Commencement Exercises:
Baccalaureate June 6
Graduation June 8
Hi-News
Alumni Celebration —
Tenth Anniversary
May 27 - 30
Volvime 35—Number 4
Dillard High School, Goldsboro, North Carolina, May, 1965
Price 15 Cents
Receives Scholarship
Miss Queen E. Wiggs, a junior
at Dillard High School, has been
selected to attend the Summer
Secondary Science and Mathe
matics Program, June 7-July 17
at North Carolina College.
Miss Wiggs has been awarded
a scholarship with all expenses
paid including travel by the Na
tional Science Foundation.
The summer school will offer
three courses: science, mathe
matics and biology. Shei will
Study science and mathematics
with emphasis on sets and set
notations.
Graduation Finals
Scheduled For
Tuesday, June 8
Graduation exercises for the
Fortieth Annual Commence
ment of Dillard High School
will be held in the high school
auditorium at 8:00 o’clock p.m.
June 8.
Featured this year will be a
guest speaker and the highest
ranking students of the class.
Baccalaureate service will be
held at 4:00 o’clock Sunday
afternoon June 6.
Music will be rendered by the
high school glee club under the
direction of Mrs. E. L. Harris.
DHS Players Get
Top Rating In
Drama Festival
Dillard Players’ production of
“Laity” by James Costin was
rated the top 3-A play on the
state level at the State Drama
Festival held in Raleigh April
3.
Frederick Wiggs received the
best actor’s award for his por
trayal of the General. Ronald
Dortch received honorable men
tion for his portrayal of Stone-
wright.
Other members of the cast
were Donald Hooker, Curtis
Phillips, Vincent Weeks, Clay
ton Harris, Clarence Hicks, and
Freddie Dawson, an alternate.
Mrs. Mary Jane Wells, a na
tive of Racine, Wisconsin served
as critic judge for the festival.
J. W. Ligon H. S. was host to
schools throughout the state for
the festival activities. The theme
was “Drama, The Quest For
Individuality.”
Plans Completed
For Orientation
Week May 10-17
According to an announce
ment from the committee chair
man plans are set for the ob
servance of Orientation \^eek
scheduled for May 10-17 at Dil
lard.
With the purpose in mind to
talk with prospective Dillard
students about opportunities for
growth at Dillard High School,
a group of students will visit
West Elm Junior High on the
first day.
On the second day another
group from Dillard will present
a program “Opportunities for
Growth at Dillard” at Barnes
School.
In the afternoons of the re
maining days of the week Dil
lard will receive students and
give them an opportunity to ob
serve the school at work.
Members of the committee
Athletic Banquet
Set For May 20
The Dillard P. T. A. has about
completed all plans for the an
nual athletic banquet which has
been scheduled for May 20, un
der its sponsorship.
Plans have been made to pre
sent awards to all athletes
who have participated in foot
ball, basketball, track and tennis
this year.
Awards will be given to: the
most valuable player in each
sport, the athlete with the high
est scholastic average, the ath
lete exemplifying the best sport-
manship and the athlete who
has shown the greatest improve
ment during the year.
The steering committee is
headed by H. B. Lucas, chair
man, and G. E. Wiison co-chair
man. Other members will serve
in various ways.
M. Kelley and P. M. Best will
have charge of tickets; N. A.
Stitt, supervisor of program A.
M. Howell, and O. Z. Murphy,
publicity arrangements, R. L.
Dowery the presentation of
awards, Mrs. T. F. Smith and
M. E. Manuel, cafeteria arrange
ments and Mrs. M. T. Marshall
the menu, preparation and serv
ing.
The P. T. A. president, G. E.
Wilson is asking for the co
operation of all members, pat
rons and friends in making this
affair well worthwhile.
P.T.A, Elects Officers
p. T. A. officers elected for
1965-66 are the following: Mr.
Amiziah Howell, Sr. president;
Mr. Moses Manuel, vice presi
dent; Mrs. M. W. Cowan, secre
tary; Mrs. G. E. Green, assist
ant secretary; Mrs. T. M. Smith,
treasurer; Rev. J. Melvin, cha
plain; Mr. Ozzie Murphy, re
porter.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
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recipients of SCHOLARSHIPS—Front row left to right: Gwendolyn Crawford, Evelyn
Whitfield and Curtis Phillips; second row: Charles Lane, Charles Howard, and Larry Williams.
Students pictured above recently were offered scholarships for study another year.
Gwendolyn Crawford and Evelyn Whitfield $1,800.00 to attend Livingstone College; Charles
Lane $1000.00, Fayetteville State Teachers College, Curtis Phillips and Charles Howard §1000.
00, Saint Augustine’s College, Larry Williams, a four year scholarship, Johnson C. Smith Univer
sity.
Plan Now For
Years Aliead
The cost of a college educa
tion will de doubled by 1970,
according to the National Re
search Bureau.
