The Register, 1959-10-30

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VOLUME XXXI — No. 3—GREENSBORO, N. C—OCTOBER 30, 1959
^The Cream of College Nemf
Gibbs and Hodgin Claim
Press Attacks Are Absurd
Time   Out   For   Welcome
Charles DeBose, president of the A&T Student Council, takes time out
from gridiron chores to welcome the Homecoming crowd and to present
Andrades Alexander (partially hidden, right), Mils Maryland State.
DeBose was preceded by Jacqueline Bell (left), Miss A&T, who also
brought greetings.
Dr. Reed Speaks On
United Nations Day
Dr. William E. Reed, dean of the School of Agriculture,
was guest speaker for the International Relations club Tuesday, October 20, in Harrison auditorium. The occasion was
the annual celebration of United Nations Day.
Yoshua Nkomo
To Speak At
Assembly
Yoshua Nkomo, President of the
Southern Rhodesia African National Congress, will speak in Harrison Auditorium Tuesday, November 10, at 10:00 a.m.
Nkomo has been President of the
Congress since 1954. He was educated in Southern Rhodesia and at
Adams College in South Africa. In
1951, he became President of the
African Railway Workers Union
(South Africa).
The next year he was invited by
the Prime Minister of Southern
Rhodesia "to attend talks in London
on the establishment of the Central
African Federation. But, because his
views differed from other members, he was dropped from the delegation. However, in 1953, at the request of the African people of
Southern Rhodesia, he returned to
London to Campaign against Federation. In December 1958, ihe attended the AAPC and was elected
to its Steering Committee.
Carolina Times has never done anything to help me, or A&T, for that
matter. It (The Times) has always
taken an adverse stand toward
A&T, and it is a fact that most of
their assertions are not based on
authentic information.
NO  REBUTTAL  MADE
When asked what defense the administration had in the face of these
charges, the President said that no
rebuttal has been made (other than
this one) because there is nothing
factual in the charges. "Of course,"
he said, "the business manager, just
as everyone else, has made mistakes, but this is due to the inherent overlapping of authority as
far as the control of money is concerned."
DUTIES DEFINED
Both Gibbs and Hodgin admitted
This was Dr. Reed's first public
appearance following a two-year
leave of absence. He had served as
chief of an eight-man team of
American specialists who conducted a project for the International
Development Services in Ghana,
West Africa. The project concerned
soil and water conservation, a land
planning program, and the control
of blood diseases in cattle.
AFRICA TO PROGRESS
Speaking on 'The United Nations and Africa," Dr. Reed stated
that Africa, which is truly in a revolution, will make more progress
politically within the next decade
than any other country.
The big problem, already recognized by many is that in order to
attain a peaceful world, we must
see to it that there is not a great
disparity among the peoples of the
world.
Ghana and other African nations
already recognize the need for economic progress, said Dr. Reed. These
nations must develop into self-sufficient economics if progress is to
continue. The people, themselves,
must become proficient in various
specialties to contribute to the type
of economy that is self-sustaining.
BARRIERS TOLD
Foreigners who go to Africa face
certain difficulties that must be
overcome before substantial results
can be obtained. Language differences make communication difficult.
Artificial divisions prevent the formation of a strong economic group
that comes with togetherness. Competition among nations of the world
to emerge themselves in the affairs
of other nations results in suspicion as regards motives of technical representatives.
Dr. Reed pointed out that color
or race of a technical worker sent
to Africa is relatively unimportant.
"In his march towards greater freedom, the African of today is interested only in people who can bring
about effective results," he said.
SECOND TRIP
The Ghana assignment for Dr.
Reed was the second assignment in
Africa in his career. He had spent
three years in Liberia immediately prior to his coming to A&T conducting a study of soils in the
country for the United States State
Department.
The A&T dean also visited Russia
in the summer of 1955 as a member
of a delegation of American farmers and agricultural specialists.
A graduate of Southern University in Louisiana, he holds the M.S.
degree from Iowa State University
and the Ph.D. degree from Cornell
University.
Dr. Reed was introduced by Dr.
F. A. Logan, professor of Social
Science.
Among other persons appearing
on the program were Bernard Benson, who described the role ol the
United Nations in African affairs in
his native tongue which was translated by Charles Biyoyouwei, president of the sponsoring organization. Pauline Guest, vice president,
played an instrumental solo. Minnie
Hoyle, secretary, presided.
Dr. V. C. Stroud is faculty adviser to the group.
They   Dine  With  Register   Editor
This is the end of a two-block, double line which leads to the entrance
of Murphy Hall, the college cafeteria. 9,000 ate at this meal.
These two young ladies (high
school seniors) are from the Greene
County Training School in Snow
Hill, N. C. Theirs is the school
where the students went on strike
in September for better plant
equipment, a better dining hall, and"
a gymnasium. Here they are shown
dining with the editor of the Register, Albert L. Rozier, Jr.
