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JULY 2
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MATTIWILDA
DOBBS
JULY 2
Volume IX — Number I
Durham, N. C., Monday, June 11, 1962
Price: 15c
College Has Strong Summer Faculty
(See Photo
For the 1962 Summer School,
consisting of a regular nine
week session of course work and
a series of six weeks special
programs, North Carolina Coli
lege has assembled a distinguish
ed faculty of resident and visi
ting professors.
In charge is Dr. J. H. Taylor,
director.
The faculty lists, released
earlier, reveals the names o|
prominent NCC professors as
Foundations Give
NCC $130,000
The Southern Education Foun
dation is cooperating with the
college in sponsoring three pro
grams for the 1962 summer
school.
These include the Sixth-Year
Program in educational admin
istration, for which the Foun
dation has granted $4,465.00;
the Suiruner Institute for Train^
ing Leadership in the Utiliza
tion of New Instructional Media,
which will oi>erate on a $2,133.-
75 award from SEF; and the
Reading Institute for Supervis
ors, for which the Southern
Education Foundation has given
NCC $1,933.75.
The total amount contributed
’>y the Foundation to summer
programs at NCC is $8,532,50.
When added to the $97,900 con-i
tributed by the National De^
fense Education Act, this brings
the total contributions to subT
sidized programs at NCC for the
coming summer to $119,687.50.
In addition to the above
amounts, the Southern Educa
tion Foundation is contributing
$10,200 for 4 Ph.D. students bei
ginning in September.
Most of the SEF money being
ijsed in connection with sum^
mer programs will be devoted
to scholarships, 20 in the Sixth-
Year Program, 16 in Audio
visuals, and 15 in Reading.
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well as distinguished visitors,
including a school superinten-i
dent, principals, deans, division,
chairmen, and professors from
other institutions, and public
school teachers and administra
tors.
In the session from Jxme 9
through August 7, the NCC
Summer School will feature
workshops in alcoholic educa
tion, audio-visual education,
reading, language arts, science,
and counseling and guidance, in
addition to the regular nine
week’s complement of courses in
various academic areas.
The faculty of 77 includes 57
resident professors and 20 visi
tors.
Dr. Joseph M. Johnston, su
perintendent of public schools
in Chapel Hill, N. C., is slated
to ,teach courses in educational
administration.
Dr. Theresa K. Brown, acting
head of the Home Economics De
partment at Morgan State Col
lege, is slated to teach home
economics.
In addition to Johnston,
another public school adminis
trator, Thebaud Jeffers, princi
pal at the Highland High School
of Gastonia, will also teach
courses in education.
Also slated for instruction in
the department of education are:
Dr. Melvin Moore, chairman o^
the division of education at
Miles College, Birmingham,
Ala.; Dr. Lafayette Parker, pro-i
fessor of education at Winston-
Salem Teachers College; Mrsj
Ruth L. Anderson, Roanoke,
Virginia City Schools; Mrs. G.
Eunice Cooper, Roanoke, Vir
ginia City Schools; Dr. Marjorie
H. Parker, Maryland Statel
Teachers College (Bowie).
The largest nimiber of visiting
professors are associated with
clinics, institutes, and work
shops as follows:
AUDIO VISUAL EDUCATION
INSTITUTE: Christopher M.
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OPENING DAY PRINCIPALS—Principals n the opening day activities of the NCC Summer
School shown above are Dr. J. H. Taylor, Summer School Director, who presided at the faculty and
dinner meetings Friday; Dr. Alfonso Elder, President, and Dr. Harold A. Haswell, opening speaker at
the Friday night Summer School Dinner. Dr. HaSwell is an official of the U. S. Office of Education.
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Enrollment May Reach 1500 In 1962 Summer School
Preliminary counts here
Saturday lent substance to the
forecast of a record Summer
School enrollment in excess of
1500 as large numbers of stu
dents were on hand for opening
day. '
This “good showing” despite
the unusual opening day, Satur
day, suggested a continued up
ward swing in NCC Summex*
School enrollmenc which has
tieen mounting steadily over the
past several years.
Registration continues on a
formal basis Monday with major
“station” at designated depart
mental headquarters in various
buildings and central “head
quarters” in the Women’s Gym
nasium. After that, the office of
the Summer School Director, the
Registrar and various deans oij
instruction will handle the pro
cessing of students.
The 1962 session got under
way Friday afternoon with the
first faculty meeting in the Com
merce Building, followed Friday
night with a dinner for the en
tire Summer School faculty and
staff.
