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EASTER RECESS
March 27-31
Classes Resume
Wednesday, April 1
THE VOICE
DIGEST OF STUDENT OPINION’
"We never know how
high we are till we
are called to rise."
VOLUME 12. NUMBER 2
FAYETTEVILLE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C., MAR., 1959
Nationally Prominent Speakers
Appear On Assembly Programs
Ghana Embassy Press Attache, Israeli
Field Representative Thrill Students
Left to right: Evelyn Boone, Associate Editor; Sally McNair, Feature Editor; Alice Hines, Feature Edit
or: Delores Miller, Editor; James Oxendlne, Art Editor. Not pictured, Eva Covington, Assistant Editor,
and Melvin Thompson, Staff~Photographer.
Alumni Chapter
In Emancipation
Celebration
Fayetteville, N. C. — The New
Bern Chapter of the Fayetteville
State Teachers College Alumni
sponsored Emancipation Procla
mation Observance at the Saint
John’s Baptist Church.
An impressive opening activity
including tribute to founders and
remarks by Mr. Robert M. White
head preceded the guest speaker
of the afternoon, Dr. Rudolph
Jones, President, Fayetteville State
Teachers College, Fayetteville,
North Carolina.
“The Negro desires to Live in an
atmosphere in which every child
will have an opportunity to live,
to grow and to learn without hav
ing the stigma of inferiority
stamped on his skin or burned in
to his soul,” said Dr. Jones. In
the course of his speech, he em
phasized the fact that the Negro
will not be fully emancipated un
til he has the privilege of securing
any kind of job he is capable of
performing.
Dr, Jones stressed the necessity
of rightful participation in the
processes of local, state, federal
governments. He ended by saying,
“Every self-respecting Negro
wants free access to every public
privilege or service to which citi
zens are entitled.”
The invocation and benediction
by Rev. C. H. White. The Emanci
pation Proclamation was read by
Miss D. E. Carter. The choir ren
dered two selections: “Go Down
Moses” and “Many A Thousand
Gone” and the audience joined in
singing “Lift Every Voice and
Sing.”
Future Teachers Alumni Association
The Future Teachers Alumni
Association is expecting a very
prosperous school year under the
direction of Dr. Odell Uzzell, a
graduate of Fayetteville State
CoUege.
The officers are; President, Shir
ley Webb; Vice President, Leonard
Barnes; Secretary, Betty Holbert;
Assistant Secretary, Judith Nixon;
Treasurer, Fleming Pierce; Stu
dent Government Representative,
Celeste Robinson; Student Govern
ment Alternate Representative,
Parthenia Cogdell; Voice Report
er, Shirley Rogers.
TO ATTEND SNEA MEET
Members of the Student Nation
al Education Association of Fay
etteville State Teachers College
will attend the meeting of the
North Carolina Teachers Associa
tion in Raleigh Friday, March 20.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. — Vic
tor Wood, Press Attache of the
Embassy of Ghana was the assem
bly speaker at Fayetteville State
Teachers College Monday in ob
servance of Negro History Week.
Mr. Wood’s subject was “Ob
jectives of the Nationalist Move
ment in West Africa.” The first
objective of African Nationalism is
to seek political kingdom as a pre
requisite for economic and social
development of the people of Af
rica,” said Mr. Wood.
The speaker pointed to the fact
that West Africa has always been
in the Vanguard of the African Na
tionalist Movement and today it is
the headquarters of the Pan-Afri
can Movement.
Mr. Wood gave a graphic de
scription of the aims and political
aspirations of his people. Speak
ing of the great desire for inde
pendence that is now sweeping the
continent of Africa, he said, “The
liberation of Africa is already in
progress. Its total completion is
only a matter of time.” Two films
ivere shown at the evening sessi''n,
one depicting tlie ecouoinic grow
of Ghana.
Mrs. Bettie Coles, field repre
sentative of the American Chris
tian Palestine Commission brought
a stirring message to the student
body of Fayetteville State Teach
ers College at the Tuesday Assem
bly.
Mrs. Coles said that Negroes in
the United States should realize
that they have many ties with the
Jewish people. She pointed out the
many financial contributions made
to Negro education by Jewish phil
anthropists and appealed to the
colored citizenry to try to under
stand the plight of the people of
Israeli. “Our people must sym
pathize with other groups who are
in the same plight with Negroes in
America,” she said.
Touching on the race situation
she insisted that different races
can and must work together. “I
had the pleasure of seeing several
different races of people working
together, amicably, in an effort to
build Israeli. These people were
completely integrated.” Mrs. Coles
said.
Mrs. Coles is a native of Phila
delphia and received a part of her
VICTOR WOOD
Press Attache, Ghana Embassy
formal education at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. At one time
she conducted a charm school and
was instrumental in interesting
colored aspirants to take up mod
eling.
Dr. Harold Trigg
Addresses Students
Dr. Harold Trigg, prominent in
the field of Negro Education was
the guest speaker at the regular
student assembly at Fayetteville
State Teachers College.
Dr. Trigg spoke principally of
the new work that he is now doing
with the State Prison. He ppinted
out that the method of dealing
with offenders today has changed
considerably and that the new
process is that of group education.
“We used the group as a vehicle
of expression. No one can think
long and think wrong,” said Dr.
Trigg.
In the course of his speech he
called attention to the fact that
the lowest method of adjustment
in human affairs is force accom
panied by fear. He concluded by
saying that if we are to be suc
cessful as educators we must rid
ourselves of the old method and
educate the individual to his ca
pacities and aptitudes so that he
can be effective in our society.
Drama Guild Presents Arthur Miller's
"Crucible"; Dedicoted to E. E. Smith
Miss Melba Davis, looking on while Miss Edith LaBeach selects pic
tures wliich were shown illustrating the many interesting places Miss
Davis visited on a tour in Europe.
The Fayetteville Teachers Col
lege Drama Guild, under the di
rection of Miss Lois P. Turner,
presented “The Crucible,” by Ar
thur Miller.
The play is a two-act drama
based on the famous witchcraft
trials held in Salem, Massachu
setts during the 1600’s. Mr. Miller
is known as one of the leading
playwrights of this country.
It is the custom of the Guild to
dedicate its major production of
the year to one of the high schools
of the city or county. This year’s
play, “The Crucible,” is being ded
icated to the E. E. Smith High
School of Fayetteville.
The Guild is a member of the
National Association of Dramatic
and Speech Arts and the Inter
collegiate Drama Association. The
officers of the Guild are: Presi
dent, Jimmy Cummings, Vice
President, Roosevelt Ellis; Secre
tary, Deloris Burden; Treasurer,
Nathaniel Davis.
Featured in the cast were: Au-
gustia Mack, Mildred Bostic, Lola
McNeill, Clarence Trescott, Milton
Tucker, and Robert Howard. Sup
porting roles were played by
Gwenievere Scott, Estella Gilmore,
Mary McEchan, Robert Mangum,
Jean Swinson, Bobbie Hall, Rob
ert Adams, Nancy Hanks, Jean
1 Swinson, Bobbie Hall, Robert Ad
ams, Nancy Hanks, Jean Nixon,
I Joseph Ellis, Lacey Simpson, Wil
liam Scavella, Ada Alston, Martha
Green, Bettie Speight, Dorothy
I Graham, Mar Speller, and Genora
Black.