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CENTENNIAL STUDY AT FSU - Fayetteville State University
(NO honor roll students Loretta Fox and Johnny Williams
definitely plan to celebrate FSU’s Centennial Year by continuing
to study and remain on the honor roll. Loretta, a native of
Fayetteville, is a junior business administration major. Johnny
comes from Henderson, NC and is a senior mathematics major.
(FSU Photo by John B. Henderson)
2 July 1974 - Dr. Charles
“A” Lyons, Jr., Chancellor of
Fayetteville State University,
called together some fifty
prominent and influential
citizens of Fayetteville
recently in the campus
Student Center for the purpose
of “planning the role of the
University in the Fayetteville
community and southeastern
North Carolina.”
Chanclelor Lyons opened
the conference by stating that
the primary purpose of the
meeting was to share ideas
about higher education and its
resources as it affects FSU.
“I envision that Fayet
teville State University can be
developed into a regional
university with un
dergraduate and graduate
level offerings. The two main
ingredients necessary for
affecting change are planning
and total community in
volvement,” Chancellor
Lyons stated.
Dr. Barbara Zow, newly
appointed Director of In
stitutional Research at FSU,
SEEKING AUTOGRAPHS - Students at Fayetteville State
University (NC) gather around guest speaker Shirley Chislohm
recently when she appeared before a packed audience on the
campus as a part of the lyceum program. (FSU Photo by John B.
Henderson)
WOMEN’S
BASKETBALL
HEAD SUCCUIftBS
Miss Lauraetta Janet
Taylor, successful head coach
of Fayetteville State (NC)
University and Assistant
Professor of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation,
died Sunday, March 6, in
Fayetteville, NC.
She was 60.
Miss Taylor, Born April
30, 1916 in Charlotte, later
moved to Wilson, North
Carolina, came to FSU (then
UNC BOARD OF
April 1977 ~ the Board of
Governors of the University of
North Carolina System made
a two-day visit to the campus
GOVERNORS VISIT CAMPUS
of Fayetteville State
University during April 7-8.
The current Chairman of
the Board of Governors is
William A. Johnson of
Lillington; Mrs. Howard
Holderness, Greensboro, is
Vice-Chairman and Dr. E. B.
Turner of Lumberton
LEGISLATIVE LEADERS HONORED - Fayetteville State University Chancellor, Dr. Charles “A”
Lyons, Jr., (extreme right) roUed out the red carpet recently at FSU to honor President Pro Tem of
the State Senate Sen. John T. Henley (3rd from left) and Lt. Governor James Green (immediate right
of Chancellor). Others in the photo are Dr. D.T. Holmes of FSU (extreme left) and Ralph Potter,
chairman of the FSU planning task force. (FSU Photo by John B. Henderson)
is directing the planning
process for the institution.
FSU, 98-year old in
stitution, will celebrate its
centennial year in 1977 and
Chancellor Lyons stated that
“southeastern North Carolina
deserves a fairer share of the
higher educational dollar in
North Carolina.”
The University of North
Carolina Board of Governors
is seeking to make the
university system more
responsive to community and
regional needs,and by calling
in a widely represen
slice of the bus
educational, military
civic leadership of
Fayetteville communit;
planning sessions. Char
Lyons feels that FS
moving in the directic
vocated by the Boa
Governors.
In the first session h
the campus, many edu(
businessmen, and mi
officials pointed to a n
of unmet needs in
education for southe;
known as Fayetteville State
Teacher’s College) in 1944 and
served the institution over 32
years chiefly as an instructor
and women’s basketball
coach.
She attended Barber-
Scotia College, Concord, NC
and received the BS degree
from North Carolina A & T
State University. Miss Taylor
later obtained the Master of
Arts degree from Columbia
University and did further
study at Yale University and
the University of Pittsburgh.
She was named CIAA
“Coach-of-the-Year” in 1974-
75 when her team finished
with a sparkling 18-2 mark.
Miss Taylor’s teams won
over 90 games during her
coaching career at FSU while
dropping only fifteen.
Although FSU women’s
team did not participate as a
varsity club before the early
70’s, Miss Taylor had already
guided her teams to a 43-3
record against outside
competition.
Her teams participated in
every CIAA Women’s Tourney
(Runners-up Twice) with tte
exception of the past season.
FAMOUS FSU GRAD RETURNS - Actor-comedia
Jimmy Pelham, a ’51 graduate of Fayeteville State Ur
(NC) is welcomed back to campus by Mrs. RosaLyons,
FSU Chancellor Dr. Charles “A” Lyons, Jr., and preside)
Faculty Women’s Club. Pelham was visiting to help pr
scholarship fashion show program sponsored by the
Women’s Club. (FSU Photo by John B. Henderson)
Grad Class To He
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The “100th Anniversary” numbering a record 5(
graduating class at Fayet- graduates, will hea
teville State (NC) University, Director of the Na
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FSU CENTENNIAL HOMECOMING - Everyone at Fayett(
Homecoming celebration recently appeared to be in a feast
activities. FSU Chancellor Charles “A” Lyons, Jr., (cente
“Miss FSU Alumni 1976” of Goldsboro, NC and ‘‘Miss FS
senior physical education major from Cedar Grove, Nortl
derson)