The News Argus, March, 1980, Page 3
Alumni Plan Activities
By News Argus Staff
The Student-Alumni Relations
Association (SARA) is cur
rently preparing for its upcom
ing activities. Some of these
activities include: counseling
at the Forsyth County Youth
Detention Center, assisting the
elderly at Sunrise Towers,
campus beautification, a com
munity tutoring program.
Alumni Day, Alumni Spring
Retreat, and the Unity Day
trip to Nashville, Tennessee.
The trip to Nashville will
take place April 4th and will
conclude April 16. On that
weekend, alumni from all over
the country and from all
professions will converge in
one of Nashville’s hotel re
treats. It will be like a reunion
with alumni taking time off to
relax and recalling old times.
The only WSSU students at
tending will be seniors and
SARAmembers. These stu
dents will have the opportun
ity to meet influential alumni
to discuss possible employ
ment and other topics of
interest.
In the other activities, SARA
members give advice and
companionship to runaway
and troubled youth on Satur
day mornings at the Forsyth
County Youth Detention Cen
ter. In the campus beautifica
tion project, students will be
placing plants around the
Alumni Hut and other areas of
the campus.
The primary goal of this
organization, which was
founded in 1975, is to work
closely with the WSSU Nation
al Alumni Association and
offer appropriate educational,
cultural, personasl, and social
assistance to those persons
within its service area. The
SARA members achieve these
goals through its four commit
tees.
Officers of the club include
Millard James, President;
By Sheila Monroe
The seventeenth annual
nation-wide Unity Day Confer
ence to be held April 4-6 in
Nashville, Tennessee.
Unity Day is an annual
event in which alumni from all
over the country gather to
rededicate themselves to their
Alma Mater. This year the
event has several highlights.
The affair will take place at
the Opryland Hotel (Home of
the Grand Ole Opry) and will
feature a sight-seeing tour and
a dinner-dance. Special guests
include Miss WSSU* Darlene
Sowell, Miss Alumni, Lucille
Daniels, SGA President,
Bobby Bennett, and the Pres
ident of SARA (Student Alum
ni Relations Association) Mil
lard N. James.
According to the Unity Day
Chairman, Mr. Henry Jones,
and the Director of Alumni
Affairs, Winslow Lowery,
there are to be special rates
for seniors.
Sorors Mark Founding
Planning Trip To Nashville
Members of the Student Alumni Relations Association (SARA) are diligently preparing for their
trip to Nashville so that they can attend the Seventeenth Annual Unity Day festivities. Shown left
to right are: Chris Golson and Robbin Brown, who are both senior special education majors;
Marinda Mason, a senior early childhood major; and Milard James a junior english major.
SARA Prepares For
Several Upcoming Events
By Faye Vernon
Sorors of Rho Chapter, Sig
ma Gamma Rho Sorority, In
corporated celebrated their
founder’s week March 9-15.
The week’s festivities were
kicked off with the sorors
attending worship service at
Phillip’s Chapel Baptist
Church where the Reverend
Charles W. Leak is the pastor.
That evening, the sorors unit
ed for a Rededication Cere
mony where they restated
their oaths of allegiance to
Sigma Gamma Rho.
Tuesday, March 11 was
National Color Day. It was
spent with members chanting
around the Sigma Gamma Rho
plot facing 0’Kelly Library.
Thursday evening, March 13,
the sorors entertained any
interested persons in Atkins
Hall with a Tea/Interest Meet
ing where questions were
answered concerning any
facet of the sorority. To close
the week, a Disco was held in
the Whitaker Gymnasium Fri
day night, March 14.
Sigma Gamma Rho Soror
ity, Rho Chapter will hold its
first “Little Miss Sigma
Pageant,” Sunday, April 13,
at 3 p.m. in the Hauser
Student Union Ballroom.
Committee Wants
Better Food Service
By Jacqueline Lane
In an effort to make stu
dents aware of how dining hall
service can be improved there
is a Food Service committee
on campus. The Committee is
composed of representatives
from each of the dormitories at
Winston-Salem State Univer-
sity.(WSSU) The committee
headed by chairman, Thad-
deus Wilkins meets the first
Monday of each month in the
Red Room of Kennedy Dining
Hall.
The purpose of the commit
tee is to discuss ways of
improving service for the stu
dents of WSSU. Some of the
problems are cutting lines,
stealing food and dishes, and
abuse of cafeteria property.
Additional committees with
in the Food Service Committee
See Page 6
Foundation Expands Grant Program
By News Argus Staff
The Board of Trustees of
the Harry S. Truman Scholar
ship Foundation has approved
an expansion of the Truman
Scholarship Program by 26
scholars to a total of 79
scholars on a trial-basis for the
1980-81 academic year only,
according to the Honorable
John W. Snyder, chairman of
the Board of Trustees.
Under the expansion plan,
26 scholars-at-large will be
named for the 1980-81
academic year in addition to
the 53 scholars that normally
are selected annually.
The 26 scholars-at-large will
be recommended to the Board
by the Foundation’s 13
Regional Review Panels. Each
review panel will recommend
two scholars-at-large and
name two alternates, Mr.
Snyder said. Thus, the total
program for 1980-81 will be 79
scholars.
Mr. Snyder said he believes
the expansion of the program
will be particularly helpful in
generating more awareness of
and participation in The
Truman Scholarship Program.
Foundation Executive
Secretary Malcolm McCor
mack said that the Founda
tion’s endowment, which was
established by Congress, is
currently generating sufficient
funds to permit this one-time
expansion. “Simply
speaking,” he added, “at this
time we have the funds
available to support this trial-
basis expansion of the Foun
dation’s scholarships.”
Since it began operations
three years ago, the Truman
Scholarship Foundation an
nually has awarded 53
scholarships-one to a resident
nominee in each of the 50
states, the District of Colum
bia, Puerto Rico, and, con- Recently the first of 13
sidered as a single entity, Regional Review Panels began
Guam, the Virgin Islands, iMe^wing «m'finalists for
American Samoa and .he consideration as 1980 Truman
Pacific Trust Territories. Scholars.
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