Agricultural and Technical State University - Ayantee Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Dr. [ohn M. Ellison. It-It. thantt-llor ot Virginia Union University whom Dr. Proctor succeeded there in 1955. spoke at the opening inaugural event, a vesper service. He chats with the new A. T. head. DR. WILLIAM C. FRIDAY, left, president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was main speaker at the inauguration of Dr. Proctor, right. In background are Clyde DeHuguley, a marshal and James Graham, trustee. With the reading of the Act of Investiture, Henrv A. Scott, right, trustee, draped the medallion about the shoulders of Dr. Proctor. Thus, a new president had been officially installed. I

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Go Forward with the assurance that you have the enthusiastii support ol every citizen oi North Caro- lina. . . . said the Honorable Terry Sanford, Gov- ernoi ol North Carolina, who brought greetings hum i In- State. My obligations are incalculable . . . . With these wends Dr. Proctor accepted the charge projected by the A. T. College Trustee Board. He listed three formidable frontiers which the College would seek lo achieve. The procession which formed in from of Scotl 1 1. ill included delegates from 140-colleges, universities and learned sin ieties. •■ ■■ — S I l i. i ■ •• ■■ - - I, I. ii ., IE EG E. .. IE i. Ei n. in m tf ■¥ ■■[ ■ '

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Trustee Board members, George H. Sockwell and E. E. Wacklell exchange banter shortly before start ol procession. My parents gave all thai they had . . . , Dr. Proctor said ol his parents Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Proctor. left, ol Norfolk, Va., who came lor the event. Dr. and Mrs. Proctor with |ohn H. Johnson. Chicago publisher ol EBONY, |ET who delivered the luncheon address, look on at the Ball which honored the new president.