The Voice
VOLUME 15, No. 4
FAYETTEVILLE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
MAY, 1962
PRESIDENT RUDOLPH JONES
From The
President’s Desk-
We are now approaching the end
of the school year and soon oip
925 students will be going thSir
individual ways for the summer
months. Some will go to summer
school, some will be working at
home, and some working away
from home.
During the summer a great ef
fort will be made to improve the
physical plant before you return in
September. The dining hall and
kitchen will undergo complete
renovation. Physics and Biology
laboratory equipment will be in
stalled in the Science building.
Furnaces in most of the buildings
will be converted from coal to oil.
Minor renovations will be complet
ed in Aycock. The four tennis
courts will be completed.
In addition to the physical im
provements we hope to have a
Mrdnger and better faculty. When
you return in September there will
be a new Dean of the College, a
new Dean of Women, a new Direc
tor of Student Teaching, a new
Spanish teacher and perhaps sev
eral other new teachers.
The administration is doing all
in its power to make Fayetteville
State Teachers College a first rate
college. Faculty and facilities
alone, however, will not make our
dreams come true. Students hold a
strategic position and we must
work together to produce the type
of college we want.
I sometimes get disturbed at re
marks made by students indicating
that their objectives for the col
lege differ from those of the facul
ty and administration. While it is
true that your ideas about social
privileges and food and holidays
may differ from ours, I know that
the more serious students think
the same as we do about the fun
damentally important things in
college life.
With this in mind I sincerely
hope that you will give serious
thought during the summer not
about what the college should do
for you, but about what you can
do for yourself and for the col
lege. You should read some good
books and try to become a better
student. You should boast to your
friends and relatives about the
merits of Fayetteville State Teach
ers College. You should try to in
fluence some good students to en
roll here.
Finally I would suggest that you
write down the following quotation
from Ruskin; carry it with you
wherever you go; read it often
and strive to incorporate the ideas
in your personal philosophy:
“The entire object of true edu
cation is to make people not mere
ly do the right thing, but enjoy the
right things; not merely indus
trious, but to love industry; not
merely learned, but to love know
ledge: not merely pure, but to
love purity; not merely just, but
to hunger and thirst after justice.”
FSTC May Day
VERLESTINE WILLIAMS
The Annual May Day Festival
was held on Saturday, May 5, in
the Fayetteville State Teachers
College Quadrangle.
May Quee^i was Gertie Rodgers,
a senior from Williamston, North
Carolina. The attendants were
Fannie Tyson, senior from Rocky
Mount, N. C.; Jameszetta Butler,
junior from Rose Hill, N. C.; and
Annie Pascall, junior from Oxford,
N. C. Delores Shavers was herald;
Arnold Pindle, sceptor bearer; and
Yvonne Jones, crown bearer.
The theme of the Festival was
“Dancing through the Years” and
students performed several inter
esting dances from the Tarantella,
an Italian dance. The Minute of the
17th century, and such dances
from the Old South as Swannee
River, Ole Soft Shoe, and The Cake
Walk.
The College Band, under direc
tion of Mr. Thomas B. Bacote,
played several tunes in the spirit
of May Day.
The director of the May Day ex
ercises was Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Young, of the Health and Physical
Education Department; at the
piano was Miss Barbara Massey
of the Music and Fine Arts Depart
ment.
Commencement
FAYETTEVILLE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE
Fayetteville, North Carolina
EIGITTY’-FIFTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
June Ist-June 3rd, 1962
SENIOR CAP AND GOWN DAY
Friday, June 1st, 12:00 Noon Seabrook Auditorium
MR. S. JOSEPH SHAW
Director of Student Teaching
A&T College
Greensboro, North Carolina
Saturday, June 2nd, 6:30-8:00 P.M President’s Residence
PRESIDENT AND MRS. RUDOLPH JONES “AT HOME”
to
Members of the Senior Class, Alumni, Faculty and Friends
GRADUATION EXERCISES
Sunday, June 3rd, 3:00 P.M Seabrook Auditorium
DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
Chairman
Department of History
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, New York
A Program
Well Calculated
EVA McEACHERN
On May 2, as one phase of the
Fine Arts Week program, we wit
nessed a recital of some of our
students here at Fayetteville State
Teachers College who have chosen
the field of music as a minor. Some
of the participants were Jack
Sharpe, Marian McPherson, Thar-
mon Percell, Joseph Johnson,
Mamie White, Senora Diggs, and
Jameszetta Butler.
These students, who are pupils
of Mrs. M, T. Eldridge, Miss B.
Massey, and Mr. T. B. Bacote, did
a superb job, and presented a pro
gram well calculated to keep the
students entertained.
Summer Leisure
BETTY L. McKETHAN
The time has come for us to be
gin thinking of how our leisure
time will be spent during our sum
mer vacation. The proper use of
leisure is one of the most impor
tant problems of our time. And we
have reached the point where we
consider recreational activities not
only desirable, but highly bene
ficial. Healthful leisure-time acti
vity is now considered fully as
important as work in the develop
ment of a well-rounded personal
ity. It has been agreed that rec
reation endows life with zest, free
dom, and hope, and that it stimu
lates physiological and mental pro
cesses.
