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STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWS LETTER
September, 1955
NEWS LETTER
Published by
STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
NEWS PRESS CLUB
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Member;
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
Editor-in-Chief Billy Hodge
Associate Editors . - James Godfrey,
Curtis Twine, Elsie Sharpe
Feature Editors .... Marva Thomas,
Vivian Williams, Marie Riddick,
Alelia Koonce
Literary Editors Irene Exum,
Carlise Hardy
Sports Editors James Godfrey,
Billy Hodge, Yvonne Bland, Richard Branch,
Osie Robinson, Sterling Lennon
Reporters Annie Bailey,
Willie Jenkins, Janice Rogers,
Constance Taylor
Exchange Editors James Leathers,
Andrew Johnson
Art Editors — Lonnie Davis,
Shadrack Brown
Typists - Mary Spruill,
Marva Thomas
Managing Editor James Spence
Adviser Edna Mitchell
STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE
so YOU’RE A FOOTBALL
PLAYER
Let us as students try this school
year 1955-1956 to put all that we have
to offer into whatever we do. We
should never be satisfied with being
“just average”, or keeping up with
the crowd, for in today’s world de
mands for people who are just average
are few.
A student in college who plans to
become a teacher begins in his fresh
man year to develop tlie will to work
and a determination to strive for the
best. The teaching profession is open
for the future teacher to grow from
year to year in usefullness and public
service.
You will shortly start out on one of
the most exciting adventures that you
will ever have. You will discover that
earning a living can be fun. You will
need to use foresight in acquiring
those skills which will be most \-alu-
able to you later, for no task is too
great for the man that has the will
to do if he applies himself.
Where opportunity is at its best we
should take advantage of it, for we
owe much to our parents who are
making supreme sacrifices for our
education. W’e also owe much to our
communities and to ourselves.
ARE LIFE'S PURPOSES
IMPORTANT?
Some students are not aware of the
idea that it is important to have a re
cognized purpose in mind. “Why live
for ends?” “Why not also for day-by-
day happiness?” The students who are
always willing to have fun whenever
and wherever they can are usually
students who overlook the fact that
tr>ang day by day for happiness is it
self one aim in life.
There are other purposes about
which students should try to organize
their lives. Many feel that the chief
aim of life must be to do one’s duty,
whether the task be pleasant or un
pleasant, easy or hard. Still others
seek to make service their centeral
aim; wliile still others intend to make
their chief aim tlie trade or profession.
Whatever life’s purpose or purposes
are, one should be sure that his search
will result in noble and useful living.
What one will choose as the central
puqoose of his life is one of the pri
mary questions to be answered.
—Mary Spruill
This is about the second week of
practice—you’re up, at the crack of
dawn, your muscles are stiff and sore.
If you are a lineman you meet with
the “men”, known as the “hogs,_” and
the backfield as the “boys”, or the
“artists.”
Morning practice conies ne.xt, when
your breakfast has digested. Your pants
and pads are clammy and cold as a
result of “Hurricane lone”. Stiff-leg
ged, you trot to the i^ractice field.
After shooting the breeze with the
boys for a while, “Tweet!” goes the
whilstle, and the first order of busi
ness is Calisthenics. For Psychological
reasons they are called conditioning
exercises, but by any name you hate
them, especially, with “Dewey” giv
ing them. Then comes the hour of
hitting the sled, blocking the dummies,
tliree or one drills, tackling and work
ing on your individual weaknesses,
the coaches hollering “Hit that sled”,
“Keep those feet spread apart,”
“That’s the way to hit that dummy.”
While at the other end of the field
the “artists” are practicing their pass
plays, to you it looks as if they are
just throwing tlie ball around.
After a hardy noonday meal you
drag to the dormitory so sleepy you
can hardly keep your eyes open—
into the sack for a few hours of rest.
Before you can close your eyes some
one shakes you and says “Let’s go
champ; it’s 2:15.” Back to the dress
ing room you go. Two more hours of
hard work, running, blocking, tackling,
and those ever hated wind spirits.
