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LOYALTY NIGHT was a lively effort to bring all new comers
under the colors. Shown here left to right are Patricia Ray,
Mrs. Mary T. Eldridge, Melvin Pierce, Helen Moore, Ronald
Wiggins, and Allean Davis, "Miss FSC."
Freshmen Have Busy Week
By LAURA GILMORE
First General Session
The opening of the dormitories
on Sunday, September 4, marked
the beginning of an activity laden
week for FSC’ sbeginning fresh
men. A day Students’ Meeting was
held that afternoon in Seabrook
Auditorium. On Monday, Septem
ber 5, Dean of Men J. C. Jones and
Dean of Women, Mrs. Ann Shep
ard, shared the first general ses
sion with Dean of the College, Dr.
Malvin E. Moore Jr., welcoming
the freshmen officially. Mr.
Charles Asbury provided an orien
tation to testing, afterwich reading
and language tests were adminis
tered. Following lunch, Monday
concluded with personnel meetings
for females in Seabrook. Auditor
ium, for males in Lilly Gymnas
ium and a picnic on the quadran
gle.
Testing and Auditions
The math, foreign language and
typing and shorthand tests were
administered on Tuesday morning,
September 6. The choir, band and
Drama Guild held auditions after
the testing. A Second General Ses
sion was followed by question and
answer periods by the Student
Government and the Pan-Hellenic
Council. There was a romping Loy
alty Night session and informal
social hour in the gymnasium from
7:30 to 9900: p.m. Football coaches
introduced their players, cheer
leaders cheered and the Alma Ma
ter was practiced.
President Speaks
The third general session got un
derway on Wednesday, September
7, at 9:00 A.M. Mr. James Walker
presided. Mr. A. J. Pindle, Busi
ness Manager, talked of “Financial
Aid and Financial Responsibility”;
Dr. M. S. Frierson, Chairman of
the Division of Education, talked
of “Teaching As a Career”; Dr.
Walter Pace explained the “Im
portance of The National Teacher
Examination. The fourth general
session began at 2:00 p.m. There
Mrs. N. Smith, Librarian, explain
ed varied facets of the library and
the President gave his message to
the freshmen.
The fifth general session on
Thursday, September 8, was head
ed by Miss Lena Means, Registrar.
She concentrated on orientation to
registration grouping, after which,
advisory sessions were held for
registration. Registration began
that afternoon and continued
through Friday. It was followed
that evening by a reception at the
home of President and Mrs. Jones,
(see pix at right) Saturday was
given over to physical examina
tions and a picnic at Seabrook
Park, given by the Westminister
Fellowship and directed by the
Reverend O. A. Massey.
FSC Coeds In Europe
If you wake up tomorrow morn
ing and decide you want to go to
Europe, don’t forget about school
and leave, but wait until this sum
mer and take a European tour like
two schoolmates of ours did. They
were Ellen Ray and Edna Tisdell.
These young ladies took the Wom
en’s Club Group and North Caro
lina Teachers Tour of Europe for
1966 and had themselves a ball.
This educational and pleasurable
trip cost only $795 for three
weeks.
They left Fayetteville on July
30 for New York and from there
flew to London arriving August 2.
The well-planned tour gave
them a chance to see many of the
tourist’s attractions in London
which included such places as Tra
falgar Square, St. Paul’s Cathedral,
Tower of London, Westminister
Abbey, Buckingham Palace and
Shakespeare’s Birthplace.
It was sad leaving London, but
it was time to go on to Amster
dam where they observed the cut
ting and polishing of diamonds
in a diamond factory. Then they
were off to Brussels, Wiesbaden,
Lucerne, Innsbruck and from there
to Venice, the world’s most roman
tic town. On August 13 they were
off to Monte Carlo, and then, gay
Paris. French Students listen to
this: They saw the Madeleine,
Place de la Concorde, Avenue des
Champs Elysees, Palace of the In-
valides with Napoleon’s Tomb, Eif
fel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and
the Unknown Soldier’s Tomb and
many, many more places of inter
est.
After a day of rest the girls
packed up their clothes and the
memories of those beautiful sights
and came home.
Back at Fayetteville State both
girls are filled with a burning de
sire to travel some more in the
years to come.
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Vol. 20, No. 1
FAYETTEVILLE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
October, 1966
Registration Goes Smoothly
Highlights of President's Address
THERMOMETER or THERMOSTAT?
President Rudolph Jones, in his
annual address to the incoming
freshmen, cautioned them not to
do things simply because others
were doing them.
He likened the “non-serious”
students who follow the ways ot
others, to a thermometer, has no
control over or resilienvcy to what
happen to it. Those students who
come to college for reasons other
than the buisness of educating
themselves, are the thermometers.
Among these are those who use
the college solely as a winter re
sort, those who seek merely to find
wives or husbands, those who want
only to attend ball games, and
those who seek to major in “Can-
teenology.”
