Volume XIX
Chapel Hill, N. C. Tuesday, July 10, 1951
Number 9
Negro Woman Sues For Admission To UNC
Playmakers Put Final
Touches On Production
Technical crews are busy this week putting final touches
on setting and costumes for The Carolina Playmakers produc
tion of the comedy, "Pursuit of Happiness," in time for open
ing night this Thursday in the Playmakers Theater.
Pike Address
is Tonight
in Gerrard
Dr. James Albert Pike, Chap
lain and head of the Department
of Religion at Columbia Univer
sity, will speak on "The Christian
Faith" in Gerrard Hall tonight at
8 o'clock.
The talk is being sponsored by
the University YWCA and all
students and town people are in
vited. Dr. Pike is one of the more
noted authorities in the country
on Christianity. He is also an
author and practiced law as a
government attorney for a num
ber of years in Washington.
A native of Oklahoma City,
Okla., Dr. Pike received his B.A.
degree at the University of South
ern California in 1934 and his
LL.B. in 1936. He studied at Yale
under a Sterling Fellowship in
1937.
He has served as an attorney
for both the Securities Exchange
Commission and the Office of
Price Administration in Washing
ton and as a lecturer in Law at
Catholic and George Washington
universities.
After serving in the Navy for
three years, Dr. Pike was Chap
lain at a number of colleges be
fore going to Columbia.
He is visiting Chapel Hill as
a guest lecturer in a religious
seminar being conducted this ses
sion by the University Depart
ment of Religion.
The YWCA will present other
gualified speakers on religious
topics throughout the summer
months as a part of the organi
zation's efforts to relate worship
to the life of University students
in more useful ways.
Theme To Dook
Hold on lo those old English
1 and 2 themes, boys I They
might pay off some day.
Thai's the advice that Jack
Wardlaw, Raleigh insurance
agent and alumnus of the UNC
class of '31, would offer lo stu
dents here.
Wardlaw has just had a book
entitled, "Sales Success Through
Thought Plus Action," accepted
for publication by Wilfred
Funk, Inc.
Way back in 1927, after flunk
ing out of Trinity College now
known as Duke University
Wardlaw came lo Carolina, and
determined to make good, took
particular pains with his first
freshman English theme. It was
entitled "Thought Plus Action,"
and he got an A plus on it.
"I just decided to utilize that
idea in a book when I stumbled
across that old theme paper
sometime ago," Wardlaw says.
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tradition of polished productions,
Wray Thompson, costume design
er, has had a crew of ten cutting
and sewing to create 16 authentic
costumes of the American Revo
lutionary period, elaborate with
panels, ruffles, and bows.
Costume crew members are:
Mark Mobley, Dorothea Jones,
Madge Gould, Brooke Robertson,
Edith Sewell, Louise Carter, Lee
Cooper, Rebecca Hamilton, Boyce
Benge, and Barbara Dodson.
In the scene shop, set designer
John Caldwell and crew chief
Dick Snavely have been at work
reproducing the parlor of an early
American farmhouse. Dorothea
Jones, property master, and her
assistant, Don Melvin, will furnish
the picture authentically to the
smallest detail.
Electricians Barbara Dodson
and Charles Hadley have planned
lighting to simulate differences
between morning, early and later
afternoon, and evening light.
Sound technician Max Lindsey is
standing by to insure that no play
goer will miss a laugh in the agile
comedy.
With assistance from members
of the costume staff, makeup chief
Larry Peerce plans to add years
and wrinkles to part of the cast,
while house manager William
Struhs coaches ushers on efficien
cy. General stage manager Claude
Garren and assistant manager
Louise Neal have been coordinat
ing the work of all the crews so
that the curtain will rise Thurs
day evening at 8:30 on a polished
production. Tickets are on sale
at Swain Hall and Ledbetter
Pickard's. Bankers Hold
Meeting Here
More than 150 bankers from a
three-state area are here this
week for the 15th Carolinas
Bankers Conference.
