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LASHAINNA CAMPBELL
Banner Reporter
Twenty-five Belles served as international
delegates in the 11 Annual North Carolina
Consortium for International and Intercul-
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VOLLXDCNO. 10 May 5,
Bennett College
Greensboro, NC 27401
Moving toward the end
Elizabeth
Fryer, senior
bioloav major
from Clinton,
N.C., prepares
for the May 13
commence
ment cer
emony, her
sleeves billow
ing In the
wind. Fryar,
SGA presi
dent, Is plan
ning to attend
at Howard
University’s
School of Law
In the fall. Photo
by Monya
Tomlinson, editor.
Noted historian,author
to deliver address
class of 2000
LASHAINNA CAMPBELL
Banner Reporter and Staff
Applications for have been filed.
Caps and gowns have fitted and
pressed. And the invitations have
been mailed.
Approximately 60 Belles are ex
pected to participate in the 2000
commencement ceremony.
“Women in Humanities” this year's
the graduation theme.
Commencement will begin at
10 a.m. on the quadrangle.
Internationally known historian
Dr. JohnHope Franklin, theJames
B. Duke professor of history Emeri
tus at Duke University’s Law
School will address the graduating
class. Franklin is best known for
his study "From Slavery to Free
dom: A history of African Ameri
cans" now in its eighth edition.
Franklin's other works include "
The Color Line: Legacy for the
21 St Century (1993) and The Mili-
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President Scott says
she plans to retire
Fortune 500 companies
offering summer internships
MONYA TOMLINSON
Editor
Some Bennett students may be
working with Fortune 500 compa
nies this summer, thanks to the
Executive Leadership Council &
Foundation.
Samuel Hampton, program
manager from theExecutiveUad-
ership Foundation, interviewed
nearly 30 BeUes March 8 and 9 to
make a report to the foundation as
to who will qualify for a summer
internship with a major U.S. com
pany.
Their resumes will be added to a
national database that can be ac
cessed by executives in any of the
companies in the Executive Lead
ership Council.
The Executive Leadership Coun
cil is an independent, nonpartisan,
philanthropic organization
founded in 1986 to provide Afri
can-American officers and execu
tives of major U.S. companies
with a professional network and
forum to offer perspective and di
rection on national and interna
tional issues.
The Council has a membership
of over 170 Black executives, one-
fourth of them women, represent-
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MONYA TOMLINSON
Editor
The College may have to find a
new president after the next aca
demic year.
At a campus-wide luncheon in
the David D. Jones Student Union
following the May 4 ACES, Presi
dent Gloria Randle Scott told the
Bennett College community that
she intends to retire at the end of
the 2000-01 academic year. “I
have requested that the Board of
Trustees begin to identify the lead
ership need and develop a process
for searching to secure the 13th
president,” Scott said.
In the luncheon, Scott did not
cite reasons for her retirement,
but in a Presidential address to
the campus community in March,
Scott said she was no longer un
der contract and each year the
BOT asks her to continue on as
president.
In a press release, Scott said
she is retiring because she has
accomplished the long-term goals
she set for herself and for the
college.
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