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's Chancellor's Last Fall Convocation Scheduled Oct. 7
Chancellor Albert N.
Whiting, beginning his
16th and last academic
year as chief .ad
ministrator of North
Carolina Central Univer
sity, will address his last
fall convocation of the
university's students and
employees at 10:30 a.m.,
Thursday, October 7. ,
The convocation has
.been reschedulecLfrom
its original date of
September 23, as shown
on the university's
academic caendar. it will
be held, as have the three
convocations the preced
ed " it, in R.L.
McDougald Gym
nasium. -
- Faculty members will
march in academic
regalia in a procesion
opening the convoca
tion.' . Dr. Whiting came to
what was then still called
North Carolina College
at Durham on July 1 ,
1967, as the institutions's
fourth president. His ti
tle was changed to
Chancellor when the
state's system of higher
education was restruc
tured by the 1971
General Assembly to in
clude all 16 senior col
leges and universities in
the University of North
Carolina system (which
begun operations in
1972.) The name of the
Durham institution had
been changed to North
Carolina Central Univer
sity in 1969.
The chancellor, an-;
nounced in January that
he plans to retire June
30, 1983. A search com-.'
mittee appointed' by the
Board of Trustees is cur
rently . seeking his successor,!-
During Dr. Whiting's
tenure as ; chief ad
ministrator, North
Carolina Central Univer
sity created its fifth
, school, the School : of.
Business, in 1972. " '
Academic programs
created at NCCU during
Chancellor Whiting's
tenure include its'
-Academic Skills Center,
which has become a
model for other univer- ;
sides' academics
assistance programs; its
Criminal ; Justice Pro
gram; . Public Ad
ministration Program,
and Pre-Engineering;
Program; and Evening
Law Program; the
,Media-Journailsm Pro
gram of the English
department; a Social
Work concentration in
the Sociology, depart
ment; and professional
degree (Bachelor of
Music) programs in Jazz
and Church Music. ;
Buildings planned and
constructed on the cam
pus during the past 15
years include Eagleson
Residence Hall, the
0'Klly Football
Stadium, the Hubbard
Chemistry Building, a
new Maintenance
Building, the Farrison-
Newton Communica
tions Building, the new ',
Turner . - Law School
Building, and the health
Sciences. .Building oc-i
cupied this fall by .the",
departments of Nursing
and Health Education.
Annexes and additions
were built a , onto the
James- E. Shepard.
Memorial Library, the
Old Law School
Building, the Music and
Fine Arts Building, and
the Diana S. Dent Home
Economics Building.
Under construction are a
Criminal 'Justice
Building, an addition to
the- W.G. ," Pearson
Cafeteria, and a ten-million-dollar
Physical
Education complex.
' Dr. Whiting is a native
of Jersey City,) N.J.,
where he attended
elementary and secon
dary c schools J He
graduated .cum laude
from Amherst College in
1938, attended Columbia
University and the
University of Pittsburgh
of Social Work, and
received his M. A. degree
from Fisk University. He
received his Ph.D.
degree in sociology and
public, welfare from The
American University ir
Washington, D.C -
He has taught at Fisl
University, Bennett Col
lege, Atlanta University,
and Moms Brown Col
lege. He was Dean of the
College at Morris Brown
from 1953 to 1959, the
Dean of the College at
Morgan State College
from 1959 until his ap
pointment to the
presidency of North
Carolina College in
1967.
Chamber Announces
Photo Hunt Winners
The Greater Durham
Chamber of Commerce
recently announced win
ners of the "Great Photo
Hunt" which was con
ducted in August. A
dozen photographers
entered numerous
photographs in four
separate categories.
More than 30
photographs were
chosen to be judged in
the finals of this contest.
Categories for the con
test included Durham
Skyline, Downtown and
Surrounding Durham,
Durham Public and
Private Buildings, and
Miscellaneous -photos
capturing the flavor of
Durham. The purpose of
this contest was to pro
vide the Chamber with
dramatic and attractive
new photographs which
pould be used in publica
tions and brochures pro-;
moting Durham.
