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Aggie Fullback Signs Pro Contract
North Carolina A&T full
back Rich jrd Armstrong
(g< ated left) shows contract
fr "1 Kansas City Chiefs to
classmates Willie Pearson,
Winston- Salem, N. C. and
Katie Sellars, McLeansville,
N. C. Armstrong, a native of
Williamston, N. C. was signed
as a free agent last week.
Pearson has been drafted by
Miami Dolphins.
EVEN WITH TWO SQUEAKERS,
AGGIES ROLL IN (IAA PLAY
By Richard E. Moore
Winning by a lot of points
is&'t very important to North
Carolina A&T basketball coach
Cal Irvin, but two tqueakers
the Aggie* won last week left
him pretty limp.
"It's killing me, but we arc
winning," said Irvin after A&T
nipped Johnson C. Smith, 107
10* j|nd North Carolina College
89-64. The two victories came
OKthe heel of a 106-102 loss to
Dieabeth City.
The Aggies are now 12-1 for
the season and M in CIAA
lt$y. Against scrappy Johnson
C. Smith, the Aggies rallied to
4MN0me a five-point deficit in
4ba last five minutes. The two
teapw had deadlocked SO-SO at
UKIIins, but 8mith had gone
?head on the fine shooting of
r Arthur Davis and Bobby Butte,
?parked by the fine defensive
play of guard Tommy Black
man and Vernon Walker, the
Aggies overpowered the Bulls.
Walker scored at 3:12 to put
A&T ahead, 97-96. Smith con
nected, but Blackman's field
goal with 1:24 remaining in the
game, put the Aggies ahead for
good.
A&T again got balanced
scoring with Charles Greer's
24 points pacing the attack.
Others who scored in double
figures were Daryle Cherry
with 21 points, Blackman, 14,
Elmer Austin. IS, and Law
rence Dunn, 12.
' North Carolina College led
the Aggies, 43-33 at halftime
?and were ahead by five points
late In the game. "This i time
A&T was bailed out by re
serve forward Billy Bucking
ham of Richmond, Va. Buck
Hollywood Repertory
Players To Present
"St. Joan" At A&T
Highlights from George Ber
nard Shaw's classic play "Saint
Joan" will be presented at A&T
State University Sunday, Feb.
16 at 6 p. m. in Harrison Audi
torium. The presentation will
be given by the Alpha-Omega
Players, a unique repertory
group from North Hollywood.
As staged by the Alpha-Ome
ga players, "St. Joan" finds
heightened meaning in its new
and vital form; a masterpiece
of theatrical excitement that
seems, if possible, more signifi
cant today than when it first
appeared.
The troupe has developed an
inspiring and compelling un
folding of the basic essentials
of Joan's life without trumpets,
without gaudy costumes and
without any scenery other than
the church chancel -itself ? most
fitting far this soul-stirring en
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A&T GETS $113,000 IN GRANTS
FOR TWO SUMMER INSTITUTES
A&T State University this
week received two federal
grants totaling more than $113,
000 for institutes to be held at
the university next summer.
Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, presi
dent of A&T, announced that
the National Science Founda
tion has awarded $72,838 for a
nine-week institute for 50 high
school biology teachers.
The institute will be directed
by Dr. Artis P. Graves, chair
man of the A&T department of
biology, and will be open to
persons with three years' teach
ing experience. Teachers who
attend the institute for three
consecutive summers will be
eligible to earn the master of
science degree in education
with a concentration in biology.
"The aims of this institute;"
said Dr. Dowdy, "will be to
strengthen and enrich the sub
ject matter background of these
high school teachers so they
can inspire their students."
The second federal grant re
ceived by A&T was $41,000
from the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare for the
conduct of a summer NDEA
institute for advanced study in
linguistics. This program will
be open to college teachers, su
pervisors, and other persons
who are involved in training
high school teachers.
Directing the institute in lin
guistics will be Dr. Norman E.
Jarrard, professor of English at
A&T. The institute program
will deal with the application
of linguistics to the teaching of
grammar, composition, reading,
speech, and literature.
Bennett Chaplain
Publishes First Book
By Douglas McAdoo
"Some day, when X get time,
going to write a book." This
statement,' made by thousands
who don't have writing talent,
or have little knowledge of the
publishing process, is the zenith
o i naivete'. Of course, they sel
dom ever start.
Then there is the group that
does write; but most of this
writing consists of starting and
stopping. It is rarely ever fin
ished.
Peter E. A. Addo was a
prominent member of the sec
ond group, until recently when
his wife Linda, a former Wood
row Wilson scholar, came across
one of his many unfinished
manuscripts and prodded him
into seeing it through. Her in
genuity has now made him a
member of the exclusive group
that "starts and finishes."
As a result, Addo, a native
o? Ghana and director of relig
ious activities at Bennett Col
lege, envisions a rich career in
letters after publishing his first
book, Ghana Folk Tales: An
anse Stories from Africa, late
last Fall. Already, he is busy
at work on his first novel,
which he tentatively calls Afri
can Diplomat, a satire on the
rapidly changing social prob
lems on a "country like Ghana."
Although Ghana Folk Tales
is his first book, it is by no
means his first success in wri
ting. "I have always messed
around with writing," he says.
"1 have had poems and plays
performed on Radio Ghana."
One of these, "Ghana Sings,"
a poem, was included in the
first anthology published in the
country "around 1957."
Peter Addc^ a versatile indi
vidual comes to the writing
profession from a most unlikely
route. Unlike most writers who
come with liberal arts back
ground, Addo'i first love was
(Contlnu** on Pag* 4)
Prominent Citizen Dies
MRS. HANNAH P. LEGRAND
Mrs. Hannah P. LeGrand, age
65, died at Moses Cone Memo
rial Hospital Tuesday, Jan. 25,
following a brief illness. She
resided at 702 Sevier Street.
Funeral service was held
Saturday, Feb. 1, 1:00 p. m.,
Trinity A. ? M. E. Zion Church.
; Rev. Cecil Bishop, pastor, offi
ciated. Burial followed in Pied
mont Memorial Park. Grave
side rites were conducted by
Magnolia Chapter No. 23, Or
der of Eastern Star.
The family received their
friends at Brown's Funeral
Home Friday evening from 7-9.
Survivors include two sons,
Matthew Thomas LeGrand, Jr.,
New York City and George C.
LeGrand, Greensboro; three
daughters, Miss Mary Helen
LeGrand, Fayetteville, N. C.,
Mrs. Jerry Maxwell Terry and
Miss Daisy Pearl LeGrand of
Greensboro; twelve grandchil
dren, one sister, Mir*. Josephine
Watkins, New York City; four
brothers. Spencer Watkins,
Buefield, W. Va., Pierce Wat
kins, Winston-Salem, N. C.,
Paul Watkins, New York City,
and William Watkins, Anson -
vile, N. C.
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.