The Register, 1980-04-18

              reporter entertainment editor news editor and managing editor the experience i have gained working with the staff will enable me to present an informative publication that will represent a&t state university and the greensboro miss b helps to make the medicine from brown hall a little easier to swallow photo by woody the fullest and will we continue community to extent to completely aware and committed to the tradition of the a&t register said steele are be the new staff members include thomas e harris managing editor michael news writer for the greensboro daily news will deliver the banquet address lewis was born in fort knox kentucky in march 1954 he was educated in thomasville senior high in thomasville and marshall university west virginia where he received his bachelor of arts degree he majored in english literature and minored in journalism while attending college he was president of black united students a disc jockey for the campus tv show bi ways was active in drama student goverment and sports lewis also pledged kappa alpha psi fraternity inc lewis has been a member of the daily news staff since novermber of 1976 covering news assignments from interviewing earl butz to wading through floodwaters to the communist-klan shoot out he won the landmark award for consistent excellence in reporting in 1977 three e.e faculty to leave r 1 greg lewis richard b steele university chandra pointed out that the same companies which underwrite the visiting professors program are also dr hargraves annual alumni to address dinner major donors of the high technology equipment used in the rapidly developing engineering school some of these firms over the years have been very instrumental in developing various laboratories here said chandra one very good example of that might be the micro-processor capabiltiy an address by dr j archie hargraves president of the institute of international development of raleigh will highlight the annual awards dinner of the a&t state university association on saturday may 3 alumni that we now have another might be the scanning electron microscope we have during the dinner the the awards dinner is one of a series of alumni weekend events 80 sponsored by the association from may 2-4 hargraves also a professor and assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at st augustine's college will speak at 7 p.m in the cosmos i restaurant 709 e market street association will present its top annual awards for service and achievement the alumni group's top young alumnus will also be honored the alumni events will get underway on friday may 2 with the annual meeting in the holiday inn four seasons at 8 p.m presiding at the meeting will be dr velma speight national alumni president an aggie sip and chat will follow in the motel at 10 p.m saturday's events will include registration beginning at 8 a.m and continuation of the annual meeting at 9:30 ia.m in merrick hall on the campus the class reunion see alumni page 5 what do the companies gain from helping a&t in this way nothing directly other than trying to do their part said hewlett-packard johnson the visiting professors program is a very effective way to get involved in affirmative actions max powell visiting professor from ibm at research triangle park said his company ' puts quite a bit of stock in this program he said he was very much impressed with the quality of the regular faculty at a&t chandra said each company which provides visiting professors to a&t spends about 60,000 per year ih salaries and expenses to aid the students often ask why they have to learn some theory said visiting professor paul l schmidt of bell labs whippany n.j we can tell them because we can point to a practical example of why they need to understand this terrible theory we can bring a slice of industry into the university said david johnson visiting professor from hewlett packard inc of waltham mass level as well as counseling students but instead of the anger you might expect to be connected with such a mass exodus everyone concerned seems happy very happy these people are experts in their respective fields and spent an academic year here at no cost to us explained dr suresh chandra dean of a&t's school of engineering their sponsoring companies took care of all the expenses the three departing professors came to a&t from executive positions in the electronics industry under a&t's visiting professor program the visiting electrical engineering professors have been teaching classes at both the undergraduate and graduate by david puryear three professors new members of the faculty of the electrical engineering department at a&t state university are all leaving the school at the end of the current semester complete awareness for complete c mmjtment w th{4c7 register volume xli number 47 north carolina agricultural and technical state university greensboro nc april 18 1980 staff elects steele as editor t %" * v • f 1 ; fairley news editor trudy johnson associate news editor william j love business/advertising manager by fiorina g byrd the a&t register student newspaper staff recently held elections for the 1980-81 school year richard b steele a rising senior artt major was voted editor-in-(chief i look forward to a successful year i have had the privilege of serving as managing editor for this dedicated staff during this school year said the salisbury native steele has been an active member of the staff since 1976 positions held by the newly elected ch\*f include raymond moody sports editor paul roseboro art editor alice n wall circulation manager and the a&t register will hold its annual awards banquet saturday april 19 1980 at the hilton inn beginning at 7 p.m richard greg lewis howard j love distribution manager