North Carolina Central University - Eagle Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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ALL I NEED IS A SEAT NOW! SINGER KEITH SWEAT, WHO SINGS I WANT HER, POSES WITH STUDENTS

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Due to circumstances beyond the present yearbook staff ' s con- trol, our family here at N.C.C.U. has gone without an annual for four years. As a result many have lost faith in the yearbook staff thus choosing not to be photographed in this years annual. However, under the direction of Miss Sonji Black, Editor-in-Chief and Miss Angelyn Adams, Co-Editor, this years staff has been able to produce two annuals, 1985-86 and 1987-88 within a six month period. We hope that we have taken steps in the right direction in restoring the confidence of our family here at N.C.C.U. Cordially yours, 1987-88 Yearbook Staff

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THE HISTORY OF NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY North Carolina College at Durham. For a brief period, an interim committee directed the school. Dr. Alfonzo Elder became the institutions second president. Under Dr. Elder, the institution continued to grow. Most of the new buildings on the campus date to Dr. Elder ' s administration. Dr. Elder who retired in 1963, continued his affiliation with the institution as its president emeritus, until his death in 1974. Dr. Samuel Proctor Massie was president for the period 1963-1966. In 1966, he joined the faculty of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Again in a transition, an interim committee assumed the functions of the chief administrative officer until Dr. Albert N. Whiting became president in 1967. In 1969, the institution became North Carolina Central University, one of the sixteen tax-supported institution of higher education which compose the University of North Carolina System. Dr. Whiting has established an Academic Skills Center, a four year nursing program, an elementary education program with emphasis on competency- based training, programs in jazz and sacred music, in public administration, in criminal justice and in media journalism. The University offers the bachelor ' s degree in twenty-seven areas in the arts and sciences and the master ' s degree in business, and the juris doctor and bachelor of laws degrees, and the master ' s of library science degree. North Carolina Central University was established in 1910 by Dr. James E. Shepard as the National Training School and Chautaugua. Unlike many predomi- nately black universities which are now state-supported. Dr. Shepard ' s school was not denominationally affiliated. The founder was active in the Chautaugua and in the International Sunday School Association movement. It was from that ecumenical perspective that he established a school with many purposes, this institution provided secondary education, trade courses, short courses for church workers and baccalaureate programs in the classics and the sciences. The school suffered many financial hardships. In 1915, after bankruptcy proceedings were solved, the Institution was recognized as the National Training School with its program primarily that of a secondary academy, although college level degrees were offered. In 1923, Dr. Shepard faced the choice of affiliating with a denomination for support, or seeking state assistance. He chose the second option, and the school became the Durham State Normal School. Two years later it became the North Carolina College for Negroes to receive state support. In 1939, still under the leadership of Dr. Shepard, the school was authorized to offer graduate and professional programs. The graduate school was opened that fall, the law school in 1940, and the school of library science in 1941. By the time of Dr. Shepard ' s death in 1947, the institution had grown to a $4,000,000.00 enterprise of considerable stature. One year later, it became the -ifc • - i: ' O