Robt. McFerrin
Baritone
Jan. 20-8:15
THE VOICE
DIGEST OF STUDENT OPINION”
N. C High
School Drama
Clinic-Feb. 4
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2
FAYETTEVILLE, STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., DECEMBER, 1955
Over 600 Visitors
At Fayetteville
"College Day"
Senior Day was held at Fay
etteville State Teachers College on
Saturday, November 5. Seniors
came from all parts of North
Carolina, and by 11 a. m. the cam
pus had been toured by the high
school students. Dinner, which
was a very choice menu, was ser
ved at noon. After dinner the
students were taken to the gym
nasium where a band from Dunn,
N. C., entertained with some very
fine selections. The caliber of
music was accepted by everyone
whole-heartedly. At 2:00 p. m.
the students went to Smith Ath
letic Field where the Broncos
played Elizabeth City’s “Pirates.”
At the halftime the Broncos were
leading Elizabeth City, 15-7. How
ever, in the last quarter, Elizabeth
City scored two touchdowns to
win the football game, 20-15.
After the game the seniors en
tertained themselves in the college
canteen until supper time. Af
ter supper they assembled again in
the canteen. At 7:00 p. m. a dance
was held in their honor at the
Lilly Gymnasium. Most of the
high school students left about 9
p. m. Everyone who attended
seemed to have enjoyed himself
and made the day a memorable
event.
—Carrie Mae Ellerbe
F.S.T.C. Students
Remember Needy
At Thanksgiving
A group of students in Advanced
Composition 201 collected from
among themselves a small sum of
money and donated it to a needy
person in the Fayetteville com
munity. The idea was to get away
from friends and acquaintances
and to help some one whom they
did not know but whose
need had been established. They
were inspired by the Thanksgiv
ing spirit as expressed in James
Russell Lowell’s moving lines from
“The Vision of Sir Launfal:”
Not what we give, but what we
share.
For the gift without the giver is
bare;
Who gives himself with his alms
feeds three.
Himself, his hungering neighbor,
and me.
The persons who chose to give
to a needy person “somewhere
in Fayetteville” were Ophelia
Maultsby, Carolyn Peacock, Doris
Pearson, Margie Henderson, Shir
ley Smith, Alexander Brown, Lu
cille Gilchrist, Curnist King, Cur
tiss Battle, Freeman Pearsall, Rob
ert Elliott, Ruth Colvin, Agnes
Floyd, Ida Stewart, Annette Sut
ton, Milton Taylor, Lois Hill, Sa
die Baten, Elizabeth Gerald, An
nie Freeman, Marian Wright, Ro
sie Kemp, Mai J. Harris, Evelyn
Cameron, Janet Torain, Helen
Currie, William Diggs, Larue
Shaw, Joe Butler, Lorenzo Batts,
Selena Greene, Loletha Ferrell,
Veta Mae Powell, Velma Laven
der, Margaret Evans, James Sneed,
Geneva McGill, Annie Avery and
Ruth Melvin.
Dr. J. W. Seabrook (left). Dr. Benjamin Mays, and Rev. L. J. Ship-
mon (right), during the Fifth Annual College Day program.
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Guest Soloists For
The Messiah" At
F.S.T.C. Dec. 4
The appearance of three guest
soloists at the college on Sunday,
Dec. 4, at 5:30 p. m., heightened
this year’s Christmas concert
which centered about the Christ
mas portion of “The Messiah.”
Each had an interesting back
ground in the area of music, and
added zest to the performance.
Mrs. Sylvia Allen, soprano, sang
the soprano parts. She is a
graduate of Chestnut Hill College
in Philadelphia, has done further
study with Margaret Spingling of
the Conservatory of Music in Ger
many, and has concertized in the
East.
Mrs. Lillian Hurewitz, contral
to and wife of I t. Colonel Samuel
Hurewitz of Fort Bragg, is a
graduate of New England Conser
vatory of Music, Boston, Mass.
She has been coached under Am-
pora Iturbi and studied under Es
telle Liebling. Mrs. Hurewitz^
known as the Twilight Lady dra
matizing Children’s stories, has
concertized from the New Eng
land states to California.
Mr. Anthony Palmeri, Milan-
born baritone, is a graduate of the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has sung
for two seasons with the Mesker
Opera company and has concertiz
ed in Ohio and New York. Now
stationed at Fort Bragg, he plans
to continue his study of music in
Milan.
Freshman-Week
Activities End
With a throng of freshmen and
other new students from North
Carolina and from states along the
Atlantic Coast in attendance, the
six-day Freshman Week activities
were concluded at the Fayetteville
State Teachers College on Sunday,
September 18, with an informal
reception at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. J. Ward Seabrook. Regis
tration for all students went for
ward on Monday, September 19,
and classes began on Tuesday.
The round of Freshman-Week
activities, under the direction of
Dean of Women Geneva J. Holmes
and the Committee on Freshman
Week activities, included the ad
ministration of standard tests by
Howard S. Smith and Edward W.
