The Register, 1962-05-11

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VOLUVE XXXIII, No 14       GREENSBORO, N. C.        MAY 11, 1962
'The Cream of College News"
Commencement
Activities
Are June 2
A United Nations mediator, who
has his "roots" in North Carolina,
will deliver the address at the 71st
annual commencement of A&T College.
Dr. Frank P. Graham, United
Nations representative for India
and Pakistan, will speak at the
A&T College finals set for the
Greensboro Coliseum on Saturday
afternoon, June 2 at 3:00 P.M.
Nearly 400 graduates will receive degrees and certificates at
the occasion.
A former professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Dr. Graham served as president of the University from 1930-
1949, and as U. S. Senator from
the State, 1949-1950. Prior to assuming his present post in 1951,
he had served as the first chairman of the Board of the Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Research and
as defense manpower administrator in the U. S. Department of
Labor.
The A&T College commencement activities will begin with the
baccalaureate service on Sunday,
May 27, at the Charles Moore Gymnasium beginning at 11:00 A.M.
Reverend James Kelly, personnel
dean at West Virginia State College, Institute, West Virginia, will
deliver the sermon.
Later that afternoon, a joint concert by the A&T College Choir and
Symphony Band has been scheduled for Dudley Lawn beginning at
5:30 P.M., and the President's Reception will follow at Cooper Hall,
beginning at 7:00 P.M.
The annual Alumni Dinner will
be held on Friday evening, June 1,
and the annual meeting of the
A&T College General Alumni Association has been set for Carver
Hall on Saturday, June 2, beginning at 9:00 A.M.
100 Are Listed
As Prospective
Graduates
A recent list published by the
director of admissions indicates
that at the present time there are
one hundred prospective June
graduates.
This list is to be supplemented
by another list which will include
other students who will also graduate in June but must first check
with the Admissions Office.
To date those included on the
list of prospective graduates are
James A. Adams, Annie Baldwin,
Ilka C. Bowditch, Joe F. Bryant,
Sophia B. Cherry, Adolphus M.
Coward, Jr., Arnold L. Davis,
Pearl D. Douce, Mary L. Dudley,
Linnia D. Fennell, Robert L. Galloway, Glenn L. Gore, Jimmie L.
Hall.
Also included are Chapin Horton,
Jerome Ingram, Harvey G. Keaton, Walter L. Matthews, Robert
A. McLean, Glenda C. Mitchiner,
Robert E. Muldrow, Madie R.
Oliver, Ralph H. Parker, Eva M.
Poole, Henry H. Richardson, Bobby E. Rogers, Susan Hall Ruffin,
Raymond E. Shipman, Annie J.
Staton, Laura J. Thomas, Joseph
M. Twitty.
Others are Lois A. Adamson,
Richard E. Barber, Charles S.
Breeden, Cora Burton, George H.
Clemons, Jacqueline Crittenden.
LaVerne E. M. Davis, Maurice D.
Drake, Marian D. Eason, Mohammed S. Fofana, Margaret E. Garrett, Mae Ellen Greene, Lillie M.
Harding, J. Herbert Howell, Helen
M. Jenkins
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Ensign
At A&T McNeill enjoys membership in the mathematics club.
McNEILL  TAKES  OATH  AS   OFFICER   CANDIDATE.
James McNeill To Receive
Commission As
James A. McNeill, an engineering mathematics students at A&T
College recently qualified and enlisted as a naval aviation officer
candidate.
McNeill, a senior will depart for
naval school, Pensacola, Florida,
after he graduates in June.
Upon completion of his pre-
flight training, McNeill will be
commissioned as an ensign in the
United States Naval Reserve. He
will continue as a pilot trainee or
in one of the specialty fields in
naval aviation.
In selecting his specialty, McNeill
will have an opportunity to choose
from navigator, navigator bom-
bardies, radar interceptor operator, electrical counter measure
operator, aviation intelligence,
maintenance or electronics.
George Gant
Is Awarded
Assistantship
George Gant, a graduating senior in chemistry, has been awarded an assistantship by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska. The assistantship will provide Gant with $1800 plus his tuition and all fees.
A native of Greensboro and a
graduate of James B. Dudley High
School, Gant has been very active
in student affairs. He has served
as vice-president of the sophomore
class, and treasurer and vice-president of the Student Government.
He has also served as vice-president of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and president of the Alpha
Kappa Mu Honor Society. For the
past two years Gant has been listed in Who's Who in American College and Universities.
At the University of Nebraska,
Gant will study toward the Ph.D.
degree in Inorganic Chemistry.
GEORGE GANT
A&T College
Celebrates
Mothers' Day
A&T College students will have
their parents as guests here for
the annual Mother's Day celebration Sunday,  May 13.
More than 1,000 mothers are expected for the program scheduled
for the full day. W. H. Gamble,
director of admissions and chairman of the committee on arrangements, said that responses to invitations have arrived at a rapid
pace. The idea, a turn around
from the usual when student formerly went home to see their parents, was begun 15 years ago. It
has grown in popularity year by
year.
The day's activities get underway with a special worship service
set for Harrison Auditorium beginning at 11:00 A.M.
