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Page Twelve THE GOLDEN ECHO January, 1960 Foundations Recognize Academic Excellence At NCC With Awards Because North Carolina Col lege has a high rating with the leading rating associations in America, its graduates are ac cepted for advanced training without question in medical, dental, engineering and other professional schools. They also enter graduate schools without qualification to work on mas ter’s and doctorate degrees. Equally important, perhaps, is the fact that each year NCC graduates win their share of scholarships and fellowship grants which enable them finan cially to attend graduate and professional schools. In evalu ating the College prior to accep ting it into full membership in 1957, the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools noted the prominence of NCC graduates among academiq award winners as evidence of scholastic excellence at the in stitution. During the past few years, NCC graduates in both arts and sciences have won recognition from Woodrow Wilson and Dan^ forth Foundations, the Southern Regional Education Board, and the Fulbright Program for Foreign Study. These awards are valued at thousands of dollars. In addition, numerous graduates each year win teach ing and research assistantship posts at leading universities in America. A Woodrow Wilson and a Danforth Fellowship and two Fulbright Awards for foreign study were won by North Caro lina College students during the past year. In 1953, Arthrell Patricia Du pree won a $1,200 Reed-Brown Fund Scholarship for further study, and James Leon Atwater, an English major, was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship valued at $1,250. Yvonne Scruggs was a 1955 Fulbright award winner for study in Bonn, Germany. Two Fulbright Fellowships and one Danforth Graduate Fellowship were awarded in 1956. Wade M. Kornegay, candi date for the Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the University of Southern California, won a Dan forth and a Fulbright Fellow ship, the latter for study at the Rheinische Friedrick-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Germany. Kornegay also earned a $1,200 University Fellowship in Chemistry at the University of Illinois. A Fulbright Fellowship to study French Language and Literature at the University of Aix-Marseille in France went to Emma Bullock. In 1957, Weldon Willoughby was awarded a $2,007 teach ing assistantship in the depart ment of chemistry at Ohio State University. Lloyd M. Mitchell won a Summer Grant to the University of Oslo, Oslo, Nor way. And Andress Taylor, now a candidate for the doctorate de gree in English at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, won a Southern Fellowship Fund Grant for three years of gradu ate study. Weldon Willoughby won a similar Southern Fellowship Fund Grant for work in chemis try in addition to his assistant ship award at the Ohio State University. In 1958, J. LeVonne Cham bers was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship for advanced study in history. Calvin Brown, also a history major, won the National Scholarship of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Another Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship for ad vanced study in political Science was awarded Carrie Lou Fair. A Study Grant by the Depart ment of Meteorology of the University of Chicago went to Annie Mae Spaulding. And a Fulbright Fellowship for the study of modern lan guages at Phillip University, Marburg, Germany, was award ed William E. Jackson. Also in 1958, Marion D. Thorpe won a Veterans Ad ministration Award to study for the doctorate degree in clinical psychology at the Michigan State University. Awards in 1959 went to stu dents in commerce, English, mathematics, psychology, and public health nursing. These include; Summer Scholarship for study in com merce at the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway: Jerome Dudley and Samuel Gibson; Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship and Danforth Fellowship for study in English: Theodore Gilliam; Woodrow Wilson Foun dation Fellowship, University of Hawaii Graduate Assistant ship for study in mathematics and Fulbright Award for study at Johannes Gutenberg Univer sity in Mainz, Germany: Annie Mae Spaulding; Graduate Study Scholarship for study in psy chology at Lehigh University: Faye Atwater; Graduate Study Grant for study in psychology at Michigan State University: James Hedgebeth; and Fulbright Award for study at the Univer- When this photo was taken, each of the above eight NCC citizens had contributed more than 20 years of service to the institution. Seated left to right are Miss Pauline F. Newton and Mrs. Julia W. Harris, Department of English; Mrs. Frances M. Eagleson, registrar; and Miss Ruth G. Rush, former dean of women and afterwards professor of education prior to her resignation. Standing left to right, Mr. C. L. Holmes, former head of the Romance Languages Department, Dean James T. Taylor (former dean of men) of the psychology department, now retired; President Alfonso Elder, former dean of the college of arts and sciences and one-time head of the department of graduate education; and the late Professor C. T. Willis, former chairman of the Department of Commerce. Shepard Ideals Kept Alive In Foundation Aims Shortly after his death in 1947, a number of the late Dr. James E. Shepard’s