Principls’ Conference
To Be Held July 29-30
The program for North Caro
lina College’s fifteenth annual
Principals-Supervisors Confer
ence, scheduled for Thursday
and Friday, July 29-30, will in
clude three addresses, group dis
cussions, an evaluation session,
and a social hour. The agenda
was released this week by Dr.
F. G. Shipman, chairman of the
college’s Department of Educa
tion and chairman of the con
ference.
Following the theme, “The
Impact of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 on School Desegrega
tion,” the conference will be
gin with registration from 12:30
to 2 p.m., Thursday in the foyer
of the college’s Education
Building.
The first of the sessions—-all
to be held in the auditorium of
the building—will begin at
2 p.m. and will feature the key
note speaker. Dr. Tinsley L.
Spraggins of the technical as
sistance branch of the Equal
Educational Opportunities Pro
gram of the U. S. office of Edu
cation, Washington, D. C., who
An estimated 1200 to 1500
applications were expected to
be filed in the North Carolina
College Dean of Students’ of
fice for financial assistance un
der the National Defense Stu
dent Loan Program for the
1965-66 academic year.
According -to John L. Ste
wart, acting dean of student's,
an estimated 925 students will
qualify for and receive aid un
der the program, which is fi
nanced by the federal govern
ment (90 percent) and the col
lege (10 percent).
Stewart revealed that $450,00
is available for applicants en
rolled during the 1965-66 school
year and the 1966 summer
school but emphasized that that
amount would still not be
enough if everyone were given
SiiniiTicr,
will speak on the conference
theme.
Thursday evening at 8 o’clock.
Dr. Theodore R. Speigner,
chairman of the NCC Depart
ment of Geography and a mem
ber of the Durham school board,
will disciiss the topic, “The Role
of the Local School Board in
the Implementation of the Civil
Rights Act.”
Following Dr. Speigner’s ad
dress and a subsequent discus
sion period will be a social hour
in the James E. Shepard Me
morial Library.
The final session, scheduled
for Friday at 9 a.m., will be
addressed by E. B. Palmer, exe
cutive secretary of the North
Carolina Teachers Association,
whose subject will be “De
segregation in the Public
Schools of North Carolina;
Problems and Prospects.”
Palmer will focus on the
problem of the displacement of
Negro teachers in the state as
desegregation advances, Ship
man stated.
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Volume XI—Number 2
Durham, North Carolina
Friday, July 30, 1965
Assistance Requests Are
Running High For 65-66
the amount he requested. A
problem, therefore, he said, is
cutting down—where and how
much—and yet distributing the
money widely so that students
who otherwise could not do so
might be able to remain in
school.
Mrs. Mae McMillon, secretary
of the NDSLP, indicated that
incoming freshmen are being
notified of their qualification
and all students are expected to
be notified by July 31. She
pointed out that there has been
a noticeable increase in the
number of out-of-state applica
tions over last year, especially
from New York and New Jer
sey.
Stewart said, “If students
drop out, the loan becomes due
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CHECKING APPLICATIONS—Examining a portion of the appli
cations for financial assistance to Study at NCC are John L. Stewart,
acting dean of students, Miss Sandra Knuckles, and Mrs. Mae
McMillon.
About 925 students are expected to receive loans under the pro
gram, sponsored jointly by the college and the federal government.
Miss Pennie Perry
Is New Librarian
Miss Pennie Perry, a member
of the North Carolina College
visiting summer faculty in li
brary science for the past two
years, has been named head li
brarian at the college, succeed
ing Dr. Benjamin F. Smith, who
resigned in June to accept a
position with the Anti-Poverty
Program in Baltimore, Md.
The announcement was made
Monday by President Samuel
P. Massie, who indicated that
Miss Perry’s appointment is ef
fective September 1, 1965.
A native of Wendell, North
Carolina, Miss Perry holds the
B. S. degree from Shaw Uni
versity, the M. S. from the
University of Michigan, the M.S.
in L.S. from Syracuse Univer
sity, and has completed resi
dence requirements for the
Ph.D. in librarianship at the
University of Chicago.
In addition to teaching at
NCC, she has held visiting
posts in library science at South
Carolina State College and
Florida A & M University. In
1962-63, she served as an as
sistant reference librarian at
the University of Chicago. From
1946 to 1963 she was librarian
at the Second Ward High
School, Charlotte.
In 1962, Miss Perry became
the first school librarian and
the first Southerner to receive
the E. P. Dutton-John McCrae
Award of $1,000. The award has
been renewed two times.
259 Earn Spring
Semester Honors
Two hundred and fifty-nine
North Carolina College students
earned places on the college’s
second semester honor roll, a re
port released this week by Willie
L. Bryant, registrar, revealed.
Earning grades of 2.000 (B)
or higher in all courses taken
during the semester were 57
freshmen, 38 sophomores, 63
juniors, and 101 seniors.
Fifty-one of the students are
on the Dean’s List, designated
for junior and senior honor stu
dents who post cumulative
grade-point averages of 2.000 or
above for all courses taken at
the college.
Sampson Named Dean
Of NCC School 01 Law
Faculty Members
Promoted In Rank
North Carolina College Presi
dent Samuel P. Massie Saturday
announced promotions for four
of the college’s faculty members.
The changes in rank, ap
proved by the institution’s
Board of Trustees at its last
meeting, are the following: Dr.
Cecil L. Patterson, English and
acting director of the Summer
School, from associate professor
to professor; LeMarquis DeJar-
mon, law, from associate pro
fessor to professor; Dr. Bernice
Wade, education, from instruc
tor to assistant profesor; and
Miss Jean K. Norris, English,
from instructor to assistant pro
fessor.
Geography Major
Is Summer Intern
Raymond Johnson, a junior
geography major at North Caro
lina College, is employed this
summer as a trainee in the Di
vision of Geography of the
United States Department of the
Interior, Dr. Theodore R. Speig
ner, chairman of the college’s
Department of Geography, in
dicated recently.
Johnson is the first major in
the Department of Geography
to be invited to secure work-
experience and training in cart
ography with the Department of
the Interior. He was selected
during the spring semester by
officials of the Association of
American Geographers and re
presentatives of the Department
of the Interior.
Daniel G. Sampson, professor
of Law at North Carolina Col
lege, was recently named dean
of the School of Law, succeed
ing Dr. Albert L. Turner, who
retired in June after serving 23
years in the position.
The announcement was made
following the July 21 meeting
of the Board of Trustees at
which the board approved
DANIEL G. SAMPSON
President Samuel P. Massie’s
recommendation of Sampson to
the post.
Sampson, who joined the NCC
faculty in 1950, is a native of
Sumter, S. C. A, graduate of
Morehouse College, he earned
the M. A. degree at Atlanta
University and the LL.B. and
LL.M. degrees at Boston Uni
versity.
A veteran of World War II,
he was a staff sergeant in the
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NATURE LOVER—Much like poet Joyce Kilmer, Barbara Taylor
sees “Trees” as’ objects for admiration, and from beneath the ‘leafy
arms” of one of the many which dot the campus, she scans the
scene at NCC.
Born in Brooklyn, the junior [Secretarial science major enjoys swim
ming, dancing and Singing jazz. She plays cornet and works part-
time in the circulation and reference department of the college’s
library.