THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE
VOL. 2, NO. 11
Wilkesboro, North Carolina
MARCH 17. 1969
FffiE FIGHTING CLASS GRADUATES
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Campus Almost
Ready
The new campus for Wilkes
Community College is near com
pletion. Work crews are cur
rently finishing the painting,
cleaning up and debris, washing
the exterior walkways, and grad
ing the parking lot. The con
struction trailers are to be
moved out this week. Everyone
is doing all that is possible to
prepare the buildings for oc
cupation.
With luck the parking area will
be graded and covered with
crushed stone in time for use by
Spring Quarter. The parking area
should accommodate approxi
mately three hundred cars.
Most of the furniture and
equipment is already inside the
new buildings waiting to be un
crated and moved to their re
spective positions. To move the
equipment we are presently us
ing will not take too much time
with the exception of the library
which will involve more work and
time.
Things look bright for WCC
to move in time to begin Spring
Quarter in the new buildings.
Yearbook Proof
Received
The annual staff recently re
ceived the proof copy of the
Wilkes Community College year
book, THE COUGAR.
We can expect to receive the
finished copies by the latter part
of May.
SNEA to Attend
State Convention
Two representatives and three
delegates, plus other interested
members of the WCC SNEA are
scheduled to go to the SNEA State
Convention at Charlotte, March
21 and 22.
They will be accompanied by
Mrs. Scroggs.
Members of the Mulberry-
Fairplains Fire Department were
graduate from the 120-hour
Fire Service Training Corse
taught by the Vocational Depart
ment of WCC in a ceremony
held Thursday night at the Mul-
berry-Fairplains Fire Depart
ment.
This course, which began last
April, consists of 12 units of
study ranging from “Forcible
Entry” to “Firefighting Pro
cedure.*
According to the “North Car
olina Fire Service Training"
booklet, the “...course are de
signed not only to develop nec
essary skills, but to develop the
fireman’s initiative and judg
ment, safe habits and correct
techniques for using tools and
equipment, and to give him a
variety of fire situation ex
periences.*
It was learned from S. R.
Pearson, WCC Vocational Dir
ector, that similar programs will
be started at other fire depart
ments in the Ashe, Alleghnay,
and Wilkes area in the near fu
ture.
WELCOME
BACK,
JOHN KIRK