Dr. F. Gcontr Shipman
-Former LC president
Livingstone Golege
fT rs Dr. Shipman
Dr. F. George Shipman, retired
president of Livingstone College,
came home Thursday to receive the
college’s highest honor during its an
nual Founder’s Day Convocation.
Now living in Durham, Shipman
was swarded an honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters degree during the
annual service in memory of Liv
ingstone founder Dr. Joseph Charles
Price.
A historic footnote to Founder’s
Day was the death at 91-year-old
Josephine Price Sherrill at 2 a jn. on
the day her father was being
remembered. Daughter of the col
lege’s founder and lifetime resident
of Salisbury, Mrs. Sherrill had
devoted her life to the preservation
and growth of the ideals on which
her father founded Hie college and
which are traditionally remembered
on Founder’s Day — to provide
educational training for all youth
and equip them for successful living.
Her death became a part of the
convocation with a memorial prayer
by Bishop Clinton Hoggard, and
speaker Dr. Lewis Dowdy reflected
her life as wen as her father’s when
he challenged the college to continue
to fulfill the dreams of its founding
"Society,” Mid the retired
chancellor of North Caroline AJtT
State University In Greensboro,
“must aid the individual af
firmatively to realize his capacities
as a citizen, as a productive worker
and as an individual seeking a
higher quality of life.” -
This country, Dowdy said, “began
with the high aspiration that in this,
then new nation, each person should
have an equal opportunity to par
ticipate aa a voter in the political
process and to develop his talents
and Interests to the best of his ability
and that in keeping with the degree
of Us personal desire; that no ar
tificial or unreasonable barriers
should stand between the Individual
citizen and his potential contribu
tions to society. These lofty aspira
tions have not yet been realized.”
Education, he said, should play a
major rate in the “attainment of the
special aspiration for greater
human welfare in our society.” To
day, and for a long time to come,
education will continue to be the
bridge which will assist minorities
end the poor of our society to climb
the ladder of success and enjoy some
of the fruits of our society.
“Our institutions must not be
allowed to decay and disappear.
Society needs a variety of institu
tions that, while open to all, reflect
the history, culture, and Interest of
minority groups.”
To be true to its past and the
sacrifices of its church and
founders, he said, Livingstone faces
more sacrifices.
The mission and purpose of
historically black colleges, he said,
are inextricably bound with the
future of the nation and will help it
realize the full meaning of its creed.
Alumni and students, he said,
should represent the college with a
proud and informed voice and con
tinue to support an of its programs.
"If ever,” he said, there was a
need “for understanding, for our
commitment, our daring, our
courage, our great wisdom, we need
it now.”
Bishop William Smith, Chairman
of the Board of Trustees, spoke
briefly, and college President
William H Greene presided with the
Invocation and benediction by Dr.
Joseph Johnson and music by the
college band and choral union.
EB» To Perform
World-reknowned jazz great Herb
Ellis will perform in Rowe Recital
Hall at the University of North
Caroline at Charlotte Saturday,
March 16, at • p.m. Admission Is
ffeVte
Los Angelas baaed, Ellis is one of
the world’s leading Jazz guitarist*,
the foremost proponent of a swing
jaa style. Highlighting his profes
sional career of nearly four decades
an five years with the Oscar Pater
son Trio daring the lMAs, a 1900s
world tour (The Orset Gutters) with
Charlie Byrd and Barnye Keasel,
and three-year stint during the 1970s
as staff guitarist for the "Merv Grif
fin Show.” In recent years, Bills has
crisscrossed the nation conducting
workshops, teaching and playing.
The concert at UNCC also features
BUI Hanfta, a member of tile Per
forming Arts faculty and local jazz
favorite, along with the arv-piece
UNCC Jazz Ensemble.
Par further Information, contact
the Performing Aria Department at
M7-3SM.
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