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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWS LETTER
New Staff Members
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had wide experience as a teaclier and
a community worker and has made
nianv contrilnitions to educational
publications.
Miss E. Louise Cooper, education,
>f. A. Columbia University in 1937.
For the past foin' years >fiss Cooper
served as super\isoi' of elementary
schools in Raleigh, North Carolina. Be
cause of her long service as supervisor
of adult education under the auspices
of the federal government, she is con
sidered an expert in the field of adult
education. For the past two suirnners,
Afiss Cooper has been an instructor on
the staff of Hampton Institute,
Miss Mary E. Alston, English, ,A
graduate of Shaw with a master’s de
gree from Howard, S'he has had ivide
experience as a teacher of English.
Mrs. Ossie Royaf has been assigned
to the Dining Vlall as a matron. She
has had wide experience in this work.
For many years Mrs. Royal has lieen
active in tlie work of North Carohna
Congress of Colored Parents and
'I’eachers.
Miss Juanita M. Ross, Covington,
A’irginia. 1947 graduate of Virginia
State College, Petersburg, Virginia.
Miss Ross received the A. B. degree in
Library Science.
Mr. Elson K. W'illiams, Social
Studies, returned after a year's leave
of absencc during ivhich time he has
completed all the residential require
ments for the doctors degree at New
York Lhiiversity.
Who Shall Wear
The Crown?
'lo build up our greatest integrity,
cooperation and lovalty toward the
institution, each year w'e have our an
nual Homecoming with representatives
from each class working to W'in the
title “Miss Homecoining,” This year,
having such competent candidates and
such keen competition, we reallv don’t
know' who shall wear the crown, but
each class seems to know. Class re
porters write the following predictions:
I. Miss Beatrice Hardv who comes
from Robert L. \'ann High School.
,*\hoskie. North Carolina w'as chosen
bv the Freshman CUass to represent the
class as “Miss Homecoming.” During
her liigh school career she '\’as chosen
for two consecutive years as “Miss
Robert L. \'ann.’’ She was also a mem
ber of the Dramatic Cluli and Music
Club.
After graduation from High school,
she attended Manhattan Dental School
in New York City. .After completion
of this course, she became a dental as
sistant in Portsmouth, Virginia. She
W'as employed in this field for three
years.
With such a person fronr this class,
there was no doubt in minds of the
freshmen regarding the winner. Of
coiuse. Miss Beatrice Hardy will wear
it!
2. Miss Queen Ivey, a senior from
Roanoke Rapids, N. C. e,\:hibits great
potentialities. Her scholastic ability en-
aliled her to become a member of the
Imperial Nautilus Chilj during her
freshman year. She has continued to
grow socially aiid intellectually in that
she has become President of the St.
Paul’s Guild, a member of the Dra
matic C.lub, News Letter Staff and an
outstanding member of her class.
[I> Knou' iVIiere TVe Are and Where
fVe Are (ioiiig. But . . .
Is The Way Clearly
Defined?
liy Miss Jt'i.iKxrK I’hii'kr
As a rotniding-U]) of the very success
ful pre-opening conference, .Miss Juli
ette Phifer, graduate student. New
\’ork I'niversity, gave an inspiring ad
dress at the banquet held in honor of
conference members.
In her message, Miss Phifer stressed
the fact that, “Tiie major activities at
Elizabeth City State Teachers College
are motivated by our constant aim:
To prepare men and women for teach
ing in the pul>lic schools of North
Carolina: To make progress in achiev
ing this aim. For us, progress will not
be a delusive and chameleon word be
cause we have set aside this pre-open
ing conference to take stock of our
olferings and re-evaluate our objec
tives.’’
In S])eaking of attaining the major
objectives of life, she questions, “Where
■Are A\'e? ’ In a \ery dramatic mannei'.
.she points out that, “We are here in
a Republic in which the Founding
Fathers exalted education as a national
interest. . . . Here the democratic ideal
was l)orn and accepted. Here democ
racy and individualism provide (he
context for public education. We are
working in an institution w’hose major
fuiiction is to prepare men and women
to teach youth; to instruct vouch in
tlie liasic concepts of life in a democ
racy. The place of contact for the
teacher and the pupil is the public
scliool education is anchored in the his
tory of American civilization. Public
school education operates witliin the
accumidated heritage of that ci’.iliza-
tion, for us tlie American civilization.’’
The speaker finthei' asserted that
fiee men tiuist have both knowledge
and faith—faith in themselves, faith in
obligations, anti faith in humanilv.
