The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-05-23
MANY GRADUATED
FROM COASTLAND
"A T GRE ENVILLE
East Carolina Graduates 249
Students Monday At 43rd
Annual Commencement
Exercises

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lege conferred degrees Monday
morning on 249 graduates of the
fall, winter, and spring quarters of
/ 1951-1952.
President John D. Messick of
East Carolina presided at cere-
monies conducted in the Wright
auditorium as closing event of the
43rd Annual Commencement at
the college. DIR. A. Hollis Edens,
president of Duke University, was
principal speaker at the gradua-
ton exercises.
Candidates for degrees included
"a for the master of arts, 1875 for
the bachelor of science, and 20 for
the bachelor of arts. Both the mas
ter's degree and the bachelor Of
science are conferred by East Car
Dina upon those completing cours-
es preparing them as teachers.
Thus approximately 90 per cent of
this years graduates have done
work in understanding at the col
ilege.
North Carolinians, who make up
most of the 1852 graduating class,
number 234 men and women. Fiji
teen of those receiving degrees are
from the states of New Jersey,
New York, Virginia, and West Vir-
ginia. Fifty-two North Carolina
counties are represented among
the graduates.
Commencement exercises began
with an academic procession of
faculty members, graduates, and
special guests of the college. AS
participants, dressed in traditional
caps and gowns, moved into the
Wright auditorium, the East Caro-
lima Orchestra, directed by DR..
Kenneth N. Cuthbert played the
professional.
A program of special music in
cluded an arrangement of Psalm
$50 sung by the Women's Chorus
under the direction of Dan E. Worm
holt and the solo Franck's 80 Lord
Most Holy" by Gladys Reichard of
the college faculty, soprano.
Recipients of scholarships and
awards given annually at CON-
mencement were announced by DIR.
Messick. Alice Billiard of Whining
ton received the Alexander B. An
drews Scholarship, which goes to a
junior or senior woman student
with a superior record in scholar
.. ship and leadership in campus &C
tivities.
Cecil Winslow of Hartford was
given the John B. Christenbury
Memorial Trophy. This award goes
annually to senior who is men,
Der of a varsity athletic team and
who has been outstanding in lead
ership, scholarship, and service to
the college.
Aldred Wetherington of Silver
dale received the Thomas Clay Will
liams Memorial Award presented
by the college chapter of the Pi
Omega Pi fraternity. 1t is given
to the graduate with the highest
scholastic record for four years
of work in the department of bust
ness education.
Hilton Biggs of Williamson was
the recipient of the James Fenly
Spear, Jr., Memorial Award to an
outstanding student majoring in
the department of science.
During the mornings exercises,
fifty-one students in the Air Force
ROTC at East Carolina were COM
missioned as second lieutenants in
the U. S. Air Force Reserve.
DIR. Christine Wilton, faculty
member of the science department,
was chairman of the Commence
ment Committee, which planned
the 1852 exercises. Patricia Ann
Moore of Turkey was chief mar
shall.
Graduates from immediate coun-
ties follow:
Beaufort: A. B. - Charles G..
Clark, Belhaven; B. S. = Emma
Dean Calfee, Belhaven; M. A
Richard s. Kicks, Jr., Bath; Cam
den: B. S.-Lois Elizabeth john
son, South Mills; Currituck: B. S.
Ida Mae Darlington, harrisburg;
Dare: B. S.-Jeannette Tillett, Kill
Devil Hill; Robert Wechter, Stun
Ply Point; Tyrrell: B. S. = Naomi
Cahoon, Columbia; Washington: B.
S.-Callie Marie Kinard, Wenona;
Charles T. Robbins, Jr., Plymouth;
jeanne Stillman and Nina B. Still
man, Roper.
Among Air Force ROTC stu
dents who were commissioned were
the following:
Reuben w. Berry, Jr., Swan
Quarter; Howard X. Estep, Ply
mouth; Charles T. v. Jones, Eliza
beth City; William F. Landing,
Plymouth; John E. Moss. Norfolk,
Va; Larry G. Respess, Pinetown;
Augustine ]. Russo, Norfolk, Va;