Leisure can be a great curse or
a great blessing to the indiyidual
and to mankind, depending upon
the use that is made of it. Often
it is in leisure time that men pro
duce the finer fruits of human cul
ture. It is also in leisure time that
we perhaps most often experience
our greatest joy and find the
freest and fullest expression of
our spirit. On the other hand, lei
sure may be and is spent in such
a way that it is degrading and
demoralizing.
Take a brief look at the intel
lectual and educational types of
recreation. Perhaps the most corn-
mon form of recreation today is
reading. The printed page of the
newspaper and the magazine is the
daily visitor to almost every home.
The reading matter of the aver
age newspaper is, for the most
part, written to entertain. Most
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
May Day
CONGRATULATIONS TO
THOSE STUDENTS RE
CEIVING SPECIAL REC
OGNITION—ON HONORS
AND AWARDS DAY.'
May Queen, Gertie Rodgers, and her attendants are shown at May
Day exercises.
Education As
I See It
ROBERT McMILLAN
Speaking from a personal stand
point, I can say with certainty that
this year has been a very signi
ficant one in the area of educa
tion and self recognition. I have
seen, and I dare say others have
seen, the unfolding of a new world
of knowledge. When I came here
I had one purpose in mind, to learn
as much as I could. There have
been several occasions when I
wanted to throw in the towel
proceed to live the life of “Riley,”
but as I pushed forward I found
the reason that could not be. As
most of you know, we are said to
be the unfortunate ones, and when
that thought comes to mind I ask
myself if there is any truth in the
saying. Unfortunately that seems
to be the case and most of us
have come to realize it; however,
we can do much to lift the veil of
ignorance and poverty from our
people by devoting our time and
energy to the pursuit of excellence
in education. Can we afford to
waste our time by loafing or social
izing to the extent that we forget
our purpose for being here? The
answer is definitey not. We have a
responsibility to ourselves, our par
ents, our race, and to the world to
educate ourselves.
Our instructors are weU prepar
ed to help bridge the gap in “our”
educational system. It has been an
honor to study under one of the
professors of social science here.
Through a study of Western Civil-
zation I have learned the impor
tance of early philosophers and
how they effect our lives today.
This instructor knows his material
and offers it to the student in such
a way as to make it challenging
and interesting. As Cicero says,
“He brought philosophy down from
heaven to the dwelling of men.”
Through a study of English the art
of communication has been lifted
from a state of mediocrity and
placed within its proper perspec
tive. If most of us had been for
tunate in having our present in
structors a few years ago, think
what we would know now.
We are here dedicated to a di
vine purpose; our objective is
knowledge, our goal excellence,
the question is will we be success
ful. Of course we are not alone in
our endeavor; there is one greater
than any of us who stands willing
to help. If there is sincerity in our
hearts He is ready to elevate us to
the highest point of sociability and
to help us acquire the one thing
we definitely need, and that is,
group compatability; the feeling
of brot>ierhood that comes as a
result of living and working to
gether harmoniously for a com
mon good. As we push forward, let
us take time to consider our broth
er’s opinions. When he disagrees
on certain points, do not ostracize
him; try to find out why he feels
as he does. In a letter to one of
his opponents, Voltaire wrote, “I
do not agree with a word that you
say, but I will defend to the death
you right to say it.” This is the
type of attitude we should have to
assure our opponents of the willing
ness to listen on our part, and at
the same time making it clear that
we are men of honor.
DR. JOHN H. FRANKLIN
Finals Speaker
Dr. John Hope Franklin, Chair
man of the Department of History
at Brooklyn College, will be the
speaker for Commencement Ex
ercises at Fayetteville State Teach
ers College on Sunday, June 3, at
3:00 P.M.
Dr. Franklin, a graduate of Fisk
University, received the A.M. and
Ph.D. degrees from Harvard Uni
versity. He has taught at Fisk Uni
versity, St. Augustine’s College,
North Carolina College at Durham,
and Howard University. He has
also served as visiting professor at
such universities as the University
of Wisconsin, Cornell University,
the University of California at
Berkeley, and the University of
Hawaii.
MR. S. JOSEPH SHAW
FSTC Alumnus-
Cap & Gown Day
Speaker
Mr. S. Joseph Shaw, Director of
Evening College Classes at A&T
College, Greensboro, will be guest
speaker at Cap and Gown exer
cises at Fayetteville State Teach
ers College on Friday, June 1, at
the noon hour.
Mr. Shaw, an alumnus of FSTC,
holds the M.A. degree in school ad
ministration from North Carolina
College at Durham and is working
toward the doctor’s degree in edu
cation administration at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
If one is fortunate enough to
have attended a good school and
a high-grade college, that is well.
But it is better to have really edu
cated one self without these ad
vantages than to have had the ad
vantages and missed the oppor
tunities.
-Wm. Lyon Phelps