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The COMPASS
SEPTEMBER
THE COMPASS
For Students and Alumni
Published by
STATE COLLEGE NEWS PRESS CLUB
Elizabeth City, N. C.
Members:
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Barbara Fearing
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ingrid East
SECRETARY Brenda Pearson
TREASURER Charlotte Riddick
REPORTERS Shirley Smith, James Jackson,
Richard Reid, Lyretta Eggleston,
Charles Mitchell
PRODUCTION JVosa Riddick, Theresa Hathaway,
Jeroline White, Terry Quinlan
CIRCULATION ' .Vivian Armstrong, Arlease Salley,
Patricia Jones, James Jackson
ART Rudolph Brown, Bernard Dickens
ADVISOR Mr. Leonard Ballou
Opinions expressed in articles are not necessarily those of the Com
pass or the College.
You Have A Responsibility
"Wealth is not without its ad
vantages and the case to the
contrary, although it has often
been made, has never proved
widely persuasive. But, beyond
doubt, wealth is the relentless
enemy of understanding. The
poor man always has a precise
view of his problem and its
remedy: he hasn’t enough and
he needs more. The rich man can
assume or imagine a much
greater variety of ills and he
will be correspondingly less
certain of their remedy. Also,
until he learns to live with his
wealth, he will have a well-ob
served tendency to put it to the
wrong purposes or otherwise to
make himself foolish.”. . . .
(THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY.
J. K. Galbraith, 1938, chp. 1)
After reading Mr. Galbraith’s
words, think of your present pur-
Lighthouse
Welcomes Vikings
Another summer has passed
and we’re ready to buckle our
seatbelts for a drive down the
road of knowledge.
Greetings - Entering Fresh
men and New Students! The
Lighthouse college Center is
our College Union here on camp
us. We hope that you will make
yourself at home and divide your
time wisely in order to integrate
education with recreation.
The Lighthouse College Cen
ter welcomes our dear ole Vi
kings back to our dear ole Alma
Mater also!
Let’s make this year a most
prosperous one by participating
all around, academically as well
as socially.
We have been working this
summer planning for you! There
will be new records on the juke
box more frequently. We’ve made
surveys, taken inventory and
corresponded ail just for
you!
Let this year be a "real—ly
big show!” Support our Union,
The Lighthouse College Center!
Joan Smith (President)
Lighthouse College Center
suit, education, as wealth. In
doing so, the same idea which
he has projected can be applied
to education.
As we launch into this new
school year, we have a personal
responsibility to ourselves and
to all concerned, parents and in
structors, to "learn to live with
our wealth” so that we will not
"put it to the wrong purposes or
otherwise make ourselves fool
ish.”
This is a challenge to you. It
is your personal responsibility to
meet this challenge.
The countdown has begun and
it wUl soon be time for the blast
off. So fellow students, freshmen
and returning students, meet the
challenge and "learn to live with
your wealth.”
Barbara Fearing
Editor
Wake Up!Time
is Ticking Away
by...Yvonne Johnson
Last semester it seemed as
though some of us were always
asleep in our classes. We drag
ged to class each day, thinking
and saying, "1 must go to class
because I have used all of my
cuts and I can’t afford to lose
quality points.”
This is true - none of us can
afford to lose quality points.
But let’s wash away our drowsi
ness and become alert to what
is really going on in our classes.
We are in college, not by
by force; we did not come here
with blindfolds. We came on our
own will, so let’s make the best
of it.
Let’s make the bell that rings
in the hour in Moore Hall be an
alarm - an alarm that will stir us
and make us "A” students -
Awake, Aware, and Alert. Let
this be our goal for the school
year of 1966*67, For Time is
Ticking Awoyi
Beat That
Batman!
Whap! Splotch! Basht! Thwack!
That’s all you have to do
and you’ve licked Batman!
Try it
After all, that’s all he does.
And if you want to make doubly
sure of beating Batman to the
punch, just watch your diet, ex
ercise regularly, and think
beautiful thoughts.
