VOLUME :J, no. 3
\VIXSTOX-SALE>I HTATE COLIjEGE, WINSTOX-SALEM, X. C.
MARCH, 1965
Zeta Honor Delois Shaw
As 'Lady of the Year'
Mis.s Delois Sliaw
College Choir to
Start Singing
Tour April 15
by Frankie Smilli
Tour time is coming around
again for the Winston-Salem
State College Choir. The choir
is really going places this sea
son. Beginning its tour April
15, the choir, along with Dr. J.
Dillard, their director, will ar
rive in Washington, D. C. in
time to rehearse and refresh be
fore concert time.
The singers will give their
first concert at the First Bap
tist Church on 1911 18th Street,
S.E. Staying overnight in Wash
ington, the choir will leave early
the next morning for New Ha
ven, Conn.
There they will be sponsored
in concert by Charles Goodmyn
at 1180 Mulboro Street.
On April 17, the choir will
travel to New York City for a
2 p.m. rehearsal at the 5th
Avenue Presbyterian Church.
The rest of the afternoon and
evening will be spent in leisure
and making preparations for the
following day.
Easter Sunday will be a very
busy one for the choir. Starting
at 6 a.m. it will perform at the
Radio City Music Hall. The
chorus will perform again at 11
a.m. in Brooklyn, at the Antioch
Baptist Church on 828 Greene
Avenue for morning services,
with the Rev. George Lawrence
in charge of services. They will
leave there and go back to New
York City where they will per
form at the Lincoln Center in
the Philharmonic Hall at 8:30
p.m.
Remaining in New York, the
choir will, on Easter Monday
morning from 7:30 to 10:00, cut
tapes for The Great Choirs of
America series for the five Sun
days in May at the National
Broadcasting System.
For the next four days (April
20-23) the singers will appear in
concert in various cities in New
Jersey. They will sing at the
Calvary Baptist Church in Pat-
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by Edna Harris
Miss Delois Shaw, a sopho
more from Rocky Mount, was
honored Sunday, Feb. 28 as
“Lady of the Year” at Winston-
Salem State College. She was 20
years old the day before she re
ceived her award.
The program climaxed Finer
Womanhood Week sponsored by
Zeta Phi Beta sorority on cam
pus. Miss Vivienne Brown pre
sented a plaque to Miss Shaw.
She won in a student election
over Miss Rosa Williams of the
senior class and Miss Novel
Russell of the junior class.
A sophomore, Miss Shaw is
the daughter and youngest of
seven children of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Shaw of Rocky Mount.
She is an honor graduate of the
Booker T. Washington High
School of Rocky Mount.
She is an honor roll student
at Winston-Salem State and a
member of Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority and the English Lit
erary Club. During the 1963-64
school year she was crowned
Miss Alpha Sweetheart.
Her goal in life is to become
an elementary school teacher
and do advanced study in Eng
lish. Her major is education,
and her minor is English.
Miss Shaw is working her way
through college. Last summer
she worked at a summer resort
in New York as a secretary and
bookkeeper. She has been work
ing every summer since she
was in high school.
When she received her award,
she said, "This is the most won
derful and greatest honor I have
ever received. I never felt the
student body thought so well of
me. Their confidence in me has
given me inspiration to do bet
ter in the future.”
Men Organize Into
Urbane Society
The Urbane Society was found
ed under the guidance of Dr.
W. Archie Blount. The organi
zation’s objectives are to develop
aspects of being a finer gentle
man, Christian character, stim
ulate cultural and intellectual
achievement. Members try to
carry out the aims of the group.
To become a member of the
group, a male student must be
a junior or senior. He must be
nominated by the membership
committee, and he must get a
two-third approval by the club.
The group is planning to take
trips to cultural events.
Its motto is “Enter into re
finement.” The organization is
dedicated to the memory of the
late Herbert S. Clark, a former
faculty member of this college.
The officers are president,
Arthur Gray; vice-president, Os
car Carter; secretary, Samuel
Couthen; treasurer, John Smith;
historian, Clarence Campbell;
and chaplain, Julian Williams.
Other members are Kenneth
Walker and Charles Carter.
Roberta Henry and David Lewis
RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS WEEK IS
OBSERVED ON THE CAMPUS
The Student Christian Asso
ciation of Winston-Salem State
College chose as this year’s Re
ligious Emphasis Week theme,
“The Campus Quest: Who Am
I? Where Do I Belong? What
Do I Believe In?” The week in
cluded a vesper service with the
Rev. Kelly O, P. Goodwin as
speaker.
