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PAGE 4 THE VOICE APRIL 25, 1973 FSIJ Founders’ Day In Pictures I 1| Wi A TRIBUTE By Clararene Jacobs We started our journey to freedom In a low, desolate land of Africa And we progressed on through America. As we entered the course of obstruction We lost soldiers, many, bat tered on the way. But we kept on marching; through slavery. Then we moved on to Mem phis and Montgomery Till the sounding of triumphs revelry Took us on through Selma and North to Chicago. As we lingered, facing hate and revolt. More than ever before, now we know That we can’t wait and we can’t turn back. Organicly and by the relin quish of HIS blood The students here at Fayette ville State University Know that the thump of vic tory and defeat, is all around us And a promise of peace, jus tice, and equality Will not be fulfilled by the op pressor, except He looses his Identity in the solemn brotherhood Of his immediate state. And by this decree Every Black Sister and every Black Brother In union of color and cause Must attain this freedom Knowing that “No man is free if his brother is bound!” FSU GRADUATE FAYETTEVILLE - James Paige, the first black Com missioner of North Carolina’s Department of Youth Develop ment, is a graduate of Fay etteville State University. Rev. James McCallum, the first black to be named a Superintendent of the United Methodist Church in North Carolina, is a graduate of Fayetteville State University. James Burch, the first black to be named an Assist ant Superintendent in the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, is a top basketball official in the Cen tral Intercollegiate Athletic Association, Atlantic Coast Conference, Mid Eastern Athletic Conference and Southern Conference. the Fayetteville State Univer sity has three living per sons who have served or is serving as chief administra tor. Drs. Charles “A” Lyons, Jr., Rudolph Jones and J. Ward Seabrook. Dr, G. L. Butler, a grad uate of Fayetteville State Un iversity, is the first black person to serve as Chairman of the FSU Board of Trustees. FAYETTEVILLE - Fayette ville State University is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina Svstem. ATTENTION The Drama Guild of Fay etteville State University will attend the National Drama Festival at the Kennedy-King College in Chicago, Illinois. This event will take place beginning, April 25 through April 28. The members of the Drama Guild planning to attend this festival are: in alphabetical order: Cindy Daniels, Patty Hinton, Sandra Outerbridge, Charles I. Robinson, Advis or - Mr. Henry Salter, Ethel Tyndall and Jaspe Wilson. m I I ‘ITN I
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