VlSC-NCC Musical October 14-16 Details — See Announcement In Cafeteria Lobby Campus s* flarrVs ^v, C8iX*0^ r eo£> 'Ttont^ ^onoUfM (^aUe^ int , Durham, North Carolina, October 7, 1966 •isrffo WILLIAM JONES, tHAlRMAN OF INTERIM COMMITTEE NCC Engages In Challenge Drive By Brenda Hart North Carolina College has accepted the challenge to par ticipate in a “Matching Grant” project of $1 million according to the development officer Dr. Charles W. Orr, NCC professor of education. Before the Execu tive Committee of North Caro lina College last spring, Dr. Orr discussed the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation project as the de velopment project for the aca demic year 1966-67. Details of the “Plan for Ap plying the $1 million ‘Matching Grant’ of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation give the most im portant criteria. ‘An important aspect of the plan for the distribution of the appropriation is its ‘matching Financial Aid Open To Seniors THE CHAIN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION is currently awarding Scholarships of up to $1,000 to enable needy students to complete their college edu cation. If you are a senior in need of funds; if you plan to seek em ployment upon graduation rather than undertake a post graduate curriculum; if your grades are of degree candidate Status; and if, when you are able, you will help CHAIN sup port future needy students— YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE. THE CHAIN SCHOLARSHIP program has been in existence for four years, and is available in over three hundred colleges. Its approach to the scholarship problem is unique in two major concepts: faith in the average man; and faith in his integrity to assume a moral, rather than a legal obligation, and thus be come a vital link in a chain re action which can grow to pass along an endless continuum of help from those who were once in similar circumstances. To apply for a CHAIN SCHOLARSHIP, obtain an ap plication from the college Fi nancial Aid Office, or write directly to; The Chain Scfiolarship Foundation P. O. Box 203 Armonk, New York 10504 formula.’ In devising this for mula, an effort has been made to give the effect to the princi pal consideration which moti vated the Foundation’s trustees in authorizing this grant, name ly, to encourage the member colleges to establish develop ment offices and development plans, and to increase the flow of funds from alumni and local givers. The matching formula, within the prescribed limits of the grants, is as follows: (a) $1 of Foundation money for every $1 raised by the in stitution from alumni of that institution; (b)$l of Foundation money for every $2 raised by the institu tion from private donors with in the State in which the insti tution is located; (c) $1 of Foundation money for every $3 which the institu tion raised from any other pri vate source (funds received by any of the colleges from the United Negro College Fund will not be counted); (d) no institution will qualify to receive funds under the grant unless it has satisfied the ap propriate co-director of the CCDP that it has complied with one of the requirements of membership in that organiza tion, namely, to establish a de velopment office. The operation of this grant will be limited to a two-year period which commenced No vember 1965 and will end No vember 1967. The ceiling as re spects the amount of Foundation matching money to be made available to any institution in Group I will be $66,666. One half of this amount, of $33,333, will constitute the ceiling for in stitutions in Group II. Should any institutions in Group I fail to “earn” the maximum of $66, 666 within the prescribed two- year period, an opportunity will be given such other institutions in Group I as have over-sub- scribed their respective quotas to match these unearned funds. Similarly, should any institu tion in Group II fail to “earn” its maximimi of $33,333 within the prescribed two-year period, an opportunity will be given the remaining institutions in Group II which have oversubscribed their respective quotas to match these unearned funds. (See NCC Engages, Page 5) JONES: NCC MUST TOP LOCAL, REGIONAL NORMS North Carolina College’s ac ademic performance must top local and regional norms, and “We must gear ourselves, our teaching, and our programs for the national norms of academic expectation and academic per formance,” stated William Jones, chairman of the Interim Committee at the annual facul ty institute in September. Jones, addressing a session of the annua] faculty institute, said: “The Interim Committee is concerned about the findings of this institute and the outcomes of our future faculty meetings on these topics. Furthermore, we assure you that we plan to implement these findings to the full extent of the availability of funds, personnel, and facilities.” The two-day institute follow ed the theme, “Implications of Local, Regional, and National Norms of Performance for North Carolina College.” Jones, citing the appearance of the 1966 Wallace Report Union Director Assumes Post Thurman Prescott, Jr. was nanjed-^rector of the North Cj*tolina College student union in September. According to John L. Stew art, acting