The Register, 1963-02-20

              VOLUME XXXIV No. 19   GREENSBORO, N. C.   FEBRUARY 20, 1963
'The Cream of CoUege News'
Local Rabbi
Is Speaker
At Vespers
By DELORES WEBB
Rabbi F. I. Rypins, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanuel was the
keynote speaker for the Brotherhood Week celebrations being held
at the college this week.
At the regular vespers services
Sunday evening, Rabbi Rypins told
an audience that people from foreign countries can come to America from such countries as Germany, China, and Russia and live
together as neighbors, friends and
even brothers. Rabbi Rypins told
the audience that the reason for
this is that men like Jefferson and
the other forefathers of this country based it principles on the belief that there should be respect
for the dignity of man. Giving a
second reason, the Rabbi pointed
out that men came here to worship
God as they saw fit, and this was a
bond of unity between them.
He further stated that the desire
of the ordinary man is good human
relations and accordingly, we the
people of good will should join
together to create a climate of
brotherhood.
Throughout his address, Rabbi
Rypins concerned himself with the
development of better human relations over the period of our country's development with emphasis
on the situations of today.
Actively engaged in programs of
the Greensboro Minister's Fellowship, and National Conference of
Christians and Jews, Rabbi Rypins
has lived in Greensboro for more
than thirty years and has been a
very progressive individual in
civic activities. He has also concerned himself with the improvement of race relations in the
Greensboro Area.
New Program
To Be Slated
For AFROTC
Legislation to authorize major
changes in the USAF Reserve Officers Training Corps program is
expected to reach Congress this
month. It will call for a two-year
on-campus program with a $2200
scholarship and will be known as
the Officer Education Program.
If the authorizing legislation is
enacted this year by Congress, the
local Air Force ROTC unit at A&T
College will convert to the new program beginning with school year
1964-65; and dropping Air Science
1 (freshman year training) and
Air Science 2 (sophomore year
training) beginning school year
1965-66. The college's Air Force
ROTC program would be on an
entirely voluntary basis beginning
in September, 1965. Scholarship
payments would begin for all advanced cadets upon enrollment in
September 1964.
The Air Force has been serving
as executive agent for the Defense
Department in the development of
the legislative proposals which will
affect its Reserve Officers Training Corps units as 187 colleges and
universities in all but three of the
fiftv states
Air Force ROTC is still the largest single officer procurement
program in operation in the Ait
Force at the present time.
Its purpose, set forth in the provisions of the National Defense Act
of 1916, has been to select, educate
and motivate large numbers of
college trained officers for an inactive reserve force.
In recent years a gradual shifting from the initial requirement to
produce officers for the inactive
reserve has taken place. Today's
requirement, and the requirement
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Rev. Charles Jones Will Speak
For Tuesday Morning Chapel
Dr. Dowdy Names
Honors Program
Committee
Donors kept coming to donate blood even though bottles gave out.
Cooper Hall Recreation Room
Is Station For Blood Donation
"Have you ever donated blood before?"
"NO."
"Well this won't hurt at all."
This dialogue was one which was
commonly heard in the recreation
room of Cooper Hall when the Red
Cross Bloodmobile made its annual visit to the college.
Although it drizzled for most of
the day, more than three hundred
members of the Aggie family showed up to participate in the blood
donor program.
An acutal count showed 252 pints
donated. Approximately twenty-
five potential donors were turned
back for medical or physical reasons and another twenty-five were
turned back when the unit was
forced to close when it ran out of
bottles.
The ROTC accounted for the bulk
of the blood donated. One hundred
eighty-two pints or 72 percent was
donated by the cadets. Army
cadets accounted for 127 pints and
Air Force cadets accounted for 55
pints.
As the unit donating the highest
number of pints, the Army will receive a five point bonus towards
field day competition. For donating
the highest amount among the individual Army units, Company A
has received an excuse for drill for
one week. All donors were granted
a two hour excuse from classes.
The bloodmobile visited the
campus as a part of the Piedmont
Carolinas Regional Blood Program.
Established in September, 1948, the
program collects, processes, and
distributes blood to meet the needs
of patients in hospitals served by
the program.
A person donating blood will receive a card which entitles him and
his immediate family and dependents to receive blood as needed for
a period of six months after the
date of the donation.
Major William Goode, professor
of Military Science, served as
campus chairman of the blood
bank program.
"Magnificent Obsession" Is Drama
For Spring Quarter Production
By GLORIA BROOKS
The Harrison Players, under the
direction of Mrs. Sandra B. Motz,
will present the play "Magnificent
Obsession" at 8:00 P.M. March 21
and 22, in Harrison Auditorium.
"Magnificent Obsession," a
drama in three acts, is based on the
novel by Lloyd C. Douglass and
dramatized by Frank Vreeland.
Dr. Hudson, who drowns while
swimming, could have been saved
if Bobby Merrick had not been
using the inhalator. Mrs. Hudson
blames Bobby for her husband's
death; therefore, Bobby decides
to take Dr. Hudson's place in the
world of brain surgery. He becomes a specialist and wins the
confidence of Mrs. Hudson-
The cast consists of the following ; Martha who is played by Jan-
nett Sherman, a sophomore business education major from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Nancy Ash-
ford, Hortense Hart, a junior English major from Bryant, Florida;
Helen Hudson, Laura Smith, a junior English major from Greensboro, and Cennette Fisher, a senior
nursing student from Jacksonville.
