RAM’S HORN
*‘The Voice of the Student Body**
Vol. V, No. 1
Southeastern Community College, Whiteville, N. C.
September, 1969
Stevens, Bracey, Butler 1969 SGA Officers
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1969-70 SGA officers, left to right are, Armelda Bracey, Secretary; O. C. Stevens, President; Sharon
Butler, Treasurer.
Last May 14, three new
officers were elected by the
student body to serve for this
school year. They are O.C.
Stevens, President, Armelda
Bracey, Secretary, and Sharon
Butler, Treasurer.
O.C. Stevens, who served as
vice-president last year, says, “It
is my hope that students of SCC
will become more aware of their
role as students and become
more involved with this
institution by being an active
member and not just a fixture.”
O.C.’s plans are to make
Marine Biology his life work. He
intends to get a BS at Atlantic
Christian and go on to do
graduate work in Florida.
His spare time is spent in
scuba-diving, cheering at soccer
games, and trying to catch that
most undomesticated animal
named RAMU and teach'him to
be the Ram’s mascot.
New secretary Armelda Bracey
says, “My experiences at SCC
have helped me to grow in
knowledge and understanding of
myself and others. I believe our
school has grown tremendously,
and that the students have
played an important role in its
growth. However, I feel that
there is much that each student
can do to improve himself and
the image of the college.”
Armelda enrolled here
intending to become a medical
secretary, but now plans to
continue her education by
enrolling at Columbia
University. She will be majoring
in Business Administration
there.
Most of her spare time has
been taken up with the work
involved in being secretary of
different organizations,
including the Phi Theta Kappa
Fraternity. She is also interested
in art.
Sharon Butler, Treasurer, is a
busy girl who works in the SPS
office here in addition to
keeping up with her classes. She
says, “The enthusiasm shown in
this year’s elections has been
great I hope the students
continue to show this interest in
the SGA for the rest of the
year.”
Her plans are to transfer to
Pembroke, and eventually to
become a teacher of business
subjects.
Sharon , enjoys basketball
games, cooking, sewing, music
and writing poetry.
All three hope to gain and
keep the interest of every person
in the whole student body, and
to make them aware that the
SGA is supposed to be
government OF the students, BY
the students, and FOR the
students.
They invite the views and ideas
of everyone, since they feel that
they are trying to represent the
whole student body, and
therefore need to know
something about the opinions
you hold on whatever is at issue.
Specific plans ready for
dis^losure.
Vice President And
Senators Elected
After a week of enthusiastic
campaigning the results are
in tentatively for the Student
Government Association
election. James “Hap” Hazzard
Jr. won the Vice Preadency.
Senators are as follows:
College Parallel Sophomores
were Mike Small, Brenda Sykes,
Brodie Andrew, and John
Howarth; Freshmen were Jimmy
Singletary and Randy Long.
In Technical the Sophomore
Senators were Belinda Phillips
and Hamp Avant. Freshmen
were Jimmy Ray Williams and
Cooper Heath.
The Vocational Senators
elected were Liz Cain and Peggy
Lee Norris.
As we go to press Brodie
Andrew, John Howarth, Belinda
Phillips and Hamp Avant are the
eligible winning write-in
candidates but their
confirmation is pending because
of technicalities in the Student
Government Association
Constitution.
Also at this writing these four
have to be contacted to get their
consent that they wiU serve on
the SGA Senate.
The student turnout at the
polls was dose to a 500%
increase over last year’s. At the
spring election only 73 students
registered to vote compared to
359 who registered for this
election.
Although there was a large
increase in the turnout it was
not what the SGA was hoping
There are approximately 1024
students enrolled in all of
Southeastems programs. It was
estimated that at least 800 of
these would have been on
campus during the time the polls
^ere opened and could have
the 359 registered voters
- 258 were college parallel
students. This represents about
50% of all college parallel.
Out of an estimated 150
Vocational Students only 27
voted, and for technical only 84
voted out of a possible 314.
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1969-70 SGA Senators pictured here are: Jimmy Singletary, Mike Small, Brodie Andrew, Jimmie
Williams, Peggy Lee Norris, Liz Cain, Brenda Sykes. Not pictured are Hap Hazzard, Vice President;
Randy Long, Senator.
The voting started off slowly
reaching its peak between 10
a.m. and 12 p.m. The majority
of voting students had voted by
early afternoon, with only a few
coming in after that. The polls
closed at 4 p.m. and the
balloting started.
Due to the constitutional
technicalities which are not yet
straightened out the tallying of
votes took longer than expected.
The installation of the new
vice president and the senators
will be at the next SGA meeting
to be held.
SGA president O.C. Stevens
encourages all students to attend
aU SGA meeting. YOU are the
Student Government and your
attendance is needed and
wanted. To have an effective
SGA YOU must speak up.
All participating candidates are
to be commended in their
interest in SCC and in the SGA.