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THE VOICE
THE VOICE
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY
Edited and Published by the Students
FAYETTEVILLE ST ATE ■ TEACHERS COLLEGE
Fayetteville, North Carolina
STAFF
EDITOR Donald Brawner
ASSISTANT EDITOR Harriette Lockhart
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Joyce Parker
REP. TO THE STUDENT COUNCIL James Paige
ALT. REP. TO THE STUDENT COUNCIL Melba Johnson
BUSINESS MANAGER Mrs. NorveUa Whitted
TYPIST Clara Lewis
ADVISER AND PHOTOGRAPHER Werner L. Jordan
AERIAL PHOTO OF PART OF FSTC
Opinions on Teaching
THE VOICE STAFF WISHES
TO EXPRESS ITS SINCERE
THANKS TO MR. JOHN W.
PARKER, FOR WITHOUT HIS
AID THIS ISSUE WOULD NOT
HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE.
An Open Letter
To The Seniors
You are closing lour eventful
years of your life. During this
time you have prepared yourself
to serve with maximum efficiency
in your chosen profession. These
years might well be called the
swiftest of your life.
As you await your great day,
graduation, let your mind wander
back and have a look at each year.
If given the opportunity, what
would you alter?
Were you too intellectual?
Should you have been more active
socially? Perhaps you are athlet
ically inclined and refused to adapt
yourself otherwise. Or is your case
to be catergorized with those who
allowed personality conflicts to
prevent them from absorbing ma
terials? In your own analysis
would you rate yourself superior,
mediocre, or below average?
Ultimately all of us strive to be
well-rounded individuals; that is
incontrovertible. However, it is
not acquired easily. Emerson, in
his essay, “Compensation,”, says,
“For everything gained there is
something lost, and for each loss,
there is a gain.”
Your commencement, supposed
ly, admits you to the elite of man
kind, the intelligentsia. You know
best if you are a finished product.
If there are any incompletent areas
in your makeup, remake them un
til they reach the degree of omni
potence. It is said that in a life
time our schooling is never com
pleted.
Next year you will be working
in many respective positions; the
nucleus of the male population will
be serving in the armed forces (as
am I). Darwin’s theory, the sur
vival of the fittest, is quite applic
able. In our way of life, compe
tition is ever present. Whatever
the position, wherever the assign
ment, competition will be rigid.
To those with envious minds the
college man is a marked target.
Usually this harrassment comes
from those wlio haven’t ever seen
the interior of an institution of
higher learning. This conspirator
puts you on a pedestal only to rub
salt in your wounds when the op
portunity presents itself.
So you see, a challenge awaits
you. It is a great one. However,
as a matter of pride to your school
and yourself, you must excell, as
is expected of collegebred folk.
be PREPARED to meet the chal
lenge! ^ ,
Contributed by
PVT. LEN LEWIS
Class of 1954
Shaw University.
DR. FRIERSON NAMED AS
TRUSTEE OF SHAW UNIV.
Dr. William R. Strassner an
nounced recently the election of
Dr. Margaruerite S. Frierson,
chairman, area of education, Fay
etteville State Teachers College, to
the Board of Trustees of Shaw
University. She was one of 'the
three persons named by the exe
cutive committee of the Alumni
Association for this honor.
Dr. Frierson received tlie A. B.
degree from Shaw University in
1928, the B. E. degree from the
University of Cincinnati in 1929,
the Ed. M. degree from Boston
University in 1938 and the Ph.D.
degree from Ohio State University
in 1950.
A native of Augusta, Ga., she
taught English at Haines School
from 1929 to 1933. Other positions
held are supervisor of elementary
schools in Gloucester County, Va.,
1933-1942, associate professor of
Tuskegee Institute, 1948-1949, and
visiting professor, graduate school.
North Carolina College at Durham.
Y.W.C.A. SPONSORS EIGHTH
ANNUAL LENTEN PROGRAM
The Young Women’s Christian
Association observed its Eighth
Annual Lenten Services, beginning
on Asli Wednesday and lasting
through Holy Week.
