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VOLUME III, NUMBER. 37
Vocational
Teachers Close
Meet At A&T
liY C. A. 1RVIN
Climaxing the five-day ses- j
sion or trie rvegro leacneis or
Vocational Agriculture Friday
at A. and T. College, "was the
adoption of the report to conduct
an annual Thanksgiving
program for the Colored Orphanage
of Oxford. In commenting
on the report, Professor
S. B. Simmons, Supervisor
of Vocational Agriculture In
Negro Schools, said, "We are
happy to join with the benefactors
of the institution, designed
in the interest of needy
children, in doing our share
to help them. We hope that
others will do likewise. The
committee that drew up the
recommendations was composed
of J. B. Brown, Sanford;
E. C. Setzer, Dunn; G. K. Mc- '
Kethao, Columbia; A. L.
Scales, Southport; A. W. Jones,
Roxboro, and M. M. Woodson,
Concord.
T. J. Culler, Wake Forest,
read a letter citing J. H. Hig
ganbotliam or the department
of Horticulture, Hampton Institute,
Hampton, Va., for his
generous gift of Kale-Collard
seeds, to be distributed for use
among the Negro teachers of
vocational agriculture throughout
the state.
The conference adopted the
resolution for the improvement
of instructional methods and
the evaluation of curricula, the
study of methods of improving
health standards and the consideration
of post-war planning.
R. B. Winchester, Assistant
Supervisor of the Food Production
Wlar Training Program,
Raleigh, expressed his appreciation
for the splendid manner
in which these teachers have
cooperated with the government
in production and conservation
of food commodities
during our national emergency.
Announcement was made of
the awarding of t h e second
James H- Dillard memorial
scholarship to Albert Spruill of
Columbia. He plans to begin
his career at A. and T. College,
Greensboro, beginning with the
fall term. The Southern Education
Foundation, Inc., made
the announcement. Spruill was
recently voted the "most outstanding
future farmer" by the
New Farmers of America. The
NFA is an organization designed
to teach improved methods
of farming to Negro boys and
its program is supported Jointly
by the U. S. Office of Education
and the North Carolina
Department of Education. c
Cited during the conference
for twenty years of service in t
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Miss Mae Withers, daughter
of Mr .and Mrs. Robert Withers
of Greensboro, became the
bride of L>. Maynard Catchings,
of Houston, Texas, in a ceremony
of beauty and splendor,
Friday evening, in the Annie
Merner Pfeiffer chapel of Bennett
College.
After the vows were spoken
by the Reverend Mir. Herbert
King, National YMCA executive
of New York City, Mr. and"
Mrs. Catchings and their guests
were entertained with a receptoin
at the home of the bride's
parents.
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the bride had her sister, Miss
Bettye Withers, for maid of
honor, and was attended by
Miss Daisy Portee, bridesmaid,
of High Point.
The bride was radiantly lovely
in her bridal gown of white
taffeta with Inserts of lace wth
round neckline and long fitted
sleeves, and swept into a long
train. Her short fingertip veil
pf tulle, fell in graceful folds
from a coronet of tulle fastened
by orange blossoms. About
ler throat she wore a lovely
lavalier of pearls and blue sapphires,
a gift of the groom. ]
Both of her attendants wore
vhite dresses of lace and taf- <
'eta.
Attending the bridegroom as (
jest man was his brother, Dr. 1
lames ' Catchlngs, of Houston, i
Texas. The usbem were Mr. <
Watthew Carter, YMCA Seere- i
ary, Richmond, Va., Miss Beu-, t
ah Rowland, of Durham, and (
Jr. Frederic A. Jackson of this 1
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The music and setting were t
leautlful parts of the wedding.
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The long maroon-carpeted center
aisle, flanked by its browntrimmed
ivory pews led up a
short flight of stairs, neatly
hemmed in on both sides with
ferns, to the altor, decked with
banks of palm and fern aginst
which baskets .of white gladioli
were placed in light of seven
branch candelabra.
