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NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, J40RTH CAROLINA 27707
IVOLUME 40 - NUMBER 7 ‘‘TR UTH AND SER VICE THROUGH INFORMA TION” FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1980g
HATS OFF TO SENIOR ||
CITIZENS FROM ALL OF U
us AT NCCU !
President of the Southern Regional Educational Board to Cvidk
NCCU GRADUATION SET FOR MAY 18TH
Winfred L. Godwin, pres
ident of the Southern Re
gional Education Board,
will be the Commencement
speaker at North Carolina
Central University, Sunday,
May 18.
Dr. Godwin’s organiza
tion, which he has headed
since 1961, provides techni
cal assistance and financial
support to NCCU programs
in nursing and in the sci
ences. The SREB adminis
ters funds provided by the
W.R. Kenan Trust to sup
port curriculum innovation
and improvement of
teaching methods. That
program has given NCCU
$75,000 each year for nine
years to support the deve
lopment of various academ
ic programs.
Godwin will speak at the
Commencement Exercises
at 9a.m., Sunday, May 18,
at NCCU’s O’Kelly Sta-
1 dium. The University is ex
pected to award between
900 and 1,000 degrees to
undergraduate, graduate
and professional students.
The speaker is a native of
Montgomery, Alabama,, a
summa cum laude graduate
of Birmingham - Southern
College,
and the holder of M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees from the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, where he was a
student of the celebrated re
gional sociologists Howard
Odum and Rupert Vance.
He joined the SREB in
1953, after serving as Sur
vey Director of the Jeffer
son County (Ala.) Coordi
nating Council.
Programs developed by
the SREB during Dr. God
win’s presidency include an
Academic Common Market
through which Southern
states share uncommon
graduate programs; a con
tinuing program to inform
political leaders of issues
and problems conU )nting
higher educations; a nsul-
tation serV’ice to assi : states
in the strengthening of plan
ning in post-second:
cation; and a numbi • ■ •
forts to expand cun '"n
the healtty^and hurr, ’ r-
vices fields and to i.uprove
teaching a^ the undergrad
uate lev el .9-
During tite perior Dr.
Godwin’s presidenev, the
SREB has emphasis..! the
expansion of edi T/^al
opportunities for v
and the creation of an infor
mation clearinghouse at
SREB for comparative
higher education statistics.
Dr. Godwin has been ac
tive in advisory panels and
boards for such organiza
tions as the Ford and Carne
gie foundations, the De
partment of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare, the
National Endowment for
the Humanities, the Ameri
can Council on Education,
and the American Associ
ation for Higher Education.
Since its founding in 1969
he has served as Chairman
of the Board of Change
Magazine, a higher educa
tion monthly.
Are You Interested?
Honors Program To Organize
College Bowl For Fall ’80
From The University
Honors Center Newsletter
The College Bowl is a
nationwide competition be
tween teams from different
colleges and universities
from across the country. It
is a game between two
teams who respond quickly
and accurately to questions
that range from topics of
current events to mathema
tics. The teams are com
posed of four players and
an optional alternate player
who can be substituted for
another player during the
game.
Currently, the University
Honors Program and the El
der Student Union are
trying to form a College
Bowl competition at
NCCU in the fall. Different
teams composed of NCCU
students will compete
against each other. From
this competition, a single
team will be formed to re
present NCCU at the state,
regional, and national
competitions.
The grand prize for the
winning team of the nation
al championships is $25,000
in scholarship money and a
trip to England to compete
against the winning British
team.
However, to justify the
expenditures of time and
money on this project, we
need to know that there is
enough interest among
NCCU students. Therefore,
if you and your organiza
tion or if you and several
other people are interested
in the College Bowl com
petition and would like to
form a team, contact Ran
dy G. Vestal or Dr. Ernest
Mason at the Honors Cen
ter or call the Honors Cen
ter at 683-6421. If you
would like to listen to an
example of a College Bowl
game, you can listen to
WDNC on Saturdays at
noon. WDNC is currently
presenting the national
championship play-offs re
corded earlier this year.
Again, if you are interested
in forming a College Bowl
team at Central, contact us
as soon as possible so that
we may make the necessary
arrangements.
‘YEAR OF THE CAMPUS ECHO”
appreciation dinner, given by
advisers.
Special honor was paid to the following senior staff members: Larry D. Revelle,
Editor; Ruthell Howard, Associate Editor; J.K. Green, III, News Editor; Cynthia
Taylor, Circulation Manager; Samuel Cooper, Advertising Manager; Bernard Dawson,
Reporter; and Gwen Davis, Office Manager.
CONGRATULATIONS
SENIORS