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F. S. T. C. VOICE — MARCH, 1947
MAY, 1947
The F.S.TX. Voice
Edited by the Student Body of
Fayetteville State Teachers Col
lege.
Fayetteville, North Carolina,.
$1.00 Per School Year
THE STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Romaine Clark
Social Editor Johnny Butler
Associate Editors-.Alice Peacock
Dorothy Robinson
Bertha Barnes
Advertisements __ Herbert Tatum
Circulation Mgr..Maurice Haynes
Last Will
And Testament
We, the seniors of Fayetteville
State Teachers College, being of
more less sound minds and bod
ies (thanks to Nurse Milberrie),
do in the year of nineteen nhun-
dred and forty-seven hereby ded
icate, bestow, bequeath, will,
transmit or just give away (Ed.
note—anyone can see they are
of little or no value) to the fol
lowing members of our most
honored faculty and student body
these possessions.
Article I
To our dear Alma Mater we
leave our loyalty and love.
Article It
'i'o President Seabrook we leave
an Ocean of thanks for his fath
erly protection over us during
the past four years.
Article III
To the Junior Class we leave
the ability to publish a second
edition of “The Bronco.” We also
leave them the ability to make
many lesson plans, attend many
conferences, and write many “ob
servations.” And of course w'e arc
forccd to leave them all of the
burdens and troubles of the New-
bold children andteachers which
we know they will enjoy.
To the Sophomore Class, our
sister class, we leave the ability to
fight for more privileges and a
student council.
To the Freshman Class we
leave the ability to w'ork hard
for another three years.
Article IV
To Mr. Parker, our English in
structor, we leave the ability to
give easier assignments so that
light will not have to be burned
all night.
To Mr. Robinson, class advis
or, we leave the abilittty to advise
our sister class, causing them to
steer an even more successful
coarse than we.
To Miss Turner, Drama Guild
Director, wo leave more success
for her plays. (Ed. note—She may
call the men “little men” and
leave “little lady” alone for a
while.)
To Miss Travis, English In
structor, we leave the names of
more reference books for her
classes.
To Miss Murphy we leave some
more “Y” members to fill the
places of those we are taking. We
leave also the “Y” Canteen.
Article V
The following individuals leave
these traits and abilities to low
er classmen so that they may
follow in the fotsteps of their
predecessors:
Martha Debnam leaves her
brown checkered valise to Jake
Overby for his many jaunts to
Durham.
Pauline Adams wills her re
sponsible position in the Y. NY.
C. A., her love for cas-hew nuis
and the better things of life, and
her sincere smile to her sister,
Velma.
Christine Brown bequeaths her
prize possession, John (’,lapp, to
Cora Dawes, and her soprano
voice to Ophelia Hooker.
Mary Lee Hargrove wills her
contagious smile, keen sense of
humor and appropriate use of
sarcasm to Evelyn Nelson.
Elease David leaves her posi
tion in the Service Club to (jeor-
geva Gerald, and her ability to
wear draped clothes to Ella Mil-
kins. To anyone who might find
it useful, Elease leaves her
knack for getting along with peo
ple.
Stina McKnight leaves her
musical ability io Bernice Humph.
Mary Haskins wills her ability
to laugh to Bynum Vann.
Tressie Allen leaves her ability
to eat and gain weight to War
ren G. McCallum, and her effic
iency in mathmatics to Russell
Parker.
To the president of the Y. W.
C. A., Elaine Clark leaves her
executive ability, her positions
in Alpha Kappa Mu and the Var
sity Club, and to Julia Judah, her
basketball plays.
To Eunice Wilson, Wilhelmina
(genius) John^son leaves her
cherry “hulle everybody” with
sincere hope that she’ll use it of
ten.
Rosa Dean wills her ideas of be
coming couffures and her grace
ful body movements to Mermes-
tine McLaughlin.
To Martha Brooks, Cumie Sat
terfield leaves her philosophy
notebook and Miss Summerville
as critic teacher.
To Cora Hicks, Ozelia Baird
wills her profound interest in
“Bill” Weaver, hoping that she
will hold onto the gentleman in
question. Ozelia leaves her seat
in the choir to Sarah Jane Mc
Neil.
Cornell Faulkner wills her
heights to “Miss Home-Coming”
of 194() and her pleasing person
ality to some maladjusted Junior.
Coleen Hill bequeaths her ten
or voice to “Baby Face” Tatum
and her friendly smile to Elmi
ra Cotton.
