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VOLUME II, NO. 48
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1975
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Record 1,080 A&T Students To Graduate
GREENSBORO -Vernon 83rd annual baccalaureate-
Jordan, executive director commencement exercises
of the National Urban of A&T State University
' League, will address the Sunday, May 4 at 11 a.m. in
Bennett Alumnae
Commencement
Plans Set For
May 9 - II
NATIONAL
According to the Harris Poll, Ronald Reagan could
destroy President Ford’s chances of winning the 1976
presidential election should he, Reagan, leavethe
Republican party and run on a conservative ticket. The
polls now show President For and Senator Edmund
Muskie tied for the position as the peoples choice.
Should Ronald Reagan run for the presidential election,
the poll shows Senator Muskie as winning with a 39 per
cent pluralitay.
Though Reagan has not announced that he would run
for the presidency, it is known that he has been
spending some time with Alabama Governor George
Wallace. This contact with Wallace causes many to
believe that a Reagan-Wallace or a Wallace-Reagan
third pary ticket is a probability.
********
According to Federal Energy Administrator Frank G.
Zarb, the United States is likely to face severe shortage
in electric power within five years unless the nation
speeds up the building of power plants. The rapidity
with which the economy recovers will somewhat
determine when the shortage will become a reality.
STATE
When Congress passed the Special Unemployment
Assistance Act, many public school teachers were
optimistic that they would be eligible for
unemployment compensation during their summer
vacations. According to interpretation by Employment
Security Commission attorneys, state law bars persons
who are under written or implied continuing contracts
to draw benefits. Those school workers and teachers
who are not under continuing contracts will be eligible
for unemployment benefits providing they meet other
requirements of state law.
To be eligible for unemployment compensation under
North Carolina law, one must be unemployed, able and
available for work, and actively seeking work.
Greensboro
Guilford County Mental Health Director Don
Fontanana on last Thursday fired Dr. Harry L. Johnson,
medical consultant for the county’s psychiatric services
unit at L. Richardson Hospital in Greensboro. He had
previously accepted the resignation of Dr. Roy
S.Clemmons, with both leaving the services of Guilford
County on April 30.
The firing of the two psychiatrists is a result of
Fontana’s refusal to accept a proposal from them which
they claimed would save the county money. The
proposed to have physicians to work under negotiated
contractual arrangements with the county instead of
being treated as employees. Dr. Clemmons, working
full time, earns $40,000 per year while Dr. Johnson
earns $18,000 per year as a part-time medical
consultant.
Fontana said thut the proposals made by the two
psychiatrists, working on a private contractual
arrangement, would cause their salaries to be
considerably higher than they presently are. Further,
Fontana said that the quality of services at the hospital
will not be jeopardized by the termination of
employment of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Clemmons.
•*«*•««*
The Guilford County Social Services Board gave
unanimous approval to the $26.2 million budget for
fiscal year 1975-76. The departmental budget is
$750,000 more than that of fiscal year 1974-75.
Included in the new budget is provisions for hiring 38
new social workers of which 10 will be hired by July 1,
1975. The remainder 28 budgeted positions will be
filled as the need arises or services will be contracted
out to meet the expressed needs.
HIGH POINT
Dr. James E. Surrati assistant superintendant of.
High Point city schools will resign his position on June
30, and become superintendant of the Goldsboro city
school system. He has been employed by the local
school system for five years and earned his doctors
legree while employed in the local system.
GREENSBORO Ben
nett College will hold its
annual Alumnae-Com-
mencement Week, May
9-11 in Greensboro, North
Carolina. Although most of
the activities will take place
on the woman’s campus,
the headquarters will be
the Royal Villa Inn.
The weekend will include
class reunions, business
sessions, socials, and
commencement-baccalau-
reate activities.
The alumnae activities
will be highlighted by a
special alumnae leadership
conference on Friday, May
9 in Pfeiffer Science Hall.
