WILIJE JUNIOR "PETE" HAYES
NCCU
News
The North Carolina Central University Athletic Hall of Fame will add
new members at its annual Awards Banquet at 7:30 p. m., Saturday,
til [4_ in NCCU’s W. G. Pearson Cafeteria.
ffluctees for 1990 are Russell Evans “Russ” Blunt of Durham, in-
^as a Contributor to NCCU Athletics; Willie Junior “Pete” Hayes of
Uam, Henry Jay Kirksey of Jackson, Mississippi, and George Ernest
me] Jr-, of Hampton, Va., all honored in the category of Football,
/ilex M. Rivera, Jr., North Carolina Central University’s Director of
hlic'Relations and coordinator of the Athletic Hall of Fame program,
ilthe 1990 Hall of Fame Banquet will be dedicated to the memory of
ilateLee Calhoun, NCCU’s first Olympic gold medal winner, who died
iic21,1989, at the age of 56.
^oun set an Olympic record when he won the llO-meter high
E in Melbourne in 1956. He subsequently became the first man ever
StinTtack-to-back gold medals in that event when he again won a photo
jsh Victory in Rome.
Following are biographies of the four Hall of Fame inductees.
, ^layes of Durham was named North Carolina
^oilege s Best All-Purpose Back in 1955-56, its Most Improved Back
dunng those same years, and its Best Offensive Back in 1958 He was
named to the Second Team All-CIAA in 1958-1959. He was a'four-year
letterman with a certificate of merit for four years with the Eagles.
Mr. Hayes played baseball and boxed for the United States Air Force
sewing from 1951 to 1955, before coming to North Carolina College’
wh^e he received his bachelor of science degree in 1960. After leaving
NCC, he signed with the Boston NFL FoootbaU Team, but was cut from
the roster dunng training camp. He played for two years (1960-62) with
the BaiDmore Orioles Baseball organization.
Mr. Hayes is currently employed by the Durham Department of Parks
and Recreauon as director of the Weaver Street Center.
Mr Hayes is a member of the North Carolina Parks and Recreation
Society, and a member of Division II of the Municipal Recreation Society
He holds cerufreates of ment for his leadership, supervisory, and adminis-
frative achievemente in recreation and for his work with the handicapped.
He IS a member of the Antipoverty Organization for Better Health, the Sal-
vation Army Boys Club, the Agricultural Extension Agency for Teens, the
f u’ Children’s Aid Society, the Tee-
‘he Recreation Division of the American Alliance for
Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
SATURDAY, MARChl 31, 1990—THE CAROLINA Tlf.ii. b !:;
Agriculture. He has received honors as the Public Administrator ol the
Year for his area of Virginia and for the State of Virginia, and ha; .
as a member of the National Coiuncil of the American Society for Publii.
Administration. He is a membeir of the National Forum of Black Public
Administrators, the Virginia Council on Social Welfare, the Conference
of Minority Public Administratoi s, the American Society for Public Ad
ministration, the International City Managers Association, and the Gov
ernment Finance Officers Associaiion. He is a life member of the NAA CP
Md as president of the Hampton Roads Boys Club is leading a ch n .’ lur
$1,500,000 for renovation of two tioys club facilities.
Tickets for the NCCU AthleUc: Hall of Fame Awards Banquet are
available from Alex Rivera at 919 1560-6341.
Dr. Dolores Spikes Speaks To Students
RUSSELL EVANS BLUNT
Russell Evans “Russ” Blunt of Durham says he nas been associated
liNCeU since he competed against the Eagles as a St. Paul’s College
jentin the late 1920s. He also competed for St. Augustine’s College,
tie he received his bachelor’s degree in 1936, and he coached against
^gles as St. Augustine’s head football and track coach between 1946
11950. He was Saint Paul’s College’s head football and track coach
n 1950 to 1953. He served as North Carolina College’s’s assistant
[ball coach and head track coach in 1953-54. He has also coached in
Ssiana and Florida.
