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THE PEN
November 15, 1947
®I)e Ptn
STAFF
Claudius A. Blackett
Editor-in-Chief
Geraldine C. Carter
Associate Editor
Geraldine Davis
Literary Editor
Royland Mayson
Copy Editor
Etta Nickpeay
Exchange Editor
Joseph Green
Sports Editor
Cecil D. Halliburton
Alumni Editor
Barbara Hall
Art Editor
Wanda Neely
Business Manager
Sylvester Thorpe
Business Manager
James A. Boyer
Faculty Adviser
Typists
Caroline Alexander, Wanda
Neely, Etta Nickpeay, Fur
ness Armstead.
Proofreaders
Lorraine Hall, Rebecca
Blackett, Audrey Lawson,
Lillian Smalls.
Artist
Barbara Hall.
STUDENT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
By Geraldine Carter
Editorial
This is the initial edition of
the Pen in its present form.
Heretofore, the Pen, was in
magazine form and was pub
lished but twice a year. It was
discontinued during the war andj
is just now being revived.
The editors have tried to ex
pand the services of the Pen as
well as to enlarge upon its size.
The conversion has been quite
a big job, but we firmly believe
in “Nothing ventured, nothing
gained.”
We feel that slogan is well
worth putting into practice.
Numerous organizations here on
the campus have asked us to use
this space to actually implore
students to join or show more
interest in their activities. An^
outstanding example of the]
apathy of the student body canj
be detected in these questions;
(1) Who are the Student
Council representatives for your |
clsss*^ i
(2) Who represents the clubs:
on the Activities Council? j
Two to one, you were caught j
off guard. Did you know that;
you can visit all Student Council |
meetiigs and voice your opinions'
through your representative?
Enough? All right, here’s the
poinf. we yell and scream, com
plain and grumble for progres
sive measures. Well, we have
mad3 some fine advances, and
nowthat we have them, we don’t
put them to use. Let’s wake up,
lool around, and see what’s
goiig on around here.
Por the first time in history,
St Augustine’s College will soon
h£ve Fraternity and Sorority
clapters on the campus. Lots
o luck to all pledges! Such
organizations really add to the
ollege life.
An announcement may be
nade soon concerning the point
system. When it comes, think
before you complain, because it
will benefit the students. One-
hundred twenty points are
needed for graduation. No points
are received for “D’s,” one point
for “C’s,” two for “B’s,” and
three for “A’s.” That means no
more squeezing by. If you plan
to teach in North Carolina, re
member that the merit system
is coming and “merit” means
“marks.”
Homecoming is November 22
and it is expected to be the best
one yet. Parade, dance »nd all
the trimmings! The price of ad
mittance is expected to be 50
cents per person. Can you aSord
it? Seems as though it should be
free to students.
At the close of the Tenth An
nual North Carolina Student
Legislative Assembly, held in
the State Legislative Capitol,
the general consensus was that
the Assembly, formed for the
purpose of offering youth op
portunity in governmental func
tions, had given manifestations
to the belief that youth could
take its role intelligently in
governmental affairs. Expres
sion of this sentiment was given
in part of Secretary of State
Eure’s address to the General
Session: “Government is one
thing that entirely too many
people are not familiar with, yet
it is something that touches the
lives of all of us in some way
all the time.” Col. John W.
Harrelson, Chancellor of North
Carolina State College in his
address said, “It is fine to see
young people become interested
in constructive things so early
in life.”
Despite the fact that Negro
Colleges had been invited for
the first time in the existence of
the Assembly, and participated
without segregation in the busi
ness of the Assembly, the gen
eral feeling of success of the
Student Groups was strong.
This intergration was indeed a
step forward in the direction of
progress. However, the presence
of Negroes was not intended to
be a phenonemon, nor were the
functions of the Legislative di
verted in any way, but instead
the business of the day pro
ceeded smoothly and orderly.
The usual method of com
prising an executive council
from representatives of each of
the participating colleges was
followed at the clgse of the ses
sion.
The required two council
representatives and an approved
adult adviser from St. Augus
tine’s were offered, and put on
roll for a year. Our two council
representatives and faculty ad
visor awaited information con
cerning the 1947 Assembly from
the Executive officers. No notifi
cation of any kind was received
by our council members.
