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1977
VOLUME 31
NUMBER 4
PUBLISHED BY FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY JANUARY,
1977
NtERRY CHRISTmAS A1%D HAPPY NEW YEAR
Fayetteville Times
EDITORIAL
The Urban Fayetteville
area has had some notable
civic improvement efforts,
but none matches in scope of
the drive of Fayetteville State
University for over $10 million
to build a University Ac
tivities Center.
The 160,000 square foot
structure would contain
athletic courts, tracks, and
pools, teaching stations and
library, special areas for
dance, physical training, and
wrestling, and an auditorium
It would be combined with a
new stadium to provide a
major recreational and
cultural facility which could
serve a wide area.
The FSU drive is am
bitious, even audacious. The
institution, after all, is still
struggling in many ways to
throw off the shackles of a
past in which its place in the
community was racially
constrained and financially
starved.
Yet, it needs saying often
that the quality of life in any
urban area can largely be
measured by the quality of the
higher educational resources
of the area. FSU, despite its
mortgages to the past, is a key
to higher educational resource
for Urban ^^ayetteville and for
the southeastern part of North
Carolina. As part of the
University of North Carolina
System, it bears the
responsibility for providing
quality opportunities for a
widening range of people.
Largely through its own
efforts, FSU has received
significant foundation aid in
recent years to launch
outreach efforts to community
through its Center For Con
tinuing Education. Those
efforts include services for
adult education, for training
local government workers, for
classes, institutes, and
seminars reaching to sub
merged or needy segments of
the population.
The effort to provide a
University Activities Center
which could be the cen
terpiece for community
recreation and oul^ira] aq-
tivities strategically located
in the central-city part of
Urban Fayetteville is again an
example of FSU trying to pull
itself up by its own bootstraps.
The effort deserves
widespread community
support. In many ways, the
FSU project provides the
opportunity for Urban
Fayetteville to prove itself
equal to the challenge of truly
being a modern city, of
realizing that adequate higher
educational resources
represent the soundest in
vestment that can be made to
build a high quality of life for
all the people of .the com
munity.
The FSU project is bold, it
is audacious. It outstrips
anything the community has
been asked to do or has ac
complished certainly since the
building of Cape Fear Valley
Hospital or launching of
Fayetteville Technical In
stitute. But it is a sound
project. It points to a future of
enhanced life style for all the
people of the community. It
challenges the community to
look to the future with a clear
and confident vision.
I
Dr. Holis Fait
Visiting Professor
Returns To
Home Campus
Dr. Holis Fait who served
as visiting professor in the
physical education depart
ment at FSU during the 1976-
77 Fall term returns to his post
as professor of physical
education at the University of
Connecticut. Dr. Fait is
autlior of the book. Special
(Physical) Education:
Adapted, Corrective,
Developmental, which is
being used in one of the
department’s courses. The
course is designed to prepare
physical education teachers to
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FSU Inaugurates Fund Drive
At a Kickoff Breakfast
attended by 100 members of
the University family and
prominent citizens of
Fayetteville and Cumberland
County, The Fayetteville
State University Foundation
launched its 1976-77 Fund
Drive today. The Drive is for
the first vear of a five-year
development plan calling for a
total of $10.3 million for all
University development needs
during the five years. The
major project is the raising of
$8 million for a multipurpose
University Activities Center.
A complete briefing on the
Edward Cromatie playing Santo Claus with Santo, Jr., Michael
Williams.
Santo talks with Joye Henderson.
five-year plan, including the
Activities Center, was
presented, emphasizing not
only the use of the Activities
Center for academic in
struction and physical
recreation, but also its use as
a facility to provide major
cultural activities for the city
and county.
Mayor Beth Finch
commented to the group after
hearing the plan. She em
phasized the community
service features of the Ac
tivities Center and strongly
endorsed it as fulfilling a long-
felt need for a place where
major cultural activities for
the community could be held.
She also felt it would serve to
draw the City and the
University closer together for
the benefit of all citizens.
Chairman Billy Horne of
the Board of County Com
missioners then gave
assurance that the County
Commissioners would lend
full support to the Activities
Center concept. He said he felt
that it was a most worthwhile
project.
Chancellor Lyons thanked
the group for the excellent
turn-out at such an early hour
in the morning. He assured all
that the University was
determined to make the plan
become reality.
The program also honored
the following firms and in
dividuals who provided
financial assistance to enable
the University to complete
arrangements for the Annual
Fund Drive: Mr. Thomas
Council, Council Real Estate;
Mr. Anthony F. Fullerton,
United National Bank; Mr.
Marion (Rex) Harris, A and H
Clearners, Inc.; Mr. H. Burt
Melton, First Union National
Bank of North Carolina; Mr.
Ralph Potter, Paris-Potter
Enterprises; Mr. A1 Rum-
mans. Sears, Roebuck and
Co.; Mr. George Stewart,
StewartOldsmobile, Inc.; Mr.
Kenneth Wells, Black &
Decker Mfg., Co.
Chancellor's
Christmas Party
December 10th the
Chancellor gave his annual
children’s party for the
children of the Faculty and
Staff and joined by the kin
dergarten children and their
parents. The festivities were
held in the Women’s Gym,
with the decorations done by
the instructors of the Mitchell
and Newbold buildings. The
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