Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 5-11-1960 The aB tes Student - volume 86 number 23 - May 11, 1960 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 86 number 23 - May 11, 1960" (1960). The Bates Student. 1346. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1346 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "Twelfth Night 3 5 /6^ MAY 12. 13, 14 *hates Student Vol. LXXXVI, No. 23 BATES COLLEGE, LEWISTON, MAINE, MAY 11, 1960 By Subscription CA Sponsors Speaker fry j)ay Approaches; On Segregation Issue Dr. Daniel Whitsett, minister of the Harvard-Epworth Committeemen Plan Methodist Church in Cambridge. Massachusetts, will speak under the auspices of the larger cabinet of the Christian As- sociation in the Chase Hall ballroom this evening at 7:30. Speakers Take Talking on a general topic* zens' committees, received bomb Important Role suggested to him by the C.A.. A threats, and saw his home en- "Preparations for Ivy Day are Southerner Speaks His Mind. Dr. circled by Klansmen." Whitsett "is expected to present coming along smoothly," com- from his own experience a pic- Having this speaker appear at mented Peter Achorn '61, Pro- ture of the actual human situa- Bates "is part of an effort on the part of sincerely interested stu- gram Committee Chairman for tion in the fight for racial inte- Ivy Day 1960 which will be held gration." remarked Peter Ber- dents who hope to underline the tocci '60. "He will also attempt segregation issue which has cur- in the Chapel at 9 a.m. May 16. to give us an understanding of rently been evidenced by sit-in Working as chairmen on Ivy Day the social, moral, and legal im- and picketing movements Committees and in conjunction plications of the situation and throughout the nation," contin- ued Bertocci. "The same students with Achorn are: George Good- tell us what it means to be in- all '61, Dance Committee Chair- volved in this experience as a hope to continue their efforts in man; Channing Wagg '61, Pub- white man." After his talk there bringing this problem to the at- will be a question period. tention of others by engaging licity Committee Chairman, and another speaker at a later date Bradley Butler '61, Ivy, Plaque Receives Threats and by campaigning during the and Ode Committee Chairman. Bertocci stated that Dr. Whit- week of May 15-22 for funds to sett, former minister of a Meth- be sent to the Legal Defense and Cites Committees odist Church in Sylacauga, Ala- Education Fund, "Committee" of 1. to r. Peter Achorn '61, Bradley Butler '61, George Goodall These men and their commit- bama, "has been an outspoken the National Association for the '61, Channing Wagg '61, Committee Chairmen, consider de- tees have been planning the Ivy leader for integration in the Advancement of Colored People South. As a result of his attempt for the aid of nearly 1600 stu- tails of Ivy Day. photo by Williette Day exercise and Ivy Dance to hold bi-racial meetings and dents who are facing legal since late February when the religious services, Dr. Whitsett charges for their action in pro- committees were selected. The was persecuted by white citi- testing against segregation." Dance Committee has secured Davis Explains Spring Bob Batchelder and his band for Ivy Dance while the other three Dr. Okeke Presents Plan committees have worked on Ivy Weekend; And Meals Day speakers and the program For Nigerian Hospitals Plans have been completed for the Spring Weekend in con- which involves plaque and ode. The speaker at the Monday as-*' junction with the Ivy Dance and Popham Beach Outing Selected by the class of 1961 sembly was Dr. Nloghae Okeke, (May 20-22), Charles Davis '61, chairman of Chase Hall to be speakers for the Ivy Day a Bates graduate of 1951 and a Dance Committee announced today. The weekend will be- exercise were: John Curry '61, Boston University Medical School graduate of 1955.. Dr. Okeke is gin Friday night, May 20, with a jazz concert featuring a Toast to the Coeds; Susan Har- presently chief-resident in sur- Waterville band on the steps of Coram Library. Saturday ris '61, Toast to the Men; Gretch- gery and senior teaching fellow afternoon the Deansmen will sing at the openhouse at en Rauch '61, Toast to the Fac- at Boston University Medical Thorncrag. That night the formal Ivy Dance will be held in ulty, Carol Sisson '61, Toast to School. the Alumni Gym from 8:00-11:45 