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MR. NIGERIA Motivation, psychologists tell us, is the thing that makes the little wheels go around in student heads. When a citizen of Nigeria decides he needs a college education in orderto help his people and, furthermore, that he wants to go to San Francisco State College to get his education, that spells motivation. How did he come here and why? Nwaeze Anyanwu had crossed the Atlantic Ocean, cruised through the Gulf of Mexico, and arrived in New Orleans alone and a stranger. He was not alone very long for he was met by three sets of welcomers--a man from the YMCA, two Nigerian students from Xavier University, and a representative of the Delta Steamship Line. Nwaeze was a stranger with a destination and a goal. He was going to prepare for medical school at San Francisco State College. The col- lege's traditional reputation for friendliness had snatched Nwaeze off a job as sub-inspector of telegraph lines in Nigeria, which is wedged be- tween the African Gold Coast and the equator, hard by French Equatorial Africa. After his graduation from high school, he taught school and worked on the telegraph lines and began saving his money. He also began a search for the right college for him in the United States of America--a college at which he could prepare to study medicine in order to help his people. Somewhere in his abundant reading about the U.S.A. 'he read that the friendliest people in America were found in the West and that decided him. He picked State College because its academic standards were high and would offer him the opportunities he sought and because it was lo- cated in a large, cosmopolitan city. In Lagos, the capital city of Nigeria, he stepped into the office of the American Consul and talked to officials of the Council for African Students in North America. Both CASNA and the American Consulate okayed Nwaeze's projected goal. With the money he had saved and with the aid of his father fwho has seven other children, and of his people, he embarked on his journey to San Francisco in mid-year of 1950. He arrived, alone, in New Orleans with his destination clear in his mind. To Nwaeze Anyanwu, fresh from distant Nigeria, America at first 9
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is l E I y l l. E l P s E K I E w s 5 I L l, t r E -n.,v.,, 'l'hirteen , the first dance to be held at the new gym, and the Frosh class celebrated St. Patrick's Day with Killarney , the frosh hop. But by far the most tremendous social event of the term was the inter-sorority, inter-fraternity Ball. The affair undoubtedly started a precedent which will be followed for many years to come... barring of course, the possibility that the man situation reaches the crisis stage. Alpha Omega presented its ninth annual barn dance, complete with hay and out-house, and Bib 'n' Tucker offered the imaginative creation Monkeyshines as its contribution to the dance life of State. Kappa Omega threw an off campus KO dance, and Kappa Theta presented a dance with an oriental flavor, Shades of Jade . State went big-time, and a gym full of students cheered at Holly- wooders June Allyson, Dick Powell, and Rhonda Fleming in blood drive rally. Jimmy Lyons, radio platter-spinner, was in the lime-light of the Al- pha Phi Gamma rally,, and Phi Lambda Chi also presented a rally for the student body. The drama thriller, Ladies in Retirement opened State's theatre season. And Joan of Lorraine , an outstanding production, chalked up another tally on the drama department's list of achievements. Virginia Cox was unforgettable. With the spring term came the 400 tickets which gave special rates to the season's plays, Ca full agenda of entertainment! and the drama department produced a number of successful workshops, and the major production Animal Kingdom . -Bonnie Rolphe. I .- if, , - Y -B' .1 JJVIQRXX THE BITTER TRUTH Pointed observation of an English instructor: The reason why I make my tests part objective and part essay is that in essay examinations some English majors can make a little bit of knowledge go an awfully long way. 8
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