CELEBRATING
175TH
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THE CECIL W. ROBBINS lIBRAr
LOUISBURG COLLEGl
LOUISBURG, N.C. 27549
ANNIVERSARY
OF CHARTER
Volume XXI
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1962
No. 4
Gupton Elected
Queen of Court
Miss Marla Manning Gupton, of
Louisburg, N. C., was elected May
Queen of Louisburg College on
Feb. 14. Miss Gupton was chosen
from a list of nearly 120 female
students. Miss Nancy Sisson of
Richmond, Va., was chosen Maid
of Honor.
Miss Gupton was born in De
cember, 1941, in Louisburg and
was graduated in May, 1960, from
W. R. Mills High School, where she
was a member of the scholas
tic club.
During her high school career
Miss Gupton enjoyed writing poe
try and prose, worked with the dra
matic club of her high school,
worked on the school newspaper
and annual staff for two years each.
She has held a position on the local
Louisburg radio station, WYRN,
and has had much practice in pub
lic speaking. Recently she was
chosen to represent the Louisburg
College publications and radio
station in the Homecoming Court
commemorating the 175th Anniver
sary of Louisburg College.
She was a member of the YDC
and a member of the annual staff
during her first year at Louisburg
College. Since her enrollment here
her semester averages have been
as high as 2.9 and never lower than
2.7. For the three semesters she has
attended Louisburg College her
name has appeared on the Dean’s
List each time.
Her favorite sports are water
skiing, basketball, swimming, and
tennis. Her hobbies are painting
and reading.
She has only one sibling, a sis
ter, Carolyne, who is now attending
Louisburg College as a special stu
dent.
Miss Gupton is a member of the
Louisburg Methodist Church.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Gupton of 939 North
Main Street of Louisburg. Her
father is a local automobile dealer.
MISS MARLA GUPTON
Queen of the May Court
Ayscue, Lesemann
Head Freshman Class
Jerry Ayscue of Henderson,
N. C., and Bill Lesemann of Rich
mond, Va., were elected to the
positions of president and vice-presi
dent of the freshman class, respec
tively, in a recent run-off election.
Miss Donnie Cohn, of New Bern,
N. C., and Mr. Eddie Rollins, of
Portsmouth, Va. were awarded the
positions of secretary and treasurer
for the first year class. These were
the results of run-offs after the pri
mary elections. The ballots were
cast for the decisive run-off on
Feb. 16 in the cafeteria of the Ben-
Students Elect
May Day Court
Miss Marla Gupton has been
elected by student ballot to fill the
position of “Queen of the May
Court” for the May Day activities
to be held on May 5, 1962.
Assisting Miss Gupton will be her
Maid of Honor, Miss Nancy Sis
son of Richmond, Va. The rest of
the court chosen consists of Miss
Linda Dail, Kinston, N. C.; Miss
Betty Summerlin, Goldsboro, N. C.;
Miss Viola Coffin, Durham, N. C.;
Miss Kay Curry, Ayden, N. C.;
Miss Marlene Moore, Raleigh,
N. C.; Miss Barbara Major, Rich
mond, Va.; Miss Carolyn Munn,
Franklinton, N. C.; Miss Nina
Thayer, Louisburg, N. C.; and Miss
Susan Hosier, Richmond, Va.
Each of the members of the
Court will select an escort to ac-
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Thirteen Included
On Dean’s List
“This year there has been an in
crease of 3 per cent in the number
of students who have made grades
which entitle them to be on the
Dean’s List,” says John B. York,
academic dean of Louisburg Col
lege. “Last year 8 per cent of the
students enrolled were on the List,
but this year the number has risen
to 11 per cent.”
Thirteen students who have made
the Honor Roll, by having a 3.5
average, or better were:
Doris Roberson 4.000
Fred Ayscue 3.973
Marla Gupton ..3.923
John Mobley 3.7781 l*3mson as rulers of the Valentines Dance which has held iin Holt Gymnasium. (Right) Riley Fields and Sarah Ann
ARISTOCRACY AND DANCERS—(Left) Bill Harriet and Connie Radford crown Queen Linda Dail and King Bill Wil-
jamin N. Duke Building.
