The Register, 1952-09&10-00

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NOVEMBER
"THE   CREAM   OF   COLLEGE   NEWS"
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VOL. XLVIII—No. 8
A. and T. College, Greensboro, N. C., September-October, 1952
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Homecoming Celebration Slated
NewcomersIncreaseEnrollment
Summer School
Huge Success
By CATHERINE STROUD, '53
Approximately 1,061 students were
enrolled during the summer sessions
at A. and T. College. Four hundred
sixty-eight were graduate students and
593 were undergraduates.
Graduate professors teaching at A.
and T. this past summer were George
R. Jordan, principal of Summer Field
High School, Guilford County; Flossie R. Alston, principal of Charles
Moore Elementary School, Greensboro; Marguerite Adams, Counselor
at Second Ward High School, Charlotte; Dr. Joseph P. McKelpin, research assistant, University of Wisconsin; O. A. Dupree, principal of
Sampson County Training School,
Clinton; Dr. A. F. Jackson, guidance
instructor of A. and T.; Elizabeth
Rov Williamson, dance instructor,
New York City; and Dr. M. J. Whitehead, professor of education.
Many interesting lyceum programs
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Numerous Activities Highlight
Gigantic Reunion of Alumni
By STANLEY M. COOK
For an adequate cure of home sickness, meet your old chums
of the past years November 1 on the growing campus of A. and T.
College. When the alumni reach the campus they will feel as
if the clock had turned  back to the time of their school  days.
Hundreds of former students of this
institution will assemble here to enjoy the gala activities that are being
planned, to renew their old experiences of yesterday, and to witness
A. and T. forging rapidly toward the
top of leading American colleges and
universities. New appearances of the
physical plant coupled with the varied
homecoming activities planned will
help to heighten the loyalty and devotion of all former students. The
homecoming committees are busy
finalizing the numerous activities for
the week end.
The college is expecting to entertain the largest single turnout of
alumni in its history. The activities
for homecoming will actually begin
on Friday, October 31. The main
event, the football game featuring the
A. and T. Aggies and the Morgan
State College "Bears" which is expected to draw some 20,000 persons,
ivill get underway at 2:00 P. M.
A. and T. will be seeking a second
straight victory over Morgan.
Several big social functions including two dances, one on Friday evening, October 31, and the annual
homecoming ball on Saturday, Nov.
1. at 8:00 P. M. are being sponsored
by the local Gate City Chapter of the
A. and T. Alumni Association. The
annual students' pep rally will be
staged Friday, October 31, at 7 P. M.
A Coffee Hour for alumni will be
held Saturday, November 1, at 9:30
A. M. at the Alumni House on the
campus.
Registration of visiting alumni will
be held in the Alumni House immediately preceding a brief meeting
of the alumni executive committee.
The colorful homecoming parade
the day of the game leaves the college
campus at 1:00 P. M. for the stadium.
A festival extravaganza is planned to
electrify the expected large crowd at
half time.
All former homecoming events will
be shadowed by the gigantic celebration to be staged this year by the returning alumni, students, and well-
wishers of A. and T. College.
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Senior Class Elects
Officers for '52-'53
The senior class of 1953 congratulates the members of the freshman
class for selecting A. and T. College
to pursue work which will prepare
them for better service and better
life. We wish these fine students
will have four wonderful and profitable years here at our beloved institution.
Election following the opening of
school placed into the various offices
David McElveen, president; Dorothy
Miller, vice-president; Virginia Jones,
secretary; John Ward, treasurer; Linwood Smith and Robert Hall, student
council representatives; Henry Frye,
student aid fund representative;
James Bridgett, editor of the yearbook. Mr. L. A. Wise is the senior
class advisor.
Many activities are planned by the
class to close out this year. All seniors are asked to attend every meeting scheduled in order that these
plans can be worked out with full
cooperation.
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"They Also Serve Who Stand
and Wait."—John Milton
DOUGLAS CROMARTE, 'S3
President, Student Council
Greetings From Student
Council President To
Freshmen, New Students
Entering A. and T. College is a
passport to success. We are proud
to have you here because we believe
that you are capable of measuring
up to our high standards.
