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DURHAM, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1960
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Eagles Day Features Open House
The Men’s Student Personnel
Department at North Carolina,
College observed Saturday, May
14, as “Eagles Recognition Day.”
Samuel (Sad Sam) Jones, bas
ketball star of the Boston Celtics
world championship team, was
the guest speaker at a banquet
7:30 p.m. Saturday.
“The Role of College Men in
Today’s World” was the theme
of the program sponsored by the
Men’s Dormitory Council.
A symposium on the meeting’s
theme opened activities at 10:30
a.m. Saturday in the auditorium
of the Commerce Building.
Pearlie Fryar presided.
Participants and their topics
were Mr. Reba Ransom and Dr.
Benjamin F. Smith, “Skills in
Communicating and Traveling”;
Dr. Carol Bowie, “Being, an
Individual’,’; Dr. J. Neal Hugh-
ley, “Religion”; James A.,
Creech, “Dormitory Life”; Lacy'
Streeter, “The Struggle for
Freedom”; and Robert L. Me-'
Adams, summary.
Fryar, McAdams, Lyman B.
Henderson and chairman
Spurgeon D. Simmons were
members of the symposium
planning committee.
“Eagles” open house began at
2:00 p.m. and lasted until 4:00
p.m. Alter a tour of the build
ing and awarding of souvenirs
to attending ladies, the group
was treated to refreshments in
the television room of Chidley
Hall.
Luther Jeralds, senior honor
student in commerce and re
tiring captain of the Eagles’
football team, served as honor
ary host and Angela J. Keys,
Washington coed who was
elected “Miss Chidley Hall for
1959-60” was honorary hostess.
At Saturday night’s banquet
in the College cafeteria, James!
L. Bryant of Waynesville pre^
sided. Glen Cooper gave the in
vocation; music was furnishedi
by the Chidley Hall musical
group, the Novels, and Charles
S. Anderson, dormitory direc
tor, made presentations to
Mr. Jeralds and Miss Keys.
John L. Stewart, dean of men,
recognized special guests, NCC
President Alfonso Elder ex
tended greetings, and Douglas
Brown introduced Jones, the
former star with the NCC
Eagles’ basketballers before
joining the world champion
Celtics.
Officers of the sponsoring
Men’s Dormitory Council are
John L. Stewart, chairman;
Thomas Boone, secretary;
Charles S. Anderson, supervisor,
concession employees; Mary B.
(Continued on page 6)
Coniinencement Is One Day Affair;
Gatling and KomegayGraAiatef, 2
SAM JONES
Commencement activities will
encompass one sweeping week
end, and for the first time in
the school’s history, graduation
exercises will take place on
Sunday. There will be no Bac
calaureate. A record high of 109
will receive graduate degrees
in seven areas and 257 under^
graduates in six.
The commencement progranv
will begin on Friday, May 27,
with the Senior Class Exercises
at 8:00 p.m. The official guest
period will begin at 12:00 noon
on Saturday.
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Summer School Opens On June 9
Achievements Cited Awards Day
North ..^Carolina College held;
its eleventh annual Awards
Day program on May 13, 1960
at ten o’clock a.m., in the Men’s
Gymnasium.
Rev. J. Neal Hughley, the Col
lege minister, gave the invoca
tion. The meaning of Awards
Day was given by Miss Cynthia
McDonald, president of Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society. The
theme of'her speech was taken
from Alexander Popes’ saying:
“Honor and shame from na
condition rise. Act well your
part, there all honor lies.” After
Miss McDonald’s address the
College choir, under the direc
tion of Mr. Samuel Hill, ren
dered the very beautiful
“Ezekiel Saw the Wheel” as ar
ranged by Dawson.
Dr. Helen Edmonds intro-(
duced the speaker for the day,
Dr. Earl E. Thorpe, chairman,
Department of History, South
ern University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Dr. Thorpe, an,
alumnus of North Carolina Col-'
lege, built his address arounj
“Dreams.” He said, “One of the
great tragedies about growing
up is that we too often allow
life’s hardships to rob us of faith
in our dreams. Most men arq
dreamers at least once in their
lives, but great men are dream
ers all their lives. Dreams have
a price; sometimes the price is
. high indeed. For the natives
of South Africa who re
cently fell at Sharpville, as
well as those now in jail, the
price of their dreams has been
very high. For the students who
fell at Seoul, Korea, the pricei
was the utmost that they could
give. And in recent weeks and|
days, here in Durham, you have
seen the dreadful price which
people who dare to act on a
dream sometimes have to pay.
Yet you must never give way to
disillusionment, cynicism, and
despair.”
(Continued on page 6)
The 1960 Summer School will
open June 9, due to the fact that
many of the State’s high schools
will be closing late this year,
announced Dr. Joseph Taylor,
the SS Director.
Registration is scheduled from
9:00 a.m. to noon and from 2:00
to 4:00 p.m. Classes will com
mence the follov.'ing day, Fri
day, June 10.
The six-w6ek session classes
will close Saturday, July 16.
The regular nine-week session
closes August 6.