Jerry Ayscue defeated Walter
PulUam, and Bill Lesemann won
over Paul Kozma in the run-off
elections.
The first ballot contained several
candidates for each position. Run
ning for the position of president
were Bill Frazier, Doc Teele, Sue
Edge, Bob Fields, Walter Pulliam,
Brad Weisiger, and the victor, Jerry
Ayscue.
Vying for the election to the vice-
president’s chair were Bill Lese
mann, Paul Kozma, Ray Harding,
Sandy Brown, and
The candidates for the office of
secretary of the freshman class were
Billie Muse, Frances Stephenson,
and Donnie Cohn. Jerry Combest,
Wayne Lennon, Bill Williamson,
Tommy Smith, and Eddie Rollins
ran for the office of treasurer.
One interesting fact about the
election was that nearly all of those
running for office had maintained
a “B” average for the first semester
at Louisburg College.
Judy Cheatham 3.764
Peggy Whitt 3.750
Bob Livingston 3.733
Kathryn Fort 3.667
Chuck Bland 3.647
Bill Byrum 3.625
Marlene Moore 3.550
Alexander Holloman 3.500
Scott Peace 3.500
Forty - eight students received
Honorable Mention. These students
obtained a 3.0 average or better.
These students included:
Lewis Waskey 3.466
Hannah Sykes 3.440
Sue Wilson 3.473
Tom Conway 3.428
Bill Boone 3.400
Walt Pulhiam 3.368
Mike Brewer 3.333
Mike Beard . 3.333
John Robert Poe 3.312
Bobby Ezzell 3.278
Gene Sponenburg 3.262
Betty Atkins 3.250
Walter Brown 3.250
Mary Lee Johnson 3.250
Robert Benson 3.235
Jimmy Futrele 3.235
Sally White 3.235
Becky Blackburn ...3.222
Susan Bobbit 3.222
Doug Ledgett 3.214
Doc Teele 3.210
Bobby Langston 3.187
Wilson Hoyle 3.167
Howard Edwards 3.142
Miles illustrate their twisting abilities after they are chosen winners of the dance contest sponsored by the YM-YWCA.
New Students
Enroll Here
With the beginning of the spring
semester Louisburg College opened
its doors to forty new students.
About eighty per cent of the new
students hail from the Tar Heel
State with the following cities
having two or more students repre
senting them: Raleigh — Ronald
Lee Jeffries, Thomas Garrett Jef
fries, James Campbell McDon
ald, and Eugene Wilson Williams;
Durham — Thomas Rogers, Harry
Wayne Pickett, Robbie Jane Spikes
and Walter Marrow Daves; Oxford
— James Bullock and W. D. Jones.
Others from various communities
include: Walter Robert Vaughan —
Henderson; Steve Upchurch —
Zebulon; Harold Stanely — Bol
ton; John Roberts — Rose Hill;
James M. Myrick — Warrenton;
Bobby Hartwell Lamb — Long-
hurst; William Brent Keever —
Hickory; Ronald Earl James —
Roanoke Rapids; Norma Jean Hill
— Sanford; George Everett Haw
kins—^Turkey; Hal Thurston Harris
Creednioor; Carolyne Wells
Giipton — Louisburg; Lewis Clin
ton Gibbs — Vanceboro; Millard M.
Robert Dominick .3.125 | Riggs—Morganton; William Vance
Wayne Lennon 3.125;Cook —Conover; and Verlon Bass
Danny West 3.125Havelock.
Gerald Wynn 3.125; The enrollment from out of state
Raymond Joyner .3.118 !is led by Virginia, with two students
Sandra Brown 3.111 coming from Richmond: Joshua
Pat Coss .3.111 Hazell Phaup, and Luther Arring-
Betty Baucom 3.077Nevrcomb. Wayne O. Wing
FRESHMAN VICTORS—Shown above are the winners of the freshman class
elections. Upper left to right: Jerry Ayscue, President; and Bill Lesemann, Vice-
President. Lower left to right: Donnie Chon, Secretary; and Eddie Rollins, Treasurer.
