COLONEL BYRD BOOSTS BOOKSTORE; BELIEVES BLACK AND BENNETT BELLES ARE BEAUTIFUL
Colonel Byrd makes a sale to Jill Smith
photo by Cheryl E. Johnson
by Muriel Fenner
He has been to Vietnam, Germany, France,
the Philippines and Australia but chose to work
in a small bookstore on the campus of Bennett
College. His name is Lt. Col. Charles T. Byrd.
“I like the job here in the bookstore,” Col.
Byrd said. “It’s too small but plans have been
submitted for having it enlarged.”
Col. Byrd came to work for Bennett in Aug.
of 1970. He said, “I came to Bennett because
it was black. I was in the army for 24 years and
had spent almost all of my life around whites.
After retiring from the army I decided that I
wanted to work around blacks.”
This semester Col. Byrd had five students
assisting him in the bookstore. These students
were; Channel Jeffreys, Page Motley, Debra
Luttery, Michelle Donnell and Shelia Worth.
“They are very reliable and dependable
workers,'^’ he said. “Since I’ve been here I’ve
usually had very good help.”
The Bennett College Bookstore has items
from books to post cards to umbrellas and even
deodorant.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1976
BENNETT COLLEGE, GREENSBORO, N. 0.
VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 7
Bragg: Noise Control Up to “Existing Structure”
by Cheryl E. Johnson
Recommendations of the Ad Hoc
Committee on Residence Hall
Noise that were presented, first,
in the December faculty meeting
and shortly thereafter submitted
to the office of the dean of stu
dents affairs has resulted in “im
plementation of the structure as
it exists,” according to Harold E.
Bragg, dean of student affairs.
According to Bragg many pro
cedures have taken place since the
recommendations were received
by his office but he is not pres
ently at liberty to disclose these
steps.
Bragg said, “Sometimes it takes
New Musical
Group Organized
by Joyce Bass
The Bennett College Choir has
just recently organized the Col
lege Ensemble. Each of the 21
members had to audition for Dr.
Charlotte Alston, director of the
college choir and chairman of the
Music Department.
Even though the ensemble is
just getting organized, it has al
ready given two performances in
the Greensboro area. On Satur
day, February 6, 1976, the en
semble appeared at the A&T State
University Facultywives Club.
The meeting was held in the Red
Carpet located on the campus of
A&T, and the ensemble provided
the entertainment. Then later, on
Tuesday evening, February 10,
1976 at 7 p.m., the ensemble per
formed at the Hayes-Taylor
YMCA Membership Campaign
Dinner. In keeping with the Bi
centennial celebration, and with
Black History Week, the ensemble
performed patriotic selections and
one negro spiritual.
The ensemble has a lot of work
ahead of it, according to Dr. Al
ston. “We will be involved in some
very long and grueling rehearsals,
but we can do it,” Dr. Alston said.
The 21 members of the ensem
ble come from every class on
campus. The members are: first
sopranos: Sherrie Hill, Joyce Bass,
Sandra Johnson, Eva Burrows,
Robin Stamps, Lisa Anderson;
a select group to bring attention
to something and this is what the
Ad Hoc Committee has done.”
About the existing structure he
explained, “We have the structure
for the solution now in terms of a
house council, a judicial process;
judicial handbook that spells out
what kind of atmosphere should
prevail in the dormitories etc., but
if nobody is going to be reported,
if no one assumes the responsi
bility for reporting somebody” the
structure will not work. But he
warned if the student network
does not work, “We will have to
take administrative action.”
This promise for administrative
intervention is the gist of a state
ment that was made in regard to
the student affairs office action
on these recommendations in the
December faculty meeting.
When asked why students have
not admitted that there is a dormi
tory noise problem he said: “I
really believe our students are ma
ture and to recognize that there
is a problem makes it incumbent
upon these mature and responsi
ble people to do something about
the problem.” He feels this is a
“sad synopsis of society. Rather
than become involved in a solu
tion which is better for all it is
easier to take the option and say
‘I don’t want to deal with that’.”
“The responsible, quiet type of
person doesn’t want to go through
the hassel of exercising her re
sponsibility,” he said, “and it be
comes easier to suffer in. silence*
than to say ‘So-and-so, would you
please turn your music down?’ ”
Wrong Place to Look for Money
Science Building Breal(-ln Nets Nothing
by Cheryl E. Johnson
An intruder gained access
to the receptionist area of the
director of the Division of
Science’s suite of offices dur
ing the weekend of Feb. 6-8 by
breaking a window.
Dr. J. Henry Sayles, the Sci
ence Division director, whose
office is among those in the
suite said, “They ransacked
desk drawers and files in the
outer office,” but there were
no “files or anything miss
ing.”
“We have nothing of real
value here and he was look
ing for money, I assume,” he
said.
Sayles said, “I don’t think
this guy was an amateur and
by that I mean he was a pro
fessional.” Sayles said he was
of this opinion because “there
second sopranos: Loretta Brown,
Chris Dennard, Judith Hatch; first
altos: Rochelle Moody, Robin Flip-
pens, Beverly Tolbert, Demetria
Chavis, Margo Boone; second al
tos: Janice McLean, Teresa Tor
rence, Gloria McIntosh, Marilyn
Hicks, Doreleena Sammons, Shelia
Sammons, Frances Davis.
was not one finger print”
found when the police came
to dust for prints. Further
more, Sayles feels’ an amateur
would have taken some of the
valuables on the premises that
could be pawned.
Sayles reconstruction of the
crime begins with the in
truder coming in the building
through a lower level labora
tory, then up some back stairs
to the office where he broke
the window, put his arm
through and opened the door.
He continued “We have a
lot of valuable science equip
ment in the building,” but
there would be “very few peo
ple interested in this type of
equipment and they would not
buy it hot. Most schools that
would buy this material have
invoices and purchase orders”
in their records as proof of
request and purchases made.
Sayles said he had not
given thought to the idea that
this break-in was somehow
connected to a recent book
keeping office break in.
“But,” Sayles added “A sci
ence building is no place
where you find money. No
harm was done. They just
picked the wrong place.”
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When is a "pot" not a "pot?" When its POP! (Art that is!!)
photo by Cheryl E. Johnson
Two New Part-Time instructors
Teaching Filmmaking Course
by Deborah Tillman
In addition to the new faculty
members interviewed in the last
issue, two other instructors have
joined the Bennett faculty.
Anthony Fragola is teaching a
course in film production every
Monday night in the library. This
course includes script writing,
filming, and editing the film for
final presentation. This enables
the student to learn the techniques
of making a film.
Fragola is a native of Syracuse,
New York. Before receiving at the
University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill his M.A. in compara
tive literature, he did undergrad
uate work at Columbia University
where he received a B.A. in litera
ture.
Besides teaching this one-night
course at Bennett, he teaches
Italian and an experimental course
in literature and film at the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Greensboro. In his infrequent
spare time, Fragola finds time for
gardening.
His previous occupations in
clude teaching at the North Caro
lina School of the Arts in Win
ston-Salem, at Salem College in
Winston-Salem, and writing for
the Greensboro Record. He has
recently returned to Greensboro
after a year and a half stay in
Italy.
“I like Bennett because the stu
dents seem very capable of han
dling this course. There is a
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