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VOL. 32, NO. 8
A&T ALUMNI Dl
PAYMENT ON FUI
Officials of the A&T State
University National Alumni Association
have presented the university
with more than $10,000
as a partial payment on the
group's 1972 Annual Giving
Campaign.
The announcement of the gift
to the A&T University Foundation
was made Saturday by
Joseph D, Williams Jr., executive
secretary of the alumni association.
Williams said the alumni are
committed to raising $100,000
in the current campaign, mostly
for student scholarships and the
university's faculty improvement
program.
Williams pointed out that the
alumni have contributed more
than $145,000 in scholarship aid
to A&T during the past live
years. He said they are committed
to raising $333,000 on a $1
25,000 FANS EXPE
MEAC BASKETB
Durham, N. C. ? Although
the newest of this basketballhappy
area's basketball tournaments,
the first annual MidEastern
Athletic Conference
(MEAC) could draw upwards of
25,000 fans to Duke University's
Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The tourney, featuring all
seven of the league's teams, will
be held March 2-4 in the Duke
facility, which seats 8,800.
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organized last July, many observers
felt that the league's
strength would be primarily in j
football, especially with such
national small-college powers as
Morgan, North Carolina Central
and A&T.
However, the current records
and showings of the league's
basketball team indicate that the
MEAC also has a strong basketball
program.
A&T, which opened the season
as the NAIA's seventh ranked
team, has already beaten the
top four teams of the Aggies' j
former conference. Coached by (
Cat Irvin, one of the nation's
winnlngest coaches, A&T features
a lightning offense, paced
by Little Ail-American candidate
Elmer Austin and flashy
guards June Harris and James
Outlaw.
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IDRAISING DRIVE
million goal set by the university
in its overall development program.
The alumni association, headed
by Mrs. Julia S. Brooks of
Philadelphia, Penna., has been
a prime source of awarding the
prestigious Presidential Scholarships
at the university. Many
of the former recipients of these
scholarships are now making
outstanding records in graduate
schools.
Williams said the current
campaign is being conducted
amona the association's RS phan
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ters throughout the nation. The
drive is slated to end prior to
the association's annual meeting
in Greensboro in May.
National chairman of the fundraising
effort is Miss Louise
Pearson of Alexandria, Va.
James Meachem is president
of the Greensboro chapter.
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ALL TOURNEY
But the class of the MEAC
visitation race thus far has been
the showing of Howard University.
The Bisons, coached by
youthful Marshall Emery, are
unbeaten in conference play (30)
and are 11-4 overall.
Howard has built a solid program
under Emery, who last
year was cited by the Basketj
ball Coaches Association of
I America as the "Outstanding
basketbal coach of the East."
The Bisons are led by 6-2
guard Warren Hollins with a 22.2
average and 6-5 Levi Williams,
a springy Californian who is
averaging 16 rebounds per game.
Other serious contendors for ,
the ME AC visitation crown in- j
elude the University of Mary- j
land at Eastern Shore, Morgan
State, Delaware State, S. C.
State and North Carolina Cen- ,
tral. i
As far as a national basketball
image is concerned, A&T, S. C.
State and the University of
Maryland have all appeared in |
the prestigious NAIA Tournament
of Champions in Kansas
City, Mo. In recent years.
Morgan has one of its finest
basketball teams in recent years, <
and Delaware State, under new 1
coach Ira Mitchell, has a much 1
improved program.
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the Bennett College senior Textile
and Clothing majors was
held last week at the college.
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MILLIONS HONOR
DR. KING
Atlanta, Ga. ? Millions of
people across the nation paid
tribute to the late Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., during the
week of January 15 ? the date
of his 43rd birthday anniversary.
In marches, services and a
variety of other observances,
the birthday was celebrated as
"The People's Holiday." Many
schools were closed on Friday,
Ian. 14th, and thousands of other
schools held special assemblies.
A growing number of labor
unions have negotiated a paid
holiday in their contracts. The
Holiday is official in many states
and cities, and there is a drive,
supported by millions of signatures,
to enact legislation in Congress
making each January 15th
a national, legal holiday.
A major part of the activities
this year was sponsored by the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC), the organization
through which Dr. King
worked. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy,
his successor as SCLC
President, spoke at a memorial
held by the Hungry Club in Atlanta,
at Detroit, at the First
Presbyterian Church in Red
Bank, New Jersey, and at a service
of commemoration in Dr.
King's church, Ebenezer Baptist
Church, in Atlanta.
The birthday service at Ebenezer
was jointly sponsored by
the church, the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Memorial Center, and
SCLC. Congressman Walter E.
Fauntroy delivered the main
address, and others on the program
included Dr. King's daughter
Yolanda and son Martin III.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King attended
several commemorations
during the period, including the
service at Ebenezer Baptist
Church and a special concert by
Harry Belafonte, a close friend
of the King family and SCLC,
at Rikers Island Prison in New
York City.
SCLC Affiliates and Chapters
across the country conducted
services and such active programs
as voter registration and
community mass action.
Many television and radio
stations, as well as newspapers,
produced special programs, editorials
and articles in observance
of the holiday.
Less formal proof of marriage
and birth is now acceptable on
applications for veterans benefits
under a recent Veterans Administration
regulation.
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