NOVEMBER 8, 1968
THE COMPASS
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POLITICAL DISCUSSION
IN LIGHTHOUSE “L/F/iVCROOM”
ECSC Group Attends ACU-I Conference
The Forum Commit
tee of the Lighthouse Col
lege Center presented an
informal discussion in the
three presidential candi
dates.
The introduction of the
speakers were made by
Miss Charlotte A. Rid
dick, Chairman of the
Forum Committee. Mr.
Rudolph Thomas gave an
evaluation of Vice-Presi
dent Hubert H. H. Hum
phrey. Miss Velmar
Rountree gave an evalua
tion of Richard M. Nixon,
and Mr. Javon Brothers
gave an evaluation of Gov
ernor George M, Wallace.
Each of the persons gave
some of the policies that
each candidate supported.
The discussion wasn’t to
ouvt
Three promising sen
iors, Melvin Askew,
Douglas Boyd and Char
les Ray, who are Art ma
jors featured some of
their works in the Light
house College Center.
Melvin Askew is a na
tive of Kinston. Mr. As
kew discovered that art
was his chosen field of
endeavor as far back as
the days of his early
childhood, when, in ele
mentary school, as he re
calls, he enjoyed, thor
oughly the numerous as
signments given him by
his teachers, to ornament
the classroom walls and
bulletin boards with
drawings, painting and
decorative arrange
ments. Such interest was
magnified even further, in
high school, when he be
came infatuated with
painting in various media.
He has been immense
ly active as an art stu
dent at Elizabeth City
State College. During the
1967-68 school year,Mr.
Askew discovered that of
all artistic media, he pre
ferred ceramic-making,
since he was able to go
further, be more expres
sive, develop novel fa
cets of form; and that
it was more challenging
as a medium.
Graduation, for Mr. As
kew, would occur at the
close of the current Col
campaign for either of the
candidates but merely
to explain their stand on
the present issues of the
day.
The discussion was fol
lowed with a question and
answer period. The peri-
teresting. Students and
faculty members, to
gether exchanged ideas.
There were many worth
while views projected.
The members of the
Forum Committee are:
Charlotte Riddick, Ch
airman; Velmar Roun
tree, co-chairman; Shir
ley Blount, Alfred Car
ter, Rudolph Thomas, and
Javon Brothers. The ad
visers to the committee
are Mr. C. J. White and
Mrs. Helen Caldwell.
lege year. He has stated
that he would do one of
two things, after grad
uation, either concen
trate on a teaching ca
reer or enter graduate
school and go further in
ceramic-making.
Douglas Boyd is a na
tive of Elizabeth City.
Mr, Boyd recalls that he
has always been interest
ed in art and that such
interest extended back to
his early school days. In
deed, such interest has
become so magnified that,
now, he devotes all free
time to work evolved in
many medias, including
graphic portrayals, wa-
tercolor and tempera
painting, occasional oil
painting, and an especial
love for pastel paint
ing.
His dominant aim is to
concentrate on art edu
cation as a career, in
the realm of teaching on
the secondary level,
Mr, Charles Ray was
born in Saint Paul, some
distance from Fayette
ville, It appears that Mr.
Ray had always exper
ienced a tremendous in
terest in art, almost from
early childhood. His early
works are graphic por
trayals, evolved in black
and white and watercol-
or; his later works re
veal a preference for
working in additional me-
Three students jour
neyed to Montreat, N.C.
to attend the Association
of College Unions-Inter-
national Region V Con
ference.
The purpose of this
conference was to pro
vide a meeting in which
students representing
College Unions in Region
V could meet and dis
cuss the pros and cons
of operating a Student Un
ion Program.
There were three sche
duled seminars in which
representatives from
each college, university,
or other such institution,
met in small groups of
about 25-50 persons and
exchanged ideas on prob
lems, possible and ope
rating solutions, role of
students, administration,
faculty, union director.
union staff and president
of college, and current
success of its program
ming operation.
The general conclusion
was that we all suffered
from the problems of ac
tive participation of stu
dents in sufficiently large
capacities. The larger
colleges and universities
were more successful for
they operated on very
large budgets ranging
from $5,000 to $26,000
and higher. The College
Union at Elizabeth City
State College operates on
a budget of approximate
ly $1,400. (Don’t panic
and jump to negative con
clusions, we have hopes
that this will be improv
ed. What we need to do
is improve our program
ming operation and stu
dent participation.) They
also had a much larger
student population from
which to acquire active
participants as members
of their varied commit
tees. Ours was not a con
ference of conclusions for
we got caught up in the
matter of discussion and
any conclusions must be
based on personal accept
ance of ideas which each
delegate felt was a posi
tive and a workable one
for his union.
The delegates who at
tended the Conference
from our college were Al
fred Carter, President of
the Lighthouse College
Center, Charlotte A. Rid
dick, Parliamentarian,
Sherman Lassiter, Vice-
President and Mr. Paul
McClinton, Director of
the Lighthouse.
ECSC FACULTY-STAFF FASHION
SHOW HELD IN LIGHTHOUSE
Mrs, Gertrude Pierce , Associate Program Di
rector of Lighthouse, models.
Alfred Carter, President of Lighthouse, Charlotte
Riddick and Mr, Paul McClinton, pose for picture at
ACU-1 Conference.
Players await their turn to go on field.
dia; including black and
white, tempera, pastel,
oils and mixed media —
as well as ceramic-mak
ing and sculpture. The
latter medium, involv
ing expressive develop
ment in stone, is regard
ed as especially challen
ging to him. Of all the
artistic media, Mr, Ray
has worked in, oil paint
ing appeals to him,most,
since he feels that he is
able to express himself
more widely and more
extensively.
Mr, Ray, currently a
senior, in art education,
will complete his studies
at the latter school, with
the close of the current
college year. He will con
tinue his development,
nonetheless, in the prac
tical phases of artistic
expression.
The Exhibition was
sponsored by the Art De
partment of Elizabeth
City State College.
Mrs. Lula Thorpe, wife of Dr, Marion D. Thorpe,
President of the College, steps with pride as she
models.