THE
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Miss S. T. C.
ALICE MYRICK
The campaign for “Miss S. T. C.”
began on Monday, April 9 and con
tinued through Thursday, April 12.
Alice Myrick and Peggy McMillan,
the two candidates were well repre
sented.
Serving as campaign manager for
Alice was Clarence E. Biggs, a
senior; and Earl Francis, a sopho
more, for Peggy. Speeches from both
parties were made in the dining hall
and in front of Williams Hall, giv
ing detailed character sketches of both
young ladies. The spirit was high!
Posters were displayed in almost every
corner of the campus. Badges which
read—VOTE FOR ALICE!—VOTE
FOR PEGGY!, were worn by almost
every student.
After becoming thoroughly familiar
with these two charming young ladies,
students went to the polls on Friday,
April 13, and cast their ballots. Voting
took place in the lobby of Moore
Hall.
At 5:30 p.m., the same day, Na
thaniel Moore, President of the Stu
dent Council, announced that the
total number of votes for Peggy Mc
Millan was 212. and for Alice My
rick, 337. Thus, she became “Miss
S. T. C.” for the ensuing school year.
Alice is a native of Como, North
Carolina, and a graduate of the C. S.
Brown High School. She is an Ele
mentary Education major, a member
of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She
is also a former member of the
Lighthouse Fine Arts Committee and
the College Dance Group.
On March 19-23 she was one of
the student representatives to the
Twenty-fifth Annual Convention of
the Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
at Florida. A. and M., Tallahassee.
With her poise, dignity, scholastic
achievement and support from the
College Family, it is believed that she
will make a student leader of whom
the college can justly be proud.
In all the affairs of human life,
social as well as political, courtesies
of a small and trivial character are
the ones that strike deepest to the
grateful and appreciating heart.
—Henry Clay
For some people advice might be:
Don’t be yourself.
Students Honored
The college family paid tribute to
i‘s honor students, March 14, in
Moore Hall Auditorium.
The program began with “Prelude
and Fugue to E Minor.” Miss Rena
lohnson. Sigma Rho Sigma, recited
the invocation. Following this, the
College Choir, undjr the direction of
Miss E. lohnson, sang “Cantate
Domino.”
Awards were presented to de
serving students by Dr. George H.
Walker, Jr. and Mr. Chester W.
Gregory. The coveted Davis Cup went
to Butler Hall. This cup is awarded
to the dormitory whose represent
ing students have the highest scho
lastic average.
Mr. Leonard Slade, Alpha Kappa
Mu, introduced the speaker, the Hon
orable Peter S. Ridley, whose
stimulating discussion was entitled
“The Quality of Excellence.” The
main point that Mr. Ridley brought
out was that we, the future Negro
leaders, must not only be prepared,
but also must have the needed qual
ifications to fill the new roles now
being opened. He also stated that
we must strive to the place where
we will not merely be classified as
educated Negroes, but will be classi
fied men and women who are capable
of competing in this ultra-modern
world.
Following this inspiring speech.
President Ridley congratulated the
honor students and gave recognition
to the faculty, staff and parents. The
Alma Mater was sung as a suitable
closing of the program whose purpose
was to honor those who had reached
academic achievement.
The recipients of Organizational
Awards for the year of 1961-62 were:
Van Lee James, Peggy La Rue By
num, Joyce Welch, Marvin Trotman,
Bonita Carr, Mary Mizzell, Geral
dine Kidd, William Clarke, Spencer
Mayfield, Lloyd Sawyer, Clarence
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Festival Theme- ''Perpetuity of Art'
Annual College
Day March 30
Seniors administered the affairs of
the College on March 30. with John
A. Barclift of Elizabeth City and
Adrian Jones, Ahoskie, holding the
offices of President and Dean, re
spectively.
At the 9:30 Assembly John Barclift,
president of the Senior Class, presided.