dean of students who made the announcement, his du- THURMAN PRESCOTT, JR. ties began immediately. Though construction of NCC’s $1 million student union has not begun, the college during the summer converted the old cafeteria building to temporary student union use beginning with the opening of the fall se mester, providing lounges, re creation areas, and offices for student organizations and some of the college’s auxiliary units. A native of Baton Rouge ,La., Prescott was graduated from the DeSota Parish Tr aini.ng School, Mansfield, La., and re ceived the B. A. degree from Southern University in 1959. Active in student affairs, he was president of his class for three years, was editor of his college yearbook, and was a member of the Southern area YMCA council for two years. Following four years of ser vice in the U. S. Navy, he re turned to Southern University in 1963 and served as program director of the student imion until resigning to accept the NCC position. which concluded that p>erf6rm- ances on the National Teacher Examination by students from predominantly Negro institu tions fell below those in other Group Organizes Club For Readers A sustained interest in read ing books for pleasure and a desire to share this interest with other North Carolina Col lege students prompted a group of N.C.C. faculty, staff, and stu dents to organize a book club in September. The idea of organizing this club was offered at the May meeting of the Cultural Read ing Program Committee, which is composed of N. C. C. faculty, staff, and students. This club has for the past two years been engaged in selecting and plac ing in various student imits on campus paperback books pur chased with funds furnished by the Doris Duke Foundation. At least three well-attended book reviews have been sponsored by related committees in three dormitories and other activities have been suggested. As conceived, the book club will serve as a campus-wide student organization to encour age reading for fun and to sponsor related activities. During a cook-out sponsored by the faculty and staff com mittee members for active and interested students, at the home of Dr. Sylvia Lyons Render, Grova Bridges was elected temporary chairman, Brenda Carpenter, acting secretary, and Dr. Render, temporary advisor. Others present included, Aaron Graham, Miss Joyce Mc Neil, Thurston Vick, Miss Jes sie Coston, Miss Levonia Rich ardson, Miss Carol Lipsey, Miss Janice Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Rus sell Adams, Mrs. E. G. Williams, George Phillips, Mrs. Edna Lambeth, Samuel Thomas, Floyd Hayes, Mrs. Lorraine Hayes, Miss Lenora Moragne, Gregory Karmerstein, and Mrs. Joyce Bolden. Another formal meeting was planned for the near future. (See Group Organizes, Page 3) institutions, said, “Those of you who were in North Carolina this summer perhaps know the im pact this published report has had on high state officials from the Governor down.” Expressing concern over the high attrition rate at NCC (22 per cent, he declared that (See NCC Must, Page 7) Chappell Named Ministry Director */ John F. Chappell, 27, a na tive of Beaufort, South Caro lina, was appointed director of North Carolina College’s United Campus Christian Ministry in September, as announced by the NCC Interim Committee. He succeeded Henry G. El kins, director since 1962, who resigned to study toward the doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago. The Reverend Chappell, who received his early education in the public schools of Southern Pines, was awarded the B.S. de gree. by Wake Forest College in 1961. He received the B.D. de gree from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1965 and the S.T.M. from the Union Theological Seminary in May of 1966. He has been employed as a chaplain at the Boy Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexi co; an actor in “The Lost Colo ny" at Manteo, N C.; and recently an intern in the Stu dent Interracial Ministry, a New York City urban project. Chappell, who has performed with various summer stock and little theatre companies, pro duced and directed “Inherit the Wind” and “Waiting for Godot” while at the Southeastern Bap tist Theological Seminary. He also toured with “A Sleep for Prisoners” to churches in North Carolina. For 17 weeks in 1965, he appeared on “Reviewing Stand,” a weekly radio program relating religion to various the atrical and cultural events in the New York metropolitan area. He also participated in holding worship services for prisoners at the Queens House of Detention in New York while an intern in the Student Inter racial Ministry this year. OFFICIAL WELCOME—Two North Carolina College freshmen are officially welcomed to Durham and to the NCC campus by representatives of business and the college at a program opening the college’s six-day orientation for new students. From left: R. Kelly Bryant, president of the Durham Business and Professional Chain; Franklin D. Burwell, a freshman from Clarks ville, Va.; W. W. Edwards, president of the Durham Merchants Association; Carolyn Jones, a freshman from Carboro, N. C.; and William Jones, chairman of the NCC Interim Committee.

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