"For then the mind becomes free and
we strengthen tlie heritage of human
freedoTU and receive its plus values.’’
Answering her question, “What is
the way to obtain these objectives,”
Miss Phifer quotes Eisenhow'er, new'ly
elected Pre.sident of Columbia Uni
versity.
“1. Freedom of the individual pre-
sujjposing faith of a religious character
in the integrity of the individual man,
is tlie first leg on which democracy
stands.
‘ 2. Free enterprise, a second devise
of a true democracy.”
In an effort to modify these points,
the speaker pointed out that we must
take |5ride in accomplishments made
after exerting this freedom,” .Along
the way another turn in the road is
vour concern with the growth of War
X'eterans. Those men and women who
have already played a part in the
atomic age. Ihey have lieen geared to
the new era. . . . Y'ou will agree with
me that we certainly need w'orld-
mindedness and w'orkl-citizenship more
so now than ever before. The one-
world idea is vital if we really want
peace. Yes the one world idea is tot
tering through the chrysalis of na
tionalisms and traditions and other
emotions and ambitions.”
In closing, Miss Phifer emphatically
remarked, “If we can join these turns
along the load, we have forged a way
otU of existing needs. We have forged
a way which promises superior, satis-
lied, secure and social personalities—
persons able to adjust themselves to
the dynamic age in which we live, and
eager to guide the growth of youth
in the people’s schools for the ptiblic
school is called the school of life. . . .
“Are the turns in the road somewhat
clearer? . . . Progress is real and not
merely movement when we know wiierc
we are are where W'e are going, and
what is the way,”
Campus Organizations
Presidents
Brush and Palette Chdj. Einiice Alston
Sigma Delta Omega
Alma I.ucille Knight
Beta .Alpha.. Alexander Davis, Jr.
Y.'\V’.C..A Ruth F'.dwards
St. Paul’s Ciuild Queen Ivey
Be Natural .\iiiiie A'. Felton
C;iioir Dollie Willie
Imperial Nautilus Helen Kearney
Usher's Cuild Helen Kearney
Thalia Sorosis Ruth Frinks
Busy Bee Mattie W'ilson
Neu's Letter ...Eunice .Alston
.Senior .Art S'ociety Barbara Harper
Kappa .Alpha Kappa .Geraldine Fooks
Alpha Kappa Mu Ruth Brown
Dramatic C;itd) .Alexander Davis
V.M.C..‘\ David Grier
Etiquette Hints
Wliat is the correct way to W'ear
flowers?
For the past two years there have
been various opinions as to the way
flowers should be worn. Some have
said that flowers should be worn stem
up, while others have said that flowers
sbotild be worn stem down. Others
have gone so far as to ask, "Whv
shotdd they be worn stem up or
down?” Still another has suggested, if
vou are married wear the stem up;
if you are single wear the stem down.
Fmily Post says, “There is no stand
ard way to Avear liowers, but since they
grow stem downiyard, it would seem
most logical to wear them the wav they
grow,’’
—Beatrice Willie
Cafeteria "Style"
We Have It?
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\\hich woidd be provided in serving
meals family stvle. C.ollege training can
and should include good etiquette in
ser\ing and eating at meal time. Under
the cafeteria system this is not possible.
Ho\yever. if the cafeteria system is to
be continued during the winter tei^,
we feel that the college authorities
will meet this need,
THE POET'S CORNER
If For All English Students
If you can study when all about yon
are having fun and beckoning to
von;
If you can refrain from saying “ain’t
cho”
When e\eryone expects vou to;
If you can apply the rules of rhetoric
intelligentlv.
When everyone else is shy and meek;
If you are not afraid of verlj misusnage,
When vou are called upon to speak;
If you ha\e learned to spell correctly
and pronotnice the s’s and t’s;
If you know vour cases and your num
bers and vour tenses flow with ease;
1 hen, feel proud of yourself, dear fel-
lo\y
For good English you have learned;
Vou will rank among the scholars
If from good English you never turn—
But if English is your master and its
rules are driving you mad;
(f you make F’s in composition and
the teacher says “too bad”;
If tlie sidiject and the predicate you
just can't make agree;
If you have lost your sentence balance
and \otn' phrases rtni loose and free;
If when it comes to thinking
Vou are a perfect blank;
If \\hen you seek absorbed informa
tion
You are an empty tank;
W'ell, fellow, you don’t have to H'orry
For the damage has been done
Your slang is definitely straight. Gait,
But your F.nglisli is real gone!
—Sterling Perry, '51