BENI1ETT CGUIGE I
Behind an able man there
are always other able men.
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VOLUME XX
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY, 1953
NUMBER 4
Eisenhower And Republicans Custodians Of America's Future
Boston University Seminary
Singers Presented Gcncert
At Bennett College
GREENSBORO, N. C. (Jan. 20) —
Negro and white men will eat at
Ihe Sime tables at 22 points through-
'■'* cut the south where the Boston Uni
versity’s Seminary Singers have
scheduled concerts of religious music,
a spokesman for that 51-voice inter
racial group reported at a concert at
Bennett College last night.
The Seminary Singers, which have'
both Negro and white singers, have
requested accomodations where the
Southern concerts are scheduled for
all members of their choir to eat
together, the spotesman said, to
promote racial harmony and unified
spirit for the choir group.
The concert at Bennett was one of
the 22 scheduled in 10 southern
states and the District of Columbia.
The concerts are part of the inters
racial group’s annual winter tour.
Organized in 1928 by the present
director. Dr. James R. Houghton, the
Singers have traveled from coast to
coast and from the Great Lakes to
the Gulf during the past quarter
century. Five times they have pro
vided the music at the General Con
ferences of the Methodist Church.
Coming from 19 different states
.ind touching the four cornc's of the
nation plus a member from Finland,
the Seminary Singers present a wide
representation of inter-racial inte
gration.
At Bennett the Singers presented
a program of three groups of vocal
numbers and solos by Dr. Houghton
and Charlotte Zimmer Dixon, con
tralto guest artist. Other selections
were performed by the accompanists,
H. Trail Heitzenrater, and Seminary
Quartet.
Dr. Era De A. Reid
Speaks At Bennett
Dr. Ira De A. Reid, author, lectur
er, and currently head of the depart
ment of sociology at Haverford Col
lege, Pa., was principal speaker at)
the second annual Alumni Reunion of
the American Friends Service Com
mittee which convened at Bennett
College January 3-4.
Representatives of the A.F.S.C.
from Virginia, Tennessee, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida gathered at
the re-union of the Quaker inter
national service organization to hear
Dr. Reid discuss “The South’s Stake
In World Peace” the theme of the
two-day meet.
Calling for the propgation of a
philosophy which respects the slow
but definite changes of the world,
the need for “give-and-take” at->
titude, vision, and faith. Dr. Reid
declared that the people of today
need constructive imagination in
looking toward the future.
Author of such books as “In a
Minor Key,” Dr. Reid has served as
guest lecturer at Columbia University
and as professor of sociology at New
York University. He is also former
head of the sociology department at
Atlanta University in Georgia.
Also speaking at the conference,
was B. Tartt Bell, executive secret
ary of the southeastern regional of
fice of the American Friends Service
Committee. Bell spoke on “Religious
Motivations Underlying A. F. S. C.
Programs.”
Presiding over the reunion
meet was Lucretia Hayward, and
members of the reunion committee
were: Mary Holshauser, Florence
Irving, Louise Erickson, Hugh Down
ing, Mikio Miyake, and Frank Lar
away, Jr.
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Lincoln Players Present
''A Sleep Of Prisoners
“A sleep of Prisoners”, a play by
Christopher Fry will be presented
at Bennett College Friday January
30, in the Little Theatre at 7:00 p. m.
The play will be staged by the
Lincoln University Players of
Pennsylvania. The latest of Fry’s
plays, “A Sleep of Prisoners” is thq
story of five prisoners locked in a
church. In keeping with the plot,
the play will be staged in Pfeiffer
Chapel.
Cast in the production will be
William Jackson, of New York City;
James Randall, of Chicago, 111.;
Meritt Collier, of Los Angeles, Calif.;
David Robinson, of Baltimore, Md.;
Frazier Taylor, of Pittsburg, Pa.;
Lanceus McKnight, of Norfolk, Va.;
George Braxton, of Atlanta, Ga.; John
Scott, of St. Louis, Mo.; and Britol
Leake, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Senior Choir Makes First
Road Presentation
GREENSBORO, N. C. (Jan. 24) —
The Bennett College Senior Choir
presented a concert in Buck Hill
Falls, Pa., on January 22.
The concert, the first road pre
sentation for the choir this year,
was given at the Annual Meeting of
Women’s Division of Christian
which convened in Buck
tails last Thursday.
