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The Speech and Drama Program. - During the first year of the Davis administration in 1943 the Depart- ment of Speech and Drama was formally established. However, long before this time Miss Laura M. Averitte had initiated speech and drama courses within the English Department, and cocurricular dramatic activities as part of the student activities program. But the formal Department of Speech and Drama did not come into existence until the President requested it in 1943. Due to retirement the University lost the services ofDr. Poag in 1974. He was succeeded by a member of his faculty, Dr. Jamye Williams. But during the years that intervened between 1943 and 1974 Dr. Poag provided the leadership which caused the University to achieve widespread fame for its theatrical productions. Looking backwards to the point at which the illustrious career of Dr. Thomas E. Poag began to materialize at Tennessee A8LI., one finds an ideal match between the setting he entered in 1939 and the pressing interests which he possessed. Miss Averitte and her colleagues in the English Department had established the little theatre concept in theory and practice and had developed an active ehildrents theatre program. Composers OfIhe t'Alma Mater. - Homecoming 1949 was made very special by members of the Alumni Association when they honored Clarence Hayden Wilson, who was a student in the early days ofTennessee A. and I. State College. He composed the music ofthe Alma Mater. Mr. Wilson, who returned for this ocea- sion was serving as president ofthe National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. and as a music teacher in the St. Louis Public School system. Also recognized at this time was Miss Laura M. Averitte, English Pro- fessor. Miss Averitte, an alumnus ofthe class of 1918, was recognized for making two very OUISIBHding COT!- tributions. She wrote the lyrics to the Alma Mater which were set to music so beautifully by Mr. Wilson. Miss Averitte was also the originator of the Childrents Theatre. She was a devoted and dedicated 1630116? until she retired in 1966.
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. . - 1 ade Developing the Student Activity Program. The students who sat in the audtence as Pregldfggefililzlsigem his inaugural address must have been pleased to hear his very seeelfic commitments toamdp student activity activity program. By 1943 the college displayed abundant ev1clence that a wellwrotm .8 on campus, and program was highly valued. A democratically established student counml was functioning w University no doubt as the President of the Student Council listened to the pronouncements of illie deent activity President, his joy from anticipation of whole-hearted administrative eorhrmtmcnt to :such that in the program must have excelled that of all others. The magnitude of the emslmg program :3 cl ns , absence ofadrninistrative commitment, student leaders would have had unmanageable Hi : aerivilies d6- In the Bulletin for 1941-1942, two years prior to the Davis appomtment, the glam: agculty assumed scribed could be placed in two broad categories: tll activities for students for whlc ht f? st category were dominant leadership roles and CD student organizations led by studeht officers. In tl e 11' ctivities. In the the religious services, college publications, theatre, and varsity and mtramural ath cm: a . ' ' 1 'es and the Stu- seeond category, activities led by student officers, were the varlous clubs, fraternities, sororltl dent Council. . . . ' that made it con- In general, the student aetivrty program at the Universny was managed m admarllgegd and shared with tribute maximally to the education of students The talents whieh the student? 1:15 pht to the campus to each other were SUDplemented by the shared talents of outstanding personalllles roug . . - m. The Univer- 1nsp1re, inform, entertain and generally serve the students as models of human achieveme sityls religious and Lyceum Programs served this purpose. The Religious Program. i In the fall . ' mic of 1953, the young university acquired the services or a dyna welltrained Minister, Dr. William J. Sim . . . - - ' , Dr. moms, and thereby created the DOSIUO 0f Unlvermplllx'g IFSSthIZI-esi- Simmons found a rich heritage of religious activities and emphases. Through the effogigswdems during dent, Dr. W. J. Hale, Mr. R. E. Clay and Mrs. Lena B. Watson, the religious interests 0 8' mon5 concluded their college years were nurtured. Analyzing the efforts of those who preceded him, Dr. 1m . . - - . ' 'ous life of that his contribution should be the ercauon of coordinated structure and directlon for the rellgI the students.
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