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VOL. 26, NO. 31 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, FklL. /*]a*j 196? PRICE 10 CENTS
fl&T College To Hold Its 76th Annual Commencement
Arthur J. Smith Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Humble Gii Company
Artnur J. Smith, right, a
Humble Oil & Refining Com
pany dealer whose Esso station
In Newark. N. J., is celebrating
its 30th anniversary, chats a
bout the many changes the
three decades have brought
with the top Esso marketer Inj
his city, William J. Johnston
III, Humble's Newark district
manager. Mr. Smith, who Is ac- j
tive in the fund-raising cam
paigns of the Newark Boys
Clubs, is also a 32nd Degree
Mason and one of the founding
%
members of the local chapter of
Frontiers International. His
present community activities i
include additional service as an j
arvisor to Newark's Montgom
ery Street Industrial School. He
shares an enthusiasm for travel
with his wife, with the result
that they have been to all but
two countries in South America
and recently returned from a
month's vacation in Mexico. I
Golf is another hobby. Mr. and
Mrs. Smith have one son, Ar
thur, Jr., and three grandchil
dren. They live on Ninth Ave
nue in East Orange, N. J., Mrs.
Smith's home town. Her hus
band is a native of nearby Har
rison, N. J. The son helps his
father run the business. To
commemorate Mr. Smith's 30
year s as an Esso dealer, Hum
ble presented him a plaque,
which now hangs on a wall in
the office of his station.
Six Bennett Senio.z Are Awarded
Fellowships And Scholarships
Announcement that six seniors
have been awarded fellowships
and scholarships for graduate
study at some of the nation's
outstanding colleges and univer
sities was a highlight of the an
nual Honors Day program at
Bennett College Friday.
Miss Darilyn Wilds, of George
town S. C. has a choice of an
all-expense plus $400 fellowship
In biology at Oberlin (Ohio)
College or a $4,200 plus assistant
ship In zoology at Smith College,
Northampton, Mass Other a ward -
ees announced include:
Misses Rowena McDaniel, of
Lynchburg, Va, an all-expense
Catherine Hughes Waddell fel
lowship in mathematics at Wel
lesley (Mass.) College; Gloria J.
Benson, of Columbia, S. C., a
$3,000 John Hay Whitney fellow
ship in mathematics at the Uni
versity of Michigan at Ann
Arbor; Gloria Rackley, of Nor
folk, Va., a Wesleyan-Mlddlebury I
fellowship in modern languages;
Judith Sullivan, of New Shrews
bury, N J., a $3,000 fellowship in
speech pathology and audiology
at Oregon College of Education,
Monmouth, Oregon, and Wilma
3. Griffin, of Columbus, Ga., a
Public Health traineeship in bio
statistics at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A $500 scholarship, to b?
awarded annually by the Gradu
ate Association to a rising senior
was presented to Msss Edrice
Glass, of Atlanta, Ga., a politi
cal science major and president
of the 1968 senior class by Mrs.
Maxine OTCelly, association
president, of Burlington.
Award of three faculty scholar
ships?one for each of the divi
sion of instruction ? instead of
the customary one, was also an
nounced Recipients are Misses
Aretha Butler, o Eastover, S. C.,
humanities; Ida Pinnix, of Mar
tinsville, Va., sciences, and Peggy
Richmond, of Burlington, social
sciences.
Admitted to the Harvard-Yale
Columbia Intensive Summer
Studies Program for this year
are Misses Aretha Butler, rising
senior, of Eastover, S. C., who
will study at Yale, and three
rising juniors, Misses Angelene
Johnson, of Reidsville; Minnie P.
Johnson of Dallas, Texas, and
Ida Pinnix, o Martinsvile, Va.
Miss Cordelia Boland, of
Roanoke, Va, received a certifi
cate of achievement and a $25
U.S. Bond for her essay in the
Lions International Peace Essay
Contest and Miss Kathleen Evans,
of Newport News, Va., is the re
cipient of a National Poetry Press
Award for her poem, "Excuse
Me for Living," which will be
published in the Spring An
thology pf College Poetry.
The cup awarded to the class
contributing the largest sum to
the endowment drive went to the
freshman class, while the Jane
Mller Jones Scholarship Cup went
to the senior class for having the
highest average at the close of
the first semester.