Classes comprising the week
long schedule of intensive train
ing in various fields of banking
got underway yesterday morning
at 8:45 and will continue until
4 p.m. each day this week through
Friday.
Top notch specialists in com
mercial, agricultural and credit
banking will comprise the "facul
ty" for the Conference which is
sponsored by the North Carolina
and South Carolina Bankers As
sociations, the North and South
Carolina State Banking Depart
ments, and the University.
Among the well known author
ities conducting the classes will
be Dr. W. A. Irwin, economist for
the American Bankers Associa
tion; T. A. Glenn, Jr., president,
Peoples National Bank, Norris
town, Pa., and former member of
the faculty of the Graduate
School of Banking, Rutgers Uni
versity; M. Monroe Kimbrel, First
National Bank, Thomson, Ga.,
and guest lecturer in economics,
University of Georgia.
Student Law Talks
Scheduled Tomorrow
A lecture on campus law and
its enforcement will be given
in Gerrard hall at 7:30 p.m. to
morrow night.
The lecture is primarily for
new students who missed lec
tures delivered earlier this sum
mer. After the talks by Allan
Milledge and Bill Walker, mem
bers of the Men's Honor Coun
cil, there will be time for ques
tions and discussion.
"It is important that all stu
dents Ehould understand the
Honor System as it is the basis
for student government and the
Carolina way of life," Council
Chairman Allan Milledge explains.
Di, Phi Plan
UNC Talks
The Dialectic Senate will dis
cuss a reform of the judicial sys
tem of the campus at its Wednes
day night meeting in Di Hall,
3rd floor, New West building.
The bill would combine all three
councils into a student council
and eliminate appeals to a higher
court. Defendants in honor and
campus code cases would be of
fered a choice of the type of court
before which they wish their case
to be heard the entire council
composed of 10 men and 6 wo
men or a court consisting of
members of the same sex as the
defendant.
Abolition of the appeal, long a
hot campus issue, has plagued and
inspired student politicians into
frothy action and the debate be
fore the Di should be hard fought.
Judicial reform was an important
issue last year when a special
committee to study the problem
was established by the President.
Tonight at 8:30 the Phi As
sembly will debate a bill aimed
at improving the social life on
the campus. The bill, designed
to provide for the changing of
"the ratio" to a basis more closely
approximating one-to-one, pro
vides for the admission of coeds
as first year students and gen
eral encouragement of coed en
rollment. In the preamble to the bill it
is stated that one of the most
obvious deficiencies in the social
structure of the campus is the
marked disparity between the
number of coeds and the number
of male students.
Stated purpose of the bill is
to promote the equalization of
coeds in order that the goal of
the University in training well
rounded citizens may be more
fully realized by reducing the
artificiality of the social atmos
phere on campus and making it
correspond better to that of our
society as a whole.
PRE-REGISTRATION
General College Fall quarter
pre-registration for students hot
planning to attend the second
term of summer school will be
held on Thursday and Friday,
July 12-13.
Pre-registration for those at
tending the second summer school
term will be held on August 6
and 7.
Kinsfon Teacher Seeks
Acceptance By Spanish
Dept., Claims Refused
The first Negro women to bring suit against the Univer
sity asking admission as a student filed her complaint in
the clerk's office of Middle District Court in Greensboro last
week.
Tentative date for a hearing
Plans Include
Coffee Hour,
Cards, Dance
The third in a series of coffee
hours, to be held this afternoon at
5 o'clock in the lounge of Graham
Me awl, .1, vil! open the S ummer
Aclivil.js lJroeramV iinal week
of festivities for the first summer
session.
All students and faculty mem
bers are invited to attend, while
special invitations have been is
sued by the students to their in
structors in their various courses.
Hostess for the social is Mrs.
