Langston University Digital Commons @ Langston University LU Gazette, 1960-1969 LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) 5-1966 The aG zette May 1966 Langston University Follow this and additional works at: http://dclu.langston.edu/ archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969 Recommended Citation Langston University, "The aG zette May 1966" (1966). LU Gazette, 1960-1969. Book 8. http://dclu.langston.edu/archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) at Digital Commons @ Langston University. It has been accepted for inclusion in LU Gazette, 1960-1969 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Langston University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Langston University Gazette volume xvn LANGSTON UNIVERSITY. LANGSTON, OKLAHOIIA, MAY 1966 MUIIBER FOUR Langston Faculty to Help Families In Summor Program All County To Benefit Langston • The Langston Uni­ versity faculty Is busily engaged in preparing program and facili­ ties to accomodate 100 youngsters from low-income families who are completing the 10th and Uth Mr. H. Naylor Fltzhugh, vice pre­ grades in high school from Logan sident for Special Markets ft>r the and Oklahoma counties with a Pepsi Cola Bottling Company, view toward Improving their op­ served as guest speaker for the portunity for post-high school University’s annual Career Day. education. The Upward Bound This event Involves high school Program wllllnvloveatwo-montti sentors and Is aimed at pro­ summer session on campus from viding information and inspira­ June 1 to July 29, 1966, and a tion on careers. Aspecialsesston nine-month follow-up period from was held In the afternoon for September 1, 1966 through May prlncli»l8, sponsors and guests. 31, 1967. The areas to be ser­ ved are : (1) Langston - Coyle; (2) Guthrie - Meridian (Faver GranfHelps High School and Guthrie High School); (3) Crescent; (4) Okla­ homa City (Central, Douglass, Instructors Dunjee and Northeast High The Frank L. Weil Institute Schools.) Mrs. Elesta Jones (Center) displays bust of her late husband, Dr. D. C. Jones. Pictured to the for Studies in Religion and the The project is under the Humanities announces the availa­ left of Mrs. Jones is President William H, Hale and to the right, James Roy Johnson and Marshall Economic Opportunity Act and Gamble. bility, again in 1967, of eight (8) Langston University has been summer fellowships, $1,200 approved for a $145,717 grant to each. The summer fellowships Bust Honors conduct the program which will are available for post^ioctoral Langston Advancing be ftilly integrated lath as to faculty memliers to work on a I D. C. Jones faculty and students. publishable paper in the humaiw During the summer sessions, ities (literature, art, history, During the Assembly Program students will be provided aca­ p h llo s^y , etc.) daalli^ with r ^ sponsored by the Industrial Arts Toward SIoanGrant demic experiences each morning ligion; the committee will not and Technical Vocational Club, At the end of April, $13,381.96 worthy of our efforts in this dir­ in the areas of mattiematics, entertain papers dealing with re> a bust of the late Mr. D.C. has been contributed to ttie Lang­ ection. Next year, we will need science, socal science and Eng­ Ilgion only or the humanities only. Jones was presented to the Uni* ston University Development $28,000 in order to provide our lish. The afternoon will be The main purpose of the grant • I versity on behalf of former stu­ Foundation as matching funds share of $260,000 long-term loan given over to workshops in Is to enable the recipient 5>re- dents, New Farmers of America for the $33,333 SLOAN FOUNDA­ and work study funds; $12,000 drama, art and music. Science ferably in the lower academic and friends. Professor Jones TION GRANT. This amount is for scholarships (high school val­ and reading laboratories will also ranks—Instructor and Asslstaitf / served as Teacher-Trainer and considerably short of tiie first edictorians, LUstralght*‘A” stu­ be used in the afternoon. Cul­ Professor) to forego teaching Supervisor of Vocational Agri­ year $35,000 goal to be raised In dents, and other special scholar­ tural activities, field trips, and summer school so as to be able If culture at Langston University order to qualify for two-thrids of ships for needy students); $20,000 other enriching activities are to further his research or writ­ for thirty-six years. The bust will the Sloan funds on the following for Special Education Projects also planned. Saturday clinics ing, In connection with hispaper, be placed in Jones Hall, formerly matching formula: (such as the Freshman Develop­ will be held to provide help with at a location of his choice. The known as the Science and Agri­ $1 from Sloan Foundation for mental Study designed to helD all personal problems In the areas paper should be an entity In culture Building.The building was every $1 