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VOLUME
ELIZABETH CITY,
OCTOBER 20, 1968
NUMBER
President Calls For Togetherness
ECSC Graduate
Receives Assistant-
ship
Mr. Leroy A. Sutton,
Jr., an honor graduate in
Chemistry from Eliza
beth City State College,
Class of 1968, is now
studying at the Univer
sity of Iowa, in the De
partment of Chemistry.
This graduate course of
study at the university
was made possible
through a half-time
assistantship in the de
partment for the academ
ic year, 1968-69, and car
ries a stipend of $3,000.
According to Dr. Lou
ise N. Sutton, Chairman
of the Department of Phy
sical Sciences and Mathe
matics at Elizabeth City
State College, Mr. Sutton
is required to render
twelve hours of teaching
service per week in the
department at the Univer
sity of Iowa. The Halls-
boro, N.C. native is now
a member of the teach
ing staff of the College
MR. LEROY SUTTON
of Liberal Arts at the
university.
While at Elizabeth City
State College Mr. Sutton
was President of Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity,and
of the College Band. He
was also a member of
the Men's Government
Association (MGA) and
the United Campus Reli
gious Fellowship (UCRF)
Freshmen Seek
At ECSC
Light
Despite the darkness in
America and the world,
brought on by poverty,
ignorance, crime, pre
judice, and war, approxi
mately 300 freshmen at
Elizabeth City State Col
lege symbolically sought
to brighten the surround
ings with candles in the
Annual Candlelight Ser
vice held in Moore Hall
Auditorium.
Dr. Marion D. Thorpe,
President, challenged the
new students, “Our en
tire days at this insti
tution must be a light
house,” as he referred to
the Lighthouse College
Center. They filled their
minds and hearts with
his words, “Light is a
way of darkness; it is
power.”
The solemn, moving,
and highly inspirational
litany was filled with wis
dom as six perplexed
young freshmen listened
to the Counselor, Miss
Saundra Melson, Brook
lyn, N.Y., Class of 1969.
Instead of resigning to
the darkness around
them, they lit their tiny
candles from the flame of
the huge candle of Know
ledge. Dedicating them
selves to “the proposi
tion of light,” these six
freshmen: Jessica Jones,
Gary, Indiana; Calvin
Nunnally, Burkeville,
Virginia; Sheila Deans,
Hemp, New York; Robert
Doss, Stratford, Connet-
icutt; Marilyn Floyd,
Greenville, North Caro
lina; and Charles Post-
en. Four Oaks, North
Carolina, divided the
darkness with their flick
ering candles of hope, a-
warness, beauty, truth,
faith, and love.
By the glow of candle
light the entire freshman
class blended their mel
low voices in singing
“The College Hymn”.
To the beat of “Pomp
and Circumstance,” they
marched out into the
darkness of the night,can-
dles in hand, to the walks
surrounding the rectangle
between Moore and Will
iams Hall. As the flames
of their candles flicker
ed, a dark cloud moved
slowly overhead.
OUT THE VOTE
“...ask not whut your coun
try can do for you—ask what
you can do for your coun
try.” Insu^ural Address
Speaking to a highly di
versified audience, and
using as his subject,
“Changing Times” Dr.
Martion D. Thorpe, Pres
ident, delivered his first
official address to the
College Community and
friends of Elizabeth City
State College. Theoccas-
sion, presided over by
Mr. Leroy J. Douglas,
Class of 1969, President,
Student Government As
sociation, was the Annual
Fall Convocation held in
Williams Hall.
Proceeding the intro
duction of Mr. Thomas
E. Carter, Acting Dean,
Dr. Thorpe began his ad
dress by defining and cit
ing some philosophic
views on education,
change, becoming, youth,
age, and the future. “As
for me, and in so far as
I see the direction of this
institution....it is my per
sonal challenge to make
certain that we are able
to make contrast between
the intelligible and the un
intelligible, between the
sensible and the un-
sensible,” he remarked.
Although the College
might not undergo signi
ficant and rapid changes
in many areas until ap
proximately a year from
now. Dr. Thorpe urged
the audience to “make
sure that things are kept
in a sensible, coopera
tive flux; a state of be
coming.”
Dr. Thorpe, who was
Assistant Director of the
State Board of Higher Ed
ucation from September,
1966 to September, 1967,
gave a brief capsule of
the move to help the edu-
DR. MARION D. THORPE
cationally depraved black
or Negro people at the le
vel of higher education,
which began just after
the Civil War. This move
ment included the passage
of the bill by North Caro
lina General Assembly in
1891, which was drafted
and presented to Hugh
Cale, the black legisla
tor from Pasquotank
County, marking the Col
lege’s birth.
The native of Durham,
N.C., and graduate of
North Carolina College
and Michigan State Uni
versity, proceeded to give
a status report of Eliza
beth City State College.
Dr. Thorpe called for re
spect, cooperation, ex
amination, and re-exam-
ination. Feeling that
whatever change occurs
“should be controlled by
those individuals who
benefit most from the in
stitution, ” he urged to -
getherness.
Before closing with the
inspirational words of
the Alma Mater, and re
ceiving the second stand
ing ovation. Dr. Thorpe
elaborated at length on
some of the forces behind
current changes, and gave
a brief prosper on some
of the changes that are
expected and necessary in
order that Elizabeth City
State College might
broaden and fulfill its ed
ucative role.
HOME MEETS HOME
The annual Parents Day
Program got underway at
Elizabeth City State Col
lege, Sunday morning at
8:00 a.m. when registra
tion and a coffee hour
was held in Hugh Cale
Hall. For many students,
some of whom are away
from home for the first
time, the day-long af
fair was heart warming
and motivating.
Following the Coffee
Hour, approximately 300
or more parents joined
their sons and daugh
ters in Moore Hall Au
ditorium for the weekly
Sunday School sponsored
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Hello Mai This was the
300 proud parents visited ECSC.
common expression of many students as over