North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship NCAT Student Newspapers Digital Collections 5-2-1978 The Register, 1978-05-02 North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister Recommended Citation North Carolina Agricutural and Technical State University, "The Register, 1978-05-02" (1978). NCAT Student Newspapers. 753. https://digital.library.ncat.edu/atregister/753 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collections at Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in NCAT Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Aggie Digital Collections and Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE4-5 REGISTER 'COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT" VOLUME XLIX NUMgEP. 56 NORTH CAPOLINA AGPICULTUPAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNrVEPSITY GPEFNSPPIO. N. C. TirRSOAY MAY 2 1978 Early Freshman Jitters Push Hawkins To Top When Herman Hawkins entered A&T State Universi­ ty four years ago, he says he was "afraid of failing." A quick glance at his col­ lege grades, however, makes one wonder about his ap­ prehension, for Hawkins swept through A&T with on­ ly one grade lower than an A and that was a B in his first semester in college. For his efforts, this young man who grew up on a farm in Louisburg, has been nam­ ed the top graduating stu­ Herman Hawkins dent. His overall average is a Photo By Person commendable 3.977 on the Johnnie Whitlock sings to a tearful but happy Edna Davis,Miss Black America Greensboro(See 4.0 point scale. also had my school teacher story page 3). "I really didn't expect to aunts around, and they could do this well in college," said help me with the math or the Hawkins, who majored in English if I ran into a pro­ electrical engineering. "I blem." was somewhat afraid of fail­ Hawkins, who grins ing because I had done so broadly when he talks about Gordon Can Work With Admin. well in high school." "priming tobacco and husk­ Hawkins also finished first ing corn" back on the farm, in his class at Louisburg says he thinks that hard farm By Maxine McNeill agriculture business (hor­ with the administration, I High School, but he had work helped him do well in "In working with the ticulture) major said that he know all of the underhanded made a few more B's in the college. Men's Council, I found out learned how to deal with the tricks used in the past to go high school work then he did "All my life I was used to that I can work with the ad­ administration through his around and over the ad­ in college. hard work," he said. "Both ministration or against the past experiences. He also ministration (or certain levels "My grandmother was a physical work and mental administration," said said, however, that he knows of the administration)," great influence on my mak­ work require a lot of concen­ Richard Gordon, the student how to work around the ad­ Gordon said. ing good grades," said tration." government association ministration. Though there have been Hawkins. "She always told Hawkins entered A&T on president elect. "If it comes to the place various rumors circulated as me that good grades were a Sloan Foundation Gordon who is an that I no longer can work to why Gordon ran for the great and that inspired me. 1 (See Hawkins, Page 2) office of SGA president, he said, "I ran because I felt As Miss A&T that it was time for someone to run who is concerned with the student body and the overall.objectives of A&T." Breeze Promises To Remain Herself It has been customary for the SGA presidents to choose By Larry L. Jenkins A senior architectural Hillsborough native. a theme for the year but,like "I plan to remain the per­ engineering major, Ms. "I am happy because I this year's president, Gordon son that I am," stated Breeze wasbornunderthe sign have won and know that the chose not to do so. He said Paulette Breeze, the newly of Cancer. One students have confidence in (See Gordon, Page 6) elected Miss A&T. Ms. characteristic that Cancers me," said the lovely Miss Breeze feels that students possess is that they are true A&T-elect. Realizing that elected her for 'herself and, friends. "I am used to com­ she won by a very sizable Walter Johnson therefore, she wants to re­ municating with people; I margin, Ms. Breeze said that main that way. love it," stated the this gives her a good feeling. To Receive .Alumni Award Greensboro Atty. Walte; T. Johnson, Jr., who A&TToGiveHonorary Degrees formerly served as chairman of the Greensboro Board of Paulette Breeze Education, has been selected By Cheryl D. Brown was selected in January to be Smith is the former dean to receive the annual A&T A&T State University will one of the first Black of the technical institute here Asked what she thinks State University Alumni Ex­ hold its 87th annual bac­ astronaut candidates. at A&T, serving from 1951 to Miss A&T should represent, cellence Award. calaureate -commencement McNair, a 1971 graduate, 1967. Smith also holds a Ms. Breeze said, "Miss A&T The award will be exercises Sunday, May 7, in won a fellowship to attend master's degree from the should represent grace, presented by Dr. Lewis C. the Greensboro Colisuem. Massachusetts Institute of University of Michigan. He poise, and a charming Dowdy, chancellor, during This year A&T will award Technology where he has organized several disposition. But, above all, the university's 87th annual Honorary Degrees to three earned a Ph.D in laser organizations in North she should represent in­ commencement exercises physics. Carolina, some of these be­ graduates ofthe university. telligence." Sunday, May 7, at 11 a.m. in Samuel Cooper Smith and ing the N.C. High School In­ To be awarded a doctor of Focusing on the 1978-79 the Greensboro Coliseum. Harold Webb will be award­ dustrial Student Organiza­ school year, Ms. Breeze A distinguished A&T laws degree will be Dr. ed a doctor of humanities tion, American Youth In- hopes that the SGA, along alumnus (class of 1961), Ronald McNair. McNair degree. (See Gov., Page 6) (See Breeze, Page 7) (See Johnson, Page 5> Page 2 THE A&T REGISTER Tuesday, May 2, 1978 Ms. Bright's Restlessness Ends After 45 Years For A&T State Univer­ although "we didn't feel After that, Miss Bright my troop ship bound for the New York as a social services sity's Miss Jean Bright, the poor." was off to New York for a South Pacific. investigator. restlessness is gone. Miss Bright worked her year.i Then she came back to She served as a recreation Miss Bright began teaching At the end of this month, way through A&T with a North Carolina where she specialist with the Red Cross at A&T in 1951 and has been Miss Bright will be ending a variety of housework and taught in Orange and Jones in the jungles of New Guinea at the university since then 45-year teaching career, in­ babysitting jobs. counties. and the Philippines. except for brief leaves to at­ cluding 27 years at A&T, "I was in college one "I was still restless," she "I was in Manila the day tend graduate school at Col­ teaching English. quarter.. - and out one remembers; "and after two the Americans dropped the umbia University and the She says that it was a ge­ quarter: and the only time I years I went to Washington, first atomic bomb in Japan," University of North Carolina nuine restlessness which sent went a full year was my D.C,to work in the Pen­ she said. at Chapel Hill. her from a farm life in North senior year," she said. tagon as a publications After the war, Miss Bright Upon retirement, she said Carolina's mountain country Even with this irregular at­ editor." worked in a New York City she is going back to her to a variety of interesting tendance, she managed to In 1943, it was back to settlement house for a while, grandfather's farm. jobs across the world. complete work in four years Greensboro as a recreation then shifted to the student "I won't raise cotton," Her teaching began in a by attending classes in the worker.Then a year later, she bookstore at Harvard she said with a smile, "but one-room school in Ruther­ summer. found herself on a U.S. Ar­ University. She returned to that is where I want to be." ford County. "I was just 17 and I was actually using my salary to finish paying for my After you get your degree, you can take a number... last year in high school. I had to pay to attend a private high school in Asheville because there was no school in my county for Blacks." Miss Bright taught 45 students there, but calls the one-room experience, "hor­ rible, miserable, pot-bellied stove and all." After leaving what she calls "the cotton-picking farm," Miss Bright entered A&T. That was in 1935-not the best of times. She says her family was poor Or you can take charge Hawkins Feels Grades Represent Success (Continued From Page 1) engineering scholarship. He thinks that grades represent success because they are a measure of how well a person can compete with others.