Dr. L. H. Pitts, president of
Miles College, Birmingham, Ala.,
will deliver the sermon. A former
teacher, minister and social worker, Dr. Pitts has served as executive secretary of the Georgia State
Teachers Association, director of
youth activities in the Georgia
Conference of the C.M.E. Church,
and field representative of Paine
College, Augusta, Georgia.
On the same program, Mrs. E.
X. Sanders of Raleigh, "Mother of
the year" will be accorded special honors during the remainder of the day. The A&T choir and
symphony band will render several
numbers to round out the program.
Other features for the day include a formal review of Air Force
and Army ROTC cadets, honoring
the parents, the annual Mother's
day luncheon and an "Open House"
to the visitors.
English Major
Receives Award
For Poetry
George Raleigh, a sophomore
English major from Greensboro,
recently became the first recipient
of the Woodruff Poetry Award presented by the College Language
Association.
Raleigh's poem "Landscape"
earned first prize in the 1961-62
College Language Association
Creative Writing contest. The prize
itself was fifty dollars.
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Ezell Blair, Jr. Is Elected
Student Body President
Rosebud Is Miss A&T
Dean And Dudley
Number Of Votes
Dr. Williams
Comes Home
On Leave
Dr. F. A. Williams, former dean
of the graduate school, recently returned to Greensboro on annual
leave. Dr. Williams was granted a
leave of absence last year in order
to accept a teaching assignment
in Central Africa.
Working under a cooperative arrangement between the Smith-
Mundt Program and the Republic
of Sudan, Dr. Williams is presently visiting professor of economics
at the University of Khartoum,
Khartoum, Republic of the Sudan
Africa. He has been granted a
leave of an additional year.
A distinguished graduate of A&T
College, Dr. Williams received his
M.S. Degree from Michigan State
University and the Ph.D. Degree
from the University of Wisconsin.
He holds a doctorate in the field of
Land Economics.
Among his numerous awards have
been a General Education Board
Fellowship; a fellowship to Case
Institute of Technology; and a
special travel grant from the Social Science Research Council.
Dr. Williams is a member of
Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society,
Beta Kappa Chi, Sigma Rho Sigma, Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity, and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He is listed in Who's Who
in American Education, Who's Who
in Colored America and Who's
Who in the South and Southwest.
Dr. Williams plans to return to
Africa July 1 for an additional
year.
Harold H. Webb, a 1948 graduate
of A&T College and principal of
the Cedar Grove, N. C, Elementary School, has been named science education supervisor of the
North Carolina Department of
Public  Instruction,   Raleigh.
The new position, supported by
the National Defense Education
Act, will be filled by Webb effective July 1.
Webb was just recently named a
member of the Orange County
Board of Public Welfare.
Receive Highest
For Other Posts
Late Wednesday night four students were notified that they had
been chosen to head the A&T College student body for the coming
year.
Without challenge, Ezell Blair
walked into the office of President
of the Student Body while Rosebud Richardson was proclaimed
the new Miss A&T by a margin of
more than two to one.
Shirley Dean, a favorite in the
race for vice-president of the student government, came into office
without much threat except from
Cary Bell who bowed to her by
seventy' votes.
Anthony Dudley came into the
office of treasurer with approximately a hundred more votes than
his next opponent.
Blair, an applied sociology major from Greensboro, is president
of the junior class and has served
as president of the NAACP. He
has been an active member of the
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the
student government. He was one
of the four freshmen who initiated
the "Sit-Down," February 1, 1960.
Rosebud, also an applied sociology major, is a native of Wilmington. She has been active as a mem-
ber of the Fellowship Council and
the Student Adjustment Committee. She is also a member of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Shirley Dean, a business administration major, is vice-president of the sophomore class and
a member of the cheering squad.
She has served for two years as a
member of the College Council.
Dudley, another business administration student who lists his
home as Morehead City, is secretary of the sophomore class and a
member of the Veterans' Association. He also holds membership in
the Newman Club and the Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternity.
Other candidates running for the
offices were Lucinda Rodgers
Minnie Ruffin, Claude Airall, Cary
Bell. Trevor Salmon, and Larry
Graddy.
Drama Group ^
To Present (|
"Craig's Wife"
The Richard B. Harrison Players
nf A&T College will stage "Craig's
Wife," a three-act drama by
George Kelly, as its annual spring
production.
The play will be held at the A&T
College Harrison Auditorium on
two evenings, Wednesday and
Thursday, May 16 and 17, with
curtain time at 8:00 P.M.
Among those handling lead roles,
are: Pattie Cotton and Oscar
Johnson, both of Greensboro; Hortense Hart, Bryant, Fla.; Yvonne
Thorne, Nashville; Janet Sherman,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Gladys and Jean
Roscoe, both of Windsor, N. C.J
Mary Jenkins, Halifax; Dy Anne
Echols; Newport, R. I.; Carrie
Dickens, Henderson; Gaston Little, Winston-Salem; James Wills,
Edenton; James Wilder, Wilmington; Willie Faison, Clinton; James
Witherspoon, Lenoir; and Claude
Barrant, Jamaica, British West
Indies. The play will be under the
direction of Mrs. Sandra Motz, director of dramatics.