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Langston Receives f-E Accreditation Langston University President
William H. Hale announced
Saturday the full and complete accreditation of the Uni versity by
the National Council f6r Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The official announcement was made by Dr. Rolf W. Larson, Director
of the NCATE Office of Washington,. D.C. The Council is the
National accrediting agency for programs in Teacher Education
offered by Institutions of Higher Education.
Students from accredited Institutions enjoy full faith and credit
in teaching employment in other states. This means that the
employment process of Langston students as teachejs in other states
will be accelerated kince the quality of education received at the
University has the approval of this National accrediting
Council.
Since September 1, 1965, Langston University has had provisional
accreditation by this body. In the fall of 1968, the Institution
was again visited by a Review Committee
;and the results of this recent visitation is the full and com
plete accreditation for the balance of the ten-year period ending
1973-74.
Langston University’s teacher education program pre pares both
elementary and secondary school teachers.
“ We are extrem ely pleased over this good n ew s,” said President
Hale, “ for it means so much to our graduates who plan to enter the
teaching profession. The hard and dedicated work performed by the
faculty in rapidly and markedly improving the University’s entire
program is indeed a latter day m iracle. The faculty and I view
this achievement not as an end, but as further encouragement'^ to
expend all our energies in the great cause of education for our
students.”
Dr. Wall Attends Institute Dr. Ephraim Wall, professor
of Physical Science at Langston University, will be a participant
in the Summer Institute in Modern Physics at the Uni
versity of Maryland. The in stitute is conducted under the
provision of the National Science Foundation.
The participants will work in modern P hysics, with special
application of the quantim mechanics and special re lativity.
Laboratory facilities at Maryland U. Physics Depart ment will
be»,utilized. Prob lem s for study will include the measurement of
the speed of light radioactive decay of Isopophes, and atomic
spectis- copy. A sem inar in methods of teaching Physics is
included.
The Institute w ill start June 33 and close August 15.
MRS. KENDALL IN SPAIN
Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall, in structor of Modern Languages at
Langston University, will return from Spain late in June. She is
attending a two-week work shop in Madrid, Spain.
She left Oklahoma City by plane two weeks ago and visited in London
and P aris before going to Madrid.
Federation Plan* M eet A t Langston
The 59th annual meeting of the Oklahoma State Federation of Colored
W om en’s Clubs will be in sess ion at Langs ton Uni vers ity June
22-2-1.
AH general session-, will be held in Recital Hall of the mvsie
building, Hargrove Hall. The theme i s ' Forward
Together Toward New Horizons of Faith, Friendship, and
Freedom.
Mrs. Elizabeth, Koonts, ,tlf tin Department >f Labor,
Washington, D.C., will be guest sneaker.
Also attending will be im mediate past president Mrs.
Exetta Gorman of Wewoka; national p resident Mrs. Myrtle Allison of
Oklahoma City; Dr. Larzette G. Hale, l irec to ieo f Lang'.ton
Univer sity Public Relations and De velopment.
Dr. Willa Strong, p rinc i pal of I /O vertu re High School at
McAlester is president.
DR. WILLIAM H. HALE, president of Langston U niversity ,(left),
presents Cortez Hamilton a 1969 Lion Yearbook^ The yearbook was
dedicated to the former Langston professor. Hamilton retired in
1962. He s te r t r r l at Mi in 1933 and served as iifofessor and
chairman of the Biology Department. He is a resident ofT anpston.
(LU Photo)
Cluster Meeting
A C luster Plan meeting will be held July 15 at Langston
University. Dr. William H. Hale, p resident at Langston, and Jam es
P. Jones , d irec to r of recru itm ent and placement .for Phillips
Petro leum Co., J i r e / co-chairmen of the executive committee of
the College- Industry C luster P rogram .
Purpose of the C luster Plan is to bring together industry and
educators to provide a
setting for cooperative efforts
for the continued development of the University and improve ment
of communication system for better understanding of each other’s
responsib ilities and in crease employment for minority
graduates.
Plans for Progress designed the Cluster concept to bring to
minority colleges a group effort on the part of business to help
analyze and identify pro gram areas for cooperation.
Xangston University Gazette VOLUME 31 NUMBER 2 LANGSTON UNIVERSITY
, LANGSTON, OKLAHOMA JUNE, 1969
Attending A:rt School Mr. Wallace Owens, a s s is
tant professor of Art at Lang ston University, is attending an art
school in Paris, France, this sum m er. He left New
V .. York by plane on June 16 on a non-stop flight to Lisbon. He
plans to v is it Spain and then go to P aris where he w ill enroll
at the art school.
Langston Tells Alumni .Qf f icer Melvin McClellan, a 19G9 Langston
University graduate,
lias been named Alumni Relations officer at'LU, Dr. William 11.
Hale, p re s id en t, announced today.
McClellan rep laces Clifford Wallace wjjo resigned. The new alumni
officer attended all four y ea rs at Langston and •graduated Cum
Laude. He was on the honor roll six of the eight sem es te r s
.
The 22-year-old native of Wichita, Kan., was vice presi- "dent of
the student senate, vice p resident of Panhellenic Council,
member/Of Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society and p re s i dent of his
fra tern ity , Alpha Phi Alpha. He lettered in base ball his
freshm an year.
A graduate of Wichita, Kan., East High School, he par tic i pated
in basketball and baseball. He is the son of M r s . ,
_Maymie MeClellan of Wichita. NfcClellan received a 3 .S. degree in
social science arid did
tns prac tice teaching his senior year a t Harding Junior High in
Oklahoma C~ity>»
MAKING PLANS 'Jo i the Oklahoma State Federation of Colored Women’s
Clubs meeting at Langston University Jnhe 22-24, a re Gladys
Johnson (left) of the Langston University Public Relations Depart
ment and Mrs. Amelia R. Taylor, p rog ram 'cha irm an . (LU
Photo)
Federation to rv\eet I
PAGE 2—THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE—JUNE, 1969
1969 GRADUATES-The I.W. Young Auditorium was packed for the
Langston University graduation exercises. A total of 181 students
received degrees. . A
Students Present Discussion, (
Demonstration at Ardmore ELEMENTARY Education siudents
presented
a discussion and demonstration on preschool ed ucation at a
parents’ study group at Washing ton School, Ardmore, Oklahoma,
.U.vii : i 1959. T in discussion included *h.e characteristics,
needs and in terests of yosogiv miildren. Suggested
methods of teaching were discussed and demon strated. Significant
principles underlying the or- ganizaf u end vlmi m stration of
pre-eKm?ni uy
s.iiio >ls were a lso brought out. A very stim u lating
question and answer pert jj fy, j.
