The Register, 1941-05-00

              Dedicated To The Graduating Seniors
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VOL. XXXV. No. 7
A. &T. College, Greensboro, N. C, May 1941
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Forty-Third Annual
Graduation May 30
Seventy-Six Seniors Candidates
For Baccalaureate Degrees;
One Receives M.S. Degree
A. and T. College will hold its
forty-third annual commencement
exercises beginning Friday, May 30,
and continuing through Monday,
June 2. Seventy-six seniors are candidates for baccalaureate degrees
and one student is slated to receive
the degree of Master of Science.
Dr. A. Clayton Powell, Jr., pastor
of Abyssinian Baptist Church, New
York City, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon at 11 A. M. next
Sunday morning. The following
Monday night at 7 P. M., Dr. Howard W. Odom, professor of sociology at the University of North
Carolina, will deliver the commencement address. Degrees and
diplomas will be awarded by President F. D. Bluford.
Commencement events will begin
Friday with the holding of the all-
student banquet in Murphy Hall at
6 P. M. Newly elected student officers will receive their mantles from
retiring officers at that time. Monograms and various extra-curricular awards will also be made.
Senior Class Day exercises are
set for 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. The annual reception of the
president of the college to senior
classes, alumni, and visitors will be
held at 6:30 P. M. on the same day.
A featured event on the Sunday
program, in addition to the baccalaureate, is the annual open air
concert by the college a cappella
choir on the front lawn of the campus at 8:30 P. M.
Monday, June 2, is Alumni Day.
The executive committee of the National Alumni Association will meet
at 10 A. M. The alumni luncheon is
at 1 P. M., and the general annual
general session of the body will be
held at 2 P. M.
The college is also holding open
house in all departments from 2 to
4 P. M. Monday.
The annual art exhibition, always
a feature of the A. and T. commencement program, will be open
beginning Friday and continuing
through Monday in Crosby Hall.
Commencement events come to a
close with the commencement address by Dr. Odum Monday night
at 7 P. M. in Richard B. Harrison
Auditorium.
A noted authority on Southern
social and economic problems, Dr.
Odum since 1920 has been a member of the faculty of the University
of North Carolina, where he is head
of the department of sociology and
director of the Institute for Research in Social Science.
A native of Georgia, Dr. Odum
was graduated from Emory College
in 1904. He won his M.A. degree at
the University of Mississippi in
1906. He received his Ph.D. degree
from Clark University in 1909 and
from Columbia University in 1910.
Honorary degrees of LL.D. and
Litt.D. have been conferred on him
by Emory and the College of the
Ozarks and by Harvard University.
He was presented the Grant Squires
award by Columbia in 1910.
From 1920 until 1932 Dr. Odum
was director of the School of Public Welfare at the University. Since
1924 he has been director of the
Institute for Research in Social
Science and was dean of the School
of Public Administration from 1935
to 1936.
Dr. Odum has been especially
active in the social and economic
affairs of this state. From 1933 to
1935 he was chairman of the North
Carolina Emergency Relief Administration and from 1933 to 1934 was
chairman of the North Carolina
Civil Works Administration. He
has been chairman of the North
Carolina Commission on Interracial
Cooperation since 1933 and a member of the State Planning Board
since 1935.
Dr. Odum has also been active in
National economic affairs as evidenced by the fact he was a member and assistant director of President Hoover's Research Commission on Social Trends from 1929-33
and chief of the Social Science
Division of the Century of Progress
Exposition in Chicago in 1938.
Although recognized as one of
America's most distinguished sociologists, Dr. Odum has found time
to develop the hobby of cattle
breeding and he has received a
number of awards for his fine Jerseys. Recently he was awarded a
certificate for the Constructive
Breeders' Register by the American
Jersey Club.
Dr. A. Clayton Powell, the baccalaureate speaker, is one of the
most eminent clergymen in the
United States today. As pastor of
the largest Protestant church in
the world, Abyssinian of New York
City, he is a tremendous force for
social and economic progress in
Harlem. He is a graduate of Colgate University, has studied at Yale
Divinity School and the Union Theological Seminary, and holds the
M.A. in Religious Education and
Philosophy from Columbia. Shaw
has honored him with the D.D. degree.
He has been pastor of Abyssinian
Church since 1937, succeeding his
father in that capacity. For two
years he directed relief work for
all Harlem and in 1935 led the successful campaign for jobs for Negroes in Harlem's stores. In addition to his pastoral and civic duties,
Dr. Powell teaches at Columbia and
lectures at Colgate University. He
has also had varied experiences as
a newspaper man, serving on the
editorial staff of the New York
Evening: Post in 1984.
DR. HOWARD W. ODOM
DR. A. CLAYTON POWELL, JR.
Commencement Events
FRIDAY, MAY 30
6:00 P. ML.
.All Student Banquet
4:00 P. ML...