Methodist Gliurciies Present
Bennett With $4,556
Bennett College received a gift of
$4,556 from supporting Methodist
churches of the North Carolina Con
ference.
The gift was presented to Dr.
David Jones at the annual rally of
the conference held on Bennett cam
pus on Tuesday, December 2, by re
presentatives of the Greensboro,
Western, Winston, and Laurinburg
Districts of the Methodist conference.
Presiding over the rally which was
attended by ministers from through
out North Carolina was Bishop Ed
gar A. Love, of Baltimore, Md. Bis
hop Love addressed the rally on
“Brotherhood and Religion” after
the presentation of the money.
Collections for the $4,556 gift to
Bennett were presented by the fol
lowing district supervisors of tho
conference: Rev. G. M. Phelps,
Greensboro, $1,350; Rev. F. D. Cald
well, Laurinburg District, $938; Rev.
W. J. Cameron, Western District,
$918; and Rev. L. M. Mayfield, Wins
ton District, $1,350.
In his address. Bishop Love called
for a new spirit of brotherhood in
religion. “It is the province of relig
ion,” he said, “to bring about the
oneness of the world.” Pointing out
that not knowing about the culture
of foreign people breeds fear and
suspicion. Bishop Love declared that,
“There can be no peace in the world
until people learn to understand
each other.” He stated that, “We
ought to know about the cultures of
Siem
President Jones Returns
From Engagements
Dr. David D. jones, president of
Bennett College, wound up a tour of
New Year’s engagements with an;
address at Washington H e i g h t s'
Methodist Church in New York City.
Dr. Jones journeyed to Californi :
earlier to attend a meeting of the
National Association of Schools and
Colleges of the Methodist Church in
Los Angeles on January 5-6, at
tending a conference oC tho Ameri
can Association of Colleges also,
while there.
Following these meetings, the I
Bennett president continued to San
Francisco where he attended a meet
ing of the United Negro Collego
Fund organization. Dr. Jcnes is an
executive member of that group.
On Sunday, January 11, he ad
dressed a group at the San Francisco
Fellowship Church of AM Peoples
and came back east subsequently to
meet with the Board of Missions ot
the Methodist Church in Buck Hill
Falls, Pa. He went to New York
from that meeting.
Cadet T eachers Return
Our cadet teachers are homo again
after having many gainful experi
ences throughout the schools in
North Carolina. I am sure that you
can see that they all had wonderful
experiences by the enthusiasm which
is bubbling all over their faces.
Through our teaching experiences
we have formed many concrete con
ceptions and ideas as to the big job
which lies before us as future teach-'
ers. Many of us have experienced
during our cadet teaching the feel
ing of being on our own for the first
time. There are others of us wha
have encountered many experiences
but never one of this type.
In talking with the girls who havq
just finished teaching, I find that)!
they have many interesting things |
to say which I would like to share ,
with you.
Minnye .... “Pat, will you tell u^
just what student teaching involves?”
Pat .... “Student teaching involves
planning before you go out. Student
teaching is divided into several
parts. First, comes the observation
period, there you look on at the
classroom routine from 8:30 until
school is out. Then comes the actual
teaching experience. For me this
experience was very beneficial as
a prospective Elementary Education
teacher.”
Minnye . ■ “Betty Jean, what)
impressed you most in your cadet
teaching experience.”
Betty Jean .... “I was most im
pressed by the over all attitude of
the pupils and the cooperating facul
ty. I was welcomed into an atmos
phere of warmth, and encouraged by
the willingness and eagerness of both
pupils and teachers to help. All in,
all, the cadet teaching experience
was a pleasurable one as well as a
learning one."
Minnye .... “How was the dis
cipline in your place of practice?”
Becky . . . “Stunningly enough,
in contrast to what student teachersi
are usually told to expect of their
prospective “protege.” I was greatly-
relieved to find that the discipline
and decorum of my high school was
very commendable.”
These are just some samples of
student teachers’ experiences. There
are many others; corner off any
cadet on the campus. Bet you’ll get
a good story.
—MINNYE LITTLEJOHN
Bennett Students Engage
In Field Studies Program
Bennett College students are par
ticipating in off-campus work in hos
pitals, libraries, churches, community
centers, and other community train
ing, McClure McCombs said, is for
the purpose of providing Bennett
Students with real job experience in
the community to parallel their in
dividual fields of study.