Roy Creech 3.071
Steve Ferguson 3.062
Donnie Kintz 3.062
Ella Rowe 3.005
Bill Sikkelee 3.052
Lloyd Burkley 3.000
Linda Haley 3.000
Sue Edge 3.000
Dave Jeffreys 3.000
Marjorie Chandler 3.000
Bill Frazier 3.000
Bill Lyon 3.000
Tift Mann 3.000
Robert Brittain 3.000
Jack Hunter 3.000
Brian Young 3.000
Reading Coarse
Is Now Offered
For the first time classes in De
velopmental Reading are being
taught at Louisburg College. The
classes are taught by Mr. Jack Glat-
ter, a representative of the Bald
ridge Reading Services.
Hourly classes for this course are
held Monday through Friday from
1 to 3 o’clock, at 5 o’clock, and
at 7 p.m. There are only nine stu
dents per class, a fact that permits
individualized activity to develop
the reading skills.
Through the Baldridge Reading
Services Program fair-to-good read
ers increase their comprehension,
sharpen their concentration, im
prove their organization and reten
tion of material read while greatly
increasing their reading speed. This
program is designed for students
who have mastered basic reading
skills and desire to develop their
silent reading ability to a superior
level.
During the school year Baldridge
Reading Services conducts De
velopmental Reading Programs at
independent secondary schools and
colleges as well as at their
training centers in Greenwich,
Conn., Brookline, Mass., New
York, N. Y., Beverly Hills, Calif.,
and San Francisco, Calif. When
training is conducted at a secondary
school or college, the training ses
sions conform with the regularly
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field — Fairfield; Stanley Benjamin
Watkings — Stuart; John Paul Tay
lor — Appomattox; John Thomas
Johnson — Chase City; Mary Kin-
nemann —Arlington; and William
Surgeon Abbitt — Williamsburg,
bring the total of new Virginia stu
dents to eight.
Enrollment from other states in
cludes: New Jersey — Frederick B.
Edwards, and Joseph Clark Shoe
maker; Ohio — Brent Douglas
Scharff; Maryland — Edwin Pres
ley Hall; Washington, D. C.
Donald Milton Lathrom; and from
Illinois — Paul Jones Phyfer.
The enrollment of the first se
mester totaled 552, an all time high
for Louisburg College, as compared
j to the present semester enrollment
of 520.
The decrease in enrollment is
due to many factors, such as scho
lastic difficulty, drop-outs due to
sickness, and transfer to other
schools.
WUS Speaker Addresses
Student Body, YM-YWCA
Miss Debby Jackson, a repre
sentative of the World University
Service presented a talk entitled,
‘The Purpose of WUS” to the stu
dent body of Louisburg College
at chapel service on Wednesday,
Feb. 28, and spoke to the YM-
YWCA group assembled at the Main
Auditorium that evening at 6:30. At
the latter meeting Miss Jackson
showed films of her trip to various
countries abroad.
Miss Jackson, a graduate of
Pomona College, Pomona, Califor
nia, maintained a high average
there while participating in extra
curricular activities such as serving
as president of the woman’s glee
club and being a member of the
college choir. She took an active
role in the International Relations
Club of the college. Her major
course of study in college was in
ternational relations.
In 1960 Miss Jackson, having
been chosen as a member of the
student group which participated in
the US-USSR Cultural Exchange
Program, was able to visit not only
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Experimental Dorm
Plans Announced
Next year an experimental dor
mitory will be maintained at Louis
burg College, according to a recent
announcement by Dean Meade
Nehrig. This dormitory will be situ
ated in Davis Building, and the
apartments on 2nd floor Davis will
be used by those students who are
to room in that building. The pur
pose of this dormitory is to help
some of those freshmen who are
now doing outstanding academic
work “to increase high scholastic at
tainment or achievement and to en
rich the intellectual life of superior
students. The students will hear lec
tures by faculty members who will
speak on varied topics of interest
and importance.
