N. C College Gets $93,000 In Science Grants
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NCC And Duke Students March On Chapel Hill
175 Demonstrate
Support For Public
Accomodations
Over 175 North Carolina Col
lege and Duke University stu
dents and faculty members
marched 13 miles in sub-freez-
ing weather Sunday, January
12, to dramatize their support
for Chapel Hill’s proposed pub
lic accommodations law, which
was defeated the following Mon
day night by a 4-2 aldermen
vote. I
The marchers made their
“sacrifice for freedom” by
trudging from NCC’s B. N.
Duke Auditorium to the Negro
First Baptist Church in Chapel
Hill where a freedom rally was
held.
The group was met at East-
gate Shopping Center by an
other 175 UNC students and
townspeople. The entire group
walked the final miles to the
church.
Traffic slowed to a crawl on
U.S. Highway 15-501 as curi
osity seekers and integration
leaders stopped to watch.
The four-hour march was a
quiet one except for two minor
incidents. One involved heclc-
ling by members of UNC’s ATO
fraternity house. The other al
most led to blows when a man
who identified himself as the
Grand Dragon of the North Car
olina Ku Klux Klan threatened
to asjsault a cameraman who
took his picture.
Police' said no arrest were
made during the march.
The marchers carried signs
saying, “Freedom Now,” and
(See MARCH, page 2)
Campus
Echo
Volume XXIII—Number VIII Durham, N. C., Friday, January 17, 1964
Judge Lawson
Tells Students
To Prepare
A District of Columbia juve
nile court judge Monday told
North Carolina College students
that they must be prepared to
be flexible, adventurous, and
well-trained if they are to suc
ceed in a growing, changing,
and complex young world.
Associate Judge Marjorie Mc
Kenzie Lawson of the District
of Columbia Juvenile Court, ad
dressing the NCC Forum assem
bly, urged preparation “to the
teeth” as one step toward
achieving success in the years
ahead.
Judge Lawson, who was ap
pointed to the bench by the late
President John F. Kennedy in
1962, was the first Negro wom
an in history to be appointed by
a President and approved by the
Senate to a statutory appoint
ment.
Using a text from a sermon
and a prayer, both from James
Baldwin’s play “Blues for Mr.
Charlie,” and both comprising
an editorial in the January,
(See JUDGE TELLS, page 4)
Price 10c
Dr. Theodore R. Speigner Elected
To Durham Gty Board Of Education
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Dr. Theodore R. Speigner,
chairman of the North Carolina
College Department of Geogra
phy and director of the college’s
Division of Resource-Use Edu
cation, Monday was elected by
the Durham City Council to the
City Board of Education.
The election fills a vacancy
left by the death last year of
D. Eric Moore, dean of the NCC
School of Library Science, who
was the second Negro ever
elected to the Board.
Dr. Speigner, who is regard
ed as one of the nation’s fore
most conservation educators,
has headed the North Carolina
College Division of Resource-
STUDENTS AND FACULTY MEMBERS TRUDGE downhill,
braving freezing rain and sleet and strong winds, on their way to a
13-mile “freedom walk” to Chapel Hill.
The marchers, some 175 of them, made the walk in four Jiours.
They were demonstrating their support for a Chapel Hill public
acconmiodations law which was defeated the following Monday
night by a 4-2 aldermen vote.
Doris F. Greene In
Sr. Piano Recital
Doris F. Greene was present
ed by the North Carolina Col
lege Department of Music in her
senior recital, January 9 in B.
N. Duke Auditorium.
The concert consisted of six
pieces and was highlighted at
its terminal point with the Con
certo No. 1 in E. Flat by Liszt.
This piece was performed by
Miss Greene and her piano in
structor Mrs. Ruth H. Gillum.
Following the recital a recep
tion was given in the New Resi
dence Hall. In the receiving
line were Miss Doris Greene,
Dean L. M. Latham, Dean of
Women at North Carolina Col
lege, Mrs. Ethel V. Greene,
Mother of Doris Greene, and
Mrs. Ruth H. Gillimi.
