Fbiday, April 28, 1961
THE CAMPUS ECHO
Page Nine
Four Local Athletes Prepare For Pros
Commencement exercises will
be the signal for several NCC
athletes to depart for the big
time. Seniors scheduled to take
a crack at professional ball in
clude James (Champ) Brewing-
ton, Rossie Barfield, Luther
(Nick) Jeralds, and Reggie Pry
or.
Brewington, a member of the
Ail-CIAA roster which was
honored further by being named
to the Pittsburgh Courier All-
Star squad, will report after
graduation to the newly organi
zed Minnesota Vikings of the
American Football League.
Premier NCC halfback Rossie
Barfield scorned pro football
and will try to crack the line-up
of the San Francisco Giants as
an infielder. He will report to
the Giants’ Eugene, Oregon,
farm club in June.
The Eagles’ quarterback and
punting specialist, Reggie Pryor,
will join the Lincoln, Nebraska
farm affiliate of the Chicago
White Sox in June. Pryor feels
that his baseball ability out
shines his ability on the grid
iron.
Nick Jeralds, also a member
(continued on page 10)
On Campus
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MocShokan
{Aulhor of “I Was a Teen-age Dwarf" i'The Many
Loves of Dobie GUlis,” etc.)
A ROBE BY ANY OTHER NAME
As Commencement Dg,y draws near, the question on everyone’s
lips is: “How did the different disciplines come to be marked by
academic robes with hoods of different colors?” Everybody—
but everybody—is asking it. I mean I haven’t been able to walk
ten feet on any campus in America without somebody grabs my
elbow and says, “How did the different disciplines come to be
marked by academic robes with hoods of different colors, hey?”
This, I must say, is not the usual question asked by collegiana
who grab my elbow. Usually they say, “Hey, Shorty, got a
Marlboro?” And this is right and proper. After all, are they not
collegians, and, therefore, the nation’s leaders in intelligence
and discernment? And do not intelligence and discerrimpt de
mand the tastiest in tobacco flavor and smoking pleasure? And
does not Marlboro deliver a flavor that is imiquely mellow, a
selectrate filter that is easy drawing, a pack that is soft, a box
that is hard? You know it I
But I digress. Back to the colored hoods of academic robes.
A doctor of philosophy wears blue, a doctor of medicine wears
green, a master of arts wears white, a doctor of humanities wears
crimson, a master of library science wears lemon yellow. Why?
Why, for example, should a master of library science wear lemon
yellow?
Well sir, to answer this vexing question, we must go back to
March 29, 1844. On that date the first public library in the
United States was established by Ubic Sigafoos. All of Mr.
Sigafoos’s neighbors were of course wildly grateful—all, that
is, except Wrex Todhunter.
Mr. Todhunter had hated Mr. S^'-afoos since 1822 when both
men had wooed the beauteous Mt-anie Zitt and Melanie had
chosen Mr. Sigafoos because she was mad for dancmg and Mr.
Sigafoos knew all the latest steps, like the Missouri Compromise
Mambo, the Shay’s Rebellion Schottische, and the James K.
Polk Polka, while Mr. Todhunter, alas, could not dance at all
owing to a wound he had received at the Battle of New Orleans.
(He was struck by a falling praline.)
Consumed with jealousy at the success of Mr. Sigafoos’s
Ubrary, Mr. Todhimter resolved to open a competing library.
This he did, but he lured not a single patron away from Mr.
Sigafoos. “What has Mr. Sigafoos got that I haven’t got?” Mr.
Todhunter kept asking himself, and finally the answer came to
him: books. . .
So Mr. Todhunter stocked his library with lots of dandy booliB
and soon he was doing more buaness than his hated rivaL
But Mr. Sigafoos struck back. To regain his clientele, he began
serving tea free of charge at his library every aftCTnoon. There
upon, Mr. Todhunter, not to be outdone, began serving ^
with sugar. Thereupon, Mr. Sigafoos began serving tea with
sugar and cream. Thereupon, Mr. Todhunter began senring
tea with sugar and cream and lemon.
This, of course, clinched the victory for Mr. Tc^unter 1^
cause he had the only lemon tree iri town—in fact, in the entire
state of North Dakota—and since that day lemon yellow has of
course been the color on the academic robes of library science.
(Incidentally, the defeated Mr. Sigafoos packed up his library
and moved to California where, alas, he failed once more. There
were, to be sure, plenty of lemons to serve with his tea, but,
alas, there was no cream because the cow was not introduced
to California until 1931 by John Wayne.) oigei Mai’shuim»«
And today Californians, happy among their Guernseys and
Holsteins, are discovering a great new cigarette—the iwi-
mtered, king-size Philip Morris Commander—and to ore
Americans in all fifty states. Welcome aboardf
'Hurdling Hearns' Sought After
George Oscar and Richard
Thomas Hearn, NCC’s heralded
brother-team in the hurdles, had
to enlist a little maternal advice
in deciding from numerous scho
larship offers on which college
to attend.
Thanks to Mrs. George Hearn
of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, thei
Eagles have had a top-notch
athlete for the past three years,
and will hpve for fhe next four.
According to George, the older
brother, his mother’s knowledge
of Dr. Leroy Walker’s coaching)
ability influenced him to turn
down offers from Big Ten and
Ivy League schools to enroll at
NCC.