German Club Picnic The audience was quite impressed with the
charts, posters and wealth of other materials developed by the
students and used in the course of the dis-
The German Club held its an nual picnic May 1. ThJs cele brates
the abolitionof witches on April 30, Walpurgisnacht in Ger many,
by keeping bonfires alight that night.
The picnic was held east of Guthrie in the home of John Ed gar,
assisted by Mrs. Kendall, instructor.
The group roasted wieners se r ved with pumpernickel. Following
the meal, th e members partici pated in games, took pictures and
winding the Maypole.
Attending were Mary Swindall, Brenda Henderson, Rodger, Hol mes,
Aga Kebede, Araya Zerom, Tilahun Gugsa, Mary Chambers, Clinton
Moss, Nancy Cochran, Victoria Calhoun, Rosetta Mor r is , Joe
Woods, Johnetta Rose burr, Ronald Warren, Quincy Hider, Doyle
Woms, Eric, McCann.
And Robert Sims, RebaThom as , Curley Sloss, Merle Thomas, John
Edgar, Mrs. Edgar, Diene Susan, Regina Johnson, Irving Love, Robert
Gil 1,Jeraid McCon- nel, Roland Powell, DonnaJones,
Jam es Jaynes and Mrs. Kendall. * * * * *
******
Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall attend ed the council of Foreign Lan guage
chairmen of Old ahoma Col leges May 2 at Norman. She substititdd
for M rs. Elwyn Breux.
Items discussed were Report of disposition of recommendation to
state Regents concerninglang- guage requirements, Reports of
pass-ihil grading systems, Re port of new school plan being
adopted at OCU the coming year, on the block system the student
yill be in class 6 weeks, sem inar 2 weeks, and class 6 weeks
again.
cussion. Members of the parents study group and school
administrators of Ardmore commended the LU. administration and
faculty for de veloping and maintaining a pro gram. They
expressed high re gard of the L.U. administration and faculty for
developing and maintaining a program that pre pares students of
this calibre.
ZETA BETA CHAPTER
RITES AT SOUTHEASTERN
On April I3; ZeU Beta C/i -./er of Alpha MuGa/nw ; Ponied the
initiation serv ices of the Chapter at Southeastern State College.
Those ^tending were Nanvy Co :hrau. J >'i i fta Roseburr, and
Carey P a / r r vh > W ‘ • tc- companied by Miss Mary Chain
o?rs.
Ze‘ i Beta is one of the three chapter- h . j in Oklahoma. The of
her is leoateJ i Okla homa City University.
German Club News “ Guten Tag” everyone! The
German Club has been "doing it’s thang.” On March 31, and April 4,
1969 the club took a tr ip across Germany. The trip was actually a
game played dur ing^, one of the club's monthly meetings. The
game, introduced by Frau E. Kendall; club spon sor, is designed to
help students learn the cities of Germany and their country
sides.
The rules of the game are for each participate (6) to se lect six c
itie s from the German map. He then starts off from his
selected hometown and travel to Hider. Table no. 2, 1st place; all
other cities selected until Eric McCann and 2nd Reba Tho- he
reaches the last city. A mas. Table no. 3, 1st b.Uice; numbered
block determines the Eric McCannand2ndCarolSteV6- numbers of moves
taken.. y j «„soh. The winners were present-
Due to the number of students ed with chocolate Easter bunnies
present, two games were played thus having four winners. The
winners of March 31, were; table no. 1, 1st place; Roger Holmes,
2nd; Donna Jones. Table no. 2, 1st place, V ictoria Calhoun, and
2nd; Oennu. Morbley.
The game winners of April 4, were table no. I, 1st place; Roger
Holmes and 2nd Quincy’ Quincy Hider
and eggs by our sponsor, Fran E . Kendall.
O fficers present at the infor mal meeting were Wayne Walker, vice
p res ., Reba Thomas; s e c ,, Quincy Hider, re porter, and Fran E
. Kendall, sponsor. Reporter
GRADUATION SPEAKER—Dr. William H. Hale, president of Langston
University, and Dean McGee, chairman of Kerr-McGee, are pictured at
the 1969 graduation exercises. Mr. McGee gave the commencement
address. OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
S o c i e t y
H o n o r s
D u n j e e
the hi i r leng-rime
A port rail of Roscoe Dunjee. civil righ ts lea.dcr and founder of
The .Black Dis patch . n e w sp a p e r .1" was1 presen ted io the
stair-? in April to h ang in ihe of-
. ficial portra it ga l le ry at th e S ta te H istorical Socie ty
building.
It will be the first por-
Uom-oc Dunjee
t ra i l of a N egro to h ang in t h e official gallery .
G eorge Shirk, h istorical society presiden t said only p o r t ra
i t s invited by the board of d irec to rs of ihe society can be
hung in the official gallery . An inv ita tion w as ex tchded for
.a
p o r t ra i t of D unjee about th ree y e a rs ago.
Shirk said City Council m a n A,_X, Dowell and J i m m y S tew
art . a national d i re c to r for Ihe N ational As sociation for
A dvancem ent
of Colored Poopir . m ad e a r r a n g e m e n ts for the por tra
it . which w as painted by Mrs. J a m e s L. Oxford.
P re se n ta t io n of the p o r tra it was m a d e by Dr. Dowell
in the April c e re m onies opening the h is tori ca l so c ie
ty 's 77th annua l m eeting . - s
Gov. B a n let i accepted bbfVJTortrait for ihe sta te .
?’Dunjpc. the son of an es caped slave, w a s born in H a rp e r
's F e r r y , W. Va. in 1S33 and died at the ag e of 81 in M arch
. 1965.
In 1893 ihe olor Dunjee. who w as a Baptis t m in is te r and n e
w sp a p e r editor, brought his fam ily to Okla-
. He died in 1903 leaving his son Roscoe to support his m o th e r
, s is te r an d b ro th e r on a m o r t gaged fa rm while he
was a t ten d in g L angs ton U n iver s i ty .
D unjee bought a job prin ting plant in O klahom a City in 1915 an
d launched The B lack D i s p a t c h . T hrough its co lum ns and
his work in civil r igh ts o r gan iza tions he pushed for voting
r ights , ju ry service, s c h o n 1 deseg ra t ion and
o ih e r jrights of citizenship for his fellow Negroes.
l ie w as a founder, in 1930. of the O klahom a Con ference of
NAACP b ra n c h es and served as a nation-
' al d irec to r of the o rg an iza tion.
U. S. S u p rem e ‘VCniirt <J. u s t i c e Thurgood M a r
shall, who a t the t im e w as a U. S. c ircu it judge in New York,
paid tr ib u te to D unjee at his funeral .