Miss Greene, a native of
Statesville, North Carolina and
a music major at North Carolina
College at Durham has com
pleted her studies here and
plans to enter the New England
Conservatory in Boston, Massa
chusetts during the month o£
February.
Summer
To Get
Progr
Money
ams
NCC FACULTY MEMBERS OBSERVE a power supply unit which
will be used in electro-phoretic studies during two National Science
Foundation-sponsored summer science programs here.
The faculty members are, left to right. Dr. Norman Padnos,
Vernon Clark, Dr. C. E. Boulware Dr. Nell Hirschberg, and Dr.
Walter Pattillo.
Use Education for 15 years. A
teacher of the social sciences at
the college since 1948, he was
appointed professor of geog-
graphy in September of 1963.
raphy and chairman of the col
lege’s new Department of Ge-
orgraphy in September of 1963.
A native of Montgomery,
Alabama, he was educated in
the Montgomery public schools
and completed his secondary
work in the high school depart
ment of the Alabama State Col
lege. He holds the B.A. degree
from Talladega College, the
M.A. degree from the State
University of Iowa the Ph.D. de
gree from the University of
Iowa, the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Michigan, and the
LL.D. degree from Luther Col
lege.
In 1961 when he was award
ed the Ph.D. degree, he became
the first Negro in the United
States to receive the doctorate
in conservation and conserva-
(See DR. SPEIGNER, page 3)
Dean Brown Says
College Education
Key To More
North Carolina College Presi
dent Samuel P. Massie an
nounced recently that the insti
tution has been awarded grants
totaling $93,689.75 by the Na
tional Science Foundation for
the conduct of two concurrent
science programs during the
summer of 1964.
A grant of $77,625 will sup
port the college’s eighth Sum
mer Institute in Science and
Mathematics for Junior and
Senior High School Teachers of
Science and Mathematics.
A Suriimer Science Training
Program for High Ability Sec
ondary School Students will be
supported by a grant of $16,-
064.75.
Both programs begin June 8
and end July 18.
Summer Science Institute
Eighty junior and senior high
school teachers will be selected
to participate in the six-week
institute, to be directed by Dr.
Walter H. Pattillo, Jr., chairman
of the college’s Department of
Biology.
Offering courses in biology,
chemistry, and mathematics, the
institute is designed especially
for teachers whose college
training in these subjects does
not exceed two years. Accord
ing to Dr. Pattillo, preference
will be given teachers who have
never attended an institute apd
those having current teaching
schedules consisting of at least
50 percent science or mathemat
ics courses. The courses will
not yield graduate credit as in.
past years.
Grants to individuals will in
clude cash stipends for subsis
tence and will include allow
ances for travel and dependents.
(See NCC GETS, page 3)
Dr. S. L Render
New English Prof.
Dr. S. L. Render has been an
nounced by Dr. Samuel P. Mas
sie, President of North Carolina
College, as newly appointed
Professor of English in the Eng
lish Department. She was a
member of the Florida A. & M.
University faculty from 1950 to
the close of the fall quarter in
1963.
Before entering the teaching
profession in 1950, Professor
Render was employed by the
Ohio State Bureau of Unem
ployment Compensation, the U.
(See RENDER ADDED, page 4)
Dr. William H. Brown, Dean
of the Graduate School, said
that higher education is pre-
quisite for financial well being
as he spoke before the upper
classman assembly recently.
Dean Brown, who spoke on
the subject “Poor Man, Rich
Man, Beggar Man, Scholar,” said
a person who quits his education
at the high school level will
earn aroimd $150,000 during his
lifetime, while a person with
three years of college will earn
around $263,000 during his life
time.
He also said that a college
(See DEAN SAYS, page 4)
DR. SYLVLA. RENDER