Monday, July 24, 1967
THE SUMMER ECHO
Page Three
Greetings From The Interim Committee
(Delivered by Dean Helen G. Edmonds
to the Swmmer Faculty June 12, 1967)
34 Years
Bursar to Retire
After Long Service
We welcome the new summer
personnel. We welcome our col
leagues who have been on aca
demic leave and who now return
with their academic sensibilities
further sharpened and refined.
We greet our colleagues who
completed another successful
year only two weeks ago and are
ready, again, to continue class
room leadership roles.
Pledge Support
We are in the process of com
pleting a miracle at North Caro
lina College. A famous New
England Fisherman guideline is:
“There is only one skipper on
this mackerel barge.” We, in
administration at North Caro
lina College have had a sea-going
vessel with three skippers at the
helm since February 1, 1966.
Our task for the past 18 minths
has been to land this ship safely
to shore on July 1, 1967. We
have 18 more days to go with
the three-in-command-operation.
The College’s President, Dr.
Albert Whiting, takes over on
July 1, 1967. We extend to him
our genuine welcome and, on be
half of the North Carolina Col-
Taylor
Taylor to Lecture
Abroad Next Year
Dr. Arnold H. Taylor, profes
sor of history at North Carolina
College, has been awarded a
U. S. State Department Ful-
bright-Hays grant to serve as a
senior lecturer in American His
tory at Jadavpur University,
Calcutta, India.
Dr. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor
will leave for Calcutta immedi
ately after the close of summer
school.
Dr. Taylor, a former chairman
of the Division of Social Sci
ences at Southern University,
plans to do research on Ameri
can commercial activities in
India during the 19th century,
if time permits. The Taylors
will spend approximately nine
months in India.
A native of Regina, Va., Tay
lor received his secondary edu
cation at the Julius Rosenwald
School, Beverly ville, Va. He
holds the B.A. degree from Vir
ginia Union University, the
M.A. from Howard University,
and in 1963 was awarded the
Ph.D. degree from Catholic
University.
From 1953 to 1955 he served
in the U. S. Army and from
1955 to 1964 was a member of
the faculty at Benedict College,
Columbia, S. C., serving as in
structor, professor, and assis
tant to the dean of the college.
He was at Southern Univer
sity from 1964 to 1965 and join
ed the NCC faculty in the fall
of 1965.
lege community, pledge our sup
port.
The Interim Committee lays
no great claim to super feats of
attainments nor super decisions
of wisdom during its period of
administration. We have at
tempted to move boldly in those
areas where acute and pressing
demands required that we move.
We have attempted to project
several educational premises
mindful that we leave sufficient
flexibility for the operation of
the in-coming President. As
with any living organism, the
administration had pressures
from outside. Every indication,
however, points that we shall
land safely in harbor. The
tribute for this journey is placed
before the shrine of our efficient
and effective corps of adminis
trators: Dr. Patterson, Director
of summer school. Deans Joseph
Pittman and S. B. Fulbright of
the Undergraduate school. Dean
Sampson of the Law school.
Dean Pope of the School of
Library Science, Dean Stewart
of General Student Affairs, Miss
Perry, Director of Library and
21 departmental chairmen upon
whose shoulders, the spade work
of keeping the academic organ
ization in compact unity, rested.
Our summer experiences have
been and are highlighted in
special institutes by Dr. Mc-
Kelpin, Mr. J. Parker, Dr.
Walter Pattillo, Dr. Mary
Townes, Dr. Howard Fitts and
Dr. C. E. Boulware. All persons
named, chairmen of departments
and their staffs have made the
journey a successful one. On
behalf of the Interim Committee
in Charge of the Administration
of the College, we tender to you
our deepest thanks.
In the brief evaluation of our
current scene, we are saying to
those who come to us this sum
mer to share teaching experi
ences, that you will find in our
regular staff—efficiency with
understanding, and enthusiasm
with practicality. You will find
By John L. Stewart,
Dean of Students
Plans are underway to es
tablish an office of student-
organization finance. A super
visor of student-organization
finance will head the office. A
large measure of the work will
be devoted to helping student
groups to understand sound
practices in handling receipts
and disbursements in their ac
counts.
For those offices and organi
zations from the Student Ac
tivity Fund, the allotments for
1967-68 will not be completed
until the Student Welfare Com
mittee has finished its evalua
tions for 1966-67 and made its
recommendations. However, for
the purpose of meeting finan
cial needs of these units for
the opening of school in Sep
tember, the dean of students
will make tentative partial al
lotments.
Handbooks
The planning of a student
organization handbook is un
derway, and it is scheduled for
distribution in September. The
purpose is to provide a guide to
assist campus organizations in
being more effective in their
operations. In addition to col
lege policies and procedures,
also included will be sure in
in them, your counterparts.
Two Student Types
The Interim Committee, thre-
fore, considers it a most pleasant
task to welcome the new summer
personnel. We are deeply ap
preciative that you made the
decision to share your expertise
and know-how with this College,
and in turn with those students
who shall share academic experi
ences with you. We hope that
you stay will be rich and re
warding—for you and the stu
dents enrolled in your classes.
