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Langston University Digital Commons @ Langston University LU Gazette, 1960-1969 LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) 6-1969 The aG zette June 1969 Langston University Follow this and additional works at: http://dclu.langston.edu/ archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969 Recommended Citation Langston University, "The aG zette June 1969" (1969). LU Gazette, 1960-1969. Book 24. http://dclu.langston.edu/archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969/24 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]. Xangston University Gazette VOLUME 31 NUMBER 2 LANGSTON UNIVERSITY , LANGSTON, OKLAHOMA JUNE, 1969 Dr. Wall Langston Receives Attends Institute f-E Accreditation Dr. Ephraim Wall, professor of Physical Science at Langston University, will be a participant Langston University President William H. Hale announced in the Summer Institute in Saturday the full and complete accreditation of the Uni Modern Physics at the Uni versity by the National Council f6r Accreditation of Teacher versity of Maryland. The in Education. ■ stitute is conducted under the The official announcement was made by Dr. Rolf W. provision of the National Science Larson, Director of the NCATE Office of Washington,. Foundation. D.C. The Council is the National accrediting agency for The participants will work programs in Teacher Education offered by Institutions in modern Physics, with special of Higher Education. application of the quantim Students from accredited Institutions enjoy full faith and mechanics and special re credit in teaching employment in other states. This lativity. Laboratory facilities means that the employment process of Langston students at Maryland U. Physics Depart as teachejs in other states will be accelerated kince the ment will be»,utilized. Prob quality of education received at the University has the lems for study will include the approval of this National accrediting Council. measurement of the speed of Since September 1, 1965, Langston University has had light radioactive decay of provisional accreditation by this body. In the fall of 1968, Isopophes, and atomic spectis- the Institution was again visited by a Review Committee copy. A seminar in methods ;and the results of this recent visitation is the full and of teaching Physics is included. complete accreditation for the balance of the ten-year period The Institute will start June ending 1973-74. 33 and close August 15. Langston University’s teacher education program pre pares both elementary and secondary school teachers. MRS. KENDALL IN SPAIN “We are extremely pleased over this good news,” said President Hale, “ for it means so much to our graduates Mrs. Elizabeth Kendall, in who plan to enter the teaching profession. The hard and structor of Modern Languages dedicated work performed by the faculty in rapidly and at Langston University, will markedly improving the University’s entire program is return from Spain late in June. indeed a latter day miracle. The faculty and I view this She is attending a two-week work achievement not as an end, but as further encouragement'^ shop in Madrid, Spain. DR. WILLIAM H. HALE, president of Langston University,(left), to expend all our energies in the great cause of education She left Oklahoma City by presents Cortez Hamilton a 1969 Lion Yearbook^ The yearbook for our students.” plane two weeks ago and visited was dedicated to the former Langston professor. Hamilton retired in London and P aris before going in 1962. He s te r tr r l at Mi in 1933 and served as iifofessor and to Madrid. chairman of the Biology Department. He is a resident ofT anpston. (LU Photo) Federation Plan* Meet At Langston Cluster Meeting Exetta Gorman of Wewoka; The 59th annual meeting of Together Toward New national president Mrs. the Oklahoma State Federation Horizons of Faith, Friendship, Myrtle Allison of Oklahoma of Colored W omen’s Clubs will and Freedom. A Cluster Plan meeting will for the continued development City; Dr. Larzette G. Hale, be in session at Langs ton Uni be held July 15 at Langston of the University and improve lirectoieof Lang'.ton Univer versity June 22-2-1. Mrs. Elizabeth, Koonts, ,tlf ment of communication system sity Public Relations and De University. Dr. William H. tin Department >f Labor, Hale, president at Langston, and for better understanding of each velopment. AH general session-, will Washington, D.C., will be James P. Jones, director of other’s responsibilities and in Dr. Willa Strong, princi be held in Recital Hall of the guest sneaker. recruitment and placement .for crease employment for minority pal of I/Overture High School mvsie building, Hargrove Also attending will be im Phillips Petroleum Co., Jire/ graduates. at McAlester is president. Hall. The theme is' Forward mediate past president