Until the last week in October,
our representatives had not
been officially informed of the
pending assembly. Instead, the
notification came by way of an
announcement carried by the
Raleigh News and Observer. The
announcement, cancelling the
Assembly, listed the following
reasons for this action:
(a) “Only State College had
I authorized representatives on
ithe Student Legislative Council,
I annual sponsors of the Assem-
ibly,” and
; (b) “Only State College had
duly appointed adult advisors
for the Student group.” These
I reasons for cancellation or dis-
I solution of the North Carolina
i Student Legislative Assembly
iare not easily accepted for Saint
Augustine’s council members
, were authorized and duly ap-
I pointed, but failed to receive
the proper notification from
I council officials during the year’s
interim. Why St. Augustine’s or
any other of the representative
council meeting and yet accused
in the announcement as failing
; to adhere to the rules of appoint
ing representatives, is highly
enigmatic.
This surprise announcement
depriving youth participation in
government through the expres
sion of the North Carolina Stu
dent Legislative Assembly,
surely an admirable and desira
ble activity, leaves us dumb-
! founded. How long will this
deprivation last?
1 Crimmon, a son, Ernest, Jr., June
28. The mother is the former;
Miss Norma Manuel, ’39. '
i To Dr. and Mrs. Eric R. Clarke,
a daughter, Erica T., October 3.
I The father is of the Class of
1935. ,
To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas'
Mitchell, a daughter, Eleanor
Ann, October 19. The mother is
'the former Miss Clara A. Clark,
!’43.
Alumni News
Word has been received of the
I death of Vernon Peters, ’43, in
'New York City, November 3.
Veteran’s Corner
By Mary Coleman
Greetings! Has the Treasury
Department let the ghost walk
yet? No? Well, that’s tough.
There’s a fellow around the
campus who always gets his en
velope on the first of the month.
Its best that you get to know ,
him. He is from “Dee Cee.”
Vic Vet Says; “To help keep
your compensation, subsistence,
or G. I. insurance records i
straight, report address changes j
promptly to VA.”
‘Education and Training—j
Starts within four years from
July 25, or date of discharge, if
later. Program ends nine years!
from July 25, 1947.
■‘Public Law No. 16 Training |
—Ceases nine years from July!
25, 1947.
’*G. I. Loan Guarantees—
Available for ten years after
July 25, 1947.
‘Readjustment allowances—
May be claimed until two years
after July 25, 1947, or date of
discharge, if later. . . . ends five
years from July 25, 1947.
Overheard at the last Vets’ |
meeting—“It’s better to be |
broke than never to have loved!
at all.”
*Going My Way?
The great big beautiful car
drew up to the curb where the j
cute little “coed” was waiting for
a bus, and a gentleman stuck his
head out the window and said: I
“Hello, I’m driving West.” i
“How wonderful,” said the
coed. “Bring me back an ^
orange.”
—Camp Lee Traveler.
Veteran who remained in the
states: “So you’ve been all
around the world. Tell me, how
do these foreign dishes compare
with our own American dishes?”
Veteran of Foreign Wars:
“They break just as easy.”
Marriages
/ Am America
By Svend Godfredsen
I am the dream of freedom, of
free men
And free women, of all races and
all creeds.
Of all colors and all origins!
I am America!
I am the light which pierced the
darkness.
Which led the seekers from Eu
rope and Asia,
jFrom India and Africa,
I From far and near, in endless
hopeful numbers,
!To my sacred shores
Never forgetting the cursedness
of tyranny,
;The desperation in the land of
their births!
I am America!
I am the land of the plow
Cutting its furrow through the
virgin land!
I am the land of the seething
cities.
Of industry and labor and un
surpassing potential produc
tion,
I am the skyscraper and the
prairie.
The mountains and the rivers.
The meadows and the streams,
The cornfields and the forests . . .
I am the high clear sky,
The swift white cloud.
The eternal flaming passion for
freedom!
Mr. Logan Drummond De-
lany, ’39, to Miss Shirley Mae
Fletcher, in Charlotte, N. C.,
June 18.
Miss Vivian Melba Harris, '47,
to Mr. George Wilbert Clarke,
St. Augustine’s student, in Clay-j
ton, N. C., June 9. j
Miss Violetta D. Edwards, ’43, i
to Mr. F. Clinton McKay, in
Philadelphia, Pa., June 28. j
Miss Corinne Mance Frazier, j
’37, to the Rev. Henry Grady
Neal, in Thomasville, Ga., Au
gust 27.
Miss Emma Theodosia Wil
liams, ’43, to Mr. Henry P. Wil
liams, Jr., a former student, in
New York, August 24.
Miss Thelma Vashti Satter-
white, ’44, to Mr. Lincoln
Byron Calvin, in Dunn, N. C.,
September 14.
Miss Julia Margaret Davis,
H. S. ’39, to Mr. Calvin Cameron
Farrar, in Bridgeport, Conn.,
May 10.
Miss Ellen Mae Alston, ’47, to
Mr. Herbert Wendell Mitchell,
St. Augustine’s student, in Me
thuen. Mass.. August 25.
