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A&T’s Mel Groomes; Master Of The Diamond
GREENSBORO--The Groomes has amassed 300
subject of motivation is one victories against 60 defeats,
of the most fascinating He has won nine ClAA
conversation' topics from championships and his
the college classroom to 1974 team finished in a tie
to basketball, the kingpin of
Tar Hell athletics, and
football.
Despite this, Groomes
approaches each baseball
your favorite Saturday with Howard University for season with the enthusiasm
evening publication. the MEAC crown.
Just what is that extra Even more remarkable is
ingredient that separates that during his coaching
good athletes from the career only one team has
superstar or the good coach finished below second
from the great coach? An place,
interesting subject to study But his record is not what
when evaluating a coach makes Mel Groomes such
would be North Carolina an interesting personality.
A&T’s baseball leader, Mel He is a baseball coach in an
Groomes. area where almost all of the
Now entering his 20th attention, financial and
season as the Aggie Coach, publicity wise is dedicated
of a rookie coach out to
prove he deserves a place
with the best.
“Over the years 1 have
developed a rapport with
the community, the student
body, and the players and
that enthusiasm has just
seemed to filter down to all
of the teams 1 have
coached,” said Groomes,
who is a trim looking 49
year old. “For baseball at
A&T and most colleges,
there are no large crowds
that turn out night after
night to watch so much of
the spirit must come from
within the players and
myself. I have always been
fortunate to have individu
als on my team that had the
ability to win despite the
obstacles.
The charismatic
Groomes, recognized as the
most popular among the
A&T coaching staff, has
had many interesting and
satisfying moments during
his 20 year career. The
most memorable came
during the Aggies' next to
last year playing CIAA
baseball.$
“We were playing Dela
ware State in Richmond for
the championship,''
Groomes recalled. “We
split on Saturday and had to
play on Sunday for the
deciding game.
“We didn't have the
money to stay in a hotel so
we had to come back to
Greensboro. The bus broke
down on the way back and
by the time we got home it
was 5 a.m.
“We got a little sleep in
and were back on the road
122nd Obserance Address
and to a cointemplative
mood by our young. Where
there can be no secure
reliance on the honesty and
integrity either of their
elders or their peers, many
have inevitable returned to
reading and meditation and
to the quest for th( ultimate
law to gain some fi ling for
a higher purpose in life.
That in essence is what the
students of William and
Mary and of Harvard and
yale did in that earlier
Colonial time of the lull
before the full blow of the
American revolution. If
they had not done so then,
and if our present students
were not now doing so,
then our nation with all of
its power and wealth may
soon lie in the dust of the
future world like Percy
Bysshe Shelly’s Ozymand-
ias, whose inscription read,
“My name is Ozymandias,
king of kings. Look on my
works, ye might and
dispair!,” but of whose
works nothing remained
but decay and the bound
less bare stretches of arid
wasteland. He and his land
were but a blotted
memory of what might have
been.
The greatest threat that
we face is not historical
racism as you have been
accustomed to think, but
rather the dominance of
economic power over de
mocracy itself. The exces
sive concentration of
wealth, power and control
of both national and
international affairs by
multinational corporation
oligopolies has great mean
ing for us. We must be
concerned whether they
have any greater loyalty to
any one country than to
another, and whether in
structure and operation
they are compatible with or
anithetical to a democratic
government. Two thirds of
such multinational enter
prises are corporates of the
United States. Their deci
sions have a more compre
hensive impact upon all of
the concerns of both our
survival and the quality of
Oontinueti frcm WMb 4
the domestic life of our inside our institutions or design. and her sister institutions
nation than any issues learning, we must come to maintained their fidelity to
associated with domestic grips with the fact that It is our responsibility to education as a right to
racism. As a matter of fact, computer based technology consciously prepare lines of culture and as a responsi-
the recently orchestrated is not compatible with the succession to such positions bility to full professional
oil crisis must be seen in a full utilization of trained as those of Supreme Court
vastly larger context than persons, let alone the Justice Thurgood Marshal,
the so-called school bussing larger numbers of ill or Cabinet Members Dr.
issue. Even with respect to marginally trained techni- Robert Weaver and Mr.
the continued existence of cians. We must make a James Coleman, Federal
Livingstone College, deci- conscious and determined Bank Directors Dr. Andrew
sions are already being effort to educate as many Brimmer and Mr. Hobart
made in government, in our young adults as Taylor, Jr.; on the one
philanthropic foundations, possible to full professional hand, and NAACP Execu-
and in business which will competency at all costs, tive Director Mr. Roy
greatly affect whatever you because there is a funda- Wilkins, and President Dr.
propose to do in the future, mental difference between W. Montague Cobb, Urban
and Livingstone cannot be full professional qualifica- League Executive Director
left to flair blindly into the tion as a scientist, Vernon Jordan, United
wind like King Lear. engineer, architect, or Negro College Fund Foun-
business executive, and the der Dr. Frederick D.
