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THE COUGAR CRY, OCT. 31, 1967, PAGE 3 W.C.C, really has a variety of “students” . . . here’s three of them. COLLEGE STUDENT NIGHT Interest Finder The Wilkes Y.M.C.A. is interested in finding out whether the Wilkes Community College students would be interested in having a special night each week set aside for them at the “Y,” and is so, in what activities they would most like to participate. Please fill out and return to: Office of Student Personnel Please check the activities in which you would like to participate: Bowling Dances Trampoline Basketball Gymnastics Volleyball Badminton Ping Pong Cost: Y.M.C.A. membership of $7.50 per student. I am interested and would participate I would not be interested Our Clubs And Organizations ANNUAL STAFF Annual Staff meetings will be held every Tuesday and Thurs day nights beginning Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 in the lobby at Wilkes Central. Any student in terested in working on the annual staff please get in touch with Jim Lyall or Roger Wright. As soon as possible. Tryouts for W.C.C. Cheerleaders were held on Thursday, October 26 (see next issue for more details) The W.C.C. Cougars practice daily at 3;30 p.m. at Woodlawn gym. When the game schedule is more complete, it will appear in the paper. The Student Government Asso ciation meets every Monday night at 7:30 p.m. at Wilkes Central high school to discuss student activities and other matters con cerning the students. The student body has rented the house behind the Administra tion Building for a STUDENT CENTER! Please - donate a few hours of your time Saturday, November 4 to help fix it up. College Theatre To Make A Move The College Theatre began shooting its first motion picture “on location” Saturday, Oct. 21. Work for an upcoming “epic” film production began in the dawn hours Saturday on the Yadkin River and at the new college site. Members of the College Theatre, under the direction of D. S. Mayes, began shooting a pilot film to be used in the planning of an irregular underground mov ie concerning the “mad” and the “glad” of Wilkes Community Col lege. When asked about the reason for the movie, Mayes replied, “The College Theatre does not at the present have a theatre or any other facilities and is con sequently limited in its play pro duction. To make up for this we decided to make a movie. We also wanted to experiment in a new area of drama. We also wanted to have some fun.” The “Premiere” for this great American epic film will be an nounced at a later date. College System The history of the North Car olina Community College System dates back to 1952 when Dr. Al lan S. Hurlburt made a study concerning the need for com munity colleges in North Car olina. It was not until 1957, how ever, during Governor Hodges’ administration that steps were taken by the State Legislature through the passage ofthe “Com munity College Act” to initiate and develop community colleges. The Act placed the community colleges under the Board of High er Education. Paralleling the movement to develop community colleges in 1957 was a vigorous effort to develop an educational program in industrial education. Funds were made available by the 1957 General Assembly to the State Board of Education for initiating a State-wide system of industrial education centers. The centers were dedicated to extending ed ucational opportunities in indus try, business, and agriculture beyond the high school, thus pro viding a better trained manpower supply for the State. In 1959, the General Assembly officially authorized and desig nated a vocational school known as an “industrial education cen ter.” The system was placed under the State Board of Educa tion and local boards of educa tion. In 1961, the need for better planning resulted in the appoint ment by Governor Sanford of “The Governor’s Commission on Education Beyond the High School” to study the methods for expanding educational offerings at the post high-school level. This Commission submitted its report to the Governor in 1962 and recommended that the two types of institutions be brought into one administrative organiza tion under the State Board of Education. In this way, all of the State’s two-year higher ed ucational needs (whether aca demic, technical, or vocational) could be developed under one administrative system and, for that matter, could be included within a single institution--the comprehensive community col lege. This would permit students to have a wide range of choice and would permit them to alter their goals without having to with draw from one type of institution and apply for admission to an entirely different one. On July 1, 1963, in line with the recommendations ofthe “Carlyle Commission,” the De partment of Community Colleges was established under the State Board of Education. Of the five community colleges which had developed under the Board of Higher Education, three were converted into four-year state colleges and two were brought under the Board of Education. The Department of Community Colleges also inherited twenty industrial education centers pre viously established as a resul of action of the 1957 Genera Assembly. Since 1963, several completely new col'eges have been established and all of the industrial education centers have been transformed into technical institutes or into community col leges.
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