East Carolina University - Buccaneer Tecoan Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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Reflects the Light Spreading the fame of East Carolina College, athletic teams compete in championship contests and post-season bowl games. Colleges throughout much of the United States have felt the power of the Pirates. Light from the East Carolina Polaris shines not only on physical excellence but also on the attempt to maintain good physical health. Knowing that the strong must help the weak, students meet the call for donors when the Red Cross Blood- mobile comes to the campus. The college has received the grati- tude of thankful recipients of the blood. Preliminary steps to- ward the eventual establishment of a Medical School are now in the making as the college continues to cast its influence over the land. • bssi

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F m m SiSvt $ . T?%M Il S« t w? i dMb -U LL rf± - ' lB IC frf T or 0| • • • Each Student College has as one of its functions the bringing together of people from many different sections of the country and from all social levels. To those who have not been members of any group, college offers the opportunity to meet and to work with people with similar interests and tastes. Students gather at the soda shop and at dances to meet new people and to talk to old friends. Fraternities offer the chance to know a group well and to work for that group and for the college. Having found his group, the student is now ready to begin working for humanity. Through the social beam of the college, he learns to help not only the school but also the community around the campus. Many students take their aptitude for radio broadcasting into other towns and add their contribution to the local stations. The AFROTC holds an annual Marchathon to collect money for the March of Dimes, and the campus radio station devotes time each year to broadcasting for UNICEF. As students have begun to realize the importance of contributing socially to mankind, several of them have joined the North Carolina Volunteers to help people in the depressed areas of the state. mm i

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Board of Trustees Spends Long Hours Sealed: W. A. Blount, H. Oglesby, Mrs. T. Sanford, and F. Bahnson. F. McCoy, T. Dodson, I. E. Carlyle, Dr I.. W. Jenkins, Senator R. Morgan, J. Whitfield, H. Belk, Mrs. H. Belk, East Carolina College ' s Board of Trustees is not simply an average group of people; they are men and women who have chosen to support the College in every way possible. They believe in its future, and they want to help in its expansion. They are helping the College now. The Board of Trustees is composed of people with every type of background and every kind of interest. Their occupations are varied; they are active in almost every conceivable type of organization or group. The Trustees are appointed by the Governor of North Carolina for staggered eight-year terms. The ma- jority of these Trustees already have quite a few years of active service behind them. East Carolina has a versatile and richly-experi- enced Board to guide and direct its daily growth, a Board of men and women who not only can help but who want to help. R. F. McCoy and Senator Bob Morgan begin looking ahe ' ad.