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VOLUME 12, NO. 3
FAYETTEVILLE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
MAY, 1959
DR. LANIER TO ADDRESS GRADUATES
John Lucas Cap
And Gown Speaker
John H. Lucas, Principal of
Mary Potter High School in Ox
ford, N. C., was the Senior Cap
and Gown Day speaker at Fayette
ville State Teachers College May
2, 1959, in its annual Chapel Exer
cises.
The speaker received his pri
mary education in his native town,
Rocky Mount and went on to Shaw
University for his Bachelor of Sci
ence Degree, to North Carolina
College for his Master of Arts De
gree, and was awarded a Certifi
cate of Advanced Study in Ad
ministration and Supervision at
New York University. He has also
done further study at NYU.
He is Basileus of the local chap
ter of the Omega Psi Phi Frater
nity, Inc., and he is Divisional
Chairman of the Northern Division
of the Occoneechee Council of the
Boy Scouts of America, a life
member of the NEA, a member of
the North Carolina Congress of
Parents and Teachers, vice-presi-
Alpha Kappa Mu
Honors Dean's List
Students
By John Reavis
The Rho Beta Chi Chapter of
Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society at
Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege, Fayetteville, North Carolina,
honored fifty-one students in its
annual recognition chapel program
recently. Frederick Rodgers, a jun
ior and member of Alpha Kappa
Mu at the college, was the key
note speaker. His topic was “De
veloping Our Capacities Fully: Our
First Obligation.” Evelyn Boone,
also a junior and member of Alpha
Kappa Mu, presented the honor
certificates to students.
Students in Elementary Educa
tion who received honor certifi
cates were; Seniors—EvaCovington
Helen Gillis, Earnestine Hatchette,
Annette Liggins, Delores Miller,
Milton McDonald, Clarence Mc-
Laurin, John Reavis, Virginiaree
Spearman, and Anna Doris Ware;
Juniors — Evelyn Boone, Doris
Goss, Helen Manley, Everlena
Mitchell, Clyde McDaniel, David
McNair, Mary Pittman, Frederick
Rodgers, Velma Street, and Pa
tricia Thompson; Sophomores —
Catharyn Butler, Eva Gorvion,
Thelma Forbes, Levi Montgomery,
and Calvin McDonald; Freshman—
Virgil Franklin, Gladys Hall, Eva
Ingram, Fred Jackson, Gertina
Keyes, Laura Latham, Robert
Mangum, Nathaniel Marshall, Ca
therine McDaniel, Betty Smith,
and Betty Wright.
Honorees in Secretarial Science
are second year students, Meta
Pittman, and first year students,
Patricia Forney, Minnie Massen-
burg, Doris Maytubby, and Deffie
Roberson. Others in Auto Mechan
ics are; second year students —
Lindsey Bullard, George Crisp,
Charles Owens, Arlander Paige,
and John Regan; first year stu
dents — William Beatty, Roscoe
Hodges, and Stanley Lucas. Es-
tella Gilmore, a special student^
also received an honor certificate.
JOHN H. LUCAS
Cap and Gown Day Speaker
dent of the North Carolina High
School Athletic Conference, and £
member of the Executive Commit
tee of the North Carolina Teacher;
Association.
$73 Million For
NDE Act Passed
By House
Supplemental appropriations of
S75.3 million to carry the National
Defense Education Act through the
fiscal year ending June 31 were
passed by the House in late March.
The House overrode its Appropri
ations Committee which had slash
ed the $75.3 million request to $25.3
million and cut out all areas other
than'student loans.
The drastic cuts were opposed
by the American Council on Edu
cation and by USNSA with both
groups sending telegrams and
statements to House leaders urging
restoration of the cuts as essential
to the implementation of the pro
grams promised by the Act’s pass
age.
1959-60 requests total $150,000,-
)00 as opposed to a $222,500,000
evel of authorizations. However,
>ecretary of Health Education and
Velfare Arthur Fleming has indi-
ated that supplemental requests
Jor student loan funds would be
DR. R. O'HARA LANIER
Commencement Speaker
made should institutional requests
continue to exceed available funds
by a wide margin.
Honors and Awards Day
President Jones congratulating outstanding students at the Honors and Awards Day program. Left to
right, President Jones shaking hands with Evelyn Boone, honor student who presided at the assembly;
Delores Miller, ranking student and Valedictorian of the graduating class; and Eva Covington, second
ranking student and Salutatorian.
Top ranking students of the
graduating class of Fayetteville
State Teachers College, together
with others in the several fields of
endeavor received honors and
awards at the annual Honors and
Awards Day, in the Seabrook Aud
itorium. Dr. Rudolph Jones, presi
dent of the college presented the
prizes and awards.
Addresses wei'e given by Eva
Covington, Magna Cum Laude, and
Salutatorian of her class, and De-
lores Miller, Summa Cum Laude,
and Valedictorian. Evelyn Boone,
an honor student presided and in
troduced the speakers.
