DECEMBER, 1959
THE BENNETT BANNER
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Where Do You Stand!
RosJyn Cheagle
When discussing and studying
the problena of civil rights, two
distinct groups of persons will
stand out, those who are against
and those who are for civil rights.
We could call these persons segre
gationists and intergrationists.
Very few persons are successful
in trying to play the midd'e
ground when the problem of civil
rights is presented.
In order to decide to which
.group you belong, think, and an
alyze the follow questions:
1. Do you go down town and
pay for a crow’s nest seat in the
movie? This problem is great, for
if you will remember when the
men from the “House” were here
many yotmg ladies attended the
mpv^ie downtown with them. This
will be remembered by the fel
lows. How will we improve our
campus movies if we take our
money to the segregated movies?
2. When entering a department
store or any other public build
ing are you guilty of looking for
signs which say one race or the
other? If we do this, we are simply
promoting segregation.
3. When you are located near
a Negro business, do you avoid it
and patronize another?
4. Are you guilty of buying food
at five and dime stores and stand
ing up and eating it? Why buy
food and eat it in the middle of
the floor? If you can’t sit down
and eat like other people, let them
keep the food.
5. When going home for the
holidays will you enter the front
door of the station or wi'-l you go
to the side door and “holler” for
a ticket?. Also when aboarding
the bus will you rush to the
back of the bus to grab the back
seat? Both of these practices defi
nitely need to be stopped. Stop
ujsing that old phrase many per
sons say, “I like the back seat for
it is warm.” In this day, all seats
are equally warm.
6. When you and your friends
are discussing the possibilities of
entering an interracial job do you
say “I am not interested?” If all
of us had felt like that, some of us
would still be pushing the mop.
7. Are you guilty of “Uncle
Tomism?” By saying “yes mam”
or “yes sir” to someone who does
not care two cents for you.
8. Do you stand up for your
rights as an American citizen?
9. Are you proud to be called a
Negro?
10. When important meetings of
N.A.A.C.P. are being held do you
say “well you know I have a his
tory assignment to do and I just
can’t make it tonight?” One must
remember that a half hour’s work
for freedom means more than al'
the history in the world. When
you are graduated from Bennett
and try to get a superior in
terracial job, the employer will
not say, “you don’t have enough
history,” but “I can’t hire you be
cause of your color.”
Please check your calendar and
add a memorandum that you will
attend the monhtly meetings of
the campus N.A.A.C.P. These
meetings are held every third
Monday night in the Student
Union at 8 o’clock.
In this progressive age, every
Bennett girl shouM answer these
questions the way an integration-
ist would answer them.
We ask each faculty member
and each Bennett girl to think
and act upon these questions
while traveling home for the
Christmas holiday.
WAA News
Members of the WAA engaged
in Christmas caroling on the col
lege campus and in front of tho
homes of Dr. Willa B. Player and
Mrs. David D. Jones. The group
singing was climaxed with a so
cial among the members of the
organization in Thirkield Gym
nasium.
The Physical Education Depart
ment, supported by the WAA, wi 1
present a physical education dem
onstration in January. Activities
to be demonstrated include
marching, basketball, stunts, tum
bling, exercises, calisthenics and
pyramids, dancing, badmiton,
track and field.
Reporter:
Joyce Pullum
There’ll Be 40% More
Women Than Men In
U. S, In Next 15 Years
NEW YORK (ANP)—In the
next 15 years there will be 40
percent more women than men
in the United States and the gap
broadens every year.
The reason? Women are out
living men to such an extent that
scientists suggest that the young
girl who wants to avoid widow
hood should look for a husband
6 years younger than herself, says
an article in the new issue of
Good Housekeeping Magazine.
Why are women outliving men?
This question raised today in the
feature has long been keeping
scientists busy finding the an
swers. In most professional circles
there is a growing belief that
women DO have a special secret
weapon to protect them against
physical and emotional wear and
tear. The American woman, it is
revealed, resists every major
disease more successfully than
her male counterpart. She stands
up better in the face of emotional
stress and she is more apt to pull
through a serious illness.
Is the female just enjoying the
good breaks or is there really a
“secret strength?” And if there is,
queries the Good Housekeeping
feature, “Can we bottle it and
give it to the men too?”
The greatest clue to this
mystery may lie in the very es
sence of maminity for, scientists
now feel that ESTROGEN pro
tects iier against solid fat in the
blood. This wou'd account for the
rise in coronaries in men—but
not in women.
According to one source quoted
in the feature, “if we could iso
late the feminizing effects of
Estrogen the men could get it
and live longer.” And if we could
separate whatever it is in the
hormone that keeps women from
getting bald.
Taken from the Wilmington
Journal, Wi mington, N. C.
Husband-hunting is probably
the only sport In which the ani
mal that gets caught has to buy
a license.
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The new members of the WAA shown as they prepare for a game of hockey. Pictured
above, first row, left to right, are Shirley Bruton, Johnsie Scott, Harriett Upton, and Ezeil
Brady. Second row: Georgia Huggins, Robbie Walton, Carolyn Moses, Marilyn Claye, Jean
Sparrow, and Joyce Lacey. (Photo by Essie Duncan).
Omicron Eta Chi News
Opening Meeting
Our first meeting was held on
Wednesday night, September 30
in the Student Union. It was good
to get old OHX members together
once again and to heartily greet
the large number of new Fresh-
mtn members. This meeting was
most exciting as we viewed love
ly COLOR SLIDES of last year’s
club activities (the Masquerade
Party, the joint meeting with the
Science Seminar, the Surprise
Bridal Showtr, the Farewell Pic
nic and Anece Faion McCloud’s
wedding in our Chapel). These
slides were taken and shown by
Mrs. Streat, our club advisor.
