The Register, 1961-09-29

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VOLUME XXXIII, No. I GREENSBORO, N. C.
SEPT. 29, 1961
1027 Freshmen Choose To Join Aggie Famliy
Freshman Class Exceeds
Class of Sixty-Four
By Approximately 375
Undergrad    Enrollment    More    Than    2500
Male-Female    Ratio    Becomes    Two    To    One
When 1027 freshmen descended upon A&T September 10,
it brought the largest freshman class to the A&T College
A&T's Homecoming
To   Be   Largest
In   History
The observance of annual homecoming to be held at A&T College
on October 14-15 is expected to
draw the largest turnout in the
history of the College.
Jimmie Barber, dean of men and
chairman of the event, said this
week that delegations representing alumni chapters as far west as
Detroit and Chicago and as far
north as Buffalo, N. Y., have made
reservations for the weekend activities.
FOOTBALL GAME
The football game, featuring the
A&T Aggies and the Maryland
State College Hawks, is the main
event in the two-day celebration.
The game has been set for the
Memorial Stadium on Saturday
afternoon beginning at 2:00 o'clock.
HOMECOMING BALL
The annual homecoming ball,
featuring Bill Doggett and his
Hammond Organ Group will be
held at the Greensboro War Memorial Coliseum on Saturday evening.
The annual worship service will be
Sunday morning at 11:00 O'clock in
the Harrison Auditorium.
Reunions have been arranged
for all graduating classes with
numerals ending in "one."
Activities will begin with a Coffee Hour sponsored by the local
Gate City Alumni Chapter at 9:30
A.M. on Saturday in Cooper Hall.
The reunion classes will hold meetings at 10:30.
PARADE
The longest homecoming parade
in the history of the event is expected to leave the campus at
11:00 A.M., and to wind through
downtown Greensboro, arriving at
the stadium shortly before game
time.
A pre-game show featuring
ROTC drill teams and the A&T
College Marching Band will begin
at 1:00 P.M.
Miss W. Harrison
Is Page Editor
For Tribune
Wilhelmina E. Harrison, a 1961
graduate of A&T, has been named
to edit a "Youth in Action" page
for the PHILADELPHIA TRIBUNE.
The page, which will first appear October 3, is being called one
of the most significant milestones
in the 75-year history of the TRIBUNE.
The Page will appear every
Tuesday in the twice-weekly newspaper and will be exclusively written and directed by young people.
Plans have been made to exploit
every phase of youth activities.
Included will be articles concerning student government meetings,
weekend socials, teenage fads,
book reviews, and sorority and
fraternity activities. Also included
will be scholarship news, honor
students, information on how to
apply for scholarships, and many
other worthwhile facts.
As ah undergraduate, Miss Harrison was involved in many activities. She was associate editor of
THE REGISTER, a member and
officer of the Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, a member of the Fortnightly Club, and a member of the
Student Government.
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campus since 1948.
Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, left, president of A&T College, welcomes
Major Willis J. Hubert, the new professor of Air Science in charge of
the College's Air Force ROTC Detachment, and Mrs. Hubert. Major
Hubert will head the Joint Corps this year. A graduate of Hampton
Institute, he holds the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. Mrs. Hubert is the former Miss Evelyn Robinson, Abbeville, La.
They have two children.
Major Hubert succeeds Major Fred L. Allen, who held the post for
five years.
Faculty And Staff Changes
For A&T Are Announced
Several promotions and shifts
among key personnel and the addition of others were introduced at
the Faculty-Staff Orientation Conference.
DEAN OF GRADUATE SCHOOL
Leading the list of promotions
was the naming of Dr. George C.
Royal, professor of biology, as the
new dean of the Graduate School.
Dr. Royal came to the College first
in 1952. A graduate of Tuskegee
Institute, he holds the M.S. degree
from the University of Wisconsin
and the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Pennsylvania. He
heads a research project sponsored at the College by the U. S.
Atomic Energy Commission. Dr.
Royal served as acting chairman
of the Biology Department during
the academic year, 1959-60.
He replaces Dr. F. A. Williams,
currently on a one-year leave as a
visiting professor at the University
of Khartoum in Khartoum, Sudan,
Africa. Upon his return to this
country, Dr. Williams will assume
the newly-created post, director of
Extended Services.
REGISTRAR
Mr. William H. Gamble, dean of
men since 1940, is the new director
of admissions. A 1939 graduate of
the College, Mr. Gamble served for
one year as recorder in the office
of the registrar. He succeeds Mr.
Alumni Club
Sponsors Excursion
Back To College
The A&T College Alumni Club
of Philadelphia is sponsoring a
train excursion to Greensboro for
the A&T College homecoming celebration October 14-15.
The train will leave Philadelphia
on Friday, October 13 at 9:17 P.
M., and will return early Monday
morning.
The excursionists will attend a
special coffee hour, witness the
A&T College-Maryland State College Hawks football game, attend
the annual homecoming ball, both
on Saturday, a closing worship
service, and visit about the campus and city on Sunday afternoon.
Eugene H. Preston is president
of the Club.
C. R. A. Cunningham who returns
to his former position as associate
professor of biology.
DEAN OF MEN
Mr. Jimmie I. Barber, a former
assistant dean of men and director
of placement for the past two
years, is dean of men. He graduated from A&T College in 1957
and holds the Master of Science
degree in guidance and personnel
administration from New York
University.