That man of the Bat wouldn’t
have a chance.
All that remains is Robin and
any Wonder Woman can take care
of him.
From The College Minister-
Why Are You Here?
The office of Religious Ac
tivities rejoices in the anticipa
tion of sharing, anew, with mem
bers of the College Family in the
many opportunities - which our
institution affords - for total
cultural growth. We happily sug
gest your participation in these
opportunities; and we venture the
prediction that, through such par
ticipation, will be found the se
cret to symmetrical personality
development and to creative and
abundant living.
A question which all might
well ponder - as we embrace
the opportunities of a new school
year - is; ‘‘Why Are You Here”?
It is extremely important that
college students, and especially
those of you who are entering
ECSC for the first time, under
stand why you are here - why you
are enrolled as members of this
academic community. Whether
you are here to prepare to live
during this era and to deal suc
cessfully with the problems of
the world, or whether you are
here to meet a good husband or a
wife, to prepare for a good job,
to satisfy someone who wants
you to go to college, or because
it is fashionable and many of
your friends are here, will make
a great deal of difference in what
college life will do for you. Your
reason for being here will, in a
large measure, determine your at
titude toward your school, your
teachers, your fellow-students,
and your work. It will have much
to do with your happiness and
contentment, and the value of
your ultimate reward for having
become a college student.
Be it fully understood that
you, of all people, cannot afford
to waste time pursuing goals
other than those for which Eliza
beth City State College was
founded. The age in which you
live is one of revolution and
transition. It is the prelude to a
new order of freedom and equal
opportunities for the disinherited
members of your generation. It is
R. Irving Boone, D. D.
also the prelude to a world of
open competition for all people -
competition based on merit and
ability. Unless you work extra
ordinarily hard to develop your
mind and to develop skills equal
to the needs of your generation,
you will be woefully disap
pointed. Time will not wait for
you nor will the world sympa
thize with the lack of your know
ledge and skills. The require
ments of government, industry,
education, and the world in gen
eral will not concern themselves
with the fact that you come from
extremely poor and restricted
social, educational, economic
and politi'cal backgrounds. They
will realize that they need men
and women with great knowledge
and skills and that you will or
will not have such knowledge
and skills. They will realize that
they need men and women who
are responsible and trustworthy
and who have great moral integ
rity and that you do or do not
qualify in these particulars.
This means that you should
not only be here to gain the
knowledge, skills, and moral in
tegrity necessary to compete
successfully in the new order,
but that you should work dili
gently to overcome any and all
background deficiencies.
You should not be here .
to play, to dream, to drift.” Keep
constantly in mind the fact that
you "have hard work to do and
loads to lift. .
The office of Religious Ac
tivities stands ready to counsel
with you on your personal prob
lems and to be of any possible
assistance in enhancing your
success.
Through the United Campus
Religious Fellowship, the Col
lege Sunday School, the Vesper
Hours, and through other func
tional religious units on our cam
pus, you will find many golden
opportunities for the utilization
of your talents and for added en
richment of your lives.
Who...? where...? What...?
Each h«ue of th« Compas% win pub
lish Information about itniduale« in fhh
column. Members of the alumni are In*
vfled to submit Information about what
they are doinf and where, to the Office
of Infonnaflon Box 92, fclixabeth City
Slate College 27909.
BETTIE ASHE '66, Business
Education major, is employed at
Queen Anne’s County High
School. A native of Littleton,
N. C., while a student at ECSC
she served as a member on the
Lighthouse College Center,
UCRF, and is a member of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority.
ODELL HARRIS '66, Health
and Physical Education major of
Heath Springs, S. C., is em
ployed at Capron District School,
Capron, Va. He is married to the
former Yvonne Joyner '66, of
Emporia, Va. He was a member
of MGA and the football team.
JOHN HAZEL '66, Chemis
try major from Beaufort, N. C.,
is teaching at Crestwood High
School, Chesapeake, Va. He
was a member of the Science
Club and Scrollers Club of Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity.
