The Register, 1965-04-02

              She A.V S.%>Uege
VOLUME XXXVI, No. 24        GREENSBORO, N. C.        APRIL 2, 1965
'The Cream of CoUege News"
President's Inauguration Is Set For Tomorrow
Lt. Gov. Scott
To Head Body
Of Delegates
By MOSES KAMARA
The Lieutenant Governor of the
State of North Carolina, Mr. Robert
W. Scott, will be the state's official
representative when Dr. Lewis
Dowdy is inaugurated as sixth
president of A & T College on Saturday, April 3.
Mr. Scott will head a group of
prominent government and education officials at the inaugural ceremonies which start at 11:00 A.M.
in Charles Moore Gymnasium. The
mayor of Greensboro, Mr. David
Schenck, and Dr. William C.
Archie, director, North Carolina
Board of Higher Education will
join the lieutenant governor on the
official platform.
More than 200 official representatives from leading colleges and
universities all over the nation,
civic, religious and educational organizations will also attend the
event.
The main speaker at the inaugural ceremonies is Dr. Raymond
C. Gibson, professor and chairman
of the Division of Higher Education at Indiana University.
The inauguration of Dr. Dowdy
comes one week prior to the first
anniversary of his appointment as
president of the college. He assumed the post on April 10, 1964,
foUowing the resignation of Dr
Samuel D. Proctor, who had held
the position since 1960.
Several social activities were
scheduled as part of the inaugural
activities. Mr. and Mrs. Dowdy
were dinner hosts to junior and
senior students on March 30, and
to freshmen and sophomores on
March 31.
A pre-inaugural ball will be held
to night beginning at 10:00.
Other activities include a guard
of honor for the president by student cadets of the Air Force and
Army ROTC Detachments on Saturday, April 3, at 9:30 A.M., the
President's Reception to be held at
the Oaks at 3 P.M.
Immediately following the inauguration, a luncheon will be held
in Murphy Hall, and it will feature
a main address by Mr. Asa T.
Spaulding, president of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
Inaugural   Events
Saturday,   April   3
Saturday, April 3, 1965
8:00-10:00 A.M.
Registration of Delegates and
Guests
Coffee Hour
Cooper Hall Recreation Room
9:30 -10:30 A.M.
R. O. T. C. Parade and Review
Parade Ground - North Campus
9:30-10:00 A.M.
Robing of Representatives
Cooper Hall Recreation Room
10:00-10:30 A.M.
Formation of the Inaugural
Procession
11:00 A.M.
Inaugural Exercises
Moore Gymnasium
1:00 P.M.
Luncheon for Offical Representatives and Special Guests —
Murphy Hall
3:00 P.M.
The President's Reception
Cooper Hall
President Lewis Carnegie Dowdy
A&T College's sixth president
will be formally installed April 3,
just one week prior to the first
anniversary of his assumption of
the duties of institution head.
An experienced educator and
administrator, Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy
will be inaugurated at 11:00 tomorrow morning in ceremonies in
Charles Moore Gymnasium.
The 47 year old president, a native of Eastover, South Carolina, is
a graduate of Allen University
where he finished cum laude. He
received the M. A. degree from
Indiana State College, and is presently a candidate for the doctorate
degree at Indiana University. Dr.
Dowdy holds an honorary degree,
Lift. D., from his alma mater,
Allen University.
Dr. Dowdy has been at A & T
since 1951, having first come to the
institution as the director of student teaching. For four years he
served as dean of the School of
Education and General Studies and
for two years as dean of instruction. He served as acting president
twenty months between 1961 and
1963 while his predecessor, Dr.
Samuel D. Proctor, filled a Peace
Corps assignment.
Prior to coming to A & T, President Dowdy worked in the public
school system of South Carolina.
For seven years he was a principal
in two South Carolina schools. He
had also been a supervising principal and a teacher of English and
French at Winnsboro High School
in Winnsboro, South Carolina.
The president holds several appointments: professional, civic and
religious. He is a member of the
following commissions, councils
and committees: Advisory Committee on Nursing Education;
North Carolina Board of Higher
Education; Community College Advisory Council, North Carolina
Board of Education; North Carolina  Film  Board;  North Carolina
State Teacher Education Evaluation Committee; North Carolina
Council on Human Relations; Committee on Educational Program of
the Piedmont University Center of
North Carolina; Greensboro Library Planning Committee; and
Greensboro Good Neighbor Council.
Among the numerous professional organizations of which he is
a member are the National Education Association; North Carolina
Teachers Association; Secretary,
Division of Arts and Sciences; The
American Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges;
Kappa Delta Pi International Honor
Society in Education; and Vice-
chairman, Section of Public Institutions, Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools.
His membership in religious,
civic and social groups include
the Hayes-Taylor; YMCA; Deacon,
Providence Baptist Church, Greensboro; Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,
Incorporated, and Greensboro
Men's Club.
Over forty of President Dowdy's
relatives are expected to attend the
inauguration.
Dr. R. C. Gibson
Will Deliver
Main Address
Dr. Raymond C. Gibson, professor and chairman of the Division of Higher Education at Indiana
University, will be the main speaker when Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy is inaugurated as the sixth president
of A & T CoUege on AprU 3.
Dr. Gibson, a noted educator,
has studied and worked at every
level of American education. A
product of rural Kentucky, he received the B. A. degree in 1932 and
M. A. in 1936 from Western Kentucky State College, Bowling
Green, Kentucky and the Ph. D. at
the University of Wisconsin in 1944.
His areas of specialization were
EngUsh and mathematics as an
undergraduate, and School Administration and Political Science as a
graduate student.
For five years Dr. Gibson served
with the United States Government; two years under the State
Department, 1950-52, as Director of
the U. S. Education Mission to
Peru where he was instrumental
in planning and building the first
modern, degree-granting teachers
coUege in Latin America; he spent
one academic year in ThaUand
where he co-ordinated the planning
of a modern coUege of education
in 1953, and directed a study concerning the reorganization of
Chulaloungkorn University in 1956.
For three years, he was Director of Education Missions Branch,
U. S. Office of Education where he
was responsible for program development and recruitment of personnel to serve in the United States
Education missions in 35 countries.
He was awarded the distinguished service decoration, the highest
civUian decoration by the Peruvian
Government.
Professor Gibson went to Indiana
University in 1955 where he has developed the department of Higher
Education from which 35 students
have already received doctoral degrees.
He directed the statewide study
on "Resources and Needs for Higher Education" in Iowa, in 1959 and
1960 and did a similar study in
Missouri in 1962. He is currently a
special consultant to two coUege
presidents in the Middle-west and
consultant to the Board of Trustees
and the Rector of the University of
Lima in Peru.
Dr. Gibson's work and travels
have taken him to twenty-six countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin
America and AustraUa.
He is an author of a number of
books and other pubUcations.
Inaugural  Events
Friday, April 2,1965
Friday, April 2, 1965
3:00-5:00 P.M.
Dr.  and Mrs. Lewis C.  Dowdy
wiU be at Home to Delegates and
Guests
The Oaks
6:00-10:00 P.M.
Registration   of   Delegates   and
Guests
Cooper HaU Recreation Room
10:00 P.M. -1:00 A.M.
Pre-Inaugural BaU
Moore Gymnasium