V
r Meet the President
M r s . T u c k e r G e t s T h in g s D o n e
By Cheryl Mayfield MRS. DOROTHY M. TUCKER is a unique wom
an in tha t she not only sees a problem, she sets out 10 solve it.
Then she does.
Mrs. Tucker is president of Beta Sigma Omega C hapter of Alpha
Kappa Alpha, Inc., a national so rority of college graduates who
concentrate on phi lanthropic and civic activities.
THE ENERGETIC leader has served once be fore sis president of the
local chapter, and has also been regional director of the
organization over a sev en state area .
A short conversation with Mrs Tucker m akes it plain to see why her
helping hand is in so much de mand. She gets things done.
The charm ing leader is a graduate of Langston University and
received h e r m aster’s degree from the University of
Oklahoma.
SHE TAUGHT at H arding High School and Moon .Junior High School
before taking her present posi tion as teacher-coordinator of
Cooperative O ffice Education a t N ortheast H igh School.
What does a teacher-coordinator of Cooperative O ffice Education
do? “ W ell,” Mrs. Tucker laughed. ” 1 direct the business
education and work exp eri en ce courses at N ortheast.”
ACTUALLY, H E R job includes m uch m ore than just: d irecting. She
takes senior girls a t the school and puts them into an office
situation so they will be prepared for good jobs upon
graduation.
“ We rea lly encourage co llege, of cou rse ,” she added, “ but w e
try to teach the girls typing and of fice functions so they can
find em ploym ent if they want to .”
Interest in youth is important to the Alpha K ap pa Alpha
organization as well as its talented leader. The local group
recently held a. teen-age sty le show and pageant, “ F ash ion etta
.” as a m oney m aking project and as an educational experience for
the girls Involved.
PRO CEEDS FROM the event will be used to
help finance local sorority projects. Som e of these are
scholarship grants. Job Corps recruitm ent, and N egro h eritage
studies.
One of the local group's m ost interesting proj ec ts is the Well
B aby Clinic. This h ighly d iversified health clin ic w as begun
by the chapter, in 1947 as a m obile health unit. It m oved from
one com m unity to the next on regular schedules.
“TH E PU R PO SE of the W ell’Baby Clinic was to provide health and
m edical care to indigent children and fam ilies ." The leader
said.
< “ It w as aided by the c ity health departm ent and is now
perm anently situated in the Slaughter Build
in g .”
NEWS V OF TH E TIMES FOR
The well Baby Clinic is still sponsored by the lo cal ch ap ter of
Alpha Kappa Alpha. <»
As nationw ide, projects the sorority g iv es schol arships and
travel grants to deserving students. The travel grants are for
organized trips through the United S tates tor students who might
benefit from a broader look at their native country.
H E R CLOSE ASSOCIATION with young people has g iven M rs. T ucker
a serious altitude toward their problem s. ” 1 think our young
people need a p ositive self-concept. I don't, believe in being
stag nant.”
B esides working with youth and her m any other sorority activ
ities ihe president sew s and plays bridge.
” 1 h aven ’t had time to sew for several y ea rs ,” she confessed
. “ But 1 love to play bridge. It is a ch al lenge . . . I don’t
like anything that i§n't a challenge to m e .”
* * * * * * * J
Contribute
i
Now- \
DEVELOPMENT
scholarships tor worthy students
C HIC AGO~“ Oklahoma Here I Come’ ’ was the song whistled by the
hine Woodlawn youths who recently visited Langston Uni versity.
The Chicago youth and Jim Buckner, Department of Human R esources.
Youth
Services worker drove from Chi cago to Langston to v isit
the
university they will be spending their next four years.
Upon arriving at the University they were greeted by school
of
ficia ls and coeds. A dance was held to welcome them and a tour was
arranged to acquaint them with the school.
The youths who won four-year scholarships * are: Lemmuel Carr, 18,
a senior at Englewood;
395 At Summer Session
:
Three hundred and fiinety five students are enrolled for the sum- •
m er sem ester , according to F .L . Holloway, registrar.
C lasses started June 3 and the
( summer session w ill end July 25. Registration for the fall sem
ester is scheduled August 28-30, and the sem ester starts September
2 and ends December 20.
— Q
Hearn Enters New Jersey Rodeo Cleo Hearn, Langston Uni
versity student and one of th r e a d ing Negro cowboys in the
nuion, w ill compete in a rodeo featuring Black cowboys at Newark,
N J ., on July 11, 12 and 31. Proceeds w ill go to the Newark
summer
program. Billed as the "Black Western
Cultural Show" the rodeo will be put on by the Forgotten Cow boys
Inc., a group of Negro cow boy rodeo riders from Stillwater, of
which Hern is a member.
Alex Hinton, 19, a senior at C.V.S., who received the out standing
basketball award in 1967 and outstanding player award at Tech
Tourney; Robert E llis , 18, a senior at C.V.S., who won $1,000
basketball award from W.V.O.N.; Goffery Roberts, 18, a senior at
Hirsch, outstanding guard in basketball and baseball; LeVon
Chapman, 18, a senior at Hirsch, outstanding basketball player and
a high “ B" average in school; Larry Engram, 18, a senior at
Englewood, outstanding basket ball and basebaltolayer; and Gre
gory Porter, lo j^ a senior at Hirsch, outstanding'.full-back in
football.
This opportunity is due to the hard work of the young men involved
and also to the efforts made by Jim Buckner, who took a personal
interest in th is pro ject.
Langston University was found ed in 1897 and today i s fast
becoming one of the forem ost Black co lleges in the country. Since
Dr. William H. Hale as sumed the presidency the Uni versity has
made great strides in becoming a very progressive
institution.
TO EVERY LANGSTONITE—
Send your contribution
PAGE 4—THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE—JUNE, 1969
3rd Grader s’Play a Hit SHOWED DARK DATS The durk A ys of
itaverjr
U America w in redacted by workors tUHac tht fields.
Miss Donita Coleman, daughter of Dr. and M rs. John Coleman, is a
teacher in th e Cle veland, Ohio, school system . She is a Langston
University g r vtcite and the story below is about her third grade
students.
Demonstrations for classes in Negro history would seem silly to the
youngsters at John D. Rockefeller grade school,
5901 Whittier Ave. A third grade class recently gave three per
formances depicting the com plete history of their people
from pre-slavery Africa to the present day.