The thinking student who
makes his own choice is like the
thermostat, which, when set, con
trols what happens to temperature.
This is the student who came to
college for an education that will
prepare him to brave the many
obstacles of our world. He is the
one who realizes that self educa
tion is the best education
The thermometers fall by the
wayside and are left to shift aim
lessly for themselves. The thermo
stats succeed.
Fayetteville State College pro
vides a competent administration,
faculty and staff that will enable
those who work hard to succeed.
Its members are well trained, com
ing from the nation’s best college
and universities and from many
different countries, giving the per
sonnel an international flavor.
There was a time before the
1954 Supreme Court Decisions that
the so-called predominately Negro
College Teacher was praised for
ihs excellence. Since that decision,
that same teacher has been called
very poor.
Students coming to these so-cal-
led predominately Negro colleges
enter with a much lower SAT
score than those of the other col
leges. This means that these stu
dents have been shortchanged in
education and that they may have
to put six years of work into four
years of college. They must do
this to operate equally as skillfully
as graduates from any of the na
tion’s colleges on the strictest com
petitive basis.
It has been shown that this can
happen, for such men as the great
Thurgood Marshall graduated
from our kind of college.
It is up to you, the incoming
freshmen to get off to a good start
and maintain it thruoghout your
four years of college. It is for you
to decide whether you will be a
thermometer or a thermostat.
HOOD HALL GOES TO GIRLS
BICKETT HALL GOES!!!
By ELOISE SHERROD
What happens to an old soldier?
Well, that’s what happened to dear
Bickett. Bickett Hall has lost her
sheep and Hood Hall has reached
out and roofed them.
It wasn’t just a one minute
break away; there were many
hours and plans in preparation to
make this change possible. Sad
that the destruction of one build
ing was the construction of an
other, but as the baseball player
says, “That’s the way the ball
bounces.” Hood Hall wasn’t recent
ly erected by a long shot, then
Bickett Hall was no chicken
either.
The change has been remark
able. The battle to make some
thing better of what was left took
much more than wishful thinking;
it took effort on the part of many
people to make a pipe dream a
reality — and not a little elbbow
grease was released.
Repairs had to be made, walls
had to be cleaned and repainted
Rooms had to be redone to accom
modate young women and make
life enjoyable and beneficial for a
student’s home away from home.
It was a worthwhile effort, though
the boys may give it much after
thought.
Now, where the boys once lay
and dreamed their many dreams,
some of those very dreams have
come to lie where they were first
dreamed. Pity the golden-fleece-
less chaps; they hatched all those
images under that ancient roof,
then fled the roof, only to miss the
images when they did come. Oh
well, they are only mere mortals
and they cannot very well have
their cake and eat it too.
On the eve of its nintieth year,
Fayetteville State College quietly
and smoothly enrolled an as yet
unannounced number of students
forthe 1966-67 academic year. An
unofficial source reports an ap
proximate 1200 students enrolled,
some 400-500 freshmen and 700
upperclassmen. The same unoffi
cial source estimates some 500 fe
males and 300 mases on campus
for the first semester.
It is believed that the higher
entrance requirements have
caused the enrollment to drop
slightly over last year’s figures,
but to no alarming degree. One
certain positive aspect of the
whole picture is that the higher
entrance standards may well
launch FSC off to the start of a
new era in scholarship and teach
ing, since a more equitable por-
portion of students to teachers al
most always results in more effec
tive learning and teaching.
The most notable aspect of the
registration period itself was the
smoothness with which it was fas-
cilitated. Gone were the crowded
conditions and near chaos of old.
Several things accounted for this
Freshmen students were regist
ered on the Thursday and Friday
preceding registration of upper
classmen. Since freshmen are not
apt to be as familiar with proced
ures as upperclassmen, this move
to no small degree, was a big fac
tor.
Beyond that, the main reason
for the smooth flow of activity
was that only a limited number
of students were allowed to enter
the gymnasium at one time — in
groups of about one hundred. All
areas of activity were clearly
marked, and except for a time or
two, there were really no long
lines. The procedure went so
smoothly, in fact, that there were
times that it seemed nothing was
really going on.
We wish to thank Dean Moore
and Miss Means for the prompt
ness which they dispensed with
registration. If we could suggest
anything to make registration even
better, it might be in the area or
paying fees. It seems that what
lags prevailed were found in this
area. If somehow, one, maybe two
pay stations could be placed at the
scene of registering, then you’d
really have no lags in the proced
ure.
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PRESIDENT and Mrs. Jones' reception for the freshmen was a colorful affair. Shown in the
receiving line from left to right, are Dr. J. W. Seabrook, President Emeritus; Mrs. Mil
dred Jones, President Rudolph Jones, Miss Shirley Manley, from Rocky Mount, and Miss
Mary Morgan of Cumnock.