Volume LVI
Trustee Chairman Dies
Guilford's chairman of the
Board of Trustees, Edwin Pierce
Brown, died last Friday night in
Greensboro.
Brown was 69. Funeral
services were held in his home
town of Murfreesboro, N.C.
Monday.
A 1926 graduate of Guilford,
he became chairman of the
Board two years ago. For many
years before that he served as
the vice-chairman of the group.
Last summer and fall Brown
moved onto the Guilford
campus, working from here to
facilitate the college's plans for
expanded physical faciltlities. In
that time plans were finalized
for the restoration of Founder's
Hall into a Student Center. Work
will begin on that project during
this summer.
Jerry Goddard, executive
dean of the college gave tribute
to Brown, "In the last five days I
have heard so many beautiful
tributes to Ed Brown, lovely
sentiments expressed by people
whose lives he has touched
Keen intellect; delightful sense
of humor; loving friend and
relative; peacemaker; high
standards of excellence;
'activist'; commitment to
Guilford; sensitive judgment;
respect for all men. Ed Brown
has meant all of those and much
more. Most important to me has
been his advice, criticism, and
support that has helped me
grow. He is part of me."
After Brown graduated from
Guilford, he entered the basket
manufacture business, operating
the Riverside Manufacturing
Company in Murfreesboro. In
Earth Week Events
Conclude Sunday
For the third consecutive
year, a week in April has been
designated Earth Week. Every
night during the past week, the
Biophile Club has been observing
Earth Week 1972, through what
it terms "a celebration of Life."
Instead of parading and
protesting against ecological
abuse, the club is attempting to
make Earth Week one of
celebration and joy.
Earth Week activities have
included a speaker and a Film
festival.
The main emphasis of Earth
Week will come on Sunday when
the Biophile Club will strike a
festive note. The schedule calls
for a bike rally to leave for
Battleground Park from the
circle at 1:00 p.m. A clean-up
session will be held at Liberty
Oak on the corner of Lawndale
and New Garden Road. The live
oak dates back to the
Revolutionary War when
Nathaniel Greene's troops used
it as a camp before going into
battle. After the clean-up, a
pot-luck supper will be held
The Quiffbrtoaft
Edwin Pierce
1935 Riverside joined two other
container firms, combined as the
American Package Corporation,
forming the largest wood
container firm in the U.S.
In 1965 American Package
Corporation was sold to the
Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and
Brown became president of its
American Timber Products
Division.
In 1969 he retired from
Georgia-Pacific, still acting as
consultant to that firm until his
death.
somewhere in the park.
Fellowship, games and music
will all be a part of the festivities
to celebrate life.
The film festival will
conclude on Friday night when
the movie "Oil Spills" will be
shown in the Union Lounge at
8:00 p.m. This movie centers
around all aspects of the
petroleum industry that are
creating pollution, from gasoline
to oil spills.
Through these activities, the
Biophile Club hopes to convey
the idea that Earth Week need
not be one of protest, but one of
appreciation for the earth that
we live on now. Nevertheless,
one should never lose sight of
the fact that the earth's
resources should not be
recklessly employed to meet the
demands for what Americans
feel to be the necessities that are
a part of a high standard of
living. If these resources should
be totally destroyed, then so
shall we be destroyed, for a
sterile planet can not support
life of any form.
>ril 21, 1972 Greensboro, N.C.
Friday, Ai
In addition to his interest in
Guilford, Brown held numerous
charitable, historical, and civic
posts. He served as chairman of
the Board of Roanoke-Chowan
College in Ahoskie, and was also
chairman of the Historic
Murfreesboro Commission, and
was a member of the Chowan
College Endowment Committee.
At the time of his death he
was also serving as a director of
Carolina Telephone and
Telegraph Company, Virginia
Electric and Power Company,
Wachovia Bank of Raleigh, and
Farmer's Bank of Murfreesboro
and Woodland.
Before he came to Guilford,
Brown attended Westtown
School in Westtown,
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Sanford for Withdrawal
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War Opposition
Resurrected
The past week has seen
renewed anti-war activity at
Guilford and in Greensboro, in
response to the recent bombing
escalation over North Vietnam,
particularly the bombings of
Hanoi and Haiphong.
A march and rally was held
last night, starting at UNC-G,
and meeting at Greensboro
College to hear speakers Wilbur
Hobby, state AFL-CIO
president, and democratic
gubernatorial candidate, Brian
O'Conner of the Vietnam
Veterans Against The War,
Charlie Webb, state senatorial
candidate, and representatives
from the American Friends
Service Committee and the
North Carolina Resistance.
The March proceeded under a
glow of candle light from
UNC-G to GC.
This afternoon at noon
students from across the state
are expected to gather at N.C.
State University in Raleigh for a
march and rally at the State
Capitol. Gathering time is noon,
behind the Student Union,
leaving for the Capitol around
one p.m.
N.C. State is one of several
hundred schools responding to
the National Student
Association's call for a national
student strike to protest war
actions.
Also scheduled are large scale
anti-war demonstrations in both
Washington a"nd New York
tomorrow, April 22.
Co-ordinating the
demonstrations here is junior
Tim Collins. Offices have been in
the Community Senate Office in
the Student Union building.
Number 20
In calling for the student
strike. 135 Student Body
presidents, college newspaper
editors, and presidential
candidate support groups issued
a letter asking students to help
"tell the truth" about the
Indochina War.
"The student movement has
been a major force responsible
for creating majority antiwar
sentiments in this country. In
1965 when they told us this was
"the first consensus war in
American history," it was
students who organized teach-ins
to question that consensus. In
1966 and 67 it was students who
helped shatter that consensus. It
was students who organized the
first mass marches which have
involved other sections of
society in active opposition to
the war . . ."
"The only thing that stands
between the majority antiwar
sentiment and majority antiwar
action is a lie - the lie that the
war is winding down ... In the
first three 'months of 1972
Nixon has sent more bombing
raids against North Vietnam'
than in all of 1971."
The letter notes that if these
demonstrations come off, Nixon
cannot point to the campuses
and tell the people that he has
silenced antiwar dissent, and
that America is united behind
his plans. Pointing out the
resources of the Presidency,
"free TV time, crack public
relations teams, and millions of
dollars," the leaders also noted
that with this "Nixon has to
maintain the most ambitious
network of lies the world has
ever seen. All we have to do is to
tell the truth about Vietnam."
Speaking to severaJ hundred
Greensboro college students
Wednesday, presidential
candidate Terry Sanford stated
he would like to see the U.S.
withdraw from Vietnam "in a
month or so."
"Just by a matter of luck, I
suppose, I've been on the side of
getting out of the war from the
first day we got into it. I felt
that it was a mistake to get
involved in that kind of military
adventure without creating all
kinds of additional problems,"
Sanford stated.
Appearing at UNC-G on a
campaign swing through
Greensboro, Sanford announced
that he would be joining striking
Duke University students in
anti-war action today. Sanford,
former governor of North
Carolina, is now president of
Duke.
When asked to clarify a
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