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Page Four THE COMPASS January 1968 DARK FORESTS (Continued from Page 3) “Easy comrade though I’m not a Frenchman I am your friend. I could hav e killed you if I had wanted,” he spoke in broken English. ‘ What’s your name?” “Joe Har- dt”, I answered “and yours?” “I am Johann Schindt, a deserter. Can’t see any use in this damn war. What do you say we stay together. You’re dead if you return. I’ll be shot if I go back,” he explained. “It s okay with me,” I said as he came to where I was laying and shook my hand. From that day on he nursed me back to health and became as a brother. Life was not so bad, we lived, learned and pro fited from each other. He was a smart fellow though, a scholar, used to read from an old blue book....works of Socrates and Plato....and Aristotle. Sometimes I thought he was a little crazy, he didn’t believe in God or anything like that. One day after a bad snow storm he stepped on a German booby trap, hid den in the snow. His leg became infected and de veloped into gangrene. Many times he lay scream ing in pain, not knowing Mr. Harvey L. Thomas, Superintendent of Build ings and Grounds of Eliz abeth City State College is a graduate of Hamp ton Institute. He is mar ried to Mrs. Dorothy Thomas, associate pro fessor in Biology at EC SC. They have one daugh ter, Dorothy. In 1949 Mr. Thomas came to ECSC to assume his present position as well as that of acting dean of men. He has been at ECSC for nineteen years and has seen ECSC grow from 450 students to 1000 students. He has been a very active man on and off campus in various com mittees. He is also a member of the Mayor’s Committee on Housing for Minority Groups in Elizabeth City. Most recently Mr. Thomas has been serving as secretary of the East ern Seaboard Plumbing Association. ESA was or ganized in 1947. The pur pose of this association is to help young people who are interested in RENA SAYS (Continued from Page 2) the best whether you like the subject matter or the instructor. You must un derstand that your in structor has his and you have yours to get. So it is left up to you to take advantage of it. So strive for the best at E.C.S.S, day from night. He be gan to lose weight and a- iound his eyes became black, his teeth fell out... he died. He died a terri ble death before he went, maggots ate in his leg and his body became con taminated with fever. Then I was left alone in the world, to live and one day to die. I thought I would go mad, until I found something to do. I began to make up stor ies, sing songs to my self and in a sense went back to my second child hood a little early. 1 kept records and used all that Johann had taught me. To day as I was wandering through the forests you found me. “Tell me Is there still a France?” “Yes there Is a Fran ce, General Patton threw everything at the Ger mans except the kitchen sink. The allies invaded and took over all Ger many. Won’t you please return with us? “The war is over and forgotten,” Jean re plied. “I...I think...I think I can go home....to die now.’ He fell back on the grass, eyes open to the heavens. “He’s dead isn’t he?” asked Monique. Yes he’s gone to the dark forests of home. Mr. Harvey L. Thomas heating, plumbing and air conditioning. It includes groups of men who are li censed, master and gen eral contractors in heat ing, plumbing and air con ditioning, It covers seven states: Connecticut, Vir ginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Ten nessee, Florida and the area of Washington, D. C. He is also one of the owners of Brookridge Terrace, The COMPASS salutes Mr. Thomas for the splendid work he has done over the years. THE SPECTRE (Continued from page 2) named three areas of stu dent rights: (1) “Their full rights as citizens,” (2) “Their right do dem ocratically control their non-academic lives,’’and (3) their right to “parti cipate to the fullest in the administrative and educational decision making process.” Industrial Arts Makes Transition The Industrial Arts De partment underwent wary- ing transitions during the summer months. The de parture of Mr. Patter son for South America brought the service and talents of Mr. William Gibson who completed his undergraduate and grad uate programs at A & T State University. We are happy to have Mr. Gib son in the Department. During the summer es sential and imperative e- quipment was added to the Industrial Arts Labora tories. The word labora tory has been significant ly strengthened. The electronics laboratory is being organized and com pleted as the equipment arrives. This process re mains a part of our daily tasks. In the area of metals, the laboratory has not been strengthen ed as needed, however, the completion of equipment for this area remains an integral segment of our curriculum. Because of the assign ed duties of Mr. Trent, Acting Chairman of the Department, Mr. Gibson has volunteered to serve as advisor to the In dustrial Arts Club. The initial meeting of the club was held Thursday, Octo ber 5. The outcome of the meeting was the culmina tion of planning for num erous activities and ex perimental projects. The Club is also approaching one hundred percent membership affiliation with the American Indus trial Arts Association, our national organization. Our graduated Indus trial Arts students of 1967 are performing in unique areas! 