Into the setting, the bride,
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LITERARY PROGRAM AT
IVARRENi STREET METHODIST
CHURCH
Miss Lucile Reaves of 1916
Oakland Avenue, sponsored a
literary program and banquet
it Warren Street Methodist
:hurch, Friday, July 21 at 8:30
j .m. Music was furnished by
he Terra Cotta Community
lospel chorus and the Moorelead
quartette. A large crowd
vas present and was served In
he basement of the church,
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sautiful Ceremony
carrying a prayer book, and
her attendants marched, as
Mrs. Kloise Miller Simpson
sounded the traditional Lohengrin
music. Mrs. Smpson, who
is instructor of piano at Livingstone
College, Salisbury, also
played the organ prelude ,and
accompanied Miss Gloria Houston,
of Greensboro, who sang
"0 Promise Me." After the
benediction, the triumphant
organ strains of Mendelssohn's
march carried the bridal party
from the chapel.
The bride, horn in Greensboro,
was graduated from Bennett
College and later studied
at the Atlanta School of Social
Case Work, where she received
the Master's degTee. She has
done further graduate study at
Columbia University. She was,
until her marriage, National Y.
W. C. A. Secretary, National
Student Council, with headquarters
in New York City. She
is a member of Alpha Kappa
Aipna sorrony.
The bridegroom Is a native
of Houston, Texas. After his
graduation from Prairie View
State College, Texas, he attended
Howard University from
whence he received a bachelors
degree In divinity and a master's
degree In Philosophy. He
Is at present Natonal YMCA
Secretary, National Student
Council, with headquarters at
Atlanta, Ca.
Out-of-town guests included:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Catchlngs
of Houston, . Texas; Mr. and
Mrs. Yokeley, High Point; Mrs.
Mamie J. Rhodes, Augusta,
Ga.; Mrs. Ida Mitchell, Sylvania,
Ga.; Mrs. David Deans,
Mrs. Josephine Gordon, Mrs.
Marie Brown and Mrs. Edna
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American Legion
Starts Annual
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Member Drive
The Maceo T. Alston Post of
the American Legion launched
its annual membership drive
Thursday evening, July 20, at
the Hayes-Taylor Memorial Y".
M. C. A. Memorial building on
East Market street. Forty-serjn
n e w aud renewal applicants
were realized at the initial
meeting.
"Veterans of World Wars I
and II who have honorable discharges
are welcomed into our
organization." ?declared Charles
J. Parrisli, Post Adj.utant.
The Ladies Auxiliary of I lie
Post has also begun its annual
campaign. Membership into this
I body is open to mothers, wives.
' daughters and sisters of ineinhers
of the American Legion,
| and to those who are eligible in
their own rightOfficers
of the Legion are:
t Charles J. Parrish, Adjutant:
Thomas Todd, finance officer,
and Pleas Gray, Post Commander.
For the Ladies . Auxilary:
Mrs. Robert Campbell, president:
Mrs. Thomas Todd, secretary,
and Mi's. . Sam "Weathers,
treasurer.
The next meeting for groups
will be held at the same place
on Wednesday evening, August
2 ,at 8 o'clock.
LT. A. L. THOMPSON
FIRST NEGRO COMMISSIONED
IN NAVAL
SCHOOL
GREAT LAKES, 111. ? July
22 ? Lt. (jg) Arthur Lee
Thompson, 28, of 1873 West
Grand Boulevard, Detroit,
Mich., the first Negro to be
commissioned in the Medical
Corps, of the United States ^laval
Reserve, reported to U. S.
Naval Training Center at Great
Lakes, Illinois for duty July
20, 1944. He was sworn in July
12, 1944, in Detroit, Michigan.
The newly commissioned officer
attended Fisk University
and received his medical degree
from Meharry Medical College
in 194 2. On graduating
from Meharry, Lt. (jg) Thompson
received an award for the
most outstanding student In
surgery and was an honor graduate.
He served his lnterneship
in the Hubbard Hospital, Nashville,
Tenn., and specialized in
pediatrics for nine months
while a resident physician.
Lt. (jg) Thompson s married
to the former Loucille Greenlea
of Rochester, N. Y. He is the
son of Dr. and Mrs. W. A.
Thompson of the above address
in jueiroit. He is a member of
the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Coles, Richmond, Va., Mrs.
Shephard, and Mrs. Evangeline
Vital, Durham.