(s a coach at Durham’s Hillside High, Coach Blunt encouraged his
ers and mnners to attend the neighboring institution, NCCU. One
be reports, the Eagle football squad included 12 Hillside graduates at
to 60-plus years of association with NCCU, Coach Blunt freely
lisas close a relationship with his Durham neighbor as with his own
j mater. He says he knows all the coaches, all of the physical
t Son faculty, and most of the former athletes,
jch Blunt was a Hillside Coach from 1955 to 1973, serving as head
tcoach, junior varsity football coach, and for seven years basketball
[b. |He turned 65 in 1973, and left Hillside and the Durham City
|ols to serve for six years as assistant track coach at Southern High
|olm the Durham County system. In 1979 he returned to Hillside to
b as the Head Cross-Country Coach, and in 1981 he again became
lide’s Head Track Coach. Coach Blunt, who will celebrate his 82nd
on April 21, still holds the Track position at Hillside,
fcacoach. Coach Blunt has been associated with outstanding champi-
fcms at four schools: Southern University; North Carolina Col-
gorida Memorial College; and Hillside High School, where his
‘Jwon the state championship in 1984. Hillside’s football players
Tiners-up for the State Championship in 1959 and 1960, and the
Track Team was State runner-up in 1986.
Blunt is also assistant coach of the Durham Striders Track Club,
bmember of the Andover, Massachusetts, High School Athletic Hall
band the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Hall of
HENRY JAY KIRKSEY
.u Kirksey of Jackson, Mississippi, was an outstanding end for
the Eagles m 1940-41, and subsequently went into the Army, where he
served for [our and a half years in World War II’s Pacific Theater, serving
m the Phillippmes and Japan, and rising in rank from Private in the
Medical Corps to Major in the Field Artillery. Mr. Kirksey’s teammate
and nominator, John E. Brown, remembers riding to North Carolina
College from Mississippi with Mr. Kirksey and three other athletes in a car
driven by Coach William Burghardt. Mr. Kirksey returned to North
Carolina College after his military service, graduating with honors in eco
nomics in 1947.
Mr. Kirksey has been active in political life in his native state of
Mississippi. He was a journalist for the Mississippi Teachers Association
Irom 1961 to 1963, editor of the Mississippi Free Press in 1964-65, and
printer for Mississippi Civil Rights organizations and movements from
U63 to 1972. He is a certified expert in the Federal courts in cases
involving election districts, with experience in cartography, demography
and planning. Between 1963 and 1989, he has been active in election
district litigation, acting as the plaintiff in a number of suits related to Con-
gressional redistricting, city and municipal elections, school districts
judicial elections, and the application of the constitution and the U. S."
f served two terms in the Mississippi State Senate!
from 1980 to 1988, as the only black member of that body. He has also
been a candidate for Governor of Mississippi, receiving threats to his life
during that campaign. He is currently president of the Henry J. Kirksey
Foundation for Equity and Justice in Jackson, Mississippi.
GEORGE ERNEST WALLACE, JR.
Dr. Dolores Spikes, President of the Southern University System in
Louisiana and Chancellor of Southeim University at Baton Rouge, was a
Visiting Scholar at North Carolina Clentral University’s School of Educa
tion Monday and Tuesday, March 12'. and 13.
Dr. Spikes made presentations to the undergraduate students in the
School of Education and to the Sc hool’s faculty, with other selected
faculty.
She also spoke Monday morning;, March 12, to the annual Spring
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EAGLES C ALENDAR
MARCH 31 (Saturday), 2 a. m. to 6 a. mi., Jam, The Palace, sponsored by
Gamma Beta chapter. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Tickets sold in
advance at SGA Office, Alfonso Elde r Student Union.
MARCH 31 (Saturday), 12 noon, Nortlh Carolina Central University
Jazz Festival, performances by jazz bands from Saint Augustine’s
College, Shaw University, Tennessee S tate University, and North Caro
lina Central University, B. N. Duke Auiditorium. Admission is free.
MARCH 31 (Saturday). 8 p. m.. North Ciirolina Central University Jazz
Festival, concert by Donald Brown Quintet, B. N. Duke Auditorium
Admission is free.
