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HENDERSON NCC FOUNDER'S DAY SPEAKER
HAPPY ATTORNEYS—Daniel Sampson, center, dean of the North
Carolina College School of Law, chats with two of his former stu
dents, the Michaux brothers—Henry M. Jr., left, and Eric, right—
after the young attorneys were admitted to the North Carolina
bar recently.
Henry, who holds the B.S. degree from NCC and is national presi
dent of the college’s Alumni Association, received the LL.B. from
the college in 1964, Eric, who received the bachelor’s from Boston
University, attended the NCC School of Law for 1 and a half years
and then tranferred to Duke University, where he was awarded
the LL. B. degree in 1966.
Reading Club
Elects Officers
A group of persons who haa
previously expressed interest in
attempting to stimulate reading
for pleasure and to create a
more intellectual atniospher©
among the students on campus
met in the Student Union BuUd-
ing on October 5 and organized,
a book club. The club is an
outgrowth of the Cultural
Reading Committee which is
composed of faculty members
and students.
During the first official meet
ing, several items of business
were carried out. A proposed
constitution was accepted; of
ficers were elected; possible
club projects were suggested;
and a club name adopted. The
members decided upon the
name ExLibris (from the li
brary) as the name for the club
and decided to call themselves
X-L’s. Suggested club projects
included informal book or
movie discussions, film lectures,
and theater trips. Officers for
the year are Grova Bridges
president; Aaron Graham, vice
president; Brenda Carpenter
secretary; Janice Blair, assist
ant secretary; and William
Chapman, treasurer.
The advisor of the club is Dr.
Sylvia Lyons Render, a profes
sor of English and chairman of
the Cultural Reading Commit-
tee.
Anyone interested in helping
to promote the purpose of the
club is invited to join.
NCC ENROLLS
3,184 STUDENTS
North Carolina College’s to
tal enrollment for the fall se
mester is 3,184 students, 404
more than for the 1965-66
school year, Brooklyn T. Mc-
Millon, the school’s registrar,
announced recently.
Distributed among the col
lege’s four schools, the student
body consists of 2,898 under
graduates, 212 graduates, 21 li-
(See NCC Enrolls, Page 2)
EST Announces
Test Schedule
College seniors preparing to
teach school may take the Na
tional Teacher Examinations on
any of the four different test
dates announced today by Edu
cational Testing Service, a non
profit, educational organization
which prepares and administers
this testing program.
New dates for the testing of
prospectiTe teachers are: Jan
uary 7, March 18, July 1, and
October 7, 1967. The tests will
be given at nearly 500 locations
throughout the United States,
ETS said.
Results of the National
Teacher Examinations are used
by many large school districts
as one of several factors in the
selection of new teachers and
by several states for certifica
tion or licensing of teachers.
Some colleges also require all
seniors preparing to teach to
to take the examinations.
Leaflets indicating school
systems and state departments
of education which use the ex
amination results are distri
buted to colleges by ETS.
On each full day of testing,
prospective teachers may take
the Common Examinations,
which measure the professional
preparation and general cul
tural background of teachers,
and one of 13 Teaching Area
Examinations which measure
mastery of the subject they ex
pect to teach.
Prospective teachers should
contact the school system in
which they seek employment,
or their colleges, for specific ad
vice on which examinations to
take and on which dates they
should be taken.
A Bulletin of Information
containing a list of test centers,
and information about the ex
aminations, as well as a Regis
tration Form, may be obtained
from college placement officers,
school personnel departments,
or directly from National
Teacher Examinations, Box 911,
Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540.
North Carolina College’s 19th
annual Founder’s Day Convoca
tion is slated for Thursday, No
vember 3. Dr. Vivian W. Hen
derson, economist and presi
dent of Clark College, Atlanta,
Ga., will deliver the principal
address.
The convocation, to be held
in the college’s B. N. Duke
Auditorium beginning at 11
a.m., honors the memory of the
late Dr. James Edward Shep
ard, who founded the institu
tion in 1910 and was its presi
dent until his death in 1947.
Henderson, a native of Bris
tol, Tennessee, is a graduate of
the Slater High School, Bristol.
Holder of the B.S.C. degree
from North Carolina College,
with a major in business ad
ministration and economics, he
earned the M.A. and Ph.D. de
grees at the State University of
Iowa in economics, receiving
the doctorate in 1952.
His experiences include posi
tions as a teacher of economics
at Prairie View A and M Col
lege, North Carolina College,
and Fisk University where
he was professor and
chairman of the Department of
Ek;onomics and Business Ad
ministration from 1952 to 1965.
