Johnson C Smith University - Golden Bull Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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Roland Erwin President Pecola Abraham Vice President STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS Ruby Tillmar Hamilton, Jo Robert Winston, Eddie Moon les Walker. Robert Wells, Angeline Elliot, DeThursta The Student Council is an organization, composed of student representatives based on the belief of faculty and students that there are educational, social, and moral values in student participation and self direction and on the desire of students to develop and maintain high ideals of conduct, to co-operate effectively with the administration and fac- ulty in holding high standards of citizenship and scholarship in the University.

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enlo- Pn.o-fikecif. I can hardly believe that ten years ago we were graduated from Johnson C. Smith. How- ever, the class of 1956 just had its class re- union and what a joy to see so many members of that class. As I boarded the plane in Las Vegas for Charlotte, I rec ognized some familiar faces. Thomas Bryant was the pilot and Margaret Thomas, Pearl Pitts and Susie McGill were stewardesses on the plane. I recognized George Cunningham and Carol Deloatch. Carol is a pediatrician now practicing in Cali- fornia. I proceeded to read the paper that I bought at the airport. I see here that Pecola Abraham is journalist for the New York Times. She has written a very interesting article about the work that James Brown and Mary Etta Booker are doing in Chungkin, China and New Delhi, India. She mentions also that Robert Blanks is in Germany working for U.N.E.S.C.O. At last we are in Charlotte and believe it or not, but the campus hasn ' t changed a bit. The first person I recognized was Nellie Flem- ing. Nellie tells me that she and Muriel Dock- ery, Mary Dorsey, Jane Love and Ernestine Rowe are working in Chicago at a school for delinquent girls. Many of our classmates went into the teaching profession. Dwight Caldwell is prin- cipal at Green Elementary School in Jackson, Miss. Working with Dwight ore Wilhelmina Page, Reother Forbes, Hiram Holland, and Laura Gibson. From Mississippi to California we find Smithites working to train young minds. Roy Mcllwain serves as Assistant Principal at Double Oaks Elementary School in Riverside, Calif. Under his fine leadership we find Car- rie Hill, Barbara Medford, Margaret Smoot, Tayioria Stroud, and Bessie Graham. Some remained in Charlotte to do deeds for humanity. William Partlow, James Griffin, and Eugene Poole have certainly developed a terrific football team at Smith. Oscar Thomas, James Colson, Hayden Renwick are also mem- bers of the Smith Faculty, while Roland Erwin serves as School Doctor. In Charlotte we also find many Smithites teaching. Those in the class of ' 56 are: Frances Davis, Willie Smith, Mildred Walker, Mildred Harris, Irie Stephens, Mary McAfee, Nell Brogden and Carolyn Garrison. Some of the class went into business. Juan- ita Wideman is a Beauty Culturist at El Paso, Texas; Robert Wells, Lawyer; William Banks, Vice President of the Union Bank in Tusca- loosa, Alabama; Beatrice Taylor, Physical Therapist; Thad Rhodes; Novelist; Leon Wat- kins, Psychologist; William Rodgers, Doctor; Frances Jackson, Fashion Designer; Rose Cob- iness, Literary Critic; Woddell Johnson, Pub- lisher; Frank Gaither, Mortician; Walter Wil- liams, Singer; Edison Towe, Football Coach; Helena Sammons, Painter; Lester Wade, Mathematician; Lunell Jackson, Social Work- er; Delia Joggers, Historian; Betty Young, Poet; Shirley Williams, Educator; Robbie Walker, Physicist; Josiah Washington, Social Worker; Evelyn White, Teacher; Edna Strong, Model; Doug Spears, Baseball Manager; Ar- thur Slade, Biologist; Audrey Russell, Teacher; Roosevelt Pierce, Chemist; Julia Nelson, Sec- retary; Ernest James, Principal; Beverly Kelly, Actress; Paul Ledbetter, Newspaperman; James Lewis, Lawyer; Ralph Hunt, Mathema- tician; Harold Holt, Brain Surgeon; Constance Hill, French Writer; Althea Harris, Registered Nurse; William Harris, Minister; Frances Gamble, Teacher; Janie Freeman, Social Writer; James Davis, Interpreter; and Mamie Clements, Librarian. It mokes me very happy to see so many of us have succeeded and accomplished the things that we hove been striving for. To the class of 1956 God Bless You one and all.