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VOL. 29, NO. 25 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1970 PRICE: 10 CENTS
Funeral Held
Mr. Andrew Walker, age 52,
died at Moses Cone Hospital
Tuesday, April 14th following
a brief illness.
He lived at 615 Ross Avenue.
Funeral service was held Sat
urday, 12:00 noon at St. James
Baptist Church, with burial fol
lowing in Fie.dmont Memorial
Park.
The family received their fr
iends at Brown's Funeral Home
Friday evening from 7-9. |
Survivors include his widow, ;
Mrs. Effie Smith Walker; step- 1
son, Jessie Taylor of Brooklyn,
N. Y. ; brother, James Walker |
of Petersburg, Va.; sisters, Mrs. 1
Mary Jones of Petersburg and
Mrs. Annie Chalmers of Norfolk, |
Virginia.
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.
MR. ANDREW WALKER
Funeral services for Mrs. Mag
gie Bell Robinson Minor were
conducted on Saturday, April
18, 1970 at 2:00 P.M. in Smith's
Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev
erend Herbert Parks officiating.
Mrs. Minor was bom July 19,
1932 in Greensboro, N. C. She
was the daughter of the late Mr.
MBS. MAGGIE BELL
R0BIN80N MINOR
Charlie and Hattie Robinson. She
departed this life Wednesday,
April 15, 1970 at the L. Richard
son Memorial Hospital.
She is survived by her hus
band, Robert Glenn Minor; one
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St. Matthews Kindergarten Graduation Class of 1970
The St. Matthews Kindergar
ten fourteenth commencement
exercise will be held on May 3,
1970 at 5 p. m. at St. Matthews
United Methodist Church, the
last service of the old site.
Graduates include: Willie Mae
Everett, Cheryl Fields, Valencia
Floyd, Evelyn Gillon, La-Wan
da Huntley, Robin Majett,
Charles Morgan, Ronia McMil
lan, Mark Smith, Sherrie Smith,
Natalie Parker, Pamela Wilder.
Mascots are: Vincent Wright
sell, Alvin Wilder, Patricia
Whitley, Dennard Barnes, Chris
tine Coles, Norma Jean Coles,
Joseph Jennings, Michael Hill,
Vaughn Green.
Past Graduates: Ingrid Mc
Adoo, Michael McCorkle.
Junior Ushers: Vanessa More
head, Robert Wrightsell.
Directress: Josefa Bethea
Staff: Mrs. S. M. McLeod, Di
rector; Mrs. Devero Nutt, In
structor; Mr. William Malloy,
Instructor; Mr. Theodore Bar
den, Advisor; Mr. Lonnie S.
Smith, Treasurer.
A&T, 6 Other Colleges
Study Possibility Of
New Conference
A&T, plus six other predom
inantly black colleges, have in
dicated they plan to form a new
athletic conference next year.
Joining the Aggies in the new
venture are expected to be Del
aware State, Howard University,
Morgan State, North Carolina
Central, Maryland State and
South Carolina State.
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All schools except S. C. State
are currently members of the
Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association. The Bulldogs com
pete in the Southern Intercolle
giate Athletic Conference
j (SIAC).
I The CIAA schools recently
voted to withdraw from that
conference at the beginning of
the 1971-72 season. The new con
ference is expected to begin op
erations at that time.
"We have been holding talks
on the proposed conference for
more than a year," said a spokes
man for the new conference.
"We can say only that delibera
tions are proceeding and that
details of these talks will be
forthcoming soon."
The spokesman said that the
new league is expected to begin
with eight teams. He said that
two or three other teams have
indicated a desire to Join the
proposed conference.
Asked why the new confer
ence is being formed, the spokes
man said:
"This withdrawal from the
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A & T GETS FIRST RESEARCH GRANTS FROM NASA
FOR IMPORTANT ENGINEERING RESEARCH
GREENSBORO, N. C. ? The
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School of Engineering at A&T
State University last Monday re
ceived research grants of $51,-'
070, including two grants from '
the National Aeronautics and |
Space Administration (NASA) I
for projects of national signifi
i cance.
I In announcing the grants, Dr.
Lewis C. Dowdy, president of '
A&T, called the research funds, j
especially those from NACA, "a
breakthrough for predominantly
black institutions of higher
learning."
The two grants, totalling more
than $39,000, are among the
first NASA research grants giv
en to a predominantly-black
college.
The total amount also repre
sents the largest research grant
ever given to the A&T School of
Engineering, which won nation
al accreditation last summer.
The other research grant re
ceived Monday was for $12,000
from Union Carbide Corpora
tion. "This research comes at a
time When the A&T School of
Engineering is striving to sig
nificantly enhance its research
activities,' said Dowdy. "A suc
cessful outcome with these proj
ects will probably mean that
A&T will, in the near future,
have an opportunity for being
awarded larger grants from
| NASA."
"Moreover," Dowdy added, "It
is also conceivable that the
findings of these projects will
contribute to the national inter
est and thereby add to the mod
ernization of NASA's ongoing
development."
One grant from NASA for i
$26,120 was awarded to Leo |
Williams, Jr., an associate pro
fessor of Electrical engineering
at A&T. Williams will attempt
to determine the electrical-chem
ical properties of oxides of cop
per, lead and vanadium pen
toxide. He will also research
very tiny circuits (microelec
tronic components) such as
those used in the current Space
program. He will be assisted by
Reginald G. Mitchener, assist
ant professor of mechanical en
gineering.
The other NASA grant for
$13,050 was awarded to Dr.
Paul E. Gray, associate profes
sor of electrical engineering.
Gray will work in the area of
digital systems and attempt to
develop a common medium be
tween individuals or machines
that can be used to explain the
ideas of information interchange.
He hopes to obtain generalized
models which can be used to
simplify the teaching of com
plex digital information and sys
tems.
The grant from Union Carbide
I was awarded to Paul Parker,
assistant professor of mechani
cal engineering.
Parker's research will be con
cerned with an attempt to re
duce the level of stresses in cer
tain materials, with the ulti
mate aim of possibly forming
new materials and new shape*
under pressure.
The NASA grants were coor
dinated by Dr. Frederick Wil
liams, director of planning and
development at A&T. He said
NASA has provided summer em
ployment for students and fac
ulty exchange programs for
blacks, but had never given any
research grants.
Leo Williams holds the bach
elor of science degree and a
master of science degree in en
gineering from the University
of Illinois. He has taught at
Tuskegee Institute and Prairie
View A&M College.
Gray holds two engineering
degrees from Virginia Polytech
nic Institute and the PhJ5. de
gree from Kansas State Univer
sity. He formerly taught at VPI
and Kansas State University.
Parker is a graduate of A&T
and holds the master of science
degree from the State Univer
sity of New York at Buffalo.
He formerly worked as a stress
analyst for Bell Aerosystema
Company in Buffalo.
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