Langston University Digital Commons @ Langston University LU Gazette, 1960-1969 LU Gazette (Student Newspaper) 12-1966 The aG zette December 1966 Langston University Follow this and additional works at: http://dclu.langston.edu/ archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969 Recommended Citation Langston University, "The aG zette December 1966" (1966). LU Gazette, 1960-1969. Book 6. http://dclu.langston.edu/archives_gazette_newspaper_19601969/6 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 XXIX NUMBER TWO LANGSTON UNIVERSITY, LANGSTON, OKLAHOMA DECEMBER, 1966 Langston Homecoming Gets Dorm Greatest Loan Nod Ever! Dr. William Hale, Langston University president, Saturday Homecoming at Langston Uni­ started preparing a formal ap- versity was a big event, people pllcatton for a $3.2 million loan came from all over the nation to to build two new dormitories assemble and meet old friends at and family housing on the cam­ their old alma Mater. pus. It all started Wednesday night, The money has been earmark­ October 26 in the I. W. Young ed for the Logan county institu­ Auditorium, when the Four Fr& tion by the Department of Hous­ shraan, a popular song group ing and Urban Development came to our campus for a con­ (HUD). A preliminary applica­ cert A fine performance was tion for the loan was made in presented by the four talented October, 1964. artists. Dr. Hale said toe application, Thursday night, October 27, part of a massive capital im­ in the I. W. Young Auditorium provement program slated for the lovely Isabel Gardener, a the school, must be submitted senior from Lawton, Oklahoma, Miss Isabell Gardner (center), "Miss Langston”, Is officially crowned by the President of the to HUD by next Feb. 16. was crowned Miss iimgston. University, Dr. William H. Hale. Pictured with Miss Gardner are members of the Royal Court Included in toe loan are plans After the crowning of MtssLang- which was comprised of sweethearts of campus organizations. ston the Cornation Ball was held for a 300-man and 300-woman in the William H. Hale Student dormitory along wtto bousing for Union. The attractive queens and Twunty-Six Studunts 36 student families. their escorts made this affair an "Our enrollment now is 1,279” , Dr. Hale said, "com­ enjoyable evening. R u c u i v u pared with 645 when I came here Friday night, October 28th a pep rally and bon fire was held Who'* Who Award in 1960. Some of our facilities to cheer the Langston lions on are old and outmoded. We de­ finitely are overcrowded. to victory. This was a thrilling The names of twenty-six Lang­ Information' on enrollment occasion because many of the ston University students have must be sumitted to HUD along alumni arrived and joined the been chosen to appear in the with preliminary legal and archi­ University Students in the rally. 1966-67 edition of Who's Who tectural plan. If the money is (continued on page 4) Among Students in American U- loaned, it covers 100 per cent Diversities and Colleges. To re­ ceive this nonor, students must of building costs with a 40-year repay period. Faculty Mum bar have a three point average or above, possess leadership abilitv - * Racaivas Award in acadmeic and extracurricular Student fees along with room activities, be of service to the qharges are expected to retire institution and show promise of Barbara Hall toe loan. future usefulness. ‘And It Takes Determination” Students who have met these Langston University had a re­ qualifications are;' Dayle Ald­ ridge, a senior, majoring inEng- cordmong enrollmentthe persons this enrolled year. canA- g A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM DR. HALE lish from TaftjMarcell Buckner, be found two extraordinary indi- a senior mathematics major viduals. They are both confined. * from Hugo; Brenda Carr, a sen- ta wheel chairs, but happy. One $ tor elementary education major of them, Miss Barbara C. Hall, * from Boley, Alice Strong Davis, was interviewed for the Gazette # IMS* a junior elementary reducatloif a#for hor . ft major from Tatums; JorryDrl- "rst mon“' her a* I ver, a junior chemistry major Miss Hall, a native Tulsan, s LANGSTON UNIVERSITY from Sand Springs; Velchal LANGRTON, OKLAHOMA was born twenty-one years ago. » Evans, a junior and an English 73050 She has been confined to a wheel ft (Continued on Page 2) chair, because of a back injury, £ since the age of twelve. Barbara m seems to have been the daughter 5 TO ALL ALUMNI, FORMER STUDENTS AND FRIENDS: Notod Author Visits of misfortune. Her father died 4 when she was a small child of ft John w. Coleman As we enter the