National alumnae Associa
tion officers, chapter offi
cers, and regional officers
will receive firsthand in
formation on the institu
tion’s academic thrusts,
development programs,
and projected alumnae
recruitment-fundraising
programs. Special speakers^
will include President Isaac
H. Miller, State of
Institutional Affairs Pro
grams; Mr. Marvin H.
Watkins, Development
Programs: Mr. Harold
Bragg, Student Affairs
Projections; Dr. Chelsea
Tipton, Academic Develop
ment; Mrs. Mary Eady, the
Admissions Program; Mrs.
Marion Tasco, the Alumnae
Program. A special pre
sentation on “The College
Endowment Funding Plan”
Mr. Earl Ravenu, associate
director of Moton Man
agement Improvement
Program. The regional
officials will meet in the
afternoon to structure the
year’s regional organiza
tion programs.
On Friday evening, the
Alumnae “Sip-n-Chat” will
be held at the Royal Villa at
Oontinued on Page 3,
the Greensboro Coliseum.
Degrees will be awarded
to a record 900 undergra
duates and 180 graduate
students during the cere
mony.
The graduation exercises
will climax a full weekend
of alumni and student
activities, including the
annual alumni national
meeting, the alumni a-
wards dinner and a series
of class reunions.
The concluding activity
will be the chancellor's
rei^ption for graduates,
alumni and friends in the
Blue Room at the coliseum
following the commence
ment exercises.
During the services, a
$500 teaching excellence
award will be presented to
a member of the faculty and
the alumni excellence
award will be given to one
of the university’s gra
duates.
Jordan, 39, is a graduate
of Howard University Law
School. He began his fast
rising career as a civil
rights activist in the South.
He helped journalist
Charlayne Hunter and
Hamilton Holmes integrale
the University of Georgia
and later headed the highly
successful Voter Education
Project of the Southern
Regional Council.
Under Jordan's gui
dance, the Urban League
has generated employment
for more than 68,000 men
and women over the past
several years.
The A&T reunion classes
this year are the classes of
1905, 1915, 1925, 1935,
1945, 1955, 1965. 1975.
1900, 1910, 1920, 1930,
1940, 1950, 1960, 1970.
The alumni activities will
get underway on Friday.
May 2 at 8 p.m. with the
annual alumni meeting.
A number of individual
reunion activities are sche
duled for May 3, including
the annual awards banquet
at 7 p.m. in the Memorial
Student Union.
RALEIGH - An intensive
rehabilitation program for
Guilford County’s epilep
tics has been created by the
North Carolina Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation
Services.
The program, to be held
in cooperation with the
Guilford, Alamance, Da
vidson and Randolph coun
ties.
Those interested in the
program can get additional
information from the Voca
tional Rehabilitation Office
at 1510 West Martin Street,
Winston-Salem, telephone
North Carolina Epilepsy 919/723-8811.
Association, will utilize
medical, educational, coun
seling and placement
For The Late Reggie Strickland
THOMASVILLE On
May 16, Thomasville Senior
High School and Albemarle
will battle in their annual
high school baseball game.
That night, at Finch Field,
will be named the Reggie
Strickland Memorial Night.
Reggie, the former
Thomasville and A&T State
University football star,
died last year of a heart
condition.
Plans are now being
made to rename the Carver
Park recreation building
Reggie Strickland Center,
Mrs. Minnie Payne, pro
gram director for the
recreation department re
vealed at the last monthly
meeting.
Twelve Black men from
the Thomasville community
known as the Carver Park
Advisory Board developed
the plans and recommen
dations and presented them
to the recreation depart
ment. The board meets
frequently to discuss needs
in recreation within the
Black community with
Carver Park the major
subject. Suggestions arc
then passed on to the
recreation departinent and
commission.
Serving on the board are:
Gregory Henderson. .lames
Henderson, J.W, Mathis,
James H. Henderson,
W.G. Davis, Wai'dell lee.
Jerry Phillips Willie Bax
ter, Freddy Johnson, I.aw-
rence Thomas, and .lessie
Gathings.
