APRIL 1965
THE COMPASS
PAGE THREE
Pickett Works with
Credit Union of NCTA
HENRY E. PICKETT
Henry Bell Pickett, Jr., a 1961
Elem. Ed. graduate of ECSC, has
been elected to serve on the Board
of Directors of the North Carolina
Teachers Association Credit Union.
TTie election was made on
March 20, at the Annual meeting
of NCTA.
Pickett, who was Editor-in-Chief
of the Compass for two years
was quite active as a college stu
dent. He was, in addition to a
Compiis! staff member, presi
dent of YMCA. officer of the Sun
day School, member of Lambda
Gamma Chapter of Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity, president of Sigma
Rho Sigma Honor Society, and
student assistant to the Dean of
Men.
He was selected to appear in
Who’s Who in American Universi
ties and Colleges for 1960-61.
In March 1961, he appeared in
the Compass as Student of the
Issue. The following statement was
made about Pickett in that issue:
“Pickett excells in scholar
ship, leadership, ability, and
contribution to the life and
growth of the college."
After graduating from college,
he served two years in the U. S.
Army. He is a native of Morehead
City, N. C. and is married to the
former Miss Mary Louise Hoffler
’60, of Elizabeth City.
At present, he is employed in
the Raleigh Public School system.
Scouts Spotlight Artis
Rudolph D. Artis, assocate
professor of social sciences and
chairman of the Audio-Visual
Center, received the Coastal Dis
trict “Best Scouter” trophy at a
District banquet in the College
Cafeteria on March 8.
District Chairman Walter N.
Ridley in presenting the award
highlighted the outstanding work
done by Dr. Artis in promoting
Scout work throughout the Dis
trict.
The Chairman pointed out that
'he honoree used much time, en
ergy, and his own resources in
much that he has done, but sought
no recognition for it other than the
improvement of Scouting in this
District.
Dr. Artis is vice-chairman of
'lie Coastal District and with other
honorees was cited for his dedica-
"on and his refusal to wear his
•I'le merely as ornament.
""hy are you coming home
your milk pail empty?” de-
fnandcd the farmer. “Didn’t the
old cow give anything?”
Yes,” replied the hired boy,
^e pints and one kick."
Students Present
Art Exhibit
In the field of art much is being
done at ECSC to increase the in
terest and knowledge of the stu
dents. On April 27 through May
2 a trio consisting of Betty Lou
Wilkins (Miss ECSC), Belinda Car
roll. and Lorraine Walker will
have their works on exhibition.
All are Art majors. The exhibition
opened with a reception.
Betty Lou Wilkins, a native of
Suffolk, Virginia was elected “Miss
State College” in 1964. She has de
monstrated interest in the develop-
nient of ECSC and has contributed
to its aesthetic, civic and general
cultural programs, as she officially
represented the student body
hroughout the state.
Belinda Carroll, of Four Oaks.
North Carolina attended the Johns
ton County Training School at
Smithfield—where she evolved an
immense interest in art. Belinda
plans to do graduate study in art
at the Temple University. Phila
delphia. Pennsylvania.
Also exhibiting her work will be
Lorrine Walker of Rocky Mount,
North Carolina, She is a graduate
of Booker T. Washington Senior
High School. Lorrine’s early works
were essentially evolved in pencil
and watercolor. She gives emphatic
recording of things around her,
includnig people, nature, occur
rences and the like.
Alpha Kappa Mu News
In the March edition of the
the Compass, Mary Smith was not
included in the article “Alpha
Kappa Mu Initiates Five." Due to
that error her name is now being
included.
Mary J. Smith is a graduate of
Artesia High School, Hallsboro,
N.C., and a native of Hallsboro.
She participates in the following
activities: Women’s Government
Association, English Club, Honors
Program, and Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority.
Musk For The Young
(Continued from Page 1)
Sleeping Beauty" by Tschaikowsky.
The Choir performed during the
second half of the program with
the Symphony Orchestra, the mu
sic, Faure's Requiem, was sung in
Latin. There was a baritone solo
done by William Wallace of Ports
mouth, Va.
Dr. Swalin and the North Caro
lina Symphony Orchestra began
their twentieth annual tour of the
State at Elizal ;th City State Col
lege. The full orchestra of 65
players began its tour of the State
about 15 years ago. Since 1943,
Ihe orchestra has been a non-pro
fit cooperation, chartered under the
laws of North Carolina and sup
ported in part by an Act of Legis
lature.