Such dimensions of the massive orchestration of Patterson and every con-
economic and political life large numbers of minority ceivable role across the
of our nation must become students into obsolescence spectrum of business,
competence in spite of past
century of public, regional
and private foundation
commitment to support
only vocational and teacher
training education for
Negroes on the explicit
assumption stated in many
ways that the liberal
education of Negroes would
create within them unreal
izable aspirations. We ran
the tortuous gauntlet of our
civil rights process to break
and ready to play in
Richmond by 4:30. We won
the championship decided
ly." Although Groomes is a
firm believer in hard work
and dedication in practice
he will revert to “gim
micks" to motivate his
team when he feels it is
necessary.
“Since I've been coach
ing at A&T, I have always
had an established ace
pitcher," said Groomes,
who is known around the
A&T campus as “Big
Ten." There was James
Baten, who never lost a
game during his four year
career, and more recently,
A1 Holland, who led the
nation in strikeouts for
three seasons.
“This year we have to
prove we can win without
A1 Holland. With him on
the mound, we knew that
all that was needed to win
was a few runs because A1
just wasn't going to give up
too much.
“We will have to be a
scrappy team this year,
everything we get we are
going to have to protect."
Although the baseball
program generates interest
among the male student
population. At the begin
ning of spring workouts 75
"efuls usually turn out.
- never cut a player
frcm the team,” said
Groomes. “Over the years 1
A RIDDLE IN RHYMES
by
Rev. T.M. Walker
WHAT AM V!
Originally I came from the forest soil
Where in timber-land I grew.
Physically I was involved in one's toil
Until his special work was through.
From timber-land I was taken away.
Which means that 1 had to die.
With tools in hand men fashioned me one day
Into an object to glorify.
WHAT AM I?
After the hand tools had fashioned me well.
Immediately I became a burden.
Those were fools using me as history can tell.
For the evil planning was not sudden.
Pre-meditated murder was commited on me.
But this 1 can’t justify.
It makes me shudder to look back and see
How the killers did this and got by.
WHAT AM I?
Strong shoulders carried me up a hill
To where I was anchored into earth.
Mean soldiers stood by ready to kill
The Man who ushered in the new birth.
From my out-stretched hard wooden arms,
A suspended object swung high
To save the wretched from eternal harm
So that their soul shall never die.
WHAT AM I?
(The answer to last week's riddle is
BROADCASTING STATION. The answer to this riddle
will appear in the next issue of THE TRIBUNAL AID.)
our serious and studied at the level of technicians
concern not just from the and aides,
narrow spectrum of racism,
but from the more Our single greatest
fundamental recognition higher educational chal-
that racism is but a small lenge is to consciously
part of a larger scenario, prepare a cadre for
What kind of society will succession to the total
there be in the third range of leadership re-
that cycle and to establish
education for dignity as have developed my own
well as for work on firmer type of farm system and I
foundations within the feel that if a youngster has
structure of both regional the desire and patience to
industry, education, reli- and national higher educa- stick it out and wait until he
gion and public service tion policy. Now we meet at can become a vital part of
from the head of the family the other end of the cycle the team then he should
another massive commit- receive every chance."
ment of us to subordinated Last Saturday Groomes
education now euphemisti- won his 301st game as the
cally called “career” edu- Aggies defeated Shaw
cation, combined with an University 15-7 in Raleigh,
anti-intellectual power rhe- There is no talk of
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to the head of State. It is
the gravest responsibility to
both educationally and
psychologically prepare
this generation to aspire
not only for the basketball
century of this nation? Will sponsibilities in this nation, court, but for the Supreme toric. These even tried to retirement so it appears
the great promises of libery We must think not only of
and democracy survive at leadership for our own
all in this new mode of organizations and institu-
multinational economic and tions, but leadership to
governmental organiza- improve the quality of the
tion? It is no accident that total society itself. We did
Court; not only to be a
dude, but to be a disciple;
not only to inhabit the slum
house but to occupy the
White House; and with
respect to the quality fo
replace the fundamentals of that Mel Groomes will be
the disciplines and know- around Aggieland for many
ledge of the fields of liberal more seasons,
and professional higher
education, even in our
liberal arts colleges. We
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there are fewer rather than not replace Dr. Ralph J. that leadership, not only to have seen both historically
more democratic govern- Bunche at the United inspire others to transcend and contemporaneously the
ments in the world since Nations, Mr. Hobart Taylor the ghetto but to be the cost and consequences of
World War II, in spite of all Jr. at the Export Import special catalysts to save the that course,
of the more than thirty Bank, Dr. Robert Weaver nation and all its people,
countries which have come at the Department of
to independence in the Health, Education and
name of democracy in the Welfare, Dr. Andrew
past two decades. It is even Brimmer at the Federal
more a matter of concern Reserve Bank, or Dr. Percy
that even more of the old Julian at the Julian
and traditionally republican Laboratories. It is not that
governments of Europe we do not have men and
have migrated away from, women of comparable
rather than toward, the capability and preparation,
demoncratic republican but that they are in too
model. short supply. Therefore,
Even as we look at the our institutions must not be
quantum leaps in the diverted to any other
advancement of science priority than concentration
and technology in which upon increasing that pool.
America has taken the We also cannot afford to
major strides, this fact and have future leadership
what it will mean for the arise, as in the past, mor«
future utilization of human by accident of circumstance
beings has already been than by our consciou
clearly indicated to us. discipline and systematii
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