The George Williams Memorial
Award for excellence in Scholar
ship to the graduating senior went
to Delores Miller, and the E. E.
Smith and Nannie Smith Award
for superior scholarship went to
Eva Covington, Miss Miller was
the top ranking senior of the grad
uating class and Miss Covington
was second highest in scholarship.
Those who will graduate Cum
Laude, were John W. Reavis, Bet
sy Foster and Helen Gillis.
The Faculty Scholarship Awards
to top ranking students of their
classes were as follows; Senior
class, Delores Miller; Secretarial
Science, Meta Pittman; Auto Me-
chancis, Charles Owens; Junior
class, Frederick Rodgers, Sopho
more, Levi Montgomery, Freshman
One Hundred and Twenty Students
Will Receive B.S. Degrees May 24
14 Will Be Awarded
Certificates
The Bachelor of Science Degree
in Elementary Education will be
conferred on 120 graduates at the
Eighty-Second Annual Commence
ment exercises of the Fayetteville
State Teachers College, 3;30 p.m.,
Sunday, May 24, in the Seabrook
Auditorium.
Certificates will be awarded to
10 graduates in Secretarial Science
and 4 in Auto Mechanics.
The main speaker for the oc
casion will be Dr. R. O’Hara La
nier, of the Phelps Stokes Fund,
New York City. Dr. Lanier will be
introduced by Dr. Rudolph Jones,
President of the college. The in
vocation and benediction will be
given by the Reverend Dr. C. R.
Coleman, pastor of the Metropoli
tan A. M. E. Zion Church, Fayette
ville. The conferring of the degrees
will be by the Honorable John H.
Cook, Chairman of the Board of
Trustees. Music will be furnished
by the College Choir, under the
direction of Mrs. Mary Terry El-
dridge.
A new award known as the
“Distinguished Alumni Award”
will be given to an outstanding
graduate of the college during the
commencement exercises.
On Friday, May 22, the tradi
tional Senior Cap and Gown Day
is planned in the Seabrook Audi
torium and the main speaker will
be John H. Lucas, principal of
Mary Potter School, Oxford, N. C.,
and on Saturday, May 23, Presi
dent and Mrs. Jones will meet the
prospective graduates at a recep
tion to be held at the home of the
President.
CANDIDATES
Candidates for the Bachelor of
Science Degree are Janice Mae At
kinson, Council; Leonard Barnes,
Jr., Wilson; David Franklin Blu-
ford, Winston-Salem; Mamie Ruth
Brown*, Burgaw; Rosa Mae
Brown, Cove City; and Nannie
Waddell Bryant*, Tarboro.
Catherine Merle Buxton, Hope
Mills; Evelyn Joyce Cameron, San
ford; Huber Cameron*, Fayette
ville; Althornton Canada, Powells-
ville; Marie Mitchell Carraway*,
Kinston; Dora Parthenia Cogdell,
Newton Grove; Frances Lavlnda
Colvin, Fayetteville; Eva Louise
CovingtonJt, Laurinburg; Lula
Mae Crumpler, Fayetteville; Hat
tie Endrena Darden, Faison; Ar
gentine Lavuwn, Nashville; Gwen
dolyn A d e 11 Draughon, Wallace;
Francenia McLean Drummond*,
Fayetteville; George Roosevelt
Ebron, Jr., Pinetown; and Azriah
Ellerbe, Rockingham.
Harold Franklin Ellis, Leland;
Georgia Alice Evans, Fayetteville;
Ronald Royal Evans, New York;
Harold Chesley Fields, Laurinburg;
James Lindsay Fleming, Jr., Wood-
leaf; Betsy Currie Fosterjitt, Rae-
ford; Betty Ann McNeill, Fayette
ville; Jobe Arthur Galimore*, Ma
con, Ga.; Helen Mayvine GillisJtJ,
Evergreen; Bobby David Golden,
Supply; Katie Davis Goode*, Wil-
m i n g t o n ; Luella M. Watkins
Grady*, Kinston; Brady Graham,
Wilmington; Clara Bryant Graham,
Fair Bluff; and George Washington *
Greene, Fayetteville.
Richard Gregg, Jr., Wilmington;
Don Ameche Harris, Wendell; Er-
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class, a tie between Robert Man
gum and Catherine McDaniel.
Ranking students of the first year
classes in secretarial science and
auto-mechanics were Patricia For
ney and Stanley Lucas.
Other awards and prizes from
individuals and organizations went
to the following; Evelyn Boone;
Betty Payne, Luther McKeithan,
Clyde McDaniel, Lounetta McNeil,
Fannie Tyson, Flora McLaurin,
Christine Williams, Jesse Hall,
Virgil Franklin, James Cummings
and Harold Fields. The Annie
Jones Award donated by President
and Mrs. Jones to the fraternity or
sorority holding the highest aver
age went to Delta Alpha Chaptei
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
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