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Tuesday, November 29, 1966 THE CAMPUS ECHO Page Three YES Organizes At Annual Mee! 9 R. Lewis (Bobby) Ray. a 28- sive traveling in the United /\ A Ill Members of Youth Education al Services (YES), a non-profit student organization involved in setting up volunteer tutoring program on North Carolina campuses, met at North Caro lina College on Sunday Novem ber 13th for their annual busi ness meeting. The agenda in cluded reports on the past year’s activities, discussions of the new directions that the or ganization might take in the next year and the election of two adult and six student mem bers to the Board of Directors. Franklin Williams, senior at North Carolina College, was elected to fill one of the student seats on the board. Williams is currently working with the Mc- Dougald Terrace tutorial (SPOT) and Operation Break through. Other newly elected student board members are: Michael Norris, Davidson College; Sam Reid, Johnson C. Smith Uni versity; Julie Taylor, University of North Carolina at Greens boro; Van Jones, A. and T. Col lege, and Paul Dickson, Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel mil. Y. A. Taylor, North Carolina Department of Public Instruc tion, was elected to fill a three- year adult vacancy and Dr. Gordon McAndrew, Acting Di rector of the Learning Institute of North Carolina, was re-elect ed to fill a one-year seat. Mrs. Penny Puckett, Assist ant to the Director, reported that YES had received grants totalling $201,951 from the Of fice of Economic Opportunity, the Fund for the Advancement of of Education (Ford), the Learning Institute of North Carolina, the North Carolina Fund and the Council of the Southern Mountains. Michael H. Lawler, Executive Director of YES, told the mem bers about the summer program that YES ran in Charlotte, Greensboro, Boone, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Laurinburg, and Bertie County. During the sum mer, 43 college students from, 17 North Carolina institutions organized and ran tutorial, re creational and enrichment pro- grams for underachieving youngsters. The summer staff members recruited 549 volun teer tutors who worked with close to a thousand children. Preston Dobbins, Co-ordina- tor of Community Education, reported on the activities of the field workers who stayed on at the sites of the summer pro gram to work with parents. Dobbins reported that the field workers had been especially successful in working with teenagers, many of whom were now involved in the tutoring program. Members held discussion groups to debate the future di rections of YES. No consensus was reached but the following suggestions were made: 1) YES should represent the student voice in North Carolina, 2) YES should become primarily a pro fessional tutoring organization, 3) YES should take an increas ingly active role in community organization. and 4) YES should become an educational reform group. Iowa University */ Offers Assistance More than 50 assistantships in journalism are available for the 1967-68 academic year at the School of Journalism, Uni versity of Iowa, Iowa City, the School has announced. Assistantships both in the field of research, and in posi tions working with the faculty members in the teaching of various courses, will be avail able most of the assistantships are quarter time, and permit the student to carry a full grad uate load toward an M.A. in journalism or the Ph.D. in mass communications. Inquiries may be sent to the Director, School of Journalism, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240. Financial Aid (Continued from Page 1) Fellowships, Inc., 5545 S. Uni versity Avenue, Chicago 37, Illinois. Amounts of the scholar ships vary according to stu dents’ needs. Each scholarship is for four years, provided that the student maintains required standards. The deadline for registration is March 1, 1967. No registra tions will be accepted after that date. The medical scholarship pro gram is designed to help relieve the critical shortage of Negro physicians and surgeons. It is financed by a substantial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foun dation to National Medical Fel lowships, Inc. The latter organi zation, which devotes itself to assisting Negroes with their medical careers, administers the scholarship program, accepts re gistrations, distributes applica tion blanks, and selects candi dates. A total of 38 Negro students are at present studying medi cine under this program in 30 U. S. medical schools. Each stu- SCARBOROUGH & HARGEn (Incorporated) MORTICIANS Burial Protector Plan Dignified Service In A Sympathetic Way** 24 - HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE - 24 Air-Conditioned and Radio Equipped Phone; 383-3721 - 383-3722 522 East Pettigrew Street R. Lewis (Bobby) Ray, a 28- year-old NCC law student, was