Speaking For Ourselves
The Voice
Volume 39 Number 5
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina
May 7, 1985
The “Word”
By Jim Scurry
With graduation fast
approaching it becomes
important for us to remind all
seniors in particular and
students in general to please
come to the Career Planning
and Placement Office to
establish a file and record with
us.
By having a record in our
office, we are able to continue
providing service to you after
your graduation and de
parture.
Help us to help you by
coming to the office and
completing a file before
graduation.
A
Dr. Algeania Freeman
Driver: First Woman
SGA President
Reprint The Voice Vol. 39 No. 4 April 16, 1985
By Michael Gaddy
Louise Driver was elected
Student Government president
and Dianna Cooper was named
Miss Fayetteville State
University (FSU) in the recent
student election held March 26-
27.
The election marked the first
time students elected a woman
as Student Government
president at the 118-year-old
institution.
Driver, a junior from Bertie
County, North Carolina, and a
biology/chemistry major,
defeated Teresa Lennon and
Martin Rainer for the top
student-elected post. Driver
succeeds Mr. Curtis Jefferson
as president.
Cooper, a junior from
Naismith, South Carolina, and
a math major defeated
Kimberly Jeffries, Ruth King,
and Patrena Sawyer for her
title as Miss FSU.
Eugene Johnson, a junior
The Perfect Senior
This year's senior class was
extraordinary. Although,
everyone is different we chose
an example of a perfect senior,
-Deatrice Synita Patterson.
Many of us know her as “Kool-
Aid.”
Deatrice is an all-around
good student. She is involved in
many activities, organizations,
and clubs. Some of the
activities she has been involved
in are:
1981-82: Inducted into
Alpha Kappa Alpha Soroity,
Inc.
1982-83: Pan Hallanic
Council Vice-President 1st
Historian-Charter member
Society for the Advancement
of Management. Judiciary
Freeman 1985 Commencement Speaker
Dr. Algeania Freeman will
serve as the 1985 Commence
ment speaker for Fayetteville
State University. A 1970
graduate. Dr. Freeman is the
first graduate of the institution
to serve in this capacity.
Dr. Freeman is the
Chairperson of the Depart
ment of Community Health
and Rehabilitation at Norfolk
State University in Norfolk,
Virginia. Her credentials
include being honored as a
regional and national finalist
for the 1984 White House
Fellows Program. Governor
Charles S. Robb appointed Dr.
Freeman to serve as term on the
Virginia Board of Examiners
for Audiology and Speech
Pathology. The governor also
named her to the state's Task
Force on Science and
Technology.
As a part of her professional
activities, Dr. Freeman served
as the Executive Director of the
National Black Association for
Speech - Language - Hearing,
and she currently is serving as a
board member for the National
Association of Allied Health.
She received the Ph.D.
degree in 1977 from The Ohio
State University at Columbus
in Speech and Hearing Science.
She earned the Master's degree
in Speech Pathology and
Audilogy at Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale and
the baccalaureate degree in
English and Speech at
Fayetteville State University.
Dr. Freeman is the wife of
Ernest Freeman who is the
Director of City Planning for
the city of Portsmouth,
Virginia, and she is the mother
of one son, Ernest Freeman 111
(Trey).
1985-86 SGA Officials: Standing left to rigiit - Michelle Ballard, Miss Student Ceter; Dianna Cooper,
Miss Fayetteville State University; Louise Driver, SGA President; Eugene Johnson, SGA Vice-
President; and Kevin Evans, SGA Business Manager.
Board Chairperson Bryant
Hall. Pep Club, Hood Hall
Vice-President.
1984-85: Hood Hall
President - Senior Class
President - Collegiate Fellows -
.Voice Staff - Pan-Hallenic
Council Secretary - Most
Ambitions Award for Hood
Hall - Outstanding Service
Award-Cooperative Educa
tion - Served on the Advisory
Committee to the Vice-
Chancellor of Student
Development - Residential
Assistant - Tour Guide for the
Youth Motivation Task
Force.
The work that Deatrice does
speaks loudly for her. She is
indeed the Perfect Senior.
from Fayetteville, North
Carolina, was elected vice-
president of the Student
Government Association
(SGA).
Michelle Ballard, a junior
from Leland, North Carolina,
an office administration major,
was elected Miss Rudolph
Jones Student Center.
Kevin Evans, a junior from
Smithfield, Virginia, and a
business administration major,
'was elected business manager
of the SGA.
Deatrice Patterson
What's Inside
The Voice
Editorials 6
Exam Schedule 4
Graduates of '85 11
Special Section: Looking Back 8-9
Sports 10
University News 2
Variety Page 5