St Augustines College - Falcon Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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A SAINT AlUfGlUS'll'lINlE'S ATII-lllLlETlE I was very much enthused when assigned the task of interviewing one of the most interesting personalities of the campus, Coach Russell Blunt. Coach Blunt attended Punchard High School, Andover, Massachusetts, and played football and basketball for two years. graduating in 1926. In 1927, he came south to attend St. Paul's Normal and Industrial School in Lawrenceville, Va. During his stay at St. Paul's, he captained the football and basketball teams 11928-29 J. In 1930, he was graduated from trade school with a diploma in printing. In 1932, he entered the freshman class at Bluefield State College, Blue- field, W. Va. Again he participated in athletics-playing against St. Augustine's College. Through friendships made during these games he decided to enter St. Augustine's College and did so in the fall of 1933. After playing two games of football here, he became student coach under Coach George Mitchell. He also captained the team during his senior year 119351. In 1936 he was graduated, and spent the next two years coaching independent athletic teams in Lawrence, Massachusetts, before accepting the position of assistant athletic director and assistant dean of Men at Southern University, Scotlandville, Louisiana. Coach Blunt left Southern University in 1942 to accept a position as head coach and dean of men at Florida Normal College in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1943 he began work on the degree of Master of Education, which he received from Boston University in 1944. From 1944 to 1946 Mr. Blunt was head coach and teacher of health and physical education at the McKinley High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At present he is coach here at St. Augustine's and also head of the department of Health and Physical Education. Coach Blunt feels that no school's athletic program can be successful without the wholehearted cooperation of the administration. The co- operation of students, coach, athletes, alumni and friends is essential. It's not too big a job for every student in the College. Coach Blunt's main school interests are all kinds of athletics and pro- viding recreational means by which the students can be kept busy. He has no particular hobby. Mr. Blunt is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. To Coach Russell Blunt: The senior class of St. Augustine's College offers you hearty congratulations for returning to our Alma Mater to give of your athletic ability toward building up our common interest-dear ole St. Aug.! , A. DELORES PEEBLES. 29

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'll'lHllE lClLll0NlI4C SOCIETY W-- ' i 1 c Seated, clockwise: Marie Traeye, James Vinson, Martha Blacknall, T. L, Spraggins, Sponsor: Gwendolyn Cox, Shirley Dean, Mary Anderson, Geraldine Carter, Oliver Morse, Frederick Sherard, Helen Payne, Redahlia Riggins, Helen Kilpatrick. Ruby Wynn. Rosinda Nealy. Standing: Claudius Blackett. The Clionic Society is the outgrowth of the interest on the part of the students of Saint Augustinels College in current issues and problems. Mr. T. L. Spraggins realized that many of the students enjoyed debates. group and panel discussions. Therefore, in the fall of 1945 he gathered together representatives-students of different classes-and organized the Clionic Society. The qualifications for membership are very simple: an average of C in academic work and an interest in current topics, magazines and other periodicals. The Club has grown considerably in membership since it was chartered. During the past year, it led St. Augustine's in its history- making achievements at the North Carolina Student Legislative Assembly. 28

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tl! . A 4 1 T IH . W. . g A .. 35. l .3 Z3 ' ',.i ',.. N1 1 W1 s lFOOllllBAlLlL SQUAD First row. left to right: Herbert Mitchell, William Harris. Kenneth Young. Clifton Lander, Lonnie Perry, George Quiett. Sandy Levi. Ernest Hicks. Second row: Arthur Fox, Milton Morgan, William Seay. Willie Harris, Clarence Jones, Aubrey Lawson, Freddie Bethel, Edward Myers. Third row: William Byrd. Irving Mayson. Bernard Smith. Arthur Calloway. William Van Croft, Shelby Thompson, Lecoe Brown. Fourth row: A. C. Crowder, Oliver Morse, Marcus Barnes, Samuel Hughes, Coach Blunt. lBASlKETlBAlLlL SQUAD First row. left to right: Samuel Hughes. Marcus Barnes, William Yancey. Joseph Wilson. Ernest Hicks. Second row: James Simonton. Lawrence Stanley, Herbert Williams. George Quiett. Claudius Blackett. Third row: Willie Harris, James Bugg. Freddie Bethel, Edward Myers, Russell E. Blunt, Coach. 30 4...