The Register, 1964-04-24

              College   Lists   177   Prospective   Graduates
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A coUege president and a national executive of two Young Men's
Christian Association wiU deliver
principal messages at the 73rd annual commencement exercises for
A&T CoUege, set for Sunday, May
24, and Saturday, May 30.
Dr. Charles Wesley, president of
Central State CoUege, WUberforce,
Ohio, wUl dehver the commencement address. The finals program
is scheduled for May 30 at 3:00
p.m. the Greensboro CoUseum.
The noted educator and historian
is a graduate of Fisk University,
holds the M.A. degree from Yale
University, and the Ph.D. degree
from Harvard University. He has
been president of Central State
since 1942.
The finals will draw to a close a
week long program of activities
which begin with the annual baccalaureate services Sunday, May
24, 1964.
Baccalaureate services, set for
Charles Moore Gymnasium, beginning at 11:00 A.M., will feature the
sermon by Dr. Matthew G. Carter
ol New York. Dr. Carter is assistant director of the association
press for the National Board of the
Y.M.C.A.
Other programs include the annual joint concert by the coUege
choir and symphony band on the
front lawn of the campus and the
President's reception for graduates, alumni and friends.
A total of 177 seniors have been
Usted as prospective graduates,
according to information released
recently by the Office of Adminis-
sions.
The Ust includes prospective
candidates for the bachelor of
science degree from the four
schools of the coUege and the Technical Institute.
Included on the Ust are sixty-one
students from the School of Education and General Studies and the
same number from the School of
Engineering. Thirty-two students
from the School of Agriculture,
thirteen from the school of Nursing, and ten from the Technical
Institute were also Usted.
Prospective graduates from the
School of Agriculture are MUton
Algood, WiUiam E. Baptiste, Jr.,
Claude  I.  Barrant,  Shirley Ann
BeU, John A. Best, Doris Evelyn
Canada, James P. Chapman, Ronald K. Dixon, Patricia Ann Farr,
Thelma Jean Feaster, and Alonzo
Flowers, Jr.
Bettie Louis Godfrey, Larry T.
Graddy, Thomasena C. Harris,
Ronald O. Host, George D. HiU,
Audrey Elaine Holt, Anne T. Howell, Wallace Davis Hughes, Fleming A. Innis, Dorothy L. Gooch, and
Michael L. Luther.
Also Peggie Ann Martin, Barbara
Jean Norfleet, Richard D. Robbins,
Sandy L. Royster, Doris Ann Shoffner, Robert Everett Stokes, Clementine Thompson, Martha O. Wallington, Matthew WiUiams, Jr., and
Sedley A. WUUams.
Students from the School of Education and General Studies are
Alvis D. Alston, Minnie Lee Baker,
Cary Pittman BeU, Mary Ann
Bloomfield, Lorraine Brown, Thomasine Corbett Brown, Nadine J.
Burrell, Edward Leon CampbeU,
Frank Cherry, Thomas Edward
Conley, Joseph N. Cox, Rodney J.
Davis, WUUam E. Davis, Jr.
Gloria Jean Debnam, Voneree
Deloatch, Davetta Kaie Florance,
Mattie Lee Forbes, CorneU FuUer,
Naomi B. Glover, Stanley D. Grady, Jr., MizeU Hawkins, Ada Jane
Howard, Clarence A. Howard, CeUa
M. Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson,
Lokie Kee, Jr., Calvin Rudolph
Lang and Earl H. McClenney, Jr.
Also Margaret Ann Martin, Pear-
lee A. Mauney, WiUie J. Mooring,
Jr., Robert Tyronne Patterson, Aly-
cia L. Pendergrast, Van Hazel
Pridgen, Bertha Denita Reynolds,
Shirley Temple Ricks, Robert L.
Riddick, WUson RoUand Robinson,
Renouard Alkin Sanders, Beverly
G. Scales, James H. Shelton, Jr.,
Hortense H. Shelton, Ralph K.