The Bureau estimates that by
that year, a four-year educa
tion including tuition, books,
fees, and board will cost from
$14,000 to $20,000 at a private
school and from $9,600 to $12,
800 at a state University.
are: Edna Borden, chairman;
Ethelene Bryant, Doris Daniels,
Joyce Wilkins, Rosimary Robi
son and Dorothy Horne .
Dillard Alumni
To Celebrate Tenth
Anniversary
Chartered in 1956 by the
state of North Carolina as a
non-profit organization, the Dil
lard Alumni, Incorporated will
celebrate its 10th year with ac
tivities planned to be bigger and
better than previous years.
Formal announcements have
gone out to approximately 1000
alumni in all parts of the United
States inviting them home for
the weekend of May 27-30.
Outstanding events of the
weekend will be the crowning
of Miss Alumni 1966, presen
tation of Scholarships and
awards to seniors, and the first
meeting of the organization with
a delegated assembly when
chapters have a delegate for
every five members.
Scholarships this year have
been awarded Lola Ann Jones,
Curtis Phillips, and Esther Sil
ver. Other seniors will receive
recognitions for outstanding
achievements.
Committee
Announces
Retirements
Two teachers of the Golds
boro system are scheduled to
retire at the close of this school
term according to a report from
the Committee on Retirements.
The teachers are Miss Hilda
Thompson, of the Greenleaf
School faculty and Mrs. Mary L.
Williams of the East End School
faculty.
Both teachers through the
years have watched hopefully
the growth of young boys and
girls as they passed from the
primary and elementary schools
and on into high school, and
many into college.
Principals, teachers, students
and the Dillard Alumni Associ
ation wish for them the happi
ness of many more years.
Student Council
Sponsors Teacher-
Appreciation Day
Under the sponsorship of the
Student Council, Dillard stu
dents paid honor ti their teach
ers on April 6. The occasion was
the Fourth Annual Teacher-Ap-
preciation Day scheduled to
show the high esteem that stu
dents hold for their teachers.
At a special arranged pro
gram tributes were given by
representatives of the following
departments: Language Arts,
Social Studies, Mathematics,
Special Education, Music, Vo
cational Education, Science,
Health and Physical Education
and the administrative staff.
To further demonstrate their
appreciation as expressed in
their; theme, “Keys We Appreci
ate,” S. C. president, Vincent
Weeks, presented each teacher
a large key painted in the
school’s colors, blue and gold,
as a symbol of love and appreci
ation.
These students were members
of the planning committee: Ron
ald Dortch, Chairman, John
Hicks, Linda Silver, Dorothy
Horne, Linda Gerald, La Forest
Ford, Nettie Sherard, Linda
White, Queen Esther Wiggs, and
Sandra Durante.
Graduate Of 1960
Receives Second
Year Fellowship
Miss Linda Darnell Powell,
valedictorian of the class ’60
and a magna cum laude gradu
ate of Bennette College, has
been awarded a Career Teaching
Fellowship of $1,500 for a sec
ond year of graduate study at
the University of North Caro
lina.
Miss Powell is currently
studying under a Woodrow Wil
son Scholarship. Her plans are
to teach at college level.
Dillard Honor
Society Inducts
18 Members
The Rosa Gray Chantpr nf
the National Honor Society held
its annual induction, ceremony
at Dillard High School, Friday,
April 2. Principal speaker for
the occasion was Miss Esther
Silver, chapter president and a
Dillard senior.
In recognition of superior
standing in Scholarship, Leader
ship, Service, and Character,
eighteen students became mem
bers of the society. Active mem
bers are Gloria Taylor, Bobby
Coley, Clayton Harris, Jr. Bren
da Braswell, Daphine ArtiS
Doretha Daniels, Queen Esther
Wiggs, Mabel Best, Dorothy J.
White, Lola Ann Jones, and Ar
chie Faison. Provisional mem
bers are Linda Silver, Brenda
Edwards, Charlene Simmons,
Linda White, Raynette Greene,
Catherine Watson, and Audrey
Dupuy.
Witnessing the ceremony, in
addition to the Dillard student
body and faculty, were parents,
patrons, some local school prin
cipals and administrative per
sonnel, as well as National Ho
nor Society members and advis
ors from Carver High School,
Mt. Olive, and H. B. Suggs High
School, Farmville.
Mrs. D. D. Jones, Mrs. B. J.
Freeman, and Mr. N. A. Stitt
are faculty advisors of the Dil
lard Chapter.
Two Students
Attend Symposium
Two Dillard High students
took part in a Junior Science
and Humanities Symposium at
A. & T. College, Greensboro,
March 18th and 19th.
Clayton Harris and Douglas
Durante attended the three-day
meeting. More than 100 students
of high ability and teachers at
tended the meeting.