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VOLUME34 NUMBERS
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.
SPRING, 1973
II
Blood, Sweat And Tears”
While Dr. Harold De
laney urged the apprecia
tive audience tolookto the
future “with con
fidence,” Congresswo
man Shirley Chisholm
called for the creation of
coalitions that can “set
tle the issues that divide
the country.” The histor
ic addresses, only hours
apart, marked the Eighty-
Second Founders Day ob
servance at Elizabeth Ci
ty State University.
“We give explicit cre
dit to those who had a
faith in the future that
gave them the courage to
take those steps that
would begin to meet the
educational needs of a
people,” Dr. Delaney re
marked. The Vice-Pre
sident of Student Services
and Special Programs, of
the General Administra
tion, of The University of
, North Carolina, in
troduced by Chancellor
Marion D. Thorpe, noted
that “It is the nature of
man to hope.”
“Although confi
dence, as pride does,
finds its roots in the past,
confidence feeds on the
present and looks to the
future,” Dr. Delaney re
marked. Later drawing
from a poem by Langston
Hughes, he continued “A
people whose soul has
grown deep like the riv
ers need not struggle for
confidence.”
The Founders Day Con
vocation speaker remind
ed the Moore Hall Audi
torium audience that “To
respond in a lesser man
ner to what this institu
tion may have to offer now
and in the future may
force us to seek solace
in a fragile pride and
lose much of the “cool
confident of a trump-tight
whist player.”
Hailed by Chancellor
Thorpe, during the even
ing Founders Day Ly
ceum, as one who “de
rives her power from the
people,*’ Congresswoman
Chisholm remarked,
“There is a continuing
need for Black Univer
sities in order to teach
to the young blacks of
this country, the history
of their ancestors.”
In a far-reaching ad
dress that touched upon
A Pretty Girl Is
Like A Melody
Miss ECSU 1973 - 74 Lillie Fenner
It was thus SO, when on
April 28, 1973, E.C.S.U.
Annual Coronation Ball
was given.
The ball opened with
the introduction of the
marshalls by our SGA
President, Mr. Darnell,
Johnson. The marshalls
were as follows: Stanley
Everette, James Newton,
David Henderson, Lance
Pugh, Ernest Hall, Jerry
Spruill, Arlenzard Liv-
events at Washington,
Mississippi, Viet Nam,
Wounded Knee and other
geographic localities,
Mrs. Chisholm spoke at
length on the repression
and recession that have
exhausted the “American
spirit.” Yet she stated,
“The brilliant and the
intelligent and well edu
cated are the ones who
will run this country,”
adding “As students in a
university, you have the
opportunity to do bigger
and better things, but it
is up to you to accomplish
this.”
Earlier Mrs. Chisholm
blasted, “The blood,
sweat and tears of our an
cestors lie deep in the
soils of America. We are
tired of hearing that black
people don’t want to do
anything, that we are
lazy.”
Realizing that “A coun
try whose very survival
depends upon the recon
struction of its young, its
poor, and its neglected
non - white minorities
seems only capable of
hate rather than love, is
olation rather than recla
mation, and killing rather
than saving,” the Brook
lyn lawmaker urged “I
believe that the time is
now for broad coali
tions.”
Welcomed to Elizabeth
City by Mayor John Bell,
and greeted warmly to the
ECSU campus by student
and alumni representa
tives, Mrs. Chisholm was
later presented a gift
from the Delta Chi Chap
ter of Deta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc.
mm
Rap on! Sister Chisholm
erman and Jacob Wills.
Our melody was then
under way with the en
trance of the beautiful
class queens. Miss Cal
amity Parker, Freshman
Queen and Miss Deborah
Tillet, First runner-up.
Miss Queenie Harris, So
phomore Queen and Eva
Britt, First runner-up.
Miss Sylvia Sylvester,
Junior Queen and Miss
Gwen Gillespie First
runner-up. Miss Linda
Spruill, Senior Queen,
and Miss Mary Daniels,
First runner-up.
Our melody, very soft
but had not reached its
peak when Miss ECSU,
Alean Anderton, and her
attendant Miss Blondell
McKnight walked up on the
platform in honor, to
await the crowning Of the
1973-74 Miss ECSU. Be
fore giving up her crown.
Miss Anderton proudly
informed the candidates
for the 1973-74 title that
the road of obligation and
duties will rise to meet
them and God will carry
them along the wav.
Harold Coppedge
honored Miss ECSU with
a solo and the audience
anxiously waited to see
which of the lovely four
young ladies would re
ceive the honorable title
of Miss E.C.S.U. 1973-74.
Yes, the melody was
near its climax and the
audience near their peak
of anxiety when the lovely
third runner-up. Miss
Patricia Harris was in
troduced.
Miss Patricia Harris,
an Intermediate Educa
tion major, concentrating
in Math and Social Sci
ence, is the daughter
of Mrs. Elizabeth and the
late Mr. Rupert Harris.
She was born on August
26, 1952; she presently
resides in Ahoskie, North
Carolina. Miss Harris’
hobbies include dancing,
traveling, cooking, arwi
helping others.
Miss Deborah Brown,
Second runner-up, stole
the audience’s attention
when she glided across
the platform while being
introduced.
Miss Deborah Y.
Brown, daughter of Mrs.
Nellie B. Huff, was born
on August 16, 1952, in
Baltimore, Maryland.
She presently resides at
109 Henderson Street,
Williamston, North Ca
rolina. Miss Brown is an
Early Childhood Educa
tion Major. She says
her hobbies are sewing,
watching TV, cooking, and
people.
While the melody was
still soft, the audience
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Hathaway!
Rows The Boat
Edna Hathaway, a ris
ing senior Artmajor,was
elected President of the
ECSU Student Govern
ment Association. She
has the distinct honor of
being the second female
elected to this position
since the founding of the
institution in 1891. Prior
to being elected presi
dent, Hathaway served as
President of the Women
Government association.
Hathaway opened her
campaign with the slogan
“Rowing the Boat
Ashore.” She stated,
“There is a need for
greater cooperation be
tween the administration,
faculty, staff and studient
body.” In an indirect way
she was utilizing the old
cliche, “together we
stand, divided we fall”.
She articulated her id
eas beautifully.
Other persons elect
ed to fill the remain
ing positions are Melvin
Parker, Vice President;
Patricia Roberts, Cor
responding Secretary,
and Dorothy Wilson,
Treasurer.
By LEMUEL ELEY