We are approaching a year that
will go down in history as one that
will bring with it problems and perplexities that will effect us as a group
and as individuals. We will, however, as in the past overcome these
problems and rise to unclaimed
heights in our individual aims in life.
If you want to get the most out
of college life, you will have to organize your thinking. You will need
to use foresight in acquiring those
skills which will be most valuable to
you later. You will have to plan
your life and follow your plan well.
We at A. and T. are one. The
mystic chord of fellowship stretches
out uniting us in our common goal
which is preparation for the world of
tomorrow.
School's Finances
Called Inadequate
By ARTHUR JOHNSEY
Greensboro Daily News
Raleigh Bureau
A. and T. College was pictured before the Advisory Budget Commission in Raleigh, North Carolina, as
less adequately financed than any other state-operated college.
A. and T.'s administration asked
$5,285,936 for capital improvements
—new buildings and equipment—and
$2,344,076 for maintenance in the
next biennium.
Advocates backed their arguments
with figures showing that educational
services are provided at A. and T.
at a lower per student cost than other
Negro institutions in the South. They
said its per capita operational costs
were the lowest of any state-supported college in North Carolina.
Warning Issued
Because of a low starting salary
for instructors and generally low instructional expenditures per pupil, the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools has issued a warning that "deficiencies should be lifted"
prior to its December meeting. The
association is the accrediting agency
for Southern colleges.
Referring to the disclosure, brought
out by a question from W. B. Um-
stead to Dr. F. D. Bluford, that the
engineering school isn't now recognized fully by accrediting institutions,
Shelley B. Caveness told the commission "if we don't offer it (engineering) at A. and T., they are going to
get the training and I don't have to
tell you what's going to happen."
Caveness   Speaks
Caveness said he believes the people want Negroes to have equality of
educational opportunity and "it's high
time the general assembly does something about A. and T. College."
The new classroom building and
dormitory, it was explained, will enable the college to abandon old barracks students have used as living
quarters and classrooms for some seven years.
Dr. Bluford said the barracks are
in such disreputable state it would be
uneconomical to patch them up in
view of the certainty that they will
ultimately be abandoned.
A recently completed dormitory accommodated 1,010 male students, said
Dr. Bluford, "but we have over 2,000
boys."
Favors Increase
Caveness said environment influences in the areas surrounding the
college were additional reasons for
quartering the students in dormitories.
With respect to salaries, Caveness
said there was no reason why a dean
at A. and T. shouldn't be paid as
much as a dean at State College. The
Greensboro institution has had a
regular term enrollment of around
3,000 in the past two years, and there
were predictions it will go over 4,000
within a decade.
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English Department
Observes Day With Poets
Sunday, November 16, at 4 o'clock,
sixteen members of A. and T.'s English department will meet at Miss
Jean Bright's home, 1008 Benbow
Road, to observe a day with the poets.
Poems of Edmund Spenser, John Dry-
den, Keats, Byron, Coleridge, Longfellow will highlight the affair. Soliloquies from Shakespeare's plays and
sonnets of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare will be read. Refreshments will be served. Dr. L. A.
Alston is chairman of the English
Department.
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CLARA LORRAINE JOHNSON
Miss A. & T. Speaks
All of us have arrived at this great
institution filled with initiative and
anxiety desirous of turning a new
page in our lives. We hope this new
page will consist of a thorough college education. We, as upperclassmen at A. and T., are happy that
you have chosen our Alma Mater as
your school to continue learning. We
hope you will learn to love and respect her as we do.
An education does not consist of
book learning only but is seen in
every phase of man's life. Since this
is true, we extend a hearty invitation
for you to become affiliated with various clubs and campus organizations.
In these groups, one can develop himself spiritually, morally, socially, and
intellectually. I feel one must be educated in all of these phases before he
can truly say that he is educated.
