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^John Loves Mary’|
April 1&.2
VOLUME IV
THE VOICE
''Digest Of Student Opinion''
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., FEBRUARY 18, 1949
Basketball
Tournament
March 10, 11 & 12
NUMBER 4
THE EMPEROR JONES
A tense moment in a scene from “The Emperor Jones.” Brutus
Jones (Edward Taylor) suddenly loses patience with Henry Smithers
(Junior Davis).
Drama Guild
Sponsors Clinic
Three hundred and twenty-one
students, directors and principals
were present on Saturday Feb-'
ruary 5, 1949 for the third annual
Drama Clinic sponsored by the
local Drama Guild. Miss Mary
Bohanon, Director of Dramatics
of North Carolina College at Dur
ham, acted as critic teacher.
The day’s program got under
way at 10:00 o’clock in the morn
ing with greetings from Dean
Joseph H. Douglass and from Mr.
James E. Purcell, President of
the local drama group. The Dil
lard Players then presented “And
He Sendeth Rain” for critical
analysis. This year’s production
was under the direction of Miss
Rosa Gray and Miss J. M. Boney i
of the Dillard High School in
Goldsboro. When Miss Bohanon
had complimented the Dillard
Players upon the sincerity with
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February 22 — Shaw Uni
versity Players.
March 4 — Bergen Evans,
guest lecturer.
March 10, 11, 12 — High
School Basketball Tournament.
March 20—Jessie O. Thomas,
guest lecturer.
April 1, 2 — Spring Produc
tion — “John Loves Mary.”
April 20 — Ruth Morris,
soprano.
May 6 — Music Festival:
Fayetteville City and County
schools.
May 13 — Junior-Senior
Prom.
May 22 — Baccalaureate Ad
dress.
May 23 — Class Night.
May 24 — Commencement
day.
Prexy Selected By Governor To
Represent North Carolina
Conferences and speal^ing en
gagements add to Dr. James W.
Seabroolc’s already crowded
schedule. He spol^e recently at
Georgia State College at Albany,
Georgia and at North Carolina
College at Durham and he was
present at the inauguration of
North Carolina’s Governor Kerr
Scott and of Dr. H. L. Trigg, Presi
dent of St. Augustine College in
Raleigh.
Governor W. Kerr Scott
designated Dr. Seabrook as dele
gate to represent North Carolina
at the observance in Philadelphia
of Natural Freedom Day. The
pressure of work incident to his
legislative program has prevented
Dr. Seabrook’s attending the meet
ing.
IMPLICATION OF
THE N. 0. E. C.
REPORT
Dean Joseph H. Douglass
The report of the North Caro
lina Education Commission re
veals a searching and thorough
analysis of the plane of education
within the State as well as a blue
print or “masterplan” for the
meeting of its immediate and fu
ture needs. Apart from its factual
revelations, its philisiphical pro
posals are both realistic and op
timistic in terms of the procedure
by which these- goals of educa
tion may be achieved and the
benefits that may be derived.
One merit of the Report is that
it did not deal with the education
of Negroes in the State as a sep
arate entity or as a question apart
from the inquiry into the educa
tion system as a whole. Rather,
the Commission set up criteria by
which all aspects of the educa
tional program were measured
and made its recommendations on
that basis. In this connection its
overall and perhaps most funda
mental recommendation was that
the State institute a minimum
foundation education for all youth
in the State — “rich or poor, Negro
or white, urban or rural”.
To meet the educational needs
of all youth in the State will re
quire an enormous expenditure
which in certain respects will ne
cessitate a proportionately great
er amount for Negroes than for
whites as a result of the gap in
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James H. Brewer
Takes Doctorate
From Pittsburgh
The newest doctor ' on the
campus and the one that smokes
the largest pipe is Dr. James H.
Brewer, who on January 27, 1949,
took from the University of
Pittsburgh the Ph. D. degree in
Historigraphy and Methodology,
and thus become a member of an
exclusive group of human beings
known as “American Scholars.”
Minor areas were European his
tory and American history. The
title of his dissertation reads:
“A Study of the Negro Slave in
the Lower Cape Fear Region of
North Carolina,” It was nothing
short of a coincidence that his
second baby girl came on the day
he received his degree and was
one of the first to call him “Dr.
Brewer”. He holds the Bachelors
degree from Virginia State Col
lege and the Masters degree from
the University of Pittsburgh.
Thirty-one year old Dr. Brewer
is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl
vania. At Virginia State College
he was active in athletics. For
three consecutive years he was
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Brewer
Dr. James H. Brewer on Jan
uary 27, 1949 was awarded the
Ph. D. degree at the University of
Pittsburgh.