Shelton and LueUen Sinclair.
In addition, Gertie Young Smith,
Delois Spruill, Carl L. Stanford,
Ann CeceUa Staples, George L.
Starks, Jr., Harvey L. Stone, Alton
L. Swann, WUbert B. SwindeU,
Berkley G. Tatum, Mary Irene
Taylor, WUUam L. Thornton, Robert E. Urquhart, Melvin Williams,
Veloris Jean WUUams, Andrew
WiUis, Dewey Wilson, and Nazar
Wright, Jr.
Prospective graduates from the
School of Engineering are Winser
E. Alexander, Annie M. Anderson,
Charles Harris Bates, Cambrie Battle, Jr., Charles BeU, Louis Melvin
Bell, Ronald R. Booker, EarlCarly-
le Brown, Joseph Ray Burnett,
Thomasena Clay, Janece Iva Coley,
Christine Crutchfield, Anthony A.
Dudley, Althea Maxine EUiot,
Johnny L. Ervin.
Herman H. Faucette, Jr., LiUie
M. Foreman, Maurice A. Harris,
Marion Harrison, Jr., Harold C.
Hicks, Vivian Delores Hughes, Jerry Lee Hunter, James W. Ingram,
Nancy Carol Ingram, Annie G.
Jacobs, WiUie E. Jacobs, Nathan
E. Johnson, Sylvester Johnson,
Eula Jones, WiUie Hugene Jones,
Gaston J. Little, Walter Norman
Little, Hazel N. Lyles, BaUus Mc-
Adams.
Eddie Frank McClendon, McLes-
ter J. McKee, Thomas E. Mc-
Laurin, Jr., NoveUa Aldridge Madison, Eleanor Janet Mason, MUes
J. Patterson, Catherine Sylvia
Ramsey, Sara B. Rearden, Cato
Larry Reaves, Leno Regan, Rubye
McCain   Reid,   Roosevelt   RoUins,
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VOLUME XXXV, No. 24     APRIL 24, 1964      GREENSBORO, N. C.
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'The Cream of College News"
Arna Bontemps, left, noted noveUst of NashvUle, Tenn., who spoke last
week at A&T CoUege, Greensboro, talks with Dr. Darwin T. Turner,
professor and chairman of the A&T Department of English. Bontemps
deUvered several lectures from the title of his new book, "American
Negro Poetry."
Bontemps, Concert, Drama Top
Humanities Week Observance
Reading of original poetry by a
leading writer, a concert by a Baroque chamber quartet, and the
Richard B. Harrison Players' production of EMPEROR JONES were
highUghts in the coUege's recent
Humanities Week.
Speaking at a Tuesday morning
assembly, Arna Bontemps told
members of the A&T community
that the modern Negro writer faces
a big chaUenge. He used as his
subject "American Negro Poetry."
"The challenge of the Negro
writer in the second century of
freedom," he said "is to attempt to
consolidate in the heart of his
reader what has been won in the
mind."
Bontemps also made an appearance at a session sponsored by the
Fortnightly and Stylus Clubs The
poet read original poems from his
works and engaged in a general
discussion.
The week has gotten under way
with a  concert by the Baroque
Chamber Players of Indiana University. Composed of a flutist, oboist, celUst, and harpsichordist, the
group performed in Harrison Auditorium, to commence the week Ibng
activities.
The group featured selections by
J. S. Bach, George PhiUip Tele-
man, Domenico Scarlatti, and Jean
Marie Leclair.
Members of the group, aU members of the faculty at Indiana University, are James PeUerite, flute;
Jerry Sirucek, oboe; Leopold Teraspulsky, ceUo; and John White,
harpsichord.
Members of the group also presented master classes in music and
humanities on the relationship of
literature to French and Italian
forms of the fourtenth century.