Dr. Malcolm Pyle will be played
by James Wilder, a sophomore
English major from Wilmington,
Monty Brent, James Witherspoon,
a sophomore from Morganton, and
Gaston Little, a junior business
major from Winston-Salem; Joyce
Hudson, Anna Maria Lima, a
sophomore from Providence, Rhode
Island.
Appearing as Bobby Merrick will
be Harvey Stone, a junior English
major from Graham, and Edson
Blackman, a freshman EngUsh
major from Washington, D. C;
Mrs. Wicks, Ethel Warren, a junior
business administration major from
Greenville, South Carolina; Marion
Dawson, Nellie Feaster, a freshman biology major from Greensboro; and Jack Dawson, Rufus
White, a freshman physics major
from Washington, D. C.
WSTC Players
Will Present
"Sacred Flame"
By JAMES WILDER
The Drama Guild of Winston-
Salem Teachers College will present "The Sacred Flame" by Somerset Maugham in Harrison Auditorium Thursday night at 8 o'clock.
The appearance of the Guild here
tomorrow night is a part of an exchange program conducted by the
Richard B. Harrison Players who
presented "Our Town" in Winston-
Salem during the month of January.
The Harrison players are also
working on an exchange program
with the Drama Group from Morgan State College. Although plans
have not been completed, this performance is scheduled for March
9, and will also be in Harrison
Auditorium.
The play to be presented by the
Morgan group will be "Janus" by
Margaret Greene.
John Marshall Stevenson, director of the Harrison players said
that he is currently working on
exchange programs with several
other colleges in the area. These
colleges include North Carolina
College, Saint Augustine's College,
and Fayetteville State Teachers
College.
By ALOHA PEYTON
A committee to institute an honors program for qualified students
here at A&T College has been appointed by Dr. L. C. Dowdy.
The members of the committee
are Ezell Blair, Rosebud Richardson, Mrs. Anita Rivers, Dr.
Gladys Royal, Mr. S. J. Shaw,
Dr. Juanita Tate, Dr. Darwin Turner, and Dr. Samuel von Wimbush.
An honor program workshop has
been set up in the office of Summer School in Dudley Building.
Students who qualify will be notified to come there for interviews.
Some of the major activities
planned by the committee are a
college wide honors day, seminars
for the students who are to take
part in the program, and possibly
optional living and library accommodations which will provide a
better environment for study. The
program is to be initiated beginning spring quarter of this year.
Doctor Gladys Royal, committee chairman, said that the student
council has submitted a list of
recommendations to the honors
program committee. She invites
additional recommendations from
members of the faculty and student body. Dr. Royal also said,
"The committee wants to emphasize that the activities this year are
pilot efforts on an honors program;
the experiences will be used to
formulate a more exacting program for the coming year."
Undergraduates of all classifications who qualify will be able to
participate in the program.
Rev. Charles Jones, pastor of
the Community Church of Chapel
Hill, will deliver the main address
for the Tuesday morning chapel
services February 27.
Rev. Jones, an outstanding exponent of the principles of integration in our way of life, will discuss
"Significant Issues of Our Times
From the Prospective of Present
and Future Developments in Civil
Rights.'"
Affiliated with the North Carolina Council on Human Relations
Rev. Jones is a staunch supporter
of American Democracy. He exhibited his knowledge and support
of democracy when he defended
democracy and acknowledged certain shortcomings when he testified before the House UnAmerican
Activities Committee in Washington in February of 1960.
On this occasion Reverend Jones
was speaking to the committee on
his role in countering Red propaganda at the Communist sponsored
World Youth Festival in Vienna,
Austria in the summer of 1959.
A capable debater, Reverend
Jones tangled in debate with Paul
Roberson, Jr., causing the son of
the famed Negro singer to repudiate his statement that 18 million
American Negroes are enslaved.
A graduate of Johnson C. Smith
U., Reverend Jones told reporters
from the REGISTER in 1960 that
at the communist sponsored World
Youth Festival in 1959, his delegation raised a doubt in the minds of
the communists themselves about
their own propaganda.
Reverend Jones has visited this
campus several times many of
them coming during his reign as
chairman of the Carolinas-Virginia
Region of the United States National Students Association.
Dr. James B. Cheek, left professor of History of the New Testament at
Virginia Union University, who last week keynoted the A&T College
observance of Negro History Week, talks with other program participants: Dr. M. H. White, professor of history; Reverend A. Knighton
Stanley, director of the Southern Christian Fellowship Foundation, and
Ezell Blair, Jr., president of the Student Government, all of A&T College.
"Negroes Have A Destiny To Be Met"
Says Virginia Union Professor
The American Negro has been
left a heritage and has a destiny
still to be met.
The speaker was Greensboro native Dr. James E. Cheek, professor of history at Virginia Union
University, at Richmond. He was
delivering on Sunday, February 9,
the keynote address at the opening
program of A&T observance of
Negro History Week.
Speaking from the subject —
"For This Nation Under God" Dr.
Cheek said the "new" Negro has
been called to be the "conscience
of this nation," to share in establishing as a reality "this land as a
land of the free and home of the
brave."
He said that the "sit-ins,"
"Stand-ins" and "kneel-ins," which
have enveloped the nation, have
been important instruments in reminding America that it was established as a nation of free men
under a just God.
He said the Negro has, in addition, become a "brave new warrior" and today stands as a new
weapon in man's continuing confrontation of evil with good.
The speaker said the creed by
which the new generation of the
American Negro must fulfill his
destiny lies in the Christian religion.
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