Religious Emphasis Week
Record Participation, Patronage
With a record number of stu
dents participating in the wide
variety of special features, as weU
as a record patronage of the vari
ous sessions. Religious Emphasis
Week—recently observed at Eliza
beth City State College—proved a
most inspiring and rewarding ex
perience.
Guest minister for the week
was the Reverend Dr. Lyman
Lowe, 1936 graduate of ECSC,
and, currently, pastor of the Mt.
Sinai Baptist Church, Brooklyn,
New York. He is also president of
the Hampton Institute Minister’s
Conference.
In addition to the preaching
ministry, other highlights of the
week were; The Morning Watch,
each day at 6:15; the Noon Hour
Meditations: the Lecture Sessions,
3 to 4 in the afternoon; the de
nominational discussion at 6 P.M.,
Tuesday; an Interracial Panel;
Fellowship Hours; an Ecumenical
Communion Service; a screen pro
duction.
Feature addresses were delivered
by: Dr. Walter N. Ridley, presi
dent of the College; the Reverend
William Hutchenson, pastor of
Christ Episcopal Church, Eliza
beth City; Dr. Anne Henderson
and Mr. Chester Gregory, head
of modem language and social
sciences teacher at ECSC, respec
tively.
Devotional Leaders
Student devotional leaders, dur
ing the week, included Carol
Ashe, Joyce Scott, James Salis
bury, Betty Rasbury, Carrie Ruf
fin, Avon Chapman, Marilyn
Bryant, Celestine Ashe, Izola
Young. Richard Hart, Ingrid East,
David Freeman, Betty Boone,
Daisy Eason, Jethro Williams,
Mary Herring, Luia Turaage, Bes
sie Carr, Gwendolyn Davenport.
Receptionists for the week were:
Shirley Fleetwood, Tyree Wilkins,
Mary Johnson, Joyce Mills, Theo-
doshia Bryant, Josephine Grant,
Diane Manley, Doretha James,
Wilveria Logan, Carolyn Dem-
ery, Virginia Newsome, Carolyn
Parker, Dorothy Bunch.
The personnel of the Cheer
team was comprised of: Doris
Cherry, Peggy Cox, Lula Brown,
Betty Rasbury, Maggie Simpson,
and Martha Hathway; while the
Marshalls were: Andrew Hamlett,
Richard Reid, and James Heck-
stall.
Interpretative readers and stu
dent organists were: Piccola Etchi-
son, Kay, Frances Wilson, Wil
liam Purkett, Judy Freeman, Ven
detta Owens, William Ruffin.
Members of the interracial panel
were: Otha Sydnor, moderator;
Mrs. Ethel Faye Sutton, Patricia
Harrell, Carol Ashe, Jerry Warren,
panelists,
Musical Selections
Musical selections for the week
were rendered by the College
Choir, Miss Evelyn Johnson and
Mr. Leonard Ballou, directing and
at the organ, respectively; the
Men’s choir of Cornerstone Bap
tist Church, B. B. Moore, direct
ing; the senior choir of ML
Lebanon A.M.E. Zion Church,
Mrs. Erma Fisher, directing; the
glee club of the P. W. Moore
High School, Miss F. O. Gunn, di
recting.
Cooperations campus (student)
organizations were; The Sunday
School, the United Campus Chris
tian Fellowship; the Student Chris
tian Association, Women’s Govern
ment, the Student Activities Com
mittee, The Compass, Greek Letter
Honor Societies, Pan Hellenic
Council, College Chapter of NEA,
Ushers’ Guild, Thalia Sorosis.
Men's Government, Dormitory
Vanguards, Baptist Student Union,
the Wesleyans, the Armour Bear-
Honors Night
42 Prizes and Awards Given
Twenty of the top men and
women students at Elizabeth City
State College divided 42 prizes and
awards, plus inclusion on the Hon
or Roll and Dean’s List at the
nual Honors Night program
March 21.
Taking the lion’s share of dis
tinctions was Sandra J. Trot-
man. a junior from Elizabeth City.
Miss Trotman won the Florence
Fowlkes Lasiiter Award, won list
ing in “Who's Who Among Stu
dents in American Universities and
College”, was on both the Hon
or Roll and Dean’s List and was
initiated into two honorary s
lies, Kappa Delta Pi and Alpha
Kappa Mu. She currently has
scholastic average of 3.94 out of
a possible 4.00
Several honors were taken by
Beulah Parker, a senior from
H o b g o o d. She received the
Alumni Scholarship Award, the
Physical Science, Mathematics, and
Biology award, the Science Club
Award, and election to “Who’
Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges."