In a play written by their teacher, Miss Donita Coleman,
ARCHIETTA BURCH, “ Miss Debutante 1969“ sits Walter Ogles, a L.U.
freshman (1) was her escort.
on her throne following her presentation. Mr.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS y
"Upward Bound", Community Action P rog ram June 2-July 25, 1969
(Summer Residential Program)
FreshmW Orientation and Advisement C l in ic ------------- July
13-16, 1969 I
End of Summer Session — ----------------------------------------
July 25,1969
Freshman Orientation------------------------------------ August
26-27, 1969
Registration for Fall Semester---------------------- August 28-30,
1969
Class Work Begins--------------- —
--------------------------September 2, 1969
Homecoming--------------------------------------------------
October 18, 1969
mn
the tots presented scenes from their heritage accompanied by
appropriate music and poetry.
On Father’s night, Mar. 5,
M i s s D e b u t a n t e
The Beta Upsilon and Langston Alumnae Chapter s of Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, Incorporated pre sented 15 young women in their
biennial Debutante Cotillion on April 18.
They included Archietta Burch, Joan Bowers, Glenda Braggs, Al thea
Crawford, Francis Cad- dell, Donna Dick, Pamela Dubrie).. Sherli
Davidson, Yolanda Harvey, Linda Howard, Geneva Harper, Sheryl
Liggins, Donna Jones, Lulla Moore and Beulah Taylor.
Receiving awards were Arch ietta Burch, Miss Dubutante; Lul la
Moore, 1st attendant; Sherli Davidson, 2nd attendant. For her high
scholastic average of 3,52 Donna Jones was awarded the Miss
Academic trophy.
Geneva Harper received the title of Miss Congeniality by vote of
the Debutantes. By a decision of the judges on attire, poise and
presentation, Francis Caddell re ceived the Miss Personality
award.
Deborah Nunley - Reporter
Pair Named As All-Stars
Two Langston University athletes were named to the Eastern Division
All-Star team in the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference
baseball league.
Winning berths on the ^first team., were Melvin Bibbs, catcher, a
junior from Oklahoma City, and Jimmy Jones, pitcher, a senior from
Lawton.
Receiving honorable mention were Ronald Pendarvis, junior from
OklahonA C ity, first base; L ariy Rayes, senior from Chick- asha,
first base-outfield, and Preston Jam es, sophomore from Detroit,
Michf., third base.
A highlight of the abow w u John Hawkins* r e c ita tio n of James
Weldon JoImoii's “Crea tion” In t church scene re p resen tin g
the post-slavery period. John enraptured theaa- dlences with his
enthusiastic gestures and soulful rendition of the classic
work.
The final scene showed a slice of present day Negro life. Speakers
quoted the words of famous people, musical solos w ere given and
dancers per formed to records of Ames Brown.
350 parents and neighbors came to the school to see the
pageant
The play open with African^ style dancing to drumbeats pror vlded
by Eric Herron and Al bert Norwood.
TO A
By James^Haynes
To a Girl in Gray You surprised me today, When I saw you smile. You
were acting like at play, It was really wild.
child
I had noticed you earlier, And my eyes mysteriously gleam ed. I
had wondered about your silence, And how unique you seemed.
Time must not change you, And maybe you are a beginning. I may
never know, . . And maybe you’re just pretend ing.
Uniqueness is a quality That we could use more Be the girl you aim
to be, Live the fife you love.
of.
JUDGES CONTEST Mrs. L . C. Latimer served
as one of the judges in the annual Pride in Oklahoma essay contest
sponsored by the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce. She and
a . .. D r. Latimer were special guests at the awards dinner held,
at
*V-*-1 the Skiryin Hotel in Oklahoma W City where th" winners
received
United States Saving Bonds in the amounts of $1,000 , $100, and
$50.
Whsipers will surround you; Eyes will strip you bare, But you a re
fy far a ; special one. Let the envious public stare:
They want you for your beauty, And the gold that you possess. But
little do they know, my dear, They have seen nothing yet.
You shall remain for a lifetime. Your savor shall season the earth.
For yours is a different quality, That one gains only through
birth.
Sorority Elects Lambda Alpha Chapter of-Zeta Phi Beta Sorority,
Inc., has elected new officers for the year 1963* 1970. , Officers
are Basileus Brenda Henderson; Anti Basileus Mary Richardson;
Grammateus
,Dedra Kirk; Tamias The.leasta Love; Sgt. of Arms Mary ’
Richardson; Dean of Pledges Dedra Kirk; Representative of Pan
Hellenic Council Mrs. Gussie Drain; Dedra Kirk; and Brenda
Henderson.
MEMBERS of the Langston University Beta Kappa Chi (Scientific
Honorary Society) are pictured with their sponsors. Left to right
Mr. Jam es Simpson, chairman of the Department of Physical
Sciences, Clyde D river, Joe Woods, John Edgar, Norma Collins, Dr.
Keve-LatirtlSr, professor in physical sciences, and Roger Holmes. -
. - V - .
'ly C •> <r*'
THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE—JUNE, 1969 PAGE 5
LANGSTON UNIVERSITY Electronic Technology students are pictured
with their instructors during a recent tour of the Phillips
Petroleum Company plant at Bartlesville. This is an annual tour to
acquaint the freshmen and sophomores with equipment and processes
used in industry. Bobby Parker and Theodis Green, instructors,'
explained, the annual tour gives the student an insight on what in
dustry requires of technicians.
WILBURTON-OKLAHOMA TECHNICAL SOCIETY officers for 1969-70 are (1-r)
Bobby Parker, Langston University, president; Miller Tiger,
Oklahoma City, John Marshall High School, vice president; Barry
Ballard, N orthern, secretary-treasurer; Harold W inbum , state
board for Vocational & Technical Education,
executive-secretary; Bill Rains, Eastern, board member, and Leonard
Bachman* Northeastern A&M,’ board member. Dr, Phil Chandler,
Technical Institu te in O tyahom a City, and Bill Jones, Oklahoma S
tate Tech in Okmulgee, will also serve on the board.
The new state officers were elected this past weekend during the
annual spring meeting a t Eastern Oklahoma State College,
Wilburton.
u " 0
LU Junior G ets I ti
H o m e Ec H o n o r Posie Jones, daughter of Mr. and M rs. Jimmie
Jones
of Tom, was awarded the Crisco Trophy for outstanding work in Home
Economics at Langston University’s A ^ u al
ome Econom ics Day, recently.
The gold trophy was presentee} to M iss Jones, a junior, by the
Foods and Nutrition Instructor, Mrs. Glenda War ren.
• i **•«.. * Mrs. Warren congratulated Rosie on the excellence
She
has shown in her work and said she “ felt certain her achievement
in home economics would be a lasting in spiration to other
students.”
Opportunities Await
Tech Grads Many opportunities await graduates of the Langston
University School of Technology. "Industry has many job
opportunities for the trained
technician,” Bobby P arker, assistant professor, says. "Our program
provides the student with the necessary
skills to enter industry with further training or students may
continue their academic education and receive a BJS. degree in
their particular technology or other fields. This would encompass
two additional years of schooling.