Installation Ceremony
For one week fifteen young
ladies wtre seen wearing green
outfits with large OHK signs hung
around their necks. These young
ladies were installed at a lovely
ceremony on Wednesday night,
November 11 as new members
of Omicron Eta Chi. The follow
ing day they were seen wearing
in p'ace of their OHK placards,
lovely, long-stemmed, whitt roses
—our club flower.
Guest speaker for the occasion
was Mrs. Anece Faison McCloud,
’59 home economics graduate and
former OHX member and presi
dent. Mrs. McCloud serves as
home economics teacher at Lin
coln Junior High School here in
Greensboro. New members in
stalled were Phi'lis Brown, Ca
milla Cheek, Elaine Coleman,
Gracie Ann Jones, Vivian West,
Diane Caldwell,, Clifford Claye,
Peggie Bryant, Fay Jones, Sharon
Mizel’, Carol Byrd, Carol Felton,
Wilhelmina Hampton, Gracie Ann
Hunter, and Carolyn Owens.
Cultural Hour
Omicron Eta Chi sponsored the
Cultural Hour on Sunday even
ing, November 15. Dr. William
E. Reed, Dean of the School of
Agriculture at A&T College and
recentely returned from two
years in Ghana was our guest
speaker. His topic was “Africa—
A New Outlook.”
Accompanying Dr. Reed was
Mrs. Reed and their three daugh
ters, Edwarda, Carol and Bonita.
The entire family wore clothes
given to them as gifts by friends
in Ghana. The large number of
art objects they brought back
from Ghana filled several tab es
in the Union foyer. Those per
sons attending the Cultural Hour
counted the evening well-spent.
Alma Pinnix, ’62, is chairman of
the OHX Cultural Hour Commit
tee.
Future MeetJngs
Regular meeting nights for
Omicron Eta Chi are the second
,and fourth Wednesday nights at
7:30 p.m. You are invited to join
our club. A most exciting pro
gram has been planned for the
school year. Officers are Theresa
Kearney, Pres.; Ometria Camp
bell, Vice-Pres.; Doris Best and
Delores Snellings, Secretaries; La-
Rita Waters, Treas.; Carolyn
Cotten, Chrmn. Program Commit
tee; and Camilla Cheek, Parlia
mentarian.
Omicron Eta Chi Christmas
Party held on December 17 com
bined the spirit of giving with
the spirit of fun. Club members
gathered at 6 p.m. in the Union
Lobby with beautifully wrapped
gifts. They walked over in ^
group to the Chi dren’s Ward of
the L. Richardson Memorial Hos
pital to deliver these gifts to the
shut-in boys and girls and to sing
Christmas carols and songs.
After this thrilling experience
with the children, the group re
turned to thhe Union for hot
drinks, color slides of the OHX
Cultural Hour and installation
ceremony, and finally a session
No Boom For Christ
At Christmas
By The Reverend J. G. Corry
\ Acting Director of
Religious Activities)
. There was no room for them
in the inn. (Luke 27b).
It is a strange and serious in- .
dictment against a world where
the greatest soul that ever lived
was born in the lowliest place the
earth could offer. When it came
time for Jesus’ birth, there was
no earthly, human dwelling place
for him to be born in. He was bom
in a stable because there was no
room for Him in the inn. He was
born among lower animals because
there was no room for Him among
men.
All through His life, wherever
He went. He was constantly shut
out of human relations and ex
periences. No words were more
familiar to Him han “no room.”
When He left this world it was
written of Him: “He came unto
His own and His own received
Him not.”
The vast majority of His con
temporaries died never knowing
that they had missed the most de
termining, stupendous event in
human history. Most of the people
who did know Him had no room
for this greatest invasion of the
life of God into the life of man.
You ask why? The reason is
obvious. The people of that first
century were looking for a leaedr,
but the kind of leader they got
was totally unexpected. Christ was
the kind fo leader for which th,e
world was not prepared. The only
leadership the people of that day
made room for was the leadership
of force. They were praying for a
leader who would slay their foes,
crush their enemies, throw off the'
iron hand of Rome.
They were looking for a leader
even greater than a Caesar to
crush their neighbors, but God
sent them a Christ to love their
enemies. They were looking for
a kind of Mussolini to rebuild
their own nation, but God sent
them a Messiah to rebuild all na
tions. So, because they were not
prepared for the leadership of
love, good will, forgiveness and
peace, they crowded Christ out
of their lives.
We, today, are guilty of that
same offense—crowding Christ
out of our lives. This is especially
true at Christmas — the one sea
son of the year when it certainly
ought not to be so. American
commercialism has become so
prevalent that we fail complete
ly to pay homage to the Christ
Child whose birth we celebrate
at this time of the year.
Vacations, parties, Christmas
shopping, receiving and giving
giving gifts become the order of
the day. If there is any time left
over in our maze of activities, we
may vaguely recall that this is
the season in which Christ was
born. Special family worship ser
vices at home on Christmas morn
ing, church attendance, prayers,
etc., are completely • over-shadow^
ed by opening of Christmas
presents.
As we come into this Christmas
season I would have you remem
ber the real significance of the
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on unique, Christmas gift wrap
ping. The members brought their
Christmas Sister gifts to wrap
f o 1 lo w i n g the demonstration.
Chairman of the Christmas Party
was Fay Jones of East Orange,
New Jersey.
Edwina Price
OHX Reporter