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The Wayne
Communique
Vol. 4 No. 5
WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
March 23,1973
V.P. SPEAKS AT
CONFERENCE
WCC Suffers Great Loss
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John Prevette, Vice - Pres
ident of Wayne Community
College Student Government
Association spoke to mem
bers of the North Carolina
Comprehensive Community
College S.G.A.Prevette was
the featured speaker Satur
day, February 10, at Cataw
ba Valley Technical Insti
tute. His presentation con
cerned the Importance of stu
dents taking part in state
governmpnt.
The NCCCSJ^J^. met
in Hickory, N C. for a three
day conference to discuss and
solve some of the problems
facing the North Carolina
Community College system
today. A student lobby
was formed and John Prevette
was elected chairman. Some
of the topics for lobby were:
state supported athletics, an
activity period during the
school week, and opposition to
the recent No-Knock Legisla
tion.
African Expert Here
Mr. Bruce C. Rogers of the
U.S. Department of State
spoke here February 22,1973.
He is presently the Country
Officer for Somali Affairs
and Assistant CountryOfflcer
for Ethiopian Affairs in the
Bureau of African Affairs.
Mr. Rogers spoke on the For
eign Service as a career in
addition to outlining the func
tions and problems faced by
an American foreign servant
working in an underdevelop
ed nation.
Mr. Rogers explained his
current project in Somali as
helping to develop a modern
water system in that nation's
capital. He also explained the
advances made in establishing
a unified language for Somali.
Mr. Rogers cJarified the
problem of developing these
new projects by comparing the
cultural differences between
modernized nationalistic
oriented America to back
ward, family oriented Soma-
(Continued on page 6)
Ollie Cox, English in
structor at Wayne Commun
ity College, died Sunday,
March 4th, at North Carolina
Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill.
Funeral services were held
at St. James Baptist Church
in Rocky Mount Friday, March
9th.
Born in Hertford County in
1921, Cox graduated from
Washington High School in
Rocky Mount. He entered
Johnson C. Smith University
in Charlotte but left in the
spring of 1943 to enter the
Army.
After an honorable dis
charge, he re-entered John
son C. Smith University and
In 1948 received a Bachelor
of Arts degree In English.
He held his Master of
Arts degree from State Uni
versity of Iowa in Iowa City.
He had completed courses
WCC GETS XEW
COACH
If many of you haven't al
ready realized, there’s a new
coach among us, and his name
is Mr. Soefer. Coach Soefer
graduated with a BJV.in Ed
ucation from the University
of Richmond and received his
Masters in Physical Educa
tion from the University of
North Carolina. He was re
leased from service with the
Army in December of 1971.
Until January of this year, he
was teaching at Carver Jun
ior High School at Newport
News, Virginia. Under his
coaching his team won the city
championship. In behalf of the
Communique staff, 1 wish
Mr. Soefer a hearty welcome.
SGA Elections
March 26
8:00
at Howard University, D.C.
Teachers College and the Uni
versity of Indiana.
Coming to Wayne Commun
ity College In 1971, Cox had
been an assistant professor
of English at Fayetteville
State University for seven
years and an assistant pro
fessor of English at Roose
velt Junior College ‘at West
Palm Beach, Fla.
In 1959, he published a vol
ume of poetry, “Last Call
For Peace." He regularly
contributed poetry toperiodl-
cals and had been published
in poetry anthologies.
While at WCC, Cox de
veloped a Black Literature
course which he taught for the
first time this winter quar
ter.
Surviving are a son, Ollie
Cox, Jr. of Shawnee, Kansas;
two sisters and three bro
thers.
OLLIE H.COX
TRAGEDY
Wayne Community College suffered a great loss with the
death of English instructor Ollie H. Cox, Sunday March 4
at Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill.
Those who knew Mr. Cox are first to realize the void
left by his death. Those who knew him not have missed
a great experience. Many who may not have known him
by name knew him by his ever present smile and his soul
brother quip, “What’s happening, Huss?”
1 remember Ollie Cox as a tall, lanky man who stood
outside “K” building in the sun to smile and greet pass
ing students. He was easy to get to know. Soon, you felt
you had known him all your life.
At first glance one might well imagine that Mr. Cox
was W.C.C.'s token black instructor, but you could not
have been further from the truth. Mr. Cox was anything
but a token black. Prior to coming to W.C.C., where he
originated, designed, and taught the college’s first black
literature course, he taught at Fayetteville State College
and Savannah College.
In addition to professional and critical articles, Mr.
Cox published a volume of poems, LAST CALL FOR
PEACE and published a number of poems in magazines
and poetry anthologies. At the time of his death he was
working on another volume of poetry, tentatively called
A POEM IS WHAT YOU SEE.
I feel his greatest contribution to us was his new course.
Black Literature. I can only hope that his death will not
mean the end of the work in black literature that he had
started here.
(See page 6 J
Wayne Flying Bisons Get Wings
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Organized last Septem
ber, a few dedicated peo
ple started drawing up
plans for the first flying club
on the Wayne Community Col
lege Campus. Since only one
of the founders had previous
ly belonged to a flying club,
the new organization was for
ced to start from scratch.
At this time there were many
questions to be asked and
many answers to be found.
Founding a new flying club
entails solving many legal and
financial requirements.Writ
ing a charter for the new club
also proved a problem. This
Issue was settled by studying
many different club charters
and combining the best of each
to form their own. On No
vember 13, 1972 the Wayne
Community College SjG^.
voted on and approved the
constitution of the ‘FlyingBi
sons of W £ C and they at
last becamc an official club
on campus.
Unfortunately their prob
lems did not end there. The
club originally expected to
recruit between forty and fif
ty members but soon dis
covered that they would be
fortunate to find twenty in
terested people. In order to
correct this problem the club
reduced its rates so that more
students could participate.
After weeks passed and
meeting after meeting went
by, the club was finally rea
dy to tackle their biggest
problem of all, buying an air
plane. After much discussion
they decided on a Cesena 150.
Raising the necessary money
was difficult but one thing led
to another and after a few
lucky breaks the ‘Bird’ was
procured.
On Wednesday. February
14, 1973 at ceremonies at
the Goldsboro Wayne Air
port the Flying Bisons of •
W C jC . received their first
airplane.