Cora Bundy. The weekly coffee
hours are a feature of the Cul
tural-Educational committee of
he Summer Activities Program.
Tonight at 7: 30 in the lounge of
Graham Memorial, the Social
Committee will sponsor its fourth
weekly card party. Tables will
be set. up for bridge and canas
ta, and cash prizes will be award
ed to the winners.
Community singing, refresh
(See PLANS, page 4)
Voting Begins
For Queen
Voting is now in progress and
will continue through Thursday
for the preliminary selection of
the queen of the Watermelon
Festival. Polls are in the Y
lobby and are open from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Votes are a penny
each the proceeds will go to
ward paying for the melons to
be comsumed by all comers Fri
day, Five candidates receiving the
highest number of votes in the
preliminary balloting will enter
the finals to be held in the Y
lobby Friday from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Each student and faculty
member will be entitled to one
vote in the finals.
Announcement of the queen
will be made at the Festival at
the Davie Poplar, Friday at 7 p.m.
Candidates for the title of
Queen of the Watermelon Festi
val, entered to date, , and their
sponsors are Eugenia Holliday,
Alpha Delta Pi; Peggy Rose An
derson,, Alpha Tau Omega; Betty
Cook, Grimes dormitory; Dot
Guy, Kappa Sigma; Mary Louise
MiHiken, Kenan dormitory; Rose
Holland, Monogram Club; Dodie
Boyer, Old East dormitory; Ann
Dover, Smith dormitory; Nancy
Jo Fox, Manley dormitory; Fran
ces Hauser, Old West dormitory;
Betty Merritt, Spencer dormitory;
Betty Lou Worthington, Sigma
Chi; and Lucia Hutchinson, Stacy
dormitory.
before Judge Johnson J. Hayes
has been set for Thursday, July
12, the date being subject to ap-
i
proval of the judge.
Gwendolyn Lolita Harrison of
Kinston, who filed the suit, has
asked the court to issue a pre
liminary injunction against the
University restraining it from re
fusing and denying the plaintiff
and all qualified Negroes similar
ly situated, admission, registra
tion, and enrollment for courses
in Spanish in the graduate school
of the University.
She also asks that the court
"enter judgment or decree de
claring that the policy, custom
and usage of the defendants in
refusing to admit the plaintiff
and other qualified Negroes as
students to the graduate school
of the University of North Caro
lina, solely on account of her race
and color, is unconstitutional and
violative of the 14th Amendment
of the United States Constitu
tion."
Named as defendants in the suit
(See NEGRO, page 4)
Howard Gives
Gallery Talk
Robert Howard, newly appoint
ed faculty member of the Art
Department will give the fifth
in a series of gallery talks in
Person hall art gallery tomorrow
evening at 7:30.
The series of talks, given in
conjunction with the exhibit
"20th Cehtury European Paint
ing," have been so organized that
each gallery talk takes up a dif
ferent aspect of the exhibition.
Howard will relate his discus
sion to the current exhibition of
36 original works by modern
masters lent to Person Hall for
the summer by Duncan Phillips,
director of the Phillips Gallery
in Washington. Included in the
exhibition are works by Picasso,
Dufy, Kandinsky, Roualt, Klee,
Gris, Bonnard and Matisso.
The gallery will be open from
7 to 9 tomorrow evening. Its
regular afternoon hours are from
2 to 5.
Radio Clinic
A two-week workshop in ra
dio broadcasting for high school
students scheduled here this
summer will be under the dual
sponsorship of the University
and North Carolina radio sta
tions through their professional
organization, under a plan Just
completed.
The North Carolina Associa
tion of Broadcasters will co
sponsor the session with
the University's Communication
Center, according to Communi
cation Center Director Earl
Wynn.
To be known as the North
Carolina High School Radio In
stitute, it will be held for the
first time from July 22 to Au
gust 4 in Chapel Hill. The In
stitute is open to North Caro
lina high school juniors and
seniors.