Winston Salem State University - Ram Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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Class History For the nurses, the capping exercise was an important event in our sophomore year. This was an outstanding exercise to highlight open house . Academically the class as a whole was doing very well. We were accustomed to study hours and had much to contribute to our classes. Geraldine Omega Pete was awarded a certificate by the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity for having the highest average in our great class. As the time for our sophomore year came to a close, we were able to look back over our year's accomplishments while pondering over our coming year as jtmiors. The curtains closed as we looked forward to a happy, prosperous, enriching junior year. Scene III The third scene of our college years opened with the curtains rising on eager juniors. Many of our classmates had the privilege of becoming big brothers and sisters to the freshmen during orientation week. Our nursing students at this time were well on their way to Crownsville Hospital in Crownsville, Maryland. From Crownsville they journeyed to Atlanta, Georgia, in groups of seven where their experiences were ftuther enlightened. The nurses were away for a period of one school term. While om' nurses were away, those of us on the campus were preparing to journey forward and carry on the work of the junior class. Our first task was that of choosing class officers. Among us were many capable leaders, nevertheless, we chose the following persons: president, Dollye Kendall, vice-president, James McNeal, secretary, Mamie Lenoir, assistant secretary, Glenda Joyner, financial sec- retary, Jeanette Richardson, treasurer, Nathaniel Tollison. Homecoming had a special meaning this year, for we were responsible for choosing a candidate for Miss Winston- Salem State Colle ge. From our garden of lovely beauties we had a very hard task of selecting a candidate, however, Ruby Bolden was selected. Helen Gore reigned as attendant to Miss Ram. The junior qualification tests were a challenge for us. They had great bearing upon future studies as well as past experiences. After three days of testing, all of us gave a sigh of relief and waited anxiously for the results. Many ofus made academic and religious achievements this school term.We had Iris Higgins, and Yvonne Jackson selected for Who's Who Among Students in American Colleqg and Universities. The National Honor Society, Alpha Kappa Mu, inducted the following members for the class: Geraldine Pete, Roland Penn, Dollye Kendall, Bessie Wagoner, and Vida Bailey. Pauline Matthews received an award for religious life on the campus. Annette Larkins represented the class in the Woman of the Year contest. Members of the Student Council were Dollye Kendall, Marty Robinson, and Roland Penn. As our jimior year was fast coming to an end, it was our privilege to honor the seniors with a Junior- Senior Prom . The theme of our prom was Stairway to the Stars . We said good-bye to the seniors and the curtains came down on a refined class. Scene IV The last scene is a joyous one in that we are looking forward to graduation. To begin our senior year we had a number of our stu- dents preparing to do student teaching. To carry on the position as the leader of the class we elected Geraldine Omega Pete as president. The following students were to help carry out her duties: vice-president, Nathaniel Tollison, secretary, Alice Sprinkle, assistant secretary, Barbara Carter, treasurer, lorese Hines. After the organization of the Class, the students prepared to take part in our last homecoming. The class chose Pauline Matthews to compete for the title of Miss Winston- Salem State College. The class was pleased with the results. The vivid Miss Pauline Matthews was crowned Miss Winston- Salem State College. Our class president was doing a marvelous job as leader ofthe class and as president of the Student Council. This senior was Geraldine Pete. The council representatives for our class were Nathaniel Tollison and Vida Bailey. We had queens in other areas also. The following seniors were crowned, Joyce Williams, Miss S. N. E.. A., and Yolander Miller, Miss Ram. We needed a qualified person as editor of our yearbook. Julia McCollough was chosen as editor-in-chief. The students elected to help make the yearbook a success were as follows, executive editor, Doretha Powell, managing editor, Willie Grier, business manager, Annette Larkins, art editors, Elena Jones and Iris Higgins, circulation manager, Katie Scott, feature editor, Jasper Robinson, secretary, Jeanette Richardson, treasurer, Lorese I-lines. Serving on various committees to aid in the progress of the college were Lillie Carver and Bernice Bigelow on the academic standards, Geraldine Pete on the administrative council, Emmett Robinson on the homecoming committee, Roland Penn and Yvonne Jackson on intercollegiate athletics, Joyce Love on the calendar committee, Nathaniel Tollison and Dollye Kendall on the curriculum, Clementine Davis and Edith Russell on the health committee,Jeanette Richardson and Beatrice Riggs on the library committee, Barbara Carter and William Waters on the lyceum and social committee, and Mary Roseboro and James Mack on public relations. The college newspaper, News Argus, had as its leaders Mary Roseboro, editor-in-chief, Sara Matthews, news editor, Yvonne Jackson, sports editor, several typists and proofreaders were chosen from the class. The Who's Who Amonq Students gi American Colleq-gs and Universities again summoned members from our class. Among those chosen were Geraldine Pete, Vida Bailey, Virginia Rogers, Delois Wright, and Lucia Daniels. We are in the midst of excitement. You may finish this as you watch us march down the aisles.We came to learn, and we shall depart to serve. Julia McCollough Helen G. Gore Doretha Powell 23 .l. .

