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VOLUME XXXI   No. 18
THE AGRICULTURAL   AND   TECHNICAL   COLLEGE,    GREENSBORO, N. C.
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1960
Doctor Proctor Takes A&T College Helm
Summer School
Enrollment Is
Over 1,000
BY LORINA SUGGS
Mr. Calvin R. Stevenson, Director
of Summer School, announced that
the Summer School enrollment for
the six week session was 1,036. Mr.
Stevenson stated that the breakdown showed that there were 75S
graduate students and 228 undergraduate students.
There are 30 students enrolled in
the In-Service Training and 25 enrolled in the Lunchroom Workshop.
The breakdown also showed that
all of the colleges of North Carolina were represented, as well as
many colleges throughout the United  States.
He pointed out that most of the
graduate students were here to renew their teaching certificates for
the last time.
The In-Service teachers are persons who are changing their certificates, rather than persons without bachelor degrees.
Dean Holmes
On Tour Of
Europe, Asia
The dean of women at A & T
College is touring western Europe
and Russia  this summer.
Miss Geneva J. Holmes left the
country on July 19 for a tour as
a member-representative of the
Board of World Peace of the North
Carolina Conference of the Central
Jurisdiction of the Methodist
Church.
Some thirty-odd members of the
Church will compose the tour party.
They will visit in: England, France,
Germany, Switzerland, Denmark,
Sweden and   the  USSR.
Army ROTC
Program To Be
Revitalized
The Army ROTC program at A
& T College and other colleges and
universities will undergo extensive
revitalization during the coming
school year.
Major Lawrence D. Spencer, professor of military science at the
college, said that beginning witlj
the 1960-61 school year, advanced
ROTC cadets will take about 20 percent of their military instruction in
college taught subjects such as science, psychology, oral and written
comunications, and political institutions.
To permit this change, military
subjects such as crew-served weapons instruction, will be taught during the six week summer camp
period, normally attended between
the junior and senior college years.
It is expected that a two-year
"phase in" period will be required
before full implementation is effected.
The new program aims at stimulating increased intellectual attainment on the part of ROTC students,
lessening the training load on students, particuliarly those pursuing
technical degrees, and making the
overall program more attractive.
The ROTC is the major source of
officers for the U. S. Army. The
present enrollment is over 155,000
cadets in some 248 colleges and universities.
DR. SAMUEL DeWITT PROCTOR, NEW PRESIDENT OF A&T
Dr. Proctor, new president of A&T College is shown as he takes the
helm as the fifth president of A&T College on July 1, 1960.
He stated that his foremost objective will be "to enhance the growing reputation of the college as a center of scientific and technological
education related functionally to the social sciences and humanities."
Dr. Proctor succeeds Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs who now becomes president-emeritus.
FOR   SCIENCE   TEACHERS
60 Teachers Enrolled
In Summer Institute
Sixty-teachers from six states are participating in the A
& T College Summer Institute for High School Science Teachers.
The Institute, sponsored by the National Science Foundation began on Monday, June 13, and will continue for six-
weeks through July 22. It offered concentrated courses in
chemistry, physics, zoology and botany.
Dr. Gerald A. Edwards, chairman
of the Chemistry Department and
director of the Institute said this
'week that. all ..spaces and stipends
under the program had been filled.
Among those accepted as participants are: North Carolina—Samuel N. Baker, Monroe; Miss Geneva
Baldwin, Pittsboro; Mrs. Charlie M.
Barnes, Goldsboro; Mrs. Tulula P.
Barber, Pinehurst; Robert W. Boley
New Bern; Glenwood M. Boone,
Roseboro; William A. Brown, Spin-
dale, Charles W. Bryant, Madison;
James E. Buffaloe, Rocky Mount;
Mrs. Doris. M. Burke, Lumberton;
Rufus L. Carmical, Burlington;
Naaman H. Cherry, Windsor; Mrs.
Denette H. Claytor, Roxboro; Thomas E. Conway, Louisburg; John R.
DeVane, Wilmington; Walter L.
Faison, Warsaw; William J. Gould,
Littleton; Mrs. Cora H. Hawkifis
and James Jordan, Jr., Warrenton;
Glover L. Hines, Badin; William E.
Jones, Wilson; Miss Bertha M.
Kornegay, Kinston; Samuel G. Littlejohn, Laurinburg; Burke C. New-
some, Elizabeth City; James R. Pay-
ton, Grimesland, Elijah Peterson,
Troy; Frederick I. Quick, Reidsville; Vivian C. Ramseur, Matthew
Richmond and Oswald R. Wright,
Greensboro; Ernest L. Sanders, Raleigh; Gladwin S. Shaw, Elizabeth-
town; Mrs. Hattie B. Spruill, Wake
Forest; Jasper R. Thomas, Method;
Mrs. Genevieve W. VanCatledge,
Charlotte; Miss Hazel M. White, Siler City and Miss Elizabeth W.
