enter
the age of the entrepreneur.
See BUSINESS, p. 8
Walter Bryant of Kinston, standing left, Radhika Awa of Greensboro, center, and
Gregory Manning of Lexington are among 113 of North Carolina’s outstanding high school
students participating in the Summer Ventures program at NCCU this summer. Dr. Umesh
Banerjee of the department of biology demonstrates the high-technology nature of modern
laboratory procedures.
For more on the program, see page 3.