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Class History Our stay at Winston- Salem State College seemed short and we shall describe our four years at the college in four scenes. Scene I The first scene opened when we entered Winston-Salem State College. We joyously began a week of orientation by students who would be graduating the following year. Many of us came across students we had met during high school days. After our week of orientation, we climaxed the week with our Freshman Talent Show . The upper classmen had arrived on the campus and were eager to see what we as freshmen had to contribute to the college. The curtains rose and Emmett Marty Robinson stepped out on stage and his personality flowed all over the audience as he introduced himself. Dorothy Stafford had the audience on pins andneedles when she sang her rendition of The Time , accompained by Bessie Wagoner. She returned for at least eight bows. Following her on the program to complete a marvelous evening of entertainment were several other classmates. We did not let our talent drop after out talent show. Many of our classmates joined the choir. Oraetta Beavers and Dorothy Stafford had the opportunity to sing as soloists during one of our Vesper programs. Dollye Kendall was a substitute pianist. Others in the choir were William Waters, Albert Rush, Barbara McCra.ken, Donald Walker, Beaufort Washington, Reginald Wiggins, Pauline Matthews, Barry Fonville, Sandra Taggart, Alice McCallum, Frances Price, Viola Durham, and Gloria Greene. Our musical talent did not end with the choir.We traveled on and those who could not sing joined the college band.Joyce Henderson, Glenda Joyner, and Betty Fleming were chosen as majorettes by the band members. The students that chose to play instruments were James McNeil, Evelyn Moore, Clarice Warren, Hester Strickland, Joyce Williams, Marinda Mumford, Sara Jones, Clara McClinton, Vivian Leak, Lottie Sanders, Gloria Adams, and Charles Scotten. The freshmen were easily recognized by the beauty the young ladies of the class possessed. Opportunities for making selections of these young ladies of the class possessed. Opportunities for making selections ofthese young ladies presented themselves when our home- coming celebration came into view. After much deliberation, Annette larkins was chosen as an attendant to Miss Homecoming, the Sigma's sweetheart was Pauline Matthews, and the lovely Joyce Pratt was an attendant to Miss Ram. Things were happening pretty fast. We finally became accustomed to the daily routine of classes. We studied very hard and strove for academic achievement. Many of our class members pledged sororities and fratemities. During the year we as freshmen achieved many ofour goals and looked forward to another prosperous year. The curtain slowly closed as scene one came to an end. Scene II The curtain rose on eager sophomores ready for another year of studying and participation in various activities. We knew the routine of registration by now and went through it in a breeze. An event that we looked forward to as sophomores that did not occur during ourfreshmen year was the election of class officers. We were given a talented and efficient advisor, Mrs.Wilma Lassiter, who was able to guide us to success. Under her leadership the follow- ing persons were chosen as offi cers, Roland Penn, president, Emmett Robinson, vice-president, Mamie Lenior, secretary, Jeanette Richardson, financial secretary, Nathaniel Tollison, treasurer. Our sophomore nursing students began to attend to duties at regular and lengthened intervals at the hospital. They were overjoyed at having duties in the local hospital and took their work very seriously as nurses should. After a short time, we were again faced with the responsibility of choosing an attendant to Miss Winston- Salem State College.After much evaluation and observation, we decided to elect the lovely Joyce Pratt to serve as sophomore attandant. The gorgeous Julia McCollough was chosen to compete for the title of Miss Ram. Gloria Tyler was Miss Omega and Ruby Bolden was Miss Lampodas. Sports took a turn for the best. We had Ostelle McKnight and Sam Edwards playing football and made outstanding achievements during the football season. After football season, our great basketball team had three hard playing sophomores to carry it to many victories. Those basketball stars were Richard Glover, Willie Curry, and Charlie Simmons. During the C. I. A. A. basketball tournament, we won the championship with the aid of our famous classmates. We had Benjamin Cureton and Marty Robinson representing