Langston has a two-year associate degree program in electronic
technology. The program is a math-science base, according to
Parker, and during the first two years of study every effort is
made to provide summer em ployment with electronic
industries.
"We don’t train . _ student for any specific job,” he explained,
"but we provide classroom and laboratory experiences in a cluster
of job areas for the specific field of electronics.”
Parker added that industry has many job opportunities for the
trained technician. "A student interested in this field should
enroll in as much math and science in high school in order to
prepare him for the Langston Program .
Students who normally succeed in technology are those who are
work-orientated and have clearly established career p a l s and a
sense of curiosity. "He must have intense interest in the
specialized field of technology he wishes to pursue,” the professor
stated.
A tech student must be at least average in term s of academic
ability and have at least an average ability in math and science
with an interest in the practical ap plication of these skills to
some specific field of tech^ nology.
“The student should also have the maturity and personal
characteristics which enable him to work for and with others,’
Parker continued, “ and be a person who can form judgments and
function effectively without excessive reliance upon others.
In 1963, there were 85,000 students enrolled in tech nology and
this figure will jump to 1.5 million by 1975, according to the
experts.
"We also want to s tre ss that technology is open for women and
they should enter this field as well as men,” Parker added. “ In
some cases industry prefers women, over men for some specific job
functions. &
At present the Oklahoma Technical Society is working out a
curriculum whereby students interested in tech nology may Ijegin
in the high school and transfer credit to his post-high school
ci^riculum.
A student must havev 68 to 72 credit hours in an a s sociate
degree, with roughly 50 percent being tech courses.
"We have more job opportunities in the technical field (at present
than we have students to fill these positions,”
Parker said. / ' \After a student receives his associate degree he
may
continue his education and complete a four-year degree progralfi.
*
"One of the major advantage of majoring in technology is that a
student is provided necessary skills for advance ment in
industry,” Parker concluded.
He is a graduate of Langston with an associate degTee from Oklahoma
State University in Technology. He also has a masters in technical
education from OSU with further student at the University of
Illinois in eigineering. Parker has been at LU since September,
1964. “ Theodis Green is an instructor in technology. He
joined the staff in 1967 and is a graduate of Langston.
LU k e t s C o n o c o S c h o la r s h ip s
Langston University has been named among seven Okla- , homa
colleges and universities to be awarded a total of
$30,500 as a part of Continental Oil Company’s ll"9-70 financial
aid-to-education program.
The awards, according to poy M. Mays, vice p resit »nt and general
manager of Ponca City activities, include out right grants to the
schools, fellowships and scholar ships.
Langston has received two scholarships in business ad m
inistration,
Recipieriw of the two scholarships will be selected by the
Univarsity. Other schools to receive grants or scholar ships are
the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, University
of Tulsa, Northeastern State College, Northern Oklahoma College and
Oklahoma State Technical College.
R o s ie Jo n e s
PAGE 6—THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE—JUNE, 1969
Judge Charles Owens Law Day 0Address At Langston University
Please perm it me firs t of all to state that I deem it indeed a
privilege and a very high honor to have been extended the in
vitation to address this morning (May 9 ) this very august stu
dent body of Langston University on the occasion of your obser
vance of Law Day USA, 1989, an occasion that is, or should be, very
dear to the hearts especially of those like myself who are involved
in the vast field of jurisprudence.
P erm it me further to say to you, Dr. Hale, that I have never
received a more gracious or gen erous introduction than the one
you have just given me. Such an introduction is even the more
meaningful when it is made by one who is of such an illu str ious
Dr. Hale. Certainly I am proud to be able to say that I p o sse ss
his friendship, and certain ly I can sayvJjUhout reservation that I
hold mm in the very highest esteem , as for that matter do many,
many others, esp ecia lly those who are involved in and concerned
with education in Ok lahoma at the college and Uni versity lev e
l, and most import antly, the administration of Okla homa
institutions furnishing this education. We are indeed for tunate
in Oklahoma that we have been able to retain the s e r v ic e s of
such a renowned U niversity adm inistrator as Dr. Hale.
I suppose it is the apprehen sion of most speakers, and cer
tainly I have such apprehensions
LAW DAY SPEAKER--The Honorable Charles Owens (third from left)
district judge of Oklahoma City, delivered the address at the
observance of annual Law Day at Langston University Friday. Left to
right are Dean John W. Coleman, Rayfer Mainor, newly-elected
president of the Student Government Association, Judge Owens, Brack
Barr, president of the SGA, and Dr. William H. Hale, president of
Langston University. Owens is the first Negro judge in the history
of Oklahoma. (LU Photo)
1 , * O munity had later left and gone me. d ag a of
achieving
w x n tijr * o u w , aWay to co llege and then after You have asked
me here on a n , i freedom whpn leeal today in addressing this very
fine receiving his college degree hid the occasion of L angstoriW
ver- rpqxm sibilitv seem s to be an group of bright students, that
the achieved som e measure of sue- s ity ’s observance of Law Day
obligation for someone e lse to speaker w ill be so fortunate as to
be able to make his presen tation so interesting that when he has
finished his audience will bonder how the time could pos s ib le
have passed so quickly.
Perhaps if I am fortunate I w ill be able to say something
to you that will approach the very forceful and eloquent
argument
that I am told a certain lawyer made to a jury on behalf of his
client who had been charged with stealing a horse. The pro
secution’s evidence was very strong, but mainly because of his
counsel’s brilliant argument to
c e s s in his chosen field. Not many youngsters from this little
community ever want away to college and so , naturally, they ware
quite proud of this jfoung man. The very first opportunity they
had, the local leaders in vited this form er resident to return to
be their guest speaker on a very special occasion.
USA, 1959. As you may or may honor. not know, President Eisenhower
we c0me together to mark by proclamation in 1958 de- L,aw p ay USA
and are asked to signated May first as law Day, think of an ordered
society in a day se t aside to remind our- Which the law
mayproperlyfunc- selves that we as Americans tkm, the question com
es to mind
live, every day of our lives, under a rule of law. &
The purposes of Law Day 1969 as set out by the American Bar
Ju s t p r io r to the time that he .Association a re lofty ones
indeed, ro s e to speak, as the; young men They_ a re : (1) to
foster respec t ,gat and lis tened to those beau tiful words about
‘h im self that were coming from the m aster of ce rem o n ie s ,
he began thinking
fof„ law and understanding of its essential place in A m erican
life; (2 ) to encourage citizen, equality and justice under law;
and (4)
as to whether we have or can have an ordered society ,in this
country. For young people are in literal rebellion against autho
rity of whatever kind. There is an uprising of ‘ free speech"
groups on cam puses across the land. Buildings are occupied and
administrations displaced.
