NCCU Commcnccmcnl
i'.xcn isc Mav JO, 1071
NofliU CcMiliita Ceni/ud
Negroes.
Sweet and docile.
Meek, humble, and kind:
Beware the day
Ihey change their mind!
—Langston Hughes
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY MAY 10, 1971
White, Marable, Faison, Bradford, Joyner, Hinson Win For’71-’72
Jenkins To Speak At Commencement
Dr. Martin D. Jenkins,
director of the Office of Urban
Affairs of the American Council
on Education, will be NCCU’s
commencement speaker, Sun
day,May 30.
At least 650 persons are ex
pected to receive degrees from
the university during the exer
cises, which will be held for the
first,, time on the campus’
O’Kelly Field. For the past seve
ral years, the exercises have been
conducted indoors in R. L.
McDougald Gymnasium, which
will be the alternate site this
year if weather precludes use of
the football field.
Dr. Jenkins is the former pre
sident of Morgan State College
in Baltimore. That institution’s
program in urban affairs gained
national recognition under Dr.
Jenkin’s leadership. When the
American Council on Education
created its new office in 1970,
Dr. Jenkins was named to head
the program.
Dr. Jenkins was president of
Morgan State from 1948 until
1970. He has also served as
professor of education at Ho-
Dr. Martin D. Jenkins
ward University, as a senior
specialist in higher education at
the U. S. Office of Education, as
a dean at Cheyney State College,
and as a pro^'essor at North
Carolina A & T University.
Jenkins holds a B. S. degree
from Howard University, an A.
B. degree from Indiana State
University, and M. S. and Ph. D.
degrees from Northwestern Uni
versity.
Six North Carolina Central
University students, including
one sophomore, four juniors,
and one senior, have been certi
fied as winners of last month’s
campus-wide election.
Harvey White, a senior poli
tical science major from Tar-
boro, will head the university’s
Student Government Asso
ciation as president. His vice-pre
sident will be Waverly Faison, a
junior history major from Clin
ton.
White won a majority of 765
votes, running in a field of four
candidates. His three opponents
garnered a total of 514 votes.
Faison, who had four oppo
nents, won with 469 votes to his
nearest opponent’s 328.
Queen Marable, a junior busi
ness administration major from
South Boston, Va., was the win
ner in her campaign against five
opponents for Miss NCCU. As
Miss NCCU, Miss Marable will be
the university’s official repre
sentative in homecoming activi
ties, parades, and similar events.
Editor of the campus year
book, “The Eagle,” for the se
cond year will be Miss Carole
Bradford, a junior business
education major from Phila-
Dr. Edmonds Resigns Post As Dean
Dr. Helen G. Edmonds has
resigned her post as Dean of the
Graduate School at NCCU. She
will return to teaching responsi
bilities next September.
President Albert N. Whiting,
in announcing the resignation of
Dr. Edmonds, stated at the same
time that she has been appointed
Distinguished Professor of His
tory at the university’s Board of
Trustees.
Dr. Edmonds has been on
leave from the university faculty
for more than a year to com
plete work on a book and to
serve as an alternate member of
the U. S. delegation to the
United Nations.
She is currently in Israel as a
guest of Prime Minister Golda
Meir. While there she will
participate in an International
Conference on the Education of
Former Graduate Dean Dr.
Helen Edmonds.
Women,
Dr. Edmonds received her
high school diploma and finished
Whiting Appoints Pittman Dean
Dr. Albert N. Whiting, presi
dent of NCCU, has appointed
Dr, Joseph A. Pittman Dean of
the university’s graduate school.
Pittman has served as Acting
Dean since February, 1969.
He replaces Dr. Helen G. Ed
monds, who has been appointed
Distinguished Professor of His
tory.
Pittman is a graduate of Talla
dega College. He holds a master’s
degree in mathematics from New
York University and the Ed. D.
degree in educational research
from Columbia University.
He taught at Delaware State
College, West Virginia State Col
lege, and Bennett College before
joining the NCCU faculty in
1947. At N. C. Central, Pittman
has been professor of education,
chairman of the department of
education, and dean of the un
dergraduate school.
Newly elected SGA officers are shown with Queen Marable, Miss
NCCU 1971-'72. Left is SGA President Harvey White; right, Vice
president WaverlyFaison.
delphia. Pa. Miss Dora Hinson,
who ran without opposition, will
be editor of the campus literary
publication, “Ex-Umbra." Miss
Hinson is a junior art major from
Wadesboro.
Johnnie “Jae” Joyner, a
See Student Elections, page 6
Alexander Challenges Students
Newly Appointed Dean Dr.
Joseph A. Pittman.
junior college at St. Paul’s
Normal School, Lawrenceville,
Va., her home town. She holds
the Bachelor of Arts degree from
Morgan State College, Baltimore,
Md., and the Master of Arts and
Doctor of Philosophy degrees
from Ohio State University.
She has done postdoctoral
research at the University of
Heidelburg. West Germany.
She has been dean of women
and professor of Greek, Latin,
and history at Virginia Semi
nary, Lynchburg, Va.; instructor
in history at St. Paul’s Normal
School; and a consultant in
See Graduate Dean, page 7
Greensboro’s District Judge
Elreta M. Alexander told stu
dents honored May 7, at
NCCU’S annual Awards Day
that they hgve the opportunity
to bring about the first true
birth of freedom. .
Mrs. Alexander, who received
a standing ovation after a speech
peppered with pertinent ante-
dotes from her years on the
bench, said, “Freedom has never
been born yet. We‘ve been preg
nant a long time.”
“In this decade of the ’70’s, we
look forward to the 200th ann
iversary of our commitment to-
‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness,’ “Judge Alexander
said. She defined freedom as
“the climate in which one can
find his identity - his purpose
for being - and nurture it to
fulfillment.”
She told the students that
although the society that sur
rounds them is a sick one, which
must be ministered to- “Every
where we see hatred, mistrust,
and suspicion -, nevertheless to
day’s youth has “ inherited the
most beautiful and wonderful
time man has ever lived.”
She said young people in to-
McMillon Presents
Fall Honor Students
Fifteen undergraduate stu
dents at North Carolina Central
University were named recently
by Registrar B. T. McMillon to
the A Honor Roll for the fall
semester, 1970-71.
The fifteen, including ten sen
iors, made no grade below A
during the semester.
They were as follows;
Barbara Bartley, senior Ger
man major. Rocky Mount;
See Honor Students, page 3
day’s society “don’t have to be
the fragmented persons my gene
ration had to be. The generation
ahead of you got greedy. We
twisted our morality to fit expe
dience. We have grown intellect
ually and physically, but we
stifled the spiritual and the es
thetic.”
But the intellectual and
physical advancement of the pre
vious generation, Mrs. Alexander
told the students, has created a
world where it is possible for
man’s material needs to be met
without the sacrifice of the need
for esthetic, moral, and spiritual
values. “Many of us did compro
mise our own morality, and to
an extent our own decency, but
we did it to give you the oppor
tunity to be free.”
Whiting Receives
Short-term Grant
Dr. Albert N. Whiting, President
of North Cgrolina Central
University, has been awarded a
short-term grant by the
Danforth Foundation. A similar
grant was also announced to
UNC-Charlotte Chancellor D. W.
Colvard.
The grants, made to presi
dents and principal academir'
officers of col-;
leges and uni
versities, pro
vide the ex- ^
penses of the
recipients for
leave periods,
ranging from I
two months to
four months. Whiting
Dr. Whiting’s request for leave
from June untfl September has
been granted by the university’s
See Whiting, page 5