Young, Southport. Other states —
Miss Earlyne C. Baker, Alpine, Ala.;
Mrs. Frances L. Beale, Madison, Ga.;
Miss Delia M. Booker, Washington,
Ga.; Wm. D. Brown, Boykin, Ala.;
Miss Mary B. Crawford, Anniston,
Ala. Howard E. Cummins, Big Stone
Gap, Va.; Bummie J. Devane, Che^
raw, S. C; Albert H. Franco,
Rochester, Pa.; Joseph B. Graham,
Florala, Ala.; Eugene C. Harris, La-
Vale, Md.; Mrs. Lue G. Holloway,
Montgomery, Ala.; Miss Vallie W.
Hylton, Martinsville,) Va<; Nolan
Johnson, Jr., Pineville, S. C; Joseph
F. Lewis, Appomattox, Va.; Alfred
L. Morris, Scottsboro, Ala.; William
G. Sanders, Columbia, S. C; John L.
Steinhauer, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; Robert C. Taylor, Montgomery, Ala.;
March H. Warner, Penn Laird, Va.;
Quincy N. Washington, Geneva,
Ala.; Alfred Willis, Holt, Ala.; Alexander Wilson, MeCormick, S. C. and
Christopher Wright, Vidalia, Ga.
GIBBS STEPS DOWN
At 38, Dr. Proctor
Becomes College's
Fifth President
Foremost   Objective  To   Enhance   The
Technological  Reputation   Of   College
The new president of A & T College has sounded a challenge
for a continuing increase in the emphasis at the institution
on academic excellence
Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor, the former president of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va., on Friday, July 1,
assumed duties as fifth president of the 69-year old institution.
He said this will be his foremost
objective "to enhance the growing
reputation of the college as a center of scientific and technological
education related functionally to the
social sciences and humanities."
"Scholars are just as important
to vocational and terminal professional fields, if not more so," he
said, "as they are to liberal arts
areas." He added that this fact has
been pointed up in bold relief by
the "Sputnik crisis."
Liberal Arts Man
Practically all of Dr. Proctor's
educational experience as teacher,
dean and president, has been in the
field of liberal arts. When queried
about problems he anticipates in
shifting to an institution which emphasizes vocational and terminal
programs, he quickly explained that
educational problems are pretty
much the same in all fields.
"While our emphases, here at A
& T are different, to me these offer
real challenges to utilize the tremendous resources and potentialities available at the institution," he
answered.
He had in mind the wide offerings
at the college available through
the five major divisions: The School
of Agriculture, the School of Engineering, the School of Education
and General Studies, thie School of
Nursing, the Technical Institute and
the Graduate School; a substantial
enrollment and the outstanding
services the college has rendered
over the years.
Has Many Ideas     ,
A high sense of confidence underlies this young man's enthusiasm
and one recognizes it immediately
upon acquaintance. Brimming over
with ideas on how to accomplish
the job which lies ahead, he makes
it clear at the outset that he does
not hope to get it all done at once.
"We intend to set goals on a time
table within the realm of accomplishment,"  he  explains.
Dr. Proctor succeeds Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs whose services at
A & T as teacher, dean and president, cover 34 years. Dr. Gibbs now
becomes president-emeritus and
will remain on the faculty at the
college.
The new president, a Norfolk,
Va. native, received his under-grad-
uate training at Virginia Union and
has had graduate study at Crozer
Theological ajeminary* Yale and
Boston Universities.
He comes to A & T with 11-years
of college administration experience, all at Virginia Union, as dean
of the Graduate School of Religion,
vice president and five years as
president.
He is married to the former
Miss Bessie L. Tate of Fredericksburg, Va., and the couple has two
sons, Herbert Stuart, 13, and Timothy DeWitt, 10.
Gibbs: Bright
Future Ahead
For College
A really bright future lies ahead
for A & T College.
That is the opinion of Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs, president emeritus
of the college, who has served as
teacher, dean and president over
a span of 34 years. He was succeeded by Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor,
president of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va.
The prediction is based, not only
on trends and developments he has
Observed in those 34 years, within
and outside the A&T community,
but he lists four factors, prevalent
now, which will have tremendous
bearing on the increase in effectiveness of the college's program.
In an interview with him, Gibbs
said that an increasing recognition
of the importance of the service
rendered by the college has been
followed by increased appropriations by the State of North Carolina.
"This", he said, "adds up to better faculty, better facilities and
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