(Continued on Page 4)
Senior Class History
Doubtless the greatest class that
ever entered the “Halls and time
honored walls” of Fayetteville
State Teachers ("ollege is the class
of ’47. If facts fail to sustain this
statement from a numerical point
of view, they doubly support it
when one considers the rich pro
fusion of talent, ability, and ver
satility of the class in general.
When school opened in Sep
tember, 1943, determined students
gathered to make up the Fresh
man CJass. Very soon we showed
our ambition and courage for we
practically took over the offices
of extra-(Airricual Activities. We
were able to show our many va
ried talents through participation
in Talent N’ght. We also enter
tained the WAC^s. The stars of
“Our Town” (play given by Dra
ma Guild) came from our class.
We displayed our talents further
in composing and producing an
oi’iginal skit—“Swing School”. To
do its bit towards victory our
class contributed seventy - five
dollars in War Bonds to the
school as a gift.
Dr. (’Jiarlotte H. Brown, foun
der of the Palmer Memorial In
stitute, Sedalia, N. C., was favor
ably impressed with the high in
tellectual level of the class and
adopted us as her class.
After a year of hard work the
class entertained itself with a
formal dance which set the pat
tern for all dances that folioweil.
This is just the beginning but
surely indicative of the end, for
we were destined to march off
with the highest honors. At the
end of our first year six prizes
were awarded members of the
('lass of 47 for excellence in scho
lastic ability. A member of this
class was the first receipient of
the Alpha Kappa Mu Scholarship
Fund.
Having completed one year of
experience and orientation we
passed into the calm dignity and
cool reflection which characteriz
ed our Sophomore year. Here we
began to realize how little w’e
knew after all, how great w'ere
the tasks facing us. We became
more serious-minded and settled
down to real w'ork. Again the
stars of the season’s attraction
came from our class, and mem
bers of the class of ’47 initiated
and drew up plans for “Freshman
Orientation Week.”
During our first two years the
campus was practically devoid of
men. Our third began with many
of us carrying out the plans made
for Freshman Orientation Week.
A trip to Raleigh to hear Dorothy
Maynor was arranged. Some of us
found places in Music and Chris
tian Work, while others proved
their worth on the court.
As each year passed we seemed
to realize more and more the re
sponsibilities placed upon us.
Time and space w'ill not allow us
to tell our glorious achievement
as a class, to say nothing of our
individual achievement. At the
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CLASS POEM
F S T C,
We are leaving you now
To face life as you taught us to
do;
I'o your precepts we pledge,
To remain ever true.
We want to thank you STATE
F’or laboring with us day and
night,
F^nabling us to see Athen’s light;
We press ever forward with all
our might.
Romaine Clark.
Deans Honor List
Freshmen
Brown, Lucille Brooklyn, N. Y.
C'ushenberry, Harold Leroy,
Grindstone, Pa.
Lewis, Ik'ssie McIntyre, Fayette
ville.
Lord, Cdarence Levison, Larch-
mond, N. Y.
Munn, Lottie Mae, Lumberton.
McLeod, Dorothy Dimple, Lau-
rinburg.
McMillan, Virginia, Supply.
Spearman, I^aul Harry, Mem
phis, Tenn.
Spruill, Herbert Kenneth, Elms-
ford, N. Y.
Taylor, William Charles, San
ford.
Sophomores
Burch, James Thomas, Larch-
mont, N. Y.
Davis, Ann Elizaljeth, Beaufort.
Drew, Avis (',ordelia, Saxe, Va.
Harrison, William Jas., Rocky
Mount.
^\^dker, Marie Gwendolyn,
Southern Pines.
JUNIORS
Batts, Roscoe, Rocky Mount.
Gerald, Georgeva, Lumberton.
Johnson, William Thomas,
Scotland Neck.
Lee, Marian F'rancenia, New
ton Grove.
Weaver, F'rank Byrd, Tarboro.
Williams, Robert Lee, Rocky
Mount.
Wilson, Flunicc Margaret, Tur
key.
Young, Alma Elizabeth, Shelby.
SENIORS
Adams, Mattie Pauline, Flnfield
Barden, Annie Pearl, Willard
Clark, Elaine, W^ilson.
Dickens, Thomas Edison, Jack
son.
Harrell, Hilda, Saint Pauls.
Huggins, Mary Alice, Wilming
ton.
Jackson, Otis, Nashville.
LaBroi, James Conrad, Gary,
Ind.
Lennon, Atha, Duquesne, Pa.
Mendes, Lula Dixon, New Bern
McAllister, John I)., Raeford
Nichols, Horace Wellin, Gib
son.
Pope, Ruth Walker, Newport
News, Va.
Russ, Lottie Hall, Council, New
York.
W'ynne, Spencer, Jamesville.