Contest winners in
cluded Robert Thomp
son of Chapel Hill who
finished first in the
Downtown and Surroun-l
ding Durham and1
Durham Public and
Private Building
categories. Thompson
was also an Honorable
Mention winner in - the
Durham
Durham Skyline and
Honorable Mention in
the Durham Public and
Private Buildings. Addi
tional winners included
Ms. Rhonda Bullock of
Durham, Honorable
Mention-Downtown and
Surrounding Durham,
and Gregory Bowling of
Durham, the first place
finisher in the
Miscellaneous division.
The Chamber's "Great
Photo Hunt" will
become an annual affair
and has been scheduled
to be conducted in May
of 1983.
Judges for this first
annual contest included
William Erwin,
Associate Director of
Public Relations, Duke
University Medical
Center; Alex Rivera,
Director of Public Rela
tions, North Carolina
Central University; and
Ms. . Carolyn Gross,
President of the Durham
Photographic Arts
Society and medical
photographer Lenox
Baker Children's
Hospital. The judges
reviewed each of the en
tries for impact, con
tinuity, treatment of sub
ject, finishing, quality,
and'
O Ota RJ. MYNOLOt TOCACCO CO.
comDOsition
(Skyline" 'and' ' reiavance inemevfirsr ' ;
miscellaneous divisions. " uu iiviwhuh
Other winners included Mentions cash awards
Ms. Kathy Shelburne of were presented in each
Durham, first place in category.
NCCU Hosts Advisory
Budget Commission:
Requests $2.6 Million
North Carolina Cen
tral University requested
$2,628,000 for renova
tions to existing
buildings and facilities as
North Carolina's Ad-j
visory Budget Commis
sion toured the" universi
ty recently.
Chancellor Albert N.
Whiting told the body,
which recommends bien
nial budget allocations to
the North Carolina;
General Assembly, that'
no requests for new
facilities will be made for
the 1983-85 biennium in
accordance with instruc
tions from the UNC
General
Administration."
Renovations sought
include improvements to
the plana S. Dent Home
Economics Building, to,
meet certification re-j
quirements of the
American Home
Economics Association; .
a thorough renovation of
the heating, ventilation,
and air conditioning
system of the older por
tion of the
600.000-volume James
E. Shepard Library;
renovation of the old
-health building to ac
comodate data process
ing and duplicating
facilities; renovation of
the space occupied by the
School of Library.
Science in the Shepard
'Library building;
renovation of the
Alexander-Dunn
'Building which; houses
4he university's
Academic Skills Center
and its Career Counsel
ing and Placement
Bureau, installation of a
trash removal system;
paving walks and drives;
and replacement of an
underground electrical
switching device.
The most expensive of
.the projects is the
renovation of the old
Health Building. The
building now houses the
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Student $25,000.
Health Services, its Data
Processing Center, and a
Duplicating and Copy
Center. Additional space
in the building is
available for these units
since the Health Educa
tion Department moved
to the first floor of
NCCU's new Health
Sciences Building. The
renovation cost is
estimated at $965,000,
with a movable equip
ment cost of $65,000 br
inging the total to
$1,030,000.
Listed as first priority
for the 1983-85 biennium
was renovation of the
Diana S. Dent Home
Economics Building.
That $158,000 project in
cludes $85,000 in fixed
equipment, will bring the
home economics depart
ments foods laboratory
and its textile laboratory
up to the certification
standards of the
American Home
Economics Association,
the national accrediting
agency in those areas. ...
Second priority went
to the replacement of the
existing heating, ven
tilating, and air, condi-r
tioning system in the '
older portion of the
I 1 f .1 .
iiorary. inc cosi oi inai
project is estimated at;
$503,000.
Renovation and air
conditioning of the old
Health Building, describe
ed above, is the third;
priority. The other pro
jects, in priority order,
are renovation of the
School of Library'
Science facilities,
$215,000; replacement of
the underground,
primary oil switch in the;
campus electrical system,
$25,000; the trash
removal system,
$54,000; "renovation and
air conditioning of
Alexander-D
Building, the
cafeteria, $618,000 and
paving walks and drives,
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