Mrs. co-chairmen of the executive Plans for Progress designed committee of the College- the Cluster concept to bring Industry Cluster Program. to minority colleges a group Purpose of the Cluster Plan effort on the part of business is to bring together industry to help analyze and identify pro and educators to provide a gram areas for cooperation. setting for cooperative efforts Attending A:rt School V.. Mr. Wallace Owens, assis York by plane on June 16 on a tant professor of Art at Lang non-stop flight to Lisbon. He ston University, is attending an plans to visit Spain and then go art school in Paris, France, to Paris where he will enroll this summer. He left New at the art school. Langston Tells Alumni.Qfficer Melvin McClellan, a 19G9 Langston University graduate, lias been named Alumni Relations officer at'LU, Dr. William 11. Hale, president, announced today. McClellan replaces Clifford Wallace wjjo resigned. The new alumni officer attended all four years at Langston and •graduated Cum Laude. He was on the honor roll six of the eight semesters. The 22-year-old native of Wichita, Kan., was vice presi- "dent of the student senate, vice president of Panhellenic Council, member/Of Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society and presi dent of his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. He lettered in base Federation to rv\eet ball his freshman year. A graduate of Wichita, Kan., East High School, he partici I pated in basketball and baseball. He is the son of Mrs., _Maymie MeClellan of Wichita. NfcClellan received a 3.S. degree in social science arid did MAKING PLANS 'Joi the Oklahoma State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs meeting at Langston tns practice teaching his senior year at Harding Junior High University Jnhe 22-24, are Gladys Johnson (left) of the Langston University Public Relations Depart in Oklahoma C~ity>» ment and Mrs. Amelia R. Taylor, program'chairman. (LU Photo) PAGE 2—THE LANGSTON UNIVERSITY GAZETTE—JUNE, 1969 1969 GRADUATES-The I.W. Young Auditorium was packed for the Langston University graduation GRADUATION SPEAKER—Dr. William H. Hale, president of exercises. A total of 181 students received degrees. A Langston University, and Dean McGee, chairman of Kerr-McGee, are pictured at the 1969 graduation exercises. Mr. McGee gave the commencement address. Students Present Discussion, OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES ( Demonstration at Ardmore S o c i e t y ELEMENTARY Education siudents presented methods of teaching were discussed and demon a discussion and demonstration on preschool ed strated. Significant principles underlying the or- ucation at a parents’ study group at Washing ganizaf u end vlmi m stration of pre-eKm?ni uy ton School, Ardmore, Oklahoma, .U.vii :i 1959. Tin discussion included *h.e characteristics, needs s.iiio >ls were also brought out. A very stimu and interests of yosogiv miildren. Suggested lating question and answer pert jj fy, j. H o n o r s The audience was quite impressed with the charts, posters and German Club Picnic wealth of other materials developed by the students and D u n j e e used in the course of the dis- cussion. The German Club held its an Jam es Jaynes and Mrs. Kendall. of Colored Poopir. made Members of the parents study nual picnic May 1. ThJs cele A port rail of the hi ir arrangements for the por ***** group and school administrators brates the abolitionof witches on Roscoe Dunjee. leng-rime trait. which was painted On May 3, Mrs. Kendall attend of Ardmore commended the LU. April 30, Walpurgisnacht in Ger civil rights lea.dcr and by Mrs. James L. Oxford. ed a Foreign Language meeting administration and faculty for de many, by keeping bonfires alight founder of The .Black Dis Presentation of the por in the Center of Continuing Edu veloping and maintaining a pro that night. patch. newspaper.1" was1 trait was made by Dr. cation and later attended the re gram. They expressed high re The picnic was held east of presented io the stair-? Dowell in the April cere ception of Dr. L'eo Bernards of gard of the L.U. administration Guthrie in the home of John Ed in April to hang in ihe of- monies opening the histori New York City; president of and faculty for developing and gar, assisted by Mrs. Kendall, . ficial portrait gallery at cal society's 77th annual HCTFL for the U.S. Also at maintaining a program that pre instructor. the State Historical Socie meeting. - s tending the session were Miss pares students of this calibre. The group roasted wieners ser ty building. Gov. B an let i accepted ved with pumpernickel. Following Mary HArdick and D r. Victor Pons. It will be the first por- bbfVJTortrait for ihe state. the meal, the members partici ?’Dunjpc. the son of an es pated in games, took pictures ZETA BETA CHAPTER ****** caped slave, was born in and winding the Maypole.