Plans for the game uere
worked out by the boat'd
with the cooperation of ihc
Thomasville City Schools
and the recreation depart
ment.
Proecdes from (he me
morial night will go toward
purchasing equipment and
supplies for Carver Park.
Principal E. M. Townes, Jr. Retires
resources to improve the
epileptic’s job potential,
according to Walter B.
Noble, development coor
dinator for the program.
Ms. Barbara Jones will
be program counselor for
the North Central Region
which , includes Forsyth,
by olandra Hill
REIDSVILLE - EM.
Townes Jr., principal of
Moss Street Elementary
School, recently announced
his retirement, effective
June 30 of this year.
In his 25 years as school
principal and a total of
some 44 years of service to
public school, Townes has
seen a great number of
changes.
He has seen the
emphasis switched from
the single classroom teach
er to team teaching, the
fixed schedule classroom
lose out to open classroom
instruction in the primary
grades.
Townes feels that these
innovative teaching meth
ods offer some advantages,
but he maintains that "the
To Get Honorary Degrees
Ccmtinued "cm ■ Pagg^.2;
Peter Mason, age 9, proudly displays his new 10-speed
racer which he has Jnst won in return for selling 20
snbscrlptions for THE TRIBUNAL AID newspaper.
Congratulations Peter!
Peter is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Mason, of 1309
Cedrow Avenue, High Point.
GREENSBORO An
assistant secretary of Hous
ing and Urban develop
ment, a prominent civil
rights leader, a nationally
prominent women’s leader
and a corporate executive
will be presented honorary
degrees during the 83rd
annual baccalaureate-
commemcement exercises
at A&T State University
Sunday, May 4.
The honorees will be
H.R. Crawford, an assis
tant secretary of HUD;
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.,
executive director of the
National Urban League;
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Koontz,
former director of the
Women’s Bureau of the
U.S. Department of Labor;
and James E. Townsend
Jr., manager of recruiting
and college relations of
Dow Chemical U.S.A.
The four persons will be
cited during ceremonies at
the Greensboro Coliseum
for 1,080 A&T graduates.
The program will get
underway at 11 a.m.
A Winston-Salem, N.C.
native, Crawford directs all
of HUD’s programs and
functions relative to the
financial and operational
management of housing.
most important item for
instruction is the classroom
teacher."
"Teachers are better
prepared than in the past,
but the classroom schedule
is so fragmented that they
don’t have enough time to
emphasis skills," he com
mented.
He added, there are
consultants in reading, in
physical education; there
are psychologists, speech
therapists, learning disabi
lity specialists -- the
classroom teacher has to
share her time with all of
these.
Townes strongly believes
that if a child gets the basic
skills, "it will be easy to
add the others, but if he
Black Educator Dies
misses the basis skills, the
other skills won’t carry
him."
"As a follower of the old
school, I feel that a good
foundation in maih. read
ing, and writing is
essential," he noted.
The reduced emphasis on
basic skills is only one of
the changes thal the
veteran educator feels may
have been carried too far.
Recent years have also
brought an awareness on
the parts of both students
and parents of student
righs. "It is good that
students have and acknow
ledge these rights, but
neither parents nor teach
ers should use students
rights as an excuse to let a
Continued on Page 2
RALEIGH Dr. Max
Yergan, 82, a black leader
and educator who also
campaigned for black civil
rights in Africa, died in
Northern Westchester
Hospital, Mount Kisco,
N.Y.
Yergan was born in
Raleigh, N.C., the grand
son of a slave. He
graduated in 1914 from
Shaw University, where he
played football and was a
member of the debating
team, and did graduate
studies at Springfield
College.
He was a former
executive director of the
Council on African Affairs
and a former president of
the defunct National Negro
Congress.
In 1915 he began an
association with the Yount
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I .Editorials 4(1
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I lEntcrtainment 7
I iLadies 3
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I |Obituarics
I IReligion 4
I ISports 7
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