re-elected as justice of the peace in Winston-Salem on the De mocratic ticket in the November 8, 1966 general elections. Ray was re-elected to his of fice with 13,105 votes. This amounts to about 10,000 fewer vot6s than he received in 1964. He attributes the decline in votes to the recent wave of cross-voting in North Carolina by voters registered as Demo crats. While serving in the United R. LEWIS RAY States Air Force as a genior Aircraft Control and Warning Radar Operator, Ray did exten- dent will receive an average of $6,000 for the four-year period of study. Ten scholarship win ners entered medical school this fall. sive traveling in the United States and abroad. Ray owns and operates R. Lewis Ray Real Estate Company and Piedmont Insurance Service. He holds membership in the Student Bar Association and the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Ray is a former student of the University of North Dakota and a, graduate of both A & T Col lege in Greensboro and Wins ton-Salem State College in Winston-Salem. He also holds an LL.B degree from Black- stone Law School of Chicago, a correspondence institute. As a Justice of the Peace, his position is that of a lower court judge. He has jurisdiction in both civil and criminal matters. He is also a tax consultant and a notary public. Ray in on a partial leave of absence to at tend the NCC Law School. He holds court and performs his other official duties on Fridays afternoon and on Saturdays. Omegas Observe (Continued from Page 1) Coleman, and the late Dr. E. E. Just, in their dedicated attempts to establish the fraternity 55 years ago at Howard Universi ty. He also urged the members present to keep burning the guiding light which the founders ignited and to always uphold the four cardinal principles of manhood, scholarship, per- serverance, and uplift, on which the ideas of the fraternity are based. On the following Friday evening, the Ques held their an nual charity dance in the Women’s Gymnasium. Many loyal Eagles attended and do nated various kinds of canned One-Act Plays The first bill of one-act plays was presented by the Drama Department of NCC on Tuesday, November 22, at 7:00 p.m. in B. N. Duke Auditorium. The plays presented were; The Boor by Anton Chekov, The Artificial Young Ladies by Moliere, and Riders to the Sea by John M. Synge. The cast of the Moliere satire, under the direction of Bill Smith, included Ronnie Cureton as Marotte, Harriett Williston as Cathos, Laddie Cobb as Mag- delon, Walter Norflett as Mas- carrille, Leslie Montgomery as Jodlet, Wilton Ragland as Gor- gibus, Joe Edge as La Grange and Ken Carver as Du Croisy. Esther Robinson played Mrs. Popov; Lee Thomas, Smirnov; and Wilton Ragland, Luka in Chekov’s comedy The Boor im- der the direction of Miss Wendy Farer. The tragic character of Nora in Synge’s moving drama Riders to the Sea was played by Betty Boone. Others in the cast were Sandra Harris, Ken Carver, Lin da Kerr, Linda Spurill and Kathryn Wall. Riders to the Sea was under the direction of Mrs. Sarah Kravitz. This was only one of a series of productions to be performed by the Dramatic Department. The presentations are under the direction of three graduate stu dents at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. foods, cereals, meats, and bever ages. The food was distributed by the Ques to needy families in the Durham area for Thanks giving. This is Russ Kennedy of Balboa Island. California, on an in-port field trip as a student aboard Chapman College’s floating campus. , ^ t. • u The note he paused to make as fellow students went ahead to inspect Hatshepsut s lomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, he used to complete an assignment for his Comparative World Cultures professor. Russ transferred the 12 units earned during the study-travel semester at sea to his record at the University of California at Irvine where he continues studies toward a teaching career in life sciences. . As you read this, 450 other students have begun the fall semester voyage of discovery with Chapman aboard the s.s. RYNDAM, for which Holland-America Line acts as General Passenger Agents. In February still another 450 will embark from Los Angeles for the spring 1967 semester, this time bound for the Panama Canal, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco. Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, Denmark, Great Britain and New York. For a catalog describing how you can include a semester at sea in your educational plans, fill in the information below and mail. I j Director of 92666 Chapman College Orange. California 92S66 Name- (Last) (First) Address- I I I (Indicate Home or CoUege/University) 1 City. I I I The Ryndam is of West German registry. Zip. College/Univeisity rrCSIiJTl3il u Sophomore □ Junior □ Senior □ Graduate □ V
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