He was a visiting professor at
North Carolina State College,
Raleigh, from 1962-64. In 1965,
he accepted the presidency of
Clark College.
At Fisk, Dr. Henderson
served as director of the sum
mer session from 1958 to 1963,
director of the Race Relations
Department of the Board for
Homeland Ministries of the
United Church in 1965, director
of a Phelps-Stokes institute for
social studies teachers from
1956 to 1959, and director of an
institute on economic education,
DR. VIVIAN HENDERSON
sponsored by the Joint Council
on Economic Education, from
1953 to 1964.
A highly respected economist,
he has written articles treating
the economic status of Negroes
and economic resources of the
South appearing in various
journals. A contributor to the
books Negro Employment, by
Arthur Ross and Herbert Hill,
and The Problems of Poverty,
published by Michigan State
University, he is co-author of
Foundation Plans Science Awards
The National Academy of
Sciences - National Research
Council has been called upon
again to advise the National Sci
ence Foundation in the selection
of candidates for the Founda
tion’s program of graduate and
regular postdoctoral fellow
ships. Panels of outstanding sci
entists appointed by the Acade-
my-Research Council will eval
uate applications of all candi
dates. Final selection will be
made by the Foundation, with
awards to be announced on
March 15, 1967.
Fellowships will be awarded
for study in the mathematical,
physical, medical, biological and
engineering sciences; also in an
thropology, economics (exclud
ing business administration),
geography, the history and phi
losophy of science, linguistics,
political science, psychology
(excluding clinical psychology),
and sociology (not including
social work). Application may
be made by college seniors,
graduate students working to
ward a degree, postdoctoral stu
dents, and others with equival
ent training and experience. All
applicants must be citizens of
the United States and will be
judged solely on the basis of
ability.
Applicants for the graduate
awards will be required to take
(See Foundation Plans, Page 8)
&
BOOKS GIVEN TO SGA—Dr. Charles A. ^y /center), super
visor of NCC’s Paperback Book Committee, gives the S(^ charge
of 3,000 paperbacks. Others shown are Reading ^ub President;
Grova Bridges (left) and SGA President Samuel Thomas daght).
several books, among them Hu
man Resources in the South,
Principles' of Economics, and
Public Finance, the last two
published by the Pitman Pub
lishing Company.
Dr. Henderson, who engages
in continuous research on eco
nomic education and improve
ment of the teaching of eco
nomics in public schools as well
as research on Negro buying
power and Negro markets and
manpower, is in wide demand
as a consultant to organizations
and agencies, including the U.S.
Office of Economic Opportunity,
the Phelps-Stokes Fund, the
National Insurance Association,
and the Southern Regional
Council and its affiliates.
In 1960, he presented an eco
nomic analysis of factors under
lying race relations in the U. S.
on the NBC nationwide tele
vision program “White Paper.”
In its October 23, 1960, issue,
The Wall Street Journal carried
a profile of his professional and
civic contributions in econom
ics and race relations.
Dr. Henderson actively main
tains a number of significant
civic and church affiliations,
including membership on the
General Board of Christian So
cial Concerns of the Methodist
Church, membership on a 14-
man task force appointed by
W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of
Labor, and the directorship of a
special task force on economic
security and welfare appointed
by President Lyndon B. John
son in 1966.
Commerce Club
Outlines Plans ^
The Iota Tau Chapter of Phi
Beta Lambda, the Commerce
Club, organized for the year in
September. Officers elected
were Jerry Hawkins, president;
Hugh Johnson, vice-president;
Marjorie Dunstan, secretary;
William Neal, treasurer; and
Quentine Finch, reporter.
Iota Tau Chapter’s plans for
this year include the sponsor
ship of a movie scheduled for
November ll; cooperation with
the college Placement Bureau
in compiling information about
occupations for business and
economic majors; trips to places
of interest in Durham, in the
state and elsewhere; the estab
lishment of an award for an out
standing chapter member; pre
sentation of a bulletin board
display emphasizing how tha
chapter is fulfilling its purpose;
publishing a newsletter featur
ing news and information for
commerce majors; and the pre
paration of projects to exhibit
in the state convention.
New members filled out their
applications for admission to the
chapter at a call meeting Thurs
day evening, October 6, and
were given initiation instruc
tions. Anyone interested in join
ing Iota Tau Chapter was to se
cure an application blank fromi
Room 205 or Room 310 in the
Commerce Building. Initiation
for pledgees was held on Oc
tober 26 to 27, and was fol
lowed by a “welcoming party”
in honor of new members.
The chapter elected Carolyn
Hampton, a senior majoriny in
business education, as Miss Phi
See Commerce Club, Page 5-