On Monday evening the guest
speaker for the week. Dr. Henry
C. Brooks, led the discussion on
“The Campus Quest for Self
hood.” Tuesday evening the
topic for discussion was “The
Campus Quest for Identity.”
Dr. Brooks was the speaker for
the chapel program Wednes
day. Thursday evening the topic
was “The Campus Quest for Be
liefs.”
The religious emphasis on the
campus symbolizes the intent of
the college to recognize religion
as a basic element to the human
enterprise. These activities seek
to further enhance, to deepen
and to enrich the religious ex
perience of each individual stu
dent.
In addition to the activities on
campus, each student is encour
aged to attend on Sunday the
church of his choice in the city
of Winston-Salem.
Those persons of the Sunday
School responsibility for the suc
cess of the week of observance
were:
Marva James, Oscar Carter.
Carolyn Martin, Marjorie Wil
son, Slary Ruth Session, David
Lewis, Roberta Henry, Joyce
White, Carol Thomas, Annie
Taylor, Dorothy Wynn. Barbara
Williams, George Lippsey, Be-
necia Rutherford, Annie David
son, Patricia Leggett. Gloria
Washington, Velma Archie, Do-
retha James and the Rev. Henry
Lewis, college chaplain.
VISITING SCHOLAR
ADVISES REVISION
OF HISTORY TEXTS
by Delois Shaw
Revision of history textbooks
is a by-product of the civil
rights movement. Dr. John Hope
Franklin told 750 people at
Fries Auditorium Tuesday, Feb.
16.
Franklin, a noted Negro his
torian and professor of history
at the University of Chicago,
spent an afternoon on campus
as a visiting scholar under the
Piedmont University Center. He
also spoke at Wake Forest Col
lege and other area colleges dur
ing a three-day tour.
“The new role of Negro his
tory is that of revision,” Frank
lin said. “The history will allow
for the correction of errors and
inclusion of omissions by earl
ier historians. This will make
possible the telling of the true
history of the Negro which pre
vious historians thought unim
portant to include.”
In his discussion of historians
of American Negroes, he said
that through the years the his
tory of the Negro has been in
cluded or excluded to satisfy the
trends of the times.
“Every people should make
their own history,” Franklin
said. The history of the Negro
has come into its own being, and
all of it has not been written by
Negroes, he said.
Franklin gave three ways of
revising history texts to include
Negro history — complete re
vision of textbooks, addition of
a chapter on Negro history, or
use of supplementary materials
in the classroom.
The textbook industry, he
said, is “most sensitive to the
wills of influential people and
groups. I call textbook publish
ing an industry rather than an
intellectual enterprise,” he said.
“Authors must write a text that
is not offensive to any group
that matters.”
He also warned against activi
ties of pressure groups to force
immediate revision of textbooks.
“I am afraid of what can hap
pen,” he answered during a
question and answer period.
The work of historians is not
finished in the revision of his
tory. Franklin said, but a good
beginning has been made to
make Negro history available to
all.
Set Goals, Visiting Minister Advises Students
.irST FOR FUX
Neighbor to a mother: What
is your son taking up in college?
Mother; Space.
Girl: What three words are
used constantly by all students?
Boy: 1 don’t know.
Girl: You are right, (smile)
by Velma Lindsay
“The major problem with to
day’s college students is that
they have no sense of direction.”
This was the thought express
ed by Dr. Henry C. Brooks
March 14-19, as he spoke on
campus during Religious Em- ^
phasis Week.
“In life we confront many sit
uations in which the needs are
great, but the resources are
small.” Brooks said. “To live ef
fectively we must face such sit
uations.
“There are two ways by which
we face situations — the way of
least resistance often called the
easy way out and the way of
faith.”
Brooks called on students to
make the most of what they
have to accomplish much in
life.
“The college student of today
must have an opportunity to
raise questions,” Brooks said.
"He cannot accept those things
which were told to him by
others. He must accept ideas on
the basis of his experiences.
Young people should have more
freedom to know for themsel
ves.”
The church has failed to chal
lenge young people, he said. “If
^ the church respects the integ-
^ rity of the child,” he said, “the
1 child will not stray from the
,1 church when he grows into
adulthood.
Brooks is assistant professor
of psychology and clinical train
ing at Andover Newton Theo
logical Seminary in Mass.
DR. HEXRY C. BROOKS
A man is untrue to everyone,
including himself, anytime he
does not live up to the ideals in
which he professes belief.