Mr. W. I. Morris of Burlington,
a former public school teacher,
principal and field representative
for the North Carolina Teachers
Association, was named the new
director of placement. A 1933 graduate of A&T College, he holds the
M.S. degree from New York University and has done further study
at Harvard and Purdue Universities.
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Raymond   Crump
Accepts   Post
In   California
Raymond Crump, a 1959 A&T
College graduate, recently accepted a post with the Engineering Department of the North American
Aviation Corporation in Los Angeles, California.
Crump will do research work for
the aircraft firm in its electrical
laboratories. He will be working
with a company which pioneered
and developed the F-100 Saber jets,
the X-15 research rockets, and
power plants for the Atlas Thor,
and Jupiter Inter-Continental Ballistic Missies. North American
Aviation Corporation is now producing the F-h rocket engine
which the United States hopes to
use in sending a man to the moon
and back.
For the past two years, Crump
has been an instructor in the
Physics laboratories at the College
of Engineering of New York University. While at NYU, he pursued
studies leading to the Master of
Science degree.
As a student at A&T, Crump actively engaged in debating and was
associate editor of THE REGISTER.
Proctor Praises
Land Grant
College Idea
Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, president
of the college, delivered the main
address at the fall convocation in
Moore gymnasium Tuesday, September 26.
Speaking from the subject,
"Democracy In Education — The
Land-Grant College Idea," he told
the capacity audience that these
colleges and universities have
brought democracy into education
PROGRAM SETS STAGE
The program was intended to set
the stage for the A&T celebration
of the Land-Grant College and
University Centennial being observed during the 1961-62 academic
year by similar institutions
throughout the nation.
"First," he said, "the Land-
Grant college and university idea
has brought democracy into education by destroying the notion that
only the children of the "first families" should be educated and by
spreading higher education over
the whole population."
HOLDS UMBRELLA
He said the idea also includes
wider areas of activity and interest and the Land-Grant college now
"holds the umbrella of learning
over every field."
"Finally," he said, "without saying it, this movement was designed
also to level-off opportunity and to
give more and more Americans a
chance at equality."
SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE
"The Land-Grant movement has
had special significance to the
American Negro in that it has
brought to him a part of an underprivileged group at low cost, "the
biggest education bargain," the
world has ever known," said the
speaker.
NEGRO ACHIEVEMENTS
Pointing with pride to the
achievements of Negroes, products
of the Land-Grant college and university, Dr. Proctor told the audience to look at the results. We
have not only a vanguard of professionals, but we have developed
what every strong people must
have .... a growing middle class
of merchants, artisians, technicians, specialists, engineers, accountants and social workers."
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New Science
Grant Given
To College
A&T College this week was
awarded a Federal Health Research Facilities grant of more
than $88,000 to underwrite added
construction and equipment costs
for a proposed annex to its chemistry building.
The grant, authorized by the
surgeon general of the National Institutes of Health, Washington, was announced Thursday
by Dale R. Lindsay, chief, Division
of Research Grants.
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Sophomores enrolled total 566
with 402 men students and 164
women.
Seniors rank third with 441, and
juniors are fourth with 370.
Part time students are 121, with
63 men and 58 women.
The freshman class this year exceeded last year's by approximately 374. This increased enrollment
brought a new picture to the housing problem. Dormitories were
crowded early.
For the first time in several
years, it was necessary to assign
students living quarters in the basement of Scott Hall.
DORMS FULL
Holland Hall, normally holding
all of the freshman girls was filled
early Sunday with the overflow
filling Curtis Hall by Monday afternoon.
The freshmen engaged in a
veeklong orientation program.
They received physical examinations, took English and mathematics placement test and engaged
in other activities.
They were entertained at an all-
freshman party, the President's
reception, and a regular weekly
movie.
FRESHMAN WORSHIP
Another highlight was the annual
Freshman Worship Service.
The speaker was Reverend Cleo
M. McCoy, director of the Chapel
who delivered the sermon at the
annual Freshman Service on Sunday evening.
Speaking from, the subject
"What Do You Have in Your
Hand?" he said, "You are living
h a grand and awful time, an age
in which the wonders of science
and nuclear power are becoming
understandable, and one fraught
with the international and political
tensions."
He listed four opportunities which
face the college student today, including: being aware of the various
resources available in the college
community for intellectual, moral
and spiritual development; the opportunity to prove that college-age
youth are mature enough to face
iup to their duties and responsibilities; to realize that conformity is
not necessarily a virtue, or good,
and to strive for the "high way,"
rather than the "low way" of life."
Bond Election
Will Provide
Student Union
The Bond Issue Election that
will take place in North Carolina
on November 7, includes provisions
of more than $30,000,000 for facilities in higher education. A&T
stands to gain better than $1,500,-
000 from this Bond Issue if the vote
is favorable.
Included in the funds for A&T
will be money to be used in the
proposed purchase of the Lutheran
College property. A&T has not
bought that property; however, in
as much as Lutheran College is no
longer operating, the A&T administration is hopeful of annexing this
land and these buildings (especially the gymnasium) to A&T's
campus.
This purchase can be offered
only through funds provided by the
Bond Issue.
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