The Register, 1953-02-00

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'The Cream of College News"
VOL. XLVIII—No. 4
A. and T. College, Greensboro, N. C, February, 1953
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College Works on Plans
To Offer Nursing Course
Choir Preps
For Annual
Concert Tour
Practice! Practice! Practice! That
might not be a pleasing sound to
the average ear, but to the Concert
Choir members it is different. They
don't mind the many hours of extra
work because on March 20, forty-
one voices under the direction of Mr.
Pearsall will embark on their annual
3,000 mile tour.
Following the same pattern as last
year when they appeared before large
audiences in New York and Philadelphia, the singers are scheduled for
performances in seven states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New Jersey, Virginia. North Carolina
and Washington, D. C
The choir has a busy schedule of
activities even while on tour. Rehearsals arc held in the morning in
preparation for the evening concerts.
Not All Work
But the tours are not all work
either. The choir members, besides
practicing and giving concerts, enjoy
many sight seeing tours and other
forms of entertainment in the places
they visit. Last year they even got
a chance to see the famous Sing Sing
Prison at Ossining, New York.
This is Mr. Pearsall's third year
as conductor of A. and T.'s choir.
He was formerly director of music
at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.
Since his arrival here, he has done
much to elevate the standards of the
college's music.
Schedule
March 20 Washington, D. C
March 21... Bordentown,   N.  J.
March 22 ....Newark, N. J.
March 23 White Plains, N. Y.
March  24 Farrell,    Pennsylvania
March 25 Cleveland, Ohio
March 26 Pittsburgh,  Penna.
March 27 Lynchburg,   Va.
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By JOHN  CHESNEY AND
HANFORD STAFFORD
Journalism Class
A. and T. College has recently been working on plans to have
a Nursing School. Below is part
of the appeal made to the North
Carolina State Legislature.
During recent months very strong
appeals have been made to the college by leaders in health and civic
affairs to offer a program of nurse
training. The urgency of these appeals springs mainly from the three
following considerations:
1. The nurse training program of
Lhe L. Richardson Memorial Hospital
of Greensboro will terminate with
the close of 1953. This private hospital has trained Negro nurses for
more than thirty years, but now finds
itself unable to meet the financial demands of a standard program, and
consequently its governing board and
medical staff have joined more than
one hundred other welfare and racial
agencies of the city, and area in urging A. and T. College to assume this
important responsibility. The hospital
has assured us of all of its facilities
for clinical experience.
2. There is at present no state
supported program for training of
Negro nurses. In fact, the new nursing school at Chapel Hill is the only
tax supported program in the state.
3. There is a widespread need for
more nurses than are now being trained. This need is general ana is felt
in both military and civilian circles.
The shortage is great in North Carolina and especially in Greensboro
where the existing hospitals are seriously understaffed, and a new hospital is scheduled to open during the
year without knowing where it will
secure trained nurses.
In response to these appeals the
college has made a preliminary sur
vey of this field, and of the problems
incident to such an undertaking. In
this endeavor, it has had the enthusiastic support and cooperation of the
medical and nursing authorities of
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Register Early!
Mr. C. R. A. Cunningham.
Registrar of the college, announced recently that pre-registration for
the spring quarter will take place
from March 9 through 13. Everyone is urged to register early in
order to avoid the rush. The same
rules for registration will be used.
Teachers, as well as advisors, will
sign class schedules before the
quarter ends.
OUR VALENTINES
Portraying the spirit of St. Valentine are two of our campus beauties. Cath-
Both of these lovely co-eds are freshmen.
trine Womble and Josie Williams.
Register Salutes
Ag. Department
On Achievements
By GEORGE EDWARDS, '57
"For convenience, we now have a
bus to take vocational agriculture students on field trips and laboratory
practice on A. and T.'s and other
farms in the area. We received the
bus the first of the year, and it is
already in constant use. We find
this a great help to the students in
finding out what is actually happening on our area farms," said Dr. William E. Reed, dean of the School ot
Vocational Agriculture, to a REGISTER reporter last week.
It was disclosed in the interview
that a grant of $2500 for research
with sheep was received last month
by this department. The project will
be geared to aid the management of
grazing and to control the management of internal parasites in sheep.
In this same area, Dr. Reed said that
Dr. B. T. White, chemist, is carrying on a project in agricultural chemistry in studying the causes and elimination of bitter weed in the milk of
the cow. For the past two years, Dr.
White has been working on this
project on a $27,000 grant from the
government.
Other Projects Noted
Mr. J. B. Murphy, agronomist, sitting in on the interview told the reporter that he was presently engaged
in a study of the rates of application
and dates of application of nitrogen
top-dressing on the yield of wheat.
"Affects of chemical weed controls
is being studied," he further stated.
One experiment has been made using
corn. The purpose of the experiment
is to determine how effective chemical
weed control would be in the cultivation of corn.
Dr. A. S. Totten has been conducting a study on the uses of anti-bodies,
penicillin, and streptomisin. This
study is being made, it was reported,
to find new ways to increase poultry.
Dr. A. P. Graves and Mrs. E. C.
Clark are presently constructing a
project with the graduate students in
determining egg production of the
A. and T. College poultry flock on
the farm. Dr. Graves, said Dr. Reed,
developed a technique in embrology
to study the somites of fertilized eggs.
Highlights on the Farm
The college farm is divided into
five major divisions, Dr. Reed further
explained. They are the dairy product
section, which is the largest of all
sections; the poultry, cattle, swine,
and the general farm departments
constitute the whole division. "Several buildings are being built in addition to the well-equipped ones already
in operation to carry on the extensive
program of the department," he went
on to say. A dairy products building and a plant for poultry are in
the making. The dairy products build-
ng on north campus will be used
exclusively for dairy products, in the
making of ice cream, cheese, and
butter.