APRIL 1 (Sunday), 2 to 4 p. m.. Art Shoxv, “Black Women Artists —
North Carolina Connections,” NCCU / kit Museum. For information,
560-6211.
APWL 1 (Sunday), 4 p. m.. Senior Recital, i Vngelique Bullard, soprano,
Duane Montgomery, bass guitar. Music Building Auditorium. Ad
mission free.
George Ernest Wallace, Jr., of Hampton, Va., was the team-leading
pass receiver for the Eagles in 1958 anF 1959. He had 17 receptions and
averaged 17 yards per reception in 1958, and caught nine passes for an
average of 12 yards per reception in 1959. He made an 85-yard kick-off
return in 1958, and was named to the AlI-CIAA Football first team in 1958
and to the first team of the 1958 All-CIAA Academic Team in the same
year.
Mr. Wallace received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce degree in
accounting in 1958, and has subsequently earned his Master of Public
Administration degree from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He
is Assistant City Manager for Strategic Planning and Financial Manage
ment for the City of Hampton, Va., and has also been Hampton’s Assistant
City Manager for Community Service. He began his career in public ad
ministration in the War on Poverty of the 1960s, directing manpower
training programs in Newport News and Norfolk, Va. He has also been
employed as a substitute teacher, as an assistant hospital administrator,
and as an administration specialist with the United States Department of
APRIL 1 (Sunday), 5 p, m.. Honors Banquet for Howard Clement, Rcgi-
iiald K. Smith, Robert P. Smith, sponsoned by Gamma Beta Chapter
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Alfonso Elder, Smdent Union. Tickets sold
m advance at SGA office, Alfonso Elder St udent Union.
APRIL 2-6 (Monday-Thursday), Fall Semester and Summer School
preregistration for all students.
APRIL 3-6 (Tuesday to Friday), 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.. Art Show, “Black
Women Artists — North Carolina Connections,” NCCU Art Mu
seum. Extended hours to 9 p. m. on Thursda ys. For information, 560-
6211.
APRIL 4 (Wednesday), 8:15 p. m.. Paint a Pretl y Picture, original musi
cal, Dramatic Art Department, University Tiieatre, Farrison-Newton
Communications Building. Tickets available . at NCCU Ticket Office,
R. L. McDougald Gymnasium, 10 a. m. - 6 jp. m., Monday through
Friday. Call 560-5170 for ticket information.
University Band To Give
Free Outdoor Concert
APRIL 5 (Thursday), 8:15 p. m., Paint a Pretty Pit tture, original musical,
Drainatic Art Department. University Theatre, I 'arrison-Newton Com
munications Building. Tickets available at NCCU Ticket Office R L
McDougald Gymnasium, 10 a. m. - 6 p. m., Monday through Friday.
Call 560-5170 for ticket information.
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The bjorth Carolina Central Uni
versity Band will present a free out
door concert at 2 p. m., Saturday,
April 7, in the Annie Day Shepard
Bowl, the lawn in the center of the
NCCU campus behind the Hoey
Administration Building. The con
cert will be presented during
NCCU’s Parents’ Weekend. The
band is directed by Xavier Cason,
Bandmaster. Admission is free.
APRIL 6 (Friday), Honors Convocation / Awards I )ay. Speaker, Harvey
Gantt, R. L. McDougald Gymnasium.
APRIL 6-8 (Friday-Sunday), Parents Weekend.
APRIL 6 (Fnday), 8;15 p. m.. Paint a Pretty Picture, original musical.
Dramatic Art Department, University Theatre, Farr ison-Newton Com-
mumcations Building. Tickets available at NCCU J Ticket Office, R. L.
77 M Gymn^ium, 10 a. m. - 6 p. m., Mondi ay through Friday.
Call 560-5170 for ticket information.
Touring Choir And Jazz
Band To Give Concert
People who make
he ballot is still one of our most
iiective weapons against inequality.'
Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks
Executive Director >
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
The North Carolina Central Uni
versity Concert and Touring
Choirs, under the direction of Dr.