the class in track. This was an outstanding year in that we had many of our classmates crossing the biuning sands into Greekdom. To mention a few we had the following young ladies to become members of Delta Sigma Theta: Iris Higgins, Lucia Daniels, Ruby Bolden, Inez Gooden, Bessie Wagoner, Mary Roseboro, Joyce love, Gloria Tyler, Ida Knox, Paula Gwynn, Yolander Miller, Virginia Brown, Jeraldene Barnes, Neta Harshaw, Josephine Ballard, and Alice Sprinkle. This was considered one of the best lines to cross over into Delta land. We had the Zetas with a line led by the magnificent singing performers, Dorothy Stafford, Hester Strickland, Pauline Matthews, Mary Ramseur, Frances Price, Marinda Mumford, and Ernestine Tate. In the swinging spring, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority dug deep into our class and took from it a fine share of young ladies who were Geraldine Omega Pete, Virginia Rogers, Betty Thompson, Joyce Pratt, and Joyce Henderson. Alpha Kappa Alpha has been sparkl- ing ever since. Although Alpha Phi Alpa was unable to get but one, it certainly couldn't have gotten a finer young man than James McNeal. With- out his leadership, the Alphas would be suffering. The great Omega Psi Phi Fraternity secured from our group of young men, Nathaniel Tollison, Roland Penn, Paul Perkins, and Sylvester Wooten. The chapter was grateful to have these young leaders. Kappa Alpha Psi was fortunate to get John Duncan and Walter Gurley from our class. Since their induction, we have enjoyed candy, apples, and oranges at the games. We as sophomores were allowed to choose a candidate to run for Woman of the Year . The talented Dollye Kendall was chosen by popular vote. Naturally all of us were thrilled. 22

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Famous Philosophies of Seniors Let exerg' man mind his own business . . . MINNIE ABRAMS Tis the part of a wi s e man to keep himself to-day for to- morrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket . .. GLORIA ADAIVIS It is impossible to please all the world and one 's father . . . MARY ALLDI Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its va1ue . . . MARION ANDERSON People who make no noise are dangerous'L . .OBIE ARMSTRONG Too much and too little education hinder the mind . . . VIDA BAILEY We know the truth, not Only by the reason, but bythe heart . . . JOSEPHINE BALLARD Things are always attheir best in their beginning 'L . .JERALDINE BARNES The heart has its reasons which reasons knows nothing of . . . ORETTA BEAVERS The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it . . . BERNICE BIGELOW The multitude is always in the wrong . . . RUBY BOLDDI A flatterer can risk everything with great personages .. ELEANOR BOYD Glory isthe mme and honorable recompense of gallant actions . . . ANNA BRIGGS Know le d g e is wisdom and wisdom is power . . . PATRICIA' SEARCY How empty learning, how vain is art, but as it mends the life and guides the heart . . . GWENDOLYN SHAW Opportunities are baldheaded and they only knock once .. BRENDA SI-IELTON Success is won not given . . . KENNETH SHEPHERD A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees . . . MODINE SIMMONS The heart of him that hath understanding seedeth knowledge, but the mouth of fools fe e d e th on foolishness . . . ALICE McCAI.I.UM To see what is right and not to do it is want of cou.rage ... CLARA McCI.INTON Art is the only clean thing on earth, except hoIiness . . .JUI.IA McCOLIDUGH To err is humang toforgive is divine . . . EARLYENE McCl.OUD For everything that youhave missed youhave gained something else, and for everything you have gainedyou have lost some- thing . . . WILLIE MCCORMICK Life is but a short Journey from the cradle to the grave. Use yours wisely . . . WILLIE SIMMONS To be or not to be that is the question . . . ADA SLIGI-I Strive for the best and the best will come back to you ... ALICE SPRINKLE All that I am and all that I hope to be, I owe to my parents . . . DORIS SPRILL Strive hard and success will be yours . . . DOROTHY STAFFORD Success is where you find it . . . HELEN MCCOY Success is my goal . . . MARGARET WHITE With determination on my left, God on my right, and wisdom as my guide, I shall live this life. . . HARRIETTE WILLIAMS Education makes a person easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but i m p o s sible to enslave. . .JOYCE WILLIAMS It is better to progress than to retrogress in this world of an unforseen tomorrow . . . KAY WILLIAMS Something worth working for are notworth having'l . .KENNETH WILLIAMS Think twice before entering into any given