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Durham, North Carolina, October 7, 1966
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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
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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.