Miss Victoria O. Cordice, a
member of the Music Depart
ment faculty, became the bride
of Mr. Jonah R. Davis, ’47, on
July 3, in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mr. Davis returned to St. Augus
tine’s last January to complete
his college work after several
years of interruption, including
service overseas with the U. S.
army. Mrs. Davis continues with
us as director of vocal music.
(News of the Alumni, a fea
ture of the discontinued St.
Augustine’s Record, will appear
from time to time in the Pen.
—Cecil D. Halliburton.)
By tradition, the first item of
Alumni News in the fall issue
of the Record was a report on
the graduating class of the pre
vious school year. The report
was never complete, since many
of the new alumni had revealed
no information about them
selves. Such is the case this
year. In subsequent issues, we
hope to add to the incomplete
information here presented on
the Class of 1947. If your name
does not appear here, kindly let
the conductor of this column
hear from you.
Leroy B. Thompson and Stani-
laus C. Solomon were accepted
as students in the Medical School
of Howard University. Alice D.
Peebles and Gordon W. Robin
son are enrolled in the Atlanta
University School of Social
Work. Oliver Morse is in the
Brooklyn Law School.
Births
Have yet to see a student drop
paper on the campus. No won
der it’s so beautiful and clean!
Let’s keep up the good work!
To Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Wright, a daughter, Lynne
Augustine, June 5. The mother
is the former Miss La Verne
Gordon, ’45.
To Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Me
I am America!
I am not myself alone.
Nor my possessions alone!
I am all men, all women and all
children . . .
I am of all races and creeds and
colors . . .
I am my brother’s keeper but
not in chains . . .
I am his keeper in hallowed li
berty!
I am not alone in this freedom,
I am of the pattern, intricately
woven.
By all who came before me,
By all who worshipped at the
shrine of liberty,
By all who cursed the depotism
from which they fled.
By the blood of all who died in
the name of liberty!
I am America!
I am Washington at Valley
Forge,
Lincoln at Gettysburg!
I am the dead soldiers of every
war.
The bewildered sadness of the
wake!
I am that sadness reborn to fight
again
For that for which the dead are
dead!
I am the unknown soldiers and
the known
Who saw their lives in one quick
gleam
And died that I might live!
I am strong and proud of my
dream . . .
I am fearful too,
Fearful when I see,
j Fearful when I hear,
The voices of tyranny and deceit,
*Of hatred and perversion.
Fearful of the deeds and the acts
Of the betrayers of freedom
! Stalking my land of liberty!
I was the bitter fight against Hit
ler,
Against Mussolini and Hirohito!
I was the welled up hatred be
fore Lublin!
L. Dorothea Baxter, Cubie
Howard and Mayme S. Shuler
are members of the faculty of
Voorhees School and Junior
College, Denmark, South Caro
lina. Waymond Burton is also
teaching in South Carolina at
Greenville. Other 1947 grad
uates known to be teaching are:
Mrs. Ellen Alston Mitchell,
Littleton, Otis G. Muse, Gates
County Training School; Helen
E. Gill, Warsaw; Sarah L. Mc-
Clamb, Johnston County Train
ing School, all in North Caro
lina. and Gwendolyn W, Cox in
Baxley Training Scliom, Baxley,
Georgia.
W. Eunice Tucker is office
secretary in the district head
quarters of the Food, Tobacco,
Agricultural and Allied Workers
Union, Raleigh.
George L. Foxwell is at St.
Augustine’s, as assistant to
Coach Russell Blunt, and Con
tinuing his studies.
Rev. Matthew A. Jones, ’37,
who was graduated from the
Bishop Payne Divinity School
last May, is chaplain at Voorhees
Junior College. Mr. Jones was
ordained deacon in the Voorhees
chapel October 25.
This year there are three St.
Augustine’s alumnae on the
staff of the Virginia State School
fnr Colored Deaf and Blind
Children located in Hampton.
They are the Misses Bessie L.
Zachery, ’45, Floria B. Moore,
’41, and Willie M. Fennell, ’46.
Dr. Edson E. Blackman, ’13,
represented the college at the
' ceremonies in honor of Presi-
dent-emeritus Henry L. Mc-
j Crorey, held at Johnson C. Smith
i University, Charlotte. October
19.
i Before the pyre of dead Jews
Tortured and beaten and burned
by Hitler!
' I was the awe before the skele
tons.
Cremated remains of a hundred
thousand Jews
Torn from their homes in Vien
na and Prague
And Hamburg and Paris and
Berlin!
I am the compassionate sadness
of the Christ
Whipped to a fighting fury
In the presence of this gruesome
deed!