contributed by Alumni; freshman accelerate the rate of of (1) how to study, (2) personal Itself and not a segment of a book, renamed in 1964 to commemorate $1 from Sloan Foundation for intellectual and cultural growth; health, (3) family Uvlng and (3) although It may eventually be li^ good grooming and social living. the contribution Mr. Jones has every $2 contributed by others the Freshman Honors Program; (Continued on Page 8) made to hundreds of young men within the state; artists and lecture series;class­ Social activities are planned for influenced by his teaching and $1 from Sloan Foundation for room research In which Iwtti Saturday evenings. Other activities planned for every $3 contributed by others students and faculty members State Hires wise counsel. the summer include a weekly Present for the occasion was outside of state. will participate, expansion of our newspaper to be written by the Mrs. Elesta Jones, widow of The tremendous Increase Inen- development activities and opera­ students under the direction of 7 Classmen Mr. Jones; John Leonard, the rollment this school year and the tion expenses in order to culti­ the faculty; assemblies where the Now that the End of the second sculptor commissioned to fash­ anticipated further increase next vate more foundation and industry students are provided opportunity semester is n ^ r , junior class­ ion the bust; Marshall Gamble, grants, and set up alumni rela­ year presents a pressing need for to partici[jate and communicate men look forward gaining use­ the last NFA State Adviser; Ed more loan and scholarsnip funds tions center with publication ser- ful experiences from summer (Continued on Page 8) Brown, a past NFA Adviser; Wil­ to help needy students who arc (Continued on Page 8) jobs. Seven members of the liam B. Parker, Vocational Agri­ Junior Class will be hired this culture Teacher, Choctaw; James coming summer by the Oklahoma Roy Johnson, Vocational Agri­ State I^epartment to work with culture Teacher, Haskell; and a the Governor's Opportunity Pro- representative group of boys gram, James Northcut, Ruth Sy- from NFA. pert, Scarlet Johnson, Char- lesetta Henry, Joyce Richardson, Dan Guess, and Marcell Buckner Langston Grad will be placed In various govern­ ment agencies throughout the Accepts Post state. The object of the Gov­ ernor’s 0|q)ortunlty Program Is LANGSTON — Mrs. Josephine to acquaint young Oklahomans Oliver, a Langston University with job c^rtunities in the state graduate, has accepted the posi­ and to Interest them In staying tion as head of an Information in Oklahoma to find employment Center in the Glenville Area, after college graduation. Cleveland, Ohio. This year’s juniors look well The Center will be operated by ahead and plan for the future. the Welfare Federation Commute Two such young people are Scar­ ity Information Service with fe(t let Johnson and Ruth Sypert, eral anti-poverty funds. The pur­ who applied to become mem­ pose of the Center is to reach bers of a Foreign Affairs Traiiw more effectively those families log Program to be held at H(v In need of Information and as­ ward University In Waidilng- sistance concerning employment, tlon, D. C., this summer. On counseling, training, child care, February 7 the two young la<W food stamps, and home nursing. Cifring the Awards Day Program held April 24, President WUliam H. Hale (Centtr) presantod les were In Houston, Tens to Mrs. Oliver, who has a grad, trophies and certificates to the Most Representative Senior Woman, Miss Anna Lola WUllams, be interviewed by Represei^ uate degree In social work from and Most Representative Senior Man, Mr. James Mams. Anna Lois Is a music major from (Continued on Page 8) Idabel and James is a product of Sand Springs and a Mabematlcs Major. (Continued on Page S) MAY 1966 Picture f i h News I Around Campus Members of the Committee are: (lett to right) brnest Holloway, Almeda C. Parker, Evelyn Thrower, Mizura C. Allen, Ella Lee Clement, Eric Thrower, Elesta Jones, Gladys Johnson, Booker T. Morgan, and William Parker, President of the local chapter. ■r ( • » « -I Discussing plans with the group sire senator E. Melvin Porter (seated left of President Hale) who provided transportation for the group to take interviews in Oklahoma City; Major Bill Rose, Director of Human Rights Commission and luncheon host to the group (seated to the right of President Hale; and Mr. Samuel M. Hall, Career Development Director, Langston I University. PAGE THREE LANGoTON GAZETTE MAY 1966 Notos Third Annivvnary LANGSTON - The Ungston zenship. University Parents Organization Officers elected at the orgaiv established in 1964 celebrated the ization’s business meeting li^ third anniversary of its founding elude Delbert Burnett, President; by participating in the Univer­ The Reverend Thomas McFra- sity’s annual Parents and Awards zier, Pastor of the Macedonia Day exercises on Sunday, Baptist Church of Muskogee, April 24.