The 76th annual commence
ment exercises for A&T College
are to be held Sunday, June 4.
The single program is sched
uled for the Charles Moore
Gymnasium beginning at 11:00
A. M.
Main speaker for the program
is L. Richardson Preyer,
Greensboro, an attorney and
senior vice - president and
Greensboro city executive for
the North Carolina National
Bank. A graduate of Princeton
University, Preyer holds his
iaw degree from Harvard Uni
versity.
A former judge of the U. S.
Middle District Court, he has
?served also as city judge for
Greensboro and judge of the
North Carolina Superior Court.
An active worker in civic,
business, political and social af
fairs, he holds memberships on
boards of many national, state
and local organizations.
More than 400 graduates are
to receive degrees at the exer
cises.
Following the program, Dr.
Lewis C. Dowdy, president of
the College, and Mrs. Dowdy
will host the President's Recep
tion for the graduates, alumni,
guests and friends the main
ballroom of the new Memorial
Union.
A&T USES ELECTRONIC
A&T College is now using a
Driver Simulator, a classroom
laboratory for driver education,
provided on loan by Ailscatt
Insurance Company and Link
Division.
The very latest in technical
equipment for the program, the
simulator provides accommoda
tions for 12 students per in
struction period and instruction
duplicating almost exact traffic
and road conditions.
The facility contains an elec
tronic computer which record:
immediately responses, error:
and corrections made by th<
student drivers.
Isaac Barnett, in charge o(
the A&T Driver Education Pro
gram, said use of the equipmenl
has allowed a doubling of class
enrollment and the addition of
a new course in driver educa
tion.
A&T ALUMNI TO HOLD
The annual national meetinf
of the A&T College General
Alumni Association is to bi
held here in a one-day sessioi
on Saturday, .June 3.
The riieet Is scheduled for the
new B. W. Barnes Hall audi
torium beginning at 9:00 A. M.
Among the principal matter:
to come before the group are:
the election of officers for tht
next biennium, subject to bal
loting by mail, now underway;
revisions in the Constitution
and By-laws and conclusion ol
the Diamond Anniversary An
nual Alumni Giving prograir
aimed at raising $75,000 for the
College.
Main social event connected
with alumni activities is the
Annual Awards Dinner, sched
uled that evening at the Long
lorn Steak House beginning at
7:00 P. M.
Howard C. Barnhill, Char
o1te. N. C. health educator and
president of the organization
?vill preside.
YMCA Methodist
Men's Banquet
Sunday, May 28th, 1967, the
?irst Annual Banquet of Meth
odist Men Clubs and Layman of
Ihe Methodist Churches of the
Central District will be held at
Ihe Hayes-Taylor YMCA at
5:00 P. M.
This Banquet will be held to
"lonor outstanding laymen in
VIethodist Churches in the dis
:rict. A layman of the year from
VIethodist Churches in Reids
ville, Madison Pinehall, Wins
ton-Salem, Mt. Airy, Greens
boro and High Pooint churches
from these cities will be repre
sented at the banquet.
Reservations to-date number
approximately 200 persons who
will attend. Certificates will be
presented to each outstanding
layman by the District Superin
tendent, Rev. J. W. Gwynn. The
speaker for the occasion will be
the new Mayor of Greensboro,
Mr, Carson Baine. Music will
be furnised by the Methodist
Men Singers.
David W. Morehead, District
Lay Leader of the Central Dis
trict is in charge of this affair.
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DEATHS
MRS. RUTH ROSS
Mrs. Ruth Ross, age 89, died
Saturday, May 20th at L. Rich
ardson Memorial Hospital. She
lived at 411 Bennett Street,
r Funeral service was held
Wednesday, May 24th, 4:00 P.
, M. , Brown's Funeral Home
Chapel. Elder Cecil Alston, pas
tor of Mt. Hope Primitive Bap
list Church, officiated. Burial
followed in Piedmont Memorial
Park.
Survivors include one daugh
, ter, Mrs. Rosa Spencer of the
home; one sister, Mrs. Kenny
j Barnes, Clayton, N. J.; two
j grandchildren.
Brown's Funeral Directors In
! charge of arrangements.
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