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THE LINCOLN ECHO
OCTOBER, 1954
The Lincoln Echo is published
every six weeks by the students of
Lincoln High School in Chapel Hill.
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THE ECHO STAFF
Editor-in-Chief . ..Barbara Burnette
Assistant Editor Ida Battle
Staff Reporter Martha Norwood
Business Manager Allen Mason
Assistant Business Manager
Wallace Oldham
Secretary Drucella Clark
sSrts Efeor'::;.. Floyd Hogan
Assistant Sports Editor
Herman Burchette
Alumni Editor Delores Mason
Society Editor .....Ahcia Jones
Exchange Editor.. Hilliard Caldwell
Circulation Manager
Joseph Burnette
Editor-in-Chief Barbara Burnette
Objectives of the Lincoln Echo:
1. To supplement reading
materials.
2. To encourage free expres
sion.
3. To interpret the life of the
school to the community.
4. To promote greater school
spirit.
The Editor Speaks
On May 1954 the Supreme
Court handed down a decision
abolishing segregation in the
public schools. What does that
mean to you? Are you glad i
happened? Are you the kind of
person to whom it dosen’t matter?
Have you really given it a serious
thought?
For many years segregation has
stared us in the face denying
many of us the opportunity to
progress as we should. How many
times have we wished for equality
for our race. Equality which is
the basis of all peace and brother
hood. Integration of public
schools will give us equality in
schools, better facilities, and op
portunities to acquire better
knowledge. This is our chance,
our opportunity to step forward
and prove to the world that the
Negro is as capable as any human
being. Yes girls and boys, it is
left up to us to take advantage
of this great issue. Let us be glad
that it happened and prove it by
striving for perfection, thus push
ing further open the doors of
equality for our people.
The Editor
School Welcomes
13 New Students
The Lincoln High School Facul
ty and Student Body welcome
■:hirteen new students. These stu
dents come from as far as Vir
ginia and as near as Durham,
North Carolina.
Mary P. Nunn, a junior, Mary
E. Geer, a sophomore, Barbara
Cameron, a sophomore, Lewis
Nunn, a sophomore, Sandra F.
Armstrong, 7A, and Charles Mar
shall, 7A, are all from Durham,
North Carolina.
Elijah and Johnny Campbell,
8A & 8B, come from Danville Vir
ginia. Clementine McNair, 8A,
comes from Norfolk, Virginia.
Thomas Humphry, a freshman,
comes from St. Paul, North Caro
lina. Drennan P. Matthews, a
junior, traveled down from Black
Mountain, North Carolina and
James Freeman comes from Ra
leigh, North Carolina.
Lincoln High extends a hearty
welcome to these students with
hope that their stay here will be
profitable and enjoyable.
Hillard Caldv/ell
Several Improvements To Be Made
“Several improvements are to
be made in the library very soon,”
announces Miss D. M. Coston,
new librarian at Lincoln High
School. She continued in a very
pleasing voice that the major im
provements will be the building
of a more extensive elementary
collection of materials, preparing
a more extensive and clipping pic
ture file, improving the reference
collections, and organizing a lib
rary club for the purpose of train
ing student assistants and deve
loping greater library interest.
Miss Coston, a native of Bur-
gaw. North Carolina, the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Coston,
first became interested in becom
ing a librarian while a senior at
C F Pope High School.
She has had five years of study
at North Carolina College in Dur
ham, where she majored in So
cial Studies and received a mas-
n
Manners and Politeness
I want to be very polite.
And try the whole day long
To treat my principal, teacher,
and classmates
The right way instead of the
wrong
If only we would use some man
ners.
And learn what to say and do
I think it would be the greatest
thing
For me as well as for you
Etiquette, manners, politeness
Whatever word we might choose,
Are all wonderful expressions.
But only when they are used
At home, at church, at school
In the movies or on the street.
Always use our very best manners
To everyone we meet.
By Addie G. Cotton
Grade 7-A
FRESHMAN INITIATION
On September 20, 1954 the
freshman began their initiation
which lasted a week, the boys and
girls were playing it cool in their
Bermuda shorts, mix-match
shoes, bobby socks, umbrella and
rain coat, the boys wore t-shirts
with a loud tie. The girls wore
thirteen or more plaits. The
freshman carried the upper clas
ses trays and bowed to them in
the hall and on the campus.
The freshman carried out their
initation very good and we hope
that the coming freshmen will
do as well.
Reporter,
Betsy Battle
Know Where You're
Going . . .
Rest Will Come Easy
States Mrs. R. W. Milteer
“Know where you are going and
the rest will be easy,” states Mrs.
R. W. Milteer, the new history
and English teacher of Lincoln
High School.
Mrs. Milteer, a native of New
Bern, North Carolina was grad
uated from New Bern High
School and with the determina
tion to continue her education,
she attended Shaw University for
four years, graduating with a
Bachelor of Arts degree with a
major in English .
Attired in a black dress and
black shoes, seated slumped in
her chair with a lovely smile,
Mrs. Milteer seemed very happy
to tell me of her travel experienc-
es which included trips to Vir
! ginia. South Carolina, Maryland,
i Pennsylvania, Delaware, New
jYork and New Jersey. 1
j Her marriage preceded her j
graduation. When her husband,'
. who is a minister proposed to her
I they cried and a few months later
j they were married. ^
I “My greatest experience took:
! place in New Bern, where I saw a
* bandit rob a bus station office,
j I played detective to help catch
! the crook.” added this new teach-
‘ er of English.
Mrs. Milteer’s advice to stu
dents is to strive to know the
best that is thought and said in
the world; know where you are
going and move steadily toward
your goal.
ters degree in Library Science.
In further reference to the im
provements of the library. Miss
Coston added that subject collec
tions would be improved and that
a larger supply of current maga
zines will be provided.
Miss Coston’s advice to those
interested in becoming librarians
is, first develop wide reading ha
bits; second, concentrate on some
phase of library service, and third,
co-operate with people using the
library.
This reporter was very impres
sed by the new librarian’s manner
of speech. With the improved con
ditions that she will promote, the
library should have a better at
mosphere for study.
By Ida Ruth Battle
Honor Roll
CLASS 8A
1. Lula Alston
2. Geraldine Booth
3. Mary Chavis
4. Eleanor Guthrie
; 5. Elnita Thompson
6. Barbara Worth
M. E. Kornegay, Teacher
CLASS 8B
1. Charles Farrington
2. William Perry
3. Gloria T. Brooks
4. Barbara Burnette
5. Edna Guthrie
6. Phyllis Jones
7. Elsie McCauley
8. Gladys D. Suggs
9. Mary Smith
M. D. Fulford, Teacher
CLASSES lOB-llA
M. G. Frazier, Teacher
1. Mason, Mary
2. Farington, Malissia
E. D. Lowery, Teacher
1. Joseph Burnette
CLASS IIB
1. Allen Mason
2. Carolyn Mae Brewer
3. Desby Harris
4. Doretha Merritt
M. D. Turner, Teacher
CLASS 12
1. Faye Atwater
2. Katrena Baldwin
3. Barbara J. Burnette
4. Betsy A. Cordal
5. Vivian E. Farrington
6. Frances Hargraves
7. Bertha Headen
8. Betty Hogan
9. Carolyn Hogan
10. Alicia Jones
11. Deborah Norwood
12. Beatrice Robinson
13. Gwendolyn Snipes
14. Gloria Vickers
E. F. Robinson, Teacher