Dinner speaker was Dr,
Harold A. Haswell, director o^
the Higher Education Programs|
Branch of the U.S. Office of
Education.
In the faculty meeting Friday,
Summer School Director Dr. J.
H. Taylor introduced visiting
professors and laid “guidelines”
for the 1962 summer session. Dr.
Taylor, under whose direction
the NCC Summer School enroll
ment has shown phenomenal in
crease, stressed the “friendly at
mosphere” prevailing at NCC
and the high quality of the in
structional program.
He called attention to the
“outstanding persons on our
summer faculty” and atttributed
the growth of the summer pro
gram to “this high quality of
instruction” and to the spirit of
cooperation and friendliness
which prevails.
Dr. Taylor also announced
“the first and only” assembly o|
the summer for Monday, June '
11, in the B. N. Duke Audi
torium with Dr. Alfonso Elder,
president, as main speaker.
In addition, Dr. Tayjor an
nounced the scheduled appear- ,
ance of famed Metropolitarv,
opear star Mattiwilda Dobbs on\
July 2, highlighting the Summer '
School lyceam seiies. She v«ll
sing in the B. N. Duke Audi
torium.
Preparation for the Summei*
School has been in progress
since the close of the 1961 sum
mer term, which accounts for
the smooth progress of opera
tions now underway. Dates were
announced from the Office oi
the Director prior to the close of
the ‘61 Summer School.
Of unusual assistance to stu
dents and faculty members alike
this year is the well organized
Summer School Bulletin, listing,
in addition to information onJ
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Harry Golden Sees Early First Class Citizenship For Negroes
All obstacles to the Negro’s
achievement of first-class citi
zenship will be removed “in
your life time,” Harry Golden,
famed author, told candidates
for graduation at North Carolinai
College on June 3.
Golden warned the 377 candi-i
dates, however, that removal of
segregation and discrimination,
barriers will mean “greater, not
less, responsibility” for th^m.
The Negro’s salvation, he con
tinued, lies in “more education
and greater political activity,”
both recommended to the gradu
ates as “the only way for you
in a world where Negroes will
have to take pot luck with all
other Americans.”
President Alfonso Elder in
troduced the commencement
speaker, in NCC’s 37th finals
celebration, and conferred de
grees.
Outstanding among degree
recipients were 27 undergradu
ates who finished with honors
and three students who received
law degrees.
Honor students included: Ed
ward Bosier, Wilmington, and
Fred C. Icard, Lenoir, “summa
cum laude”; Mae Frances Bar
ham, Knightdale; Hayworth L.
Bradley, High Point; Alphonso
Gantt, Winston-Salem; Larry In
gram, Durham; Donnie Rose
McNeill, Durham; Wilma M.
Pridgen,' Raleigh; and Eliza
Rose Tate, Morganton, “magnai
cum laude.”
Graduates who finished “cum
laude” include: Aljosie Baker,
Salisbury; Betty E. Barnes,
Weldon; William Crowder, Char
lotte; Beverly E. Davis, Rocky
Mount; William P. Evans, Phila
delphia, Pa.; Joseph H. Fryar,
Durham; Evelyn Christine Hall,
Plymouth; Oxyvenia Hughley,
Fayetteville; Elizabeth Jones,
Durham; Jean Quetta Lloyd,
Council; Vivian Mary Lloyd,
Rocky Mount; William McPhat-
ter, Sanford, Alma D. Melvin,
Fayetteville; Mary J. Mills,
Jackson; Thaddeus S. Moore,
Maysville; Carolyn Smith, East
Orange, N. J.; Mary A. William
son, Clinton; and William E.
Wilson, Durham.
Graduates in law, with LL.B
degress, Lawrence B. Ennett of
Wilson, N. C.; Russell C. Wash
ington, Dillwyn, Va.; and Rich
ard A. Young, Seattle, Washing
ton.
In his conmiencement address.
Golden said Negroes must exert
themselves politically, especially
in voting. “And do not fret about
what your enemies call “bloo
voting.” Each group believes its
program is in the best interests
of the United States.”
Speaking of education as a re
sponsibility, he said there must
be nothing short of a “mad
stampede” of the Negroes of the
South into the classrooms of
America. “Education, like love,
will find a way, even if you have
to study by the light of the
moon.”
In addition to the main
speaker, several local dignitaries
took part on the NCC com-^
mencement program, including
Father Thomas P. Hadden, St.
Teresa of Avila Church, invoca-.
tion; Rev. William Fuller, Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, scripture;
Dr. J. H. Hubbard, Sr., presenta
tion of Bibles to the graduates;
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