6:30-8:00 P.
M.
SATURDAY, MAY 31
  Senior Class Day Exercises
 President's Reception
to Senior Classes, Alumni and Visitors
SUNDAY, JUNE 1
11:00 A. M   Baccalaureate Sermon
Rev. A. Clayton Powell, Jr., Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist
Church, New York City
8:30 P. M  Open Air Concert by A-Cappella Choir
(On Front Lawn)
MONDAY, JUNE 2
10:00 A. M.  .  Business Meeting of Alumni Association
1:00 P.  M  _  - Alumni Luncheon
2:00-4:00 P. M  Open House*
7:00 P. M     Commencement Exercises
Address: Dr. Howard W. Odum, Professor of Sociology
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
All public exercises will be held in the Richard B. Harrison Auditorium.
♦All departments will be open for inspection of Alumni and friends.
Art Exhibition will be open beginning Friday, and will continue through
Monday, Art studio, second floor, Crosby Hall.
There will be a band concert on the main campus Monday at 4:00 P. M.
"I'm An American
Day" Observed
With appropriate ceremonies consisting of military maneuvers, a
parade and a public assembly program in Harrison Auditorium, A.
and T. College, joined in the nation-wide celebration of "I Am An
American" Day, Sunday, May 18.
The principal address at the public assembly -was brought by Dr.
John F. Moreland, pastor of St.
John's A. M. E. Zion Church, Wilson. The military parade was participated in by the department of
military science and tactics, the
college band, and the Maceo T.
Alston post of the American Legion.
Dr. Moreland, speaking on "I Am
An American," took as basis for
his address the familiar conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well which
reads in part, "Thou has nothing
to draw with and the well is deep."
The speaker said that modern
life offers us either the choice of
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Crown Ann Wright
May Queen
At 4 P. M., Saturday, May 10,
Ann Wright was crowned May
Queen on the front lawn of the
campus. The theme for the occasion was "Folk Dancing During
the Periods of American History."
The periods that were represented
were: "Pre-Colonial," the period
before 1600; "Colonial," the period
from 1600 to 1770; "Revolutionary," the period from 1770 to 1829;
"Ante-Bellum," 1829 to 1865; "The
Frontier Period," 1865 to 1910; and
the Modern Period which began in
1910. All the exercises were carried on by members of the Physical
Education for Women classes, and
the event was sponsored by the
Y. W. C. A.
The Queen's attendants were
Misses Sarah Miles, Jessie Gamble,
Margarette Ellison, Margaret Tynes, Edna Watkins, Gladys Baskerville, Doris Smith and Hortense
Jones. The train-bearer was Shirley Davis, the daughter of the col
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Mebane Chosen
President of
Student Council
Ann Wright Wins
Title, Miss A&T
On May 14, Francis Mebane won
the election for the presidency of
the Student Council and Ann
Wright won the coveted honor of
Miss A. and T. for the school term
1941-42. The other candidates who
were successful in going to the
finals were James Warren and
Gwendolyn Peterson.
Out of the twenty persons who
were eligible to run for the presidency of the council, only four
chose to run at all. They were Howard Hunter, Avant Lowther, Francis Mebane and James Warren. The
latter two had the second highest
and the highest number of votes,
respectively, in the primary and
Mebane won in the final election
with the small majority of fourteen votes.
There were five persons who enlisted as candidates for Miss A. and
T. They were Katherine Durham,
Gwendolyn Peterson, Dora Traynham, Edna Watkins and Ann
Wright. Ann Wright received the
highest number of votes in both
the primary and the final election.
Gwendolyn Peterson was second in
both elections. In the final election,
Ann Wright polled twenty more
votes than did Gwendolyn Peterson.
A list of the candidates and the
number of votes each received follows:
Primary Election
For President of Student Council—Howard Hunter, 51; Avant
Lowther, 38; Francis Mebane, 119;
James Warren, 174.
For Miss A. and T.—Catherine
Durham, 31;  Gwendolyn Peterson,
118;   Dora   Traynham,   61;   Edna
Watkins, 39; Ann Wright, 126.
Final Election
For President of Student Council—Francis Mebane 211; James
Warren, 197.
For Miss A. and T.—Gwendolyn
Peterson, 191; Ann Wright, 211.
The members of the election committee were: Broadus Sawyer,
chairman; Clementine Simons, and
James Wyrtch.
Dairymen
Hold Meet
The Dairymen's Club is composed of students enrolled in the Department of Agriculture, and having finished their courses in dairy
husbandry under Dr. Kennedy. It is
the annual policy of this club to
hold a get-together in celebration
of their successful completion of
the seven required dairy courses
covering twenty-eight credit hours.
Thirty-one men from the senior
and junior classes were able to participate at this year's occasion, held
at "Friendly Lake."
The dairymen had as their guest
speakers Carter Foster, county
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