When you’re finally dismissed the
coach warns you that everyone should
be in bed by 11:00 o’clock. That’s the
most useless speech of the afternoon.
By 8:30 you are all in the sack except
maybe those “bid whiz” boys.
Then suddenly school starts. Gone
are the aches and pains—only one
practice a day. You open with State
next week. Here Come The Head
lines.
—B. Hodge
WHAT ADVICE WOULD
YOU GIVE?
Would you give advice to the fresh
men if you had the chance? Would
you tell them that opportunities are
open to them, if they would prepare
themselves to meet the problems that
they will face? Or would you tell
them to center their thinking around
their careers?
Probably you would rather express
the need of a pleasing personality and
the development of an attitude toward
their fellow students that will enable
them to have a better world to live in.
Has any one expressed to them the
need to readjust their thinking in
keeping with the economic status of
our present-day society?
If you w'ould tell the freshmen to
take into consideration the necessity
of thinking things through for them
selves, more of them would start the
ball rolling before it is too late.
—Alelia Koonce
LIBRARY STACKS CLOSED
On September 8, 1955, the library
stacks were closed for students. This
marked one of the many changes for
the year 1955.
Many students will be bewildered
this year because they have to stop
at the Card Catalog to fill out call
slips. Although the Librarians have
asked them to use the catalog to save
time, they have passed it by and
browsed through books because they
believe it saves time to find them
that way.
For many it means that we shall
need some individual help in order to
be able to find exactly what books
w'ill serve our purposes. The freshmen
are being taught how to use the libr
ary, and many will find it helpful to
listen and ask questions whenever they
hear the lectures.
This is just one of the changes. In
the next issue there will be more
news about the library and its col
lection.
—Beulah Carrawav
SENIORS MODEL FOR FRESHMAN
■ 1 ——
MAKE YOUR DECISION
I should like to welcome each pei.
son to this institution of higher Icarj.
However, I am extremely proud to
extend greetings to you as a group.
Today as a freshman you find you.
selves in a different and more dilli-
cult situation. You are now in tie
midst of hundreds of different inflii-
ences ranging from excellent to \w
good, fair, poor and bad. The problem
which now faces you is how to deeiJt
into which category you will fall. T*
decision must be made by one, Ont
of the most important things wMf
in college is that you will have a mind
of your own. Thousands have failes
because they lacked this one thing-
minds of their own.
You are the foundation of the col
lege. What you decide will not onli
determine what you become but wkl
the college eventually becomes.
What you are doing is not so im
portant as the way you are doing it
In addition to that is another poii;
for serious consideration. Where «ili
it end? God who has all power, all
Knowledge, and all understanding«ill
help you to do sound thinkins. !:
can guide you so that you will k
prepared to aid in molding the lives ol
the children of the future.
As you tread this campus each ii)
you must remember that unless you
hitch your wagon to a start and be
pulled up, you will be in grave danjfi
of riding along on the easy road, hi
individual can do what he chooses, Ht
has as much ambition as he thiak
he has. Either he chooses to be littl
or he chooses to be big.
If as freshmen you can make de
cisions that will enable you to stanJ
at the crossroads of the future and be
guides for others, you will be seelins
the true way to success—the road If
construction, not destruction,
—Shadrack Brow
COLLEGE FRESHMEN
College Freshmen in your green attire
This color. I’m sure, you do admire.
On each dog-tag we see your name
Don’t get discouraged, its all ^ S*®
So you try hard and do your part;
We’ll see that you make a good start.
We know what probation does to vou-
Only a few more weeks and it s
through!
Then paint your lips and match
shoes;
Unbraid your hair and cast away
your blues.
We are branches of the very sani
Trying to gain knowledge as you
can see.
We hope the culture that from liHf
you gain ..ii
Throughout the years with you
remain .
Your inspiration to do things iirca
In love and honor for dear o e
__CarliseHari'
Give us courage and gaie>>'
quiet mind
—Robert Louis
StevfW'C-
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Connie Page and Lois King
There are three who cotn? ^
den: Fear, Jealousy anJ L®'
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