Speaker
The speaker. Dr. I. Gregory
Newton, (Dean of the College at
Maryland State College, Princess
Anne), was introduced by
Gwendolyn M. Sutton, president
of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor So
ciety. Recognition and congratula
tions to the winners came from
President Walter N. Ridley of
ECSC. Dean William E. Anderson
presented and assisted in making
the presentations of awards.
Freshmen
Outstanding among Freshmen
winning prizes or various distinc
tions were: Patricia Forbes, Alpha
Kappa Alpha. Delta Theta Chap-
Award, the Freshmen $50 cash
prize, and Honor Roll; Arlease G.
Salley, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Zeta
Kappa Omega Chapter Award,
Alpha Kappa Mu Trophy, Delta
Sigma Theta, Delta Chi C^hapter
Award, Honor Roll, and Dean’s
List; and Vinnia E. Nicholson, Al
pha Kappa Alpha, Zeta Kappa
Omega Chapter, and Honor Roll.
More Honors
Other winners were: loycelyn
Berry, Alpha Kappa Mu Trophy
(co-winner), Edna Harris Mitchell
Freshman Award, and Honor Roll;
Andrew Hamlett, Art Faculty
Award and Dean’s List; Angenette
Ruffin, Beta Beta Bteta Award;
Geraldine Vaughan, College Choir
Award: Barbara Fearing, Delta
Sigma Theta, Elizabeth City Chap
ter Award; Katie Gause, Edna
Harris Mitchell Freshman Award
(co-owner); Van Lee James, Edu
cation Department Award and
Dean's List; Gwendolyn M. Sutton.
English Department Major Award
and Dean’s List; Prymas McClaye
Tabron and Robert Chestnut, In
dustrial Arts Department Award
(jointly); Thelma Skiimer, Ma
trons’ Social, Literary, and Art
Club Award; Ray M. Cooper, Mu
sic Faculty Award; Mary J. Smith
and Melvin Powell, Social Science
Department (jointly), and Honor
and Dean’s list, respectively; and
Jethro Williams, E. M. Spellman
Award and the Mt. Sinai Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. (the Rev.
Lyman Lowe ’36, pastor). The
award is given to the student se
lected because of exemplary
character, religious participation,
good scholarship, and athletic
prowess. Williams is the editor-
elect of the Compass, student
newspaper.
Dean’s List
Other students on the Dean’s
List include Wilbert Lee, LeGrand
Newman, Portia Perry, Joyce V.
Scott. Heddy D. Basnight, Mary
E. Mizzell, Kenneth McLaurin.
Jean Rowlett, and WiUiam C.
Wallace.
Eighty-three additional students
received certificates. These students
were listed on the Honor Roll,
Dean’s List, initated in the Alpha
Kappa Kappa Mu and Delta Pi
Honorary Societies, and Who's
Who.
'Students' Rights and
Academic Freedom'
Although student personnel
workers have always had as a
primary interest the student pro
blem, this year the focus of at
tention on student’s rights and aca
demic freedom has been more in
tensive in the discussions at the
professional meetings.
In the fall of the year, the resi
dent directors and the associate
director of student personnel at
tended a meeting of the North Ca
rolina Association of Women
Deans and Counselors at Wilming
ton College. The discussion at this
meeting centered around the stu
dent’s involvement with sex and
decision making.
In February, the National Per
sonnel Workers met in Washing-
on, D. C. and had as their theme
‘New Horizons in Counseling and
Guidance.” Speakers from govern
ment agencies involved with the
National Defense Doan program,
the E. O. A. program and other
financial aid programs gave infor
mation to the group about develop
ments in these programs. Students
from Howard University gave first
hand reports on their experiences
in travel and Study abroad pro
grams.
Perhaps the most significant
lecture was made by Dr. E. O. Wil
liamson, an author of many books
in the field and an authority in the
area of student personnel, whof
talked of academic freedom. He
indicated that students saw free
dom as no restraint; whereas, free
dom is the ability of an individual
to live and become himself within
restraint and authority. He noted
that things would be chaos if
everyone was allowed to do what
he pleased.
He mentioned that the freedom
that the student should look for
are the freedoms to editorialize,
to participate in productive de
cision making, and to become
one’s highest potential. He recom
mended that much mi^t be ac
complished toward this end if stu
dents and faculty could sit down
and communicate with each other
over a cup of coffee.
The final meeting in the person
nel area for the state was
held in Durham at Duke Universi
ty, April 27, Mrs. Williams and
many of the resident directors
planned to attend and hear Dr.
William Friday in a discussion on
“Some Thoughts on Higher Edu
cation of North Carolina.” Dr.
William Friday is president of
U.N.C. (Chapel HUI).