To this end, McCombs reported, a
field studies committee, composed of
instructors representing each divi
sion of study at Bennett, has been
established to place the women stu
dents in community work.
Under the program, the studcntr,
are now receiving practical job ex
perience at L. Richardson Hospital,
Carnegie Library, Windsor Com
munity Center, Juvenile Court, in
the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., and
in church programs in Greensboro.
Students also are participating in
community-college sewing, cooking,
and play schools under the field
studies program. Placements are be
ing made for them in local radio
stations, nursery schools, and Salva
tion Army work.
At the present time, some 15 vari
ous local religious, social-civic, econ
omic, and industrial organizations
offer about 100 openings for train-
mg of Bennett students in commun
ity work. Each student has an op
portunity to get this field training
before graduation from Bennett,
McCombs said.
Rev. I. E. McCallum
Speaks On ''Where
Life Begins''
Active application of the principlesi
of Christianity promote good for
others leads to social perfection. Rev.
J. E, McCallum, executive secretary
of the Board of Education, North,
Carolina Conference of the Metho
dist Church, said in an address at
Bennett College on January 10.
Speaking on “Where Life Begins”
at Vesper Services held at Pfeiffer
Chapel, Reverend McCallum stated
ihat life actually begins for those
who believe in Christianity only
when they interpret the “transform
ing power of Jesus” into active liv
ing to provide good for others as
well as themselves.
People joining “the pilgrimage for
social perfection” must live by the
principles set up by Jesus, Reverend
McCallum said. Calling Jesus” a
social reformer,” he asserted that
the Christian faith which resulted
was for the purpose of promoting
good in the lives of all people. It is
not enough. Reverend McCallum said,
to live a good life. One must stimu
late good in the lives of others as
well, he said.
When it shall be said in any country
in the world, “My poor are happy;
neither ignorance nor distress is to be
found among them; my jails are emp
ty of prisoners, my streets of beggars;
the aged are not in want, the taxes are
not oppressive . . . ”—when these
things can be said, then may that
country boast of its constitution and
its government.
—THOMAS PAINE
Big Job Confronts
Victor At Home
And Abroad
For many months the attention of
every American lias been I'ocuscd
upon election of the president and
as a result has also focu.scd tho keen
interest of the entire world upon
us as a nation.
For twenty years tlie nation has
been ruled by the lOemocrats. Did
history finally catch up with tlio
Democrats? Without a doubt! In
popular vote, tho G.O.P. won by
about 5,000,000 and in doctoral votes
its ratio of victory was about four
to one. In winning election as the
34tn president of the United States,
Dwight D. Eisenhower overwhelm-i
ingly swept Republican majorities
into the House and Senate. Republi
cans control every state government
outside the south and border states.
Dwight David Eisenhower was
born in Denison, Texas sixty-two
years ago. Millions all over the
world know his as “Ike.” To Mamie
Genova Doud, whom he married,
fresh out of West Point, Ike has
always been a “man of destiny,” one
to command and one with marked
ability to lead.
A supply officer of a regiment at
the age of twenty-six Eisenhower*
acquired the knowledge of logistics
that he needed to lead the greatest
military assault in history. Later, as
signed the routine job of revising
the battlefield guide for the Ameri
can battle monuments commission, he
acquired the precise knowledge of
the French Terrain useful in plan
ning the invasion and liberation of
Europe.
Before becoming Supreme Com
mander of the Allied Expeditionary
Forces he led the Allied Force which
in a single year snatched North
Africa from the Axis, exterminated
Marshal Rommel’s once dreaded
Africa Corps, conquered Sicily, and
squeezed Italy out of the war.
June, 1944 “Ike” landed in Nor
mandy to embark on what he called
a “great crusade” to free the worldi
of tyranny.
Acclaimed by the nations of the
earth and his fellow citizens he left
the army in 1948 to become Colum
bia University’s president during
which time he was summoned by
Truman to serve as temporary chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hi>
brief leave of absence from Columbia
was soon followed by an extendedi
one when he was selected by tho
North Atlantic Treaty Organization!
to serve aS\cpmmander of an inter
national army to keep the peace in
Europe.
On June first he returned to the
United States doffed his uniform
I forever and launched his last crusade.
I It ended in his election to the presi-
i dency.
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