close friends and associates established a me morial foundation in his honor. Under the able direction of its president, Dr. J. M. Hubbard, Sr., and its executive secretary. Professor J. T. Taylor, both ad mirers and friends of Dr. Shep ard, nearly $75,000 has been raised to further the Shepard ideals. As originally conceived, the money was collected to aid needy and potential North Caro lina College students through scholarships and loans. Since its founding, more than 100 stu dents have attended the College as James E. Shepard Memorial Foundation Scholars. In addition, the Foundation sponsored and commissioned the $25,000 statue of the late NCC founder which now stands in sity of Caen in France: Bernice Bullock. The following students won scholarships and traineeship awards in excess of $14,000 for the study of public health nur sing; Lula Allen, Ruth Amey, Dorothy Harris, Neva Herring, Viyella Mitchell, Kathryn Pay- lor, Josephine Plummer, Lacy Thornton, Morece Wade, and Jean White. Spearheading the work to keep alive the memory and ideals of Dr. James E. Shepard through a scholarship sponsoring Foundation is the James E. Shepard Memorial Foundation Board of Trustees. Some of the members of the Board are pictured above. These include, seated, Attorney Claude V. Jones, Durham; Dr. A. T. Spaulding, president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; Dr. A. E. Manley, president of Spelman College; Mrs. Mary Trent Semans, Durham; Dr. J. M. Hub bard, Durham dentist; Mrs. Virgie J. Davis, Durham; Professor (retired) James T. Taylor, Durham; second row, seated President Elder, and standing, J. E. Dixon (deceased), and H. M. Michaux, Durham realtor. front of the Administration Building. It is a life-size replica of the noted educator by the famed sculptor Zorach of Brook lyn, New York. The Shepard Memorial Fund has conducted its campaigns for contributions among alumni and friends of the college as well as among foundations interested in rewarding the contributions of outstanding men. Among the groups making sizable contributions are the Doris Duke Foundation, $8,000; Burlington Mills Foundation, $5,000; Mary Babcock Reynolds Foundation, $5,000; Gardner Foundation, $1,000; Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, $4,000; Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina, $15,000. The largest contribution, that of $15,000 from the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina, comes from an or ganization in whose affairs Dr. Shepard labored for many years. In addition to Dr. Hubbard, president, and Professor Taylor, executive secretary, the Shepard Foundation is led by H. M. Michaux, vice president, and Mrs. Virgie Davis, secretary, and Dr. Asa T. Spaulding, treas- surer. The Board of Directors in cludes prominent persons in this and other states. Among these are L. E. Austin, Durham; Claude A. Barnett, Chicago; Bascom Baynes, Durham; Dr. C. Hawkins Brown, Sedalia; Dr. G. D. Carnes, Wilmington; Dr. Howard Chidley, Winchester, Mass; Mrs. J. O. Cobb, Durham; Mrs. Virgie J. Davis, Durham; President Elder; Dr. Miles Mark Fisher, Durham; Ralph W. Gardner, Shelby; Dr. Frank P. Graham, Chapel Hill; Dr. H. H. Hart, Durham; Lawrence W. Hayes, Boston, Mass; Judge J. D. Johnson, Jr., Raleigh; Atty. Claude V. Jones, Durham; Dr. W. J. Kennedy, Jr., Durham; Francis Kornegay, Detroit, Michigan; Mrs. John Tate Lan- ning, Durham; G. W. Logan, Sr., Durham; Dr. A. E. Manley, At lanta, Ga.; H. M. Michaux and Dr. J. N. Mills, both of Durham; Spencer Murphy, Salisbury; Frank A. Pierson, Durham; Miss Ruth G. Rush, Atlanta, Georgia; Miss Marjorie A. Shepard, Dur ham; Dr. Marshall L. Shepard, Philadelphia; Dr. A. T. Spaul ding, Durham; Steed Rollins, Durham; James T. Taylor, Dur ham; Mrs. Mary Trent Semans, Durham; D. W. Uzzle, Durham; D. Hiden Ramsey, Asheville; and P. B. Young, Sr., Norfolk, Virginia. -Tuition Grants- (Continued from Page 10) tonia; Dorothy Sharpe, Maccles field; Samuel Sullivan, Char lotte; and Leon R. Thomas, Gar ner. Also, among the scholarship awardees were the following out-of-state students, who re ceived special tuition exemp tions for the present school year: Mayo P. Bartlett, Rye, N. Y.; Meek A. Byrd, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Betty A. Edgeworth, Pageland, S. C.; Callie Fergu son, Dyersburg, Tenn.; Aubrey F. Lowe, Suffolk, Va.; Eurnice Montgomery, Eatonville, Fla.; Roberta Roland, Andrews, S. C.; William M. Whitfield, Louis ville, Ga.; and Arthur Williams, New York, N. Y. -Book By- (Continued from Page 3) Alston Anderson is a real-telling you true for a fact writing man... The Browser didn’t know there was any writing like Alston anywhere on this old earth. There are other Negro writers that had their learning in this country - real and true artists like Langston Hughes and fe rocious ones like Richard Wright who lives in France and has forgotten a bit what this country is like - but Alston An derson, he’s fine, real fine, and maybe he’s going to be the best of all.” The writer was born in Panama City. He attended 'school in Kingston, Jamaica, and in Oxford, N. C.; and following a stint in the army as master sergeant, entered NCC. He was graduated here in 1947 and later attended Columbia University and the Sorbonne, where he specialized in 18th century Ger man metaphysics. He is at pre sent in Canellum, Spain.
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