Freshman and Senior Oaths were
given and Clarence Biggs was pre
sented as Orator of the Day. Repre
sentatives of the Class were formally
introduced as Faculty and Staff offi
cers.
Student of the Issue
Compass Represented
Four students represented the staff
at the annual Columbia Scholastic
Press Association at Columbia Uni
versity in New York City, March
15-17. These students were Joyce
M. Brown, Stewart Vick, John Jor
dan, and Joe Hand.
The convention consisted of meet
ings and panel discussions, presided
over by such well known persons as
Hy Gardner, TV panelist, syndicated
Broadway columnist for the New
York HERALD TRIBUNE who
spoke on the topic “The Recent Con
troversy Concerning Inaccuracy of the
Press!” James L. Whitfield, State
Editor, The News and Observer,
Raleigh, North Carolina, who spoke
on the topic “The Role of the Col
lege Journalist on Tomorrow’s Jour
nalistic Scene;” and Joseph Durso,
Assistant City Editor NEW YORK
TIMES, New York City, who talked
in general from an editor’s point of
view.
The climax of the convention, how
ever, came at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel where thousands of delegates
from all over the nation heard the
noted Edward R. Murrow who gave
a timely speech on the complex world
that we live in today and how the
newspaper helps to bind us together
as a people.
It was truly an enjoyable trip
and very definitely a rewarding one.
The information obtained from the
meetings will certainly, in many ways,
aid the staff of the college publication.
JOYCE WELCH
Joyce Amelia Welch, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Welch, Sr.,
was born in Halifax, North Carolina.
She is the oldest child in a large fam
ily of three girls and four boys. Her
parents, who are both alumni of this
institution, are instructors in the
public school system in Halifax
County.
In 1954 she entered the Gumberry
High School where she remained for
one semester. Her high school train
ing was completed at the Ralph J.
Bunche School, Weldon, North Caro
lina.
In the fall of 1958, she entered
the Elizabeth City State Teachers
College, Elizabeth City, North Caro
lina. During her freshman year, she
was affiliated with the Pyramid Ciub
of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the
Thalia Sorosis Club, t h e Modern
Dance Group, the College Choir and
also the College Dramatic Club. That
year, too, she was elected as the
vice-president of Bias Hall. She was
an honor roll student for the two
semesters of her freshman year.
Her sophomore year continued with
her being initiated into the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority, and again mak
ing the honor roll for two semesters.
During her junior year, she was
initiated into Alpha Kappa Mu
Honor Society, and served as a Junior
Counselor. That year, she was on
the honor roll the first semester;
and on the Dean’s List the second
semester, with an average of 3.80.
She also made Who’s Who in Amer
ican Colleges and Universities for
1960-61.
This year as a senior, she has
received many honors and cash
awards. Among them are: an Alumni
cash award for the highest scholastic
average in her department; another
from Elizabeth City Alumnae Chap
ter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc.; a certificate from Alpha Kappa
Mu Honor Society; and another from
Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities; also a certificate
for making the Honor Roll for seven
consecutive semesters. This year, too,
she was selected from the first soprano
score of the College Choir to sing in
the Intercollegiate Choir Festival
which will be made up of hundreds
of voices from college choirs all over
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National Library Week
The G. R. Little Library of the
College observed National Library
Week on Thursday, April 12, with an
Assembly program, the formal open
ing of a Browsing Room, and a
Luncheon.
Miss E. B. Pope, former Elizabeth
City Teachers College Librarian, and
now Assistant Professor of Library
Science at North Carolina College,
Durham, was guest speaker for the
Assembly. In her address, she urged
the College Family to read more and
interesting materials. Here in Ameri
ca, she said., ten per cjnt of the peo
ple do ninety per cent of the reading.
She emphasized that many other
countries, whose people have much
less money to spend, buy many more
books than are bought in America,
despite the fact that our bocks are
the best made and the most attractive.
Miss Pope was introduced by Mrs.
