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Volume XXIV — Number 2
Durham, North Carolina, Monday, October 26, 1964
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/%lii III I Belmont Coed Reigns
Cobb Lauds Homecoming Activities ^ Jn&nn Crownpd Ml^s NCC
NCC’s weekend was an “un- night when a pep rally was held IfJ-ULM JT Mj B M i/ly t IfXf/OO 1 1
NCC’s weekend was an “un
qualified success,” according to
Student Government president
Hilton Cobb.
Cobb said that he and the
Homecoming Committee are
“very pleased” with the spirit
and efficiency with which the
homecoming activities were
carried out. He further lauded
the students for the dignity and
restraint shown when emotions
had reason to be high.
“I am very pleased with the
homecoming weekend,” said
Cobb, “I consider it an unquali
fied success. We have received
many congratulations,” he con
tinued, “some from students and
many from persons in the Dur
ham community, and from city
officials.”
Reflecting on students’ past
action at homecoming activities,
the SGA president added, “I
want to commend the students
for the admirable way in which
they conducted themselves dur
ing the emotion-packed activ
ities. I did not observe,” he went
on, “any violent acts, or any
repugnances between the stu
dents and guests. At the un-
chaperoned activities, the stu
dents conducted themselves in
a dignified and respectable man
ner, which goes to show that we
as students can have good clean
fun without being watched over
as children,” Cobb concluded.
The homecoming activities be
gan Wednesday morning, Octo
ber 21, with students wearing
maroon and gray apparel, signi
fying school loyalty. But the
four-day festivities were not
kicked-o f f until Wednesday
night when a pep rally was held
in the Freshman Bowl.
The activities culminated
Saturday night with the annual
student homecoming dance in
McDougald Gymnasium.
A la^n dance in the Fresh
man Bowl highlighted the
second night’s festivities, and the
traditional mock funeral, and a
bon fire in front of O’Kelly
Field were the special events of
the third night.
Homecoming Day, Saturday,
was launched with a parade
which started at 9:30 A. M. at
Durham Athletic Park. The
parade traveled south on Morris
Street to Main Street, east on
Main Street to Dillard Street,
south on Dillard Street to Petti
grew Street. It then proceeded
east on Pettigrew to Fayette
ville Street, south on Fayette
ville Street to Pekoe Street
south, on Pekoe to Concord,
Street, north on Concord Street
and ended at Hillside High
School.
Led by NCC’s marching band,
the parade featured 11 high
school bands, 15 floats, 24 de
corated automobiles, two drill
teams, and several high school
patrol and scout units.
High school bands participat
ing in the parade were Hillside
High, Whitted Junior High, and
Merrick-Moore, all of Durham;
Lincoln High of Chapel Hill;
Wicker High of Sanford; Cas
well County High of Yancey-
ville^ the Colored Orphanage of
Oxford; Johnston County Train
ing School of Smithfield; and
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MISS NCC CROWNED—Miss Mary Jane Logan, a North Carolina
senior Psychology major from Belmont, North Carolina, is crowned
Miss NCC by Dr. Samuel P. Massive at the coronation of Miss NCC.
Class Officers, Queens Elected
‘MISS HOMECOMING’ IN DOWNTOWN PARADE—^Miss Beverly
A. Smith, a senior sociology major from Greensboro and North
Carolina College’s “Miss Homecoming,” waves during the college’s
downtown parade marking the annual Homecoming.
NCC undergraduate students
elected in a campus-wide elect
ion on October 3, 1964 their
class officers and queens. Clark
E. Scales, Eddie Martin, Joseph
Sampson, and Howard L. Hunt
er were chosen presidents of the
Senior, Junior, Sophomore, and
Freshman Classes, respectively.
Beverly Smith, a senior, was
elected to reign over the 1964
Homecoming festivities.
In the Senior Class election.
Scales, with a total of 87 votes,
was opposed by Irby Logan with
42 votes and Freddie Hicks with
52 votes. Other Senior Class
officers are Brenda Froneber-
ger, vice-president; Claudine
Daye, secretary; and Gwendolyn
Peace, Mary C. Williams, Clin
ton Wilson, Carol Hall, and
Dianne Riggs, representatives to
the Student Congress.
