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Volume XXIV — Number 5
Durham, North Carolina, January, 1965
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Massie Reviews Progress Of 1964 Term
Dr. Sylvia Render, left, NCC professor of English, and Hilton
Cobb, president of the Student Government Association, join Presi
dent Samuel P. Massie, right, in examining paperback books in
the college’s bookstore as NCC prepares to initiate a campuswide
cultural reading program.
The program, financed from a grant by Miss Doris Duke, will
be directed by a faculty-student committee headed by Dr. Bender
and will involve wide distribution of paperbacks among campus
residence halls.
Cultural Reading Plan Established
President Samuel P. Massie
announces the establishment of
a cultural reading program, de
signed “to make reading good
books for pleasure one of the
easiest and most common ex
periences on the North Caro
lina College campus.”
This program, which will be
one of the activities financed
from a grant given by Miss
Doris Duke, will be under the
direction of a committee of fa
culty and students, with Dr.
Sylvia Render, Professor of
English, serving as chairman.
The initial plan calls for the
SNEA Makes
Semester Plans
The James E. Shepard Chap
ter of the Student National Edu
cation Association is planning
several activities for its mem
bers during the second semester.
The calendar of events includes
a visit to the Morehead Plane
tarium in Chapel Hill, a party
in honor of the student teachers,
a visit to the open house at Hill
side High School, a faculty-at-
home night, and the annual
S.N.E.A. picnic. A debate on the
subject “Should Prayer Be Per
mitted in Public School?” with
students of North Carolina Col
lege’s Law School as guest par
ticipants is also being planned.
Current officers of the organi
zation are Joe Lynch, president;
Dorothy Sherrod, vice presi
dent; Marlene White, secretary;
Joan Alston, assistant secretary;
Andrea Blue, treasurer; and La-
Vern Carter, reporter.
To date, 44 persons have
joined the James E. Shepard
Chapter of the SNEA.
President Samuel P. Massie
reviewed for members of the
North Carolina College faculty
progress made at the college
during the year 1964, a year
which he characterized as “one
of consolidation, progress, and
strengthening.”
He spoke January 5 at the
college’s January meeting of the
general faculty and addressed
the group on the subject, “North
Carolina College in 1964,” list
ing the following activities and
highlights for the year:
—A fulltime enrollment of
2530, the largest regular enroll
ment in the college’s history and
an Increase of 164 over 1963-64.
—A faculty holding 65 doc-
toral degrees—an increase over
1963-64.
—A gift of over $53,000 from
the Doris Duke Foundation from
which the college has purchased
a film library, materials for the
Honors Program, and has estab
lished cultural programs and
provided student travel. Massie
indicated that the grant will al
so provide increEised audio-vi
sual equipment and will defray
costs of bringing consultants to
the campus for the college s self
planning program.
—The initiation of a self-
planning study, a critical exami
nation of the college as it pre
pares for the 1966-67 decade and
subsequent years.
—A faculty institute at which
the faculty reexamined some of
its objectives and goals for the
1964-65 school year.
—Grants totaling more than
$184,656 for the summer of 1964
which brought approximately
278 teachers to the campus.
—Grant totaling $121,545 for
the summer of 1965 for the con
duct of three National Science
Foundation institutes in the sci
ences. “These are the ones ap>-
proved thus far and include one
for college teachers of microbio
logy—the only one of its kind
in the country,” he said, indi
cating that several other pro
grams are being considered for
subsidies by various agencies
and foundations.
—A grant of $300,000 to the
University of Wisconsin under
which North Carolina College
is participating in a faculty ex
change program.
—Introduction of a require-
(see Massie Reviews, Page 4)
Job Opportunities Enviable: Malone
placing of a large number of
paperback books in the reading
lounges of all of the residence
halls, so that students may have
easy access to them. Later,
selected magazines and other
forms of literature will be add
ed.
Similar cultural programs in
music and art are also envision
ed and will be announced later.
This cultural reading program
is one of several activities de
signed to increase the interest in
reading and to assist in gener
al self-improvement of North
Carolina College students.
Speigner Named
To Heritage Post
Dr. Theodore R. Speigner,
chairman of the Department of
Geography and director of the
Division of Resource-Use Edu
cation, has been invited by Dr.
Alfred E. Cain, editorial direc
tor, Educational Heritage, Inc.,
to serve on the national advi
sory board of the Negro Herit
age, Library.
In extending the invitation,
Dr. Cain said: “This is to invite
you to join the National Ad
visory Board of what we here
at the Educational Heritage con
sider the most essential, the most
challenging, and the most monu
mental and most exciting pub
lishing project of the era: “The
Negro Heritage Library.”
The Library hopes to correct
the “cultural black-out” of the
Negro’s contributions to the tot
al American experience, said Dr.
Cain, and anticipates eventual
production of a 20-volume shelf
of books which will portray
many facets of Negro life and
(see Speigner Named, Page 4)
WILLIE FAISON
Faison Awarded
Legislative Grant
Willie E. Faison, a NCC
junior, has been awarded a
grant to serve as a legislative
intern with the N. C. General
Assembly for the period Janu
ary 27 to May 28, 1965.
Faison, along with interns
from other institutions, will
serve as a legislator’s assistant
and for the spring semester will
piursue academic studies at N.C.
State College of the University
of North Carolina in Raleigh.
Courses of study will consist of
the legislative process, problems
of state government, and a
(see Faison Awarded, Page 6)
The rush for qualified Negro
applicants for postions in rapid
ly opening areas of employment
continues, William P. Malone,
director of the Placement Bu
reau, indicated recently.
“At NCC, we’re flooded with
requests for recommendations
of seniors and graduates to an
ever widening range of posi
tions, msny of them paying
starting salaries of over $7,000,”
he declared.
“In fact, we’re unable to make
recommendations to many in
dustrial corporations because we
either can’t supply persons with
the special training they want
or we don’t have enough seniors
majoring in the particular areas
from which such training might
be gained. I’m sure other schools
like NCC face a similar situ
ation,” he continued.
As he anticipates the spring
deluge of recruiting representa
tives from industrial, govern
mental, educational, and what
he terms “m iscellaneous”
agencies and organizations, Ma
lone compares the outlook this
year with last year’s.
“Because of increased coope
ration by various organizations,
state and local, with the late
President Kennedy’s fair em
ployment directives, more than
50 per cent. of the 400-member
NCC class of 1964 entered ‘non-
traditional,’ fields of employ
ment for Negroes.
By ‘non-traditional,’ I mean
professions other than teaching,
(see Job Opportunities Page 3)
Teacher Education
Program Studied
Many of the North Carolina
College faculty are presently
engaged in a comprehensive
study to evaluate the college’s
teacher education program in
terms of a new “program ap
proach” which has been adopted
by the State Board of Education.
In an effort to improve the edu
cation in North Carolina, more
responsibility is being placed
ui>on each institution of higher
learning in the state for prepar
ing well-qualified teacher grad
uates. To meet this responsi
bility, the North Carolina Col
lege faculty is examining all as
pects of the four-year program,
as well as the standards for se
lecting and retaining students
(see Teacher Education Page 3)
In a familiar campus Scene students form a triple line in front of the college cafeteria. The scene
calls attention to one of the major problems of the student body, accentuated by the onset of winter.