PUBLISHED WEEKLY The Coll egiate ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MAY 17, 1963 NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE 192 Seniors Graduating On May 26 Or» Godard Dr. Godard To Speak At Commencement Dr. James M. Godard, executive director of the Council- of Protestant Colleges and Universities, will be guest speaker at the Sixty-First Com mencement to be held at Atlantic Christian College on IVl^y 26. He is best remembered in North Carolina for his work with the North Carolina College Conference and with the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. During the many years he was dean of Queens College he was quite active with the North Carolina College Conference and servied as its committee chair man on Collaboration with the State Department of Public Instruction. After leaving Queens College, he was for five years the executive secre tary of the Southern Association’s Commission on Colleges and Univer sities. After six years as vice president of the University of Miami, he be came the executive director of the Council of Protestant Colleges and Universities, the position which he now holds. During his graduate work at Duke L’niversity, where he complete his Master’s degree and subsequent grad uate work and taught on the Duke faculty, he was director of the Duke Memorial Methodist Church choir. See GODARD Page 4 DR. JAMES GODARD ENVIOUS? Shown above is Scarlet Mills, a rising junior, watching semor Don Williamson and Alease Willoughby trying cn their caps and gowns. Williamson, a native of Clinton, is an accounting and busmess major, and Miss Willoughby of Ahoskie is an elementary education major. Both will be among the 192 seniors graduating May 26. Capital Campaign Tops 75% Of $750,000 Goal Thomas J. Hackney, Jr., chairman of tile overall Capital Campaign, an nounced this week that the fund drive had received an anonymous $30,000 piece of, real estate and a $7,500 pledge from the First Citi zens Kai’k and Trust Company. With these and others that were reported Tuesday night, the Capital Campaign has reached the $575,00 mark or over 75 per cent of the minimum goal of $750,000. The campaign also received a sub stantial boost last week, when $5,000 was received from both the Atlantic Savings and Loan and the Wilson Savings and Loan. The Alumni Committee is now in full operation, with workers contact ing the alumni throughout North Carolina. This committee still has a considerable number of pledges yet to be turned in. Students Voice Opinion On Integration Resolution By JESS MAGHAN On April 27, a resolution urging the trustees of Atlantic Christian College to amend the college’s char ter to admit students other than Caucasians was passed by the North Carolina Convention of Christian Churches. The following opinion poll was collected at random from stu dents on campus. The students were asked to comment specifically on integration of Atlantic Christian Col lege. Joyce LaCelle, Smithfield: “All men are created equal.” Gary Russell, Charlotte: “I have nothing against it because I have been to school with Negroes before. After students have been adjusted to Negroes in the academic com munity it will be all the same. Each group has a tendency to re main in their own group.” David Culbreth, Plymouth: “Inte gration is the best thing to happen to the South in the last fifty years. Mary Helen Ragsdale, Smithfield: “Any church with as strong a Negro membership as the Christian Church should allow Negroes to attend this College.”* Allen Laxton, Elkin: “Its going to come. . . .don’t fight it. They are going to come to Atlantic Christian eventually.” Virginia Wright Allen, Farmville: “I 0m not against integration. I think it would be good. We must get quality students, however. Besides, it might help out our basketball team.” Judith Parrish, Winston-Salem: “If they are going to let foreign students in I don’t see any difference. Tlie charter states Caucasian and we are violating it now.” Bill Moosha, Wilson: “I don’t see how Atlantic Christian can call itself a Christian College, or for that mat ter any kind of college if it does not allow any or all qualified students See INTEGRATION Page 4 FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS Any students interested in ob taining information about the Ful- bright" Scholarships for study abroad, or about Summer or ca reer jobs in Public Welfare m North Carolina, are urged to see Mr. Hugh B. Johnston in the Department of English. Mr. John ston is chairman of the scholar ship committee. In the top three committees, 183 pledges have been made totaling over $325,000, for an average pledge of $1730. Excluding the $100,000 pledge made by Willis Hackney, the average pledge is approximately $U&0. The following pledges have been received that total over $5000: one $100,000, one $33,000, two $20,000, one $15,000, one $12,000, four $10,000, four $7,500, two $6,000, and nine $5,000. Godard And Milner To Give Main Graduation Addresses On May 2C, 1963, the sixty-first an-^ ''unin Cum Laude honors are con- nual commencement ceremonies will i m;iintaincd a 3.8 grade iwint average be held at Atlantic Christian Col- lese.. Honore