Christmas season with its glad tidings and its Ralph Ellison, noted writer, three. Her mother deceased the"' ft promise of a new and better world, our hearts reach out to a ll who ' Congratulations are extended was a guest on toe campus dur­ year that she was confined. Her j| are, or have been in any way, associatea^vith Langston University. ing his recent visit to Oklahoma. grandfather has also passed. As u s to Dr. Jno. W. Coleman who re­ To those who are passing, or have passed, through its portals ceived the Distinguished Alumnus He was one of three Oklahoma an only child she now resides S on their respective ways to a productive life to those yvKb have Award from Bishop College on natives who accepted Governor in North Tulsa , with her loving y become interested in the welfare of the institution, we extdnd waimesf November 12. Bellmon’s invitation to return to grandmother,'Mrs. H.O. Vaden. ^ greetings and the hope that the New Year w ill indeed be a brave one filled with all those things which you most desire. Dr. Coleman was given this the capital city and launch "Show- Barbara, a member of the First * honor from his Alma Mater in case '67”, a year-long festival Baptist Church, is a fervent be- As we appioach the New Year, let us do so in the spirit of the appreciation for having achieved of the arts designed to celebrate never iq the divine personality ji long-forgotten writer who said: distinction in earning the doc­ toe 60th anniversary of toestate- of God, and of her m isfortunes'1? torate degree (Ed.D.) and for his And I said to the Man who stood contribution to the field of edu­ ?°.vi w m auth°r . she says, "Often I have beendis- § at the gate of the year visible Man”, a work which has couragfd, but faith of God has * Give me light that I might tread cation. received the National Book Award safely into the unknown He served at the Oklahoma kept me going.” And he said to me for fiction, the Russwurm Award, School of Religion, Langston, Miss Hall, through high school 'Go out into the darkness and from 1944 until the School closed and was deslgMMfc in 1965' by place your hand in the hand of God counselors and self-initiative, * That shall be for you bqfter in 1962, accepting the deanship the Book W eek^H|£"toe most has come thus far in completing than a lig h t in 1952. Over 300 persons have distinguished singtMrork pub­ And safer than a known way .' her education. In M of 1963, felt the influence of his teach­ lished in the past 20 years.” i f f she graduated from Central High With every good wish, I am ing and counsel during the years His latest work, "Shadow and School of Tulsa. Her school couiW of his tenure and products of the Act” , is described as a "new Sincerely yours, School are serving all over the literary triumph,” selers encouraged her to, in her " ' world as trained Christian work­ words„"utilize my assets aqd While oh campus, Mr. Elli- ers. continue my growth.” And so she / ----,1-/4 / y « l ; son spoke to faculty and stu­ W illia m H . Hale dents at a special assembly, re­ did. President Dr. Coleman has been on the Barbara comes to Langston as ceiving a standing ovation; was faculty at Langston University a junior transfer student from since 1950, serving presently as lecturer at a seminar for Eng* University Chaplain and Chair­ lish instructors and majors; and OklahomaState University.There man of the Department of Social • she was a member of toe Al- Science. (continued on page 3) (continued on page 7) ^ J s Students N am ed To W ho's W ho Dayle Aldridge Brenda Carr Marcell Buckner Alice S. Davis James Gilyard Jerry Driver Charlesetta Henry William Pollard Veichal Evans Erma Johnson Joyce Johnson James Glover Marsha Swain Ruth Sypert Daniel Jacobson William Huling * Margaret Williams - p ortia White Donald White Nell Turner , 0 Gloria Vaughan' Donald Scott Wlllianne Hughey James Northcutt Rose Thompson (Continued from pg. 1) Hughey,senior bookkeeping maj­ a senior biology major from Ok­ business administration major; major from Oklahoma City; Rose or irom Memphis^Tennessee lahoma City; Donald Scott, a jun­ Portia White, a junior from Gamble Thompson, a junior hisvs Daniel Jacobson, a senior bio* ctor from Oklahoma City and a Clearview and, a mathematics tory major from Lubbard, Tex*> logy major from Woodward, sociology major; Marsha Swain, major; and Margaret Williams as; James Glover, a junior from Erma Johnson, a senior elemen­ a senior elementary education a -senior-sent from Haskell and an Sands' Springs and a mathema­ tary education major from Mar­ major from Detroit, Michigan; English major.