situation ... MINNIE WILSON Where there is friendship and brotherhood, there is peace . . . SYLVESTER WOOTEN Think to be happy, to be great have wisdom . .. MARIAN WRIGHT Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own Example . . . DORIS HULL Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue . . . MARGARET HUNTER A great fortune is a great slavery . . . GLORIA INGRAM Fire is the test of goldg adversity, of strong men ...ROCER INGRAM lt is quality rather than quantity that matters .. .JOSEPHINE ISABELI. Let afool hold histongue and he will pass for sage . .. YVONNE JACKSON Man is a reasoning animal . . . CAROLYN MCLEAN It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness ... JAMES MCNI-:AL The highest condition takes rise to the lowest . . . PHYLLIS MARTIN Prosperity makes friends, a d ve rs ity tries them . . .PAULINE MATTHEWS He who goes late goes too fast . .. SARA MATTHEWS I have often regretted my speech, never my silence'l . . SELENA MEBANE The next day is never so good as the day before . . . PAULINE MILLER C onfe ss i on of our faults is the next thing to innocency . . . SANDRA MONTGOMERY Practice is the best of all instn.ictors . . . EVELYN MOORE It is a bad plan that admits of no modification . .. MARTHA MURPHY No one should be judge in his own cause . . . EMMA NIXON It is only the ignorant who despises education . . . ROLAND PENN Do not turn your backwhen you are just at the goal . . . ELAINE PERKINS Facts are stubborn things . . . ANNIE L. BROWN Of all the affections which attendhuman life, the love of gltry is the most ardent . . . VIRGINIA BROWN Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other . . . BLANCI-I.E BRUTON Nothing can bring you peace but yoursel.f . . .B A R B A R A CARTER The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . CLEMENTINE CARTER Everything will come ifa man only waits . . . CAROL CARVER The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in Iabor ... BETTY CHAPMAN Time is an infinite movement without one moment of rest . . . NINA CHRISTIAN Every man is the center of a circle,whose fatal circumference he can not pass ... GLADYS CLAYTON Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from premises . . . EMMA COCKERHAM Pity is for the I i v i n g, envy is for the dead .. . REGINA CUNNINGHAM Humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse .. .NELLIE CURRY Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it . . . WILLIE CURRY Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timid- ity . . . LUCIA DANIELS The great source of terror to infancy is solitude 'L . .CLEMENTINE DAVIS There is no substitute for hard work . . . CAROLYN DICK There is no duty we must understand as the duty ofbeing happy . . . IJXNESTINE DOZIER The world must be made safe for d e rn o c r a c y . . . VIOLA DURHAM The worst cliques are those which c onsists of one man . . . BARBARA FARRISH The march of the human mind is slow . .. SYLVIA ERVIN Life is very short, and very uncertain, let us spend it as well as we can. . . ALVENE FEARRINGTON The best is the enemy of the good .. .JOAN FERGUSON Procrastination is the thief oftime 'L . .JUDY WILSON FONVILU5 To fear the wcxst oft cures the worst . . . ALMA FROST We k n o w what we are, but know not what we may be . .. HELEN GILCHRIST Brevity is the soul of wit . . . RICHARD GLOVER A close mouth catches no flies .. . INEZ GOODEN Nature forms us for ourselves, not for othersg to be, not to seem . . . FRANCES HARPER Better is to bow then break . . . N'ETA HARSHAW Be ruled by time, the wisest counselor of all . ..JOYCE HENDERSON Modernation is best, andto avoid all extremes'l . .IRIS HIGGINS Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared . .. G L O R I A HARRISON A good mind possesses a kingdom . . .JIMMIE HOUSTON There is no great genius without some touch of madness . . . BETTY HULL The more extensive a man'sknowledge ofwhat has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do . .. VERA I-IALLUMS Start where you are withwhat you have, make something of it, never be satisfied . . . LONNIE HAMILTON Friendships are fragile things, and require as much care in handling as many other fragile things'L . . RONALD HARBOR No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed . . .ELENA JONES Education is leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them . . . SARA JONES Talk not of wasted affection. Affection never was wasted . .. GLENDA JOYNER Go to work, w h e t h e r you feel like it or not .. . DOLLYE KENDALI. A horse that goes fast will never last, but the horse that goes slow will go some more . . . ROSA KNIGHT