Charles H. Gilchrist, and the NCCU
Jazz Band, led by Ira Wiggins, ap
pear together in a free concert at
4 p. m., Sunday, April 22, in North
Carolina Central University’s B. N.
Duke Auditorium.
APRIL 7 (Saturday), Sixth Charlemae Hill Rollins Colli yquium, “Search
ing for Self: The Black Experience in Childre n’s Literature,”
sponsored by NCCU School of Library and Informati on Sciences For
information, 560-6485.
APRIL 7 (Saturday), 2 p. m.. Free Outdoor Concert, NCCU Band,
directed by Xavier Cason, Annie Day Shepard Bowl (t >ehind Hoey Ad
ministration Building.)
First Annual NCCU Jazz
Festival Set
APRIL 7 (Saturday), 3:15 p. m.. Paint a Pretty Picture, o: riginal musical,
Dramatic Art Department, University Theatre, Fairison -Newton Com
munications Building. Tickets available at NCCU Tick et Office, R. L.
McDougald Gymnasium, 10 a. m. - 6 p. m., Monday tl hrough Friday.
Call 560-5170 for ticket information.
> njamin Hooks leads the oldest and largest
inization responding to the needs of Black
'iricans and other minorities. By addressing
t issues through the press, the petition, the
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hnue to uphold the vision of a society free of
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A concert by the Donald Brown
Quintet at 8 p. m., Saturday, March
31, in B. N. Duke Auditorium, will
be the feature event of what North
Carolina Central University is bill
ing as the First Annual NCCU Jazz
Festival.
Donald Brown, the pianist and
leader of the Quintet, has per
formed with Art Blakey, Wynton
Marsalis, Milt Jackson, Slide
Hampton, Dianne Reeves,
other well-known jazz performers.
The Festival begins at noon, Sat
urday, March 31, in NCCU’s B. N.
Duke Auditorium. The afternoon
will be devoted to performances by
bands from four historically black
colleges and universities: NCCU,
Shaw University, Saint Augustine’s
College, and Tennessee State Uni
versity.
Members of the Donald Brown
Quintet will also conduct a jazz
clinic Saturday afternoon.
Both the Saturday night concert
and the Saturday afternoon college
band concerts are open to the gen-
•ral public at no cost
APRIL 8 (Sunday), 2 to 4 p. m„ Last Daj, Art Show, “131ack Women
Artists — North Carolina Connections,” .NCCU Art A luseum For
information, 560-6211.
APRIL 8 (Sunday), 3:15 p. m.. Paint a Pretty Picture, orig inal musical,
Dramatic Art Department, University Theatre, Farrison-N ewton Com
munications Building. Tickets available at NCCU Ticket i Office, R. L.
McDougald Gymnasium, 10 a. m. - 6 p. m., Monday threugh Friday!
Call 560-5170 for ticket information.
APRIL 8 (Sunday), 4 p. m.. Senior Recital, Anita Anglin, piiar lo, Charles
Hyman, baritone. Music Building Auditorium. Admission free.
and APRIL 13 (Friday), Good Friday Holiday. No Classes.
APRIL 13 - APRIL 15 (Friday-Sunday), NCCU Athletic Hall of Fame
Weekend.
APRIL 14 (Saturday), 7 p. m., NCCU Athletic Hall ofFarnt; Bam luct, W.
G. Pearson Cafeteria.
APRIL 16 (Monday), Classes Resume.
APRIL 18 (Wednesday), 11 a. m.. Board of Trustees of the Endov vnient
Fund of NCCU, 311 Hoey Administration Building.
APRIL 18 (Wednesday). 2 p. m.. Board of Trustees of North Cm olina
Central University, Chancellor’s Conference Roomi, William J 'ones
Building.
APRIL 19-25 (Thursday-Wednesday), Dead Week. No extracurric ular
activities to be scheduled.
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APRIL 20 (Friday), 2 p. m.. Faculty Senate meeting, Whiting Crimi nal
Justice Building.
6y NCCU Touring and Coincert Choi rs,
NCCU Jazz Band, B. N. Duke Auditorium. Admission is free.