The theme for the first week
was “Personal Preparation” and in
the weeks following various or
ganization on campus helped to
conduct services with appropriate
themes pertaining to Lenten Sea
son.
Holy Week was observed rever
ently following the last days of
Christ. The themes of the three
nights preceding the Easter holi
days were “In the Garden,” “The
Last Supper,” and “The Cruci
fixion.” On Thursday morning the
Y.W.C.A. joined with the Y.M.C.A.
in presenting Sunrise Service. .
Lenten Services proved to be of
CANDIDATES FOR
GRADUATION MAY 31
The following students are can
didates for graduation on May 31:
Delores Baker, Gracie Ruth Bar
nett, Doris Batts, Delores Bellamy,
Geneva Best, Nellie Bowden, Anna
Bowens, Ethel Mae Brown, Janice
Brown, Jean Bryant, Clarissa But
ler, Annie Carraway, Laura Cham
bers, Marie Clemons, Wilma Cor
don, Nora D. Croom, Carolyn Cul-
breth, Pearl Cunningham, Rosetta
Currie, Alfred Davis, Alfred Dowe,
Nannie Drake, Mahala Drew, Lo-
ree Durham.
Berdie Eloy, Pearl Everette,
Johnny Farmer, Margie Fennell,
Lucille Fields, Andrew Frazier,
Earl Garrett, Annie Glover, Jewel
Greene, Edward Henderson, Pear-
lie Ray Herndon, Maggie Lee Hes
ter, Dorothy Lee Hill, Mary Lou
Holmes, Marian Holt, Robert Hop-
kins, Queenie James, Bernice
Johnson, Peai’lie Kemp, Thomas-
ena Leach, Vertie Lessane, Flon-
nie Little, Miriam Little, Alma Fo
cus.
Edwin Manning, McNeasia Mar
row. Henry Lee Martin, Melma
Melvin, Queen Mitchell, William
Monroe, Lottie Murphy, Julia Mc
Cormick, Katie McCoy, Mary Mc
Donald, Helena Nelson, Mary
Catherine Palmer, Pearlie Parks,
Barbara Peacock, Gracie Perry,
Barbara Powell, Bina Randolph.
Melva Sinclair, Doris Smith, Jo
nathan Smith, Maxine Smith, Ove-
tia Smith, Susie Stovall, Ethel
Taylor, George Taylor, Areatha
Troublefield, Ruby Smith Vaughn,
Mack Virgil, Alma G. Walker, Lil
lie Mae Waters, Ruth Victoria
Watford, Genetta D. Witaker, Es
ther Whitt, Crettie Williams, Daz-
zerine Williams, Evelyn V. Wil
liams, Lottie Williams, Annie Cog-
dell Willie, Melba Wooten, Lillie
Clark Yarboro.
Fayetteville Junior at Alpha
Kappa Mu Meet in Savannah
Elizabeth R. McArthur, a junior
of Maxton, N. C., represented the
Rho Beta Chi Chapter of the Al
pha Kappa Mu National Honor
Scholarship Society at the annual
convention at the Savannah State
College, Savannah, Ga., March 31-
April 2, 1955.
Mrs. McArthur, recently initiat
ed into Alpha Kappa Mu at Fay
etteville, in addition to her sub
stantial scholarship record is one
of the most active students on the
campus. Among other organiza
tions, she is a member of the
YWCA, the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, the local unit of the Fu
ture Teachers of America, and of
the Executive Committee of the
Student Council.
Ethel Brown, a senior of Clark-
ton, N. C., is president of the Rho
Beta Chi Chapter and Lorena L.
Carter of the Area of Education,
the faculty advisor.
ALCOHOL STUDIES
JUNE 27-JULY 8
great spiritual value and students
exhibited a growing need for re
ligious emphasis on the campus.
By HATTIE O. LAWRENCE
Hurrah! Hurrah! Only three
more days and student teaching
will be over. Yes, these were the
sounds heard far and near, on the
bus, in the dormitory and over the
campus. Yes, three more days and
I shall say farewell to the sweet
boys and girls I have grown to love
so well.
