THE COUGAR CRY, NOVEMBER 17, 1970, PAGE 3
The WCC Chapter of the PHI BETA LAMBDA recently had election
of officers. They were: L to R-Row 1-Sammy Stone, President;
Row 2 - Barbara Bledsoe, Vice-President; Barbara Lewis, Record
ing Secretary; Peggy Craig, Corresponding Secretary; Row 3 -
Jerry Sloan, Treasurer; Deanie Riddle, Reporter; and Donna Trip
lett, Historian.
Chronicle Donated To College
JESSIE MILES
Freshman Vice-President
Freshmen
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for Secretary and Janet Lyon
was elected Treasurer. Jesse
Miles was elected Vice Presi
dent after a later run-off be
tween himself and Scott McSwain.
Also a run-off was held for So
phomore Vice President. Nomin
ees were Reggie Weisner,Wanda
Barlow, and Cozzie Watkins. Af
ter the run-off between Reggie
and Wanda, Reggie was declared
the winner.
The Senators were elected by
petition and were uncontested.
Elected were: Phill Anderson,
Pam Archer, Debbie Gaddy, Zach
Henderson, John Lancaster, Da
vid Matthews, Vicki Osborne,
Bruce Triplett, and Joan Trip
lett.
Congratulations to each newly
elected officer and may we the
students, under your leadership
make this a prosperous and su
ccessful year.
The Eyes Have It
The short skirts of today
make it a lot easier to get
up stares.
-Courier, Waterloo, la.
CREATIVE
ART
In one facet is the developed
expression of the imagination
determining physical implements
invented for the future of civi
lization.
Will you be equipped to offer
a knowledgeable contribution to
that future?
Winter Quarter;
Art 121 Modern Design
Art 132 Painting and sketching
Art 251 Sculpture
Data
Communications
System In At WCC
The long waited IBM 2770 Data
Communications System has been
installed here recently by IBM
Customer Engineers.
We now join 41 other univer
sities and colleges in the North
Carolina Educational Computing
Service network. NCECS, in co
ordination with the Triangle Uni
versities Computer Center, loca
ted at the Research Triangle Pa
rk, provides the IBM 360 model
75 computer for use by the net
work institutions.
Five computer languages are
offered by Wilkes Community
College. As the students gain suf
ficient knowledge in preparing
computer programs to solve spe
cific problems, each student will
key punch the computer instruc
tions into 80-column punched ca
rds. The student will then, on his
own initiative, use the college
computer unit to transmit the in
structions, contained in the ca
rds, over leased telephone lines
to the computer at TUCC. The
computer will solve the problem
and print out the answer on the
printer of the 2770 system loca
ted on campus. In the event the
student did not prepare the pro
gram correctly the computer will
provide sufficient information to
enable the student to “debug”
his program and try again.
Several units make up the 2770
Data Communications System.
The IBM 2770 Multi-Purpose Co
ntrol Unit is the control portion
for the 2770 System. Additionally
the IBM 2213 Printer can print
up to sixty-one characters per
second, the IBM 2502 Card Rea
der is the input device and can
read punched cards at the rate
of 150 cards per minute. The 545
Output Punch is a dual purpose
unit that can be used to provide
punched-card output for the 2770
System or can be used as a re
gular keypunch.
It is hoped that students and
others will take advantage of
this new equipment by enroll
ing in the Data Processing Pro
gram.
Cancel It!
The farmer’s barn had just
burned down and the insurance
adjuster was trying to explain
that he couldn't collect cash
for it. “Read the policy,” he
insisted. “All that our company
promises is to build you another
exactly like the one that has
been destroyed.”
The farmer blew up and thun
dered, “If that’s the way you
do business, cancel the in
surance on my wife this
minute.”
By VICKIE ELLEDGE
The college was visited re
cently by Mr. James Larkin Pe
arson, Poet Laureate of North
Carolina. The purpose of Mr.
Pearson’s visit was to donate
his copies of the CHRONICLE,
an early Wilkes County newspa
per, for the years 1890-1911, to
our library. The years are inco
mplete; however, the copies are
the only known copies in exis
tence. They have been micro
filmed for purposes of research.
Years ago, from his home in
Greensboro, Mr. Pearson visit
ed the Wilkes County Court Ho
use. While he was there, he no
ticed a stack of old papers sitt
ing on the floor, being stumbled
over and obviously in the way.
Those papers were the CHRO
NICLE.
Mr. Pearson contacted an of
ficial, who being busy, told Mr.
Pearson if he was concerned
with the papers, he could have
them. Mr. Pearson gathered the
papers and took them to his ho
me.
He brought the copies of the
CHRONICLE back to Wilkes when
he moved here. Now the copies
have been bound and are pre
sently in our library.
During an interview, Mr. Pear
son was asked when he first
wrote poetry. His answer was
when he was 6 or 7 years old,
or when he learned to write.
However, he composed verbal
poetry at a much earlier age.
One very cold winter day, when
Mr. Pearson was only four and
a half years old, he accompanied
his father around their farm.
His father asked, “Jim are you
cold?* Spontaneously he replied:
“My fingers and my toes.
And my feet and my hands,
Are jist as cold
As you ever see’d a man’s.”
Mr. Pearson stated that he did
not remember his reply, but
he was told of it later.
From his early childhood, he
was fascinated by the printed pa
ge. Before he could read, he
used to spend many hours exa
mining print. This was the foun
dation of his ambition. He wan
ted to be a printer and a poet.
When asked if he had any ad
vice to give to people interested
in writing poetry he replied:
“Yes, I do, — Don’t.” Then he
went on to explain, “Unless you’ve
got the disease so bad that you’ve
got to go into it, don’t. It is the
least profitable profession a per
son can pursue.”