There can be no question butX .. . 1 i i ic ic v.aii uv 4UCC that
perhaps all of this was not to point up the contrast between-^ ,aw
pay usa 1969, unfounded a t that, that perhaps freedom under
the jury, this man was acquitteds&tie rea l ly was one worthy
of the of the charge against him. Later, very nice words being sa
id about after the trial was over, this him. And so, when the
intro- lawyer Was talking to his client duction was over and this
young and saitf. to him, ‘‘Now that you’re free and can never be
tried again on this charge, tell me truthfully, did you really stea
l that horse?” His client was quick to reply, ‘‘To be truthful with
you, I always did think I sto le that horse until I heard you make
that argument td the jury, and now I’ll be darned if I haven’t got
my doubts about i t .”
N eedless to say, if I could ap proach this afternoon the
eloquence.w hich that law yer’s argument to the jury undoubt edly
must have p ossessed , I would indeed be delighted.
A s I sat there listening to Dr. H ale’s very generous in
troduction, I was reminded of another little story, and I pro- m
ose you I w ill be through telling sto r ie s after this one.
It seem s the particular young man involved in this story had grown
up in a little rural com-
man rose to speak, he indicated to his audience that the words of
introduction were perhaps some what justified. He acknowledged
that he no doubt had indeed achieved som e measure of suc c e ss
in his field.
law in the United t
States and governmental tyranny under communism. Regrettably,
however, I must concede at the outset, and I am sure hundreds of
other speakers on this oc casion throughout the nation have had to
sim ilarly concede, that never before has the outlook for the
accomplishment of these pur poses been so bleak as it is
And then, b ea m in g quite car- ried away w itW lim self by
thisitrM in time, the speaker went so far
We com e together to mark Law Day USA at a time in our na-
as to suggest to his a u .ta .e e “ ° nal 8xperlellcf wlf ? . law'
that they w ir e quite w ise to have caf “s * C asta ll“" “ chosen
him as their featured f'? ''ea. f f 8" speaker on this occasion.
"After , ! / ? lives and a ll," he sa id , "I’ve spoken to J " 5 °
f . Umusands upon thou- many, many groups on many,. | J hs ° j ^ p
V t t o n s o f many many occasions, and I’m proud . „ .
aspirations of man* to say that in all of those speeches ^ working
citizens go up tn I've made but one minor error, .tt8 “ aI"8s 81
,ll81r P ^ 81^ . and it was a sim ple little gram - 1 8 ’ and it
was a sim ple little gram matical error at that, and the minute I
done it, I seen i t .”
Certainly I will very diligent ly try to avoid any such pit- fell
as that, which might .tend to destroy any favorable im age tfiat
Dr. Hale might have woven for
We come together to mark Law Day USA at time when we are undergoing
the agony of reconciling the spirit of the laws with man’s hard
expe riences with injustices and inequities in the law, when
disobedience to the law is
we as Am ericans, and likewise those of us with a special
involvement in the law ans its meaning for our
‘tim e and our place in society , sense that we have come to a
great divide in our nation’s journeys through mankind's ex
perience.
By way of further concession, I must admit what all of us here
know, and that is that the black American, as of this late date, i
s still the victim of a multi tude of d iscr im ii^ to jp based ,
so lely on the c o l o f l R i s skin. He is s t ill deeply mvoafed
in a re len tless struggle to S m e v e hu man dignity.
P lease permit me to d igress
for a moment and to make in tjiis connection an observation which I
have frequent occasion to make, and that is that it seem s to me
completely incon- „ grouous that this creature man, who has bogged
himplef- down with petty racial d ifferences is the very same
creature whom God has imbued with an intellect which has enabled
him to reach out into outer space and to de
velop methods through which, we a re reliable advised, he will land
a manned craft on the sur&ce of the moon, perhaps within this
very year.
This same man is blessed further with an intellect that has enabled
him to explore the depths of the ocean, to conquer the most dreaded
diseases through medi cal research. To transplant a heart from one
person into the chest of another and thereby pro long life, to
build supersonic a ir craft that enable him to reach any point on
this earth within a scant few hours. And yet he seemingly does not
have the intellect to apply fairly and im partially the body of
laws which he has drafted and enacted and thereby achieve the
ordered society about which he so proudly boasts, especially in Law
Day ob servances such as this one in which we are participating
today.
I mentioned a moment ago this very grave problem that exists in the
United States today, the problem ofrebellionagainst auth ority,
against the so-called ‘‘E s tablishment’-, if you will, parti
cularly by the younger genera tion who see, or think they see,
evidence that our whole demo cratic system simply is not w or^
ing. Certainly also we are ex periencing open rebellion by black
Americans generally,* but especially, again, by the younger
generation of Negroes who ques tion our talk about law and the
rule of law. They see a gap in this area between the practice and
the preachment.
When I aih privileged to speak to white or predominantly white
audiences, I frequently ask them to try and look objectievly with
me for-am om ent at the glaring in consistencies that have been
per
m itted to exist over the years between the ideals we have e s
poused through our laws and our total failure to give these laws
equal application where theNegro is concerned. I then suggest to
such audiences that when they do make this objective examina tion
they cannot help but under stand somewhat, as I do, som e what,
why the Negro is totfciy, often by violence, exhibiting tils,
indignation and giving vent to his anger.
We need, of course, look no further than the sim ple and un
ambiguous words contained in the very beginning of that h istoric
instrument known astheD eclara- t ion of Independence. We are all w
ell familiar with those words which say:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights,.that among thqse are* life liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.” ,
* 1 The black, Am erican has always dated to think that these words
were equally applicable to him.- It would be su p erflu ou s for me
to go into a lengthy account of how the6e words have been in
clusive of all but the Negro in actual practice. »
And since the adoption of the Constitution of the United States,
which is the bedrock of our entire system of laws^IKe Negro has
looked to the equally sim ple and
THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE—JUNE, 1969 PAGE 7
clear words contained in the Fourteenth Amendment and he has had
the audacity to think that he is also included in their intent and
meaning. You know the part that I am referring to, the part which
says:
"No state shall make or en force any law which shall abridge the
privileges or im munities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property,with out due process of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protec tion of the laws.”
The Negro has always reasoned that "Clearly I am a Citizen of the
United States, so obviously these constitutional mandates are
equally applicable to m e." Again, as we all jaiow, it has not
worked out this way in actual practice.