The scheduled workshops are;
Audio-Visual, June 9-July 16;
Principals, June 20-July 30;
Reading Clinic, June 9-July 16;
Summer Studies in Alcoholic
Education, June 10-20; Guidance
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Thomas Lee Cameron, Philip Morris Student Representative, is
shown here (right) presenting the remote-controlled television,
given by Philip Morris to the student or group winning the brand
round-up contest, to Carl High, newly-elected president of
Phi Alpha Fraternity. The fraternity turned in 5,205 empties to win
the contest.
Alphas Win TV In Brand Round-Up
The Alpha Phi Alpha Frater
nity turned in 5,205 packs from
cigarettes to win the Philip
Morris Inc. brand round-up con
test here May 12.
The company gave a portable,
remote-controlled television to
the student or group turning in
the largest number of empty
packs from Marlboro, Alpine,
Philip Morris, or Parliament
cigarettes. The contest closed at
4:00 p.m. in the Canteen, and
counting immediately followed.
Other contestants and their
entries were; Ernest Parker,
372; William Bleiford, 53;
Crosby Inman, 207; and Shirley
Robertson and Carolyn Davis,
786.
This was a part of Philip
Morris’ major promotion of the
semester. A similar contest is
planned for next year.
Institute, June 14-July 24.
All other schedules activities!
and courses are unchanged.
Jarman Appoints
1960-61 Echo Staff
Cynthia Jarman, editor-elect
of the Campus Echo, has an
nounced her staff for the coming
school year 1960-61. Several
persons on Cameron’s staff have
agreed to accept their positions
again next year. Among these
are Chester Mallory a n d;
Lenwood Davis.
Richard Fikes, a rising junior
mathematics major from Chapel
Hill, has accepted the job of
managing editor, a position that
ranks second to the editor. Fikes
served in the same capacity dur-.
ing the editorship of Thomast
Lee Cameron under whom he
gained most of his newspaper
experience. He also served on
his high school staff before
coming to NCC.
Willie Hall has been ap
pointed feature editor, a position
he currently holds. Hall, a rising'
junior English major from
Charlotte, played a major role
in getting Miss Jarman elected
by spearheading an active cam^
paign during the weeks of the
election.
Chester Mallory, a rising
junior from Hertford, will again
head the sports department.
Mallory is a psychology major
and French minor. He was re
sponsible for the sports news
and two columns during this
term and received praise from
the editor for his willingness to
work.
The office of advertising man
ager wiill again be filled iby
Lenwood Davis, a rising senior
from Beaufort. His major is his
tory.
The other key positions on the
staff will be filled by new per
sonnel, most of whom served as
reporters on the outgoing staff.
Elsie Arrington, an upcoming
sophomore from Battleboro, has
been selected as literary editor.
Miss Arrington contribute«^
(Continued on page 6)
Saturday, comprising most of
the extra activities, begins with
a meeting of the NCC National
Alumni Association at 10:00
a.m. The President’s Reception
at 4:00 p.m. and the Commence
ment play at 8:15 in B. N. Duke
Auditorium. “Gayden,” earlier
presented on May 12, will again
be shown by the Thespians.
On Sunday, May 29, the
Seniors and their parents will
attend the annual Dean of Wo
men’s Breakfast at which time
they will be served by the new
Senior Counselors.
At 3:00 p.m. Sunday, the
Reverend Gardner Taylor, Pas
tor of Concord Baptist Church
of Christ in Brooklyn, New
York, will deliver the Com
mencement address. The speak
er is a member of the Board of
Education of the City of New
York. He is a native of Baton
Rouge, La., and is a graduate of
the Leland College (Baker, La.)
and Oberlin Graduate School of
Theology.
The distinguished minister
preached in Copenhagen, Den
mark, during the session of Llit;
World Baptist Alliance and haa
one of his sermons in the
Volume of Best Sermons of
1959. In September, 1958, he(
was elected president of, the;
Protestant Council of. the City
of New York, thus becoming thei
first Negro and first Baptist to
hold the position.
Students receiving Bachelor '
of Arts degrees are; Helen
Louise Adams, Herman Lee Ald
ridge, Ruby Blue Barker, Sylvia
Barbara Baskerville, Ida Ruth
Battle, Brenda Sitreena Bethel,
Luciel Brackens, Perry Edwarc^
Bryant, Gloria Corker, Thelma
Crawford, Geneva Crosby,
Frederica Elizabeth Crowell,
Artise Elizabeth Cunningham,
Margaret Elizabeth Curry,
Herbert Dark, Carmen Errol
Dean, Kermit DeGraffenreidt,
Robert Lee Dobbs, Andrew
Davis Ellis, Robert Lee Ellis,
Ruth Henry Ferguson, L^
(Continued on page 6)
McCall Elected
WSG President
Parthenia McCall, junior co-i
ed from Southern Pines, is the!
new president of the Women’si
Assembly. Parthenia has served)
as class representative to the
Women’s Steering Committee
for three years.
She has also been active in
numerous other activities in
cluding the Thespians, dormi
tory government, Student Go-
vei’nment and Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority of which she is
the newly-elected dean of pled
gees. She will also serve as a
Senior Counselor during 1960-
61.
The French major and English
minor won over Verna Valeria
Lynch, newly elected senior-at-
large, by a 394 to 160 vote.