HELEN JOHNSON '66, Cath-
age, N. C., "is employed at the
H. B. Suggs High School, Farm-
ville. She was a member of
SNEA, Thailia Sororis Club, and
is a member of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority.
^SANDRA TROTMAN JONES
'66, Elizabeth City, Elementary
Education major, is presently re-
STUDENTS WORK
(Cont’d from page I)
to provide sources of recreation
and study for adults, and child
care for smaller children.
The students worked from
June 13 to July 22.
OBITUARY
Mr. Eddie Kent of South Boston,
Va. died June 12. He was the
uncle of Mr. L. E. Sugg (Assis
tant Professor of English).
Mr. Percy R. Mizzell, father of
George Mizzell (Junior Indus
trial Arts major) died in Edenton
on June 23-
James Townes, son of Mr. James
H. Townes (Assistant Professor,
Chemistry) died in Norfolk, Va.
Funeral services were held on
June 29-
Curtis Lofton '67 Business Edu
cation Major, drowned June 30,
in Mt. Olive, N. C.
Henry Price, 3-year old grandson
of Mr. Butler Sharpe II, janitor,
Moore Hall, and nephew of Butler
Sharpe III '67, died in Brooklyn,'
N. Y. July 19.
Mr. Avon Howard, Food Service,
died July 18 in Elizabeth City.
siding in Hampton, Va. She soon
will enter the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro to
do graduate work in the field of
Guidance. For two years she was
listed in WHO’S WHO AMONG
AMERICAN COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES and holds mem
bership in Alpha Kappa Mu and
Kappa Delta Pi Honor Societies.
She is a member of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority. Sandra graduated
with highest honor.
MURDLEY MOORE '66, Eliz:
abeth City, Elementary Educa
tion major, is employed as a
teacher at the South Accomac
Elementary School, Accomac
Va. She is a member of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority and par
ticipated in the College Band
while at ECSC.
MARY SMITH '66, Social
Science major from Hallsboro,
is teaching at Booker T. Wash
ington High School, Clarkton,
N. C. She is listed in WHO'S
WHO AMONG AMERICAN COL
LEGES AND UNIVERSITIES,
and holds membership in Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society and
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
DORIS STANLEY '66, Busi
ness Education major, from
Beaufort, N. C., is teaching at
Godette Elementary School,
Havelock, N. C. She was a mem
ber of Phi Beta Lambda.
Put On A Smile
by...Yvonne Johnson
Hold your head high,
there’s brightness ahead.
Put on a smile.
Don’t be afraid.
Although you failed in sonje
of your dreams.
Put on a smile,
let your face beam.
If you are feeling sad,
or feeling blue.
Put on a' smile,
to fool others and perhaps you.
When putting on a smile,
sunshine exists
To put on a smile,
knocks away all bliss.
It is a very easy
thing to do"
Put on a smile,
you’ll find it quite true.
It makes you happy,
and it makes others gay.
Put on a smile.
Try it today!
WHO SAYS our President isn't
o Magicion? He turned the Ken
nedy Half dollar into the Johnson
quarter without changing the size
of it.
VESPER SPEAKER
(Cont*d from page I)
. Students who participated
in the service were Richard Reidt
Judy Freeman, Harry Ghee, Bar-
al«>ctinp AshCi
hour
in th
Fearing,
uoia 1 can.15, Celestine Ashe,
and Charles Freeman.
Meditations Held
Morning "meditation" s®'"
vices were held twice during
the first six weeks of sutnmef
school. These services were
planned, directed and executed
entirely by students.
Participants did dramatic
readings while William Ruffi"i
organist, supplied a musics
background.
Committee chairman fot the
services was Barbara Fearing'
in addition to
chaif
Participants,
Ruffin and the committee
man, were Joan Smith, Caroly”
Demery, Harry Ghee,
Reid, Colotta Jordan, CharloU
Riddick, Albert Brown and Celestine
Ashe.
Participants in these se^
vices included regular col eg
students and a Booster
student-