The Negro’s suspicions that he was entitled to all of these rights
were confirmed in the year 1954, of course, when the UnitedStates
Supreme Court held that segrega tion in the public schools
was
elective offices. Black faces are now common in television com-
assure you that in this competi- m ericals and magazine ads; some
tfr® world which college students corporations prize black execu- a
re preparing themselves to tives as highly as computers. ®nter,
employers, patients or By almost any statistical index, *®8al
clients are interested only the United States would seem to what
employees are equipped to be headed in the right di- t0 <*>
to help the company in- rection. crease its profits, whether
adoc-
Yet, unquestionable, the anger tor has the medical knowledge to of
the black man is becoming cure a particular ailment, more and more
open and pro- or whether a lawyer can unravel nounced qjid he has
given vent a legal entanglement, to his anger with outbursts of 1
suggest to you today as we violence. The voices of the mili- meet
here in this observance of tants are becoming increasingly Law Day
that only through the loud. This anger is not diffi- Preservation
of an ordered cult to explain. The dream society can we ever hope
to solve of equality has been deferred too the grave economic and
social long, and Americans, both white crises of our times. The
sole and black, are paying today for effective available catalyst
we can the omissions of the past. For employ in this process is the
rule there is another side ot the glow- ing figures of black
advance- °f law> not the rule of the jungle, ment. The
traditional concept of law
Negroes are still three times as the source of an ordered as likely
as whites to die in society is today under attack by childbirth and
infancy; they are many dedicated groups throughout three times as
likely to be in the country. The attack is to* poverty; they are
twice as likely day labeled ‘‘civil disobedience," to be
unemployed. While we are a Phrase which seems to possess
indeed violative of the guarantees gaining more in term s of income
a magnetic a ttrac tio n ^ many, of the United State Constitution,
than whites, we are not likely presumably on the assum ptbn Later,
by passage of the Civil to catch up at the present rate that there
is some magic in the Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting for
decades. Everything elsebe. word "disobedience” as contrast- Rights
Act of 1965, the Congress ing equal, an ordinary Negro ®d with the
more brutal and honest
worker is less likely to find expression "breaking the law.” good
employment than a white This new doctrine holds that no worker.
Thre still exists for a man need obey a law that his large segment
of the Negro pop- conscience will not allow him to ulation the
hopelessness anddes- respect. Whether the law is un pair brought
about by forced iust and should not be obeyed ghetto living. seems
to be a matter of self-
Under the existing conditions, determination. The decision is
action was one of elation, and then one can somewhat understand how
inevitable,5 I submit, associated it dawned on him that if the
pro-
a black man like Eidridge Cleaver can shout that ‘‘We shallhave our
manhood. We shall have it, or the earth will be leveled by our
attempts to gain it." One can somewhat understand how an Adam
Clayton Powell canstateas he did in an address delivered on a
college campus a short time
served, protected and cherished, within him self. ’ even to the
extent that it was I urge you today to look within provided
constitutionalprotection yourselves and work to persuade through
the F irst Amendment, o thers to do the sam e thing and But
certainly the fram ers of our to is piece of divinity which
Constitution and the m illion; of can accomplish what laws alone Am
ericans who th rerafte r have a re incapable of accomplishing,
lived under it have never sub scribed to the principle that any
right, even this important one, should beunbridledandunlim
ited.
In conclusion, permit me to suggest on this occasion that we look
ahead and not back and that we take on a more positive at titude
in attempting to help re solve the economic and social problems
that plague our nation, that we build rather than just deplore. Let
me suggest further that we cannot rely solely on the law for the
law cannot alone
removed all doubts as to the applicability of the Constitution to
all the citizens of the United States, with particular reference to
discrimination because of color.
After his rights were clearly defined, the Negro’s first re
visions of the United States Con stitution apply to him today, then
they must have applied to hi mall along. He now realizes that be
cause his rights were not spelled out until this late date, his
pro gress has been impeded, that he
Students Attend
Langston University was a-
succeed* where masses'of oeoDle mong six colleges and universit'
are”lnvolved W hatwe n S d is ies in the flrst In'are involved,
wnat we need is ternatbnal Musical Night, April
rew mores a g e ^ in e a r t g ! S 26 ’ at Oklahoma c i ty
University. . new mores, a genuineiano p n e ra i o thers attending
were represen- ♦ e h .«e ? a ^ . tatives from Oklahoma
Univer-
tew S T L T S i ” slc p ! « ^ 0klahoma Stale University, t I t £ «
« ,1 pea£?: Oklahoma Baptist University,
fniLv m i Phillips University and Oklahoma today that it is
ironical that man rh r ig Han College 2 ? hli S ? intoHeci has
focused CX p ? o g ^ S n s i s te d o f mus- th fn J iv ^ n lth e
i^ ih fo m n fh n w ical numbers and dances, all in things except
the problem of how costume from Pakistan, Indones-
b ro th e r s * S te tw K i H n w S '0" 4” 1' Northn n Thailand ,
Vietnam, Egypt, Phtt- the solution to this problem is lipines China
India w estern easlily within his grasp if only p f ^dians he would
turn his fUH attention T . nnC(. n Cf,iA»nfc taiHn* r« ri to it He
has this basic goodness Langston students taking part L i ' J u l r
JS S L ^ i f Mensah, Ghana; Tilahun Gugsa,
* * * where has been ^ r aya Zerom, Ethiopia, Burney ‘T W illiam s,
S ie rra Leone.
In (bis connection, I read not A]sc atteIU)tngwereJoeWoods,
was not perm itted to begin the race with the oth-r runners, so to
speak, and consequently his social, educational and economic status
is far below that which it would otherwise have been. Through
various avenues, through ' demonstrations on col lege campuses and
by riots in the streets of our c itie s , the black American is
asserting his demand that all possible means be taken to c lo se
this gap be tween his status and that of his white brother. He
demands that this be done now. c
It is true, of course, as has often been pointed out to me after I
have addressed white groups, that in term s of statistics and cold
facts, the gains of the Ne^fo, particularly during , the 1960’s
have been spectacular. The gap betwen black income and white income
has narrowed substan tially. We are told that about 27 percent of
all Necroes are now below the poverty line, as com pared with 55
percent as late as 1960. A far greater^
of black people are finishing high' school and going to college.
To day, a Negro college graduate
often has a better chance of land ing a good job than his white
classm ate.
Eight years ago, the black man, as all of us here today well know,
could not set foot in side many restaurants or hotels
in this country, except as a ser vant. How, alm ost the last ves
tige of this tupe of segregation
ago that violence is a perfectly legitim ate means to be employed
by the Negro to enforce his de mands. I can personally under
stand how such expressions can be made, but I must part com- pany
with som e of m y ,good brothers at this point.
