The Register, 1943-03-00

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VOLUME XXXIX, 5
A. <& T. College, Greensboro, N. C, March 1943
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Staff Members
Enter Service
Students and graduates have
not been the only ones to leave
this college to enter active service with the armed forces. Our
records show that ten members
of the teaching and administrative staffs are now with the colors.    The list is as follows:
Lieutenant John L. Withers
of the class of 1936 was assistant
registrar. He had completed
two years of graduate study and
gained his Master's degree in
economics at the University of
Wisconsin before his induction
in the army in 1941. He was
commissioned second lieutenant
in 1942 and promoted to first
lieutenant in 1943. He is now
connected with the 93rd division stationed at Fort Huachuca,
Arizona.
Corporal Jeremiah N. King,
of ihe class of 1940 was assistant
registrar also before his induction January 1942. He has been\
advanced to the grade of Corporal and is doing administrative work in the IMC at Camp
Lee, Va.
Lieutenant William H. Dawson of the class of 1940 was instructor in Auto Mechanics before leaving for the service in
1941. He has been commissioned second lieutenant in the army
Quartermasters Corps in Virginia.
Private Charles L. Swinson,
finished in the Tailoring department and had been employed for
several years as assistant instructor in Tailoring. He was inducted October 1942 and is now
taking special training in chemi-
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Casualties Too
In every war some lives are
lost. The men of A. and T.
have been unusually fortunate
in this respect. Out of the hundreds who have gone into the
service we have had reports of
only one fatal casualty—William
Lesueur, Route 3, Box 256,
Madison, North Carolina.
Lesueur entered A. and T. as
a freshman in 1936 and completed the junior year in 1939
before entering the army. He is
unofficially reported as having
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Five Students Win
Scholastic Honors
Our Army
Specialists
That A. and T. men are going
into the Military Service not
only determined to maintain the
fine military tradition of the college and of the race but to broaden and extend that glorious record may be readily seen both
from, the many specialized services they are entering and also
from the success and promotions
they are gaining in them. Here
is a part of their record:
Chemical warfare and water
purification are extremely important branches of the army today and our men, because of
their training in chemistry, bacteriology and hygiene are being drawn upon for this service. Some of the A. and T.
men in this branch of,the service
are: Charles L. Swinson, and
John Mallette, '41.
In the Signal Corps, Harold
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Five students completing their
first eight academic quarters with
outstanding records in scholarship, deportment, and extra-curricular activities at A. and T.
College were granted membership in the Gamma Tau Chapter of Alpha Kappa Mu, national scholastic society, at special induction ceremonies held in
the Richard B. Harrison auditorium recently.
Dr. F. D. Bluford, president
of the college, presented certificates of membership to Andrew A. Best, Kinston, N. C;
Rose Jenkins and Ellen Reeves,
Greensboro; Barbara Una Canada, Boston, and William E. Lee,
Springfield, 111. Three other students were admitted to the Sophist Society, affiliate organiza-
tion open to underclassmen.
They were: Gloria Holland, Birmingham, Ala.; Andrew Byers,
Philadelphia, and Annie Henderson, Greensboro.
The organization awarded
special rdemberships to Profs.
A. Russell Brooks and H. R. Arnette, heads of the English and
Education   departments.
R. O. T. C. Unit
Passes In Review
Inspired by the knowledge
that their institution trained
more soldiers for the last war
than any other Negro land-grant
college, and the added impetus
of an army camp, recently activated, within calling distance
from their classrooms and drill
grounds, the staff and members
of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at
A. and T. College are working
zealously to complete training
schedules before they are called
to active duty
The infantry unit at A. and
T., embodying four companies
with a total membership of approximately 450 cadets, is one of
the four units approved by the
War Department last Spring
from applications submitted by
more than 500 colleges and universities, and is organized under
authority of sections 40-47c, Na
tional Defense Act, as amended.
Instruction and administrative
operations have been placed in
the hands of Lt. Col. Raymond
F. Edwards, commanding officer,
professor of military science and
tactics; Capt. Arthur W. Ferguson, Lt. John C. Harlan, assistant professors and Sgts. Isaac
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Of, But Not in
We have a fairly large group
of graduates and former students
who occupy rather unique places
in the complicated war emergency set-up. Perhaps a fair
statement of their p o s it i o n
would be that they are of but
not in the army.
Among these men classified
here as of but not in the army we
may mention Ralph Wooten, '38
and Burnwell Banks, '34, who
are civilian instructors at the
army air base in Goldsboro, N.
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Over 300 Men In The
Service of the Country
That A. and T. College is
well represented in many branches of the fighting service may
be seen from the list of names
that have already been received.
There are many others whose
names we have not received or
Harrison Players Thrill
Large Audience
The lyceum committee of A.
and T. College presented on
Monday, Feb. 15 in the Richard
B. Harrison auditorium, Jack
Bank, noted dramatist, playwright and protean actor in another of his more than 4,000 performances of his own streamlined versions and mono-dramatizations of Shakespeare's "The
Merchant of Venice."
Bank, said to be the only actor in America who represents
an entire play, himself, playing
all  the parts, male as well as
female, ran the gamut of drama
in this production as his amazing mystery of voice, dramatic
techniques and character enabled him to portray 16 widely
different roles, from prince to
thief, with equal facility and
conviction. No effect was lost
between the times he left the
stage speaking the lines of one
character and reappeared, in
complete appropriate costume
and make-up, to assume the role
of the next person in the play.
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whose records have not yet been
verified.
The list as we have it follows:
COMMISSIONED OFFICERS
Caprain-NORMAN RAYNOR
First   Lieutenants—Washington,   Rob-
bin, Field Artillery; Withers, John,
Quartermaster.
Second Lieutenants—Bailey, Leon, Signal Corps; Bruce, Samuel, Air Corps;
Dawson, William H., Quartermaster;
Haith, Robert, Medical; Henry, John
D, 2nd Infantry; Lima, George, Air
Force;    Meadows,   Sandy,   Infantry;
Smith, Graham, Air Corps; Stephenson, Joseph, Infantry; Ponds, Johnny,
Engineers;    Tate,    Harold,    Signal
Corps.
MEN IN THE NAVY
Robert Brower, John Carlson, Walter Carlson, James Carter, John Clay,
Willie Currie, Watson Foster, Thomas
Gavin, William Gibbon, Chandler
Gibbs, Warmoth T. Gibbs, Authur
Guy, William Hamilton Gunn, Filmore
Haith, Roger Holt, Lewis Jenkins,
Richard Jones, Huey Lawrence, Robert McNair, Nathaniel Morehead, John
Morgan, Herbert Perkins, Royland Siler, Abe Thurman, Melvin Wall, Prof.
Roger K.. Williams, Jewitt White,
James Wirtch, Sherman Williamson,
Lawyard Wilson, Charles Woods, Clarence Yourse.
MEN IN THE ARMY
James Aaron,  Leo Abenethy, John
Albright, Otis Alston, Oliver Anderson,
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