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VOLUME V
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., OCTOBER 20, 1950
NUMBER 9
''State's"" Building Program Approved
Dr. Brown
The newest “Doctor” on the
campus is Dr. Allen H. Brown,
who qualified for this high honor
at Indiana University dui'ing the
past summer commencement. He
is a Ph, D, in Chemistry,
Indiana Honors
Brown With
Doctorate
Mr. Allen H, Brown, a native
Tarheel, became “Dr. Allen H.
Brown” and straightway joined
the exclusive circle of American
scholars, when on August 2 past,
Indiana University conferred up
on him the Ph. D. degree. Dr.
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FAYETTEVILLE CO-ED,
HOMECOMING QUEEN
As we go to press, the an
nouncement comes that a local
young women, the attractive
and talented Miss Ruth Helen
Cunningham, a popular mem
ber of the Junior Class, has
been chosen “Miss Homecom
ing for 1950.” Bessie R.
Pridgeon, a senior of Goldsboro,
is Maid of Honor and Rosa
Howell of Robinsonville, and
Lucile D. Bennett of Clinton
are attendants to the queen.
The “go sign” on a portion of
State’s huge building program was
given at a recent meeting of the
Board of Trustees and of the Ad
visory Budget Commission. The
decision was reached to construct
an auditorium and a dormitory
for women at a total cost of $512,-
862. The elimination of two teach-
erages was necessary since low
bids on the over-all project were
about $155,000 above the funds
available.
The Advisory Budget Commis
sion approved the change in
building plans after listening to
’n appeal by Mr. John H, Cook,
Chairman of the college’s Board
of Trustees, and by Dr, J, W. Sea-
brook, president of the institution.
The College had been authorized
by the General Assembly to con
struct an auditorium, women’s
dormitory and two teacherages at
a total cost of $567,852. When bids
were opened recently, however, it
was found thiit low bids totaled
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Frierson Gets
Doctor's Degree
Dr. Marguerite S. Frierson, the
lone woman on State’s faculty to
hold the coveted Ph. D. degree,
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Ohio State Ph. D.
A native of Augusta, Georgia
and the only woman on the campus
to hold a doctorate. Dr. Mar
guerite S. Frierson was awarded
her degree at Ohio State Univer
sity at its past Spring Convocation.
Currently, she lives in Durham.
Queen? Yes, But Which?
Ruth H. Cunningham, (left) attractive junior of Fayetteville, was
the choice of the Junior Class to compete in this year’s bitterly-
fought “Homecoming-Queen Contest,” Likewise the choice of the
Senior Class is Goldsboro’s Bessie R, Pridgeon, another one of State’s
popular co-eds. Here it is beauty against beauty. Both young
women wear that “smile of “victory,”
Prexy's Address
Stresses Scholarship
At the first general assembly of
the school year. Dr, James W,
Seabrook reiterated his interest in
an improved brand of scholarship
for the students at “State”, and
pointed out how the improvement
of scholarship end good citizen
ship on and off the campus woul
benefit the institution, but would
be of far greater help to the stud
ent themselves as they enter the
field of teaching already over
crowded in some quarters.
The President revealed to the
students the institution’s plan to
secure accreditation in the Am
erican Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education, and insisted
that much depended upon the
gentility, the scholarship and the
culture of the students themselves.
Dr. Seabrook threw out a chal
lenge to the student group (1) to
study with more regularity and
concentration, (2) to review re
currently on their own the weak
points in their foundation, (3) to
let their total deportment be that
of college men and women, (4)
to respect fitness of time and place
in their conduct, and (5) to help in
achieving a oneness of effort by
working with the faculty toward
’ “single goal”—“the preparation
if efficient teachers for the na
tion’s elementary schools.”
College Conference
At Fayetteville
The North Carolina Negro Col
lege Conference will hold its
twenty-fifth annual meeting at the
Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege on Wednesday, November 15.
The conference, from early indica-
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