In order to be selected for this
dormitory a student must meet the
following qualifications: He must
be interested in working toward
either a B.S. or an A.B. Degree; he
must be attempting to qualify for
an A.A. or an A.S. Degree from
Louisburg College; he must have
completed two semesters of work at
Louisburg College at the time of
moving into the experimental dor
mitory; and he must have an over
all “B” average.
Also, in the dormitories now in
use, which will be mainly used by
freshmen, there will be two mem
bers of the sophomore class placed
on each hall to act as freshman ad
visors. Each boy will be given a
scholarship which will pay for his
room and board.
The students selected as advisors
will be chosen from a committee of
faculty members, which is com
posed of Mr. C. Ray Pruette,
Mr. W. Carrington Gretter, Mr.
Walter N. McDonald, Mr. John B.
York, and Mr. Meade Nehrig.
Louisburg Offers
Summer Instructions
This year Louisburg College will
offer two sessions of summer school
to students from June to August.
The first term will begin on June 11
and will close on July 18. The sec
ond session will start on July 19
and terminate on Aug. 25. Each
term will last six weeks.
Courses to be taught are busi
ness, English composition, litera
ture, foreign languages, college
mathematics, religion, biology,
chemistry, history, college prepara
tory mathematics, solid geometry,
plane geometry, and developmental
reading.
The cost per session will be $175
per student. This includes room,
board, and tuition.
Any student may be allowed to
take from 6 to 8 semester hours per
session, the exact number to be de
termined by the subjects he decides
to take. The maximum student load
will be two subjects per six-week
Dance Held
Valentine Day
Holton Gymnasium was the site
of a “sock hop” on Friday, Feb. 16,
1962. The dance was sponsored by
the YM-YWCA. Music was spon
sored by various popular bands and
singers via records. Highlights of
the dance were the awarding of
prizes to the winners of the dance
contest and the crowning of a Valen
tine King and Queen.
During the dance secret ballots
were cast to choose a Valentine’s
King and Queen. Miss Linda Dail,
of Kinston, N. C., and Mr. Bill
Williamson of Richmond, Va. were
awarded the Chair of Honor and
were crowned by Bill Harriet and
Connie Radford, respectively. Fol
lowing the crowning, the King and
Queen had the customary dance of
the evening as all present stood and
watched.
Prior to the crowning of the King
and Queen, Mr. Riley Fields and
Miss Sarah Ann Miles were chosen
as the winners of the dance contest
by secret judges.
This was the first attempt of any
organization, besides the YM-
YWCA Socials held e^ch Monday
night, to sponsor any kind of social
recreation for the student body. All
present seemed to enjoy the dance,
and the “Y” sponsor, Miss Ruth
Merritt, said that she was pleased
with the reception that the dance
had received.
The stage of Holton Gymnasium
contained the chair on which the
King and Queen sat while they en
joyed their short reign.
Prizes for the dance contest were
two free gift certificates for a dol
lar each for refreshment from the
Soda Shop.
Refreshments were sold by the
“Y” during the dance. Tickets were
on sale at the price of 25c and
35c. “Y” members were admitted
without charge upon showing their
membership cards.
The three hour dance ended at
10:30.
period.
Classes will meet Monday through
Friday for one hour and fifty min
utes a day. There will be three pe
riods per day.
This opportunity of summer in
struction is advantageous to stu
dents who wish to begin college
work, students who wish to earn
extra credit, and those who desire
to make up deficiencies on work
that has been failed.
Any student who desires to enter
summer school at Louisburg College
is advised to contact Mr. John B.
York, academic dean of the col
lege.
Courses to be taught will be de
termined by answers to question
naires that have been distributed to
members of the student body.
DANCE IS SUCCESS—Pictured above are the members of the LJC student body
dancing to “The Treasure of Love,” a hit of past years. The Dance was sponsored
by the YM-YWCA in Holton Gymnasium.