James Pettiford, a junior from
Creedmoor handled the lead role
in  the  production    of    Emperor
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City Announces
Jobs Available
For Engineers
The city of Greensboro has announced that it has present openings for graduate engineers and
anticipates vacancies in other
fields of speciaUzation during the
coming year. Announcement of
the openings was made in a letter
from Mrs. Ruth Cowan, city Personnel Supervisor.
Typical duties for graduate engineers include acting as survey
party chief on lengthy or involved
projects, establishing line, grade
and design for streets, sewers, and
water lines, with a view toward
present needs and future extension,
and designing small reinforced concrete and structural steel structures.
A graduate engineer would also
inspect work performed by private
contractors on the construction and
maintenance of pubUc works projects and measure work against
project specifications to insure that
the completed work is properly
done.
The beginning salary for the position is $488 per month with a five
per cent automatic increase at the
end of the first year. Another five
per cent increase is made at the
end of the second year. The maximum estabUshed for the position is
presently $593 per month.
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Seniors Scores
For GRE Tests
Are Announced
A&T CoUege seniors who took
the Graduate Record Examination
and desire to know how they compared with other seniors at A&T
and other institutions across the
nation may find out by consulting
their departmental chairmen or
the Guidance Center, according to
Mrs. Ruth Gore, director of testing
on this campus.
Mrs. Gore, who recently released
a special report describing the performance of A&T CoUege seniors,
reported that scores would be interpreted according to national as weU
as local norms.
According to Mrs. Gore's report,
students in English, engineering,
and chemistry had better performances on the test. The highest
average score as a group was recorded by English majors, whUe
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RB Harrison Players Will Host
Dramatic And Speech Arts Meet
The Richard B. Harrison Players will be hosts to the annual conference of the National Association of Dramatic and
Speech Arts (NADSA) May 14-16, 1964 at A&T College.
NADSA is an organization composed of high schools,
colleges, and universities in the East, South and Midwest.
Once a year the representatives from the member schools
convene to discuss current findings in the areas, of dramatics
and speech. There are also lectures, demonstrations and work-
      shops in the technical theatre and
Three Students
Are Selected
For Research
Three juniors have been selected
to receive stipends for undergraduate research participation in a
program in nutrition in the Department of Home Economics. A grant
of $6,070 has been made by National Science Foundation to support this program, it was announced by President L. C. Dowdy.
The participants in the summer
program wUl be James MitcheU,
from Durham, majoring in chemistry; Alice Kea, from Tarboro;
majoring in foods and nutrition;
and Gloria Brooks, from James-
ville, majoring in foods and nutrition. All wiU be seniors at the close
of this academic year.
The summer stipends include
$480 for an eight - week period
plus equipment and suppUes for
their individual research. The
program wiU be held from June 8
through July 31st.
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speech improvement. AU events
will be centered around the theme:
The Theatre: Our ReflecteiTImage.
The three-day meet wiU feature
a high school and a coUege play
festival. Two experimental productions, "The One-way Window"
by Stephen Foreman, a senior at
Morgan State CoUege, and "The
Limbo Tree" by H. P. Caple of
West Charlotte High School in Charlotte wiU be presented. "The Rubicon" by James Pettiford, an A&T
student, wUl also be submitted for
judging.
Other conference events wiU include a specimen debate between
Howard University and Morgan
State College and a speech contest.
Lectures in the various aspects of
the theatre wiU also be conducted.
William Stock, technical director
of the Pfeiffer College Playmakers,
wUl give a lecture-demonstration
in the art of stage lighting. Miss
Claudia Finger, director of drama,
Bennett CoUege, wUl be the consultant for the session on acting techniques. The consultant for the session
on original innovations in the technical    theatre    wiU    be    Donald
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James K. PeUevite and Leopold Teraspulsky, members of the Baroque
Chamber Players talk with Rene Price, Elizabeth City and Mary Ferree,
Randleman, following a Concert here.