As I approach the last days of
student teaching, I have a dual
feeling: one of thankfulness for
having accomplished my desired
goal, and one of unhappiness be
cause I must leave my class, the
class that loves, respects and ad
mires me. Those little faces who
looked to me for guidance and
leadership. Yes, even those little
mischievous ones; they too made
my class a memory I shall always
cherish.
I worked with my class as if I
were with them to stay. I made
charts, posters, and other supple
mentary materials to help the stu
dents understand the subject mat
ter taught. I learned my class
very easil.y. I studied tlieir weak
nesses and their abilities; I helped
the students where they were
weak and cultivated abilities
where 1 found them.
I found that there is no course
actually designed to prepare stu
dents for the teaching field. In
teaching I found that I must know
the child and design my work to
meet his needs. I could not apply
methods learned in many situa
tions, but instead I had to develop
methods of my own. However,
our methods courses are of great
importance. (I resorted to methods
learned quite often).
Surprisingly, I found student
teaching not as another one of the
drudgeries of school life, but as
an experience of which to be
proud. I welcomed every sugges
tion offered by my critic teachers,
thus helping to broaden my ideas
and give me more activities to
plan around. I can truly say that
to me student teaching was the
richest experience of my life.
If we as future teachers remem
ber that through the classroom
pass the citizens of the nation, and
that teachers determine to a very
large extent the destiny of the na
tion, we would enter our profes
sion with a desire to build a
stronger nation by building strong
er boys and girls.
As 1 glance at my class for what
might be the last time, I sa.y fare
well with tears in my eyes and a
prayer in my heart that God may
bless each and everyone of those
sweet, innocent boys and girls. Yes,
farewell to Seabrook Elementary
School, the school that has offered
me the richest experience of my
life.
By JONATHAN SMITH
Student teaching has meant a
great deal to me and has improved
my abilities to meet the require
ments of being a teacher in many
ways. It has helped me to build
higher aims for the future instead
of becoming satisfied with the
knowledge that “the worst is over.”
At J. W. Seabrook Elementary
School, a school in which any per
son should be more than proud to
teach, so many of my vague ideas
of methods and ways of working
with pupils were brought before
me. Each task was a new and
challenging experience for me, but
with the proper supervision and
suggestions from both my advising
teacher and my supervisor, most
of the challenges were met suc
cessfully.
1 truthfully learned that teach
ing is no easy job and that it is
no job for one who does not have
interest in the lives of others, es
pecially in the lives of children.
Each problem must be faced firm
ly and enthusiastically.
Further, in my experience*; as a
student teacher, I arrived at the
conclusion that although knowl
edge of subject matter is a very
important factor, it is a means to
an end rather than an end within
itself. The experience of actuaW''
doing the work of a teacher meant
more to me than most of the book
knowledge that I have ever ab
sorbed. Doing the job makes mat
ters so much clearer in the end
though sometimes the distance
ahead may seem to be rather
cloudy.
Some of the things that helped
me were suggestions and materials
made available to me by my ad
vising teacher. 1 weighed every
suggestion and pondered daily over
each moment of our conferences.
Daily 1 reached the conclusion that
I was being developed into a
teacher who could stand on his feet
firmly and face problems that arose
both in the classroom and out of
the classroom with self-confidencc.
When I began teaching, often 1
became very frustrated and ner
vous because I thought the pupils
were not learning anything as a
result of my teaching. I admini
stered tests as a means of evaluat
ing myself and the pupils’ re
sponses to my instructions. Again
and again I became terribly upset
because the I'esults did, not meet
my approval. At that point, self-
evaluation was necessary — along
with helpful suggestions from
others. As a result of those sug
gestions and self-evaluation, I
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STATE’S NEW INFIRMARY,' recently constructed at a cost of over
$125,000, as seen from the northeast entrance. Although it has not
been accepted, it is hoped that it will be ready for occupancy by Sep
tember.