As freshmen you have four good
years in which you may gain all the
knowledge and gain much wisdom. If
you find the goal that you have in
mind now in pursuing this college education, you will be certain of success. Don't waste your time for life
is too short. Let your four years
here be beneficial as well as pleasant.
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Noted Tenor
In Concert
The Lyceum Committee presented
Rawn Spearman, celebrated tenor of
New York City, in concert before a
packed house of A. and T. students
and faculty in Harrison Auditorium,
October 23. Mr. Spearman sang with
taste and musical understanding. His
tenor voice is sonorous and resounding when he sings pianissimo or forte
passages. Opening the concert with
an aria from Bach's "Christmas Oratorio," the artist sang a program of
songs that was of the highest calibre
featuring two songs heard for the first
time in America. His vast audience
was held in rapt attention until each
song was ended. He was enthusiastically received.
Songs by Bach, Dowland, Rameau,
Tomasi, Hue, Poulenc, Kingsford,
Purcell, Broadnax, and Villa Lobos
constituted the major program offerings. The entire Schuman "Dichter-
liebe" was beautifully delivered. Mr.
Spearman passionately projected Fred
Hall's cycle of four Afro-American
songs. His stage decorum and musicianship were in evidence in all that
he did.
Responding to thunderous applause,
the artist was generous in singing several memorable encores. Another of
his appearances at A. and T. is assured. Mr. Spearman's accompanist,
composer Kingsford, played sympathetically and helped to make this an
enjoyable concert.
Over 900 Frosh
Enter Aggie Land
Coming on the heels of one of the
biggest building booms in the history
of the college. 970 eager freshmen invaded A. and T. during Orientation
Week last month. This total of newcomers is one of the highest according to figures listed by the Registrar's
Office.
The huge class of frosh was well
:n keeping with the institution which
itself is rapidly becoming one of the
foremost educational institutions of
the country. The college enrollment
this year is now 2602 according to
closest figures taken by the Registrar's
Office thus far. Of this number more
than 1500 are boys.
Expansion  Noted
The large enrollment at A. and T.
comes at a time when expansion of
the college is at its highest peak.
Some years ago the college began a
several million dollar building program which is now nearing its completion. Finished thus far is the million dollar boys dormitory, the Technical Institute, the girls new dormitory, the agricultural extension building, and the chemistry building. These
were dedicated at this year's commencement. Buildings which have
not been completed are the library,
home economics building, infirmary
and gymnasium. Each of these buildings will be very modern in architecture and design.
Even this large list of buildings will
not suffice for the rapidly growing
institution, for less than one year after
Scott Hall, men's new dormitory, was
completed to house 1010 boys, A. and
T. was in need of another dormitory.
But this rising and growing is indicative of a sure sign toward our becoming the foremost Negro institution of
higher learning.
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High School Seniors
Overrun Campus
The A. and T. College campus was
a scene of hustling, bustling, activity
October 4, when approximately 5,-
000 students from more than 150 high
schools, principally of North Carolina, poured onto the campus as guests
at the annual high school senior day.
In a guided tour under the supervision of 200 volunteer college students, the guests visited the new and
modern dormitories, shops, classrooms, and laboratories and received
an inside story of collegiate life and
study.
The day's activities began with
registration after long lines of busses
and cars emptied this host of students
and teachers from practically all counties in the state. The highway entrance to the campus was packed with
vehicles by 9 A. M. At the registration center, each group of visitors was
given identification cards, meal tickets, and varied literature on the facilities of the college. From then on,
the campus guests were carried
through the paces of a busy schedule
which concluded late in the afternoon
with supper in the college dining hall.
The 120 piece A. and T. College
band provided entertainment in front
of Dudley Hall before leading the
cheering throng to Memorial Stadium
where the visitors joined other "Aggie" fans to watch the thrilling football game between Virginia Union
University and A. and T. College. The
A. and T. "Bulldogs" put on a thrilling battle, winning their first conference game at the expense of Virginia Union,  14-6.
The visiting students were enthusiastic in their praise of the college
buildings and activities. One student
from West Charlotte High remarked
as he finished the tour of Scott Hall,
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