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Bennett Honors
Greensboro Authors
By DARWIN PRIOLEAU
The staff of Holgate Library
recently honored 51 Greensboro
area college writers to a program
in chapeL Included was an atuo-
graph session for Rev, Peter E.A.
Addo's, new book, Ghana Folk
Tales. These stories are brief,
humorous, and hi^ly imagina
tive, using animals and insects
of the field and forest as their
main characters.
Rev. Addo,inspiredby his wife,
had these stories published be-
cause he felt that his friends had
forgotten the old stories told in
this book. The world of TV and
modern entertainment has almost
completely replaced the enter
tainment of storytelling in the
home. He felt that this was one
means by which our black heri
tage could be shown and appre.
elated. He went on to say, “Like
every other race, black people do
have stories about their heros, but
our stories are morephilosophi-
REV. P.E.A. ADDO
cal, usually telling about nature
and humans,”
Rev. Addo is currently working
on a new manuscript, African Di
plomat. He explained that in Afri
ca today, modern technology is
slowly breaking up families. His
new book will be a satire on some
of these problems.
He hopes that his novel will
encourage meeting the modern but
keeping some of the past. Rev.
Addo is also working on an antho
logy of African poetry illustrated
by Mr, James McMillian. He is
tentatively calling it Talking
Drums.
In reference to Qiana Folk
Tales, he says: “It isagoodbook
for all black mothers and fathers
to read and give to their children
becayse it shows our strong black
heritage,”
Harry Golden of Charlotte, for-
mer editor of the Carolina Israe
lite and one of America's best
known authors was speaker for the
occasion honoring the authors.
Mr, Golden was making his sec
ond appearance at Bennett in as
many years.
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Harry Golden, visiting author, discusses his works
with Bennett librarian, Mrs. Barbara Bryan, follow
ing his General Assembly address.
Ike-Bennett’s
Roving Photographer
BY DARWIN PRIOLEAU
You’ve probably noticed a young
man taking pictures on campus
this year. If so, it was probably
Dwight Davis, toown to many as
“Ike,” Dwl^t, a junior at A&T
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Foreign, students, who are studying at Western Col
lege, Oxford Ohio, visited Bennett College recently.
Shown above modeling their native costumes are
(Standing, left to right) Chanda Chanyapate from
and (seTted") Maria Maldonado from Peru and Saeeda
Nasser from Kenya.
State University, is working out of
the Public Relations Department
as a photographer here.
Dwight, a native of Winston.
Salem, first became interested
in photography in high school,
where he was encouraged by a
teacher who used him as an ap
prentice. He is the chief photog.
rapher for the A&T Register, but
his job at Bennett is his first paid
job in this regard. Dee is major
ing in engineering physics at A&T,
He plans to go to graduate school
and obtain a Ph.D, in theoretical
physics and teach at a college or
university. However, he does ad-
mit that there is a chance that he
may go into photography as asem-
i-professional. He often thinks
about opening a small studio and
doing portrait work.
However, if he does it will just
be a part time job while he works
on his masters degree and his Ph,
D, Though photography isimpor-
tant to him, a good education is
even more important.
It can be seen by most of his
pictures that Dee prefers people
IS his subjects and is ob^dously
‘.he type of guy that works well
with others. He hopes that next
year he will be able to instruct
a course in photography for in-
terested students here at Bennett.
If you talk to him once you will
probably become interested, be-
cause his love of photography
seems to “rub off' on anyone
who talks to him.
What does he do in his spare
time? “Photography, the school
paper and studying takes up 85-
90 per cent of my time,” he said,
but I do find time for tennis,
swimming and, of course, girl
watching.” By the way girls,
presently Dwight doesn’t have a
steady girlfriend.
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Foreign Students Feel At Home In The South
The foreign students who grac-
ed our campus with their warm,
friendly personalities April 14,
15, and 16, were feted at the Pres-
idenfs Reception held at his
house Tuesday evening. The eight
girls are students at Western
CoUege in Oxford, Ohio, our sis
ter all girl school.
At the reception, the visitors
had a chance to meet with the
Bennett faculty and some students
What follows is a conglamoration
(for lack of abetter word) of some
of the comments and ideas ex
pressed by the girls,
Maria Bustillo of Columbia
finds the U.S. very hard to gen
eralize geographically or popula-
tion wise. She commented that
after taking a cross-country trip,
“Here in the United States vou
have so many different things; I
find it hard to generalize--you
have mountains, you have water
and you have the dry land,” And
the people! She finds them even
more diversified, “They are all
so different,” she added express,
ing her sincerity through her
voice, facial expression and hand
gestures. “In my country of Co.
lumbia, when you meet one Co
lumbian vou have met all Colum
bia, Columbia is small, it’s just
not like here, Maria found it hard
to just say vrtiat she thought of the
U.S. since it varied so much. She,
in her friendly smiling way ex
pressed her amazement at this
first meeting with the Southern
Negro, As a school, she finds
Bennett much like Western; but
the people are so different. She
explained that if she were back
at school at a similar reception
“everybody would be whispering
like somebody was dead,” but
“here- -all the noise; people real
ly enjoying themselves. It is Uke
^ home, we are lively, like you
here. We keep lots of noise,”
Maria e3q)lain^ how she felt out
of place and uncomfortable when
she first got to Western, “I like
to play my music loud, but nobody
liked it, I had to turn it down, I
felt like I was “dying” on the in.
side. Here, its like at home. To
day, on stage I forgot some of my
yells because I hadn’t done them
in so long.”
When told that the Bennett stu
dents were glad they made her
feel at home, she grimaced and
said, “I’m not, it just makes it
harder to go back.”
“During holidays, I have lived
in different homes for the day or
the weekend, but each time its an
upper or middle class family. I
have always wanted to live with a
low income family. But I guess
its only those that can afford an
extra person. With this Maria’s
expression was one of near hope
lessness.
Chanida Chonyj^ate from Thai
land had this to say about Amer-
ica; “With all the different peo
ple in Thailand, we can always
tell an American from the pthers.
We like Americans better than the
British; they are friendlier.”
When asked about the comparison
she would draw between the Am
erican GI and the American in
general that she has had the
chance to observe since she has
been in the U.S. she laughed and
sincerely said that she finds A-
mericans are really “conscious
of the image we have of them that
is given by the American tourist.
We like Americans.”
When asked why she chose
Western, Lorna Ribinson of Ja
maica explained that each year
the school gives one girl from
her country a scholarship and she
received it. She laughed and said,
“it was luck, that’s all.”
The girls concluded the night
with hardy words of appreciation.
These are a few of the com
ments that were heard by the “lit
tle birdie” and passed on to you.