1. Wayne Holmes - Peace Corps 2. James Griffin - Southwestern High, Wind sor, N.C. 3. Grover Eure - Deep Creek Junior High, Deep Creek, Va. 4. James Powell - Roper, N. C. 5. Donald Herring - Chestertown, Maryland. It has come as a shock to learn that one of our 1966 graduates has pass ed, Mr. William Hill, Kappa Delta Pi Nus In November Miss Mae B, Felton and Mr. Wil bert D. Hawkins were in ducted into the Kappa Del ta Chapter of Kappa Del ta Pi here on this cam pus. Miss Felton and Mr. Hawkins are both jun iors majoring in Ele mentary F^ducation. The induction cere mony began with the nom inees presenting to he chapter excellent work that they had done in re search from topics that they had chosen them selves.Miss Felton’s top ic for discussion was “New Hope for the Men tally Retarded” and the topic of Mr. Hawkins dis cussion was “An Inves tigation of Some View points Concerning Higher Education’s Future in A- merica.” After each dis cussion, questions from the chapter members were entertained. The members of the Kappa Delta Chapter are: Dr. Walter N. Ridley; Dr. E. L. Davis, coun selor for the chapter. Miss Arlease Salley,Vice President and Secretary and Miss Vonnie Moore, President and Treasurer. Dr. Sekender A. Khan, Chairman of The Flora Rooks Department of Biology at Elizabeth City State College, has written a book of verses called SNAKE VENOM. Carlton Press, Inc. states that Dr. Khan writes out of conviction. SNAKE VENOM is with out question a venomous attack upon some of the many evils of our society. Yet it is also a work of compassion and under standing. Both contra dictory strands of feel ings have been woven with skill into this dramatic and versatile collection of verses. His voice is that of those millions who are unfed, unsheltered, sup pressed, oppressed, and mistreated. He has tried his best to depict the millions who are neglect ed and overpowered. He never claims to be a great poet. Dr. Khan writes with the fierceness of person al experience of death from hunger: “Biggest of all the flames, is the fire of hunger... Fire flames where mill ions go to bed hungry, unnour ished, uncared for, unfed” The venom in his work is well illustrated in his powerful polenic “Canni- bal”: “I kill and tear only if I am hungry You do the same thing when you are angry. I never pretend to be a' symbol of peace You never practice what ever you preach I never spread hate in the name of love. Neither do I worry about hawk or dove... I am a cannibal and you call me a beast, I am much better—bet ter than you at least.” SNAKE VENOM is a gentle and aggressive vol ume of verse from a poet hitherto not widely known in America. Dr. Khan does all his work in his office or his laboratory. He has two more books of verses, BEE STING and MOS QUITO BITE, yet to be published. Dr. Khan was born in Chandanbaisa, Dist.Bog- ra, now a part of East Pakistan. He received his Bachelor and Master of Agriculture degrees at Deacca University in Pakistan. He came to A- Dr. Sekender A. Khan merica in 1957 and re turned to Pakistan in that year. He came again in 1959 and obtained a Hh. U from Louisiana State Univer sity and stayed until 1963 and returned home. In 1964 he came to E- lizabeth City State Col lege. Dr. Sekender Khan is married with two child ren, Jurjehan and Shah- jehan, to whom he dedi cated his first book of Pan-Hellenic Speaker (Continued from Page ]) Associate Director ot Higher Education, Oppor tunities Project, Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta, Georgia. In respect to our ob servance of Pan-Hellenic Day, Mr. Thompson’s in troduction will spotlight foremost, Dr.Newsomc’s appointment as General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity since 1964. ECSC will be honored to be host to such a mar velous servant of society. We invite you and espe cially all Greek affiliates to hear Dr, Lionel H. New- some, General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fra ternity, February 13 in Moore Hall Auditorium, DR. RIDLEY RESIGNS (Continued from Page 1) wish. Dr. Ridley was head of the Psychology Depart- nlfent at Virginia State College in Petersburg, and Dean at St. Paul s College in Lawrenceville, Virginia, before coming to Elizabeth City in 1958. He was selected as “Tar Heel of the Week” by the Raleigh news and Obser ver in February , 1964, and in March 1964, was a member of a team of sixteen presidents and deans on an educational tour of Pakistan sponsor ed by the United States State Department. He was given the Citizenship A- ward for foresighted lead ership in education and human rights by the North Carolina Joint Council of Health and Citizenship in 1964, and a plaque for meritorious service as president and treasurer of the American Teach ers Association when it merged with the NP.A at Miami Beach in 1966, a- mong other citations. Superintendent’s Now Secretary Of ESA Khan ^^Extracts’^ SNAKE VENOM
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