George is a graduate of Lower
Merion High School in Ard
more, class of ‘57. The 22-year
old senior, who as a freshman at
NCC set the fastest time among
the nation’s fresh hurdles, 14:1
in the 120-highs. He is a Physi
cal Education major and Health
Education minor. In high school,
George was equally proficient
in the broad jump, high jump,
quarter-mile, 100-yard dash,
and javelin toss, but after he
set the national high school re
cord of 13:9 in the high hurdles,
he decided to concentrate on
that event. He has no objections,
however, to coach Walker’s us
ing him in the relay events or
any other. Although he has yet
to eclipse his frosh time in the
highs, George has managed to
shave his time in the 220-lows
to a remarkable 27:5. The,
world’s record for that event is
21:9.
Again thanks to Mother,
brother Richard Thomas Hearn,
or simply Dickie, also turned
down several offers in favor of
NCC. Only 19, Dickie’s prime
objective in high school was to
break his brother’s record. Al
though he succeeding in merely
tying it, he has gratefully ac
cepted his brother’s tutoring and
has developed into a real threat
to the nation’s hurdles hopefuls,
sporting in college competition
a 14-flat in the highs and a 25:5
in the lows. Upon graduation
from Lower Merion last year,
Dickie decided that he cpuld
perform best in the hurdles, and
seldom tries anything else.
Dickie majors in accounting and
insists on striking a happy me
dium between academics and
athletics.
Dickie’s 25:5 best low hurdles
time, compared with the world’s
record of 21:9 is largely due to
his lack of experience. George,
on the other hand, has run
against such established stars as
Lee Calhoun, Hayes Jones, Elias
Gilbert, and the current high
man in the CIAA, Russell
Rogers of Maryland State. Re
fusing to “let anything come be
tween them” George and Dickie
are second and third, respective
ly, in the CIAA with identical
high hurdles times of 14:7, be
hind the league-leading Roger's’
14:2. Ranking fourth and fifth
in the lows, George boasts a
fractional edge over Dickie in
that event, the former clocking
25:5 and the latter 25:6. (Sta
tistics through April 8.)
Both athletes h^ve similar in
terests. George likes to read
socio-political works and to
“dig” jazz albums. Dickie,
similarly, is an assiduous reader
but can “take or leave” the
sounds. After he finishes , NCC
this spring, George plans to ful
fill his military obligations, then
to attend graduate school at the
University of Pennsylvania. He
wants to run at least four more
years. Dickie, other than balk
ing at the mention of “military
obligations”, has not made any
plans.
George sustained a knee in
jury last year that kept him out
of the ‘60 wars. Coach Walker
wisely started him running this
season before the snow had
melted, and is convinced that, if
both the Hearns continue
healthy, he will again bring
home the bacon from the CIAA
hurdles duels.
The Hearn brothers demonstrate their skill
Eagle Relayers Take Hampton Meet
NCC’ crack relay team cop- American anchorman who was
ped six events to lead the locals
to a 58-point total, enough to
capture the Hampton Institute
Quadrangular Relays April 4.
The host Hampton squad cap
tured second-place honors with
50 points.
The sprint relay team of Joe
Goodwater, Tomel Burke, Billy
Merritt, and Leon Waithe cap
tured the 440 and 880 tilts with
42.6 and 1:28.2 respectively. The
latter clocking was their best of
the season.
Appearing without the help of
Walt Johnson, NCC’s All-
out with a pulled muscle, the
mile relay squad flashed a 3:20
flat, with Goodwater leading
the individuals at 49 flat.
In the sprint medley the
Eagles ran almost without co(n-
petition to win with a 3:30.5
showing. Rod Lennon, Merritt,
Clifton Jackson and Lennie
Moore carried the maroon and
gray in that event.
In the two-mile relay Dave
Folk, Lennon, Clarence Wilson
and Lennie Moore nosed Hamp
ton at the tape at 8:25.7. With
George Hearn subbing Lennon,
NAPOLEON HORTON
Handy Ineligible
The ineligibility of Maurice
Handy, number one singles star
from Washington, D. C. serious
ly wounds NCC’s chances of re
capturing the CIAA tennis
crown.
A senior, Handy was found to
lack the necessary semester
hours for conference competi
tion. He is, however, free to
participate in non-conference
matches.
Handy will be replaced in the
top spot by Napoleon Horton,
another senior and Handy’s
partner in the doubles. Horton
will also assume the team cap
tain honors. Horton hails from
Winston-Salem.
Aldridge Completes
U.S. Army Course
Army Pvt. Herman L. Alridgei
Jr., whose wife, Shirley, lives at
800 E. Hargett St., Raleigh, N.
C., completed the transportation
movement specialist course at
The Transportation School, Fort
Eustis, Va., February 21.
Alridge was trained in the
techniques and procedure of
moving military supplies and
personnel by rail, water, motor
and air transport.
The 23-year-old soldier en-;
tered the Army last August and
completed basic combat training
at Fort Jackson, S. C. (
The son of Mrs. Ruby M. Al
ridge, 324 Pine St., Kinston,
he is a 1955 graduate of Adkin
High School and a I960 gradu
ate of North Carolina College.
this same group captured the
distance medley, a new event
for NCC, with 11:01.6.
NCC continued unbeatable in
the hurdles events. George
Hearn caught the closest chal
lenge from his teammate and
brother, Dickie. The Hearn boys
came in way ahead of the field
with 14.7 and 14.9 in the 120-
highs, and 25.5 and 25.8 in the
220-lows.