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"Digest Of Student Opinion"
SPECIAL
TESTIMONIAL
ISSUE
VOLUME VIII
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C, JUNE 1, 1953
NUMBER 1
FSTC PRESIDENT HONORED
Alphas Sponsor
Many Activities
The Epsilon Rho Lambda Chap
ter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Incorporated, has sponsored a se
ries of programs which has en-
deaved to bring to Fayetteville
some of the most enlightening and
informative personalities of the
era.
The assembly exercises at the
Fayyetteville State Teachers Col
lege were heightened on Monday,
May 4, by an address by Attorney
Harry E. Groves, Fayetteville
lawyer. Speaking from “Educa-
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Health Education
Conference Is
Very Successful
On Thursday, March 23, 1953,
the Annual North Carolina Con
ference on the Preparation of Un
dergraduate Students in Health
Education was held at the Fayette
ville State Teachers College.
The conference this year, be
cause of its purpose and the prob
lems which were current topics
for discussion, was perhaps the
most important ever held. The
purpose of the conference was to
help college personnel enrich their
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Dr. Seabrook Honored At Banquet
On Afiniversary As Head Of School
Faculty and students of Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege recently honored their president, Dr. J. W. Seabrook, at
a testimonial banquet on the occasion of his twentieth an
niversary as head of this Negro educational institution.
Dr. Seabrook was presented with
a handsome silver service, masses
of flowers, a five-year subscrip
tion to a popular news magazine,
and heard himself and his service
to the cause of education praised
by Dr. S. D. Williams, president of
the Elizabeth City State Teachers
College: Artheneus Dew, president
of the student council; Dr. W. P.
DeVane, representing the citizens
Alumni and Faculty Honor President
SHOWN ABOVE IS A SMALL PORTION of the persons who gathered at a testimonial to honor the
President of Fayetteville State Teachers College, Dr. James Ward Seabrook. They are, left side,
reading left to right, first row: Mr. J. E. Coppage, Mrs. S. D. Williams; second row: Dr. Rudolph
Jones, Mr. Arteneus Dew, Mr. Odell Uzzell, and Dr. S. D. Williams. Right side, reading from left
to right, first row: Mother Seabrook, Mrs. T. D. Parham, Sr.; second row: Dr. J. W. Seabrook,
Mrs. J. W. Seabrook, Mr. H. M. Eldridge, and Miss E. L. Murphy; third row: Mr. T. D. Parham, Sr.,
and Mrs. X. D. Parham, Jr.
of Fayetteville; Odell Uzzell, presr
ident of the alumni association;
Aquilla Moore of Clarkton, mem
ber of board of trustees; Robert L.
Gray, editor of the Fayetteville
Observer; and James E. Coppage,
veteran faculty member.
Scores of commendatory tele
grams and letters were read by
Miss E. Louise Murphy, chairman
of the invitational committee.
The presentation of the silver
service was made by Prof. John
W. Parker, faculty member. (See
picture on page 7).
Dr. Rudolph Jones of the facul
ty served brilliantly as master of
ceremonies. Rev. Mr. Graves,
pastor of the Haymount Presby
terian Church rendered the bene
diction.
Dr. Williams, who was the prin
cipal speaker, praised the nobility
of purpose, the patriotism and the
understanding heart of Dr. Sea
brook.
Prof. Parker in the presentation
address spoke of Dr. Seabrook as
a “climber of hills” always look
ing for a new eminence to sur
mount. He outlined the tremen
dous growth of the physical fa
cilities, the student body, and the
opportunities for advancing edu
cation in the twenty years of Dr.
Seabrook’s administration.
Replying, Dr. Seabrook modest
ly gave much of the credit for the
success of his administration to
the groundwork laid by the late
Dr. E. E. Smith, who selected him
as his successor in 1933.
“Dr. Smith persuaded me to come
to Fayetteville and I have never
been sorry,” declared Dr. Sea
brook. “Whatever success I have
had has been because I have had
a wonderful faculty, a fine set of
students, and the co-operation of
a splendid community.”
Sharing the honors of the eve
ning with Dr. Seabrook were his
wife, Mrs. May Seabrook, his
mother, Mrs. Lucy S. Seabrook,
and his sister, Mrs. T. D. Parham,
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