Improvements Seen
"Much improvement has been made
in developing the farm," Dr. Reed
continued. "The state program is attempting to make these units more
economical and as self-supporting as
possible." Other improvements he
mentioned included two fish ponds
constructed on the farm last June
and November which will be used to
study wild life and fish. Other moves
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YOUR MAJESTY! George Funderburke is crowned King of the Aggies by
President Bluiord at the termination of the 1953 Polio Drive. The affair was
a dance held in Murphy Hall. Looking on are Louise Dodd. left, Funderburke's
sponsor,   and   Mrs.   Myrtle   Nesbitt.   Chairman   of   the   college   Polio   Drive.
Nesbitt Photo.
Geo. Funderburke King;
Aggies Exceed Polio Goal
Over 200 on
Honor Roll
More than 200 students from every
department of the college were listed
on the honor roll for the fall quarter
just recently released hy C. R. A.
Cunningham, registrar at the college.
Six of the number earned a perfect
3:00 average of all "A's", while seventy-two maintained an average of
"excellent" or 2:50 or better, but slightly less than perfect records. The
remaining group of 203 placed in
the "B" bracket.
According to college policy, if these
students are able to maintain these
averages for the two remaining quarters of the school year, they will be
eligible for a scholarship of free tuition for the next school year.
Those who placed on the "A" roll
are:
James R. McCoy, Dorothy A. F.
Miller, Madeline Powell, Franches A.
Shipman, Ruth Carolyn Skelton, Ruby Mae Williamson.
Myrtle Oliver Cunningham, Daisy
P. Withers, Bobby Lily, Odessa Robinson, Doretha Basier, Harry L. Williams, Gloria S. Swann, Shirley Ann
Johnson, Roloual Walton, Floyd W.
Horton, Elva Lassiter, James T. Porter, Willie T. Fisher, Oswold Stuart
Lyon, Izetta Cole, Robert D. Hayes,
Elisha J. Greenfield, Margaret M.
Jones,  Mary V. Jones.
Thelma Faison, Donas H. Dailey,
Mary D. Shaw, George A. Flanigan,
Lee Allen Yate, Everlene Davis, Ar-
lene D. Fowlkes, Eddie Maxwell Jones,
Lottie Lee Massenburg, Lucille Piggott, John W. Mitchell, Mary E. Griffin, Maxie V. Hairston, John J. Horton, Rollins Jones Mikell, John G.
Snipes, Cobert R. Drake, Minnie
Skinner, Mattie L. Tarry, Melbourne
Bailey, John Hodge, Pearle Mae Stewart, Broadus Evans, James Arthur
Green, Ruth Parker, Nathaniel Boney,
lames W. Bryant, Effie Flowers, Mable Foust, Temple Jackson, Eddie L.
Jones, Lois L. Martin, Mary C. Williams, Frank Ambrose.
Lacey E. Headen, Renoldo Mario
Jensen, Carey Lassiter, Harry G. Martin, Velma Ruth Speight, Herman
Sutton, Robert T. Taylor, James R.
Adams, Ella Grey Arrington, Wilbert
Greenfield, John B. Sampson, Jac-
quetta Still, Linis Stuart.
Robert R. Campbell, Beny William Coleman, Henry Erl Frye, Lannie McArthur,-John Wesley Mason,
Kenneth Taylor, Julian A. Wilkins,
Howard B. Carter. Lillie I. Jones,
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A. and T. College, headed by Mrs,
Myrtle Nesbitt, again went over the
top in the Polio Drive. The Aggies
were successful in raising $2,522 this
year. George Funderburke, stellar
Aggie football center for the last four
years, added another laurel to his
crown when he was named "King of
the Aggies" in the contest which annually accompanies the drive.
Each year the girls dormitories
sponsor a contestant to run for King
of the Aggies. Benefit parties, dances,
and other forms of entertainment are
given by the contestants in order to
raise funds for the Polio Drive. Miss
Louise Dodd was successful in sponsoring Funderburke for North Dormitory. Miss Dodd and her protege
were able to gather $466.87 to edge
Claxton Durham of Morrison Hall
who raised $402.05.
Funderburke was crowned by Dr.
Bluford, president of the college.
Each of the sponsors was given a
gift by the Dean of her respective
dormitory. Mrs. Nesbitt was given
a prize by Mr. McLarty, assistant
dean of men. Linwood Smith, representative for the Philip Morris Cigarette Company, presented Miss Dodd
with a cedar chest of cigarettes and
gave each of the other contestants a
carton of Philip Morris.
North Dormitory, Louise Dodd,
George Funderburke, $466.87; Morrison Hall, Mary Roberts, Claxton
Durham, $402.05; Holland Hall, Janie
Stokes, James Franks, $356.00; Vanstory Hall, Jettie Simmons, Charles
Tisdale, $175.00; Curtis Hall, Barbara Spraggins, and Phillip Cothers,
S99.00.
Omnibus
By MARION BLAIR, JR., '54
ED. NOTE: Each month there
will appear in the Register a series
of articles called OMNIBUS. On
the front page of each edition at
the bottom of the extreme right
hand column the reader will find
the question of the month. On
the last page the answer will appear and the question for the next
month. This series of articles is
being written in connection with
the informal discussions of a group
of young men who get together to
discuss things of interest to everyone.
Dean William J. Decatur, one
of the new staff members of Scott
Hall, suggested this discussion
group at a recent meeting of the
men of Kerr Hall.
WHAT WERE THE SEVEN
WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT
WORLD?