p.m. Early Sunday morn- the Seniors, James Carignan '61, Born in Nigeria, Dr. Okeke's main interest concerns health in ing, buses will leave for Popham Beach and the Outing Club President's Address; Scott West Africa, specifically in Ni- Clam Bake. During the weekend a campus-community art Brown '61. Toastmaster; Mar- geria. Describing the country, he show, Cape-Cod style, will be held. jorie Sanborn '61, Oration; Jo- said that Nigeria, the largest An added feature of the week- Anita Sawyer '61, Ode. Chosen as country in Africa, has 40 mil- served. No one with a freshman end will be coed dining for Marshal was Steven Bishop '61. lion people plus many more everyone Friday night and Sat- or sophomore ticket will be ad- who have not been counted. The The Ivy Day Ode was written urday noon. Seniors and juniors mitted at Rand and vice versa number of doctors in the Bos- by Jo-Anita Sawyer and the will eat at Rand dining hall, and for juniors and seniors at Com- ton City Hospital is more than plaque was designed by David sophomores and freshmen will mons. the entire number of doctors in Jackson '61. Nigeria, which has only one doc- eat at Men's Memorial Commons. Ticket Exchange Available tor for about two thousand pa- On Friday, May 13, the proctors For those people who would tients, and where people must Dr. Nloghae Okeke will distribute special meal tic- still travel from fifty to one hun- like to change dining halls, a DEANSMEN dred miles to see a doctor. to America in order that Ameri- kets, each bearing the name of ticket exchange service will be Deansmen are taking or- Conditions Last can foreign aid may be used to the student's class, to every available at Rand and Commons ders for their newly cut 10 Such conditions are bound to advantage in Nigeria and so that member of the student body. on a first come first served basis inch, 33 }3 r.p.m. L. P. This continue for many decades, he he may bring part of the Ameri- These tickets must be presented during the evening meal on is a complete album featur- can "way of life" home. said, for the new nations in at each meal in order to be Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday ing seventeen songs. Among Africa have so much to do in all Each Must Serve the selections included on nights, May 15, 17, 19. Tickets areas of education, economics, To do his part in this prob- NOTICE this R.C.A. album are "C'est and politics. To add to their lem, Dr. Okeke has helped create The Outing Club an- for exchange should be turned Si Bon," "Mandy," "Over problems is the fact that these the Nigerian-American hospital nounces that sign-ups will be in and exchanged only at these the Rainbow," "The Bales countries have a relatively low Foundation, whose primary aim taken for the annual Pop- times. Tickets exchanged at other Smoker," and "Climb Every supply of natural resources; a is to build a hospital in which ham Beach Clambake on times will not be given credit on Mountain." Orders and the state such as Maine is probably Nigerian and American doctors money for the album should Thursday, Friday, and Sat- the master-lists of students eat- wealthier than Nigeria, he said. can work together to help the urday of this week. The be in before May 20th if the Therefore, it is up to the Afri- sick and thus help interpret the place to sign-up will be at ing in each dining room and $2.00 offer is to be in effect. can students in America to help character of each nation to the Commons or Rand during those students will not be ad- For later orders the price is interpret the Nigerian situation other. the dinner hour. mitted. $2.50. TWO THE BATES STUDENT, MAY 11. 1960 Atwood, Vollans Receive Henderson, Mees GetJR™Be9ins _ tuna Campaign Cup For WAA Activities Robert Witt '62, publicity Employ merit In France chairman for WRJR, has an- The Women's Athletic Associ- have obtained 125 or more nounced that there will be an ation held its annual banquet on points. Small B's are given to all-campus fund drive from May Monday, May 8. The purpose of those who have achieved at 9 through May 16. The solicitors this banquet was the presenta- least 85 points, and class numer- for this, who will approach each tion of awards to those girls als are given to girls having 40 student in their respective dorms who had attained achievement points of credit in WAA activi- individually, are persons who in athletics.