I am, very frankly, personal ly quite disturbed by th ecou rse
that black protest and dissent has taken in the last two years in
particular. I am disturbed by the spectable of militant black
students at campus after campus slamming down list of nonego*
tiable demands on presidential colleges that would not,Acomply.
Some few of these demands have m erit, but by and large they seem
to represent merely the voices of dissent which are for their own
sake, and ma le com
pletely devoid of plausible and positive solutions. ThejGare
nothing more, oftentimes, than
tf lW a r fT V sound and fury, generating a great p e r c e n ta ^
deai 0f heat but no light.
We have read about demands for all-black departments'' of study,
separate black dor m itories, separate black c la s s room s,
separate black cafeterias which serve only "soul food” , and many
other kindred irre le vancies. Certainly I agree with a recent
statement by BayardRus- tin, who has tried to cling to reason and
logic through all of this. He summed up his feelings by stating
that learning how to multiply and write a complete sentence would
assure black stu-
has been wiped out. Today a , dents immeasurably more than Negro
votes in the UnitedStates* any amount of black studies ever Senate;
another s i ts on the United States Supreme Court. Black mayors
govern Cleveland, Gary, Inidana and Washington, D.C.
In dhe South, nearly 400 black A m ericans serve in all kinds
of
could. I ag ree further with a recent observation by Roy Wil kins
that it is s im ple suicide for the black minority to talk of sep a
ra t ism and going it alone.
'
with the type of conscience in volved.
It is my firm belief as a law yer and as a judge that the con
cept of civil disobedience as a Christian ethic or a s a corner
stone of any part of our legal system should be totally d is
carded. The long road of man from the jungle to h is present
civilized state has been made possible only through the general
acceptance by all people of the proposition that to create and
maintain a workable society there must be certain ru les of the
game, and that these rules must be re cognized, followed, and
enforced. No stable society in which the weak and the strong can
live peaceably and decently together can exist unless all are bound
by the sam e ru les.
In this connection, I think Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
made atf^fextremely significant statement in an ad dress last week
in which he stat ed that anarchy is anarchy, no matter whether it
is painted black or white.
Such anarchy follows once d is obedience to law achieves the dig
nity of a perm issive legal right. When this happens, pur com
munity structure under the rule of law vanishes, authority ceases
to exist and the end result is the tyranny of the mob. Th'ese are
harsh facts and they need be re stated today. They must be
faced
'by thoughfulcitizens. Theycarthot be swept under the rug or ig
nored, ejther because we are blinded oy com passion, or be cause
of the recognized existence of root causes which must be wiped out
if we are to continue our faith in a system of law and attain a
peaceful society . What ever the causes of today's break down of
discipline, we must pre serve our legal prooesses, a rule- of law,
as the foundation of any social and econofhic rehabilita tion.
v
I wish to s t r e s s that certainly th e re is no question but
that the right of dissent and the right to petition for re d re s s
of g r ie vances a re absolutely necessary and essen tia l to the
security of a ’free' people..* The right to d is sent has, from
the very begin nings of this country, been prr
! X S a n d r a Moore,' Oletha Barnett and Mrs. Kendall. Plans were
made to make the International Musical Night a permanent af-
India which te lls us that once all the inhabitants of the earth
were Gods and lived in serenity and peace. And then manwascreated
and this serenity and security and peace as a source of strength
was shattered and almost destroy ed, and the Gods wondered what
could be done to preserve the tran quil ity which they were about
to lose . What shall we do with this p riceless heritage which man
con- structor of Cosmotology, recent- tinues to abuse, they
wondered, ly served a s judge for the VICA So they decided to call
a meet- Club (Vocational lndustrialClubs ing in order to make a
decision, of Am erica) at Southeast High What shall we do with this
little School, Oklahoma City, piece of divinity which has been
Participants in the contest in granted us was the issue. How
eluded a ll public schools inOkla- can we prevent man’s abuse of
homa. this heritage?
M rs. Arterberry Serves as Ju dge
Mrs. Thelma A rterberiy , in-
One of the lesser-G ods spoke up and said: ‘‘I’ll tell you - Let’s
take this little spark of divinity and place it on the high est
ftountain. Man could never find it there to abuse it.” “ No”
,
MEDICAL COLLEGE
Ac c e p t s j o h n s o n
C ollis '•Johnson, a Langston r ~ , University senior from
Ok-
answered Bhrama, the Great God, , lttrs __ . k mulgee, has been
accepted cFather. ‘‘Onp dav man will in- ’ . b ’ . .. , M eharry
Medical College m Nash*Father. “ One day man wfll in
yent a machine called an a ir plane. He will fly to the top of
the highest mountain and he will find this piece of divinity and he
will abuse it."
Then a second of the le s ser Gods spoke. He said, ‘‘Let’s take
this piece of divinity and hide it in the bowels -of the earthJ’ ”
No” ,againanswered the God Father. ‘‘One day man will excavate. He
will discover this spark of divinity and he will abuse it .”
Then a third of the lesser Gods cried, ‘‘L et’s take this piece of
divinity and hide it in the depths of the ocean." ‘‘No,’’ andswered
Bhrama. “ t)ne day man will in vent a submarine. He will dive to
the depths of the sea , find this piece of divinity and again
abuse.” Then the lesser Gods dropped their heads and were s i
lent for they had no ftirther sug gestions. v Finally, the God
Father broke
the silence and said, VI’ 1 1 tell you what we will do. We’ll fake
this serenity , this tranquility, this piece of divinity and hide
it deep down within man h im self. And. so busy will man lie flying
to the hghest mountain, digging into the bowels of the earth ,/an
diving b 1 the depths of the I: «• that he v. tll never think
to
vil e , Tenn. He will enroll in September in the School of Den-
istry .
Mr. Johnson received a Bachelor of Science tbaree in Biology at the
May 25 graduation ex erc ises .
LANGSTON GRADUATE
JOINS TEXAS BANK
Alfred Thompson is working as a teller at Texas National Bank o f
Commerce in Houston, T exas. He joined' the staff April 21.
Mr. Thompson is a first se m es- ter 1969 graduate of
Langston
-University. He is a 1905 graduate of Wewoka High School and the
son of Mr. and M rs. Homer Thompson of Wewoka.
WITH SOUTHE
PAGE 8—THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE—JUNE, 1969
The Upward Bound P rogram began on June 2 and will end on
July 25. This su m m er many of the students will learn
valuable
skills . But when they’re not in c lass they explore. .’tojV'-if
you
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THINKING"ABOUT HOME.
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CHATTING HRTWPPY n i.A K S P s CANINES ARE FRIENDLY AI
LANQSTON.
(Photos by Upward Bound students)
Langston University