North Carolina College has an
undergraduate program offering
the bachelors’ degrees in 21
areas; a graduate school offer
ing Masters’ degrees in 13 areas,
a school of law and a school of
Library Science. With the excep
tion of the Law School—a non
summer program, the entire
programs begin tomorrow.
You will be faced with two
types of students—those of the
current college generation, some
what typical of the current col
lege generation throughout the
country—a generation most
criticized, most examined and
most wondered about—with a
value system of its own based
not on the past but on the con
temporaneity of their experi
ences. There will be older stu
dents in terms of in-service
principals and teachers with
actual classroom experiences and
whose outlook may be less excit
ing and challenging but who
have an appreciation for the
road over which they have come
and know exactly where they
plan to go.
To all—the regular staff and
the new personnel, whose task
it is to implement this ongoing
program, it is our profound wish
that the summer school of 1967
shall write its bright record at
the tops of the past annals of
summer achievement.
William Jones, Chairman
W. H. Brown, Member
Helen G. Edmonds, Member
formation as how to write a
constitution, how to conduct a
meeting, tips on being a suc
cessful social chairman, tips on
effective promotion and pub
licity.
The revision of The Eagle
Eye: Handbook For Men and
Women Students for publication
for 1967-68 is underway. It will
include the new policy on stu
dent housing, new curfew for
women students, policy govern
ing application fees and enroll
ment deposits, traffic regula
tions, schedules for men’s as
sembly, women’s assembly, and
freshman orientation.
Vehicle Registration
The “Regulations Governing
the operation of Motor Vehicles
on Campus by Students” have
been revised. The registration
of vehicles is now under the
supervision of the dean of stu
dents. A statement of the re
quirements for registering a
vehicle will be included in the
registration packet of each stu
dent. The full regulations will
be available to students in Sep
tember.
The third refinement of the
proposed North Carolina Col
lege Code of Student Conduct
has been distributed to student
leaders, members of the facul
ty, and staff for reactions.
During her 34 years at NCC,
Mrs. Sudie Marrow has seen
the institution’s student body
increase from around 200 in
1933 to some 3,000 in 1967.
The veteran bursar (she has
held that important financial
post since 1938) resigned effec
tive July 1, to take a well-
earned rest.
When she joined the college
staff as assistant bursar in
1933 after earning her Bache
lor of Science in Commerce de
gree at the college, Mrs. Mar
row recalls, only one permanent
building, now the administra
tion building, was standing on
the campus.
The building, new then,
housed a library on its second
floor and a science laboratory
in the basement, Mrs. Marrow
said.
Mrs. Marrow, then Sudie
Holloway, volunteered as a
sophomore to assist Mrs. Fran
ces M. Eagleson, the college
registrar, for the practice. No
funds were then available for
student workers, and Mrs. Mar
row remained an unpaid staff
member until her graduation,
working for approximately one
month in the registrar’s office
and then in the bursar’s office.
On graduation, Mrs. Marrow
became assistant bursar. She
recalls that in those days she
knew each student by name and
could tell a student she might
meet on the street the amount
of his debt to the college.
With nearly 500 persons on
the payroll today, Mrs. Marrow
remarked, there are some em
ployees whose faces she does
not know.
Although the college has
grown greatly, Mrs. Marrow
said the work has not become
so much greater for her. “We
used to do all our calculating
by hand. Today we use com
puters and other machines.”
Vacations have been a prob
lem, Mrs. Marrow noted. Until
recently, she was responsible
for all financial reports that
went to Raleigh. “I could never
have a long vacation, because I
always had to get back in time
for some report.”
Now that she has some time
for a rest, Mrs. Marrow plans
to do more cooking. An excel
lent cook, she offered one con
solation to an office staff sorry
to see her leave. “I promised I
would give them my secret
recipe for cheesecake,” she
said.
So far, the staff members
don’t have the recipe. Mrs. Mar
row is still very much in evi
dence assisting her successor
in the changeover. “I may even
get to bake one more cheese
cake before I leave,” she said.
Church work will also occupy
much of Mrs. Marrow’s time.
She serves as chauffeur to her
minister husband, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church in
Durham and Philadelphia Bap
tist Church in Vance County,
N. C.
She said, modestly, “I haven’t
done anything great.” That
conclusion is not shared by her
co-workers, who have known
her as a dedicated member of
the college family.
Four From NCC
In Ivy League
Summer Program
Four North Carolina College
students are at Yale University
this summer as participants in
the Harvard-Yale-Columbia In
tensive Summer Studies Pro
gram.
They are Marvis Best, psy
chology major from Durham;
Grova Bridgers, political sci
ence major from Wilson, N.C.;
Vardrene Foust, history major
from Burlington, N.C.; and
Cheryl Virgil, history major
from Long Island City, N.Y.
Intended to assist promising
students from predominantly
Negro colleges in preparation
for graduate school, the Inten
sive Summer Studies Program
involves seminars and advanced
courses in and out of the stu
dent’s major, individual tutor
ing and special counseling on
specific academic problems.
For the first time since NCC
began its participation in the
program three years ago, an
interdisciplinary seminar will
be held on the Durham campus
during the school year begin
ning in September as a follow-
up to the summer program.
Innovations In Student
Personnel Services Set