THE VOICE
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
VOICE TO THE PEOPLE
VOICE FOR THE PEOPLE
VOICE ABOUT THE PEOPLE
JUSTICE
FREEDOM EQUALITY
VOLUME 26 NUMBER 5
FAYETTEVILLE. N.C.
March 20. 1972
Black Communications
Four Attend Conference
By BRENDA WATSON
Four members of the Voice
Staff, Brenda Watson, Janice Pa-
uling, Joan Mclver and Everna
Gwynn, attended The National
Communications Society Confer
ence held at Howard University
in Washington, D.C. on March 3-
5. It was the first Annual Confer
ence held and Black representa
tives from over 100 schools all
over the United States attended.
It was sponsored by Tony
Brown, executive producer of
“Black Journal” and Dean of
Communications at Howard Un
iversity. On March 5, the first
day of the Conference, interest
ing workshops held included
Black News Services, Print Jo
urnalism, Speech Communicat
ions and the Black Community,
Photography, Radio Program-
ming and Ownership, Public Re-
FSU DIDN’T win CIAA Toimament, but Coach Tom Reeves
and Mike Sneed did win outstanding Coach and most valu
able players awards.
Janice Pauling & Joan Mclver
lations and Public Information.
Also prominent speakers such
as Dr. James Cheek, president
of Howard University; Milton
Coleman, editor of the African
World; John Woodford, editor of
Muhammad Speaks; Mrs. Fran
ces Murphy, chairman of the
board of the Afro-American
Newspapers; Samuel Yette, au
thor of “The Choice” were in
vited and the delegates were
given the opportunity to inter
view them.
Tony Brown urged all dele
gates to unite to further the
progress of communications in
the Black community. He told
them to remember the import-
ance of communications between
Black people, the importance of
truth and the responsibility that
all delegates had to make sure
that the Black community re
ceived that truth. “We are in
volved in a new era,” Mr. Brown
said, “one which could be the
greatest in the history of all
Black people.”
Delegates were given a dinner
and dance at the Federal BaW-
room of the Quality Capitol Ho
tel where they stayed. The Vo
ice Staff members who attended
flew round trip to the Confer,
ence and had an educational ex
perience which they all agree
can very easily be termed “sim
ply wonderful,”
Ellis Jones
By DOUGLAS McADOO
Painting, composing, sculptur
ing, some writing forms, all ere-
Student Teacher Makes Learning Exciting
ative arts; add to this list teach
ing, And you will if you’ve ^en
in a classroom with Ellis Jones.
Miss Jones is no veteran of co
untless classroom years, no pro
duct of elaborate laboratory or
experimental schools, but a cre
ative practitioner, nevertheless.
Ellis Jones is a 21-year-old
senior at Fayetteville State Uni.
ELLIS JONES, A senior from Fayetteville is making teaching one or the creative arts. Here
she is sutroimded by some of her many projects at Upchurch School in Raeford where she
completed student teaching last week.
versity. For the past seven we
eks she's been working at Up
church School in Raeford, some
20 miles southwest of Fayette
ville on Highway 211 in Hoke Co
unty, There’s nothing imposing
about Upchurch School, In pre-
integration days it had been the
all black high school, and phys
ically it shows it.
But once out at Upchurch, for
one coming from out of town,
come into the main building,
stroll down the hall and turn
right. This leads to an annex;
turn left and stop at Mrs. Ida
Cole’s room-.7th grade social
studies.
If you go within the next ten
days, you’ll catch Miss Jones in
action. As you enter the room
you’ll likely see students in gay
costumes depicting life in South
Asia. The walls are adorned with
pictures, posters and charts. Six
five-foot long tables, the black,
boards and the walls hold some
350 scrapbooks of the region, a
large percentage of them color
ful.
Miss Jones doesn’t need much
blackboard space. Her classes
are student centered and alive.
Likely the students will be giving
reports. The reports will be thor-
ough and in depth, the questioning
and comments constructive. The
scrapbooks contain library re
ports, newspaper accounts, pic
tures and cartoons of the regions.
“1 have only covered three
chapters,” Miss Jones said of her
first seven weeks of practice tea-
ching, “but they have still done a
tremendous amount of work. I
don’t believe in the old way of
covering lots of material for ma
terial’s sake,”
The reaction of her students
bore out her contention that her
method was the right way,
“You learn more that way,”
one student who had just been
►in a skit said. “And besides,
it’s more fun.”
Another said, “When the tea-
cher does all the talking, you don’t
pay any attention and you don’t le.
arn anything like that,” Still an-
other added that you don’t get
restless when you work in groups,
“plus you can split the work up,”
The critic teacher, Mrs. Cole,
is a veteran of 40 years in the co-
unty, the last five at Upchurch.
She is retiring at the end of the
current term and would like to
have Miss Jones take her place.
Of Miss Jones she said, “She is
my very first practice teacher,
and I would like to have another
just like her. She has been amaz
ing and has really worked hard.
But I realize it would be hard to
find another one like her.”
Miss Jones if the daughter of
Mrs, Vanilla Wilson, 1716 Pat
terson Circle, Fayetteville,