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ELIZABETH CITY.N.C.
NOVEMBER. 1974
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JOHN H. LUCAS
National Band Of New Zealand
Lyceum Presents
2nd Attraction
The second in a series ot
Lyceum attractions, at Eliza
beth City State University, was
Tuesday, October 29, when the
National Band of New Zealand
appeared in concert, at 8:00
p.m., in Moore Hall Auditor
ium. Currently on a coast-to-
coast tour, the musical group
brings to the United States a
most rare phenomenon - a true
brass band.
Added attraction, during
Tuesday’s concert, at ECSU,
was a performance by the
Maori Dancers and Singers.
They were chosen for the tour
because of their ability to
perform many facets of the
entertaining arts of the Maoris,
the handsome brown-skinned
Polynesian people of New
Zealand. The Maori Dancers
and Singers are experts in
performing ancient chants,
Lucas, NCAE Head
Speaks At ECSU
action songs and poi dances, as
well as melodic songs.
Directed by M. J. Waters,
the National Band of New
Zealand has captured three
world band championships,
during annual competition at
Edinburgh. Also conductor of
New Zealand’s most prestig
ious bands, the Skellerup-
Woolston Band, he has been
associated with brass bands for
35 years. The director is a
graduate of London’s Trinity
College of Music, where he
won a diploma in brass
teaching and conducting.
Unlike military bands, the
true-brass National Band of
New Zealand consists of
cornets, alto and flugel horns,
baritones, euphoniums, trom
bones, basses and percussion.
It sounds like a brass
symphony.
Elizabeth City State Univer
sity’s early observance of
American Education Week was
climaxed, Thursday, October
24, when the P. W. Moore
Chapter of the Student National
Education Association (SNEA)
sponsored an All-University
Assembly Program, at 10:00
a.m., in Moore Hall Auditor
ium. Highlight of the Assembly
ivas an address by John H.
Lucas, the second black to
head the North Carolina
Association of Educators
(NCAE).
Lucas, whose son stars in
basketball and tennis, at the
University of Maryland, is also
principal of Durham’s Hillside
High School. Considering him
self “not just a principal, but
an official of education,
reaching out into the commun
ity,” Lucas has touched the
lives of many, including
ECSU’s Chancellor, Dr. Marion
D. Thorpe, a graduate of
Hillside High School prior to
Lucas’ principalship.
Formerly President of the
Kinston Teachers Association,
his leadership abilities were
recognized as early as 1942.
Mervyn J. Waters, musical director of the National Band of New
Zealand, is leading maestro of brass bands in his homeland, and
appeared with his 60-man aggregation at ECSU Oct. 29.
WILLIAM T. DAVIS
Research
Grant
Provided
For a long time, even after
Elizabeth City State University
had expanded its curriculum to
include training in the non
teaching professions, there
were little, if any, funds
available for research. With
limited supplies and equip
ment, students and faculty
personnel in the Biology
Department willingly dug into
their own pockets to buy badly
needed supplies and equip
ment for various individual
research projects in the
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Serving as a member of the
former North Carolina Teach
ers Association’s Board of
Directors and as one of North
Carolina’s National Education
Association Directors, Lucas
was a member of the merged
NCAE Board of Directors.
Lucas, Durham’s “Father of
the Year,” in 1972, has also
served as a delegate to several
meetings of the World Confed
eration of Organizations of the
Teaching Profession; a member
of the Advisory Committee to
the Governor’s Commission on
the Study of Public Schools; a
member of the Board of
Directors of the Learning
Institute of North Carolina; and
has served many other profes
sional and civic organizations.
Another special feature of
Thursday’s American Educa
tion Week program, at ECSU,
was a salute to veterans.
Eden ton Native
Takes Law Post
Chancellor Marion D. Thorpe
announced the appointment of
Attorney William T. Davis as
an Administrative Assistant to
the Office of the Chancellor, at
Elizabeth City State University.
In making the^ announce
ment, Chancellor Thorpe indi
cated that “It must be
recognized that institutions of
Delegates
Attend
Meeting
Elizabeth City State Univer
sity was represented at the
recent Annual Conference of
Region 5 of the Assopiation of
College Unios. Hosted by the
University of North Carolina, at
Greesnboro and North Carolina
A. & T. State University, well
over 400 delegates from North
Carolina, South Carolina, Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Virginia
were in attendance.
According to Charles Foster,
Director of ECSU’s University
Center, the conference focused
its attention on leadership and
programming. During the
course of the meeting, dele
gates were asked to identify
special problems at their
schools which they would like
to have discussed with dele
gates from other schools in the
region. Other vital topics which
were discussed were: the
structure of College Unions,
budgeting; and meeting the
needs of the commuter.
Joining Foster, at the
regional meeting, were: Elmer
Norman, junior Vice-President
of ECSU’s Student Center,
from Roper, N.C.; and Bernard
Vernee, Tabor City, N.C.,
junior chairman of the Publicity
Committee.
Higher learning are also legal
entities, subject to full com
pliance with state and federal
guidelines and policies that
cover a wide range of
institutional activities, func
tions and obligations.”
“These institutions must not
only be accountable, academ
ically and financially; they must
make sure that all contractual
arrangements are met, as they
affect operations and long-
range planning,” Chancellor
Thorpe stressed.
He added, “In the light of
those observations, Elizabeth
City State University is most
fortunate in being able to
secure the full services of
Attorney Davis, thus becoming
one of few institutions of its
size in the nation to have a
licensed attorney on its staff.”
Described as having a keen,
perceptive and analytical mind,
Attorney Davis received the BA
degree in Political Science from
North Carolina Central Univer
sity, in 1970. Four years later,
NCCU awarded him the JD
(doctor of law) degree. A native
of Edenton, N.C., he has
successfully passed the North
Carolina Bar Examination, and
has been officially licensed and
duly sworn in to practice law in
the state.
Attorney Davis is married,to
-le former Miss Claudia
Cannady, of Durham, N.C.,
and is the father of a two-year
old son, William T. Davis, II.
As an Administrative Assis
tant to the Office of the
Chancellor, at ECSU, Attorney
Davis will primarily be respon
sible for the coordination and
structuring of general pro
grams and projects. He will
also effect liaison in all areas of
the University that are related
to student affairs, legal ser
vices, research, planning, de
velopment and advancement. .