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VOL. 2
CHARLOTTE, N. C. . WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1966
NO. 9
The Fumeros work with a yarn painting.
Distaff Sponsored Exhibit
Is '‘Stitchery On Canvas’
A yarn peiinting exhibit entitled
“Stitchery On Canvass”, sponsor
ed by the Distaff Club, an or
ganization of faculty wives and
ETS Examines
College seniors preparing to
teach school may take the National
Teacher Examinations on any of
the four different test dates an
nounced today by Educational Test
ing Service, a nonprofit, educa
tional organization which prepares
and administers this testing pro
gram.
New dates for the testing of
prospective teachers are: January
7, March 18, July 1, and Octo
ber 7, 1967. The tests will be
given at nearly 500 locations th
roughout the United States, ETS
said,
A Bulletin of Information con
taining a list of test centers, emd
information about the examin
ations, as weU as a Registration
Form, may be obtained from col
lege placement officers, school
personnel departments, or directly
from National Teacher Examinat
ions, Box 911, Educational Test
ing Service, Princeton, New Jer
sey 08540.
faculty women, will begin its show
ing on the second floor of the
Atkins library on Monday, Nov
ember 7. The creating artists,
Pablo and Meli Fumero of Char
lotte, will be in the library that
same day from 11:30 until 1:00.
The exhibit is scheduled to run
from November 7 through 25.
Mrs. Fran Clay, art chairman
of the Distaff Club, said that coffee
will be served to those attending
the exhibit on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fumero, a Cuban
couple in their eighties, started
their yarn-and-canvas art work in
1962. Their work has been fea
tured in a special showing at the
Mint Museum and can be found in
the homes of many of Charlotte’s
art connisseurs.
The Fumeros had no previous art
training prior to their start. Their
son, Jose, interested them in the
art form and they decided to take
a course in yarn painting which
he was teaching at the time at
the Mint.
Mrs. Fumero’s work is pre
cise and flat. She intricately bl
ends stitches cmd color, giving her
works a destinct feminine flavor.
Most of her painting are of an
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Peace Attainable
For $50,000 Loot
BY P AUL BOSWELL
Attention all free lance writers!
Here is a chance to reveal your
skills and become rich and famous
in the process.
The Lions International and the
participating Lions Clubs in our
community are sponsoring a peace
Tran Van Dinh, Former Viet
Ambassador, To Speak Here
BY SANDY CAUDLE
Tran van Dinh, the Washington
Bureau Chief of the Seiigon Post
and the former acting Ambassador
of Vietnam to the United States,
win speak here, November 9. He
has lectured at over 100 universi
ties and colleges in the United
States.
Mr. van Dinh, born in Central
Vietnam in 1923, was educated
at Quoc Hoc College and Hanoi
University.
He took an active part in the
nationalist underground movement
against the French colonial regime
and the Japanese occupation forces
from 1942 until 1945, when he be
came Deputy Chief of Staff for
Intelligence and Special Operations
in the Vietnamese Liberation
Army.
Mr. van Dinh rose to the rank
of Brigadier General in the Lao-
Viet Liberation Army and served
as its Chief of Staff from 1945-
1948. Later he was the Military
Adviser to Prince Souphanouvong,
the leader of free Lao.
In 1951, he joined the Vietnamese
Foreign Service. From 1952 until
1956, he directed Press and In
formation Service of the Embassy
of Vietnam, Bangkok, and Thai-
lemd.
Mr, van Dinh has also served
his country in various other cap
acities, and many of which have
brought him to the United States.
He resigned from the Viet
namese Foreign Service in 1964
to become the Washington Bureau
Chief of the Saigon Post.
Mr. van Dihn’s book on was
in Vietnam, No Passenger on the
River, was published in 1965.
essary contest in conjunction with
the Lions’ Golden Anniversary
year, 1967. The contest, on the
theme ‘‘PEACE IS ATTAIN
ABLE,” sports a purse of fifty-
thousand dollars.
A few simple rules govern the
contest,
— Andy male or female who will
be 14 but less than 22 years of
age as of January 15, 1967, is
eligible.
— All entries must be completed
and received by the sponsoring
Lions Club before midnight Dec
ember 10, 1966.
— Only one entry per person.
The prizes will be awarded on
various geographical levels.
The Grand Prize Winner on the
International Level will receive a
$25,000 education and/or career-
assistance grant.
Eight World Geographical Di
vision Level winners wiU receive
$1,000 cash, a gold medal, a pla
que, and a trip to the Lions Club
50th Anniversary Convention in
Chicago, Illinois.
Other awards will be presented
to district and club level winners
on the local scene.
For more information, inter
ested students should contactauth-
orities at this address:
“Lions Peace Essay Contest”
P. 0. Box 1674 “Central”
Charlotte, N. C. 28201
Trustees Say
Problems Here
Need Solving
BY JOHN MOORE
At the board of trustee meeting
in tlie Student Union ballroom on
October 24, the trustees of UNC
were told that UNC-C must re
ceive special treatment in order
Election
Returns
Held-
Up
In a surprise move, results of
the freshman elections were kept
confidential bytheElectionComm-
ittee, last Friday afternoon and the
JOURNAL was unable to obtain
them for publication.
Cirina McLaurin, chairman of
the Election Committee, said that
the results would be held in con
fidence until 1:00 p.m. Monday,
October 31, due to the many ru
mors of rule infractions during
the elections.
Amid an air of confusion, those
Election Committee members and
observers who were present during
the counting of the ballots quick
ly left campus after the commi
ttee’s announcemenL
Contacted at her home. Miss
McLaurin said that in holding up
the results she was only following
the suggestion of student body
president Tim Britton who had ap
pointed her chairman of the comm
ittee.
Mr. Britton, when reached at
his home, said, “My first im
pulse was to go ahead and pub
licize the results. Waiting until
Monday was Cirina’s idea and I
will back her up.”
Britton said that, although no
written protests concerning elec
tion proceedure hadbeen received,
“there were too many verbal com
plaints to ignore.”
to reach university status in real
ity as well as in name.
Seventy of tlie 100 member board
attended tlie meeting to hear a
report by tlie trustee visiting com
mittee.
The report made it plain that
UNC-C has many problems which
do not exist in the otlier uni
versities. An inadequate library
for a senior institution which will
also offer graduate work is just
one problem.
For a science building, campus
lighting, a language laboratory, ex
pansion of utilities, dormitories,
new land, and outdoor physical
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Patron Dinner
Will Feature
Hilton, Moore
BY CONNIE FLIPPO
The Foundation of the University
of North Carolina at Charlotte will
have an Inauguration Dinner for
the Patrons of Exceilence on Nov
ember 4 at 7:00 p.m.
The Patrons of Excellence is
designed to encourage people to
sign up to $1000 per year for
10 years. The dinner will be held
at Myers Park Country Club.
The guest of honor will be Gov
ernor Dan K. Moore under whose
leadership this institution became
UNC-C.
The principle speaker. Dr.
James H. Hilton, Director of De
velopment at Iowa State Univer
sity and former president of Iowa
State, will speak on “Building a
University of Excellence.” He is
a native of Catawba County and a
former dean at N. C. State.
Chancellor Colvard will discuss
developments here and outline the
Patrons of Excellence program.
B‘Ballers Round Into Shape
See Page 4 For All Details