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VOL. 32, NO. 30
A&T TRUSTEE BO;
CREATION OF FOI
VICE CHANCELLOI
The naming of four new vice1
chancellors hips and a new dean
of the School of Business highlighted
a special meeting of the
A&T Board of Trustees Thursday.
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Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, presi-!
dent of A&T, told the board the
changes were being requested in
line with the recommendations
of professional consultants to
reflect current trends in higher
education.
Named by Dowdy to the new
positions were Dr. Clenn F.'
Rankin, vice chancellor for academic
affairs; Dr. Jesse MarHAYES-TAYLOR
TALENT SHOW
Over 100 children from 4-12
years of age will participate In
a talent show at Hayes-Taylor
Y.M.CA. on Thursday June 29
at 7:30 p.m. This show is one of
the features of the Summer Program
at the Y.
MRS. NAOMI WYNN
AAT NURSING DEAN
IN ISRAEL
Mrs. Naomi Wynn, dean of
the School of Nursing at A&T
State University, left this week
for two-week study tour of Israel.
She will Join 49 other nursing
educators studying health
care facilities and programs in
that new nation.
A new, low calorie natural
sweetener from an African red
berry has been isolated by a'
VA research team at the University
of Pennsylvania's Monell
Chemical Senses Center.
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shall, vice chancellor for student
affars; Marshall Colston, vice
chancellor for planning and development;
and John Zeigler,
vice chancellor for financial affairs.
Under the state's new higher
education reorganization scheduled
for July 1, Dowdy himself
is expected to be named
chancellor of the University.
The other appointment apnrnnnrl
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of Dr. Quiester Craig as dean
of the School of Business.
Craig will join A&T's stai
after serving as professor o
accounting at Florida A&M Uni
versity.
Craig, who holds the Ph. D
degree in accounting from Missouri
University is also a CPA.
He holds a B. A. degree in business
from Morehouse College r
Atlanta and M. B. A. degret
from Atlanta University.
He has also taught at Lincoln
University in Missouri anc
worked for Lybrand, Ross Brothers
& Montgomery in New York
City.
Craig is married and the father
of three children.
In other business, the trustee
were briefed by the Nolen ano
Swinburne Company of Philadelphia
on a new master plan
for the university.
Financed by a $20,000 gram
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the plan recommends the
gradual eliminiation of much
internal parking, the acquisition
of much of the available land
surrounding the university and
the gradual elimination of many
of the university's critical strategic
physical problems.
In talking about the plan,
Dowdy told the board: "We are
not going to stop because we
are in striking distance of having
one of the finest universities
in the Southeast."
The board also approved the
shifting of the Department of
Economics from the School of
Arts and Sciences and the redesignation
of the School of
Administrative and Management
Science to the School of Business.
In his report, Dowdy noted
that A&T has received a record
$4,134,508 in federal grants during
the 1071-72 academic year.
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A&T $5,500 MINI
| AStT State University, whose
million-dollar Computer Science
Center is already the third
largest capacity in the state, this
week added a PDP-8 mini-comI
puter donated to the university
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poration of Maynard, Mass.
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panying terminal, will be used
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program. Presentation oi
[ the equipment was made to
. A&T president, Dr. Lewis C,
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By Riohard Moore
A&T News Bureau
A cooperative venture between
22 national firms and
A&T State University was praised
Monday as one of the most
"promising programs to help
i this university to prepare outstanding
graduates."
Speaking to a gathering of
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dents can write programs and
' run them," said Lane. "This is
the same equipment used in
. running industrial processes and
by hospitals in monitoring patient
data. It is also used in the
aerospace industry."
The A&T Comnuter Science
I Center was opened two years
. ago under a grant from the Na
tional Science Foundation and
! several small grants from sevi
eral industrial firms. George
. Beatty is director of the center.
Angus Small is the administrative
data processor.
VITAL
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the industrialists, A&T faculty
members and students and representatives
of the Greensboro
Chamber of Commerce was Dr.
Herman Smith, director of the
Office for the Advancement of
Public Negro Colleges in AtI
lanta.
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The Veterans Comer
VETERANS RECEIVE
HOMETOWN HELP
Hometown help for veterans
is being offered in Central and
South Texas from two mobile
| vans staffed by five government
agencies.
I The vans, manned by special|
ists in veterans benefits and
counseling, started their tour of
| 10 Texas cities June 21. Their
first stop was in Austin where
a host of dignitaries, including
President Nixon's brother, Ed
ward C. Nixon, were on hand
to greet veterans. Also present
were Administrator of Veterans
j Affairs Donald E. Johnson, Sen.
John Tower of Texas, Henry
Ramirez, chairman of the Cabinet
Committee for Spanish
speaking people, and local officials.
Aim of the new program, called
"National Assistance for
Veterans," (NAV), is to reach
veterans in urban and rural
areas who have not made full
use of their VA benefits and
[ other veterans' services of the
I federal government.
The Veterans Administration
vans are staffed also by representatives
of the Office of Economic
Opportunity, and the Departments
of Labor, Health, Ed(Continued
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