Hargrave, “Know Your College”
pep rallies by the Student Coun
selors and the Student Council,
physical examinations by Dr. W.
P. DeVane in cooperation with the
Fayetteville Health Department,
registration, faculty lectures led
by President J. Ward Seabrook,
Dean Rudolph Jones, and Mrs.
Helen T. Chick, social courtesies,
a tour of the college library, and
a vesper exercise on Sunday, Sep
tember 18, with the Reverend
Clinton R. Coleman, pastor of the
Evans Metropolitan Church, as the
guest speaker. A tour of Fort
Bragg was sponsored by the col
lege drama guild with Lois . P.
Turner in charge.
Selected from the several stu-
FSTC Welcomes Dr. Benjamin Mays
As Speaker for Annual College Day
Guest speaker for the Fifth Annual College Day program
held on Sunday, December 11, 1955, Dr. Benjamin Mays,
president of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., spoke in the
morning at 11 o’clock on the topic, “Who Are the Least of
These?” and in the evening on
National
Achievement Week
Progrann
On Sunday, November 6, 1955,
we had the honor of hearing Rev,
Grover D. Nelson, pastor of the
Westminister Presbyterian Church
in Laurinburg, N. C., speak at the
Seabrook Auditorium. His speech
was one of the best ever heard at
the college during Vesper services
Rev. Nelson’s speech on “Integra
tion, a Way Station; Desegrega
tion, Our Destination,” was so in
spiring and truthful of today’s
events in the United States that
the audience clapped with great
satisfaction.
Reverend Nelson spoke of the
miscarriage of justice in Mississip
pi, where the Till case went into
the books as an unsolved case. He
included the prestige of America
abroad, which is falling rapidly
in the dark-colored nations of the
Near East and Asia. Segregation
is noticed by all foreign countries,
especially Russia. Since the speech
proved every point mentioned, I
am certain that everyone is look
ing forward to listening to Rev.
Nelson again.
Sponsored by the Delta Gamma
and Beta Chi chapters of the Ome
ga Psi Phi Fraternity, the program
was handled nicely.
—John Reavis
dent activities on the campus to
assist in the orientation of the new
comers to new surroundings were
23 students as follows: Nettie Cos-
ton, Joyce Parker, Truman
Thames, Mildred Ray, Arthur
Thompson, Willie J. Carter, Willie
Alston, Naomi Graham, Anna
Wells, Gloria Bridgers, Lorine Mal-
lette, Gracie Boone, Joyce Brame,
Eliza Bullock, Charles Allen,
James Sneed, Caldonia Eaton, Do-
rine Malloy, Edith Walker, Melba
Johnson, Cleta Folkwes, Mary Mc-
Laurin, and Huie Parrish.
COUNSELORS TO FRESHMEN
High Way, Middle Way, or
Low Way?”
The services, attended by capa
city crowds, were held in the
morning at the Friendship Bap
tist Church of which Rev. L. J.
Shipmon is the pastor, while the
evening services were held at 4
p. m. in the auditorium on the
campus of the Fayetteville State
Teachers College.
At the morning worship ser
vices, Dr. Mays emphasized the
fact that people do not go to
church in order to change their
ways, and that those who go to
church and pay their dues are not
necessarily good, just as those who
do not go to church regularly are
not necessarily bad. Dr. Mays
stated that the measure of man’s
“religion” is how he treats his fel
low man. “. . . either all men are
born in the image of God or no
man is born in the image of God.
Therefore, what one individual
does to one person he does to all
persons because every person is
created in the image of God. Too,
what is done to an individual is
done to God.” “Goodness is not
something that one does in order
to receive a reward, for goodness
is its own reward. One must do
good for the sake of doing.”
Speaking to another capacity
crowd at the college in the after
noon at 4 o’clock. Dr. Mays based
his address on ine famous quota-~
tion which begins, “To every man
there openeth a way, and ways,
and a way, and the high soul takes
the low . . .” Developing this, Dr.
Mays made four important points:
1. The future is always with
those who choose the high way,
sometimes with those who choose
the middle way, but never with
those who choose the low way.
2. Only those who choose the
high way are free and can call
their minds their own. Those who
afraid to speak out against
what they know to be wrong are
slaves. “ ‘Tis better to follow even
a shadow of the best than to be
satisfied with the worst.”
3. No man is ever “ahead of Ws
time.” Each man is born during
the time that God has ordained
for him to be born and must con
tribute the most that he can to
the development of mankind. (To
do less than that is a sin. Ed.’s
note.)
4. There is nothing to fear on
earth but sin in its many diguises:
illness, greed, disception, injustice,
cowardice, and selfishness.
Truly a great educator (and an
humble man), Dr. Mays’ presence
and inspiring addresses will long
be remembered by all those who
were fortunate enough to have
him speak. We look forward to
his returning with pleasant an
ticipation of another scholarly, un
derstandable address.