D. R. Curtis, Branch Librarian of the
Blyden Branch Library. Norfolk, Vir
ginia. She referred to Miss Pope as
a helpful teacher who had something
of value to leave with college students.
Browsing Ronin Opens with Tea
Immediately following the Assem
bly, the Browsing Room, formerly the
West Conference Room, was formal
ly opened with a Tea. During this
time books were donated.
Ea:h person who attended was in
spired by the atmcsphere created by
the beauty of the room and the larg;
number of individual donations of
timely and interesting books, all of
which bore names of the donors.
Lime frappe and cookies were
served.
Annual Palm Sunday
The Thalia Sorosis Club presented
its annual Palm Sunday Vesper on
April 15, at 6:00 p.m. in Moore
Hall Auditorium.
The guest speaker was Dr. Richard
B. Martin, Rector of Grace Episcopal
Church, Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Mar
tin has been the guest speaker for
the past five years.
“Are we ready for integration?”
was the theme of Dr. Martin’s ad
dress. He pointed out that we, as
Negroes, may show that we are ready
for integration by saying it with flow
ers, brains, money, intelligence, and
last of all, our lives.
The third Fine Arts Festival for the
Elizabeth City State Teachers College
was held March 24 through April 8.
The Festival opened with Shake
speare's A Mid - Summer Night's
Dream. It was presented by Players,
inc. of Catholic University.
The play depicts the versatility of
Shakespeare in that there is a frame
work of different types of characters.
The action is centered around three
particular groups: the simple crafts
men who rehearse in the woods, the
Duke and his concern for Hermia,
his daughter, and the fairies who are
disturbed over a quarrel between the
King and Queen. These characters
created a conflict full of confusion,
but their problems ran smooth in the
end.
Outstanding characters included
Robin Goodfellow (Pluck) played by
Bsrnard Passetines; Hermia, Carol
Emshaff; Demetrius, David Little;
Lysander, John Knight; Button, Ber
nard Mclnerney.
Members of the cast were gradu
ate students studying in some field
of acting; they have frequently ap
peared in many countries in their
extensive travel and have presented
most of Shakespeare’s plays.
Vesper Speaker
Among the interesting speakers dur
ing the Fine Arts Festival was the
Reverend C. Shelby Rooks, Jr., vesper
guest on March 25.
The Reverend Rooks, Associate Di
rector of the Fund for Theological
Education, Inc., Princeton, New
Jersey, spoke on the subject “This
Is the Moment of Your Life.”
To begin, he chose lines from the
poem from which he got his idea
for the subject. Continuing, he stated
that there is much hurry, rush, and
strain in our lives because we do not
trust God, and we do not get the
most out of these precious moments.
For every moment marks a new be
ginning with God, and there is a
host of memories within the heart
that needs to be renewed. We need
to know how to control the dis
tractions of the world. We need God,
he stated, to get the most out of this
moment. That is the only way to
make this moment good.
Reverend Rooks gave two principal
sources for getting the supreme value
of the moments of which we live.
They are daily reading of the Bible
and Prayer.
In concluding the message, the
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Fields Gets Trophy in Orleans, France
Major James D. Porter
ORLEANS, France, April 12 —
Army Private First Class Henry J.
Fields, (right), son of Mrs. Irene
Fields, Route #1, Box 123, Cora-
peake. North Carolina, receives a
trophy from Major James D. Potter,
(left). Sports Branch Chief for Special
Services, U.S. Army Communications
Zone, Europe, during an awards ban
quet held at the NCO Club, Harbor
Barracks Activity. Pfc Fields was
honored as the most valuable player
on the Orleans Area Command
basketball squad.
and Pfc. Henry Fields.
Pfc Fields entered the military
service in August 1959 and completed
basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
He is currently serving as a gymnastic
instructor to the Orleans Area Com
mand.
Prior to entering the military serv
ice, Pfc Fields graduated from State
College, Elizabeth City, North Caro
lina, with a degree in education. He
also graduated from North Carolina’s
Gates County Training School in
1955.