They visited the campus here on
the occasion of the annual High
School Senior Day. A&T students
were hosts to more than 6,000 of
the youngsters from all over North
Carolina,  and neighboring schools
Founders'   Day
A&T To Observe 68th
Anniversary On Nov. 4
A&T College will observe the 68th year of its founding
at the annual Founders' Day exercises set for Wednesday,
November 4.
Dr,. F. D. Patterson, former president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and now president of the Phelps-Stokes Fund
of New York City, will deliver the main address. He will speak
at the formal program to be held in Harrison Auditorium
that morning beginning at 11:00 o'clock.
A graduate of Iowa State College
from which he later received the
master of science degree, he was
awarded the Ph.D. degree by Cornell University. He holds honorary
degrees from several institutions.
FORMER  TUSKEGEE  PREXY
He became president of Tuskegee
in 1935 and served for 18 years to
1953. He was named director of
the Phelps-Stokes Fund in 1953 and
was redesignated president of the
organization in 1958.
Dr. Patterson is founder of the
United Negro College Fund, organized in 1944 as the nation's first
education chest for the support ol
33 privately endowed institutions
of higher education. A former president of this organization, he now
serves as vice chairman of the Board
of Directors and chairman of the
Executive Committee.
BOARD MEMBER
He is a member of the trustee
boards of Tuskegee Institute, Hampton Institute and cbairman of the
board at Bennett College.
Dr. Patterson also holds board
positions with the African Research
Foundation, National Foundation
for Medical Education, Southern
Education Foundation, Southern
Regional Council, American Red
Cross and many other civic and
social welfare organizations.
He is president of the National
Business League and a member of
the New York Chamber of Commerce.
in Virginia and South Carolina.
While here, they got a chance to see
how college students live, study and
EAT here at A&T. The utlimate
goal is to try to entice these students to consider A&T when selecting a college to attend upon graduation.
When asked if they would attend
A&T, Miss Shirley Jones, left, replied that she hadn't quite decided
yet. "Well," Rozier asked, hasn't
this turkey dinner and ice cream
made any difference? 'Oh, she shot
back, "I can get turkey at home."
The young lady at the right is Miss
LaForest Warren.
In separate interviews, both Warmoth T. Gibbs and E. R.
Hodgin, president and business manager of A&T respectively,
called the accusations hurled via the Carolina Times absurd.
Both contended that these news articles and editorials
were not based on sound facts. It was learned from the two
that neither was consulted in an interview so that anything
that came out in the articles were results of here-say and the
fact that, as Dr. Gibbs put it, "The     that Hodgin's job is specifically to
advise as to the availability of
funds and not as to how they are
to be spent. However, it was pointed out foy Hodgin that he controls
about 30 per cent of the budget for
operational needs of the school such
as dining hall, dormitory heating,
lighting and maintenance, etc., but
the rest goes for1 salaries, etc., but
under the supervision of Dr. Gibbs.
In reference to the distribution of
funds, as pointed out above, it was
learned that of the total budget
$3,094,847, the sum of $2,174,215 is
at the disposal of the president for
salaries, and the remainder, $920,632
goes for operation of the institution.
ACCREDITATION NEAR
Reminding that the school has
strengthened its teaching staff and
improved library facilities as of this
year, Dr. Gibbs expressed the belief that accreditation is very near.
Even though Hodgin expressed
the same belief, he stated that references to accreditation was probably only an excuse to get something started because A&T "is an
accredited school but is not a
memfoer-in-fact of the Association."
DEFENDS GIBBS
"Actually," Mr. Hodgin said,
"there should not be all of this
noise against President Gibbs, for
he has not, until this time, had
funds available to him for hiring or
increasing of salaries." Hodgin
pointed out that, in other words,
President Gibbs had been working
with funds voted in the previous
General Assembly, which were not
requested by him.
Pertaining to this point, Dr. Gibbs
had this to say: "Acquiring Ph.D.'s
is a question of having money to
pay and of being able to get them
in light of having to compete with
industry. When I made my budget
request, there was not enough support in favor of the funds. We
needed additional, new money.
However, in order to raise this
money, it was suggested that some
courses be eliminated from the
Technical Institute's curriculum, but
this was not enough to restore cuts
in the budget."
RECEIVES LETTER
Hodgin recalled an incident in
which he received a letter from an
alumnus stating that he felt some
changes^ should be made. "I referred
him to the Board of Trustees, because there is a set of by-laws
which defines the duties of the
president and those of the business
manager, set up by the Board, to
prevent any overlapping of authority." He stated that any complaint
should go through the Board of
Trustees.
Dr. Gibbs stated that A&T overcame one major hurdle when the
graduate courses through extension
centers were brought back to the
campus this fall. This was one of
the main concerns of the Southern
Association since these extension
branches did not all have adequate
library facilities. He acknowledged
also that students played a great
part in the obtaining of the $976,000
share of the state Bond Issue which
was endorsed in last Tuesday's
election.
Also pjjinted out by Gibbs was
the fact that the library receives
more than $31,400 annually, with
additional funds of $40,000 for the
purchase of books over the next
biennium and $20,000 for purchasing
back issues of periodicals and scientific journals.
He added, however, that all of
these improvements will be reflected in next year's report to the Association.
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