Eddie Martin, with 88 votes,
defeated Gordon Moore, with
38 votes, to become president of
the Junior Class. Charles Clin
ton was elected vice-president;
Esther Bonds, secretary; Caro
lyn Collins and Ida Leverette,
Student Congress representa
tives.
Joseph Sampson, who ran un
opposed, was chosen Sophomore
Class president. His fellow of
ficers are Mary Alice Bailey,
vice-president; Sandra Knuck
les, secretary; and Margie Ellis,
treasurer. Representatives to the
Student Congress are Raymond
Perry, Danny Neal, Jeffrey
Borden, Jessie Costen, Barbara
Maynor, Elizabeth Bethea,
Thomas Johnson, Charles Mor
gan, and Carol Midgette.
By a very slim margin How
ard Hunter defeated Charles E.
Scott to become president of
the Freshman Class. Hunter had
142 votes to Scott’s 140. Oliver
Leary was the third candidate
for the presidency with 28
votes. The vice-president is
James Enoch; other officers are
Ann Sue Wilson, secretary;
Shirley Barfield, treasurer; Val-
jean Griggs, Robert Stevens,
Ruth Whitehead, Robert Milton,
Warren Harris, Freida Smith,
Brenda Williams, and Cecelia
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Band To Make
D. C., N. Y. Trips
The North Carolina College
Marching Band will make two
trips during this 1964-65 foot
ball season. It will accompany
the N. C. C. football team toi
Washington, D. C. to participate
in the D. C. Classic between the
North Carolina College Eagles
and the Shaw University Bears.
On December 4, 1964, the band
will take its second trip to New
York to participate during the
half-time ceremonies of the
New York Giants and the Min
nesota Vikings, on December S',
1964.
According to Richard H. Jones
and Charles E. Bowling, direc
tors of the band, performances
this year will decide the future
activities with the teams of the
National Football League.
, Miss Mary Jane Logan was
crowned Miss North Carolina
College on October 16, in the R.
L. McDougald Gymnasium.
The senior coed from Bel
mont, North Carolina, was
crowned by President S. P. Mas-
sie as her maids of honor.
Misses Jackie Horne and Bonnie
Broadway, looked on. Crown
and scepter bearers were Miss
Karen Stith and Master Gene
Tatum.
Other participants in the
coronation were the fraternity
queens: Jean Fitzhugh, (the
House of Alpha), Frances Mc
Intyre, (the House of Sigma)
and Fay Robinson (the House of
Omega). Class attendants were
Edith Turner, Lovinia Vance,
Joyce Jones, and Dianne Carro-
way, representing the Freshmen,
Sophomore, Junior and Senior
Classes, respectively.
A graduate of Reid High
School, Miss Logan is a psy
chology major and a biology
minor. She is a member of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
the Psychology Club, NAACP,
and is a senior counselor alter
nate. During 1963-64, she
reigned as queen of the Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
Miss Logan, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Guy S. Conley,
became the seventeenth coed to
be crowned Miss North Carolina
College. She succeeds Miss Con
stance Black of Durham, North
Carolina.
A reception and coronation
ball were held in the queen’s
honor in McDougald Gym
nasium immediately following
the. crowning.
Moot Court
Competition Set
The North Carolina College
Student Bar Association will
participate the seventh year in
the fifteenth annual Moot Court
Competition.
Regional competition will be
held at Duke University, with
the first round of arguments be
ginning on Friday, November
13, 1964 at 7:00 P. M. The
North Carolina College team
will bye (will not argue as de
cided by a previous drawing)
in the first round of legal ar
gumentations. However, the
“Eagle” team is scheduled to
plunge into the second round of
arginments which will begin at
9:30 a.m. on Saturday, Novem
ber 14.
As of this time, the three-man
team which will represent N.
C. C. has not been chosen. How
ever, the debaters will be se
lected prior to regional compe
tition on the basis of knowledge
of the problem presented and
the ability to present it in oral
debate.
This year the Moot Court
problem involves two major
issues; jurisdiction of a foreign
corporation based on minimum
contract and product liability.
Being one of two predomi
nantly Negro schools (South
Carolina State College is the
other predominantly Negro
school) in the Fourth Circuit of
(see Moot Court Page 5)